5 20 118 https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/1c450a0b855d9e6df41700eaa57b81a5.pdf 8e3005e3e129a89920e2020b1b89d850 PDF Text Text ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ~D~l~l m~1l l1i 111111i 11111111 n 3 1696 01138 0704 I • I I Beck Bennett, '60, secretary- Sheppard, '61, chairman, and President Deiathe. Thomas Carnes, '52, is behind Mr. . Absent me laird '79, and Katya Shirokow, heasurer; Harrison Benjamin Swets photo I by t t \,,linl\.UL.L 'SF71 Experiencing the events President Edwin Delattre's San Francisco was somewhat joying an Irish coffee: toxicating and sobering. The intoxication was that of discovPrv Many alumni had looked forward to opportunity to assess the character of the college's new president, and he undoubtedly felt some curiosity about the Bay Area alumni. Both delighted with the first sampling other's personalities. The sobri -' followed quickly in apprehending amount of work before us if we are to realize what Mr. Delattre described as the potentials of St. John's as a community President Delattre brisk schedule arranged Alumni Steering Committee. Greeted the airport by Tom and Alice Carnes Harrison Sheppard, he had a with them. The followiM Tom Carnes, Bob Sh€mn.ard for luncheon at the Bankers revresentatives of the San Francisco media. those_ Peck, chief editorial William Grant, educauuu the San Francisco Chronicle, Castel, chief editorial writer, Starr, education columnist, Francisco Examiner. The afternoon toR:1etn~~r with John Bell, senior vif':P-n1rPsiidP1ilt for the Bank of America, and Edward Truschke, executive director of the Bank America Foundation. The home of Bob and Diana the familial dinnertime introducing the new of the charmed with his but intensely humility, authority, Continued on P. 5) s rs St. John's College has its first Marshall recipient, Mark Steitz, who assumed by Ray Davis. Mail may be addressed to him at the Santa Fe campus. He was one of 30 young Americans chosen from throughout the country for the prestigious scholarship, the British Embassy has announced. Beginning in October he will work toward a master of science degree at the London School of Economics. During two years there, the award will meet all of Mr. Steitz's tuition and maintenance costs with (Continued on P. 2) I b rt! President Edwin J. Delattre. Under a rotating system shared by the deans of the two this is Mr. Bart's year to serve as of the Joint Instruction Committee. Associates have praised his performance since his arrival in Santa Fe for both its brilliance and devotion. "Mr. Bart's conscientious and kn<)wledi~eable treatment of affairs of the and program are very much all of us look to his return," Pell grants Basic Educational Opportunity Grants) to students who come only from families earning less than $25,000 will affect students from families above that salary range. This year 116 students receive BEOGs. At present students on the ·campus have access to $130.000 in basic grants. The maximum basic grant is $1, 750. If Congress, however, does not appropriate an additional $700-million to (Continued on P. 3} It t J. Burchenal Ault has been named as St. John's new provost with responsibilities at both the eastern and western campuses. President Edwin .J. Delattre said that the choice of Mr. Ault. Yice-presidenl and chief financial and administrative officer of the western campus. was the unanimous selection of an appointment committee reriresenting both campuses. !lt, who assumed duties in will divide his beand Santa Fe. the be filled Ault. President Delattre told the St. John's Board of Visitors. at its in January in Santa Fe. that had been a and instructiH pleasure" to work .n.uuu11J'V"-L"' Ault since he took office as John's new head �1 Tom Parran '42 . Eastern Director of Alumni iAi>tiviHP~ a 1962 The St. John's Caritas Society is happy that the St. John's quilt members made will remain within the college It is now in the possession .... A,,..,.,.. the gift of his mother, Mrs. F. C. ..,, Brooke, of Chevy Chase, Md., on his 41st birthday in February. Happy birand may you enjoy the quilt as much as the Caritas members did it! Purchase price will be to the Caritas scholarship John's members. !t'oJlo'Wrme: his graauauon won a ---·- -enabled him to _ _ a year at the University of now is in the wine vrow1r111 ,..,,.,,..,h•u 50 northeast of San Francisco his sister and brother-in-! Bonnie and Kenneth Crutchlow. Classmates may wri~e him at 301 Mountain Ave., Sonoma, Calif., 95476. Word received from Charlotte informs us that she now has a of science degree in science from the State University of New York and is a free-lance writer. Mara Jean Graham has formed Divine Dizine and has been touring the west presenting a multi-media show .. Jim Walker was recently admitted to the Texas Bar and is practicing law in Houston. l Theda Braddock received her law associated with the is J. 1971 Dunn is on the faculty of the _ of New Mexico's women studies program. 1972 a doctoral student at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, Cal., recently co-led a seminar in the Theology of Black Culture held at PSR. A recent letter from Valerie Kozel reveals that she has moved to Cambridge, Mass., where she has begun studies in transportation and economic development at M.I.T. Her hope is to complete work for her doctorate in two years. The February 14 episode of NBC-TV's new "Hill Street Blues" was written Lee with Bob Tzudiker, '75, cast as manager a supermarket in which a hostage crisis developed. (There may indeed yet be hope for the small screen! ) Sf-1 Eric Scigliano, a member of the staff area, was which received recently. The Na ti al School Association awarded a Certificate of Merit to Eric's "Taking Art to the Hallways," a story spotlighting an unusual program in the Seattle public schools desegregation plan, which brings entire student bodies together with local artists to execute large hallway murals and other art nl"1Yi&>f'h: on lliaMnher of note, has himself, under the name Penultimate; he specializes in hand-lettered, one-of-a-kind scrolls for special presentations. (Those who saw, Dick Weigle's Award of Merit scroll at homecoming, 1979, were seeing some of John's best work). The firm's address is Box 28532, Washington, 20005. I I "Mark your calendars, call your travel agents," arrange to take some annual leave, and plan to join us in the 1981 summer seminar program on the Santa Fe campus." · So reads the invitation of western alumni director Sam Larcom be, who reports that dates this year will be July 26 - August 1 and August 2 - August 8. Registration will be held the first Sunday or Monday morning of each week with seminars in their time-honored positions of Monday and Thursday nights. Tutorials will be during the day. Faculty members taking part will be Robert Bart, Eva Brann, Samuel Kutler, Elizabeth Engel, Charles Bell, Stuart Boyd, and Cary Stickney. Participants will reside in college dormitories where linens will be provided, and three meals a day will be served in the college dining hall. No charge will be made for children under three, but parents are asked to bring cribs and provide food. The coffee shop and libraries will be open daily. The weekly fee will be $130 for adults and children over 12, and $65 for youngsters under 12. Fees for local alumni living at home will be $40 a week. Each session will be limited to 20 participants. Alumni may write Mr. Larcombe or call him directly at the college (505) 982-3691. Besides the program he promises the riches of a Santa Fe summer: "The Santa Fe Opera will be performing; the tennis courts will be open; art galleries and museums are close by, and bright skies should grace each day." Seminar on Time: Eva Brann, leader; Aristotle, Physics, Bk. IV 10-14; Augustine, Confessions, Bk. XI 12-39; Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, Part First (Transcendental Aesthetic) paragraphs 1, 5-8. Tutorials: Elizabeth Engel tutor, Eurypides' Medea and Simon de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, Introduction, Chapters 11, 23; Charles Bell, tutor, Rimbaud's Le bateau ivre (French and English). 1976 Wynne Avery (Mrs. Peter) has now settled in Littleton, Col., at 5686 South Crocker. She is in computers and producing graphic art, layouts, and camera work in a familyowned business. Cosette left St. John's at the end of her so111hmnrnre Peter's unt:imely Fe for a while and in fine arts at the TTnimoi"i>!il·u Mexico in May of 1980. 1977 Brad n ... ,... president of the Young Democrats of Anne Arundel County, is seeking the Democratic nomination for alderman of Annapolis's Eighth Ward (Eastport). Brad also serves on the city's Democratic Central Committee and is a member of the Old Eastport/Horn Point Civic Association. ao1 ......... 1977 Lauren Baillard now lives in the Seattle area, for the G.M.A. Research Consumer Center. Scholts is law at the University of Puget Sound. SF-1978 From John Ross comes word that Dean McFalls currently is enrolled as a at the Pacific School of Religion in Cal. (We calfDean's attention to the entry for the class of 1972, above. T.P.) 1 Ira who entered St. John's as a freshman at the age of 65 in 1975, soon after his retirement as a senior vice-president of a New York bank, is now at work on his master's degree. He writes: "When I left St. John's, I transferred to the Seminar College of the New School here in New York City, received a B.A. in January, 1980, and since then have been at their graduate faculty pursuing a master's (Continued on P. 4) The Re Rebecca Wilson, editor; Samuel Kutler, Thomas Parran, J. Winfree Smith, Elliott Zuckerman, advisory board. · The Reporter is published by the Office of College Relations, St. John's Col- lege, 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 ........... ......_ • • I Seminar: Robert Bart and Cary Stickney, leaders, Joseph Conrad, Youth; William Faulkner, The Bear. Tutorials: Stuart Boyd, tutor, T. S. Eliot, The Four Quartets; Samuel Kutler, tutor, Euclid, Definitions from Book Seven of the Elements, the Frege-Russell Definition of Number, and Jacob Klein's The Concept of Numbers in Greek Mathematics and Philosophy. 0 0 · s fI (Continued from P. 1) a little left over for travel. He becomes the second graduate in the last few years to win a top British award. Four years ago Nancy Coiner Benjamin became one of the first 13 women in this f'mmtrv to receive a Rhodes ~f'hnl!'.!l"c:hin Marshall founded in 1953 as an expression for help to the U.S. Marshall Plan. Named for C. it originally offered 12 have increased to the present 30. Mr. Steitz is now living in Washington where he is an analyst with the Natural Resources and Commerce Division of the Congressional Budget Office, an arm of Congress founded in 1975 to provide non-partisan economic analysis for use in Congressional deliberations. THE 25~ YEAR-OLD alumnus is the of the Director's Award for Service offered by the Congressional Budget Office. Following ·his study at the London School of Economics he plans to return to the United States to complete his doctorate at an American university. The alumnus is the author of "The Windfall Profits Tax: A Case Study,,. which will appear in the forthcoming A Policy ProspectJve. The paper originally was prepareq on relatively short notice and used by the Senate when members were considering the size and shape of the tax. "It provided an 'if you do that, this will probably happen' analysis of the tax, along with a framework for considering the issues," he reported. In addi.tion, he is the author, by himself and ·with others, of a number of studies dealing with the automobile intax expenditures, and budgetary and tax problems . MARK STEITZ Prior to becoming a CBO analyst last he was a research assistant with the CBO'S Tax Division and had served as an intern with that division and in the office of Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder. DURING THE summer of 1977 he acted as survey project director for the Survey Research Corporation, for which he had worked the previous summer as an interviewer. "St. John's has been of help to me in my work," Mr. Steitz writes. "I gained a flexibility in what I was willing to take on that has got me into a lot of interesting (as well as occasionally embarrassing> situations. Having read the lab manuals, I felt it possible to conquer anything." I �THE REPORTER APRll 1981 'Shows' go on European tour I e I ." near year. here are informed of they can expect the first of the level of federal · necessitates reductions .. ., the make effort to assistance to students affected by the " she has informed aid recipients Muuem~ limestone. and now, """'""'"''""• is oe11~nn1g feature of that rnnascape and rented bikes that took us over scene of Yeats' youth Ross's level sands to the Lake and Isle from Maeve's mountain cairn to the trout ~~-~ ~ - ~ of Ben B ulben. stamoed our Eurail pass and free first class with the boat across the Irish seas to France, making the long hauls by (couchettes far cheaper than hotels), to be taken by friends to hospitable accommodations. PvPnir11:1 the most enthusiastic response with much discussion, and an of three shows - which I delivered education Germ an . Next to the · Sociological Institute, I gave Bach and German Baroque. The 300 francs which Walter, dropped in hat for this, us carefree (with and wine) the next days in a great Medieval and modern town art and life. While the camera rush began, Lincoln; so Lonoon. Dallas - luckier out. At the Gatwick check-in, I knew we weren't "First Class." But the next station, "Business Class," I thought a British name for our cheap Third. The lady assigned us seats, hardly glancing at the tickets. No sooner were we on the plane (in a roomier situation than before) than began to ply us with champagne unlimited, "However. we cannot that the will be able to award more in~•: .... :~-ni funds. In the case of reduced students and their families will be expected to contribute additional funds. "St. John's remains committed to providing financial assistance to deserving students. We will continue to assist eligible students to the greatest extent possible within the limits of the college's resources." �1 CHORAL ode music, and dance was the art form for the Greek civilization," he said. "We have not had this sort of unity since the 17th and 18th centuries in French ballet and Earlier it existed in the English of the Jaco bean masque. Those written by Ben Jonson progreat spectacles at court and were sung as well as recited." Mr. Mullen is a believer in memorization. Besides his own, he asks his students at St. John's, where all students must learn Greek their freshmen and sophomore years, to memorize. (It's a he to teach at where Greek is reauired for studies other than graduate His students learn the first seven lines of The Iliad and each of them one of the 16 fragments in Greek of the poetry of Heraclitus. "When you memorize, you can meditate on the meaning of poetry any time," he observed. "There is a kind of ,subliminal meditation which goes on. The new aspects of the meaning of phrases come to mind as you experience something new. That can also happen with phrases you never thought you memorized." Mr. Mullen completed his book on Pindar in 197H8 while he was associated with Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington. Besides that he also has written another one, "THE in detail St. Mr. Mullen recites Greek and When he recites Latin the first of Book I of The lliad, as has several he does it as the blind Homer is to have related his Mr. Mullen's eyes are ciosea, no•·m•th 1111:1 him to himself to the forward momentum the verse, of the visual distraction of the audience. This he will do when he recites the whole of Book I of the lliad in Greek, 1, at 8 p.m. in the Great Hill. MR. MULLEN RECITES not in the who manner of the ancient bard - the composes verse on the in the manner of the Greek "rlu:n:1srnde. who, in the Greek makes musical the fixed meter of the verse with its and short and accents. . As of Greek and Latin the first five books of book of The Odyssey. He intends to taping all of The Iliad, but not necessarily The KXJJaA'JSl<>n - Rome at the William Mullen will recite all of The Iliad's Bock I in Greek Aoril 7. Tom Parran photo of America, which he describes as about the appeal of the American founders to Roman precedents. He is a 1968 Harvard graduate who Foundation re . umnm n (Continued from P. 2) degree in lib~al studies. "We're reading the Agamemnon and 0 "Everyone is either born loving The Aristotle's Poetics, so you can see I have Iliad or The as everyone is not strayed far from the concerns of Anborn a Platonist or an Aristotelian." he napolis." "I'm of anyone who Ira, a popular figure within the St. to love both " John's student body while he was here, Recently Mr. the St. Valen F. Clough, Carmel Valley, a collection of Calif., freshman, has received a medal for completed all his freshman year and the Latin which in all ''meritorious service" from the Air Force, junior and senior language tutorials and likelihood, he believes, is one of the with which he served for six years before seminars. He was writing to send a Wall collections of this sort in the enrolling at the Santa Fe campus last Street Journal story written by the vice· president of the American Can Company country. Approximately half he taped September. Mr. Clough received the Air Force's which noted that its senior officers come groups himself. The others are taped reciting choral odes and were made Commendation Medal for "meritorious from a variety of educational principally at Boston University during his service as an Electronic Operations backgrounds, heavy in liberal arts. Specialist, 6912th Electronic Security five years there. As a result, American Can has set ALMOST ALL ARE IN Greek, but, inGroup, Electronic Security Command, up a small recruiting program for highthe and critic Allen Tate, from 10 March, 1978, to 9 March, 1980." achiever liberal arts graduates, people also has memorized in Latin about half The citation reads: from superior schools who have outof Book II of Virail's Aeneid. and he has "During this period, Sergeant Clough's standing academic and leadership recorded all of innovative ideas on resource credentials. management, analysis, and reporting of They had their J significant intelligence and superior of Texas at Michael Sloper studied music at San tained his doctrnr!!h• support of unit tasking objectives made a major contribution to theater and national Diego State University, then went to marked what pl a n n er s . Th e d is tin c ti v e a c- Hawaii to be a troubador. true corn p1ishm €~nts of Sergeant Clough reflect 1980 upon himself and the United States Suki Graves Gault gave birth to Air Force." of service in- Delores on Detember 22, 1980. She and Mr. husband Peter are now in Santa Fe. West eluded Cullen Hall Mark Dlans to enter law other countries. He is the son school in the of Carmel Odyssey. I taught classics, comparatively literature, and interdisciplinary studies at Berkeley. He also held a post doctoral Hodder Fellowship at Princeton. As of February, Debbie Rutherford was preparing for a trip to Europe. On the other hand, Glen Barrentine has returned from Europe and is studying law at Boston University. Nicholas Cullender is engaged to be married and is studying pre-med courses with the goal of working as a veterinarian. s t Former President Richard D. Weigle has just completed an evaluation. of the Presidential Search Consultation Service sponsored by two Washington based organizations: the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges and the Association of American Colleges. Retained as a consultant, Mr. Weigle found that of the 400 institutions which have changed presidents over the past two years, only one in four or five have used ·Outside hPlp. Of those, 22 engaged the services of the PSCS . Mr. Weigle's work involved interviewing its clients as well as those of commercial one of which his own had assisted St. John's in successor: the Academv for Education �5 t Laird Michael On Delattre where Jacob Neememan. of San students in a that students soon will to discuss the Mrs. Carnes He the first Among the Delattre feels, is one of propor1 the size of endowments, or student enrollment, but of time, space, and magna1nin1ity told the alumni, the spans millenia of human in1.cme;1::m.:e, passion, and will ... addressing the entire range of methods of discovery known to humanity." and In decades of experience, Mr. Delattre said St. John's has demonstrated that "a program of study intended to advance scientific, mathematical, and humanistic literacy" develops the skills that enable its students later to learn what they want or need within a given discipline. and other members Students, together in nurof the of learning and recognize we become turns on the kind of investment we make in becoming." Mr. Delattre commented that in terms of experience, "we probably do not have . enough writing in our program, or enough attention to the fine arts, but these deficiencies can be remedied in perfect consistency with St. John's and other ideals." IN SPEAKING of the bonds between the two campuses and the alumni - bonds which are supposed "to work in both directions" - Mr. Delattre spoke of the need of early scheduling of alumni seminars and of opportunities for alumni to publish in The Reporter and other college publications views "pertinent and instructive about matters within and beyond the college." He reminded them that the Board of Visitors and Governors "should be and is" a forum which welcomes the experience and judgment of the alumni. Both campuses should assist students leaving the college, through placement and other resources, and both students and alumni should have access to "an adequate and reliable directory.'' Jo , From Annapolis Placement Director Marianne Braun comes a message important t-0 St. John's students: "As you well know, with the tightening of money,'' she reminds readers of this paper, "jobs are becoming more scarce. We will be very grateful for any possibility which leads to summer suitable for St. John's students." Alumni, parents, and friends who know of opportunities are requested to call or write Mrs. Braun at the roHee:e. Her phone number is (301) ext. 21. between the lecture and discussion Grant Michael Levine, Just as the alumni were be!!innimz to feel self-righteously neglected, Delattre let us know what we should be doing for the college community. Alumni should "give the benefit of their reflections about the programs ... to the campuses," he said. In addition, Mr. Delattre said they should be available to advise students of "reliable expectations about life after college" or to converse with them about philo'sophical or academic questions. The president praised the newly established Edward Cochran Memorial lecture series as "a first-rate idea" that "confirms the connection between alumni and the campuses and between the study of science in the program and emerging scientific questions, theories, and practices in the contemporary order." He also praised the Bay Area alumni for introducing the college to local "sources of public vitality, influence, and money," saying "the meetin2s I have had here have been TIIE NEW 'D'Dl'.:'~''11"11"\''IC''ll.l'f'l"I reminded that St. John's "has practice some of the best ideas in the history of education,'' but he had a corollary statement: "We are not the only school around which has achieved excellence in the study of the liberal arts ... We have a great deal to offer to others provided we do so with humility and with sensitivity to their circumstances.'' St. John's, he believes, can be more of a public resource than we are. "We know more than we have taught publicly." While the college owes dedication to the quality of its internal life, it also should be dedicated to education generally and to the country. The lively question-and-answer session that followed focused primarily on two concerns: the desirability of better development of strictly technical skills at the college, such as the manipulations of calculus and a functional command of French and Greek, and questions concerning the limitations and possibility of teaching and learning in lecture. Mr. Delattre responded concern by reacting favorab' that the level of technical uncier1sta11di1tu? could be raised supplemental courses in and with the observation that the of each tutor to 1mide a tutorial to be insured the establishment of an endowment that allows tutors subjects for the first' time to work half to two-third's time while auditing classes under more experienced tutors. The new president said he does not view learning by lectures as a process or one of osmosis in are reiterated. Rather, he views listeninl! well an active process and added that college is committed to every form of learning. This response, along with about us as members of the St. John's community, demonstrates how he has embraced the college, for what it is and can be. He made it clear he the alumni as members in fact only in theory of the St. John's Two members of the Anna1po11s are the first to hold new tutn-r~:h""''" for former St. John's and established by a gift of a million dollars anonymously given the eastern campus. Douglas Allanbrook is the first to hold the tutorship honoring Richard D. who retired last Julv. and J. Winfree the first to hold Stringfellow Barr, president from 1937 to 1946 during the period St. John's New Program was founded. The tutorships were set up in com· pliance with a wish of the donor. nt In the second recent award it has received this year source, St. John's flourishme has been awarded Fine Arts Foundation. its appearance in the January Musical Quarterly is an arAnnapolis tutor Wye Allanbrook. Gesture as a Topic in Le Nozze di andDon Giovanni.·· In addition, the English journal, Music and Letters, has just accepted another article Mrs. Allanbrook dealing with three arias in the fourth set of Le Nozze de An expert on dance in the Mozart operas, Mrs. Allanbrook is the author of the book, The Motion of Character: Rh.vthmic Gesture in Le Nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni. St. John's new president. Edwin J. Delattre. is on a busy lecture circuit. ~urrently l\e has at least nine talks on his agenda. Beginning early in February he spoke first on "Character Development" at \"alley Forge Military Academy. Other engagements: Feb. 27, National Association of In>ndi:i.nt Schools. Boston. "Ethics and linking Throughout the Curriculum .. ; Marl'.h 4, Annapolis Ci vi tan March 6, Toledo Police Department. "Ethics in Public Employment"; April 8. Southern Speech Communication Association. "In Defense of Liberal Education ... Hniv~r..:i1rv of Texas; April 20-22, American Association of Community and Junior Colleges. Washington; April 24, New Mexico Federation of Teachers. "Propagation and Propaganda in Education"; April 28. National Humanities Foundation Symposium on the "Nature and Purpose of the Humanities and Pre-College Education." , Ind.; June 24-26. University of Michigan. "Literacy and Social Ideals.·· . re seminar received Earlier the from the Anne mission on Culture and Art State Arts Council to nn.r!.:>T'~lll''Yt an exhibit next year Milton. students. co-leader was Martin a member of the �APRIL 1981 THE REPORTER Page 6 i · es ch I Ill For a moment, alarmists were fearing program was about touch of scandal in that St. John's to its more 40 years. But the µu''"'"·nuc.v with statements Here's what 11a1ppe~ne1a. With a '"u~•H'-'"r.'and mallet set, St. John's Club, in an audacious move which up some announced ""'""!r;,.,,.,. to teams from other couet;t'.;!), time such an invitation has been issued since St. John's abolished in- way. Nevertheless, once released on the court reeumrn seldom to the also have when Hm. "THE LIBERTY TREE loves us," he said. "I don't think it's seen so much fun since there were people here olottimz a revolution. Certainly it has much deviousness and 1nt1·101u• As a sure sign, he it doesn't drop twigs during croquet season. Club photo by Lelli• lewis �R 1 r • The following story Baltimore Sun. ~ I r, t r reprinted from The Arundel Sun section of The Dr. Mortimer J. Adler, guest speaker at the Friday night "Formal Lecture" at St. John's College, AnmlJ'JOlJ's. Justice Perfect Truth are not the usual companions for a rowdy Friday night in Crabtown. But when roving philosopher and Encyclopaedia Britannica editor Mortimer J. baseball cap in· onstage at Francis Scott Key Auditorium, he was ba111ki1112 on a 44-year tradition to his St. College fans glued to their seats for his annual address. practically glued to their seats. Dr. Adler was forging on the theme passionate of Equality and Justice," when 28 students leaped up in succession and orc~ce1ed.e~d to take his name in vain. "That's it, it has to be," interrupted the first student, "because the world began with Adler and Eve!" "You forget that illustrious conqueror, Adler the Hun,'' yelled another from across the hall. "This man doesn't know his Adler from his elbow!'' As the name-calling rose to its climax, a blonde in a low-cut black dress glided across the stage to hand the professor a mock certificate for his contributions to the shaping of Western thought. (The college's great books curriculum coincides closely with the Great Books of the Western World series edited by Dr. Adler.) She was immediately trailed by a nM: ... t and ukelele player who offered a of the Beatles' "Nowhere Man": a real Adler Man That's we're his Adler fan ... Doesn't have a thing to do But sell books to me ADLER MAN SELL ME ENCl. ·cLOPEDIA ! Dr. Adler smiled unruffled as he scrambled through his lecture notes to refind his The philosophical card painstakingly erected with palace he the help of Aristotle, Hobbes and Locke was toppled-but Moral Virtue soon prevail, he (if someone didn't unplug the mike first). It was hardly the first time Dr. Adler, a popularizer whose latest book is "Aristotle for Everybody: Difficult Thought Made Easy," had suffered at the hands of the St. John's His very first Aristotle 1937 had lasted over two hours. following year a battery of alarm clocks went off mysteriously in the lecture hall balcony after the first hour. On subsequent occasions the hall's main electrical switch was (he continued. by matchlight), and marbles were propelled down the a uditoripm 's sloped floor. These carefully engineered calamities have not visibly aged Dr. Adler nor taken any of the ginger out of his presentations. He looks at least 20 years younger than his age and deliv.ers his opinions with a kind of pugnacious conservatism. Communist China's Gang of Four had indeed committed a glaring error in the excessive egalitarianism of the Cultural Revolution, he declared during his discourse on equality: "A completely egalitarian society has never existed, not even in Athens or old New England townships." And he shocked a number of Socrates admirers in the audience by suggesting that the martyred philosopher had taken an unnecessarily drastic course in ing hemlock poison. Only if one believed that a "virtuous will was the only good in the world" could one bow to life- threatenin2 injustice: "It may be c.ertain instances to commit an injustice .. .if in doing it, one does not form the habit of injustice.'' That provocative line of reasoning was pursued in a discussion after the lecture. More than 100 college members clustered around a long table while Dr. Adler sat enthroned at one end, laying down his customary ground rules for accepting questions. The cardinal rule: There could be no disagreements with his statements without first asking. "Do I understand you to have said such and such?" Often he would bang his index into the table and· pepper the students' remarks with qualifiers: "That's not what I said-you're intruding words here that don't help the analysis!'' One underclassman, still disturbed by Dr. Adler's pronouncements on Socrates, asked in a tone of pained shock: "Do I understand you to be disagreeing with Socrates . .. Where would tha tlea ve the of " "Lots of DhilOSIODh.ers Dr. Adler serene ma1gn.an1mi"I won't name them all here. We tend to sentimental with respect to Socrates, he could from prison with the of after his unjust condemnation and "made further useful contributions to mankind. These were, he conceded; tricky moral problems to judge if you were actually involved yourself. Should you refuse to bow to th·e statue of Caesar at the risk of being thrown to the lions? Should you agree to undergo unjust imprisonment to keep a clear conscience? To a visitor not steeped in St. John's tradition of Socratic dialogue, such an orgy of distinction-making seemed strange fare indeed. On an evening when other collegians were tearing into Gen. Alexander Haig over a Haig & Haig at Fran O'Brien's, Dr. Adler was laying out a Greek banquet with Free Choice and In· tellect as the main entrees and an ambrosial dessert of Perfect Truth. But as one student observed, this was a natural format for a man who believed that nothing of any real significance had happened in philosophy over the past four centuries. "Are you planning to hang that mock certificate awarded earlier in your bathroom?" he asked Dr. Adler as the latter pulled on his tweed cap. "I might give that some serious thought," Dr. Adler promised. rit r The sudden infant death the mysterious malady which kills without warning~ is the subject of recent Tom Keens, SF '68. Now an assistant of pediatrics at the of Southern School of Medicine, Dr. Keens is the author of a on that for a new textbook, Care Medicine: µ,.~,,.,.,,.""" which Linnincott .l:'Ult>US.ne:rs has scheduled. In his .chapter, Disorders and Ventilatory Muscle Dysfunction in Infants and Children," Dr. Keens contends that the ""~...i~~"''" a disorder of trol. Dr. Keens is at Children's Hosnital Los Angeles in the Diseases Division. He is *""'""*"ri in area adapta tmn to chronic have a number of articles literature on that ::.1n.rn::u." Dr. Keens writes. "I most recent work in that area, altered state on the ' at the annual of the of the American Societies for Experimental Biology in 1980." most recent publication is "Function of the diaphragm before and after plication," which was published in last May's Thorax. Dr. Keens is continuing his research into various aspects of ventilatory muscle endurance, including the muscle's ability to continue to perform the work of breathing in face of the fatiguing loads which severe lung diseases can constitute. "I am very optimistic that this research will turn out some new information," Dr. Keens writes. He also is interested in developmental physiology and exercise physiology. His two most recent publications are "Transcutaneous oxygen monitoring exercise stress testing," published in last March's Ameri<!Bn Review of Respiratory Diseases and "Pulmonary function abnormalities in thalassemia patients on a hypertransfusion program" published in last May's issue of Pediatrics. KEENS ALSO is teaching medical students, interns, residents, and sul1speci.alt.y fellows. He is seeing a fair of referral with unusual or difficult nulmonarv diseases. """"''""t 1" for counseliw: certificate and school psychologi~L credential and is beginning a of psychological testing, evaluation, and counselling children in Los Angeles. She received her undergraduate training at theUniversity of California at San Diego and her master's at California State University at Los Angeles. They are the parents of an 18-month-old daughter. Jenny Erin Keens, born October 22, 1979. 1 L ntn s Lyn Cronin, Santa Fe sophomore. has been accepted on a full tuition scholarship at the Leo Marchutz School of Painting and Drawing in Aix-en-Provence, France, beginning in September. Miss Cronin, who grew up in New Braintree, Mass., attended the former r 1n once Marion Central Catholic School in Worcester and completed her secondary education on another full tuition scholarship at Choate-Rosemar:v Hall School. Wallingford, Ct. She will return to St. John's in 1982 to complete her undergraduate degree. IN 1917-John W. Hyde, Feb. 6, 1981. 1919--H. Phillip Recher, Boonsboro, Md., May 15, 1980. 1920-Samuel J. Lowe, Jr., Stuttgart, Ark., Feb. 1981. 1926-Maurice E. Newnam, Jr., Easton, Md. 14, 1980. 1933-James R. Bennett, Camden, Del., October 16, 1980. 1933-Dr. Stuart M. Ch.risthilf, Annapolis, Md., Jan. 26, 1981. 1944--NorrisEmbry, Baltimore, Md., Feb. 17, 1981. u1;:,;:>-•.reon~e Eagler, Dec. 17, 1980. 1956--The J. Donald Libby, Centreville, Md., Jan. 4, 1981. 1973-Graduate Institute-Ralph Cox, Crockett, Cal., Sept. 20, 1979. �t r r St. John's will operate its Graduate Institute in Liberal Education on both campuses this summer from June 21 to 14. This year, for the first time in An· the summer master's program on an inae1Jen.ae11t basis new director, _-···-········Milner. Since it came into it been under the of the institute at Santa David Starr. Students enroll in one of four all which will be Santa Fe. Omitted from the curriculum will be the Others are devoted to and and mathematics and natural scienvc. one:nm1g in Santa month in the Near East interviewing prospective students from Turkey, Jordan, and Egypt who, under privately financed arrangements made in cooperation with the State Department, have attended the institute in past years. Meanwhile, approximately 20 fellowships offered by the National En· dowment for the Humanities are still available for secondary and elementary teachers as well as for a limited number of s school administrators who wish to work toward a St. John's masters. In for those NEH fellowship holders from New York City who have completed their first year of om;sumamg the Noble . m "He reoresents the college in its entirety. the provost sits ex officio with board committees of fundamental moment to the future of the college as well as its nomina executive, finance, de11el<mnr1en1t, campus He serves as vice chairman of financial committees of the two campuses - the deliberative bodies on projections, revenuesp expenditures, and· financial control of the college.'' In addition, Mr. Delattre said the new provost will work directly with him and will exercise authority delegated within their offices. "While the work includes matters of financial development, alumni relations, and publicity, it is certainly not limited to these either in intent or in practice," he advised. "The Faculty Salaries Committee must advise with him. He may sit with the instruction committees, and he is to be consulted always in the appointment of treasurers and associates responsible to him as well as in the appointment of the directors of the Graduate Institute." The position of vice-president is being phased out at both campuses. In An· it has not been filled since 1979. believe would Mr. who is 54, is a former direc· tor of St. John's national Fund for the 1980' s. He first ioined the collee:e in 1970 in the Santa Fe Santa Fe. Allen as the A holder of a 1977 bachelor's the of lVU:li:!VUl she was assistant manager the western bookstore for a year and a half. of 1980 she has been a student in the Graduate Institute. She succeeds Barbara who will law studies in the fall. Besides Mr. Milner, members of the Annapolis faculty will include Jonathan Tuck, Nicholas Maistrellis, Tom May, Elliott Zuckerman, Malcolm Wyatt, David Stephenson, and Harry Golding. The faculty for the Santa f''e campus is still to be announced. in Yale Universitv he was a student at Jmversity of Law. A veteran of the Korean war, in which he served with the rank of captain, Mr. Ault served, prior to joining St. John's,for six years with the Radiation Research Corporation in Westbury, N.Y., filling various posts there which included those of president and chairman of the executive committee. From 1963 to 1964 he was with the international trade consulting firm, Interser, Inc., of New York City. Earli 0 : he had been president of Burlington. In· dustrial Fabrics Company of Burlington t r I Parents will gather on the Annapolis campus April 23-25 for a crowded program which will begin with registration for early arrivals on Thursday and end with a waltz party Saturday night. This year Jeanne Connors, Sayville, N.Y., sophomore, and Paul Hartel, Wayne, Pa., juniors, are in charge. In invitations sent to over the signatures of Dean Sparrow and David Auerbach, of the Student Polity, parents been invited to sit in on Thursday seminars and to attend a seminar of their own on the first book of Plato's The national economy may be down, but the Santa Fe Employment Office is doing just fine, thank you. It has reported that between last June 1 and January, students earned a total of $21,162 doing various jobs in the Santa Fe area. Managed by Bill Day, Santa Fe junior, and Mary Mary Feldman, San Mateo, Calif., sophomore, the SEO reported that earnings came from 200 jobs, some temporary and some ongoing, for two months or longer. According to Mr. Day, the hourly rate runs from $2 for sitting to $6 to $7 for labor or skills work. The fees are $3.50 and $4 an hour. • • I • "We try to keep our office open to alumni livin~ in the area, especially because we often get calls from townspeople asking if we know of someone w·ho can work 30 or 40 hours a week. Kyle just happened to be out of a job when one of the law firms in town needed a file clerk. They made her a paralegal soon afterwards, and now she flies back and forth from Dallas doing research for them." There appears to be little chauvinism evidenced by local employers. They most . often will take any student capable of doing the work, either male or female. But still, not every job that comes into the office is taken. the Great Hall. ______________ N.Y. Active in the ~01scoo:a1 Rio Mr. is vestment Committee, a member from 1976-80 of its Standing Committee, and a member venture in the Mission Executive Committee. His clubs include the Chili and the Kiva clubs in Santa Fe, the Century Association in New York City, and the St. Botolph Club in Boston, Mass. Mr. Ault is also a published poet. Married to the former Joan Mitchell, of Locust Valley, N.Y., and New York City, he is the father of five children. I exmusic reci He is a director of Farrar, Straus & and the Samoa at N.Y. He is a trustee of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation in Santa Fe and a former trustee of both Hofstra and the Santa Fe SchooL he was chairman of the From 1956 to he served as trustee and mayor of the Giroux, Inc., New York ....____..___..,,. part. Sometimes they will ask name for a student who has done work for them before, or else tell their neighbors whom to call if they need a good gardener or house cleaner, for example. It is rare that an employer will complain of a student being slow or unreliable. The office will soon be gearing up for a mail and media campaign to encourage local businesses to hire St. Johnnies for summer positions. Already Mr. Day and Miss Feldman are placing ads in one Santa Fe newsoaoer. and two radio stations are � 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 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/e78d910718740b70eb71c4bd561c2a70.pdf 3a419e9d74f2ff46ee61046326991c38 PDF Text Text The Santa Fe campus is chair ar· and his of land western campus. President Edwin J. Delattre said the chair is with the successful comoletion a drive for 5;500.000 last March. Walter B. Driscoll the Board of Visitors Governors, and John H. Deumuu, .former treasurer and a 10112"-t.ime ·friend of the colle.ee. in Santa Fe. ''Henceforth there will be an honored tutor on the Santa Fe c:um:111s who will be known as the John and Faith Meem m •• 4.--" Mr. Delattre announced. <1>au1u.u1uu we have raised this chair it will be ment of the mounted on a wall as a permanent visual tribute to the Meems. "RARELY IN our e:merience have we seen such an of admiration and affection for two people as we have witnessed with here in 1980 in the which gifts have been given to honor John and Faith Meem," Mrs. Driscoll said in speaking. both for herself and Mr. Deandahl. "The Meems have given without stint to the college, to southwestern architecture, and to Santa Fe over the years, and we shall all be forever grateful to them." A 1914 graduate of Virginia ilitary Institute, Mr. Meem came to Santa Fe for his health to1Jlowmf2' service in World War I and a career It was here that he was to architecture, enrollment in the Beaux Arts Institute of Desi1m Atelier Denver under Burnham in Junior the whole the St. John's program," says tutor David Stephenson, "and found that there had been more changes in the laboratory than anywhere else." His related to the greatest change in the curriculum in more than a decade: the reduction in the 1976· 77 school from four to three years "Dropping s "'"''"...... ,..,,... was not · ··· " tutor time the decision was dean at made to make the shift. "The first decision the Instruction Committee made was that there should not be five classes in the sophomore two reasons. On the one lot of students, not the Ever wonder how St. John's its school colors orange and black? No one knows for and there is no documentation available. but a former tutor, Blair now retired and nanolis. believes may have state colors. The official state colors, drawn from the shield on the are red and white for the Crossland arms and black and for the Calvert, accordin2 to Edward Papenfuse, Jr. Orange may have been St. John's substitution for As its academic colors, the ~ .. .,a.. of Marvland at organized, were not succeeding in all five classes, the biggest problem being music and lab. The other reason was the cost, which was fairly sizeable. We were pressed by the board to think of ways to economize." At the same time, there were some questions about the content of the laboratory program concerning freshman year measurement. "Quite a few tutors," Mr. Wilson explains, ''were saying this was wrong, the thing has expanded too much. It was as if we were discussing the metaphysics of measurement before we had anvthin2 to measure." SOME TUTORS also felt that while Newtonian well ha,.ndled, it big a ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY JU I E 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1~ nr1r1r1 1 r1 r1u I, I 11111111111111111 31696 01138 0670 @I • The campus has received a grant of $170,144 from trustees of the Hodson Trust to be toward Work to modernize and the 78-year-old Randall While winter winds blow, workmen have been building foundation walls at rear of Randall with a of getting to metal masonry work at second floor level this month. Ground for the addition to the hall was broken November after the college a contract with Charles J. & Sons, of Severna for the $1,034,000 project. College Treasurer Charles T. Elzey said contractors are aiming to complete the construction of the new kitchen and serving area in time for the opening of college next fall. At times on the job amid snowfall, workmen are con· centrating primarily on the new addition on the northeastern side. Later, they will turn to a new deck-like brick terrace for out· side dining to be linked to the present dining room. It will be built over a new suite of offices which will occupy the old.kitchen. Some of the cost of the is being financed a bond issue of :i.pproved by the 1977 Assembly. Other funds include am:i~rmdmatelv $590,000 from the (Continued on P. 7) . of onPage4) Paca-Carroll is 70 per cent finished. construction bitter January slowed the pace, has proceeded :>rnvvuu.i' on the restoration of the dormitory structure and the construction of its new wing. John Miller, bui din superintendent, said that end of this month both buuuuu~::, should be weather and ready for painting. New partition walls are in place in the original 19th century building, and dry walls were hung last month. New doorways of finished oak will be installed in both the old and new PacaCarroll sections. To protect them as much as possible, Mr. Miller said the new finished staircases in the old building will be installed as part of the last phase of the work. Both buildings are expected to be 95 cent completed the end of when paving landscapthe small courtyard between the new wine and old The entire project is scheduled to be completed by 1ffe end of~ May. President Delattre said the funds also will be used to restore room, which is Randall's to be named the T. .Jl..A.•E;e.u"" _ Hall the chairman of the Hodson Trust. The sum was included more than !l:?.-millinn ,.,.,,,..f,,.;h,,fn...:i institutions in to four at a breakfast conference attended President Delattre at the Trade Center in Baltimore. It was presented Finn M. Caspersen, and executive officer of the Beneficial Corporation. Work was begun in midNovem ber to remodel and enlarge Randall Hall. The dining room, considered among the most beautiful rooms in Annapolis, will remain essenti~y--- -- __ as it is but will be refurbished-m a manner to enhance its carved fluted columns:. and other neo-classical details. The room will is now with ~ Baltimore dec~or11tii:1,g firm for the choice of nonLM-~niPrioP~ and DOSSiblY new furniture. Continued on P. 3) Continued on P. 3) are a close kin to that- sable and not orange been worn teams from those universities ge11eratl4~ms ago in their games with St. John's. Mr. Kinsman has a story which he up from old timers on the late 1940's. story, when '"'°:"" 1 ""'1" became to distinguish teams wearing same color of uniforms. To clarify Mr. Kins· man said the three schools agreed _among themselves that ( Co111tin1lled. ~1>0 P. 4) T - - D - - - - - -L-&- �2 • Parran'42 Eastern Director of Alumni ACtivities 1917 Early last October Ernst 0. von date processing operation. In the has received her master's degree Schwerdtner was inducted into Big City Connie has reestablished in agronomy from the University the Towson State University contact with Peggy Winter and of California at Davis and is Athletic Hall of Fame. Vonnie, through her, with David Luhn. employed by the UCal has become a poet and after teaching at St. John's, John David advertising copy as well as Cooperative Extension Service as writes a farm advisor intern. She Hopkins, and Gett· fiction. currently works out of El Centro. ysburg, joined Towson in 1946 to Santa Fe -1968 · 1973 set up the modern language From Constance Weigle Mann From St. Louis, Mo., a brief department. He "volunteered" to news that she and husband help the athletic department and comesare now in Spartanburg, note from Melissa M. Sedlis. She Tom went on to coach baseball for four S.C., where he teaches religion at and Steve are now fellows at years and wrestling for 17 years. Converse College. Connie Washington University, he in In addition, he was faculty ad- finished her master's degree in cardiology, she in pediatric viser for Towson State's first library science last July, just two hematology and oncology. Their daughter, Elizabeth Anne, was lacrosse team. weeks before their move south. born a year ago in January. 1956 1974 Robley Timmins Levy was A year ago, on January 20, Mary Since last September Michael on campus this fall with her Elizabeth Mann was born, and daughter, a prospective St. according to her mother, is a R. Panter has been in the pracJohnnie. Robley, winning her delightful bundle of energy and a tice of law in Chicago, with of· third election in a year, was source of constant joy and fices at 105 West Madison Street. Trisha Pittis Sonnesyn and her elected last summer as one of amusement. Apparently the only five county commissioners of dark spot is the otherwise bright husband, Roger, are serving as Santa Cruz County, Calif. Her Mann picture is the non-existence missionaries of the Episcopal of part-time library jobs in Church in the diocese of Butare, term of office is four years. Spartanburg! Rwanda, East Africa. Roger will 1960 Santa Fe-1969 be serving as administrator dire· John Gorecki, a humanities Joy Avery last May was ctly for the Bishop. Trisha will faculty member at the University of Georgia at Albany, is con· married to architect Dale teach a variety of courses, all in ducting non-credit courses in Eugene Arnold of York, Pa. The French, at the Ecumenical Arnolds live in Oklahoma City, Theological College in Butare. great books under its office of where both are faculty members Trisha and Roger offer the continuing education. Last winter at Oklahoma State University hospitality of their home to any he concentrated on Shakespeare; Technical Institute. Joy is St. Johnnie who may visit this fall, Homer. coordinator of programs for the Rwanda. (Ask the Annapolis "There has been no problem in .hearing and mobility impaired. Alumni Office for the. address). finding adults interested in these Steven L. Tucker, Santa Fe Maria Kayanan Masinter is works," he writes. "The real task attorney and alumni represen· an attorney in Miami with a remains, however, of attracting legal services program. Husband the younger college students." · tative on the Board of Visitors Michael is also an attorney and Previously Mr. Gorecki con- and Governors, has been ap· ducted seminars in great books at pointed New Mexico chairman of· law professor. Son Joseph Ed· ward is now two years old. the University of South Carolina the Appellate Section of the American Bar Association. 1975 at Allendale. Michael Wiener visited Santa Maryland's Bishop David K. "In the heyday of the program, an Leighton, Sr., ordained January the courses drew approximately Fe last fall. Home from boat apprenticeship with a Hamill in ceremonies in six to 14 students a semester, who builder in Denmark, Michael is November at St. Anne's Church, were generally quite enthusiastic on the West Coast looking for the Annapolis. Jan, who graduated about such an approach to best summa cum laude at Marlboro education and occasionally in- skills.way to exercise his new where she served as an ad· dulged in fantasies about transSanta Fe -1970 missions counselor, was ordained forming the rest of the Henry Carey, formerly with the to the deaconate last April at the curriculum into a -more truly John Muir Institute, is now a Cathedral in Baltimore. More liberal arts program;" planner in Santa Fe with the U.S. recently she has been serving as 1964 Department of assistant to the rector of Arlene Andrew Banks has been Santa Fe NationalAgriculture, Forest. He Epiphany Church, Timonium, awarded the degree of master of Md., and as chaplain, teacher,. urban planning from the holds an advanced degree in forestry from Colorado State and counselor at St. Timothy's California State !Polytechnic University. School, Stevenson, Md. She holds University, Pomona. 1970 -- Graduate Institute her divinity degree from the 1966 Sandra Purrington has been Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. Constance Bell Holland is now Christopher King, after a brief a resident of "The Village," named vice-principal of the new stay in the great Northwest, in working in New York as a Sunset Elementary School in December returned to his home systems engineering manager Santa Fe. Santa Fe -1972 state to take the -Maryland bar for IBM, managing the people Patrick E. Porter can certainly exams and to enter the practice who sunnort Eauitable Life's be counted among the St. John's of law. He hopes ultimately to get alumni who make their living in into politics, but as he admitted in The Reporter unusual ways: he is a farrier a recent visit with us, you don't Rebecca Wilson (defined by Webster as one just go out and start work as a Editor that attends to or shoes horses"). politician! Chris and Nancy ·are The Reporter is published by the Office of In Pat's case he shoes horses, making their home in Baltimore, College Relations, St. John's College, operating from Tesuque, N.M., where Nancy is employed as an Annapolis, Md., 21404. Edwin J. Delattre, near Santa Fe. Obviously not a attorney with the Federal president. government. Published five times o yeor, in February, trade picked up in a St. John's April, June, September- and November. seminar, Pat's formal training Santa Fe -1975 Second class.postage paid at Annapolis, was acquired at a horseshoeing Bill Unbehaun sends, via Sam Md. school in California. Larcombe, Santa Fe alumni Janning Kastler writes that she (Continued on P. 1) 11 Lawrence Clendenin, SF '77, has been named associate dean of graduate admissions at the University of Denver. Mr. Clendenin, who is 27, formerly was director of admissions and financial aid at Prescott Center College, Prescott, Ariz. Earlier he had served as an admissions counsellor at American University in Washington. The graduate admissions position to which Mr; Clendenin has been appointed has been reactivated after a vacancy of several years. The new associate dean · will serve as in-house consultant and resource person to all graduate units in the areas of marketing, data collection, and effective communications with potential students and publications. Mr. Clendenin was married August 2 to the former Kathleen Raybon, co-director and a LAWRENCE CLENDENIN teacher at a private elementary school at Prescott. Both will begin working . on graduate degrees. takes one tnan Alulllni feeling Take it on the basis of a single poll of one man, Sam Larcombe, St. John's man in the West, who has gone .leap frogging from one major city to another, alumni feeling about the college is running high. "Alumni are full of good will toward the college and ready to help, and they are really keen on continuing the conversation,'' Sam has discovered, many times over their dinner table. "They feel that the Quixotic boldness about the place is quite fine." Sam, who was St. John's first graduate to join New Mexico's State government, was a planner then and, as Santa Fe's new alumni director, is a planner now working on behalf. · of strengthening ties between former students and St. John's. "I see myself as trying to act as an ambassador from the college to the alumni and from the alumni to the college," he said. "I'm attempting to discover ways to give active meaning to the Polity's claim that alumni are lifetime mem hers of the college." HE'S GONE everywhere - Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Denver, you name itand just recently was in New York and Baltimore with Tom Parran, eastern alumni director, to talk with alumni in those cities. .After his graduation in 1968, Sam became a planner for the State of New Mexico Planning· Office eventually directing the historic preservation program and serving until 1911, when he joined the Department of Health and Social Services to do health planning for two years. From 1973-76 he was chief planner for the Governor's Criminal Justice Council and the following year directed planning and research for the State Department of Corrections. "Everything I planned, they vetoed," he said of that job. He was out before failure to take his and others' recommendations seriously brought death and destruction during riots in the Santa Fe prison. Mr. Larcombe was with the New Mexico Supreme Court as a judicial planner from 1977-79. He joined St. John's in July· of last year when a job as associate admissions director and the newly created alumni director opened in Santa Fe . Along the way he has taught humanities at the College of Santa Fe, a sophomore level discussion course that was of· fered not only on the campus but in the penitentiary. "The best students I had, regardless of what they were in for, were there," he said. "Some were genuinely serious ~tudents.'' Married to the former Claudia Nordstrom, '69, he also has put out a book of poetry, "First Poems," published four years ago_ by the Lightning Tree Press in Sante Fe. Influenced by William Carlos Williams and the Black Mountain poets, he has been part of Sante Fe's Poets-inthe·Schools program and in poetry readings in Santa Fe. Now it's alumni who are his personal concern. Those of you who haven't met him can expect to see lots of him in the future, hunting for your ideas, all in the cause of good planning. Att: Parents Aplay, a reception, and a seminar are in the planning stage for Parents Weekend in Annapolis April 24-25. There's a stress on earliness. The Office of College Relations would like registration forms by March 25. It also advises making hotel reservations as soon as possible. Pa rents of seniors are advised to do the same for commencement May 17. Hotel rooms are scarce. �3 P.1) ~ Those most closely associated with the suc:c:essfol drive to establish the John and Faith Meem Tutorship share the good news with the Meems; From left, they are, top row, President Delattre, Mrs. Walter B. Driscoll, Mr. Meem, Mrs. Meem, John H. Dendahl; bottom row, Vice President J. Burchenal Ault, Una Hanbury, sculptor, and Margaret Twyman, national campaign coordinator. Robert Mason photo .d.P..artial answer JC dropped sophomore lab (Continued from P. 1) time allotted. "So it was thought we had some elimination to do as well," says Mr. Wilson. . After intensive discussion, the Instruction Committee decided to drop sophomore laboratory.· In the wake of the weekly four hours, an hour each was added to the language and music tutorials. Many tutors are careful to point out that this decision "was a compromise, not the thing aimed at originally." "The principle was not to get to a three year lab, but it seemed impossible to do it any other way," reports tutor Nicholas MaistreUis. What happened to the laboratory program as a result? "We simply have less time to do things," Mr. Stephenson observes: "We canrt hope to do as much. But I think the enforced restriction in time improved efficiency. It forced thinking. of the laboratory as a whole, which was a good thing." The content of the sophomore laboratory for the most part was preserved. Most of the cuts came in the freshman measurement unit and in the junior optics sections. "FOR JUNIOR YEAR mechanics, the fact that we had less time forced us to get rid of technical accretions which were not central, which diverted our attention, and which were difficult and confining," says Mr. Maistrellis. "What we have now is more simple: the central questions and not the details." But the laboratory's content remains crowded, especially in the freshman and junior years. "We h:aWen't forced ourselves to be ralii.cal enough in cutting," Mr. Maistrellis continued. "Each year is very crowded. There's just time to do it and no leisure. We need to make the work commensurate with three years. We're pretending we still have four years." Despite the squeeze, thermodynamics and molecular biology were added to the curriculum. ALL THIS shuffling may be interesting, but the fundamental question is: what is . the lab program supposed to do, and is it doing it better or worse than it used to? To quote the St. John's Catalogue: "The task (of the laboratory), however, is not to cover exhau'stively the various scientific disciplines, to bring the student up to date in them, or to engage in specialized research. It is rather to make the student experience and understand the significance of science as a human enterprise involving fundamental assumptions and a variety of skills derived from the practice of the liberal arts.'' "In Scott Buchanan's formulation, the lab uniquely belonged to the 20th century as a counterpoise to the seminar,' 1 explains Dean Edward Sparrow. "In our time, it is important for students to have first hand access to the claims of science, to understand how these things were arrived at." Refering to the briefer version of the St. John's science program, Mr. Sparrow remarks, ''Generally, this is still true.'' Assistant Dean Barbara Leonard says that the lab is designed "to introduce people into what's involved in science, what it means to perform an experiment and how to judge the validity of an experiment or hypothesis. The original people wanted students to work with their hands, not just With what was theoretical." ·MANY TUTORS are pleased with two of the leaner laboratory improvements: starting the lab with freshman observation biology and the. increased use of original papers. Dean Sparrow is enthusiastic. "In the first freshman lab, we want people just to look, to see, and make note of what they see, to recapture a certain naivete that is often jaded by the time they get here." Miss Leonard firmly asserts. Colorado that he met and subsequently married Faith Bemis Meem. She had earned her degree in architecture in Boston shortly before Meem hired her to work with him on the design of the Fine Arts Center in Color~do Springs. This design won an honorary silver medal at the Pan American 'Congress of Architects in Uruguay in 1948. ANY other individual, Mr. Meem is responsible for the development of the regional architectural style known as the Spanish-Pueblo style which finds its greatest expression in New Mexico. He also has maintained a very active role in historical preservation. He was chairman of the Society for Restoration and Preservation of New Mexico Mission Churches which, during the 1920s, did important conservation work on churches at Acoma, Laguna, and Santa Ana pueblos and at Chimayo and Trampas. During the 1930s he was a member of the National Advisory Commission, Historic American Buildings Survey. He was a founding member of the Old Santa Fe Association and served as chairman from 1957 to 1966. He also was a charter member of the Historic Santa Fe Association. Both the Meems have been deeply involved in civic activities, serving on numerous boards and commissions in the area. Many honors have been bestowed on Mr. Meem over the years by local, regional, and national organizations. The Meem Collection of his works is now in the library of· the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. "You have to remember that Aristotle started out as a biologist. The first semester is observational. Back when students worked with the (Continued from P. 1) · measurement unit before IN NAMING IT the Edgar T. studying Euclid's proportions, it Higgins Dining Hall, St. John's is was somewhat of a problem." honoring the former chairman of Emphasizing the return to the board and chief executive using more original papers, Mr, officer of the Beneficial CorMaistrellis believes that "we've poration as well as the former gone back to the kind of lab that chairman of the Hodson Trust. allows Galileo and Huygens to A native of Richmond·, Ky., Mr. really speak to us." Higgins, who died in 1976, held a However, even the St. John's bachelor of arts degree from the laboratory program cannot teach University of Kentucky and a law as much science iii three years as degree from Harvard University. it can in four. He joined Beneficial in 1933. "You can justify the cut only by In addition to St. John's, Mr. looking at the whole program," Caspersen presented grants in says Mr. Stephenson. "I can equal amounts of $680,000 to Hood understand someone with a lab College in Frederick, Washington slant regretting not having as College in Chestertown, and John much time. But I think we have to Hopkins University in Baltimore. sacrifice that and take · it in · In doing so, Mr. Caspersen stride." exhorted corporations to take "A lot of students are happier, more interest in the future of maybe even working harder, private colleges, warning that an without lab every year," is Mr. estimated 200 colleges might Maistrellis's impression. close their doors during the 1980s "However, my own sense is that if their support should fail. there is something very, very The Hodson Trust has given wrong about not having lab every more than $20 million to year." Maryland colleges and univerMr. Stephenson, however, sities since 1936. St. John's began differs somewhat when he says, receiving support in 1965. The trust was started by "We have proved, as it stands Thomas Hodson, father of now, that we can achieve some very significant goals in the study Beneficial' s founder, Col. Clarence Hodson. of nature in three years." Edgar Higgins Dining Hall ashine:ton at 337.a2~2 ... �There are calmer than the one John nuuauu., filled last fall when he learned to on two hours of five the but he will not too John relishes a certain amount of movement. In 1979, after four months, he perhaJ:iS, his work on camera as a have to make it -A~~;°hln work. the fall nre:su11entJ_a1 came a1ong, he he wanted to be on one of those first camnot in became one of two - as the up, three -NBC producers, to the in of all the arr·an1?en1ents for a team of 15. For three hectic months, Holland traveled with the Carter behinHhe- John Holland takes still another call. 5 shi:l'.t. For three years, Palmer, camera and sound crews, a radio technician. "It takes a lot of where the President to the material, to edit it, out a to New York "he said·. eastern BASED UPON A White House press advance schedule to change, more than half arrangements are made prior to departure. At every touch-down, however, it means lining up video lines, literally wires patched to New York. Phones had to be frec::me1nuy from a "bull pen" for the press set up on the tarmac of an airport's runway• and calls made to New York to find out what has during the flight, what has on the and to inform news executives of what they had coming. Working under the pressure of deadline, Mr. Holland found himself with hundreds of jobs to be done: local people to be found months were, Mr. Holland said he did not as tired as he had on some earlier Senator did charter for the press, as many canuiui:l.1-es do a and Mr. who as~ng11ed. to him for a while, had to make all the arran~~errlenits for and 6:30 debate he was out -rminina often likes to talk not to that morning. to edit that segme:nt in time for the a.m. What was seen · was taken 15 minutes earlier on a track in Cleveland." That day there to be a break in the 1n..rn•t.cai:;ic; the White House was aroused at 4 a.m. to speed back to1 Washington. "Our next day was a horrendously long one out to the: West Coast where he had to have: live lines at every stop," Mr. Holland recalled. Most of the NBC people sleep in_ flight, something Mr. Holland finds difficult. The field producers finally worked out a scheme enabling them to i:ileep five hours every day. Toward the end of the campaign, when they needed a third producer, the pace improved. But febrile as those three THE WORST that can "The worst is to miss a feed and not tell the program don't have a · said. That was what happened to him a couple of years ago when he was working on a story about the gasoline shortage and had decided it wasn't ready. On the air anchorman David Brinkley, indicating nothing amiss, turned to another segment when he realized it wasn't there. "There. was some yelling and screaming,'' Mr. Holland recalled. He was forgiven, however, being new at that particular job. Mr. Holland's first responsibilities with NBC came as assignment editor on the 7 a.m. to to the Today stories were to be covered in and how much of NBC facilliti~~s to be devoted to each His introduction to news came ·as the result of an so rare as to be one a million. Trained as a librarian - he has a 1973 master's in from the Univer~itv "' Mr. Holland News, Inc., as a librarian. was the and we had a small staff. There was a lot of things to and I was another warm body so got thrown into the business. I learned how to be a field (Continued from P. 1) the one that year with the best record of winning games in all sports would retain the orange and the black. AS IT HAPPENS St. John's came out on top and was privileged to continue with uniforms In those colors. "The University of Maryland went for red and white, probably because they were the Crossland colors, and Johns Hopkins, with typical wryness, chose blue and black," Mr. Kinsman said. Inquiries at the University of Maryland's College Park campus of proved fruitless by verification. A hint of 11-'"'"'"'u"'...... ~.i came from Johns Honkins ar- John is former Karen Va., a St. and is the father of two .so1ect:acu.lar1y b1:aut:iful children, sus:anriah, 3. He and reside outside An- records to this. Nor are there any extant records to verify the contrary; that is, that the athletic colors were blue and black from the time when the teams first were formed in 1882." BLUE AND BLACK were in use in 1889, when the first yearbook speaks of the "familiar blue and black of Hopkins." Fans wore blue and black ribbons to the 1883 Hopkins-Naval Academy game, only a year after the first teams were formed, which would indicate that the blue and black were the original colors of the teams, almost- from the appropriateness of St. John's colors in more recent when books rather than For St. John's Paca-Carroll's new is under cover Tom Pamm photo and whose teams Hookins c1lm1:>etE~d in various (Athletic) Association expedient to select for purposes some more distinctive markings. ''However, there are no extant black and orange are ins:e-o:ara11:>1e from Halloween, and Mr. Kieffer's makes the colors a more mix when college ribbons and hoods are displayed on occasions other than October31. �a member of which includes husband, Bill and a Santa Houseal is the reason there is a boomlet in the ballet at St. John's this Mr. Houseal is not only instructor ·and member of two of the ,.,..., ... 1-.,..,•,.. lo~nina ballet on Leslie lewis photo "You he has BUT FOR AN before he takes this decisive he is in St. secular because he wants "to how to think." St. John's great books seminars are "The readings foster your interests, your doubts, your emotions," he said. "They bring it all together. They urge you exhort you - to think, and you can't say something which cannot be defended unless someone else swallows you up. I'm exposed to thinkers bolder than myself. One comes out with thoughts clearer to the believer, the mind and the soul, before going on to something else." Mr. Houseal comes to 1he Annapolis campus after the 197980 season with the New York Ballet in which partnered Allegra Kent, most famous because it is with her George Balanchine works when he the new members of the Board of Visitors and Governors, who assumed office last is a alumnus of the Santa Fe camous. Steven L. Tucker. Santa Ann since has been my wife to that date and as far back as I can remember was also same Tucker writes. "We both entered St. John's in Santa Fe in the fall of 11.TISPI 111:...11 season Ballet he roles in such numbers as "Birds of Paradise," "Fives," Cassall's "One-Three-Five,'' and "Nutcracker Suite." THE ARRIVAL IN Washington of the New York City Ballet, back from London and in need of dancers, brought a request to the Washington Ballet for a dark haired, burley youth for "Copellia." Houseal won the part. During that troupe's foura n d- a-half week stay in Washington, he became acquainted with Baryshnikov. Houseal remembers running past him on the steps and telling the great Russian dancer, "I'm so glad you're short!" They are the same height - five feet, four and a half. Later, one day while he was lacing his · boots, Baryshnikov sat down beside him and began lacing his own. Carol Ann attended in Claremont, we continued St. John's until i:.m:u1utat1~a in June of 1969." Tucker then attended the 1rni11Pir•21tv of Denver College of Law in from until 1972 when he received his doctorate in law. to his gr<1au1ati.on, he as a clerk the Hon. Oliver Set of the U.S. Court of Tenth Circuit. In entered private •n"tice in Santa Fe with a small -Watson, Stillinger & Lunt. years later he became '' " "Vienna .1..,o;;,;;:.iua, " Peter Martin's "Scarlatti Variations," and Jerome Robbins' "Goldberg Variations." The latter brought his biggest role, opposite Allegra Kent. The quickness with which Houseal reached the top is remarkable in that he had only studied dancing for four years, first at 16 when he began tap dancing because "I wanted to be like Fred Astaire" and later as a jazz dancer. HE HAD NOT wanted to study ballet, reflecting the stigma of prejudice of a small mid-western town, but, persuaded by his teacher that it would improve his technique, finally enrolled fo a ballet class.· He discovered he liked it most of all. Three summers at the renowned Interlochen Academy, an art center for talented young people, followed. What Houseal learned most there was how to perform on stage. "I loved " Houseal said. "God has been very kind. I did more in those last two than I had to. 1u1.1muJ:?.n those were roles York, I was with some of the greatest people the world. I was very proud, and I felt no need to further. "There was something behind me which allowed all this good fortune at once. I not only had tried, but I had succeeded. ·And I'm glad I tried. I would have hated at age 50 to have wondered whether I could have done it.'' Houseal has strong feelings about the need to use his abilities and talents fully in a social and personal way. There are thousands of people called upon to be dancers, he pointed out, but there are fewer called upon to the monastic life. But, in a humorous way, it is feet which may play a role in the order he is considering, that of the Discalced Carmelites. Discalced," he explained, "means without shoes." His feet again. Miss Fletcher was aeol1ca.tect at a recention the Friends "Here at St. for we have had the benefit the and gu111an1ce of Charlotte our librarian," President Delattre said in remarks delivered in his absence bv Dean Edward 1;:..,.,...." ... tributed to the integritv wholeness - of the embodiment of aecnc:mcm achievement of disciulined of mind.'' were former and archivist and Winfree tutor. Later, as sonal gift, the Fletcher, a with an easel. A native of West Va., Mrs. Kinzer received a bachelor of science degree in botany from West Hampton College in 1954 and in 1969 a master's of library science from the University of Maryland, where she previously had· been a· special student in American A group of alumni are meeting for book discussions every other week in the West End Branch of the District of Columbia's Organized over a year and a half ago, the group meets at 6:30 p.m. in the Old Children's Reading Room - a standard joke of participants - and then adto one of the nearbv small restaurants. Edward Grandi, '77, who is now associated with his ,., ...........+"' surance and of which _ school teachers administrators at all STEVEN L TUCKER The Tuckers have one 4. "We enjoy cooking, tennis, gardening, and western dancing," Mr. Tucker says of their spare moments. ... �. ~ t How do you define decadence, with its moral, economic, and politic al implications? J.R. Thompson, S '71, advertising director for The Rocky ~'ord (Col.) Daily Gazette, came with some interesting ideas as result of a conference sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities at Cornell University. t ~t decadence can apply not only to morals but to economics, politics, technology, military strength, art, culture, and even psychology. All of these considerations can be applied to an individual or a society or a culture. (The latter two are not the same.) A "falling down" or "away from'' presupposes some has been reached. It is refer to a child or a nrimit'iuP On the hand, a One of 16 to participate, he was man has been economically chosen the seminar coor- and socially successful in any d in a tor, Professor Robed number of professions or trades Adams, professor emeritus of or social strata, who suddenly English literature at the becomes an alcoholic and coughs out his remaining years mooching drinks and sleeping in doorways or trash bins or skid row, can just as easily be described as decadent as a nation which loses its economic power, t~rrit1u•11 or even sovereignty. Just as any individual may become decadent, so may any society or culture, regardless of its ethics, political, economic or J. R. THOMPSON · social structure. History shows University of California, Los fairly clearly the causes of Angeles, and a frequent visitor at decadence are not tied to these the Santa Fe campus's library. A factors. former Cornell faculty member, The final conclusion we came. Professor Adams had just to is that an individual, culture, completed a draft of a book on or society which stops being able: decadence when the NEH asked to solve the majority of the him to serve as coordinator. · problems confronting it can be Mr. Thompson said the said to be decadent. The corollary of this definition seminar, "Decadent Societies: What Are They? Are We Living in is that decadence can therefore One?," drew upon a reading list only be defined by hindsight and, which included Gibbon, Toynbee, as such, the question of and Christopher Lasch. decadence becomes a nonmanipulative one: i.e., one He writes: Our approach to the question of which is not subject to useful decadence was first to have a application. In other words, don't wild session devoted to possible worry about whether you or your definitions of decadence. nation or your culture is Professor Adams, in the Socratic decadent, worry about the more tradition, would toss out suitable immediate problems which can questions to keep houses of cards be solved, and decadence will from becoming too elaborate. He take care of itself. then suggested we look to history A second corollary is that any for examples of things we could individual, culture, or society agree on as decadent and attempt which can bring to bear more approaches to a given question or thereby to clarify our definitions. We looked at the Roman problem stands a better Empire through the writings of statistical chance of solving that both Rom an and later historians. question or problem; hence the We continued to the Byzantine inherent advantage of a freeand on to the Czarists' realms. thinking individual, culture, or Eighteenth century France, society over one which is especially just prior to the dogmatic and constrained. French Revolution, captured our Needless to say this left the attention for nearly a week. We physicians in our group also spent some time on the somewhat unsatisfied since, as British Empire from 1751 (the some of us felt, their training is ~ear the bells rang conall of a dogmatic nature. (If the tinuously) to World War II. patient has thus and thus sympFinally we took a brief look at toms, then the disease or ailment must be thus and thus). Since I contemporary America. As to Mr. Lasch, -who, in- ·-tend to be somewhatNietzschean cidentally, was invited to come in my outlook, I found the whole and speak to us but declined to do effort very ·satisfying and inso (although we did have other teresting. Neo-Platonists should guest lecturers), most of us came stick to safer topics, however. Accompanying Mr. Thompson to the conclusion that his perception of decadence is much too was his wife, Laura (Kelly narrow, limited primarily to Thompson, S '71), a Daily sexual deviations and moral Gazette columnist who is also decay. I personally wrote him off teaching a night class at Otero as small child playing in the Junior College in theater costume mud of a deadend alley. design and history. He advises The Oxford English Dictionary persons interested in NEH defines decadence simply as a seminars that a list of them is falling dow11 or away from, from available from the NEH office in the Latin, of course. As such, Washington. 11u:n1uvn Abrams tends the n1nn.i:>rhr.,.,....-1 of McDowell Hall. Evening Capital photo 1 McDowell Hall, as envisaged by the Sugarplum Fairy or by a group of enterprising seniors, came out of the oven and onto the table on the Annapolis campus this Christmas. Never has a building been unveiled at St. John's with so much "oohing" and "aahing" as the gingerbread edifice with its 'delectable dome, a 22-inch high triumph in culinary art down to its last gumdrop and part of the senior class's fund raising efforts. Christmas is a time of giving, and this building is going to the college as a permanent gift, one made possible by Thomas Mark, and his wife, Susan, to whom it first was awarded. They have turned it over to President Delattre. The edifice will be shown courtesy of their two sons, Thomas E., 7, and Nicholas C., 5, who initially, most of all, would have liked to have eaten it. Thanks to their restraint and generosity, it will remain intact. The dome of this central ·administration building on campus is a resculptured candy kiss. A bell hangs high in the cupola where electric lights shine through translucent candy panes to signal the - presence of St. John's tutor Leo Raditsa in his study. · Smoke emerges from Dean Edward Sparrow's office. Pigeons of spun sugar perch on the roof and bill on the building's ledges. A thousand square inches of gingerbread supports a realistic crack traced in icing. Red hots enliven the porches, and chocolate scrapings denote their flagstoning. On the lawn ice cream cones covered with green icing become evergreens in the snow, made from some of the eight batches of icing used. The brain child of Lisa Cobb, who saw a gingerbread house in a woman's magazine and whose imagination swept to grander dimensions, the building is the work of herself and Honor Bulkley, with Florence Roessler joining in at the baking stage and two other seniors, Kathy Abrams and Kathy Heed, at the decorating. Strong support came from Ann O'Malley, class treasurer, who knows what a well filled till looks like. Material for gingerbread and candy cost $60. "No one has figured out how many calories the house has," Miss Cobb said. The building is no loosely constructed repuc a. Buildings and Grounds Superintendent Charles Wallace lent the women blueprints, Miss Cobb. and Miss Bulkley spent six days making graphic plans and a cardboard model. Each piece required four pieces of graph paper, all Annapolis tutor Harvey Flaumenhaft has participated in two recent conferences. The first, "How Capitalistic Is the Constitution?" sponsored by the American Enterprise In· stitute in Washington, was the second in a series of annual seminars conducted by the AEI in preparation for the Constitution's 1987 bicentennial. Later he took part in a conference on "Rhetoric and American Statesmanship" at the and coo in twos and threes carefuliy labeled. In solving a structural problem involving the cupola, an irregular octagon, and its roof, they fell back on their Pythagorean studies. Baking took a day, f oHowed by two concentrated days and of decorating. "We were always running back from Flo's room, where we, built it, to McDowell to see that it was right,'' Miss Abrams said. "Flo's room was wall-towall candy. The poor girl had to move out. Every flat surface was covered." Miss Abrams, herself, did the tile roof of Necco wafers. Peppermint rounds were used for cornerstones. Miss Roessler did the electricity and the decorative icing. "We never knew she had thatskill," an appreciative Miss Abrams commented. The delicately molded pigeons were the work of librarian Kathryn Kinzer. Supportive men include Martin Miller. "Martin tried valiantly to make a fire escape," Miss Abrams said. That's almost the only thing missing. Otherwise, it was, everyone agreed, perfect. It's the sort of academic buUdirlg which wo11ld hav~ enticed Hansel and Gretel once they decided to leave the woods and seek a bachelor's degree - at St. John's, of course in University of Dallas. In December he conducted the defense of his dissertation, The Administrative Republic Alexander Hamilton, at of the University of Chicago, where he received his doctorate. _, ____. �(Continued from P. 2) director, much news of his classmates: Ann Ray works as a ceramist in New York City. Meg Sheehan is entering a doctoral program at California School of Professional Psychology. Mark Habrel works for the National Opinion Research Center in Chicago, and with Peter Faulhaber, S77, and another friend is developing an "educational corporation." Tom and Moors are in Newark, Del., where has an assistant professorship at the University of Delaware. Their daughter was born last June. Also in June, Leslie graduated from McGeorge School of Law. Chris Chase finished his master's degree in psychology last spring and is doing research for the Navy. Boyd Pratt works for an · architectural firm in Albuquerque. Boyd has been on the Board of Visitors and Governors for the college since 1979. Adrian Rosen plays in a band in Atlantic City. Tom (Louis) Larson has his own band in New Jersey and tours the East Coast. Robin Datel, a doctoral candidate in urban geography at the University of Mip.nesota, is in Europe this year, gathering data for her dissertation on urban preservation .. Cheryl Porter Brostrom is now living in Santa Fe. Ian Ocrant is a resident in pediatrics at Stanford. Ellen Anderson is in her third year of law at the University of Puget Sound. Dick Skaug is laying bricks in Sacramento; he and his wife Carol are expecting a child this spring. An announcement from Kristin Lucas Zyla and her husband Lou reveals the birth on September 16 of Ivan Petro Zylar. 1976 Sue M. DeBacker and Mat, ··75 with Matt's family, are kept busy · with 170 milking cows and 271000 laying hens. {That's an awful lot of eggs!). Caring for year-old son Jason takes care of any spare time Sue mighthave. Jeff Shea sends a muchoverdue report of his activities: graduation from McGeorge Law School in May and a few months part-time clerking but now working for Matthew-Bender Legal Publishing Company in San Francisco as an editor for their California Pleading and Practice series. Jeff saw Peter Kniaz, '75, in November, and report he and Mary are well. Steve Chew and Roberta Nalbandian are still doing well at McGeorge. John Bukacek was expected in the Bay area in December, on holiday from Japan. Santa Fe -1976 William A. Malloy reports his marriage in May 1979 to Jane Hawkins, a music and philosophy student from the University of Houston. In September Bill resigned from the Veterans Administration after three years in property management accouunting and is now with IRS in Houston. He points out that any degree, such as St. John's B.A., and participation in PACE Test (Professional and Career Exam), can provide entry into 4050 different government positions. Janet Farr is working on a • • • Ph.D. in voice at the Unfversity of Texas at Austin. Davis Holtkamp is in Los Alamos doing post-doctoral work in physics. John Pilcher is in Washington, D.C., working for a U.S. Senator from Nebraska. Another young •. lawyer is Denise Waxman, w'ith a degree from New York University and practicing in Crownpoint, N.M. 1976- Graduate Institute Idell Kesselman Jacobson writes that she has abandoned high school teaching for a position in the Humanities Department of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona. She will teach English and sociology. (We apologize for listing Idell's husband as Shelby; his name is Shelly.) Idell reports the enjoyment of being a full-time mom last summer and watching Risa, now 20 months old, "unfold like a butterfly." Idell would welcome information on "flexible, human doctoral studies programs out here that would be compatible with St. John's background." Santa Fe -1977 Larry Clendenin (see elsewhere in this issue) reports Mike Nolan is in Lebanon working for the Catholic Relief Services. 1978 Larry Ostrovsky reports from Portland, Ore., where he is in his second year at Lewis and Clark Law School. Kari Jenson and Robert F. Levy were married in New York City last October 18. . 1978 Marta Stellwagen and Clinton Dale Lively were married August 23. Marta is in her second year of law studies at the University of Virginia; Dale is in his third year of mathematics at the university's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Santa Fe......; 1978 Stephen Deane checks in from Cambridge, Md., where he is one of three news reporters on the Banner, a daily newspaper. Steve has learned to use a camera and apparently loves the small town, water-oriented life of Maryland's Eastern Shore as well as the fine writing experience he is getting. He has especially discovered that in news work one doesn't have the luxury of re-write time, and hence enjoys writing more. 1978--Graduate Institute Rudolph F. Baca last fall participated in a three-day conference with leading managers and sales represen· tatives of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in Durango, Col. Rudy is sales manager for Metropolitan Thunderbird sales office in Albuquerque, where his sales unit placed in the top 10 percent among Metropolitan's 3,000 sales units in the U.S. and Canada. 1979 Margaret Rosenberg writes that she enjoys news from classmates in this publication and offers some of her own. She graduated in June 1979 from Earlham College, with a major in human development and social relations, with both honors and departmental honors. After a year working part-time with preschoolers, she is working this Katy Moffatt, who attended the Santa Fe campus from 1969-70, has become a highly successful vocalist, so sutcessful Rolling Stone magazine predicts that if she "continues to sing this superbly, her career will be anything but impermanent. It will endure." Miss Moffatt will perform in the feature film, "Hard Country,'' scheduled for release this month. Now living in Los Angeles, she performed the original song in "Billy Jack," which was filmed in Santa Fe in 1970 while she was attending St. John's. After her year at St. John's, she moved to Denver, where she began performing around Colorado. In 1973-74 she toured the nation, performing on the college coffee house circuit. She signed with Columbia Records in 1975, and a year later her first album, "Katy," and a single, "I Can Almost See Houston from Here," hit the national country charts, garnering several music industry awards. The international release of her second album, "Kissin' in the California Sun," in 197.7 came concurrently with a European tour and in 1978 was released in this country, when she again was on tour. She is included in the 1980-81 Marquis' Who's Who in America. Rolling Stone has described "Kissin' in the California Sun" as extra-ordinary." It writes: ·. "Born and raised in Fort Worth, Katy Moffatt may be a country girl, but at heart she's a pop, not a country, singer. Moffatt can write moving melodi· es, and the songs she's chosen to cover display her remarkable range, from Curtis Mayfield to U d CJ.0 SOR T rUS-f (Continued from P. 1) Hodson Trust, $300,000 from an anonymous donor, and $1,550 in miscellaneous gifts and grants. Being planned for the inner side of the campus are two private dining rooms, each capable of holding 25 persons and separated by folding doors. They will be used for alumni luncheons and other college functions. While the present entrance will continue to serve dormitory rooms, the principal entrance to the dining hall will be relocated at its College Avenue side with a ramp constructed there for handicapped students. Anew serving area will be built as part of the new addition, and the present serving area will become a new dining area with space for about 30 persons. KATY MOFFATT Carol Bayer Sager and Peter Allen. More remarkable still, she's able to weave country, soul, rock, and pop into something more coherent than crazy-quilt ,eclecticism and yet give every genre its due. Instead of homogenizing tradition, she honors them." A 1978 write-up in Newsweek says: "DARK SIDE: Kathy Moffatt's Fort Worth, Texas, upbringing gives her unimpeachable Southern roots, but her musical background had a bit of everything. Her brother, Hugh, is a country songwriter, her grandmother was a concert pianist, and her teen-age tastes ran to the dark side of folk music - songs by Phil Ochs, Leonard Cohen and the like. After a brief fling with college-'It wasn't how I was going to learn what I wanted to learn' - she played in Texas blues and regional folk bands. In 1973, she landed in Denver, Colo., discouraged and uncertain about what to do next. . It was while jamming with local musicians that she discovered that 'country music provided a real vehicle for the blues quality in my voice.' When county producer Billy Sherrill heard Moffatt sing for just fifteen minutes during a Columbia Records convention, he signed her up. Her first album, 'Katy,' was produced by Sherrill himself in Nashville. It was a critical success and a commercial flop. "SOPHISTICATED POP: Kathy's second album was delayed by in-house haggling over the direction it should take, but the result, 'Kissin' in the California Sun,' is one of the most delightful and under-recognized pop-country albums around. The albums-, production is sophisticated pop-dominant bass and drums punctuated by occasional saxophone riffs - and the title song, which Moffatt wrote, 'is infectiously ingenuous: 'Makin' love on the balcony, Underneath the canopy /In the mornin'. Lord it sure is fun / To be kissin' in the California sun." But Moffatt, 27, also demonstrates the capacity to sing a soulful Curtis Mayfield hit, belt out various rock 'n' roll tunes and still convey a down-home feeling on the album's four countrytinted tunes - all of which she wrote. 'The aim for this album was to really go pop,' she says. 'But I guess you just can't take the country out of me.' " Gallery gets grant Both St. John's College Art Gallery and its artist-inresidence have received grants from the Anne Arundel County Commission on Culture and Art and the Maryland State Arts Council. · Burton Blistein has been awarded a "founding grant" of $2,000 which will permit him to hand build a small metal-casting foundry at hfs home. He estimates the newly christened Rainfire Foundry will enable county sculptors and art students to cast bronze sculptures at approximately a fourth of the commercial price. The foundry also will serve as a training center. The award of $1,000 to the art gallery will underwrite an exhibition of the work of printmaker Peter Milton to be held next fall at the college. Both grants were among the $53,300 distributed by the commission. year at a day care center for Paul Martin is an ensign inthe Himong refugee children in a Navy, assigned to recruiting program designed to provide duties in Albuquerque prior to his - language and enrichment to first sea duty next spring. Curtis Wilson permit entry into the public Geri Glover lives in Montana, Harvard sp~aker school system. cooks at a restaurant, and is Santa Fe -1980 taking a course in income taxes. Curtis Wilson, St. John's Mary McCormick and Steve She plans to return to Santa Fe College tutor, was a recent lecCrampton this year are employed 1this year to work a few months turer before Harvard Univeron the Santa Fe campus, Mary as for H&R Block. Geri reports that sity's History of Science assistant director of admissions, Martha McGinnis is enjoying the Department. Steve as assistant to the director study of architecture at the A recognized historian of of student activities. University of Kansas. astronomy between the 16th and 18th centuries, Mr. Wilson is the In Memoriam author of a 400-page monograph 1916-Maj. Arthur B. Jacques, Baltimore, Md., December4. appearing in the current two 1921- Joseph S. Di Giorgio, Hillsborough, Cal., November 7. issues of the Archive for the 1939- James R. McQueen, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., November 28. History of Exact Sciences. �let u~ u"C111cuuAu Milner, an assistant dean 1977, has been named Graduate director of the Institute in nuua 1iuu.::i. President Edwin J. Delattre said Mr. Milner wm assume his duties in Milner succeeds GeoffV'inr Comber, who has headed John's summer master's in since it was tounaed four years ago. He will be on sabbatical leave from the college the 1981-82 academic year. Mr. Milner is a of Atlanta, Ga., where he received his bachelor's degree in """"'"'u"'" in 1949 from Emory Univf'rsi1r.v the Korean War he served in the In 1955 he of divinity obtained his degree from Columbia Theological Se min in Decatur, Ga., and in his doctorate from Harvard, where he studied the history and philosophy of religion. His doctoral thesis, "Calvin's Doctrine of the Church," was nut>lisilled E.J. Brill in Leiden. A search is on for a successor for Barbara Skaug, SF '76, head resident on the Santa Fe campus since 1977, who will begin law school in the fall. She will continue in her present position and as coordinator of planning activities for the college until June but leave her position as Graduate Institute registrar as soon as possible. Mr. Milner of in BEN MILNER Biblical History. He became a member of the St. John's faculty in 1965. A former chairman of the Committee, he is married to Mary Jane head of the lower school at School. The couple have three ,...,;i...i ...u .. Alumni-both men and women-interested in applying for the head residency are advised to write Miss Skaug or Dean Robert Bart. The head resident is responsible for administering the undergraduate housing program, for informal counseling, and for scheduling parties and other events. Residence is on campus. The resident is on call emergencies. Picture Dodo Klein seizing the brightest and the best of the morning hours to quilt. Picture Mette Lansdale on her south county farm with another swift needle. Picture the St. John's itself: a series of appliqued scenes drawn from the campus and books-McDowell Hall, the Liberty Tree and Chase-Stone, soccer in front of the heating plant, football with the planetarium, croquet in front of the library. There are those well known characters taken from the books: Shakespeare elegantly embroideried, Dante forever scowl(imagine snuggling up under a scowling poet), the red-stockinged, buxom, and bawdy, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, amt Gulliver amid ropes and small astonished and exult ant. n..Arnuui;u the white whale is no on St. John's Dick stretch of a boat of lovers of abstract art, the 20 squares include two borrowed from St. John's mathematics program. freshman will I 47. his of the Pythagorean in red, yellow, and lettering embroidered in black. And as· well as anything most museums of modern art have to offer is another in yellow, orange, and blue-green illustrating the determination of the eccentricity of the equant in Ptolemy's theory of the universe. Ho, ho! Solid stuff, · what! Philosophers will find a Platonic dialogue, "The Phaedrus," depicted in a square in which a robed driver seeks to control black and white steed. Elsewhere, a St. John's waltz party is in progress in which a couple waltz in the Great Hall. (This was taken from ·a photograph. That's a beardless Michael Blume, '78, with the girl.) This effort to blanket part of St. John's will e:o on sale at Caritas's annual Needlework Show from 10 a.m. to 5 JJ.m. February 7-9 in the the. Auditorium. Dodo Klein - Mrs_; Jacob Klein - who is the1 exhibit along with the Mrs. John! announced the the collecof Caritas will members, and. sciences, such students with some husbands and . tutors throwing in their own ideas as work progressed. The project first was proposed a former Caritas president, r1>Tn'iP<:1>nh: on conwere Mr. Cochran's former Sally Harrison together with members of her and Mr. Cochran's families and. the Area Alumni Volunteer steering will be on in the and West with the dedicatory lecture fo be· delivered 25 hornec:oming weekend in Tom G. leave before his senior year in Annapolis, served as assistant communications director during the campaign to elect Edward E. Clark as on the Libertarian Rebecca Wilson, who coordinated it up to the quilting stage when Mrs. Klein took over. Early design work was completed by librarian Kinzer, Christina Wertz, Upper Montclair, N.J., senior, and by Mrs. Wilson and then turned over to the. art coordinator, former St. John's artist-in-residence Jo Thoms, who designed more blocks and then redid all of them to be consistent in style. Applique and embroidery were completed by a group of members who included Mrs. Klein, Mrs. Lansdale, Mrs. Maxine Winnie Fowler, Frances and Anna Mae Wilson. Asisistin~ from the St. John's staff were Betsy Brown and Jean Monroe. Students helping with the sewing were Miss Wertz and Marion Individual designs are available for the cost of xeroxing, postage, a small overhead. Single blocks make effective pillows or wall pieces. Interested persons should write Rebecca Wilson, St. John's College. The Annapolis Friends of St. John's will hold their first major fund raising telethon this spring, Marilyn Williamson, chairman of the annual Friends 1981 annual Fund Camoahm. has announced. Encouraged by the success of their 1980 "mini" telethon, this year's expanded effort will kick off the Friends' third drive, which has set a goal of raising $30,000 towards St. John's operating expenses for the 1981-82 academic year . The telethon will be held on two evenings in late Aprll or earwith calls scheduled from 7 to 9 p.m. Twenty temporary will be installed at a yet-to-be-determined campus site. Needed are 40 persons who will help with the calling. Inform al suppers for volunteers will be held each evening at 5: 45 p.m. They will be followed sessions for the telethon at 6: 30 p. m. Volunteers will have distinguished company. President Delattre will be on the helping keep the wires warm and getting the St. John's message across. "If you've been wanting to do something to help out St. John's, consider being a volunteer for the telethon," Mrs. Williamsen urged. For more information call Mrs. Williamson at 263-2050, home, or 263-8686, office, or Miss Cindy Miller in the St. John's Development Office, 263-2371. � 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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President raps anti-elitism In inaugural addresses in curriculums organized to teach Annapolis and Santa Fe, what interests students on the President Delattre warned grounds that they will study against education reduced to hardest and learn the most and "fancy, fashion, and whim" and that these subjects will be anti-elitism with its implicit "relevant." denial of serious study for HE ALSO CONDEMNED the students in higher education. short-term interests of inSpeaking first in Annapolis, stitutions that offer courses to Mr. Delattre said that it is a basic attract additional students as a mistake to suppose that because means of balancing the budget this nation is committed to the and survive in the face of other education of the public, formal institutions doing the samE> thing. education must be "everything to "Both types of appeal, for everybody" and seek to satisfy better or worse, fail,'' he said .. even trival interests of every "To teach whatever interests individual group of individuals. students, and to settle for that, is "Education has no such to forsake the idea that there is obligation," Mr. Delattre anything · essentially worth declared. teaching or learning and to deny "To suppose that it does is to that there are any interests whirh promote its destruction through education ought to encourage. progressive collapse into preoccupation with the immediate gratification of the most The last blue haze of cigarette fleeting wishes of the very students whose inexperience and smoke may have wafted from the naivete make them especially classrooms of the Annapolis deserving of more respectful and campus. demanding instruction. EducaFollowing tion cannot give everything by years ago a precedent set five on the Santa Fe asking nothing, for if it asks campus, Dean Edward G. nothing, demands nothing, stands for nothing, it has nothing left to Sparrow is asking all members of the college community to refrain give." from smoking in classrooms and He warned against "It is to reduce education to fancy, fashion, and whim. The methods of science, the lessons of literature, the problems of philosophy, the meaning in human experience, the function of institutions - the very subject matters in which a mind becomes disciplined are sacrificed to whatever byways of study students feel to be interesting." The appeal to relevance is equally unpersuasive, Mr. Delattre continued, for in practice he said it has led to the reduction of teaching to training in specific skills which are not adaptable and which rapidly become obsolete in the presence of advancing technology. (Continued on P. 8) Classroom smoking banned 's Santa Fe's enrollment has reached 314, crowding dormitories and forcing approximately 75 students to reside in town. The housing shortage has been solved in several· instances by placing more students in three room suites than originally was intended, but, all in all, no one is complaining. "There is an air of excitement, a sense that the college is alive and growing," Dean Robert Bart observed. "This has been an unusually buoyant and happy year." The college is considered to have a capacity of between 270 and 330 students with space for a little more than 250 beds. This ' . at required college functions using St. John's public facilities. Mr. Sparrow said smoking still will be possible on the St. John's premises, including in the coffee shop, but not on academic occasions or at college exercises students must attend. He took the action under the St. John's Polity which provides that the dean bears responsibility for the "general welfare" of the students. The restriction attracted national attention in the media with The Chronicle of Higher Education informing St. John's it knew of no other institution with a similar ban. BEFORE ASKING that all smoking cease in academic situations, Dean Sparrow had year the number available was slightly decreased with the renting of an 18-bed dormitory unit to the· Southwest Outward Bound. The freshman class stands at 98; a figure Mr. Bart said could have been much higher had not consulted with Dr. Peter there been a reduction in federal '49, professor of epidimiology funds for student aid. In addition, preventive medicine at the there are 94 sophomores, 74 University of Maryland and juniors, and 48 seniors. (Continued on P. 7) The figures include a record 44 students from the Annapolis campus who are taking a "year abroad" in Santa Fe and an overflow of 11 to 12 freshmen unable to enroll this September at the Annapolis campus. Inaugural photos were by Mary Fredenburg and Michael Mouchette in Santa Fe and by Keith Harvey in Annapolis. The ceremonies on Saturday were graced with a perfect autumn mountain day with crisp, clear air and the aspen leaves turning brilliant yellow on the nearby Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The buffet luncheon in the Great Hall of Peterson Center drew 225 guests, including Governor and Mrs. Bruce King, Mortimer Adler, and Mayor and Mrs. Arthur Trujillo. Members of the official procession were transported to downtown . Santa Fe by bus for robing in the Palace of the (Continued on P. 9) the East Thursday morning the St. John's <>ommunity BWBhned. to sodden, gray clouds of one of the first of the autumnai rains. There was a collective sigh of relief; nothing could be more auspicious. The rain, enough to green the grass and clear the way for bright inaugural weather, would be over by the weekend. And so the ceremony for St. John's 19th nresident was able to take place· in fine September weather while the mid-afternoon sun warmed the backs of a thousand spectators and caused the new silver presidential chain around the neck of Edwin J. Delattre to glint more brilliantly in the sun. The inauguration was accomplished with grace, simplicity, and balance, and it was, as one spectator remarked, a very "St. Johnsian affair." The family was there. The event, highlighted by Mr. Delattre's major statement on education, was surrounded by pomp and regal pageantry as St.· John's faculty, board members, students, and 80 delegates representing higher education and learned societies, many (Continued on P. 10) �PAGE 2 THE REPORTER Tackling the factors - ~CLCY~~a Barbara wins through [!A~iJ ~[!) w~~u As those of you know who attended one or the other, outstanding homecoming inaugurals were held on the two campuses. Credit for those successes goes to a lot of people east and west, and we want to thank them all publicly. In that connection, the following are extracts from a letter from Gilbert T. Renaut, '68, homecoming chairman in Annapolis: "Now that the 1980 Annapolis homecoming has been successfully concluded, a few acknowledgements are in order. The alumni board's homecoming committee, which made the decision to return the cocktail party and dinner to campus, consisted of Frank Wilson, '35, Samuel Kutler, '54, Emily Kutler, '55, Marjorie Kimble, '76, and Kenneth Kimble, '77 . . . . The Friday night welcome-aboard party was arranged by Andrew Klipper, '80. The Saturday evening cocktail party ... was arranged by Bernard Gessner, '27, with the assistance of Bryant Cruse,'73 and Ann Cruse, '76. If you have any comments or suggestions for improving future Homecomings, please write us while the weekend's events are still fresh in your memory." ********* 1936 Word came to 11s from Dick Weigle, '49H, that Edward Heise and the former Mrs. Robert J. Colborn, Sr., were married in September. 1963 J. J. · Bodine is currently the pastor-teacher of the Congregational Church of Henniker, N.H. 1965 A not.fl' from Laurf"n<'I" B1>rns of the Annapolis faculty tells us that three St. John's graduates took part in the proceedings of the annual meeting of the ·American Political Science Association in August in Washington, D.C. Jan Blits, who teaches in the Honors Program at the University of Delaware, presented a paper on "Politics and the Ethics of Intention: Marcus Brutus' Glorious Failure." Jan also served as commentator on a panel sponsored by the Claremont Institute The Reporter Rebecca Wilson Editor The Reporter is published by the Office of College Relations, St. John's College, Annapolis, Md., 21404. Edwin J. De/afire, president. Published five times a year, in February, April, June, September and November. Second class postage paid at Annapolis, Md. - USPS 018-150 NOVEMBER 1980 Some schools use com. puters to help schedule students for classes. Not St. John's. It uses Barbara Leonard. Barbara Leonard is no computer. Ever since the early 1970's, this assistant dean has taken a clipboard in hand and sat down each year to program a schedule which will permit: 1. Tutors to meet tutorial obligations. · 2. Allow them to audit tutorials they requested. 3. Allow them to attend study groups requested. 4. Allow them to babysit their offspring. 5. Allow the Instruction Committee to meet Tuesday afternoons. 6. Allow the Freshman Chorus to be free at 1: 15 p.m. on Thursdays. 7. Allow students to be free from 2:15 p.m. on Thursday afternoons for athletics and for Mr. Jacobsen to be free to run the athletic program. 8. Allow students to be fr:ee to wait table, collect · and put up mail, clean the buildings, operate the switchboard, work in the library and offices, keep the gym open, run the Student Employment Office, and assist in the laboratory. She also has: 9. Tried not to give tutors students they have taught before or to make a student suffer under the same tutor in more than one tutorial, lab, or seminar in any given year. 10. Tried to give each tutorial a balance of men and women students which reflects the ratio of the sexes in the class as a whole. 11. Tried to give each tutorial a proper academic mixture of students. 12. Tried to give each junior math tutorial and junior laboratory equal proportions of beginning and advanced French students. 13. Tried tutors and students seminar-tutorialla bor a tory clusters to make it easier or even possible for the registrar to make out don rag schedules at the end of each semester. 14. Arranged with the registrar to allow handicapped students and faculty to have lower floor classrooms. Such, Miss Leonard told the faculty at its first meeting this year, are the factors she must consider as she begins once anew to determine the constituency of St. John's classes. She omitted that she has to schedule classes around· only two music rooms and two laboratory rooms each for chemistry, biology, and junior and senior labs. "I start with the laboratories and music and fit the rest of the schedule around them," she explained. What Miss Leonard does essentially, in late August, is to lay out a matrix in the quiet of her summer lakeside cottagf" in Ohio. "I couldn't possibly do it when I got back," she explained this duty-oriented interruption in her vacation, adding, "I can never do anything when I get back." She can never do anything, of course, that first week except to take care of housing difficulties, meet with parents, freshmen, and fellow tutors, assist with registration, and solve a multitude of miscellaneous and sometimes frantic problems. But, some time about late August, Miss Leonard takes lists prepared by Jan Easterday, her secretary, which shows all the tutors a single student has had in previous years, and using these as guides, plugs the students into classes. "Scheduling is like doing a jigsaw puzzle," Miss Leonard says. "I can do it, but sometimes I can't seem to fit in the last person because of a conflict so I play around and juggle until all the factors are taken care of." After that Miss Leonard utters what amounts to be a great big "phew," and if there are any changes, they are up to the dean's office. She's finished, at least for another year. By Tom Parran '42 Eastern Dir_ector of Alumni Activities for the Study of Statesmanship respects, unfortunately, is just and Political Philosophy. One of like his fa ther." (John also the papers commented on was visited the Annapolis campus this presented by Harry Neumann summer. -T.P.) '52, who teaches philosophy at the Santa Fe -1972 Claremont Graduate School; the Barbara Rogan Kadishon is a title of his paper was "Literature literary agent living in Tel Aviv, After the Death of God: Some Israel; Doubleday soon will Characters in Nietzsche's publish her first novel, Changing Zarathustra " rn another of the States. Claremont Institute's panels. 1973 Richard B. Carter, '54, of the From Nicholas A. Patrone, American Enterprise Institute, M.D., comes a welcome note. He presented a paper on is chief resident in internal "Rousseau's Newtonian. Body medicine at Ea~t~rn Politic." Carolina University School of 1966 Medicine and also a part-time, The Reverend William N. fifth-year, psychiatry resident. McKeachie has been assigned to Next year he will be a fellow in Old St. Paul's Episcopal Church rheumatology /immunology at in Baltimore, with primary the University of North Carolina, responsibilities in the field of Chapel Hill, and will probably adult education. finish psychiatry there, too. Nick 1968 and his wife are expecting their Gilbert T. Renaut in July left first child next spring; " ... a the Labor Department to become way's off, but still exciting(and assistant soliciter to the special frightening! )." Nick also reports counsel for compliance at the on brother Patrick, SF 78, a firstDepartment of Energy. The year medical student at the special counsel's office enforces University of Virginia in the department's petroleum Charlottesville and " ... enjoying price and allocation regulations every minute of it." Sister against the largest domestic Sabrina, '78, after a long decision refiners. Gibb is engaged, as he process, has apparently decided was with the Labor Department, that medicine is not for her. Nick chiefly in appellate litigation. would like to hear from some of Santa Fe -1968 his classmates. ". . . Jane Harold Morgan wa>: rPrl'>ntly Young, Steve and Melissa, Irving appointed business manager of (who was a proud father a year New Mexico Magazine. He and· ago), Jennifer, Mel Johnson, et his wife, Chris, were expecting al." Nick's address is 1113 their first child in September. Hillside Drive, Greenville, N.C. David Moss is spending this 27834. 1975 year in Israel. Michael Dink has joined the St. Santa Fe -1969 Karen Watkins, continuing John's faculty in Santa Fe. Sir1ce education coordinator for the graduating from the Annapolis New Mexico State Library, was campus he has been pursuing selected to participate in a graduate studies in philosophy at special studies program in Catholic University in library automation this autumn Washington, where he obtained at the University of California at his master's degree in 1978 and where he has completed all Berkeley. requirements for a doctorate 1971 ,nm Hill, an inve.:;tigative except for the dissertation, which reporter and business editor for is in its early stages. "It is intended to be on Plato's The York (Pa.) Daily Record, a 36,000 circulation morning paper, Sophist, and I hope to be able to won Best News Series and Best complete it within two or three Investigative Reporting awards years," writes Michael. "At C.U. my studies ranged of the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers' Association, and the from Plat.o and Aristotle to National Headliner Award for his Husserl, Heidegger, and Wittfour-part series on the safety genstein, with perhaps the defects at Three Mile Island, heaviest concentration on the published two weeks before the early moderns - Descartes to nuclear accident, and for his Kant. My teachers were mainly coverage of that crisis. Jim was Professors Kennington, Prufer, also Cl. Pulitzer nominee, but says Sokoloski, and Wippel. In my last two years at C.U., I taught an The Philadelphia Inquirer beat him out on that one! Jim also introductory philosophy course reports a visit in August from - with readings from Plato, John Dean, '70, his wife, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Genevieve, and their 17-month Descartes, Hume, and Kant. "Here in Santa Fe, I have the old son, Benjamin. John is working on his third book and is pleasure of having as students teaching full-time at the two people whose parents are University of Paris. Young well known to the Annapolis Musicians meeting at the inaugural were Harold Bauer, '55, Benjamin, says Jim, " ... goo- campus - Valerie Kinzer, in left, and Douglas Allanbrook of the Annapolis faculty. goos in French but in all other (Continued on Pg.11) �The St. John's Alumni Association, choosey about the people whom it . appoints to honorary membership,· has added two more to the small group it has distinguished. Named for this high honor were Assistant Dean Barbara Leonard and the Rev. J. Winfree Smith, senior tutor, who accepted memberships amid sustained applause of 240 guests during the annual homecoming dinner. Selected to receive the annual awards of merit were Walter F. Evers, '35, who now heads his own firm in Cleveland, 0., and Thomas Parran, Jr., '42, alumni secretary for the past 18 years and currently director of the Office of College Relations. Assistant Dean Barbara Leonard is cheered by alumni, including two of the first St. John's women The award for Mr. Parran, who who came with her, Barbara Oosterhout, second from right, and Caroline leeuwenburgh, both of customarily knows of such the Class of 1955. At left is Mary Wiseman, '58, and her husband Charles. honors, came as a surprise and marks the first time a father and son have been cited in this way. His late father, Dr. Thomas Parran, who graduated with the Class of 1911, a former U.S. surgeon-general, was a recipient in 1956. BOTH MR. PARRAN and Mr. Evers, who is a member of the Board of Visitors and Governors, received the award for "distinguished and meritorious service to St. John's." Mr. Evers' award was made in absentia to members of his class. Mr. Smith was-made a member in recognition of "39 years of devoted service as tutor, assistant dean, and spiritual adviser and friend to generations of students." Miss Leonard, who arrived on campus in 1951 with the first class of women, was cited for her 29 years of "devoted service as tutor, assistant dean, · and friend." She received the award on the silver anniversary of the class with which she came. Earlier, at the morning Franklin Atwell, left, congratulates Winfree Smith as a new honorary member of the Alumni Asso- business meeting, Barbara ciation. Oosterhout, '55, spoke about Miss Leonard. "She suffered through four years with us," she recalled, speaking of a Euclid class which was "terrible for both of us" and of the "neanderthal" laboratory t Tom Atwell. alumni r~ceives the Alumni· AwcHd of Merit from President franklin Why aren't there more portraits of St. John's presidents and figures who have played a definitive role in St. John's life? After visits to the Santa Fe campus with its handsome portrait of President Emeritus Richard D. Weigle, Allan P. Hoffman, '49, raised the question at the annual meeting of the Alumni Association. . "There is a sense of omission,'' Mr. __ Hoffman .said. "Something ought to be done." He had particular reference to Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan, president and dean in 1937 when St. John's curriculum took a radical change with the institution of the New Program. "What about Enoch Gary?" Alumni Secretary Thomas Parran, who had just completed a conversation with Bernard Gessner, '27, asked. "St. John's went though as substantial a change when it dropped its military program as it did under " . e~itrntg in Humphries at remembers us bec:am3e she grew up with us; and was here two years ago to Welcome my daughter (Arny)." . In paying tribute to Winfree Smith, Mr. Parran noted that he was not part of any single class but rather a part of every class, exerting "almost a su~liminal force on campus.'· ·'We've lost track of the number of St. John's couples he's married," he noted. Previous persons to be made honorary members include Stringfellow Barr, Ford K. Brown. Richard f;Jeveland. Charlotte Fletcher, John S. Kief· fer, Jacob Klein, Miriam ::itrange, and Richard D. Weigle. The homecoming banquet also was marked by Mr. Atwell's introduction of President Delattre, whose inauguration took place earlier in the day. In a two sentence reply, Mr. Delattre made known to alumni how he feels about them. "THE POLITY OF St. John's says that alumni are life-long members of the college," he said. "I intend to take that membership very, very seriously.'' Mr. Atwell recognized special alumni, including Ernst 0. Von :Schwerdtner, representing the oldest class-1917-and Betty Beck Bennett, '60, and E. Leslie Medford, '39, both of California, who came the longest distance. Class reunions were represented by John D. Alexander, Sr., 1920; J.S. Kelly, C.J. O'Connor, Les Palmer, and G.H. Scatchard, 1930, and Harold Bauer, Emily M. Kutler, Carolyn Leeuwenburgh, Barbara Oosterhout, and Jim Stone, 1955. Elected for terms expiring in 1982 were Mr. Atwell, renamed president; E. Roy Shawn, '35, executive vice-president; Kenneth Kimble, '77, secretary, and Frank K. Wilson, '35, treasurer. Newly elected directors are Marjorie Jean Kimble, '76; S. David Krirnins, '63; Edward Grandi, '77, and James W. Stone, '55. i To consider the question more fully and to decide who should be honored, Association President ~ranklin Atwell named a committee headed by Mr. Hoffman as chairman pro tern. It hopes to bring a recommendation to the Board of Visitors and Gover-· nors at its January meeting. Named with Mr; Hoffman, a board member himself, who will _ _represent the forties, were Mr. Gessner, the twenties, and Bernard Jacob, '54, the fifties. A representative of the thirties also is to be appointed. One question to be considered is where the portraits are to be hung: in the Great Hall, in the new entranceway for the dining room when Randall is remodeled, or in some other location. To help with the committee work, the alumni office is preparing an inventory of portraits, busts, and plaques honoring St. John's personalities. �President Delattre with Governor Nelson. the Board Charles A. �THE Led by Deans Sparrow, left, and Bart, Mr. Delattre proceeds to his inaugural with address jn hand. At his left is Vice President Ault and behind them are Board Chairman Nelson and Governor Kil'1lg. Pag'e 5 President Delattre is flanked by Governor and Mrs. Bruce King Carrying the handsome new mace made Sam Larcombe is Tutor Roger Peterson. Vice President Ault bends to speak to America's Philosopher at Large and Board Member Mortimer Adler. Behind every successful man, a pair of successful parents, in this case Mr. and Mrs. Jules Delottre, of Charlottesville, Va. Barbc::ara Skaug �6 THE REPORTER • l NOVEMBER 1980 • l ••• Joseph Roach, Darby, Pa., senior assigned to help coordinate inaugural affairs, is greeted by President and Mrs. Delattre. President and Mrs. Delattre at the inaugural ball. - college nurse in charge of the chat with Tutor James Carey, at ~-'"--"~~_,.~- �NOVEMBER 1980 • t ' When he arrived in Philadelphia in 1787, 12 days early for the Constitutional Convention, James Madison was the best prepared of all the members on the jssuPs before the convention, William J. Bennett said in an inaugural lecture here. Speaking on Madison both in Annapolis and in Santa Fe, the director of the National Humanities Faculty, Triangle Park, N.C., portrayed Madison as a man who loved politics and one willing to make compromises if necessary. "He lost a lot," he said. "He lost on his wish for a federal negative on legislation in the states; he lost on proportional representation for the Senate as well as the House; he lost on his conviction to abolish slavery immediately or in a few years.'' "The federal union - that was the object, and when he lost, as long as he did not lose it, that which mattered most, he took it in stride well enough.'' Mr. Bennett praised Madison as a man who "resisted the seductive appeal of the absolute." "He never worked for the absolute, but for the better; he did not make the political good the hostage of the best .... He did what he could to stretch the possible from the better to the much better." The speaker regarded Jefferson's absence from Philadelphia in 1787 as a good absence contending that the work of the Constitution Convention, which he said was different from this issuing in the Declaration of Independence, was not the kind of work at which Jefferson was best. too, was better for some jobs than for others," Bennett went on. "At bottom, of course, plan was made of ideas, the of a long intellectual inheritance. Madison did not invent or contribute much to the of the rights of man and the purposes of government, but scientific director of a 1964 ...,,,,..,..,,..,..~ general's report on ;:,11rnnrn15 and health. His was an article Sparrow had read in t ' him - this theoretical statesman - these ideas wPre lun~;ra~~ and with a degree of seen before a nation." Madison initially opposed the Bill of Rights, not because he was opposed to rights but because he felt that enumeration would lead to delimitation. Later he relented. ''He relented on a number of a grounds-the urging of Jefferson, lhe political predicament - the states wouldn't buy a Constitution without a bill, and he generally came to accept them," Mr. Bennett said in the continuation of his lecture in Santa Fe. "But for another reason, too, a reason that might be useful for our purposes, for as he says in 1788, 'What use then, it may be asked, can a bill of rights serve in popular governments. I answer this: The political truths declared in that solemn manner acquire. by degrees the character of fundamental maxims of free government, and as they become incorporated with the national sentiment, counteract the impulses of interest and passion.' " In modern parlance, Mr. Bennett said the Founding Fathers considered liberty "a non-negotiable issue." So, if it wasn't liberty they gave us, it was nevertheless a gift of great restraint and wisdom, a gift of lucid and generous theory and practice that those who had it in their power left it to us." Mr. Bennett argued that the ideas that comprise the American founding may play some role in the self-formation of virtue in the citizenry. "There are virtues endemic to America," he said. "We do have virtues peculiar to ourselves, but they are not inevitable. the virtues, arise and degree are determined the vitality of ideas which are their incitement.'' But increasingly, St. John's members who have smoked in the nast have stonned has away from The New England Journal of snuff as an alternative. Since the Medicine citing the effect of ban began, another smoker, John smoke on non-smokers. has taken to ~i.~..,;~ ,_, on in class. "There is enough evidence at THE RESTRICTION has this time to recommend going in favor of the non-smoker in the evoked almost no objection on classroom and to urge that the campus, however, and students alike have been acsmoker use only designated and any s1gnmlca1nt cepting it areas or the out-of-doors," Dr .. reaction. Hamill replied. Of the 107 freshmen ..,..,,.;.,;~ . . . St. John's has made recent this fall, only 20 are efforts to control smoking. Five reflecting a trend in declining years ago Bryce Jacobsen, numbers Mr. Sparrow said St. director of athletics, banned John's has experienced during smoking in the college gym. the past decade. To protect students who find it In housing them, St. John's objectionable, the student hand- attempts to place smokers with book in recent years has advised roommates who also smoke, but them to inform their tutors over the years complaints from privately of their concern, and non-smokers have grown so that asked students to refrain from college administrators say it may smoking in class. Some students become necessary at some point reportedly have hesitated to do so to restrict smokers to selected because in some cases the tutors dormitory floors. themselves were smokers. 1uuv&>r~ 1 rv questions in the middle photo, is seen at top President R. Silber, at right. notes Charles Collier, and Jon lenkowski. tnlln\Alinn Keith Harvey photos �I Back for homecoming, Mary and Joyce Kittel Wilson. Bittner Wiseman was rernernTwo-Lydia Aston and Barone occasion when she had bar a Oosterhout-ha ve with Iola Scofield. "Don't daughters here. Lydia: Aston, the first woman to receive a diploma let happen to you what to me." she recalls thf' here by virtue of the A in her John's tutor her. "I name, a public health adhad only a rnaster's." ministrator in Greensboro, Pa., .. l knew what she meant, · she will see her daughter, Molly, told Barbara Oosterhout as the graduate in May, and Barbara's conversation centered on the 20-year~old Arny is a junior ..Joan radically different attitudes by Martin's daughter, Rachel women-toward women-since · McKay, graduated three years both were students here in the ago. 1950' s. .. Two women in the class - Ruth "It never occurred to me to get Barron and Joan Eisner an additional degree," Barbara, Gearing-have died. married during her sophomore .... A s w o m e n , C a r o l y n year and the mother of four, said. Leeuwenburgh recalls they were "The whole change has been a "pretty . cohesive" group. "I dramatic.'' think a lot of us felt a lot of Now both have advanced competition-the fact that we degrees, Mary a doctorate in were not wanted by the student philosophy and Barbara a doc- body,"·she recalls. ("The type of torate in jurisprudence. thing we are studying here at St. The 25th reunion of the Class of John's can best lw donP in the 1955, the firstto graduate women absence of females," The at St. John's, drew only three of Evening Capital had quoted John the 25 women who arrived on Coffey, a senior.) c a m p u s in 1 9 51- M r s . As an Annapolis resident and Oosterhout,. Carolyn Banks graduate of Annapolis High Leeuwenburgh, and Emily S<;hool, Carolyn received· the Martin Kutler, at whose htmse early word on co-education and they were partying. was the first woman to apply to MARY WISEMAN, who came St. John's. She left the college as a freshman three years later before graduating to go to Europe in 1954, the last year to graduate and become an opera singer. an all-male senior class, had been A dramatic soprano, she sang invited to join them. Reminiscing in Holland, Vienna, and Rome, with them were a handful of men met her Dutch husband abroad, and returned to this country to with whom they went to classes and some of the tutors who taught join the Metropolitan Opera them during the four years Studio School, where she stayed until her three children were beginning in 1951. The women are scattered, from born: Mark, 22, who has just Rhode Island to Texas, from graduated at Boston University Iowa to Georgia, with a large pro- in philosophy and religion; portion in California: Alexan- Erika, just turned 20, now at or1a Culbertson, ~.rbarr1 Hood,andTodd,16,agiftedactor Dvorak Winiarski, Jo an and singer. Gilbert Martin, Florinda Grimes, Carolyn cofounded a nursery school in Brooklyn, taught grade for four years at .n.wcuJJ!u Academy in that and is now teaching at the School at Princeton. She also has taught voice, an opera course at the YWCA, and has been very involved in community theater, including little children's theater because she enjoys greatly working with children. LAST YEAR she prepared for a career change becoming a psycho-therapist specializing in alcohol and drug problems. She may become the fourth woman in the class with an offspring at St. John's. Todd is considering enrolling here. Barbara Brunner, married at 19 to John Oosterhout, '51, has three other children besides Amy: Paul, 22, now building sailboats; Jeff, 18, a University of Maryland freshman, and Joe, 14, a high school sophomore. She remembers her class as "being on display a great deal," and both she and John Oosterhout have the impression that they both had more fun than does Amy. Besides mothering fou.r children, she did the ~eague of Women Voters-PTA-Democratic party-bit, played a lot of bridge and tennis, and then entered law school at the University of Maryland, graduating in 1977. She was admitted to the Maryland b.ar in 1977, to the bistrict of Columbia Bar a year later, and now is part of a small partnership in Lanham, Md. As the result of her St. John's studies, Barbara has the "great feeling I can learn and understand anything." What also impresses her, after these 25 years, is the absence of any strangeness among St. John's students when they meet, an absence derived from a common 15 or 20 or 25 years, the conversation flows," she observed. "That's not true of people who went to other schools, and I've met very well educated people who think deeply. I have often thought what a community of friendship St. John's gives us, which' in the long run is more important than anything else.'' Emily Martin as an undergraduate also married another student, Sam Kutler, '54, now a tutor with the Annapolis Immediately after graduating faculty. "I had ~a marvelous from St. John's she taught math time," she recalls of her unat Ellis School for Girls in dergraduate days. Not overChester, Pa. A legacy from an whelmed by /any particular aunt made it possible for her to career ambitions, she considers study philosophy at Harvard, herself to possess a rather simpie where she met and married John history. O'Connor and by whom she had a She followed Sam through daughter, Emily, now 17 and graduate school at New York student at Sarah Lawrence. University, Brooklyn College, and American University, and, While he was teaching at after a period when he was a· Vassar, she taught English at mathematician with the Johns , Duchess Community College. Hopkins Applied Phy sics Subsequently divorced, she and Laboratory in Silver Spring, her five-year-old Emily went to accompanied him when he joined New York where she taught part the faculty here in 1960. time at Columbia and Hofstra Their eldest son, Jonathan, now and where she obtained her 24, was married this fall in doctorate in philosophy at · Washington; and Martin, 20, and Columbia. a Rosalind, 18, are both students at Earlham College, Jonathan's alma mater. She works part time at the Maryland Hall of Records, doing historical research for the St. Mary's City Commission. An exhibit she ·saw of a thousand water colors by Turner at London's Tate Gallery inspired her to become a watercolorist. ''I didn't know whether I could or not, but I thought I would like to try," she said. She was in- • l (Continued from P .. 1) "No one has ever successfully demonstrated to the educational community that one particular program of study provides the greatest likelihood of broad literacy and astute reflection among students," he pointed out. "It is possible to identify students who have emerged with mature habits of mind from highly diverse programs of study in both two-year and four-year institutions of higher education.'' While programs may differ, Mr Del::ittre heli11ves thev have certain specific charact~ristics in common. "FIRST, THEY emphasize careful study of books which can stand the test of thorough scrutiny, books whose mistakes as well as truths reveal the mark of sustained thought," he said. These programs provide opportunities for students to work closely with teachers and with f111low students,anrl they generate "by regular, discursive association a cornrnumty of inquiry." "Third, they are attentive to the fact that the habits of a disciplined mind have application to the totality of human experience; they do not permit narrowness of mind or the reduction of mind to a mere means, for example, of security employment. That is, they treat the life of the mind as an ongoing life, inseparable from the whole domain of human action.'' Mr. Delattre said these schools insist that education ran neither be given nor received like a gift,. and they teach that students must "reach for it themselves." They expect sustained student work, particularly in writing, and they expose students to the broad range of tools of inquiry and discovery known to humanity, to the multiple ways by which we are able to learn and to know. "But, above all, the program~ of study that really work rely on the efforts of teachers worthy of the name," St. John's new president declared. Mr. Delattre said the teacher, like Socrates, must be thr living exemplification of the largeness uf mind, lhe depth and breadth of understanding and vision, to which the student is expected to tlSpll'e. "But its (teaching's) greatest reward," he went on, "is in the activity itself, the activity of participating in the maturation of successive generations of human beings to the point where they love the world enough and understand it well enough to take resprnsibility for it in their turn.'' "' * * IN SANTA FE MR. Delattre both criticized anti-elitism and urged greater cooperation be- tween higher and secondary education. The task of education is to "teach on the knife edge, on the edge between intellectual innocence and intellectual maturity," he said. Declaring that education, like everything else, is subject to the winds of fashion, he noted that there is a "fashionable conviction that the traditions of' higher education in America are elitist, that elitism is discriminatory and therefore vicious, and that the needs and rights of the public require of education that it purge itself of elitist tendencies." In contemporary parlance, he said, calling someone an "elitist is rather likP calling him 11 racist or a sexist." He continued: "Anti-elitism is caught in basic confusions about the nature of justice. Worse, because it concludes that nothing in general can be asked of all students in higher ed'ucation once higher education is charged to serve the broad general public, it ends in denigration of the human spirit and its capacity for aspiration, in a lack of respect for students, and in implicit denial that serious, reflective study is an appropriate activity for students in higher education. "That is, it yields the consequence in"education that to rid \.nOrle:3 ;v,y11"'4l1t1:t..,r~u, ~1t"1e• .-v.~:~ stinctively right for the medium. She has done them with consider able success. IMPORTANT TO the St. John's community life is the Kutlers' hospitality, which has made her one of St. John's great hostesses. Mary Wiseman spent part of the evening receiving congratulations on her recent appointment to tenure at Brooklyn College, where she specializes in Anglo-American analytic philosophy and the philosophy of language.... ethics, and art. • l ourselves of elitism, we must relinquish expectations of excellence. Effectively, anti-elitism concludes that if we seek to give more people a chance in higher education, we must ask less, or perhaps even nothing, of them. To relinquish standards of excellence in this way is to leap off the knife edge, for fear of the wind. It is literally suicidal.'' MR. DELATTRE described an excellence of the elite - not only an elite of the most intellectually gifted but of others - which means standing for the very best each student can draw from himself or herself and "refusing to believe that students are so terribly limited that they cannot do work that takes patience and effort." If higher education generally were informed by this regard for excellence, he said it would be in a position "to broaden the knife edge on which we teach." He urged a partnership by both secondary and higher education, saying: "Specifically, higher education would by such a commitment be forced to address with an abiding sense of obligation questions of how best to help students gain access to the fine and liberal arts, forced to contend with questions of what to teach in the sciences mathematics, and languages, .. , ..,.., ~~- In. 1970 she married Charles Wiseman, an executive with the American Can Company in New York City. Unhappy with straddling both .motherhood and part-time teaching, she· remarked that "life started in 1974" when she became a fulltime teacher, something which made her feel like a bona fide member of the teaching community-and when she began publishing and reading papers. and how to teach them. "Rather than following the socalled anti-elitist course of leaving students altogether to their own devices and simply giving up on their having access to these demanding but rewarding studies where their interests might become more broadly fulfilling, higher education would, in this view, direct itself to the difficult work of making educational opportunities real for students of widely different abilities. The questions would be so compelling that higher education would have to take on features of a com m1mitv, of partners on the knife edge. "Individual institutions would explore with others their experiences and comparative strengths and weaknesses and wouici seek empirical evidence of the comparative effectiveness of different ways of teaching and learning in the fine and liberal arts. . "THERE IS SOME of this today, but not nearly enough not enough understanding of ends and not enough testing of means, with colleagues in education.'' Good educational institutions urge students to talk with each other, but they do not teach this lesson well together by example, Mr. Delattre noted that hii:rhn education has been an imp . . critic oft.he schools. c �of Santa Fe's New Mexico Court of • l (Continued from P. l) Governors, formeily official residence of the state governors during New Mexico's early days and now a museum. The gathering delegates and Board of Visitors and Governors were entertained by strolling musicians and a mime show while preparing for the procession. Marshals Roger Peterson, David Jones and Timothy led the procession through the 370-year old Plaza to Sweeney Center where President Delattre was for the second time vested with the chain of his new office by Chairman Charles A. Nelson. Mr. Nelson was introduced Governor Bruce King following the invocation by the Reverend James D. Brown, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe. Following President Delattre's second inauguration address, "The Duties of Higher Education to America," benediction was said by Rabbi Leonard A. Helman of Temple Beth Shalom, Sante Fe. The New Mexico Brass Quintet played the recessional following The Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key, St. John's Class of 1796. MEMBERS OF the official returned by bus to the for a reception of friends, students, and staff. Champagne was served from eight tables, inside and out on a terrace which serves up a view of two mountain ranges, the Ortiz n ... ,.... ..... " and Sangre de Cristo. The evening festivities began at 8 p.m. with the alumni banquet to which the senior class was invited as guests. Master of 1111 l l under the direction of Istvan On Sunday a dozen alumni Fehevary and Steve Crampton, ioined with Robert Neidorf and SF '8Q Mu~c was by Pa~ Sam Larcombe in a seminar Visarraga and his Mariachi which examined Federalist Band. Papers 10, 14, 37, and 39. Ceremonies Sam Larcombe, director of alumni activities, welcomed alumni and guests and introduced Martha Dabney, SF' '78, who extended the best wishes of the visiting alumni to the of the new president. The Inauguration Ball distinguished itself longevity, lasting until 4 a.m. President Dela ttre and his party left the baH somewhat earlier. The Great Hall was decorated by the student activities office ';-' �10 (Continued from P. 1) wearing academic growns colorful with the distinctive hoods of their degree establishments, processed from McDowell Hall, down the front walk, to the platform in front of the library. . THERE, CHARLES A. Nelson, '45, chairman of the Board of Visitors and Governors, administered an oath in which Mr. Delattre pledged to do all in his "power to accomplish the ends of liberal education at St. John's College" and to discharge the duties required by the college rhcirter and p()lity_ NOVEMBER; 1 Delattre, he noted that the new president already is playing with one of the campus teams - the Spartans - which by then had won all of the three football games it had played. "WE WON'T LET the Colts know about it became we might lose him," the Governor teased. The start of the 3 p.m. ceremony was marked by the sound of brass music as two students, Michael Fried, French horn, and Peter Norton, trombone, began the processional music. With Senior Tutor J. Winfree Smith serving as marshall, the procession emerged from the front entrance of McDowell. Assistant marshalls were Charles Elzey, Benjamin Milner, and Thomas Parran. "Mr. Delattre, you are now in chains,'; Mr. Nelson told him amid laughter. "You will be free only insofar as you exercise the authority of the office you now hold for the advancementof liberal education RPpresPnting the faculty of the and for the benefit of the members of this college. Confident western campus on the platform that you will do so, we have en- were Vice President J. Burchenal thusiastically chosen you to be Ault and Dean Robert S. Bart. In turn, Dean Edward G. Sparrow, our leader." The ceremony was part of a full also on the platform, acday coinciding with homecoming. companied by Mrs. Sparrow, It was paced so smoothly that flew to Santa Fe to represent the almost the only problem facing Annapolis campus at the Inaugural -Chairman Kathryn ceremony there. Kinzer during the final moments The Rev. John Hilary Hayden, of preparation was coaxing the '49. of St. Anselm's Abbey in potted chrysanthemums to flower more fully for the lun- Washington, extended the invocacheon for delegates and alumni tion, and the Rev. Richard V. when Mr. Delattre was to be Landis, rector of St. Anne's welcomed by Governor Harry Church, wh1cn was assocrnted closely but not official1~r with St. Hughes. For many alumni, who lingered, the reception melted into their annual cocktail party and that in turn into their dinner, u held in a tent erected in the Key patio. Finally, there was an President Delattre had inaugural ball with all parts of his own way of thanking the the St. John's community joining buildings and grounds in the dancing. Music was crew, maids, and security provid~d by a small orchestra force, whose duties and by Elliott Zuckerman, St. prevented their coming to John's tutor and pianist. the inauguration. On the THOSE FROM directly within Monday following the St. John's community praised inauguration he invited the day's events as a warm them to the president's "family'' ;:iffair Joining them in home for a spontaneous f< sti rities were the delegates cook-out. While his two who came from institutions as old small daughters played as Britain's 12th Century Oxford frisbee with the grounds to as new as the 14-year-old, crew and his parents and University of Maryland's wife mingled with guests, Baltimore County campus. Mr. Delattre, aided by his "The thing that impressed me wife, kept busy turning out was the air of excitement among hot dogs. "A wonderful delegates," Nancy Winter, time," everyone agreed. college registrar, assigned to welcome them. said. "They appeared to ~e truly honore.~ to John's during its early years, the celebrate tne maugurauon benediction beca_use they ~~lt St. John's was a Among the spectators at the special place. inauguration were three guests At luncheon Go_vernor Ha~ry with a special sense of pride. Two Hughes bega~ his wel~ommg from Charlottesville, Va., were remarks by first extendmg ~n the president's parents, Mr. and accolade to Mr. Delattre s Mrs. Jules DeJJ:ttre. predecessor, Richard D. Wiegle, A · . who along with President noth~r . was Judson Martm, Emeritus Douglas Huntley ... Annap?hs J~weler.who .made t~e Gordon (1931-34) was a platform new srlver , presidential cham · guest. Mr. Weigle's own and wh~ confesse? afterwards he inauguration had taken place 30 had n.o idea that it would plar a years ago this fall, a year after he part 1 ~ a ceremony on as imassumed office. pressive. a scale as the Governor Hughes praised the maugurat10n. former president's ''great conTHE IN AUGUR AT ION tribution" and added that he was committee was particularly happy he is "still available for a delighted that the "perfect" fewthingslhaveinmind." September 27 day made it Speaking to an estimated 420 possible for the reception to be luncheon guests, the Governor held on the lawn near the Key commended St. John's insistence foyer, saving guests from what on excellence and its strict would have been an nveravoidance of education fads over. flowing and packed situation the years. In welcoming Mr. within the foyer. A long line of guests filed by the reception line, where Mr. Nelson introduced them to the new president, and they then continued to the reception tables where Marilyn Mylander, St. John's nurse, was in charge. Ladling refreshments were Mrs. Kinzer, Mrs. Mylander, Ann Cruse, Marcia Talley, Emily Kutler, and Terry McGuire. Of special assistance was John Sciavo, St. John's junior. Among the hardest workers were members of the buildings and grounds crew and the security force. At one point they were even helping out in the kitchen. "They just slaved, and all went beautifully," Mrs. Kinzer said. "They couldn't have been nicer. I don't think I asked anyone who wasn't willing to help. There was a very nice spirit on campus." ShE PRAISED particularly Charles Wallace, superintendent of buildings and grounds; Richard Dalrymple, chief of security; Joseph Spriggs, who heads the grounds force, and James Matthews, Key custodian. Several colleges and universities sent formal citations to Mr. Delattre in honor of the day. Among them were Brown, Harvard, Princeton, Vanderbilt, Washington, and Washington and Lee. Jon Lenkowski, Annapolis tutor, has presented a paper in Konstanz, Germany, before the Philosophy Colloquium of the University of Konstanz. His paper, "Mrnons Paradoxon und der zetetische Zirk el: Prolegomena zur Wissenschafts theorie," was an expanded, German version of a summer lecture delivered at St. John's in 1978 which attempts to work out problematic implications which Meno's paradox has for the structure of inquiry. In addition, he has participated in the annual convention of the Husserl Circle, an international organization devoted to studying the philosophical work of Edmund Husserl and to research in phenomenology, at Ohio University in Athens. He delivered a paper dealing with some aspects of Husserl's theory of time. The Annapolis campus's sixth winter film series will be an Alfred Hitchcock retrospective on Wednesday nights beginning January 7. This year sponsored by the Friends of St. John's, the films will be shown free at 8:15 p.m. in the Key Auditorium. They will be: · The Man Who Knew Too Much 1934. Stars Leslie Banks, Peter Lorre. Hitchock's first filming of this thriller about a child held hostage by a gang planning to assassinate an international political figure. The 39 Steps 1935. Stars Robert Donat. A man unwittingly becomes involved with a group of foreign spies. The Lady Vanishes 1938. Stars Michael Redgrave. Suspense aboard a train as a young woman tries to convince oth€rs that a missing passenger really exists. Rebecca 1940. Stars Sir Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine and George Sanders. A new wife contends with the haunting memory of husband's ex-wife. Notorious 1946. Stars Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman. Young wife gradually learns that her husband is a foreign spy. Stranger on a Train 1951 Robert Walker, Farley Granger. Two men, while riding the rails, each agree to commit a murder for the other. North by Northwest 1959. Stars Cary Grant. Wrong man (Grant) winds up pursued by both foreign agents and the police. Psycho 1960. Stars Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh. The film that present day audiences associate with Hitchcock even though it is quite unlike anything he did previously. , 1111 The June issue of The Reporter inadvertently dropped the following paragraphs from the text of remarks delivered by the Rev. J. Winfree Smith, St. John's tutor, upon the retirement of Richard D. Weigle as president: Now a brief word about the building that has gone on during Dick's administration. The first two buildings I shall pass over quickly. The much needed heating plant and Campbell Hall, dpcif!nPil bv an architect inherited from pre-Weigle days. In 1954, however, the board and the Campus Development Committee adopted a policy of developing the upper or old campus along traditional lines and the development of the lower or back campus in horizontal, contemporary style. The result of this W?S a most splendid example of modern architecture, the KeyMellon building designed by Richard Neutra and harmonizing so beautifully with ·the 18th century architecture of Annapolis. Then came the restoration of the CarrollBarrister House which had been moved to the campus from Main Street, the renovation of ChaseStone as a dormitory, the renovation and enlargement of I New Orleans fare shrimp jambalaya and oyster roll along with crepe Charlotte aux poire - will be offered with the jazz music of St. John's pianist and composer Michael Littleton at the Caritas Society's annual scholarship feast November 29. The society, which has contributed $32,268 toward scholarship purposes at St. John's since its organization in 1969, is planning the feast, ''Delectable Delta Dining," as its principal fundraising event this year. Rita Cohn, vice-president for fund :raising who is doubling as chairman, said that two seatings are planned in Randall Hall. Guests will gather for a cup of claret at 6 p.m. in the Great Hall before the first .. seating-at 6: 30. Ree-eption time for the second seating will be at 8 p.m. followed by dinner at 8: 30. As they have done in· the past years, St. John's students, working with M a r ion B e tor , Indianapolis, Ind., junior and Caritas' s student liaison, will assist in serving. Tickets wll be $15.50 apiece. Reservations may be made by calling Mrs. John Hunt, 156 Prince George St., 267-7528. the librrary, the erection of the Harrison Health Center, which because of costs had shrunk from three dormitory buildings to one health center. All of these have been very successful undertakings, thanks to Dick Weigle and to the assistance given him by the Campus Development Committee. Richard D. Weigle, who retired July r, ·has been named president emeritus of St. John's College. The title was approved unanimously at the last meeting of the Board of Visitors and Governors when it was moved "with enthusiasm and deep gratitude" that he be so designated. Friends set next events (Continued from P. 12) The Friends began their year with a reception for President and Mrs. Delattre in September at the home of Jack L. Carr, '50, and Mrs. Carr. Dates for coming events include: In the Chesapeake history series: Nov. 25, "Traditional Chesapeake Bay Sailing Craft"; Jan. 20, "The History and Impact of the Hunter's Harvest on the Chesapeake"; Feb. 17, "Rise of the Port of Baltimore and the Economic Decline of Annapolis"; March 17, "Ports of the Chesapeake"; April 21, "The Chesapeake· Mother of American Steamships," 18601960. ' The dinner and seminars at the c-ollege. for. Frlenas ··-<focf area. residents will be held in midApril. Slated for April 3 is the lecture, "Investing in Art," by Gerald Schneider, an expert on the subject, and for May 9 the seminar and trip to the Folger on "Love's Labor Lost." The film schedule appears elsewhere. Since its formation two years ago as an organization devoted to strengthening the ties between St. John's and the Annapolis community, the Friends have g,rown, to. a ~ QlVJ.cl.red area residents. including arumni. �1· ! NOVEMBER 1980 More Alumni Notes . (Continued from P. 2) junior seminar, and Stephen Braun, in freshman lab. My third class is sophomore math." Santa Fe -1975 Alice Ericsson is now living in New York City and is associated with the public relations firm of Dancer, Fitzgerald, Sample. Late summer brought a note from our soarer·in-the-clouds, David Shapiro. He advises that he will be in Kirchheim-Teck, West Germany, for almost another year, working on developing new gliders with wing-spans up to 80 feet. Then he will be off to engineering school somewhere in the United States. Santa Fe -1976 · The Santa Fe Alumni Office reports that Eric Seder was due to return to Harvard Business School this fall. 1976 Kimberly Beaton Quintero has completed her first year teaching broadcast news in the Journalism Department of the University of Texas, where she is also pursuing a master's degree. Her thesis will examine an aspect of the theory of the social responsibility of the press. This fall the Press Institute of India is to publish a paper by Kimberly on Third World coverage in Le Monde. Somehow she also finds time to produce the weekday evening news on a local television station in Austin, as well as to be mother to Rachel and Aileen and wife to Joseph, a manager for the Austin subsidiary of Tom Thumb-Page Drugs of Dallas. • • • Bob Elliott and his wife, Stephanie, on August 8th became the proud parents of Megan C()urtney. Grant and Marlene Strong Franks .are now in Berkeley, Cal., where she is enrolled as a stude:it in the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of California. Grant is working for Rob and Cathy (Craig '77) the San Francisco law firm of Godfrey are now living in Pillsbury, Madison, and Sutro Baltimore. and awaits the results of the bar examination. Marlene says they 1977 have a great apartment and Ann Browning may not be the only class secretary among the would be glad to see any Johnnies newer alumni, but she certainly who are visiting the coast; the address 1810 Virginia Street, is among the most faithful Berkeley,isCal. 94703. correspondents. Late September Judy R. Nesheim and Mark S. brought a news-filled letter: she herself is now living Louisville, Gruber, '75, were married June 7 Ky., and has become engaged to in The Plains, Va. Mark B Tom Byers, a teacher in the Aickelin, '75, was best man, while English department at the the ushers included Dennis University of Louisville, whom Johnson, '75, and Seth Ginsburg, she met in New York. They plan '75; the latter also served as to be married in May. Of her soloist. Sally Byers, '78, was friends and classmates she maid of honor, and Carol reports the following: Mary Highsaw, SF77, was a Brandon works on Wall Street, bridesmaid. Ms. Byers designed William Owen writes and does Judy's wedding dress, tatted the welding for sculptors, Rick Plaut lace for it, and designed the bridesmaids' dresses. The works for a book bindery, Deborah Cohen is in Baltimore Grubers live in Davie, Fla.; doing film work, Maura O'Con:. Mark is a third-year law student nell was going to film school in at Nova University, Center for London but may have returned to the Study of Law, in Fort Lauderdale. the U.S. Jenifer Smith is living in New Jersey and works for Aer Lingus, the Irish national airline. is Li rarian t leav (Continued from P. 12) Miss Fletcher, who customarily adds a thousand new books a year. "Usually we get 400 new titles," she said. "The rest of the books are du pli c ate s or replacements for those we discard. We mend and mend and mend because some of our older books have better paper than the new." In addition, the library receives about 500 gift books a year. Miss Fletcher has something to say about some of St. John's worn books - a state which speaks vividly of the type of library, she has managed-in an issue of The Collegian last year, when she wrote: Page, 11 THE REPORTER basic dogma: any book read is better than no book read; They provide their borrowers with two things: a constant supply of brightly packaged books and complete privacy for any record showing that anyone has read any book at all. Each year the St. John's College Library is able to show impressive figures showing use of its collection. Every library wants these to show this, although our packaging is deplorable in most cases and although the names of those who read any particular book are available to all potential borrowers. If we discard the patched, rebound and soiled books, half our collection would disappear. If we destroyed each reader's record, a host of "great reader's advisors" would be lost. Borrowers in public libraries would not tolerate books as worn as those circulated from our The St. John's library stands in college library, or so today's public library administrators marked contrast with the believe. (Books were that dirty direction of many public and worn in branches of the Pratt libraries. Like many persons, Library in Balttmore when I Miss Fletcher was shocked over this statement which appeared in worked in the thirties.) Instead, they are enticed by last year's August 13 issue of stacks of books in eye catching Publishers Weekly in connection jackets or by bright paperbacks with an article about the like those in the supermarket. No Baltimore County public library matter if some do not attract. system: After a set period of a year, any Meanwhile, the library cirbook that has not circulated at culation has risen dramaticallv. least X number of times is Eliot Shelkrot, the BCPL's discarded. This process of second-in-command, tells PW, collection maintenance has been "We've learned that the more adopted in Baltimore and Anne books we eliminate, the higher Arundel and many other counties our circulation goes. People want and cities in America to increase to be able to find the books that circulation figures to impress the are new and interesting. They public officials who appropriate don't like crowded shelves. Still, funds. Library administrators there's virtually no subject we display no feeling that some don't have information on." books are better than others or And just what gets eliminated? that there may be classics able Circulation figures are the to entertain and educate determining factor. A new generation after generation. computer system has begun to THEY AB~ motivated by one keep tabs and will . aid branch Michael Levine, after three years of law school (Boalt Hall University of California', Berkeley), announces "To the great pleasure and vast relief of his parents, friends, and creditors . . . ." that he has become gainfully employed as law clerk for Judge Lloyd King in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in San Francisco. Santa Fe -1977 Carol Highsaw is working at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. She recently ran into John Pilcher, SF76, a lawyer on the staff of Nebraska Senator Zorinsky. In August Carol visited Mary Ellen (Lawrence) and David Campbell, SF76, in Chicago. Mary Ellen has completed her second year of nursing school at Loyola University, David his second year at Garret Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston. This year the Campbells are living in Paradise, Mich., where David is doing an intern year as pastor at the Methodist Church. With public libraries following this policy, Miss Fletcher noted that their best single improvement may lie in improved interloan services, in which libraries can order books not on their shelves. "What is lost is a carefully selected browsing section," she said. "And it's not much fun for the librarian who likes books. Even in the days when I worked in a branch library in East Baltimore and children came asking for 'two love affairs for mother and a western for father,' there wasn't as much trash as there is now." She can retire satisfied that St. John's library is "retrospective," an understatement since it reflects the 3,500 years of the program, about as far back as a reader can go in man's learning, and may be, from that standpoint, one of the best introspective libraries in this area. And there is no end of opportunity for browsing. Also the books as objects are old, with some dating back to the Bray collection of 1692 and representing the remnant of the first public library in America. They include an unusually high proportion of "incunabula," Santa Fe -1978 Marion Billington writes that he is " ... in the navel of the Americas, San Salvador, El Salvador." Marion teaches math and science to sixth and seventh graders at the American "school, where teaching is in English. Outside of class he finds that it is as necessary to carry a dictionary as money, since he is still learning the language. 1980 Diane (Lamoureaux) Ciba and husband Michael, '78, became the parents of Rachel Veronica on August 5. The proud mother is studying mathematics at the Illinois Institute of Technology while father works as a methods analyst for the Montgomery Ward organization in Chicago. IN MEMORIAM 1906- E. Earl Hearne, Owings Mills, Md., August 19, 1980. 1918-Dr. James W. Nelson, Towson, Md., October 11, 1980. 1929- George H. Fooks, Denton, Md., September, 1979. 1933- Roger B. Cobb, Buffalo, N.Y. 1936-Laurason L. Crane, Sr., Severna Park, Md., October 2, 1980. 1953-Martin J. Weiner, Brooklyn, N.Y., May 8, 1980. ft r 36 y ars w· librarians in deciding which titles should be thrown out. THOSE NUMBERS could have a disturbing impact, as revealed by a story Shelkrot tells about the search for a librarian to fill a vacancy in one of the branches. "One of the questions we asked was, 'If The Odyssey · doesn't circulate, what will you do with it?' If the applicant answered, 'But it's a classic, you must keep it in the collection,' we couldn't hire that person." Shelkrot laughs as he tells the story ... 1978 Also in Ann Browning's letter was news of Kari Jensen and Robert Levy, who were scheduled to be married October 18. Kari is doing theater work in New York, Robert is working for CBS. books printed prior to 1501. They were one reason Miss Fletcher started her annual "rare book" evenings for students. "No one knows the books better than Charlotte," Marcia Talley, cataloging librarian, said. "She's always kept on top of it. Anyone can come in and ask for a book, and Charlotte will know where it is." ALTHOUGH THE library is not public, it does serve some local scholars who have a demonstrated need for its services clergymen, teachers, and other librarians. Townspeople who want to use it on a regular basis can do so with an annual $20 fee. Miss Fletcher can retire satisfied that she leaves it in the hands of the two librarians with whom she has worked with great pleasure - Kathryn Kinzer and Mrs. Talley. She is very pleased that Mrs. Talley is acquiring her master's, the third on the staff to undertake this degree after exposure to library work at St. John's. The other two were Candida Allanbrook and Anne Wright. About the only thing she says she has a slight edge in is teaching book binding. A number of students have developed considerable expertise working in the bindery here. "With that knowledge and plastic paste, we've been able to preserve our books. Our bindings are superior to those in commercial establishments. We keep the original stitching. " Miss Fletcher will leave with the gratitude of the college. "Miss Fletcher's contributions to the smooth operation of the library, and so to the work of the college, are inestimable," Dean Sparrow said. ''With the help of Mrs. Kinzer and Mrs. Talley, she I eg has made the library a place where a student can readily find not only necessary books and places of study but also an atmosphere of calm quiet." Books are not the only thing at the library in which Miss Fletcher has been interested. A people person, she recently personally carried books to a-· tutor too ill to get them. "She is a soft-hearted, kind person," Mrs. Talley said. "I can't tell you how many students she personally has helped. And they write back after they ieave, and she aiways keeps up with them." Stories of her defense of the underdog - almost any underdog - are legion among her friends. CHARLOTTE WILL never become restless with retirement. She has lots to do. In publishing an article on how the college acquired its name, she became the first person to have done any original research on St. John's history in fifty years. Now she wants to work on John McDowell, St. John's first president. "Nobody on earth knows anything about McDowell." Besides gardening, she will have time to do water colors and to take an occasional short trip with her sister, Mary Fletcher, a retired chemist with whom she lives. She also will continue to be active at St. Anne's Church, where she is a former member of the vestry. (Don't talk about the revised Prayer Book with her.) She also will have more time for a warm coterie of friends. "It will be simply wonderful," she said. "The whole thing is that the time has come." There's another thing, a switch in roles. Occasionally she will drop by the library and borrow a book .. �THE REPORTER Published College Relations\'"'. St. John's REBECCA WILSON The other at luncheon the conversation centered on that old cliche, "You're as old as you feel." Charlotte 1-<'latroh'"'" a moment and then chuckled aloud, that it was the other way around with "I have a very old mind - ..1 •• " Md. L A Let Is there more in Charles Dickens Christmas Carol than just ~ good story of how three ghosts were able to change a miser - Marx would call him an "insane capitalist" - during the terrible plight of the poor in 19th century England? The Christmas Carol has been chosen as the subject of one seminar to be led when the Annapolis campus holds its third annual open house for the comm unity the first week in December. The Friends of St. John's, which is sponsoring the event, has issued an invitation to area residents not only to become acquainted with the campus itself but with what it's like to take part in great books discussions. The open house will be held from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 7, when visitors will tour campus buildings. The tour will originate in the Great Hall of McDowell Hall. Those planning to participate in the book discussions are requested to remain afterwards for seminars St. John's tutors will lead at 3:30 p.m. Afterwards there will be a wassail bowl in the Great Hall. There will be no charge. THE DISCUSSIONS OF Dickens' familiar Christmas story will be led by Hugh McGrath. Ann Cruse, the Friends new executive. secretary, said topics of other seminars and leaders will be announced later. The program also includes a series of lectures on Chesapeake History and Society co-sponsored with the Anne Arundel County Committee, Maryland Historical Trust, two art lectures cosp9nsored with the Maryland Federation of Art, a seminar and performance of "Lovp's Labor Lost" at the Folger Theatre, a dinner fo1iowed by an evening of seminars, a Hitchcock retrospective film series, and a concert next summer in the Dorsey Garden. HEADED BY William W. Simmons, '48, the Friends have not limited themselves during the past year to sponsoring programs which they think will be of interest to the public. Last spring, under the chairmanshi~ of Marilyn Williamson, members conducted a campaign which raised $22,000 for the college, and they have set the kick-off for their third annual campaign for April, one which will include a telethon to area supporters. Assisting Mrs. Williamson were a group that included San Chastain, Bernard Gessner, Frank Marshall, Barbara Neustadt, Julius Rosenberg, and Anne and Bill Simmons. (Continued on P. 10) Charlotte have, but, almost seemingly some technical error, it has reached one of those a2es when people retire. To look at her is not to believe it. But she will leave on December 31 after making what Dean Edward Sparrow calls an "inestimable" contribution to the college. It's a sad thought for St. John's faculty and students who have grown accustomed to seeing her, rain hat on head some moisty spring morning, bending over to plant primroses near the library steps or stooping to plug in a row of marigolds in the fall. Gardening is a first love. Charlotte never goes out for dinner to a friend's house that she doesn't make an unswerving beeline for the first bean pole in sight. It's the additional time for seed catalogue browsing that makes retirement attractive. Miss Fletcher has been here since 1944, coming via the Eastern Shore and Baltimore on the invitation of former President Stringfellow Barr, whom she met while he was leading a community seminar at the Easton Public Library. SHE ARRIVED WITH a fresh degree in library science from Columbia as assistant to William A. Darkey, who was also director of laboratories at the time and who is now with the Santa Fe faculty. Mr. Barr, who played a leading role in setting up the New Program in 1937, made it clear to Miss Fletcher she could never hope to be head librarian. That was because the college wanted teaching members of the faculty in this all-male college in administrative positions, and since women could never be on the faculty she could never expect to be librarian. John W. Steffey, left, chairman of the board of Charles H. Steffey, Inc., presents President Delattre a check he has written to match that of Marilyn Williamson, an associate broker with his firm and chairman of the friends of St. John's 1980 fund raising campaign. Tom Parran photo -- Charlotte Fletcher at home in her office. Tom Parran photo "l thmk they thought of second, this time honorary librarians in an old English sense master's degree from St. John's. of getting a retired tutor to decide "I got that for plain endurance, whether to acquire a first edition for physical hard work,'' she is of this or that book, rather than in convinced. connection with a lot of practical Her honorary master's was things that had to be done," she awarded her in 1969 on the ocsurmises. "They were trying to casion of the rededication of fill all the auxiliary positions Woodward Hall, which had been those of the college doctor and extensively remodeled and treasurer - with teaching refurbished with Miss Fletcher in people." charge of the logistics of keeping That was a long time ago, the library going at the same during the war. "Bill was finally time carpenters and masons drafted, and I got in by default," were making a racket she said. Her appointment as everywhere. At one point books librarian in July, 1946, should were moved by students fire have been followed by weeks of brigade fashion across campus to excitement for Charlotte, who Mellon. had been fascinated by St. FORMER STUDENTS, taking John's ever since she had heard note, also made her an honorary of it as an undergraduate at member of the Alumni Hollins. It wasn't. Association that year. "I was just bored stiff," she The building has changed and recalls. "There were only 60 so have its contents during her students here at the time. No one years in the library. When Miss came in. I couldn't go to the Fletcher arrived, there were classes. It was tantalizing to be 40,000 · books, "things lying on the edge of the program." around," she describes them, SO SHE TOOK up law to "about Egypt and the Suez enliven the pace, commuting Canal." Perhaps as a good sign, a nights for two years to the month later it acquired what was University of Maryland's Law to be the first important collecSchool in Baltimore. Property tion during her libraryship: 266 law threw her. Questions of what books from the library of the late property is appeared to be as Charles Glenn Wallace, a former elusive as questions of "what is tutor who had been at the matter?" During her third and University of Chicago with Mr. final year she was to have taken a Barr and whose translations, class called "Negotiable In- Miss Fletcher believes, were struments" and another one essential for St. John's New called "Insurance," and, at that Program. point, she decided it was time to Now the library has 87,706 put her law books on the shelf. volumes, books which are "Law school was an aberration," _ becoming more expensive all the she remembers it. time. Inflationary costs place the That was in 1950. Things perked average price of a hard back at the next year. Women were $22.80 as compared to $8. 77 for admitted to St. John's, and she books in 1967, not to speak of what began auditing the program, they wel_'e in 1944. Periodicals last going through all of it partly year averaged $30.27, way up because she felt it important she over their $8 cost in 1967. have a reading knowledge of the The prices are of concern to books. 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David Stephenson, who will be on sabbatical this year, delivered a paper last month at the and Neuropsychological Foundation of Music workshop at St. Ossiach, Austria. , The paper Mr. Stephenson, who has both physics and Annapolis campus, music on was entitled "Musif'olini;mistic Dependence with Respect to Cross Modal Perception in the Light of Recent Musical Pedagogy and Composition." The conference was sponsored in part by the Austrian Broadcasting Company. The seventh symphony of St. John's Tutor Douglas Allanbrook will have its premiere performance this fall when it is performed by Harold Bauer, '55, and the New Philharmonic Or· chestra at Glen Ellyn, just outside Chicago. The symphony, entitled "Music from the Country for Small Or· chestra," will be performed November 18. Mr. Allanbrook will fly out for the concert. In addition, he will play an entire · program of his piano music at Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Va., on October 14, including a piano-percussion piece, "A Game for Two." His "Symphony for_ Brass Quintet and Orchestra," performed last year over the Munich Radio by the Annapolis Brass Quintet, will be included in the quintet's performance with the Wichita Philharmonic on February 21. rant Former Dean Curtis Wilson will be on leave until January writing a contribution to Volume II of The General History of E n, 1 In separate Homecomings, Annapolis and Santa Fe alumni will direct themselves this fall to a single : how can the Alumni Association best serve them? The newly organized Santa Fe alumni will be discussing the during their first business meeting when they convene for Inauguration Weekend October 3-4-5. In Annapolis, where former students will return a week earlier on September 26, St. John's first women students will be at center stage when the Class of 1955, St. John's first coeducational class, holds its 25th reunion. It is inviting the classes of 1954 and 1956 to join in the celebration, which is being coordinated by Jim Stone, '55, 2312 N. Upton St., Arlington, Va., 22207. BECAUSE OF the heavy schedule of events surrounding the ina ugura ti on, alumni seminars will be postponed until Sunday. In Annapolis the seminar will have special significance because it will mark the first to be led by incoming President Edwin J. Delattre. The former philosophy professor Edwin J. Delattre begins his presidency in his Santa Fe office. and Tutor David Bolotin will lead Betty Lilienthal photo (Continued on P. 15) • Wl At St. John's students who where he is taught, but we don't arrive with a block against know about it," Malcolm Wyatt, mathematics can start all over a faculty member, mused. again. THE MANNER IN which Astronomy. That's because of Euclid. sophomores study the work of Awarded a National Science Foundation Grant earlier this Euclid is one of the things _that this seminal Alexandrian year to cover the six months make mathematics different at thinker, attempting to think as he period beginning June 1, Mr. St. John's-Euclid and such men did, "to get into his head," as one as Apollonius. faculty member put it, is one Wilson spent two months in Something about Apollonius thing that makes the England and France this summer completing research on first. Among textbooks, you will mathematics program uniquely solar, lunar, and planetary remember, Apollonius's big different at St. John's, widely astronomy in the 17th Century moment comes, anti-climatically known for great books but little after Johannes Kepler, the Ger- albeit, as a footnote: the man known for a math program which whose fame peaked about 200 goes back to primary sources. man astronomer. B.C. for his book on the conic Mathematics, as it is inHis will focus in part on the work Jeremiah Horrocks, sections and who was the first corporated in the mathematician to us~ the word program, reflects who died concern both for 20's but whose and for humanism. on Keple:rian takes mathematics - no student considered - and IPVPJ"Uf>Y!O unthe inside, rather than outside, education, and just as much a humanistic activity as literature," Faculty Member Hugh McGrath summed up the" college's attitude. At most colleges or universities, the math program can be broadened only within a mathematics department. Here it is broadened without. One reason the college requires four years is because of the way math fits in so neatly, if surwith the great books rnemse1ves. Students study math in order to better understand Platonic or the Cartesian in music; and students without to what Mr. McGrath calls " that Dante's universe is based the Ptolemaic hvnothesis of Already hard at work on behalf of the college, Edwin J. Delattre will become the central figure in the pomp and ceremony of St. John's 19th presidential inauguration this fall. In circumstances which St. John's founders could not have anticipated nearly 200 years ago, Mr. Delattre, the first St. John's president to begin his will be tenure in Santa inaugurated president of St. John's in New Mexico as well as in Maryland. The former director of the National Humanities Faculty at Concord, Mass., will reaffirm publicly his commitment to St. John's when he takes a simple oath of office in ceremonies in Annapolis on Saturday, Sept. 27. Because the two campuses exist legally as one corporate entity, only one inauguration might appear necessary, but because of the impracticality of transporting the whole western St. John's community here for this event, a second inauguration will be held in Santa Fe the following Saturday, October 4. THE DUAL CEREMONY, probably unique among American colleges, will be the first presidential inauguration since the western campus was founded and will underscore the union of the college and the fact that Mr. Delattre will be serving (Continued on P. 13) A thousand years from now St. John's hopes other presidents will be wearing it, this silver chain being wrought for the investiture of its new president. Symbolic both of St. John's and of the presidential office, it will be placed around the neck of Edwin J. Delattre during the inauguration ceremony here on September 27. Appropriately the designer and craftsman, Judson Martin, shares a value with St. John's. Through books, St. John's seeks to preserve the best in western civilization. Through his work, Mr. Martin attempts to preserve the best of an ancient art. "I am carrying on something which has been part of the family of man for centuries, and that is a craft using hand methods to render an object of beauty," he said in his where it will him 50 hours to the chain. When it is finished, the silver ~'-~~ ;"',.,. piece will be 30 inches will be com orised of a 1 �By Tom Parran '42 Eastern Dir~etor of Alumni Aetivities John Kvapfl, '72 SF, has been awarded a Fulbright Grant for graduate study in Rome, the Institute of International Education has announced. One of 320 students and artists to receive awards for the 1980-81 year, Mr. Kv apil, an architectural conservator in Seattle, Wash., will begin a concentrated study this fall of deterioration common to many historic buildings in the Pacific Northwest: "disease" of stone, terracotta, and brick. During his study program he will be affiliated with the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property located in the Trastevere section of Rome. The ICCROM was chartered by the United Nations in 1959 and is the recognized, world-wide center for the study of building conservation techniques and philosophies. At present he is a principal . partner of Bak-Kvapil Associates, Architectural Conservators. His firm is involved in the restoration and conservation of major historic structures throughout the Pacific Northwest with projects in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. "I consider my St. John's education absolutely essential to both my present profession and to the award of the Fulbright grant," he writes. 1 1936 Bob Lau in June was elected district committeeman of the 6th District of Ewing (N.J.) Township. Later that month Bob was re-appointed as a member of the Veterans Affairs Advisory Commission of the Mercer County Community College. This shows, as Bob himself writes, that he is " . . . still alive and kicking." 1943 . The following self-explanatory I' notes are from a letter sent by Douglas Buchanan to Tom Parran: "This letter is to let you and our fellow alumni of the college know that Harvey Dubinsky of the Class of 1943 died yesterday (5/19/80) '-at his home in Glastonbury, Conn., of inoperable metastatic abdominal cancer. He is survived by his wife Velma and their four children: ,avid, Daniel, Sara and Vida. "Harvey was my roommate and dearest friend during our St. John's years. He was a gifted student, philosophic seminarian, played the part of Oedipus in a 1941 production by the College of Oedipus Rex, was a spirited. basketball player, and fellow sailor with me in several long distance bay trips in the college's small boats. He went back to Orthodox Judaism as a result of thegreat books and during WW II worked in New York for Rabbi Wise and others helping organize Jewish resistance to the Nazis and helped formulate the later birth of Israel. We spent the summer of 1950 in Israel together with a group of other St. Johnnies and international students working on Ein Hashofet, a kibbutz named in honor of Louis Brandeis. "Like Spinoza, he continued his interest in philosophy and Judaism while running his family's business for the past 30 years in Hartford, Conn., and as a wholesale green grocer was a leading citizen of his city with many friends. He never forgot his years at St. John's, and my father, Scott Buchanan, greatly admired his mind and his character and was always proud to have been one of Harvey's teachers and friends. "He was a great father, Reporter Rebecca Wilson Editor The Reporter is published by the Office of College Relations, St. John's College, Annapolis, Md., 21404. Edwin J. Delallre, president. Published five times a year, in February, April, June, September and November. Second class postage paid at Annapolis, Md. .. 018-700 husband, and friend and I shall never forget his charm, intelligence, and concern for others, and wit. I'll never forget his roars of laughter and delight at conversation in our room in Randall Hall at St. John's. "Any of his friends and classmates are asked to contribute in his memory either at St. John's College or to the Emergency Fund for Israel.'' 1964 John P. Hetland is now working for Datronics, Inc., in New York City. 1969 G. Michael writes that he is assistant vice-president and manager for corporate consulting at Seattle-First National Bank. 1970 Theda Braddock Hitchcock in May received her law degree from the Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco. Way to go, Theda! 1971 Barry N. Sher and Iris Korman were married early in the summer. Barry runs his own agency, Norstradamus Advertising in New York City, while Iris is an attorney with the New York City Conciliation and Appeals Board. Tamara Sheinkman, '80, was at the wedding reception. Tamara's father, Mordechai, '47, is a vocal coach and accompanist in New York. 1971- Graduate Institute Herb Weinstein is seeded 75th in the National 65's Tennis Tournament and will play later this year in t.he national matches in Santa Barbara and Seattle. 1972 Karen and Jeff Crabtree (and /2) announced the Lauren 31 arrival in June of Seth Isaac Crabtree. Our congratulations to the Crabtrees. 1972 - Santa Fe We have been informed that Twyla Fort Deluca is now Mrs. Paul Werstein, has her RN degree, and is working on a bachelor of divinity degree. Jonathan Krane and Sally Kellerman were married in May at the Malibu home of Mr. and Mrs. Norton Simon. A Yale Law School graduate, Jonathan is an attorney specializing in international and tax law and is with the firm of Irell & Manella, one of the largest in Southern California. Ms. Kellerman is well known to motion picture and television fans and played the original Hot Lips Houlihan in the movie M* A*S*H. 1973 - Santa Fe Eric Springsted and his wife Brenda became parents with the arrival last November of Simone Anne. Eric received his Ph,D degree in June from Princeton Theological Seminary, where he earned his M.DW. degree in 1976. His dissertation, Christus Mediator: The Platonic Doctrine .of Mediation in the Religion and Philosophy of Simone Weil. (In an interesting bridging of generations and geography, R. Catesby Taliaferro, former tutor and a key member of the original New Program faculty in the late '30's and early '40's, was a member of the dissertation committee). 1974 Jan Barton is now Mrs. Jan Barton Matheson and teaches "5th grade to Navy kids in Bremerton, Wash." Carol Calhoun writes that she has graduated from Georgetown University Law Center and is now an attorney with the Washington, D.C., firm of Morgan, Lewis and Bochius, with a practice largely in taxation. Her St. John's math has come in handy, she says, but training in logic only gets in the way of understanding the · tax code! Carol's husband, Paul Rosen· berg, '72, is a computer systems designer with the National Criminal Justice Reference Service of Aspen Systems Corp., inD.C. Charles, '72, and Virginia Newlin Heal became the parents of Katherine Sims HeaJ, "a lovely, gray-eyed, dark-haired lady," last April. The Heals are reserving her a place in their emergent business, Mastercraft Builders of Chestertown, Md. This entry is to alert alumni in the Boston area that Lester Silver is beginning his internship in medicine at St. Elizabeth's Hospital of Boston, one of Tuft University's· teaching hospitals, and would be glad to hear from alumni in that area. He is living at 90 Brainerd Rd., Allston, Mass. 02134. Lester writes: . "After graduating in 1974 I spent a semester at the University of Copenhagen working at the History Institute ·with former tutor Brian McGuire (who was at Annapolis for the first semester of the 1970-71 year). At that time, his research interest centered on the advent of Protestantism in Scandinavia. More recently, he has been an instructor in the Institute of Greek and Latin Philology at the University of Copenhagen. While in Denmark, I recall seeing Mark Schneider, '73. I understand that, in the intervening years, he has become a rather well-known concert pianist. "From the spring of 1975 . through the summer of 1976, I was employed as a research assistant at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, Department of (Continued on Nearly 290 members of the college are alive and active in the Greater San Francisco area, and during the past school year their activities have included the usual Friday evening lectures. "But this is no new third campus," Sam Larcombe, director of alumni activities in Santa Fr, reports. "These St. Johnnies are alumni who decided last year that a formal round of events would be enjoyable." With so many in the Greater Bay area, he said something other than the traditional alumni seminar seemed called for so an effort was made to recreate St. John's Friday evenings by inviting tutors to lecture and to lead discussions on topics of interest. AS THE FIRST of a series of ·such programs this year, Annapolis Tutor Eva Brann will be in San Francisco to lead a seminar on her recent book, "The Paradox of Education in a Republic," and to lecture on "the· permanent part of the ~oUege." Her talk will be a(.Cathedral House, Grace Episcopal Church, Oct. 30-31. Harrison Sheppard, chairman of the San Francisco steering committee, said this year's program will have "The Living Liberal Arts" as a general theme. President Delattre has been invited to come in January. The series of meetings ·were stimulated by former President Richard D. Weigle in a 1978 visit with a few local alumni. "Bill Goldsmith's provocative open letter to the alumni, published in The College early in 1978, may have helped kindle alumni interest," Mr. Larcombe explained. "CERTAINLY A VISIT by Vice President J. Burchenal Ault in September of 1978 JJrought . together a group of concerned St. Johnnies who began to consider their role as permanent members of the college and ask the possibilities for local organization and support of the school.'' "Conservation of architecture, after all, is closely related to the conservation of humane ideals. Thinkers trained in the disciplines that are part of the St. John's program are sorely needed in the field of architecture One need only look at the regrettable predicament in wh1cn most cities presently find themselves, and I include in this category two of the most potentially beautiful cities: Seattle and Santa Fe." A second meeting that October resulted in a discussion of possible goals for a Bay Area Alumni Chapter. Early planners included Mr. Sheppard and Tom Carnes, the first chairman-both "sparkplugs" in the move to organize-Ed. Cochran, Kieran Manjarrez, Bart Lee, ·Deidre Marlowe, Elliott Marseille, Franz Snyder, and Richard Cohen. Alumni agreed to set up a series of formal discussions on a book about education, which they would choose together, the St. John's curriculum, and a somewhat broader discussion of liberal studies themselves. Robert Bart, dean of the Santa Fe campus, launched the series with a talk on liberal education and ''an explanation of the program in contemporary America." SANTA FE TUTOR Tom Simpson followed, speaking and leading the discussion on "Technology and the Republic," in which former Dean Scott Buchanan's pamphlet, The Corporation and the Republic, and Jacques Ellul's Technological Society were used. A third evening in May featured a talk by former Santa Fe Dean William Darkey, on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness along with Three Dialogues on Liberal Education, which Mr. Darkey had edited. "I wish you had been there to see how much enthusiam this program is generating," Mr. Harrison wrote Mr. Ault. e A fundamental question in education - whether it is the sameness or the differences among human beings which should be the overriding consider a Hon is raised by President Delattre in an article, "What Should a College Student Learn?" The article appears in the September issue of Humanities, the journal published by the National Endowment for the Humanities . �s Chasehit by blaze · h winds wreak havoc Smoke detectors installed a month before fire broke out in the garrett of Chase-Stone have been credited with .lessening damages caused by a mid-summer fire there. About 20 students evacuated the 123-year-old dormitory when they were awakened about 5 a.m. by the alarm system. Six units . and about .16 firefighters were called to the scene. The fire was under control by 5:35 a.m. Damages were estimated by Treasurer Charles T. Elzey at $30,000. Because the blaze was one of several occurring in Annapolis within 50 minutes, Captain Albert Baer, investigating officer for the Annapolis Fire Marshal's Office, said firemen are considering the possibility of arson. He said his office has ruled out students as culprits. "We have yet to find an accidental reason for its start,'' Captain Baer said, adding that there was no way the fire could have been ignited by a malfunctioning electrical line. · "We were very fortunate St. John's had installed the smoke detectors for we could have had a severe loss," Mr. Elzey pointed out. Following the fire the garrett was "just a mess." he said. <;1 Eight joists and eight rafters along with the decking required replacement. Water damage extended to the first floor, necessitating the removal of existing corridor carpeting and its replacement and new decking. Ceilings of some rooms had to be repla stered. The smoke detectors are so sensitive that they can be easily. Mr. Elzey said they gone off a number of times since their installation, one time when the signals were set off sawdust. One student informed Mr. Elzey he it was another false alarm he his door and smelled smoke in the corridor. Two members of the St. John's will have prominent roles in the first national conference on graduate liberal studies and the adult learner to be held October 8-10 at Georgetown University .. President Edwin J. Delattre will address the subject of human values and share his vision of what a liberal education can and should be following the opening dinner. Geoffrey J. Comber, director of St. John's Graduate Institute in Annapolis, will discuss core liberal studies courses and lead a workshop. Sponsored by a consortium of 12 colleges within the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs, the conference will focus on interdisciplinary studies and the personal and professional development of the adult learner. The Annapolis campus will· lie more open to the sky this September as the result of a tropical storm, which struck the center of Annapolis· like the wrath of God August l. A mighty wind paced at 84 miles an hour and strong enough to lift the roof of nearby St. Anne's Chm:ch in two places, knifed down a honey locust near the Hall of Records, decapitated trees at Humphries, at the Paca-Carroll House, and near the planetarium, and uprooted and split willows at College Creek. Two alumni of the Graduate Institute in were Lolita Wood and David Fisher. Graduate Institute students residing in Humphries Dormitory reported an explosion of light just outside their,.second floor window as lightning' struck a tree. photo by Judy Kistler, '77 SF "I've seen tornadoes in Kansas, but no storm like this since then," Judy Kistler, '77 SF, who was in the room at the time, said. The summers of 1976-77 Lolita Wood did a lot of sky watching in Santa Fe, particularly when double and triple rainbows were arching over the New Mexican landscape. ("One imagines God creating the world, but beginning right there-the streaks in the sky, the clarity in the air.") She couldn't have had a better symbol than this traditionai emblem of hope. One of eight students to receive her master's degree last month on the Annapolis campus, this New York public school teacher has emerged transformed from the Graduate Institute, .not only by hope, but with the conviction, and she emphasizes the words, that "I can do." "I think St. John's has me the courage to say I can do, she said. "If I can understand a and l!et it across to my peers sequence, there is no reason to assume I can't do that with I touch. It be rlittoront in education. and discover know 1 can an unshakable "H's you can open any door. That's tool St. John's gives you, and knowing that behind that door will be a measure of excitement in any different area of any different field. Every field now looks exciting. We can do anything. We can choose anything. There is no need to remain where you are." MRS. WOOD, WHO teaches children with learning disabilities, is thinking now of going into administration or taking an entirely new direction and entering the Columbia journalism school. College president? Why not? Tall, striking, she has, with education which has included New York University and Hunter and Baruch colleges, another impression: "To find someone who honestly cares about y,our opinion is a unique experience." An Astor Fellow who heard about' the Graduate Institute through another such fellow, Martin Drew, also a New York teacher, Mrs. Wood received her master's in liberal education along with Bruce Eberwein, of llyattsville; David Fisher, of Cleveland; Kenneth Kemp, of Tipton, La.; Mark Medlin, of Bowling Green, Ky.; Jon O'Donnell, of Largo, Me., and Charles Richardson and Inna Uhlig, both of Annapolis. Students in the graduate,. program on the campus numbered 54 this summer, an "on target" fi1111rP for Director launched the eastern r1'"'"'"'"" ' Structural damage was restricted to the archivist's office in the "Ice House," the Pinkney Hall wing, where a five-inch hole in the roof was thrust open by a branch. Branches were hurled throughout parking lots, denting automobiles. Particularly hard hit was the new car of presidential secretary Isabelle Simpson, which had registered only five miles. intends returning next summer for the segment on mathematics and science. Among the newcomers were Barbara Medina, who is completing her first year as a teacher in the Arkansas Valley farming area of southeastern Colorado. She is involved in a special program for teachers unAlmost all the damage was derwritten by the National En- done with breath-taking speed downmentfortheHumanities. within a 10 minute period. Awed Fascinated by the lines of staff members ran to windows inquiries which have opened up watching branches sail through and attempting to gain content air whitened by hail and flooding she missed in her own .education, rains. Fifteen minutes after it Ms .. ~~dina is con.side~ing the had started the Carroll-Barrister po~sibihty of enrollmg m Santa House was plastered with leaves. Fe s year-round "''"""~n­ Safe after the storm was the college's 400-year-old Liberty Tree, which had been extensively thinned against wind damage the previous year. for the ....,,,,,.. "'"· has been announced by the Institute for Educational Affairs. Editor Leo Raditsa said the grant assist the magazine, years, which expanded, with June the page count and graduate degrees, rnnuurni:; issues and in paying with doctorates and 19 with for a part-time editorial master's, all here because of assistant. their interest in the program Beginning in January 1981, Mr. modeled after St. John's unRaditsa hopes to add another 32 dergraduate curriculum. One of them with a doctorate was a pages to each of the two issues, bringing the total to 96 pages. In Dominican friar, Father Leonard addition to the two issues, he Cochran, who is joining would like to add a third issue in Providence College, R.I., this September, 1981, tentatively fall. scheduled to be devoted to A QUESTION about St. John's education. from a secondary student inspired an Easter week visit here After that the magazine would in 1978, when he attended classes continue to put out three issues a and first learned about the year. master's program. He likes to The Institute will provide study and was interested in the $12,000 the first year and $15,000 St. .John's method. and while he the second. Known to be supbelieves it's too early to make his portive of the St. John's program, own personal" assessment, he the institute heard about the co-editor of The Public and a friend of Mr; Raditsa. The first issue of the magauue since its expansion has met with warm response. In a letter to Mr. Raditsa, Norman Cousins, chief of the editorial board of the Saturday Review and a senior lecturer at the University· of California at Los Angeles, wrote: "I am in your debt for the chance to read Raymond Aron's article - and, indeed, the entire number of The College. You have every reason to be proud of a first-rate editorial achievement. I found at least half a dozen pieces, in addition to Aron's, of strong personal interest, among them Sidney Hook's recollections (I was at Dewey's last class lecture); Wilson on Deductive Science; and Tamny on Manifest Experience. Aron is at his reflective and philosophical best. All in all, my congratulations on a highly professional achievement.'' �11 ~ ) Ptlg'e 4 THE'REPO'RT.ER iving ·n A napoli 1 - Annual I @ I Purpose Current Funds Unrestricted Restricted $207,513 34,397 Total $241,910 Capital Funds Endowment Funds Plant Funds $1,204,785 159,822 Total 1,606,517 Total Funds Raised Source $ 68,967 84,306 12,031 1,084,125 295,621 60,967 Total Funds Raised II M/M Lee E. Preston E. F. Raspa, Jr. M/M John Rossoni Samuel J. Salem M/M Don A. Schanche Alan Schiffren M/M Roger Steers Art Strelis Leonard Sweet Ralph D. Tive M/M James Truit M/M Bernard Walley Dr/M Allen Weingarten M/M George Wood, Jr. M/M William M. Wright $1,364,607 Alumni F'und Alumni Capital Parent Fund Other Individuals Corporations & foundations Bequests $1,606,517 I @ I tri St. John's continues to be thankful for the support given by nonalumni individuals - parents and other friends - as well as by corporations, businesses, and foundations. The Annapolis campus continues to benefit from gifts through the Independent College Funds of Maryland (formerly the Association of Independent Colleges in Maryland). These corporate donors are listed in the section on Corporations and Foundation. a e un PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL Anonymous Mrs. Margaret Driscoll Jerome Lapides Mrs. Duane Peterson D.Robert Yarnall, Jr. ST JOHN'S SPONSORS M/M John Ernst M/M Thomas J. Slakey FRANCIS SCOTT KEY DONORS PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL Anonymous Mrs. E.T. Hankamer ST. JOHN'S SPONSORS Dr/M James L. Gamble, Jr. M/M Duane Kullberg Robert S. Marker , M/M R.H. Rosenberg FRANCIS SCOTT KEY DONORS Robert S. Bartlett Miss Harriet C. Higgins Barbara H. 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Alexander & Alexander Allied Chemical Foundation Allied Contractors Alpha Portland Cement qorq~~~y . American Airlines, Inc. American Brands, Inc. American National Building & Loan American Standard, Inc. American Tel. & Tel. Co. Amstar Corporation Armco Foundation Arundel Foundation Arundel Federal Savings & Loan Atlantic Cement Company, Inc. Russell T. Baker & Company Baker, Watts & Company Fdn. Baltimore Federal Savings & Loan Baltimore Gas & Electric Company Baltimore Life Insurance Company Baltimore Spice Company Barton, Duer & Koch Paper Company Barton-Gillet Company Beachley Furniture Company Becton, Dickinson Foundation Carl Belt, Inc. Bendix Corporation L. A. Benson Company Best Products Company, Inc. Black & Decker Mfg. Company Blake Company Borden Foundation Donald E. Bowman Bradford Federal Savings & Loan Bristol-Myers Company Rodney J. Brooks, Jr. Alexander Brown & Sons Frank D. Brown, Jr. Charitable Brunswick Foundation, Inc. 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Alumni Fund (unrestricted gifts) for the past two years: 1978-79 1979-80 Alumni Donors Percent Response Average Gift Total Fund 573 727 18.3% 21.9% $ 112 $ 9.5 $ 64,077 $ 68,967 . To 20 B. Top 20 classes (10 or more members) 1. x-1929 - 42.4% x-1932-40.4 2. 1917-40.0 3. x-1942- 39.3 4. x-1943 - 38. 7 5. 1930-37.5 6. x-1948-37.1 7. 1!:125-3ti.4 8. x-1927 - 35.3 9. x-1944-35.3 10. x-1949 - 35. l 11. x-1931-34.8 12. 1920-33.3 13. x-1937 - 32. 7 14. 1935- 31.3 15. 1945-29.2 16. x-1969 - 29. 9 17. '\1 x-197'5-"-'~. 7 18 Dollars provides a perpetual gift to the College. A word about the letter notations and numerals which accompany some of them: the letter "c" preceding a name indicates class captain; letters following names indicate special gift categories: "K" - King William Associate ($100-249); "F" - Francis Scott Key Donor ($250-499); "S" - St. John's Sponsor ($500-999); or "P" President's Council ($1,000 or more). The numerals in parentheses show the number of years the donor has qualified for any special gift category. The letter (H) indicates honorary alumnus. 1832 Dr. William Brewer 1847 John Mullan 1874 Frederick W. Brune 1875 Blanchard Randall Charles G. Mantz 1876 RobertF. Maddox 1880 Walter I. Dawkins 1889 Charles H. Schoff 1895 Rev. Enoch H. Thompson 1897 Class of 1897 1898 Class of 1898 Dr. Philip H. Edwards . 1899 Rev. William L. Mayo Ridgely P. Melvin 1902 Dr. W. Oscar LaMotte 1903 Drew H. Beatty Leroy T. Rohrer Amos W. Woodcock 1904 John N. J. Hodges 1905 Rev. Benjamin D. Chambers 1906 Richard H. Hodgson Alfred Houston Dr. Amos F. Hutchins Henry F. Sturdy 1907 John T. Harrison M. Keith Neville x-1947-$6,181 1908 1946- 4,250 Dr. George M. Austin x-1929- 3,715 Charles H. Schuster x-1948- 3,142 J. Graham Shannahan, Sr. 1950- 2,450 1909 50.0% x-1962 - 2,389 Clarence T. Johnson x-1932- 2,065 Col. Robert E. Jones - P (7) x-1931- 1,960 Col. Harrison MacAlpine 1945- 1,895 1910 x-1937 - 1,877 10. Roscoe E. Grove 1930- 1,855 11. 1911 33.3% $75 x-1968- 1,612 12. Levin Claude Bailey x-1944- 1,545 13. Clifford L. Johnson x-1978- 1,518. 14. John L. Morris x-1943- 1,375 15. Dr. Thomas Parran x-1954- 1,370 16. 1912 50.0% $125 x-1942 - 1,321 17. Philip Alger - F (8) x-1975- 1,277 18. William Lentz x-1964- 1,258 19. Benjamin Michaelson, Jr. - K 1935- 1,160 (12) 20. Raymond E. Staley X - classes with Captains George L. Winslow 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. The alumni and alumnae below contributed to St. John's in 197980, some of them more than once. Their gifts were for a variety of purposes. The dollar amounts are only for gifts to The Alumni Fund (unrestricted gifts). Names in italics are of those people in whose memory gifts were made, or for whom special endowed funds have been set up. Income from these funds 1913 Robert A. Tennant Dr. Robert S. G. Welch 1914 33.3% $40 Francis W. Hill Col. Wilmer S. Phillips John T. Tucker 1915 16. 7% $100 Oliver P. Winslow, Sr. - K (2) 1916 · George Davidson, Jr. Roberto. Jones Col. Thomas W. Ligon Col. Guy D. Thompson 1917 Judge Matthew Evans John W. Hyde Lt. Gen. Lewis J. Fields -K (12) Col. C. Carey Jarman - F (12) E~ward B. Hines - K (1) John W. Noble, Sr. -S (6) Snowden Hoff-K (5) Ernst 0. von Schwerdtner - K -- Edward A. Kimpel, Jr. -K (10) (6) • JamesKing-K(3) 1918 28.6% c-William J. Klug, Jr. -P (11) Charles W. Burton Joseph L. Lingo-K (8) Thomas E. MacMannis -K (9) Richard C. Mottu - K (2) 1919 Elmer R. Noyer Dr. Robert A. Bier John S. Price 1920 33.3% Lt. Gen. William W. Quinn John D. Alexander-K (12) 1932 40.4% Rev. Paul M. Cassen William B. Athey - S (11) Charles W. Fitgerald Joseph L. Bean· S (11) Adm. Horatio Ridout Richard F. Blaul Rudolph A. Torovsky Dr. Robert L. Burwell, Jr. 1921 28.6% Hon. James F. Campbell - S Dudley W. Davis (10) Robert F. Duer Lawrence L. Carpenter William H. Y. Knighton, Jr. James W. Crabbe John H. E. Legg Dr. Charles D. Hyson William P. Maddox c-Philip Lee Lotz -K (2) Luther S. Tall- K (1) James G. McCurry-K (3) Dr. Thomas B. Turner-K (12) Walter C. Mylander, Jr. 1922 8.3% $25 Fred Nassauer-K (6) J. Wesley Everett Dr. Richard H. Pembroke, Jr. 1923 21.4% $75 Paul L. Banfield William C. Baxter Charles W. Keefer William S. Morsell, Jr. Dr. S. Paul Schilling Carlton E. Wish - S (13) 1924 7.1% $100 Charles S. Dell, Sr. -K (3) H. Boyns MacMannis 1925 36.4% Dr. H. W. Eliason Fred H. Flounders H. Monroe Helm J. Thomas Ritchie 1926 14.3% Wilbur C. Coyle, Jr. c-James J. Dugan-K (8) Stanely Mccomas Dr. Jiri F. Vranek 1927 35.3% $895 Louis Dorsey Clark c-Frank C. Desantis -K (9) Bernard Gessner -K (2) Charles W. Haas Elmer M. Jackson, Jr. Lee H. Nichols - S ( 4) Col. W. Richard Williams - K (3) 1928 24.0% $645 David F. Crowley, Jr. Arthur C. Elgin Dr. Donald B. Grove James F. Miller Dr. Louis L. Snyder- S (9) Franklin T. Willing 1929 42.4% , $3, 715 Granville Q. Adams Dr. Everett R. Amos-K (5) John W. Boucher-K (1) Dr. Eugene Cc;>zzolino-P (3) c-William A. Gros~wlr (11) S. William Hearne_:,"' Lewis A. Hester Patrick D. Keating-K (8) Dr. Lauriston L. Keown· K (7) Dr. Carl G. Markel- (7) Sanford S. Neal, Jr. James G. O'Neill, Jr. Reginald C. Orem William S. Walls-K (3) Charles Zimmerman-P (10) 1930 37.5% $1,855 Walter S. Baird-P (5) William H. Conca - K (12) Edward J. Dwyer-P (11) John R. Fountain J. Sprightley Kelly - K ( 10) Robert J. Klingenburg- F (9) Arthur E. Landers, Jr. -P (7) Claxton J. O'Connor - F (5) Matthew O'Neil Lester Palmer - K (2) Albert I. Rusteberg Charles S. Smith 1931 34.8% William T. Armacost- K (1) Charles E. Athey William F. Blake Dr. Philip I. Bowman-K (7) Dr. SamuelP. Chew-K (10) Henry A. Czelusniak K (8) Charles E. Pforr William T. D. Pumphrey- F (5) Charles S. Richardson, Sr. Henry S. Shryock, Jr. -K (4) Dr. C. Vernon Williamson - K (7) Sterrett Day Woods - K ( 3) Rev. Fred Yerkes, Jr. 1933 80% Dr. Nathaniel J. Chew-K (1) Rev. C. Gilbert Hill Walter H. Hoffmeister J. H. Fielding Jukes William A. Percy 1934 25% John H. Engel, Jr. -K (5) Edward E. Gray James F. Leslie c - William B. Matthews, Jr. Anthony F. Mile to - S ( 8) Lewis E. Scheffenacker JohnH. Shea Gust Skordas - K (2) Austin W. Winston ~, Horace W. Witman John G. Wltereck 1935 32.3% $1,160 John C. Donohue -K (11) Walter Evers-K (10) Morton N. Fine-K (2) William G. Gideon Harry P. Green Lawrence Kantor - K (11) Robert H. Lampee John D. Martin William T. Mason Robert E. Reordan Dr. Dalton M. Welty-P (12) Frank K. Wilson James C. Wilson, Jr.· K (3) Charles 0; Wingate, Jr. Richard S. Woodman 1936 24.5% $790 Thomas L. Carter Garnett Y. Clark Gilbert A. Crandall Lawrason L. Crane, Sr. -K (1) Joseph B. Gray Edward T. Heise Dr. Charles J. Kibler-K (7) c - Cyril R. Murphy, Jr. W. Robert Nethken -K ( 4) Col. William W. Smith, Jr. Richard B. Taylor-K (2) Charles T. Westcott-K (1) 1937 32. 7% $1,877 Dr. Fred Alexander Robert Leon Boro Lt. Col. John H. Brown Alexander Jarrell Dr. Norval F. Kemp Dr. Franklin E. Leslie Merrill M. Mitchell John B. Owens Albert Pa trick- K (2) Alan F. Pike -S (5) Robert B. Sasscer -K (8) Dr. Isadore Scher Col. Emanuel P. Snyder c - Edward C. Sommer-F (5) Bert Spriggs · S �e1 Ferris Thomsen Rev. John Lobell -F (10) 1938 15.0% $470 Vincent W. McKay Louis Bachmann, Jr. Israel Greengold J. S. Baker Middleton- (3) Ferdinand H. Noble Dr. E. Peyton Ritchings Julius Rosenberg· F (12) William: T. Ross Dr. Francis J. Townsend, Jr. John C. Wagner 1939 19.6% Eugene T. McNamara Daniel Parker -P (9) Dr. Samuel Sheinkman-K (4) Bruce H. Sinkey Charles Van Doren-K (3) Peter Weiss - K (10) 1947 . 22.2% c-Victor E. Barton John Brunn John Scott Desjardins William P. Elliott - K ( 3) Bernet G. Hammel-K (1) H. Gerald Hoxby- p· (8) Richard Jameson William R. Lieb . William Warfield Ross-F (4) Mordechai Sheinkman Eugene V. Thaw - P (7) John Van Doren-K (5) 1948 37.1% $3,142 William Buchanan Ray C. Cave-P (4) $1,005 Frank B. Bauer· K (1) C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. Fred A. Dammeyer William J. Hopps c-Thomas. MacNemar-F(4) E .. Leslie Medford, Jr. - K (1) Dr. John 0. Neustadt Samuel Schenker Norton B. Schwartz Dr. Malcolm Silver Lloyd F. Taylor- F (7) William Brayshaw Welling 1940 4.0% $100 Robert H. Reynolds-K (3) 1941 25.0% $1,025 Lt. Col. James H. Clark-K (9) Paul R. Comegys· S (6) · Henry D. Cubbage -K (1) Bruce A. Graybeal- K (2) T. Lansdale Hill-S (12) Albert J aeggin 1942 39.3% $1,321 John E. Ainsworth Robert C. Allen· K (7) Warren Bombhardt • K ( 5) c-Joseph C. Hofmann, Jr. • K (4) Bryce D. Jacobsen Dr. J ournet Kahn Thomas Parran, Jr. William D. Rendall- S (11) Julius B. Sherr-K (3) Rev. C. Robert Sutton ..(lvin Chesley Wilson, Jr. - K (3) 1943 A. Scott Abbottc-B urton Armstromr Carl B. William T. Ogden W . Ke11102·e--~;m1t.11 Francis S. Mason, Milton Perlman Thomas ....... u.,._•., Alexander - K ( 4) Dr. H. Willard Stern Or. Ollie H. Thompson, Jr. James I. Waranch 1944 William H. Brubeck - F (6) c-Edward B. Cochran Vernon E. Derr James G. Huber George Levine Paul Mellon-P (12) Dr. Thaddeus E. Prout-K (1) Peter Ringland - K (3) Donald P. Ruhl Haven Simmons - S (12) John C. Smidley Dr. Joseph C. Smith Robert Snower Howard L. Sorenson William G. Spohn, Jr. - S (1) Robert H. Taylor Peter C. Wolff Warren Z~ik 1945 29.2% $1,895 Stephen W. Bergen-K (4) Judge George Brunn-K (5) Dr. Christian A. Hovde - S ( 5) · Michael C. keane·--F (3) ··· · Ralph H. Keeney· K (1) ArthurD. Kelso, Jr. John D. Mack-F (10) Frank B. Marshall, Jr. Dr. Orsell M. Meredith-K (1) Edward W. Mullinix-S (5) Charles A. Nelson Morris Parslow-K (8) Dr. Benton B. Perry Robert T. Thompson 1946 Thomas J. Cosgrove Alvin Fross - F (2) Thomas I. Fulton, Jr. - F (5) John P. Gilbert $6,181 G. Harris Collingwood Donald S. Elliott . Charles W. Grover Dr. PeterV. V. .Hamill Dr. Henry Higman - S (1) Robert E. Nichols· F (6) Dr. Jules 0. Pagano-K (1) Dr. Leory E. Pagano c-Lawrenee H.Sherman-K (3) William W. Simmons - P (8) L. Wheaton Smith - F (8) John H. Thomas - K (1) . 1949 35.1% $468 Clarence A. Anderson Aaron M. Bisberg Jonathan E. Brooks c-J a mes W. Conrad Rev. FrederickP. Davis-~ (2) Rudolph C. Ellsworth-K (3) Anton G. Hardy Allan Paul Hoffman -K (10) Chester A. Johnson - K ( 1) Ian C. Lea Eric A. Teel-K (2) Richard D. Weigle - H Dr. David B. Weinstein 1950 Jack L. Carr Bernard S. Clorety Matson G. Ewell -K (1) Herbert S. Feinberg James H. Frame-P (5) Robert L. Goldberg Robert N. Ikari Jerome Lansner - K ( 12) Thomas J. Meyers-K (6) Frederick Schuchman, Jr. - F (8) George Usdansky Peter A. Whipple - K (12) John L. Williams - P (9) Myron Lee Wolbarsht - K ( 4) 1951 9.8% $700 Carl Bertolino-K (2) Ernest W. Hankamer-F (9) · Robert S. Hill• K (2) William L. Sprankle - K (2) Thomas J. Williams-F (7) 1952 i9.0%. $646 E. Wayne Devine Martin A. Dyer Charles Kluth-P (12) Joseph Mam.1.sov-K (1) Harry M. Neumann Hisashi H. Ogushi Robert Seelig George Udel 1953 20.5% Eugene B. Adkins · -William Aston Edward F. Bauer Robert G. Hazo Paul Heineman Philip Lyman Jeremy Tarcher - F (6) Addison Worthington 1954 24.4% Jesse M. Clark c-J ames U. Dernehl GeraldGediman Donald Geraci Jerome Gildden Bernard E. Jacob-P (8) David L. Kaplan - K (2) Sydney Port.er,.~r .. Lawrence Sandek Richard A. Smith 1955 15.0% $162 Lydia S. Aston Harold Bauer Alexandra Culbertson Barbara Brunner Oosterhout K (9) Arthur C. Reisz James W. Stone 1956 25.0% $383 Joseph Cohen Dale B. Cummings James W. Jobes, Jr. Rosalyn Rosenbaum Leizman Dorik V. Mechau Faye Councell Folillo Pasquale L. Polillo- S (11) 1957 . 20.0% $325 Roberts ..BarVP (8) Arianne Laidlaw J. Burt Siemens Harvey Wynn - F ( 9) Rosabelle Gould Wynn -F (9) 1958 . '1U% $65 Alan P. Brockway Nancy E8:gieundley Blakely Littleton Mechau Gerald K. :M:ilhollan Christina.Sopher Neumann 1959 16.4% $185 Dr. Hugh M. Curtler, Jr. Lowell Dyar Amy Carle Jobes Michael K.Mechau Alice Nelson McEnroe Robert MeEnroe Irene Maupin Oppenheim Carol Phillips Tilles · F (3) William Tilles-F (10) 1960 28.1% $918 Mark Adler Betty Beck Bennett-K (2) Rosalie Levine Boosin David T. Chang· K (1) Jerry Costello Ellen Davis c-Mary John E. uu111:'...::1u Belle Patterson Maher Fiona Paul - S (6) Dr. Frank B. Murray-S (6) FrankM. Orr, III Albert Kendon Patricia Townsend Stubbs Charles Wnlth1P1·a UCU.JOll=,H<Ol 1961 c-N ancy Clark Victoria Blair-Smith Joseph J. Faraone-K (7) Richard Freis Michael W. Gold· K (7) Michael W. Ham Sarah R. Mara Linda McConnell Stephen Morrow-K (5) Dr. Don McQuoid Reynolds ·1962 23.4% $2,389 Johan 'i'. Benson c.-Joseph J. Brennig Michael H. Elias - K ( 1) Deborah Sollers Fialka - K (1) Dr. Barry L: Fisher -K ( 4) Tina B. Kaplan - K (9) Ann WrightKeohane t W. James Klug, III- P (4) Edward Mattison-K (6) JohnF. Miller John Poundstone -K (6) Howard P. Schiff-P (5) David R. Schiller -K (1) Stephen Sohm er Lenke Vietoris-z 1963 16.2% $953 Donna Parmelee Bryant Ann Wisotzki Chang-K (1) Daniel T. Devereux Marcia Herman-Giddens Dr. Eric M. Kennell-K (4) c-Dr. S. David Krimins -K (2) Lynn Kopke Pekkanen John William Daniel Sherman Andrew D. Steiner- S (9) John Wekselblatt 1964 27.2% Arlene Andrew Banks Peter H. Crippen Samuel F. Dunbar-K (5) William W. Dunkum ~ S (7) Lawrence Feinberg Hod Gray, HI John P. Hetland- K (11) Sara Hobart Homeyer F. Kay Huebner G. Scott Herman-Giddens David R. Jordan , Robert W. Klug - P ( 4) Lorraine Anderson Martin Robert F. Martin James PeterNach Robert L. November- F (12) Ann von Isakovics Poundstone K (6) Sharon K Wallis Judith Stockard White John F. White c-Judith Laws Wood 1965 15.3% . $655 Sharon Bishop -S ( 5) Judith Abrams Bromberg Bruce Collier - K (4) Jay Ginsburg . . Susan LeibersohnGµrsburg Carolyn HilderMassen Richard w. Massen. Dr. Nathan Pollack;. K (1) Daniel Schiff- K(l) •· Michael J. Woosley - K CH Gerald F. Zollars 1966 26.6% $1,052 W. James Bienemann Mark Bromberg Julia de Prey Robert Fields Christopher Hodgkin-K (5) Constance Bell Holland -S ( 9) John Holland - K ( 1) Carole Picardo Kelley--K (2) David Levine-S (3) David Londow Rev. W. McKeachie Daniel M. Peskoe c-Kay E. Randolph-Back - K (3) Janet Huber Schiff- K (1) Silverman Jo-Ann Wasserman Frances Borst 1967 13 Alice G. Chalmers William F. Cone Robert Heiniger Loren E. Kelley c-Gay Singer Kenney-K (2) Arthur Kungle-K (12) Mark Lindley Rev. Clark E. Lobenstine Hope Z. Schladen Deirdre Leniha·n Sloyan- K (6) Helen M. Turley 1968 UU% $1,612 Stephen Anderton - S (10) . Luther G. Blackiston_-K (3) c-DonaldA. Booth·K-(2), \ Vicki Davis Cone · /·· Elita beth Dobbs~ K (l) "Regina C. Forsyth· S'U) . Bartholomew Lee · K ( 4) Ann Morin Levine-S (3) Deborah Schwartz Renaut Gilbert Renaut Maurine Hellner Rosenberg Joe Sachs Isobel M. Schneider Eva F. Sherman Jonathan Sinnreich-K (2) David Simon Charles B. Watson 1969 28.9% Prot Catherine Allen G. Michael Anthony - F ( 4) Joseph P. Baratta Nancy Williams Brown-K (1) Stephanie Forrest Coburn Ben Jeffries Cothran Robert B. Davis· K (2) Richard D. Ferrier Charlotte G. Fletcher - K (5) H Andrew Garrison c-Maya Hasegawa - K (2) Iver A. Juster Martin Kalmar Rev. Canon Harold 0. Koenig Mark A. Mandel .~oan J. Mooring,· K (1) David E. Riggs -K (2) Karen Stagg Simon Cheryl Sirofchuck M. Richard Stevens Thomas Vazakas ByronE. Wall 1970 20.0% $535 Roberta Petty Bond Henry C. Constantine Robert Dunleavy Ronald H. Fielding Dr. Stephen Forman-K (3) Linda Ann Fqrsyth ·Kenneth Joseph c-Theda B. Hitchcock Deborah Warren Kalmar Artbur H. Luse, III-K (1) John F. MacDonald Herbert C. Moffitt, III Marsha Zager Sinnreich Thea K. Smith Anthony Vitto 1971 22.1% $720 John S. Bellany, II Douglas H. Bennett- K (3) Dennis Berg Pamille Jones Berg Perry J. Braunstein J'ames A. Cockey GeorgeH. Elias, Jr. -K (1) James R. Hill · Christopher Lee-K (1) Clifford A. Martin Helen Anastaplo Scharbach • K (4) . . Barbara Sherman Simpson · Harold Stone · Martha Kaufman Stone Dr. Michael Vietoroff 1972 20.4% $1,005 Bradley Carl Arms · S (3) c-Ray Boedecker-K (2) Robin Kowalchuk Burk· K (2) James M. Burress-K (3) Evelyn Frampton Chute Susan J. Conlin Christine Ferrarini Constantine Evan M. Dudik- K (1) Melanie Sollog Dunleavy David Gilmore Elizabeth Molnar Hinton Ilene Pregler Lee Deborah Papier Carol D. Shuh Jeremy Alfred Whipple Grant P. Wiggins _ I. Willis William Barton Wright 1973 21. 0% $988 Peter J. Aronson-K (1) Ileana C. Basil-F (3) Mary Louise Batteen Jerold R. Caplan Mary L. Coughlin Bryant G. Cruse Dr. Ronald J. Davidoff-K (1) Jon Todd Ferrier Roger Greene Robin Chalek J annes Alice Gawron Knittel Jan Monroe Donald O'Flynn Dr. Daniels. Pearl Susan Wells Ramos Elspeth Revere Paul M. Rosenberg David Scharf Dr. Melissa Matthews Sedlis K (3) Dr. Steven Sedlis -K (2) _ c~Jane E. Spear Peter Squitieri James E. Tourtelott 1974 13.1 % $303 Lt. Roger C. Burk - K (2) Carol V. Calhoun c-Thomas J. Dolan Leslie Epstein Richard A. Ferguson Kathryn Austin Ferrier Dr. Samuel T. Goldberg Steven Key John L. Lincoln Maria Kayanan Masinter Jack McArdle Edward Doran Myers anetChristhilf O'Flynn �Pag'e\8 iving · San 1979-80 A nua Mr. Van 1. Summary of Fund Raising WeigleKarl R. Mrs. Tassel Dr. and Richard Purpose Current Funds Unrestricted Restricted $ 782,767 16,436 $799,203 Capital Funds Endowment 266, 748 Total Funds Raised $1,065,951 Sources Board College Community Alumni Parents Friends Foundations Corporations NM I CA $ 421,316 3,889 17,256 10,386 125,412 455,868 15,540 15,868 Total $1,065,535 Present and Former Board Members - Mr. and Mrs. J. Burchenal Ault Mr. Robert S. Bart Miss Sharon Bishop Mr. Victor Bloede Mr. Richard M. Burdge Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Carnes Mr. Ray Cave Dr. and Mrs. Edwin J. Delattre Dr. and Mrs. Lowell R. Ditzen Mr. and Mrs. James R. Donnelly Mrs. Walter B. Driscoll· Mr. Charles T. Elzey Mr. John L. Ernst Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Evans Mr. Stephen L. Feinberg Mr. W. B. Fleischmann Col. and Mrs. E. E. Fogelson Mr. and Mrs. R. Phillip Hammond Mr. and Mrs. John T. Harrison Miss Harriet C. Higgins Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy E. Hoff· berger Mr. and Mrs. Allan P. Hoffman Mr. Jae Holzman Rt. Rev. and Mrs. Everett · Jones EdmundF. Raspa, III Lester S. Silver Elizabeth J. Tracy !W a.rY Weigle - H Karen Zimmer 1975 SEPTEMBER 1980 THE REPORTER 28. 7% $1,277 Elizabeth A. Bassan Gretchen Berg Theodore Blanton - K (2) Laura T. Bridgman-K (1) Matthew DeBacker Michael Dink Gershon Ekman-K (1) George F. Ellis Sara Coulson Elis Paul S. Fishleder Peter T. Fox M. Carla Garrettson -K (3) D . ._...u.'"'"'t-'.,.__ . E. Malcolm R. Handte Arthur Horvath Marion Y. Condon Hustis Mr. and Mrs. Daniel T. Kelly, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Kirby Mr. and Mrs. Jerome LaPides Mr. Francis Mason Mr. and Mrs. Alexander K. McLanahan Mr. and Mrs. John G. Meem Mrs. Carleton Mitchell Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Nelson Mrs. Duane L. Peterson Mr. Boyd Pratt Mr. and Mrs. James Ritchie Mr. John E. Robson Mr. and Mrs. George S. Roudebush Mr. and Mrs. Adolph W. Schmidt Mr. and Mrs. William W. Simmons Mr. Edward G. Sparrow Mr. J. I. Staley Mr. Roger W. Straus, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Trvin Swartzberg Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Terry Mr. Eugene Thaw Mr. and Mrs. A. Paul Thompson Mrs. Louise T. Trigg Dr. Thomas B. Turner Peter Kniaz - K (1) S. Lee Larrison Susan Mattis Dale Mortimer William Randolph Sallie Dobreer Raspa - K ( 4) c-J ohn Rogers Kevin Stacey- K (1) Thomas T. Tamlyn, Jr. Michael Van Beuren K. C. Victor Cary Stickney 1976 24.3% John Borders - F (1) Margaret McGuinness Borders - F (1) Juliet Goslee Born Tnnothy W. Born Rebecca Brown Edward T. Burke William Watt ca1nplJell y Cerullo Glenn Cruse c-Susan Fitznatrick DeBacker Patricia Joyce Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Wells Mr. and Mrs. John L. Williams Mr. and Mrs. D. Robert Yarnall, Jr. College Community Miss Marv Branham Mr. Samuel E. Brow.1:1 __ Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Bunker Class of 1979 Class of 1980 Mr. and Mrs. Don B. Cook Dr. and Mrs. Wiley Crawford. Mrs. Marsha Drennon Mr. and Mrs. R. Thomas Harris Mr. and Mrs. Emery C. Jennings Mr. Samuel Larcom be, Jr. Mr. Philip Lecuyer Mr. and Mrs. Timothy P. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Neidorf Mr. and Mrs. Stanley C. Nordstrum Mr. and Mrs. Roger S. Peterson Dr. and Mrs. Alfred W. Pinkf>rton Mr. Robert D. Sacks Mr. and Mrs. John S. Steadman Mr. John Verdi Ms. Alfreda L. Verratti Mrs. Alice H. Whelan Pa ts PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL Mrs. Irving Laucks Mrs. Lois T. Liepe Mr. Sol Sacks Mr. and Mrs. Robert Zinn ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE SPONSORS Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Girard Mr. and Mrs. Michael Pulitzer FRANCIS SCOTT KEY DONORS Dr. and Mrs. Sheldon Davidson Dr. John B. Hibbs Dr. John L. Light burn Dr. John L. Lightubrn Dr. Richard D. Pettit Debra Hopson Finch David V. Glass Rosanne Gleason James Hill Jane MacGuffie Hudson Jonathan K. Hustis Leslie Graves Key Douglas K. Mayer William W. Nooter Frances Guinard Pickard Christian J.M. Smith- K (1) Harry Michael Townsend - K (1) Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Richman Mr. George L. Robson KING WILLIAM ASSOCIATES Mr. Leon Deane Mr. and Mrs. Sam Drolet Dr. H. H. Everett Mr. and Mrs. James Highsaw Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hold Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. King Mr. and Mrs. Eliot Porter Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Schulak Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stice ***•* Mr. and Mrs. Sydney J. Baker Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Ballen Dr. and Mrs. Lyman Brewer Dr. Gerald Bronfin Mr. and Mrs. John F. Buchen Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Callender Mrs. Adeline B. Collins Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Dain Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Dolton Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Dunbar Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Fletcher Mrs. Ursula A. Gray Mr. and Mrs. James C. Hall Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Hampton Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hemmendinger Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hoople Mr. and Mrs. Henry Horsey Mrs. Helen Hussander Mrs. Heidi Kingsbury Mr. and Mrs. George Kmiecik Mr. and Mrs. ·Thomas A. Larsen Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Lundy Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Lyman Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Merritt Dr. and Mrs. M. V. Patrone Mr. and Mrs. Abel B. Pierce, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Morton Rappaport Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Rowley Mrs. E. R. Seton Mr. A. Mark Smith Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Stanton Mr. and Mrs. John Stern Mr. and Mrs. William Strickland Mrs. Joan Unbehaun Dr. Charles B. Wheeler Mr. and Mrs. George L. Whitmore Mrs. Olive B. Whitney Mr. and Mrs. Daryl Woodward Janis Popwicz Handte Eric Victor Hodges - K (1) Andrea B. Hollander Chela Weiler Kleiber C. Lesley Leifer Carolyn Wade Loring Frances C. Merritt Cynthia Dene Nash Julia Perkins c-Vicki C. Phillips Carla S. Schick Susan Seidenstricker 1978 Kimberly Beaton Quintero Andrew Wisniewski 1977 Alexander Brandon Ann Kr.rrn11111n0" Girard Brad Grant H. Franks Marlene Franks LynnF. Erica Lerner Glass Frances Goodwin -K (2) Grandi-K - D. Lucy H. Adams c-Ethan Bauman Michael Berger Katherine A. Cooney C. Gamble - S (1) Susan Gasser-Wilson Leland F. Giovannelli Susan Scott Hunt Paula Jacobus L. Jemielita - S (2) Kari E. Jenson W. Jeschke e, Friends PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL Anonymous Odette Aude Trust Mrs. April Axton Mr. Jacques Cartier Mrs. Ellen R. Clapp Miss Nina J. Cullinan Mr. Wilbur Denious Mr. Joseph W. Drown Mrs. Helen Park Edwards Mr. and Mrs. William Egolf Dr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Harvey Mrs. Oscar Huffman Ms. Diane B. Jergins Dr. and Mrs. Rudolph Kieve Mr. Donald S. Klopfer Mrs. Frank Mapel Mrs. T. H. McElvain Mr. Donald McLennan, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. W. 0. Miller Mrs. James Oxnard Mrs. Elizabeth Pantaleon Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Pfaelzer Mrs. Edgar Rossin J)r. and Mrs. A.G. Simms Mr. and Mrs. Leland Thompson · Estate of Alexander V. Wasson Mr. and Mrs. Charles Weiner Mrs. Jane Wilcox FRANCISSCOTTKEYDONORS Miss Alice Armstrong Mrs. Emily Barnes Dr. and Mrs. John W. Bates Dr. and Mrs. A. Donald Bell Mr. and Mrs. John Cartwright Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Catron HI Mrs. Peggy Pond Church Mr. and Mrs. Abel Davis Mr. George Frelinghuysen Mr. and Mrs. Wiliam Gilbert Mr. Roger Hanks Pr. and Mrs. Irwin Hoffman Mrs. Joseph McKibbin Mr. J. J. Meeker Mr. Henry Nels on Mr. Ralph O'Connor Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Rivin Mr. and Mrs. Richard Martin Stern Mrs. Elsie Wardman Mrs. Sallie Wagner Mrs. K. Rose Wood Clinton D. Lively ,Amy McConnell Robert Perry Steven K. Ross Tricia Kolp Spada Mark E. Steitz Marta A. Stellwagen David E. Woolwine 1979 11.4% $335 Mary Caulfield Cumming Nathan Ames Ellis Sallie A. Huelsbusch Bruce Kolman Kathryn D. Kominars Hardee Mahoney Kevin W. Parker _ Hutter Frances Pickering w. Stonesifer Blair Marie Toler -K (1) Ira F. Weiss '75 �SEPTEMBER 1 AT. JOHN'S E COLLEGE SPONSORS Mrs. Hope Aldrich Mr. and Mrs. Edmund F. Ball Mrs. Baum Miss Gertrude Clarke Mr. John Crosby Mrs. Flora Dendahl Mr. Gaylord Donnelly Miss Elizabeth Gempp Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Gardner Jencks Mrs. Barbara Kauffman Mr. Jam es Meeker Mrs. Evelyn S. Mull Mr. and Mrs. James H. Russell Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sandstrom Mr. Robert Tobin Mr. and Mrs. Robert Weil Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Wood Dr. and Mrs. Karl Rotluff Mr. Philip H. Ryan Mrs. J.M. Samuels Mrs. Gertrude Schweitzer Judge and Mrs. Oliver $_~t!t Ms. Efvira T. Sibley Mr. and Mrs. William Small Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Suydam Mr. and Mrs. Leland Thompson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John B. Tuthill Mr. and Mrs. Kirk C. Tuttle Mr. and Mrs. Robert Turner Mr. and Mrs. John Walter Mrs. Frances Warson Mrs. John C. Watson Mr. Richard L. Webb Rev. and Mrs. C. F-' Whiston Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Wilson Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Ziegler KING WILLI.4.M ASSOCIATES * "' * "' Mr. and Mrs. Richard Abeles Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Agnew Mrs. Jean Anderson Mr. and Mrs. C. I. Alexander Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Beckman Mrs. Mary Margaret Allen Mr. Edward Bennett Mr. and Mrs. JohnN. Alley Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Bingaman Mr. and Mrs. John Allred Mr. and Mrs. Keith Boyer Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Amsden Mr. and Mrs. Norris Bradbury Mr. and Mrs. Russell Andrews Mr. and Mrs. Bainbridge Dr. and Mrs. Richard M. Angle Bunting Mr. and Mrs. George ApMr. James Cartwright plegate Mrs. David Chavez Mr. J arr~tt Applewhite Mr. Kenneth Clark Mr. and Mrs. Harold Argo Mr. Wallace Cox Mr. and Mrs. James Arrott Mr. and Mrs. Georges Dapples Mr. James Baird Mr. and Mrs. David Davenport · Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Ballen Mrs. Eleanor DeGhize Dr. and Mrs. Harris W. Barber Mr. and Mrs. John D. Dendahl Mr. and Mrs. Laughlin Barker Dr. and Mrs. R. C. Derbyshire Mr. and Mrs. David Barton Mrs. Yvonne Dravo Mrs. Winna belle Beasley Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Driscoll Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Mr. J. H. Douglas Beenhouwer Mr. John Eddy Mrs. Johnson Bennett Mr. Robert Ellickson Mrs. George Berger Mr. and Mrs. Charles Feldstein Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Bertrand Mr. and Mrs. William Field Mrs. Maude Billy Mr. Gaylord Freeman Mr. Richard L. Binder Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Friedman Mr. John Bliss Mr. and Mrs .. Bertram Gabriel Mrs. Nettie Bliss Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Girard Dr. Audrie L. Bobb Dr. Stephen Goodyear Rev. and Mrs. Robert Boshen Mr. and Mrs. Loren D. Gordon Mr. and Mrs. John Boylan \ Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Grant Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bradford Mrs. Mary Hall Brother Brendan Ms. Betty Selers Hart Mr. and Mrs. Edward Brosseau General Walter R. Hedrick Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Brown Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Heffelman Rev. and Mrs. James D. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hoerlin Mrs. Mary Bryan Mr. Paul Horgan Mr. and Mrs. John F. Buchen Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hoyt Mrs. Nancy Buchenauer Mr. and Mrs. William Hurt Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burman Mr. William E. Keller Mr. and Mrs. Bengt Carlson Miss Evelyn Knight Mr. and Mrs. Courtney CarMr. W. C. Kruger swell Dr. H. R. Landmann Mr. and Mrs. Victor Carter Mrs. Gladys Langroise Mr. P. M. Casady Mr. Raymond Leppard Mrs. Juliet Charnas Mr. and Mrs. James Lilienthal Mrs. Beatrice Chauvenet Mr. and Mrs. Lamar Lunt Dr. Richard Chessick Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Saul Cohen McGreevy Mrs. Alan C. Collins Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Miss Virginia L. Comer McLaughlin Mr. and Mrs. C. James Cook Mr. and Mrs. David McNeill Mrs. Mary Lou Cook Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mathews Mr. and Mrs. James Coon The Mathews Family Mrs. Pat Corelli Mrs. Walter Mayer Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Cotter Mr. and Mrs. James Meem Mr. and Mrs. George A. Cowan Mr. and Mrs. Philip Naumburg Ms. Jan Coxon Mr. and Mrs. Sam Neidorf Mrs. Alexander Crane Mrs. Hans Nielsen Mr. and Mrs. John M. Currie Mr. David Padwa Mrs. Margaret Darner Mrs. Francis C.H. Parks Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Davis Mrs. Trudi Peet Mr. and Mrs. Peter Dechert Mrs. H. Pleuger Mr. and Mrs. Volker de la Dr. and Mrs. Alfred Pinkerton Harpe Miss Mary E. Dempsey Mrs. Eileen Dewar Mr. and Mrs. J.B. ""V."'"''u.r Mrs. Marcela Powers Mr. and Mrs. William H. Mr. and Mrs. Uhilinnc and Dr. Bertha Dutton Riedell Mrs. Barbara Dyer Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Ms. Sandv Eeds Robinson RosenL. Rossin Mr. and Mrs. Bill Falion Mrs. Evaline Foley Mr. David C. Forbes Mrs. Gail Forsythe Mr. Robert J. Fortman Mr. and Mrs. Paul Frederickson Mr. and Mrs. J. Arthur Freed Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Galvin Ms. Mary Ann Gerber Mrs. Katherine E. Gladfelter Mr. George Goldstein Gen. and Mrs. Samuel McC. Goodwin Mrs. Esther Gorey Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Gottlieb Mrs. H.F. Grand-Girard Mr. and Mrs. Jack Graves Mrs. Mary Greenfield Mrs. Cynthia Grenfell Mr. David Greenhood Mr.and Mrs. Edward B. Groth us Mrs. Lilly Hagerman Mr. and Mrs. David B. Hall Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Hall Mr. and Mrs. Donald B. Hamilton Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Hamilton Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hammel Mrs. Una Hanbury Mrs. Suzanne Harkins Mrs. Eleanor Harrows Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hassebrock Mrs. Elaine Hatch Mr. and Mrs. Leon Heller Mr. Richard Heller Ms. Anne Hillerman Mr. and Mrs. John Hightower Dr. Stanton Hirsch Mr'. and Mrs. Donald Hoard Mr. and Mrs. George Hocker Mrs. Jane M. Hoke Mr. and Mrs. David Holden Mrs. Fredeerica Hollins Mrs. and Mrs. Edward Holman Mrs. Clara L. Hunt Mr. and Mrs. Robert Irrmann Mr. and Mrs. William James Mrs. Genevieve Johnson Mrs. Kathryn Jones Mrs. Margaret G. Kelly Mrs. Harriet Kidder Mr. and Mrs. L. D. P. King Mrs. Elizabeth Kingman Rt. Rev. and Mrs. C. J. Kinsolving Dr. and Mrs. Paul Kovnat Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Kurth Mrs. Isabel Kuziel Dr. and Mrs. David Kyger Mr. and Mrs. Milan LaDu Mrs. Marian Lafferty Mr. and Mrs. Hubert W. Lamb Dr. Mary Lane-Dodd Mrs. Kathleen Lassiter Mrs. Kathryn Jones Lauer Miss Peggy Laustrup Mrs. Loraine Lavender Mr. Don Lemons Mr. and Mrs. Julian Levi Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Lewis Mr. and Mrs. David Liberman Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Licklider Dr. and Mrs. M. S. Livingston Mr. and Mrs. Anton V. Long Mr. and Mrs. Owen Lopez Mr. Gerald Lovins Mr. Donald Lowrie Mr. C. F. Lucero Mr. W. I. MacGillivray Dr. Harold S. Mackay Mr. and Mr-s. John Manley Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Manuel Mr. and Mrs. J. Carson Mark Mr. and Mrs. Robert Martin Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Masters Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Mauzy Mr. Lavon J. Mrs. 9 Mr. and Mrs. Henry Motz Mr. and Mrs. John H. Muchmore Mr. Allan R. Murphy Mrs. Alice Nagler Miss Gay Nathan Mrs. Elsa Naumann Mr. Guy Neff Mrs. Frances M. Neigh Mr. and Mrs. RobertH. Neill Mrs. Anne B. Noss Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Nowak Mr. and Mrs. StanlehNoyes Mr. and Mrs. Sol Oestreicher Mr. Montgomery Orr Mr. and Mrs. Carl Overhage Mr. and Mrs. William Overstreet Mr. and Mrs. Ronald L. Paynter Mrs. George Pellegrini Mrs. Howard Pennypacker Mr. Ron Perry Mr. and Mrs. Gene Petchesky Mr. Charles Pettus Mr. R. Thayer Phelps Mrs. Ruby S. Plath Mr. and Mrs. Eric Platz Mr. Martin Proyect Mr. and Mrs. Eldridge Quinlan Mr. George A. Ranney Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Redman Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Reichelt Mr. and Mrs. Mac Renfro Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Reymont Mr. and Mrs. James Richardson Dr. and Mrs. John Rinehart Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Rogers Mr. and Mrs. L.A. Rogers Mr. and Mrs. Ted Rose Mr. and Mrs. Louis Rosen Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rosen Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Rousselot Mr. F. J. Roth Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Rumburg Mr. Ford Ruthling Mr. and Mrs. Robert Saam Mrs.ManuelS.Sanchez Mrs. Alison Sanders Ms. Rene Marcella Sandoval Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Saunders Mr. and Mrs. William A. Sawtell, Jr. Mrs. C. Wenzell Schenck Mr. and Mrs. Ian Strong Judge Lewis Stuin Mrs. Carl Swanson Mr. and Mrs. Richard Taschek Mr. and Mrs. Arthur D. Taylor Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Terlizzi Mr. and Mrs. Erwin P. Thomys Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Thorpe Mr. David W. Tinker Col. and Mrs. Alfsono Topp Mrs. Mark Van Doren Mr. and Mrs. Alan Vedder Mrs. Georgia Vourhees Mrs. Kay Walker Mr. J. H. Walser Mr. and Mrs. Larry Waterman Mr. and Mrs. John Watson Dr. Ssu Isabel Weng Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Weinstein Mrs. Joan Wheeler Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Whitlock Mrs. June Williams Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Zachariasen Anonymous Healy-Matthews Artesanos Imports Highland Resources Bank America Foundation Houston Endowment Charles Ulrich & Josephine IN A Bay Foundation Maytag Company Foundation Edwin J. Beinecke Trust Morgan Guaranty Trust The Ensign Bickford FounMullen and Sondberg · dation Charles E. Nolan, Jr. Continental Airlines The James H. Russell Agency Crane Foundation Fayez Sarofim & Company Arthur Vining Davis FounSchool of American Research dation Shell Company Foundation The Dick Family Foundation Southwestern Computer First National Bank of Santa Mary Horner Stuart FounFe dation Gannet Newspaper Foundation Tandy Corporation The Guarantee Time, Inc. Hansen Gallery United States Trust Company I Ill I We hope we have noted all alumni who gave to the -college during the past year. If you gave and for some reason your name does not appear among the list of donors from your class, please let us know. Class of 1968 Bruce Baldwin Mr. Sansi Girard Coonan Peter Fletcher Mr. and Mrs. J. Jerome Mc- Richard Flint Miss Mary E. Mead Mr. John Menken Merlan Mr. and Mrs. George Schloss Mrs. Albert Schmidt Mr. Robert Schott Mrs.JanetSchroeder Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Schwarz Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Shankland Mr. and Mrs. J.E. B. Shaw' Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Sherwood Dr. and Mrs. Philip Shultz Mr. and Mrs. Abe Silver Mr. Mike Simmons Mrs. Marion Skeggs Mr. ForrestSmith Ms. Gayle A. Smith Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Spence Mr. William Spight Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Spining Mr. and Mrs. Richard Spivey Mrs. Lucile R. Stacy Mrs. Wilfred D. Stedman Mr. and Mrs. Stan Steiner Mrs. Eleanor Steinert Mr. and Mrs. Donnan Stephenson Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Stevens Mr. and Mrs. Vladan Stiha Dr. and Mrs. William Stone The Rev. George A. Stracke Mr. and Mrs. Murray Strasberg Goldstein G. Keens Samuel Larcombe Steven Shore Lester Joan P. Townsend TOTAL $1, 743 �Larcom be Lee B. McKusick Robert L. Rosenwald, Jr. Carlton S. Severance, III Rev/M John Strange Joseph H. Tooley M/M Steven Tucker Michael A. Zakroff TOTAL $2,123.50 Class of 1970 Beth Kuper M/M Michael J. Landry TOTAL TOTAL Class of 1973 David K. Allison Galen N. Breningstall Mark D. Jordan John L. Kvapil Christian Smith M/M Eric 0. Springsted Danny D. Watson Ann Wooten TOTAL $1,454 $175 Jean Karen Kurs Kristin Rose Lucas Wendy Roberta Maxwell Nancy S. Miller Thomas J. Myers Moors Cabot Myers Margaret Mary Sheehan Richard M. Skaug M/M Jonathan Teague TOTAL $1,310 Class of 1974 Ymelda Allison M/M Harris M. Belanger Sally Robinson Bell Jena Morris Breningstall Thomas Byrnes Karen Cook Celia Yerger David Alice Gibbs Ericsson Elizabeth Goldwin M/M Joseph Granados M/M David Gross Carl Huffman JonHunner M/M Elliot Marseille Bruce Adam Robertson Rachel Trueblood Philip B. Weathers TOTAL $365 Class of 1976 Susan Graham Austin Khalil Ayoub Lauren Baillards Dean Blobaum Richard B. Bonds Christian Burks M/M David Campbell Pablo Collins Glenda Holladay Eoyang Christopher Graver Michael Gross Charles Gunter Kathleen Maher Victor Mansure AlanMcVay Daniel M. Roddy Denise Waxman M/M Daryl Woodward Debra Woodward TOTAL· $530 Class of 1975 Elizabeth Strider Dain Leslie Johnson Class of 1977 Marlene Benjamin Debra D. Carroll $20 Class of 1971 Seila Bobbs Armstrong Sally Dunn Ralph D. Esdale Bonnie Gage Jan Goodman Travis L. Price Mary Rebecca Schwab Amanda Stimson 'Dolores Strickland TOTAL $495 Class of 1972 Philip T. Ansteth Theresa M. Baca Seth Cropsey Glenn C. Gladfelder, Jr. Bruce F. Glaspell Charlotte Gray Susan Deborah Kaufman Louise Romanow Herley D. Sharp In $213 JUDGE HERNANDEZ to Paraguay, is chairman of the board's Visiting Committee for the Santa Fe campus. A member of the Board of Visitors and Governors of St. John's since 1975, Judge Hernandez ) is a native or Santa Fe who was first named to the Mexico Court of Appeals in 1972. Educated in Albuquerque public schools and at the University of New Mexico, where he obtained his bachelor's degree in 1941, he also holds a doctor of jurisprudence from DeP aul University. He is a partner in the law firm of Hernandez, Atkinson & Kelsey. His extensive record of service began when he served as a Naval aviator between 1942 and 1946. Since then, among the officJs he New mam~ berships on the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, vicechairman since 1974 of the New Mexico Judicial Council, former me1nber of the New Mexico Judicial Standards Commission, of the UNM Alumni Association, former chairman of the Board of the Department of Health and Social Services of New Mexico, and member of the Advisory Committee to the Robert A. Anderson School of RusinPss anrl Administrative Science at UNM. H.e was ambassador to Paraguay from 1967to1969. His awards include alumni awards from both UNM and De Paul, from the National Conference of Christians and Jews, and the Albuquerque Citizens Committee Award for Community Service. He holds the Order of National Merit Award from the Republic of Paraguay. Julius Julius Wilson, retired college physician and a former laboratory tutor for the Santa Fe . cafi1pus, h_as been honored by the American Lung Association. -At a national meeting marking its 75th anniversary in Washington, he was honored as one of 75 persons named to the association's newly established Hall of Fame for having contributed significantly to the against tuberculosis and lung disease. Dr. Wilson was a pioneer in the successful treatment of tuberculosis. Dr. Wilson, who joined St. John's when the western campus opened in 1964, resides in Santa .Ee. Graduate Intitute Donors M/M Ralph Cox Kathleen Hamilton Dr/M Frederick Harvey Miriam Kalis Kathryn Lauer Leland Lengal Morman Levan Ralph Levurs Frank McGuire Mary Navratil Robert H. Neslund Franz Snyder Megan Tyndall Ann Yeck TOTAL $5,611 $314 Class of 1978 Victor Austin Marion L. Billington Edward Bronfin JohnC. Dye Teresa Engler Peter Faulhaber Randall Fryer M/M James Gasser-Wilson Leland Giovannelli Steven Mackey Lydia G. McCarthy Scott Olson Lucy Tamlyn TOTAL $375 Annapolis Donors Chris Borden MJM Frank Dain '76, '16 E. Ray Davis '62 Daniel Devereaux '63 Bruce Eberwein A 'GI George Elias '71 Carla Garrettson '75 Gei:_ald Hoxby '47 M/M Robert E. Jones '09 Mary Justice A'GI Sallie Dobreer Raspa '75 M/M James Sharp '46 J. BurtSiemans TOTAL $2,528.11 Class of 1979 Gregory Dalton Martin J. Dobyns David E. Doremus Benjamin R. Haggard Charles R. Hamm, Jr. Mary Hilstrom ns Judge B. C. Hernandez, a man whose public life since 1950 has included serving as ambassador ,hu , held, ho.ve been., Lawrence H. Clendenin Michael E. Dubetz Water T. Featherly, III Susan M. Ferrpn Janet Lynn Hellner · Carol A. Highsa w Margaret A. Ryan Nancy G. Sample Thomas W. Stepnowski JonathanP. TymanGregory White TOTAL t David Starr, SL John's tutor since 1972, has been named director of the college's Graduate Institute in Santa Fe. He succeeds David Jones, director for the past two years, who returns to full-time teaching. Mr. Starr assumed duties A.ugust 27 directing the year- round program that leads to a master's degree in liberal education. His wlll be for two years. With him are his wife, Priscilla, former director of education and a teacher at the Fleet School for Secretaries in Annapolis, and their two children, Ian, 11, and Russell, 6. A graduate of Gordon College, Mr. Starr holds a doctor of philosophy degree from Boston University, where he has taught. Prior to joining St. John's he was with the University of Rhode Island faculty. He is the author of the book, Entity and Existence, which explores the two ways of ontological thinking of Aristotle DAVID STARR and Heidegger. During their absence their home will be occupied by Kent H. Taylor, member of the Santa Fe faculty, who will join the Annapolis campus, and his family. �1 ••• (Continued from 2.) Physiology and Biophysics. My work involved the synthesis of a variety of small proteins (peptides) similar to natural proteins made by the brain. Needless to say, most of my training was on-the-job although I had taken a course in organic chemistry at Harvard Summer School. Jeff Victoroff, '74, was my roommate there during the summer of '72. "I began my studies at tne State University of New York at ·stony Brook School of Medicine in the fall of 1976 and received my M.D. this past May. Interestingly, the admissions director at that time was Jerry Green, father of Michael Green, '72. "Also, Tom Dourmashkin, '72, was a third year student there, and Cynthia was a student at the School of Nursing. As you may know, Tom went on to do his internship in internal medicine at the Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Mass. I am not sure, but assume he is still there. During an elective rotation as a sub-intern in medicine' at St. Luke's Hospital, NYC, one of the Columbia medical students assigned to my ward turned out to be Be Keefe, '76. (St. Luke's is a Columbia hospital). "On July 1, I began my internship in medicine at St. Elizabeth's Hospital of Boston, one of the Tufts University teaching hospitals." 1975 Gerry Ekman completed his Navy active duty obligation on May 1, leaving as a lieutenant. He saw a lot of the PaC';fic during his three years aboard the USS Duluth (LPD-6), managed a Christmas 1979 visit to Canton in the People's Republic of China, and this past February his ship assisted in the operation to return indigenous personnel to Eniwetok Atoll, from whence they had been moved in 1945 to make room for a nuclear weapons test program. Gerry is now a first-year student at the University of Michigan Law School. Last spring in Los Angeles he saw Joyce Mendlin, now a lawyer with the Santa Monica firm· of Fadem, Berger and Norton, specializing in property litigation. Mary and Peter Kniaz are in San Francisco, where she works full-time toward a master's degree in English literature at San Francisco State, and he is a scientific computer programmer with Sohio Petroleum Co. Peter admits to certain early qualms about an oil company job, but these faded rapidly when he found that Sohio's employee matching gift program would put up $2 for every $1 he and Mary sentto St. John's! Annette Tullier is back in the Annapolis area serving as director of religious education at Our Lady of the Cape Chapel in nearby Cape St. Claire. Since leaving St. John's, sbe has received her master's degree in theological studies at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans and has taught religion Scripture and Christian morality - at Ursuline Academy. in Orleans for two years. She is living at 39 Murray Avenue in Annapolis. 1976 Edward "Ted" Burke stopped by the Alumni Office in late June, enroute to Pensacola, Fla., where he will be stationed for the next six months as a member of the U.S. Navy. 1976 - Santa Fe On June 22, Aleta Hackney Jones and husband Curtis became the parents of Ira Lee Jones. Young Ira joins sister Erica Beatrice in the Jones's home in Portland, Ore. 1977 Carla Schick, '77, is living in San Francisco and teaching at SL Mary's College in the Integral Program. She has completed her master's thesis at the University of Chicago, writing on Plato's Theaetetus and Husserl's phenomenology, especially the Logical Investigations. She wrote on logos and the search for knowledge, attempting to explore the differences and conflicts between an ideal theory of meaning and a holistic theory of meaning, or, change in meaning. 1977 - Graduate Institute Victor Emanuel Willis, pianist and music teacher who not too long ago gave a benefit concert for the Graduate Institute, was murdered by an intruder in his New York apartment June 1. Police could find no motive. A teacher at Frederick Douglass Junior High School, he was graduated from Manhattan School of Music and took additional studies at City College of New York and the New School for Social Research. He was music director of a number of groups and choir director for churches in the New York area. Music he composed for a group of Walt Whitman poems and sung by Frances Haywood at his St. John's concert became part of the Bicentennial celebration in Dallas. 1978 Early July brought glad news we had been expecting for a long time: Janet Ehrenberger and Steve Perry were married on June 28 at All Saints' Chapel, Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, Calif. Our heartiest congratulations, Perrys. · News of Leland Giovanelli came in July from Stephanie Moore, '81; seems that Stephanie, attending her brother's commencement at Simon's Rock Early College of Bard, ran into Jules Pagano, '48, provost of Simon's Rock, who reported that Leland was scheduled to teach math there ~his summer. All this just proves that St. Johnnies are liable to show up anywhere! David Woolwine has an uncanny knack of dropping by the Alumni Office when your director is elsewhere. On a recent visit, he advised that he is attending Princeton University and will be working on a Ph.D. in Sociology. Late June brought a long letter from Scott Arcand, now a private, first class, undergoing training as a Green Beret (Army Special Forces). First there as basic training, then advanced individual training in his me4ic the Bay Area, studying dressage GrouJ This means the bottom rung ,f the ladder for this former in Palo Alto. David Rameden graduated Kinr_ William Players' director ant.. actor but with a chance for with honors from West Point in May and expects to be stationed upward mobility. Until this month he has been in Hawaii. living with Tony San lers in 1980 Four members of this class Southwest Washington. Tcny has have joined the Peace Corps been serving as a proof reader for (shades of the 1960's! ): Janelle Human Events, a weekly newspaper. At press time his new Balcom, '79, in Dakar, Senegal; address wasn't known. We'll try Ann Schanche, in Ivory Coast; Julie Neita and Mark Wielga, in to keep you informed. 1978 1980 - Santa Fe Fred Bohrer has been accepted Zaire. A very warm and informative Melanie Jago and John Hiner for graduate study by the University of Chicago where he are in San Francisco, where she note from Jim Lorenz, in the San will be studying for his master's teaches geometry, English, and Francisco Bay area training this degree in art history. Fred, as biology at the Drew College summer as a programyou remember, was the first Preparatory School. He attends mer /analyst with Hewlettcurator of the St. John's Art Hastings College of Law. Their Packard. He is following the Gallery and gave a lecture on the address, which John says should footsteps of Randall Fryer, 'S 78, conservation of art works during be good for a few years, is Studio who recruited him last March. last year's Friends of St. John's 19, 801 Baker St., San Francisco, *** One of the nice things about 94115, telephone ( 415) 563-6280. Spring Weekend. Marjorie Allison has landed being on leave and traveling in Wife Karen, '79, has just herself a busy public relations Europe is meeting St. Johnnies, completed her master's in library science at Catholic job. She has joined the National Tutor Harry Golding reports. He University and has accepted a University Consortium, which is spent an evening with Saul and position as a reference librarian administered by the Maryland Nancy Coiner Benjamin '75, in Center for Public Broadcasting Oxford in May and later that at the Chicago Public Library. month several days with Patrick "We are both very excited · and the University of Maryland, and which provides television- Goold, '77, in St. Andrew's, about moving to the 'Windy City,' Karen writes. "We plan to assisted courses to colleges Scotland, where Pat was move in September and will be across the country. The schools, finishing his second year there and awaiting his oral exam on his living at 1369 East Hyde Park in cooperation with local stations, offer these courses to students master's thesis on Kierkegaard. Blvd., Apt. #406, Chicago, Ill., 60615. We hope our friends will who are unable or prefer not to In mid-July he was in Denmark with pianist Mark Schneider, '73 attend traditional classes. keep in touch.'' ''As publicist for the con- and his violinist wife, Elizabeth, 1978- Santa Fe sortium, I am to assist member hearing them in concert and David Doremus will begin colleges and TV stations in visiting the summer home of studying for a master's degree in recruiting students and building Elizabeth's mother. In politics at the University of community awareness of the Copenhagen, in front of the Dallas this autumn. program," Marjorie writes. "I Tivoli, "Europe's and therefore Henry S '79 and Mary Horsey also will be recruiting additional the world's finest pleasure are back in the US after their member colleges and TV (public, garden," he ran into Frances Watson-sponsored trip up the commercial, educational, and Pickering. Nile. Henry will enter graduate cable) stations and working on school at Fort Collins, Colo., this creating national awareness of fall and study water the program. A PR firm in NYC management. is working on the latter at 1979 present, but they are briefing me Carol Colatrella has completed as to how to place articles in 24 of her 48 hours of course work national publications, use toward a doctorate from Rutgers national TV and radio, and use Stephen Benedict, '47, has been State University's Graduate wire services and feature synnamed director of a new program School of Comparative Literature dicates - all of which I may be Columbia University is and is off to Coronado, Calif., responsible for as early as establishing leading to a master taking a year away from formal September. of fine arts degree in arts adacademic work. She does hope to ministration. ''AU this is very exciting, but I The program is designed to study Spanish during the coming try to keep my sense of perprepare its graduates for spective by not thinking about the year. responsible positions of An intern this summer at the magnitude of my responsibilities. Maryland Hall of Records, she Otherwise I'd be scared to death! leadership in the entire range of plans to return to Rutgers in Most of the 'fun' of my job is in public and private institutions September, 1981, following a the writing of press releases and concerned with the arts. It is summer at Tours, France, as thinking of effective, imaginative being offered by Columbia's part of the Rutgers program ways to reach the very special School of the Arts. there. Previously Mr. Benedict was student the Consortium wants to She advises New Jersey recruit." director of the Project in the Arts students that as a resident of Marjorie is living at 29 New of the Council on Foundations. Jackson, N.J., she has been at- Windsor Rd., Apt 1, Westminster, For 15 years prior to that he was tending Rutgers on a Garden with the Rockefeller Brothers Md. 21157. State Fellowship, available to Right after commencement Fund, where he was an associate New Jersey residents to attend a Jim White walked off the street principally concerned with the New Jersey school. It paid a and into the door of the Folger fund's program in the arts and $4,000 stipend plus tuition. Partly Library in Washington and ancultural development. During the because of her work at the Hall of nounced he wanted a job. He has Eisenhower administration he Records and as a student one, as an administrative aide for was a member of the White assistant at the St. John's library, the Shakespearean Theater House staff. she plans a master's degree in library science once her docINMEMORIAN torate is completed. 1906-Maj. Herbert C. Fooks, Baltimore, Met, 11June1980. 1979 - Santa Fe Julie Berg and Clark Kimerer, 1918-Lt. Col. Valentine W. Lentz, Fayetteville, N.C., 19May1980. S '78 were married on May 3 at 1920-Francis J. Lloyd, Jr., Virginia Beach, Va., 24July1980. her mother's house in Atlanta. 1931-William P. Campbell, Jenkintown, Pa., July 1980. Tliey are currently living in 1933-John A. Raudonis, Atlanta, Ga., June 1980. 1935-Dr. William R. Eaton, Pittsburgh, Pa., 7May1980. Seattle, Clark's hometown. Steve House plans to move to 1936-William P. Wiseman, Danville, Va., 8July1980. San Francisco and study 1938-C. Sprigg Sands, Sr., Gambrills, Md., 31July1980. classical guitar and music theory 1943-Harvey Dubinsky, Glastonbury, Conn., 19May1980. at the San Francisco Con- 1944-Edward B. Cochran, Tiburon, Calif., 26June1980. servatory of Music in September. 1977 Graduate Institute-Victor E. Willis, Riverdale, N.Y., June 1980. Betty Hussander will also be in school, and, until midS e pt ember, Green ·Beret training. After that more medical training, plus some advanced Special Forces work, and he will have earned his Green Beret. Scott admits it's been rough (" ... a lot rougher than anything at St. John's - up to and including senior essay"). He is still ambivalent on the matter of a military career. �. e t ! ' The International Monetary' Fund must be one of the most exciting places in the world for economists. Almost half its 1,500 employees are Ph.D.'s, more than most universities possess. Architecturally, its headquarters building on Washington's 19th Street is among the city's most glamorous. Experts work in offices encircling a 13-story, glass-roofed atrium, where ivies cascade exotically from upper lPvPI~ :rnrl whPre marble flooring polished to a liquid finish reflects the footsteps of staff members from Brazil or Finland or Cameroon. Because 1t is not a governmental organization, the Fund incorporates gifts from its 144-, member countries into its hallways and offices: scarlet Oriental rugs before the already hushed entry of the managing director's office, pieces of sculpture, wall hangings, bowls of museum quality. Member countries send their best people to work at the Fund, and the Fund keeps in touch with the member countries at the cost of immense telephone and cable bills and by frequent flight. Located across the street from its sister organization, the World Bank, the Fund is the economic nerve center of the free world dedicated to ensuring the effective operation of the international monetary system. FOR ANY VISITOR, the place - high powered, splendiferous is impressive. For someone from St. John's, it's impressive for another, parochial reason: Peter Whipple, '50, works there. In fact, he reports in a manner which leaves one a little awe struck by his ability to reduce matters to thPir mn"t nff-h:rnrl tprmo;; hio;; joh is "to see that the shop is running properly." At this particular shop Peter Whipple- holds a post known as the Fund's "internal auditor," a position he assumed last December after serving 16 years as deputy director in that office. The title, which suggests those ·people who come around once a year to check out St. John's financial books, is a bit misleading. Peter does have accountants working on his immediate staff, and while he does do financial audits, his responsibilities also are concerned with auditing the operational aspects of the Fund for maximum efficiency and organization, seeing that it is done well. It is a position calling for a considerable degree of expertise in analyzing a situation and coming up with recommendations and solutions without upsetting the personnel in the process. "It involves systems reviews," he said, "of going into a situation with a series of questions, interviews, or tests to find out what the procedures are and to determine whether these areas are complying with Fund policies and whether they are efficient, whether the personne~ are qualified and effective, and deciding whether it could be done • PETER WHIPPLE better. If there are problems, and people ask for help, we try to come up with solutions." LIKE THE FUND, Mr. Whipple's own staff is international: three Americans, one Burmese, one Philippino, one Mexican, and two Canadians. He admires their abilities. "The key to what you're doing is to find good people and have confidence in what they do." He himself reports directly to Jacques de Larosiere of France, the Fund's managing director. Because Monsieur de Larosiere is enormously busy - he presides three days a week at day-long meetings of the Fund's executive board Mr. Whipple's responsibility is to save him as many problems as he can. At this time of year, Mr. Whipple's busiest, he sees the management on the average of three times a week. Mr. Whipple's always active pace was accelerating because, in addition to the regular work of his own office, the Fund has its annual external audit at this time when three member countries sent their own qualified auditors, usually high ranking officials, to spend six weeks evaluating the operation. Mr_ Whipple finds himself as the Fund's liaison officer working with this group as well as with the local CPA firm which assists them. As a result, unlike many governmental operations and perhaps as a consequence of his own efforts, the Fund works well. "Our staffing is lean, maybe too lean," he said. "Some feel there are not sufficient b1ck-up personnel in some areas, but basically the staff is well rotmded, intelligent, and quite competent." Mr. Whipple did not get to the International Monetary Fund because of his St. John's degree; it took a specialized technical degree and years of experience to do that. But once there, it helped. "At the Fund, St. John's is rather well known and looked upon favorably," he said. "This is an international organization staffed· with highly educated persons from around the world, and frequently they know a bout St. John's. My St. John's education has been very helpful to me in establishing a relationship with them. Often, when the conversation doesn't relate to work, we discuss those things St. John's is concerned about." FURTHERMORE, Peter feels his education has enabled him to have a greater perspective. "Too many people apparently can't see the forest for the trees," he said. "St. John's has helped me to stand back and see what is important.'' Following his graduation from St. John's, Peter studied ac· countancy at Benjamin Frankiin UniVersity and the University of Maryland. After acquiring a second bachelor's degree, he joined the Washington office of Ernst & Ernst, now Ernst & Whinney, a top flight international accounting firm, which provided good exposure to various types of businesses but also led him to know he didn't want a career with a CPA firm. He next became business manager for the Metromedia television station in Washington (Channel 5) and later for that corporation's New York City station (also Channel 5). "This was a great experience," he noted, "in which I was involved with a hard charging, aggressive, competitive organization. I wore many hats. Essentially I was looking for every trick that would help to make the business- profitable. I was watching every expenditure, riding herd over production units in connection with program budgets, controlling the commercial content of programs, hiring and (sometimes) firing personnel, as well as running the building that housed our offices and studios. "ANYONE," HE added, "who says that the challenge of trying to make a go of a business in a highly competitive field isn't exciting simply hasn't been. involved in it." At the same time, it turned out to be the "rat race" one might expect. Such organizations expect their executives to be "married" to their jobs and, indeed, Mr. Whipple said, such jobs can be so interesting that the executives willingly, even eagerly, comply at the expense of other aspects of their lives. So he decided to make a switch and 17 years ago joined the IMF .. Unlike most of the professional staff, who come from central banks or the universities and governmental structures of the various member countries, he had come to the Fund by way of private enterprise. "A considerable adjustment was necessary, and it took time," he said. "In the private sector, although the game can be rougher, the rules are simpler. The paramount objective is to make a profit, and just about everything legitimate that contributes to that is OK. The public sector is more complex because of social and sometimes political considerations, and the more complicated and sometimes seemingly obscure, objectives involved. Helen C. Scott-Allen, a Graduate Institute alumna, has been awarded the 1980 Creative Recognition Award for Humanities of the National Association for Creative Children and Adults. She was one of 11 junior high teachers to receive HELEN C. SCOTT-ALLEN the award. Mrs. Scott has been a teacher at Langley Junior High School in Washington. She attended the institute as a Cafritz Fellow and received her master's in 1970. ''As a result of my experience in the Graduate Institute. I used "But in the role of internal the· St. John's approach in ,my auditor of the IMF, I have been literature classes," she said. "In 1972 I instituted a pilot able to appiy much of the training I received in the private sector program on the Bible which was with good results, but by em- designated· by the District of ploying a much more diplomatic Columbia Public Schools Board of Education as an exemplary modus operandi." "I find the job stimulating,"· program. In 1973 I introduced the Mr. Whipple, who generates a lot first humanities class on the of work, said. When he is not at junior high school level in the the Fund, he is sailing his 30-foot DCPS. It remains the only such Pearson in Annapolis, to where program. he hopes to move when he takes Dorothy Stockett, an Anan early retirement. Peter is napolitan, who now works partvery pleased that he hr'6 been time for the former Senator able to be in close contact over Joseph Tydings of Maryland, the years with many people from have a 21-year-old son, Scott, who St. John's. will graduate from Duke He and his wife, the former University in December. t it? C'mon. 'Fess up. We've found it. Which one of you guys did With the statute of limitations for mischief protecting any guilty alumnus, the college is curious. How did that tombstone get to the Pac a-Carroll House? Four days after starting work on the dormitory, workmen unearthed a granite stone concealed under an inch or two of earth and grass on the northeastern side of the building. It is engraved "Elsie Thatcer 1881-1936," and how it got there is a mystery. The location is so close to the building as to be an unlikely spot for a grave. Furthermore, Miriam Strange, former registrar, who has been closely attached to the college for more than 50 years. said she knows of no burial on campus other than, that of the late professor C.W. Stryker, whose ashes were scattered under the college's Liberty Tree in 1959. Neither Charles Wallace, superintendent of buildings and grounds, nor John Miller, construction superintendent, could find any trace of a grave on the basis of the configuration of the soil. College officials surmise the stone was brought to the campus as a prank, possibly from nearby St. Anne's Cemetery. Until 1937 Paca-Carroll served as the Kappa Alpha Fraternity House. Sidney T. Shores, St. Anne's Church treasurei:, said his records do not show an Elsie Thatcer as being buried in the church cemetery but added that cemetery records are incomplete. For the present, until a claimant steps forward, the stone is resting in Mr. Wallace's office. This is the college that likes a good story, you remember, so it would like to know the one behind this marker. All forgiven. �SEPTEMBE~ 1980 THE REPORTER es president on the program will be Douglas Gordon, of Baltimore, president from 1931-34. Brass music for the procession will be provided by two St. John's students, Michael Fried, of Spring Valley, N.Y., and Peter Norton, of Hingham, Mass. Representing the faculty, alumni, and students on the platform will be Dean Edward G. Sparrow, Franklin. R. Atwell, Alumni Association president, and Martin Miller, of Lewiston, Me., president of the . Student Polity. The Santa Fe ceremony will parallel closely that of the Annapolis campus. It will be held at 3 p.m. in the Sweeney Center with a reception at 4:30 p.m. at the Peterson Student Center. Alumni banquets will be held at both campuses later that evening followed by inau~ural balls. IN SANTA FE Vice President J. Burchenal Ault and Mary Branham, director of college relations, are coordinating events. became president of St. John's at 12:01 a.m. July 1, and the inauguration will come only as a traditional formality. Those which are planned here and in the West and the day's events surrounding them are believed to be the most elaborate St. John's has ever planned. Of interest will be a new oath which has been prepared by Mr. Smith and approved by Mr. Nelson. While inauguration programs for both Mr. Weigle and his predecessor, John S. Kieffer, mention oaths, a search through the presidential and archival files failed to produce one. Mr. Weigle has no memory of having taken one and recalls he was simply presented. To fill what. the Annapolis campus felt to be a need, a simple statement of commitment was written, this one expected to be filed carefully for the use of future inaugurations. As one.homey, family wedding aspect of the Annapolis ceremony, the college has been brightening itself up for the occasion. Just before school reopened painters applied an estimated 65 gallons of paint to These two young visitors with a special interest in along tum out to be daughters Donna Marie and n""•wr1nn • y s (Continued from Page 1) as the single president of both : widely separated campuses. 1 To permit as large a number of alumni as possible to attend, the ceremonies have been timed for homecomings on each campus. Mr. Delattre, who will be taking office shortly after his 39th birthday on September 4, will deliver his own inaugural address, one part of which will be given in Annapolis and another in Santa Fe. Delivering another talk also divided into two parts will be the Inauguration Weekend speaker, William J. Bennett, director of the National Humanities Center, Triangle Park, N.C., a close friend of Mr. Delattre's. He will give the Friday night lecture at both the Annapolis and Santa Fe campuses. His topic will be "An American Scholar: The Young James Madison." In Annapolis, where the inauguration will be heralded by brass music, the ceremony will be held at 3 p.m. under the Liberty Tree unless rain forces it indoors to the Key Auditorium. The event will attract representatives of approximately 65 colleges and universities, including the presidents of at least 13 Maryland institutions, along with delegates of a half dozen learned societies. SERVING AS marshall will be J. Winfree Smith, a senior tutor, who has acted as chairman of the inauguration program committee in Annapolis. Overall chairman is Kathryn Kinzer, assistant librarian. The procession of several hundred persons, which will move from Mellon Hall to the Liberty Tree, will include delegates of universities and colleges, delegates of learned societies, the senior class, faculty, the board, distinguished guests, and the platform party. Both Richard D. Weigle, Mr. Delattre's predecessor, who will be on sabbatical, and Stringfellow Barr, president at the time the New Program was founded in 1937, will be unable to be present, and the only former Page 13 The library Associates Committee's champagne reception to introduce the Delattres to the Santa Fe community drew 300 persons. Here Mr. and Mrs. Delathe with Richard Martin Stem, committee chairman, greet John Gaw an fellow of St. John's, and Mrs. Meem. the stucco-style ceiling of the Key foyer, the second painting it has had since the building was dedicated in 1959, and the dete:i'ior a ting pit tosporum · planted at the windows - victim of white fly-is being replanted. BESIDES MRS. KINZER AND Mr. Smith, the Annapolis committee includes Dean Sparrow, George Doskow, Nicholas Maistrellis, Tom Parran, and Rebecca Wilson. Lending a great deal of behind-the-scene support has been Joseph Roach, Darby, Pa., senior, especially assigned to the event. Mrs. Kinzer succeeds Edda Peter, the original coordinator, who has left St. John's to accept a position with the National Gallery of Art. Victor G. Bloede, '41, of Long Island, N.Y., is chairman of the board's Inauguration Committee. It also includes Dean Sparrow, Dean Robert S. Bart of the Santa Fe campus, Ray Cave, '48, Former Dean Robert Goldwin, '50, Dr.- R. Philip Hammond, '49, and Allan P. Francis S. Mason, Jr., '43. Betty Lilienthal photo • • l (Continued from Page 1) effect that nation's first fixed curriculum in modem times. Charles A. Nelson, the chairman of St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors, will place it around Mr. Delattre's neck as the insignia of his office after he administers a simple oath of office. It will be worn during his presidency on occasions calling for formal academic dress and than pass on to the long succession of St. John's presidents who will serve during the coming centuries. "It will last from now until it is destroyed by some act of God," Mr. Martin said of its durability. A native of Annapolis, Mr. Martin is a sculptor, goldsmith, and jewelry maker, rather than a silversmith. "I've never raised a vessel like a coffeepot," he said of this time consuming method. But he has learned to work with silver as he has executed his commissions, usually one-of-akind jewelry pieces. His local work also includes the Eucharist screen in wrought copper for the Heritage Baptist Church, a design reflecting the classical symbols of grape and · wheat, and a bronze plaque, a replica of a tulip poplar blossom, that adorns the gift record book for the Paca House gardens. He studied both at North Carolina State University and East Carolina University, but most of his training fittingly for a sculptor, has been done the "school of hard knocks." He will make the St. John's chain by using piercing techniques in which, in effect, he saws the books and medallion out of a ~heet of metal and assembles them by silver soldering. His how the new president of St. John's is instrument will be a hand-held lee .. jeweler's saw with an extra fine Betty Lilienthal photo blade. Everything is done by l • hand, and the actual work is lengthy and demanding. "If you make a mistake, you have to start out all over,'' he said. The Anne Arundel County Bicentennial Committee has presented a check for $675 to St. John's College. Dr. Stuart M. Christhilf, '38, committee chairman, said the sum was left after the completion of a Bicentennial history of Annapolis and Anne Arundel County. It will be used at St. John's for the writing of a college history covering the period between 192337. In Santa Fe, where Dean Bart is informally known as "Bob," matters should go smoothly. In Annapolis, · with the arrival of a new president, things may become a bit confusing. St. John's Edian Age is about to dawn. A telephone conversation sample: "Hello, Ed, this is Ed Sparrow." "Hello, Ed, this is Ed Delattre." And while dean and president exchange such beginnings, the staff can be expected to be confused by such sentences which begin, "Ed says ... " Ed who? Back to formalities. There is one consolation. As everyone knows, "Two 'Eds are betttr than one." Messers Delattre and Sparrow are about to prove it. �(Continued from Page 1) Copernicus because both men dealt with the question of whether the earth is the center of the universe, a question over which philosophers grew excited and which mathematicians had much to say in deciding. "I couldn't justify four years of mathematics just on their own," said Sam Kutler, a mathematician before he became a tutor. He also feels it works the other way. "It's difficult to understand what we are doing in mathematics if we don't understand what we are doing in the rest of the program." With mathematical references spilling over into discussion of nhiJosophy. thPoJogy, m11sk. thp laboratory sciences, language, -is underway At the blackboard are, from senior Warren c:;.n.:....t ..... Tutors Sam Kutler and Malcom with Chevy Chas, A faculty study group dealing with Einstein's general relativity theory will be led this year by Professor Gordon Feldman of Johns Hopkins University's Physics Department. Although Einstein's special relativity theory is taught here, the general theory is not, but tutors thought it would be helpful as the next logical step in un· derstanding modern cosmology. Participating will be Sam Kutler, chairman, David Guaspari, Robert Williamson, Curtis Wilson, and Malcolm Wyatt. The study group is being financed by a Mellon Grant for Faculty Development. Tom Parran photo arni ae::,U1d1c::,, Uldlh t!:) viewed. here not as a remote, specialized, thinks that his first book, like all For another senior, Warren thought," Mr. Wyatt said. Glynis M. Smith, the Annap· his others, may be viewed as a polis campus's night resident AT CERTAIN points the math- Spector, of Chevy Chase, Md., story with a plot: "From an ugly who studied mathematics at crone to a beautiful cone by mem a tics and laboratory Princeton before coming here nurse, has been appointed programs come closely together, coordinator for the Division of means of a vacation on the and who took a great deal of Clinical Nursing Education at particularly in the junior and plane.") special work at a secondary Mr. Kutler believes St. .John's senior years, so that while the level, one of the best things about· Anne Arundel General Hospital. Miss Smith has been a member particular genius has been to find calculus of Newton and Leibnitz the program from a student's is being studied in the of the hospital staff since 1973, Euclid, with whom freshman point of view is "nothing is given most recently as an instructor in studies begin. His math is mathematics tutorial, it is being out of the blue.'' nursing education. put to use and exemplified in the "drawable"; students view it, "WE'RE ALWAYS given the like about half the math taught at laboratory work. .£uckerman historical content of ideas," he St. .John's, directly synThe seniors' study of (Continued from Page 16) noted. "Therefore each new step thetically is the term Schroedinger's wave mechanics A position to be respected. But mathematicians like to use in the laboratory is quite as is based m:ion something we know about. We know where it's either "created" or painted, Mr. since the only symbols Euclid mathematical as their study of corn mg from, and we know where Zuckerman's art show is well USPS. if thpv mav he ron'\i<lPrPrl Einstein's special theory in the symbols, are the letters which mathematical tutorial. In both it's going since we have read worth seeing and not because it refer to the pornts in hi:, cases mathematics and physics other writings about is automatically good. Mr. Zuckerman has looked and diagrams. are so intertwined that they mathematics, geometry, astronomy, algebra. These are thought. For those who want to 14 EUCLID DOESN'T seem to become of equal importance. things which develop at each spend some time looking need a pre-requJSite, • Mr. Kuder The program is particularly stage naturally. . It makes it themselves, it may be viewed noted. "Consequently students concerned with changes in more beneficial and tolerable to from 1 to 6 p.m. daily and from 7 who believe they have a. block mathematics itself, especially students not inclined to math." to 8 p.m. on Fridays. against mathematics can start changes at the time of Galileo. over." The why of how things happen Euclid becomes a point of becomes extremely important. reference for the four years. In "We try to enter the mind of a examining the foundations of rliscoverer of mathematics as mathematical physics in the much as we can what works of Galileo and Huygens he wrote,·' David Stephenson, a t.hPir iunior 'lt11rlpnts find member trained in music of these two that the and physics, said. "We want to men are couched m r~uclwean find out not what he said, but terms. he said it in the way he does. "Their final year seniors read and are moved by We are concerned with the form his ;:.iHPrn::itivP to F.urlide;m r'"PO- of the presentation as wen as the substance." e try, something which Reaction among students to be transformed into called 1magmary from those moments of modern mathemaucs. By geometry, ' Mr. Kutler conc+r crcrlc. to those times of tim1ed. aclual transformations, which make The Euclidean-Lobachevskian the was thal the math exc:1tu12 here. would be made one meet. recognized as exaccessible to students also look at Newton's "Princellent spoke of program is; cipia," with Newlon's insistence ding, the faculty believes it is not on absolute time and space to it with especial appreciation. wwE to beyond the reach of the average make motion intelligible, and diseover for ourselves muei1 of student. Einstein's violation of this "Our math program is principle, with his concept of what would normally be just presented already neatly designed for all our students, time as dependent upon a new packaged - in textbook form in a including those students who reference system - the observer ronventional math class." have no special passion or talent - a system eliminating the abPamela Sklar, Baltimore senior, solute. for it," Mr. Wyatt explained. Close to half the math program said. "The success of our math program is that students with is devoted to mathematical "Where else do you approa~h varied experience, much of it physics in the form of astronomy, the calculus through Newton's bad, discover they can enjoy which is linked to cosmology, a lemmas. Although math classes learning mathematics. Our subject which in turn comes in for at St. .John's may lack other success has been that any of the discussion in the seminars. computational rigor found students can learn it fruitfully "The movement from Aristotle elsewhere, they rarely and find moments of genuine and Ptolemy to Copernicus to degenerate int~ mechanical excitement." Newton and finally to Einstein problem solving." (As a matter of fact, one tutor parallels the motion in the She also noted the seminaron the Santa Fe campus has seminar of cosmology from m at hem at i cal tutorial Aristotelian cosmology to d~veloped a particul.arly relationship, pointed out that humanistic formula for looki'ng at Descartes and the Cartesian seminars provide the broader With its front entry steps whittled away, the Paco-Carroll House Apollonius. John Steadman revolution and finally to modern is veiled with scaffolding as work gets underway. cont~xt for mathematics. technicai activity for people gifted in math, but one which helps bridge what C. P. Snow calls the two cultures - the scientific and the mathematical world and the so-called humanistic studies. Under St. John's all-required program, students look at first sources. moving from Euclid t0 J.obachevskv and EinstPin, learning the way mathematics d e v e i o p s f r o m P t o i e 111 y , Apollonius, Copernicus, Viete, Descartes, Pascal, and Newton. Students do something which is rarely, if ever done outside university-level, history-ofscience courses, and read these men directly. Later come algebra and calculus taught by modern-day formulations. While there are obvious points of reference in such readings as those of Plato and Aristotle, Mr. Kutler pointed out that it's difficult to say how or when it happens, but the study of malhematics opens up the nature of the college's great books seminars in a wholly unpredictable w<iy. IN PLANNING its math curriculum in 1937 when St. John's decided to abolish majors and launrh i!s New St. John's wanted to show meant t.o thP :rnriPnt." :rnrl how it 11 photo by Judy Kistler, '77 SF �social sciences offered under the program. A Reed graduate, Mr. Collier holds master's and doctorate degrees from Yale University and also has studied at UniverMeanwhile, a 400-page sitaet Heidelberg. Mr. Wilson comas a result of a 1978 NSF grant is scheduled to appear in the next two issues of the Archive for the History of Exact Sciences. Thomas Ma writing Brother Robert Smith· will be on leave the first semester at Oxford University, working primarily on Pascal in the Bodleian Library. While there Brother Robert will reside in the De La Salle House, the Christian Brothers House of Studies at 1 Marsden Ferry Rd., Oxford, OX2 Thomas C. Mark, on leave this year to write a full-length study of Spinoza as the result of a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, has just published some shorter writings. 7BP. He has contributed an essay, "Truth and Adequacy in Spinozistic Ideas," to a new volume, Spinoza: New Perspectives, edited by John Biro and Robert Shahan, published by the University of Oklahoma Another tutor who will be Press.· ·working in a British library will In addition, he is the author of be Thomas K. Slakey, who will two recently published articles, spend his sabbatical next year "Spinoza's Concept of Mind," in with his family in Cambridge. In the Journal of the History of order to understand what is Philosophy and "On Works of happening to contemporary Virtuosity," in the Journal of moral philosophy, he will be Philosophy. studying the transition from A paper by Mr. Mark, a pianist, pagan to Christian morality. "I entitled "Philosophy of Piano think something like the reverse Playing: Reflections on the is happening today," Mr. Slakey Concept of Performance," which said. he delivered at the Baltimore campus of the University of Maryland, is to be published shortly in Philosophy aP Philosophical Research. t has paper The Berns 1fE!a10 courses " ·Gisela and Laurence Berns both led week long courses this summer at The Clearing at Ellison Bay, Wisc., a rustic center where learning combines with nature. Mrs. Berns taught a class in Schiller's Wallenstein, a trilogy about the great general of the Thirty Years War, and Mr. Berns a class in Plato's Protagoras. In Mr. Berns' class were a couple of lawyers, a surgeon, a clergyman, a psychologist or two, a banker, a \chemist, two nurses, a number of housewives, the owner of a large scale construction firm, and the mayor or town supervisor of a town in Illinois who was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, a former student at Chicago. Commented Mr. Berns: "I particularly liked the remark of the elderly surgeon after our first class: 'I've never dissected a book before. It's really very interesting.·~' A grant by the National En· dowment for the Humanities enabled Charles Collier, Annapolis tutor, to take part in the NEH's program of summer seminars for college teachers. His stipend of $2,500 allowed Mr. Collier to participate in a two months seminar at Stanford University dealing with medieval literature. It was one of 120 seminars in the humanities and Pianists with phrasing in a cnopm noc· turne while being distracted by a _ on their left and a student vocalist on their right will find practicing easier this year on the Annapolis campus. The number of music practice rooms in Mellon Hall has been reduced from six to four in number, sound-proofed, and expanded in size this summer. Unsuccessful since they first were put into use 22 years ago, the windowless rooms also have been criticized for ineffective lighting. Using plans developed by tutors Douglas Allanbrook and Nicholas Maistrellis, workmen have deepened the rooms extending them inward into the wide corridor, space already available. Treasurer Charles T. Elzey, who set cost of the project at $33,860, said the largest of the new rooms - one 16 by 18 feet - will permit ensembles to rehearse together. To improve lighting, two windows have been cut through that room. The three other rooms, which will be 18 by 12 feet, each will have a window. A new type, nine-inch styrofoam sound-proofing material has been added to the ceiling, according to Charles L. Wallace, superintendent of buildings and grounds, and dividing walls also . have been sound-proofed. s It's never too early to plan. At least, on the basis of their past experience, that's what the people preparing for Pa rents Weekend are saying. Hotel lodgings continue in short supply in Annapolis. If you want to make sure you have housing close to the college, make your reservations now for April 24-25, the weekend when parents gather here. · t Ethical questions facing physicians as a result of new advances in medicine have been discussed in a seminar of 18 doctors held at Anne Arundel General Hospital and led by Geoffrey Comber, director of continuing education. Organized by Dr. Nicholas Capozzoli, Annapolis neurologist and a member of the Graduate Institute, the~ seminar included among its readings an article by former St. John's Tutor . Leon Kass, now with the University of Chicago faculty: "The New Biology: What Price Relieving Man's Estate." (Continued from P. 1) a one o'clock discussion of The Republic. Santa Fe will coordinate its reading with Friday's inaugural lecture on James Madison by William J. Bennett. Sam Lar· combe, western alumni director, said the seminars there, chosen also with a view to an election year, will deal with Federalist papers 10, 14, 37, and 39, all written by Madison. Classes holding special reunions in Santa Fe will be those of 1970 and 1975. To facilitate travel, Mr. Larcombe is encouraging alumni to charter buses from major cities. He will help coordinate this effort. Western alumni will convene for this business meeting October 4 in the Peterson Student Center at 10:30 a.m. "WE WILL BE discussing how St. John's can accommodate alumni best regardless of the campus from which they graduated and how administratively we can be of service to alumni," Mr. Larcombe said. In Annapolis, where the association will elect officers and four directors, Eastern Alumni Director Thomas Parran also said the emphasis at its annual meeting will be on how the association can be changed in order that it best serve its western constituency. "We are a very different organization than we were ten years ago," he said. "Of necessity we have been very eastern oriented; the bylaws dictate that it be that way." The last set of association bylaws was written in 1969, when Santa Fe had one graduating class. Although slightly amended since then, they provide that the annual meeting, in which all elections are held, be in Annapolis. Mr. Parran said the bimonthly meetings in Annapolis almost dictate that the board be made up of individuals within easy commuting distance. THE QUESTION will be discussed at the urging of Association President Frank Atwell, '53, who last fall asked alumni to fully explore the question and come up with some practical solutions. Besides the inauguration, alumni east and west will attend inaugural balls which will follow banquets on Saturday evening. Also planned on each campus are luncheons and counseling sessions with students. Both alumni directors cautioned that hotel reservations should be made as early as possible. Was Isaac Newton's break· down in 1693 due to psychological or physiological causes? A recent issue of Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, reports the Duke University Alumni Gazette, published a paper by Myron L. Wolbarsht and L.W. Johnson which concluded that Newton suffered from mercury poisoning. The Wolbarsht-Johnson thesis is supported by another article in the same issue of the Society Journal. This paper reported an analysis of what are believed to be samples of Newton's hair, showing mercury Two letters - one by ·Robert and all you did to my wife, Dear levels 11to38 times normaL This Louis Stevenson and the other Sir, Respected Madam, You've evidence, coupled- with sympAmong the memorial funds toms of central nervous system from a lesser known British made me 'Yours for life!' " His given the library book endamagf' :is citf'd by Wolbarsht writer, R.D. Blackmore, author name is signed in full: Robert dowment fund. recently is one and Johnson, seems to account of Lorna Doone - have been Louis Stevenson. for the noted scientist's given the St. John's College The letter from Blackmore was honoring a father and four sons library. who attended St. John's. bre~kdown. They were the gifts of Mr. and also to Mrs. Storer, apparently in Librarian Charlotte Fletcher "Newton's diaries indicate that answer to a message of apthe genius who formulated the Mrs. Rowland Morgan, Jr., of preciation she had sent about said books have been purchased in honor of Dr. Richard Harwood law,;; of motion and gravitation, Annapolis, and accompanied a Lorna Doone. Blackmore wrote:. Green, 1853, and Richard HarestabHshed calculus and laid the collection of approximately 80 "One of the many things wood Green, Jr., 1883; Thomas foundations of modern physical volumes the Morgans have beyond exploration is that I Kent Green, 1886; Nicholas optics wa1 no genius regarding presented the library. Charlotte Fletcher, college receive ever now and then good Harwood Green, 1889 and John personal safety," the Gazette writes. "He frequently tasted the librarian, said that with the words and good wishes from kind Martin Green, 1905. results of his chemical ex· donors' permission, the college readers in,the West, but not very Another alumnus honored with periments on mercury, lead, and has taken steps to sell them to a often from my own country. In a memorial fund is Lt. Gen. museum or library where they fact, I have many valued friends ReginaldH. Ridgely, USMC, '23. other substances." Miss Fletcher said-that gifts of Mr. Wolbarsht is professor of more appropriately could be by this time in America, ophthalmology and biomedical kept. Proceeds will be added to especially in Boston ... One thinks money under $1,000 go into St. very lightly of the moment's John's book endowment fund. engineering at Duke University the St. John's book endownment. The letter from Stevenson was popularity, except for these Those over .$1,000 can be used and a 1950 alumnus of the college. written to friends, Mr. and Mrs. pleasures of kind feelings while to set up a separate, named enBellamy Storer, of Cincinnati, 0., reflecting upon the many better dowment. on and came to the Morgans through works that sink, and the chance The endowment fund has been Mortuary posts of the an aunt. It reads: of the floating straw, which alone augmented with $500 raised last Giryama, an exhibition of 30, "Thank you for the whiskey, saved Lorna Doone from month during a sale of gift books centuries-old African grave thank you for the ape; the first is drowning, and then enabled me to which the library found not useful markers, will be on exhibit number one, the second a jolly be, truly and gratefully yours, for its purposes or books too jape. By these romantic gifts, R.D. Blackmore." through October 7. · ·fragile for shelf life. �e16 THE REPORTER Published by College Relations ( Sf. John's College Annapolis, Md. 21404 • v;::, l'\.-fn•.1-vv UUU-Uii;;;-,,J!.,JJ ;,...111""'11~~ ...... .;;,~ A group of Middle Eastern and students to talk, but it will be North African students aw~namg difficult. We have large numbers a seminar at St. John's of students in a class - up to 200 Santa Fe have been in a single class." about their culture from a new Asked if difficulties perspective and their at home had influenced their American counterparts. interaction here, Israeli Yosefa This summer the Graduate 27, "!deal host with persons, not with countries Institute in Santa Fe to eleven students from or There are Egypt, two from Israel and one some consider each from Morocco, Turkey, the person.'' Syria, Saudi Lebanon Nouredine Jala, a -,,4_,,rt'.,!:11"-n1n and Sudan - who have come here Moroccan, adds, "Of course, under a joint sponsorship of the there are some difficulties college, the Reader's Digest- because of cultural differences, Dewitt Wallace Foundation, and even among the Arabs. Some of the International Com- them speak a different dialect. munications Agency of the State Basically, we try to make our Department. friends understand the real According to David Jones, political situation at home while Graduate Institute director, the we're here." students have spent hvo-thirds of "WE ALL TEND TO forget the ten-week program in the politics here. Even people within customary program. The the same country don't share the remainder of the time has been same opinions. It has been a good taken up with a preceptorial in chance to talk. For the most part, ancient Middle Eastern classics. we have liked each other," Ms. Pausing for reflection during Sarni observes. their last week at St. John's, Other comments revolved students shared their ob- around course content. Those servations of the previous nine who had participated in the weeks. philosophy and theology groups WHILE ISRAELI participant wondered why the Bible was Uzi Vishkin, 27, was un- studied and not the Koran. Ms. comfortable with the dictated Sarni comments, "It was inreading program and the lack of teresting to me the way people lecturers, he enjoyed the ex- treated the Bible and the New posure to different philosophers. Testament in a detached manMost of the remaining students ner. That has helped me a lot to enjoyed the open discussions. approach my own traditions in Ziad Kebbe, 29, a Syrian the same way." linguistics teacher, said he enMr. Jalal noted that because of joyed the course for its "unique the presence of North African method of learning ... Everybody students in the program, the participated and expressed their course should be relevant to their own point of view in a democratic culture as well. He also pointed atmosphere." out the need for "papers" to Hoda Al-Bassam, 24, of Saudi satisfy educational requirements Arabia and Aziza Sarni, 23, of in his own country. People here, Egypt are both students in Egypt he said, go to school for the and had not previously ex- education, rather than the perienced open classroom diploma or certificate, but in discussions. Both women said Morocco "people work for papers they expected to be more out- because without them they spoken when they returned home cannot get a job." to classes. Says Ms. Al-Bassam, ONE OF THE notable suc"One can't just accept the old system. We'll be more inclined to cesses of the program, says Mr. Jones, were the four all-college speak up." Ms. Al-Bassam finds the seminars led by the Middle autonomy accorded the students Eastern students which were also attended bv non-students. In in discussion students program. discussions have been Elliott Zuckerman was sitting on his sofa doing his thing, which means he was sittin,e: doublejointed, cross-le_g_ged_, feet to flattened knees, in the inimitable way only he can manage. Among his students at St. John's College, it's become a fairly famous position, especially when he sits teaching af the piano. ("It's the only physical thing I can do," he protested). The was art. Years and years ago, when he was a student at the New York School of Music and Art, he and and his two years at Cam= where he was a Kellett Fellow in the Humanities toward a second one he received in 1954, he also and exhibited. And then it stopped. He didn't turn out a canvas while he was his doctorate in modern at Columbia n~;"""'"a" nor while he was became a comwell known book on nor after joining St. in 1961. BUT THREE YEARS ago, in 1977, when a sabbatical nrmrirl'1rl that non-existent the life of a St. John's spare time-Mr. Zuckerman experienced some stirrings in the back of his mind and some yearning in the hand and, with the encouragement of a good with a overhead. began painting. And all this is a little surprising because when one thinks of Mr. celebrated their looking, by "At St. John's, got to be Zuckerman first, one thinks of a their intensity, by the honesty of so articulate about things, that pianist of performing caliber; what they see, in a manner I don't painting becomes a foil. And it's a and only secondly, and through pretend for a moment my foil for music. I've always hated his close friends, does one paintings have.'' performing in public. The discover_ that painting, even in WHEN HE WAS A BOY, he slightest mistake becomes a the years in which he never added, he haunted New York's permanent blot in time. If a picked up a brush, has been very Museum of Non-Objective Art- painting is bad, you can paint important to him. the museum waiting to become over it, and you don't feel emPartly be ca use of time the Guggenheim. Now he thinks barrassed as you do after a bad problems, he stopped painting the paintings represented in the performance." again last November ironically at collection he cared most about MR. ZUCKERMAN IS a pianist a time when he moved jnto a new are "all empty." of spell=binding ability, who had residence on Hanover Street If Mr. Zuckerman's show is top the unique privilege of studying where, for the first time, he was heavy in self=portraits, with a single teacher-the late able to have a studio. This time something which embarrasses Vera Maurina Press-from the the lapse promises not to be so him slightly-his seventy=fourth time he was seven until after he long. He plans to get back to it painting was his fortieth self was thirty. soon. portrait-that has to do with Over the years,J1e has given an As it was, his twp years were practical re~'sons of convenience occasional performance at St. productive, so much so that about rather than with any egocentric John's, but what he likes to do half of the 74 pieces he obsession. 11 i;; simply that he has best is to play "lots carelessly," produced-all portraits and self always beei.l the handiest and as he disparagingly claims he did portraits and all in oil-will go on most available person around to one night in August for a party of exhibit for a month in St. John's paint, the easiest model to find to summer freshmen in the Great Art Gallery, 201 Mellon Hall, sit for himself. Hall, when he performed Chopin beginning October 8. "Sometimes I'm interested in in weather so hot and humid it Mr. Zuckerman turned to likeness, sometimes color and felt as if both he and the piano portraits partly because he has design," he said of his portraits. were under water. always been interested in faces, "Mainly I'm interested in mood. Music suggests the question intrigued that the slightest shift When I do other people, I'm in- which comes up at St. John's as in expression can result in major terested in likeness, and I'm regularly as a G clef in a musical changes and aroused by rather '{)leased when I can get it.'' bar. Why is music included in St. likenesses between parents and He has a feeling that most of his John's all-required program and children. paintings are unfinished, and he art offered only as an extra There was another reason. Re- would like to redo them, to do curricular subject? evaluating his earlier work- what he can to improve them but As painter and musician, landscapes, still lifes, and ab= to keep the likeness that's there. Zuckerman has his answer: stractions-he took the critical As a painter ("Don't call me an "Music has elements that are view that they suffered from artist; I'm a n'llnto .. • teachable and discussable and slickness, and in order to "'""'rant and connect with other of the· slickness he it in a number of directions, program," he said. don't think to makes him somehow you can have a proper tutorial art. I've the these that _ or _ he believes. The painters 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/. 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In add ition , a student from Mexico City, Mexico, received the prize for writing the best senior class essay. He was Antonio Luis Marino Lopez, who wrote on "The Metaphysics of the Imagination of Plato and Kant." An honorable mention went to Michael Blaustein, of Silver Spring . The awards marked exercises in which St. John 's graduated a class of 60 distinguished by a high ratio of students graduating with honors. Eight were graduated magna cum laude and 17 received their degrees cum laude. Four members of the class were national fellowship winners. Other prizes, announced by President Weigle, went to these studnets : To the member of the Junior Class for high academic achievement , constructive membership in the college community and commitment to later post-graduate work, an award of $1 ,250 , Michael Gerard Oink; to the member of the senior class for excellence in speaking , Robert William Noble; to the member of the junior class who has written the best annual essay, Peter T. Fox; TO THE MEMBER of the sophomore class who nas written the best annual essay, Leslie Baker Graves with James Thomas Dunn , Jr., Susan Phyllis Tischler and Adam Rowe Wasserman , honorable mention ; to (Continued on p . 5 1 College Fuel Bill Doubles St. John's College's fuel bill doubled during the past academic year. The college budgeted $34,000 for fuel , but by May 1 it had cost the college $70,000. Fuel costs cl imbed from 10 cents a gallon last fall to 30 cents a gallon by mid-April. Bad as the figures are, Treasurer Charles T. Elzey said it could have been worse. Despite the tripling of the per unit cost, he disclosed that the college's total bill only doubled because of a conservation program which cut back consumption by 25 per cent. " In 1972-73 we used 267 ,933 gallons, " he pointed out. "As of May 1, we had achieved a savings of 68,544 gallons, or a 25 .58 per cent savings this year." The college community managed its savings in a number of ways, Elzey said . It closed all offices one week during the Christmas vacation. Where bu ildings were thermostat controlled , it set the thermostats at 68 degrees. Janitors shut off rad iators in McDowell Hall in rooms not being used, and the men in the power plant worked to attain maximum efficiency out of boilers. They were closed down as early as possible with the arrival of spring weather and lit only as a cold snap occurred. A mild winter also helped. "Everyone cooperated because of the energy shortage," Elsey said . He added that college officials cannot predict how great the surge in prices will be next year. President Weigle has become St. John's College's first Distinguished Service Fellow. The title, especially originated for him, has been conferred by the Board of Visitors and Governors in recognition of his 25th year as college president. The honor was one of several marking traditional commencement exercises held under the Liberty Tree and attended by more than 600 persons. Dr. Weigle also was presented with the first of two volumes of letters gathered from well-wishers to celebrate the occasion. David Ginsburg , new board president, made the presentation , noting that "it is rarely given to a man to see the living fruit of his work during his lifetime." HE ALSO READ letters from Governor Marvin Mandel and from the Annapolis Chamber of Commerce. " Under your able leadership and guidance, St. John's College continues to draw national recognition because of the unique opportunities it affords for the educational and cultural advancement of its students," the Governor's letter read . " Indeed , all Marylanders can be proud of the ach ievements of the college during the past quarter of a century and of your role in its development as an outstanding center of learning." The Chamber of Commerce letter expressed the sincere appreciation of its members and praised Mr. Weigle for the numerous contributions he had made to the commun ity. In still another tribute, Mrs. Barbara Neustadt, an alderman, read for the St. John's community a resolution adopted by the City Council earl ier th is year in tribute to the president. The scroll , designating him as a Distinguished Service Fellow, was presented by Dr. Thomas B. Turner, retiring board chairman . Obviously moved, Mr. Weigle said he would never lend his name to another institution . " I just want to stay here, " he said . The president was wearing for the first time here the heavy silver presidential medallion the St. John 's faculty had especially designed for him for his 25th year. Given to him at a dinner in his honor in April , it was designed to be worn with his academic regalia . DURING THE commencement- the 182nd in the 278th year of the college-a number of prizes were awarded and the students heard from Miss Eva Brann, a member of the faculty . (Continued on p. 4) DON NEL O'~L YNN, lef t , and Theodore Wo lff wil l leavs= the steps of McDowell Hall fa r behind them this fal l pursui ng independen t study abroarl as W atson Fellows. Wolff is the son of Pe ter Wo lff, member of the Class of 1944 (photo by Ro bin W est) Two from college receive Watson grants for study Early this autumn two members of the St. John 's College graduating class will leave this country and head separately for the Inca ruins of Peru and the Moorish gardens of Spain . They are Donnel O'Flynn and Theodore Wolff, who are among 71 seniors from throughout the United States to receive Thomas J. Watson Foundation fellowsh ips providing for independent study and travel abroad . O'Flynn will spend the year studying ancient artifacts as they relate to astronomy . His year, to be followed by graduate study at the University of Chicago , will be devoted to archaeo-astronomy . Wolff, whose part-time work as a gardener at the Paca House has won him extensive praise from Historic Annapolis, will study landscape gardening in Europe . AL TOGETHER 140 candidates were nominated for Watson fellowships from among 35 of what the foundations calls "the most distinguished colleges in the United States." St. John 's also has a third recipient . At the college 's second campus, Santa Fe, David F. Gross, of Saratoga , Calif. , has been awarded a fellowship which will enable him to study "the political consciousness among youth " in the United Kingdom , France and Germany. I Co11ti1111 ed on p. 61 Al Main is seriously ill in California Alvin N. Main , a tutor on leave of absence during the past year, is expected to return to his home tn Kensington , Calif., th is month from Alta Bates Hosp ital in San Francisco , where he has been a patient since early Spring , undergoing extensive treatment for cancer. His home address is 254 Amherst Avenue , Kensington , C!ilif. , 94708 . Mrs. Main, the former Mary Biggar, '64, is an assistant professor with the Department of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley . WEA RI NG A MEDALLION honori ng his 25th anni ve rsa ry, President Richard D. Weig le accompanies the new boa rd president, David Gi nsburg, up the Mc Dowell wa lk follow ing commencement exerci ses. M iss Eva Brann , principal speake r, is at left and di rect ly behind Mr. Weigle is the Rev. W . Kyl e Smith, tutor emeritus. who delivered the invocation. (photo by Demetrios Fotos) �I THE REPORTER JUNE 15, 1974 Briefs Four take sabbaticals After nine years with St. John's, four tutors are leaving this summer for their first sabbaticals. Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Comber will leave the first week in September to visit relatives in England and to spend some time in India and in Greece. At Dehredun , some 150 miles north of Delhi, where they will be visiting , Mr. Comber has been asked by his friends to set up some great book seminars there. The Combers' son , Geoffrey, 15, will solve his educational problems by enrolling in a correspondence school sponsored by the University of Nebraska. Benjamin Milner and his family will fly to GenP.vA in August, where he will spend his sabbatical reading biology and philosophy of science as well as doing some work with Rousseau . The Milners' three childrenDavid , 12, Rebecca, 10, and Abigail , 7-will attend school there . The George Doskows know the date of their departure-August 14-and the date of their return-August 14, 1975-but aside from the fact that they will deplane in London and that they hope to see the Mediterranean area, their plans are pleasantly indefinite. It will depend most of all on how Laura, who is 8, and Jessica, who is 6, take to traveling . Plans also are up in the air for Howard J. Fisher, who is yet to formulate them . Tennis courts available Campus tennis courts are open to players in the Annapolis area during the summer months. · individual players may have access to the courts for $25 and families for $35 . Interested persons should contact Athletic Dir1::ctor Bryce Jacobsen to make arrangements for payment and to schedule court use. The courts are available without charge to alumni and members of the St. John 's community . English group names tutor Robert S. Zelenka , who joined the faculty in 1972, has been named for a two year term as a member of the executive committee of the Middle Atlantic Group of the College English Association. The association is concerned with im- proving and broadening college English programs. A poet, Mr. Zelenka has had half a dozen poems published during the past year, including translations from the Latin, German and Anglo-Saxon . Elzey to tour Canada College Treasurer Charles T. Elzey has accumulated five months in vacation during the thirteen and a half years he has been with the college , and this month he began collecting some of it. He has acquired a camper and plans to see Canada, traveling the length of the Trans-Canada highway. From Canada he will move north to see Alaska. He will be back on campus no later than November 1. Meanwhile, James Grant, business manager, with a new bachelor's degree in accounting he earned at the University of Baltimore during a year's leave from the campus, will be pinch-hitting for Mr. Elzey. Bi-centennial member William B. Dunham , director of college relations, has been named to represent the college on the Anne Arundel County Bicentennial Committee, now busy laying plans to celebrate the nation's 200th anniversary. Plans for St. John 's own celebration are still to be developed . Two go to Georgetown Georgetown University will claim two St. John 's tutors next fall. Thomas McDonald , a tutor here since 1963, has accepted a one-year appointment as scholar- in-residence there. Mr. McDonald , who will be on leave, will have an office at the university campus where he will maintain hours a couple of days a week. His studies at Georgetown will center on philosophical problems and contemporary biology . Joins vestry Miss Charlotte Fletcher, librarian, has been elected as a member of the vestry of St. Anne's Church for a three-year term . She is the second St. John 's affiliated person to serve in this capacity since women first were admitted as vestry members. Mrs. James Tolbert, a faculty wife, also has been a member. Starrs have baby Mr. and Mrs. David Starr are the parents of a second son, Russell Alexander, born Sunday, May 5, at Anne Arui1del General Hospital. Russell , who weighed six pounds, eight ounces, joins a four-year-old brother, Ian . Mr. Starr joined the faculty at St. John 's in 1972. Dr. Leon Kass , a physician who joined St. John's two years ago on a part-time basis , has been named Joseph P. Kennedy , Sr .. research professor in bio-ethics and associate professor of neurology and of philosophy. On leave during the academic year which has just ended , he will continue to teach at St. John's, helping lead a freshman seminar this fall. PAGE 2 St. John's has its Miss Chipsa lady with a magical memory If St. John 's had its way, this summer would be set aside for Miss Miriam Strange. The sun would shine for her, the sycamore and horse chestnut trees grow greener for her, the mocking birds would invent new songs for her. Fifty years ago she arrived on campus as a highly intelligent young college student who had landed herself a summer job. And in 50 years she has grown , if anything , more valuable to the college. Tutors view with a certain awe her performance at faculty meetings. "As I recall," she will address a session, "it was back in 1937.. ." and with a familiar phrase pinning date to occasion, she will rise once again, a slightly stooped figure with her cane conveniently close by. For all the world like a self-effacing Helen Hayes heroine dissecting a mystery, sne c1arifies an issue while the faculty listens, fascinated . Gentle in manner as a willow tree tendril floating over College Creek, Miss Strange is somehow deceptive. She also possesses, in a steel-sharp way, a fund of information that a Pulitzer prize winning historian or an ambitious computer might envy. NO ONE ON CAMPUS has quite the memory for time, place, personage and circumstance as Miriam Strange. And for the generations of St. John's students who have known her since she , first held a summer job in 1924, almost no one is more loved . "She is St. John 's Miss Chips," said Julius Rosenberg, who has known this former college registrar since his freshman year in 1934. As he drifted away from St. John 's in the years following his graduation, Miss Strange remained, as she remained for others during her 41 years as registrar, as the principal source of continuing contact. " An alumnus can come wflom she hasn 't seen in 35 years." according to Thomas Parran, Jr., director of alumni activities , "and she will know his name, his nickname , his wife 's name, and how may children he has. It is an unbelievable demonsuationincredible. " I don 't know of any human being in the world with such a memory, " former Dean Jacob Klein , who worked closely with her for many years, said . "It is absolutely amazing ." Alumni held her in such high regard that when she retired two years ago as college registrar to become St. John's first archivist , they chose her for an award of merit, presented amid a thunderous standing ovation from graduates , faculty and guests. The citation read : "AS REGISTRAR and counselor for five presidents, ten deans, and legions of students , she has served the College with a distinction the more remarkable for her ability to greet each by name." Her friend , College Librarian Charlotte Fletcher, with whom Miss Strange lived for two years , has been impressed by the devotion she inspires. " What has been amazing to me is her effect on people, whom we have met on the street, or people we have met in restaurants or at meetings with alumni, " Miss Fletcher said . " I think our students really like formal courtesy. As generations became less concerned with good manners, someone who treated them with formal courtesy would be someone they would like. She would talk with a student just as she would with Mr. (Simon) Kaplan or Mr. Klein. " And Miriam would never notice any eccentricity of style in dress. She would never give a passing glance at a hair-do." Miss Strange is less visible to students than she has been in the past now that she is tucked away in the colleges 's new archives office, a wing of Pinkney known as the "ice house," a name which dates back to the days when it reportedly was an unheated shower room . THERE, SHE IS concentrating primarily on alumni records which formerly were part of the registrar's office, but she also is working in all areas touching upon the college 's past, indexing and organizing material and answering inquiries which come in continuously. If she doesn't know MISS MIRIAM STRANGE the answer, chances are she knows the precise drawer of a filing cabinet to which to turn or the correct volume of a college record to consult. But it is her own memory which she falls back upon with dazzling success. "She is a walking archive," President Richard D. Weigle said of her. Born at her parents' home on Francis Street of an old Annapolis family, Miss Strange was the second child in a family of two boys and four girls. When her mother became ill , following her father's death, Miss Strange helped raise the family of younger children . She attended Green Street School , graduated with honors at Annapolis High School , and took a six months course in a business school which qualified her to begin work as secretary of Dr. C. Alphonso Smith, former head of the Naval Academy English Department. According to a 1939 St. John's yearbook, her flair for efficiency landed her in trouble with Dr. Smith. "She used to go with him on his lecture tours and was in the audience one night when his flow of speech was caught up in a pool of forgetfulness," the yearbook reported . DR. SMITH FUMBLED with his notes but, strain as he might , could not re9ain the current of his talk . A small figure in the back of the hall began to get restless and suddenly a voice prompted the speaker. The audience burst into an uproar, and Miss Strange had accompanied her employer on a lecture tour for the last time ." In 1921 she won a competitive examination for the Anne Arundel County Scholarship to Western Maryland College. There she was active in campus activities w~iile holding down a job as secretary in the president's office, and, after already earlier winning medals for her academic work, she was graduated with the college's highest honor-the Mary Ward Lewis Award. She returned to Annapolis, where she had worked every summer in the County School Board Office, and began teaching English in the high school. She also took courses toward a higher degree at Hopkins and wrote an unpublished English text book. Beginning in 1924 with her junior year. she started working summers at St. John's. Officially she began her duties as college registrar in 1931 . It took students just two years to appreciate her qualities, and in 1933 when town merchants sponsored a popularity contest. she won , with their support, a two-week trip to Bermuda. She left for her first vactaion in nine years, with a new orange bathing suit and a long pink evening gown , after President Gordon escorted her the length of the walk extending from McDowell to College Avenue . ACCORDING TO HER sister, Mrs. Edward F. Lathrop, with whom Miss Strange now resides, the conversation ended with a report on where particular files were located. Two weeks later, when she returned after two weeks of rainy Bermuda weather, President Gordon met her at the foot of the lor.ig walk , and the conversation resumed where it had been left off. Miss Strange's real acquaintance with the college extends as far back as the Fell reg ime, the 37-year-period in which Dr. Fell was president (1886-1923), and a time when she had uncles and cousins here . If the institution of the New Program in 1937 effected what amounted to a revolution, Miss Strange had been prepared for it by an earlier one as secretary to President Enoch Barton Garey, when she became aware of " enormous changes." Although his background was militaryDr. Garey was a West Point graduate who had been a professor of military science and tactics at Johns Hopkins-Miss Strange recalled that he had one fixed objective . "He wanted St. John's to become one of the finest, small liberal arts colleges in the United States, " Miss Strange said. To that end he began adding what she said were some "very fine young teachers." Among them were Ford K. Brown, Richard Scofield and George Bingley. The board and student body ceased to be purely local. Hard working and ambitious, it was Garey who also acquired for the college a number of colonial properties in town in an effort to save them , including the Brice House and the Hammond-Harwood House, properties the college since has sold . HIS SIX YEARS presidency came to an end in 1929, when a tri-partite administration assumed responsibilities: Robert Bacon, the dean; Edwin H. Crouch, the comptroller, and Dr. R.T.H. Halsy, member of the board . Miss Strange recalled that Douglas H. Gordon , when he was only 29, became president, serving during the depression years of 1931-34. Next, from 1934-37, came General Amos W.W. Woodcock, whose fame rested on the fact that he was the first national director of prohibition. " My reputation as a dry seemed to eclipse everything else I did," he said . In 1937, when the New Program was instituted, Miss Strange was especially active in working with Dean Scott Buchanan. " Shed id everything," Mr. Kaplan recalls of the right hand service she extended Buchanan . If St. John 's has loved Miss Strange, it has worked both ways. This 32-acre campus has been her small kingdom for most of her lifetime. In the realm of the mind she knows its long history best. A half-century has sealed the relationship: St. John's belongs to Miss Strange even as she belongs to the college. �PAGE 3 THE REPORTER JUNE 15, 1974 A veritable Easter Isle of the mind Robert Campbell, Class of 1945, has just written a book, published in May and entitled "The Chasm." With a forward by James Baldwin, it is an account of the death of two experimental school districts in New York. A Southerner by birth, Robert Campbell was a successful reporter and writer for Life until 1957, when he began work as a documentary filmmaker. He also has gone through the Juilliard Music School, something he did. in six years working at night. Since then he has been completing an American opera. "In this particular instance I really doubt that I could have undergone all that without that hard-headed discipline and faith that began at St. John 's," he writes. Last December the Office of College Relations wrote Mr. Campbell, along with some · other alumni, asking him how practical his education at St. John 's had proved to be. Mr. Campbell's response is too long to include in its entirety, but part of it follows: In trying to answer your question it is I know that some is a kind of luxurious But get on with what? scarcely changed at all WHAT THE TEENAGER needs at this crucial juncture are "touchstones" which suggest there may actually be some external validity to that furiously germinating inner world of very private thoughts. I distinctly recall the very first time when I discovered there were indeed such touchstones "out there" somewhere . In prep school I had a wonderful English teacher who had us read the T . S. Eliot poems. I must confess that only a minority of that small class liked or understood them . But in "The Hollow Men" and "Prufrock" I found descriptions of parents may feel that reading such "old fogies" as Plato indulgence. (Why doesn't the kid "get on with it?") The human condition, and the mind and the heart, have in several thousand years. naturally difficult to sort out what led to what: genes, childhood, prior schooling (or the lack thereof), luck, "the road not taken ," and so on . But then we all know that. Still, certain things can be said . I won the math prize in prep school, and my math teacher thought I was a natural for MIT. But I also won the English prize and that teacher thought I was a natural for his alma mater, Amherst. Since I couldn't afford either (I'll come to that later) , he then suggested St. John's. There I found the best of both worlds and have always felt lucky I was broke. I should add that I was by no means a straight-A whiz kid nor a grind in either school. I did have the bivalent talent mentioned, which one cannot really take credit for. I took to St. John 's like a duck to water; I was a "natural" for that college. However, I was a terrible student in terms of grades (cut classes, loafed, etc .) and in fact, it required a special faculty meeting to determine whether I could possibly be graduated at all-a fact which can be safely revealed "at this point in time." I certainly got the point to the college, though. At the graduation dinner of our war-decimated class Winfree Smith toasted me as "Prince Hal, " by which he clearly meant (though he was much too kind to say so) : "When are you going to stop (expletive deleted) around with Falstaff and other buffoonery and get your (e .d.) to work?" "The Chasm " will delight Winfree and my other friends and also answer his unasked question to some extent. IN ORDER NOT ·to lose track of the thought I would like to say here that I believe some people have the impression the college is a school for " brains" and "bookworms ." This is, of course, not so at all though students with a literary bent would be delighted with the curriculum . Nor, at the other extreme, is it a school for dolts or pedestrian types who will work merely for credits and a degree to take over daddy's business later on or something like that, though they, too, might derive some unexpected benefit from the college . The ideal student, to my mind, is one who is reasonably curious , inquisitive and interested in exploring ideas, his own included , which I should think would characterize the majority of potential college students anywhere. At St. John's I fell "into Plato's honeyed head" (to borrow a line from Moby Dick), largely courtesy of an enchanted man named Scott Buchanan . I fell into quite a few other "heads, " too : St. Augustine, Tolstoy, Cervantes, Thucydides , Shakespeare, Kant, Newton, Flaubert, to name but a few. And I learned how to really read a book and think about it. This is not as simple a thing as it appears to casual readers, who do not often IT TAKES A CERTAIN amount of confidence in the college to believe that is what it is about - and that such an undertaking may be crucial to your life. And it takes the four years (and a few afterward, too) to be sure. That's why the college sometimes appears as a kind of indulgence. But it is not, any more than learning to talk. Investing the four years is the best bet in town I know of. And if you lose the bet, and the four years, so what? There is all the time in the world left, your whole life in fact, to become an accommodator and a copout if you then decide that you really wanted to be a hustler all along, and it may make you a better one. ("Snow people. Quote Plato: ·) encounter a great work like "War and Peace" or "Oedipus Rex" either in college or afterward. And it is quite a mind-bending experience, particularly if you then have to search for the meaning of a book with a group of your peers who are just as sharp and as dumb as you are. And what were these "heads" grappling with and writing and thinking about? Knowledge and virtue, God and the Devil, justice and injustice, human nature, good and evil, war and peace, democracy and tyranny, man and woman-exactly the sort of heady questions that assail the soul of a teenager if he has half a mind and looks at a world of adults around him, people have long ago put such questions aside as silly or impractical, the stuff youthful daydreams are made of, if they ever thought about them much to begin with . Which leads me to talk about adolescence for a bit . .. adults which matched almost exactly my own perceptions. And written by another adult, at that! Wow! Later on , at St. John's, I found many others, as I've mentioned . In fact, I regard that campus as a veritable Easter Island of the mind . And it still is. And this is very important. I know that many a socalled experimental school has grown dull and routine and ossified after the original guiding lights that made it exciting left the campus. So I have taken some pains to sound out recent graduates about their feelings. And I am happy to report that it sounds very much like the same old swinging, exciting campus(es) that I knew as a highly excited student. Twenty-five years ago I spent the better part of a year on the campus of Columbia University. It was clear to me that it wasn't much more than a credit factory and a slumlord (despite dear Mark Van Doren and a handful of other terrific ROBERT CAMPBELL revealed as something of a flimflam, what with Vietnam, Watergate, a befouled environment (egged on by incessant TV commercials) , a phony energy crisis, and so on . So it's no surprise that many students seem flummoxed as to what is worthwhile, and take temporizing jobs as cab drivers, carpenters , etc . Quite a few untalented kids have gone in for a lot of expensive electronic gear in the hope of beating the system by becoming a rock star - but I don't see very many making it. Still others shoot higher in hopes of becoming an ecologist, a Naider Raider, a ghetto lawyer, a Peace Corps volunteer. But the overall concept of what college should be about seems rather ineffable these days. Of course many students manage to beat the system and find intellectual touchstones somehow. But it isn 't easy. Had I gone to Amherst I think I would have found some kind of a collection , anyway. That's one of the difficulties in estimating just what St. John 's specifically did for me. I doubt, however, that I would have developed as hard a mind . Aside from really learning to What St. John's is really about is the full development and training of the only two assets you possess-your heart and your mind. teachers) . I knew even then it was going to blow , probably along with other universities, because students had so little rapport with the place. I'm surprized it didn 't happen until the 60's. (I don't mean to single out Columbia except that I was familiar with it; Chicago was somewhat more alive at that time , becauso: .Jf Hutchins) . Scott and Winkie left beh ind a strong curriculum and a great teaching tradition . It is my understanding that while campuses were burning all over the country , St. John 's students merely took a little time off and wrote their congressmen about the Vietnam war. Students don't tear up a campus when they look on it as theirs and value it. IF MY PICTURE OF adolescence, at least college-caliber adolescence , is halfway right, then it seems clear to me what college should be about-presenting young people with touchstones on which they can build their lives. This is the only real lifeline to maturity and that is exactly what St. John's does. The only two significant assets a human being has, aside from, hopefully, good health, are his heart and his mind . And I'm afraid the ord inary credit factory is not offering very much soul food these days . I get a fair amount of input as to what other universities and colleges are like and the picture is rather dismal. Many students seem to go there to get away from home, be with their peers, mark time, and get by. With very little in mind because there seems to be a particularly severe mismatch now between traditional definitions of "success" in America and the aspirations of adolescents . In many ways "business as usual " is being read seemingly difficult books, I also learned to distinguish between really understanding something and only believing I understood something . This, too, is not easy. With the general level of collegiate malaise, it is easy for a young person to be deceived and seduced by pseudotouchstones and so come to believe in an age of "i nstant" everything (an idea obviously fertilized by the way rock stars continually pop out of the bag) that oh-so-clever he or she has found the easy way to " making it. " Which is why I think so many bright young Californians "fell into Richard Nixon 's honeyed head " and ended up childishly disillusioned - like Gordon Strachan and Egil Krogh - who are now " inoperating " (photo by L. K. Madison) ST. JOHN'S, OF COURSE, provides the finest constellation of touchstones that exists. I know that some potential parents may feel that reading such "old fogies" as Plato is a kind ot luxurious indulgence. (Why I began writing ballads while on campus and continued this on the side in New York. They were pretty good but people kept saying they sounded as if they came from or belonged in a show. So, about 20 years ago, I started writing a show with a friend who Aside from really learning to read s~emingly difficult books, I also learned to distinguish between really understanding something and only believing I understood something. , doesn't the kid "get on with it"?) But get on with what? The human condition, and the mind and heart, have scarcely changed at all in several thousand years . For example if only Lyndon Johnson had read (and understood) Thucydides ("War, least of all things, proceeds according to plan."), I doubt very much if he would have been so susceptible to the blandishments of the Air Force generals who kept insisting that with just one more escalation of the bombing the "gooks" would give in. Generals don't tend to understand gooks very well. Conversely, potential students may raise the currently popular but quite silly query about "relevance." Is it relevant? The shortest answer I can give to that is: If YOU are relevant , IT is certainly relevant - to you . Because what St. John's is really about is the full development and training of the only two assets you possess - your heart and your mind . It takes faith , and a certain hardheadedness, to make out at St. John 's. I recall a freshman telling Scott one day that he didn't understand what was supposed to be happening to him. Scott's marvelous response: "Well, why don't you stick around for four years and find out." Because of the nature of the curriculum, I don 't believe St. John 's is for everyone - but most, yes . It requires that a student have some belief in himself and some confidence in the college. But it is not an esoteric college, a school only for the class "brain" or bookworm. You do have to understand that what you are really doing is training your mind, in an environment and a manner you could probably never manage later in life (For what, I'll come to in a moment.) For example Developing mental capacities is particularly critical in these fast-moving times . For then one has the capability of taking up almost any profession. what they once believed . H. A. Haldeman wasn 't a hot-shot soap salesman at the J . Walter Thompson ad agency for nothing . One of the astonishing things about almost all the late and youthful White House staff was how glib , superficial , conceited , thoughtless and downright stupid they were. believing they had it made and that anything goes. That's what happens to young people . can happen I should say , when the most impressive touchstones they come upon are men fike Richard Nixon and John Mitchell. I doubt a St. John's graduate would have been so easily seduced . Developing these mental capacities is particularly critical in these fast-moving times. For then one has the capability of taking up almost any profession. Then there is the question of adaptability. Old and traditional lines of work are dying; new ones are springing up. Then what? Am I locked in to an ossifying enterprise? Barely hanging on? Or can I stay loose and find other more viable options? One of the reasons I resigned from LIFE was that I saw Parkinson's Law setting in -though I was nearly as far ahead of the actual demise of the magazine as I was the riots at Columbia. Filmmaking became a new career. But another piece of the personal picture is worth describing briefly: I knew pretty well before I ever went to St. John 's that I wanted to be a big-city journalist. But I didn't go to journalism school, nor would I particularly recommend it (aside from techn ical details anyone can easily learn) . If you have to learn to be a journalist you 'll probably never be a good one, as with some other things (like teaching , perhaps) . And I quite deliberately never even read a newspaper during those four years , even though World War II was on for almost all that time . The reason was that I was " in training ," developing my mind . And that was quite sufficient for those years . also did both music and lyrics. We did some pretty nice things but the project fizzled for unimportant reasons. Meantime, as I got deeper into music, I began hearing subtleties I could not work out on the piano with simple, basic harmonies (C, F, Gm, Dm, Bb, etc.) . Then I met a fellow who taught at Juilliard and told him I was having trouble. He said he would be glad to look at what I was doing and volunteered to help. He did. The following conversation then ensued: "You know what your real trouble is, don't you , Robert?" "No ." "Well, the problem is you don't know from a hole in the wall about music." "So you'll kindly teach me." "Okay. But you'll have to work for at least a year without understanding what it's all about, before you begin to get the point." "LET'S GO. I can be a good student again if I want to." So, in the course of about six years, I went through Juilliard with my friend, Norman, working in the evenings. It took about two years after that for everything to gel. But then I realized what I had, and what I had needed, the whole musical palette. Wow! Then I could break out of the old 32-bar bind and really "sing" in some grand, long musical forms - which is what the gift had been about to begin with, though I did not know it. I should add that many "standard" song writers, such as I was, are too conceited and not hard-headed enough to suspect that all that much is w~ong . So they go to arrangers, who doctor up their tunes and make them sound stylish and mod. But it's still the same old tune . Since that time I've been working on something like an American opera, and it's finally close to completion . In this particular instance I really doubt.that I could have undergone all that without that hard-headed discipline and faith that began at St. John's. (Winfree and others will be dumbfounded by that last remark, since I was such a "Hal-ish" student; but I believe it's true.) Well, guess that's all I got to say. Serves you right for asking such a loaded question. I realize I've said quite a few things that would infuriate potential parents. But I learned to try and tell the truth. Maybe you can find something in all this of some use. My very best to all my old friends there. Sincerely, Robert Campbell RD 2, Box 212 Split Rock Road Boonton, N.J . 07005 �I JUNE 15, 1974 THE REPORTER W eigles have 'wonderful day' as college marks anniversary Twenty-five years ago Richard D. Weigle drove into St. John's College, parked his car by the largest coalpile he had ever seen, located on what is now the site of Campbell Hall, and thereupon began what he described as a "kinr1 of love affair with the college." Supported by a salary of $7,500, he became its 18th president. This spring he and Mrs. Weigle celebrated those 25 years when the faculty and associates gave the Weigles what he called a " wonderful day. " There was a concert by the Juilliard String Quartet, which not too long ago celebrated its own 25th anniversary, a reception, speeches and a formal dinner with the presentation of an especially designed medallion to celebrate the event. Mr. and Mrs. Weigle flew here from New Mexico, where they had just been honored at a similar event at the Santa Fe campus of St. John's, which Dr. Weigle founded a decade ago. The silver medallion was presented following a formal dinner in the college's dini,ng hall by John S. Kieffer, former president and dean , who was making his first appearance on campus following major surgery in March . "THE FACULTY felt on the occasion of this 25th anniversary there should be a tangible token of respect and affection , something symbolic of the relationship you have established during your 25 years as president ," Mr. Kieffer told Mr. Weigle. The medallion, to be worn with Mr. Weigle's blue, academic regalia , was designed by Timothy Lloyd , a silversmith on the faculty of Carleton College in Northfield, Minn. , where Dr. Weigle formerly taught. Suspended from a black velvet ribbon and heavily · sculptured, its symbolism was described by Kieffer in terms of the St. John's program. "The center depicts the problem of duplication of the square taken from Plato's 'Meno," ' he said. " Around it is schematic representation of the seven liberal arts." An inscription around the edge noted the occasion . Mr. Kieffer, who preceded Mr. Weigle as president, praised Mr. Weigle as a " brave man ," who realized the potential of St. John 's as just not an ordinary college and assumed his responsibilities here at a shakily financial time. "WHEN YOU ARRIVED you were facing a very strange situation," he said . "The college tended to act like a fractious horse that kept throwing its presidents off .. . You have succeeded in riding that fractious horse for 25 years, in feeding it well, and in seeing it produce an offspring ." Praise for Mr. Weigle's presidency came from Ford K. Brown , a retired tutor and introduced to the hundred guests present as the "eldest of the elders" by Dean Curtis Wilson, who presided . In a humorous speech, he praised Weigle's capacity to raise funds . At the time Mr. Weiglewas appointed , he recalled , there were a number of general statements around, including "a widespread little gem : 'If a thing can get worse, it will. Nature is always on the side of the hidden flaw.' " Hidden flaws we had no need of, back in those days," he said , "but we did have a few , and the largest probably was the view, probably lofty, that the pursuit of filthy lucre was not only demeaning but unnecessary, as Providence naturally would never, never, never, never allow the Liberal Arts, then solely in all the world practiced at St. John 's, to suffer loss. "What happened to Providence is not known, " he continued, "except perhaps for the circumstance that Providence was not observed to do anything, and it was at this point, I believe that one of Richard Weigle's two great labors for our college began : his incredible, unbelievable , relentless pursuit, not of course of filthy lucre, but always, always, always, always, in the course of, and for the pursuit of, princely lucre. "When you consider that he has ranged, tireless, or is ready, on the alert to range tireless, from the fartherest icy wastes of the Upper Yukon to the southernmost tip of South Africa, or to anywhere else provided the incentive is clear and certain, you are just bound to join heartily with many thousands in the belief that Dick's and Mary's 25 years of incumbency constitute not a 4th order, or a 3rd order, or a 2nd order, but beyond any question the plainest kind of miracle of the first order-and that means PAGE 4 Scroll prai3eJ Weigle~ Jervice The text of the scroll designating President Richard D. Weigle as a Distinguished Service Fellow of St. John's College follows: " The Board of Visitors and Governors of St. John's College, upon recommendation of the Faculty, hereby appoints Richard Daniel Weigle a Distinguished Service Fellow of St. John 's College, upon his completion of 25 years of service. It thus recognizes his successful leadership of the College out of precarious years into its present we/I-being. His courage and his faith in the College have conquered circumstance and disappointment and have made the future bright. He has cherished the College's program at home and propagated it abroad. He has added local luster to the name of the College with his constructive civic activities. This incredibly busy man has yet found time to teach, for he has always thought of himself as a teacher. He is a splendid presiding officer. He has the practical wisdom to make clear-cut decisions and to reconcile contrary opinions. Materially, he is a good provider and an imaginative builder. He had a level-headed vision of a second St. John 's College, and with his tireless energy and his skill in affairs he brought it to reality. He may be proud of his accomplishments, as St. John's is proud of him " Letters hail progress in strengthening college (Continued from p. 1) THE REV. WINFREE SMITH and Ford K. Brown, two of the speakers at the dinner honoring President Weigle, rise to praise his years at St. John's. (photos by Robin West) perhaps the greatest, to even perhaps the sole, miracle of our times." ALSO SPEAKING were the Rev. J. Winfree Smith, a senior tutor and former acting dean, and Jacob Klein, who as dean worked closely with Weigle for many years. " You have put up in a most reasonable way with a faculty full of idiosyncracies and irrationalities, and I commend you and would like to propose a toast to you, " Mr. Smith said in part. Mr. Klein praised Mr. Weigle's years of hard work in seeking funds, erecting buildings and upgrading the quality of students in what he termed the " amazing development and growth of the college." " More than anything else that we should all marvel at is that you stayed with us," he said, noting that on morP than one occasion Mr. Weigle had been invited t0 the presidency of another college. "I want to thank you and Mary for aii 'liat you have done and suffered in all thest. years devoted to so many efforts, so much thought, so great an achievement. I raise my glass to your and Mary's health. Cheers!" PRAISE CAME earlier, before the Juilliard concert, which had performed at St. John's 25 years previously during Dr. Weigle's first year here. Dean Wilson expressed the sentiments of the faculty . "Mr. Weigle, as we have been planning this occasion ," he addressed the president, "we have been aware of the unity of our feelings : the respect, admiration, and affection in which you are held by us . We are indebted to you , first of all , for bringing this college out of precarious years into its present prosperity : most obviously, by the addition to this campus of major buildings which we would not now know how to do without. by the increase of the Annapolis endowment from $250 ,000 in 1949 to almost $9-million today , and by the creation out of nearly nothing of an entire new campus in the mountains of New Mexico during the last decade . " We are aware what these achievements have required and still require of you . I resort to Latin to express our sentiment: laudamus animi tu i fortitudinem perseverantiamque . (We praise the fortitude and perseverence of your soul) . "There is more. We have heard it said, and do in part believe, that there is that about our program of studies that is quixotic. The faculty is dedicated to the exploration of the limits of human reason, and the students frequently penetrate to the regions beyond . "IT IS THEREFORE gratifying to us that you who preside over us have in your nature. along with . practical shrewdness, a generous admixture of the quixotic. You are our knight errant. How else could you have joined us in the first place, how else remained our stout defender through the years, how else become one with us? If at times we have found it difficult to keep pace with your Rosinante, our admiration for the energy, the intelligence, and the honesty with which you have exercised among us the art of the possible, including the improbable - that admiration remains undimmed . We wish to express to you our gratitude and thanks for your able leadership of this community." NM observes 'Weigle day' The Santa Fe campus of St. John's and the state of New Mexico have both honored President Richard D. Weigle as he marks his 25th year as president. In a surprise move marking the seventh commencement exercises in Santa Fe , the Tower Building was renamed Richard D. Weigle Hall. The building houses administrative offices, a faculty room and part of the library . The bronze inscription placed inside reads: "Richard D. Weigle Hall, so named with affection , gratitude and respect by the faculty and Board of Visitors and Governors of St. John's College to honor the 18th president of the college upon 25 years of dedicated service, during which this Santa Fe campus was conceived and realized.'' Governor Bruce King proclaimed Sunday, May 19, as Richard D. Weigle Day in New Mexico. His formal proclamation said Weigle had served " with excellence and integrity the cause of education at the local , state and national levels." It paid tribute to his 25 years service " with distinction" as St. John's president, service which it said had led to the realization of the plan for establishing a second St. John 's College in Santa Fe . The proclamation said Dr. Weigle "has given unselfishly of himself not only to the St. John 's community, but to the Santa Fe community and to the larger community of New Mexico, and proved himself a worthy New Mexican through involvement in civic and educational affairs of our state.'' What to do about parking visitors on campus may find it difficult to park without one of St. John 's official visiting parking permits. Because of the need for tight campus security , guards some time ago were directed not to permit any cars without permits to park there. In addition, the situation during the school week is made more difficult because of the limited space for faculty and student parking. On weekends space becomes more open. Alumni wishing to use the parking lots for any reason are advised to notify Alumni Director Thomas Parran , Jr., a few days before they arrive here. Permits then will be forwarded to them . Mr. Weigle also read a letter to the graduating class from Paul Newland, who has resigned as provost and who was absent undergoing medical tests . Mr. Newland praised the seniors as constituting an "outstanding class" which had received "one of the finest educations available from any college in the country." "Your future potential is unlimited," he said . The president expressed the gratitude of the college for the more than three years of service Mr. Newland had given in his newly created position . In her address, Miss Brann presented the class with what she called certain axioms. In one of these, her axiom of parochialism, she praised the.,value of little places. " I think the soothsayers are wrong in expecting, as they do half eagerly, a monstrous apocalypse," she said. "Our fate seems to me to be much more modest. We must proudly acknowledge that we are 'out of it,' whatever 'it' may pretend to be, and that we are thrown upon ourselves in the effort to preserve our civilization . "BY 'WE' I mean all the little loci of the spirit: the little circles of firm friends , little law offices, newspapers, workshops, little cities and lively little schools. These must hold the forts in the provinces against all the new barbarisms which so often come out of the large and wealthy conglomerations and establishments. Within such empires people are apparently constrained to turn the small sound ideas which come to all of us into large vapid conceptual engines, and the vestiges of right feelings we all preserve into fashionably sophisticated techniques . "My axiom say that it is mainly little places-this college among them-which permit the modesty of pace needed for long thoughts, and the conditions of closeness under which human beings begin to stand out and become distinct in their first and second nature. These places are the veritable harbors of refuge and recovery for civilization ." The invocation and benediction were extended by the Rev. W. Kyle Smith, tutor emeritus. Following the program Mr. & Mrs. Weigle entertained at a picnic supper for more than 500 at their home in Waldorf. Missing music sends quartet off in double time Members of an Annapolis quartet attempted to rush to the aid of the Juilliard String . Quartet when the quartet forgot its music for the Weigles' 25th anniversary concert here . Fate orchestrated otherwise. Alerted of the loss minutes before the 4 p.m. starting time of the concert, Dr. Roger Jackson and J .P.C. McCarthy, who with their wives make up the Back Creek Quartet, hurried from the auditorium in search of Haydn 's Quartet in C Major. Their tempo was presto , molto tumultuoso, followed by an unexpected ritardando and rest. Dr. Jackson's car stalled nearthe hospital , near enough , however, to the McCarthys' home for the two men to jump out and push the ·car to a parking spot and then search unsuccessfully through the McCarthys' music . Then, in Mr. McCarthys' car, they sped on to Annapolis Roads to go through the Jacksons' music. With luck such as can happen only to Annapolitans, the couple were greeted at Eastport Bridge by an extended fermata . The bridge opened to permit three boats and a leisurely sailboat to pass through. Then, in ordered time, it descended and closed again . Racing onward , the couple, con .nolto expressione, dashed furioso only to discover that the Jacksons did not have the Peters' edition of the Haydn, which the Juilliard Quartet required . They placed a telephone call to the waiting performers and returned to the Key Auditorium , too late for the first two movements of the Mozart Dissonant Quartet, which the quartet substituted . By way of some compensation the McCarthys and the Jacksons ran through the Mozart when they met to play together the following evening, McCarthy said, noting that the third movement by the Juilliard was an inspiration. The Juilliard Quartet, which began its program only 15 minutes late, proved an inspiration for everyone in the capacity crowd of college community members and townspeople. Asked to appear here in part because the quartet also had played at St. John's during Dr. Weigle's first year as president, it performed beautifully, in addition to the Dissonant Quartet, Five Movements of Anton Webern and Schubert's Quartet in D Minor, the only work of the originally scheduled program . New pen starts next 25 years Richard D. Weigle will move into his 26tn year as president with a new pen - one that works. A dozen members of the staff presented him with a handsome new desk set which incorporates a pen and pencil and a clock during a May Day luncheon in his honor. " I hope it works," Dr. Weigle, who was particularly pleased with the gift, commented as the presentation was made by his secretary, Mrs. Isabelle Simpson . "I've had one on my desk for 15 years, and that never worked ." Mrs. Weigle, who accompanied her husband, was presented with a lovely rose corsage and, upon leaving the gathering: with a spray of white mums. The staff had a boutonniere ready for Dr. Weigle. �I JUNE 15, 1974 THE REPORTER PAGE 5 REALITY WEEKE~D brings students to College Creek for _ the 1?74 Real Olympic games. At left is David Huston, Milwaukee, Wisc., senior. Edward Grandi , Wheaton freshman , dons a Greek costume. Looking on are Mi ss Susan Vowels, Dover, Del. , seni or, wi th Mi ss Barba ra Leonard, assistant dean, in the background. (photos bv Flor Sarkissia n) Letters to Editor Getting it straight about the pranks Your Reporter for this month is in error about senior pranks . The tires were put up by the class of '68-the same class which put the cars in FSK. The bust of a woman was put up in a different year; I believe the class of '66, but I'm not sure . (It was the year Pattie Turner graduated, if that's any help) . Our class also locked up all the classrooms. We, unfortunately, had three competing groups who couldn 't agree on a single effort . Yours, Gilbert Renaut, '68 2101 North Scott St. Arlington , Va., 22209 Writer laments Cleueland 's death I read with very real sadness of the passing of Richard Cleveland earlier this year. When I entered St. John 's in 1965 I learned of his long association with the college and his devotion to it. But I had already acquired a more personal knowledge of the man four years earlier before I'd even heard of St. John's. • I had developed an interest in American presidential history, and particularly in Grover Cleveland , so I wrote to Richard Cleveland asking if he might have any campaign memorabilia that he could spare. I was 13 years old , and it didn 't occur to me, until after I'd mailed my letter, that sons of presidents would probably not be inclined to give away valuable items at any youngster's request. Apparently it didn 't occur to Mr. Cleveland either for he responded by sending several pieces from his father's career and with them a warm letter in which he almost apologized for not having more to give me. I still have his gift and the letter, both of which I prize. Yours truly, Vance Benguiat 151 So . Maple Drive Beverly Hills, Cal. , 90212 Corre9endum In an article in the April issue of The Reporter dealing with Jacob Klein 's Festschrift, Samuel Kutler was credited incorrectly with writing the essay , " Self-Hood and Self-Consciousness: An Inquiry into Kantian Themes." It was written by David R. Lachterman . Kutler's essay was entitled "The Source of the Source of the Dedekind Cut." We regret the error. Class has high ratio of honor graduates ( Conti.mted from p. 1) the member of the freshman class who has written the best annual essay, Sara Maria Anastaplo ; To the member of the junior or senior class who submits the most elegant proof of a mathematical theorem, Lester Stephen Silver with Malcolm Ridgway Handte honorable mention ; to the member of the freshman or sophomore class who submit the most elegant solution of a mathematical problem , William Martin Castner; To the student who submits the best English translation of a Greek text, Nelson Lund ; to the student who submits the best English translation of a French poem , James Scott Le Van ; to the student who submits the best brief comment on a piece of music, Richard Davenport; to students with high scholarship , an award of $1 ,000 to be applied to yearly fees to Michael Gerard Oink, David Evan Clement and Vicki Louise Cass . Graduating magna cum laude were Mr. Blaustein, Mr. Burke, Bruce Michael Dolego , Michael Crerar Jordan, Claire Zoe Ku rs Kronsberg , Nelson Lund , Charles Curtis Post and Jeffrey Ivan Victoroff. CUM LAUDE DEGREES were awarded : Deborah Ruth Bowers, Roger Chapman Burk , Janet Lee Christhilf, Jonathan Miles Diggory , Thomas Joseph Dolan, Jr., Richard Allen Ferguson, Samuel Theodore Goldberg , Barbara Elizabeth Goyette, Gerard Thomas Kapolka , Mr. Lopez, Philip Gary Mattera, Wilfred Mark McClay, Mr. Noble , Donnel O'Flynn , Michael Gary Parks, Deborah Jane Ross, and Lee David Zlotoff. Earlier in the day a baccalaureate service was held with Michael Littleton, St. John 's tutor, delivering the sermon in the Great Hall. Students held their annual Class Day on the day before. William O'Grady, a tutor who joined St. John 's the same year the seniors first arrived on campus, was the faculty speaker. Students speaking were Virginia McKemie, Mr. Dolego, and Mr. Jordan. Poems were read by JoAnne Moll in . For their May Cotillion, which took the form of a waltz party, students decorated the Great Hall with garlands of roses. Besides taped waltzes, music was provided by C. Reed Woodhouse, pianist and tutor, Miss McKemie, a pianist, with Mr. Burkey , a flutist, and by Miss McKemie and Laura Bridgman , duo-pianists. In charge of the dance, which drew between 150 and 200 students, was Patricia Pittis. Miss Christhilf was in charge of the breakfast which followed in the dining hall. Caritas, a mere four-year-old, raises $10,000 in student aid It's a truism , as everyone knows, that if you want something done, ask the ladies to do it. At St. John's, the ladies have done it. The Caritas Society has presented a check for $1,800 to the college, bringing its contribution toward scholarship aid to more than $10,000 for the four years since the society first was organized . The society, which is made up of townswomen as well as women directly associated with the college , voted the con tribution at a luncheon meeting earlier this Spring at the Harbor House Restaurant. Of that sum, Mrs. Paul D. Newland , president , who presided , reported that $1 ,200 was made at the society 's recent Rites of Spring ball. " Caritas has contributed $3,050 in scholarship assistance during the year ," Mrs . Richard F. Blaul , treasurer, announced . "This brings our contributions for the four years of our existence to $10,630.91 ." Miss Barbara Leonard , assistant dean , announced that last year the society had helped maintain three students in college . This year, she said, it had enabled six more students to continue their education . New officers who will serve during the com ing year were announced at the annual membership tea, held at the Alumni House, when two St. John 's students entertained the women with a program of music. Miss Janet Hellner, Alexandria, Va., freshman , flutist, and James Jarvis, St. Albans, Vt. , junior, classical guitarist, performed three Renaissance dances, a fivepiece suite of Johann Fischer, three minuets of Georg Telemann , two movements of a Sonata in D Major by Handel , and two movements of the Telemann Sonata in F Major. Officers for the coming year, announced on behalf of the nominating committee by Mrs. Theodore Logan , will be : Mrs. Manuel W. Rosen , president; Mrs. Bert Thoms , first vice-president ; Mrs. Edwin G. Greenberg , second vicepresident ; Mrs. Logan recording secretary; Mrs. Walter Marx, corresponding secretary; Mrs . Blau I, treasurer; Miss Lillian Brill , financial secretary ; Mrs. Alex L. Boro , business manager; Mrs. Richard Blackburn , business relations ; Mrs. Richard Korin , membership; Mrs. Harry Lindauer, graphics director; Mrs. Curtis Wilson , publicity chairman; Mrs. Colby G.R. Rucker, historian; Mrs. William G. Gideon , parliamentarian , and Miss Barbara Leonard , liaison director between the college and Caritas . 'LJ/ioJe tliat play Jtay or t/ioJe tliat Jtay play' . How close is the relationship between athletics and scholarship? Two campus figures have come up with some interesting observations about it. Athletic Director Bryce Jacobsen takes oride in the fact that of the eight magna cum laude graduates for 1974, six have been active in the athletic program . At the same time , Arthur Kungle, a former student and now an active participant in campus affairs, has developed figures which show that classes acquire the highest proportionate participation in the sports program as they advance. Freshmen have the fewest numbe r; seniors the largest. . " I offe.r ~roof pos.iti~e that either those that play stay or those that stay play ," he said in submitting a stat1st1cal table in a recent issue of The Collegian , St. John 's weekly. Of the magna cum laude graduates , Mr. Jacobsen points out that Chester Burke served as captain of the Guardians, even as a MCL graduate of the previous year, Matthew Frame, did . Bruce Dolego is a very good all-around athlete, particularly valuable as a soccer goalee and a softball left fielder. Michael Jordan served as captain of some of the Druid teams and was voted the most valuable player in softball. Nelson Lund deferred participation in sports primarily until his senior year when he became active in volleyball and softball. Charles Post tias played in approximately half the sports. Jeffrey Victoroff has appeared regularly in the gym in a sort of private capacity , doing work primarily in karate. Of the other 2 MCL graduates, Claire Kronsberg took part in the girls' marathon, and Mr. Jacobsen added that Michael Blaustein may have appeared from time to time in the gym but he has not been aware of it. In developing his figures, Mr. Kungle wrote: Where C is the number of members of a class, B those that played team sports, A who played regularly (in over half the games of one sport) . Men 67 / 68 70/71 71 /72 72/73 73/74 Women 73/74 Class of : 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 FRESH . A B C 26/37 / 59 26/ 56/ 75 26/46/ 76 23/ 39/ 65 22/ 39/ 61 SOPH. A B C 25/ 31 /50 23/ 38/68 26/ 38 /59 25/ 31 /53 18/ 25/ 51 JUNIORS A B C 12/ 18/33 10/1 7/35 21128 /48 23/ 30 /46 24/ 29 /52 SENIORS A 8 C 19/ 25/34 23/ 27 /36 13/17/ 26 17/ 24/39 25/30/ 44 ALL CLASSES A B c 82/ 111 / 176 84/136/ 214 86 / 129/209 88/ 124/ 201 89/ 123/ 206 14/30/5 1 15/ 29/ 56 13/ 17 /33 10/ 11 /33 52/80/163 26/37/ 59 26/56/ 75 26/46/ 76 23/39/ 65 23/38/ 68 26/38/ 59 25/31153 18/ 25 /51 10/ 17/35 21 / 28 / 48 23/30 / 46 24/ 29 /52 23/ 27 /36 13/ 17/ 26 17/ 24/39 25/ 30/44 The St. John 's athletic program, he continues, " provides healthful exercise be it somewhat short of the Greek ideal. But its glories are: " One , that it brings people together, without regard to classes , and provides a form for them to grow together. The interest of the team promotes a mutual responsibility. One of the ways we experience brotherhood is through team work. " And Two, the games, the contest, the year, are a challenge to get along and get together because there are so many events in which reliance on a few members of a clique or class usually will not win . " Three , this is all form for the exercise of moral and spiritual values: Mr. Bryce Jacobsen , both in himself and by his program, tends to encourage temperance, courage, justice, wisdom , faith , hope and charity ." Students form escort service A group of St. John's men have set up a special escort service for women residing off campus . Organized at the request of the Delegate Council, the group is headed by Gerhardt Quast, St. Paul , Minn ., junior. Such a service has existed in past years . The council decided earlier in the Spring it was time to reactivate such a group. Lists of volunteers were posted in the coffee shop and in the dormitories. Among those who volunteered to walk women students home, besides Mr. Quast, were William Campbell , Johann DeRoos , Thomas Dolan , David Ashmore , Steven Gray, Robert Godfrey, Charles Hoffacker, Thomas O'Brien, Richard Plaut, and Mark Fabi. �I ITHE REPORTER Published by I Nonprofit Org . U. S. POSTAGE Development Office THE REPORTER JUNE 15, 1974 PAGE 6 PAID Sr. John's College Annapolis, Md. 21404 Permit No. 120 ANNAPOLIS, MD. names other new officers DATE DUE ~ j 'Wizard of Nous,' parody on Iliad mark years end Drama, lots of it-serious, slapstick, musical, absurdly funny, original-ma~ked the final weeks at St. John's this year. First, the King William Players presented "The Merchant of Venice." Despite the short rehearsal time-this was the second production of the year-the Shakespearean play came off well with Robert Williamson, as Shylock, once again proving himself the accomplished actor he is. Patricia Joyce made a poised and beautiful Portia, and Robert Tzudiker woke up the whole stage with his professionally paced portrayal of Launcelot. Michael Jordan was the capable director. Next, the senior class staged, as part of its annual prank , "The Wizard of Nous," with Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion, the Scarecrow and the Tinman dancing their way down the Great Books Road in search of the powerful and mysterious creature who had "all the answers to the big questions" Dorothy wanted . Written by the senior class, it was directed by Donna Demac and Geoffrey Harris. Finally, in another musical comedy, a group of seniors called the Geeks, who had become particularly close while living together their sophomore year on the fourth floor of West Pinkney, staged a slapstick version of "The llliad ." In it Lester Silver, in a sort of Woody Allen portrayal of Achilles, stomped around the stage in a short tunic and in heavy, sometimes bandaged hiking shoes worn to protect his heel, and won all the battles. At one point, accompanying himself on the piano, he claimed this in song set to the tune of Cole Porter's "You're the Top" : " Yes I'm the top/ I'm the son of Thetis. When I fight/ Hector can't defeat us. In my stunning armor, I ain 't no farmer, by Zeus! Trojans sing the dirge, when I get the urge, to break a truce. I'm so fast/the wind can 't match me, Spears are cast/but they never catch me. With immortal steeds and heroic deeds, I'm king! Next to me no other man is worth a thing .... I'm the top/ my opponents shiver, Won 't be stopped / not by man nor river, And I'm a noble beauty , a god-like cutey , look and see! Aphrodite would peel her nighty at the sight of me. Never ti re / love to stay in battles, My desi re 's/ just to hear death rattles, I've a cry so loud , I've had deaf men cowed , it's the truth! I'm the creme de la creme of all Hellenic youth ." "THE WIZARD OF Nous" came at seminar time one Monday night after students, signaling the start of the senior prank, barricaded McDowell Hall with chairs. While the quadrangle was inundated with a noisily strident, taped verson of "The Stars and Stripes Forever, " the entire college community watched two seniors, Jay Gottlieb and Donnel O'Flynn, who had locked the doors from within , lower themselves by rope from a fourth floor window. From the quadrangle, students, faculty and some wives, who had been alerted of the event in advance, moved to the gymnasium for a campus-wide, cabaret style party . The cabaret party was billed as a Curtisy Faire, and the evening was dedicated to "the good dean of the West," Curtis Wilson, who returned to St. John's this past academic year after seven years at the University of California at San Diego. Board elects Ginsburg, Over the bar at one end of the gym was a muscularly flattering, Cosmopolitan centerfold style painting of Mr. Wilson (legs borrowed from Michaelangelo and the Sistine Chapel) with an edition of Kepler where the figleaf traditionally goes. It was executed by Janet Christhilf, Arlington , Va ., senior, who later presented it to the dean. With tables set up, light fixtures transformed into great silver balls, and the balcony draped lavishly-seniors borrowed the dining hall curtains for the decor-the musical began . MARIA KAYANAN, Ft. Myers, Fla., senior, portrayed Dorothy as a freshman, wistfully speaking of tutekins, the St. John's Munch kins: "If tutekins can philosophi Of things beyond them, Why, oh why, can 't I. " Seniors collaborated in writing the script. The theme song, in which the audience joined , went like this: "We're off to see the wizard The wonderful wizard of Nous. We'll find he is a wizz of a wiz If ever a wiz there woos. If ever oh,ever a wi~ tt'lere woos The wizard of Nous is one becoos Becoos,becoos,becoos, becoos,becoos Becoos of the wonderful things deduced . We're off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Nous." LEE ZLOTOFF, Annapolis senior, was a Groucho Marx, cigar smoking type of character, Dr. Dickley Wiggly . Others in the cast were Christopher Peterson, wizard ; Charles Heal , dean ; David Huston, Tinman ; Bill McClay, lion ; Geoffrey Harris, scarecrow. and Nina Newlin, Janet Christhilf, Thomas Dolan , Donnel O'Flynn, Jay Gottlieb. Susan Vowels. Amy Reed and Michael Blaustein , tutekins . Other credits went to Virginia McKemie, pianist; Philip Mattera and Jane Sheret, lighting; Dennis Sheret, technical consultant; Philip Mattera, Geoffrey Harris and Donna Demac, direction , and Jack Ehn , set construction . The cast of "The llliad " was an all-male one with Cary Stickney, the only non-senior, portraying Achilles ' angular, matter-of-fact, spectacle-wearing girl friend, Briseis, as well as Athena. Eric Rosenblatt, who coordinated the play, written by the players as a whole, was the introducer and soothsayer. With Mr. Tzudiker helping direct, the cast also included : Paul Heylman , Agamemnon ; West Uemura, Homer; Charles Post, Patroclus; Jim LeVan , Ajax ; Jon Diggory , Odysseus; Chester Burke, a god and the philosopher king ; Sam Goldberg, Hector. Attention: N.Y. Alumni! Would you be interested in an evening cruise on a grand old lady of the sea? The 59-foot schooner Nina (winner of the 1928 Queen's Cup Race) is available for charter. On a week night a 6:30 to midnight sail costs about $20 a person \'.Vhile you furnish your own food and drink. Steven Shore (home: 371-8067) would like to know what night would be most convenient . If you are at all interested , call Steve soon . David Ginsburg, Washington attorney, has been elected chairman of the Board of Visitors and Governors of St. John's College. He was chosen at the May meeting of the board to succeed Dr. Thomas B. Turner, of Baltimore, board member since 1.g51 who twice has served as chairman . Other officers chosen were Mrs. Lowell R. Ditzen, Washington , and Jack M. Campbell , Santa Fe, N.M., vice-chairmen ; Mrs. George S. Roudebush, St. Louis, Mo., secretary, and Mrs. Walter B. Driscoll, Santa Fe. Jerome LaPides, Annapolis, Donald R. Kirby, Alguquerque, N.M., and Dr. Turner, executive committee. The board also elected or re-elected for three year terms ending in 1977 Mr. Kirby, Arnold Grant, New York City; John S. Greenway, Tucson , Ariz.; Jae Holzman, New York City; Mrs. Louise McKinney, Santa Fe; Alexander Mclanahan, Houston, Tex.; J. Anthony Moran , Washington; John D. Murchison, Dallas, Tex., and J.I. Staley, Wichita Falls , Tex. Donald R. Kirby, Albuquerque, N.M., was elected after a two years' absence, and Adolph W. Schmidt, Ligonier, Pa., after an absence of several years. J. Burchenal Ault, vice-president of St. John 's Santa Fe campus, was chosen for a one year term . Program set for alumni August 4-18 An experimental summer program of seminars and tutorials for alumni and their families is being planned for this summer at the Santa Fe campus of St. John's College. The program will be conducted during the period August 4-18, and participants may register for one or bu!h weeks. It also will be open to non-alumrii spouses. One question alumni will focus on will be the presidency as it relates tb the Constitution and to the Federalist papers. It will be discussed during a tutorial led by Miss Eva Brann and held during the second week of the program. Seminars and tutorials scheduled for the first week will include those dealing with the writings of Plato, Sophocles, Shakespeare and Euclid. The second week will be devoted to Tocqueville, Aristophanes, Moliere, and Galileo. Besides Miss Brann, the faculty will include Samuel S. Kutler and the Rev. J . Winfree Smith, Jr.. of the Annapolis campus, and Samuel Emmons Brown , Philip LeCuyer and Robert D. Sacks of the Santa Fe campus. "For the inaugural summer there will be a charge only for room and board, " Mr. Weigle said in a letter to alumni. "In the future. however, we will , of course, have to include a tuition charge." Interested alumni who have not received a reservation form should notify Mrs. Geneva Mantelli , Secretary and Assistant to the President, St. John 's College, Santa Fe, N.M., 87501 . Jacobsen 1s winning player St. John 's College Director of Athletics Bryce Jacobsen won the senior doubles tournament of the Northern Virginia Tennis Association last month and expects to be playing more tournament tennis this summer in this part of the country . Jacobsen won the match, playing with a former opponent, Hal DeMoody, of Reston , Va., and is scheduled to play in the Maryland Tennis Association tournament later in June in Harford County . He and DeMoody also are slated for a game in West Virginia in August. In their Virginia game, Jacobsen and DeMoody played on an indoor court at the Four Seasons Racquet Club . They lost their first set but won the next two. The scores were 3-6, 6-2, and 6-4. Principally Jacobsen prefers doubles, not always an easy matter on c·ampus .when it's hard to find three other excellent players who are free at the same time. Named as honorary members were John Gaw Meem, Santa Fe, Mrs. Duane L. Peterson, Baltimo~e. and Mrs. L. Corrin Strong, Annapolis. Alumni earlier had elected as their representatives Dr. David Dobreer, '44, Alhambra, Calif., and Francis S. Mason, Jr.. '43, New York City. In other business, the board was presented with a number of alternC\tive plans involving dining hall and gymnasium facilities along with the remodeling of the Paca-Carroll House, a college dormitory. These plans will be reviewed by the Faculty Campus Development Committee, which will present its recommendations to the board for action later this year. Board members also approved a budget of more than $2-million for the Annapolis campus. Mr. Ginsburg , who first was elected to the board in 1969, has practiced law in Washington since 1946, currently heading the firm of Ginsburg, Feldman , and Bress. A native of Huntgington, W.Va., he received his bachelor's degree from West Virginia University and his law degree from Harvard Law School. Early in his career he served as law clerk to Justice William 0. Douglas and later as administrative assistant to Senator We're Going Fishing, Too! Inflation may be the reason for the new arthritic look in St. John 's alumni 's collective fist. It's growing tighter all the time. Contributions toward the annual giving campaign stood at $4,000 less by the end of May than at this time last year. Only $24,000 had come in by May 31 , a long way from the goal of $40,000 set for the year. Remember what Andrew Carnegie said about a kept dollar? He called it a "stinking fish ." The Alumni Office has its line out for all sorts of fish , including the little ones. Together they add up to a welcome dinner for an institution which is getting hungry. Your deadline for the 1973-74 campaign : June 30. The good news about all this: Your gift in effect won 't cost you a penny . All contributions may be deducted from your income tax. And you 've got to admit it's a lot more fun to give to St. John's that to give to the federal government. Two receive Watson grants (Con tinued from p. I ) The fellowship year will begin with the 1974-75 academic year. This will give Wolff, whose home is in Lexington , Mass., an opportunity to serve as a gardening intern at Cliveden , one of Philadelph ia's outstanding homes maintained by the National Historical Trust. O'Flynn will spend six weeks as a boating counselor at the West River Methodist Summer Camp, where he was director last year. The son of Mr. and Mrs. John F. O'Flynn , of District Heights, Md ., O'Flynn plans to visit the Aztec and Mayan ruins of Mexico and then to join a group of students on a month long working expedition in Guatemala and Honduras headed by Professor Anthony Aveni of Colgate University . From there he will fly to the Inca ruins of South America, with their pyramids to the sun and the moon , and then to England to see Stonehenge and other neolithic ruins. In his investigations, O'Flynn said he is not so much interested in the astronomy of pre-hi~toric peoples as in "what they knew and winy they cared ." WOLFF PLANS to visit Blenheim Palace and Stourhead, famous as the first landscaped gardens involving vistas, as well as the gardens at Stowe and Wilton in Southern England , and the gardens at Versailles, Fontainbleau, and Villandry in France. Other major gardens ~e will visit include the Villa D'Este in the vicinity of Rome, with its fountains and water cascades, the Generalife in Spain , the summer palace of the Spanish ruler during Moorish times, and the gardens of Toledo, Granada, Seville and Madrid. M.M. Neely of West Virginia. He has been attorney for the Public Utilities Division of the Securities and Exchange Commission and has a general counsel for the Office of Price Administration. During World War II Mr. Ginsburg entered the U.S. Army as. a private and advanced through grades to captain . He was awarded both the Bronze Star and the Legion of Merit. Immediately following the war he was deputy director of the Economic Division, Office of Military Government, in Germany. From 1959 to 1967 he was adjunct professor in international law at the Georgetown University graduate school. He has been chairman of the executive committee and a member of the board of the National Symphony Orchestra Association and a member of the visiting committee of the Harvard-MIT Joint Center on Urban Studies. He is presently a member of the Overseers Committee, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and since 1965 he has served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. In 1972 the institute named him an honorary fellow . Juliana Rugg leaves post in infirmary Mrs. Juliana Rugg , college nurse for the past five years, is leaving St. John's College to obtain her master's degree and eventually her doctorate in nursing. She will be succeeded by Mrs. Marilyn Kyle, of Cockeysville, who was awarded a bachelor's degree in nursing in May from the University of Maryland in Baltimore. Mrs. Rugg , who has a diploma from the Bellevue School of Nursing in New York City, has been on a partial leave during the past year completing her bachelor of nursing science degree at UMB. She has been accepted for graduate study at both Catholic University and the Un iversity of Maryland . Mrs. Rugg and her 14-year-old daughter, Maura, plan to move to the Washington area early in July. Mrs. Kyle formerly served as head nurse for the medical floor and as a staff nurse for the surgical floor at St. Catherine's Hospital in Kenosha, Wisc . A graduate of the Immaculate Conception Academy at Charles City, la., she holds a diploma in nursing from St. Joseph 's Mercy School of Nursing at Mason City, la. She also has been associated with ttie Mitchell County Memorial Hospital at Osage, la. Mrs. Kyle and her seven-year-old son will occupy the nurse's apartment in the Harrison Health Center. Two on faculty publish articles Two St. John's faculty members are the authors of articles appearing in Spring publications. Elliott Zuckerman has an article, " Nietzsche and ·Music," which is published in the Spring edition of the Syracuse University magazine, Symposium . In it, Mr. Zuckerman puts forth the view that of all the philosophers, Nietzsche took music the most seriously, treating it with great respect because he knew what power it possesses. The paper was written originally for a symposium on Nietzsche held at Syracuse in November, 1972, in which another St. John 's tutor, Miss Seate Ruhm von Oppen, acted as commentator for his paper. Dean Curtis Wilson is the author of an article appearing in the April-June edition of the Journal of the History of Ideas. Entitled "Newton and Some Philosophers on Kepler's 'Laws'", the article was written by Mr. Wilson, who rejoined the St. John's faculty last July 1, while teaching the history of science at the University of California at San Diego. His study was supported by a grand-in-aid from the American Council of Learned Societies. � 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 Development 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 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/20ac0f503f16fcff7574f4b66d22d6fd.pdf 89384f1fa4589fde0fdaa032da167cdf PDF Text Text ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LiEiRARY 'The St. . lohn ~ 1111 11111111 ~1 ~~1~m1~1mm11 1 1 1 1 1~ 111 31696 01138 0183 REPORTER April 1, 1974 Volume I, Issue 2 A watery moat, a swan for McDowell Hall? Will McDowell Hall once more become a Maypole with ribbons cascading from the cupola to the ground? Will it be surrounded by a water moat, as someone has proposed? Or will it be changed, as it was last year, into a gigantic monopoly board, with huge dice downstairs and with players advancing at a whistle's blow to rooms where college events are enacted don rags and seminars and dining hall meals - and to a place on the fire escape where the players deliver the Friday night lecture? It's time for St. John's College students to think about these things. April 1 may be April Fool's Day for younger brothers and sisters back home, but for St. John's students it marks the season to begin serious planning for the annual senior prank, generally staged about a month away. Senior pranks began ten years ago when all the chai rs from all the classrooms vanished in the silence of the night. Word went out that they had been removed by " 550 Chinese coolies and Baby Eaton," Baby Eaton being the son of the then student college executive Tom Eaton. The chairs were recovered some time later from a remote place under Mellon Hall. Along with the Real Olympics, the annual senior antics wind up the year just before an early commencement on May 26. The tricks themselves are reported to have originated when President Weigle is said to have thrown down the gauntlet and challenged students to come up with a decent prank . Since then the pranks have been as various as the minds which originated them. The dean's office was bricked up one time. An automobile show was held in the Key foyer on another. And one (Continued on (J . 2) That whale of a book is back "Moby Dick," once the victim of excess ive popularity among St. John's College students, has been returned to the college's series of 130 great books. The Herman Melville novel was dropped more than a decade ago because the faculty found too many students were writing their senior essays, papers required for graduation, about the American writer. Members of the college's Instruction Committee, whi ch acts on academic matters, agreed that something had to be done to break the pattern. This year the novel dealing with man facing a massive environment in a struggle which pits him against his destiny was returned to the list of readings required for the junior year. " It was time," Samuel Kutler, a member of the Instruction Committee active in the decision, simply said . He explained that during the interim students have been reading the shorter works of Melville, including " Billy Budd" and " Benito Cereno ." The faculty now feels that it is a logical time to reinstitute the larger novel. " We try when we can to read the major works of an author," he said. "Obviously 'Moby Dick' is a major. When we read Kant, we like to read his 'Critique of Pure (ContimmJ on p. 3) MICHAEL JORDAN is planning his doctorate in comparative literature. (photo by Robin West) Jordan to become Danforth Fellow 'Merchant of Venice' Micha e l Jordan , St. John ' s College senior, has been awarded a Danforth Foundation Fellowship for graduate study, Provost Paul D . Newland announced today. He is one of 96 young people chosen from among 1,750 nominations throughout the country to receive the honor, designed for training college teachers. Th e son of Mr. and Mrs. Leon B. Jordan, of Media, Pa., Mr. Jordan hopes to begin work next fall toward a doctorate in comparative literature. He has applied for graduate study at both Prin ceton University and th e University of North Carolina. Mr. Jordan's interests thi s year have been Shakespeare oriented. He has been a leader of the Shakespeare reading sessions made up of a group of tutors and students who meet each Sunday afternoon on campus. Currently he is directing the Spring production of " Th e Merchant of Venice," one of the three Shakespearean plays upon which he wrote his senior thesis . The other two were "Twe lfth Night" and "As You Like It." During his sophomore year Mr. Jordan was one of three students selected to participate in a television show, " Dialogue of the Western World," which a Baltimore educational televi sion station produced in cooperation with St. John's. Mr. Jordan is a 1970 graduate of Penncrest High School, where he edited the annual literary magazine, " Folio. " He completed his elementary education at the Rose Tree Media Schools in Pennsylvania . The Danforth Fellowship is a one-year grant renewable for three additional years. to be given Essays honor Jacob Klein Jacob Klein is in the second month of hi s 75th year, a year which has begun with surprise festivities in which 20 scholars closely associated with St. John' s paid him honor in the best way they know to express their gratitude: with their own scholarship. At a Festschrift presentation on hi~ birthday March 3, the former St. John's dea n was given an especially constructe mahogany box filled with papers and bearing a brass plaque, " Essays in Honor of Jacob Klein ." The essays were written, President Richard D. Weigle told Mr. Klein, as a " means of conveying to you our admiration , our gratitude, and our affection ." Al I of the contributors to the Festschrift are either closely associated with the faculty or graduates with the exception of the twenty-first, a close friend of Mr. Klein, Briti sh artist Ann Crosby, who flew here from London for the occasion . She contributed a portrait of Mr. Klein and eight sketc hes. The presentation was made at a Sunday afternoon dinner party climaxing planning which had begun four years ago. St. John's tutors Sam Kutler and Elliott Zuckerman were in charge of the event with Mr. Kutl er making the formal presentation of the essays to Mr. Klein. "AT ST. JOHN'S College, I have heard it sa id," Mr. Kutler said, " the dean should be the soul of the co llege. We have learn ed from your qu estions and your opinions, from your speech and your writin g, both directly and indirect ly. " Because of this, and because of our affection for you, we wanted to make a gesture to honor you on the occasio n of your 75th birthday . " Four years ago, I met with Eva Brann, Winfree Smith, Robert Williamson and Elliott Zuckerman to plan for a volume of 'Essays in Honor of Jacob Klein .' On April 20, 1970, lett ers were sent out that contained this sentence: "'W e would like to surprise Mr. Klein wh en the volume is presented to him, so please keep this matter confidential. "' Th e essays remained a secret for the surpri ed and delighted Mr. Kl ei n. "I AM SO TOUCHED I cann ot speak," Mr. Klein said in responding to the presentation and to th e remark s of Mr. Weigle and to those of the present dean, Curtis Wilson . Mr. Wilson read excerpts from his Festschrift preface, including titles of a long list of lectures which Mr. Klein has given . Mr. Kutler said th e essays are scheduled for publication within the next few months. Contributors to the collection held the party at the hom e of President Weigle, toasting both Mr. and Mrs. Klein in a series of eulogies. Another former St. John's dean, John S. Kieffer, telephoned hi s congratulations from Johns Hopkins Members of the cast of " The Merchant of Venice" are returning from the Spring vacation with th eir lines hopefully memorized "cold ." Confronted with a short period before production in late April or early May, Director Michael Jordan intends to make the best of rehearsa l time by having the cast, with books no longer necessary, concentrate on movement on stage. The play will be the second for the year for the King Will iam Players, which customarily does only one production annually. Patricia Joyce, Huntington, N.Y., junior, will take the part of Portia, and a St. John 's tutor , Rob ert Williamson , will portray Shylock. Musrc for "Tell me where is fancy bred" will be composed by St. John's tutor Elliott Zuckerman and will be sung by M eg Clllingwood, Boston sophomore. Sets are to be designed and constructed by Jack Ehn, Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y., senior. Mr. Jordan said the version to be staged will be un cut. In addition to requesting the cast to have their lin es well under control, Mr. Jordan hopes to facilitate rehearsals and reduce time demands made The enrollment of Rachel McKay as a January fres hman is a reminder of a phenomenon new to St. John's in the past decade : the second generation New Program student. Not only are the children of alumni here, but in other instan ces enrollment at St. John's is a family affair. Siblings, whose parents were not students, are enrolling by the family . A case in point is the Anastaplo family, whose father, George Anastaplo, has been a long-time friend of St. John 's and a frequent lec turer here. Helen Anastaplo was graduated in 1971 ; George, Jr., is now a junior, and Sara is a freshman. A check by Alumni Director Thomas Parran , Jr., also shows that a son of an Old Program graduate, the late C. Edwin Cockey, '22, is here. He is a senior, Geoffrey E. Cockey, of Queenstown, Md., (Continued on p. 4) (Continued on p. 4) Hospita l where su rgery. he was preparing for A special guest was a friend of Mr. Klein 's youth, Professor Hans George Gadamer of the University of Heidelberg. They had known each other as students of Heidegger. Both Mr. Weig le and Mr. Wilson paid tribute to Mr. Klein's leadership. In a letter accompanying the essays which Mr. Weigle read, he said : " IT WAS A happy and fortuitous circumstance for St. John's that you came JACOB KLEIN to Annapolis in 1938. Your tenure at the college has, therefore, almost exactly coincided with that of the restored liberal arts at St. John's. " The nine years of your deanship, from 1949 to 1958, witnessed a significant molding and developing of th e St. John 's Program, a strengthening of the faculty , and a challenging of the student body. Your teaching in all parts of the program has been a memorable experience for hundreds of young men and women. " In his preface, Mr. Wilson cited the stabilizing, strong leadership Mr. Klein has provided. He wrote: " St. John's and the St. John's program had managed to su rvive the war, but the financial situation of the coll ege remained precarious, and in some of its phases the operation of the program was notably questionable or chaotic . " In the middle of the academic year 1948-49, there came an administrative crisis. Jacob Klein once more found his Platoni c stud ies interrupted; he was ca ll ed back to the college to become its acting dean on January 31, 1949. " ACTING DEANSHIP turned into deanship in September of the same year, directly after Ri chard D. Weigle became (Continued on (J. 4) It's all in the family at St. John's College Campus offers summer use Th e co ll ege is looking for ways to use the faci liti es of the campus in the summer months and needs your help. There are many organizations that hold conferences in the summer, and we would like them to know that St. John's College is availab le for the purpose. We have meeting rooms and two dormitories accommodating 110 people that are air cond ition ed. If meals are desired, th ey can be served in the college dining hall. If you know any organization that is seeking a summer meeting place, please notify the treasurer, St. John's College, and we wi ll get in touch with it. �I ~A~P~R~l~L~1~24=4----------------------------------------.-i.-T_H_E_R_E_P~O~R~T~ER..._--'!"~~--~--------------~----~------~-----PAGE 2,.. 7 Briefs Kieffer recuperates Mr. John S. Kieffer is recuperating at his home in Cumberland Court following surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital . He expects to resume teaching later in the Spring. Marathon walkers Two St. John's tutors, along with a St. John's wife, came through the Spring holidays with special distinction . Mr. and Mrs. Steven Crockett and Jonathan Skinner walked 62 miles along the old Potomac River B&O Canal on March 16, a walk which began at 3 a.m. at the Watergate Apartments in Georgetown and ended when they trudged up 200 stone steps at Harper's Ferry at precisely 10:58 p.m . Along with a Washin gton resident, they were the first to finish . Only 10 of the original 23 walkers completed the Sierra Club hike. Wearing ponchos against the rain, a drizzle which began half way through the hike, the Crocketts kept their pace to a steady three miles an hour, trailing the hikers for a long time and finally overtaking them and moving out front in a sort of tortoise and the hare stunt. Skinner, who normally walks more rapidly with his long, steady stride, joined them at the 45-niile point when they stayed together. Mrs. Skinner is a great walker, too, but because she is working on her doctorate in English didn't want to spare the time to go into training for such a long hike. However, she joined her husband at Harper's Ferry Sunday morning when they walked an additional 15 miles along the canal to visit friends . The Crocketts, along with a couple new blisters apiece, gained some great impressions of the Potomac River countryside. " It was a human thing, not a super human thing to do," Crockett, who believes man was made for walking, said. " It was an amazing thing to come through as well as we did." Tzudiker directs Players ~or a person who can turn him self into a snarling rhinocerus when the occasion d ema~ds, Robert Tzudiker is a remarkably soft spoken, restra ined and self-disciplined student. He is also an actor. As director of the King William Players' highly successfu l production of Mol iere's "The Precious Damse ls" earlier this year, Tzudiker in addition is founder of St. John's College's newest drama group on campus, a small, loosely organized group called the Dwarf Players. Last spring it staged its first one-act play, "A Pair of Lunatics." " The Dwarf Players were organized for students who want to work in the theater They•re for exercise In a less spectacular way, St. John's tutors on the whole are much more exercise conscious thay they were a decade ago. An early riser, Dean Curtis Wilson goes jogging at dawn. Winfree Smith swam daily at Sandy Point last year, including throughout the winter months. An illness interfered, and this year instead he is doing Canadian Royal Air Force exerc ises daily. Laurence Berns and Ray Willi amson both get in some of their exercise bicycling to the campus. A number go regularly to the gym or tennis courts. Benjamin Milner won the tennis doubles tournament last year along with Athletic Director Bryce Jacobsen. Edward Sparrow goes to the gym several times a week, partly to jog. Michael Ham appears for a noonday workout. Alfred Mollin and Nicholas Maistrellis play on student volleyball, basketball and softball teams. George Doskow and Geoffrey Comber appear once a week to play paddleball. Doskow also plays on the volleyball and softball teams. Michael Littleton plays superior pingpong there and has won the last seven or eight pingpong tournaments. Skinner comes daily, usually to play badminton or paddleball or to run . He also plays on student soccer and volleyball teams . David Starr goes occasionally for karate . Sam Kutler sometimes plays pingpong, and Barbara Leonard plays pingpong or badminton . Among softball players on campus are John Sarkissian and Leon Kass . When he isn' t on sabbatical, Robert Spaeth also appears to play badminton and pingpong. Two retired tutors, Simon Kaplan and W . Kyle Smith, are among those involved in the most basic of all exercise, walking. They walk systematically y alking also is what President Weigle does . What he misses in a variety of sports, Mr. Weigle makes up in speed, as anyone knows who has chased him down a St. John's corridor. A number of tutors miss out on an important exercise - swimming - because the coll ege stil l needs a swimming pool . Schiess gives book Dr. Harold Schiess, Columbia University professor and a recent lecturer here, has presented St. John's with a 1950 edition of Chaucer's "Nun's Priest's Tale," which once belonged to the novelist, E. M . Forster. The copy, a particularly beautiful Christmas edition and one of a thousand issued at time of publication, was given to Forster as a present by the translator, Nevill Coghill, who also has lectured at St. John's. It can be seen in the library. Railing loses role The bannister of McDowell Hall may have looked like a paper airp lane in the past, but no longer. That's the place for years where students have looked for any changes in seminars or tutorials . When a co ld epidemic struck, it fluttered with the paper wings of taped announcements disclosing that "Mr. Soand-so will not meet with his class that day." At times the bannister looked as if it wou ld fly out the door. It was effective but not neat; and this is what bothered David W . Tucker, superintendent of buildings and grounds, along with some tutors . " Is this really the way you want it to be?" Tucker confronted the dean one day. With preliminary consultation over, Mr. Tucker installed a corkboard . Announcements of absent tutors now go there. It is neat, tidy, firmly affixed, and it won't fly away. Smiths have anniversary The Rev. W . Kyle Smith, tutor emeritus at St. John's, and Mrs . Smith celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in February at a reception at the Army-Navy Country Club in Arlington . It was given by their children, Mrs. 0 . E. Bassett, of Arlington, and Dr. W . Kyle Smith, Jr., of Philadelphia and Richmond, along with Mrs. Smith and Mr. Bassett. The Smiths were married on February 24, 1924, at her home in Covington, Va . A former assistant dean here, Mr. Smith, who is also a Presbyterian clergyman, retired from St. John's on July 30, 1968. April concerts Music, both very old and very new, will be heard in two concerts schedul ed this month at St. John's. New music will be presented by the Speculum Musicae - " Musical MirrOf" - at 8:15 p.m. Friday . This group, organized in 1971 and already highly successful, will be hea rd in Variations for Four Drums and Viola (1957) by Michael Colgrass, Schoenberg's String Trio, Opus 45 (1946), and Lukas Foss' Echoi for Four Soloists (1960-63). The program will be in the Key Auditorium . The second will be a program of 18th century clavichord and forte-piano music p layed at 8 :15 p.m. Sunday, April 21, in the Great Hall . The performer will be Joan Benson, internationally known musi cian and member of the music faculty at Stanford . Her program will include music of Haydn, Mozart and Bach . ROBERT TZU DIK~R (p hoto by Robin West) but who don't have the time or extra energy to take part in full scale produ tions ," Tzudiker exp lained. " It was organized to present short, one-act plays, seen s from larger plays or for improvisation work and to serve as a form of re rea tion for students who want to be active in the th eater but whose time is al o limited." THIS SPRING the Dwarf Players tenta~ tiv ly are onsid ring a production but 11robably without Tzudiker, who has a part in " Tht- Merchant of Venice" and who also want to co ncentrate on his studies. He will probab ly turn to acting this summer, this time with a professional sto ck company. During the spring holidays Tzudiker auditioned with the Mill Mountain Play House in Roanoke, Va., with which he performed last year in two roles : as a c lowni sh sto kbroker, Elijah J. Whitney, in the Cole Porter musi cal, "Anything Goes," and as the Iri sh, strong arm thug in Harold Pinter's " The Birthday Party." A junior from Alexandria, Va ., Tzudiker is considering becoming an actor following his graduation from St. John's, but he wants the choice to be a deliberate one . If he does become an actor, it will be a ca reer which will follow a miscellany of odd jobs he has filled during his student days. (He has been a janitor, moving man, proof reader, and co unselor for an overnight summer camp for retarded children as we ll as done a little Head Start work p lus fi llin g stud ent aid jobs on campus.) " I'm considering - underline consideri ng becoming an actor and director," Tzud iker said . " I'm trying to be wary of just winding up just as an actor, which so many actors do. It should be something over which I make a deliberate decision . Acting is the hardest work I know, but it's the one I've loved the best. " A National Merit Scholarship finalist, Tzudiker came to St. John's after a great deal of acting both at Mt. Vernon High School in Alexandria and earli er at Derryfield High School, a private school in Manchester, N. H. ONE PLEASUREABLE aspect of "The Precious Damsels," besides the I ively acting and rapid pacing, was that the audience actually could hear beyond the first two rows, something not always possible in amateur theatrics . Tzudiker received the cred it. St. John's offers no drama major. Its non-elective program, however, centered in the " great books," has aided him, Tzudiker feels . " I learned to read at St. John's, that is to read more closely and more carefu lly, " he pointed out. "In interpreting script or a role or a play, the program has been of great help. The better the play, the more help St. John 's ha s been ." - - - - i i Personal ·V iew--- Of books and balances by the Rev. G. Harris Collingwood Rector, Church of the Advent Boston, Mass. A translation of the Latin motto of the college reads , " We make free men from boys by means of books and balan ces." As a boy in the summer of '44 when I began the New Program under an accelerated wartime plan, I remember being acutely anxious. The anxiety resulted from being treated not as a boy but as a free man . As a boy I wanted to please my elders and receive the rewa rd of their praise. The elders of the college confused the boy because they did not wish to be pleased so much as they wished to invite the boy to grow into manhood in the pursuit of Truth . Truth is its own authority and is not easi ly pleased or flattered . Truth can only be sought by free men . It is beyond the grasp of those who seek to please the elders by their dependent conformity . I wonder if this is not the essential tragedy of Watergate. The highest levels of elective and appointive government brought in boys - bright boys, attractive boys, but boys none the less. The boys w re not given books and balances and a chan e to grow up in pursuit of truth, but were in tead encouraged to conform and dependently please their elders. Such boys will be boys and never free men. Equally tragic are the leaders who did not wish to deal with the imagination and creativity of free men, but were content with the dependent conformity of boys. Alexander Solzhenitsyn makes abundantly clear the ri sk any government takes with a free man . Solzhenitsyn knows of books and balances and the insistent demands that come with a vision of truth . I do not wish to romanticize or sentimenta li ze this man. I am aware that Solzheritsyn is a lirt1ited, finite, mortal man , but it seems to me that his truth-illumined life shines hopefully in a darkened world . I suppose that a Latin scholar will one day rewrite the co ll ege motto so that it in cludes girls as well as boys, but I hope profoundly that the books and balances remain along with the insistent demands of the sea rch for Truth, for with these tools free human beings are developed. Such persons who will dare to live truth-illumined lives are our best hope against the dark floods of the Watergates of this world. Olympic torch . to soar agam ! tConei.nued f,om p. l} SpF-ing-t~ flagpole near th college ncircled in rubber tires annon wa extending half way to the top, where a bust of a woman had been placed . That wa the year five women graduated cum Iau de. The tires went up uncut. The grounds er w, qua l to the chall enge, got them down that way . There was one prank so beautiful that th dean and treasurer insisted it remain for th e rest of th e yea r. That wa a splendiferous Gulley Jimson mural depicting creation on the window expansion of Key . It was executed, among others, by James R. Mensch, now a fa ulty member at the St. John s Santa Fe ca mpus. There hasn't been a co ll ege variety show since " The Perils of St. John's" was produced in the mid-60's, but one mu sica l cla sified as the senior prank, " Trial by Johnny," harks back to them and is remembered as a particularly clever affair. Based upon Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta, it had music composed by Thomas R. Ascik and a libretto by J. Randolph Campbe ll and Marcia Ann Clemmitt. Two weekends before commencement, Reality Weeken d is held. A celebration of Spring, one student cal Is it, the weekend is marked by such events as a Sophistry Contest, a kind of debate, and a dance the first evening. The Rea l Olympi cs, mock games, are held the second day. After 24 exhau sting hours, Reality Weekend customa rily comes to a close with a campus-wide, outdoor barbecue. The debate concentrates on such topics as " Is truth a woman? " or " Is the one good for anything other than itself?" The winning team is determined by applause . The Real O lympics themselves begin when the Olympic torch is carried from City Dock to the campus, sometimes to the accompaniment of guitar and banjo music of students crowded into the col l ege truck . Usually so me of the part1c1pants running along beside the truck are in costume, Greek or in attire symbolic of Spring or otherwise, with flowers in their hair. Once on campus the torch is placed in the tripod and lighted with the Rev. J. Winfree Smith, a St. John's tutor, making a brief speec h in Greek, sometimes quoting from the Iliad or Herodotus' Hi story. Traditionally it does not rain . On one occasion it did, but an invocation to the gods to ca rry away the clouds by Former Dean John S. Kieffer worked, and the rain di ss ipated. The games and contests are~ Miss Sophrosyne co ntest: Named for the god of Greek temperance and open to both sexes, this contest selects its title ho lder usually for being a great campus favorite or for characteristics intemperate in nature. Pulchritude is not a factor. El lipsoid Hurling Contest : This is a contest in which partners line up in parallel lines, throwing eggs to each other. As teams successfully catch them, they move apa rt to greater distance and continue until it is determined which team has caught the most eggs. Epicycle Race: A game borrowed from the Ptolemaic, earth-centered astronomy, this race is performed by teams of three students representing the earth, Venus and the center of a circle ca lled the epicyc le. The earth remains stationary, and the epicycle's center, to which the earth is attached by a rope, revo lves eight times around the eart h while Venus, at the end of another rope, revolves five times around the epicycle's center. The winning team is the one completing the revolutions in the shortest period of time. Chariot Ra ce : Students race in this one on bicycles, children's wagons or by other means. Myth of Sisyphys: This game takes its name from a legendary king of Corinth condemned to roll a heavy stone up a steep hill in Hades only to have it roll back again as it nears the top. Students push balls up an embankment with their hands behind their back . Liquid Slide: This is a slide performed in bathing suits on a piece of plastic which has been hosed down. Students attempt to slide as far as they can, but not so far that they ram into a waiting custard pie at the end of the plastic . Salamis Water Battle: Taking its title from a battle recorded in Herodotus, this game involves students taking to College Creek in small boats. A greased watermelon is thrown into the water, which participants attempt to rescue and bring back to shore secretly without being caught in the act and having their boat overturned . The person who brings the watermelon to shore wins. Spartan Madball: "This is considered the most brutal game played at St. John's," one alumnus, who takes part each year, said . " There is only one rule : no one is permitted to kill another player." A volleyball or soccer ball is thrown up and somehow it must be ca rried to a goal. It's pa rti cu larl y a man's game and has been known to involve as many as 120 persons . �APRIL 1974 TH E REPORTER Student aid seen facing gloomy future by PAlJL D. NEW LAND Provost When I was a college student at the beginning of the '40's, students from less affluent families could make it through college if they worked six days a week during the summer, worked at some part-time job during the academic year and got a few dollars for books from the family . This is impossible today. Such a student now must borrow thousands of dollars in federal loans to make up some of the difference between cash-in-hand and what is needed to be paid back after graduation . He also must rely on a substantial grant from the college. The ost of college now versus the early '40's is ridiculously out of joint. We are presently hearing a lot about shortages, but one less publicized shortage is the gradual depression in resources avai Iable for student financial aid . Pub I icity by state and federal agencies to the ontrary, there isn't plentifu l money for students interested in higher education, especially in the private sector. As the price of higher education rises and rise it must (although the time may be soon coming when we have priced ourselves right into bankruptcy) - aid resources are not keeping pace. And guess who the peopl€ are who are being hurt most by this aid shortage? The hard-taxed, usually law-abiding, unloved, middle class. A ridiculous example is the new Federal Basic Opportunity Grant program (BOG) . This program was to put $1,400 in the hands of any student who wanted postsecondary education, minus his parents' contribution . Some $122-million were appropriated by Congress, although the administration had asked for $980-million . The idea behind the program was to eliminate other federal aid programs and to put the money directly into the hands of the prospective student so he cou ld window shop freely for a college, public or private . BlJT HOW HAS BOG actually operated? First of all, it is being administered by colleges without compensation . The maximum award for freshm en onl y is $452 instead of $1 ,400. The student must be near the poverty line to qualify, and it appears that less than half of t he $122-million will reach students th is year. Nevertheless, other Federal programs were cut drastically to fund BOG . St. John's received only 51 percent of its approved request for National Direct Student Loan Capital, and 47 percent of funds approved for Supplementa l Educational Opportunity Grants. As a result, 3 St. John's students received a total of $452 in BOG money, replacing the $4,925 cut from the SEOG request. This is some trade! Federal funding gets more and more like Alice in Wonderl and . Nixon's 1975 budget includes $1.3-billion in Basic Opportunity Grants for needy students. The administration says this would assist about 1.6 million students with grants up to $1,400, but it won 't do anything for the student from the middle-income family. Further, the budget would eliminate such urrent aid programs as direct loans under the National Defense Educational Act and Supplemental Opportunity Grants. The elimination of both programs would be a serious blow to St. John's. Many states have adjusted state scho larships downward for low income students this year in expectation of BOG rep lacement - and may we ll do the same again n xt year. We are fortunate in Maryland to have more enlightened government officials, and they are presently reviewing this whole situation . Hopefully there not only will be more funds made available to us shortly, but there will be no restriction on distribution . A couple of interesting side effects hurt the middle-class students even more than the Federal cut-backs. The first is a omplete change during the last year in the Federally sponsored student loan program run by each state. Formerly, any student whose family had a net taxable income of $15,000 or less cou ld borrow up to $1,500 on top of all other aid, with a Federa l subsidy of the interest. The new system take off the income ceiling, theoretically making loans more avai lable, but limits the student to an amount no greater than his need as measu red by standard ana lysis after all other aid. As a resu lt, what was a loan of discretion fo r the fami ly to replace parents' contribution, is now limited to a loan of unmet need as determined by someone othe r than the student's family . ALSO, THE BANKS have quite reasonably become conservative in granting these loans . After all, who wants to lend up to $6,000 to a 19 year old with no credit rating at 7 percent guaranteed interest for up to 20 years when the prime rate is over 9 percent and going up? Federal officia ls estimated in December that the student guaranteed loan program was down in volume by about 40 percent nationa ll y due to the new rules and the pressures of the economy . That, my friends, is troub le, trouble in that Federal and state funds are not keeping pace, the loan market is drying up, and it looks like a student aid depression is just around the corner. The college has been reasonably successful to date in generating additional funds, thanks to the generosity of alumni, parents, friends , foundations and corporations . Most of the students at St. John' College are still making it, but only just barely . If you visit Annapolis for a few days and eat out, chances are tha o n of the waiters or bartenders serving you wi ll be on of ou r students . But it is pretty difficult to earn in excess of $4,000 for a year of school just working during the summer and at odd jobs during the academic year. As a r suit more than 35 percent of the students at St. John's get some kind of financial aid at the present tim No student at St. John's College ever gets more aid than he needs, but many get less. Nevertheless, although our students are making it now, there are rea l dangers in the future. The college wants to continue to attract the best students, regardl ss of their financial resources, from a cross section of society . But higher costs and stable or shrinking financial aid resources ndanger the goal of a cosmopolitan student body, and particularly threaten the middle-class student. Th re are many congressmen who are aware of this problem . Congressman O' Hara, chairman of the House Sub-Committe on Higher Edu ation , is holding hearings to try to make Federa l legis lation more responsive to the needs of all . Also, the Co ll ege Scholarship Service, a national agen y which analyzes family need for most colleges, has recalculated the expe ted parent's contribution tables for 1974-75 in a way which treats the midd le-class more equitably . But it is not enough . AL L IN ALL, TH E financial aid "depression" is as real as the increase in college costs . Up to now, with few exceptions, every student at St. John 's has had his full need met if he gets any kind of aid at all, and certain ly no student shou Id ·be discouraged from applying to the college because of cost considerations. But the future is fraught with prob lems un less the state and federal agencies are more realistic in legislating financial aid to students. So, we ontinue to worry a lot, but with a large level of hope that the administration and Congress will see t he tota l student aid problem and act accordingly. We hope you wi ll be a persuasive voice in helping with this most urgent matter by writing to members of Congress and, for thos of you who live in Maryland, to your representatives in the General Assembly. PAGE 3 Eva Brann: The broad plane of learning is her domain Meet Eva Bran n, St. John's tutor, universal student, expert on the pottery of ancient Athens, who represents, as much as anyone, what teaching at St . John's is all about. Miss Brann came to St. John's in 1957 as a full fledged and important archaeologist and scho lar of classics. Since then, she has mastered, in the most I iteral sense of the word, two-thi rds of t he St. John's teaching program as well as lectured and written extensively on such diverse matters as Kant, Sir Thomas More, Abraham Linco ln 's Gettysburg Address, Descartes' treatment on the problem of free fall, Newton' s Principia, Plato's Republic, t he philosophy of education, and the elements of science . This is in addition to h er own handsomely produced, scholarly detailed book, " Late Geometric and Protoattic Pottery," dealing with the 7th and 8th centu ry potsherds of Athens' Agora, the city's mark tp lace. And it is in addition to the t rans lation from th German of a book written by former Dean Jacob Klein , "Greek Mathematical Thoug ht and the Origin of Algebra ." Mis Brann is much in demand in the "outside wor ld," both as a consultant in education and as a lecturer. She helped advi e the staff of Old Westbury Co ll ege when it was fou nded as part of the State Univ rsity of New York system and last year represented the St. John's point of view at a Washington colloquium on humanistic education . Sh le tured on Kant at Bo ton Univer ity in February and on the Odyssey at Marlboro College in January, to mention two of her most recent le tures . Because of her work on Lin coln , she has b en invit d to write a pamphl t dealing with th e Getty burg Acldre s whi h the Nightingal Conant Corporation, a " human re'iourc s" orpordtion, will issue for one of it s a ett sets. Thi~ ~pring a book , " Anthology on the Teaching of Philosophy," to which she has c.ontribut d a hapt r, will be published by th State Univers ity of New York . Her preceptorials - the small tudy groups at St. John's which students elect to join in their junior and senior years hav in luded those on the pre-Socratic ph ilo ophers, one on the metaphysics of morals of Kant and anoth r on Kant's metaphysical foundations of the natural ciences, one on the utopias, and another on Thomas Mann's "Magic Mountain ." MobyDick is on list again (Continut!d from·p. 1) Reason ' rather than his 'Pro legomena,' and wh n we read Marx we read his 'Capital' rather than his small works." A rec nt New York Times story reveals that more doctoral theses are written about Melvi ll e than any other American writer. At St. John's Kut ler pointed out that seminar discussions of " Moby Dick" can result in radically different opinions. " The problem in discussing Melvi ll e is whether discussions go off in all directions or whether they settle down and is it possible for the seminar to make progress and to improve during a two hour period ." "Moby Dick" first was introduced to the great books I ist at the suggestion of the Rev. J. Winfree Smith soon after he joined the faculty in 1941 . " It is one of the most important American nove ls,'' Mr. Smith said, "first of all b cause it's a good story and second because it raises questions about good and evi l in a unique way." George Doskow, another member of the Instruction Committee, believes the book for s readers to think about certain questions "serious ly and hard." He said : " 'Moby Dick' is a profound exp loration of man's position in the universe, of his confrontation with evil, and of isolation and comradeship. It is a quest after meaning in a world which often seems indifferent or even malevolent. A lt hough the book does not answer these questions, it raises them in a way which fo rces us all to think about them serious ly and hard, which is perhaps the most important thing books can do for us." A FLUTIST since her graduate days, Miss Eva Brann practices dai ly at her home on (photo by Robin West) Wagner Street. Miss Brann disclaims any sophistication in the things she studies. Rather, she likes to think of approaching them in the spirit of the college, in a solid but elementary way. For the St. John' s community, Miss Brann is responsible for a special footnote in the history of the New Program . She is the first woman to serve o n t he Instruction Committee, which she did for many years, finally refusing to be a candidate for another term in favor of mor tudy. Thi s year sh is a member of both the Appointments Committee and the Campus Deve lopment Committee. The skill with whi ch she d als with people is as impressiv to h r colleagues as her wide learning. "She is a v ry, v ry good diplomat," ac ording to her friend and fellow tutor, Beate Ruhm von Oppen . " Anyone who has s en her at committe and fa ulty m etings knows that, de pite h r hara teristic r ticence, she shows an in isivene oup led with a r nity of mind and tact. And, of course, th r i a great deal of mutual respect not to peak of love - between Eva and h r students. It takes a genuine interest in stud ents and a genuine benevolence toward p ople to elicit that response ." The turn-about nature of Miss Brann's ar er impresses Miss Ruhm von Oppen . " Th e really startling and distinguishing thing about Eva is that she has made a complete change from being a very highly regarded archaeologist - I know people at Princeton who are still shedding bitt er tears about her leaving that dis ipline - to come here and putting her should r to the wheel and becoming very ff ctive ." Miss Brann spent a year away from St. John's in 1958-59 as a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton getting her book on pottery of the Agora into publishab le form. A special study currently reflects her great interest in Jane Austen, the 200th anniversary of whose birth in 1775 next year is something which Miss Brann feels, along with the bicentennial, the college should celebrate . Miss Brann seemingly has read everything Jane Austen ever wrote, including some pieces Jane Austen turned out at the age of 15. " Some of her early work was exhuberant and not at all lady-like," Miss Brann remarked, her own, mischievous blue eyes twinkling enjoyably. So rich in friends that she believes that two spar rooms, not one, is the answer for guests at her Wagner Street house, Miss Brann has made a particular friend of th Key School, a private K-12 school in Annapolis, of which she is a member of the board . Not long ago she presented it with her 12-foot widgeon, a boat she gave up because of the extensive upkeep invo lved . This does not stop her from sai ling all over the Chesapeake or to Onset, Mass., which she did with students and fellow tutor Bert Thoms last year and which she hopes to do again in June as soon as school is out. Friends mean a great deal to her, including her neighbors on Wagner Street. (Sh p rsonally loathes the word, "intel- lectua l," as a word whic h tends to separate. "A teacher should not belong to a special class. " ) More recent ly Miss Brann has begun to read widely and deeply in American history, in one sense a study which began with her great interest in Lincoln, a president of whom she has the "greatest possib le admiration" and a figure, like Sir Thomas More, who has been the subject of her special study . " The distance between the two was not so great, " she observed. "Both were lovable on account of their goodness. " But her interest in American history arose because, with t hree other St. John's families , she acquired a mountaintop in Virginia near Char lottesvil le. " And I bought a house here," she explained , " and began to look around Anne Arundel County and go on some camping trips with some ch ii d re n I know . The flavor of Maryland and Virginia began to penetrate, and I began to read local h istory." Her interest extended outward to state and national history and political theory, the latter receiving a major stimulus when Miss Brann sat glued to the Watergate h arings last summer . Born in Berlin in 1929, Miss Brann came to the United States in 1941, where her family settled in Brooklyn . She w nt to Brooklyn College, " where I got a very good education, " and then to Yale, from which she received her doctorate in 1956, where he was less happy . She took up the flute "out of despair" and by way of onsolation , and she continues to practice a little every day. Miss Brann taught Greek and archaeology at Stanford in 1956-57 and has pent numerous summers in Athens , including one summer as a fellow of the American Numismatic Society. She was in Athens one year, in 1952-53, as a fellow of the American School of Classical Studies, and she also has been there as a member of the staf.f of the American Agora Excavations as a Sibley Fellow of Phi Beta Kappa . One of the persons whom she met in Athens was a former St . John' s tutor, Seth Benardete, who told her about the college. Since coming here she has taught Greek, of course, all of the seminars, all of the math , the junior laboratory program twice, and next year she hopes to teach a senior laboratory. A lthough she is considered a very musical person, an opinion she does not hold for herself, she hasn't attempted the music. She has audited Douglas Allanbrook ' s musical tutorial. " Music strikes me as the one thing which requires previous training and special talents,'' she said . " Therefore I have hesitated." One hope she has for St. John's is the start of a new, yearly journa l of faculty writings, which frequently are of a crossdiscipl inary nature, which would be similar to both the Kenyon and Sewanee Reviews . When she is not cultivating her mind, Miss Brann spends some time cultivating a small and perfect garden which urrounds her patio . �I Published ,by lTHE REPORTER ice I Development Off Nonprofit Org. U. S. POST AGE THE REPORTER PAID St. John's College PAGE 4 Hedeman gives college large Churchill collection Permit No. 120 ANNAPOLIS, MD. Annapolis, Md. 21404 APRIL 1974 The bulk of an extensive library dealing with Winston Churchill has been presented to St. John's College by an alumnus and Annapolis physician, Dr. John L. Hedeman. The collection represents some 125 volumes and pieces of memorabilia originally collected by J. F. Douty, of Towson, an authority on Churchill, who wrote reviews for both The Baltimore Sun and The New York Times. Dr. Hedeman acquired the collection in September, 1972, and retained only three of the books for himself, adding them to his own extensive collection of about a ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ hundred volumes dealing with Churchill DATE DUE Festschrift comes on 75th birthday fContinued ff'om p. 1) the new president of the college, undertaking first and foremost the arduous and necessary task of putting the finances of the college in order. "For nine years thereafter, until July, 1958, Jacob Klein served as dean. It was a period of consolidation, of strong leadership. Nostalgia for a vanished past gave way to a new ethos. The community became aware of itself as having a shaping and stabilizing force at its center. " In faculty meetings, in meetings of committees, in official statements of educational policy, above all, in lectures to the college community, Jacob Klein articulated in words that were at once arresting yet simple the meaning and aim of liberal education." Two of the contributors to the essay co ll ection have died since planning for the Festschrift first began . One is the late scholar-in-residence at St. John's, Leo Strauss, whose contribution, "On Plato' ~ Aplolgy of Socrates an d Crito", was among the final articles he wrote. The other was a lecture by the late St. John's tutor, Richard Scofield, "The Christian Phaedra, or Farewell to Tragedy," who died of cancer before he was able to write a new contribution. Another contribution was a piece of music for the harpsichord, "Study in Black and White," by St. John's tutor Douglas Allan brook. OTHER CONTRIBUTORS were: Robert Bart, " The Shepherd and the Wolf: On the First Book of Plato's Republic"; Seth Benardete, "Euripedes' Hippolytus"; Laurence Berns, " Rational Animal - Political Animal : Nature and Convention in Human Speech and Politi cs" ; Eva Brann, " An Appreciation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason : An Introduction for Students"; Robert A. Goldwin , " The State of Nature in Political Society"; Simon Kaplan, " Plato in Herman Cohen's Philosophy of Judaism"; John S. Kieffer, "Mythos and Logos"; Samuel S. Kutler, "Selfhood and Self-Consciousness: An Inquiry into Kantian Themes"; Margaret W . Rottner, "Politics and the Constitution"; Seate Ruhm von Oppen, "Bac h's Way with Words"; Robert Sachs, " Ptolemy as a Teacher"; Winfree Smith, " Watchman , What of the Night?"; Brother Robert Smith, " Lear and the Story of Eden"; Robert B. Williamson, "E idos and Agathon in Plato's Republic"; Curtis Wilson, "Newton and the Eotvos Experiment"; Elliott Zuckerman, " Four Sketches for a Study of Prosody". The box holding the papers was constructed by an Annapolis senior, Michael Parks . Born in 1899 in Libau, Russia, Mr. Klein began his P.ducation in Lipetsk and continued it from 1912 in Brussels and then in Berlin . After graduating in 1917 from the Friedrichs Realgymnasium in Berlin , he studied philosophy, physics and mathematics at the universities of Berlin and Marburg/ Lahn . IN THE YEARS WHICH followed, he continued studying in Marburg and Berlin, principally physics, mathematics and ancient philosophy. His extended work, "Die griechische Logistik und die Entstehung der Algebra," was published in two parts in the " Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte der Mathmatik, Astronomie und Physik" in 1934 and 1936. The entire work has been translated into English by Eva Brann and published by the MIT Press under the title, "Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra." In 1934-35 he became a visiting lecturer in the history of mathematics at the University of Prague. Subsequently, from 1935-37, he was a fellow of the Moses Mendelssohn Stiftung zur Forderung der Geisteswissenschaften . Exiled from Germany, Mr. Klein arrived in New York in 1938 and through Paul Weiss of the 1 Bryn Mawr College and Mortimer Adler of the Law School, University of Chicago, was put in touch with Scott Buchanan, St. John's dean . He was appointed to the faculty in 1938. His last year of full-time teaching was 1968-69. His retirement, after 31 years of service, has not been a complete one for he has continued to teach preceptorials and currently has been leading a freshman seminar while Mr. Kieffer is recuperating. He also heads a committee considering re.vision of the St. John's C4talogue. 2nd generation student is here (Continued from p. I) whose brother, James A. Cockey, is a 1971 graduate. Miss McKay is the daughter of Mrs. Joan Gilbert Martin, of Santa Cruz, California, and Hugh D . McKay, Jr., of Los Angeles, both of the class of '55. Another February freshman is Steven Ross, of Alexandria, Va ., whose sister, Deborah , is a member of this year's graduating class. Ross originally enrolled in September, but because of injuries sustained in an accident was forced to withdraw and re-enter at mid-year. Without researching past years and just by thumbing his way through the campus telephone directory for the current year, Mr. Parran came up with these other family combinations: Majorie J. Collingwood, sophomore, daughter of the Rev. t.; . Harris Collingwood, Boston, Mass., '48; Sallie Dobreer, junior, daughter of Dr. David Dobreer, Alhambra, California, '44; Janet Hellner, freshman, sister of Maureen Hellner Rosenberg, New York City, '68; Susan Hollander, freshman, sister of Maureen Hollander, Cleveland, Ohio, '69; Erica Lerner, freshman, daughter of Charles S. Lerner, Bethesda, Md., '53; John Lincoln, senior, son of John L. Lincoln , IV, East Greenwich, R. I., '45, and nephew of C. Ranlet Lincoln, Chicago, Illinoi s, '50. James Mackey, sophomore on leave, brother of Susan J. Mackey, '71; Edward Nelson , freshman , son of Charles A . Nelson, Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., '45, and brother of Chr i stopher Nelson, 1970 graduate at Santa Fe, and sister of Janet Nelson, '72; Jody Nesheim, freshman, niece of Wayne Brandow, of Venice, Calif., '65; Michael O'Mahoney, freshman, son of ., Mrs. Marcia Del Plain Reff, of Towson, Md., and Thomas M . O'Mahoney, of New York City, both of '57; Robin Streett, daughter of the Rev . David C. Streett, of Augusta, Ga ., 'SO; Jeffrey Victoroff, senior, brother of C. Michael Victoroff, '71, of Houston, Texas; Theodore Wolff, senior, son of Peter C. Wolff, '44, Lexington, Mass.; and Donna Demac, Annapoli s senior, whose brother, Kenneth , is a freshman from New York City. which he has been accumulating since 1951 . Mrs. Marcia Talley, cataloguer for the St. John's library, estimates that approximately half the books are first editions. Among them are his histories and biographies, including, " Marlborough, His Life and Times," Churchill's account of his ancestor, John. the first Duke of Marlborough, upon which a recent BBC television series was based. Along with it is a small paperback by a writer, Malcolm Hay, who takes exception to Churchill's portrayal of both the duke and James II. " Hay felt the research w;is shoddy and that Churchill purposely had colored the biography in favor of his ancestor, " Mrs. Talley said. " One of the most interesting is a first edition of 'Savrola,' th e only novel written by Churchill," she continued . " He didn't care for it, and he urged his friends not to read it ." An oddity is a book entit led " The Tragedy of Winston Churchill," published in 1939 after his party was defea ted, a viewpoint oon to be belied by the emergence of Churchi ll as perhaps the greatest leader of th e war yea rs. At th e other end of the spectrum is another volume acclaiming Churchill's sue ess. Written by Cecil Roberts in 1941 , it is entitled " A M n Arose," which, d<'spite th e admirab le sentiment it contains , was descr ibed by Mrs. Talley as an "awful pot>m ." Of parti cular intl'rP st is a record entitl ed "C hurchill , H i~ Life in Photographs, " edit cl by his son, Randolph S. Churchill, and Helmut Gernsheim. It traces Chu rchill pictorially from his ea rliest known portrait at th e age of two to the eve of his 80th birthday on November 30, 1954, when he wa s photographed receivi ng an enthusiastic ovation from great crowds who awaited him all day outside 10 Downing Street. One picture shows him laying bri cks, a favorite hobby. He erected a wall at Chartwell, his home, along with a cot tage and even joined a bricklayer's union , the Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Work ers, in 1928. National group chooses Ham Mi chael W. Ham, St. John 's College director of admissions and a tutor there, has been invited to become a member of th e new, joint committee organized by the American Mathematical Society and th e Mathematical Association of America. The committee has been set · up to deal with the training of graduate students to teach . Ham has made a special study of the teaching of mathematics, some methods of which he describes in an article, "The Lecture Method in Mathematics : A Student's View. " It appeared in the February, 1973, issue of the American Mathematical Monthly. Tutor receives her doctorate Mrs. Wye Jamison Allanbrook, tutor at St. John's since 1969, will receive her doctorate in music history this month from Stanford University. Mrs. Allanbrook is beginning work almost immediately to revise her dissertation , " Dance as Expression in Mozart Opera," with a view toward its publication as a book . A graduate of Vassar College, where she received her bachelor's degree in 1964, Mrs. Allanbrook also received her master's from Stanford. She held a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship from 1964-65 and was a teaching assistant in music at Stanford from 1967-69 . MRS. MARCIA TALLEY, cata loguer with the Iibrary, goes over some of the books in th Churchill co ll ection with the collection 's donor, Dr. John L. Hedeman, '43. (photo by Robin West) From th e Douty co ll ection Dr. Hedeman has retai ned a record of Churchill's secret spee hes to Parliament during World War 11, a volume ca ll ed " The River War," and hi first book, "Ma lakond-Fie ld force." The latter is an account of a small fight between northwestern Afri can tribesmen and a small outpost of the British Empire, an encounter whi ch originally drew Churchill as a journalist but one in which he personally became involved. Hi s participati on re ulted in hi s being publicly mentioned for the first time back home in England . Some of the St. John 's books are in the Churchill co ll ection because he wrote a preface for th em. Presented to the co llege by Dr. Hedeman in December, they are now being cata logu ed and shelved. One rare piece which Mrs. Talley parti cularly enjoys is an early Churchill short sto ry, which appeared in the monthly maga zi ne , The Harm sworth MagaLine, in 1898-9. Churchill would have been 24 at the time. Entitled " Man Overboard!", the story is an account of a man .who falls overboard while in the background a piano and voice are heard in " The Rowdy Dowdy Boys." Th e brief story ends this way: " Th e physical death took hold of him, and he began to drown . The pain of that savage grip recalled his anger. He fought with it furiously. Striking out with arms and legs he so ught to get back to the air. It was a hard struggl e, but he escaped gasping and victorious to the surface. Despair awaited him. Feebly splashing with his hands he moaned in bitter misery I can't - I must. 0 God' Let me die! " The moon, then in her third quarter, pushed out from behind th e concealing clouds and shed a pale, soft glitter upon the sea. Upright in the water, fifty yards away, was a black triangular object. It was a fin . It approached him slowly. " His last appeal had been hea rd ." Passez moi le chou d'Italie, s'il vous plait, Mademoiselle A group of St. John's students interested in conversation al French have organized a Fren ch speaking table which meets each Wednesday in the dining hall. " Our vocabulary runs to food," according to Barbara Schmittel, Oak Park, Mich ., sophomore, who is reported to be the real energy behind the effort. "Every week we are served broccoli, " she said . " I'm going to look up how to say it today so we can get on to other matters - mashed potatoes, for instance." Janet Christhilf, Arlington , Va., senior, who took four years of French in high school and two here, explained how it began: " At dinner one night Gretchen Berg began speaking French, starting to tell the plot of 'Vanity Fair.' It was so melodramatic; it took an hour, and it was fun . "It reminded me that I had forgotten a lot of conversational French and should try it more often . Barbara Schmittel, who is really the energy behind this, sent me a note to say if I were serious about a French table, we should start one." Miss Schmittel had organized a similar table last spring. The present one is a loosely organized group, one member of which saves a table at 5 :30 p.m. Interested people are encouraged to join, and usually nine or ten students take part. The students hope to encourage tutors who are fluent in French to join their weekly gatherings. One side effect, Miss Christhilf said, is that members of the group meet people whom they had not known before. Th e freshman class appears this year to be producing the most French spea king · students, a number of whom have lived in France. Patricia Joyce to portray Portia (Co·ntimud from p . 1) upon the cast by hav ing scenes rehearsed individually with actors initially working together in small groups. Besides Miss Joyce and Mr. Williamson, other members of the cast will be : Adam Wasserman , Antonio; William Castner, Ba ssa nio ; Robert Tzudiker, Laun ce lot; Eric Vatikiotis, Lorenzo; Kasha Piotrzkow sk i , Je ss i ca; Cynthia Nash , N erissa; Carl Dunn , Gratiana ; Lester Silver, Salerio; Malcolm Handte, Solanio; Alfred Mallin, Morrocco; Steven Gray , Arragon; Justin Lee, Old Gobbo and Tubal ; Temple Wright, Duke of Venice; Jean Meiss, servant and mesenger; Peter Buck, Leonardo and messenger. � 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 Development 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 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/7329ad02964f5cf43622186a035304ba.pdf 8c9ab5235f01dda9f9f1652ead0c64a8 PDF Text Text '.] ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY L'. Weigle to mark his 25th year 1111 1 111111111111 mnmr11 111 1 111 1111i111111 31696 01138 0175 Richard D . Weigle will comp lete the 25th year of his presidency at St . John 's College next June 30, and at St . John's the celebration starts ear ly. That's because there is much to cheer about. For Mr. Weigle the years have been "tremendous ly privileged" ones .F or St.John's they hav e been dramatic years, both adventurous and stabilizing, and filled with major accomPIis h men ts . A check list might be headed by thes four achi ev~ m nts : The opening of a second ca mpus in Santa Fe, N .M ., in RICHARD D. WEIGLE relaxes in his Annapolis office . (Photo by Robin West) St.John} is studied by others A new college in New York which opens next fall and which is interested in the St . John's program has an observer on campus this year. Here from Verrazzano College in Saratoga Springs is Mahmud Ok by, who is leading a seminar and attending classes in order to help determine whether any St . John 's program characteristics can be incorporated into the V rrazzano curriculum. VerrazzanoCollege is one of three colleges which have opened or plan to open during the 1970's to be influenced by St.Joh n's. Thomas Aquinas College at Calabasas, California, which admitted its first freshman class in 1971 , has a program with a theological center to a large extent modeled after St . John's. Three members of the St. John's faculty - Robert L . Spaeth, Edward G. Sparrow, and the Rev . J. Winfree Smith - were closely associated with it during its early days . A not her former tutor, Molly Gustin, has been teaching there since the fall of 1972. Grand Valley State College at Allendale, Michigan hopes to open within the next few years the fifth of five cluster colleges with a program patterned directly after St. John's . Two of Grand Valley's faculty members , Irving and Loretta Wasserman, spent all of the past academic year attending classes here and observing the program. Continued on page 2 Introducing ourselves With this issue, The St. John's Reporter makes its first appearance. This news) paper is intended as another way to help the college keep in touch with alumni, parents and friends of S t. John 's. Next issue is scheduled for April 1. One department The Reporter hopes to open soon is a Letters to the Editor column. We welcome your contributions . Our address: The St. John's Reporter, Carroll-Barrister House, St. John's College, Annapolis, Md., 21401. 1964 to permit the Annapolis campus to retain its distinctiv e char acteristic of smallness; The end of the experimental stage of St . John 's "New Program" and its establishment as a nationally recog- · nized, highly respected curriculum of liberal arts; The most extensive building program in the Annapolis campus' hi story; A record of fund-raising in which Mr . Weigle has averaged a million dollars a year ov r the past 25 years. The list could include personal survival itself. Not 'The St. ...lohn ~ REPORTER February 1, 1974 Volume I, Issue 1 College preserves waltz as students dance on Unmentioned in th cata log i s an ot her g r at I as s i c S t . John ' s Coll ege preserves : the waltz. after waltz F ift n year parties first were introdu ced , students are st ill sw irling the length of the Great Hall, dan ing wh re Lafay ette once danc d , immer ing themselves in the music of Strauss and T schaikovsk y and r adiating as n e of where els would one po s ibly want to be on a Saturday night between 10: 30 and 2 but waltzing at St. John's College. The students who attend the waltz parties prefer the waltz for both aesthetic and scape reasons, aesthetic b au e they feel it is " more elegant" than current forms of dance and escape beca use, I ike t nnis or a fast game of soccer, it is a release from the rigorous curriculum in which they ar engaged . Leslie Graves, 17-year-old sop homore from Spring Gr n, Wisc., who helps plan the parties, is quick to say she prefers waltzing to the angular, jerking movements of rock and roll, a style of dancing she finds " i r ration a I. " "WALTZING IS A lot more elegant and controlled ," she aid . And as a release from school work, it is sheer therapy. "When you are being whirled around, there is no way you can think of Plato or Aristotle," Miss Graves said . "E very thing clears out of your mind, and you think in terms of romantic images, of gayety, and of the joy of moving your body, and of b ing dressed up to look beautiful. It' s absolutely wond erf u I - ex hi Ier at in g . Y ou' re ju st being whirled around . You ca n't do anything but ink back and glow . It 's really gorgeous ." lhP p< irties ~m~ strictly for WCJlt;:ing with one PXCPption . I VC'ry fiv(' or six dJncc>s the boys put th<'ir hands on th e girl:-. ' W<li'>h, th e girls pla t hc•ir hands on the boys ' shoula<'r:-., tlw musi c starts, cllld t h('y spin away into a spirih'Cl, irc'qumtly ath l ti polka . ·1 lwrP < not rwarly so HP 111,1ny pol k d ciancl'rS , however, clS th< rl d('WaltL< rS. Most of the students hav e l<wrH•cJ to wdllL for the first tinwat St . John 's, usually at th<' first wait;: 1)arty of th e Y<'Jr whPn there i some informCll in stru ct ion . Their skil l varies from highly poli heel wa l tLing to a I ss a compl i s hed version that has become known as the "St. John ' slide," es entia lly what middl aged coup les would re ognize as the old two-step . 1 1 1 RCJtlwr than mor e expensive or<lwstras, students rely on tcllH'U rnusi c. ThP ClesthPtic experience mciy b<· as strong a reason for tlw parti<•s ' success as any . Robt-rta Nalbandian, Grand Rc1pid s, Mi ch ., ophomore, who with Miss Grav s takes tht• IPader · hip in handling the nwchani cs involved in setting up th P 10 to 15 w a It z parties h<'ld ea h year, ex plained that long dress is opt ion al. OCCASIONALLY ST lJDE NTS who have been studying in th e upper rooms of McDowell Hall wil l come downstairs and join in, waltzing togeth er in horts . And s t u d c n t s who hav e been attending other, less formal parti s els where on campus may app ar for a while, Continued on page 2 many col lege presidents have reached their 25th year. During the turmoil of the 1960's, campuses throughout the United States experienced a mass exodus of administrators so that by 1969 more than 200 colleges and universities were seeking candidates to fill presidential vacancies. · Despite the intensity of their feelings against the war in Vi etnam, students at St. John's , where they number ight for very tutor, were able to talk out most of their feelings besides making a personal appearance at the Whit e House accompanied by Mr . W eigle. The president's office was never occupied; no buildings wer burned or windows broken . Today Mr . Weigle is senior among Maryland college presidents, succeeding Lowell Ensor of Western Maryl and College. In lookin g back, Mr . Weigle ex pre sed pleasure over his years of association with the coll g . " I hav b n tremendously privil ged to have an opportunity to be at a place like St . John 's b au e of the intellectual xcitement here and because it offers a chance to grow, to hear interesting I tur s, and to meet and talk with cha ll enging students and tutors, " Mr . Weigle said. "Also, not many men are giv n n opportunity to er ate a n w coll ge. It's been a tremendously satisfying experience to create the new campus in Santa Fe." Continued on page 4 College head pays tribute to Cleveland R i hard F . Cleveland, who s rved for more than 40 years Cl S a member of the Board of Visitor s and Governors, died Clt hi home in Baltimore January 10 following a lingering illness . St . John 's staff and students took a moment to honor him pr ceding a weekly Continued on page 3 SIX POEMS set to music by Douglas Allanbrook will be sung at St . John 's College March 3 by the University of Maryland Chamber Singers . Mr . Allanbrook , who will have a major work for t~e piano published short ly, is shown here chatting with Tutor Emeritus Ford K . Brown . See story on page 3 . �February 1, 1974 Page 2 THE REPORTER Briefs Two for the 'best clouds' St . John's College took a moment out last fall to salute two retiring staff members described as deserving "the very best clouds in heaven." The luncheon party for Mrs. Florence Mason and Winfield Colbert was a crowded event. Therewerespeeches, gifts, the presentation of bronze plaques, photographs, a letter from the college president and personal congratulations and handshakes from guests all around , including senior tutors, whose friends hip goes back over the decades, as well as those of the buildings and grounds crew and other members of the college community . For Mr . Colbert, known to gen er at ions of S t. J oh n's students as "Winnie," it was another special day - his 75th birthday - and the day which officially marked his retirement as a groundsman . He has been with the college since April 1, 1930. Mrs . Mason retired August 1 after more than 21 years of service. Miss Miriam Strange, college archivist and principal speaker, paid tribute to the services rendered by the St . John ' s buildi.ng and grounds crews as "quite remarkable." "Over the years, what they have done day in and day out, year in and year out, is nothing short of miraculous," she said . "I feel quite strongly they deserve the very best clouds in heaven. Winnie and Florence deserve the best of those clouds for what they have done for St. John's over the years. " With the college treasurer, Charles T . Elzey , presiding, the program also included words of congratulations from Provost Paul D . Newland, J ohn S. Kieffer , former pres ident and dean, and Richard Ford of the buildings and grounds staff . President Ri chard D . Weigle, who was out of town, sent his " heartiest congratulations ." He wrote: " St. Joh n' s is deeµly grateful for their long and devoted services . To me they have appe<ir<>d ageless . I shall always picture Winnie on his power mower and Floren ce with her dustcloth . They have helpPd to k eeµ the college a plPa sant ancJ inspiring place in which to study and work ." BA holder is student St . John's College has one student who already has a bachelor ' s degree and a second student who is a short distance away from completing another . Miss Joan Silver obtained her BA from the College of O!.c! Westbury, State._Unive!'.=.. sity of New York, in 1971. Instead of beginning a master's degree in philosophy, she decided to come here because St . John ' s broad offerings in philosophy appealed to her . A sophomore, she was selected earlier this year by the Annapolis Branch, American Association of University Women, for its special book award . Mrs . Thelma L iwski, AA UW president, said she was chosen for the honor because she had done a "superb job" in her freshman year at the college. Squash goes out Squash is becoming a thing of the past at St.John's where it gradually is being replaced by paddleball. It's something that has been happening over the past five years, partly because paddleball is a game women enjoy as well as men, Bryce J acobsen, athletic director, said . It also is an easy sport to start to play, something like ping pong. Squash has so fallen off in popularity that last winter 22 new freshmen St. J ohn' s welcomed a group of 22 additional freshmen who began their studies with the start of the second semester . The students, most of whom represent transfers Wanting, waiting, willingthat's the students! St. Joh n's new Student Employment Agency occupies one of the busiest corners on campus these days, and as far as its stu dent director ES concerned, the agency is a "tremendol s success." Miss Valerie Kozel, Alexandria, Va., senior, fairly wades through a stack of pink telephone call slips when she arrives at work each day in the Carroll-Barris ter House. Her first repol t, covering the twomonth period ending December 31, shows results . Students earned a total of $1,353 . Individually the students don ' t make huge sums, Miss Kozel said, but those they receive can make the difference between replacing a pair ..of shoes or a box of kleenex . The agency, organized in the fall to help supplement student income, thus far has involved approximately 50 students . MISS VALERIE KOZEL director of the new Student Employment Agency, checks her files to match a student with a job request. About 35 per cent of St. John's students receive student aid either in the form of student jobs or grants, according to Charles E. Finch, director of financial aid and placement. "Any student who wants to earn money can and does," Miss Kozel said . " For some students it makes the difference between having minor luxuries or none at all." As the result of agency placements, one student, George Ackerman, Newport News, Va ., senior, has a permanent job working three nights a week as night manager of a gas station. Miss Kozel said another senior, J ames LeVan, of Mt. Penn, Pa., is the agency's big est money earner . He does contract painting. The other student is Brian Lynch, 23-year-old sophomo(e from Maryville, Mo., who is only eight hours short of a BA at Northwest Missouri State University . Mr. Lynch, who is hoping to begin medical torisz, of Santa Fe, and Miss studies after he leaves St . (continued from page 1) J obn '_s, is a licensed practi cal bc:irefoot ed on ~! in jeam . Thf'r e t\l px a Nadosy.L of Lonll Isnurse currently serving as arP no strict rules, but the land, N.Y . "F OR US , I T H I N K they secretary of the St. Joh n' s forrna I dress predominates infirmary . Mr . Lynch took up and is favored by the waltzers . W('r(• some kind of delightful Thomas Dolan, Boston lh<'rapy, " Mr s. Bentley said of nursing partly to work his s<>nior, believes waltzing and t h P f i rs t par t i es , " a way of way through college. He served for a while as a rock and roll compliment one b(•com i ng utter Iy physically nurse at the Bay Manor cl not her , depending on the PX ha us tecl as a release from Nursing Home north of Anna- 1T1ood one is in . He does both lhP concentration of Greek polis, acting as the nurse in ult hough he gives waltLing an paradigms or Kantian obscurcharge on weekends from 3 to PdgP because it is more ities. " It was not su ch a damag11 p. m . L i k e M is s S i Iv er, he gracdul . " I love the waltz parties, " ing activity as the beer binge has a great interest in philosophy and last year he said . "I love the clothes the or the food riot, but the undercombined that interest with girls wear and the different lying cause was, I think, the his medical one in a paper on C1 tmosphere. The music i s<1nw And since there are still hPauliful OV(~r and over Gr<'<'k paradigms and Kant Plato and Lavoisier. i<111 obscuriti es, maybe that's again T u l ors j oi n i n fr om time to why l here ar e st i 11 waltz l i nw . [ cJ ward a n d L y d i a I>cl r l i PS ." Not Jll of the St . John's 370 Spar row, who used to waltz there were hardly enough frPquPnlly in Boston and New -; t ucl(•nts go to the waltz players for a tournament. York while he was as tudent at pMli(•s . Attendance runs Jacobsen isn't standing in the Harvard College, are among ,1bout 75 an evening, with a way of the change, partly tht~m . Sparrow is tempted to portion of that number reprebecause of the element of bdiE~ve there is a relationship sPnling the hard core waltz danger caused by hard squash between the discipline of the cl('VOlP('S who generally begin balls, particularly as far as St . John's curriculum and the ('cJrly and dance late, and the the eyes are concerned. Rack- greater discipline of the waltz ot hE'r portion a more casual ets no longer are being as compared with other group of students who drop in toward the middle of the purchased by the college. The dances. game received virtually the "There is a kind of disorder Pvc•ning . But l he waltz influence has kiss of death with a new or baseness in rock and roll," requirement that students he said . "Our students are bE~n so strong that the June high minded and so it is dances marking the end of the provide their own . n at u r a I to dance in a way that school year have become waltz parties, with hundreds and reflects this attitude." Robert S. Bart, another hundreds of roses and strawtutor who attends, believes berriE~s and cream there as from other colleges, will the 18th century architectural finishing touches . complete their freshman year T hornas H orvalh, Youngscharm of the Great Hall is an under a special program which important factor in the parties' town, Ohio, junior, and one of continues through the sumthe expert waltzers, thinks success. mer into mid-August. They The waltz parties go back to wait zing is not just for St. wi'll be absorbed into next 1959 when they were begun by John's but would work well fall's sophomore class. a group of students, who anywhere. "I suspect that waltz parinclude Mrs. Charles Bentley, a former New Zealander, now tiPs would su cceed anywhere if living in Santa Fe, N .M., and people gave them a chance," three other students noted for he> said . Rob er ta Nalbandian is quite their Austrian-Hungarian vitality - Miss Maria F lasch- dE-'lPrmin<..'"'CI that the waltz berger, now Mrs . Manfred parliE'S will continu e. " t\ s long as I am here there Hannemann, of Benton Harbor, Mich ., Miss Lenke Vie- <HP going to be waltzes, " she Sclid . ~ releas~ from paradigms and Kantian obscurities' "And we have had requests for people to do housework near Baltimore and to furnish their own transportation. Students who have cars usually don't need to earn money. One request was for a person experienced in mountain climbing able to clean out house gutters . This call was answered by Malcolm Handte, Binghamton, N.Y ., junior, who heads a rock climbing club on campus . "SOME REQUESTS from the community are impossible to fill," Miss Kozel said . "We had one request for someone to do housework and babysitting from 10 a.m . to 6 p.m . four days a week, and, of course, with classes, that was an impossible job. Illinois plans cluster college (continued from page 1) In addition to these three, Colby College in Waterville, Me., has before it a preliminary report which would combine some portions of the St. John's program with the Colby curriculum, possibly in a way in which it would make it possible for the students to major during the final two years . The proposal is still in the early stages, and Colby has no immediate plans for action at this time. Named tor the Florentine navigator who discovered New York Bay and the Hudson River, Verrazzano expects to open next fall with approximately 250 students . Mr . Ok by, who is associate professor of linguistics and communication, is leading a freshman seminar with Laurence Berns. He also has led a preceptorial, "The Semantic Aspect of Language." " I am very much impressed by the seminar work," he said. "I am conv i need that the less teaching we do as instructors the better results we get in terms of stimulating student interest and getting them to participate fully. "I am very favorably impressed by the don rags examination system, partly because it lets a student know exactly where he stands. It gives him a total picture of himself as a learner and an opportunity to interact with all his teachers in an open, healthy atmosphere. It also helps the instructor to belp himself as he sees himself through the eyes of the student. "I hope to recommend this feature in particular very strong Iy ." Earlier in the year another faculty member from Verrazzano, Tom Deiher, spent two weeks on campus observing cl asses . �February 1, 1974 Page 3 THE REPORTER A Trio of Concerts: ., Concerts here, in Washington to feature Allanbrook songs An important new work by Douglas A llanbrook, St. John's tutor and a recognized American composer, will be sung here Sunday, March 3, by the Chamber Singers of the University of Maryland . It will consist of a group of six poems of American poets set to music by Allanbrook . Later, in April, they will be sung by the Chamber Singers in the National Gallery of Art. The St . John's performance, scheduled for 8: 15 p.m . in the Great Hall, will be open to the public without charge. A I Ian brook has written music for three of Wallace Stevens ' poems : "On Near Being," "The Pleasures of Merely Circulating," and "Depression Before Spring ." In addition, he has com-~ posed music for Edgar A lien Poe's "To Hellen 1 " Whitman's "A? I Lay with My Head in Your Lap, Camerado," and Emily Dickinson's "There Came a Wind Like a Bugle." The poems form a collection which is one of three recent works of Mr . A llanbrook. His Third Symphony appeared last year, and a major work for the piano, "Twelve Preludes for All Seasons," will be published shortly by Boosey and Hawkes . Founded by its present director, Paul Traver, the chamber singers number between 20 and 25 singers. Gerle-Neely duo to play Feb. 15 Robert Gerle and Marilyn Neely will appear in concert in the Key Auditorium Friday, Feb . 15, performing violinpiano sonatas of Debussy, Beethoven, Dvorak and Richard Strauss. Their performance at 8 : 15 p .m . will be open to the public without charge. Robert Gerle has appeared as a solo violinist ever since his childhood debut with the Budapest Philharmonic. He has toured Europe, South America and South Africa and has made numerous appearances as guest soloist. More recently he successfully embarked upon a "second career" by becoming conductor of both the symphony and chamber archest r as at Ohio S tat e U n iv er s it y . Currently he is chairman of the Instrument Department (continued from page 1) and conductor of the two lecture, when President orchestras at the University of Weigle spoke of the college's Maryland, Baltimore County. "g reat and good friend ." Mr . In 1971 he served as assistant Weigle's statement follows in to Maestro Charles Bruck at part: the Pierre Monteaux School of "Son of President and Mrs. Conducting . Grover Cleveland, Richard Marilyn Neely, Robert Cleveland was graduated from gerle's wife, has concertized P r in cet on and entered upon a throughout the United States, distinguished career in the law. He became a partner in the firm of Semmes, Bowen, and Semmes for the balance of his life. Generally recognized as one of Baltimore's first cit izens, he gave of himself unselfishly in civic and community activities. The last notable service he rendered James Mackey is going to was as a delegate to the Maryland Constitutional Con- sea with boatload of great books with only the waterline vention in the late 1960's . to determine the number he "F rom the early 1930's Richard Cleveland had an takes . This St . John's sophomore abiding interest and concern from Lafayette, Calif., has for St. John's College, whose board he chaired for two packed up his classical readdecades . He was one of those ings, put away his laboratory responsible for intrcxJucing tools and exchanged his the New Program in liberal academic program for a sailor's life. education in 1937. Then in He has been given a year's 1945 he led the successful leave for an adventure in defense of the college against the efforts of the United which he plans to sail, with States Navy to expand the three other friends, through Academy at the expense of the Europe and possibly across the Atlantic Ocean back to St . John's campus. Maryland. " From a personal point of But Mr . Mackey, who view, I recall with gratitude already has sailed across the and affection that it was Ri chard Cleveland who ap- Pacific from Hawaii to Los proached me about assuming Angeles, doesn't intend to the St. John's presidency in separate himself from St . the summer of 1949. Over the J oh n's . "On board you read, read, years he has been a tower of read all the time, and you strength and a source of wise counsel as board chairman might as well read great books as well as Nancy Drew," he and as a loyal friend. " His dedication to the said. He intends to take as many educational ideals of St. of the books as he can manage John 's was complete. The college sought to recognize in without upsetting the boat's some small measure his inval- waterline. His partial reading uable contributions to its list : Shakespeare, Chaucer, well being by designating Moliere, Mark Twain, the him both honorary fellow and Bible, Rabelais, Aristophanes, J1onor ary vis it or and gov- and probably some Plato. The return trip across the l'rnor . 'Good Friend' lauded here Europe, Mexico and Western Canada since her New York piano debut at the age of eight . As soloist with more than a hundred symphony orchestras she has played with the Chicago Symphony, the Pit ts burgh Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Seattle Symphony and the Bos ton Pops . She has recorded for the BBC in London, Radio VARA, Holland, and Radio Zurich . As a duo, Mr . Gerle and Miss Nedely were heard for the first time as a sonata team in New York City at Rocke· feller University in 1971, to which they returned in 1973. In the summer of 1973 they toured South America for two months . They have recorded the 10 Beethoven Sonatas for Wes tminister records. Pianist to per/orm, fir.rt Chopin ballad Another concert schedu led in February is that of Michael I an Campbell, who will perform at 8: 15 p .m . Su n day , Feb. 24, in the Great Hall. It also will be open to the public without charge. FOLL OWi NG HIS graduation from Amherst College, Mr . Campbell served with the U.S . Naval Academy band from 1967-70. He began his studies with Leon F leisher at the time and continued to study with him as a doctoral cand idat e at the Peabody Conservatory , Baltimore. Mr. Campbell appeared as soloi st with the Annapolis Symphony in January, 1970, in th e first concert conducted by Mr .F leisher. Mackey going to sea -with boatload of bool~s Atlantic is still in the talking stag('. Mr . Mackey has had one important back -up ex perien ce 1f he and hi s friends decide to do so. Two years ago he was part of a crew which brouht back a 36-foot racing boat from Hawaii to Los Angeles, a voyage of 26 days . Mr . Mackey figures the Atlantic trip , which they would make after the end of the hurricane season next October, would require 30 to 40 days . An adventurous sort of person with a flair for the dramatic, Mr . Mackey played Petruchio in last year's college prcxJuction of "The Taming of the Shrew. " He began sailing only a Iittle less than three years ago in a little one-man dinghy . "It beca me incredibly fascinating," Mr. Mackey said . "I began to read books about it and memorized terms and two months later I sailed across the Pacifi c. " The three years since then have been crowded with sailing . He has taught privately in California, managed the college boathouse, taught St . John's students sailing, and boat-sat for owners of boats tied up at Annapolis city dock . (Pho to by Robin West) SOME OF ST. John's old books are looked over by Miss Charlotte F !etcher, St. Joh n's librarian, and Antonio L. Marino. Marino, who is a native of Mexico, won the prize for writing the best junior essay last year. Vellum, parchment? there} a difference ing wide to a complete 180 degree angle . "If a book doesn't want to do what you want it to do, do not try to dominate it," he cautioned students . The book was among the aides t of those scattered over the table of the King William Room, where St. Joh n's book-loving students and staff members had clustered for the evening. "I'm drooling," Miss J ody Nesheim, Orange, N.J ., freshman said as she eyed the antique collection. She has been brought up with old books. Her father, Kenneth S . Nesheim, is assistant director of the rare book library at Yale . THE DISCUSSION dealt for the most part with various types of band bindings , a skill of particular importance during the time leading up to the middle of the 18th century. Du ring those centuries books were delivered to their owners in sheets, folded up and ready for sewing . Mr. Chalmers explained that the buyer then would commission a binder to do the outer covering. Occasionally, Mr. Chalmers said, books were circulated already sewn and "PARCHMENT IS a wrapped in paper, but these heavier, tougher, work-a-day were books which were not material," he said. "Vellum meant to be kept and, once has been rubbed with lime discussed at the local coffee and polished to a high white- house, would then be thrown or given away. ness . "If this book were new," One of them was an he said picking up a volume Annapolis man by the name by way of illustration, "yhou of William Aikman, who has wouldn't dare touch it. The been identified by a triple vellum would be chalky wavy roller tool used in his white ." labels. While there is no "Ve 1lum is classy parch- definite proof, a dozen books ment," Mr . Folts interjected. have been ascribed to him . The book pu lied from the "The St. John's library is St. John ' s shelves which Mr. in possess ion of two of his Chalmers showed students bindings," he said. was an edition of Hesiod, a One binder, Robert Aitken, poet who wrote in the 8th worked on the first English century B.C. In addition to its Bible printed in the United vellum binding, the volume States. Mr. Folts said among was marked by brass clasps matters which Americans ' and bands sewn into the held in grievance against boards in a manner which England was the fact that no made the bindings tight. The Bible could be printed in this book was incapable of open- country . St. John 's College held its third annual rare books night rl~cently and 30 students lt ~a rned the difference bdween ve I lum and parchnwnt and what the term " incunabula " means . "lncunabu la " is what St. J o hn 's ha s amo11g its estirnated thous and rare books . That is a term co ined from the Latin word "cradle" and first usPd in the 18th century to d(~scr ibe books printed prior to 1501 when book production was still in its infcrncy. "Your library has a disproportionately large number, which is unusual for a small library, " John L. Folts, Jr., a nationally rec ognized expert on American bindings, told the stud ents . One of the books - a 1486 edit ion of S t. Augustine's "City of God " printed in Venice was there for students to see. As for the difference b e tw ee n parchment and vellum, John P. Chalmers, rare book librarian for the National Cathedral in Washington , explained that both are made from sheepskin and pigskin. �THE REPORTER THE REPORTER Published by Developm'ent Office St. John's College Annapolis, Md. 21401 BULK RATE U. S. POSTAGE PA I D Permit No. 120 ANNAPOLIS, MD. Page 4 February 1, 1974 St. John's biggest builder is million-dollar-a-year man (continued from page 1) DATE DUE NEH aids • • writing of text Oil shortage? staff prepares St.Joh n's Coll ege has mad e contingency plans for any occasion when the college might be forced to shut down because of the fuel shortages . Geoffrey Comber 1 retiring Two St . John's tutors are nearing completion of the first assistant dean, surveyed the draft of a Greek textbook they faculty to see how many are preparing as the result of a st udents it would hou se if the $22,000 grant to the college college ran out of fuel. The from the National Endowment number came to 70, enoug h, Comber believes , for the for the Humanities . Alfred Mollin, who is wri- st udents who wou ld be strandting the text with Robert B . ed too far fr om fa mi Iy or Williamson, said that the friends to easily leave the book is being developed in line ca mpus . St . John's ca me within less with the college's belief that the primary purpose of its than two days supp ly of oil arlier this year before the language tutorials is not the complete mastery of a foreign supp ly was replenished. Th e language but an attempt to college uses an average of enable the students to learn 265,000 gallons a year to heat something of the nature of buildings or about 1,200 language in general and of gallons every 24 hours. So far T r ea su r er C ha r Ies T . their own in particular. The first draft, already E ILey bas yet to be notified of being used in classrooms, will any change in the amount St. be revised on the basis of John 's will receive. Like the rest of the country, suggestions made throughoiut the college is attempting to do the year by other faculty members who teach Greek . It its share toward conserving then will be sent to classicists energy by lowering temper in other colleges and univer-. atures, a reduction difficult to guage because of the variety sities for their opinion. Mr . Mollin said he hopes of heat ing controls ex ist ing on the final draft will be com- ca mpu s. Some savings were pleted by next J anuary, when r ea lized during the Chr ist mas it will be forwarded to a holiday s when the college publishing firm . Both he and closed for a week, resulting in Mr . Williamson have been a savings which David relieved of a third of their Tucker, superint endent of the teaching duties in order to phy sica l plant, estimates at 8,400 gal Ion complete the project . Caritas ball seel~s ft1nds for scholarship help What is expected to be one of the gayest balls of the season is being planned by the Caritas Society for S aturday, March 23. While elegance and formality will predominate, the dance also will have a serious purpose. To help meet the demands of soaring college costs the society, which in the past four years has raised $7,000 to help St. John's College students, hopes to raise. nothing short of almost a full scholarship . It has set a goal of $4,000 for the evening, just $150 less than it cost to provide a year's tuition, room and board . Mrs. Edwin G. Greenberg, chairman, said the Caritas Cotillion is expected to be the first annual dance of its sort. Cooperating fully will be the Alumni Association , whose planning group is being headed by Roy Shawn, Julius Rosenberg and Bernard Gessner . The dance, which will be from 9 to 1 o' clock, will be a costume affair, but for those guests who wish to simply come in evening attire the pressure for costumes stands at absolute zero. " Come in costume if you like, but don'·t stay away if the idea doesn't appeal," Mrs . Greenberg said. "We are asking those who want to come in masquerade to come representing some character from the St. John's great books list. " The Caritas Cotillion was warmly endorsed today by Provost Paul D. Newland, who pointed out that the society had rendered essential assistance with the beginning of t e second semester. "As the result of Caritas' help, three of our students have been able to remain in college," he said. The Alumni Association is ex tending a special service in providing transportation for persons in need of it. Mr . Weigle has an additional source of great satisfaction. Not only has the Santa Fe campus been established, but it is a beautiful one as well. Nearly ten years after its opening only a small gym is needed to complete the immediate needs of its physical plant. This building could double as a little auditorium with a seating capacity of 500 to 700. At Annapolis, under Mr . Weigle, these projects have been completed: The construction of the new heating plant, Campbell Hall (the women's dormitory), Mellon Hall and the Key Auditorium; renovation and conversion of Humphreys Hall from a laboratory to a women's dormitory; remodeling and enlarging of the library to add almost twice the floor space; the addition of a new plaza area behind McDowell Hall, and the burial of all overhead power and telephone lines . Among 'other changes have been the improvement of the front walkway along with a great deal of lands cap ing undertaken together with a genera I beautification program . There have been other changes si nce Mr . W eigle began hi s presidency here. The college became co-eduat ion al in 1951, when the first class of women was admitted. With greater fina ncia l stabi lity, S t. J oh n's regain Ed its accreditation from the Middl States A ssociation of Colleges and Secondary Schools in 1952-53. It increased the size of the st udent body from 196 the year Mr . W eigl e arrived to 375 in Annapolis this year and an additional 255 in Santa Fe. St. John's general policy is not to exceed 400 at the Annapolis campus. A long with the increase in the student body, there has been an upgrading in the quality of the students. "We probably hav e a much larger number of very able st ud ents than we did 20 to 25 years ago," Dr . W eigl e pointd out. " We think this is a reflection of the success of the college and the educational program. It comes with greater recognition of the college and hence its greater drawing power ." Library receives Japanese howl A rare Japanese bowl has bePn prPsmt ecl to SI. John's CollPgP by the widow of a 1917 Cllumnus, Ni cho la s Dodge Woodward, of Cam br idg~', Md . Known as a Satsuma bowl, the bowl originally was prE sented by the mayor of a small J apanesP town to Colonel Woodward as the result of hi s service with the Army of Occupation following World War 11 . It now will be placed on display i11 Woodward Hall , nanwcJ for a distant relativ e of Colonel Woodward who loaned the money under which the library first was constructed. Th(' bowl may be seen in a glass cc:1 in the alumni room se where it s antique qua I ity blends with the ancient books. Some 35 per cent of this year's freshman class in Annapolis are National Merit Hon or students . With the students have come some other social chang es. Dress is more informal than the coat-and-tie attire of 1949, but there has been in the last few years a general neatening up of · a student body which is "more square" than that of the 60' s. And with the lowering of the lega l age for adult responsibility to 18, Mr . Weigle said the coll ege no longer attempts to act "in loco parentis ." Students are treated as adu lt s, and we are not concerned as we once were with living habits, " Dr. Weigle said. Financially the years have meant a Herculean effort at fund raising, an effort in which Mr . Weigle paid special tribute to the Old Dominion Foundation for its supportive role. Paul Mellon, its founder, attended St. John's College for a year in the ear ly 1940's . On th e western campus St. J oh n's has ex pended a total of $21 million through the current year, including fees . Of that amount $7 million has bc>en in plant and $14 million in operation. A ctual gifts were Clbout half of that. In Annapoli s it has meant raising $300,000 to l:lear all dPbts Mr . Weigle inherited , Pxpending $4-1 / 2 million in plc1nt , raising approximately $10 million in endowment (the !HPcisP figure depends upon -, tock m ark et f lu ctuations) or a total of about $15 million . T hpr e ha s been an additional $2-1 / 2 million to cover current operations, which average bPtween $75,000 and $100,000 <1 year . Mr . Weigl e would lik e to add an additional $3 million to th e Annapolis campus' endowment fund. " If we had $12-1/2 million in endowment, that would be quite adequate," he said . " If we had $15 million, it would be sensation al." Among the immediate needs is the prob lem of resolving certain of the Annapolis campus priorities, Dr. Weigle said. Staff members complete degrees Two member s of the St . John 's College administrative staff are comp let in g their bacheolor 's degree this year under a special program enab lin g them to attend coll ege on a full-time basis. They are Mrs. J u Ii an a Rug g, the res id ent coll ege nur se, and James E . Grant, college business manager, both of whom have been taking night -time classes for the pa st several years . Each will continue his duties with th(' coll ege on a part-time b<1s is. Charles T. Elzey, college treasur er, personally has raisPcl an $11,000 fund to permit their replacements during th e daytime. "We need to reevaluate our plan for future campus development," he said. "S pecifically, the Board must decide, with faculty advice, whether to build a new gym or expand the present one and have the present dining hall moved to the gym . We must consider what to do with the present dining hall, and at what point we should remodel the PacaCarroll dormitory. We also need to consider the best use of the western part of the campus." In the longer run, Mr. Weigle would lik e to lay plans for a third campus·, probably on the 750 acres which the Mark s family gave St.John's between Salinas and Monterey, California . " I have cherished the hope of six St . John's campuses strategically placed around the country," he said . "They would be campuses in which the students and faculty could be interchangeable. The upper two years might have more mp has is on one area, not as majors , but possibly by the rearrangement of tutorials . " In Annapolis it might be law and political science, because of the camp us ' prox imity to Washington, and in Santa Fe it might be the sciences, because of the nearness to Los A la mos ." Cartier joins Center Stage The recent burning of Center Stage in Baltimore has provided a particularly bad mom ent for a St. John 's graduate, J acques Cartier, '58. Cartier joined the stage last sum m er as its new director. ~ ortunately Center Stage has been able to reopen its produ ct ion of " Who's A fr aid of Virginia Woolf? " at the Coll ege of Notre Dame with a reconst ructed set and cost um es. Cartier has had a crowded ca r ee r since lea ving St . John 's. H e took special training in the theater at Yale, t augh l two years at Smith, and conv erted a downtown drug stor e and warehouse in H artford, Conn., into a th eater which opened with "Ot helo" and concluded its first season with 1,675 sub;criber s. Four years later there were 6,000. In addition, Cartier has sold two scr ipt s to Warner Broth ers, which never got around to µroducing them, as well as a nov el. " It took a long time, but I had the good sense not to how it to anyone," he said . H e joined Center Stage after a few free lance directing st int s in New York and another screen play . In a recent Baltimore Sun intervi ew, Cartier called the first four years at St. John's "t he most exciting years of my life." " It was a truely extraordinary school .. . enormously stimulating . .. " � 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 Development 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 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/1fabe62f49555c3c048eb6fe226312f4.pdf 7996168d542f8c44212cfe621c3ec988 PDF Text Text • d r I "In a sense we are graduates together this Sunday in May," Richard D. Weigle, President of St. John's Goll~ge, told 57 graduates of the Santa Fe .campus on May 25. Mr. Weigle was selected by the graduating classes of both campuses to deliver the Commence~ men.t address at the last Commencement exercises in which he would preside as President of St. John's College. Mr. Weigle is retiring after 31 years of service to St. John's. Commencement exercises beganat 3 p.m. with the graduates joining in the academic procession from Peterson Student Center to the upper plaza of the College as the tower bell tolled. Excerpts From Commencement Address, Page 2 The Reverend Gary G. ·Simons of Cross in the Desert United Methodist Church, Phoenix, Arizona, whose daughter, Galene, was among the graduates, delivered la e the Invocation. After Mr. Weigle welcomed students, parents, alumni and faculty, graduating senior Katherine Goff began the announcement of awards and prizes by presenting the College with $400 from the graduating class. The money is earmarked for the Community Scholarship Fund. The establishment of the John and Faith Meem Faculty Chair, a gift to the Meems from the Santa Fe campus of St. John's College and their many friends, was announced by Mrs. Walter B . Driscoll of Santa Fe, co-chairperson of f 1 0 the national committee for the establishment of the Chair with John H. Dendahl, also of Santa Fe. Robert Bart, Dean of the Santa Fe campus, then introduced the College community's gift to Mr. Weigle for his 31 years of service to the College. Mr. Bart related that the faculty committee in charge of selecting a gift, chaired by Samuel Brown, tutor, concluded that the best gift for Mr. Weigle would be an academic honor. An endowed prize of $100 to the senior who writes the best senior essay, named the Richard D. Weigle Prize, was therefore selected for Mr. Weigle. Mr. Weigle continued the ceremonies with the presentation of student awards. As he presented the award named and endowed in his honor to graduating senior Elizabeth Church he remarked that "I don't know of a gift that could please Mrs. Weigle and me more : than this. I am delighted to be in (continued, p. 8) ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY The St. John's . 111111111111111rnmr11mrr1111111111111111111 31696 01138 0589 REPORTER VOLUME VII ISSUE 5 SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO JUNE, 1980 Weigle Sees St. John's Role As Staying True To Principles EDITOR'S NOTE: Stephen Van Luchene, Santa Fe Director of Admissions, had the folio-wing conversation with President Richard D. Weigle in his Santa Fe office on Friday, May 23, the day of the President's Dinner for the graduating·class of 1980. During the interview Mr. Weigle had much to say about his perceptions of the College over th.e years and about the future - both his own and that of the College. hand, to keep from raising tuition past what people can pay. Part of the answer is to increase the endowment, particularly in Santa Fe. Annapolis currently has over $9 million in endowment; Santa Fe about $1.5 million. Also, because of the smaller pool of college-age students, we must pay attention to admissions. * * * * most pressing needs of the College when you first became president? What are the most for the seri~ A: Keeping pace with inflation is probably the most serious. It is difficult to meet the needs of the and staff, and on the other the role the College may play in the future with respect to higher education generally in this country? (continued, ·p.3) (Photo by Mary C. Fredenburgh) · President Richard D. Weigle congratulates graduating senior Elizabeth Church, winner of the Richard D. Weigle Prize for the best senior essay. Anne. Wu Receives Silver Medal Q: What did you see as the A: When I arrived in Annapolis there were great administrative problems. The previous president and his administrative officers had had a serious argument; the College needed a policy to define responsibilities and to assure administrative order. Also, the College. had virtually no endowment. Of the $300 thousand it did have, $50 thousand was invested in an old house which brought no income; $88 thousand was invested in U.S. bonds which yielded 2%; and the remainder was in the form of a note receivable from current funds. The third major problem was with admissions. In the late 'forties, because of the return of the GI's, the College had as many students as it could hold. But by the fall of 1951 the effects of the GI Bill were running out. During the years after the War and until this point there had been no real admissions effort on the part of the College at all, and a serious · new effort had to be made. too much. We have a better way of doing the .laboratory sciences and the languages. The introduction of music and the preceptorials have also enriched the program. Q: What do you envision as JPhoto by Sherry Robinson) President Richard D. Weigle delivers commencement address. Q: Those of us who have been with the College less than a decade hear frequent talk of a "golden age" in years gone by, compared to which the present faculty, students, and the College itself are mere shadows. What is your sense of the quality of the College now as compared to the early days? A: The college now has over 40 years of experience with its program. It is infinitely better than in the so-called "golden age." In what ways? A: We have a better faculty and higher calibre students. The program itself is tried and true. It has been tested by time and refined in many ways. There is no effort to try to do longer Graduating Senior Anne Wu received three honors at the Com. mencement exercises in Santa Fe on May 25. Miss Wu received the silver medal offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors for her academic record, a Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellowship of $8,000 and an Acknowledgement of Excellence from the College accompanied by an award of $75 for her translation from the French of George Sand's Lettres d' un Voyageur. Other seniors receiving awards included Elizabeth Church, the Richard D. Weigle Prize of $100 for her senior essay entitled Goethe's Faust: From Heaven through the World Hell; Michael Wood, the Senator Millard E. Tydings Memorial Prize of $50 for excellence in public speaking; Catherine Graves, an Acknowledgement of Excellence accompanied by an award of $75 for her senior essay entitled Felicity as a Natural Mystic; Dawn Meredith, an Acknowledgement of Excellence accompanied by an award of $75 for her mathematics paper, Questions of Simultaneity; Joel LaPinta, a Thorne Endowment Scholarship for summer study in preparation for medicine; Glen Barrentine and Reid Kingsbury, awarded plaques for Outstanding Performance in Athletics; Geraldine Glover and Stephen Crampton, awarded olaaues for Outstanding to Contributions in All Student Activities; and Cullen Hallmark, awarded a plaque as Athlete of the Year. Junior John Watkins received the Duane L. Peterson Scholarship of $1,250 for academic achieve. ment, constructive membership in the College community and commitment to post-graduate study. Mr. Watkins also 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 juniors receiving the St. John's College Community Scholarship included Bonnie Bassan, Sabine Schweidt, and Michael Urena. Miss Schweidt also received a plaque for Outstanding Performance in Athletics. Junior Rachel O'Keefe received an Acknowledgment of E.xcellence . . · · (continued, p.7) Sustaining Campaign Exceeds $90,000 Goal J. Burchenal Ault, Vice President of St. John's College, has announced that the Seventh Annual Sustaining Campaign for St. John's in Santa Fe has exceeded the goal of $90,000 and closed with a total of $91,289. The amount came from 369 donors. In expressing gratitude for the generosity of friends in Santa Fe and Los Alamos he. praised the leadership of Mrs. Abel Davis and Saul Cohen, co-chairmen of the fund raising effort. He also expressed thanks to the fifteen vice chairmen and the' more than four dozen committee members who worked energetically to make the campaign a success. Of the total, $78,685 was in unrestricted gifts, $9,065 toward endowment, a $100 pledge and $3,439 in gifts in kind. In announcing the successful completion of the current drive, Mr. Ault looked back over earlier sustaining campaigns for St. John's College. Last year's campaign total was $66,478 with a total of 316 gifts. The first local campaign in 1973 brol!ght $21,895 in gifts to the College and $13,105 in pledges to be paid over a three year period. There were 147 donors. �'. THE REPORTER. PAGE'2 A umni Notes Class ofl968 Glenn Ballard and his wife Jean are proud parents of a baby daughter, Brittany, born on February 3rd. Brittany is their first child. Allison Karslake, along with Kathleen Townsend, wife of David Townsend, Santa Fe tutor, wrote an appraisal of New Mexico's 1977 Criminal Sentencing Act which appeared in the New Mexico Law Review. The writers concluded that instead of being the hoped-for reform which could reduce crime, the act merely redistributes sentencing discretion from the payroll board to the judiciary. Allison is clerking for Judge Ramon Lopez of the New Mexico Court of Appeals. Class of 1969 Frank Adams stopped in at the Santa Fe campus during the week of March 3 on a combined vacation and business trip to visit his brother Bruce, who is in the airplane safari business in northern New Mexico. Frank works for the telephone company in Boston and on the side works with another brother who is an inventor in making new products for consumer use. He was full of enthusiasm for all of these projects. Additionally, he had a marvelous system of waxed paper for composing complicated letters from bits and pieces of other letters. As with all the Adamses, he was full of intelligence and energy and a strong interest in St. John's. Lynn McClive Farnsworth is a dormitory resident at Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio while her husband studies . physics there. JUNE, 1980· March 3, en route from Texas to California. Seth, who received his Master's degree in Political Science from Boston College, now is a staff writer for Fortune magazine. He has had pieces published in Public Interest, Commentary, and Harper's, and was busily at work as part of a team putting together a new study of top management for Fortune. Bruce Glaspell visited the Santa Fe campus during the week of February 24. He is establishing a small office for his money-management firm in Santa Fe, and has hired Debbie Kauffman to run that office for him. Bruce has been extraordinarily successful in the business and came by to see if there wasn't some way in which he might be able to do some useful work in the College. It· wasn't too hard to name a few areas, and it was good to see him again. Class of 1973 and Gauler Knudsen are living just south of Santa Fe, expecting a second baby. Paul teaches junior high school in Santa Fe. Class of 197 4 Ginger Boyle has finished her second year of law school at the University of Wyoming, Laramie. Janet Braziel is working in the Attorney General's office in Santa Fe. Pair is studying biology at the University of New Mexico. Stephen Deane is receiving a Master's degree this June from the Regional Studies, Soviet Union Program at Harvard. He completed a four-month sojourn in the Soviet Union in January, during which time he was· a full-time student with the Ohio State group at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow. Laucks has received a B. S. in physics from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is now an associate engineer at Santa Barbara Research Corporation. Paula Lundy received her private pilot's license in Los Angeles, California in May. Susan Otto just finished law school at Oklahoma City University. She visited Santa Fe before beginning work at Air Quality Division, Oklahoma Health Department, with environmental law. Class of 1978 Frederick Neill has received a B. S. in biology from the University of California at Riverside. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. We hear that Ben and Suzan Monk Porter have become parents for the first time. Class of 1979 Giselle Minoli has moved up rapidly with CBS Records. After two years in San Francisco Giselle has moved to New York as the director of merchandising . Class of 1976 Catherine Carroll is a trial lawyer working with the firm Spears, Lubersky, Campbell, & Bledsoe in Portland, Oregon. She is interested in organizing a Portland area alumni group. Christian and Janet Moody Burks are living in New Haven, Connecticut and have become parents of a baby girl. Mary Cerrnilo (A '76) is teaching in a Montessori school in Arnold, Maryland, lives in Annapolis and bikes to work. Aleta Hackney Jones writes that she and her husband recently purchased a house in Portland, Oregon, where they have an active volcano (Mt. St. Helens) in view. They have one child and are expecting another this month. Aleta's letter brought news of other alumni: Eric Seder and Alice Ericcson ('75) live in Portland, and James Baldwin; who is playing with a very inventive and talented musical group, is preparing to move to Los Angeles, Califomia.'Margaret Ryan {'77) has been studying biol- Theresa Baca has been named as an attorney for the legal department of the Small Business Administration in Albuquerque, N.M. Ms. Baca received her J.D. in 1975 from the University of Pennsylvania and was admitted to the New Mexico Bar in 1978. She is active in the City of Albuquerque's Landmark & Urban Conservation Commission. Seth Cropsey came to Santa Fe over the weekend of Class of 1977 Class of 1975 Class of 1970 Class of 1972 ogy and chemistry at the University of Arizona in preparation for medical school. Matthew Krane ('76) gradl uated from Harvard Law School in May and plans to work for an entertainment law firm in Beverly Hills. Adrian Franklin (GI) just left to go to Bangkok to spend two years in the Peace Corps teaching English. Henry and Mary Classen ('78) Horsey have completed their trip on the Nile and have just finished a 60 page report on certain aspects of the water delivery system of Middle and Upper Egypt. Henry was awarded a Wat son Fellowship in 1979 for that project. At the end of April they hoped to leave Cairo and travel to Europe in order to hike a wildflower trail along the Cornwall coast in England and several Alpine trails in Austria. They plan on moving to Fort Collins, Colorado, where Henry will begin a Water Resources Management and Develop..: ment program in the Graduate School of Civil Engineering at Colorado State University. Kate Lauer (GI) and her husband Ted will be moving to Laramie, Wyoming this summer. They will be teaching law there this fall. And we hear that Diane Cancio Olsen is moving to Naperville, Illinois with her husband, graduating senior Jeff Olsen. Excerpts From President Weigle's Address EDITOR'S NOTE: Below are excerpts from President Richard D. Weigle's address to the graduating class of 1980, delivered at commencement exercises on May 25, 1980. * * * * In a sense we are graduates together this Sunday in May. You have done better than I for the vast majority of you have taken only four years to attain your degree. I, on the other hand, have been around this College now for thirty-one years and am only ·now about to leave it. So, though I entered with the Class of 1953, I guess I leave with the Class of 1980. I am proud to have been a member of both, and indeed a friend and associate of many St. Johnnies over three decades. . . Let me offer now some observations upon your graduation. Perhaps some of my own experience you may find applicable to your own individual situations. Perhaps it may be easier to know that your president has had his moments of bewilderment and doubt ... Fortunate are the few who know now with clarity and purpose just exactly the next steps in their careers. Many of you have already been admitted to graduate schools. Others of you will be working to pay off loans, to "find yourselves", and to decide what comes next. Perhaps my own experience will offer some measure of encouragement, or at least of consolation. It is a demonstration of the absence of clear direction and of the presence of fortuitous developments. In college I majored in mathematics because it was easy for me. As a senior I shifted to English because it was the only other subject in which I had enough credits to graduate. Teaching elementary English . in China satisfied my urge for adventure and at the same time provided an opportunity to try out teaching. A year in Divinity School proved that I could not become a minister without a clear call to that vocation, but it did expose me to the Bible, to church history, and to religious philosophy. Rational consideration then determined me to teach and dictated graduate study in history. An able professor steered me into American diplomatic history. After three years Of college teaching, World War II sent me to Chinese language school and then to the Far East for active service in the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations. This experience in turn propelled me into the Far Eastern Office of the Department of State and there the Board of Visitors and Governors of St. John's College found me in 1949, mercifully with a background which included Greek, German and French, mathematics. and philosophy, diplomacy and fund-raising and experience in teaching and administration. Had I set out to be President of St. John's College in 1931, I should never have made· it. My point is simply that you can surmount false starts and that you should make the most of your opportunities, for each piece of experience may in some unexpected way contribute to a greater opportunity in the future. . . Each of you has had the freedom to choose but each of you must make a choice. You cannot remain in limbo with a life that is uncommitted. I hope that your philosophy of life provides you with the impulse to serve, to undertake careers and professions which will be useful to your fellow men and women, and to contribute as concerned citizens to your nation and to your community ... All of this reminds me of Plato's Cave. It is not enough that y9u be turned about by your St. John's education to see and to strive for the Good and the True. You must return to the Cave. You must work with your fellow citizens to help them to see the light until they themselves become turned about so that they are no longer pursuing shadows and echoes. I hope that you will hold to three commitments for the future. The first of these is a commitment to principle. You have now read many books and have discussed many theories. Only if theory is put into practice will your education have been of any value. You are acquainted at first hand with the virtues. You are not· unfamiliar with justice, with honesty, and with fundamental principles of government. The time is now here when you must put theory to practice. Your second commitment, I hope, will be to liberal education. This means that you must continue to be intellectually alive, that you will find a wise use of leisure in reading good books, in attending good lectures and concerts, in carrying on meaningful conversation. Your education at St. John's should have provided the stimulus to go on wit4 your learning even under the difficult circumstances of the marketplace. Finally, I hope that you will cherish a commitment to this College. It will be normal for most of you to turn your attention to graduate schools, to marriage and family, and to your new vocation, whatever it may be. I hope you will not forget that you remain members of the St. John's community through the provision of the College Polity, which says that alumni are lifetime members of the College. For this is a community not limited by geographical location or fixed periods of times. You have an opportunity and an obligation to make a St. John's education possible for future generations of young men and women by guiding prospective students here, by contributing of your time and substance to the College even if it be the widow's mite, and by exemplifying in your,own lives what the books and the tutors at St. John's College have meant to you. I suspect that you and I have a devotion and a loyalty to this place from which we can never willingly escape. It has changed my life. I am sure it has done the same for you. Hail and farewell! �THE REPORTER, JUNE, 1980 ew Edwin J. Delattre, PresidentElect of St. John's College, was introduced to 160 business, civic, political and academic leaders of New Mexico on April 30 as the keynote speaker at the eighth annual banquet of the New Mexico Independent College Fund (NMICF), The banquet was held at the Four Hills Country Club in Albuquerque and hosted by George Maloof, a trustee of the NMICF. Mr. Maloof, a prominent New Mexico businessman and banker and owner of a hotel chain and University Newspaper W elcoines Delattre EDITOR'S NOTE: Preceding the address of Edwin J. Delattre, President-Elect of St. John's College at the eighth annual banquet of the New Mexico Independent College Fund (NMICF) on April 30, the NMICF and one if its trus.tees, George Maloof, held a press conference for Mr. Delattre at the First National Bank in Albuquerque. Representatives of radio, television, and newspapers attended the press conference. Of particular interest was the resulting editorial by the New Mexico Daily Lobo of the University of New Mexico on May 1, 1980. Some Can Do It Right Believe it or not, there are some administrators in higher education that are sincerely concerned with the question of ethics in competitive athletics. A case in point is President-Elect Dr. Edwin Delattre of St. John's College of Santa Fe. Dr. Delattre believes that there is an inherent incompatibility in competing and cheating in any sporting activity, and he has published several articles to back up his position that breaking the rules of a game destroys it. It does not matter in the least whether or not a cheater is caught. What matters is that someone has placed his own greed for victory above the earnest desires of others for a fulfilling competitive experience. For Dr. Delattre, confrontation is a form of inquiry of one's self in an historical philosophical sense. He says that "To view inquiry as competition . . . is to misunderstand both." So what does this have to do with a major university with an athletics department whose lack of ethics has gained the whole university national infamy? For starters, it may provide us with some guidelines for cleaning up our act, so to speak, by placing athletic competition in its proper perspective. No extracurricular activity, athletics or anything else, is an adequate reason for a university to exist. The purpose of a university is to educate the individuals in a society so that it may grow and improve itself, thus improving the lives of all who belong to it. In this respect, athletics may play a large role in that growth. But it is not helpful when a university's reputation as a social institution is fouled by the actions of a part of that community, when its educational achievements are placed in a subordinate position to the purely commercial aspects of an overgrown athletics program. Let us then take advantage of the expertise and experience of our collegiate neighbors, and develop an athletic program that can enhance our educational opportunities, not one that we are obliged to apologize for. the Houston Rockets, has hosted the banquet for eight years. The NMICF is a private nonprofit corporation with a twofold purpose: to familiarize the people of New Mexico with the aims, functions, and needs of private colleges and universities in New Mexico, and to provide an effective means for the private business sector, foundations, and other members of the community to help private education meet the increasing costs of quality higher education. St. John's College, The College of Santa Fe, and the University of Albuquerque, members of the NMICF, are affiliated with and represented at the national level by the Independent College Funds of America (ICFA). Mr. Delattre delivered an address entitled "The Need for Diversity in Higher Education." He cited "the genius of American education, a genius which is exhibited in an expanding commitment to the ideal of educational opportunity for people of diverse backgrounds" as a principle which "cannot be brought to life in practice without diverse institutions of formal education." He warned, however, that "the risk of advocating the need for diversity ... is that the superficial and trivial will try to sneak in and claim to be worthy of inclusion in education because they lead to greater diversity." The trivial and superficial in education can be avoided, Mr. Delattre said, by pursuing "disciplined habits of thought, communication, and study" rather than "the fashionable." Mr. Delattre remarked that the division between the classroom and the 'real world' denies that "classrooms are real-(by which is meant important or worth paying attention to). "The result is normally a failure to appreciate that the classroom is just as real as the rest of the real world and a corresponding failure to see that having a disciplined mind and knowing how to learn by study and thought are, in part, what enable people to prevent 'the real world' from becoming 'the cruel world' - because being able to think things through carefully, and to take relevant evidence into account, is what enable us to avoid learning everything by ourselves the hard way. PAGE3 e • l (Photo by Dick Skrondahl) President Richard D. Weigle (left), George Maloof (center), and President-Elect Edwin J. Delattre at eighth annual banquet of the New Mexico Independent College Fund. "It is worth rioting that one frequently hears the old saying, 'Experience is a good teacher;' but, unfortunately, one seldom hears the second half of it ... 'a fool can learn from no other.' It is a wonderful thing to be able to learn from experience ... but it is inestimably better to be able to learn from experience and also by thinking and studying, and by paying attention to the experience of others." Two cash awards were presented to the New Mexico Independent College Fund, The second place IBM Incentive Award of $2,500 and the first place Levi Strauss Foundation Incentive Award of $15,000 were made to the NMICF for showing the greatest percentage of increase as compared with the rest of the thirty-nine state affiliates over amounts collected the previous year by the NMICF. The NMICF raised $127,000 during the fiscal year 1978-79, an eighty-five per cent increase over the previous fiscal year. Sixty per cent of all funds raised are divided equally among the three members of the NMICF; the remaining forty per cent is apportioned according to enrollment. Certificates of Appreciation were presented by the NMICF to five companies which have contributed to the NMICF for over ten consecutive years: AT & T Long Lines (14 years), Kmart Corporation ( 18 years), Nabisco Foundation (17 years), New York Life Insurance Company (11 years) and the Santa Fe Railway Foundation, Weigle Sees St. John's Staying True To Principles (continued from p. 1) A: Before talking of St. John;s in relation to the larger educational structure, we should speak first of the primary function of the College, which is to take a couple of hundred people each year and start their education. I think the future role of this college is to stay true to its principles-to be a demonstration to faculty members from other institutions of what is possible in a liberal-arts institution. Q: What changes do you think are either desirable or inevitable for the College in the next decade? A: The program doesn't need changing. Financing may force some modification in teaching loads or sabbatical years or in the student-faculty ratio. These things are not desirable but may be inevitable. We have to work toward greater national visibility. Mr. Delattre is eminently suited to this task. He is used to writing and speaking which will be good for , the College. It is important for us to stay in national view to bring us both more benefactors and more students. More national visibility would also help other institutions to change their programs in our direction. I would like to see some fine use made of the property which the College owns in California between Salinas and Monterey. Perhaps it could become a place where people could spend a sabbatical year-some academic use, but something less than establishing a third campus. Q: What are the benefits of a two-campus structure for the College? A: St John's in Annapolis was isolated. There was almost no possibility of interchange with other institutions. We felt we were doing the right thing and there was little we could learn from other colleges. With a second campus trying to do the same program, each campus has a colleague it can learn from. A new idea can be tried on one campus with the other serving as a "control" for comparative purposes. With another faculty to talk to, a healthy curricular competition can take place which benefits the Program. In the second place, students are peripatetic. People who dropped out of Annapolis, because they didn't like the setting, could not go to another college with a similar curriculum before Santa Fe was established. Because each campus is small, it offers only a limited opportunity for a student to experience people. A second campus provides the opportunity to experience and learn with a different group of people. I advise as many people as possible to spend at least one year on the other campus. (continued, p. 4) Inc. (19 years). Pacemaker Awards were presented by the NMICF to four companies which had contributed over $5 ,000 to the NMICF this year: Levi Strauss, Mountain Bell, Public Service Company of New Mexico, and Sandia Laboratories. Richard D. Weigle, President of St. John's College, was recognized at the bai:iquet for his long-standing service to the NMICF and to higher education on both a local and national level. Mr. Weigle was one of the founders of the Maryland Independent College Fund in the early 1950's and was instrumental in creating an affiliation between the New Mexico Independent College Association (now the NMICF) and the Independent College Funds of America in the late 1960's. College Honors President Weigle On Wednesday, May 21, 350 members of the St. John's College community in Santa Fe faculty, students, staff and spouses - gathered for a special evening to pay tribute to President and Mrs. Richard Weigle. Special guests were Mrs. John Gaw Meem of Santa Fe, two members of the Board of Visitors and Governors, J .I. Staley of Wichita Falls, Texas and Santa Fe and Judge B.C. Hernandez of Albuquerque, and Mrs. Hernandez. Samuel Brown, tutor, was master of ceremonies. Speakers were Robert Bart, Dean, senior Kyle Schultz, Mary Branham representing the staff, Charles Bell, tutor, and Vice-PresidentJ. Burchenal Ault. Mr. Weigle was honored for his total dedication to St. John's College over the past 31 years and for his specific contribution in founding the Santa Fe campus. Timothy Miller, tutor, played a Beethoven sonata and Landon Young, musician-in-residence, led the College Chorus in a number of selections. Mrs. Weigle read a letter to a new college president's wife which she had written to be included in the book, An Uncertain Glory, by Dr. Frederic Ness. Mr. Brown presented Mr. Weigle with a gift from the entire college community - the Richard D. Weigle Prize to be presented each year at commencement to the senior who writes the best senior essay. �JUNE, 1980 THE REPORTER PAGE4 and their many friends the establishment of a Chair bearing their names for their years of service to Santa the field of architecture and St. John's College. un·o111oh e i , ·ng Under Way Describing the efforts of a national committee to establish , the John and Faith Meem Faculty Chair on the Santa Fe campus of St. John's college as a " happy task", Mrs. Walter B. Driscoll, co-chairperson of the committee along with John H. Dendahl, both of Santa Fe, announced that funding is well under way toward reaching the committee's $500,000 goal. Mrs. Driscoll, former Chairman of the Board of Visitors- and Governors, made this announcement at Commencement exercis~s in Santa Fe on May 25. "Our committee is composed of New Mexican friends of the Meems as well as friends all over the country, and I call this a 'happy task' because it is an expression of our admiration and appreciation of these two talented, generous people, John and Faith Meem," Mrs. Driscoll added. The establishment of a perpetual Faculty Chair in the names of John and Faith Meem was pro- posed by St. John's College to honor them for their years of service and generosity to the community of Santa Fe, to the field of architecture, and to the College. Income from the $500,000 goal to be raised for the Chair will forever underwrite the compensation of a selected tutor on the Santa Fe campus. Such a tutor would be known as the John and Faith Meem Tutor for as long as he or she held the Chair. The committee plans to mount a plaque commemorating the establishment of the Chair on a designed wall to be placed in a selected outside location on campus. The plaque is being designed by well-known sculptor Una Hanbury of Santa Fe as her contribu· tion to the program. The Meems' generosity to St. John's College includes the gift of more than 200 acres - comprising most of the land upon which the- Santa Fe campus .now rests - and many other gifts. John Meem is an Honorary Fellow of St. John's, and has served on the Board of Visitors and Governors. "John Gaw Meem's architectural genius has nurtured, over many years, the unique architectural style we enjoy here in New Mexico," Mrs. Driscoll said in her announcement. "John and Faith together have contributed creatively to almost every phase of the cultural and, social development of this community.'' Committee vice-chairpersons include Cassius McCormick, Muncie, Indiana; Mrs. Marshall McCune, Santa Fe; Dr. Philip Shultz, Tesuque, N.M.; Dr. Albert Simms, Albuquerque, N .M.; Mr. J.I. · Staley, Wichita Falls, Tex. and Santa Fe; and Mrs. Louise T. Trigg, Santa Fe. Those wishing to donate a gift for the John and Faith Meem Chair may send their donations to: John and Faith Meem Faculty Chair Committee, St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501. The Student Employment Office will expand to a year-round operation for the first time this summer to provide a service for St. John's students who remain in the Santa Fe area: Bill Day, SF '82, who assisted Kyle Schultz, SF '80 in the Student Employment Office during the year, will run the office this summer from 9 a.m. to 12 noon, Monday through Friday. He will also head the employment office next year. His assistant has not yet been named. Also for the first time, a committee of five alumni has been formed to assist the employment office in its search for jobs. The committee, which includes Dan Cleavinger, SF '69, Deborah Kauffman SF '72, Deborah Moll, A '69, Robert Rosenwald, SF '69, and Steven Tucker, SF '69 met earlier in the spring with Day, Schultz and Samuel Larcombe, Director of Alumni Affairs, to learn what they could do to help find jobs for St. John's students. After receiving completed questionnaires from Mr. Day and Miss Schultz concerning the skills and interests of those students looking for jobs, the committee contacted various employers throughout the city to notify them of the St. John's student employment pro gram. The alumni will also channel all job leads they find through personal contacts into the Student Employment Office. Although jobs are difficult to get in this recession period, the efforts of the alumni to provide job contacts look hopeful, according to Mr. Larcom be. The office is open to all those affiliated with St. John's College including recent graduates, and provides a service both for students who need instant cash those willing to do yard work, for instance - and those who prefer a steady income. Last year, approximately 30 students worked steadily throughout the school , year. tw1omc:an1p11s structure? A: Speaking from the standpoint of the president I find that one campus uses the other as a lever to obtain what the other has. If one campus has some advantage, it isn't long before the other insists that it have the same thing. The president has to try to keep the two parallel. Salary increases, for example, may have to be limited, if one campus can afford increases but the other cannot. Also, the president has only half as much time to devote to each campus and its community. On the other hand, I find, sometimes the problems which occur on one campus have a way of solving themselves when I go to the other campus. Q: Is St. John's the only Besides finding summer jobs for students, Mr. Day will also begin to look for fall employment opportunities for returning students. Those students interested in a job next fall should contact with such a structure? Many universities have campuses at more than one location within a state, but I don't know of any college with a second campus outside state boundaries. . Q: What do you consider your greatest accomplishments during your 31 years as president? A: These three things, but not necessarily in this order: The building of a solid foundation under the Annapolis campus and the ad~ dition of needed buildings; the introduction of women to the College; and the founding of the Santa Fe campus. What have you enjoyed most? A: I have enjoyed teaching, coleading seminars, leading preceptorials and freshman math classes. .. I have also enjoyed my contact Santa Fe tutors have begun conducting teaching seminars with high school teachers. The seminars are designed to demonstrate the power of the dialectical approach and to explore the liberal arts in the teaching community. \cc:or1:11ng to responses from parucma.tmg high school teachers, they have so far proven to be successful. In March Santa Fe tutor Chandler traveled to Chicago to lead four seminars in three area high schools. He spent an entire day at Rich Township High School in Park Forest, Illinois where he met in the morning with a group of teachers from an alternative education program and led them in a seminar on Plato's Meno. In the afternoon he discussed geometric reasoning with Rich Township High School students. Mr. Chandler also met with students at Fenwick High School in Oak Park, Illinois to conduct a seminar on the Declaration of Independence, and led a teachers' seminar on the Meno at Oak Park and River Forest High School, also in Oak Park. In a letter of appreciation to Chandler from Oak Park and River Forest High School, one teacher wrote, "You have made a strong contribution to our awareness of how St. John's provides an educational experience for its students.'' Mr. Chandler and Samuel Larcombe, Associate Director of Admissions and Director of Alumni Affairs, who has been helping with the program, together led a seminar in April on Benito Ce.reno by Herman Melville with teachers from Sandia High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico. "Nearly a week later, people a_re still excited about last Tuesday evening," wrote one Sandia High School teacher to Mr. Larcombe about the seminar. "I want to thank you and Phil for helping us know each other and ourselves a little better. The main goal of the ~cuumu~ according to Mr. Larcom be, is to demonstrate to high school teachers what a powerful tool the dialectical approach can be. But Mr. Larcombe believes that providing the opportunity for high s9hool teachers to share together a learning experience is another very important aspect of the seminars. "Teachers who do not ordinarily talk about intellectual matters together, but who do share bureaucratic concerns, have found it really quite thrilling to read a serious book, and to get together and start talking about it," Mr. Larcombe said. On the other hand, the tutors are also listening carefully to the insights of the teachers with whom they meet. "Part of the whole purpose of this community effort is to keep in touch with the immense variety and vitality of the nation's schools," Mr. Larcombe said. Currently John Verdi, Santa Fe tutor, is scheduled to conduct teaching seminars in three San Diego s<:;hools in the fall. Santa Fe tutor Robert Bunker is planning to spend four days in Colorado schools, and autumn seminars may also be scheduled with teachers at Santa Fe and Los Alamos High Schools and with high school counselors from the Albuquerque Public School system. At present, funds for the semhim at the Student Employment . inars are channeled through the Office. Admissions Office. Although not Last year 135 jobs were filled an official admissions program, through the office with pay totalthe seminars may indirectly bening $8,882.50. efit St. John's by their ability to show high school teachers exactJob positions range from yard ly how St. John's methods of inwork and child care to more struction work. The teachers, in skilled work. For instance, last turn, may know students who year one student found employwould be interested in a St. John's ment as a reader to a disabled Liberal Arts education. lawyer. with Board members and have made many wonderful friends. My greatest source of satisfaction is just seeing the two campuses function, sitting in on a fine concert or a good lecture and realizing that I have made it possible. It was fascinating to take the blueprint from the east and build the. Santa Fe campus. Very few people are given the opportunity to found a new college, which has been my great privilege. Q: What do you plan to do in the next decade? A: I'm keeping my options open. r would entertain the possibility of being a consultant to a college or another organization; or perhaps of being an interim president somewhere for a year or so; or perhaps some association with St. John's after a year. Deferred giving or bequests are areas in which I could help because I have many friends and I believe in what this college does. We are buying a house in Maryland at 1925 Harwood Rd. in Pendennis Mount across the river from Annapolis and are holding on to our house in Santa Fe at 1127 Old Santa Fe Trail, where we plan to spend summers. We will be in the People's Republic of China from October 11 to November 5. Do you to do any writing? A: Though I think there is altogether too much written these days, there are two projects which I would like to undertake: writing the history of the establishment of the Santa Fe campus and collecting in a· small volume the matriculation-convocation talks I have given. �THE REPORTER JUNE, 1980 PAGES St. John's - (Photo by Sherry Robinson) Graduates of the Graduate Institute ·prepare to receive their diplomas. From left to right, Ellen Bacigalupa, Rebecca Collignon, John Pollak, Steven Schulman, Mary Louise Williams, and Mostafa Zamanian. Six From Institute Program Class of 980 Six students received their Master of Arts degree from the Graduate Institute in the College's graduation ceremonies on May 25. All six earned at least some of their credits in the year-round evening program, and one, John Pollak of Santa Fe, is the first graduate who has earned his degree exclusively through the yearround pro gram. Graduating with Mr. Pollak were Ellen Bacigalupa and Rebecca Collignon, both from Santa Fe, Steven Schulman of Orinda, California, Mary Louise Williams of Jacona, New Mexico, and Mostafa Zamanian, who currently resides in Albuquerque. "I think the experiences of this year's graduates testify to the success of the year-round program," said Barbara Skaug, Registrar of the Graduate Institute. Ms. Skaug said there were several concerns at the beginning of the program. "We wondered if a part-time program would result in a real immersion in the books and grappling with the material. ''And for the first time we had a situation where the majority of the students in the program lived off campus. There was a chance that we would lose a sense of community, that the students wouldn't come up to Friday night lectures or that a general interaction amongst students and between students and tutors would be lost. "But that hasn't been the case at all," she continued. "I would say a comparatively high level of enthusiasm and interaction with the books and the community has been sustained." Mr. Pollak, who had visited a number of classes during the summer session previous to enrolling in the year-round program, agrees: "I didn't have any problem at all in getting to know the college community. I made many friends among both the graduate and undergraduate students, and participated as much as I could in programs outside of classes." In fact, Mr. Pollak said, "I would never willingly jump into a full-time summer session. I prefer the leisure of the year-round program." Mr. Pollak, who currently works at a Santa Fe radio station, KAFE, and also as a freelance writer, plans to attend this year's summer session part-time. He will be taking a preceptorial ''for the fun of it" on "Moral Fables," taught by William Allen, a visiting tutor from Claremont College. All six graduates expressed deep satisfaction at having studied at the Institute, and an extraordinary level of enthusiasm. "People who are at St. John's. all the time have a tendency to get blase about the program," Ms. Skaug said, "because we think that this is what education is like. ·But almost without fail our graduate students come from traditional undergraduate experiences - experiences of lectures and textbooks. "The Graduate Institute is a drastic change for them," she continued. "They're jumping up and down to be able to really grapple with the material and have discussions with other students and tu- tors.'' Ms. Skaug also pointed out that while the summer program is very intense, students have ten months to digest the material, ''ten months in which they often do not get a chance to talk with people the way they do at St. John's," she said. "The people in the year-round program are, similarly, coming up to campus from jobs that don't always offer them the opportunity to have discussions like the ones they have at St. John's." Graduate Rebecca Collignon completed her degree last December and then worked from January through May as Registrar of the Graduate Institute wh.ile Ms. Skaug was on sabbatical. Ms. Collignon began her degree in the summer of 1971 and then left to pursue a career in nursing. She returned in the fall of 1978 to finish her degree at St. John's. She said she particularly enjoyed the Philosophy/Theology segment of the program. "I had been doing a lot of thinking along those lines on my own, and I wanted to read and discuss · those subjects with others," said Ms. Collignon. Mary Louise Williams, who teaches 20th century European, Russian, and American history at Los Alamos High School, began the Graduate Institute program last summer and completed her degree through the evening classes this spring. She commuted to St. John's from Jacona. "Wouldn't it be lovely if more undergraduate schools would use (continued, p. 6) Middle Eastern readings will form the basis for a Graduate Institute preceptorial this summer primarily to create an opportunity for interchange between Western students and Middle Eastern students who will study here. The 12 Middle Eastern students will attend the Graduate Institute through a joint grant provided by the International Communications - a branch of the United States State Department and the Reader's Digest DeWitt Wallace Fund and Foundation. The .....,.,.,...,,.,.., purpose of the grant is to acquaint Middle Eastern students with Western culture. · This will be the third summer for the joint grant, but the first summer in which the program has included Middle Eastern works. The decision to change the program was made after discussions with Middle Eastern students who had previously attended the Graduate Institute, and also after a recommendation by Mr. Marshall Berg, head of Cultural Affairs for the ICA in Cairo, who suggested that the program offered a unique opportunity to provide an interchange between Middle Eastern and Western students. David Jones, Director of the Graduate Institute, also believes that the current political climate calls for more understanding between cultures. "It is particularly important to increase better understanding between the Islamic and Western cultures at this time," he said. "Our program hopes to make a small contribution toward that goal." The preceptorial will include two sections of 12 students each half Middle Eastern and half Western. The Middle Eastern class will replace the regular preceptorial for these students under either the Philosophy, Politics or Literature segments. Thomas Harris and Robert Sacks will teach the preceptorials. A· list of four books currently under consideration for the class · include The Political Regime, by Al Faribi; Confessions by Al Ghazzali; Hayy Son of Yaqzan, by Ibn Tufayl, and Muqaddimah, by Ibn Kahldun. All four books were written between the years 900-1400 A.D. The official texts for the class will be English translations of the chosen books, but Arabic students will be free to consult the original readings. ''The decision to include the Middle Eastern works is a little experiment to see if these books might find a place in our curriculum," Mr. Jones said. He added that previous attempts to use books from the Far East were not successful since their ideas tended to be so remote from Western thought that the subjects were difficult to discuss. "However with the Middle Eastern students here to talk about their books with us," Jones said, "at least if we don't understand their ideas, we can try to see why not." The Islamic and Western cultures actually share parts of the same heritage, Mr. Jones pointed out. Both cultures hold classical Greece in common, and Abraham of the Old Testament can be considered a joint patriarch. Also for the first time this summer, all of the Middle Eastern students will attend the Santa Fe campus only. The main reason for this change is to give the students a better opportunity not only to acquaint themselves with western culture, but also to talk among themselves and to compare one another's backgrounds and traditions. In the past Middle Eastern students in the Graduate Institute have come from Israel, Morocco, Turkey, Iran, Jordan, Svria, and the West Bank. Mr. Jones recently traveled to Cairo for five days to recruit Egyptian students for the program, and also to discuss appropriate readings for the Middle Eastern preceptorial. While in Cairo he contacted teachers at the major universities there to help recruit potential students, and also met with groups of students interested in the program. Mr. Jones was particularly interested in recruiting young students for the program, specifically recent graduates or young faculty. "They seem to have a better response to the program," Mr. Jones said. "They seemed to enjoy it more, and participate more." The high point of the trip, according to Mr. Jones, was a discussion between himself and a group of men to whom he had given a presentation at Alazhar University in Cairo about the Graduate Institute. "After the presentation, a group of us went out to the bazaar and sat in the alleyway, drinking tea and talking about philosophy,'' Mr. Jones said. Their discussion included the ideas of Aristotle, Aquinas and Kant, and the idea of cause and effect and how it relates to the concept of God. Mr. Jones also questioned them about the Koran. "The discussion provoked lively responses," Jones said, adding that they were the sort of graduate students who would make good candidates for the progran;i.. Both groups of men and women to whom he spoke at Alazhar University - the world's oldest university in continuous operation - seemed very interested in attending St. John's. Mr. Jones was most encouraged by the visit to Cairo and anticipates a fair number of Egyptian students will attend the Institute this summer. �PAGE'6 , THE REPORTER JUNE, 1980 Year-Round Institute Concludes Secon The Graduate Institute's yearround program on the Santa Fe campus, now concluding its second year, has been approved by th~ faculty to continue as an experiment for a third year, according to Mr. David Jones, Director. of the Graduate Institute. Originally the Graduate Institute met only during the summer, but since 1978 students have been able to pursue their Master of Arts degrees in Liberal Education during the regular school year. Twenty-seven students attended late afternoon tutorials and preceptorials last semester, with approximately 20 of these students attending the evening seminar as well. "The program has slowly but continuously grown in number of enrollees," Mr. Jones said. Fifteen students enrolled in the first semester of the year-round program. Currently the year-round program - which exists on the Santa Fe campus only - offers one segment per semester. To grow farther, the program would have to jump to two seminars or approximately 40 students. kaug Goes 'Round The World ___ selin Students on Ship "Visiting Greece was like coming home," Barbara Skaug, Registrar of the Graduate Institute, said about one of the twelve ports-. of-call on her recently completed trip around the world. Ms. Skaug traveled as one of seven Resident Directors of the "Semester at Sea" program affiliated with the University of Colorado at Boulder. "Everything was so familiar I drank from the springs of Delphi, I saw the crossroads where Oedipus killed Laius and the plains of Thebes are indeed fruitful," she continued. Ms. Skaug was notified last November that she had been chosen to accompany 525 students on the S. S. Universe, and began to prepare for the 100-day excursion around the world, The ship left Los Angeles on February 3, traveled to Honolulu, the city of Kobe in Japan, Taiwan, and then to Hong Kong, where Ms. Skaug took a train to Canton on Mainland China. ''Visiting Mainland China was rlefinitely a highpoint of the trip," Ms. Skaug said. "The buildings and clothes the people wear are drab and bland - but the result is that you realize how unique the people are. You tend not to notice that in, for example, New York City.'' Ms. Skaug had many opportunities to talk with the citizens of China, but mostly through interpreters. She found some of the influence of the Western world surprising. "For example, the boyfriend of our tour guide was working on a thesis on Hegel. I wouldn't have expected that," she said. Ms. Skaug was also surprised by some of the other interests of the Mainland Chinese. "People didn't want to know so much about what it's like in the United States," she said. "Rather, they said 'you've been to Taiwan what was it like?''' She found the same kind of interest among the Taiwanese, who composed the crew of the ship, about Mainland China. "But it was more difficult for them. They wanted to know what was going on in Mainland China, but they also remembered it as the place where relatives had been killed.'' Living on the ship, in charge of 91 of the 525 students on board, took some adjustment. According to Ms. Skaug her bedroom was "smaller than the bathroom of my apartment." Students were sharing rooms the same size, and "needless to say, noise was somewhat of a problem. In cramped quarters like (Photo by Sherry Robinson) Barbara Skaug, Registrar of the Graduate Institute. that you've just got to cope. was truly a labor of love," she There's no saying 'I can always continued. move off campus.'" From Piraeus the ship traveled Ms. Skaug felt that coping on to Malaga, Spain, then across the a ship is possible in a way that it · Atlantic to Baltimore, Maryland. might not be at St. John's. ''A lot of people wonder if the "Because of the nature of our students are serious about education," Ms. Skaug commented. "I classes at St. John's it's more important that people either deal with think they're serious about it," or lay aside interpersonal difficulshe continued, "but they just don't ties. Classes aren't going to work know what education is. I worked if we can't do that. Whereas on on converting them." Ms. Skaug met a number of the ship, where even the 'discussion classes' were more like lecpeople on the trip through her tures, interpersonal difficulties associations at St. John's. In · Hong Kong she met friends of weren't as significant. "At St. John's we say 'try and. Mrs. Margaret Twyman, Coordiwork. it out with your tutor,' or nator of the National Fund. In your roommate, but we also recMadras, India, she stayed with ognize that sometimes a change the parents of Elizabeth Cochran, SF '77, at the U.S. Consul Genhas to be made - a change that eral's residence. wouldn't have been necessary on Marshall Berg, head of Cultura ship." From Mainland China Ms. al Affairs for the International Skaug traveled to Singapore, KuCommunications Agency in Caiala Lumpur in Malaysia, Madras, ro, and his assistant, Ms. Salma Bakry met Ms. Skaug in Cairo. India, Colombo in Sri Lanka, and then to Port Safaga, Egypt, where Mr. Berg and Ms. Bakry have she saw King Tut's tomb. She been working with Ms. Skaug on then traveled to Alexandria, the Graduate Institute Preceptorial Egypt, via the Suez Canal. in Middle Eastern readings. ''Cairo is a teeming mass of From Egypt the ship traveled to Crete and Piraeus, the harbor humanity," Ms. Skaug said. "It of Athens. now makes sense to me that Santa "Piraeus was the only port-ofFe must seem relatively empty to Graduate Institute students from call on the trip that I had been to places such as Cairo." twelve years ago when I was a student in this same program," Also in Cairo, Ms. Skaug manMs. Skaug said. aged to talk with Henry, SF '79 "Both times I climbed Mt. and Mary, SF '78 Horsey, who were completing a trip down the Pamassas. Twelve years ago it Nile through the Watson Fellowseemed like it took forever to get to the top, but this time it seemed ship Program. Ms. Skaug was almost effortless. After reading finally met in Baltimore by her father and Pablo Collins, SF '76. the books we do at St. John's it The evening program particularly appeals to those persons other than teachers whose yearround jobs make attending the summer sessions impossible. Although the Graduate Institute was originally aimed at teach- · ers - in 1967 it was known as the Teacher's Institute in Liberal Education - persons from other professions have always attended the classes. In 1968 the name was changed to the Graduate Institute in Liberal Education to more accurately reflect its availability to all who could benefit from a St. John's graduate experience. The year-round Institute was founded in 1978 to provide a further opportunity for graduate wotk at St. John 1s. The classes are held on Monday and Thursday eve- nings. Each semester provides nine hours of credit toward the Master of Arts degree. "Some wish the year-round program could move at a faster pace,'' Mr. Jones said, adding that originally a schedule of two 8week day sessions per semester had been considered. ''However, we selected the slower-paced evening classes in order to make the year-round program available to those who work during the day," Mr. Jones said. The summer sessions have also remained popular. The Graduate Institute will begin its fourteenth summer in Santa Fe on June 22 with approximately 115 students, Annapolis will begin its fifth summer session with its enrollment approaching 60 students, an increase of approximately 40 students since the program started there. The Graduate Institute's programs are divided into segments similar to the undergraduate program: Politics and Society, Philosophy and Theology, Literature, and Mathematics and Natural Science. Currently the Santa Fe campus offers four segments each summer; the Annapolis campus, three. By enrolling in one segment students may earn nine hours of graduate credit in eight weeks of the summer session. Those who successfully complete four seg- Yea ments (36 hours) in either the year-round or summer programs are awarded the degree of Master of Arts in Liberal Education. Nine hours of graduate credit from another university can also be transferred toward a St. John's Master of Arts degree. Also for the second summer, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has provided fellowships for teachers to attend the Graduate Institute. A warded for one summer only, the fellowships cover all fees except board, books and traveling expenses. This summer 36 teachers on the two campuses have enrolled on these fellowships. Each of the teachers selected had to submit a proposal to NEH which included a project to be carried out in their home school. For instance, last summer one teacher from Espanola, N .M. designed a series of original readings aimed at ventilating the issue of prejudice against both the Indian and Spanish cultures. The teachers who come to St. John's on these fellowships follow two-thirds of the regular Graduate Institute program - a seminar and tutorial in one of the four segments offered. However they also enroll in a preceptorial designed specifically for them which concentrates on readings in education, and on each teacher's individual project design. This summer the Santa Fe campus will divide the special preceptorial into two sections. Glenn Freitas and Jack Steadman will teach the Santa Fe sections and Geoffrey Comber will teach the special preceptorial on the Annapolis campus. Classics in educational philosophy, such as Whitehead's Aims of Education and Dewey's My Pedagogic Creed number among the readings. _ Often the teachers - who come from all over the United States - plan to teach at their own schools the same books under discussion at the Graduate Institute, but at the high school or, occasionally, the junior high level. Six From Institute Graduate (continued from p. 5) thi~ learning approach," Ms. Williams commented. "It seems like the right reason for education is always present at SL John's. Taking responsibility for your own education - to me, that's using the best method there is to learn." Ms. Williams plans to take a segment this summer as well, for nine hours credit above a Master's degree. Steven Schulman said that he enjoyed the program immensely. He currently waits on tables at a local restaurant, but hopes to find a high school teaching spot in the near future. Mr. Schulman believes the dialectic approach used in the Graduate Institute has the potential of becoming an effective teaching tool for high school students. "Also, surprisingly enough to me, some of the material itself would be readable and valuable at a high school level," Mr. Schulman said. Ellen Bacigalupa, who designs art for her own liturgical shop on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, said she loved the program and would miss the Monday and Thursday evening seminars. Miss Bacigalupa earned her Master of Arts degree at St. John's over a sixyear period. Mostafa Zamanian is currently working towards his Ph.D. in Education at the University of New Mexico after earning his Master of Arts degree in December from St. John's. He plans to return to Iran to teach at a university there. ''I think I will be able to use some of the teaching methods I learned at St. John's when I teach in Iran," Mr. Zamanian said. "Before, when I taught there during the summer, I was not patient with my class. I wanted to talk a]J the time. "But I now realize that every student has the right to talk and discuss," Zamanian said. �PAGE,7. THE REPORTER JUNE, 1'980. t. Johnnies Debate, De nd Points 0 EDITOR'S NOTE: Four young Santa Fe lawyers - all St. John's graduates - were recently invited by Samuel Larcombe, Director of Alumni Affairs, to discuss their profession together. Denise Fort, SF '72, attorney with the State Department of Taxation and Revenue; Deborah Moll, A '69, Assistant Attorney General; Dan Dabney, SF '75, law clerk for Judge Leiva Andrews, N .M. Court of Appeals, and Dan Cleavinger, SF '69, an in private practice with the Caldwel.1 and JL.Ju.uu111, attended the discussion moderated Mr. Larcom be and held at St. John's College. of the Belff\v is a discussion. It is Mr. La.rcombe that it can be a startfor a varied and more comnrlf'hensive discussion St. graduates about the pr:act.ice of law. Your responses and comments are invited and encouraged. They should be addressed to Mr. Larcombe at St. John's College in Santa Fe. * * * * The lawyers seated around the table still seemed very much to be St. Johnnies. Their dress for the most part was casual, but their words were clear and concise. The discussion itself - with its thoughtful opinions and discerning comments - bespoke St. John's methods of rational discourse. But do~s such discourse have a place in our system of legal advocacy, a system described simply by Dan Dabney as one in which "there are lawyers who take sides?'' Consideration of this question became one of the main topics under discussion. "I have some very specific cases I'm working on now.where the other side is extraordinarily unreasonable," Dan Cleavinger said. "That is what they feel they should be doing - confusing the issues, raising the red herrings. "I've been upset and insulted over the years I've been practicing law because I thought my role as a lawyer would be to solve problems and work together with people - even the opposing counsel - to get a resolution,'' he continued. "That's what I learned at St. John's but I don't see that in the real legal world." Deborah Moll saw much of the work in the legal world as tactical: "You simple plug into the correct formula instead of dealing with theoretical or abstract ideas," she said. While Denise Fort shared their disappointment that the "powers of rational persuasion" don't al- Fine Arts Committee Sponsors New Mexico Tour The Fine Arts Committee recently sponsored its second local tour which not only provided the travelers with a pleasant visit to southern New Mexico, but also raised $1,700 for St. John's College, according to Mary Branham, Director of College Relations, at St. John's in Santa Fe. The $1, 700 - when added to the other Santa Fe and Los Alamos fund-raising efforts - put the Seventh Annual Sustaining Campaign over the top of their . $90,000 year-goal. A $50 taxdeductible gift to St. John's College was included as part of the price of the spring trip. Thirty-four Friends of St. John's from the Santa Fe and Los Alamos area traveled south by bus to spend April 18-20 visiting the Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge near Socorro, the Inn of the Mountain Gods on the Mescalero Indian Reservation, White Sands National Monument near Alamagordo and Gran Quivera National Monument near Mountainair. "The weather was beautiful and we all enjoyed ourselves very much," said Ms. Branham, who traveled on the tour. The Fine Arts Committee anticipates another trip next fall, although no specific plans have been made at this time. The committee - composed of 20 members whose main job is to support the St. John's gallery and choose art shows sponsored its first trip last fall to Canyon de Chelly and the Navajo Country. The fall trip was an outgrowth of a committee decision to travel to N avajoland to obtain sand paintings for an art show at St. John's. At that time a committee member suggested that an organized bus trip might be welcomed by local Friends of St. John's, not only as a pleasure tour, but also as a way to raise money for the College. The enthusiastic response to the fall trip inspired the Fine Arts Committee to organize the recent trip south. ways win, she also described a situation where an imbalance in the law, and a consequent imbalance in the powers of the adversaries, forced her to choose tactical maneuvers over rational discourse. The situation involved an Indian community's dispute over_ whether or not a mining company could mine their land. "It would only be if we had a legal system which had very different laws on mining, on the environment, or on the right to protest them, that I would welcome a straightforward, rational discussion in this situation," Ms. Fort said. Instead, she took advantage of tactical maneuvers, such as delays, to give the community time to exert pressure against the company. "To imply that the best system would be a straight-out discussion of the merits of the legal position," Ms. Fort continued, "would mean that my clients would lose." Mr. Dabney couldn't agree with Ms. Fort's approach. "If the laws aren't neutral, the laws as they stand represent a societal choice. If the laws are written so as to favor development of mining companies it does not seem to me that you are enhancing the utility of the legal system by trying to undermine that law. It ought to be repealed,'' Mr. Dabney said. Mr. Dabney cited Rule 11 of the Canon of Ethics, adopted by the American Bar Association, which states that when an attorney signs a plea he should think that what he is trying to do is honestly debatable under the law. Ms. Fort felt, however, that if the law does not protect one's clients, while staying within the limits of ''not wanting to get disbarred," a lawyer must set his own "guidelines for what is proper to do as an attorney. " Ms. Fort said she determines her guidelines by her beliefs and by the ethical training that she received, among other places, at St. John's. Still, Mr. Dabney felt that "if the laws don't support you then you have to resort to other methods. You either take yourself out of the system and be disobedient or work politically.'' Both agreed that stepping out of one's role as a lawyer and into politics often offered one the satisfaction of influencing society not found in the straight practice of law. Ms. Fort said that her experience in working with an ~nviron­ mental group included lobbying and talking with people "who had no idea they had legal rights you are acting there as a catalyst for social change." It was law school, she feels, that gave her a confidence that she knew her way around the legal framework and that she was able to ''go forward and talk with the legislature." "But," she continued, "it wasn't the courtrooms." Ms. Moll feltthat the legal system might be changing in terms of the imbalances between greater and lesser interests. "It seems that the State is in some very probing ways becoming a protector of lesser interests against big business," she said, "while certainly in the time of the Bill of Rights it was the opposite - and the lesser interests have a way through the State to achieve what they want." Mr. Dabney agreed that the "white hat jobs" are with the State, but that St. Johnnies are not necessarily always looking for such work. "There's an assumption that St. John's makes people good," he said, "but it doesn't - I think it makes people intellectually capable." In part, Ms. Moll disagreed. "I always had the sense that even though we were apolitical in that we didn't march on the Pentagon or join political groups, somehow there was always an underlying assumption that everything we learned was going to be applied, at some point, to a greater social good," she said. "We may have applied it in different ways, but still that was aw very much an underlying assumption of the education," she continued. All the lawyers agreed that a basic problem of our legal system was the limited access to the general public. But today's legal clinics, which offer such services as cut-rate divorces, dl.d not seem to be a satisfactory way of dealing with the problem. "St. Johnnies would never do that kind of practice in my opinion," said Mr. Dabney. "It's an intellectual vacuum. The people who are doing that are proofreading what their legal aides have written." The group also discussed movements and trends within the legal system which try to rectify some of the problems of an adversary system which seems to be more accessible to those with greater financial resources. No-fault insurance, in which case a litigant's right to recover damages is uncontested but the amount recovered is limited, is such an example. Another is an administrative hearing within a government agency. If a suit is brought against an agency such as the Department of Taxation and Revenue, a preliminary hearing is held and presided over by a judge from that agency. Neither the· agency nor the litigant employs the services of a lawyer. Rather, each side is presented and the judge may rule in the litigant's favor, thereby saving the litigant the cost of a lawyer. If the judge rules against the litigant, however, the litigant has a right to bring the case to court. Though Ms. Fort could see the merit of these practices, she also warned that "even if they are effective they will be· a denial of what up until now has always been a right." Mr. Dabney continued that, as in the case of no-fault insurance, the system will rely "more on human goodness in giving people what they deserve rather than. giving them an abstract right to go get it for themselves.'' Anne Wu Receives Silver Medal - 23 Others Honored (continued from p. 1) (Photo by Mary C. Fredenburgh) Geraldine Glover accompanied by an award of $75 for her translation from the French of Rimbaud's Ophelie. Sophomore Javier Rodriguez received the Bromwell Ault Memorial Scholarship accompanied by a prize of $50 for leadership ability, potential for service to society, broad intellectual interests, and academic ability. Mr. Rodriguez also received the Henry M. Austin Scholarship of $450 in recognition of academic achievement and of talent in the writing of poetry. Other sophomores receiving awards included William Day and Kerry Cullen, Acknowledgements . of Excellence accompanied by awards of $75 for their sophomore essays. Mr. Day's essay was entitled The Philosopher, Doctor Angelicus, and What Everybody Understands to be God. Miss Cullen's essay was entitled Ode on Memory; Mark Krinock and Joshua McDavid, Thorne Endowment Scholarships for summer study in preparation for medicine; and Wendy Root, awarded a plaque as Athlete of the Year. (Photo by Mary C. Fredenburgh) J. Burchenal Ault, Vice President, congratulates. Javier Rodriguez, winner of the Bromwell Ault Memorial Scholarship. Freshman Elizabeth Waldner was awarded Acknowledgements of Excellence accompanied by awards of $75 for her freshman essay entitled The No-Sayer, A Mind No Magic Will Work On and for her poems, receiving the Henry M. Austin Poetry Prize, Clouds in a Few Skies and Moon Through Several Springs. Freshman Christopher Carsten also won the Henry M. Austin Poetry Prize accompanied by an Acknowledgement of Excellence and an award of $75 for his sonnets, Repose and The White Heron. �PAGES THE REPORTER THE REPORTER BULK RATE Non-Profit Org. -I.J. S. Postage PAID ~rmit No 231 St. John's College Santa Fe, NM_ l This year the Summer Alumni Seminar program will be held from 27 to August 9. Alumni are invited to attend either or both weeks of classes. Each week includes tutorials and seminars led by St. John's College tutors. Philip Lecuyer and Cary Santa Fe tutors, will lead seminars the first week on Heart of Darkness and Nigger of the Narcissus, both by Joseph Conrad. Thomas Harris and Charles Bell, Santa Fe tutors, will lead the tutorials. Two essays by Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology and The Turn are the subject of Mr. Harris' tutorial. Mr. Bell will present a tutorial entitled "Yeats - Poles and Gyres - Incarnate." Seminars in the second week will be led by Robert Dean of the Santa Fe campus, and Grietje Sloan, Santa Fe tutor. Richard II and Henry IV, Part I will be discussed. Georgia Santa Fe tutor, will lead a tutorial on Harvey's Motion of the Heart and Blood which will include a practicum. Samuel Kuder, Annapolis tutor, will lead the other tutorial on "Impossibility Proofs." The cost of the program is $100 per week, including room, board, and tuition. Baby-sitting is available for $30 per week. An opera schedule will be sent to participants tor of Alumni Affairs, at St. John's College in Santa Fe. Harvey Goldstein, A '59, called the program the "best vacation bargain going." (continued from p. 1) a position to make the first award this afternoon.'' The audience spontaneously rose as Miss Church received her award. her introduction of Mr. Weigle fn his capacity as Commencement speak.er Mrs. Driscoll explained that "almost twenty years ago, Dick came to Santa Fe at the of Robert then a member of the of Visitors and and publisher of the New Mexican. He came to see if St. John's and Santa Fe might become good friends. And at a luncheon at John and Faith Meem's house, the issue was raised and an unforgettable offer of this land was made by the Meems. "It was the beginning of an adventure which continues and which grows to this day - an adventure in which Dick Weigle's courage and vision played the decisive role in bringing to our lovely Southwest one of the East's oldest and most distinguished colleges," she continued. At the end of Mrs. Driscoll' s introduction and again at the conclusion of Mr. Weigle's address the audience responded by giving Mr. Weigle a_standing ovation. Bachelor of Arts degrees and six Master of Arts dewere conferred on graduates Mr. the conof r1F>crrP>P" seat re- placed his graduating cap with a cowboy hat which he had worn since his freshman year. Rev. Simons delivered the Benediction, and the graduates with their families and friends recessed to a reception in the Peterson Student Center. Graduation events started on May 23 when graduating seniors and faculty Iilembers attended the President's Dinner, held annually at the Palace Restaurant in Santa Fe. During the dinner Mr. Brown delivered the Faculty Toast to students. In his toast he pointed out that after four years of impartial study of what the books are saying it's now time for students to take sides. Authors differ among · themselves and even quarrel sometimes, he added, and one musn't simply be indifferent. Mr. Bart delivered the traditional Toast to the Republic, enumerating its four divisions: the United States, St. John's College, The Republic of Letters, and Plato's Republic. He stressed the good fortune of living in a country such as the United States where there is almost unlimited freedom in learning, arid said that in distinguishing the public from the private life in a society it will be found that a strong private life rests entirelv on of its the Class at 11 :00 a.m. on ~aturday morn24. The seniors asked JUNE, Admissions The Santa Fe and Annapolis campuses of St. John's College jointly mailed 150,000 brochures to high school students across the nation last May. The mailing marks the first time that the two campuses have ever engaged in such a massive joint project, according to Santa Fe Director of Admissions Stephen Van Luchene. ''The two campuses have always been considered one college," Mr. Van Luchene said, "but previously there has been a contradictory attitude in the admissions offices, almost as if they were competitors." Susan Ferron, Santa Fe's previous Director of Admissions, and John Director of Admissions in Annapolis, initiated the cooperative effort between campuses in the spring of 1979. Mr. Van Luchene and Mr. Christensen have continued these efforts which have resulted in the joint mailing. One distinct advantage of the . mailing is the increased exposure the College will receive as a whole. Formerly each campus sent out 60,000 initial brochures apiece. Often, these brochures would contain only brief mention of the other campus. The 150,000 mailers guarantee each campus more than twice the amount of exposure at a lower cost, since . the j0i.nt lower per piece printing costs. Two week-long visits in the past year by each Director of Ad- m1ss10ns to the other campus helped the two offices consolidate other procedures, publications, and policies as well. After a first inquiry all prospective students now receive a "reply booklet" which supplements the information in the initial mailer. At that point students can request the Statement of the Program and indicate their campus preference. The campus preferred by the student will begin to handle all of his papers· and assemble his admissions file. He can request at any point during the application process that his documents be transferred to the other campus. Another change in the admissions policy - in effect for about a year - allows continued ease in the transfer of a student's ap~ plication from one campus to another after it is accepted. In contrast to previous policy, acceptance at one campus now constitutes acceptance by the College as a whole. "In the past there was no way to allow students to cross over," Mr. Van Luchene said. The former procedure necessitated that if, for instance, a student accepted on the Annapolis campus decided he would prefer to matriculate at Santa Fe, he had to complete a second application for the Santa Fe campus. The application ran the risk of being rejected on the other campus. Now students are free to enroll at either campus without re- application as long as space is available. At the end of any academic year, students in good standing may transfer between campuses. One benefit of the cooperative attitude between the two admissions offices has been the ease with which the Santa Fe campus has recruited students from the Annapolis overflow this year. Traditionally Santa Fe has had more difficulty recruiting students than Annapolis. Mr. Van Luchene believes that part of Annapolis' enrollment success comes from the East Coast's large constituency which supports the St. John's unique approach to liberal education: "The cooperation between campuses does help Santa Fe more than Annapolis by making recruitment from the Eastern population for the Western campus more efficient," Mr. Van Luchene "but the cooperation is beneficial to both campuses. "My visits to Annapolis have helped me see much more clearly the national character of the College. Our national admissions policy will help both campuses escape being looked upon as provincial, local color colleges," he continued. "I am in a better po.sm,on describe the with un,det·sta.ncmg; asm to prospective students, and the same is true for John Christensen with respect to Santa Fe. '' (Photo by Mary C. Fredenbiirghi, These members of the Class of 1980 could be found together for a picture before commencement exercises. Others were tying ties and straightening collars. Pictured above are: (Top row, left to right) Robert Bienenfeld, Joseph Morris, Nicholas Cullander, Stephen Pendleton, James Forkin, David Whiteside, Merrill Turner, David Parsons. (Second row) Reid Kingsbury, John Preston, Daniel Raizen, John Ross, Cullen Hallmark. (Third row) Sylvia Hermanson, Charles Reuben, Susan Keeler,' James Lorenz, Nancy Cline. (Fourth row) Mary McCormick, Nancy Ralph, Catherine Graves, Glen Barrentine, Nancy Kahn, Debra Rutherford, Karol Lawton, · Laura Davidson, Geraldine Glover. (Front row) Galene Simons, Elizabeth Church, Carla .Deicke, Sara Beasley. Not pictured are Stephen Crampton, Quinn Cushing, Victoria Erhart, Elaine Fulton, Katherine Goff, Charles Hinckley, Valerie Hom, Joel LaPinta, Jennifer Liepe, Paul Martin, Martha McGinnis, Dawn Meredith, Theodore Meredith, Jeffrey Olsen, Elizabeth Pollard, Kyle Schultz, Michael Sloper, David Talley, Michael Wood, and Anne Wu. Scott Stripling, to speak at the ceremonies. The seniors challenged the faculty to a softball game in the afternoon. Reports of the final score varied from 11 - 4 to 14 - 6, but there was no dispute that the seniors won. St. John's alumni. A piano, bass, drums, and trtimpet quartet played to faculty, seniors, parents, and alumni. Black currant sherbet and champagne wa.S served at midnight. Samuel Larcombe, Director of Alumni Affairs. said soecial thanks '79 and '79, for organ- The Commencement Ball was held Saturdav evenim! in the DinBaccalaureate services were at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Faith in Santa Fe at 12:00 noon on Sunday, beginning with an academic procession. The Reverend Virgina D. Brown, Chaplain of New Mexico State University at Las Cruces, delivered sermon. The 1980 ceremonies marked thirteenth uation on the Santa Fe campus and the 284th year of the � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY 111111111111 ~1 ~n~1 ~1imr1 i1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Annapolis, Md. 3 1696 01138 0571 VOLUME VII ISSUE 4 APRIL 1980· Gallery's role growing here .JEREMY LEVEN Jeremy Leven, of New Haven, Conn., is the author of a novel, Creator - "the senior thesis I had wanted to write in 1965" which this summer will become an alternate Book of the Month Club selection and is scheduled to be made into a motion picture. In London and Paris this month for publication of the book by Hutchinson, one of 15 foreign firms which will publish it, Mr. . Leven also will see his novel appearing in paperback under the Pocket Book and Penguin im~ prints. A clinical psychologist working with· the neurodevelopment of children at the University of Connecticut, Mr. Leven has been 10 years in the writing of the book, a novel which he says "reeks of St. John's." His tribute to "the contribution of my education at St. John's College in Annapolis, and campuses. Members have set aside an extra day at the time summer meeting when be freed from the niri:i.c:c:111ir1>4" decision making review what is or can be expected to such aspects of St. life as admissions, financial fund raising, and curriculum. did so at the recomof Board Chairman Charles A. Nelson who asked that members block out a ·of two and a half in June in order that thev mhzht hold such a our own ed1uc~ttion, "We need to see where we We want to to out of the mode look at the Md., to which this work owes its life." It is dedicated to his first wife, Susan Roberts, '66, who died at the age of 23. " In a general sort of w~y, I wanted to con~ey to the ordm?ry reade~ t~e excitement of the St. ~ohnsian search fo_r knowledg~: m human an~ emotional terms, Mr. Leven said. "THE PROTAGONIST is a N:oble Laureate biologist and Harvard-trained physician by the name of Harry Wolper, who, it turns out, is a synthesis of Mr. (Jacob) Klein, Mr. (Simon) Kaplan, Mr. (Alvin) Main, Mr. (Elliott) Zuckerkandl, Mr. (Michael) Ossorgin, Mr. (Curtis) Wilson, Mr. (Charles) Bell, Mr. (Hugh) McGrath, the Rev. (J. Winfree) Smith, et men whom I found to be involved in what the calls 'the whole n.:-- ' "The resulting character is, of course, my fantasies about the souls and spirits of these men who were as much, if not more, inspiration.al than the Phiios1opt.1ies they espoused, who philosophies they and for whom philosophy was riot an interesting academic exercise, but was life." The book was ten years in the writing, and it was a great (Continued on P. 3) . It's out of the way and hard to find, the security is not everything it should be, and its kinky schedule of hours only recently has been simplified and expanded-to the point where one can remember them. Dick Wei'gle to be feted It's going to be a Dick Weigle commencement on both campuses this year. After 31 years Mr. Weigle will bow out as president by delivering the commencement address in Annapolis on May 18 and in Santa Fe on May 21. Both campuses also will honor Mr. and Mrs. Weigle at major parties in May. Board members are planning a dinner for him June 7 at Vice President J. Burchenal Ault's home in Santa Fe at the time of its summer meeting. In one support Caritas Weigles at a cheon; and support organization, the Friends of St. John's, plan to dedicate a summer concert by the Annapolis Brass Quintet to them. Mr. was one of of the Anfour drew Medal for outstanding Marylanders at Loyola College in Baltimore during its 20th annual Maryland Day last month. Nevertheless, students and townspeople alike are seeking out St. John's new art gallery, and five years after its opening it can be counted a success. For students, this former laboratory room on the second floor of Mellon has become the newest discussion center on campus. For off-campus visitors, it offers something unique in th~ county of 375,000 residents. It i~ ~nne Arundel's only public gallery which can be secured and which has a budget for rental of traveling exhibits from major museums. · Some recognition of the part it is beginning to play in the Annapolis community is indicated by a new $2,000 grant from the Maryland Arts Council. It will be used to help cover cost of exhibits. From 1 to 6 p.m. every day of the week people are now visiting the gallery in numbers which can be counted. An exhibition of New York artists drew something like 200 townspeople and students a week. Just before the weekly lecture on Friday, there is an extra hour, from 7 to.8 p.m., when students and faculty can spend some time looking at paintings, prints, photography, or sculp· ture, as the case may be. THE GALLERY CAN be locked tight but not tight enough for the gallery's energetic and enthusiastic new director, St. John's Artist-in-Residence Burton Blistein. In an effort to expand and improve the type of show St. John's can exhibit, he hopes to increase security provisions as well as provide new environmental controls, particularly as they relate to (Continued on P. 3) An senior, who likes· nothing than to stand kneedeep in a trout stream casting .flies and who views fishing as an <:lrt, is going fishing and getting •paid for it. A Santa Fe graduating senior will head for Japan, Hongkong, and China to product and and make a of what she finds. Both Anita Norton, of and Anne Wu, of Worthington, Ohio, are recipients of Thomas J. Watson Foundation (Continued on P. 5) ANNE WU The Santa Fe campus will honor John Gaw and Faith Meem for their years of service and generosity to St. John's by establishing a perpetual chair named for them, President Weigle has announced. A national committee to sponsor the chair plans to raise $500,000, a, sum Mr. Weigle said would underwrite the compensation of an additional tutor An odd thing happened to seniors during the month of ,February at St. John's. "You see people smiling at each other who normally do not," James Sorrentino, of Laurel, eXJlla:me a. "It's not the in people who have for four years. It's more special. You're sufand so is everyone else. It's the one time of year when everyone goes easier on each other. You just know you should be kind." 1 " Under the nresent committee of the board, Mr. Nelson said only about a third of the trustees are able to have a detailed of the current condition of the college. P. 5) Rebecca fine at work on her senior essay. seniors like Eloise Collingwood, are seen clutching a cup of en route to one of those supersecret, late meetings of year seniors hold at this Meem, fellow of St. John's and former and the member of the Board of Visitors status of her paper: "It's not and and Mrs. Meem out the way I wanted. I_ is nlanned for the May comD Tom Parran photo Continued from P. 4) (Continued on P. �Tom Parran '42 Eastern Director of Alumni Activities - The Santa Fe Alumni Summer Seminar '-'"'"O".,,..,""' will two weeks of tutorials and ., . . . .,..... ,,.u session be July 27 to August 1 and the second more detailed announcement will be mailed later l:roldste1n, '59, who attended the seminar last summer, the best vacation bar2:ain in America. 1934 Robert J. Lau has been elected secretary-treasurer of the Mercer County (N.J.) Library Commission. 1936 Willard 0. Ash, founding dean of the University of North Florida College of Arts and Sciences, retired December 31 after more than 30 year's service to higher education. During f~ll commencement exercises Dr. Ash received the university's Distinguished Service Medallion and Citation. A tenured professor of mathematical sciences, Ash developed and implemented a "Leonardo da Vinci Venture Studies'' pi.'ue,1 <am, wh1cn provides upper level students, with a rounded liberal arts education. Hiss full-time efforts since stepping down as dean two years ago have been devoted to the University Scholars Program, designed to enable highly-qualified high school graduates to complete their baccalaureate studies in three years. Dr. and Mrs. Ash make their home in Stuart, Fla. 1949 Allan Hottman, president of the Handi-Andy Specialty Co., Inc., has become sole, owner of the concern which deals in bathroom accessories. 1959 Gay Patterson Ahlf reports that she is now Gay Patterson Hall, captain, U.S. Air Force, and is married to Major Mortimer J. Hall, U.S.Air Force, (Ret.). 1964 Robert L. November writes Mr. Weigle that he was married six years ago to Hannah Peavy (she roomed with Eleanor Noon Triplett in medical school) and they have two children, Joseph, aged four, and Elizabeth, aged two. Bob is a data processing systems manager with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell in the Washington, D.C. area. uepu1 Rebecca Wilson Editor The Reporter is published by the Office ofl' ~ollege Relations, St. John's College, , Annapolis, Md., 21404, Richard D. Weigle, president. Published five times a year, in February,' April, June, September and November. Second class postage paid at Annapolis, Md. ---- -OUH50 make her solemn vows at the end of of the new year us tnat which we cer• tainly don't often receive, a postcard from Timbuctu! (Years ago Timbuctu was mentioned when one talked about impossibly far away and,remote. Little did we know! ) The trading and intellectual capital of the 14th Century Empire of Mali was the site of Carol Shuh's Christmas · holiday from her Peace Corps science teaching in Sierra Leone. 1973 Robert Greene and Robin Fleisig wrote to share the good news of the arrival of Eric Fleisig-Greene on November 7. Roger has left his audio-visual job with the Navy and is now a public relations scriptwriter· producer with Western Electric in New York City. Un:i - Santa Fe From the President's office we learn that Ken Richman was married last December 15, was graduated with honors from Stetson Law School in St. Petersburg, Fla., and immediately joined what is now the firm of Parks, Gillette, Richman, and Pilon in Naples, Fla. 1968 - Santa Fe Daniel L. Cleavinger has moved to Santa Fe, where he is associated with the law firm of Caldwell and Lofton. He was married last summer to Marie Markestyn of Savannah, Ga. 1969 - Santa Fe The Rev. John Strange writes that he is· still in San Antonio as the minister ·of Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church. He also is involved with the Alamo Regional Council and the Stop Smoking Program of the American Cancer Society. John reports receipt of his doctorate last summer from the Mc· Cormick Theological Seminary in Chicag-0. He sees Joe Reynolds, nearby at Forest Hills Presbyterian Church, and last Christmas ran into Michelle DiGiacomo, S68, while shopping. She is a librarian in the San Antonio public library system. um Finally, John reports plans to be In the Israeli border settlement in Scotland this summer on a of Eilat, between Jordan, Saudi pulpit exchange in Edinburgh. Arabia, and Egypt, Virginia 1970 Ron Fielding reports his McKemie Frank teaches (in departure, after nearly seven Hebrew) high school years, from "the comfortable but mathematics and music. After inhibiting" world of banking to two years - she finds herself accept the presidency of a small, rapidly forgetting English, but struggling investment company. still has passed her matriculation Apparently Ron has wanted to try examination in Arabic so she can entreprenurial investment teach Bedouin. Virginia reports management for a long time. We that Mark Schneider, '73, is the wish him well in this new ven- leading concert pianist in Denture, and note that he continues mark and is affiliated with the with his teaching part-time at the Copenhagen Conservatory. February seems to have been Graduate School of Management correspondence month: it of the University of Rochester as well as classes in Securities brought a news-filled letter from Analysis for the Rochester Lyn Herrick Gregory, who has led an eventful life since leaving Society of Security Analysts. Edward M. Macierowski, now St. .John's. The highlights are: marriage in to Mark the holder of a Ph. D. from the Gregory then in 1972 U.S. Navy; the University of Toronto, is this year studying and lecturing in Greek residence in San Francisco; birth and medieval philosophy, to of first son, Shane, in October, undergraduates at the University 1973; 15 months in Greece while of St. Thomas in Houston, Tex. Mark's ship was on Next year Ed will be teaching in a ,Mediterranean duty; a move to new graduate program in Virginia Beach, Va., and, after philosophy offered by the Center Mark's discharge in 1976, to his for Thomistic Studies at the home in Jackson, Miss.; thence to Meridian, Miss., where Mark University. is a customer engineer with IBM. 1911 Since settling in Meridian Lyn Susan Jalland .1.ua,"1u;_y her parents ·has a three- has done some academic work at ye ar-old son .and lives in the local community college, has taken time off for the birth of Arlington, Va. Brian last April, and hopes to um A February note from complete work on a degree in Prudence Davis (now Sr. Zoe M. data proces-sing by the end of the Davis, OSB) tells us of a good and fall, 1980, semester. Her ambition full life, with study and sewing is to become a C.P .A., but for the next few years her sons come and weaving. She is scheduled to [Continued. on p; 7) Alumni activities are in foll Barbara Prendergast, GI '72, swing in a· number. of western and Alexander K. McLanahan, cities, Sam Larcombe, SF '68, member of the Board of Visitors Santa Fe's director of alumni and Governors, organized a wine activities, reports. and cheese party for prospective A particularly dedicated group students and alumni in Houston. of alumni living in the Denver- The party was held at the Boulder area are holding bi- McLanahans' home at Christweekly seminar discussions. mastime. Members first met in December Mr. Larcom be plans to meet in Boulder to discuss Rabelais Houston area alumni this spring. and Shaw. A meeting of area Interested alumni should call which Mr. Larcombe Mrs. Prendergast (461-4528). will be held the Mr. Larcombe has found that of this month. Inalumni reside in the alumni inform area, and a letter from SF '74, in one of them, Olson, SF Boulder (444-17 42). has encouraged to initiate an Tom Carnes, A '52, and alumni organization in that area. Harrison Sheppard, A '61, began Alumni who like the idea should what Mr. Larcombe calls a "very let Mr. Larcombe know in Santa elegant'' program of lecture- Fe. discussions in the Bay area with a David Jones and Robert lecture by Santa Fe Dean Robert Neidorf, Santa Fe tutors, led a Bart. seminar on Shakespeare's In January fifty alumni heard Twelfth Night in early March Santa Fe Tutor Thomas Simp- with Albuquerque alumni. The soh. Mr. Larcom be will ac- seminar was sponsored by the company another member of the Graduate Institute. Hosts were Santa Fe faculty, William A. Marie and Lee Hirst, GI '73. Mr. Darkey, to the Bay area next Larcombe said the Albuquerque month. Mr. Darkey will discuss ,alumni should watch for news of the book, Three Dialogues on expanded activities. Liberal Education, which he A group of Santa Fe alumni edited. The lecture-discussion in the initiated a meeting with J. parish house of Grace Epi~copal Burchenal Ault, vice-president, Cathedral will be preceded by a Mary Branham, director of buffet dinner there. Interested college relations, and Mr. Laralumni should call Mr. Carnes at combe to discuss a schedule of the Carnes & Bailey law firm alumni activities. As a result, (434-2404) or Mr. Harrison at the Santa Fe Tutor Stuart Boyd led Federal Trade Commission (556- the seminar on Ecclesiastes and Song of Solomon. 1270). ,In early February another Mr. Larcombe welcomes meeting of Bay area alumni was suggestions for the Santa Fe held at Canyon with Ellin Barret, Homecoming, including those for SF '68, as host. a reading for the Saturday Los Angeles alumni met with morning seminar. Tentative Mr. Larcombe at the home of Dr. plans for Homecoming include David Dobreer, A '44, in October seminars, a picnic lun~h with to discuss alumni activities and students, a discussion of their followed up that meeting with a future plans, a tennis tourChristmas party for current and nament, and a banquet. prospective St. John's students and alumni. Los Angeles alumni if any western group would like interested in becoming involved to begin an alumni organization, with this group should call Ed or Mr. Larcombe has said he will be Sally Raspa, A '74 and '75, in glad to assist in a variety of ways. He can organize mailings from Venice. John Van Doren, A'47, was host his Santa Fe office, and he hopes at a meeting for Chicago area to travel to any area where such a alumni at his home in Evanston group might be forming. He also last September. The meeting was reminds alumni that the Santa Fe attended by a dozen alumni from Placement Office, headed by both campuses, including Mr. Janet Lange, will help alumni Larcom be. A lovely buffet dinner entering a new career or was followed by discussion of graduate school. admissions and alumni activities. a In February Brother Robert Smith, Anna,Dolis tutor, traveled Connie Weigle Mann and her to Chicago to lead a seminar on Racine's Britannicus; and Santa husband, Thomas Mann, an Fe Tutor Don Cook led a seminar associate professor at Princeton on C. S. Lewis' Abolition of Man Theological Seminary, are proud parents of a daughter, in March. Chicago alumni interested in Mary Elizabeth, born January 20 joining these activities should by Caesa'rian .section. Mary reach Chris Nelson, SF '70, at the Elizabeth becomes the first law offices of E. Allen Kovar grandchild for President and Mrs. Richard D. Weigle. (346-4515). IN MEMORIAM 1920- William T. Fryer, Jr., Bethesda, Md., 8 February 1980. 1928-George W. Cook, Ft. Mitchell, Ky., 26November1979. Um-John S. Price, Statesboro, Ga., 17January1980. 1934- Edward M.Sullivan, West Hartford, Conn., 2 November 1979; 1941- George L. McDowell, Brighton, Mich., 24 February 1980. 1944-James W. Poe, Santa Monica, Cal., 25 January1980. 1946 - John P. Gilbert, West Newton, Mass., 26 January 1980. �stone's throw from the campus. For the most part the two do not overlap and include students enrolled studio art classes Mr. Blistein the Thomas Parran photo Continued from p. 1) Shows are graded according to such matters. Although Mr. Blistein has been pleased with most of the exhibits coming the college's way, he pointed out that St. John's will continue to be restricted in its selections until it makes these changes. "Whenever it is possible we exhibit material which is relevant to the curriculum or deals with fundamental questions o f e v a 1u a ti o n a n d i nterpreta tion," he said. "In the exhibit of Georges Rouault's work- 'Miserer' -for instance, the quality of the work was high, and the nature of the work by this religious artist raised all sorts of interesting questions- relating to program material." Openings of each show are marked by late evening wine and cheese receptions after seminars, and with each show, on a different occasion, Mr. Blistein also leads a discussion for interested students in the gallery, sessions which townspeople have begun to attend. The St. John's gallery is a major reason art is begin· ning to take a more central role in St. John's extra-curricular activities. In addition, metropolitan galleries also are easily accessible to students. MR. BLISTEIN HAS organized separate trips to Washington and Baltimore galleries for both members of his art preceptorial and for other students interested in exploring those rich repositories of work only a ~ l (Continued from P. 1) one. "We gear our visits to the shows " Mr. Blistein said. "We've gone to the National Art for the recent exhibit of art of South Pacific. We've visited the for the Im= ression sts and ost· Impre~ssi,onists, the for and the Freer the end of have had an opportumtv to exnlore and discuss art gallery in Baltimore.'' An imaginative who himself has regular program, -Mr. Blistein adopts a Sf. John's method of when students examine a work. There's no HE ASKS a question: what of selection were at work which caused a fan mirror to be placed in the air in an early Japanese woodblock? What follows is a rigorous analysis on the part of the students in which they to account for the larger shapes in the work. In viewing a painting of Titian, students discovered that the reflection of Venus in a mirror wears an expression different from that of the Venus who is looking at herself. "This double image of Titian got us into a discussion of sacred profane love," Mr. Blistein recalled. ''At the Hirshhorn when we were looking at the pure forms of Mondriaan, we talked accounts for about how a his for the severety of his line and elimination of details." The St. John's group is almosL~ joined by other and Baltimore including one occasion in which · a student the art value of a ,,, .. ,. ........... fo~ fender on exhibit at the was this on exhibit and what does it say about the museum and the nature of art? Fred Bohrer, a assistant in the art contended in itself but for valuable not what could be said about it. Thereupon followed a prolonged discussion of a vacant on the wall where a been removed only a hook the time it was remained. over the group had grown to 40 to 50 people, all speculating about a non~existent work. IN PLANNING HIS own yearly preceptorials, Mr. Blistein has found that he frequently is introducing students to the visual arts. He has had preceptorials dealing with such basic considerations as elements of meaning in the visual arts, which emphasize C!trrn "'~ 11 "' ex1oressioff~ and design expression, which have dealt with composition and structural factors and the ways they relate to meaning. This year's preceptorial has dealt with Cezanne and the beginnings of 20th century art. Reading in art is required for his preceptorials, including this year selections from Paul Klee's pedagogical works. Whenever there is not a single work which fulfills the preceptorial needs, Mr. Blistein provides a stack of PY•r>Prnh•n writings as a sort of ia,,. .. ..,,,.., mosaic of what they are seeing. One book used for visitors to alleries is and John's "Can art be judged qualitatively?" he listed some of them. "Are there absolute standards of good or bad? Is there a mathematical basis for the beautiful? Does it depend upon ratio and number as a lot of artists and mathematicians have thought? What is the relationship between form and content? How do artists communicate their meaning?" Octet Plus One will present a program at 8:15 p.m. Sunday, May 4, in the Great Hall. The student group will be led by Karen Wachsmuth, '79, a student at Peabody Conservatory, who was a mover in the small choral group last year. ' "In a more serious vein, each philosophical implications of the character of Boris and Jason of the book is constructed book and think of it for its enor- Robards, George C. Scott, or pointment that four of the men whom Mr. Leven wanted to read around a central philosophical mous commercial potential. Marlon Brando for the role of the book had died by the time he theme arid the philosopher Wolper. "This approach I stole directly completed it. representing it: Aristotle, from Richard Nixon who, an arti"I am also fortunate to· be in"As I think about it now, I Aquinas, Descartes, Locke, · cle I had recently read informed volved with a very bright and realize that, probably more than Hume, Rousseau, Nietzsche, me, learned that if you scream talented group of people on the anything else, I wanted the men Kant, Hegel, Freud, et al. I am loudly . and long enough about · West Coast who are not at an and women I respected most, my sure that to those of my something, people. will believe Hollywood types," he says of his tutors at St. John's, to be per- classmates who really unders- you, even if their own eyes and experience there. "They are an suaded that St. John's was not a tand these philosophers and their ears tell them it's not true," he Europeans, mostly my age, and total waste of time on me," he work, such as John White, David confessed. have mostly all had traditional said. "This book was done for Lachterman, Dick Freis, this The approach worked. Shortly classical educations like mine. them, the senior thesis I h?d work will seem embarrassing at after that Book of the Month Club We have much to talk about." wanted to write in 1965. As I look best." NOW AT WORK on a second and the Literary Guild bid for a over it, resting here on the desk The book is subtitled Dr. week, Hutchinson in England got novel, Mr. Leven wrote one of St. beside me, I believe it has a good, Harry Wolper's Notebooks on wind of it, and paperback John's most successful musicals, solid C-plus potential." Parthenogenesis and takes the publishers began bidding for it. "The Perils of St. John's," with Mr. Leven said perhaps the form of a day-by-day diary "In the midst of all this, some Michael Littleton of the faculty single greatest influence on the through 365 days in the last year people out in Hollywood had the doing the music. (Both Mr. Leven book was a preceptorial which he of his life, 1969. good fortune of learning about and The Reporter are interested took with Mr. Ossorgin on The Originally, the book ran more., my Nixionian claim for Creator's in locating a tape. Let us know if Possessed, which he believes is than a thousand pages, but after extraordinary potential as a film, you have one). "one of the half-dozen greatest half a dozen rejections and six and, again, after some hot bidHe was active with other,. novels ever written, and where I months of work, Mr. Leven ding, the rights went to a produc- theatrical productions during his found out what could be done with manag~d to' cutft· to 620 pages, a tion house called Lorimar, which St. John's days, directing "The fiction. Creator is not only not in · "delicate surgi~~l procedure and does films which are .distributed Time of Our Lives" and the same league, it's not even the ·-~...som~lhihg -whlcb could only be bytheUnitedArtists," Mr. Leven "Rhinoceros" and acting in "The · same sport, but I borrowed"'?· do:rie ·in sta ·<~· • order for his said. Zoo Story." He produced "The liberally from what Dostoievsky, ·~io the shock." Mr. Leven got first crack at the American Dream;" "It also octhought a novel should do." · ml, five of the five script, and by last month had curs to me that I probably proMR. LEVEN NOTES "St. to whom it was sent completed the third draft. The duced 'Caligula' by Albert Camus from cover wanted it and, in accordance with director is not expected to be and 'Tonight We Improvise' by John's spills out to cover." · industry an auction was chosen until next month. The im- Pirandello. I say 'probably' "I have held. Mr. decided to n ..oc.cdue handful being the because these were done so na l an offer of McModern Theater and I inincludes Arthur cann and Geoghegan, one of the Miracle tended to what was firms of the Benton ("Kramer vs. but it an blurs into a DURING THE before and Jim .,,_,_.. __ _ dark and distant..." the auction was Mr. Leven drome.") _ St. John's Mr. interviewed other firms inAt this Leven became a television directhe them most that the:v the to Harvard for a graduate degree in child clinical psychology, served on the faculty at Harvard and at Newton College, where he worked with former St. John's tutor John Bremer. He founded a theatrical group in Cambridge and New York called "The Proposition," which ran for about 10 years, and, finally settled into the field of clinical psychology, working on the staff of McLean Hospital, the training division in psychiatry of Harvard Medical School, and then directed a mental health center in western Massachusetts. "As I got more and more involved in clinical matters with children, I became progressively more interested in how their brain anatomy and chemistry developed and how .this related to the development in their behavior, personality, and psychopathology,'' he said. "THUS, IN 1977, I started a program at the University of Connecticut in the neurosciences department (called Biobehavioral Sciences) and the medical school (in which I'm the only student). I am now· comthis next �Pangs of the season: essays (Continued from P .1) Papers vary from 20 to 50 or have certain expectations and more pages. The longest on can'tfulfill them. It's a pain." record here may have been the Of all the seniors, it may have 200-page essay of Howard been Andy Klipper, of Annapolis, Zeiderman, '67, now a tutor on who had cause to suffer the most. the Annapolis campus. (He began That was because, through to alphabetize pages toward the ignorance on the part of a new oil end). Papers have been known to company, his basement apart- be as short as 10 pages, a size ment was flooded under 150 almost guaranteed to be received gallons of oil poured through an with less than enthusiastic eyes. extra set of filler pipes lnto a non- ("I've never known a successful existent tank, sending his paper short paper," Tutor Nicholas on Kant's antinomies awash. Maistrellis declares}. HE FISHED IT out - "it was The psychological approach to kind of hard to get next to it" essay writing became less and got a week's extension. traumatic a number of years ago Fortunately, he was able to when the more formidable and recopy most of his paper, paralyzing term, thesis, was working in 15 minute segments of dropped in favor of the word, time because he couldn't "bear essay. Assistant Dean Barbara the smell of it." Leonard pointed out that students Essay writing is that time when frequently feared they had no students, who complain of never thesis as such. At the same time having enough time for a single students also had developed a work, find out suddenly, over- number of good ideas for their night, with the beginning of the senior paper. new semester, they have days in Good ideas? William O'Grady, which to concentrate on a single St. John's tutor, is distressed by thinker, or book, or theme of their the self-doubt that there should choice. be anything other · than good Classes come to a halt, and ideas. seniors are turned loose for a "Student's don't sufficiently month of reading, thinking, trust themselves," he noted .. analyzing, writing, rewriting, "They so often are not sure they editing, conferring with their have something worthwhile to advisers, a time when they ex- say. They should have more perience night long crises when trust. They say better things than their thoughts are paralyzed or they know. They really do.'' moments when insights come Mr. O'Grady is one of the rapidly. remarkable things which hapThis is the most important pened to senior essay writing paper of their four years at St. time this year. Known for the John's, a critical requirement for almost saintly hundreds of hours graduation and a paper on which he spends individually with they will be publicly and formally students, Mr. O'Grady was on examined. sabbatical this year, but students "It is the one paper you really were unable to resist asking him should turn in on time," Sean Ball to serve as their adviser. Last observed. "It's sad when you year he had 15 students under his can't graduate with your class." wing; this year, on a busman's CUSTOMARILY A good part of holiday, he had 10. the senior class finishes their But that, he protests, is only papers on the day of the deadline, because he finds advising senior and this year was no exception. papers is the thing he finds most Between 3 p.m. and midnight 38 enjoyable at St. John's. people used the zerox in the "Every summer I look back on Registrar's Office, which opened the year before and find the best especially to serve them. "It was thing I did was to talk to seniors,'' horrendous," according to Caryle he commented. "They are Rhode Mills, who staffed the working on books they have office and handed out lollipops chosen and are not just doing and pretzels as her way of dutiful readings. And it really is a cheering students on. privilege and a joy to hear people The class as a whole made it. talk about things that mean so (The Class of 1980 has a much to them." reputation for being a par· ONE ADVANTAGE is that ticularly responsible one). From seniors learn so much from each the 78 seniors, Dean Sparrow other. ('All of them read each received 75 papers, packing them other's first and second drafts," up in his son's wagon the he said. following morning to haul them The son of copy editors of the across College Avenue to his old Chicago Times, Mr. O'Grady office for dissemination to faculty applies a critical q:>encil when it committees. is needed. He quotes his father's Three copies of each go to three old dictum, "Copy doesn't tutors who may or may not bleed.'' decide to accept them. If papers A new faculty member who are rejected, students have a finds advising on senior papers second opportunity to write a one of the "most delightful" paper and graduate with their things he has done since coming class. After that, if that fails, to St. John's in January, 1979, is there is a lifetime in which to James Carey, '67, who finds the write an acceptable paper. This conversations with seniors year Tutors Eva Brann and especially pleasant. George Doskow had the job of "Students who have tended to setting up the committees. be reticent in class, when talking AFTER THE at the · with their advisers, are com· dean's, the- students. themselves pelled to open up, and you find gather around the coffee shop's surprisingly fine insights in fireplace for a traditional note students you didn't know so burning. Students read one well," he said. sentence" from their own essays Besides his five and then toss all their notes into the blaz~. Edward Elliott reads in the library. and sophomores on their essays. Next to the senior essay, the sophomore paper is probably the most important. It has become an enabling essay for the junior year now that sophomore enablings have been dropped. STUDENTS CHOOSE all sorts of places in which to write. Some go away. "I need a cathedral, with lots of marble, lots of wood, and a . ceiling three stories high," Patty Sollars, who left campus, listed her requirements. Nothing here possible, .she disappeared to the Harper Library at the University of Chicago and wrote a paper on Hegel and Kant dealing with phenomenological and transcendental methods. She returned a week later with three conclusions, "one for each committee member," she quipped. During the final period her big effort was directed at finding the right one. Some students establish almost territorial rights to certain carrels in the library, including Edward Elliott, who observed' that a fellow senior, Dante Beretta, had occupied a chair so long that it conformed only to the contours of his body. Mr. Elliott himself set up shop, so to speak, in one carrel which, with the exception of a transgressing freshman, blandly oblivious of extensive evidence of residency, a student whom Mr. Elliott politely did not insist on leaving, was recognized and respected as his. · According to Mr. Elliott and James White, every senior who is rational and conscious has been thinking about his and has a • Ill • • the writing Thomas Pamm photo good idea of what it will be by the start of the first week of essay writing. Mr. White has known, however, of more casual students, the sort who blithely announce they will "read all of Shakespeare tomorrow" or who have borrowed his Plato and picked out a dialogue more or less at random. "A NEW LIFE begins the first week," Mr. Elliott said of the course of the writing period. "Instead of having classes, you find yourself 16 hours a day sitting in front of various pieces of paper, reading and putting down thoughts. The first we~k you get the shock treatment, just sitting there thinking." "There's very little writing," Mr. White interjected. "It's an incredibly long week," Mr. Elliott went mi. "The first week there are little communities of seniors forming in the library, thinking about how to compose the world, man, God, and the universe." "By the second week, God is out," Mr. White noted. "By the third week, the universe is out," Mr. Elliott added. "The second week people start trying to make up for the time lost in shock,'' he continued. ''A lot of people settle down. A mortal seriousness sets in on Monday of the third· week. Then you realize you are half of the way through and not finished the first draft." Isn't it rather exciting after you've finished the first draft? "I imagine so,'' Mr. White pondered the When this was he was in the third week and yet to experience that moment. Unlike some essays, which tend to mutate and grow arms and legs as interests expand on the part of the writer, his own faced a problem Mr. White was seeking t-0 overcome: condensation, of getting down two sentences. He got his two sentences and more, winding up an essay entitled . "Downward to Darkness on Extended Wings." MR. ELLIOTT thinks his writing has been "essentially in the spirit of war.'' "The enemy one battles is oneself and one's own un· derstanding," he remarked. "I've come to peace with the author so in writing there is a need to clarify my own ideas rather than his ideas." Rebecca Fine, who wrote on the Song of Songs, · is among the students who have enjoyed the experience. ''On the one hand it has been wonderful,'' she said. "You spend all the time on a single subject. After a while, subtle details start to become overwhelming, and there is a lot to keep track of. The hardest part was sifting out all the extraneous material I didn't need. The most enjoyable part was to reread the Song of Songs over and over after reading Schiller and others and to come back with new insights and just being amazed that a poem could speak in so many ways." Donald Esselborn reported that it felt very strange not going to classes and having a regular commitment. "I'd rather go to classes than write," he con· fessed. There's also a major switch in responsibilities. In a class, a student is responsible to other students and to the tutor. During essay writing, a senior is responsible only to himself. Mr. Sorrentino found the whole experience of writing on Nietzsche "really enjoyable." "I learned a whole lot about the book," he said. "It is one thing to talk about a writing and another to turn out an essay of 20 to 40 pages. You have to do a lot of thinking. Many things you previously thought were either wrong or just the beginnings of something." SEAN BALL, WHO wrote on King Lear, also likes the freedom and time to read and reread a work. "The easiest part is rereading the play over and over," he said. "At the beginning, the month seemed so long, and it seemed possible to provide the definitive answer on Lear to which all other people would look. But the essay teaches you a lot about your limitations and forces you to organize your thoughts, and you realize you don't have the answers. It makes you humble at the same time. It is a ·good measure of how well developed your thoughts are." But scheduled as they are during the long winter trough of the year when students begin longing for the diversions spring brings, the essays come, he feels, at a nice time. often, he said, seniors in finishmg up St. John's, wish they could start all over. It's almost the same way, he said, with the essays. �,Inf.ootsten.s of.Izaak Walton A winner for each campus (Continued from P.1) fellowships for the coming year. Each will receive stipends of $8,000 under a national program in which 70 students from 48 colleges have received grants for independent study and travel abroad. Miss Norton plans to go to five European countries "to study the venerable art of angling as it is regarded and practiced by different people in the diversities of their ways of life.. " This comely ar-old student intends to about what she observes and produce what in effect will be a collection of fish stories. She also hopes to reflect an of human life she says is often not taken very seriously recreation. IN DOING she will be following in the footsteps of the famous 17th Century Irish ironmonger-turned-author, Izaak Walton, whose book, "The Compleat Angler," an affectionate account of "the brethren of the angle," influenced her decision to do her . own writing about fishing. "There is no aspect of fly fishing which does not impress me as a perfection, from the weight and feel of the line to the rhythm of casting well. from the tying of deer hair and pheasant feather flies to the trout itself," she wrote in her formal application for a grant. Noting that the people who find recreation fo a so ~well defined, at times ritualized an activity as fishing, are relatively few, Miss Norton explained how she developed this interest: "The summer that I was taught to fish, I realized, without much reflection, that something important had changed for me. The teaching consisted of letting me watch others fish for several days, and then, when I was evidently in love from afar, placing an old rod, equipped with an old line that did not float too well and a noble fly that had taken many trout, in my hand. I was then abandoned for several hours to 'get the hang of it.' "TWO DAYS AFTER this lesson, I spent a good bit of the last of the summer's money on a twenty dollar outfit of my own. I had been honored with being introduced into a world which was held sacred by those who had shown me in, and it would not do to use someone else's tools." Miss Norton plans to seek out fish or trout fishermen with a view. to studying their techniques -&Clll"'llll" nn Tutorship named for donors of SF acreage (Continued from P. l) Anita Norton prepares a and to considering geographical and climatic factors of a good catch. She will do her writing during the course of her observations. When she returns to the United States, Miss Norton will move to Oregon where, she observed, there is "good fishing." fly. Tom Parran photo ter, she finds them· ideal for her project. "In this diversity, the differences and similarities are thrust upon each other,'' she explained. Miss Wu said she would like to start with these two regions as a means of looking at innovative A painter already experienced and distinctive art forms, both in in design work, Miss Wu will · the studio and in the home. "I develop a photo-documentary in hooe to find the depths to which these products are used and to. which she hopes to compare what extent the nature of society marketing and design techniques reflects them,'' she said. in the East with those in the West. In addition, Miss Wu said her Raised in the United States and in Europe and of Chin~se descent, investigations will take her to Miss Wu expressed the belief that mainland China. "I think that she is certain that there are China presents a culture devoid fundamental differences between of product-oriented lives," she these ranges of culture and hopes said. "It is one which for many years has existed with merely to document the eastern vision. subsistence levels of support. SHE HAS chosen Japan . and With the opening up of China to Hongkong because they are Westerners comes a new leaders of mass production and awareness, and it is precisely ·make the because, since they are both this, I think, that eastern and western in charac- older vision more apparent.'' s (Continued from P. 1) The day-long program, he said, would permit all board members to familiarize themselves more fully with college operations. St. John's students living at the Naval Academy? An unlikely possibility, but two students will Originally, Mr. Nelson said he be in residence there April 21-24 when the Academy conducts its had thought of delaying such a but 20th foreign affairs conference session until later in the time for of 130 decided to seek an because of some of the serious colleges and universities. cim~stions facing the board. "We · Attending from St. John's will be two sophomores, Leslie need to know as much as pos:s101e as soon as possible," he Smith, of Potomac, Md., and Joel Weingarten, of Nashua, N.H. The will be The over-view conference" will deal with US· held when the meets the USSR reta1uon1sm1Js. first week in June in Santa Fe. ' Mr. Nelson requested it in connection with five-year studies he has asked the treasurers on both campuses to prepare. Developed against the background of the national economy, they range from the very best to the worst possibilities St. John's can expect to based varying '"fl"!;"~"' rates and factors. Mr. Nelson has asked that written information the board's session be made available board members two weeks beforeit meets. men cement. In establishing the John and Faith Meem Tutorship, the committee plans to strike a bronze plaque containing names of .the donors which will go on permanent display in the PHerson Student Center. VICE-CHAIRMEN OF the committee are Cassius McCormick, of Muncie, Ind.; Mrs. Marshall McCune, Santa Fe; Dr. Philip Shultz, Tesuque, N.M.; Dr. Albert Albuquerque, N.M.; J.L Wichita Tex., and Santa Fe, and Mrs. Louise T. Santa Fe. The of more than 200 acres, most of the hills and pastures in which the now rests, to open its enabled St. second campus in Santa Fe in 1964. Nationally known as an architect, Mr. Meem has been said to be the prfmary force behind the development of the regional architectural style known as Spanish-:Pueblo, which finds its ,greatest expression in New Mex.ico. Born Nov. 17, 1894, in Pelotas, Brazil, to American parents, Mr. Meem was graduated from Virginia Military Institute in 1914. After service in World War I he began a banking career in New York but soon thereafter doctors advised him to go west for his health. A travel advertisement of the Santa Fe Railway extolling Santa Fe caught his eye so he bought a one-way ticket. While bedridden at Sunmount Sanitarium he developed an interest in architecture, and when he was sufficiently recovered, he went to Denver where he worked in the office of Fisher & Fisher and studied at a Beaux Arts Institute of Design Atelier under Burnham Hoyt. IN 1924 HE opened an office in Santa Fe in partnership with McConnell, '78, walking her way between Paris and the ancient destination of Christian pilgrims, Santiago de Compostella in Northern Spain, was within ten days of the end of her journey on December 8, a letter to Dean and Mrs. Edward Sparrow reports. · In Europe on a Watson Fellowship to retrace on foot this 900-mile pilgrimage, Miss McConnell's days have been filled with what she believes are her own personal "miracles." "I start every day by giving thanks just spontaneously,'' she writes. "People have been so kind, hospitable, and open." Four months in France left her charmed with that country. From one Parisian family developed a chain of friends and cousins for her to which made it be entertained 50 or 60 French families. "Because of the initial were urimarilv old French imdif- Cassius McCormick and practiced architecture continuously until his retirement in 1960. During those years he was at different times in partnership with McCormick Hugo Zehner, Bradley P. Kidder, Truman Mathews, Edward 0. Holien, and William Buckley. Mr. Meem has maintained an active role in historical preservation. He was chairman of the Society for Restoration and Preservation of New Mexico Churches in the 1920s, did important conservation }Nork on churches at Acoma, Laguna and Santa Ana Pueblos, and at and Trampas in New Mexico. During the 1930s he member of the National a.,,,,,.,,..,.,.., Commission, Historic American Buildings Survey. He was a founding member of the Old Santa Fe Association and chairman from 1957-1966. He also was a charter member of the Historic Santa.Fe Association. Numerous honors have been bestowed on Mr. Meem, including a Fellowship in the American Institute of Architects . Besides the St. John's board, he has served on the board of the Museum of New Mexico and the School of American Research. Both the University of. New Mexico and Colorado College have bestowed honorary degrees. The Spanish Colonial Arts Society, the Santa Fe Feista, Inc., Kiwanis. International, and the New Mexico Opera Association· have given him honorary life memberships. THE MUSEUM OF New Mexico in 1953 and St. John's College in 1972 have had exhibitions of his work. Those wishing to donate a gift for the John Gaw and Faith Meem Chair may send their donations to: John and Faith Meem Chair Committee, St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87501. ference might be one of the outstanding differences distinguishing Europe and the United States," she said. "One of my favorite questions I asked myself was what have we replaced, in judging people, instead of class?" Sharing her walk, but not all at the same time, have been members of her family, all great walkers, and friends. For two months she walked alone in France, going from one family chateau to the next and spending her days alone in the small villages and evenings at the tables of generally well-educated families. With her father she crossed the ·Pyrenees on October 8 "and changed worlds." "I was charmed by France but am equally charmed by Spain in a different way, 11 she said. "It is such a vast, rugged country I cannot believe how powerful the church continues to be here." After Santiae:o she �With Director' David Jones newly back from a to the Santa Fe Graduate Institute will offer a in Middle Eastern for the first time this summer. To the content of the class, Mr. Jones a week in Cairo in March consulting with members of universities. During his stay he also talked with students. This summer all Mid-Eastern students will be ·concentrated the 110 to be Santa Fe them divided between the two- cam· puses. Under a program which went into effect in 1978, the institute has been a small group teachers, and English speaking from the Mid-East. Underway at both campuses ·will be a fellowship program for secondary and ele~entary A addition to the room under the sets and costumes for Like It." With renovation space has been ed a room for costumes and the other with work and power tools. Here Edward Elliott, stage manager, who has hours this the rooms, establishes more and son, costume fashions a garment at ine. Performances be at 8 p.m. Sundav under the direction of James White. Outdoor lighting is going to receive some more-than-human attention this spring in the newest of a series of steps the Annapolis campus is taking to reduce energy consumption. Treasurer Charles T. Elzey said the. college will install photocells, which automatically measure the amount of light or darkness, to~ determine when lights go on and off at the campus parking lots and at other college locations. Where photo-cells are im· practical, he said the college will install timer switches to control exterior lighting on the front campus, the quadrangle, and around the infirmary. All exterior lighting, most of which is incandescent, will be replaced mercury vapor, teachers as well as for a limited number of school administrators. The eight-week long summer modeled after St.· books'' curriculum and a master's in liberal education, will June 23. This summer Santa Fe will draw four .n.uue111-1v11.:i tutors - Robert Druecker, David Sam and John White /- and the .stitute two from Chandlet and Comber, associate of the An· will be in its fourth year, said candidates will be asked to submit a proposal for some significant change in either their classroom or school dealing with the curricula or teaching structures, books, methods, or feature which believe improve the of tea.cn1ng. John's ticipate in a in which _ a number of great classics education. The teachers would educational of their Institute to them in ·their schools next academic year. "The monitored a series of m11r1-v1ear conferences between the program coordinator and small groups of NEH fellows," Mr. Comber said. Interested persons may learn more by writing Mr. Comber. lighting, which produces a bluewhite rather than a yellowish light. Mr. Elzey estimates that this will permit the college to cut its wattage in half. WHEN MILDER , weather arrives after the college boilers close down, the college will undertake another energysaving step affecting scores of radiators on campus. Mr. Elzey said all radiators will be ped with new thermostat controlled valves, limiting the amount of steam which enters the radiators, and with new traps, which will not permit the steam to escape until it fully condenses. He cited wastefulness due to faulty mechanisms and age which now permits steam to zip through a number of radiators. This summer Mr. Elzey said building will concentrate on windows and doorways, caulking and weather stripping in an attempt to seal openings throu~h which cold air can infiltrate. "Energy costs are escalating at st1.ch a rapid rate that they will become an enormous burden on the operating budget unless we take every step possible to control th.em," he predicted. "This college must do everything possible to reduce the consumption of energy since we have no control over the costs." Thanks to milder weather and a longer shut-down period during the Christmas recess, Mr. Elzey said the college was able to reduce its fuel consumption this winter. · teachers is the National Endowment for the Humanities with other funds. available for @ The Annapolis campus's easy access to Washington has enabled students to attend three major cultural offerings there this year as wen as to visit museums of their choice on informally organized "Free-forAll-on-the-Washington-Mall" bus trips. The Student Activities Committee, headed by Bruce Dempster, Southampten, Pa., sophomore, sponsored a bus trip to a five-hour performance of the Washington Opera Company's "Tristan and Isolde," an opera students study, at the Kennedy Center. On April 19 students will have a choice of attending either the American Ballet Theater's performance of "Don Quixotic" at. the or "Twelfth Ni ht" at the Folger Sh:ake~sp1~arean Theater. to the its great :Smith:sonian museums, up to students to This one you're not going to believe. There's a petition afloat on . the Annapolis campus· to which museum they want to visit. abolish the spring break. Transportation is subsidized by a The medically minded group $300 budget provided through the behind it say it is for the good of student government. the college health. A number of staff members A friend of the Kennedy Center have petitioned Assistant Dean himself, Mr. Dempster perBen Milner· asking that the sonally receives advance notices college cease using the term of coming events and is planning, trips next year for performances "spring break" and refer to "spring vacation" in the future. in opera, ballet, and the theater. "Too many faculty members are He organizes most of the trips taking it literally,'' Assistant from his dormitory room, which he found already was equipped Dean Barbara Leonard explained with a telephone jack, enabling the wisdom of the move. Take Mr. Milner, himself, for him to plug in a telephone. instance. A day before classes were dismissed he reached to smash a birdie to fellow tutor Tom Slakey during a badminton game in the gym and heard a · Jean G. Monroe, the first sound like the knuckles of his woman to graduate from the hand cracking, It turned out to be Dominican School of Philosophy a clean break in the fourth foot. and Theology in Berkeley, Calif., metatarsal of his A week before vacation is the new administrative and assistant for St. John's College's Don Conroy, a tutor, "landed ' a Graduate Institute. A former resident of New · basketball Mexico, Mrs. Monroe will master's the institute. broken feet had.become catching, too. With College Treasurer Chuck Elzey there were almost enough people to start a club. Mr. Elzey damaged his foot in late August when an overly aggressive big toe put so much pressure on a second toe, during his two-mile walks to college and back, that after years of this regular exercise, the ligaments gave way. Following surgery, he's on the recovery. The others must wait for summer-what was the word?-vacation before they will be mended. This cake is best consumed at Recipe of the week: Chocolate conclusion of work in ApCovered Apollonius Cone. ollonius. More than sufficient to Directions: Take one two-foot serve class of 16 or 17 students tall croquenbouche de Noel cone and one tutor. and fill with three Bundt cake '**'* mixes. To assure even baking, For further details, see Rae center with tunnel core of Ely, Annapolis sophomore, who aluminum cans of ·graded size. executed this engineering feat at Brace cans in place to keep from her Cornhill Street home. floating in batter. Assisting in the decorations were Remove oven shelves and two members of her math classbalance cone "'u..,.. ,.u.. _v J anet Durholz and Holly Johnson. To ""''""'"ftC1PDlillJI:!. The cake was consumed in Barbara Leonard's math class to while · celebrate the final with Delineate Qllonius. "We liter allv in same sections,'' Miss Ely colored tutor for colors of Rumored on tesian Sheet Cake. class. 11 �"If I were going back to school, I'd go to St. John's." Louise Trigg, secretary of Visitors and Governors, whose interest in college dates back to World War II when an the Naval Academy to over the Annapolis campus resulted in a national effort to save the college. Later, <;he served as the first · hostess to officials at her home in N.M., when Santa Fe was under consideration as a site for the second campus of St John's. For all those times at the Little and for all the small in moments of stress, and sound advice countless St. late and his son, George, were honored a plaque presented Association. Receiving it here is Mrs. Theodore Nichols. In the photograph are larry '36; Herb '44; Roy Shawn, '35; Harry Robert, '41; Tom Mac:nemar, '30; Peter Kellogg-Smith, '43; Mrs. Nichols; Arthur Kungle, '67; Mr. and Mrs. Evangelos (Angie) Nichols, and, almost hidden, Alumni President frank Atwell, '53. Tom Parran photo ~ (Continued from P. 2) 1976 - Santa Fe first. From Lyn's letter two Eric Freeman sends a fine, upthings came through very clearly: her happy marriage and beat letter announcing his marriage to Patricia Angelo in her priqe in her two sons. March a year ago, and the arrival 1974 ·Santa Fe David and Kate Gordon Gross this past January of their son, report purchase of a hill-top Jacob Alexander. After a year's house in Oakland, Cal., theology study at Claremont, "surrounded by greenery and Eric is finishing requirements for humming birds." David is his teaching credentials. Patricia thriving on his law practice, Kate is a dietetic technician at the City works at Sierra Club Books, and of Hope Medical Center, working at California State Polytechnic both are very busy. Randy and Martha Mackey University at Pomona on a Pendleton live in Mead, Col. He degree in foods and nutrition. 1977 ,works as a chemical engineer for Janis Popowicz Handte writes~ Ara co Chemical in Boulder, and they have one small child, that husband Malcolm is working toward a Ph.D. in operations Walker. research at the University of 1975 Gretchen Berg is a candidate Pennsylvania. 1978 for a master's degree in political Paula Jacobus writes that she science at the University of Dallas. She writes that Mark . is a secretary at the Hamot Jordan, S73, teaches in the Medical Center in Erie, Pa., and plans to enter the study of philosophy department there. Harriet Quesenberry is a medicine at the University of second lieutenant in the Air Pennsylvania this fall. Janet Ehrenberger now lives in Force Nurse Corps stationed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Oakland, Ca., and in February Base. She entered the service started work as a computer immediately after receiving her programmer with Pacific Gas nursing degree last year from and Electric Co. 1978 • Santa Fe Catholic University. She would Steven Mackey lives in love to hear from her friends: 2dLt. Harriet Quesenberry, Atascadero, Cal., and is studying USAF (NC), 240 D Arlington mechanical · engineering at Village, W. Dayton Yellow California Polytechnic State Springs Road, Fairborn, Ohio University at San Luis Obispo. 45324. 1975-Santa Fe From George Baldwin's column in the Albuquerque Tribune we learn of the promotion of Giselle Minoli to director of merchandising at CBS Records, with an attendant move from San Francisco to New York. 1976 That intrepid aml latter-day Odysseus, Kimo :&lackey, is studying naval architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. (Again we are pleased to have some notes about our Graduate Institute alumni, and thank the Institute in Santa Fe for keeping us posted.-T.P .) GI-1973 Paul Neil Smith reports a oneyear leave of absence from his counseling job at Garrison Junior High School in Baltimore. He has bought and is operating the Crack Pot restaurant, a seafood emporium featuring Louisiana crabs year 'round. Born in Texas, Mrs. Trigg has lived in New Mexico most of her life. She is president of the LTM Cattle Company of Nambe, which is involved in raising registered Angus cattle, and vice-president of the Trigg Cattle Company of Tucumcari, N.M. She divides her time between her farm and .ranch. Mrs. Trigg also is a member of the Board of Archives of - American Art, a small, active board of the Smithsonian Institute, with headquarters in New York. GI-1975 Bro. Philip Valley OSB points . SHE IS CLOSELY identified out two errors in the entry about with cultural organizations in the him in the February issue: he ·Southwest, having been involved was appointed to the National with the Santa Fe Chamber Board of Consultants of the NEH, Music Festival since its inception not to its National Board; and, and having served as chairman while he is currently working of the New Mexico Arts Co:m· toward a Ph.D. at New York mission. University, he has not yet In addition, she has served on received that degree: the board of the New Mexico GI-1976 Elizabeth Trujillo and Joseph Opera Association, the National R. Block were married in Conference of Christians and January, 1979, and make their Jews, the National Endowment of home in Santa Fe. He is a partner the Arts on the Federal-State in Block's Mortuary in that city. Panel, Ballet West of Salta Lake ·Elizabeth reports ttiat her City, and the Santa ~e children, Felix, a high school Preparatory School. In 1972 Mrs. Trigg received the sophomore, and Carol, a seventhAppreciation Award of the Eightgrader, have fond memories of Northern Pueblos Council and in the children they met in the 1971-72 a certificate of merit for summers of }975 and 1976. Phyllis P. Goodman reports an o_uts_tanding servi~e _to_ the a_rts in interesting but cold year in 197879, when she was one of four English teachers from across the country involved in a pilot program at the University of Illinois. The four were given faculty status at the University while they taught freshman Landon Young, artist-inrhetoric. From Idell Kesselman residence in Santa Fe, has perJacobson came a fine February formed a piano concert on that letter, letting fellow St. Johnnies campus which a Santa Fe critic know "where .and how she has said "no one ... will forget." The concert, which drew virsettled." Idell is married to "a self-educating" artist, Shelby tually every knowledgeable Jacobson, who works in fiber as musician and listener in the area, well as with metal sculpture. • "set a standard for perThey have lived in Prescott, formances" there, according to a Ariz., since August, 1978; she review by William Dunning teaches in the local (and only) appearing in the Santa Fe high school. They own a "tiny Reporter. The program included house on a little more than half an works by Bach, Bartok, acre of granite-studded, pine- Schubert, Debussy, and Chopin. Young, who joined the faculty punctured land." Their first child, Risa, was born last May in Santa Fe last fall, has perand is obviously the delight of her formed extensively throughout parents. Idell continues to teach Europe, the United States and because she loves lt, she says, South America. He has received and, with Shelby working at honors from the Institute of Inhome, the child-care problem is temational Education, the Senior Fulbright-Hays Prmrram. and solved. LOUISE TRIGG the field of arts administration as chairman of the New Mexico Arts Commission. Besides serving as secretary of the St. John's board, she is a member of executive committee of the college's Fund for the 1980's ·Committee and of the Santa Fe Visiting Committee. She has one daughter, Robin McKinney, who publishes the -, ,Taos News in Taos, N.M. Eva Brann is festival speaker St. John's Tutor Eva Brann was a principal speaker at the Allegany Liberal Arts Festival held April 11-12 at Frostburg State College~ The event, sponsored by a grant from the Maryland Committee for the Humanities, also included an informal discussion between St. John's and Frostburg students. Participating from here were Joe Roach, John Hiner, Melanie Jago, Martin Miller, Dan Van Doren, Noel Blyler, Elizabeth Bowser, Peter Norton, Michael Fried, and Michael Rutherford . SF pianist-in-residence · per/ormance I the Alfred Hertz Memorial Traveling Fellowship in Music Program. From 1965 to 1973 he was an associate professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Before coming to Santa Fe he was director of the San Francisco Community Music Center. He is a former member of the Orchestra of Santa Fe Ensemble. In addition to his work at St. John's, l\e is Musical Director of the Chorus of Santa Fe. Besides leading classes at St. John's, he is working with a community chorus composed of students, faculty, and staff. On April 27 the chorus will present a program which includes the Vivaldi Gloria. It will be accompanied by chamber musicians from the college. , I ! �THE REPORTER Published CoJlege Sf. John's Cc Annapolis, /1 21404 ---i,;:~----u-;,- n-T"i"V' "TV-~----~~--- pres · l A 20. year-old sophomore believes that any place as discussion-minded as St. John's ought to provide space- for a discourse of a different kind: a forum among presidential con· tenders in the coming Maryland primary. The idea seems so logical that Joel Weingarten, of Nashua, N .H., has proceeded with arranging one. With the blessing of the college administration and with the support of such people as Republican Senator Charles Mathias and Democratic State Senate President James Clark, he is organizing a forum for the evening of May 12, one day before the Maryland primary. Who will come from the Democratic side is still up in the air. Mr. Weingarten has Senator Clark and several others cons ferring with the White House in an effort to persuade President Carter to participate.·. Senator Edward M. Kennedy's office is interested and so is California Governor Edmund G. Brown,.s. ALL OF .. THE original Republican candidates received invitations, but as the list erodes with each primary, the number eligible to participate, if they are able to come, drops. Possibilities include Ronald Reagan, George Bush, John Anderson, and Phillip Crane. A political activist since he was a sophomore at Woodward High School in Rockville, Md., Weingarten served as press llaison and helped with research for Bruce Bradley, an independent candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1976. He writes a political column for the St. John's weekly, "The Collegian," which already has put him in touch with some of the candidates. He has interviewed South Dakota Senator · Pressler, who since has out of the GOP race, interviewed and luncheoned with Anderson, and on an informal basis he also has talked with Senator Kennedy, Senator Robert Dole, a former candidate, and Mr. Bush. During the Christmas holidays he traveled for two day's with Senator Kennedy's press pool and was able to ask him a couple of questions. "ST. JOHN'S IS the proper place for having such a forum for several reasons," Mr. Weingarten sad .. "In the first place, the location in Annapolis makes it accessible to a wide number of citizens. "In the second place, there is its prestige: it is the third oldest college in the country, it has a fine faculty, and it has credibility. And thirdly, there is the environment. The of the place is one which welcomes discussion of different points of views and tries to arrive at solutions. Therefore, it is in keeping with the spirit of the college that we have a forum here." At present a justice for the St. John's student government, Mr. Weingarten is a St. John's nominee for a Truman Fellowship, awarded to sophomores who 'Plan careers in government. A career in government is what Mr. Weingarten hopes to follow and is looking toward enrolling in the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard once he leaves St. John's. He already has managed to become somewhat active in government matters, having lobbied independently on the Hill on behalf of foreign policy issues. In 1977 Maryland's Acting Governor Blair Lee appointed him to the Governor's Youth Advisory Council. hope to gather more material to help with skills such or in- St. John's. "Whether students to graduate travel, tma. a job, or even if they aren't sure what they want to do, this office is here to help them," said Mrs. Lange. "We have a library with a good collection of from graduate and summer I Mrs. 42, earned her bachelor's from the of at Milwaukee in 1975. "I was a freshman when my youngest child was in the second grade," she said. She and her husband, and two of their three children moved to Santa Fe from California in 1978. It is not every college which produces a writer as prolific and imaginative or, one might add, as self-effacing as St. John's College's Socrates Schwartz. Periodically Mr. Schwartz arrives on campus, unobtrusively as is his wont, maintaining a low profile and hunting out some out· of-the-way corner where he can write uninterrupted. Customarily, the library staff is the first to know of his return for he ·gives the library as his address when in town. A "Ms." magazine subscription, inspired, perhaps, by a women's liberation-type friend, recently arrived in his name and a mailer on the library's bulletin board tells how S. Schwartz can get a Webster's new ideal dictionary. A handsomely distinguished man, with his slightly receding ·hairline, Mr. Schwartz first became known when his photograph was left one Monday morning in 1975 above the circulation desk inscribed "To my friends at the library, Socrates Schwartz. 11 ALONG WITH HIS photograph /IW/ was a note from student aides notifying the librarians that he had left· a collection of books which they had taken the trouble to catalog. Now grouped together in a separate drawer, the cards die ate the breadth of his interest: Socrates Schwartz allowed "A Pocket History of Lint" and "Commentary on the Manhattan Yellow Pages." juice, serum, and phlegm, There Socrates Schwartz has written Adam lay supine - a well shaped extensively on philosophy: man.") "Conceiving the Infinite," with Besides his books, so popular illustrations shown actual size, they are hard to find on the published Urban Press of Glen shelves, Mr. Schwartz has left the Burnie, ''Conceiving the a-white plume pen for use Finite," with illustrations not at the sign-out desk and a s.econd shown. Accompanying them is a photograph. Never a man to book written by his mother, Edna a high profile, he it taken in Schwartz, and described as an the coffee allowing only his "intimate biography": "The coat, hat, umbrella to be Conceiving of Socrates Schwartz, shown. an Ontological Approach." "Socrates Schwartz is such an A gourmet cook, Mr. Schwartz easy person to live with," an has turned out books in cooking. appreciative staff member His culinary volumes include one commented. "You can be with called "Fasting with Moral him for days and never know he's Purposes," published by Action there." Two Press (the press coinQuiet as he is, his fame is such cidentally shares the name of a that Baltimore's Evening Sun previous college food service) recently did a story on him. and "Aristotle's Mexican Socrates Schwartz is, as you American Cookbook: A Thousand may have guessed, a composite and One Logical Lunches, being a character invented first, the paradigm of philology and a library staff suspects, by former reconstruction of Aristotle's lost Library Aide Luis Cabanillas, '77, works on Cooking and Rhetoric." during one of his less pressured This work falls into three moments in the library. parts: "Enchilada and essence," His photograph (bearing a "Refried beans and strong resemblance to the the presocratics," and . . Winston cigarette men) and first problem of water - Thales vmts cards came into the Mexico." world by a lavish and HIS in- virtuoso decoration of the ...,v.'"''""' in his with paper dolls or Man in swimmers, archers, dancers, of Nature,n in which the gazelles, and other of his animals Gretchen '75. used for The "Ms. sub.-1""""''tm•" purposes. is ·the first on books which fall has been given in St John's famed great name, according to Librarian list, he has completed "A Charlotte Fletcher, although the has received a free Commentary on Aristotle's Commentary* on Jane Austen's . of a patching c01np1ourul Commentary on Hegel'' as well for and other such as a commentary on Genesis: advertisements. The name "Saliva, bile, Socrates Schwartz now appears to sketch his re- on a number of mailing lists. Not too long ago a salesman from Baltimore showed up with a line of stationery he was anxious to show Mr. Schwartz. He didn't think it was at all funny when Cataloging Librarian Marcia Talley thought the best way to handle that was to say he was deceased. MISS FLETCHER has had some moments, too, when she has thought Socrates Schwartz was not all that . "I tried to kill him off - really I did - but I couldn't," she said. "He was getting pretty much out of hand, and there were some sensitivities being on.'' For a time, she noted, he was more popular thau Socrates, and that, she allowed, is a pretty low state of affairs for St. John's. Like all good literary characters, however, Socrates Schwarz to die. He has become alumnus who never goes away. a new card in his drawer. Socrates promises to become, not one of St. John's great authors, but one of its enduring ones. Svend Schmidt, a former member of St. John's College's has been named assistant in the college's business office. 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JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY 1 1 1 1 1 1 1~1 ~mr1 1r1 1 r1 m1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1696 01138 0563 1 E3 L.numE ..,,...;,.. .. ;.,,... facilities also would be the Carroll· Barrister and an office set aside for student The area tivities. of Visitors and Governors has authorized the "~""'"tiaina for construction bids will be for its and Plans Alexandria, firm of Michael and Michael call for the new, entrance the ..:i;~:-... "'""";~,,.,.i the ADOLPH SCHMIDT, of Pitt- another in Hook rec alls his John Dewey are appearing in St. magazine, The College, issue, with a persons, trance will lead into a where there will be coats and hats restrooms. The from the retained but order to assure a minimum in the food ser- Bonfante, an and Samuel Scolnicov lecturer at Hebrew Jerusalem. This time the first time it with its nresent title uH... l be into which became familiar when he was here for his pre-election visit with staff and took off his coat and up sleeves. The rolled-up sleeve, one suspects, is in Mr. Delattre's life. It of this would a comfortable " he said of his present as director of the National Humanities Faculty in Concord, Mass. Nineteen after his election Mr. Delattre after _ his parents in Charlottesville, campus for the of visits he and Santa Fe the six months transition MR. in energy faces none here. He will be John's new source, a man who sets hiE:h standards for himself was made at a noon, western time. Dean Davis. Mr. Delattre not St. which ev•~nt'ually will dumi::;c:. "It will make in which will free five rooms classroom in JlJ""'"''"· ,..,,,., IC11n2··nrr1e board member and former ambassador to offered the toast to welcome the new Jm~su1enlt, him well, _ ahead he will lead institution from greater " Mr. sta.na:mg with his petite wife, Alice, "We are honored to be iimong you." In Santa Fe the announcement With so Fe's Seventh Annual Sm;taininlg Campaign is well on its its goal of year donors and has grown ct,,..,,.i;i., since then. Branham, Santa Fe's director of college relations, attributes its success to PnPr1:ti>tir chairmen and an committee of 58 citizens from Santa Fe and Los Alamos to make solicitations. The are Saul Cohen and Davis, who also chaired the successful 1978 moments after he returned to the King William Room amid the c:.pplause of standing board members. Custodian Robert Wells, using a walkie-talkie, immediately signaled the pealing of college bells to mark the successful election and the start of a champagne receution in the Great Hall. There Mr. Nelson made the official announcement to the college 'l..V!JlUUUUl~:f "I am to announce J. Delattre the election ru•.a"ini:>nt of St. John's College 1, " Mr. a room crowded with and staff ., . . .u Avenue. of John's College has named a young, humanities s~hola.r, Edwin J. Delattre, of Concord. as it first president in more than three decades. Described the Santa Fe dean vested in those as a man our students arts which we Will make their own,'' the 38form er philosophy n ..11.f.acanr was elected Saturday, a unanimous vote of of Visitors and Governors. board members have cast their ballots, and you have got all 39 votes," Board Chairman Charles A. informed Mr. Delattre _ much morP idE>ntifiablP." Editor Leo Raditsa said in exolaininj!; the need for the contender title, Donated to the Annual 15 well- alike. called for Assistant �~ Note: To Leslie, who wrote me on October 27: please identify yourself further. The card- telling of your M.A. in music from Stanford, as well as the information about Janet Farr, carried no return address or last name.-T.P. 1950 Peter A. Whipple has been appointed Internal Auditor of the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. 1955 Priscilla Husted Griscom last fall was named a lecturer in industrial engineering at the University of New Haven. She holds .a master's degree from the University of Rhode Island and has done graduate work in mathematics under a National Science Fm1rnfation gnrnt. 1964 Mary Biggar Main is havmg considerable success in her field: developmental and biological psychology, particularly as it relates 1o parent-;nfant relationship. The widow of the late St. John's tutor, Alvin Main, Mary is assistant professor in the Depar.trnent of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley. Moving increasingly into biological psychology and especially into ethology, Mary spent 1977-78 in Germany at an international, interdisciplinary conference on behavioral development which .drew biologists and psychologists to the University of Bielefeld. She has lectured on her ·current research at Cambridge and the Royal College of Physicians in England, Seeweisen · in Germany, the University of Zurich, and Memorial University in ,Newfoundland. · 1966. In October, Kay Randolph~ Back started what she calls "a challenging, dream-come-true job," as the professional health service staff member for the Senate Committee on Health and Social Services of the Legislature . of Michigan. After experience on Capitol Hill, Kay specialized in health law while in law school, and is excited about the opport unities offered in this emerging discipline. The Rev. Frederick Selineid er is now F_ath-er Spyridon · Reporter Rebecca Wilson Editor The Reporter is published by the Office oft College Relations, St. John's College, Annapolis, Md., 21404, Richard D. Wei-· gle, president. Pubhhed five times a year, in febrvary, April, Jvne, September and November. Second class postage p~id at Annapolis, Md. By Tom Parran '42 Director of Alumni Activities Schneider, an ordained priest in the Synori of Bishops uf Uit Russian Orthodoi'!: Church in Exile. He is involved in ministering and building an English-speaking parish in Ipswich, Mass., of the Orthodox jurisdiction, one of the few in this country. a first-year resident in pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of the Washington University Medical Center. The Jarvises live at 4525 Arco Street, St. Louis, 63110, and welcome calls or visits. John Rog~rs, whose fine, calligraphic hand dressed up so many St. John's documents during his student years here, 1968 -Santa Fe · has becQme art director of the Sue and Thomas G. Keens largest lettering studio in became parents on October 22 Washington - William E. Tolley, with the birth of Jenny. Torn Inc. It was a quick rise. John continues his work at the joined the firm in April of 1978, Neonatal-Respiratory Diseases and by October he had the title. Division at Children's Hospital of 1975-Santa Fe Los Angeles and also as assistant ' Word comes to us that Kristen professor of pediatrics at the Lucas is living in Houston, Tex., University of Southern California and working as a systems analyst School of Medicine. Sue is a for Shell Oil Co. Our anonymous marriage, family and child informant says Karen is married ,counselor and will receive her and spends her free time folkcredentials as a school~ dancing or working in her garpsychologist from USC in the den. spring. She plans then to enter a 1976-Santa Fe doctoral program in educational From Betsy Davenport in psychology. Portland, Ore., comes a most 1971 welcome and news-filled letter. Thomas N. and Lois Eckler She is finishing graduate work in Day, '77, are the proud parents of Special Education at Portland a son named Christopher and are State University, having received busy buyin~ and fixing up a her baccalaureate degree from "small (equals tiny)'' bou~e in the University of Washington. Betsy reports that. Leslie Schear Renton, Wash. 1972 has two baccalaureate degrees In mid-autumn we :received a from Washington, in corn· · note from our man in the nuclear parative literature and classics, Navy, Dana Netherton. now in and is now studying the latter at Virginia Beach, Va., teaching· the University of Toronto. Inger submarine navigator officers at Aamas lives in Eugene. Ore .• and the Navy Guided Missile School. . works for an insurance company. Off-duty he plays organ in a local Linda Davenport Mischel, '69, Episcopal church and works with and husband David, SF68, live in . the Society for Creative San Francisco, have two Anachronisms, "with a· Middle . children, Linda is working on a Byzantine persona." Langley Porter (NIH) resear~h Dana reports that Carol Shuh, · project for learning disabled '73, spent some time in the children, and David is a· licensed relative coolness of Kenya last contractor specializing in ·July, on holiday from her Peace renovations. Corps duties· in steamy Sierra Betsy asks us to include more Leone. notes about Santa Fe alumni; we Welcome word from Ronald are willing, nay, eager to do so Davidoff, M.D. reveals that he is · but are usually hampered by lack in his first year of psychiatric of news. All you southresidency at the King's County westerners: send your news to Hospital Center in Brooklyn. the Alumni Office on either N.Y.; "hectic but gratifying,'' campus and it will find its way to Ron writes. this column. -T.P. l!mi Harvey G. Griffin, Jr., is now a Another fairly new M.D. has foreman for Colby Plastics in also reported: James N. Jarvis Anaheim, Cal. He writes: "I received his degree from the know it is traditional : ... r Johnnies University of Vermont last May. to enter into the more esoteric He and Karen Olsen Mcintyre and status-oriented occupations (Middleburv '75) were married where the select serve society for in June, and they moved to St. whispered fees in high-rise .Louis, Mo.,_ soon thereafter. St. hedonism or play in National Johnnies at the wedding included Science Found a ti on hermit Paul and Tina Saddy laboratories, acting out the roles Michael Dink, Bairj Donabedian, of Howard Roark and Dominique Tricia Joyce from '75, and Ann Francon, floating on The Schwarz, '78. On the west Fountainhead of superiority. Karen and Jim visited Matthew Unfortunately, I seem to lack the and Susan Fitzpatrick DeBacker necessary moral virtue to be cast in Jonesville, Mich. Fred and as a believable Roark. Happily, Sara Coulson Ellis and Ted however, my three years less one '74, week of St. John's education has Moving things along is something Bob Yarnall does with seeming ease, whether it is an industrial plant, a fishing line, a of skiis, a camera, a ball, or a search committee. If the search for St. John's new president was able to proceed smoothly and conclude a month ahead of schedule, a large share of its success is due to this affable Philadelphia industrialist who also is a board vice-president. "It was a wonderful experience to serve as chairman of the Presidential Search Committee during 1979 and, as I wrote in my final. report, I enjoyed almost every moment of it," he said. "It was a challenging assignment, to · say the least, but I think we can all feel well pleased with the unanimous selection of Ed Delattre." His interest in St. John's dates back well before he first joined the board in 1976. "My involvement with St. John's College started in my senior year in high school in 194142," he recalls. "I was all set to enroll at either St. John's or Princeton with the intention of getting a good liberal arts education before proceeding to engineering or architecture. "WORLD WAR II was then upon us, however, and I was persuaded to 'get something practical under my belt.' I thereupon enrolled at Cornell University and got a smattering of mechanical engineering before setting off to war. After the war it seemed sensible to complete that program of study, and I have . been scrambling ever since to make up for what I missed at St. John's. Part of that scrambling was a two week seminar led by Mortimer Adler last summer at the Aspen Institute." Born of an old Quaker family with forebears stretching back to William Penn - his parents were "weighty }i'riends" Mr. Yarnall attended Quaker schools . and served as an ambulance driver attached to the British 8th . Army in Italy during World War II. After the war he was active in post-war relief and· reconstruction with the American Friends Serviee Committee in Poland and other European countries. Most of his professional career has been devoted to Yarway Corporation which he joined in 1950, earning his spurs in rough· and-tumble union contract negotiations. From there he moved into primary responsibility for manufacturing and for management information systems as well as industrial relations . He was elected president in 1962 at the age of 37. At that time Yarway was a small manufac· turer of valves, steam traps, and other power plant equipment, and sales had plateaued around $6 million. Mr. Yarnall together a new young management and together the new team new life and into industry. Last -D. ROBERT YARNALL, JR. IN 1968 HE WAS chosen "Management Man of the Year 11 by the Philadelphia Industrial Management Club. Although he continues as Yarway's board chairman, he has given up its presidency in order to devote half his time to corporate direc· torships and a broad range of community, cultural, and educational activities. He is a chairman of the board of the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, former board chairman of the International House of Ph~ladelphia, and a member of the board of the 'Greater Philadelphia Partnership, Area Council tor Economic Education, Pennsylvania Environmental Council, and Philadelphia Museum of Art.· Off to Brazil on business early this month, Mr. Yarnall, now that the search is over, is finally finding a few wee.kend hours to spend in his new darkroom. "I have taken photography seriously for most of my life but this is the first time I have tackled color printing from both · negatives and slides," he said. "I won't say it is as demanding as running a company or finding a college president, but it's close!" Parents here April 25-26 The King William Players tentatively have scheduled ''As You Like It'' for Parents Weekend April 25-26 in Annapolis.· Also planned is a Friday night lecture by President Weigle, "Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching," and a Saturday seminar to discuss Machiavelli's "The Prince.'.' Jonathan Baumgarten, Mark :Fuller, and Stephanie Moore make the student committee in charge. Because of the scarcity of rooms,· parents are advised to make hotel reservations early and are requested to make reservations for the weekend with the Office of Relations no later 25. up �• his supper." In news to "There was no egotism. He college circles, the members of very and with the Search Committee had You could heard a remained lipped over the pen He showed an committee's choice unto the time astounding to handle of the questions, in its because of his clarity and of unMr. Delattre's election derstanding. I was dumb",,.,.....,.,,,,,here. founded." IT MET Mr. Delattre, the choice of the finalist also had IN HIS Mr. Bart been kept secret the board spoke of the qualities whkh had as a whole. It had that led to Mr. Delattre's selection. · one candidate be "In small groups his measured until thev met and thoughtful manner treats each person, each auestion and idea with e ~ session, and resnect." Mr. Bart said of the dark. had made among Mr. Delattre was students. the room and following an opEmi11tg "Students no less than older board by Mr. tutors, young administrators as statements made on the can- well as men and women with a didate's behalf two members wide in the world. all of the Search Committee-Dean seemed me res'"" Robert of the Santa Fe dose attention with campus, Alexander K. and enthusiam. McLanahan, of Houston. attention to others is not His politeness or just rhetorical skill. two His and his intelligence during a formal nre~ser1tat.ion are conspicuous at once, his views and the question can speak with •rnthnr the following day, was described tact." as "impeccable" and "brilliant" by board members. If it were possible for St. John's "He was exceedingly powerful to have an outsider as dean of the in the depth of his intellect and in faculty, Mr. Bart said Mr. his ability to express himself Delattre would be an "outeloquently without excessive standing candidate for he already wordiness;'' according to one speaks with us, students and board member, who described tutors alike, as one of us." himself so happy o.ver the choice "But his commitment to liberal he felt ''like Snoopy when he gets education and to St. John's is of a photo by Mmion Wmren different order at this time," Mr. Bart continued. "I cannot imagine that this college would be in existence now except for the dedicated energy of Mr. Weigle. Mr. Delattre, in my estimate, has the energy and dedication to make it possible for the kind of teaching and learning to join in Annapolis and Santa Fe and not to allow its light to be extinguished by the indifference of a world that nonetheless needs its help." DELIVERING his comments extemporaneously, former Board Chairman McLanahan, now chairman of the board's Finance Committee,· spoke of the Search Committee's confidence in Mr. Delattre's fund~raising ability. Mr. Delattre then addressed the board, speaking from a text for 40 to 45 minutes, on the principles of liberal arts, the methods he intended to pursue in raising money, proposals for Santa Fe and Annapolis, and his own family arrangements. • College presidents, like generals, are often unappreciated until the mud is kneecap deep. There is another similarity. Both vocations must represent the bricks-and-mortar of their institutions and the ideals upon which they rest. This requires a blend of tenacity and sensitivity which is not all that common. These ruminations occurred as we read of the change at the helm at St. John's College in Annapolis. The board of visitors and governors has elected a 38year-old University of Virginia graduate and former philosophy professor, Edwin J. Delattre, to succeed Richard D. Weigle, the college president for the past 31 years. College presidents come and go, with the latter the more conspicuous movement during the chaotic campus years of the· late '60s and early '70s. Mr. Weigle's long tenure at St. John's is of a special sort, because the college he served so effectively is a special The "Great Books" curriculum inaugurated in 1937 Scott Buchanan and Stringfellow Barr was a golden idea, the revival of the classic liberal arts tradition; the currency of the idea however, was in a les-s valued coin. , Indeed, when Mr. Weigle was lured from the U.S. of State to become president in the physical was the college was in debt and the endowment was in intensive care. What was in a then-and the criteria for selecting Mr. Weigle's successor were the same-was a ty to raise sufficient money to perpetuate the idea as reality; and a presence that could enhance the other two and provide an elusive bonding quality within the institution. Mr. Weigle has done a noble job-first, in ensuring St. John's survival and, second, in providing the sustenance by which a curriculum diverging from the American collegiate norm could flourish. Not is St. John's in Annapolis afloat-which is to say, finances are as troublesome as at most private liberal arts colleges today-but there is a second St. John's campus, in Santa Fe, opened in 1967. The combined campuses enroll 675 students, considered near the maximum for the curriculum and communities. The Annapolis endowment has grown from a quarter of a million dollars in 1949 to $8.5 million; in New Mexico it has reached million in just over a decade. Tho s e a re tr e m end o us a ccomplishm ents, particularly for an insituation that proudly, even definantly. renews an earlier intellectual tradition. There are no majors or minors for students, there are no elective subjects, each class reading and diseussing the same author or from the best that has been written and in Western civilization. It is at once a specialized and one at unrivaled breadth. No small of St. John's must be credited to Richard Weigle. He persevered in · Immediately following his remarks the board adjourned for cocktails and dinner at the hom:e of Board Member and Mrs. Jerome Lapides, where board members had an opportunity to talk individually with Mr. ·Delattre. While a substantial number of board members already had been won over at the end of the Friday session, Mr. Delattre's expert handling of the hour and a quarter spent in questioning him may have been an even more decisive factor in his favoi;-. "Several people said it was an impeccable performance," a senior member, impressed by his knowledge of the books and college, said. "He was even better when he was speaking impromptu. By the time he was excused for voting, there was a clear wave of sentiment in his favor." The crest of the wave was so high, in fact, that there was no discussion at all of the candidate during the more than an hour in which the board was in executive ·session. RATHER IT DEALT with procedural matters. Because the Prn1rr.v-1rs constitu.tiondoes not -- -~- •• w••- e• "' .. ''"'"'- iil>U Clll')Ul:i W presidential election in 30 years: that the election would require the two-thirds majority of members present, that balloting would be secret and no proxies accepted, that only those members present would be eligible to vote, and that honorary members could vote if they were present. In another deliberation, Mr. Nelson also discussed with members implications of a letter concerning conditions of ,employment between· the board and new president.. broad St. John's new president's name Delattre is pronounced with a broad A to rhyme with "ought" rather than a flat A to rhyme with "at." As James Bready of The Baltimore Sun has measured it, it is a matter of two-and-a-half syllables. Finally, at 11:40, two board members, Mary Gallagher and John Robson swept out of the board room to the small, rare books room to count ballots. Mr. Dellatre received the first indication that the election had gone through successfully when their report brought the: sound of applause to the small ante-room where he was waiting with Robert Neidorf, a Santa Fe faculty representative on the Search. Committee, and a small coterie of staff and photographers. THE SEARCH concluded one month ahead of the year members originally expected it would require when they launched it in January. If there were any dif· ficulties the committee mav have �Continued from P. 1) a French academician, ivu. Delattre talked about such matters as the inflationary effects on the college endowment and how he hopes to counteract the stress o'f the presidential office by becoming active in St. John's intramural sports program. A jogger who runs two to three miles several days a week, he has an anticipatory eye on the college track and plans to start bouncing basketballs around the college courts. (Under the present assignment system for college teams, the Spartans will get him). What is this incoming president of St. John's like? Mr. Delattre's initial impression is a quiet one, in his case a quiet one of high seriousness. The first thing you notice about him, a few minutes into a conversation, is that his intelligence is of the first order, and he already possesses an impressive grasp of St. John's. Last fall, during intensive interviewing of lhe four candidates for the his uncterstanamg ana appreciation of what St. John's means proved to be decisive factors in gaining and staff support. It was that and his integrity and sincerity which one immediately senses. "HE SOUNDED NO false note," one senior tutor said of those vists, perhaps the ultimate cmmplirr1ents for any man runfor office. is a methodical man who does his homework, who for any occasion and a man whose whole academic experience and sv1nnat.l:ities have formed a sort of intellectual and preparation for comimr to St. John's. He also about the wnat lt means fin'1n<'i and in terms of his relations the and he has a confidence he can handle it. He rn a man who can his eye on the ban. I liked his modesty. As one tutor observed, in contrast with another candidate. Mr. Delattre seemed concerned with what he can do rather than "his" 1.:uure15re. this writer The next noticed is a quality to be hailed with sounding horns and clashing cymbals: he is eloquent. To use an Homeric phrase, he is able to address people with "winged words." Deliberative in his choice of words, he knows how to be persuasive in argument or discussion. ("I would be putty in his hands if I were a foundation president," a not-so-easy-toimpress board member was quoted as saying following his highly articulate presentation to the board). And finally there is his warmth, the. frequency with which the word "friendship" appears in his conversation. ("The St. John's deliberative man, careful in his choice of words. photo by Marion Warren is one which seriousnf'ss of a for friendship"). His life is to him, and he has brand of formal, cordial friendliness. ONE REMEMBERS a meetmg last fall, a session in which staff was to interview him by way of determinine: whether he would make a is people-oriented, people of all academic year, however, Mr. ages, including the very young- Delattre hopes to have his whole he's the father of two daughters, family in Santa Fe as frequently Donna, 10, and Lee, 8-and those as the children's education of college age, who voted him an permits. The Delattres hope to do Outstanding Teacher Award in everything they can to be bona 1973 at the University of Toledo fide residents of both cities. while he was teaching philosophy Mr. Delattre's name first there. appeared among the 230 One can imagine him enjoying suggested possibilities as the company of policemen, with president. when Dr. Ruth Weinwhom he spent a great deal of tr~ub, senior vice-president for time on their patrols of the the Academy for Education streets of Toledo while involved Development. who was hPlping in a course in ethics and law St. J.ohn's scour the countryside enforcement. It was a course in for top leadership, callect iast which he did what he considered spring to see if he would be in· some of his most important terested in becoming a canteaching and learning. The didate. Maryland State Police already Mr. Delattre took a couple of are feeling him out to see if he days to talk it over with hie; wife, would be interested in working Alice, and some mentors and with them. He hopes to have time friends and then mformed Dr. and plans to explore police in- Weintraub, in effect, that yes, he terest in St. John's programs. would be interested. Mr. Delattre is a man conHe had known about St. John's cerned with ethical and moral since 1959, when he was a freshquestions-he taught courses in man at the University of ethics at Toledo-and without Virginia. For his first two years wishing to impose his standards there Mr. Delattre was engaged on others, is very much con- ·in liberal arts seminars, reading cerned with the question of how many of the same books which people shall live their lives. He appear on the St. John's list. "I'm has a vision of what a liberal very proud to be part of this education can and should be. tradition,'' he said. In other ways, despite all his HE PLANS TO cease working intellectual attainments, he is in the administration of the something of a "regular guy" National Humanities Faculty at with his interest in athletics and the end of he infriendliness and his streak of tends to close gregariousness. and professional ties to SOLID, COURTEOUS, the organization. The Delattres a vacation before coming to in manner, he will his career as St. John's St. John's, remaining close to home, almost Mr. Delattre's final nr~><::U11Pnl in the West, the first St. John's president to do so. The chance to do so since, once he 1 Delattres are scheduled to arrive assumes office, he expects to be traveling 15 days every in Santa Fe 1 and either between the campuses or be back in Anna1)011ts dog, .F'riskie, in time for the ori college business elsewhere. oneninR: of elementarv school. Until he has a more detailed l.rnrmrforlao of the fund raising and mechanisms of the two campuses, Mr. Delattre will hold in abevance any specific for taken. photo by Marion Warren for the Annapolis campus. The is required by the current College Polity, the St. John's constitution, but has been vacant for over a year awaiting the election of a new president. Coincidentally,. this is the year for the quinquennial review of the and a number of questions facing it will be held up by the Polity Review Committee pending later discussion involving Mr. Delattre. he will be visiting to work as with the president, the vicepre side n t, the deans, ?.nd staff to the transition proceed smoothly. "push-over," Mr. Delattre 's to exercise a full measure of independence. "Mr. Delattre is a person of intelligence,'' Winfree tutor who served on the said. "This means he will be able to make the distinctions. He is a of with the of makes him because a lot of good questions we're doing." �in The San Francisco Examiner. Mr. Cochran is a .consultant on financial and nM!11"!111' and on cost author Of the fi'f'E:f l'tlmnr~>hl>M.l;li'UIP text on the mamu'acturiJr.JR describe E. B. is to say that he understands the cutting edge of technology, including the nicks he says are inevitable. A stone-bald capitalist who looks like a muscular Daddy Warbucks, he lives in an ultraview, well, impressive, residence just below the crest of Mount Tiburon. The Golden Gate vista can be taken for granted; it's the quiet that counts because home is where Cochran does his best thinking. Right now he's spending a great deal of his time pondering disruptions, which are hightechnology situations in which reasonable expectations are not met. Put another way, disruptions are the kinds of snafus that seem to go hand in hand with complicated projects. BART's failure to meet construction and development schedules, for example. The c on s e-q u en c e s a r e popularly called overruns, which often run into millions, or in the case of the Alaska pipeline, billions of dollars. Cochran finds these profitable waters in which to fish. . "In a major new accomplishment1 yoll never get something really big done unless you take risks," he says. "People often don't know how to deal with the fact that they're dealing with a new frontier. They don't really understand how uncertainty operates in these things. "You tend to get charges and counter-charges. You guys don't know what doing, on the one you don'.t Or on the the know what is wrong." Cochran's spe-cia uu1:1mG\ll·ia1=:1u};;(, can't be fulfilled. Rather than trying to blame other for these unforeseen conseauences. he says, managers to understand ver, can be extremely That's where comes in. "He's come up with some · solutions to some very uuu1;un. thorny problems," says of FMC, one of the producers of and chemicals with 135 production facilities in 35 states and 13 foreign countries. "He first came to my attention as developer of an addition to learning curve theory called the S eurve:y We1ve ut>~d ,tkat" in- dif, successfully." laughs. "He's a stimulating guy. He stimulates himself, but he also stimulates others to come up with creative solutions." Cochran worked with FMC in an arbitration case in which Standard Oil of California ended up paying FMC $140.5·million for five tankers when it originally ordered six at a cost of $97 million. Awards like that t€nd tQ make a consultant be taken seriously. "One of the more enjoyable things about the guy is he's one of the few people in the consulting end of the business who has a 26· hour day and works it when we're with him," says Westinghouse's Bill Casteel who's used Cochran on many projects over the last 12 years. "But he loves to eat and drink and have a hell of a good time. I asked him once why he shaves his head and he said, 'Because I'm too cheap to go to a barber.''' One thing Cochran does not work at, though, is attracting clients. His phone numbers are unlisted and about the only kind of advertising he does is delivering technical papers at management seminars. He spends most of his time reading, analyzing and just plain thinking. "One of the things that intrigues me about the computer is not its power to handle data, but its power to release the imagination. I stumbled into this. I wanted to use the computer to help solve certain problems. I quickly discovered the use of interactive programming." with the Timeshare of Palo Alto, a he says with a satisfied smHe, he also invested in. he has found himself increasingly interested in disruptions. "The military first focused my attention on the problem," he says, "but it turns out that the military programs really expose something that's fundamental to society and to industry, not just the military." What they showed him was the competitive pressures to use advanced technology in. la:rge-scale projects. And Cochran had learned were inherent in advanced technology. Cochran began studying ways to identify fields of uncertainty within projects, to anticipate disruptions and to deal with them. Cochran recalls the statement of a Rohr Corp. official who believed that his company, which has built the BART train cars, had the technological knowledge to make almost anything. "It sounded like hubris, trodding on the purple carpet, but I spent a couple of years working with Rohr and I understand why they felt that way," he says. "They're damn good. E.B. Cochran behind the dark gh:1sses. 11111 It was a case of the COCHRAN BEGAN programming the computer to challenge him and ask questions about the data and scenarios it was being fed. ''You answer the questions and as a result of answering the questions the computer is leading you through a fairly complicated and sophisticated analysis. When you get all done and you get the printout you say, 'Hey, that's pretty good, but it's not what I had in mind,' and so you go back and you make changes and the computer does it again. "All of a sudden you find out that your imagination the i-<>!:111'n,pr<,; "That makes it very interesting.'' her boss. Rita assistant for the Graduate Institute, married the director of the program, Comber, in a December 22 at the aryland Inn. Formally attired in a white gown, she and Mr. Comber were married in a traditional ceremony with Mr. Comber's son, Geoffrey, a on the Santa Fe campus, serving as best man. The ceremony was performed before a mantel banked with laurel and Christmas greenery. A reception and wedding feast followed for the 75 guests dancing afterwards in the King France Tavern. Just prior to her marriage, Mrs. Comber resigned - ''This is the still don't cornpt1ter is not this idiot sent you the bill or a form letter with your name· It's an enormous release of the creative energies of people who know how to use it.'' Cochran came to a serious interest in computers fairly late in life. He went to. college. at St. John's of Annapolis where students read the great books in the original, took a master's in mathematics from the University of Michigan, worked for Robert McNamara at Ford and for Booz Allen and Hamilton, the consulting firm. At 40-plus n~ . ..,,,.,,., will. '79, • l In his final report for the Presidential Search Committee, the chairman took note of ~he ~act that none of the four fmahsts were St. John's graduates. "The record should show,· however, .that a substantial number of graduates .w~re nominated, and seven were among those discussed by the committee at length.." D. Robert· Yarnall, informed the Board of Visitors and Governors at the outset of the special meeting to elect a new president. . He said one firmly declme~ to be considered, .and another withdrew after an interview in which he provided helpful insigh~. "The qualifications of seyeral others were thoughtfully weighed those of the other finalists," he said. un is one of St. John's special distinctions that so of Jts are devoted their work to its aspirations and me~tnc>as, and there is no doubt in our minds that this will continue to in the years ahead more than its tionate share of "What they weren't prepared to recognize was that in any new application, no matter how good you are, there are these uncertainties and, secondly, that in the whole system there are interrelationships which the Rohr people aren't paid to get into, but which may feed back on them." In this sense, Cochran says, high technology is selfa cceler a ting, the more technology, the more threads of knowledge from various fields, the more possibility of interaction. All this is very good business for Cochran:, who has made brain power a cottage industry. "A major project is inherently an application of new, high technology." Cochran says. "If you don't do it first, the other guy . • 11111 l l were conducted in New York during M:ty and June. Further investigations and several additional interviews were eonducted so that the end of the summer the committee was ready to narrowdown the field to four outstanding -candidates. · With their p~rxnission, we· t}len sent a memqr.a:ndum on August 31 . to all menfbers of the Board Visitors . and •'Governors an. nouncing. th~ names of the tour finalists .and providing biographicat · information and · samples of tbejr writings." Finalists visited the campuses in Septembtfr and October. In all the committee met 16 times for meetings and .interviews· in Annapolis, San~a Fe. Dallas, and New York .. · ' and The committee, the first time last Santa Fe, the a Journal of nrEJ~sidenc~v names. "Some of the were screened out '' Mr. Yarnall said. " ... On other a many were intriguing. to say the least, and the was faced with a difficult task to reduce the number to manageable size. "Several meetings of the committee were required as well as· extensive investigation conductc1 ;:,u:.: \;ommittee. At a weekend meeting in Dallas in April, the Search Committ.ee selected 12 candidates to be m- hls1tori.cal research devoted to the mathematical sciences, l'nr•'l'i:>r1thr is publishing a 400-page monograph Mr. Wilson completed as the resultof a National Science Foundation "Perturbations and Solar from Lacaille to Delambre: The Rapprochement of Observation Theory.'' The monograph deals with solar theorv from the 1740's to the century, a time in which the accuracy of solar tables was improved by several orders of magnitude and during which the foundations of and �FEBRUARY 1980 6 Santa e ~ • I The Santa Fe dining hall has increased its guest sales from an average of $40 a week last year to $250 to $300 a week this year. Wayne Chinander, director of the food service, attributes this increase to the attractive price of a St. John's lunch (all you can eat for $2) and the new attention that is being paid to health foods. "People from town have discovered that our homemade soup and unusual salad and condiment bar are worth the drive out,'' Chinander said. Besides the usual salad bar of ferings, there are yogurt, honey, soy nuts, organic peanut butter, yeast flakes, sunflower seeds, sprouts and other healthful delights. In addition are several entrees, two or three of which are always vegetarian. CHINANDER, WHO began directing the Santa Fe food service in June, said he discovered soon after comirig here that there were many vegetarians on campus. A revitalized food committee worked with Chinander and together they came up with many new foods and recipes to add to menus. is an employee of t e national cont act firm Saga Foods, and came to St. John's from Ariz., where he two halls at Arizona University. .tuwuul:!,11 he has not previously been so extensivelv involved with a program, he is enthusiastic about the way Uus one is developing. "WE ARE GOING through 60 of alfalfa sprouts a week," he said, "and I hope we can begin making our own soon. We are making our own granola which is available for breakfast every morning. We are using tofu in vegetarian entrees, whole wheat bread with no preservative es, and whole wheat and spinach noodles. We are using recipes from the Whole Earth Catalog and converting other recipes to make them more nutritious. The whole college community is utilizing these new items." The new efforts on the part of the food service are appreciated by the students, 36 of whom were ·randomly selected to participate in a survey by Saga Foods in November. The majority of those surveyed rated the overall quality of the food as "good." Ninety-five per cent of the students rated the food as "fair," "good," or "very good." High marks also went to the courtesy and· friendliness of service personnel with almost 60 per cent of the students rating them "very good." The majority of students rated the cleanliness of the service and dining areas as very good, and found the atmosphere of the dining area to be pleasant. Comments by the students included a remark by one student which must have made Wayne Chinander very happy. "You are v er Y "J! o. n. ai.d 0 ·-- 'i ~_Jarrn ffB ~I '..__ _ _/ ----------- - · ~ --.__J__; l An architl'!duml drawina shows the new extension for Rcmdall Hall and the new main enhance to the dinina room. Co1J1tin1lledfrom P.1) 411 dining room through new entrances. I (Continued from P. 1) _ It amounted to a small he said_ "You have to explain in parentheses what it is. And I hope · publistung house, and Mr. we will be carrying articles at Raditsa put out its magazine. least good enough to be cited." He will edit a new column, "At Home and Abroad," ;md there The 96 page issue will be the will be a second new column, largest edition of the "First Readings," devoted to since it was founded in April, book reviews. In this issue Carv 1969. In the past it has been Prevost and Curtis Wilson are the written almost r.Tlti'"" 1 " contributors. and alumni, but Mr. Rauwsa, became editor in 1978, is attempting to enlarge its compass lf'!n•-..uina articles written contributors which are still relevant to the college and its readers. The Noble Foundation of New York City has awarded St. John's Instead of appearing four times College's Graduate Institute a year, including one issue $40,000 to help finance a summer devoted to the St. John's graduate program for teachers. president's report, "with each Geoffrey Comber, institute issue averaging about 32 pages, director, said furids will be used the magazine plans to appear to match those given the twice annually with fairly hefty National Endowment for the editions both times. Humanities, which launched the program last summer, and to A former editor of the Harvard extend the fellowships held by Advocate and founder and editor New York recipients from a one of "i.e.: The Cam bridge to a three year period. Teachers Review," Mr. Raditsa was participating read some of the associated closely at one time distinguished writers in with Jacques Barzun, Lionel education and develop individual Trilling, and W. H. Auden as programs to help change their executive editor of the Readers own teaching methods. Subscription, which they were 0 ~-:_/. _r~~~ / ------ . I THE PRESENT which is familiar to generations of St. John's students and considered one of the most beautiful rooms in AnnaDolis. will remain Architect Michael said the fioorimz. will be rer>lac~ea. resilient sheet with new acoustical tile. To meet fire be entered at --··· level i.n the Architects were scheduled to 1mDlete sortine: out a maze of and wind up Of the for secured n.andall, Mr. Weigle $420,039 from Hodson Trust Grants, $300,000 from an anonymous donor, and -$1,550 in miscellaneous gifts and grants. In addition, the college will receive $770,518 in matching funds under an arrangement made in 1977 with the State of Marv land. At that time St. John's agreed l~fHFflll --------·-·---~------- a new "tower" will be built at the rear of the terrace. ~-~··- .... to relinquish 3112 acres of land for Annapolis fine arts center to renovate n.anaau and Paca Carroll along with the Plans for the latter been held in l·um!:lnf'e until the first two were realized. St. John's Treasurer Charles ~. and the campus carnent.er Frank Reese, are make a detailed energy the Annapolis campus. cornDJlett~a a three- course the State of Maryland which makes them certified energy auditors. In order to implement a campus program, Mr. Elzey said Mr. Reese will be assigned to the audit on a full-time basis as soon as the college is able to employ a second, full-time carpenter. Their course covered energy as it is reflected in heat, air con· ditioning, and electricity. Mr. Elzey said through improvements in techniques the college hopes to reduce its energy ·use by 15 to 20 per cent. HFRim\--- \"'-- ~ -==--··-__L I I i �Youngest to gra~• e1 1m~se:ntefd on tl!.e for moon, in lieu of an on-theto let us know about himself. He at 18 the ever to receive a St. John's New gram. Second oldest was few months m-~ihHt.a. F. '47, who alsO received his bachelor's at 18. ROBERT RUSSELL WEISS Because my father was an architectural engineer, we moved around a lot. He was the first and, perhaps, "intellect" I ever knew. had the reputation of possessing "wisdom" and people from all walks of life came to seek his advice wherever we pened to be living. This impress· ed me tremendously. I remember, when I was a little boy in the early thirties, when floods from the Susquehanna threatened our home in WilkesBarre, of all the furnishings, in our 14.-room home, my father was interested in preserving his which amounted to a rather extensive covering every field from astrology, engineerinE!, uny:s1cs, and mathematics. Because of the of these books, I had read Pmo.-.,•th:inO" I could ... and this was before I started school at age five. I remember this because mother was shocked when she I had read a five set of medical books two days t efore my fifth birth1 WHEN I WAS seven, my father became assistant commandant of the P;:inn~"h'""' Gretna. It was a my sister and I children in residence (my brother stayed on in Wilkes-Barre to complete school). Again, I read a great deal and in the move to the reservation, I was advanced another grade in school. This is important in my career as it happened each time we changed locations, particularly in New Jersey and Maryland. In New Jersey, it is interesting to note for the record, I was tested (I.Q.) and the academic powers called my parents to the six-room schoolhouse to discuss my score. They never told my parents what it was; and my parents never wanted to know, but, apparently the score had gone off the charts, and my teachers were in a quandary as to what to do. My father, quite wisely I think, told them to treat me as they would any other child, but, he said, "give him plenty of new books to read." And this they did. ALL THIS IS simply a forward to "how I got to St. John's." I'll skip ahead to when I was 14 in Federalsburg, Md., where we landed because my father was helping to design and build the underwater submarine base at Lewes, Del. He had read the 1940 Life magazine article on St. John's and was intrigued with the great books and especially with Scott Buchanan and Stringfellow Barr! He showed the article to me, and I was intrigued too, but it seemed too far away and out of the auestion at the time. one afternoon after lunch time at I was summoned to the office by the I arrived to find my father for the first and only was there to take me to the seat, Denton, Md., to take a test. The afternoon was a few months Senator Wilner Fell Davis (I'll never his name) called my to say that I had won a fm1r-vP~r scholarship to St. county-wide com· petition. MY FATHER AND brother, nome on leave before leaving for China, went with mP to meet Scott Buchanan. I was impressed with him immediately. He was a lot like my father, and we got along famously in that old colonial office behind Miriam desk. Buchanan was by the fact that I hadn't had geometry. He decided to me a geometry test and out a nre-orinted test from desk McDowell to an to take it. (I believe 22). When I returned a bout 40 minutes later, Buchanan and my father were still in lively conversation together with my brother. Then and there he the test while all of us looked on. Then he looked up with that mysterious of his and "You've answered every one I you can the rest in enter St. discovered that _ entered Naval Academy the same day I entered St. John's, July 7, 1943. It was wartime and there were many of us who were .YVIJIUJt:.,... "The great " INTO Paca House, second room on the left, I was paired with Pat Welch, a nice young man from Providence, R.I. All through St. John's, people kept disappearing and we never knew where they had gone. Pat. was one of them. ·My first class was Greek with a great man to teach it, W. Kyle Smith. Euclid was next with Max Dehn, a marvelous mathematician who looked like Albert Einstein and who specialized in a field of math called topography, and we were continually figuring the areas of donuts and similar structures. Laboratory, ancient physics, began at 2 in the afternoon under Bill Harper in Hum· phrey's Hall, but, best of all, the surprise seminar that first week, as we struggled with Homer, was under the leadership of Stringfellow Barr and J. Winfree Smith. It was there I met Tristram Campbell of Maine. I had already met Dick Jameson of Fallston, Md., in laboratory. We three became known as "The Trinity," and were the bane of J ascha Klein's existence for the following three years. minology), including those mentioned, some (and some not so great) tutors. Hutchins was among them. the greatest education was ones who started with the class of July, '43. As it turned out, the six of us were privileged to have more of St. John's than any other class ... because our term was ex-· tended beyond the normal four went summers, Because of my continual and movini! around, I from ROBERT R. WEISS What does a St. Johnny do after I had of ideas, my father's death and other unforseen circumstances ed the game play. Several of us, my senior year, had decided it would be great to open a prep school for St. John's. We planned to open a school based on the St. John's program on Hooper's Island on the Chesapeake Bay. I wrote the governor to see if we could lease an abandoned school there on the island. In his answer, he agreed to the plan. But, a few weeks he wrote that state property could not be used for private purpose. The answer was, "No." Jascha! OF COURSE, THE reason I became a mathematician, nln11:id"•id and moon, rocket and missile man was because of ascha Klein. For the my most vivid memory of Jascha was the World War II ended in Dick, Tris and I were the St. John's Cotillion Club and were _Ball. Jascha had been us to take his niece to of blind d·ates, we the ball. all demurred saying we had dates. Jascha arrived at Iglehart Hall all himself, dressed in his best dinner clothes. He came into the foyer and greeted me breathlessly: "Unconditional surrender!" "You mean, someone is bringing her?" I asked. 11 No, No," he panted, "The Germans surrendered ... It's over." Our graduation, in 1947, found only six of us of the ninety or so souls who had matriculated in July of '43; Myself, Tris Campbell, Dick Jameson, Rowell Schleicher, Gene Thaw, Scott Desjardins ... that was it. One by one, our classmates had succumbed to the army, navy, marines and coast guard ... and, the famous St. John's enabling attrition as well as other pitfalls. I believe I am the youngest to have graduated from the Great Books program. I was 18 at the time. JOHNNY AND Charlie Van Doren, Dave Dobreer, Chris Hovde, Gerald Hoxby, Wink Marine, Ahmed Ertegun, Bob Thompson, Sal Di Grande, Chuck Nelson, Bernard Fleischman, Jim Frame, Jack Carr, Bill and Haven Simmons, Jerry AtterSmith and on but With no visible means of support, I became a for The Vineland News in N.J. I not did but also features column called was my first step what I wanted to Renaissance Man." mittee in California; co-headed a draft Elliott Lee Richardson for campaign in 1979; served as relations officer for the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary; and in more Who's Who Books than wish to all while in education at A & M and Claremont Graduate School and written a book with my doctor entitled, ''The Expectant " become head of "The Author's Club," founded in 1922 by Hughes, uncle of a first rate journalist and editor (a native of Los Jackie Dashiell), most interesting, records, have been a "physicist" at Hughes Aircraft since 1961: presently head of Information Systems Data and Word Processing_ for the Missile Systems Group. I was fortunate to be able to get on the U.S. Moon Project and was assigned to put together the Launch Operations Plan to permit the world its first planned on the moon with the soft ~11 ... ,1oi:>vor. A copy of it, which is used bv several Air Foree Acaaemy in an example of " now technical in the St. John's Library with Charlotte Fletcher at Woodward Hall. Without St. John's, we not have arrived on the moon at all. What can a St. Johnny do? Most The year, I went to visit California in with educators there, I was offered the almost of Palomar TRAVEL: Since St. John's, I've traveled School for Boys in the southern all over Europe, Mexico, the Far of the Desert. Even East. A occurred in 1976 I had a when and I were invited to Korea at the invitation of the sixty-five. It was a government of Korea and I was wonderful and I with a medical comreturned there twice more in my memorating my service during career to the same position. the Korean conflict. All of those difficult days, (thanks to Miss My first term was interrupted :Strange) I had been working on in 1950 with the advent of the V-2 Guided Missiles in New MexKorean War. I was drafted and ico, one of which landed on and trained at Fort Ord and Camp killed a cow in a cemetary in Roberts. I was to be sent to .Juarez, Mexico, and subsequentKorea, but, because of Miriam :ly, President Harry Truman had Strange, who was prompted by 'to formally apologize to the the army's request for a definite President of Mexico and insist major and minor and no fooling that the United States had no inaround with great books, she tention of starting a war with our replied: "Major: Mathematical Southern neighbor. Physics. Minor: Philosophy." Miss Strange's letter saved me from Heartbreak Ridge, where COMMENTS: most of my army friends died. I In 1979, I nominated a close was removed from foreign orders friend of mine for president of St. and sent to White -Sands, N. Mex., John's, Dr. Dave Dobreer. The to work with Dr. Werner Von committee, most of whom I didn't Braun on the V-2 missiles which know, chose otherwise,. I'm sure nominee is highly were captured from Germany in that WWII. From that day to this, I qualified, but I felt that a· New Program graduate would be most have been a physicist. effective and right for the colFrom that day on, I have done lege. many things .. .including startinga public relations firm on Sunset ABOUT PRESIDENT WEIGLE: I think Dick Weigle has been, Boulevard, becoming superintendent of Urban Military probably, the most extraordinary Academy, written popular songs, president St. John's has ever had. some of which are published He and Mary are stars. I know of (ASCAP), and I serve on a ~or­ no other person who could have poration board with prime in- persuaded this country to terests in oil gas, gold and silver establish another camous while institutions for mines: I headed its �There isn't about St. two brass players. Most student bodies do. What is un· usual is that it has two very fine brass players, so good, in fact, that when the Musicale Society of the Annapolis Opera Guild was looking for performers for its 1979-BO season, it decided that Michael Fried and Peter Norton be the two musicians it Their advertised concert came in the midst of a busy week on was lightly attended, size of the audience mattered not so much as the quality of the tonr and .its response. "Everyone was talking about it and thought it was great," John O'Hehir, chairman of the Musicale Society said afterwards in expressing his pleasure over · Mr. Norton's performance of humorous "Elegy for Nippy II." "Michael Fried's concerto was remarkable - a highlight of the program." Performance is nothing new for 19-year-old Michael Fried nor for Mr. Norton. who is 20. Both have extensively during school years. Despite St. John's demanacademic schedule and Mr. Norton's heavy involvement with the Guardians sports team football, soccer, volleyball, softball - they have been able to maintain their first class musicianship and. appear ret:,ularly in of St. John's Collegium "''"""""''"''·""· FOR THEIR Musicale Society performance, divided their program into solos and duets, with each of them assisted in one selection. Mr. Fried was Elliott Zuckerman, and St. John's tutor, in Mozart's "Horn Concerto No. 3 in E Flat " and Mr. Norton Dunham, on Anne Arundel College, in Jose Berghrr.t:rn'.;: Femme a Barbe" Bearded Lady" from man's circus suite for trombone. Both students have been playing since the fourth grade. Mr. Fried began playing ~""'""'""·"• in the Hillcrest Elementary, Spring Valley, N.Y., where he lives, but switch€d to the French horn in the 10th grade in Ramapo High School in Suffern, N.Y. By 1977 he had perfected his playing to the point where he was winner in the concerto division of the 1977 Music Teachers Guild in the Rockland area. The following year he was selected as a soloist with the Rockland Suburban Symphony, centered about 40 miles northwest of New York City, a symphony with which he has regularly played. A HORN STUDENT of Robert Abernathy, of Congers, N.Y., Mr. Fried has played with the Palisades Chamber Players and with the Rockland Brass Trio besides in school orchestras and hands. he was not a member, he also has concerts of commumty Music at N.Y. At St. John's he at ·a demon-· stration of instruments with an offer of two years of free music lessons. "I don't know why I picked the trombone, but I went home and told my parents that was the instrument I " he said. A member of the _ Symphony Orchestra for five years, he also played with the Student Brass Quintet and with the Wind Ensemble at the South Shore Conservatory at Hingham, where he studied for four summers in high school. While he was in junior high school, he spent one summer at the Amherst Summer Music Center in Maine. In high school he played in "everything and anything" : concert band, or- chestra, marching band, orchestra, stage band, regional music festivals, All State, and All New England. Since coming to St. John's he has studied with Martin Hughes, trombonist with the Annapolis Brass Quintet. Christmas without-a tree, a carol, a wreath, a imagine Christmas even without Scrooge, and you can imagine without this trio of - a barren season worth Cl.ll1terimt1laung. that there is Christmassy about their play. It's all Greek, or, rather it appears to be Greek translated in a way which might startle the likes of Richmond Lattimore, even though this drama was written by an older and even more famous poet than Mr. Lattimore. There is Hugh McGrath, in mop beard and white toga, emoting in his fine, sonorous, English voice the opening lines: "O suitably-attired in leather boots/ Head of a traveler, wherefore seeking whom/ Whence by what way· how purposed art thou come/ To this well-nightingaled vicinity?" And there is Winfree Smith, the heavy in the piece, with a mirror at his dead panedly of truths written i.n. his "reflective ther~ is Charlotte Fletcher wailing and shiieking away in her palace off stage, "He splits my skull, not in a friendly AND ENRAPT before them are the students, sitting on the floor of the foyer of the Key Auditorium, and as students have done since 1941, loving every minute of it. An annual tradition, A.E. Housman's"Fragment of a Greek Tragedy" has been staged wJth rare exceptions at the assistant deans' party just before the winter break. Winfree Smith is the only member of the original caBt. He was present when this bit of nonsense, discovered by. a former tutor, the late Bernard Peebles, in a copy of the Yale Review, was first produced by Mr. Peebles and his wife, Cary~ After the Peebles left the college in the 1940s, Miss Fletcher, the college librarian., and .Mr. McGrath, another senior tutor, succeeded them. The veteran cast has held together during the 30 years since then. No one knows how Housman happened to write this playlet, which takes little more than 10.minutes to stage. With its stilted language, it may have been written to poke fun at poor Greek translations. "I'm not sure it wasn't making fun of the original works," Mr. Smith surmises. "There are lines of Aeschylus which, unless in context, can be very " HE last several lines could possibly be a Agamemnon." wears in connection with his as a member of the St. Anne's ""'-'-""' .¢/("'"· whose varies the most, had a:reen white um- them, Miss Fletcher had convert a into an respectable and set horns because, in some of roles, she also becomes Io, as Alcmaeon (Mr. Smith) notes, is the Inachaean beloved of Zeus: "Her whom of all the More provident than kind/ Prowith four two one tail/ A gift·not ~sked for/ And sent her forth to learn/ The unfamiliar science/ Of how to chew the cud! '' Not not asked for, but Miss Fletcher didn't want one and with it coimp1lete1y Outside this omission, was left out, a great deal of hamming-it-up on the part of the three for one more of their inimitable performances. The Greeks would have been Ho1usm~m would have had a twinkle in his eye. Fo:r the it meant thunderous applause. St. John's had started the Christmas season the wav it •.nuu.u1.e; Peter A memorial service for the late Dr. William H. Zachariasen in the Great Hall of Peterson Student Center on the Santa Fe campus drew some 150 of his loving friends and colleagues. Dr. Zacharia sen served 44 at the University of 1vml:agu Gigi worldwide for his rlt>finitiv.r:> in the science of scientist Linus "I feel that he classed among the outstanding scientists of the twentieth cen· tury." as professor of physics, Not only will he be remem- head, and dean of his bered for more than five decades of contribution to the literature of �of students The financial friends. The rest I have learned two years of at program of an from My oriin.ciJ>le~ John's as groundwork for more requires three for are these: specialized study elsewhere once a plan of action, action. l) Always the truth; do not they have identified their in- success of St. John's on these make promises you cannot keep. terests. For these and many more scores is noteworthy-after all, 2) Learn thoroughly and take reasons which I cannot mention IN one of the colleges of repute are going an interest in the ideals and aims this afternoon, I take the answer under all the time, and rigorous of potential donors. Discover St. John's College has given to the principal responsibilities and academic programs which are where their ideals and those of opportunities of the new only a portion of the curriculum your institution overlap or are the questions of what education' must include to be sound and president of St. John's is to at large institutions are folding in same, and seek to make clear the compelling. My own experience become a part of this community many places; programs in the overlap. as an undergraduate in the and its deliberations on these humanities, the creative and 3) Do not expect to raise large Liberal Arts Seminars at the matters. This will require being performing arts, are the first to sums of money on paper alone; University of Virginia from 1959 welcomed and being assisted by go on the block in many schools wear out shoe leather. until 1961, which had features in President Weigle, Vice President and colleges. In an environment 4) Have a staff which does common with the St. John's Ault, Deans Sparrow and Bart, which is not altogether sym- thorough research on foundations Program, convinced me of this the visitors and governors, and pathetic to its ideals, St. John's and corporations and their staff, students, and has survived and grown. Still, the support for bricks and mortar, long ago. At the same time, the college must continue to resist ~·~......,•. To date the promises of college faces a significant and programs, faculty development, temptations to complacency; and welcome and assistance have compelling challenge, in terms of scholarships, and unrestricted its resistance to these temp- been engaging and gratifying. operating expenses, financial aid activities. tations is demon- Moreover, the new president is to students, building ex1>ansion, 5) Never reduce or limit strated in discussions witnessed charged to be part of the and the endowments of. the two , discourse with friends or among at the campuses voice of this community in speech campuses. let me potential friends of your inand these are discuss my regarding the extent to which the and in and initial stitution to money; this makes Program advances student responsibilliti~es that I anttc1p1ate regarding fund-raising, the the relation frail and it tends to and enthusiasm. knowledge-for in the questions that are important, and reflect ingratitude. ' sciences-and in current 6) Follow all meetings and no means the main reason This of course, deliberations about student all. In the Groundwork of the gatherings with continuing and review of what MOST OF WHAT I know about correspondence and other inMetaphy~;ics of Morals and have studied, deliberations financial develonment I was form al communications and in The of Practical to the have been brought the visits. u"'~"'v'"• Immanuel Kant stresses attention of this The the truism that "whosoever wills former of Brown 7) Make full use of available refinement of the an end, wills the means thereto." University and Chairman of the personnel and res:mrces; that is, Graduatein which I whoever wills as a National Endowment for the provide opportunities for the have been involved since Humanities, by officers of major broadest community fl01lrii;hu1~ existence of from in Santa foundations which have sup- administration, for the National Humanities and alumni) to promote financial Fe and must conflUJU(:IU!Ut:'3, is im·nn'l'•t!J!V1it the President and centrate on the means which it so is the attention 8) Above all, know and be able can be sustained. As everyone other trustees of the National the issue of student to to life in conversation the here the means in Humanities Facultv. and and to the question the apare my ins1tituion you serve and for which JI"•• .........,, economic. you seek For finallv. in the end, financial turns on relations between individuals and not onlv the institutions thev serve. Introduced to the board for the first time on December 7, Mr. Delattre was asked to make a formal presentation. Part of the text follows: Never Never llNever 12Never 9) 10) the and alumni means of to see where greater must be achieved, and to act accordingly. As this study goes on, I expect to be coming to know many of the people who have been instrumental to the existence and well-being of the College and whose abiding interest in it is fundamental. Through these activities, and with this guidance, I expect to identify the avenues of financial development which are most plausible and to follow them assiduously with you and our other colleagues. To be more specific, the central questions which must be held in mind during this review and initial portion of the new presidency arise from the fact that St. John's is in the concluding phases of a the annual funds, and the building achievements to date are significant, but the overall have objectives of the not been aml~e~tnE~r .,.,,!ll 1i•z""'n The which arise include whether in the immediate future major efforts should be devoted to the on<>Y'!llfo.. a with individual dowment on the matching grants now whether to for the as tne Fund fo:r the 80's but with new features. I do not yet know the answers to these and I do not to answer them but I take them to be cone siderations for the near future. THE THIRD of my remarks this afternoon, which I take to have on those I have is addressed to the John's College is two campuses. say "is" because I view it that way, as a national institue tion across the country and It seems to me that the for the it a second site was well-Conceived, and that the decision to have one person for the College as a while was wise. The first decision made possible two campus communities of a size commensurate with the nature of the program and a national scope which otherwise The second made it for the Colto achieve of and a cohesiveness between two which I believe to this, he nnPr::itiM < Co:otm.ued on P. �Stephen R. Van Luchene, tutor and admissions director on the western campus, is the author of a newly published book, "Essays in Gothic Fiction: From Horace Walpole to Mary Shelley." Put out by the Arno Press, the book examines five important early Gothic romances, with each of the five chapters concentrating on a single novel, looking first at its own special virtues and then describing the stage it represents in the development of the Gothic Horace Walpole's "Castle of Otranto," the Gothic romance, is examined first, followed by Clara Reeve's "Old English Baron," which nPr'fiPrt" the form initiated by and introduces many new fictive devices. The third romance, Mrs. Radcliffe's " of uuu'u'"" " illustrates a new purpose and a new use of the Gothic mode. It contrasts with Lewis's "Monk," the fourth example, which both borrows from Mrs. Radcliffe and at the same time ridicules her. THE FINAL CHAPTER examines Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" in light of the Gothic tradition and also explores the new myth and new tradition which establish it as the corner stone of science fiction. Written during the final burst of enthusiasm for the early English Gothic romance, "Frankenstein" is the point in literary history where man looks at his potential scientific achievement and is afraid. Mr. Van Luchene has been a tutor at St. John's since 1973. He studied literature at Arizona State where he was in 1969, and at Notre where he specialized English literature and rereived his master's and doctoral degrees in.1971 and rn'i:J. Bookstores on both campuses carry copies of "Three ...,.,,.._,,"' ... ,_,, on Liberal Education. Published last fall by the St. John's Press and edited William A. the dialogues are a of three days of meetings on liberal education on the western campus made a National Endowment for the Humanities grant. Interested persons may obtain copies by writinf! the bookstores. known photograph of the White House Ruin at Canyon de Chelly. Each gift of $50 or more made the donor eligible for a drawing for the prints. "All 15 winners were delighted," Miss Branham said. Closely tied to the campaign are Santa Fe's demonstration seminars. Each fall, in order to make prospective donors more familiar with the college, St. John's invites members of the community to attend an evening of seminars. This year's 13 offerings in-, eluded David Hume's essay "Of the Standard of Tasfe," a play by D. H. Lawrence entitled David, Nietzsche's "Use and Abuse of History,'' and selections from Tocqueville'sDemocracy in Americ.a. Seniors are invited· to participate, and this year more than half the class did. The seminar ran from 4:30 to 6:30 and was followed by wine and cheese. Dinner was served to those who Four reprints of articles by the late Victor Zuckerkandl, a former tutor on the Annapolis campus, have been presented the music library by an old friend, Lilly B. Stross, of Berkeley, Calif. The articles include ''Der singende und der sprechende Mensch," "Musik in Zwei Weltteilen," "Die Tongesta1c· and "Der Geist der Musi.k." Mr. Zuckerkandl was a member of the faculty from 1948to1964. If the Masons did fact play a role, Miss Fletcher theorizes that traditional Masonic secrecy also may help the surrounding circumstances of the college name since "discretion, the keeping of secrets, is the first of the Masonic virtues." Both St. John's and Washington colleges, which were established as the first University of Maryland, have seals bearing a Masonic symbol. She writes: "TWO BOOKS ON European Masonry of the period ... offer examples of Masonic symbols used as teaching devices. A famous old Russian Mason in Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' described one to Pierre Bezukhov when he instructed him in the mysteries of Masonry. "The old man pictured a mount raised stone by stone by succeeding generations on which the temple of wisdom,. or Solomon's temple, was erected. This description was an aid in identlfying the device adopted for the 'St. John's seal; a count of the layers of stones in the pile numbers seven, the usual number of steps leading up to Solomon's temple and a number corresponding to the seven Masonic virtues. On the St. John'.s seal a man climbing aloft carries a T-Square." (ContinuedonP. 9) capacity to make my dedication to both campuses clear and evident or the capacity of the two campuses to respond wholeheartedly to it. In modest measure, we have already seen marks of both capacities. BEYOND THESE co~ siderations remain the questions of residence and administrative authority and responsibility, and of personal and professional ties to the broader communities of Santa Fe and Annapolfs. With respect to residence, my wife and I have decided that at the beginning of the elementary school schedule for and our children will be in Anna polis. Personal considerations 1n.. 1·n1u1na our families militate in this course, rather than Because of the Graduate Institute Program and so that my family and I will have an opportunity to meet people in Santa Fe together, it is quite likely that my wife Alice, and our daughters Donna and Lee, and I will live in Santa Fe during July and August of 1980. I expect to divide time regularly between two campuses and the roads of financial development and public My expectation is I will be in apvAamately half the time, which some days will be spent on financial development travel not me to stay away """'... niaht and in Santa Fe and on road the other half. This is not a clan for indefinite neriod. It children grow. With respect to administrative authority and responsibility, I will naturally be instructed and will abide by articles I, III, IV, and VI of the St. John's College Charter and Polity, although Article I, Section (3) (e) which says that "There shall be a vicepresident of St. John's College in Annapolis and a vice-president of St. John's College in Santa Fe" seems to me to merit discussion, in terms of how the financial resources of the College may be most usefully. The Quilm1ue1mi:al review of the an opportunity for this discus:sio,n. In addition, while Article VI, Section (1) states that "There is delegated to the Vice-Presidents on their respective the (Continued from P. 1) chose to stay. "People are so excited after the seminars," said Mary Branham. "The noise level is incredible." The event attracted more than 200 people this fall. The idea for the demonstration seminar originated with William Daniel, a Santa Fe business man, who headed the first two campaigns. Eighty people attended the first seminars, held six years ago. res·oon1mii~Yaftd,autoortt~... ~1 Barbara Skaug, '76 SF, Santa Fe's registrar for the Graduate Institute and head resident, left the snowy hills of the campus this month to take an around-theworld cruise. One of seven resident directors on board the SS Universe, Barbara will help 525 students who are spending a semester at sea with the Institute of Shipboard Education. Granted a leave of absence by the College, Barbara departed from Los Angeles on 3. The floating college will stoo at such ports as Kobe, Madras, India, and Piraeus, Greece, make its way around the world in three and one half months, arnvrng n Baltimore 14. The 1nstit11tt>, now affiliated with offers students the to take nine to fifteen semester hours in standard academic subjects like En12:lish and Economics. "It is something like a St. John's seminar," said Miss Skaug, in that there is a shared experience first-a lecture or presentation by a guest or faculty member-then a one-hour discussion in small groups. · BARBARA WILL be one of the discussion group leaders and feels well prepared for the experience after having helped tutor Tom Simpson lead a freshman seminar at St. John's iast year. "Some of the possible topics include the role of women in oriental society, modern India, the nature of Islam, Spanish art, and America's role in the world," she said Barbara is an alumna of the shipboard program, having undertaken a voyage as an 18year-old when tirt>. institute was called the World Campus Afloat and was affiliated with Chapman College. ''That was such a marvelous experience," she said. "I have wanted to go again ever since. I want to find out if I was just young and easily impressed, or if, as I suspect, an experience like that is an important addition to the kind of classical education St. John's provides. My dream is for St. John's to be able to offer something like this as nart of the program." What is Barbara looking forward to the most? Alexandria? Singapore? "I'm going to read lots of books," she said happily. believe that this responsibility should be shared in practice with the vice-president or vicepresidents by the president and others. This does not diminish the responsibility of the vicepresident, it simply expands the relations between the college and its communities. Clearly, the questions of how best to cooperate and divide the labor which Burch Ault and I discussed in Boston must be answered concisely and in a span of time that is commensurate with the interests of the College. It would, I be to' propose an explicit arrangement now, without consultation with others who are involved and whose and knowledge are essential to a wise eager to see that ways are found to serve the College best. Burch has told me, as you who know him well would expect, that he too wishes to address the questions and appreciates the need for me to get a thorough sense of the relevant matters and for all of us to proceed thoughtfully. Finally, on personal and professional ties to the comm unities: My family and I will be part of the St. John's College Community in both of its settings. All of us will be in both settings; we anticipate that the good will of Santa Fe and will enable us to live our lives as residents under circumstances which simply prohibit our full-time in either setting. That to say, we will bring ourselves to the collei.?:e and to the broader of a busy January of Visitors and to pay formal to Miriam - Strange, whose retirement from St. John's after 52 years of service was forced by a broken hin she suffered aull.11.nt:u a resolution " 1 11'•~11' 11 iPn with genunfortunate accident suffered by Miriam Str·an.ge." It asked its secretary "to convey to Miss Strange board's best wishes as well as the board's profound gratitude for the decades of selfless and devoted service that Miss Strange has given St. John's College as secretary, as registrar, as alumni secretary, and as archivist." "Even though her formal association with St. John's has come to an end," the resolution concluded, "the college will hope to continue to~rely vast fund ·of knowledge about its history and love as well as her prodigious memory for students who attended St. John's over the· past half century.'' uine sale Residential lot in resort community of Ocean Pines, Md., near Ocean City. Acquired by the college as a gift from the late Dr. Robert' A. Bier, '19. Anxious to sell. For details address Charles T. Elzey, Treasurer, St. John's College, Annapolis, Md., 21404; telephone (301) 2632371. �.Continued from P. 2) prepared me for Soren Johnson plans to enter service in March. another leading character: Gail Wynand." 1971 at We are1 most pleased, and Don McLeod has a thankful, to report that Susan B. half to go for his of Brill is not deceased, as ronnrtori Science degree at Oregon State in the September issue. University. that a less-than-conscientious Jeff McElroy and Martha Postal Service employee Clark Dabney, SF78, are firstreported her deceased, when in ye ar law students at the reality she had simply moved. University of New Mexico. Frances Goodwin is in the Zack McReynolds received a graduate · architecture program B.A. in economics from UNM last at the University of Virginia, May and is. currently working on finds the work very hard and an M.B.A. in finance. quite different from St. John's, , . ·Mary Olson is preparing a and likes the Charlottesville senior thesis in biology at Reed area. College. Steven K. Ross now lives in Steve Paul writes: "I'm on the Amman, Jordan, where he is an streets in a clown's uniform and a editor and archeological reporter sign that says 'Kant Questions for the English-language daily Answered Cheap;' " Jordan Times. Sarah Purdy is working on a 1977 - Santa Fe B.A. in English and children's Edward Bronfin reports that he literature and art at Hampshire is in his second year of law school College. at the University of Denver. He 1980 had a great time last year_; a Peter Grubb, a student on the cry from the "horror stories" one Annapolis campus from 1976a78 often hears about first-year law and alumnus-to-be is planning to school. Ed has been clerking for a return to St. 'John's, but before lie firm specializing in insurance does will have more thar, one defense work, and enjoys it adventure. With his brother, greatly. Two of his classmates, David, he has founded a firm Frances Hartogh and Margaret which conducts white water trips Parry, SF78, are in their first in Oregon. year at Denver Law School. Calling his service River From Stephen Deanefs father Odysseys West, he is leading comes .news that as of October trips down the Owyhee River, Stephen was in Moscow with an runnable only in the Spring and Ohio State University . group, extending. through the desert studying Russian and Russian- country of Southeastern Oregon, related subjects for four months. down the Grande Ronde River For the previous two years he has which extends through secluded been in graduate school in forested canyons, and down the Russian studies. at Harvard. He . isolated Upper Owyhee, where a ·expects his master's degree from way. out is best suited to the that institution shortly. native antelope and bobcat. 1978 Alumni interested in learning Late December brought a long, more may write .River Odyssey_s newsy, somewhat surprising West, 2345 Polk Street, No. 6, San letter from Scott Arcand. After Francisco, Calif. 94109. · working in Pittsburgh at Note: For the first time in a long restaurant and after con- while.we have many items about siderable self-evaluation, ·Scott both graduates and continuing has volunteered for U.S. Army students of the Graduate Intraining in the Special Forces stitute .. We are very grateful to (Green Berets). He was due to the Institute staff for this report to Ft. Jackson, S.C., at the · welcome information, derived end of January, thence to Ft.· from notes on a questionnaire. If Bragg, N.C.~ and after that, we.don'thave room for all in this wherever. He anticipates issue, we will carry some over eventual assignment to a Special until April. -T.P. Forces division ~t Ft. Bragg. Graduate Institute Notes 1979 1969 Mary Elizabeth Pennypacker L. Lws is completing and Jam es W. Black announced a. Ph.D. in their engagement last June. We course wnrk apologize for the lateness of this English literature at UNM, with a notice, but a newspaper clipping major study area in Old and arriving in the late fall was the Middle English literature. 1970 first word we had. Since St. John's, Rosalie A. 1979 · Santa Fe Reflecting her student work Bindell has completed a Ph.D. in experience in alumni activities, education from the University of as well as her current work as California, Santa Barbara. M,arjorie Davis writes secretary to the Santa Fe Financial Aid director, Suzanne that she has twin daughters, born Gill sends us lots of information in March, 1978. Helen C. says the about her classmates: Devendra Contractor and Bible/Humanities section of her Donna Myers, SF80, were 9th grade English class has been married in October and planned designated as an exemplary program by the D.C. Board of a few months in India. Education. Jeff Olsen's wife far a in (we assume) an External an alternate way for adults to earn school She visited Santa Fe last summer and saw Ava Simmie PlumD.o.uoyi.1 1972 Richard D. S. Rickard teaches an elective course in Origins of Ecological Irresponsibility to and seniors, and says the course had -its origin in the In· stitute's math-science seminar. Ann M. Wall writes from Canada, where she heads the House of Anansi Press Ltd. She and her editor apparently were in Washington, D.C., at the time Hurricane David dumped his wrath on the, area. Since her firm's books are used extensively in the States in Canadian history and literature courses, Ann was attending the biennial meeting of the Association for Canadian Studies in the U.S. 1 school librarian, and teaches with two other Institute alumni. Romona Scholder has a private practice as a psychotherapist in Santa Fe. · 1975 Peter Kovatis is in his second year in the University of Texas doctoral program in educational psychology, specializing in school psychology. Justin R. Moore and MaryMargaret run "Vista Grande Prep" in Taos, with 16 students in the 1st through the 6th grades, Dr. Philip Valley, O.S.B., was recently : appointed to the National Board of the . . National Endowment for the Humanities . 1976 as Deacon. Jimmie Jackson has been as Director to train teachers to work with srn,aei:us. Local Santa Fean is president of the Teachers Association and is very involved ·with the State National Education Association. Susan Monahan hopes to be employable as an interpreter for the deaf next June, when she completes her current training progra'm. Job offers would be appreciated. Peter Perhonis, who taught classics for a decade, for the past two years has been trying to write plays and to keep his creditors at bay. 1978 Daisy Goldwin reports a summer going from the sublime to, if not the ridiculous, certainly the uncomfortable: after a wonderful month's vacation· in Paris, France, with husband Bob, '50, she spent August recovering from a broken shoulder. Judith Wilson Kerr was married in December, 1978, resigned from teaching, and expects their first child in May. 1979 Ronald Dorris received his Ph.D. in American studies from Emory University last March; his dissertation was a cultural decade study of the 1920's, using the literature of the Harlem Rennaisance and Lost Generation writers. Michael Castagna has received a grant from the New York State , 1973 Department of Education for a From Jackson, Miss., Mozelle Diagnostic/Instructional Morris Lang informs us that ~!le , Reading Program. is producing science fi.~ms for A constant seeker of "justice" ed1·cational television. is Jam es A. Doherty. public The note from George Schloss defender of Tillamook County, was rather short: "Baby girl, Ore., but he deplores the lack of born October 2, 197g,'' opportunity to discuss it. 1914 Michele Lupowitz Grant and Part of Paula Cohen's job as a husband John have their own public relations writer is to run hand-painted ceramic tile three programs involving high business and have placed their schools throughout Long Island: products in gift and tile and a scholarship awards program, carpet shops in several states a high school journalism con· after less than a year of ference and competition, and an operation. Theodore H. Merwin is awards competition for comPhyllis Huffman and Michael teaching at St. Thomas Moore's m unity service. Herman were married in In- School in Colchester, Conn., a Martin A. Drew works part- dianapolis last October and are place "cured with the appellation time in the evenings as an looking for a neglect~d old house 'for underachievers,' " he s~ys. English instructor at Malcolm to buy and fix up. Ted teaches among other courses King College, in New York City. the English seminar; as of mid- . um Edward H. Fitzpatrick asks We never know whether to list fall they were 16 books into the · about an alumni ·study group in Laird W. · Durley with the In- Udyssey. the New York/New Haven area. . stitute or with the undergraduate (We suggest he call Allan Hoff- class of 1978, but since his M.A. ·Germany is beautiful, reports man '49 in New York- (212) 239- preceded his B.A., we will carry Sally T. Porter, even better than 1146). him in this section. He is _living ,she expected, and she tninks After 15 years of marriage, "just down the hall" from often of the Institute. Paul Garrett and his wife Linda Marilyn Friedman and Ken have an infant son. Paul writes a ·Preston in Berkeley, sees Bob Among other alumni editorially "Russell Bakerish" weekly Tortolini (another dual alumnus) involved with the Epcyclopaedia editorial column for the Conway and his wife Martha Post Britannica is Marilyn L. (S.C.) Field and Herald, has regularly, while "Hayden" lives Schaefer. a contributing editor published more than 50 articles one block away. Laird is starting (signed articles on art subjects), and feature stories in the past his work in rhetoric, is. teaching, who is also a consulting editor of year, has two children's books and finds Berkeley "a lovely ·the ·journal, Improving College seeking a publisher, and is co- place!" ~d University Teaching. founder of the Conway Writer's Robert E. Gardner writes of a Club. Linda likes to belly dance. marriage last May, and sends the Stickney is tutor Paul plays saxophone now and wish that the Institute had a then at a nearby beach, and he doctoral program - " ... m'ost of Carey Stickney, a 1975 An· says "life is good." the programs at other colleges napolis graduate, has been apAnother writer in the class. are the PITS!" pointed as a part-time tutor in Natalie Goldberg, was to have Littleton W. Irby reports two Santa Fe. A doctoral candidate at her first book published in distinctions: in 1978, selection as Freiburg, West Germany, Mr. January. "Outstanding Young Man in Stickney will assume full-time Anne Kinard was the recipient America," and in 1979, ordination ·teaching duties in the fall. of a grant last summer to attend the Freedoms' Foundation "Freedom, Justice, and Law" seminar at Valley Forge, Pa. 1912-Philip L. Alger, Schenectady, N.Y., 23September1979. Lois B. Martin writes from 1915- Wilbert L. Merriken, Denton, Md., 5December1979. Clearwater, Fla., that she has 1919-Dr. J. Ogle Warfield, Jr., Washington, D.C., llDecember been working for civic reform in 1979. that city: integration of ;:n:uvv1,;,, 1934 - Dr. F. Peter Pittsfield, Mass., 30 August 1979. jobs, and generally needed 1934C. Novak, Lafayette, La., 13 August1979. changes in the community. She 1934- Robert A. Sindall, Jr., Baltimore, Md., 23 December 1979. ran for commissioner in 1976, is 1938- Richard F, Shrvock. Bethesda, Md., 13 January 1980. active in the League of Women and serves on a number gave·· birth to ·.Jesse Marie in n~L"' From Washington, D.C., Sandra N. Robinson reports of an M.S. in science from Catholic University in 1977. She is about to become a �Stan Nordstrum has a coffee cup, and the control tuner for his TV in hand more often than he holds a tool these days. He doesn't much miss the tools, but he does miss the students who were such a big part of his 14 years as sur1erimt'tmdent of buildings and grounds for the let ""w '"'~~~---~ Santa Fe campus. Members of the college comsorely miss Stan and Sis Nordstrum, who were also senior residents on the campus for the last 12 years. In November the retiring couple was honored at a red wine and roast beef dinner, attended 180 students, How St. John's College Fletcher said, in 1971 St. John's A crystal acquired its name has always President Richard D. Weigle associates, and been something of a mystery undertook an investigation to plaque presented to Stan on since no contemporary records discover whether any of the men behalf of the Search and Rescue exist stating why the college was associated with the 1784 in- Team reads: How blessed are named as it was. corporation actua had Who know the art Tradition holds that the college at either Oxford or was named its ind'nll'n,hll'".l Of for each other, No names turned up. For all are doubled for one of the colleges at Oxford h<>li"'""''" the selection may When you them with to do with unarn::u research the Masonic order, then widely another. The appropr1ateness of the Fletcher, college influential, an order which representing the most honored two saints: John the ' simple card V<"rse is who knew to date on Baptist and John the '76the shows that there It also may have been linked to Stan and Sis. Barbara as a appears no basis in fact for this an event which took place in 1784, SF, who knew them the year St. John's was char- student and as a staff member of somewhat _ the Colle2e. describes them as This legend appears to have tered, involving a wishful Mason, ast1im~to1a. of 19th The Masons century am~lOllhttes. on For one obvious reason, she Chestertown. out an article in the John's were Marvland Historical Magazine, it eastern and western branches of unlikely the ... .,,,,,.,,,t,,, the ori2-in Universitv of HU!JJ.AJLH would have named the after an institution of an nation a few years after it had fou!lht a war with that a noted the reason for n.uuaµOlis college 'St. the J...JU§UuU conwith Miss Fletcher "Records show remarkable performance did on the Feast of St. John's the Dec. 27, 1784, when of their good friend, the "He always had a kind word, a little ioke, for everyone. He was a morale booster. Students could talk to him about a nrohlPm about a """n"r!l thra:> M SS among the Confollowing the of Peace.' uu'-•1-Jc'-;u of of it for several days Thomas C. Mark, St. John's tutor, who has pu101u;nea one book on the 17th century HAVE enlarged Spinoza, has awarded a . . . . . ,.v.,., ..,,11-' tional Endowment for Humanities to write another. He will be on leave of absence the 1980-81 academic year ~ a ~~Y~ mind. and the Award. A former member of the faculty at the of California at San and the recipient of a Re ens' Humanit es .i:''eHo'WSltup in 1975, Mr. Mark is the author of number of articles ,.,,.,,;,,..,,!:> of of the Confederation of Potomac the J' legislators named the Western Shore college for the day when his bill was enacted, the Feast of (St. John) the Evangelist. (If the Eastern Shore had not already preempted the name for their· college, 'Washington' might been a natural choice for the Western Shore college.) "Not only was it a which had enjoyed in the company former commander-inbut was a which would have had snecial for .!.U.CU UlUU Masonic was more appropnate response than one would expect from someone who had no experience with the assumed a more motherly role. She dished (tender loving care) to students with milk and cookies. She drive us to town we had a doctor's or the right size box in which to send a present home.'' Nordstrum became known as the cookie She never let a Halloween, Valentine's other hundreds of cookies for the students. At the banauet she was presented with a bread dough plaque. Trimmed in purple ribbon and mounted on a wooden shield, a circle of hardened dough it inscribed with letters artistically spelling "Cookie " SIS ALSO known as a supplier of tools. Stan was reluctant to loan out hammers and screw drivers students or turned soon learned a stash of for them. The Nordstrums gave their them at to St. John's. They ioved years on· the campus and miss the students as well as the beautiful view of Monte Sol out of their east windows. are wonderful," lot of adults run but Barbara __ for many on the campus when she observed that Stan's absence this year has been felt. was on Stan from the tutors to the pn:sicient. You can't ever someone who has that of concern for the comand that kind of ex- students woUlCl.n't their way to on~aKtast. would start con· FU the Southwest. "We left the farm ber;ciuse none of our children wanted to be farmers and we were tired uI working so hard for so little "Stan said. After a few weeks of idleness, Stan found himself mowing his brother's lawn for the third time in a week. brother me the want ads and told me to '' Stan recalled with a Stan took a job as a a~r·nii:>1na:>r with St. John's, which thought "HP didn't know a weea trom a " she said. He did to the grass front of Santa Fe Hall, and two months after on would come to iris or Two years Sis moved on campus as senior residents. Stan says their decision to live on campus was both their mistake and their greatest source of nl.o.~C1l111'<> there meant we were on call every but we had not lived there we never would have had the same feeling about the place," he of The Anne Arundel Commission on Culture and Arts has awarded St. John's a $1,000 grant to support its concert Elizabeth Bolotin, librarian, has announced. is dominated by a large, round, heavy Nambe ware tray given to and Mary football game is the the same weekend, Alumni Director Thomas Parran, Jr., the final weekend in September is the "least bad" of all early fall weekends from the standpoint of conflicts and the best the alumni board has found for Homecoming. It will be held 26-27. He urges plans be made now. "You can always if you must, but last-minute reservations will be di1" he advises. After last successful alumni geMogether in Santa Fe, the campus there is to make its event a permanent part annual schedule. The weekend of September 20 seems Fe's new alumni au·ecitor � 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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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 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available College Relations Office 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/14113d9531fcd6783501377187366316.pdf a0bebd2c2613526931cba43a2daec15b PDF Text Text ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1m 1~1 1 1 ~mr1 1 1 1 1 1i 31696 01138 0555 The gift of a million dollars for the endowment of the Annapolis campus has been announced by President Weigle. "The donor is a long-time friend of the college who desires to remain anonymous," he told applauding faculty and students at an all-college meeting called to make the announcement. In asking that it be applied to the college's endowment fund, Mr. Weigle said the donor had a two-fold stipulation. He asked that it be applied to endowing faculty salaries establishing this is a tutorships. "And wonderful thing," Mr. Weigle commented. The donor also reauested the be d,,.,,.,. ........... ,.... t securities as interest rate remained 10 per which would the an income of E2 Hr1ov.1s11na in the bookstore are from More than 300 persons will honor Stanley Nordstrum, retiring superin· tendent of buildings and grounds on the Santa Fe campus, at a dinner scheduled for 6:30 p.m. November 6 in the college dining hall. One of the campus's best loved figures, he has been associated with the college since 1965. "Stan Nordstrum has contributed richly not only to the beauty and tranquiliof the campus but also to personal lives of students over many " Vice President J. Burchenal Ault said. "He has been for more students of us can count a than wise valued adviser and older friend.'' will hear Committee, Chairman D. Jr., of PhiJadelolhla. nominee for first time~ that session the candidate will make a formal oresentation to the board. Afterwards members will have nnnnrhmitv to talk 1...1,... wi '!!>nu students Adrian Carsiotis, Richard Ross, Celeste and Eleanor Mnn.1"""' must difference. Mr. said it does this largely by $350,000 in gifts and $285,000 from the government for financial aid to students, $150,000 from the State, and $520,000 in income from the endowment fund. ' In another announcement, he said that to enlarge and remodel Randall Hall, the college (Continued on P. 5) With weeks of campus visits candidates over, eleven months' search for John's since College's 19th 1789 is expected conclude early next month when the Board of Visitors and Governors meets to elect the college's new chief administrator. The nominee will be proposed by the Presidential Search Committee, whose role has become more decisive now that it has been charged by the board to present the name of only one rather than two, at called December 7-8 in Annapolis. The four candidates are: viceJ. Burchenal nW'.,...11r1"nt of the Santa Fe camous and director of the Fund for 1980's; Ronald Berman, former chairman of the National Ens dowment for the Humanities and member photo by Gigi Panehal • l There is an occasional moment when the St. John's bookstore could pass as the literary counterpart of the 1930's speakeasy. For instance, some time ago a couple of graduate students at Catholic University showed up there. "We're friends of Derek Cross," they said of the 1975 graduate, and then added, "He told us we could find a book here." Then they asked for the item which had prompted their 30-mile trip. What was it? D'Alembert? Heidegger? Buber? The fourvolume standard edition of The two had driven in from Washington, a short distance from this small bookstore of mellow brick and enticing shelves half hidden in the depths of a college dormitory. · The buyers, however, who are beating a path to the bookstore door via European, Australian, and American mail extend much further: Paris, London, Vienna, Jerusalem, cities in Greece, Australia, and Canada, as far away in the United States as California. ST. JOHN'S bookstore in Humphries Hall has become an international center, suuulvimi: the tvoe of academic books which few commercial bookstores can afford to carry. While ordinary bookstores do not make money keeping a classical philosophy text on their shelves, St. John's does, not much to be sure, but enough to justify this service. In fact, the number of classics as well as important and significant books it makes available aroused so much curiosity on the part of a representative of the Oxford University Press that he recently · paid the bookstore a visit to see what it was all about. "He told us on a percentage basis, we carry more classics and serious books than bookstores in such Ivy League schools as Harvard and Yale," Bookstore Manager Frances Boyd commented. The St. John's bookstore does no advertising. Its reputation comes only by word of m:outh, and, as word gets around, requests for its services mount. It's a rare week in which the bookstore fails to process a number of orders from abroad. "We do a tremendous volume of business with Australia," (Continued from P. 6) board will reconvene on at 9 again in executive members will have an for is questioning. When completed, the will leave the room, and a formal vote will be taken. The then will be 5) • For lack of a better word, Charles Bell calls his series of accounts - a correlation of art, music, poetry, literature, and historical commentary - "shows." entitled "Symbolic History: A Drama of the Western Arts" and first conceived in 1934 when this Santa Fe tutor was a student of St. John's Former President Stringfellow Barr, the multimedia series is now comwith small exceptions, more than 40 years of work. Its scope is huge. In encompassing man's view of himself and the world as ex"'"'"""' "".rl in thoue:ht and the arts, this major historical achievement of Charles Bell has combined his talents as novelist, poet, and art historian with a prodigious knowledge of the periods with which he is dealing. If there is a theme all 35 shows, it is the out of creative antinomy in nature of man. and He has inl'nrr,nr! from a through operatic and cerpts, to the sound the finest recorded examples could assemble. (A alumnus, Michael Thieri:ault. '78, is heard in the Euripides.) THE 80 TO MORE than a hundred slides each ·show contains are drawn from his magnificent collection of over 10,000 slides which he first began to collect as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford in the 1930's. As the author of two books of Mr. Bell has translations of working in German, >'.'>Pam:sn. and some Latin and In addition to serving as narrator, he has done all the technical work on the pr<>du1ction, an he estimates would (Co111tinued on 7) 11 �T Tom Parran '42 n• ..M>~ ..... of Alumni Activities Note: Elsewhere on these you will read something of went on the very Homecmninigon September 28-29. Much of the success of the occasion was due reunion of the Classes the of them were there, many spouses. To Allan Hoffman '49, goes the credit for the idea and its execution. -TP. 1942 Unable to attend Homecoming .because he was to vU!\;O./'\V was Journet Kahn, back after some years in Greece. He has found, apparently, so11netnm1g a "culture shock" upon his return. 1949 The Rev. the summer on a sabbatical study and tour of Israel and parts of Europe. After a three-week course at St. George's Jerusalem, Fred and his Rita, toured much of Israel, Greece, and Rome. She returned home because of illness, and he continued through taly, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, England, Scotland, and Wales. En route he visited Al Ticino, Switzerland; in Israel; and, in Ellsworth. 1954 Richard A. Smith experienced a bad automobile accident earlier this year and must now move about in a wheelchair. He continues to publish his weekly reports, one on energy, one on water desalination, from his home in Tracey's Landing, Md. 1956 . Pat Polillo is now vice president and general manager of KPIX, San Francisco. In September, just too late for inclusion in our issue that month, came a fine letter from John J. an 18-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force with rank of lieutenant colonel. Under Air · Force sponsorship he earned the M.B.A. degree in computer science from Texas A&M University in 1969 and was selected as the "Outstanding Master's Level Graduate" that year. After five years in Washington, D.C., John is now at the Air War College in Montgomery, Ala. Next year he will return to the Pentagon for duty with the Directorate of Command, Control, and Communication and hopes to study law while in the D.C. area. He also hopes to attend the 20th reunion of his class next fall. 1968 Word has been received that Amelia Hummel was married in October, 1978, and is now Amelia Hummel McCutcheon. 1969 Sometimes it is simply not possible to check information before printing it; i~ the latest case, as a result of mis-reading Rachel writing, we reported her married to Don Freiman. Seems that Rachel's husband is actually DOV TREIMAN, to whom, and to her, our apologies. The Treimans will be at 99-05 59th Ave., Rego Park, N.Y. 11368, after the first of November, if anyone is in the area. A brief note tells us that Barbara Mordes is alive and well and, after havoc in D.C., and San Francisco," is returning to New York. Word has been received of the marna.e;e of William Buell and Boyer of Rockford, on September 7. They now at 11 Hancock St., Everett, Mass. Bill is doing computer pro,uuuu11i:; work with a company Boston. Michael Victo:roff and Hilary Somers of Rochester, N.Y., were married recently, in an theatrical" ceremony, performed by the Reverend Canon Harold '69. Brother Jeff Victoroff '74, a second year medical student at Case Western Reserve, a song he had written for occasion. Hank Constantine, 70/72, and Sam and Bell, were also in attendance. a on safari in Kenya, Mike and Hilary drove to Colorado, where Mike will do two years Public Health Service duty in Limon. Hilary is an R.N. and will assist in the Limon Clinic. In Topeka they visited Joan '69, who is doing a dissertation a Ph.D. degree in clinical psychology and recently completed her internship at the Menninger Foundation. Mike has officially changed his name to Michael Somers Vic· by the way. 1971-Santa Fe James C. Brown, a political consultant with headquarters in Santa Fe, is temporarily a resident of New Hampshire, where he will conduct the Carter-Monda!..:: · campaign until the February New Hampshire primary. As a college volunteer in 1967-68, Chris worked as a campaigner for Eugene McCarthy. 1973 At the end of August, Donnell O'Flynn joined the Department of Agriculture, International Economics Division where he is making a study of the restraints placed upon agriculture in underdeveloped countries, including that caused by the fuel shortage. At the same time he is continuing work on a master's degree in international relations at Johns Hopkins. His wife, Janet O'Flynn, '74, is spending weekdays at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is an enthusiastic occupational therapy student. She will wind up her prop there at the end of the current aC"ademic year. For reasons not at all clear, there came to our desk a letter from 2nd. Lt. Roger C. Burk, USAF, dated 19 June. Just where it has been for the past four months remains a mystery, so we can apologize to Roger for the in publishin~ the news which sent commissioned in the Air Force in 1978, and in June was at the Sunnyvale Air Force Station, Cal., in the unmanned satellite program. '72, is a systems programmer with Data and to attend the _ School of the in Berkeley this fall. Charity attends nursery school and takes swimmlessons. and ts Smith, are also at Divinity, she seeking ordination in the Episcopal Church, he on a doctorate in theology. that the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone, and that Netherton is at the Naval Weapons Test Center at Newport News, Va., getting great satisfaction learning to be organist at his church. L. with a brand new master's of business adm inis tr a tion from Stanford University, become an associate with Resource Planning Associates, Inc., a private Washington firm. Jay currently is assisting the Departments of Energy and Interior in developing a mineral leasing policy. Washington area alumni can find him at Apt. 503, 2500 Q St .. N.W. 1975 Jan Hamill is serving as student intern for the Lymes' Youth Service Bureau in Old Lvme. Conn. Jan, a third-year student at the Divinity School Berkeley Center at Yale, is assisting teenagers in and individual counseling, education:, community involvement, and referal service. Jan was a seminarian at St. Ann's Church in Old Lyme last year and has been a Marlboro College admissions counselor and a chaplain in a state in-patient mental health facility. 1976-Santa Fe From the Santa Fe Alumni Office comes a very brief notice that Susan Gan.ban and Victor L. S78, are now married. 1976-Graduate Institute We were very pleased to have a letter from Jim Doherty, who reports that since receipt of his master's degree in 1976 he has completed his J.D. degree at Northwestern School of Law, Portland, Ore., and is now the. (Continued on Pa1e '1) Frank B. Murray, professor of educational studies at the University of Delaware, Newark, has been appointed the dean of the College of Education there. A member of the faculty since 1969, Professor Murray received ·his bachelor's degree from the Annapolis campus in 1960 and a master of arts degree in teaching from Johns Hopkins University, from which he also earned a doctorate in educational psychology in 1966. He his teaching career as a school teacher in Baltimore at Institute's College of Art, Towson State College, Johns the of Minnesota, and was Sharp Educational Studies. PROFESSOR MURRAY has been engaged in research and has published than 35 articles and .., books. In addition, he has edited D. Brandeis, the invented the role of the interest lawyer and who served as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1916to1939. Professor Goldsmith, associate professor of American studies at Brandeis University, was responsible for uncovering much of the material for the 5,000-page collection, gathered under the direction of Abram L. Sachar, first Brandeis president and now chancellor. The collection covers Brandeis' 38-year legal care~r as the "people's attorney", in Boston prior to his appointment to the Supreme Court. "He is the model for so much of Stephen C. Fineberg, '64, assistant professor of classics at Knox College, was awarded the Philip Green Wright-Lombard College Prize for distinguished teaching at Knox's opening convocation this fall. The award, including a $500 . stipend, is the highest honor given to a non-tenured teacher judged outstanding among junior members of the faculty. Mr. Fineberg, who joined the Knox faculty in 1976, earned both his master's and doctor's degrees in classics from the University of Texas at Austin. He taught there and at the University of Victoriain British Columbia before joining Knox. several books in his field. A participating member of a number of professional nrPsident of of Genetic l!:vist4~molo!l1st. and as a member boards of the of Educational and He of what has happened the last 15 Goldsmith "He had to be because have been no others before him or since. There have been other Supreme Court justices, there have been no other interest lawyers." EFFORT TO preserve the memory and career of Brandeis was conceived 23 years ago by Dr. Sachar and Felix Frankfurter, Supreme Court justice. Rather than have the collection appear in 12 volumes, Professor Goldsmith and Dr. Sachar decided to put the raw documents on microfilm. Sets of the microfilmed papers have beenpresented to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and to the White House. St. John's parents are being reminded of a scarce commodity in Annapolis: hotel rooms. The supply is quickly taken. For that reason, persons planning to attend Pa rents Weekend April 2526 should make reservations early. Reservations for that time of year usually are booked by early January. Parents of this year's graduating seniors also should reserve rooms well before commencement, which will be Sunday, May 18. �NOVEMBER 1979 THE REPORTER PAGE 3_ 1 How can wee er for et those days of the '40's? Allan Hoffman, '49, one of the prime movers in the reunion of classes of the 1940's, recalled French or be in trouble. We were not coed. Our classes . were all male. The dormitories, on certain occasions, were not. LATE DATES WERE available at Carvel Hall after Navy hops were over. Our own SJC dances had their grim moments, especially when the local town "toughs" would crash. We had a serious town-gown problem, not just with the "toughs." The Navy wanted the St. John's campus, all 30 acres, for one giant dormitory called "the octopus." They even had it physically staked out on college property. The Navy ran rigq~ smack into Stringfellow Barr. '1' what that decade was like at this fall's Homecoming banquet. His remarks follow: The student body of St. John's was quite small in September 1945 when I entered. I was the 93rd student, I believe, who matriculated that fall. World War II had just ended. Many high schools had been accelerated. The college was already in session. I came to Annapolis with an overnight suitcase for a visit. I spoke briefly with Stringfellow Barr, who said I'd be welcome. Scott Buchanan spoke to me for what seemed to me to be an interminable period of time about things I did not understand. His final words were, "See Miss Strange." I was accepted, and I had not even filled out an application. I don't remember if I everdid.. The college was like that. There were no computers. Things got done. Things happened without red tape - important things, not the things that cost a lot of money. Scott and "Winkie" had very little. Scott and Winkie taught classes. The very lucky students had them. I was very lucky my freshman year. I had "Winkie" for seminar. IN A LARGER sense we were all lucky because there was a continuous seminar open to all starting about 9 a.m. and ending at noon in the coffee shop. Remember "LeRoy"? This coffee shop seminar was led by either Scott or "Winkie" at various times during the day. But it went on, and one of them always seemed to be there at the big table under the map of the world. The lectures were events. If it wasn't Scott or "Winkie" or J ash a or Richard Scofield, we were treated at lectures and concerts to Mark Van Doren, W .H. Auden, Alexander Meiklejohn, Leo Strauss, Mortimer Adler, Schneider and Kirkpatrick, or the Budapest String Quartet. The lectures were first held in the Great Hall of Mc- One of the reputed attributes of a St. John's education is that students learn how to learn for themselves. Kyle Schultz, a Santa Fe senior, had a unique opportunity this summer to test the theory and has found that she was able to learn ~a great deal about herself and her country. Kyle, her horse Naniboujou (a nine-year-old mare that Kyle has had with her at college every year) and her dog, Psukay, began a 1,000 mile . journey together at the end of school. They headed east from Santa Fe, where Kyle had just finished her classes, along the Old Santa Fe Trail route to Princeton, Mo., where Kyle planned to spend the summer. The idea for the trip had been germinating in Kyle's mind ever since five years ago, she and Nan had successfully completed a 350 mile trip from Wisconsin to· Minn~sota. Then people all along The entire student body, fitting into two buses, went to Washington to listen to and watch our eloquent and beloved "Winkie" testify before the Senate Armed Forces Committee. "Winkie" was superb. He Allan Hoffman, in the saddle shoes and argyle socks of his era, said the Navy, rather than trying with a female friend, "Sookie" or "Suky," whom he identifies to destroy the college should be as a campus queen of about 1948. · protecting it. You know the Dowell and when, in January, you watch and quote all the while· outcome. But then the battle was 1946, a large addition of about 40 long portions of Bobby Burns won, but the war was still on. St. from memory to help along your John's in Annapolis was . still January freshmen arrived plus a "real" education. How he also thought to be in jeopardy. Scott steady stream of returning veterans, the lectures had to be kept Koogle Hall with its tall left in '46, and "Winkie" followed stack and coal/steam boiler from in '47 to establish a more secure hel!l in the gym. blowing up is another St. John's sister college in New England. It The laboratories were in was never born. Humphries. These were events of -College Golden Age miracle. As short on cash as Scott and another kind. I think that for We lost our mother and our most of my four years ('45-49) "Winkie" were, we were en- father symbols. John Kieffer most labs were a surprise. couraged to build and sail boats. became president, and we had a The boats were a kind of sleek turn-over of deans in a sea of Sometimes the manuals did not arrive until half the lab period barge designed by Franz Plunder intrigue, crisis, and confusion: was over. Then even the lab tutor who specialized in leaky tran- Neustadt, Wilburn, and finally was surprised. Most of the time soms. Not to be outdone by the Jasha Klein, who was able to the manuals were on time so hot Navy, St. John's College usually stabilize our community. It was off the mimeograph machine that had a sail boat out in hurricane during the period of confusion our hands got black from the wet weather, which routinely got that the popular upper blown across to the Eastern classman's activities were ink. Archibald Mccourt was Shore, a remote and strange stealing the bell clapper and superintendent of grounds, and barbarian place from which few shooting out the street lights on Mr. Buser was his assistant. returned. This was before the the Severn River Bridge. Every winter when a building's Bay Bridge was built. steam heat ceased to function, There were no fraternities, but THESE AND OTHER adult Archie would inspect the enabling exams were Hell Week activities were in the main grounds, without any map or plan for those trying to enter the largely due to the return of older, to guide him, and finally instruct senior year. We had one year more mature students - war his crew where to dig. Sure each of Greek, Latin, French and veterans - to the campus. There enough, three or four feet down German. As I recall one fresh- were those who regularly visited there was the break, and it got man, Dave Rea, '49, passed the . the bar for long hours at Carvel Greek reading proficiency test in Hall, socked local police while fixed. IF YOU WERE lucky, he'd let 1946. It was pass Latin and under the influence, or for other the way had taken her in, fed her and her horse, and shared their lives with her for a short while. The adventure of a similiar trip three times as long appealed to Kyle. And besides, she was curious about something. "I have been aware lately of a defeatist, cynical attitude abroad, particularly in the media, that there is a lack of courage, strength and morality in this country," she said, "I wanted to find out if it was true." SHE DISCOVERED it was not true. Although there were nights she and her horse had to tie down and climb over barbed wire fences to get into a field to sleep and still other nights when they were welcomed only grudgingly by people along the way, most of the time Kyle, Nan, and Psukay were treated hospitably. And, they were impressed with the people they stayed with. "I found tremendous strength, ' - ambition and a desire for justice in the people I met," she reported, "And I was overwhelmed by the kindness and grace shown to me by strangers. My whole perspective on the world changed.'' Kyle also learned much about herself. She faced two weeks. of rain and cold, a horrifying thunderstorm, and a flash flood, only to encounter tremendous he.at. She was also severely sunburned on her hands. In her journal on June 7 she wrote resignedly: "You can't find shade and you can't stand still just to bake to death. So, you ride." SHE FOUND that she could accept and adjust to whatever happened. She learned not to get upset when things did not go smoothly. Somehow the situtaion always seemed to improve, like the day she found herself given a mouse-infested room in a barn to sleep somewhere in Kansas. reasons had to be bailed out of jail b_y their roommates. Some of the more pugnacious never went off campus without the company of one very large or two smaller classmates. We formed the Student Polity. Who can forget its presidential proclamations signed "Imprimatur Goldberg." The senior thesis writing period, with the acceptance or rejection of the thesis, the oral examination in formal gown and in public were the final ordeals followed by the waiting for the notice of who made it and who did not. Some freshmen were admitted after only two years of high school, at the age of 15. At the same time there were married veterans living·m the temporary buildings on the back campus raising· their families while attending college. The veterans with their life experience added depth and maturity to the seminars. LET ME CLOSE with a few recollections of the 1946 King William Players performance of Oedipus Rex. King Oedipus was played · by a Spaniard, Jim Salinas. He was absolutely superb in the last act. His portrayal of the suffering, eyeless king was the real agony of Oedipus. After the play we asked Jim what overcame him, why his portrayal was so much better, more real, than our last rehearsal. The secret, he was that the eye make-up we used-catsup-which was used to simulate the gore of his torn out eyeballs, was painfully burning his lids and eyes, and he was not acting at all but really suffering. One Greek playwright maintained you had to suffer before you learned. We suffered as we learned, but we had the guidance and love of "Winkie" Barr, Scott Buchanan, John Kieffer, Jasha Klein, Richard Schofield, Simon Kaplan, Ford K. Brown, Winfree Smith, and others. How can we ever forget? 411 l The next day, just half a mile down the road, she met some people at a feed store who took her in, let her work for three days for her keep, and tried to convince her to come back to work for them next summer. When she was treated so kindly, Kyle reflected in her journal, "I don't think people know what they do for me. They give me support and love which means more and rests me more than their food I eat or their beds I sleep in. They are so loving to me." What pleased Kyle the most, however, was that many times she was able to do something for the people who took her in, in return for their kindness. "Often I would arrive just at a moment when a family was depressed over the illness or death of a loved one," she found, "I provided them with a distraction-something else to focus on. I was needed, and it felt good." It was a long trip-almost two months to the day-and at times a grueling trip. But the worth of it is evident in a closing comment in Kyle's journal: "I have learned and grown with the passing of miles. I have laughed and cried in pain and joy. I have tested my strength and that of my two beautiful animal friends and found us to be truly worthy of a place in the natural world." I Robert Bart, dean of the Santa Fe campus, was a recent speaker at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Chicago. Addressing an audience of humanities students, he spoke on "Justice and the Family in the Oresteia." Approximately 20 Chicago area alumni attended the talk and question period which followed. �Stories . .. Dave Dobreer can spin St. John's stories by the hour, stories of St. John's in the 40's, stories of St. John's impact on himself in medical school and . afterwards, tales of friends and tutors who date back to the Year Three of the college's New frogram. The 21-year-old boy who had read everything in sight and who sold his car for $200 and bought a depression-priced $32.50 bus ticket east to St. John's is now vice-chairman of the college's· DAVID DOBREER Board of Visitors and Governors and a prominent physician in his hometown~ Los Angles. "I'm not saying that I knew what I was doing when I came to St. John's," he said of his decision to enroll. "All I had was a feeling I wanted to go there." As matters turned out, it was the thing to do. St. John's has never left him. For one he leads a books seminar for in his hosnital. but later. fall's board with and Dr. Dobreer was at the center of activities for the classes of the 1940's. reunion Theirs was not a education, but one which spanneo for many, almost a full decade. Dr. Dobreer came in 1940, a ~ ...... ,,.,._,."'+ from Los City here by the maf!az;ine story of articles by1 Rebecca Wilson Editor by the Office of College John's College, Annapolis, Md., 21404, Richard D. Weigle, president. Pvblished five times a year, in f~bruary, April, June, September and November. Second doss postage paid at Annapolis, Md. person I met when I arrived, a week before classes started, ushered me into Mr. Buchanan's office," he recalled." 'This is Mr. Do beer,' she said, 'from California,' making me feel so important. Then Mr. Buchanan, with his air of quiet detachment, made me feel normal again." Dr. Dobreer can remember _ when St. John's had - brace yourself - a required physical education program. It did not come as a heretical aberration at a school which eschews such a thing; merely as a wartime necessity. The program was developed just before his junior year when Dave had been earning $3 a week on Saturdays working in a Naval tailor shop. "We were rich," he commented on how far the dollar went then. (St. John's cost altogether $800 his first year, when he held a $600 scholarship). Scott Buchanan, then dean, . called him in and told him that St. John's was heavily involved in the armed services reserve program and that the college had . a responsibility to take care of its men physically. The college wanted to institute a physical training program to keep them in shape, and Mr. Buchanan wanted Dave to run it. His roommate in Paca-Carroll, Bob Wilcox, '44, a former midshipman, was asked to be in charge of the military drill. The two of them worked together. Dave was given guidance on how to build an obstacle course by the Naval Academy, and Archie Mccourt, then of buildings and grounds, constructed Students soon 1.:umumh vertical walls by course. one student from Los t'l.HJ:;it:u::5, William H. Brubeck, '44, now mana editor of Daedelus, himself. became such close friends names were reversed: Bill Dobreer and Dave Brubeck. He and his freshman roommate also exchanged nicknames which still use in writinl?: each another .______ _. In this photograph from the 1941 yearbook, David Dobreer, right, is shown talking with two other assistants in athletics, Christian H. Mc::Garry, '41, left, and William H. Brubeck, 44, center. 1 other. That was Casimer Krol, '44, who was 6 foot, 31h. inches as compared to Dave's 5 foot, 8 inches. They became Lange Luchsh (Long Noodle) and Kurtz (Short). Fraternity houses had been pre-empted by the college for dormitory use, but as organizations fraternities were still alive, although gasping, his freshman year. Invited to pledge Kappa Alpha, Dave discovered that one student was to be excluded because he was Jewish. The officers, who had thought Dave Protestant rather than Jewish, offered to take steps to make his an exception. Dave declined, believing that if the other Jewish students couldn't be accepted, he didn't want to be made an exception. He then was asked to pledge an alH ewish fraternity. "THEY TOOK IT for granted I would join," he said. "I asked, 'Do you have religious barriers?' When they said they did, I told them, 'We complain about discrimination, but you have the same rule so forget about it. I don't want to join. I can't in good conscience.' he and other all the members of the Jewish comfounded a new free of any such restrictions, and Ford K. Brown became faculty called it Sie:ma Iota John's all also d could serve no real purpose or need at St. John's," Dr. Dobreer said. from the Another also old disappeared by Ul45, Dr. Dobreer Dr. Dobreer remembers Mark Van Doren, scheduled to lecture on Melville and Dick. "He read to us instead Lardfrom a collection of ner's stories, which he been ~nT\!:11"1Pnt1v for the first time, on train en route to St. John's," he recalled. Dr. Dobreer also remembers: "The two shows, the first one, which a work of collective the three rings of the Beer label and the four roses of the well-known label on banners depicting the trivium and the quadrivium; "AL POPPITI, '42, 'imitating' a· Mortimer Adler lecture, any Mortimer Adler lecture, by doing cartwheels and handsprings across the stage; Al later did a special 'command' performance for Mr. Adler, who had not seen the original performance: "Bill Barr, '42, as Mr. (John S.) Kieffer, walking his poodle (a mop with a long handle) up to the campus flagpole, where the dog (or mop) proceeded to water the pole; the hit song of the show entitled, 'Barr, Buchanan, and God,' sung to the tune of 'It Ain't Necessarily So'; the marvelous hairy-legged chorus line." After his graduation in 1948, Dave thought of a year or two in Europe, at the University of Grenoble and the University of Copenhagen, both of which had accepted him; but he decided to try medical school and entered the College of Osteopathic sicians and Surgeons in Los Angeles. His St. John's education may have provided him with a ticular analytical and rhetorica1 year in leading nl"<>C:in<>n• of his class, ONE declared, "I've baby, and I'm St. John's." came, but one of Dr. did: a 1975 alumna, to a former St. who is Edmund F. Rasna HI. A born leader, Dave had been elected president of the junior one vote. His senior year was the uncontested choice for class of California association) and as its n-r.C•C:"rl<:>n1° for two consecutive years. "'1n·ai:i.,n111c: In 1962, as a result of a merger of the two medical professions (osteopathic and allopathic) in California, he received his medical degree from the California College of Medicine, which is the medical school of the University of California at Irvine. Three years ago his leadership was in evidence when malpractice insurance rates for physicians zoomed by 600 per cent, a hike. insurance firms attributed to excessive litigation. Always active in medical issues, this bearded and barrel-chested physician, seemingly of limitless energy, helpe-d lead the movement to "go bare," that is to force the end to a practice whereby doctors were required to have such insurance before they could be admitted to hospital staffs. As an outgrowth of this, Dr. Dobreer was active in forming the Union of American Physicians and Dentists, becoming a member of its executive committee and then vice-president. A year ago an autonomous body, the Southern California Joint Council of the Union, was established, and he became its nriP•!;ili11>nt DURING second year in medical school, Dr. Dobreer was of the introduced to the Great Books Foundation in Los Bob Thomp:son, was sut>se1quEmtJty the foundation books seminar at Ho11v,Mor1r1 School. The seminar St. John's lines and soon became indenendent of the foundation. He continued to do this for five his inthe in doctors an to such "what is virtue, from 1958-59, he had conducted a seminar for and the medical at his medical college. As a board member since 1974 and as a former student, Dr. Dobreer's belief in the program runs �(Continued from P. 1) to interested Chairman Charles A. Nelson will announce the board's decision. Since candidates have been on the two ca1mpusE~s to members of John's .and students - to their views and to be questioned. Results of these visits were compiled by the four members of the Search Com· mittee - Dean Edward Sparrow and J. Winfree Smith in An· napolis and Dean Robert Bart and Robert A. Neidorf in Santa Fe - and presented to the full committee during detailed discussions at its meetings Oc· tober 29-30 in New York. The Search Committee has been strongly structured, and because of its make-up, it is thought unlikely the full board will reject the decision it reached eludes the present cmu.rman, predecessor, and UU.UU::•t.UCl~C chairman, and a vice .... ,,, .. """ - Mr. Nelson, Alexander K. McLanahan, of Houston, and Mr . Yarnall - an alumna, Sharon Bishop, '65, and Dorothy Roudebush, St. Louis civic leader. The four candidates were se· lected from among 11 persons interviewed for the position. They, in turn, have been chosen from a pool of 200 suggested persons, not all of whom were interested in the position. The search is believed to be the most thorough ever . undertaken by St. John's and contrasts in method with 'the selection of President Weigle, who retires June 30 after 31 years with the college. In 1949 Mr. Weigle, who had turned of the China came almost chance to the attention of the when his name was mentioned a New York dinner to Board Chairman Cleveland as a person the college be interested in. With the of Mr. Cleveland with backing of the late Jacob he subsequently was named to office. Mr. Ault, who is 53, has been associated with St. John's for nine years as vice-president and chief financial and administrative officer for the Santa Fe campus. A former president of Burlington Industrial Fabrics Company, he has held various leadership positions with the Radiation Research Corporation. He is director of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc., Publishers, New York City, and of the Samoa Corporation in New York. He is ad de aid fund Two new development officers have been added to assist in the Fund for the 1980's campaign for $25-million. J. Burchenal Ault, vicepresident at Santa Fe and campaign director, said they are an alumna, Ann Cruse, for the Annapolis campus, and Margaret Twyman, for the Santa Fe campus. Mrs. Twyman has been appointed coordinator of the national campaign and will work closely with board members. Mrs. Cruse will be working with small foundations, family trusts, and alumni in the eastern area. Meanwhile, the Board of Visitors and Governors has reorganized its Fund for the 1980's Committee. Headed its memwill be divided into two parts in an effort to lessen travel time of the members. THE COMMITTEE includes Walter F. Evers, Harriet .m..ui=,e;u'"'' Arnold Wells, Victor G. L. Louise W. Todd and holds 1.111"1-1n1~1'1'h1 maga~~me~s. He served Yale llnivPr~i1rv as of the National Mr. Delattre Endowment for the Humanities bachelor's between 1971 and 1977 and as a of visiting scholar at the American doctorate at the TTniva:>r~itv Enterprise Institute in Um. Texas at Austin. He has held irtir1i>rt1\rc:i1inc: He has been an the Federal Council on the assistant professor, and Humanities and on the associate professor of prulosopt1y Woodrow Wilson International at the University where he received the Out- Center for Scholars. A professor of biology, Mrs. standing Teacher Award in 1973. Milburn, who is 52, has had a Within .his field of specialty continuous career at Tufts. She philosophy - he has taught holds a bachelor's degree from courses in ethics, logic, and Kant. Radcliffe, a master's from Tufts, For the past three years he has and a doctorate from Radcliffe. been director of the National She has been chairman of the Humanities Faculty. He has Department of Biology and, in published and lectured extens· addition to being associate dean ively on the humanities and for faculty development, bas was selected by Change been dean of the College of Magazine as one of a hundred Liberal Arts and dean of Jackson young leaders who have made a College for Women. She is a major impact on higher representative of the American education in this country. Mr. Berman, 49, is the author - Society for Zoologists and on the or editor of nine books and has · National Research Council. Friends announce coming events Marathon runner Everett Amos, '29, right, shares a good time with his dose friend, David f. Crowley, Jr., ''28, of Baltimore, at the 50th armivesary of Dr. Amos' doss. Tom Parran photo Thus far the fund has raised more than $12-million, of which $5,214,000 is in funds received, $3,361,000 . in pledges, and $2,518,000 in future bequests. A graduate of Knox College in Galesbur~h,111., Mrs. received her master's degree at Northwestern University in personnel administration and She has served as administrator of the International of the Association .L!eagues of America woman to be of the Association of who has devoted most of her life to it, even when it means working a wheel chair a home bed. After 50 years spent in one of the longest St. John's careers this former suffered a severe interhip a few days after her 79th when she fell and broke on July 8. She was at work as archivist in the "Ice House" when the break occurred. Two operations followed, from which she is r11>•r>n1~""'~t11n11 A clipper from way back, Miss Strange was su1Jscr1i:1tio1n to The Baltimore Sun, acquired the and told to go to work. She is spemamg me!th<Jdi1cally cllleckin.g for St. John's items in ie Fairfield Nursing Center, where she has discovered her next door neighbor in Room 101 is novelist Zenith Brown, widow of the late St. John's tutor, Ford K. Brown. Mail may be addressed to the nursing home, 1454 Fairfield Crownsville. Md., 21032. mos run! If Dr. Everett Amos were a show-off sort of fellow and wanted to the alumni bod:v to shame, he could have run the mile distance between the campus and the Bav Ridge Inn and back time left He Buren with him, talked a bout have known. But at five weeks short of 78, ll something about mOdesty so announcement at the it took Alumni Association's annual to say that this 1929 the 50th an@ had run in includi11i;!; the last new . who was never active in St. John's sports program back in the 20's K'nmn:;ir::itivPlV to read everything he on the nhvsioloE!Y of The Friends of St. John's College will hold its second annual St. John's College Week in December, take a small breath, and then plunge into a full schedule of events, all public oriented, in January. Here is what is planned for St. John's College Week: Saturday, Dec.1-King William Players present two plays, Jules Feiffer's "Feiffer's People" and Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Aria da Capo," 2:30 p.m., Key Auditorium; $2.50 admission. Sunday, Dec. 2 - Open House, to 2 to 5 p.m., Great Hall, with music on classical guitar by Marco Acosta; tours at 2, 3, and 4 p.m.; free. KWP presents a morality play, "Everyman," 8:15 p.m., Key Auditorium, $2.50 admission. Wednesday, Dec. 5- "The Chinese Past: 6000 Years of Art and Culture," a slide lecture presented by Robert S. Zelenka, 8 p.m. Great Hall, followed by reception; free. Dec. 1-8 - Exhibition of Robert S. Zelenka photography, corridor, Key Auditorium; free. The winter-spring schedule includes these programs: Jan. 4 - Art show, "Tenth Street Days," opens in Art Gallery with wine and cheese reception at 8 p.m.; admission free. Jan. 15 · - Dinner@lecture, "Early Maryland Silver" by Catherine Hollan, in Chesapeake History and Society Series; dinner, hall, 7:30 p.m., admission, $7.50; lecture, Conversation Room, 8:30 p.m., admission, free. February - (Date to be announced) Jazz concert, 2 p.m., Great Hall, McDowell, free. Feb. 19 - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra concert, works and Tschaikovsky, Key Auditorium, admission, $7.75. Feb.19- Dinner-lecture, "Maryland Furniture, 1760-1830," William Voss Elder, HI, Chesapeake Society hall, 7:30 p.m., admission, $7.50; lecture, Conversation Room, p.m., free. March 5 - Great Books community seminars; readings, locations, admission to be announced. exercise and be~an to calisthenics and cises. He also acqwrea for stal:ionary years before was "conned into .,.., ..,.....,,...,, outdoors by a friend a "marvelous runner" - who invited him to use his three mile trails to turned out, his Dr. Amos has since run the 261h miles in marathons in Honlulu and in _ besides the three in Boston. He won't say what his time is, but he has them all. Dr. Amos runs anvwhere from 35 to 50 or he has that, to go to Mexico, returns to his irll!llr1 t 1 ~trv "I feel 15 years did when I was 35," he estimates. vn11,n'1i•r even He holds two records: the 151976 and at the watched him run. love to said. " �PAGE6 Career fields drawing the largest proportion of Annapolis New Program alumni remain largely unchanged, a survey conducted by the Placement Office indicates. Results, still being tabulated, show that education leads the list. Career choices are very much like those revealed by an earlier study of 866 alumni between 1941 and 1976, but the order is slightly different. Marianne Braun, placement director, said that returns of the new study of former studem.s here between 1940 and 1949 show that of 420 former students who ·have responded thus far, a total of 93 are in education. Other large categories: law, 69; medicine, 38, and computer sciences, 31. The earlier study showed these fields claimed the top percentages in this order: law, teaching, medical sciences, and mathematics or' compute1 sciences. MRS. BRAUN'S survey was conducted primarily to assist her in locating alumni who can be (Continued from P. 1) Kathleen Collins, assistant to the manager, said. "We help supply books for university graduate courses there." Occasionally there is an indication of St. John's voice inthe "outside world." From Britain's University of Southampton in September came a request that two more copies of "Essays in Honor of Jacob Klein" be sent its Department of Politics. Lecturer R. S. Beiner was planning a course devoted to the thought of the late St. John's dean and the late Leo Strauss, former scholarin-residence here. Occupying a small, pumpkincolored room, the bookstore is modestly approached down steps flanked by Virginia bluebells and daffodils in the spring with nothing to make its basement level entrance conspicuous. For Annapolitans who find their way to this out-of-the-way center to browse among books which inclutle children's and cookery sections, it's the quality which surprises. Visitors, who include mids hip men from the Naval Academy across the street, find books covering a wide range of matter from fine arts to psychology, from standard reference manuals to political science, history, and detective stories. Of special. interest are books written by alumni and by faculty memb~rs, which are grouped separately. For persons familiar with the program and faculty, Mrs. Boyd said among bestselling items are the nearly 90 lectures filed on slotted shelves. MRS. BOYD SAID the bookstore decides on what books it will acquire on the basis of recommendations of the Faculty Library and· Instruction committees as well as from individual faculty 1 members and students. If the r~sponse is good, helpful in advising students to graduation. Besides the actual careers in which students presently are ngaged, Mrs. Braun took into consideration major areas of graduate study following St. John's undergraduate work. -A special category was philosophy, she pointed out. Of the 17 who did graduate work, 10 former students are teaching philosophy; the balance are engaged in other work. Returns show these numbers of students in various fields: Psychology, 24; science, 22; business, 22; government agencies, 15; writing and journalism, 14; theology, 12; arts, 10; engineering and language and linguistics, 9; architecture and planning and history, 8; banking and finance and political science, 7; marketing, literature, and social work, 6; mathematics, Si advertising and library science, 4; accounting, art history, communications, and editing, 3; anthropology, foreign affairs, the theater, 2; economics, farming, and publishing.1. then the bookstore orders in quantity. She views the bookstore as an academic center, a reflection of St. John's and its "great books program"; and many of the books for which the college receives requests are programrelated. Some include books temporarily out of print, which the college press has reproduced, including the writings of Lavoisier, Lobachevsky, and such books as "Nichomachus of Ger as a," an introduction to arithmetic. There are also shorter, reprinted excerpts from Hegel, Lincoln, Galen, Harvey, and others. "If we don't have the book requested, then we order it," she said. "We do a lot of special ordering." Among the books' it carries is what Mrs. Boyd believes to be the largest collection of Loeb editions in the Baltimore-WashingtonAnnapolis area. "We've received a number of compliments on the variety of our books," Mrs. Collins said. "People are amazed with the quality. One man said he thought when he came in it would be just another bookstore. He was surprised that it was not.'' THE ST. JOHN'S bookstore may not be just another bookstore, in the view of David Starr, chairman of the Faculty Bookstore Committee, because of its concentration of classics and worthwhile books in a single place, rather than having them spread among books not worth having or isolated in individual stores. In an area like Harvard Square, it's likely a shopper can find the titles in philosophy he may be looking for, but it may take a search through several stores to find them. At St. John's there's a good chance he can find them under a single roof. Strin9bellow Barr, right, receives a "president-emeritus" scroll from Charles A. Nelson, left, while his nephew, Wilriam A. Barr, applauds. Below President Weigle, leh, and Frank Atwell display Mr. Weigle's award of merit. · Tom Pcman photo Two St. John's presidents were honored during the college's annual Homecoming this fall. Richard D. Weigle, in his final year as president. was the only recipient of the Alumni Association's annual Award of Merit; and former President Stringfellow Barr, who helped found St. John's New Program in 193 7, officially received his designation by the Board of Visitors and Governors as "president-emeritus." The men who have led the college during eras of change and expansion were hailed as the two persons "most essential for St. John's" by Franklin R. Atwell, '53, Alumni Association president, who presided at a IN ADDITION to the reunion of "For nine years Mr. Barr Homecoming banquet which worked at the Herculean task of classes of the 1940's, the Class of drew more than 230 persons to the converting a conventional college 1929, led by Bill Gross, held its Bay Ridge Inn. _ into a paradigm of liberal golden anniversary and the Class Weigle's services in transeducation,'' the formal of 1954 its silver anniversary with forming a college "too poor and statement, which had been Bernard E. Jacob in charge. John too small to survive info one adopted by the Board of Visitors Noble and Ernst von Schwhich is more vital than ever." and Governors, said. werdtner. represented the oldest PREVIOUSLY NAMED an It recognized "the great ser- class represented - · 1917 - and honorary member of the vice which Mr. Barr performed Katherine Buck, Carol Class of 1949, Mr. Weigle was in bringing the present Colatrella, Deana Tosheff, and presented a scroll which ac· curriculum to St. John's College Karen Wachsmuth the youngest claimed his dedication and -1979. devotion to St. John's over the and in effecting its transition Besides Mr. Nelson, a number from a relatively unknown past 30 years and "for having of members of the board, who Maryland institution to one which earned the respect and adhas had significant impact upon had been meeting that day, were miration of all who knew him." present. They included J. Butthe national scene." "On the occasion of his last chenal Ault, vice-president of the The dinner also was marked Homecoming as president of the with a film of the 1949 com- western campus, Dean Robert college, we honor him for his Bart, Miss Harriet Higgins, Mrs. extraordinarily distinguished mencement in which Former Carleton Mitchell, Walter Evers, Registrar Miriam Strange and~ and meritorious service to that Mrs. George Roudebush, Mrs. college, and for high the late George Bingley, Jobn1 Louise Trigg, and D. Robert Kieffer, and Jacob Klein were achievement within his chosen Yarnall. seen. field.'' The award to Mr. Barr was made by a former student, Charles A. Nelson, of Croton-onHudson, N. Y., chairman of the St. Through error the giving records of two alumni classes were John's Board of Visitors and omitted from the September Annual Giving Report. Our Governors. apologies to the classes of 1917 and 1918, whose giving last year In addition, he presented a was as follows: special present "to our beloved $1,076 18.2% 1917 Winkie" from the classes of the decades of the 1940's, a leatherC. Carey Jarman F(ll) bound first edition of "The Will of John W. Noble, Sr. S(5) Zeus." The HMO classes were 1918 9.1% $100 holding a special reunion during Thomas E. MacMannis K(8) Homecoming. T �(Continued from P.1) cost $100,000 if it were handled commercially. The shows, which run 50 to 80 minutes, have been designed to be seen and discussed separately or in clusters. His knowledge of many historical periods is profound, so much so that one Albuquerque publicist once seriously th_~mght of promoting this born poet and teac .. ..,., sequestered in the hills of Santa Fe, thousands of miles from centers as most learned man in America. "Few writers nMh~hhr to a similar C.P. Snow, science literary style or another New Mexican, Bill Garland, has written. Mr. Bell was on the eastern campus the first week of school of a of screenin11.;: also showiM.;: Swarthmore, Rutgers, and Lawrence. PREVIOUSLY HIS "~'rmhnliff' has been various of elsewhere. version was shown at Princeton and viewed Einstein, in whose house across the street the Bell children the art historian, Mann's dear friend, Erich Kahler, central the exiles Mr. Bell grew to know at Prin· cetion. "In one sense one felt com· awed Einstein," Mr. Bell recalled the scientist whose on his wall and who own entry mathematics. "His face was a combination of ultimate wisdom with the brute patience of a St. Bernard dog." Later, in serving with Einstein on a Princeton committee looking toward an international constitution, Mr. Bell found him "old fashioned and naive, a man who did not allow for the dialectic am· bivalence of the world, the · Satanism of the enlightened" as compared with the Kahler, whom Mr. Bell found politically much sounder. More recently, various . tapes ' under talked down, and I was eager to " shown at Hopkins, the National Mawr, Columbia, of London, London's smaller the Bells now teaching the former This was an occasion when Mr. Bell's narticular style of dar1cir1g "Mr. Birdman," from dener, entranced Mr. a moment when Mr. Bell was engaged in his favorite sport-climbing trees.) ONE OF THE two shows Mr. Bell presented on the Aru:iapous campus was the first in the series but one of the most finished: "Nature, the Perceptive Field," which Mr. Bell calls a reconstitution or celebration of Heraclitus, with nature seen as a ground, a tensile field between opposing forces. The books in the program are quoted off and on, sometimes playfully, sometimes seriously. The last in the series of 35 Mr. Bell has entitled "Now: the Bondage and Freedom of History," which reviews some of mankind's deepest historic moments. "Whoever has shaped the lumni: East and West (Continued from P. 2) Public Defender for Tillamook County, Ore. 1977 Ted Burke reports spending the summer at Middlebury College's Russian School, doing two year's work in that language in nine weeks. Jon Diggory, '74, was in the Chinese School and Preston Niblack, '78, was studying French. From Brad Davidson comes word that Catherine Craig and Rob Godfrey, '76, are married and living in Berkeley, Cal. (Ob· viously, we need a. Berkeley chapter of the Alumni Associa· tion ! ) Brad himself is now vice president of M.S. Blackistone & Associates, an Annapolis-based management consulting firm. A summer postcard from Steve Ross was received just too late for September, but 0~ean report that Steve spent a successful and exhausting season of excavation at Tell el·Hesi, Israel, followed by a month digging two Early Arabic castles in the desert. At the time of writing (August) he was considering going into classical and/or modern Arabic studies, "When and if" he returns; 'to the U.S. A note from Sue Seidenstricker in August says that she has left her position with the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and is contemplating graduate education, perhaps in law or business. 1978 Patrick Patrone is doing graduate study in physiology at the Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. 1979 Hardee Mahoney is 1now a student at the, University of Chicago Divinity School. future has worked in the m"~tPrv of 'now,' " Mr. Bell said. is a relative 'now," call it one's own more recent exnerience. But we are absolute meets the u.nform<>~ exists in sciousness and is sucked that creature more real to althougl1 Chaucerian, oma es ue, Gothic, Renaissance, Reformation, Baroque, American Revolution, and Whitman's America. Some titles: "Mind's Dark (Milton, "The Confidence Game of the 18th Century," "Blake and the Fugue," "19th Cen· tury, the Loaded Dream." THE SERIES have been so successful that have been mentioned as a television much in the manner Kenneth Clark's series on ''Civilization"; in Boston television thought running some. But Mr. Bell resisted the suggested changes, having his face on camera. dramatist to interrupt an appears on his objections. epic, he "There were two radical faults with the Clark program," Mr~ Bell mischievous eyes have been immature and premature." Time also turned out to his technical advantage. The ability to synchronize image and sound in one operation contrasted with his first showings of 1939, when he gave a winter series at the State Library at Springfield, and found himself stumblimz around in the dark to his three Scholar, from he from science music, and lan,gu:a~e~s. callee WITH and in hand, he was more research. Mr. Bell first conceived of his as a five-volume literary oroduc:tio:n, for which music would be made available. In 1941 H01L1,gb.ton-Mi.ffliln, later to his novels, was interested in it and invited him submit the history upon com· pletion. The fact that they did not accept it right away turned out afterwards to be, in his fortunate. "It would have been infinitely worse if I had finished the history then," he said. "I hadn't read enough. I hadn't had the ex· perience of the intellect I was later to develop at Princeton, Chicago, and St. John's. It would more But I in midst of the and there was all the excitement of men in - scholars, committed - some of them - to Hutchins' ----«1...~~:~ " Later, vlU.'LO:U~V after leaves ff'om at Frankfurt and Puerto came to St. John's, because Jacob Klein, then heard with horror of Mr. Bell's experiences in Puerto Rico, where he found a impossible because the termites ate his books and where mosquito bites, if inflicted in sufficient number, could lead to elephan· ti a sis. "We've got to get that boy out of there!'' Mr. Klein had declared on hearing about the bites. The "boy" arrived on campus in 1956, remaining here until he joined the Santa Fe faculty in 1967. Introducing the hoard Mason knows music, arts, dance Francis Mason has worked for .government, business, and the arts since he left St. John's after teaching for a year following World War II. Through Nicholas Nabokov he began to work for the Voice of America at the State Department in New York. Later he went overseas as Cultural Affairs Officer in Belgrade and London. Clive Barnes wrote in The New York Times: "Francis Mason was the best culture man America ever sent to London. He knew music, he ·knew arts, he knew dance ... In effect, he convinced London, and then Europe, that American painting and American dancing were s~mply unequalled in the world today." Back in Washington, Mr. _Mason was in charge of U.S. · exhibitions to the USSR and East Europe and renewed friendships at St. John's. In 1968, in New York, he worked with Robert Rauschenberg at Experiments in Art and Technology and became assistant to a former St. John's board member, Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., president of Steuben Glass and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. With a nucleus of other St. J:ohn's persons in ·the New York area, Mr. Mason initiated visits to Manhattan by tutors for seminars and other occasions. Allan Hoffman,- '49, and Mr. Mason have visited Stringfellow Barr frequently in the past eight years and organiled the celebration of his 80th birthday. Assistant director of the. Pierpont Morgan Library since 1975, Mr. Mason is co-author with ·George Balanchine of two books, chairman emeritus of the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, a former president of the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Scultpure, and conducts the radio ,program, "The World of Dance," on WZXR, New York, six days a week. Kutler gives talk Sam Kutler of the Annapolis was a recent speaker at ~he Edgar Evers College, City University of New York, in Brooklyn. He took part in a !workshop on the liberal arts !studies, speakirig on the topic, !"Ways of Improving the 'Humanities Liberal Arts Cwrlculum." ~aculty �Md. leT t/:) i'i.T~-~' - ' "Most selective." "Highly competitive." St. John's College stands at the top among American colleges in evaluations given by two catalogues for 11ni'lt>"l"O"r!:ufo!ltiP education. Both Cass and Am in But than the result of a deliberat.ive the admissions directors of the Annapolis and Santa Fe puses believe these top pm;UI1ons It's 4 p.m. on a ternoon, and one of St. more classes is about are lea,rnilne: to begin. to waltz. Trains of chairs are being pushed away to clear the Great Hall. Stephanie Moore, impatient to dance, already whirling around the floor, and Joe Roach run out for speakers. Martin Miller, like them, a junior, readies a tape of Strauss waltzes. Nearly 50 freshmen begin to arrive in blue jeans, jogging shoes, with sweaters tied around their waists, preparing for the first waltz party of the year. Several members of the Druids' over a soccer team - the game just T-shirts tenth of this number complete . twice as many applications as there are in the freshman class. Its is restricted to 105 students. The admissions directors believe the reason the number is condensed have to do the for two years of four of math. The both screens of students. "'"'''"i'riP rn °·~t to write five out a of student~ have been earned almost by accident. Cass "We class as determinin rr admissions," John director at the Annapolis pus, said, explaining that other conditions for admissfon are more important. PROFILES OF this year's Freshman Class in Annapolis, however, show that 64 per cent of the first year students ranked in the first fifth of their higli school class. Forty-three per cent were in the first tenth, and 21 per cent were in the second tenth. The number of freshmen who hold National Merit honors, ranging from full to commended scholars, represents 39 per cent of the 105 in the class. This is an increase over the customary third of that class who can be counted on to have National Merit honors. In Santa Fe, 52 per cent of the students ranked in the first fifth of their class, according to Stephen R. Van Luchene, admissions director there. Thirtysix per cent were in the first tenth and 16 percent in the second tenth. Comparable figures for SAT's are not available in the Santa Fe campus partly because western students tend to take the American College Test, an alternative to the SAT's. This year half the freshmen there took ACT's. The caliber of students is because students are selective," both men the course a year, the Annapolis campus may mail six to seven thousand "r ___ ,__,, booklets to students who initial about St John's. Of this number, may write, smaU students, oringmJ?: SAT scores stcmdin~(s school classes, stuldents have placed the college in its "most competitive" position. ' It will cost students $7,400 to attend St. John's College next year. The Board of Visitors and Governors increased fees for the next academic year by 13 per cent at its fall meeting. "We simply must keep up with the inflationary rate," Charles A. Nelson, board chairman, said in explaining the need. The fees include $5,400 for tuition, $900 for room, and $1,100 for board. Mr. Nelson estimated that the actual cost of the education of each student on St. John's Santa Fe campus is $10,000 a year and on the Annapolis campus in excess of $9,000. This year fees at both campuses total $6,550. The college makes up the difference through its annual fund-raising efforts. President Richard D. Weigle said the increase will still St. John's "a good step below Ivy League colleges," which next year are expected to cost over to attend. Total fees this year at Yale amount to $7.500 and at Harvard and at In the West the college nearest to Santa Fe is the Colorado Collee:e. where fees with a "can-this-be-melook on their cheers and way. 4:25, when across the room, Mr. Nau has everyone do freshmen learn to waltz but to polka as well. It's a Chicago junior, Evan an iexperienced folk dancer, his partner, Miss Moore, who give an athletic demonstration, his hands on her waist, her hands on his shoulder, traversing the length of the hall with a "one-two-threehop" step. (These "beer barrel' pu~as, done to two-four rather than three-quarter time, are not for the faint of foot as Mr. Canter and Mr. Roach demonstrated in a wild, stomping version). But the primary emphasis is on there are only a who are terrific dancers," Mr. Nau reassures freshmen not sure of their own potential as waltzers. The dancing is crowded at them. But be floor will thin Dancers can come in and take their shoes off. A lot of like to dance in socks. because a lot of e:et stenned on. If we a no women into two lines, can be ex1>ec1tecl the way It's from the freshmen afterwards Then he shows them how to dance together and go the lene:th of the floor. "I don't know how have studied Ptolemy "It's a matter of epicycles along a deferent. The dancers to the gentleman's right. The gentleman leads with the left foot. A helpful hint is for the man to take small steps, not big steps, because that can really throw girls." He told them to count aloud if that helped. (As an aside he noted that middies, who come from the Naval Academy to the waltz parties, "don't know three. only know two.") "There are several rules about waltzing," he told students. "The number one rule is not to run into the dean (Edward Sparrow, a great waltzer and regular guest) when he's dancing. There's also a tradition that you waltz with a very stern face and gaze into each other's eyes. It's because you've to look where you are you run into each 2enerallv the gentleman's 111>-:ll'tng:,r•o:: feet are fault." ARE THE consequences?" someone asked. "You don't asked Mr. Nau ad· miration the women. "It's a mv~ti:>rv how the ladies can do it dizzy or on. It's a little extra somethlnt:!: the blood." He also them in what chauvinistic for seek partners. the want to ask someone to go ahead and ask. It's no Oh yes, if you see anyone on the side dying of exhaustion, give them - a break." Then there were structions about pantomine on the Canter's hands indicated something about the nature of women's "Wear loose skirts," Kathy spoke up. "You can't dance in narrow.'' A beautiful Mr. Nau learned to waltz at St. John's. "He's a southern 2e11UE!m;an, and comes '' Mr. Miller explained. By 5 p.m. the class was over, but the freshmen were to dance. A was too fine to Caroline 0. has been named financial aid director, s~cceeding Aaronson, who left St. John's early October. Mrs. is a residence coordinator at Goucher Colle!Ze. where she worked last year in Financial Aid Office on a time basis. A graduate cum from Tufts University, she earned a master's degree in education from Smith College in 1976. She has done a deal of student couLnSE!lm:g. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <em>The St. John's Reporter</em> Description An account of the resource College newspaper which started publication in 1974. Continued publication into 2000. 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ISSUE I ·VOLUME SEPTEMBER 1979 Four see president's post St. John's new nre~sident. be chosen in ue,cernbE~r earlier than ori1~in~illY Four caruiiclat~!S the four three come from without the St. John's co11nmuni1ty .and one from within. One of them is a woman, Mr. Yarnall is not a "token" but a with sub stantial creden1tialls. 0 RICHARD D. WEIGLE some respects looks to other eras for its classical education. It is not, that his three its findinf!S of the Governors December 7-8 in Annapolis. "If all goes pe<:tat.ions, we will be attemotin~ to arrive at a decision at that " D. Robert Committee discussion is whether the committee will the name of a candidate to the board or names of the two finalists. Visits here follow a svstem:mc decades have been been without stress. Mr. Weia:le has survived the were nm;iti1lns all over the .................. sweated his financial crises tediously to meet the ever in° demands of annual and he has. labored He has maintained a divided residence and become borne nrco'1irlt>nt miles a year between and western and elsewhere in the on behalf of each campus. the way he has known some moments of very much alone and some of Of all of St. 18 presidEmts who have served since 1789, he has served the with the of Fell, n.-od~ ....... for 37 years, from 1886 1923. BUT LONGEVITY itself has was way aneaa in to limit the amount of fuel it uses. St. John's Treasurer Charles T. said the conservation effort was launched in the 70's when fuel orices first benn to rise. the past seven years oil costs have added to the operating costs of college. They have climbed from $27,387 in 1972·73 to $74,101 during the 1978-79 academic year, figures which pain Mr. Elzey, especially since consumption on years into three _ talents. Mr. Weigle will next June 30 at the age of 68 after what one former dean has called a "Herculean achievement." "It is impossible to overestimate contribution to the very existence of St. John's, not to mention its continued successful to American undergraduate education," Dean Edward renovations on campus Randall Hall and the Paca Carroll House - has been authorized the Board of Visitors and r.."""'"'""''""' President said he that construction can start the academic As the work 0 have been determine if the sufficient to the of a new extension at the rear of the buillding. The successful test is for an addition which would house new kitchen facilities and make prn3si1Me an increase in the size of hall. Also are a suite of rooms for business office in the location of the ---~-""'+ 1,.;+n'hn.n two will to coincide with seminars. Their visits, for which were laid down the Search Comwill sessions with President and the Instruction Committee and meetina:s with members, ators, and In be St. John's has awarded its first three master's to be here under a new summer program in 1977. In a exercise, rich in the ceremony St. John's traditionallv uses for such as hosts will be the eastern and western deans Edward G. and Robert S. Bart. each candidate for visits will Mr. and Charles A. chairman of the Board of Vistors and Governors. Mr. Yarnall said the notion of a divided residence the who must maintain in both and Santa Fe, had not to be a serious for the candidates. "It remains a " he "and all four candidates had different solutions. But it has not proven a deterent for those who are terested in the n ...t~Cf... !!llm have felt that were so ....... nn.-f-<.>ni that it is worth solution.'' · and to two teachers - Jeanne of Baltimore. and �2 A[le!J .~· ~ 1948 ... By Tom Parran '42 Director of Alumni. Activities the author of Victims: An Ac-. Bryan, and a brand-new addition, count of a Rape (New York, Dial· Andrew John, born June 14, 1979. Press, 1976), and The American John is still a helicopter pilot, and Connection: Profiteering and the family lives in Jackson, Wo. Jules 0. Pagano, until recently president of the Massachusetts Board of Regional Community Colleges, on August 1 became Politicking in the "Ethical" Drug provost of Simon's Rock Early Industry. He is a former LoHege ana vice president of newspaper reporter, Life Bard College. magazine staffer, and Nieman Simon's Rock is the nation's Fellow at Harvard. only early college and became a 1964 unit of Bard in February. Us From William P. and Arlene campus is in Great Barrington, Andrew Banks comes all sorts of Mass. Jules has been dean and good news: Bill has been associate vice president of promoted to full professor at Florida International University Pomona College, Arlene has in Miami, as well as director of earned her master of urban adult education for the U.S. Of- planning degree, and jointly they fice of Education. have produced Abigail Rebecca In addition, he was responsible Banks, born October 6, 1978: Our for the formulation of poliries congratulations on all three and procedures for ad- counts. mimstrauon oi U1e Peace l.orps, William Dunkum received his was commissioner of the Florida Ph.D. degree in physics from Commission on Human American University, Relations, a national union Washington, D.C., in May. Bill's representative, and vice thesis topic was "Computer president of a national consulting Simulated Experiments." During firm. this academic year, Bill will be 1950 on leave of absence. from his The Rev. and Mrs. David C. as math / Sll't:dl n 1·ecently announted the science chairman in the hirth of their daughter, Corhin Ruth Guion Streett, on June 11. Alexandria, Va., Public Schools, uavH1 anu -the former Beuy L. serving as a consultant to the Evans were married in the Philippine National Engineering Center on a university upagrading C:hm"h of St. Augustine of Cc.nterbury, Augusta, Ga., on project funded by the Asian June ~~. i:175. Betty is an aiconm Development Bank. 1966 and drug counselor at Kay Randolph-Back writes that EisPnhower Memori:il she keeps busy handling federal Hospital, Ft. Gordon, and David legislative activities, major State is a cumcal chaplain al rne statutory revision, and staff work Georgia Regional (Mental) ·in health planning, law, and Hospital, Augusta. policy for Michigan's Medicaid 1962 program. Recently promoted to associate Alexis DuPont Valk received professor at Montclair (N.J.) the doctor of arts degree in music State College was Dr. David from Ball St~te Universitv on Benfield of the department of May 18. He also holds the master philosophy /religion. David of music degree from Ball State. taught at the State University of 1969 New York at Stony Brook for six Prompted by her reading of our years before going to Montclair publications to keep track of in 1973. people she knew at St. John's, 1963 Lynn Kopke Pekkanen writes Rachel Hallford Gallagher that she is working as a con- decided it was time to send us her sultant with University Research own news. She was married and Corporation in Washington, D.C. divorced in Philadelphia, Husband .John '61 at this writ.ing received an M.A. degree in inis awaiting publication of his formation science from Drexel latest MOK, 'fhe Best Duclur5 in Institute, and moved to New York. In her six years in that city the U.S. (Seaview Press), due out in early September. (We have she worked as a technical seen very favorable reference to librarian for the computer this new book in several subsidiary of the Stock Experiodicals - TP). John is also changes and more recently as a systems analyst for Guardian Life Insurance. Finally, she reports she was married to Don Freiman, a law student at St. John's University in Queens, in Rebecca Wilson August. Editor The Reporter is published by the Office of College Relations, SI. fohn's College, Annapolis, Md., 11404, Richard D. Weigle, president. Published five times a year, in February, April, June, September and November. Second doss postage paid at Annapolis, Md. 1969 - Santa Fe· John D. Goodwin brings us up to date with news of a divorce and re-marriage since his last letter. His Ida, comes from Kansas of Alaska and Australia. an eleven-:vear-old son 1970 The Baltimore Hebrew College has appointed Steven Harvey to a newly-created position in Jewish philosophy, and beginning in September Steve will teach courses in the college's high school, undergraduate, graduate, and adult education divisions. His doctorate was rPreiv0rt in 1977 from Harvard in the field of Jewish philosophy and intellectual history, with additional studies in Hebrew and Arabic language and literature and medieval Islamic philosophy. For the past two years Steve has taught philosophy courses at the University of Maryland. The Harveys (she is Nancy Goldwin, '67) and their three children live in Baltimore. 1970 - Santa Fe Christopher B. Nelson and five other attorneys announced in June the formation of the Law Offices of E. Allan Kover, P.C., with offices in Chicago. 1972 Susan Peterson recently brought us up to date on the family she and Chris '74 have created since leaving college: William Lawrence, born 1973; Joan Winifred, 1974; Carl Henry, 1976; and Emilv Susan. 1978. Susan plans to ·attend nursing school to become a certified nurse-midwife; her interest stems from her considerable experience with the births of her own children. Chris is sous chef (assistant chef) at the Cafe des Artistes in Baltimore's Hopkins Plaza. The Petersons have bought and are fixing up "a somewhat decrepit Victorian cottage" on a .quarter-acre in Baltimore City. She urges those alumni still "hanging around AnnapoHs" to move to Baltimore, "where a house can be bought for the amount of a down payment ... in Annapolis". Two years ago a small group of colleges who use great books instead of textbooks and whose curricula is highly structured met in Santa Fe to talk about liberal education as they saw it During the course of three days participants talked about what great books are and how they should be used, about what emphasis these colleges place upon their seminars, about the differing nature of the university and the college and whether a university department represents an "entrapment," and about the role in liberal education of those works which present the image. The conference came as the culmination of a three-year-long study on liberal education conducted on the Santa Fe campus under the auspices of the National Endowment for the Humanities. WHAT EMERGED from those three days of meetings is recorded in a book, "Three Dialogues on Liberal Education," to be this fall the St. College Press. It has been edited by William A. Darkey, chairman of St. John's NEH and former dean of the Fe campus, who has written both a forward and afterward. Publication was made possible as the result of an additional NEH gift of $12,500. Rather than seeking to gather educators with strongly differing and perhaps antagonistic approaches, Mr. Darkey sought a group from institutions which have programs similar to that at St. John's: St. Mary's College, Moraga, Calif.; Thomas Aquinas College, Thousand Oaks, Calif., and the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind. Present also was Joseph Tussman, who headed a shortlived, great books program at the University of California at Berkeley, and Abraham Ascher, representing the NEH. "People came for.three days to visit classes,'' Mr. said. "We wanted plenty of time for easy conversation, to exchange notes on what we were doing, and~ to try to promote communication." On the formal occasions the group came together to discuss questions central to them a court ra:>nortPr WaS present. It WaS OUt of this record that the book has evolved. "When we read the transcript, we had the sense something kind of interesting had happened," Mr. Darkey said. To preserve their discussions, Mr. Darkey decided to take the transcript, do some editing to render ordinary speech readable, to do some rearrangement, although not very much, and to make what was said available to a larger audience. 11 TWO MAIN educational principles seem to underlie the conversations," Mr. Darkey wrote in his afterward. "One concerns the relation of the undergraduate college to the university in our educational system, while the other has to do with the nature of learning itself. "With respect to the first, the persons of our dialogue take the position that the only activity proper to the undergraduate college is liberal education, often termed general education. The second is more difficult to state succinctly. "One way of puting it is that learning can only be the act of learner. Learning may be assisted by a teacher, but it is never the necessary result of the teacher's act. Put another way, learning is not a passivity of the student before the teacher who informs him, but an activity of the student which the teacher be able to with." book will available in bookstores of both campuses late this fall. Participating were Albert Dragsted and David Loomis, St. Mary's; Ronald McArthur and Marcus Berquist, Thomas Aquinas; John Lyon and Walter Nicgorski, Notre Dame; Richard Weigle, Robert Bart, David J. Burchenal Mr. Darkey, Dean Haggard, Thomas Simpson, John Steadman, and David Townsend, St. John's. Admirers of Rembrandt's works will have access to a new collection of 118 slides from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Recently added to the collection of several thousand art slides at the St. John's library, they consist principally of sketches and drawings of Rembrandt's works. um John and Anne Hawk Fitch announced, with a delightful hand-screened card, the birth of Asa John Hawk Fitch on June 22. Jane Young, in sending a new address in Philadelphia, reveals that she has completed her course work for her doctorate in folklore (with minors in anthropology and linguistics) at the University of Pennsylvania. This fall will see her taking examinations, starting on her dissertation, and teaching a course in folklore of Native American Peoples, and perhaps a course in Old and New World archeoastronomy, both at Penn. This summer she was working under an NEH Youth grant on a The Caritas Society, which has awarded $27,480 in scholaraid on the Annapolis campus during the past 10 years, will its principal fund raising event of the year-its annual feast-Saturday, Oct.13, at the college. This year the theme will take the form of a Greek Odyssey with chicken oregano, moussaka, Greek pastries, and wine on· the menu, according to Mrs. Daniel Cohn, chairman. There will be Greek music during the evening. Seatings will be at 7:30 and 9 p.m. in the dining hall preceded by receptions and toasts at 6: 30 and 8 p.m. in the Great Hall. Dessert and dancing will follow in the Great Hall. For those attending, Greek dress will be optional. Prfoe will be a person. Reservations may be made by mailing checks to Mrs. George B. Walton, Jr., 109 Old Crossing Lane, Annapolis, 21012, reservation chairman. A second fund-raising event also is planned for October. The Caritas Needlework Show will be held October 26-30 in the conversation room of the Key Auditorium. Mrs. Maxine Frederick, chairman, said the delivery date is. October 24 and pick-up date October 31. Proceeds also will go the scholarship fund. �redles1e:nE~CI. pur- month master's students an additional As a Ault, the sum of more than J. Burchenal at Santa an endowment Mrs. Mr. Willis, and Mr. Ault as wen as to this students for their most generous " Mr. Comber said. "It means that just three years after the institute has we will be able to an endowment fund which, as it increases, will be of immense to future students." The Carnegie Hall concert included five poems of Walt Whitman set to music bv Mr. Willis and sung "We are so that we can get the maximum data which can be treated from the environment, and so that we can eliminate samnle takine: that does not Its An hour and ten minutes after the March 28 declared at Three Mr. Porter received a telenhone call. "Three Mile Island needed not 23 years of exJ>eri.en~~e ,..,.,,,1,....... reactors, and km)wled~~e of their their environment response for Island, but which includes the someone to drill "'""'"""''"" these identification of problem areas, and follow-up on these areas in emergency John's nla1nnimz and response.'' who heads MR. believes the true firm at Ardmur heroes of the Three Mile Island For the duration of Mile Island incident, ·Mr. Porter incident were the 300 members of was among the full-time the Metropolitan Edison staff itself. Under ad:SPt~Cli:lH:Sl:S a:SSl!)UIJtg in these sultin1e: p1osi1cior1s. As an advisor to verse conditions," he functioned like a "wellEdison and efficient unit." Island he "It was an heroic act," he said. assess close-in radiation hazards, assisted the health " ... The molding of this staff into a groups with their ex- coherent, functioning unit years of ternal dose assessment program, and found himself a""'"'"'"'i"<1 education, and just work. This education process was a of qm~stions directed by many people under and the strong leadership of Bob mittees from the Presidential Commission, Arnold and Jack Herbein, who committees, the are now the two main leaders of the emergency organization... p "As a consultant and advisor to Nuclear Hegmator Environmental Protection Metropolitan Edison and Three Mile Island staff, I a and others. PORTER'S FIRM- minor role in this education and Porter-Gertz Consultants, Inc., of +... .,,..,;..,...,. effort. As a member of Ardmore, services in the areas of environmental and It mother of teacher about to teach Graduate Institute booster of the first burst into the office with enthusiasm. She had been rate. "I don't see olds do it!" she exciatmect, a touch of awe for the pace of the .................. am there. With her summer as a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow almost she was over with for the William S. furthered work on .c.u~mm "The seminars are tutors are fabulous." Mrs. Koch was one of a small of NEH fellows on camous still to evaluated. this winter lie individual interviews with paruc1ipants and a series of small, 1"<Pc•1nnl'!1 w•orlrnhops to see how successful teachers have been in their efforts to significantly change the areas in which they teach. Under the NEH funded program, each teacher came with a specific in mind. In addition to on these, individually and as a group within a preceptorial, U1ey have been reading some of the· great thinkers on education - St. Augustine, Montaigne, Jefferson, ms which conditions." characterize the amount of As one of those 300 Mr. Porter radioactive material in the en- attributed his ability to "'"'"'-!'"""' conand his work under ditions in part to St. John's. "The skills required to and objectively stress situations are just some of the that I believe the St. years education offers," he said. ALTHOUGH THE main focus vironment so that you can a new program to ............,,...1., of his attention was on the effects of the accident in the it), then we data, resolve it, draw con- " ' " · ' " ' ' 1' " of Three Mile clusions, and statistics to Porter said the it," Mr. Porter "Thus bio- risk were certa statistics are a very :--~ ..4- ....... Me!trc1oolitam Edison workers. of our ,,.,.....,r1 "" total exposure of PGC. workers was far less "After these often been received programs have maintenance outages . several years, 'lll"'lli'li"lln.n..n. Anne .A r<nnn11J11 Glenn method advanced "discovery " associated with science. method which she successfully at High School in her advanced grammar class. MRS. a Wheaton School teacher Montgomery County, where Latin is .,,.,;;,,..,;;,.,.., something of a planning weekly round-table discussions in which students will compare the ideas of Lucretius, Marcus and Thornton Wilder as well as learn to write orations. Another Montgomery County Blakeslee, who second in came from Baltimore to . fom'•1nn a program theology and the fine arts. Weaver of Chevy Chase, a and former member Cwas the the small active t.,.!l,..tu:•tAs assistant PTA vicepresident for Bethesda-Chevy Chase School and its feeder schools, Jones was awarded an NEH fellowship to work on a aimed at countering she believes to have been adverse and unbalanced publicity on the high school. In attempting to restore confidence in the school, she hopes to work with a wide of groups wi~hin the community. The Annapolis campus has two new book enBert Library Memorial Fund, dowments: established hls widow, Josephine Thoms, and the Faculty Endowment, established by the college ad~ Charlotte Fletcher, librarian, said they represent steps toward a total endowment for the library of amown needed to $15,000 a year for book endowment is $121,000. Besides of money designated individual donors for these two new endowment funds, Miss Fletcher said nroceeds from the sale of books found not suitable for the will be added. the meantime, thanks to the generous support of Eugene a member of the. Board of Visitors and Governors, is assured of a book budget of $15,000 in 1979-80 and she said. �I. Summa of Fund Raising - 1978-79 Purpose Current Funds Unrestricted Restricted $243,410 175,853 Total $419,263 Capital Funds Endowment Funds Plant Funds $ 62,350 Total Total Funds Raised $505,450 $924,713 443,100 Source Alumni Fund Alumni Capital Parent Fund Other Individuals Corporations & Foundations Bequests $ 64,077 347,306 16,537 63,389 ' 429,538 3,866 $924,713 Total Funds Raised I D. L. Gillespie M/M James L. Highsow M/M Robert Loevinger Mrs. David Long M/M Glenn Nordin M/M Lee Preston M/M John Rossoni M/M Don Schanche M/M Henry Schultz M/M Spencer Scott M/M Roger Steers M/M Bern('.l.rd Walley M/M William Wright • *"' "'*"' "'"'"' Miriam Acciani Mrs. H. Boynton Adler M/M Burleigh Anderson W. 0. Anthony M/MJames Margot Bell Dr/M Richard Berkowitz Theodore Birnbaum Ch;u:m::i.an Burk Carnes S. Coulson Mrs. Cox Burton Dempster John Dink Dwyer Mrs. Leticia Eckerle M/M Eisenstein Elizabieth Farquhar ... .,..,,~,.,..~ ..... M.D. St. John's continues to be grateful for the fine support received from non-calumni individuals - parents and other friends - as well as from corporations and foundations. Especially helpful to the Annapolis campus are corporate gifts through the Association of Independent Colleges in Maryland. These donors are listed below in the section on Corporations and Foundations. ""'cmeoe PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL M/M J.B. Ault Mrs. Margaret Driscoll John T. Harrison Jerome LaPides Mrs. Carlton Mitchell Mrs. Duane Peterson Brother Robert Smith Theodore Smyth ST. JOHN'S SPONSORS Eva Braun Mrs. Jacob Klein M/M Thomas J. Slakey FRANCIS SCOTT KEY DONORS Miss Barbara H. Leonard M/M Richard D. Weigle KING WILLIAM ASSOCIATES Mortimer Adler Dr. Leon Kass Isabelle Simpson Rev. J. Winfree Smith M/M Edward G. Sparrow ill* Ill ... "' ii<*$ M/M Douglas Allanbrook Armstrong Laurence Berns . David Bolotin Frances ~ 0 "•"'11--.•ov Comber, Sr. Michael f'omenetz Dodson Doskow Dunham l?tha>lvn M/M Nicholas Maistrems Mrs. Chaninah Maschler Theresia McGuire Kelton McKinley Ingrid Miller CaryleMills M/M Benjamin Milner Marilyn Mylander Leanore Rinder M/M Robert Schmidt Rev/MW. Kyle Smith Student Polity Ruth Sutphin M/M Bert Thoms M/M James Tolbert Beate Ruhm Von Oppen M/M Curtis Wilson PRESIDENT's COUNCIL Anonymous Mrs. Lee D. Gillespie Mrs. E.T. Hankamer ST. SPONSORS Lester Fant R.H. Rosen Mrs. G. R. Wetlaufer FRANCIS SCOTT KEY DONORS Taullah James Ga1m.11~ John K. Goodwin Dr. Thomas M/M Woodward Dr. Frank Rumore Edith Sadler Schwartz J. Millard Tawes Mrs. Robert Tennant Ira Weiss Mrs. John w1n;t ..1,r1no M/M George B. Jr. Margaret Worthington Virginia Worthington William I. Young Goin Greene Dr. A. A. Hartman M/M Ichiro Alfred Heiniger Cdr/M James Mrs. Ethel Hoberman Arthur Hockman M/M Simon Horovitz Mrs. JanetN. Joras M/M Frank Kneisl M/M Nathan Korshin Dr. Joseph Kulp David LeGallee Mrs. Ida Lenihan JackK. Levy M/M Otto Lindermayer M/M Eugene Lippman M/M Edward Mahler Crd/M Eric McVadon · M/M Robert L. M/M Dan Montemayor Mrs. S.P. Morosoff ·'. Mrs. Robert Pegram Richard N. Pierson, Jr. M.D. John Quesenberry M/M B. Carter Randall M/M J. Richard Reid1 M/M Herbert Rm1ent1erg M/M Salvatore Scali Mrs. Lois Schauber William L. Schmidt M/M Frank P. Schuld, Jr. M/M Edward K. Smith M/M M.Smith Mrs. 1 t~,;i~ Brasacchio Mrs. Esther Brom be M/M Richard Davis Dr/M Leonard Dourmashkin M/M George Dudik C. Duvoisin Dr. D ____ H __ _ JohnC. C. PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL Ralph E. Campbell Mrs. Clyde Clapp Elizabeth Mrs. H@l~W!tkt~Mlil!l M/M Robert 0. Felter M/M Paul E. Felton Don Fredericksen J. Roger Fredland Mrs. James Galloway Ann Gick Elizabeth Goldoftas Albert Goodman Capt/M Edwin G. Greenberg Raymond Greiner Dr. Eugene Grethen LeoW.Hahn M/M Karl Haigler Capt/M Hall Ava S. Harrison Louise Hicks Grace P. Hillard Richard Hillman. R/ Adm. & Mrs. John Hines Jack ~nf'fho,.,cu•r Hoffman Karen Holland John Hm•nh1i:>ru Judith HuciacE~k Robert Irrmann Nathalie Johnson Katherine Kibler Elizabeth .a.i..u1L1v~,,u Herbert u; • .,,.,,.,i.,,.,,. William Kristal Mrs. M/M WILLIAM ASSOCIATES Richard Harry Golding Marianne Guessford M/M Simon Kaplan M/M Louis N. Kurs Benson J. Bowen Alexander S. Cochran William Hamn1erschmi1dt Walter u ... '"..-1; "'h' John C. RobertF. Jackson Mrs. Remsen Johnson "D"'""'" 1-h1 Johnson M/M Robert Forrest Frank Santamour Lawrence Silver Leonard Swett James Villere Eui~en:ia F. R. Katz Donald McLennan Mrs. Charlotte Rosenthal ST. JOHN'S SPONSORS Charles Feldstein Mrs. Raymond V. Heelan William H. Moore III Dr. Philip Myers FRANCIS SCOTT KEY DONORS Miss Anna Mantz KING WILLIAM ASSOCIATES Mrs. George M. Austin M/M John Baer Mrs. Levin C. Bailey Prof/M Hansen Ball M/M Henry Barton ****"'"'**•* Dr/M Sigmund Amitin M/M A. K. Armitage Mrs. Dorothy K. Bagby Col & Mrs. James Barrett Prof/M William Battin M/M G. Jack Bauer M/M William Bayliff M/M Vincent Bellezza Mrs.· George Beneze M/M William Berry Dr/M Paul Berson Mrs. Doyle Borchers Charles Boyle Mrs. Robert E. Donald Brill Mrs. H. Griffin Bullwinkel Mrs. Frances Burton Dr. & Mrs. Harvey Butt Charles Butterworth Fire Insurance Cmnnimv Caritas E. Clark Richard A. Colton Mrs. Giles B. Cooke M/MJohn Dr. Richard Cox Wilbur F. Jr. M/M William Cronin Ronald Daren Annie Dashiell Robert Dau!!h1:>rt.v Charles . R. Samuel Dillon Elizabeth Dobbs M/M Alex Donner M/M Paul N. Dowling Karen Easley Bruce Ebel'tM R. E. Kuniholm Land Planninf! Services Mark Laster Mrs. John _ Mrs. Walter L. Kathleen Leibe Nathan Leonard Nathan .1.11JJ1::1111::tt::i Mrs. John W. S. .1.1u1.111::u1u Robert Ludlum Mrs. James Macleish ni:u 1111::1. Maling H.C.Marsh Dr. J. W. Marsh W. A. P. Martin J. R. Mccrone E. Bates McKee Mrs. Millicent Mileto Bruce Morgan E. Morton Mary Moss . M/M James L. Mulhern M/M Ralph Mulhollen M/M Kent R. Mullikin Shelley Murphy Donald Myers Robert C. Natale Peter Nearing Ruth Newton Lydia Nolan M/M Harold Nutt Mrs. Irving T. Ochs M/M Daniel C. Olson R. Osborn Poore Prof. Thomas Prufee Mrs. Gwen Rector Garv Richardson Dr. John T. Russell William Russell Hardware M/M Edward Satterthwaite David Schirra Mrs. Irene Schumacher Rev /M Winslow Shaw J. Robert Sherald �9 Mrs. Stella Spicknall Mrs. Starkweather RobertL. Hubert Strange M/M Earl G. Swafford Three Centuries Tours M/M John Q. Tilson Mrs. Reginald Truitt Mildred Turner Capt/M V. V. Utgoff Dr/M Stuart H. Walker Thomas West Rev/M John Wheeler· Mrs. John c. White Mrs. Edith Whiteford Mrs. D. Ellwood Williams Seymour Wolf M/M Glenn Wolfe M/M William Wright . Harold Zalesch Mrs. Lucile T. Zerbe Corporations and foundations *Matching gifts ASS 0 C I AT I 0 N 0 F I N· DEPENDENT COLLEGES IN MARYLAND, INC. AAI Corporation Abbott Laboratories Acme Markets Adell Plastics Afrco Air Products & Chemical Albert Gunther, Inc. Alcolac, Inc. Alexander & Alexander Alied Chemical Corporation Allied Contractors American Airlines American Brands American Cyanamid American National Bldg. & Loan American Standard American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Amstar Corporation Arlington Federal Savings & Loan Assn. Armco Steel Corporation Arthur Andersen & Company Arundel Corporation Arundel Federal Savings & Loan Assn. Atlantic Cement Company Loan Baker, Russell T. & Company Watts & Company Fou1mfation Baltimore Life Insurance Company Baltimore Spice Company Barton, Duer & Koch Paper Company Barton-Gillet Company Beachley L. Furniture Company Becton, Dickinson Foundation Bendix Corporation Beneficial Management Cor· · poration Benson, L. A. Company Best Products Company Blake Company Bond Federal Savings & Loan Assn. Borden Bowman, Donald E. Bristol-Meyers Brooks, Rodney J., Jr. Brown, Alex & Sons Brown. Frank Jr. Brunswick Foundation Calvert Savings & Loan Assn. Camp Manufacturing Company Campbell Foundation, Harry T. Canton Company of Baltimore Carey Machinery & Supply Carrollton Bank of Baltimore Cecil National Bank Celanese Corporation Central Savings Bank Chesapeake Life Insurance' Company Chessie System Christhilf, S. M. & Sons Churchill Distributors Cities Service Foundation Citizens National Bank Coca-Cola Company Columbia Federal Savings & Loan Assn. Columbia Gas Systems Community Savings & Loan Connecticut Mutual Life InsurancP Container Corporation of America Continental Insurance Com· panies Coopers & Lybrand Crown Central Petroleum Corp. Cumberland Cement & Supply Company Cumberland Steel Company DeFranceaux Realty Group · Denton National Bank · DeVilbiss, Charles B., Company Diamond Shamrock Corporation Dick A. B. Company Dixon Valve & Coupling Com· pany Dow Jones & Company Drug Fair Dun & Bradstreet Wasco Corporation Eastmet Corporation E.I.L. Instruments Eliasberg Fund Equitable Trust Company Fairchild Industries Foundation Fairview Federal Savings & Loan Assn. Farmers & Merchants Bank of Hagerstown Fidelity & Deposit Company of MD Firestone Tire & Rubber Com· pany _ First Federal Savings & Loan, Cumberland Firet Federal Savings & Loan, Hagerstown · First Maryland Foundation Fisher Scientific Company Flanigan, P. & Sons, Inc. Flanigan, Patrick V. Flintkote Company Food Fair Ford Motor Company Fund Fraternity Federal Savings & Loan Frenkil Foundation, Victor Garfinckel's Garrett, Harrison GEICO General Elevator Company General Foods Fund General Refractories Company Germania Federal Savings & Loan Assn. Giant Food Foundation Gillett Company Research In· stitute Golden Ring Savings & Loan Assn. Goodall Semi-Metallic Hose & Mfg. Government Services Savings & Loan · Grace, W. R. Company Graham Fund, Philip L. Graybar Electric Company Green Charitable Foundation Hagerstown Bookbinding & Printing Co. Hahn's Haines & Company, J.J. Hancock Mutual Life Insurance, John · Hardee's Food. System Harsco Corporation Fund. Hecht, Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Hecht Company Hecht Foundation, Moses S. & BlancbH. Hedwin Corporation Power ComPotomac Hendersen-Webb, Inc. pany Hendericks, William B. Potts & Callahan PPG Foundation . Herald MailCompany ThomasB. Home Federal Savings & Loan PJYice Associates, T. Rowe Assn. Procter & Gamble Fund Progress Federal Savings & Loan Houghton-Mifflin Provident Savings Bank .. Howell Foundation · Inland Steel-Ryerson Foundation Prudential In~urance Co. of International Business Machines America .corp. Raleigh Stores Corporation International Harvester Foun- Ramsay, Scarlett & Co. dation Reliable Stores 'international Telephone & · Riggs, Counselman, Michaels & Telegraph Downes Irvington Federal Savings & Rob Roy Foundation Loan Assn. Rockport Fund Jones, Frank S. Romper Room Enterprises Kelly-Springfield Tire Company Rosedale . Federal Savings & Kemp Manufacturing, C.M. Loan Kennecott Refining Corporation Rouse Company Kiplinger Foundation Ruzicka, Joseph, Inc. K-Mart Saco Supply Knott Brothers Foundation Safeway Stores · Koppers Company Savings Bank of Baltimore Kraft, Inc. Schenuit Foundation. Frank G. Kronheim Company Schluderberg Foundation Lacy, JosephJ., Inc. Schmidt Baking Company Lalley, John S. Schnabel Foundation Company LaPides Brothers Foundation Seaboard Steel & Iron Corp. Legg Mason Wood Walker Seagram & Sons, Joseph E. Leibensperger, Elmer W. Security Title Guarantee of Lever Brothers Company Balto. Levy, Lester S. Seney Company, J.M. Liberty .Mutual Insurance S & H Foundation Company Shapiro Brothers Charitable Loden, Daniel J. Foundation Lowes Charitable Educational Sherwood, John R. Foundation Signode Foundation Lyon, Conklin & Company Southern States Cooperative Macht Foundation, Morton & Standard Motor Products . Sophia Standard Oil Co. of Ohio Mack Trucks, Inc. Sterling Drug Malco Plastics Stieff Company Manekin Services Company Suburban Propane Gas CorManhattan Store poration Martin Foundation, Glenn L. Sun Life Insurance Company Martin Marietta Corporation Tate Industries Maryland Casualty Company Thiokol Corporation Maryland Fiber Corporation Title Guarantee Company Maryland Ribbon cmnp:any Tuerkes-Beckers McArdle Printing Company Union Trust Company of MD McCarthy-Hicks, United Parcel Service FounMcLean Contracting Company dation Mechanic.• Mrs. Morris A. U.S. Fidelity & Guaranty ComMercantile Safe Deposit & Trust pany Co. . Vansant Dugdale & Company Merck Company Foundation Vermont Federal Savings & Loan Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Assn. Smith Virginia Paper Company Miller, Milton H. Vulcan Materials Company Minnesota Mining & Manufac- Ward Machinery Company . turingCo. Warner Fruehauf Trailer Montgomery County Bankers Company Assn. Washington Gas Light Company Monumental Corporation Waverly Press ·Morris Foundation, William T. Western Publishing Company Nabisco Westinghouse Electric CQrNational Permanent Federal poration Savings Weyerhaeuser Company National Savings & Trust Foundation · Company · Whiting-Turner Contracting Nationwide Foundation Company Naylor. Henry A. Woodward & Lothrop • . . . . . Iii Iii Iii ... Naylor, LawrenceP. . News American Alcoa Foundation New York Life ·Insurance Company Noxell Foundation NUS Corporation O'Brien Corporation Alumni fund Owens-Illinois Fund A. Alumni Fund results for the Penney, J.C. Company · past two years: Peoples Life Insurance Company 1971-78 1918-19 Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. - Annapolis 573 755 Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. - Cum· Alumni Donors Parent Response 24.8% 18.3% berland $99 $112 Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. - Average Gift $74,966 $64,071 Total Fund Salisbury Pepsico Foundation B. Top 20 Classes (10 or more Perpetual Federal Savings & members): Loan Assn. Amount Percent Pinkertons Pittsburg-Des Moines Steel 1947 -$13,495 1. 1945 - 46. 7% Company 1929- 4,235 2. 1930 - 38. 7% Pizza Hut m 3. 1941-37.5%, 3,645 *American Express •Amoco Foundation, Inc .. Amoco Corporation· Annapolis Banking & Trust Annapolis Federal Savings Loan •Armstrong Cork Company •A.S. Abell Foundation *Bank America foundation Capital City Savings & Loan •Carrier Corporation Edn . · *Carter- Wallace, Inc. Celanese Corporation •coca-Cola Company *Connecticut Insurance •Connecticut Mutal Insurance Continental Bank C & P Telephone A. B. Dick Foundation *Dow Chemical *Ensign-Bickford Foundation Equitable Life Assur. ETC Charitable Trust •Exxon Education Foundation Farmers National Bank Ford Foundation *Ford Motor Company Mr. & Mrs. Leo W. FriedenWald Foundation The Gainey Foundation General Elevator Company *General Mills Foundation Herman and Ruth· Goodman Foundation *Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company *Grace Foundation Guttman Foundation Hallmark Insurance Hechingers Household Finance The Hodson Trust Hughes Aircraft *IBM Corporation *INA Foundation C. Markland Kelly Foundation *Kimberly-Clark John Leidy Foundation John D. Lucas Company Maryland National Bank McGraw & Simmons Andrew W. Mellon Foundation *Merck Company Foundation •Metropolitan Life Foundation Mills Liquors 11:Mobile Foundation Mullen & Sullivan •Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company C. V. NosbyCompany Jonathan S. Patrick Foundation *Peat, Marwick, Mitchell Walter G. Ross Foundation *Sandoz, Inc. Fayez Sarofim Sears & Roebuck Sheridan Foundation *Singer Company Foundation •Sinorne Foods, Inc. Slakey Brothers •Stanadyne, Inc. *Standard Oil Company •Times, Inc. *Time, Inc. Travelers Insurance Company United Trust Company . ••· Westminster Foundation 4. 1929-37.1% 5. 1932-36.0% 6. 1921- 35. 7% 1. 1925- 33.3% 8. 1942- 33.3% 9. um - 32.6% 10. 1927 - 31.6% 11. 1931- 29.8% '.12. 1944 - 28.8% 13. 1923 - 21.8% 14. 1946 - 26.5% 15. 1950 - 26.5% 16. 1947-25.5% 17. 1958-23.1% 18. 1955 - 22.5% 19. 1959-20.0% 20. 1951 -19.2% 1964-: 19481945:1944- um19311950:. 1963- 1949· 1967193019411962- 194319171942- 1937;. 2,375 2,260 1,875 1,840 l,'145 1.640 1,625 1,600 1,461 1,205 1,195 1,146 1;125 1,110 1,076 1,035 1,025 •-,;··-- .._ �Robert J. Klingenburg · K(8) The alumni and alumnae below contributed to St. John's in 1978-79, some of them more than once. Their gifts were for a variety of purposes. The percentages and dollar amounts are only for gifts to The Alumni Fund (unrestricted gifts). Names in italics are of those people in whose memory gifts were made, or for whom special endowed funds have been set up. Income from these funds provides a perpetual gift to the College. A word about the letter notations and numerals which accompany some of them: the letter "c" preceding a name indicates class captain; letters following names indicate special gift categories: "K" King William Associate ($100-249); "F" Francis Scott Key Donor ($250-499): "S" ·St. John's Sponsor ($500-999); or "P" - President's Council ($1,000 or more). The numerals in parentheses show the number of years the donor has qualified for any special gift category. The letter (H) indicates honorary alumnus. 1832 1919 Dr. William Brewer Dr. Robert A. Bier 1847 1920 John Mullan 1874 Frederick W. Brune 1875 1921 Charles G. Mantz Blanchard Randall 1876 1880 Walter I. Dawkins 1889 Charles H. Schoff 1895 1922 Rev. Enoch H. Thompson 1897 Class of 1897 Class of 1898 Dr. Philip H. Edwards 1899 Rev. William L. Mayo Ridgely P. Melvin 1902 Dr. W. Oscar La Motte 1903 Drew H. Beatty Leroy T. Rohrer Amos W. W. Woodcock 1904 1905 Rev. Benjamin D. Chambers 1906 50% $50 E. Earl Hearn Richard H. Hodgson Alred Houston Dr. Amos F. Hutchins Henry F. Sturdy 1907 John T. Harrison M. Keith Neville 1908 Dr. George M. Austin Charles H. Schuster J. Graham Shannahan, Sr. 1909 Clarence T. Johnson Col. RobertE. Jones-P(6) Col. Harrison MacAlpine 1910 Roscoe E. Grove um L. Claude Bailey Clarence L. Dickinson Clifford L. Johnson Dr. Thomas Parran $110 Philip Alger William Lentz Benjamin Michaels.on, Sr. -K(ll) Raymond E. Staley 1913 Robert A. Tennant Dr. Robert S. G. Welch . 1914 50% $245 Claggett C. Dorsey Elwood 0. Milburne - F(S) Wilmer S. Phillips John T. Tucker 13% Wilbert L. Merriken 1916 George Davidson, Jr. Robert 0. Jones Col. Thomas W. Ligon Col. $80 8% $25 28% $307 Paw L.Banfield William C. Baxter Charles W. Keefer John F. Layng, Jr. William S. Morsell, Jr. c·S. Paul Schilling Frederic C. Stecker Carlton E. Wich-K(ll) Calender F. Winslow 1924 H. Boyns MacMannis 1934 192533%$50 H. W. Eliason John M. J. Hodges 1915 36% John W. Everett Willis H. White 1923 1898 40% $220 Robert F. Duer William H. Y. Knighton, Jr. John H. E. Legg William P. Maddox Elwood E. Schafer Luther S. Tall Richard H. Torovsky, Sr. Thomas B. Turner-K(ll) Robert F. Maddox 1912 20% John D. Alexander, Sr. -K(ll) Reginald F. Hall Horatio Ridout $50 Fred H. Flounders H. Monroe Helm J. Thomas-Ritchie 1926 30% $280 H. Wayne Carrick Wilbur F. Coyle, Jr. A. Morris Cunningham c-James J. Dugan- K(7) Stanley Mccomas Arthur Townshend, Jr. Jiri F. Vranek Henry F. Wegner- K(2) 1927 32% $460 Henry B. Clark c-Frank C. DeSantis-K(8) Charles W. Haas Elmer M. Jackson, Jr. LeeH. Nichols, Jr. -K(3) Frederick L. Smith- K( 4) W.R. Williams -K(2) 1928 19% $375 David F. Crowley James F. Miller-K(l) c-J. R. Roseberry Louis L. Snyder - K( 8) Franklin T. Willing 1929 37% $4,235 Granville Q. Adams Everett R. Amos· K( 4) John W. Boucher Richard W. Comegys Harold E. Cross - K(2) c-William A. Gross, Jr. - F(lO) S. W.Hearne Lewis A. Hester Patrick D. Keating - K(7) Lauriston L. Keown -K(6) Carl G. Merkel- K(6) Reginald C. Orem William S. Walls· K(2) Charles R. Zimmerman-P(lO) 1930 39% Walter S. Baird· K( 4) William H. Conca - K(ll) Edward J. Dwyer - S( 10) David Jenkins J. SnriabUey Kelly C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. Thomas L. MacNemar - F(3) Dr. John 0. Neustadt Samuel Schenker Malcolm Silver Lloyd F. Taylor-K(6) Arthur E. Landers, Jr.· P(6) Claxton J. O'Connor· K( 4) Matthew O'Neil Lester H. Palmer - K(l) Albert I. Rusteberg c-G. Newton Scatchard Charles S. Smith 1931 30% $1,640 J. W. T. Armacost Charles E. Athey William F. Blake Philip I. Bowman· K(6) SamuelP. Chew-K(9) Henry A. Czelusniak Matthew S. Evans Lewis J. Fields - K(ll) Snowden Hoff - K( 4) Edward A. Kimpel, Jr. -K(9) James King-K(2) c-William J. Klug, Jr.· P(ll) Richard C. Mottu - K( 7) William W. Quinn Rudy Schmick - F(9) 1932 36% $1,765 William B. Athey· P(ll) Joseph L. Bean - F(lO) Richard F. Blaul Robert L. Burwell, Jr. Hon. James F. Campbell· K(9) James W. Crabbe William F. Cullom Lee A. Gordy Philip L. Lotz Walter C. Mylander, Jr. . RichardH. Pembroke, Jr. -K(7) Charles Pforr W. T. D. Pumphrey·F(4) Charles S. Richardson . Henry S. Shryock, Jr. -K(3) c-C. Vernon Williamson-K(6) Robert G. Woodman - K(l) Sterrett Day Woods - K(2) Fred Yerkes, Jr. 1933 6% $95 Henry M. Cooper, Jr. C. Gilbert Hill Walter H. Hoffmeister J. H. Fielding Jukes William A. Percy 20% 1940 8% 1941 1942 1943 1944 $650 12% . $196 1690 33% $1,035 18% $1,110 29% $1,840 Anonymous William H. Brubeck- K(5) Edward B. Cochran-K(8) Vernon E. Derr David Dobreer-P(9) Carl S. Hammen Alexander Koukly Casimir T. Krol George Levine Thaddeus E. Prout Donald P. Ruhl Harrison Sasscer Haven E. Simmons - K(ll) John C. Smedley Robert Snower Howard L. Sorenson Peter Wolff 1945 47% $1,875 Stephen W. Bergen - K( 3) Joseph P. Blocher George Brunn - K( 4) c-George Cayley Robert 0. Davis 'Duane K. Furbush William M. Goldsmith Christian A. Hovde - F)4) Robert E. John Michael C. Keane - K(2) Ralph H. Kenney Arthur D. Kelso, Jr. William R. Lieb William M. Lundberg JohnD. Mack-K(9) Frank B. Marshall, Jr. Orsell M. Meredith, Jr. Edward. W. Mullinix· S( 4) Charles A. Nelson-K(2) E.T. Owings·- K(2) Morris Parslow· K(7) Lawrason L. Crane Samuel M. Ivrey-K(3) Harry Luz c-CyrilR. Murphy, Jr. William W. Smith, Jr. Charles T~ Westcott 1937 $1,146 Burton Armstrong · c-EdwardH. Grubb Ogden Kellogg-Smith Francis S. Mason· P(9) Milton Perlman Thomas M. Runyon Alexander L. Slafkosky-K(3) H. Willard Stern $790 $1,025 Harold L. Brooks Charles D. Hyson JohnB. Owens Albert F. Patrick - K(l) Alan F. Pike-K(3) Isadore Scher Edward C. Sommer - F( 4) Bertram E. Spriggs-8(9) 1938 13% ~ Louis Bachmann c-Jac H. Bushong-K(2) George Tyler Coulson Israel Greengold R. WarrenHammann Philip A. Meyers, II J.S. B. Middelton William C. Owens E. Peyton Ritchings Julius Rosenberg - F(ll) William T. Ross Francis J. Townsend, Jr. 1939 13% $550 Frank B. Bauer 38% Robert C. Allen-F(6) Warren Bomjhardt- K( 4) Francis E. Burroughs - K(3) Joseph C. Hofmann, Jr. -K(3) Bryce Jacobsen Journet Kahn c-Thomas Parran, Jr. -K(3) Albert A. Poppiti William D. Rendall· F(lO) C. Robert Sutton A. Chesley Wilson, Jr. -K(2) Melville L. Bisgyer Walter Evers· K(lO) DaltonM. Welty-S(ll) Frank K. Wilson 1936 $170 Lewis M. Alexander James H. Clark-K(8) Paul R. Comegys - K(2) Henry D. Cubbage Bruce Graybeal- K(l) T. Lansdale Hill - F( 11) Albert J aeggin c-George McDowell - K( 7) Vernon M. Padgett-F(3) c-John H. Engel, Jr. -K(4) Edward E. Gray - K(l) Robert L. Jones William B. Matthews, Jr. Anthony F. Mileto - P ( 7) Lewis E. Scheffenacker JohnH. Shea Robert A. Sindall, Jr. - K(l) Gust Skordas-K(l) Austin William Winston Horalce W. Witman-K (3) 1935 8% Wilbur Matz Robert H. Reynolds - K(2) 1946 27% $3,645 Thomas J. Cosgrove Thomas I. Fulton - F( 4) John J. Lobell-K(9) John R. Maguire Vincent W. McKay Daniels. Parker·P(8) James W. Sharp-K(l) c-Bruce H. Sinkey Jam es T. Taylor Charles Van Doren Peter Weiss-P(9) . 1947 26% $13,495 Victor E. Barton Stephen Benedict John Brunn William P. Elliott-K(2) Gerald Joseph Killorin I. Wendell Marine William Warfield Ross· K(3) Mordechai Sheinkman W. Kyle Smith, Jr. -K(l) Eugene V. Thaw· P(6) John Van Doren· K(5) Robert R. Weiss- (2) c-George M. Van Sant-K(2) 1948 11% $2,?' ' Raphael Ben Yosef- F(l, Peter J. Davies - K(ll) Donald S. Elliott Lawrence H. Sherman - K(2) William W. Simmons-P(7) L. Wheaton Smith· K(7) 1949 18% $1,461 Aaron M. Bisberg c-J ames W. Conrad PeterV. V. Hamill, M.D. Allan Hoffman -K(lO) David B. Rea· F(6) Philip Allen Scott Eric A. Teel· K(2) MaryWeigle·P(5) (H) Richard D. Weigle· P(5) (H) David B. Weinstein 1950 27% $1,625 Jack L. Carr-K(6) Bernard Clorety Patrick D. Davis· K(2) Matson Ewell W. Bernard Fleischmann - K(l) Robert L. Goldberg· K(2) Theodore W. Hendricks • F( 5) Jerome G. Lansner • K(ll) C. Ranlet Lincoln - F(2) John J. Logue Thomas J. Meyers - K( 5) George Usdansky Peter A. Whipple - K(ll) John L. Williams· P(8) 1951 19% $615 Carl Bertolino· K(l) ·D. Michael Brown· K(lO) John J. Coffey Robert S. Hill- K(l) L. Donald Koontz RossE. Lilly· Robert N. Richman c-Herman Small William Sprankle· K(l) ThomasJ. Williams·K(6) 1952 1990 $603 c·Alvin Aronson Thomas M. Carnes· F(3) Martin A. Dyer John L. Fuller Charles Kluth· S(ll) Harry M. Neumann Robert Seelig GeorgeUdel Warren Winiaraki 1953 1390 $220 William M. Aston EdwardF. Bauer George K. Garlac.h Robert G. Hazo Paul Heineman 1954 16% $750 Jesse M. Clark-K(3) c-James U. Demehl Alfred Geier Bernard E. Jacob- P(7) Sydney Porter, Jr. Lawrence Sandek Samuel V. Stiles, Jr.· K(6) 1955 23% $279 Lydia S. Aston Alexandra Culbertson JohnJoanou Dorothy Olim Krone Paul A. Lowdenslager Arthur Reisz Hilyer Gearing Shufeldt James W. Stone - K(6) Barbara Dvorak Winiarski 1956 11% $75 Dale B. Cummings George E. Sauer Everett Wilson 1957 17% $330 Robert S. Bart- P(5) Cornelia Hoffman Burdette Arianne Laidlaw c-J. Burt Siemens 1958 �1 1 . Summary of Fund Raising Purpose Current Funds Unrestricted Restricted College Community $1,042,239 19,725 Total $1,061,964 Capital Funds Endowment 76,475 Total Funds Raised $1,138,439 Sources Board College Community Alumni Parents Friends Foundations Corporations N.M.I.C.A. Government-NEH 723,045 3,399 12,428. 19,344 96,715 162,544 24,762 15,375 80,827 Total $1,138,439 Present and Former Board Members Mrs. Bromwell Ault Mr. and Mrs. J. Burchenal Ault Mr. Walter S.,Baird Mr. Roberts. :aart Mr. Richard Burdge Mr. Jack M. Campbell Mrs. Walter B. Driscoll Mr. and Mrs. Walter F. Evers Mr. Stephen Feinberg Mr. W. B. Fleischmann Mr. James H. Frame Mr. and Mrs. R. Phillip Hammond Mr. and Mrs. John T. Harrison, Jr. Miss Harriet Higgins Mr. J ac Holzman Mrs. HelenM. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Daniel T. Kelly, Jr. Mrs. Julia J. Matthews Mr. and Mrs. John Gaw Meem Mrs. Carleton Mitchell Mr. and Mrs. John D. Murchison Mr. and Mrs. Charles Nelson Mrs. Duane L. Peterson Mr. and Mrs. Adolph W. Schmidt Mr. and Mrs. Theodore H. Smyth Mr. J.I. Staley Mr. Eugene V. Thaw Mr. and Mrs. A. Paul Thompson Mrs. Louise T. Trigg Mr. Karl Van Tassel Dr. and Mrs. Richard D. Weigle Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Wells .AN:NAPOLIS,(Continued) Michael V. Trownsell Charles L. Wolberg AlanP. Brockway c-Joseph M. Green William Kingsley Nancy Eagle Lindley Roberta Markley Kingsley Blakely Littleton Mechau Gerald K. Mllhollan Christian Sopher Neumann 1959 20% $392 Henry D. Braun Hugh M. Curtler William F. Gleason Harvey Goldstein- K(2) Alice Nelson McEnroe Robert W. McEnroe Michael K. Mechau Carol Phillips Tilles • K(9) William R. Tilles - K(9) Barbara Stowe Tower Diana Hartwick Young 1960 199f, $161 Mark A. Adler Rosalie Levine Boosin Joseph W. Fastner c-Mary Gallagher John E. Gorecki Dorothy D. Luttrell Sarah Robinson Munson FrankM.Orr Miss Mary Branham Miss Eva T. H. Brann Mr. Samuel E. Brown Mr. and Mrs. RobertM. Bunker Mr. and Mrs. DonB. Cook Dr. and Mrs. Wiley Crawford Mr. John DeJournett Mrs. Marsha Drennon Mr. and Mrs. Dean Haggard Mr. and Mrs. R. Thomas Harris Mr. and Mrs. EmeryC. Jennings Mr. Philip J. Lecuyer Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Miller Mr. and Mrs. Robert Neidorf Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Nordstrum Dr. and Mrs. Allred Pinkerton Mr. Robert Sacks Mr. and Mrs. John S. Steadman Ms. Alfreda Verratti Mrs. Alice H. Whelan 1961 13% $863 Nancy Clark Adler Victoria Meeks Blair-Smith Michael W. Gold· K(6) John c. Kohl, Jr. -sm Sheela Shah Lampietti Linda McConnell Stephen Morrow - K( 4) Eyvind Ronquist Paul Rosenburg . 1962 ll% $1,125 · Joseph J. Brenning Deborah Sollers Fialka Tina B. Kaplan· K(8) W. James Klug, III - S(3) E. Brien Lewis Edward Mattison-K(5) John F. Miller John David Pyle HowardP. Schiff-S(5) 1963 16% $1,600 J. Jermain Bodine· S(2) Eugene J. Brady William M. Davis - F(2) Daniel T. Devereux Alan Dorfman· James A. Houck- K( 4) c-S. David Krimins Michael P. Moyer Elliott A. Rosenberg Parents PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL Mr. Marshall L. Austin Dr. and Mrs. William S. Dye Mrs. I. F. Laucks Mrs. Lois T. Liepe ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE SPONSORS Dr. and Mrs. George A. Fowler FRANCIS COTT KEY DONORS Dr. and Mrs. Harry Everett Dr. and Mrs. John Lightburn Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Waddell Mr. and Mrs. Tine Hsing Wu KING WILLIAM ASSOCIATES Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Barr Dr. and Mrs. Sheldon Davidson Mr. and Mrs. James Highsaw, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David Ross Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Sloper Mr. and Mrs. William E. Sterling • • • 181 • Mr. and Mrs. Sydney J. Baker Dr. and Mrs. Lyman Brewer Mr. and Mrs. John F. Buchanan Peter Silitch Jed R. Stampleman Andrew Steiner· S( 8) Ying Chuan Tsien -K(l) 1964 169(, $2,375 Arlene Andrew Banks William P. Banks Samuel F. Dunbar - K( 4) Lawrence Feinberg Miriam Mintz Freilicher John P. Hetland - F(lO) F. Kay Huebner David R. Jordan Robert W. Klug· S( 4) Jeremy Leven· P(l) Robert L. November· K(ll) Lowell Shindler-K(3) Judith Laws Wood Catherine Levin Zaoujal-P(5) 1965 139(, $475 Sharon Bishop - S( 4) Jan Blits Judith Abrams Bromberg Jessica Hoffman Davis· F(2) Milo H. Gibbons Stephen R. Johnson - K(l) Sandra Gillmeister Karl Susan Roberts Leven C. Grant Luckhardt James R. McClintock Craig -K(l) Mr. and Mrs. JohnBuchen Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Callender Mr. and Mrs. Scott Charles Dr. and Mrs. Richard S. Claassen Mr. and Mrs. Sam Drolet Mr. and Mrs. G. Sterling Dunbar Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt C. Ellinwood Mrs. Agnes 0. Fansler Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Faulhaber Mr. and Mrs. John P. Gavahan Mr. and Mrs. John C. Gerhart Mr. and Mrs. George S. Gordon Mrs. Ursula Gray Mr. and Mrs. James C. Hall Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hemmendinger Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Jenson Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Kemp Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Khoury Mrs. Heidi Kingsbury Mr. and Mrs. William P. Lundy Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Lyman Mr. and Mrs. John McFalls Mr. and Mrs. Harold M. Morgan Mr. and Mrs. Ray D. Pierce Mr. and Mrs. Morton Rappaport Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Richman Mr. George L. Robson Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Schwimmer Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Thompson Mr. Albert M. Tortolini friends PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL Odette Aude Trust Mr. Jacques Cartier Dr. and Mrs. Dan J. Droy Miss Nina J. Cullinan Mr. and Mrs. William EgoH Mrs. St. John Garwood Miss Elizabeth Gempp Dr. Stephen Goodyear Dr. and Mrs. Rudolph Kieve Mrs. M. L. McCune Estate of Thomas Old, Jr. Mrs. James G. Oxnard Mr. and Mrs. Melvin H. Pfaelzer Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sandstrom Estate of Alexander Wasson Mr. and Mrs. Charles Weiner Edward Weinberger 1966 109(, $192 ltobert Axtman Walter J. Bienemann Mark B. Bromberg Ian M. Harris William N. McKeachie Judy Millspaugh Kay Randolph-Back ' Frances Borst Wright 1967 17% $1,205 c-Gay Singer Baratta - K(l) Sarah J. Bell-K(3) Judith Shultz Cannon William F. Church, III William F. Cone Helen Hobart Feeley- S(2) Judith Weber Flemer Ezra Harris Robert A. Heiniger Arthur Kungle, Jr. -K(l)) Mark A. Lindley Arabelle Davies Luckhardt Hope Zoss Schladen Gregory R. Scott Deirdre Lenihan Sloyan -K(6) 1961 149(, $511 ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE SPONSOR Mrs. Peggy Pond Church Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clifford Mrs. Thomas Dillon Mr. and Mrs. Robin Elverson Mr. and Mrs. Charles Feldstein Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Grubb Mr. and Mrs. William E. Hughes Dr. and Mrs. William Jobe Mrs. Barbara E. Kauffman Mrs. Susan B. Merwin Mr. and Mrs. Ralph O'Connor Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Roe Mrs. Sallie Wagner Mr. and Mrs. Robert Weil Mr. and Mrs. Grant Wilkins FRANCIS SCOTT KEY DONORS Miss Alice Armstrong Dr. and Mrs. A. Donald Bell Mrs. George B. Berger, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John Cartwright Mrs. Margaret Clark Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Collins Mr. and Mrs. Abel Davis Dr. and Mrs. R. Derbyshire Dr. John B. Hibbs Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Horwitch Mr. and Mrs. Gardner Jencks Mr. L. D. P. King Dr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Markowitz Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Mudd, II Mrs. Forbes Pennycook Mr. and Mrs. J. M. C. Ritchie Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Stern Mr. and Mrs. Leland Thompson KING WILLIAM ASSOCIATES Mr. and Mrs. Richard Abeles Mr. and Mrs. Harold Agnew Mrs. Jean Anderson Mr. Jarratt Applewhite Mrs. Ruby Armstrong Mr. and Mrs. Theeodore Asplund Mr. and Mrs. David A. Ater Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bateman Mr. and Mrs. Keith Boyer Dr. and Mrs. Norris Bradbury Mr. Carl L. Broughton Mrs. David Chavez Mr. and Mrs. GeorgeA. Cowan Mr. John 0. Crosby John E. Farmer Maria Whitaker Geissel Bartholomew Lee-K(3) Deborah Schwartz Renaut Gilbert Renaut Joe Sachs Isobel M. Schneider Laurel L. Temple Lee Reichelderfer Tyner - K( 6) David H. Wigutoff 1969 18% $.556 G. Michael Anthony- K(3) Meredith Artis Anthony-K(3) Joseph P. Baratta Jeffries Cothran, Jr. Bernard M. Davidoff Robert B. Davis· K(l) Richard D. Ferrier Charlotte Fletcher (H) - K( 4) Andrew Garrison c-Maya Hasegawa Martin Kalmar Thomas Pink - K(l) M. Richard Stevens Catherine Allen Wagner BryonE. Wall 1970 18% $387 Stephen E. Bach Luther G. Blackiston - K(2) Donald A. Booth Peter Coen Maureen Barden Charles B. Carroll, Jr. Henry C. Constantine Melanie Sollog Dunleavy Vfoki n:nri~ f'.nn'11 D -..1..11 U ,...;.,.1.u... ,. �• ANNAPOLIS,(Continued) Dion Frischer Ives Wallace Harvey c-Theda Braddock Hitchcock Kenneth Joseph Deborah Warren.Kalmer Susan Rumore Lobell-K(l) Arthur H. Luse, HI Susan Smith Wigutoff 1971 17% $345 Jane Goldwin Bandier Douglas H. Bennett· K(2) James A. Cockey Thomas Day George H. Elias, Jr. James R. Hill Judy Kepner Maistrellis BarryN. Sher Barbara Sherman Simpson Harold Stone V. Michael Victoroff 1972 10% $802 Bradley C. Arms· S(2) Ray Boedecker - K(l) Robin Kowalchuk Burk -K(l) James M. Burress Christine Ferrarini Constantine Evan M. Dudik Robert F. Dunleavy Janet A. Nelson Jane Silberman Rhoades Jere my Whipple 1973 Nancy Boyd 10% $211 Anne Hawk Fitch John H. Fitch Barbara Banks Goyette Kimi Hasegawa Robin Chalek J annes Jeanne Harrison Mooring • K(1) Pamela Pratt Paul M-. Rosenberg Melissa Matthews Sedlis • K(2) Steven Sedlis - K(2) c-Jane E. Spear Jean Bloss Weld 1914 14% $473 Roger C. Burk - K(l) Carol V. Calhoun c-Thomas J. Dolan, Jr. Richard A. Ferguson Kathryn Austin Ferrier Samuel T. Goldberg Michael C. Jordan Steven L. Key Erica Chaney Kin~ - Km Claire Kurs Kronsberg Maria Kayanan Masfuter Edward D. Myers MichaelR. Panter·K(2) · Mr. and Mrs. Loren Gordon .Mrs. Estl;ler W. Gorey Mrs. F. Grand-Girard Mr. and David Greenhood Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Gregg The Gridiron Club · Mrs. MaryE. Griss.o. Mr. and Mrs. Martin L. Gursky Mr. and Mrs. David B. Hall Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Hall Mrs. Mary F. Hall Mr. and Mrs. Donald B. Hamilton· Mr. Frank A. H;amilton Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Ham· mel Mrs. Maxwell Harrison Mr. and Mrs. Earl A. Hassebrock Mr. and Mrs. Leon Heller Mr. Stanley Henson, III Mrs. Mary S. Higham Mr. and Mrs. John M. Hightower Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hoard Mr. and Mrs. George F. Hocker Mrs. Gene M. Hodge Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Hunker Mr. Robert H. Irmann Mr. and Mrs. William James Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jameson Mr. and Mrs. Arturo Jaramillo Miss Barbara W. Jarrell Mrs. John W. Jarrell Mrs. Ernest Jones Mrs. Marjorie M. Kahn Mr. and Mrs. August Kaiser Mrs. Darlene Y. Keeley Mrs. Margaret G. Kelly Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kerr Mr. H.F. Kincey Mrs. Elizabeth Kingman Mrs. Eleanor J. Kinsolving Mrs. Concha Ortiz y Pino de Kleven Dr. and Mrs. MortonKligerman Mr. and Mrs. Sumner Koch Mr. and Mrs. Hayward Mr. and Mrs. Hubert W. Mrs. Marjorie Lambert Dr. Yvonne Lange The Reverend and Mrs. Benjamin Larzelere Mrs. Sara Jane LaSalle Mrs. Eleanor Lasell Miss Peggy Laustrup Mrs. Loraine C. Lavevender Mrs.LoraineC.Lavender. Mr. and Mrs. Julian Levi Miss Marion S. Lew Mr. and Mrs. David Liberman Mr. George E. Lindsay Dr. and Mrs. M. S. Livingston Mr. and Mrs. Anton V. Long Mr. and Mrs. Bernard B. Lopez Mr. an Mrs. Owen M. Lopez Mr. and Mrs. James H. Lorie Mr. and Mrs. William Lumpkins Dr. and Mrs. Gilberte. Luna Mr.and Mrs. Lamar Lunt Mr. Ken Macrorie Mr; W. l. MacGillivray Mr. and Mrs. John M. Manley Mr. and Mrs. J. Carson Mark Mr. and Mrs. RobertH. Martin Mr. and Mrs. John Masters ·Mr.and Mrs. Wayne L. Mauzy Mr. Bill McAlpine Mr; and Mrs. Scott McCUiloch Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. McGreevy ·Mr. and Mrs. John McHugh MiSs Bess McKennan Mr. and Mrs. W. M. McKenzie Mr. David S. McMillan Mr . and Mrs. J. Jerome McN ally Mrs. BettyL. Mead Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Merritt Mrs, Patricia Metropolis Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Metzger Mrs. Carolyn Meyer Mr. Thomas C. Milne Mrs. Rosalie K. Mollet Mrs.NettadeMontaigu Miss Carmen Moore Mr. and Mrs. Henry Motz Mr. and Mrs. John Muchmore Mrs. Alicia C. Mudd Mr. and Mrs. Allan R. Murphy Mrs. Elsa H. Naumann Miss Mary Navratil Mr. Guy Neff. Mr. Henry Nelson Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Nicholas Mr. PeterNimkoff Mrs. Anne Bateman Noss Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Noyes Mr. William Olsen Mr. and Mrs. Karl Overhage Mr. and Mrs. William Overstreet Mr. DavidPadwa Mrs. Alice Parrott Mr. and Mrs. Gene Petcheskey Mr. and Mrs. Charles Poitras Mrs. Pauline Pollock Mrs. Marcella Powers Mrs. Mary Quinlan Mrs. Theodora Raven Mr. and Mrs. Leslie M. Redman Mr. Richard Reichman Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Reymont Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Reynolds Mr. and Mrs. James H. Richardson Mrs. Margaret Richardson Ms. Mary Riedell Dr. and Mrs. John S. Rinehart Dr. John B. Roberts Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Rogers Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Rogers Dr. and Mrs. Louis Rosen Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rosen Mrs. Edgar Rossin Mr. and Mrs. John T. Rule Mr. Sol Sacks Dr. and Mrs. DeWitt Safford Mrs. Manuel H. Sanchez Mrs. Alison Sanders Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Saunders ·Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Sawtell Mrs. C. Wenzell Schenck Mr. and Mrs. George Schloss Mrs. Albert Schmidt Mrs. A. Donald Scholder Dr. J.P. Schwitter Mrs. Katherine Sellers Mr. and Mrs. J.E. B. Shaw Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Sherwood Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Shreffler Dr. and Mrs. Philip L. Shultz Mr. and Mrs. Abe Silver Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Simmons Mrs. Phyllis S. Simon Ms.D. Sklar Mrs. Benson B. Sloan Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Sloane Mrs. A.G. Smith Drs. Carol and Marcus Smith Mr. Forrest Smith Mrs. Virginia H. Smith Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Spence Mr. William Spight Mrs. Myrtle L. Stedman Mrs. Eleanor H. Steinert Dr. and Mrs. William Stone The Reverend George Stracke Mr. and Mrs. Edward Stritter Mr. Richard Szanyi Dr. John Talley Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Taschek Mr. and Mrs. Antonio Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Arthur D. Taylor Mr. and Mrs. George Theodore Mr. and Mrs. Lewis E. Thompson Mr. and Mrs. Edmund W. Thorpe Miss Susan Tixier Mr. and Mrs. Alfonso A. Topp, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Trost Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Mr. and Mrs. Alan C. Vedder Mrs. Irene Von Horvath Mrs. Virginia W. Walden Mrs. Mary Agnes Wallace Mrs. Mary Walter Mr. James P. Ward Mr. and Mrs. Lucian Warren Mr. and Mrs. Larry Waterman Mr. and Mrs. John T. Watson Ms. Su Isabel Weng Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Weinstein Mr. Samuel Weston Mr. and Mrs. David Weidenfeld Mr. C. Julian Wheeler Mr. and Mrs. Lyman C. White Mrs. Beatrice Douglas Whyte Mr. and Mrs. Keith Wofford Mrs. K. Rose Wood Mr. and Mrs. William H. Zacharia sen Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Ziegler Jeff Victoroff Mr. and Mrs. Keith Boye'r Mr. and Mrs. Georges Dapples Mr. and Mrs. John Boylan Mrs. Eleanor de Ghize Brother Brendan· Mr. Wilbur Denious, Jr. Mr. Steven Brenner Mrs. Yvonne Dravo Mr. and Mrs. Cecil .. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Grant Mrs. Karen L. Brown Mrs. Una Hanburg Mr. and Mrs. Jerald Buchenauer Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Hedden Mr. and Mrs. Sumner Buell General W. R.,Hedrick The Reverend .and Mrs. Ponald Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hoerlin L. Campbell Dr. and Mrs. Irwin Hoffman Mr. and Mrs. Bengt Carlson Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hoyt Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Catron, Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Jackson nr Miss Evelyn Knight Mr. Philip M. Casady Dr. and Mrs. Paul Kovnat · Mr. and Mrs. William P. Casky Mrs. Loraine Lavender Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Cernicek Mr. and Mrs. James R. Lilienthal Mr. David Chang Mr. Henry Luce, III Mrs. Beatrice Chauvenet Mrs. Joseph C. McKibbin Miss Caroline T. Chavez Mr. and Mrs. James C. Meem Mr. and Mrs. William Chudd Mr. and Mrs. John B. Metzenberg Mr. and Mrs. Allen B. Church Mr. and Mrs. Richard Michaud Mr. Hugh W. Church Mr. and Mrs. Philip Na um burg Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Church Mr. and Mrs. Sam Neidorf Miss Gertrude Clarke Mrs. Trudi Peet Mrs. Selina Clauser Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Rivin Mrs. Annette R. H. Cohen Mrs. Edgar Rossin Mr. and Mrs. Saul Cohen Dr. and Mrs. Karl M. Rottluff - Miss Virginia Comer Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Spiegel Mr. and Mrs. C. James Cook Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Suydam Mrs. Mary Lou Cook Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Turner Mr. and Mrs. William Cornog Mr. and Mrs. John B. Tuthill Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Cotter Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Tuttle Mr. and Mrs. John M. Currie Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Valdes Miss Hope Curtis Miss Lenke Vietorisz Mr. and Mrs. David C. Davenport Mrs. Elsie W. Wardman Mr. and Mrs. William Davies Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Davis ' Mr. JonathanP. Davis •••• Mr. and Mrs. Peter Dechert Miss Mary E. Dempsey Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Adam Dr. and Mrs. Lewis E. Agnew, Jr. Mrs. Flora Dendahl Mr. and Mrs. K. D. DeLapp Mr. and Mrs. C. I. Alexander Dr. and Mrs. A. W. Denninger Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Amsden Dr. and Mrs. W. N. Dixon Mr. and Mrs. Russell Andrews Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Donnelly Dr. and Mrs. Richard M. Angle Mr. and Mrs. George E. Ap- Mr. and Mrs. Leigh C. Douglas Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Driscoll plegate Dr. Bertha Dutton Mrs. Jean Archibald Mr. -Bruce Eberwein Mr. and Mrs. Harold Argo Miss Ginger Evans Dr. and Mrs. Harris Barber Mr. and Mrs. David Barton . Mr. and Mrs. Julian Evans Mrs. Winabelle Beasley Mr. and Mrs. Louie Ewing Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Beckman Dr. and Mrs. Richard Farquhar Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Mrs. Carolyn Ferriday Beenhouwer Mrs. Margaret Flower Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Ben- Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Follestad jamin Miss Gail Forsythe Dr. and Mrs. David Bennaham Mr. and Mrs. Paul Frederickson Mrs.-Ethel Bennett Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Freed Mrs. Laurence W. Berger Mr. and Mrs. Denis Galvin Mr. and Mrs. Farnham Blair Mrs. Patricia Gambell Mrs. Mary Ann Gerber Ms.- Judith Blum Mrs. Fabiola C de Baca Gilbert Dr. Audrie L. Bobb Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Gilkyson Mrs. Marguerite A. B. Boorman The Reverend and Mrs. ·Robert General and Mrs. Samuel McC. Goodwin Boshen David V. Glass Jennifer Haggerty Jonathan K. Hustis Edward Kaitz Bernadette Keefe Leslie Graves Key Jody Nesheim Joseph Olson 1975 189(, $729 David J. Ashmore Nancy Coiner Benjamin John L. Church Matthew D.eBacker Michael Dink Donald S.. Feldman PeterT.Fox M. Carla Garrettson- K(2) January E. Hamill Christopher Hoving Marion CondonHustis Christopher King-K(l) Nancy Polle King Elise Knapp . Mary Rogers Kniaz PeterKniaz Sallie Dobreer Raspa -K(3) c-John Rogers -K( 4) Cary Stickney Thomas T. Tamlyn, Jr. Annette T. Tullier K. C. Victor Stephen Weber 1976 129(, $154 Deborah L. Brosha Paula Truitt Davidoff Richard B. Davenport Susan Fitzpatrick Jacob Klein (H) Edward A. Morris, III · Jane Ogburn ·Joan Silver Andrew J . .Wisniewski 1977 33% $801 Cliff B:Adams Anonymous William M. Castner Deborah Cohen Girard Bradford Davidson Robert Elliott Grant N. Franks Marlene Strong Franks Lynne Gately~ K(l) c-Erica Lerner Glass Frances Goodwin- K(l) Edward F. Grandi· K(l) Elizabeth Kocsis Kates Frank Kneisl Pamela N. Lobdell Frances C. Merritt Andrea A. Miano Alan Mittelstaedt Julia Perkins Barry Phillips Vicki Cass Phillips Maia Pitsch Jams S. Popowicz John Christopher Rote Carla S. Schick Carolyn L. Wade Chela Roy Weiler 1978 ,1290 $259 Ethan L. Bauman. · Janet M. Ehrenberger Susan Gasser-Wilson George A. C. Harper Susan Scott Hunt MarkW. Jeschke Ronald W. Kates Richard Levy Clinton Dale Lively Stpehen Magee Amy McConnell Isabella M. Owen Stephen F. Perry Marta A. Stellwagen David E. Woolwine 1979 (Class not solicited) Bret Cope· K(l) �p Gifts through New Mexico Independent College Association AT&T Long Lines Airco, Inc. Albuquerque Federal Savings & Loan Albuquerque Gravel Products Company Albuquerque National Bank American Brands, Inc. American Furniture Company Clinton P. Anderson Agency Anonymous Ballen and Company The Banes Company William Bayne, "B-Hive" Borden Foundation, Inc. Bristol-Myers Fund, Inc. Capital Bank Cities Service Foundation Citizens Bank of Albuquerque The Coca-Cola Company Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Santa Fe, Inc. Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company The Continental Corporation Foundation R. P. Conway, CLU, State Farm Insurance Credit Bureau of AlbuQuerQue, Inc. Deluxe Check Printers Foundation Eidal International 1 ,,,.,.......,.,..... t,,...,. First National Bank of Santa Fe Ford Motor Company Fund GTE Lenkurt, Inc. The General Foods Fund, Inc. General Motors Foundation, Inc. Graybar Electric Co., Inc. The Guarantee John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Cmno;my Harding Glass Inc. Houghton Mifflin Co. Hybur, Inc. The Inn at Loretto International Business Machines Corporation International Harvester Foundation International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation John B. Irick Dean and Alice Irvin K Mart Corporation Robert and Sarah Koch Kraft, Inc. Levi Strauss Foundation Liberty Mutual Insurance Companies. Joe G. Maloof and Company The Merck Company Foundation Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. Montgomery, Andrews & Hannahs · R.M. Moran Mountain Ben Mutual Building & Loan Association The Nabisco Foundation Neff & Company New York Life Insurance Company J.C. Penney Co., Inc. Pepsico Foundation Mary Phelan Pinkerton's, Inc. Pizza Hut Foundation The Procter & Gamble Fund Prudential Foundation Public Service Company of New Mexico Quality Pontiac, Inc. Rio Grande Valley Bank Rust Tractor Company The S &H Foundation, Inc. Safeway Stores, Inc. Sandia Laboratories Santa Fe Automobile Dealers Association Santa Fe National Bank Santa Fe Railway Foundation, Inc. Seven Up Bottling Company, Inc. Southern Pacific Foundation Southwest Glass & Glazing, Inc. Southwest Savings & Loan Association Standard Motor Products, Inc. Sterling Drug Co. Sutin, Thayer &Browne The Toppino Agency, Inc. The UPS Foundation United Savine:s & Loan Association Valdes Corporation Paint & Glass Harold E. and R. Valencia WH Investment Co. *Western Electric Fund Archie Westfall Corporation Ill :II Gannett Newspaper Foundation Kelso Foundation Jerome and Carrie Hanauer Foundation Edward W. Hazen Foundation Houston Endowment Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe McGraw Hill Foundation II National Endowment for the Humanities Peat Marwick Mitchell Foundation Reader's Digest Foundation The Riot Relief Fund The Sears-Roebuck Foundation The DeWitt Wallace Foundation Donors through J 1 ,1 Mr. and Mrs. Paul Knudsen Mr. and Mrs. Michael Mongeau Joan Paine Kenneth Richman Stephen Slusher Christian Smith Eric Springsted Danny Watson Class of 1968 Augusta Aley Goldstein Antigone Phalares Moore Marilynn Scott Lester Q. Strong TOTAL Class of 1969 Frank Adams Margaret Blum Daniel Cleavinger Mack Colvard Rachel Ann Colvard William Cromartie Alexandra Dane Dor-Ner Raymond Drolet Rev. Joe Pratt Reynolds Capt. Carlton Severance Rev. and Mrs. John Strange Lee Tepper and Corine Real Joe Tooley Michael Zakroff TOTAL Class of 1970 W. H. Doleman Susheila Horwitz Beth _ Mr. and Mrs. Michael Mr. and Mrs. Chris Nelson Gerald Peters Mr. and Mrs. Douglas R. Shaller Allied & Products Division American Telephone and Telegraph Artesanos Imports Ballen and Company Big Jo Lumber Castle and Cooke, Inc. TOTAL Gila Electronics Class of 1971 Going Places Travel Agency Sheila Bobbs The Guarantee Gail Hartshorn Haggard Healy-Matthews John Malarkey & Delores Hewlett-Matthews Strickland Hewlett-Packard Amanda Stimson Highland Resources, Inc. Household Finance TOTAL IBM Class of 1972 The Lightning Tree Joseph Boroughs Montgomery, Andrews & HanSeth Cropsey nahs Melissa Kaplan Drolet Mullen and Sullivan Glenn Gladfelder Jam es H. Russell Agency Charlotte Gray Santa Fe Motors Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Jeffries Fayez Sarofim and Company Southwestern Computer Services Robert Johnson Su~an Deborah Kaufman Time, Inc. Lowell Rundle Transamerica Corporation Herley Sharp United States Trust Peter Volkmer Vergara Printing Company AID United Givers TOTAL $810 The Vincent Astor Foundation Class of 1973 Edwin J. Beinecke Trust Robert Sterling Clark Foundation Galen &Jena Breningstall India Williams Clarke Continental Airlines Foundation The Crane Fund for Widows and Steven Goldman Leslie Gould Children Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Hampton Arthur Vining Davis Foundation Robert & Barbara Hoople A. B. Dick Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Mark Jordan Dickinson Foundation TOTAL Class of 1974 Mr. and Mrs. David Allison Mr. and Mrs. Mark Belanger Sally Bell Janet Braziel Jena and Galen Brening stall Celia David Alice Ericsson Elizabeth Goodman Mr. and Mrs. David Gross Carl Huffman Thomas Jelliffe Donald Merriell Randal Pair Rachel Trueblood Weathers 9 Denise Waxman Debora Woody TOTAL Class of 1977 Larry Clendenin Steve Corneli · Michael Dubetz Susan Ferron Stephanie Forrest James Gollin Michael Greer Andrea and J ariles Ham Laurie Haskell Michael Jones Michael Nolan Nancy Sample Jonathon Tyman Thomas John Walrod . TOTAL Class of 1978 Victor Austin Marion Billington EdBronfin Mary Ellen Campbell Mary Classen Christopher Currin Randall Fryer ______ ·----Susan Gasser Wilson Mary Howell Susan Johnson TOTAL Class of 1979 Alan Cook Henry Horsey Betty Hussander Dean Mccollum TOTAL TOTAL Class of 1975 Elizabeth Dain Claudia Ingram Leslie Johnson Mr. and Mrs. George Kmiecik Kristin Lucas Nancy Miller Tom and Moons Myers Margaret Sheehan Richard Skaug Jonathon and Rani Teague David Wallace TOTAL Class of 1976 Susan Graham Austin KhalilAyob Dean Blobaum Mr. and Mrs. David Campbell Pablo Collins Gerald Davis Mr. and Mrs. John Eoyang Christopher Graves Charles Grenter William Hathaway Carol Highsaw Bridget Houston Judy Kistler Matt Krane Richard Lightburn Mr. and Mrs. Victor Mansure Elizabeth Meiss Chris Burks & Janet Moody John Pilcher David Shapiro Barbara Skaug Mr. and Mrs. David Denereux '63 Thomas I. Fulton '46 Carla Garretson '75 Ives Wallace Harvey '70 William R. Lieb '45 David Londow '66 Mr. and Mrs. John Merritt '65-'66 Lawrence Sherman '48 Mr. and Mrs. Sam Stiles '54 Eric Teel '49 Theodore G. Wplff '74 TOTAL Graduate Institute Donors Rachel Ann Colvard Bruce Ebermein Edna F. _ Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hamilton Cecilia Holtman A. S. Kelso Mr; and Mrs. Leland Lengal Renate Lewis Connie Liser FrankMcGuire Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Monks Mary Navratil · Virginia Newlin George Schloss · Cecil and Bev Smith Franz Snyder Megan Tyndall Ann Yeck TOTAL • l (Continued from P.1) branch of the Graduate msuune, which has been nn""""·1ncr past 13 years on the were created three years ago from the forehead of our .,._.,,.,,,...rce in Santa Comber, institute director in Annapolis, reminded the audience present for ceremonies in the Great Hall. "We are still under its shield, and the degrees we grant here in fact, granted the f!r!lnm:11to Institute of !:i'!!f!ffi~·~t;w:¥ under its charter in New Mexico. IS often the case with human this child summer from the very began to look and behave dif.,,,~.~~Fi., from the These differences have continued and "Our programs are identical, but almost all else is different: the climate (I say no more), the environment (desert vs. urban), the customs and traditions ... Finally there is a difference of students, most in the fact that. many, vv1q~.11;,d~.i;111~1.1,;r1~1 111w.,.r - because I have come to know vou over this and other an and Mr. Comber said that the Amiap,olis institute will award its degrees autonomously. "That will be a cause for a new celebration," he told the three mind you graduates.· "But in will always be ·'".,::',""!.."''"""'th more seu-conuaent, seu-proua in the best way, learn to read and think and as human I have heard one or two of you say believe your work with us contributed in no small way to this remarkable and change. YOUR increased new wealth, your a burden, a a whom your lives "I am prepared to risk all and for I am so that what you have engaged in here cannot but make a person that you to bring about will be the Michael Littleton delivered the invocation and benediction, and two other tutors - Harry Golding and David Starr - assisted in the �Architecture and is m1u·lrin11 Santa latter capacity Effland were 1978. Anne is a her E ands live nea Morgantown, W. Va., where she as a manusc prc1ce::;sir1g; assistant in the West "'''"''"'" vuJc.1.c .... uuu, Archives and Section, of the friends will Bill as her while she was here. of West student! On June 15, in the town of Arosa, Switzerland, Susan Wilson and James D. S78, were married. Sus;m became Swiss the marriae:e. and, follow are now Mr. To the multitude of small-world stories for St. Johnnies can be added one from last month. to the ticing primary care. From Dean Robert Bart we received news that Marcia Greenbaum is now Marcia Wake. She now has a in architecture from Island School of the way she took two years remodellin~ an old house to learn construction. She and husband are Milw;mkPP. where he will she will seek emn1rmniont in an architect's office. 1975 After investiga ternational relations at David Ashmore will at fall. "So ..""""''""'' with Tom (I don't he's let down there know he's at Law School, second year), I shall be with Tom Ash in a house Anastaplo," he wrote earlier this summer. "What a network Johnnies maintain. I haven't heard of another school whose alums Paul (and Jo.,t;"'u' the and is PrP~irli>nt's Fellow, with a and free tuition. Thanks to a marriage on June 28, 1979, it's now Lufkin the fortunate bridegroom William a sophomore on the Santa Fe campus. Kate will stay in Minnesota until she completes course work for her M.A. degree in religious studies in December. She is studying at the United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities "an ecumenical, feminist school whose saint is Paul Tillich." In attendance at the wedding 1977 Grant and Marlene Franks were in Baltimore this summer, as he worked for a law firm and she took a course at return to Camhe to Harvard Law School and last _ she to work at Harvard's KenSchool of Government and to decide what work to pursue. The Franks are very interested in getting Boston-area alumni together for seminars or whatever. Wade and Robert Alan June 2 at Christ in has take her state ooaras rignt away. We wish her much success. James N. Jarvis has received his medical at the University of Vermont Collee:e of Medicine and has begun the of three years of pediatric residency training at St. Louis Children's Hospital, one of the finest children's hospitals in the country. Our warmest congratulations to Jim - a terrific student here at St. John's and one we know will make a great doctor. From Venice.Cal., comes a fine letter from Sallie Dobreer Raspa, reporting news that '74, continues his studies Southern of met were m a trammg course to serve with the Bureau of Public Debt of the U.S. Treasury, where both are employed. Following a reception at the Annapolis Hilton, they left for a wedding trio to London. 1978 June brought a most interesting letter from Anne now Anne Wallace Effland (Mrs. William), in response to the annual welcome letter we send to each class as it joins the of the alumni. Anne spent some time working, taking courses, and traveling after she left St. John's, and this past May graduated from neighboring Hood College with a degree in history. She and ·. Bill 90 STEPHEN l. FEINBERG THOMAS M. CARNES A member of the board from El area. 1958 wives, a sidewalk cafe the zoo's entrance when Warren w1,antnw them from inside. few minutes later Phil to his feet with "There's a John's student from Santa Fe!" The second student turned out to be Beth a senior who has transferred back to the Amiap olis campus this year. Phil manai~ea to catch Miss who near the zoo, as she was her car the curb. Warren is · now Second S Books on Crcle, a rare book store. He also has 18 sections, "The out bv the White Dot 1 Victor Gallerano and .his in Boston, announced the arrival of son June 14. 1978 From Leland Giovanneli comes welcome news that she will be teachine: this fall at the in Boston. Last spring she was her· thesis at Chicago and tea1cim1g 5th-8th grade mathematics at a local day school. the summer she has been at the Harvard Contin Education Summer Session attending the teacher's workshop there. 1979 It wasn't a concert or a lecture which took in the Great Hall on June but the marriage of Karen M. '79, and Fred '78. Winfree Smith officiated at the afternoon ceremony whose included many tutors, and alumni. Evan Cantor, sang, and Karen '79 played the piano. Afterwards there was a reception, also in the hall, and a string quartet provided music for waltzing. The Great Hall was decorated with flowers. "We chose the Great Hall for our wedding because we had met at St. John's, and so it was especially dear and meaningful to us/' Karen said. The Bohrers are residing at 1226A G St., SE, Washington, D.C. 2003, school he became account executive for Dominick & Dominick in Houston before aS nrs:i•~iriPnt in Paso. This is a El Paso EL Paso EPPSCO Vinton Vinton EPPSCO Vinton EPPSCO Clovis, EPPSCO Salt Lake City, Feinberg Comoanv. and Dorsar T .... ,.1r1 ....... He dire of Texas P e Threaders, Tubular Services, Dorsar Industries. Border Steel and Circle K Active as a member of the of directors of the Child Treatment the El Paso Rehabilitation Center, and El Paso Cancer Treatment Center. while she works master's in Catholic pursues a career in 1979 - Santa Fe response to our letter was received t°:l'l!llOnl'v r.nwlf.\11 a second- Another a .. '.ltim1to Law Sch associated with San cisco law firm of Madison & Sutre before opening his own law firm in 1965 SPE!Cia1Uz4~s in civil trial law. As a n!l1'tn.ii.ro in the firm of Carnes and he concentrates in the prc1fes:sional and nl'nrl11 ... t Committee of the San Francisco Bar Association and the San Francisco Medical He has been a member of the of the Golden Gate School of Law in San Francisco. and he has lectured School of the Law at TTniug;i,·r~if·,r of California and the National 1111 1rnl'!~"vlns:tih1te. Mr. Carnes has served as an arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association and is ""'"'"""'H" on the arbitration of the San Francisco Court. St. Johnnie was class of this fall will be enrolled at Knox College for a of basic sciences, as the of four as a at Rush M1;;un;a1 School in '-'LU\..cu•. v. m 1919-Charles C. Nathan, Grantsville, Md., 1920- The Rev. Reginald F. Hall, Alexandria, Va., June 24, 1979. 1923RobertE. Miller, Baltimore, Md., April21, 1979. 1923 - Lt. Gen Reginald H. Ridgely, Kilmarnock, Va., June 28,1979. 1924 - Hon. William W. Travers, Salisbury, Md., May 27, 1979. 1934 - The Rev. Robert L. Jones, Annapolis, Md., July Hi, 1979. 1946 - Alexander S. MacDonald, Jr.,Tacoma, Wash., November 14, 1978. 1947 - The Ven. Samuel B. Jr., New York, December 19, 1978. 1951 - Dr. NormanGarigliano, Bridley, Ca., November 1, 1978. 1952- Walter L. Graham, SanFrancisco, Ca., May 18, 1979. Un?-Susan B. Brill, Lakehurst, N.J., (Notified July, 1979). Board- John D. Murchison, Dallas, Texas, Jwie14,1979. �(Continued from P .1) Sparrow of the Annapolis campm said. It i~ 'lot every man who founds ~t in effect is a new college. "Mr. Weigle has a unique pla~e in the heart of this college because of the heroic vision ·that led him to establish t:he second campus in Santa Fe," Dean Robert Bart said of Mr. Weigle's greatest achievement. · As important as ·founding St. John's second campus in 1964 have been his steps to stabilize and strengthen the college. The changes have been many since he was chosen the board to become president on September 17, 1949, at the grand salary of $7,500. The operating budget has grown from $377,000 to :1>1-1nrntmn for both campuses. The endowment in 1949 stood at a quarter of a million dollars, yielding $16,000 for general college support. In Annapolis it has reached $8.5-million, one of the highest in the country on a per student basis, and in Santa Fe it stands at FACULTY SALARIES have gone from a scale of $3,000-$5,000 to $12,700-$27,600, with the latter at $32,000 if fringe benefits are included. (Although a struggle with the Faculty Salary Committee comes as an expected, annual tussel, Mr. Weigle has managed faculty raises almost every year since he arrived). The debt he inherited of was out. Both colleges ended in the black this fiscal year. Enrollment has climbed from 196 that first year to 390 this fall in Annapolis and 275 in Santa Fe. To create administrative stability, a college Polity - its constitution - was written in 1950, one year after Mr. Weigle arrived, establishing a system of tenure and a mandatory system of retirement for tutors. Although an earlier Polity was suggested in 1943 and later drafted and promulgated by President Stringfellow Barr, the document adopted in 1950 was the first to have the approval and carry the authority of the Board of Visitors and Governors. The college ceased its long exclusion of women; doors were open to women in 1951. In 1953-54 accreditation was restored to the college, which had _lost it in 1936. St. John's policy of integration was reconfirmed, a condition of Mr. Weigle's coming here. (Integration was in effect during the preceding term of President John S. Kieffer; the college was the first previously all white college in Maryland to graduate a black student). AND ST. JOHN'S passed from its "experimental," "revolutionary" stage to become an honored, nationally recognized part of the education establishment. Above all, Mr. Weigle has been a great builder, the biggest in St. John's history. Besides the entire Santa Fe campus, he has been responsible for new buildings and renovations here. When he arrived Koogle Hall, the white cottage with a big smokestack named for a former superintendent of buildings and grounds, was still standing behind McDowell, used in part to house students, with a big coal heap nearby .. Since then the college has constructed the heating plant, Campbell Hall, Key Auditorium, Mellon Hall, the Harrison Health Center, and the qtrnd be.hind McDowell. It has renovated the library, Chase-Stone, and Humphries and completed much renovation in Pinkney, and it moved the Carroll Barrister House onto campus. The college hopes to ·begin renovating and enlarging the dining hall and Paca-Carroll during the current academic year. Today the napolis is esmmwcu million. In Santa Fe $5-million. All this tireless, frequently thankless work in tending to the practical of St. John's material being is not to suggest that Mr. Weigle's devotion to St. John's is limited to just that. Mr. Weigle's belief in St. John's has been marked at times a missionary fervor. "DICK WEIGLE IS the real romantic," one faculty member said, in discussing what he feels to be a somewhat Don Quixotic quirk in Mr. Weigle's character. It was Dick Weigle, after all, who conceived of the notion of not a second campus, something he almost single handedly achieved, but a cluster of St. John'ses spread throughout the United States; and it was he who sought to come to rescue of Iliinois' Shimer College, feeling St. John's, because of the particular nature of Shimer, had an obligation to assist a sister college in distress. Mr. Weigle. still thinks that a third college would be desirable, but he is cautious. That would depend upon solving the present financial problem and com· pleting the proposed building programs. Such a college would have to be"funded properly." It is the ''financial problem'' which he feels is the major one facing St. John's: the need to meet constantly expanding annual budgets and to put the Santa Fe campus on a solid, less worrisome basis. Can one president, rather than two, cope with this enormous job as well as overseeing the college generally in the face of what some economists think is the worst economic situation for the country in 50 years? "I hope so," Mr. Weigle said. "It depends on who the new president is. Whether he can is dictated by what sort of person he is, how much respect. he commands." ALTHOUGH THE two camrun~:tion as Mr. Weigle noted that in effect it will be two separate colleges to which the incoming president will have responsibilities. It will be no easy job and a big one for his successor, due to take office next July 1, the day Mr. Weigle begins the "sabbatical" the St. John's board has granted him. He and his wife, Mary, exp~ct to travel, but their plans are not definite. After that they will divide the year between Santa Fe, where they own a home, and Annapolis, where they have begun house hunting. Mr. Weigle has no precise plans as to how he will fill his retirement years, but because of his lengthy record of public service, he can almost certainly be expected to take a. public role in1:he Annapolis area~ He was a member of the Anne ·' County Board of 1951 to 1963 ::ind five. He was the of the ho~rd of the .t.i. ...... o.el Comm unity College and a founder and early president of Historic Annapolis as well as a former chairman of the Key School Board of Trustees. He also was chairman of the Maryland Commission on the Capital City for a 10-year period ending in 1977 and a former vicecha'irman of the Independent College Funds of America. Professionally, he has served as chairman of the Curriculum Committee of St. Mary's College, St. Mary's, Md., and as a consultant to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the University of Montana, and Regis College in Denver. He has been a member of the board of directors, treasurer, vice-chairman, and then chairman of the Association of American Colleges. AS CHAIRMAN of the association's Commission on Liberal Learning, he established the highly successful seminars, modeled after St. John's, for college presidents and deans at Pugwash, Nova Scotia. Dapper with his trademark bowtie, Mr. Weigle moves with the quickness of a man in his 40' s between coffee with students, faculty meetings, sessions with this board. He is pleased with his relationship with all three groups, happy with the fact that the quality of both faculty and students has grown and with the esprit de corps which exists among trustees. What doesn't worry him is the college's ability to recruit students even though the number of high school graduates is shrinking and the college is fighting against a general climate of vocational and career education, a situation likely to grow worse if the economy continues downward. "If we are successful in getting the word out, I'm fully confident we can find a pool of 500 students who are sufficiently interested," he said. "What we· do is distinctive enough even with a declining number of prospe~tive students.'' Through the years Mr. Weigle has remained fast in his loyalty to St. John's. "I would not have considered it a promotion to from here to a instibl1tion, 1 ' he said. It is a hundred years since the birth of Albert Einstein and approximately a quarter of a century since his special theory of relativity - his first great triumph - was introduced into the St. John's laboratory. This theory, in which Einstein exorcised inconsistencies plaguing 19th century physics and showed that energy means mass and vice versa, was first included in the late 1950' s in a manual written by two tutors Luke Harvey Poe and Curtis Wilson - and incorporated in the senior laboratory program. Later, during the late '60's, it was shifted into the senior mathematics tutorial. At that time it was decided to read directly, rather than using a manual or textbook, the original 1905 paper, "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies." A NUMBER OF tutors helped to assemble notes to accompany the reading of the text: David Stephenson, Malcolm Wyatt, Robert Williamson, and Howard Fisher with Mr. Fisher · subsequently editing the notes to obtain a clear and unified interpretation. IN BRIEF, what Mr. Wilhamson snows m a ctetailed argument is that Einstein starts from assumptions that the aether theorists of 1905 would have accepted: physical laws referred to different inertial systems take the same form, and there is a "stationery" spatial system of reference in which the velocity of light has the constant value c, whatever the velocity of the emitting body. He then proceeds to show that these premises, apparently incompatible, are consistent, and that as a consequence the supposed "stationary system" is not unique and has no preferred status, and hence the aether is superfluous. Einstein's argumentation involves a certain circularity which, as Mr. Williamson shows, is not vicious but serves to establish the consistency of the assumptions. Retirement of tenured tutors at St. John's College will continue to come at age 65 until July 1, 1982. A special outcome of the work After that normal retirement age on Einstein at St. John's has been . willbe70. a scholarly article by Mr. New Federal regulations, in Williamson, "Logical Economy in Einstein's 'On the Electro- extending the number of working years before mandatory dynamics of Moving Bodies,' " published in Studies in the retirement, have made colleges History and Philosophy of and universities a temporary Science 8 ( 1977). exception to the law. This is to allow a transition period for inMr. WHilamson shows that stitutions to consider imcriticisms directed at supposed plications upon budgetary and logical flaws in Einstein's 1905 instructional matters and accordingly. paper by Bridgman, Lindsay, Margenau, and others are due to a misreading. The Board of Visitors and Governors adoptea a resoiution at its summer meeting bringing A further result is that the St. John's retirement policies into Michelson-Morley experiment, conformity with the new law. It much talked of in the past as a now will permit all employees crucial experiment for relativity other than tenured tutors to theory, but recently shown by continue working until age 70. Gerald Holton and others to have Under present regulations, been no part of Einstein's tenured tutors, after 65, may thinking, is in fact logically receive annual appointments. irrelevant to the 1905 paper "There are very few places I would have considered if I had been asked. I feel very strongly the importance of the St. John's p1·ogram. "I DON'T BELIEVE we can be too evangelistic, but it is very important that St. John's be here, that it be as strong as possible so that people in other institutions can see what can be done in a college which takes liberal arts very seriously." "I have always been impressed by Mr. Weigle's loyalty to the college and the concerns and needs of the faculty," former Dean Robert Neidorf of the Santa Fe faculty said. Mr. Weigle reminds one that he is a teacher and that he understands the tremendous demands placed upon St. John's faculty members. "I share their to vision of what we are " he said. Af':11d11•mi1P9111v Weigle generally has left the program to the care of the deans. Mr. Bart said the college owes him "deep gratitude for his unfailing respect for the program and its guardian, the Instruction Committee.'' Before leaving, Mr. Weigle would have liked to have completed the building needs as he sees them: the library, auditorium, and physical education building in Santa Fe and the renovation of Randall and Pa ca-Carroll along with a new gym here. What has been the best part of the job? "The thing which has given me the greatest satisfaction is seeing a college well run, to know that when I am in Santa Fe all the people are here because of me, or to sit in a beautiful concert in Annapolis and to know that I've ~-- - .. •.11 ... .. .. .. �• election of directors and other businesses, vocational cotms11::Hru2; sessions with the annual student~alumni · soccer classic, and homecomin2: dinner at Inn. This will be reunions the classes of the 1940's, who will in a seminar on Plato's "Meno" led by the Rev. J. Winfree Smith. The alumni seminar will be Pascal's "On the Peace.' " an freshman here. ReiceritUY Miss Cook discovered way to combine her interest in 1"'h""""t"".. " science with her in- the St. months the con1smnpt.ion of oil is exto not because of lowered thermostats, but because of the technical efforts of a new camous team In an effort to save money on gas, which is not as Mr. Wallace said the attempt to shut down John's For 10 weeks this the midst of her she found a minimum of a week on an inresearch which was iosmg not water, menaed this summer, and a condensation not tm1ct1ton:mg up to its was between those hydroponically came as the result of National Science Foundation to pursue a of student's own chc1osiln2:. the NSF announced Miss Cook was welcome to pursue any of the three proiects which she had nrnnMPn "Violets are used in the ma1nutactur·mg of and there must a way to make hydrooonics cost-effective on an '' Miss Cook said. vitamins A, D, therefore a pos:sible summer ummu:>, continued to time at St. until few before he:r death. Esteemed the comm for her sweetness and llr~1ci1)usne!;s as well as for inb~lli~~emce with which she Mrs. her three datlgh1cers and a Mrs. Rinder John's the was to award to a student who had the summer skin cancer cells. 11 "Lea loved months free from classes. used as _ All the offices are weather and Mr. Wallace is to custommake storm for the Carroll-Barrister House, where curtains are known to blow once fall winds cracks the of this 18th "'"nhn•u house. To make certain the system is to a breakdown when school opens, the has feet of a thrP.P.-mc11. condensate line Auditorium. not "We're all the " Mr. Wallace "Even if it's so11net.run1~ which will save five we're e:oina: ahead with it." From the sta11dp1oint use of the one treated more lihPr:1Hv because more ments of both are necessary to nrP~PrvP ~ MISS COOK DECIDED on an research of the ·of in-depth in a nutrient which orovides the exact Former Dean Robert A. Goldwin has been named director of a of the United States toward the observation bicentennial of its The by Institute for Public Research where Goldwin is a resident scholar. "This will Pnu•nnr:urp serious of the Co1rnstiitut:ion so that 1987 research stu:ution, and how effective is the constitutional scheme "The to studied will focus attention on the Constitution in its wholeness and cohesiveness," Mr. Goldwin said, of on m·ovisions or clauses as revealed opiJnim1s of the Court. will � 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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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 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available College Relations Office 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/ccb4d6e01e9dec89adbf89954190b056.pdf 3887c4d3e66d8f2f0a9efec8d3a94877 PDF Text Text ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY Rep'ort On FundFo J980s By J. Bmchenal Ault, Vice President and Di:recto:r of the Fund for the l 980's The Fund for the 1980's is nearing the end of its third year with $11 million having been raised for the two campuses against on overall goal of $25 million. Of this figure, about $4.6 million has been received in cash, $4 million in pledges, and $2.5 million in bequests. Mtera year of deficits on both campuses, gifts for current will result in balaIJtced operations at AnnaFe for the June 30, 1979. favorable outcome on the Santa Fe campus results largefrom a recent foundation in the amount of $285,000. Gifts . · late John Murchison,· a member of the Board of Visitors and Governors, be·fore his death offered a challenge gift of $1 million for endowment on the Santa Fe campus, requiring $2 million in ·matching gifts before December 30, 1980. The offer was made binding on his estate. We expect to find the matching funds within the time specified. The result of the $3 million package is projected to reduce Santa Fe dependence on annual gifts and grants from about $800,000 to something under $500,000. The State of Maryland has passed a bond bill for $1.75 million to cover half the cost of renovating and adding to the Annapolis dining hall and gymnasium, as well as one of the small dormitories. Matching funds must be raised for each project. The Hodson Trust has given $265 ,000 toward these construction needs and an individual anonymous gift of $300,000 for the same purpose has been received. Substantial additional gifts for the Annapolis Endowment func:l ~re under discussion. Annual Giving . Alumni committees have been organized in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Houstonl Dallas, Chicago, New York City, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Pittsburgh and Cleveland. jA first organizational meeting has been held in Washington, D.C. and committees will be formed in Baltimore and Philadelphia by the end of the summer. Committee members will call fellow. alumni in their city areas in an effort to ensure maximum participation in the College's annual Alumni Fund Drive. In this way we believe that alumni annual giving, currently running at about $90,000 per year for the two campuses, should rise to a level of $250;000 over several years. It will do so not by asking more from existing donors, but by raising the level of donor participation from . 20 per cent of an alumni to (continued p.8) 'V<ap.mu Many Commencement Day Firsts l l l l l l \l l~Hflil!~fl!l'il1~1 1\l!l l l l l 50 Seniors, 3 of InStii' ·~·in to ea Ray Cave h It appears that the freshman enrollment of the Santa Fe campus will take another leap upward. According to Susan Ferron, director of admissions, enrollment of freshmen for the fall term will be about 95 students, up from 82 freshmen last fall. Last fall (1978) enrollment had increased 32 per cent over the fall of 1977, from 62 to 82 freshmen. Ms. Ferron noted that in early June her office had received 122" applications compared to 85 at the same time a year ago. Deposits were coming in at a better rate. Earlier in the year Ms. Ferron ('77) had stated she would leave her post this . summer because of other interests, in- . complishment of the awniscluding music and scholar- sions office while she was diship. rector was putting an admisPraise for her work has sions team together. been unanimously expressed "We opened a channel and by the St. John's community, lit a spark among students, often by the Board of Visitors alumni, faculty and the admisand Governors, the adminis- sions office," she said. "There tration, the faculty and stu- has been an energy and sense dents. of life here these past months. We put an enthusiastic team Her work was recognized together." Replacing Ms. Ferron will in the public press, which pointed out that she probably be Stephen Van Luchene, a is the youngest admissions di- tutor, who was part of the team and who worked closely rector of a major college. _ She was named admissions with Ms. Ferron almost on a director, from the post of . daily basis. Mr. Van Luchene assistant admissions director, was chairman of the faculty only eight months after she committee on admissions. Mr. Van Luchene will be was graduated at the Santa assisted by Samuel Larcombe Fe campus. Ms. Ferron said she thought who will also be Santa Fe's that the most important ac;- first director of alumni affairs .. :row, I tor) Lee Owen Goldin, Dia~e Cancio Olsen, Steve Houser, Berg, Ma:ry Ben Haggard, Ma:ry Sue "Laurel. isecond row) Elaine Bomford, Donsbach, Alan Boyett, Martin Dobyns, Gene Webber, Dean McC0Haum 1 Hussande:r, Bob DiSilverio, Laird Durley, Ga:ry Sue Soren Johnson, Nigel Joan Dave Jeff McElroy, Kelly .Richard Horsey, Lisa (Front row, Leslie es1tm•[)rlan11t1 David Doremus, Gm, Chris Martha Post, and M~ty111es. (Photo by John Deloumett) ptc~nured are Gregory Cowen, Benj~min Goldstein, Charles Hamm, Susan Hollander, .1u11se111bllunm. William Steadman, II, Heidi Wernett, and Janis White. The Class of 1979: Devendra t;onu·aciror David Wald, Alan Maggie .Rude, Steve Peter Chance. 13 _r May 15 was a day of firsts on the Santa Fe campus. A mother was graduated with her son and daughter-in-law. The first class reunion was held. A parody on Socrates' closing prayer to the local deities in the Phaedros mysteriously appeared on the cement in front. of the speaker's platform. And the sun shone for the first time in ten One of St. John's own an outstanding journalist, Cave ('48), managing editor of Time magazine vered the commencement dress, entitled, "Fear, Fallibility and Woody Allen." This was probably the first St. John's commencement in which a Woody Allen quotation was left as a parting thought for graduating seniors. Quoting Allen, he said, "In terms of human attributes, what really counts is courage." Naomi Garwood received her Master's Degree as the first year-round class of The Graduate Institute was completed. Graduating with the senior class of 50 were her son Chris (the second Garwood son to go through the College) and his wife Mary Sue. Nine members of the class of 1968 were in attendance for the first class reunion on the 15-year old campus. The colored chalk pattern ... was drawn in front of the speaker's platform, with the following parody on the closing prayer to the local deities ~y Socrates in the · Phaedros: "Dear Pan, and all y~ oth~r gods that dwell in this grant that I may become fair within and that such outward things as I may have may not. ·war against the spirit within me, may I count him rich . who is wise, and as for gold, may I possess so much of it as only a. temperate man might bear and carry with him." No one has been able to locate the author of the parody, but a permanent mark has been left on the memories of the graduating class. In Presiden-t Richard Weigle' s welcoming remarks he noted that this was his 14th commencement on the Santa Fe Campus. He and Mrs. Weigle were in China last year. He also announced a grant of $75,000 per year for the next three years from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation and a gift of .$285, 000 the week before graduation which put the cuJrent fiscal year of the Santa Fe campus in balance. · In his speech Ray Caye ~(continued p. 9) �THE REPORT~R PAGE2 Alumni Notes tu dent Class of 1968 . Class of 1975 Rick Wicks came to the First Santa Fe reunion from Anchorage, Alaska, where he is Director of the Butterfly Children's Center. · May 19, 1979 was the day Mark-Habrel married Pam White at the University of Chicago Chapel. Sansi Girard Coonan came from Sacramento, California for the reunion. After her return home she wrote, "I was · a little afraid to come for fear I wouldn't recognize anyone ·or have anything to say but I'm certainly glad I braved it because everyone looks exactly the same and there was barely enough time to say everything!" Class of 1976 Cla_ss' of 1969 Joe Reynolds also came to the reunion and related that following graduation from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary he was ordained and served a church in Corpus Christi. He moved with his wife, Pam, to San Antonio in August, 1978, where he is serving a growing church there. They have two children, George Patrick, 6, and Andrea Noel, 2. Class of 1971 Sheila Bobbs was married May 26, 1979, to Mike Armstrong from Perth, Australia. Class of 1972 Living with his wife, Sunnie, and 5 children in L) Mesilla, near Espanola, New Mexico, is Peter Walsh. Peter is working as an electronics technician at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratories. The children are Andrew, 9, Eli, 7, Merea, 5, Jeanne-Marie, 3, and Erin, 15 months. Kevin Snapp will be attending the University of Chicago Law School this fall. ' Tommy Rushton is a graduate of the Arizona State University Law School, and recently married Alana Fireshaker'('71 ). Inger Amas is worki.ng as a claims adjuster in Portland, Oregon. She was in New Mexico to attend the wedding of Th1on1ps1on ('76) to Duncan Edwards in Albuquerque. She reports Mary recently received her M.B.A. from the University of New Mexico and that she and her new husband will be living in Denver. A new law school graduate is Kim who received her Juris Doctor degree from Capital University School of Law this May. She writes, "I have taken the position of associate attorney of the Columbus, Ohio law firm of Vern Davis. I saw some good OSU games with Michael Dubetz ('77), but other than this have not heard from anybody else for three years. I'd like to hear from friends I've lost contact with. My address is 663 Euclaire, Columbus, Ohio, 43209." Kathy Gerlits was recently married to Philip Maher in Chicago. In the fall Richard. Lighthum, having completed the requirements for a masters degree in mathematics, will be entering the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Mike MacDonald writes that he is studying at the Institute for Audio Research in New York City. "St. John's geometry is a great help," he says. 'Tm glad to find a career which blends science and art so well." Living in Albuquerque is Alan McVay, who has accepted a job with Mountain Bell as Marketing Administrator. For the two previous years he was assistant to the director of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Joyce Spray (G.I.) sends a "warm aloha from the land of gardenias to the land of lilacs and cactus." She misses the Graduate Institute so much she has begun a seminar Bobby Schlegel is a first year medicat student, anh'e' Uni:.: -" · -;.; nin Hawaii; "Whic'll-is-now-readin~rthe Iliad·' versity of New Mexico. Idell Jacobson (G.I.) will be teaching in Prescott, Arizona next year and sent her new address: 1565 IQylwild Dr., Class of 1973 Prescott, AZ. 86301. Galen BreningstaH writes that he and his wife ·Jena ('74) Class of 1977 and two· boys •wm soon be moving tO Minneapolis where he will undertake an internship in pediatrics at the UniverLarry Clendenin stopped in Santa Fe last month on his sity of Minnesota. Galen just received his M.D. degree from way to a new job as Director of Admissions at Prescott the University of Texas Medical Branch at Gal".eston .. He College in Prescott, Arizona. · was elected to a medical honorary society, Alpha Omega Alpha, awarded the Edward Randall Medal for Academic. Working for the Gore Mutual Insurance Company in. Excellence in the Clinical Sciences, and was named OutEdmonton, Alberta, Canada is Arma Flamand, who writes standing Three-Year Graduate. The award is the highest that· that he hopes to .attend graduate school in business adminia three year graduate can receive. It is bestowed by fellow stration next spring. In his duties as a commercial .property classmates upon completion of the third year of the medical underwriter he is responsible for the evaluation and accepti;urriculum. ance ofaU commercial and industrial property and liability insurance contracts assumed by the company in the Province Living in Santa Fe and working as a general contractor is of Alberta. JeH Hockersmith who wants everyone to know about his new baby daughter, Nina Patricia, born February 2, 1979. Paula Lundy is working on a pilot's license in California. . The Santuario de Guadalupe in Santa. Fe is the. setting Nancy Sample is running a. small newspaper in Nixon, for a show of the watercolors and ceramics of Alejamho Texas. Lopez. Deidr~ Marlow has accepted a job as Personnel Manager with Container Corporation of America in Medford, Massachusetts. Class of 1974 Celia Yerger David wanted to come to the first Home.coming but wrote that she was right in the middle of her last set of law school exams at Northwestern University, in Chicago. Barbara Howell (G.I.) died of cancer at age 46 in September, 1978. An English teacher at Pueblo High School in Colorado, she spent three summers ('72-'74) at the Graduate Institute. Her good friend Mary Doyhm ('75 G.I.) whom she met at the lnstitute, says that ··coming to St. John's was one of the most meaningful experiences of her life. It was a period of growth for both of us, and provided Barbara an educational experience she had alwavs looked for: fulfilling not just intellectually, but emotionally and spiritually. I regret so much that Barbara was not able to go to Greece as she had wanted to do after her St. John's summers." JULY., 1979 Class of 1978 Chris Currin, in Paris exploring Van Gogh and film on a Watson Fellowship encounted Amy McConnell ('78 A), also a Watson Fellow. Chris was there as she left Paris on a 900-mile walk to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, retracing an ancient pilgrimage route. Her mother and sister were with her for the first stage of the trip . Class oi 1979 A postcard from Cairo, Egypt, indicates that Henry Horsey and his wife Mary Classen. ('78) have begun studying Arabic in preparation for their Watson-Foundationsponsored trip. up the Nile River this fall. On their way to Cairo they stopped in London and Paris. An . editorial assistant for the National Review, Gary Edwards is living in New York. His address is 323 E. 90th St.. New York, N.Y. 10028. Headed for the Peace Corps, destination unknown, is Susan Friedman. (continued p.J) Jobs· eas Student employment earnings from the Santa Fe community increased 120 percent during the academic year 1978-1979. Over 30 students earned $18,167 from part time employment obtained through the Student Employment Office. T,his compares with $7,564 which students earned during the same period a year ago. Kyle Schultz, a senior next fall and the new director of the office, believes the increase is due to students keeping their jobs longer. "In the ·past," she explained, "most of the jobs only lasted a few days. Now many students are working for the same family all year." · The College, in cooperation ·with the federal government, underwrites the Student Employment Office operations by hiring two students to run the office for 20 hours a week. Under the federal Work Study Program, 20 percent of the students' salaries is paid by the College, and the other 80 p~r.cent :Oy the govern!lltm.t.. A junior and a senior staff the office each year, so that when the senfor graduates, the junior wiH be able to take over as director. This year's director was Elaine Baumford ('79 SF). The junior who will assist Kyle Schultz next year is Laura Shubert. The student Employment Office advertises in the Santa Fe New Mexican, but many townspeople hear about the service by word of mouth. Most frequently requested are students who wiU do yard work, housecleaning, child care, school ·bus driving and tutoring. One student was a secretary in a local law firm. The College asks that students be paid at least the minimum wage. of $2. 90 per hour, except for child care, for which a student is paid $2. Students are, however, paid between $3.50 and $4.SO as hour for most work. Ms. Schultz asserts that there is no question about the value of the. Student Employment Office. She points out ·that it helps approximately 12 percent of the students at St. John's meet their college ex- . penses. But the office also, she says, "promotes good relations between the College and the community of Santa Fe. We are a source of reliable, hard-working and thoughtful help. Employers are consistently enthusiastic about the quality of the students' work." �JULY, 1979 l A Student Observes a ,. ' 4 By Eric Rosenblum ( _79) The -morning sky was just clearing as we d:rove south out of town on the highway toward Roswell. The back of the station wagon was packed full of gear-sleeping bags, food, clothes, water bottles, even a sack full of toast left over from breakfast. . Mu.ch too much for an overnight jaunt, but when you travel in, toadless areas it never hu;r.ts to take along more than you need. For example, the extra jack had come in handy jumping out of ruts, fording mudbeds, and doing other things less delicate than changing tires. Along with the general survival equipment, there was also a box of litera. ture: plat maps, field guides, and other books. These, too proved useful. "Why is the 'fasten seat sign lit up?" I asked when we slowed for a meadowlark that flashed in front of us. Our belts, of course, were securely positioned somewhere underneath our seats. "That's the imperative mode-don't you recognize ble love: books and the woods. By his own admisit?" Roger Peterson replied. "There's a dictionary .in sion, he spent more of his · undergraduate days in the back." I rummaged through the · New England countryside box. In fact, there were two than in Harvard recital halls. Nevertheless, after a hitch in dictionaries-one in English, the Navy, he hesitated before one in Greek. 'Tm having to rememorize entering Forestry school, and the aorist," Peterson ex- opted instead for graduate plained. "I don't really read work in botany at the Univerwhile I'm driving, but I like to sity of Michigan which was memorize, just looking over more "intellectually challengat the book once in a while. ing." Peterson's doctoral thesis, You have to practice. "Let's on gall rust in lodgepole pines, see," he began. "Lueto, took him out west for the sumluete ... " It was the kind of situation mers, and when he completed only a Johnnie could under- his work in 1959 he accepted a position as conifer patholostand-much less appreciate: the exotic drone of the an- gist with the U.S. Forest Sercient conjugations punctuated· vice in Colorado and Utah. "I guess you could say I just by the hum of the ffres as the traded my vocation for my road surface changed from freeway to blacktop to gravel. avocation," he said of his Like many tutors, Roger Pe- move from the Forest Service terson represents that special to St. John's College in 1966. "We even had a group. in blend of the practical and the Logan, Utah. We used to academic that characterizes discuss philosophy. But when the best intentions of the St. I grew to like the West I gave· John's program. up on the possibility of teachA native of Michigan, Peing at St. John's, because I terson grew up nursing a doudidn't want to go to Maryland · AJong with his dudes as a St •. fohn's tutor, Roger Petenon of all places. Then when they serves as a conservationist, working with the local Natural opened up a branch of the History Institute to help preserve New Mexico's natural history. · College out here I felt they (Photo by John Delournt'!ttJ built it just for me." would preserve it from further mended that the areas be (conti.nuedfrom p.2) Since joining the faculty, development. Of the remain- dropped from the study-and ·-Training .h~r~es iiln,d givil1g riding lessons at the Double however, :Peterson has hardly ing two-thirds which would be rightly so," Peterson comArrow Stable in Santa Fe' will occupy Betty Hussander for relegated his naturalist's back- allowed to develop without mented. "But somebody awhile. ground to weekends in the such protection, RogerPeter- ought to look at them before wildemess. He has continued son has visited over 150,000 ·we drop them-I mean, there Soren Johnson tells us to expect a postcard from Nepal, his private investigations into acres in northern and south- they are on the inventory. as he hopes to spend the fall traveling after a summer in the vagaries of conifer rusts, ern New Mexico. Along with Mostly the work is being done Oakland, California. Perhaps he will run into Paula Maynes; and correctly. predicted the other members of the Natural by interested. individuals, but who will be traveling in Greece this fall after spending the discoveries of alternate hosts History Institute, Peterson is we've tried to bring them unsummer working fu the law office of Anne Bingaman in for two varieties. of these fun- double checking the BLM in- der some coalition. The Sierra Santa Fe.· gi. The St. Joh~'s New .Mex:i~o ventory just to see that no Club and the Wilderness SoRoom, of which he 1s chief valuable properties are citey have supported and coEnrolling in law school at the University of New Mexico e:urator and gatekeeper, func- degraded by industrial or ordinated the main effort to this fall will be Jeff McElroy, who is teaching Boy Scouts tions as the schools ecology agriculture use. feed organized information to to· survive in the wilderness. this summer at the Philmont reference library, in which . the BLM. We've found several Scout Ranch in northern New Mexico. Peterson sometimes teaches "The whole business is not mistakes so far, but we're not students to press and identify at all simple," he said as we in an adversary position at this The LOckheed Missile and Space Company in San Franplants. h~aded off the highway near ·time." cisco will utilize the talents of Bob TortoUni who will be Also, in 1977 he helped to Mesa, N.M. on the way to our . The county road turned working as a Research Engineer on the ·NASA space teleorganize the New Mexico Na- first survey of the day ,-a from gravel to dirt, and we scope which will be launched into orbit in the early 1980's. tural History Institute, an small section of salt lake in slowed down to a rugged association of area botan- Torrance County. Then he crawl. In fact, to the unGene Weber is spending the ~ummer working as a landists, biologists, and other began to explain the difficul- trained eye the expanse and scape de~J;?ner and is looking forward to graduate study in scientists concerned with_ the ties involved in de_t~rmi~ing sweep of the rolling land was philqsop'1y this fall, preservation and study of the . what the 'natural' state of an most impressive, but it was state's rich natural history. It ·area might mean. For in- hard to see how it was parHeidi Wernett says that starting in June, she will be attendwas in conjunction with that stance, since the government ticularly distinguished from ing Penn State University graduate school in horticulture, activity that Peterson began . defin.es wilderness as 'an area . any other hundred miles of researching geraniums for color traits related to. the study his survey of roadless areas of undeveloped federal land more or less green space. To of plant breeding and genetics. , however, each which took us south, thr:oug}! retaining its primedval Peterson, Lamy and Clines Comers, past · character,' what distinction piece . of. property told the Class of 1980 cattle and meadowlarks, to must be made for controlled peculiar history of its use, and look over several unq~vel~ grazing in areas where, during its potential; he was looking A postcard from Dodge City, Kansas, indicates that oped parcels in the middle of 'primeval' times, large herds not for scenery, but for a Kyle Schultz was half way along in her horseback journey New Mexico. of bison, were known to have specimen of t_he open range. from Santa Fe to St. Louis, Missouri. She reported that she "If we could fini:l a twenty The U.S. Bureau of Land roamed free? Or, on the other helped brand 92 cows, got rained on for two weeks, and that . Management (BLM) recently hand, how many different thousand acre area like that, · her horse is in very good shape. · published a Wildernes1i Re- types and sub-types of . with cedar breaks and topo·view which lists over 9,000 ecologically distinct areas graphical relief, we'd be in Class of 1981 square miles of roadless area (called 'biomes') must be business," he said, indicating in the state of New Mexico_,. catalogued in order to include an otherwise non-descript Rick King died of Leukemia April 5, 1979. He had undeveloped land currently all parcels with 'Ecological, stretch of grassland. ..Most of left St. John's in May of 1978 after one year because of a leased for grazing, prospect- geological or other fea_t_ure.§_ of this land is badly overgrazedreoccurrence of his disease. His father writes, "It is iming, or not leased at all. Some scientific, ~educational, scenic a lot of it by goats. Goats portant for me to tell you that Rick's learning experiences . have destroyed more territory 2, 900 square miles of ithistoric value? at St. John's were more meaningful and fulfilling to him than in the world ... the Mediterranabout one-third-has been re--~- . . __ any of his previous academic experiences. I and his mother commended for further study "I looked at areas primarily ian is largely goat-destroyed, are extremely grateful that Rick was allowed this opportunity with an eye to possible desig- in the Albuquerque area, and -the Santa Fe Basin was during what was, essentially, a period of borrowed time ... nation as "Wilderness," which where they've already recom(continued[i: JO) • mnz s or - �PAGE 4 THE REPORTER JULY., 1979 'St. Johns Energy Project' Students Pursue 'The' Complex Problem Students on the Santa Fe campus this year had an opportunity to practice their Ii.bend skills through their par; ticipation in the new St. John's Energy Study Project. The Study Project-an extra curricular activity-provided the . community of Santa Fe and the College with programs presenting divergent views on the subject of energy, and encouraged individual thinking and debate about the whole issue. Like many successful enterprises, the project began almost unintentionally out of a small gathering held last December. Fascinated and confused by the welter of information concerning the "energy crisis"-specifically the question of nuclear energystudents planned a discussion group to help them come to grips with the issue. The topic was particularly timely since, ' aside from being the "uranium capital of the United States," the state of New Mexico is also the proposed site of a federal nuclear waste isolation project, called "WIPP", a matter of much public concern. A handful of local experts agreed to speak, and the "small discussion group" soon blossomed into a panel which attracted some forty people from the college community-faculty and staff as well as students. "It sort of sprang up," said tutor Tom Simpson, who was involved in the project almost from the beginning. "There seemed to be a general spontaneous interest in this subject." Spurred on by the general enthusiasm, interested participants in the first panel met ovei: winter vacation· to turn the well-received event into a regular affair. "There are two functions of the organization which we saw from the outset," Simpson explained. "One was that we wanted to learn more about the energy pr"blem, and it happened !hat we decided to search by group members, tackle that in terms of the a:i.•.:1 reports were turned in by problem of nuclear energy, freshman Gary Wolff on· raespecially uranium mining, dioactive mine tailings in the milling and production, be- Grants mineral belt, and by cause that w.as an urgent prob- Tom Simpson on the econolem. So our first intent was to mics of the uranium industry in New Mexico. educate ourselves. "We wanted to have fre. "The other thing we wanted to do was to host public fo- quent informal meetings in rums to which we would in- which we would be able to sit vite the community. I think down and reflect on the kind you might call that second of information that was comfunctfon 'political' in the best. , ing in and sort it out, and see · sense-an occasion for seri- if we could come to some sort ous public discussion in which of conclusions," Simpson points of view would be clear- said. "In that direction, we've ly expressed by a variety of had small scale successes which are very important. It speakers." Perhaps because of its asso- was a chance to chat with ciation with a college which someone who had a strong pohas a strong reputation for sition which we didn't necesfostering rational discourse, sarily agree with, but which the project encountered little we were able to examine and difficulty in attracting the press. Guests who were willkind .of speakers needed to ing stayed on to dinner with achieve its two-fold goal. For us in the private dining room instance, area experts who and continued the discussion gave talks at the group's week- where a conversation could Wednesday afternoon develop in a more informal ly way, and I think it's worked meetings included: Tom Barry, an investigative out awfully well. Most of us journalist and former editor of agreed that .the informal study ·iheNew Mexico Seers Weekly fy.nction is enormously imporwho presented a sli.de show on tant to us, and our successes the health effects of uranium in that area have been impormining in western New· Mexi- tant, even though they don't make much of a splash." . co. By the end of the year, pro-· Dr. Don Peterson, a scientist from the nearby Los Ala- grams sponsoredby the Enermos Scientific Laboratory, gy Study Project were rewho briefed the group on .the _ceiving ·regular coverage in relative dangers -and safety of the Santa Fe· newspaper, and local radio stations broadcast radiation. · all over Pat Donahoe, environmen- announcements tal scientist formerly with the northern New Mexico. The first program the Proradiation protection division ject opened to the community of the New Mexico Environmental Improvement Depalt- was a panel discussion on the ment, who explained some of federal government's prothe intricacies of state and posed radioactive Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP), a federal nuclear regl,llations. Craig Simpson of the War current issue in the state. .The panelists were Toney Resisters League who discussed the production and Anaya, the former state Atdevelopment of nuclear war- torney General; John Denheads in New Mexico, and the dahl, former business manamovement to convert wea- ger of St. John's College and pons installations to peaceful president of a Santa Fe firm manufacturing radiation de· use. In addition to bringing tection equipment; John Law, speakers to the College, the a member of :an anti-nuclear Project also encouraged re- citizens ~roup; Sally Rodgers; "It's good to have a forum," an envuonniental lobbyist in· Santa Fe; Martin Tierney, a added Pat Donahoe, another Sandia Laboratory physicist, townsperson who spoke at and Bob Watt, ·retiied phy- one of the Project's Wednessicist from Los Alamos La- day afternoon meetings. "I think it would be filling more boratories. Other well-attended public of a community function if it programs sponsored by the were ·advertised more. I think Project included an explana- that would be a very useful tion of the accident at the service. It seems to me that Three-Mile Island Nuclear this would be a good approach Power Plant by a former to providing information, and member of the federal Nu- aiming at informed opinions clear Safety Advisory Panel, on the various issues." Dr. Bill Stratton; and a talk by Dr. Forrest Williams of the The energy group has choUniversity of Colorado (who sen to remain collectively delivered a Friday night lec- neutral on the advisability of ture at the College some years nuclear power. For example, earlier), entitled "Plutonium the Project members voted Inc.: Technological Violence unanimously to endorse a Nu· clear Alert Conference. held as a Political Crisis." Burke benman, a Santa Fe at the University of New Mexresident who attended the ico, even sending a pair of programs, expressed apprecia- members to lead a workshop tion for St. John's sponsorship in the two-day lecture and disof the series of events. "I think cussion p~riod. At a later date the Energy Study Project is the group declined a request the first real significant step to serve as the Santa Fe''conI've seen ·out of the ivory tact for a coalition of antitower syndrome," said Burke nuclear groups. Nevertheless, Denman. it's a podium not in their concern for and unonly for St. John's, but for the . derstanding of the islmes in- , whole community-a place volved, group members are where we can come to listen hardly dispassionate, and all to both sides. There isn't any agree that the subject must be place else in Santa Fe, and rigorously studied and there's a real need for that." discussed. a ·David St. John Memorial Established .. ~ . David St. John ('76) died. .suddenly in February, 1979, at age 27. His Santa Fe classmates immediately began to raise funds to create a memorial to a student they remembered as making an enormous contribution to the experience that was St. John's for them. In a letter to her classmates, Glenda Holladay Eoyang ('76) urged . that contributions be made to a memorial fund for David St. John. The fund would provide money to support students who she said, "like David, filled a special need in the community: a leader of Search and Rescue; a supporter of the student ac- .. tivities office; an older student sophomore year to travel returning to complete his 'around the country. · studies and an excellent He began his studies at St. mim,ic of Dr. Weigle." . John's in 1970, then spent two David St. John stories have· years working and traveling in become part of the College's Europe. In 1973 he returned collection of legends. Alan to St. John's and would have Boyett, who graduated this graduated in 1976 but for an year, tells of the time St. John unwritten senior essay. Back in Houston, St. John was playing goalie for the College soccer team. "David · managed a restaurant and bar was holding the ball and and was in the process of someone from the opposing opening a second restaurant team tried to kick it out of his when he died. hands. The kick brok~ his leg College officials hope to in two placej." implement the scholarship by David was born February May 1980. If the fund grows 22, 1952. He became a high over $3,000, the interest will school athletic star in football be used to aid students. If not, and track even though he left the principal itself will be high school after his used. Dr. Richard D. Weigle (left) and the Reverend Donald Campbell, Rector, Episcopal Church of the Holy Faith, exchange greetings after the Sunday morning Baccalaureate Service just before graduation. (Photo by John Delournett) �PAGES THE REPORTER JULY, 1979" New lVIE~Dc:o • ith Naomi tiarwood had . the distinction of . being one of three members of a family receiving a St. John's degree on May 13. She also was one of the first three Graduate Institute students ever to receive . degrees in the regular annual May commencement. In past years, students who have earned Graduate Institute degrees have had them conferred in graduation ceremonies at the end of the summer sessions. From now on Graduate Institute students will be able to finish their degree requirements in the regular academic year if so desire. ,c,. Ei~hteen students in evening classes for tht: fall semester, which met Monday and Thursday nights, and 24 students registered for spring semester work. Of that number, three finished their degree requirements in time for the May commencement: Mrs. Garwood, Richard Crawford, a Santa Fe mathematics teacher, and Richard Scully, a Three members of the same world traveler who has stud- St. John's commencement. ied in Spain, taught in Dento Sue's ver, and worked as a carpenter in Santa Fe. Naomi Garwood, a teacher at Santa Fe's de Vargas Junior High School, was asked why she had come to the Graduate Institute. "I felt my be shaken up a she said. "My son earned his degree here, then my son Chris and my daughter-in-law began at St. John's. I was always listening to them talk, and my interest in the College as a place for me continued to grow. I enrolled a year ago. I felt it would be a challenge." Mrs. Garwood, who has a degree from Quincy College in Illinois in Chemistry, entered the Graduate Institute in the summer of 1978, completing the Philosophy and Theology section, then undertaking the Literature segment in the fall semester and Math and Science segments in the · spring term. Both segments The first three Graduate Institute students to receive their were offered in evening sesdegrees at a May commencement stand to receive their Master sions. She was awarded 9 of Uberai Arts degrees: (Left to right) Richard Crawford, credits for other graduate Naomi Garwood and Richard Scully. work. (continued p. 6) (Photo by John Delournett) Thirty-five percent of the 120 students Who are attending the Graduate Institute on the Santa Fe campus this summer have been awarded fellowships for their work, Barbara Skaug, admissions director for the Institute announced recently. Six different foundations support the students who attend the June 24 to August 17 session. The National Endowment for the Humanities has again become a supporter of Graduate Institute students. In April the N.E.H. awarded St. John's a new grant that will help support as many as 36 students each summer on both the Santa Fe and Annapolis campuses, and could amount to as much as $118,000. The figure depends on the college's ability to provide matching funds. This first year of the grant the College expects to enroll 12 students on each campus. These students will have 80 percent of their support provided by N.E.H. aµd 20 percent by the College. Students are eligible for one year of with N.E.H. support. The second year of the grant, N.E.H. will provide 50 percent of the support for up to 36 new students, and the College the other' 50 percent. The third year N.E.H. will .support 20 nercent, and the College provide 80 percent. Students who come to the Graduate Institute under the auspices of the N.E.H. funding will enroll in a preceptorial designed specifically for them. Tauglit by David Jones With the Santa Fe Graduate Institute serving as host, 44 representatives from 37 institutions attended the semi-annual conference of the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs, an organization which promotes interdisciplinary liberal arts graduate study. Barbara Skaug, GI registrar and conference coordinator, said the two subjects explored in the meeting were the feasibility of instituting doctoral programs in liberal arts and the institutions' ability to transfer students among themselves. Participants would like to see students encouraged to take some of their work at a different institution than the one from which they expect to receive a degree although there is no wish to standardize programs, Miss Skaug said. St. John's is one of the few with a prescriptive curricu- on the Santa Fe campus and Geoffrey Comber at Annapolis, the students will read such classics in educational philosophy as Whitehead's Aims of Education . and Dewey's My Pedagogic Creed. They will also be expected to prepare projeets that can be initiated at their home schools, such as curriculum changes ot new · teaching methods.· N.E.H. fellows enrolled in Santa ·pe this summer are: Pamela Seman, Arvada, Colorado; Bob Neslund, Faribault, Minnesota; Kenneth Lee, ' Brooklyn, New York; William Douglas, Urbanna, Virginia; John Sabine, Portola, CaliforPaul Hagedorn, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Arlene Duran, Espanola, New MexiSandra Granderson, co; Brooklyn, New York; Chris Williams, New York City; Aubrey Jones, Suitland, Maryland, and Sharon Medley, Washington, Another new sponsor of fel- · lows for the Graduate Institute this year is the Edward W. Hazen Foundation of New ;Connecticut. One of the Foundation's purposes is "to stimulate concern for the humane values which undergird a just society." The foundation has earmarked $15,000 support 6 school principals for-study at the Institute. The idea for the new program came from Anna Giles, a New York City teacher who has studied at the Graduate Institute in Santa Fe and who has been very enthusiastic about her experiences at St. (continued p. 6) lum. What all the programs have in common is their interdisciplinary nature. Colleges and universities interested in starting a graduate institute in liberal studies and other institutions with fledgling programs attended a workshop designed to answer their questions. The workshop was led by representatives of schools with well-established programs. Attending it was Geoffrey Comber, associate director of the Graduate Institute, along with personnel from Wesleyan, Dartmouth, Boston University, University of Michigan at Dearborn, and Hollins College in Virginia. Association members attended a cocktail party at St. John's and toured the campus. Miss Skaug said interest in the college resulted in at least six about teaching inquiries there. �PAGE6 Institute Has G "I found the program to be students attend each summer the most rewarding educa- session. In 1977 the program tional experience of my life. was extended to the AnnapoIn this one summer St. John's lis campus where 17 students has had a profound impact were enrolled. In 1978 there upon the way in which I view were 37 enrollees, and this the purpose and method of year SO were expected. liberal education." This stateStudents may earn credits ment by Gregg Smith ('77 at either campus toward their G .I.) is . typical of many Graduate Institute degree. In students who have attended · 1978, for the first time, gradthe Graduate Institute's sum- uate students have been able mer program, which began its to attend classes during the 13th summer June 24. regular academic year on the The Graduate Institute first Santa Fe campus, enrolling opened its doors on the· Santa for up to 9 hours each semesFe campus in 1967 as the Tea- ter. cher's Institute in Liberal EduThe program is divided into cation. There were 33 stu- four segments: Politics and dents in the 27 <-'~~~~h. Philosophy and Theated the """'f,,.,_ and Mathesion. The Natural Science. Two hundred and Masters of Liberal ies have been granted Institute. On the average, JULY, ]979 THE REPORTER of Arts. Each segment consists of three different classes taken u ted 2 concurrently, a Seminar, a ""'" Tutorial and a Preceptorial. The Seminar, the heart of the program, meets Monday and Thursday evenings, Two tutors and about 18 students converse on the assigned reading. Near the end of the session each student participates in a 30 minute oral examination based on reading assignments. The Tutorial is a class of 10 to 14 students and one tutor which meets four mornings each week for at least an hour and a Assignments are and dose re",:a; ... ~ is expected. At least two are written. for Institute students. The program is similar to c the undergraduate program. Many of the same books are used and the format is the same. David Jones, Director of the Graduate Institute, explains that many of the Institute' s students are adults who regret that they did not have an opportunity as undergraduates to undertake .a program such at St. John's. "Since the founding .of the Graduate Institute we can tell them that it's not too late," says Jones. Jones stresses, however, that the program for the Institute was designed in its own right for its own purposes, strictly for graduate students. "Some graduates of the Colthe Institute and much from the after have once, you are not done with it. As you mature material becomes and ,...,,.,.h<•n., even more enllghtc:!m,ng One distinct bethe. two programs is the of graduate students to 7 transfer credits (up to 9 hours) from other graduate schools and apply them to a St. John's Master of Arts degree. Barbara Skaug, Institute Registrar, points out that, while the St. John's Graduate Institute is recognized as providing an especially relevant experience for teachers and others associated with education, students come from virtually all walks of life. Since its inc~p­ tion, the Graduate Institute has enrolled farmers, bartenders, doctors and airline pilots, to name just a few. ·"There has been no change in the goal of the Institute since its " Ms. noted. first when it was called the lrn;tltutE;::. it was ad'teachers and oth- (continued from p.5) "It was hard being a full- other assignments of shorter time teacher and coming to length. In 1974 they left the St. John's in the evening, but Overseas Schools and came to it was well worth the effort Santa Fe to live, where their involved. I don't think I could son Michael was sophomore recommend too highly the at St. John's College. Mrs. Graduate Institute's program Garwood began teaching at for teachers. The ideas that · de Vargas Junior High, and are tossed around here are . Mr. Garwood took a job with incredible. And there is no the New Mexico Department instructor up at the front of of Education as a math conthe class with his or her mind sultant. made up about what's right or Mrs. Garwood would have wrong. You are always being liked to have been on the confronted with new ques- campus even more than she tions. was. "I loved the people in: "The methods used here are the program-all backgreat with the kids I teach, grounds and ages, with such too. At that age they will ar- inquisitive minds. But there gue about anything. If nothing was not much time to sit a.else, they learn to question round and talk about things. the garbage they see on tele- We were in tutorial from 5:00 vision." to about 6:20 and then Semi.The program benefit"ed her nar at 8:00 or Lab from 1:00 personally as well as profes- to 9:00. I would get up here sionaUy, she says: "Last· sum- a little after four to meet peomer when I started, I really ple at the coffee shop. Being felt my brain stretching. All on campus and seeing the unthe atrophied cells were wak- dergraduates made me aware ing up. Non-Euclidean geo- of the warmth and concern metry, for instance, was a they feel for each other. It strange new world, thinking of made me a little envious. Barban Sbug (left) and David Jona, regbtnr and Director of the Graduate Institute, look forward to things in four dimensions. I . the 12th summer session of the Institute. (Photo by John Deloumett) regretted there was not more "I see St. John's· as a place time to spend on it." where young people who like .Naomi Garwood met her to question, to think things husband, Sterling, during through, to challenge ideas, World War II and they mar- and who have an insatiable ·(continued from p.5) ried in 1945. After their three curiosity about everything in John's. She suggested to col- gram. York City area teachers at the sons entered school, Mrs. the world can come and lege officials that, in her opinPrincipals from any level, Institute, either in Annapolis Garwood b"egan a teaching ca- study. It's not every person's through high or Santa Fe. The Edward John reer .· Her husband, also be- cup of tea, and it may be ion, teachers would be much elementary began school, from public or private Noble . Foundation came a teacher and together, 'elitist' in that sense. But it more likely to be able to inischools of any geographical sending teachers to the Santa in 1965, they began working makes you willing to think a- tiate changes in their home area of the country are eligi- Fe campus three years ago. for the American Overseas bout ...things instead of saying schools based on the knowble to apply. Hazen Fellows Initially 5 students came. This Schools, which provided in- 'By jingo, this is t.he way it ledge gained at St. John's if principals of schools could beare: David Bluford, St. Al- year there will be 14 students struction primarily for child- is."' . bans, N.Y.; Paul Bitting, in Santa Fe. Those students ren whose.parents worked for What does Sterling Gar- come acquainted with the Brooklyn, N.Y.; Lynwood who will be here for their third the State.Department. wood think of his St. John's program. William Bradley, President Cooper. 'Lhe Bronx. N.Y. and summer are: William Fowler, .In ten years, they moved wife and family? ~'Quite frankLarry Healy, Bayfield, Colo- Jamaica, N. Y.; Geneva Harriliterally around the world, liv- ly," says Mrs. Garwood, "he of the Hazen Foundation, was rado. son, Brooklyn N.Y., and ing in Thailand, Laos, Af- was drooling all the time I was approached with the idea, Two foundations based in Donna Heuhner, New York ghanistan, the Phillipines, Bo- up here. He would have loved came to Santa Fe, liked what he saw, and initiated the proNew York City sponsor New livia, and the Sudan among to do it himself.'' · {continued on p. 7) a Fellowships At Graduate Institute �THE REPORTER JULY, 1979 Twenty-seven parents of St. John's students, some from as far away as Virginia and Connecticut, came to Santa Fe to spend a weekend with their children April 26 though 28, the third annual Parents Week end at the College. "The ma1oritv of parents PAGE7 Tn_wn, by Thorton Wilder), Emily addresses herself to the very questions of afterlife raised in Whitman's poem. Mrs. Seton herself had once coJllel2~e pro- classes, were Mill Dorothy Gadberry, cari, NM; Mr. and Mrs. Curt Schaafsma, Arroyo Hondo, NM; Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Seton, Mill Valley, CA; Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Sorensen, Glenwood Springs, CO; and Mrs. Virginia Thornton, Richardson, TX. '·Parents of who came for Parents Weekend were Mr. and Mrs. Donald Faerman, Stamford, CT and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stice of Davis, CA. Juniors' parents were Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Davidson, Phoenix, AZ; Mrs. Lois Leipe, Albuquerque; Mrs. Heide Kingsbury, Carmichael, CA; and Mr. and Mrs. George Pollard, Vienna, VA. Mrs. Jodie Doremus of Wagon Mound, NM and Mrs. Helen Hussander of Engelwood, CO came to visit their senior offspring. Suzanne. Gill found the parents were the most enthusiastic about a special event planned· for them on Saturday morning, April 28. "We organized two seminars, asking 'tutors Sam Brown, Elizabeth ·Engel, Sharon Garvey and Timothy Miller to lead them. We sent :CQpies of Walt Whitman's 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bioomed' to parents who indicated they were planning to attend the weekend. "We chose this reading," she explained, "because our Friday night lecture the night before was to be about Abraham Lincoln, and of course, 'Lilacs' is about Lincoln's death and burial. The seminar I attended was as good as any St. John's seminar I've ever been in. Almost everyone spoke, and all of us saw something in the poem we had not seen before." , One of the parents participating in the seminar, Suzanne Seton, parent of freshman Joel Seton, noted that in the play parents were invited to see that evening (Our sent the ture. Steven LrocKen, '""'"t'"" from Notre an address coln." He is a John's Annapolis tutor who has taught at the Graduate Institute in Santa Fe and who will do so again' this summer. After a picnic lunch on the plaza, many parents took advantage of a Saturday afternoon tour of Santa Fe arranged just for them. They were taken to see a classic Santa Fe home, that of Mrs. Joseph McKibben. Mrs. McKibben had the home built in the '30's, scouring the state for interesting materials to use in her three-to-five-foot-thick walled home. The ceiling beams, for example, are from a home in Mora and are 200 years old. The tour made a stop at the folk art museum and also visited the Christo Rey Church, one of the largest adobe structures in the world. It was built in 1940 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the coming of the Spanish to the area. After the tour a reception honoring the parents was held in the Junior Common Room. J. Burchenal Ault, Vice President, presented copies of Death Comes For the Arche bishop by Willa Cather to the parents, hoping that they would enjoy the Santa Fe setting of the novel after having visited here. The student production of Our Town, directed by senior David Doremus, was staged Saturday evening. The play was scheduled to coincide with Parents Weekend, and many members of the cast had parents in the audience. Fe Rebecca Wilson Impressed by the n1gn quality of candidates, members of St. John's Presidential Search Committee have held three days of intensive interviewing and anticipate additional interviews prior to the July 27-28 meeting of the Board of Visitors and Governors. The number of suggested names, which at one time peaked to ab_out 200 has been screened and reduced to the most serious candidates for the St. John's presidency. D. Robert Yarnall, Jr., of Philadelphia, chairman, said it is not placing any limit on the number since names are Felio still being proposed. The new president, to take office July 1, 1980, will succeed Richard D. Weigle. In order that the selection proce.ss may proceed as smoothly as possible, the committee is preserving the confidential nature of this early stage of the selection process by maintaining a strict silence with regard to the names of candidates. "We are encouraged by the extremely high quality of the dozen people we have had an opportunity to interview so far," Mr. Yarnell commented following the late May and early June meetings. serves lunch on the "Among these highly qualified candidates, there is a deep commitment and strong interest in St. John's College both as it is and as it should be for the future as a challenge to the rest of the educational establishment," he noted. "We are heartened by the high quality of people available to provide the next chapter of leadership for St. - John's." What came through with the camlidaks, h~ said, was their feeling that St. John's needs to survive and prosper more than ever, given the current condition of education. At Graduate Institute (continued from p. 6) City. Also attending for their third summer are Velma PittFoster, New York City, and Patricia Prince, The Bronx, N. Y. , who plan to finish their Masters of Arts degrees this summer. Several Noble fellows will return for their second summer. They are Miriam Chaves, Flushing, N.Y.; Gwendolyn Dunlap, The Bronx, N.Y.; Margaret Guerzon, Brooklyn, N.Y., and William Stephens, Port Washington, N. Y. The Vincent Astor Foundation has been sending New York City teachers to Santa Fe since 1971. In January of 1978 the Foundation extended its committment to continue to do so at least through 1983 by awarding the College a Suzanne Gill and her assist- grant of $132,000. ant, sophomore Geoffrey Five new fellows will be in Rommel, were told by many Santa Fe this summer. They students that their parents had are Eldrenna Durham, Jamaia good time. "We were so ca, N. Y., a junior high school teacher; Barbara lucky to have such beautiful science weather," said Ms. Gill. "This Molinari, Long Island City, has been such a cold spring, N. Y., a middle school English but those three days were per- teacher and reading specialist fect." · with an M.A. from Columbia; Ann · Rhodes, The Bronx, N. Y., a language arts and ethics teacher of middle school students, who has a M.A. from New York University, and Myron Peikes, Brooklyn, N.Y., a high school . social studies teacher who has earned an M.A. from Brooklyn College. The fifth new fel-· low, Yvonne Washington, Brooklyn, N.Y., has completed one year of the program on her own and is a junior high school English teacher. Returning for their second summer of study as Astor Fellows are Patricia Frazier, The Bronx, N.Y.; Anne MebaneSeals, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Minnie Long, Cambia Heights, N. Y. and Susan Serrano, The Bronx, N.Y. Lolita Wood, St~ Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, will complete her third summer of work and expects to graduate. Laurie Grand, Brooklyn, N. Y. will complete her 4th summer and also expects to earn her degree. The Riot Relief Fund, a regional program begun in Bos- ·--·~·----·-~·---·~--.-.......-~-- .... -----·- ton in the 19th century to aid policemen and firemen who had been injured while tr-¥ing to quell a riot, no~ often provides educational·' benefits. John P. McGuirk, a sergeant with the New York City Police Department, will be back for his third summer at the Institute under the fund's sponsorship. For the second summer, professors from Middle Eastern colleges and universities will attend the Graduate Institute under the joint sponsorship of their home countries, the United States International Communications Agency and the~ Reader's Digest DeWitt Wallace Foundation. This summer 7 students are expected at the Santa Fe campus and 7 at Annapolis. It will cost $45,000 to send these 14 scholars to study at St. John's. Those at Santa Fe will be: Mr. Daghighi, Iran;. Mr. Driss Ouaouicha, Morrocco; Mr. Onur, Turkey; Ms. Basr, Turkey; Mr. Abdul Rahman, Jordan; Mr. Nashashibi, West Bank; a·nd Joseph Mahmud, Jordan.· �PAGES JULY, 1979 THE REPORTER ·N Thi;i Third International ethnic groups by looking at Conference on Archaeoas- their architecture, calendrics, tronomy was held on the San- glyphs, and mythology. ta F~ campus June 11-13 and "To do anything in archaeoattnlcted participants from astronomy," he says, "reBrazil, Canada, England and quires knowing something aMexico as well as the United bout astronomy, some geomeStates. try, and an ability to put the Forty-five papers were deliwhole thing together.· It is not vered at the conference, a field by itself; we want the which was held as a result of information fed into other disa $10,000 grant to the College ciplines. Archaeoastronomers from the National Endowment have professional backfor the Humanities. grounds in architecture, anthRay Williamson, head of ropology, art history, folkthe conference and assistant lore, geography, political scidean at the Annapolis cam- ence, physics, and of course, pus, believes that St. John's, archaeology and astronomy." with its interdisciplinary proWilliamson, who co-augram, was a most appropriate thored three of the papers setting for the conference. He ·presented at the conference, describes archaeoastronomy was trained as an astronomer, as an interdisciplinary science receiving his Ph.D in that that studies the "pre-history of subject from the University of astronomy" by attempting to Maryland in 1968. He became interpret the significance of interested in archaeoastrocelestial events for various nomy in 1972 after a summer spent in New Mexico. "I was teaching out here in the Graduate Institute that summer," /Williamson recalled, "and after the session · Howie Fisher (another Annapolis tutor) and I did some field work in Chaco Canyon, west-southwest of Santa Fe. We got interested in how the pueblo buildings were aligned to the compass points, and published a paper on it the following year, which we presented at the first major conference in Mexico City iR 1973. Since that time, there has been another o-ne at Colgate University in Pennsylvania, and they both resulted in books. I expect to publish the proceedings of this conference in book form as well." Williamson says that an interest in what goes on in the sky is particularly common to primitive people. "You find aspects of the sky throughout early literature. Even Thucydides tells us what time of year an event took place by the first star that rose in the east in its cycle in the sky. That kind of general information was common among pre-literate peoples, and it's the job of the ethnoastronomer and the archaeoastronomer to understand-by questioning . people, by reading the build·ings-to determine what kind of astronomical system they had. "What you try to do-and this is where our study departs from traditional archaeology-is to . get some idea of their thought process from what geometrical and astronomical ideas they use," Williamson explained. "For instance, in Chaco Canyon there's a kiva where there are squares and circles with the square's center on the center of the circle, and you can see a kind of rudimentary !:jeometry develop. They focus•on the number four; ~mong the Zuni, the word for earth is derived from a root that has the number four in it, as in the four principal directions. But they also like the number six, which you get when you add the zenith and the nadir; and then there's seven, because if you add the center, which is the individual, you get the number seven. "There's a wonderful Zuni· myth about 'Waterstretcher,' a water beast who stretched his legs in the four directions . to help the Zuni people find the center-which is the heart. There's some wonderful stuff you can learn thr01.~gh archaeoastronomy about how these people saw the universe." from about 100 friends a half dozen years ago. Out of nenecessity due to the -need in Santa Fe fund raising efforts have been more advanced. Now, organizational steps . have been taken at Annapolis in the · year which should rapid elimination of difference over the next few years. Thomas Parran has been promoted to Director of College Relations, supervising ,all fund and.publi<>reWilson . lations continues her fine public relations work and Edda Peter is Development Officer with responsibility for community relations and historic preservation projects. Mr. Parran. now seeks another· development officer to discover new funding sources among smaller foundations and family trusts in the eastern third of the country. In short, there is no reason why the eastern campus should not achieve considerably more financial stability and independence in the near future, not only from large gifts to capital and but also from an increasing flow of smaller gifts and grants in support of existing programs. At its June 20 meeting in New York City, the Executive Committee of the Fund for the 1980's undertook two further initiatives in search of added substantial gifts to the endowments of both campuses. First, in addition to the development Mr. Weigle and I continue. nationwide some 300 persons -thought capable of capital gifts over $50,000, members of the Committee individually are takmg on an additional new group of about 75 potentially significant capital donors in major cities across the country. This new effort will be under the coordination·and constant prodding!-of the Enjoying the reunion barbecue at the home of Burch and Pony College's fund-raising consulAult were (left to right) Michael Dayton (•70), Steven Tucker tant Charles Feldstein .of Chi('69), Carol Ann Tucker ('69), John Strange ('69) and Sansi cago. Mr. Feldstein's long record Girard Coonan ('68). (Photo by John Delournett) o\ success with the University of Chicago and other major not-for-profit institutions has been built in part on his suecess in energizing board members, alumni, and other volunteers. He has already been most helpful in these matters locally, on each campus, and with alumni committees. Secondly, at Mr. Feldstein's suggestion, the Executive Committee ae:reed to set in _ to tap the increasing level of gifts to colleges and universities by the country's large national corporations. To begin individual members of the Committee will contact just over half of those corporations listed in Fortune 500. They will be armed, of course, with a prepared presentation and a brief, businesslike .document describing the college, its unique -purpose, and its national importance, as.king for both general support and student financial aid funds over a several year Again Mr. Feldstein coordinate the activities of committee members, assuring prompt action and adequate support. AU of this ensures that while Mr. Weigle and I are free to continue necessary work on the magical sidethat is with existing individual and foundation donor candidates, a slow, steady surge of increasing numbers of small gifts will be rolling in. There is both a tortoise and a hare in our lives, and we need both. Although we make progress and we are working on future plans to develop new gifts and to increase giving at all levels, it will take an increasing amount of the time of Board members, alumni committees, local campaign volunteers and staff. But the time spent will be rewarded by 'ii- significant, slow but sure increase in gifts of all types. My wise and witty predecessor, Jim Shannon used to say, "Y_ou don't make pickles _by squirting vinegar at cucumbers. They have to be soaked." Finally, the importance of public relations simply cannot be overemphasized. No one will give money to St. John's whoc-hasn't heard of it. The work of Rebecca Wilson in and of Mary and the firm of Newsome & Company in Santa Fe, is important in telling stories about .the. C:ollege which will .:catch. public attentimi. More often than not this means writing stories or proposed TV treatments which play up what normaly happens in the daily life of the program. But frequently new activities are more striking. Both are important and both depend on our own imagination and thoughtfulness. (continued from p. 1) . Local annual giving in each SO per cent-a level which is of the College's two· histori~ the average for the country's communities· is rising steadily outstanding colleges. Certain- and is expected to continue ly the unique curriculum of to rise due to the efforts of St. John's and the relationship staff, large volunteer comarising therefrom with a alum- mittees, and a consistent proni should make this goal rea- gram of campus activities desonable. Its expected future signed to attract townperson effect on College finances is attendance and participation. obvious, reducing the present In 1978-79 the total for both annual gap between expenses . campuses came to almost and income for both cam- S&0.000 from 400.friends. This puses by about one fifth. compares- with ~.-nm12 UfHl1 1 Public relations are generally as meaning newspaper, magazine and TV coverage. With the substantial help of the new Board Committee on the Public Role of · the College-a committee proposed over a year ago by alumna Board member Mary Gallagher-we are beginning to develop significant possibilities for national media exposure over the next twelve months. But beyond the media a sound, creative and effective public relations policy requires consistent, high level efforts to win the continuing affection and attention of friends near and far. Events, entertainment, openness, are important, for the competition with others, simply, never ends. Yet the same time we face those tests of integrity and courage and intellectual power which make our life, at least, the difficult, exciting passage it is. The second is basic to the first, of course, yet the world we live in requires a high; level of performance in both. All of this is a long way of saying that the Fund for the 1980's has a iong way to go and is moving. I �JULY, 1979 THE REPORTER PAGE 9 John Murchison, Board Member, Dies in Dallas Ms. Ferron Asks Johnnies For Assistance John D. Murchison, a mem. ber of the Board of Visitors and Governors of St. John's College since 1971, died in Dallas, Texas, on Thursday evening, June 14, 1979, from a heart attack brought on by an acute onset of asthma, from which he had suffered for many years. A graduate of Yale in ~ 947, Mr. Murchison and his wife, Lupe, lived for seve~al years in Santa Fe after college, 'before returning to Dallas to take up the reins of widespread family business interests. He made the first gift to launch the western campus of St. John's in 1961. Over the years, he. was a steady, generous contributor of his time, energies, advice, and substance. He served the Col. lege's Board ·of Visitor--s and Governors variously as Chairman of the Finance Committee, as Co-Chairman of the Fund for the 1980's, and, at his death, as a member of the Presidential Search Committee. Vice President J. ,Burchenal Ault offered this tribute to him: "I think it accurate to say of John Murchison that he combined great wealth, power and authority with simple tastes, deep and abiding personal loyalties, and judgment which was always calm, careful, humane, and shrewd. To have been associated with him over so many years has been a joy and a privilege. His friendship is something all of us fortunate enough to have known him will treasure always. Modest, courageous and simple, his life was an example of the best and noblest traditions of liberal learning." The admissions Office of St. John's College in Santa Fe is lookil).g forward to another increase in freshman enrollment this fall. If we are to ensure a maximum enrollment for the fall of J 979; we feel it is essential that alumni continue their presentation of the College to prqspective students. We have found· that the single . Ray Cave (left), commencement speaker, Robert Ban, Dean ol the College, and William largest influence on a stuDarkey, tutor (back to the camera), share a moment at the Reunion barbecue. dt=:nt' s' decision to attend St. (Photo by Judy Kistler) John's is personal contact with alumni, students, and friends of the College. . If, you know of someone who might appreciate hearing about the St. John's Program, pl_ease ·be aware of how helpful your personal interest in At the commencement and of "Chaeremon 14." warded $50 for excellence their plans can be. We would ceremonies a special award The Duane .L. Peterson were John Wilson for his of course, be happy to send was announced by Dr. Scholarship of $1,250 went to sophomore essay, "Various them a catalogue and other .Richard Weigle. Alison Fair- Dawn Ellinwood, a junior Gibberings on Creation,,,. information. .child Bundy ('82) received a of outstanding academic Kerry Cullen for her freshman Susan Ferron CRC Handbook of Chemistry achievement and contribution essay, "As One Straightens a Director of Admissions and Physics for her outstan- to the college com~unity .. Sapling Which is Growing __ ----~- . ding advanced chem~stry Crookedly," and Anne Wu for special pursuit .... Education Other juniors honored were her translation from the makes a man a more intelliessay. Benjamin Haggard was giv- Carla Deicke, Jam es Forkin French, Zola's "Celle qui gent shoemaker, if that be his en the Board of Visitors and and Geraldine Glover, who m'aime." Junior Michael occupation, but not by teachGovernors silver medal as the received Bromwell Ault Me- Wood won two prizes, one for ing him how to make shoes; morial Scholarships for lead- his junior essay "Questioning it does so by the mental exersenior with the highest academic record. Mr. Haggard ership and academic ability. Freedom and Judgment" a11d cise it gives and the habits was also awarded $5ff for Each received a $60 prize in the other for his essay - on ' it impresses." .his senior essay, "Cervantes' : addition to the scholarship . " . Cave added, "You know Knight of Faith: A Look at Determma- · well the distinction between Juniors receiving the St. mathematics, I)on Quixote Through Kierke- John's College Community tion" an art and a craft. There is gaard-Colored Spee ta cl es." much less art, and much more Scholarships, in · recognition · · Other seniors who won of financial need, academic Plaques were awarded for craft in the world than you awards were David Doremus, achievement, and service to a·chievement in athletics and may think. I wonder if having the Senator Millard Tydings the College community were 'student activities. Maria Iron- the education you do will not Memorial prize of $50 for Sara B~asley, Steven Cramp- . sid~ ('8,0 and Benjamin Gold:.. prove to be, in essence, your excellence in public speaking; ton, ~Victoria Erhart, Charles stem ( 79) were named athart. With that in hand the Henry Horsey, the Thomas J. Hinckley; Kyle Schultz and 'letes of the year. Daniella crafts can always be learned." Watson Foundation FeUow- Michael Sloper. Good ('82) and Eric Ebert In referring to some re('81) were honored for an out.ship of $11,000; Kelly Bradsearch done by Time maga- knowledge. "This is the foundation. On ford, $50 for his senior essay, Two sophomores receiving standing performance in athzine's research staff, he said "Joyce's Ulysses and the Ault Scholarships were Corey letics. Mary Sue Laurel ('79) that there is evidence that the it you will later place the Game of Laugh and Lie · Crume .and Jean Warfield. and' William Steadman ('79) average American changes honest discovery-each of Down;" Eric Rosenblum, $50 Cynthia Rutz, a freshman, was were selected as the students jobs seven times and changes you in your own time-that ·for his story "La Cuenta;" and awarded a Cummunity Schol- who had made the most outcareers three time. He said, not only are all humans falli- , standing contributions in all Nigel Hinshelwood, $50 for arship. "Those are statistics both ble, there is nothing wrong his translation from the Greek Other prize winners a- student activities. startling and invigorating. with that. The more you know And they could lead an avid perfection is not expected of liberal .artist to leap to a com- · you, the more likely you are forting conclusion: that voca- · to do your best-and your (continued from p.l) best will be expected of you." t t th tional education is obsolete." . t . charged the St. lohn'~ educa.::__ we alone cannot diCtate Stuart M 111 o 111us ra e e "Y h In conclusion, he turned to ·f a St . Jo h n •s e d ucaHe observed, · ou ave · tion with responsibility for the events .. This recognition is not va1ue o 1us1ve Woody Allen, whom he said . s ·d M"ll • "Men are men as an earthworm in as desert. Time has called a comic gelearned that truth 1s e 1 graduate's life to be filled with a sign of America's decline. It t ion. at a "questions, questions, ques- is a sign of growing American befo~e. they are lawyers, or And that each ·serious ques- nius. Woody Allen said, "I tions. Why? Because you will maturity in a complex world." phys1c1ans, or. mercha~ts, or tion is like a jewel, taking on know so many people who are not be afraid of your own ig- Cave went on to say, "And manufacturers, and tf yo~ a dozen shadings as it turns well educated and super-edunorance. It will not surprise that maturity, I suggest, stems make them cap~ble and sensi- beneath the light of rational cated. Their common probyou that you do not know the from a willingness to face up ble men, they will make th~m- appraisal. And that it is useful lem is they have no undertruth, and your quest for it in to our own ignorance." . selves ~apa~le and s~n_sible to examine your own passion- standing and no wisdom." all its ramifications will-for . . . . _ _ lawyers and phys1c1ans. ately held position with as Cave added, "A sad and true better or worse-never leave He also told the graduates., "What. profession!ll men much skepticism as your critic commentary about all too you." " ... I am going to tell you that should carry .awar wit~ them who decries it. You start, oh much of American education; He quoted Secretary of I feel that a graduate of St.·. from a umvers1ty 1s not seminars be praised, by know- but it is not true about your State Cyrus Vance in describ- John's is in a_singular position· pr?fessiona! kn,?wledge," ing that those who disa.gree education .... This, in a maning today's world. Said Vance, to be unafraid about the op~ M1~ls contmu~d, but that with you might be right; ner of speaking, has been your "There can be no going back tions that lie ahead because wh~ch shoul~ direct the use of . though of course you doubt it. last St. John's lecture. It will to a time when we thought he or she should know what their professional knowledge; And if knowing yourself is not be followed by a question there could be American solueducation really is, and should they should carry away t!1e really the point of the game, period. The questions await tions to every problem ... Most you and I am confident that know how tc use it." lig~t of general c1:1ltu~~ to ill- you are at least usefully em·Americans now recogniz_e that He used a quotation of John . ummate the techmcaht1es of a barked on the search for that the answers are within you ... " _Annual A wards Bestowed 26 Students Honored Commencement Day Firsts �JULY, The tradition ·of Class Day was kept alive another year in Santa Fe as the Class of 1979 gathered on the plaza the sunny Saturday before commencement to share words of wisdom, swap partfog ·remarks and in general, meet together one last time. This summer H St. John's students will be living in Santa Fe and continuing a fitness and training program with the St. John's Search and Rescue Team. On tap for any rescue emergency, these students are part of the combined town and college team that is called upon to undertake about 18 missions a year. David Doremus emceed the event with his usual flair, and was followed by the folk music of Steven Paul (guitar), and Nigel and Jack Hinshelwood (guitar and mandolin).• The trio played an appropriate rendition of the Tom Paxton song, "I Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound." The full roster of the team includes 40 St. John's students · and 22 people from Santa Fe. The students who will be in. Santa Fe this summer are Kelly Bradford, Margie Duran, Vicki Erhart, Michael Gadberry, Charles Hinckley, Laurie McDonald, David Neidorf, Michael Neill, Dan Polzer and Mark St. John. Occasionally a student from St. John's Graduate Institute becomes the object of a Search and Rescue Team search. If so, at least the Institute student can take heart in the fact that members of the team will have a personal interest in finding him or he.r. Peterson 2) (continued from page practically devastated by goats, all the way to the back side of Tesuque Peak." Finally, we left the road altogether and bumped along for half a mile inside the overgrown ruts of a pick-up truck . until we reached the edge of the parcel, a long salt flat filled with water. The sky was still cloudy, so we left the station wagon on a rise and walked on down to the bottom. "Keep alert for antelopes," Peterson cautioned. "This is antelope country-at least it used to be. It's been quite a hot political football here, all these fences around. The adults can jump them, but they're a problem for the young antelope. That is, it's no problem on private land where the owners keep the antelope in and shoot them, or keep them out, but on public land the government has the responsibility of protecting wildlife as well as cattle;" At the top of a small hummock we got a sense of the lay , of the land. The little lake · (it was no more than a quarter-mile long) was ringed by eroded dunes-"mini-badlands" Peterson called themturrets of sandy soil pitted with baseball-sized holes, the homes of bank swallows. A variety of weeds and grasses flourished there: delicate blue -grama and wild onion; a tall· Graduation exercises get underway, grass with pale pink inflorescences at the ends of long stems that looked somethi!lg like saltgrass; sagebrush with its pungent smell and chamisa, or rabbit weed; and the bright green snakeweed, ubiquitous emblem of New Mexico's over-grazed grasslands. The lake itself was still, though a light wind blew out of. the northeast. A thin film of algae floated over. most of the surface, reflecting in green the masses of clouds that rolled overhead like the ghosts of buffalo. Under the dull sky the land looked more like an English heath-or a Maryland backwater-than a tiny water hole in the great dish of the semi-arid plains. Peterson knelt dow over a flower, inspecting it with the. 14z lens he wore on a thong around his neck. Then he stood up and looked out over the lake, shading his eyes with the flat of his hand. Small brown and white birdshorned larks-flitted along the shore. "This could certainly be a candidate area," he ·said, · scanning the fake from end to end. "A publicly owned .salt lake that is pretty ... of course, it's best when it's got water in it. Multiply the charm by .1 to see what it would be like Sunday, May 13~ (Photo by John try. Once, for instance, it was versity in this . state-mosffy ·,the intricate arrangement of vegetation. It would have a pistils and stamens in a junior list of existing natural areas, . member of the mustard famiwhich are protected, any by ly; another time it was just subtraction, a list of areas the view, a rare perspective whi~h need to be orotected. on an ocean of hills dad in · Then if we got four or five · nothing but cactus and snakeweek; and one time, further thousand dollars in a gift frnm south, in a most bleak section someone," he began to· fantaof a gerrymandered traCt, we , size, "why, we would set up accidentally flushed a. dove the publication of a couple of from under cover of a creo- good biological papers-New· sote bush, and peered down Mexico · Monographs, or something-because there is at her three startled young, their . dark brown feathers no real outlet for thesis length ecological studies here." packed together in the nest. When we began the long "All this work we're doing trek home, it was almost dark. for the Wilderness Study is To pass the time (and stay ajust a part of the work for the wake) we began playing "FaNatural ijistory Institute," milies," a kind of car quiz for~ Peterson said later after the biolog~sts,_ in which. you pick last property was logged. "We want to come up with.. a plan, an order (say, mammals and a system of natural areas for then name as many different. the state to preserve and pro- families as you can think of mote the ·state's ecological primates, marsupials, etc.) When that was exhausted, diversity. That first :'>top we (and so was I) I mentioned . made, for example-I doubt that I had stowed away a· . if it's wilderness, but it would make a nice natural area: It country music tape, along with a cassette player-vestiwould have the same effects, that is, no development, but ges of that civilization to which we were rapidly return-· it wouldn't appear on maps as 'wilderness,' ·and attract hiing. ker"! "Or," he offered, with a - "Hopefully, what we'll come· grin, "we could always listen · up with is a sizeab]P publito Homer." ~'How?" I asked, and that: cation with some sort of Roger Peterson began to classification of the natural dispeak, with great enthusiasm, of the wrath of Achilles, pausing occasionally for impro~ tu translation and proceeded to recite from memory a hefty Democratic Institutions to subject to the approval of tum the Center over to the chunk of the first book of the the Regents of the UniverIliad. University of California, sity when they meet in July. It wasn't Merle Haggard, Santa Barbara. This will be but it wasn't bad. on a hot July day." Back at the car ·we both copied down notes, our mutual silence highljghting the sheer, quiet of the place-. The day was warming, but a cool breeze slipped through the open doors of the wagon. "Make that .01," Peterson decided. Altogether, during the next twenty-four· hours we visited half a dozen different parcels, mostly in Lincoln and Chavez counties. Like Peterson had anticipated, we found a few mistakes in the BLM descrip. tions~no roads where roads were mentioned; varied landscape instead of .. monotonous vegetation and terrain" -but for the most part the areas had been used and abused for too many years to be readily ·converted to anything resembling "primeval wilderness." "Can you imagine," Peterson speculated once after surveying a . particularly beat up piece of property, "trying to explain to the owner of the Ferguson ranch that the lower 314 of 'his' land should be designated wilderness?" . Yet despite the generally disappointing state of. the land, Peterson always seemed to fmd something-or two or three more things-to spark our appreciation of the coun- Center Decides On ·uc, Santa Barbara At a meeting of its Directors on June 18, 1979, a decision was reached by the Center for the Study of DeJournett) Dean McCollaum recited his stirring love poem to St. Jql\n's called "Down Home" and Rich Oberon graced the class vvith a few farewell thoughts. After tutor Don Cook made it known that he was generally in favor of the future, the assembled seniors harmonized on that old country standby, "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" and. the com- · memoration ended. at �PAGEll THE REPORTER JULY, 1979 More About Transfers Develop~ent. Graduat s, 0th • ntmu to Co Officer Ne~ded At Annapolis Thomas Parran, director of college relations on the Annapolis campus, is looking for a. ~young, sales-oriented, articulate alumnus .or alumna to assume a new position as Development Officer in the College's Office of College Relations. The officer will be responsible for the development of gift possibilities among the smaller foundations and charitable trusts in the eastern third of the United States. Liaison with alumni, both individually and with groups, also is anticipated. Extensive travel will b'e necessary, perhaps up to half of the person's time. Starting. salary will be in the $15,000 area. If interested, please reply by August 1. (continued from p. 12) Texan. · The beauty contest is tra~ ditlonally an election of Miss Sophrosune (a Greek word for a temperate relationship between a man and a woman), but this year the committee added the election of a Miss Congeniality to the event. Students of both sexes are permitted to compete for the two titles, but traditionally men vie for tbe .Mi~s.. Sopht'osµJl~ _ title. This year was no exception as the contestants were seniors Ben Haggard (who wore a silky tablecloth), David Whiteside (in an orange satin jacket and trunks), and Gary Edwards, who strikingly resembled tutor Su Su Knight. The audience, by their applause, chose Edwards as the winner. Miss Congeniality · was elected ,partly on the basis of the responses he or she gave to a series of questions. "Why would anyone ever think of you as nice?" was typical. Perhaps because of his consistently surly replies, the audience elected senior Bobby Di Silverio as the first Miss Con- · geniality. Other evidently less congenial contestants were Matt Hansen, Betty Hussander and Paula Maynes. A banner reading "This is reality" was held aloft by students as ·the annual Reality Weekend parade circled Santa Fe city plaza Saturday morning. Music was provided by kazoo .playing students, and the parade was led by Greg Cowell, who was .driving a motorcycle and wearing red tights and goggles. "About 70 of us turned out," related Laurel. "The idea is to look as outrageous as possible. We did." The Saturday afternoon staging of the "real Olympics," was, however, according to Laurel, the highlight of the weekend. "It was a beautiful day, and everyone needed to relax after the strain of finishillg up- the year's work. The opportunity to participate • • ][)avid Jones, tuto:r, tries to beat the throw to Hin!ib.elwood, senior, on first base, in a fruitless effort to stave oU the senior's 19 to 17 victory during the annual faculty-senior softball game. (Photo by John DeJoumett) For the first time within recent·memory,- these11iors; ·in°a hard fought game, out hit, out pitched and out fielded the faculty to wi1_1 the ~elJ_ior­ Faculty Softball Game 19 to 17 on May 12. The seniors took command of the early stages of the game only to fall behind when the faculty's strategic maneuvering finally jelled to produce in ridiculous games and drink free beer or lemonade was more than anyone could re:sist." Most of the games are played every year. The Battle of Thennopylae is a water balloon battle during which warring armies of freshmen and seniors against sophomores and freshmen tum their ammunition on _the bystanders. The Epicycle race· is based on Ptolemy's .theory of the solar system which places the earth at the center. The game involves three people who stand for earth, Venus and a point which is the center of the epicycle, and two ropes. The point of the game is. to complete the required number of orbits around the earth before other teams. The winning astronomical team this year was Ben Goldstein, Gerry Glover and Gina Ironsides. The Chariot Race was won this year by Michael Sloper and Soren Johnson who dashed to victory pulling a · wheelbarrow holding Heidi W emett backwards across the field. The Aristophanes Race was a cohesive, functioning unit. But the -name--of the ·game is baseball and that's what the seniors played in the last inning to rally for the several runs that they needed. Led by the pitching of Leslie Westmoreland, Gus Steadman and Steven Paul, the seniors seemed to be saying to their former mentors, "Yes, you have no clothes on." More than 40 percent of the student body of St. John's in Santa Fe is made up of students who have transferred _from other colleges and universities. What makes this figure notable· - especially outside of the St. John·s .community-is that students who transfer to St. John's must begin as freshmen, no matter ho~ much education they have had elsewhere. There are as many reasons why students transfer here as there are transfer students. But among those interviewed, there was a recurring theme: they cam~ in search of excellence. Here are a few examples: Karen Gasser, a 35-year-old freshman who has one undergraduate and three graduate degrees, says it most clearly: "I feel as if I've come home. I used to think I was the only person in the world who desired a college experience such as this one, and suddenly I found a whole community of people who felt just like I did. This place has standards. ExceJl¢!i~.e)?f all)~inds _is. val-. ued. One does not have to feel odd if one loves learning." Alison Bundy was also a freshman this year. Her experience at an eastern university disappointed h.er .. "I was in a graduate French literature course that was being taught in English. The standards were not high enough. The. atmosphere was not conducive to learning. People were there just for the pres- won by seniors Chris Garwood a~d his wife Mary Sue Laurel. "It was appropriate for us to win," said Laurel, "because the race is based on· a statement by Aristophanes in Plato's 'Symposium,' which says that long ago men and women were physically one, joined at the back, and cleaved apart by Apollo as they attacked Mt. Olympus. That is why men· and women seek each other now-love is looking for one's other half." For the race a man and woman hook arms back to back, and tie one leg to their partner's. "This year, for a change," said Laurel, ,"we didn't fall down and won by a long distance." tige of the place." . She has found the work at St. John's challenging, the atmosphere intense. "One must dedicate oneself to being here,"she says. Maggie Rude, a member of this year's graduating class, came to St. John's after one year at another prestigious eastern unive.rsity. She was dismayed by the specialization of the professors there. "I was studying intellectual history. I wanted to integrate music, art, literature and history. One of my professors was a specialist in a 100-year period of French history. He simply wasn't interested in a broader persp~~tive. I felt really out of place. Josh McDavid, another freshman, thinks the pursuit of excellence at St. John's can best be appreciated by transfer students. He had two years of college in Iowa and a year of travel and work before he came here to school. "After those two years of college I then felt really ready to go to ,c;ollege," he_ says. He finds . that St. John's demands discipline and dedication and some students are not ready to make that commitment. He feels that going to some other school first enabled him to · learn that "time is precious. I would not want to waste my time by just going through the motions of being at St. John's. We get out of this program exactly what we put into it. The inspiration is there, if we seek it out.'~ get up off the pile. It's in those piles that people get hurt." Boyett was pleased With his new rule. "Our only serious injury was one concussion," he said. The freshmen and seniors were pitted against the sophomores and juniors and the game ended in a 3 to 3 tie .. How did they know when to end the game? "Istvan Fehervary, the school athletic director, told us we'd played long enough," said Boyett. The weekend ended with the showing of a film followed by a party in the dining hall. The film was Woody Allen's "Love and Death," a film Spartan Mad Ball is a game Laurel describes as particularwith a bad reputation. Ac- ly appropriate since the film cording to Alan Boyett, chair- is a satire on Tolstoy's War man of the games, it is a rare and Peace which the seniors year when several bones are had read. The weekend cost the senot broken. It is a game combining as- nior class more than $1,000, pects of soccer, football and but Laurel says students berugby, with few rules. One lieve it is worth it. "We work is that the ball must be carried an year to raise money for over the goat The other Reality Weekend because it Boyett added this year: "I told gives us a good way to say the teams that when I blew good-bye to each other. Also, the whistle everyone had to l person~Uy believe the week- end provides an important opportunity for the community to play together. We work hard together all year, but play is important too .. Our committee tried to fill Reality Weekend with varied events for community fun." Laurel expressed appreciation for the help she got from Greg Cowell and Jose Hamm, who worked on fund-raising . all year, Ben Haggard who ran the talent show, Alan Boyett who organized the Real Olym. pies, and Chris Garwood, Gus Steadman and Marty Dobbins, who helped with the many details of putting the weekend together. Boyett says Reality Weekend is important for balandng a student's perspective on his St. John's education. He said, "We take all our work here very seriously; we know the reading will change our lives. But we must not let the material overwhelm us. The weekend gives us a chance to parody and laugh at what we've taken so seriously, a chance to recover our own voices." �THE REPORTER PAGE THE REPORTER St. John's Co Santa Fe. Nl\i 8750 JULY ,KRATE :>rofit Org. I Postage it No 231 For the first time ever, on May 12 and 13, alumni of the · Santa Fe campus gathered for a reunion. AU classes from 1968-the first class to graduate-attended a barbecue at the home of Vice President and Mrs. Burchenal Ault on Saturday evening, May 12, from 5 to 9. Alumni came to the barbe:. cue from New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and California, but Rick Wicks ('68) came the farthest, traveling to Santa Fe from he is Director of the Butterfly Children's Center. Tony Jeffries ('72) of Albuquerque, reunion organizer, said that most of the alumni who came back were from the first five classes of the college. "For our first effort I think it was a big success,'1 he said. "We're making plans for another reunion at commencement next year." More than SO people attended a 10th year reunion brunch, held at the Santa Fe home of Carol Ann Lightener Tucker ('69) and Steve Tucker ('69) on Sunday morning, May 13. The brunch was given by the Tuckers, who also invited members of the classes of 1968 and 1970 to come, because, as she explained, "the first three classes at St. John's in Santa Fe were very close. There weren't very many of us, and for three years we didn't even have a senior class. We felt very dependent upon each other to make the place into a real college." Many guests at the 11 :30 a.m. brunch stayed all afternoon. "Some of us had not seen or even spoken to each other since we said good-bye 10 years ago almost to the day. We had a lot to say to each other," commented Mrs. Tucker. Two of the alumni, who attended the brunch with their are now tutors at St. John's: Phillip Chandler ('68) . and Paul Mannick ('69). Four alumni, all from the first graduating class, came from California. were Sansi Girard Coonan, Antigone Phalares Moore, Todd Everett and Augusta Goldstein. From Texas, accompanied by their wives, came the Reverend John Strange and the Reverend Joe Reynolds, both of the class of '69, and Carl Severance, also of that class. Ray Drolet ('69) and his wife Melissa Kaplan Drolet ('72) came to the reunion from Shon to, where are Alumni the brunch from New Mexico included Lynn Archer ('68), Sheila Bobbs ('71), Paul Bunker ('69), Julia Von Erffa Gregg ('68) and her husband, John, Gordon Hamilton ('72), Hugo Hamilton ('70), Jeffrey Hockersmith ('73) and Mrs. Hockersmith, all of Santa Fe; Daniel Cleavinger ('69), Michael Dayton ('70), and Tony Jeffries ('72). of Albuquerque; and James Danneskiold ('70), Tierra Amarilla. Tony Jeffries of the first alumni reunion held for Santa Fe graduates. (Photo by John Delournett) Sam Larcombe ('68), recently appointed the College's Assistant Director of Admissions and Director of Alumni Affairs, attended with his wife Claudia Nordstrom Larcombe ('69), and Gerald Peters ('70) and Kathleen Kenney Peters (currently a Graduate In_stitute student), all of Santa Fe. Others attending the barbecue, all from the class of 1972, were Linda Johnson Evans, Santa Fe; Tommy Tijeras, N.M.; Kevin Snapp and Liz Trotman of Attmquerque and Peter Walsh, Espanola. :St~~pl11en R. Van Luchene Santa Fe first The class of 1979 continued two of the lighter St. John's traditions by again sponsoring Prank Day (April 20) and Reality Weekend (May 4 and 5), Prank Day actually began Thursday night, April 19th, when seniors informed their tutors that there would be no at seminar Instead the seniors came pr.epared to make a statement: "We are having prank tonight." Dante's Inferno was the theme, and the was lit with flares, small and candles in an effort to recreate the world on the other side of the River Styx, familar to St. John's students who have completed their sophomore year and read Dante's poem. Students were led from their seminars by. seniors as the_ campus bell tolled. A dance in the hall followed. Traditionally Prank Day means one day off from regular classes and students spend their time picnicking on the plaza, and raising funds for Reality Weekend by holding an auction. As in past years members of the St. John's community are given the opportunity to bid against each other for the privilege of throwing a pie in the face of whoever has been coerced into sitting in the chair. This year the of having made the largest contribution to Reality Weekend went to Alfreda Verratti, a tu- will soon assume the duties of the Director of Admisssions for the be the Assistant Director as well as the John DeJournett) wm "ls there a mind and can it be taught?" was the question for debate. Senior Steve Paul and tutor James Mensch debated with junior Charles Hinckley and tutor Scott Stripling'. After a lively debate the audience applauded them both equally enthusiastically, and the contest was considered a draw. "A tie is unusual," said chair.:. person. The sophistry contest, which took place on Friday evening. was preceded by a talent sho-yv and beauty contest, . by Ben Hagg_l:!rd. Diane Cancio, who worked on the talent show, said that some amazing talent surfaced the night of May 4. Steve Kira senior, awakened to the musical potential of the sonometer, a teaching device used in freshTutor Bmce fSpike) Venahl~, • men music labs. Cancio said, a victim of the Prank Day auc· "He fixed it up . to look like don of pie-throwing a guitar and sang a Neil Young song, accompanied by Bobby di Silverio on the guitar, and (Photo by Judy Kistler) a chorus of enthusiastic seniors. It was hilarious." was amazing. The seniors Equally delightful, accordwere ahead by several runs at ing to Cancio, was the rendithe end of the last inning. tion of humorously conjoined Then a freshman, Mark St. hit a ball out of the park bits of Shakespeare solilowith the bases loaded. The quies found in Huckleberry freshmen won the game 15 to Finn and delivered with ap13. I was surprised at the propriate drama by senior . pressure on that field. Usually . Dean McCollaum. Tulley composed a we aren't so competitive asong for the occasion, and he round here." Two weeks later Reality and Andy Hobgood sang aW eeke:nd events began with ' bout the delights of being a the annual sc;>phistry contest. 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VOLUME VI ISSUE 5 JUNE 1979 May 20 - Day full of honors St. John's 187th Commencement Day was a day for honors, not only for graduating seniors and underclassmen but for three former presidents as well. The creation of the title of president emeritus was announced by President Weigle during the traditional outdoor ceremonies under the Liberty Tree. Before hearing a talk by Michael Comenetz, a second generation tutor - his father, George Comenetz, had taught here from 1937 to 1943 -, Mr. Weigle announced that the Board of Visitors and Governors had designated the creation of the title for Stringfellow Barr. of Alexandria, president from 1937~46; Douglas Huntly Gordon, 1931-34, and the late John S. Kieffer, 1947-49. Only Mr. Gordon, a Baltimorean who became St. John's youngest president at age 29, was present to receive a scroll, which Mr. Weigle read. It cited him particularly for his service in "rescuing" St. John's on the two occasions after his presidency when the Naval Academy threatened to absorb the St. John's campus. ALTOGETHER 68 seniors received their degrees during ceremonies under the Liberty Tree, which three days earlier had undergone a radical trimming to prevent damage during heavy rain or wino storms. Other than those which oc-· Charles F. Jones, Waterville, Me., senior, has won a Danforth Graduate Fellowship for advanced study leading toward a doctorate degree, the Danforth Foundation of St. Louis, Mo., has announced. Already a winner of a Thomas J. Watson Foundation fellowship for a year's study and travel abroad, Mr. Jones will defer his Danforth fellowship for a year in order to take advantage of his Watson. Under his Watson, beginning in the fall, he will make a study of book making by hand in Japan and Europe. His Danforth Fellowship provides a tuition and fees award along with an annual stipend for up to four years of study in preparation for a career of college teaching. Mr. Jones, who plans work in philosophy or linguistics, is yet to d~cide at what university he expects to take his doctorate. The fellowship will cover tuition and fees plus a Presidential inte,rviews underway Impressed by the high quality of candidates, members of St. John's Presidential Search Committee have held three days of intensive interviewing and anticipate additional interviews prior to the July 27-28 meeting of the Board of Visitors and Governors. The number of suggested names, which at one time peaked to about 200, has been screened and reduced to the most serious candidates for the St. John's presidency. D. Robert Yarnall, Jr., of Philadelphia, chairman, said it is not placing any limit on the number since names are still being proposed. The new president, to take office July 1, 1980, will succeed Richard D. Weigle. In order that the selection process may proceed as smoothly as possible, the comPresident Weigle presents Charles Jones with the silver medal mittee is preserving the confidential nature of this early for having the highest sta.nding in his dass. stage of the selection process by curred during wariim~ years, the rents facilities during th.e maintaining a strict silence with May 20 commencement was the academy's own, earlier Com- regard to the names of canearliest believed held at St. missioning Week. didates. Among the seniors, Charles John's during the century. The "We are encouraged by the college had moved it to the early Foster Jones, II, of Annai;ulis and extremely high quality of the date, in order to accommodate Waterville, Me., walked off with dozen people we have had an the Naval Academy, to which it this year's honors. A winner of opportunity to interview so far,'' 1 (Continued on P. 2) Mr. Yarnell commented following the late May-early June meetings. "Among these highly qualified St. John's College has cut its managed to reduce. St. John's candidates, there is a deep college loan default rate from 35 rate by following government commitment and strong interest per cent two years ago to 5 per regulations. After a student in St. John's College both as it is defaults, the regulations provide and as it should be for the future cent this month. Philip Aaronson, who took over for a letter after the first 15 days, as a challenge to the rest of the the ·financial aid office in a second letter after 45 days, a educational establishment," he February, 1977, has reduced the phone call after 60, another letter noted. "We are heartened by the rate to well under that of after 75 days, a telephone call high quality of people available to Maryland as a whole. According after 80, a letter after 90, and provide the next chapter of to the U.S. Department of Health, after 105 days the college either - leadership for St. John's." What came through with the Education, and Welfare, turns the account over to an Maryland is · among the states outside agency for collection or candidates, he said, was their with the greatest rate. proceeds with litigation and sues. feeling that St. John's needs to "We havn't had anyone new go survive and prosper more than Maryland's stands at 20.6 per ever, given the current condition cent as against the national into default since I came here," of education. average for the NDSL program of Mr. Aaronson said. 17.4 per cent. At St. John's 4 borrowers of a possible 223 are in default. . Mr. Aaronson said he had guilty was George Anastaplo, '75, has been awarded a fellowship by the International Doctoral Research Fellowship Program for Western Europe of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies. The fellowship will take him to Christ's College, Cambridge University, where he will study mathematicians of the ~arly 18th century. Now doing work in the history of science at Princeton University, Mr. Anastaplo expects to be at Cambridge for two years. Was Ptolemy, the Greek who shaped astronomy from the 2nd to the 16th century, guilty of the most serious offence of an empirical ~dentist: the fabrication of observation? Yes, the evidence is convincing, but a St. John's tutor stops short of the word "crime," the word incorporated in the title of a book by Ptolemy's newest critic, Robert R. Newton - "The Crime of Claudius Ptolemy" which charges that Ptolemy was "the most successfttl fraud in the history of science." "That Ptolemy lied about his observations is deplorable," Curtis Wilson agrees. "But Mr. Newton goes further: He implies that Ptolemy fabricated data in bad faith, in order to support theories he knew to be false or inadequate. "There are a number of considerations that, in our immense ignorance of particulars of motives and circumstance, should not be ignored.'' Ptolemy was not a modern scieritist, nor was the community for which he wrote a community imbued with the aims and ethos of modern science, Mr. Wilson said in a talk to St. John's students, who devote part of their freshman and sophomore years to a study of Ptolemy. No astronomer before Tycho Brahe made the accumulation of ac~ curate observations a primary desideratum. "KEPLER. IN a letter to Galileo in 1597, says that if he cannot win astronomy for Conprni,.iinism by valid St. John's hopes to start remodeling and enlarging Randall Hall, its 76-year-old dining: hall, sometime this fall or· nextspr.il'l.g. .. · In a .~Commencement Day announcement, President Weigle said that a. gift of $300,000 from an anonymous donor had been received toward the college's overall construction program. As soon as architectural plans and funding are complete and the necessary approvals have been obtained, he said the college will move ahead with the work.on the Christopher Wren building constructed in 1903. St John's already has in hand $265,000 from the Hodson Trust. and matching money is available through a bond issue of $1. 75 approved by the 1977 General Assembly. Total cost of the remodeling is estimated at approximately $1.5million. Mr. Weigle said the college hopes to raise the balance of the needed amount by fall. THE GIFT WAS one of three major ones announced by Mr. Weigle. In addition, he said that within the last two weeks two gifts announced for St. John's Santa Fe campus have been $225,000 from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations and $285,000 from friends in the Southwest. . In preparation for the work on Randall, the Alexandria, Va., ;architectural firm of Michael and Michael is preparing plans for the addition at the first and ground levels as well as for the renovation of the balance of the structure. The present dining room, considered by architects to be one of the most beautiful in Annapolis, will be left essentially as it is and subject only to a general sprucing up. (Reflecting appreciation by other former students, there were cheers from alumni who played on the lacrosse teams of '29, '30, and '31 when Mr. Weigle told them that at a May reunion). Major changes will involve a new addition at the back of the building on its north-eastern side, where a new kitchen will be constructed. The present kitchen (Continued on P. 8) 1 le . arguments, he will not hesitate to use fraudulent ones," Mr. Wilson continued. "Isaac Newton, in Book III of his Principia, arrives at the accepted value of annual precession by an incorrect argument and the most unconscionable fudging of data." Furthermore, the u nderstanding as to how theory is to b~ based upon observation was different in ancient astronomy f~om what it is in modern a$tronomy, he continued. The s~atistical approach used since Eluler and Laplace, two 18th c¢ntury mathematicians, was a~sent. I"The attempt was to derive a ttleory from a very few, cleverly c~osen, and supposedly decisive ( r.nnth:mo~ ""'"' 'D 'J \ �A[!.J1JJ~~O (Continued from P.1) both the Danforth and Watson l''ellowstups, he also received the silver medal and $100_ offered by the Board of Visitors and • s-1 ents Laurence Kates. with Mark Wielga, honorable mention; best sophomore essay offered by the will of the late Judge Walter I. Dawkins, Melissa Ann Walker; best freshman essay, Julie Elizabeth Boaz; AN AW ARD OF $1,250 in memory of Duane L. Peterson, given by his widow, Mrs. Peterson. to the iunior for high. academic achievement, con:!trucLiv.... rnf>mhPr~hip in Fried; to the member of the freshman or sophomore class who submits the most elegant solution of a mathematical problem, a $50 prize offered under the will of General Amos W.W. Woodcock, honorable mf>ntion to .J<lmie Whalen; TO THE MEMBER of the junior or senior class who submits the most elegant solution of a mathematical problem, a $50 prize offered in memory of James K. McClintock, Robert A. Schainbaum; and to the senior man and woman who have contributed most to the college's athletic program, blazer offered by the Alumni Association, to Carol Lynn Katrina and Bruce Kolman. Seniors had chosen Mr. Comenetz, who began teaching here the year they arrived, as their commencement speaker. In his brif>f tcilk, Mr Comenctz spoke of how students grow to know propositions: iearnrng them, which makes them possible and desirable; learning to know they have substance and solidity and to think of them as forming strata, which gives them shape, and learning, as a form of consolation, that after they leave St. John's they will serve the students well. Lile college community, and comBy Tom Parran '42 mitment to post-graduate worki Director of Alumni Activities Jean B. Oggrns; Students with high scholarship, 1940 $1,000 by the C. Markland Kelly, Through the grapevine comes word that Warren W. Clements (we Jr., Memorial Foundation, to can still remember the Clements & Archie laundry service) for some Susan Evelyn Holm, Joseph years has been confined with crippling arthritis. We know Clem Michael Houston, and Lawrence would appreciate hearing from any of his old friends and classmates: Stewart Jones; scholarship in the Barcroft Institute, 2960 Sleepy Hollow Road, Falls Church, Va. 22044. amount of $1.200 in memory of 1947 Iola and Richard Scofield by their Talk about a small world! At the April meeting of the Organization sister, Charlotte Rosendahl, of American Historians, Archer Jones, without prearrangement, William Bennett Boon; gave a critique of a paper by classmate John ·Morgan (on Grant's To the student who submits the Virginia strategy in 1864). The two earlier shared an interest in Douglas Huntly Gordon, left, best English translation of a military history, but until April had not seen each other for 33 years. St. John's president from 1931 Greek text, a prize of $50 in John is a librarian and professor of library science at the University of to 1934, is escorted by Presi- memory of .John Spangler Kieffer Toledo, while Archer is professor of history and dean of humanities dent Weigle. by Mrs. Kieffer, Robert Alan and social sciences at North Dakota State University. Archer reports Governors as the student with the Goldberg: to the student who very little visible change in their physical appearance other than submits the best original English highest standing. John's "most imposing" beard and his own grey locks. He was one of four students to poem, a $50 i.>rize offered by Dr. 1960 receive scholarships for graduate George Austin in memory of his Kenneth H. Thompson dropped by the office the day after receiv- study, each amounting to $1,250, brother, Lynn Elizabeth Gumert, ing his second doctorate. This is one in jurisprudence which he gained from the Stella and Charles with a second prize to Michael at the new Antioch School of Law in the District of Columbia. Ken's im- Guttman Foundation. Other Glenn Conner, and an honorable Barr moves mediate plans are uncertain, but while he was in law school he had a winners went to Daniel Jay mention to Miss Allen; To the student who submits the couple of interesting experiences. One was a ttiree months' internship Fuller, Ann Joyce Holwick, and Former President Stringfellow best brief comment on a piece of with the Senate Anti-Trust and, Monopolies Subcommittee and the Marjorie Hutter Perry. Barr has changed res\dence. No other was a summer job with the Environmental Protection Agency in longer living at Kingston, N.J., he Caroline Allen, of Detroit, was music, a $50 prize, Mark Andrew the General Counsel Office. is residing at Goodwin House, awarded an important $50 prize Wielga; to the student who For his thesis, Ken has been focusing on a major question: what given in memory of two former submits the best original musical 4800 Fillmore Ave., Alexandria, constitutes an adequate margin of safety for public health under the st. John's tutors - Iola and composition, Michael Noah Va. 22311. He welcomes visitors. 1970 Clean Air Act? Also, he's interested in issues of the Federal Richard Scofield - for having responsibility in protecting public health when regulations may con- written the best senior essay. An flict with individual liberties - questions surrounding the availability honorable mention went to Mr. of laetril or the enforced use of hardhats by motorcyclists and Jones and to Charles Norman seatbelts by motorists. Ken, wife Pat, and eight-year-old Kimberley Hurt, of Silver Spring. are living in Bethesda, Md. MISS ALLEN ALSO received an honorable mention as the 1964 Jeremy Leven reports the successful completion of a large novel, student who had submitted the best original English poem and Creator, to be published next February by Coward, Mccann, Geoghegan, and in England in the spring. Jeremy now lives in New, an honorable mention for the Haven, where his wife attends Yale Graduate School. He continues student who submitted the best with a Ph.D. program in the neurosciences at the University of Con- translation of a French poem. The Millard E. Tyding~ award . necticut, Storrs, and at the medical school in Farmington. His areas of concentration are child developmental neuroanatomy and for public speaking went to John" neurochemistry; completion may be in a year or so since his course Burke, of Auburn, Mass. "He offered to take over," Mr. Weigle work was completed in April. jokingly informed the audience· when Mr. Burke came to the 1967 Lobenstine sends us a card announcing his recent appoint- podium to receive it. Mr. Burke is ment as the first executive director of the Interfaith Conference of known for his impersonations of Metropolitan Washington (D.C. ). This is an organization "supported Mr WPiglP member of the Board of Mr. Weigle said the Prize Mrs. Duane l. Peterson, an by Arab and Black Muslims, Catholics, Jews, Protestants, and Visito'S and Governors, greets Jean Oggins, N.Y., junhopefully the Orthodox Church as well," writes Clark. It seeks to af- L'ommntel' Jel"ideJ .. aflcr only <t ior. fect policy in the metropolitan Washington area on such matters <as ag- moment's consideration" that ing, criminal justice, housing, hunger, unemployment, and the amend- the honorable mention should go to Kermith Barcillie for his ment to give D.C. residents the vote. "virtuosity in public speaking." Mr. Barcillie is a cartoon 1970 I From Gay :Paree, in April (must be a song title there somewhere character who figured in other ... ), came a happy announcement from John and Genevieve Dean senior events. His creator, What are you doing and where? 'Of the arrival on March 2 of Benjamin Hudson Dean. (Look for John's Frederick Cox, of Scarsdale, Alumni will be asked that question again in a brief survey report on French literary graphics in "At Home and Abroad" in the N.Y.,, acknowledged it on his which the Placement Office is in the process of mailing to behalf. July issue of The College.) former students of both the Annapolis and the Santa Fe camOther prize winners were: puses. Bf><::t annual junior essay, a 1970 The survey, the first of its sort in five years, will be an atprize of $50 offered by Mrs. -E ..M. who is completing his doctoral dissertation at Lesiie Ciark ~tevens, w Joshua tempt to bring information about former students up to date. the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto, will go to the Marianne Braun, placement director, said that the college University of St. Thomas in Houston next fall to teach undergraduate is requesting information about graduate study as well as occourses in Greek and mediaeval philosophy. cupational areas. Results of the survey, which will require only The In the fall of 1980, be expects to be affiliated with a new center about five minutes to complete, will be compiled this summer. opening in Houston which Mr. Macierowski said will seek to discover, Rebecca Wilson Cards based upon the results will be integrated into a file that is by means of trans-historical philosophical conversation between St. Editor available to students in the Placement Office. Thomas Aquinas, other major philosophers, and thinkers living in the "Surveys ought to be done regularly, perhaps every three The Reporter is published by the Office of modern world, truths accessible to man thiough the natural light of his College Relations, St. John's College, years," Mrs. Braun said. "So many of our graduates wait a year reason. Annapolis, Md., 21404, Richard D. Weior two before going on to graduate school. With this information, gle, president. we can tell prospective students and their parents, and everyone "I am confident that St. John's students intending to go on to Published live times a year, in February, else who is interested in the college, with some accuracy, what April, June, September and November. graduate study in philosophy would do well to look into the center, our alumni can do. The information is so very valuable in workSecond especially if they wish to become familiar with the thought of Thomas Md. class postage paid at Annapolis, ing with students on their career plans.'' j\_qu~nas," he writes. USPS 018-750 t �·JUNE 1979 PAGE3 n THE REPORTER Jones' book takes a look itt 'one's ·man me' Charles Jones is a producer of - - --~~;:-:>~-.~· ~. ~ books: little ones; clever ones, ~/'. \~.~--: absurd ones, surprising ones, . even serious books. Last fall this St. John's senior asked acquaintances at the Maryland Inn, where his job as a waiter helped pay his college bills, if they would like to be in a book. If so, would they provide him with a sketch of themselves and$3? Ninety-five people, mostly from the town, responded, and Mr. Jones went to work using techniques he had developed at 17, glueing and sewing and cutting pages and, because the job was a big one, getting others to help, all in preparation for distributing the book at a book party. B. J. Simmons, a waitress at the Maryland Inn, wove the handsome, tough linens for the cover; and Mr. Jones and his wife Sheep (neither will confess her real name) had instructional sessions in book binding, teaching groups of five or six who stopped by their home as they were able. HE LINED UP a printer, Jimmy Martin of the Free State Press, who agreed to help if he could be on the empty 96th page, which needed filling. He's there, and you recognize him by his out-stretched legs. The rest of the body disappears under a stack of books. Mr. Jones worked hard getting the book together, and finally, at 4 o'clock in the morning of the day of the party, all the books were finished. "I went out and bought 96 bottles of beer, and the party started at noon with a bottle and (Continued from P. 1) observations," he explained. Mr. Wilson said the instrument devised by Ptolemy for naked-eye observation y.ras the astrolabe, which he said was too complicated to be reliable. Missing, too, Mr. Wilson said, were restrictions imposed by scientific rivalry or restraints felt because there are "two or five or 20 pairs of eyes on the lookout for the one's least misstep." "Given the difficulties of observing well, the lack of motivation and funding for such activity, the trust in numerical constants furnished by tradition, and the pre-modern view of the way in which theory was to be founded on fact, one should not wonder if fudging and fabrication occurred,'~ he noted. Referring to one instance of deception, Mr. Wilson said: "PTOLEMY NOTES, for instance, that the constancy of the tropical year was doubted by Hipparchus, whom he refers to as 'that truth-loving man.' · "He proceeds to assert the constancy of the tropical year, using observations that surely are fabricated. I would conjecture that the theory that enabled him thus to fabricate had worked fairly well for him, in his earlier planetary studies; he was not supposing that it was in error by as much as it was, a whole ~ - . ' · . ·'·"-~~·7 : . . ' ----~7 ' I r- -· ·,, ~U: ............. >~ I I .,;._; v _ ·-~, _:-.~_,_ ,,...._ \I lt'.UV lf lfD\J Cf r<y 11-~flf'Ol/ 1 <b1 K~\<IJI (fl I ~1) ~ ·...__, __ " f \\_ ~/ V/ () i (/) ._ \ ~ • ) ~i?o__;j,yJJ ,nfi 1t f ( ' - "' -- \ JOHN SARKISSIAN ELLIOTT ZUCKERMAN book for each person," Mr. Jones were done quickly at the said. "The beer and the wine Maryland Inn "cocktail multiplied during the day as napkins were the prevailing people arrived with some . medium" - and some done bringing other guests." carefully at home. Perhaps because it was THE FREEST interpretation Christmastime something of a was that of St. John's Tutor John miracle occurred. At one time as Sarkissian who took an artist's ·many ~s 70 people crowded into license and provided his bald the Jones' tiny house at 10 Corhead with a gratifying covering nhill Street, and there was still of hair; but, to indicate that all space to start dancing at 9:30. his thoughts were not concerned "Altogether about 110 people with vanity, he has himself cautioning viewers in Greek that passed through the house that "evil friends bear evil fruit." day,'' he said. The book, "Just Another Crowd Mr. Jones, who at 26 has in the Face" (also bearing a line produced hundreds of books since supplied by St. John's Tutor 1969 when he first began to bind Elliott Zuckerman, "One man's books as Christmas presents, will me is another man's person") broaden his skills next vear. A recipient of a Watson Fellowship, was a complete success. he will study techniques in the The drawings ranged in style irom satirical self-portraits to the . production of handmade books in Japan and Europe next year. abstract (Julie Farrell) to those One of his more serious efforts bearing a stamp of trade (Bass Player Bill Nelson with an F Clef has been a small book which on his forehead) to sketches by emerged from his junior tutorial the artistically talented. Some in French. This was a bi-lingual book in which 16 students translated some of La Fontaine's fables and adapted them into poetry. The book, which has a degree. It was a case of wishful thinking.'' Mr. Wilson described Ptolemy as a modest man, a traditionalist, who regarded mathematical astronomy as a cumulative affair. He was responsible for consolidating ancient astronomy, and Mr. Wilson told students it is not clear that it would have been done if he had not done it. Ptolemy was an astrologer, though temperate in his claims for this discipline. He was imlrned with a certain Stoic religiosity and believed that through mathematics and astronomy one could approach the divine things. (The planets Ptolemy regarded as gods). "AND JUDGING by the number, size, and complexity of the books he wrote, we must acknowledge that he was a hard worker," Mr. Wilson continued. "He was a summarizer, a puttertogether of results, one who completed symmetries and rounded out theories, a defender of the constancy of the divine things. And in the process of neatening up his pedagogy, he told what he no doubt regarded as little fibs about bis observations. "We cannot make of this intellectual forebear of ours a giant or a hero or profound thinker. It seems equally presumptuous to rate him a criminal." '-...... ( t'i ' V .\ -\ l;J:; i-~ -~""- /(.// II ( . / .,~,. . ,_~\..~·~ , \i-C_·j-- {)--1/ .I(~ /"' /, CHARI.IE line sketch of La Fontaine by Mr. Jones on its cover, was given to each of the students who participated. Sheep Jones and Chris Borden, Annapolis senior, helped with the illustrations. Mr. Jones calls his press "Incriminating Evidence" and uses fingerprints as a trademark. Out of his zanily original mind has come one book based on camel racing using "The Almagest" and Ptolemaic astronomical projections to predict the outcome of races. This book fits into a Camel cigarette packet, cut-outs from which supply much of the art work. TOM lw1.,t 1 '. 1c <.. '65 raisins exalted on holders against a rising sun, raisins romanticized i n c r y s t a 11 in e w a t e , e nvironmental raisins on a woody tree stump - all something of a take-off on pretentious and highly specialized art books. It's called "Raisin Skins" and comes in a Sun Maid raisin box. Buried within its pages are two more raisin boxes and two more books, of graded size, with a raisin concealed like a nugget in the center. In planning his study in the Orient, Mr. Jones also hopes to investigate the type of materials used in its books. "Japan turns out some of the finest handm"ade paper in the world," he noted. "In small papermaking villages like Shigarmai, paper is made by a process that is centuries old. Japan has even placed a paper maker on its list of National Living Historic Treasures. I would try to learn more about this process of paper making while in Japan." "You see, there is a wealth of material here," he said, holding up a package to display camels, palm trees, and Islamic minarets and domes. And indeed, if you examine it, there is. Because he produced 26 copies, he had friends saving Camel wrappers for weeks. ANOTHER BOOK ELEVATES raisins. There are photographs of • l By BRYCE JACOBSEN Director of Athletics This year started out well for the Greenwaves, Guardians, and Amazons. The Waves took football, and the Guardians and Amazons soccer. But the Waves and Guardians had peaked too soon and won nothing thereafter, ultimately finishing well down in the yearly standings. The Amazons, however, continued their winning ways, picking up titles in both basketball and softball. Normally, that would have sufficed to give them the yearly title. But the Maenads were always a close second and won volleyball to boot. This, coupled with a poor showing by the Amazons in badminton and volleyball (plus a disaster in track!), was enough to give the Maenads a slight edge when it was all over. Thus the Maenads won for the third straight year. The Spartans took basketball and possessed a "solid" lead in team points when winter ended. But then those pesky Druids started doing their thing, winning volleyball and softball .... and track, and the fitness test. The Spartans faded in the spring, thus enabling the Druids to wrap it up handily. Not since· 1971 had the Druids done this. Naturally, they were beside themselves with exhilaration and joy! In individual sports, among the women, Miss Katrina won table tennis and badminton, Miss Ross took the tennis title, Miss Reineke was again victorious in racquetball, and Miss Mandy earned the most points in the track meet. Miss Katrina won the outstanding athletic award. (She and two fellow Nymphs, Miss Williams and Miss Slowinski, won all of the events in the track meet, except for the final relay race. Nothing like that had ever happened before!) None of these winners, by the way, will be back next year. Among the men, Mr. Weinstein won table tennis, Mr. Maddock badminton, Mr. Berns tennis, Mr. Smith, racquetball (again), and Mr. Jennings earned the most points in the track meet. Mr. Spector won the outstanding athlete award. All of these winners, except for Mr. Berns, will be back next year. As to next year, who knows what will happen? The Druids will be hard put to replace Messers Brandon, Griffin, and Kolman, and for the Maenads, Miss Katrina's departure will leave a gaping hole in their team roster. Thomas Parran, director of college relations, is looking for a young, sales-oriented, articulate alumnus or alumna to assume a new position as a development officer in the college's Office of College Relations. The officer will be responsible for the development of gift possibilities among the smaller foundations and charitable trusts in the eastern third of the United States. Liaison with alumni, both individually and with groups, also is anticipated. Extensive travel will be necessary, perhaps up ~o half of the person's time. Starting salary will be in the $15,000 range. If interested, please reply by August 1. �W. Douglas Weir was in his office at the University of Marylartd Hospital in Baltimore, talking about psychiatry, about pcsychosomatic medicine, about his undergraduate work at St. John's, about how little time he has to play his piano or read other than professional material, especially now that he has taken over the direction of the hospital's Psychopharmocology Service, about his 52-year-old power boat-the joy of his life. Dr. Weir is an affable, easy-tobe-with physician, a 1957 graduate of St. John's who has a dual appointment at the university. He is both associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Maryland's Psychiatric Department, in terms of its faculty the second largest department in the School of Medicine and one of the largest departments of psychiatry in the country, and associate professor of family practice, in which capacity he serves as the principal instructor and chief consultant in psychiatry for resident physicians planning to become family doctors. He is also, as anyone engaged in conversation with him knows, an intensely interesting person. DR. WEIR WAS giving some of his impressions about St. John's. He was a little dismayed recently, when he appeared on campus to talk with students interested in medical careers, with the change in the dining room atmosphere, one which had moved from the more gracious period of his <!av. when morr leisurely and extended conversauons WPrP nossibtf'. to the cafeteria style·, "shove-thefood-m-anct-get-out'' atmosphere. Although the dining hall was something of a shock, his own pre-medical education here met with approval. In all the current controversy over what constitutes an effective pre-medical education, Dr. Weir is siding heavily with the humanists and for what turns out to be very hard, practical reasons of good medicine. "I think St. John's is excellent,'' he observed of • the program here as a preparation for medicine. "Of course, I have· a biased viewpoint. But the thing an undergraduate needs to know is the language and logic of science. The specifics belong in med school." Isn't that what St. John's attempts to teach: the language and logic of science? "Precisely!" "In order to be a good physician, to be an effective one in the treatment of and interaction with a patient and one who is happy with himself <inrl the world," Dr. Weir continued, "he must have a conceptual notion of what the human experience is. I don't think that kind of . knowledge is impo.rted by a linear scientific curriculum, and it is absolutely critical to the practicing physician. "Because of the limitations of ·our knowledge at this point and because of the limits of knowledge in general, the • physician has got to accept the job of dealing on a daily basis field," he said. "The goals are never proximate, are not accomplished quickly. The sense of gratification is always in the distance." It's difficult, he said, to know what direction psychiatry will take. "So many vectors of force are at work," he said. "The politics of medicine is becoming a very critical issue. In a way medicine is being taken away from the physician and given to the administrator.'' Such words as "costaccounting," which physicians never heard before, are coming into play. W. DOUGLAS WEIR with a considerable titre of uncertainty. He must make a decision at best with partial knowledge and understanding of how the human organism ·operates. A strictly scientific , background mitigates against that,· against being comfortable in working with uncertainty.'' DR. WEIR kept emphasizing the limits of medical knowledge. To treat the patient in a "cookbook fashion," assuming that there is a:i answer to be reached by scientific ,methodology for every question raised, converts the physician, he believes, into an "unimaginative, uncreative technician," and worse, "an unresponsive and insensitive individual." "There is a need not only for critical analysis, but also for holistic synthesis.'' "Such a linear perspective is bad in itself," he noted, "but it also leads to patient dissatisfaction. In recent years there has been an almost geometric expansion in scientific medical knowledge, but it has been paralleled with increasing dissatisfaction with the doctor. Back in Ute horse and buggy day the doctor was viewed as a human being with some sense of the human condition. He responded to the individual on that level." He believes some of the stress in medical education (and the number of medical students under psycho-therapy themselves is surprisingly high, he interjected) lies with the failure of the students to be prepared to understand that there is a limit to what doctor may know. In a Monday morning seminar for small groups of students dealing with patient interviews. Dr. Weir is fond of quoting the 49th Pf>nC\i>P of P;:isal · "Thr last stt>n of rflason is to recognize the infinity of things which lie beyond it. Reason is a poor thing, indeed, if it does not recognize that.'' a A NATIVE OF Washington, D.C., who grew up in Silver Spring, Md., Dr. Weir found himself, by virtue of his St. John's education and one-time serious interest in the Episcopal priesthood, "pre-programmed" for his career in psychiatry. He had considered surgery, but found the eclecticism of psychiatry more to his liking. "Psychiatry is a frustrating "Whatever psychiatry accomplishes therapeutically is not done quickly," he noted. "It isn't 'cost effective.' Yet psychiatric illnesses are the most prevalent form of disease. More people are hospitalized in this country for them than for any other reason.'' Referring to one writer read at St. John's-Freud-Dr. Weir said that his thinking enjoys much wider acceptance in this country than in Britain, France, and Germany, where psychiatry tends to be organic in orientation and Freudian psychodynamic theory tends to be dismissed. He feels this may be due to the political heritage of the United States which places the individual at the center. "OUR POLITICAL philosophy recognizes the individual,'' he explained. "Freudian theory stresses highly the individuality of the person as a composite of an experiential background unique to him." While he hasn't been able to. do as much writing as he would like-it's impossible on the job, and he is hoping for a sabbatical in which to get some done-Dr. Weir has been a frequent lecturer throughout the state. Dr. Weir entered St. John's on a senatorial scholarship in 1953, taking a year out to be a full-time night student at George Washington University where he did additional pre-medical course work, and spending six months as an editorial assistant at the National Education Association and six as production coordinator for an advertising firm in Washington. Af:_er his graduation from St. John's, he taught mathematics a year in Anne Arundel County and then became a research assistant for Johns Hopkins Brady Urological Institute. He completed his medical education at the University of Maryland in 1964, served as an intern at South Baltimore General Hospital, and then did all his residency at the Psychiatric lnstitute, University of Maryland Hospital. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry a!ld Neurology and has been made a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association . JAMES R. DONNELLY When he's relaxing, James R. Donnelley likes to read, collect books and art, sail, ski and fish. When he is working, he is vicepresident of the Financial and Electronic Data Sales Division of R.R. Donnelley and Sons, Co., of Chicago. When he is active with the St. John's board, he is a member of the executive committee of the Fund for the 1980s and a member of the Annapolis Admissions Committee. Mr. Donnelley attended Deerfield Academy and was graduated in · 1957 from Dartmouth College. In 1962 he obtained his master's of business administration from the University of Chicago. Included among his numerous civic awards is a testimonial from the Chicago Pioneers for his leadership and guidance in establishing a better human relations program in the Chicago community. Mr. Donnelley serves on the boards of the Chicago Youth Center Board, Children's Memorial Hospital, and Lake Forest College. He is a former board member of the Chicago Planetarium. fi'rom 1957 until 1960 he served in the U.S. Navy, completing specialized work in submarines. DR. DAVID DOBREER Seminars are something David Dobreer has never quite given up. A year after he graduated from St. John's in 1948, he began conducting a seminar in great books in the adult education program of Hollywood High School. This was ·while he was attending the College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons in Los Angeles. He was able to continue the seminar with the same group for 17 years after that. . . ... _. In addition, he led a seminar for physicians and the medical faculty at his medical college in 1958-59 and currently is leading a seminar for the medical staff and associated personnel of the Rio Hondo Memorial Hospital in Downey, Calif. Holder of a second medical degree from the University of California at Irvine, Dr. Dobreer is president of -the Southern California Joint Council of the California at Irvine, Dr. Dobreer Union of American Physicians and Dentists. Earlier, for two years, he served as president of the State Osteopathic Association. Dr. Dobreer is serving on both the board's Santa Fe Admissions Committee and the college's Alumni Relations Committee. One of his four daughters, Sallie, is a 1975 St. John's alumna and married to former St. Johnny Edmond F. Raspa III. 41 Scores of letters of condolences from alumni and others who knew Simon Kaplan have poured in since his death on March 13. In acknowledgement of them, at the conclusion of a memorial service held in memory of the St. John's Tutor, Mrs. Kaplan, who was present, asked that a letter she had written be react "I regret very much that I have not been able to answer individually all the letters I have received from those of you who are here this afternoon and from many who are not here," she said. "With simple and affectionate words you wrote how much you cherished the memory of Mr. Kaplan as- a man, as a teacher, and as a friend. I thank you very much for these letters. They were a source of great comfort in my grief. "Reading them I thought what could be more precious at the end of one's life, what more desirable, than the fond memories of so .many people. Thank you very much again." · �• l Editor's Note: The following story from Mr. Bready's Books and Author column appeared originally in the May 13 issue of The Baltimore Sun. By JAMES H. BREADY Winfree Smith has pronounced a good many St. John's College graduates man and wife, and sometimes he baptizes the alumni's infants, and of fate he has been sorrowfully presiding at faculty funerals. That's what he gets for wearing a hard collar on campus and being the Rev. J. Winfree. Smith - and for having taught there, in Annpolis, 38 years now. History places the beginning of modern times at St. John's as mid-1937 - a big bang of an event, astronomically ·speaking - but no main figure present at the creation of the Great books program is still around. Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan left Maryland in 1947, and Barr's memory isn't what it was and Buchanan died 11 years ago. And Simon Kaplan is dead, and Jascha Klein, John S. Kieffer, Ford K. Brown, Richard Scofield. But Winfree Smith, summoned by the two founders back in 1941 to remind the students that Old and New Testaments belong on anybody's great-books list, counts as a member of the original Virginia Gang. Now, while there is still hope of reconstructing how it came about and the way it all was, now when the story has just got to be written down, the one person to write it is obviously Winfree Smith. AS IT HAPPENS, money from three sources has materialized, the college has agreed to reduce his academic burden by twothirds over the next two years, and Mr. Smith is already deep in research and recollection. He knew Robert M. Hutchins. Next Sunday is commencement; the following weekend, Mr. Smith will be in Chicago, to go see Mortimer J. Adler (who joined Hutchins in starting the nation's first credit-course great-books seminars, at the University of Chicago in the 1930s). As it happens, Adler is currentiy a member of the St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors, of which Hutchins was the first modern-times chairman. There may be an objection. Ever since the collapse of the prior military-cum-sports college, and its metamorphosis into (as the college puts it) the restored traditional program of the liberal arts and natural sciences of ancient European universities, hasn't St. John's been, pretty much, St John's? To the right as you come into town, amid those sweeping lawns, the Liberty watched over been a place Tree, St. John's of tutors (rather than professors), don rags, preceptor i al s, evening seminars, all-college Friday evening lectures, senior theses and that no-electives curriculum. During the insurrectionary Sixties, no hot-eyed students ever occupied the office of President Richard D. Weigle. If any college in the country has escaped change since 1937, wouldn't that college be St. John's? Where, then, is there a story for Mr. Smith? ...................__.............-.............. l Ah, but look at all that has gone on. St. John's dropped out of intercollegiate athletics. It stopped excluding nonwhites and women. It twinned, with Santa Fe, N.M., now the setting for St. John's West. A woman graduate of St. John's Annapolis is currently at Oxford, a member of the first coed set of Rhodes Scholars; one of its young men undergraduates is national leader of the opposition to legislation reinstating the military draft. A member of '49 is the managing editor of Time; a member of '66, living now in England, invents small-gauge fittings for medical and scientific apparatus. In Annapolis, modern architecture abuts Victorian. The college has put on televisionseries seminars, set up two M.A. programs, dropped more than half the titles on its original Great Books list (Cicero and Horace, Grotius and da Vinci) and added Kafka and Mann, Soren Kierkegaard and John Maynard Smith ·and Brown v. Topeka Board of Education. Scratch Walt Whitman; write in Yeats, Eliot, Wallace Stevens. THERE'S A NICE point, among those to whom ideas are what matter. The book total was never as low as an even 100 (and some titles are read in part, and some in faculty members' translations). The list .undergoes yearly overhaul. And, by now, it includes books unchosen by President Barr, Dean Buchanan and their colleagues because those books hadn't been written yet; e.g., Ludwig Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations" (1953) and John Maynard Smith's "Mathematical Ideas in Biology" (1968), from which the program borrows an essay, not to mention several Supreme Court decisions. It will be of some help that Winfree Smith knows the books as well as the people, having taught every part of the curriculum save music. Thinking back, he suggests that the one biggest change over the years is in emphasis: at first, the books were seen as stimulating the rational process and seminars were sometimes aroar with excitement. Latterly, students are held to closer account for a book's unembellished idea content; but seminars still ignore their 10 o'clock cutoff point, seething and roaring onward toward the direction of midnight. On a Sunday, perhaps, after preaching at St. Anne's where he is on the staff, Mr. Smith still occasionally wonders whether he is fulfilling his destiny. Born in '{irginia, raised in Fredericksburg and aged 65 next month, , a graduate of the University of Virginia and Episcopal Theological Seminary in Alexandria, and in the late 1930s the rector of a small parish near Charlottesville, Mr. Smith can legitimately ask: what if he hadn't taken that history course taught by Professor Barr? If he hadn't audited that phil course taught by Professor Buchanan? What if those two Yanks at Oxford (as WWI-veteran Rhodes Scholars: Barr from a -iine of Virginia clergymen, Buchanan from the state of Washington) hadn't met Columbia's John ........................... ~------...- ........ ~-..----------------·------ Erskine and Mark Van Doren, and then the University of Chicago's "How to Read a Book" crowd? Then there was that peace-or-war-in-Europe confe.rence in· spring, 1937, at Episcopal Theological Seminary. At that conference, two young men aflame with the idea for a college met Francis Pickens Miller, Virginian a.nd board member of a college up in Annapohs that had just lost its accreditation and couldn't keep a president. No one nowadays 'seems aware of that ·crucial Alexandria encounter - and Winfree Smith was right there. THERE WERE OTHER drastic moments, later on: when the wartime student body dwindled to fewer than 80; when the Naval Academy wanted to enlarge landwards, by engorging St. John's; when money ran low; when personality conflicts flared in faculty and administration; when Barr and Buchanan left, after only 10 years. One day, a student is murdered; another, a President arrives from the White House to help dedicate a new building. It remains to be seen whether Mr. Smith, going down the line of closets, will declare an open-door policy. With any author, there are questions of tone, level, content, control. Mr. Smith is writing official, or sponsored, history; at least the Declaration of Independence is still on the Great Books list. The gallery he plays to includes the generally honored dead, the contentious and voluble living, the unknown next generation - simultaneously, Mr. Smith is a member of the search committee seeking a successor to President Weigle, who after 30 years of keeping St. John's going strong is to retire at commencement a year from now. To make the book question concrete: will Mr. Smith downplay himself, omitting the sweat that got him a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia while teaching at St. John's? the Tuesday evening Bible class he conducts extracurricularly? the Sophomore A 25-year-old St. John's sophomore has won the only fellowship to be awarded in the District of Columbia this year by the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation. The four-year fellowship, only one of which is awarded annually in each state and the District, goes to students who are to become college juniors con· sidered to have an outstanding potential for leadership in government. The recipient is Mary Wilson Filardo, who during the 1960s and 1970s assumed leadership responsibilities in the student and youth movement and who has been deeply involved in various women's programs and civil rights efforts. MRS. FILARDO, who is expecting her first child on July 21, will receive a maximum of $5,000 annually beginning in September, when she returns for her junior year, and an identical amount for her senior year and two years of graduate work. Mrs. Filardo completed her · mint julep party he gives the 70 graduating seniors at this very season, preceding the president's dinner for them? The party, at the modern cypress-sided house on Cumberland court designed for Mr. Smith by Alexander S. Cochran of Baltimore, does a little to compensate for the prescribed labs with their chromographic studies of aminoacid metabolism, the required classes in conic sections. And there are questions as to marketing; not vital ones, for national fame long ago became secure for St. John's College, Annapolis and Sante Fe, and those four years of grindstoning the youthful and speculative mind. Winfree Smith, methodically, understandingly, perhaps not too reverently collecting his material, should worry about only one set of readers. If, when the thing is done and out, the kids on campus are still ar~ui~g over it after 10 P.M., then the book will be a success. Truman final two years of high school at Woodrow Wilson in Bethesda. In 1968-69, while still a Massachusetts resident, she concentrated on racial prejudice and discrimination, serving as a member of the Community Organization of Newton To End Racial Neglect. She also raised funds at that time door-to-door for a young black journalist who was trying to start a magazine that would help white people ·understand black people better. For her work in these projects she received the Lewis S. Mumford Award for Citizen Involvement at Newton High School. In 1969, when her family moved to Bethesda, she became involved in educational reform there. For the next four years she worked to encourage public schools to improve the preparation of students for democratic citizenship responsibilities. DURING THIS TIME she had close contact with the U.S. Office of Education, state education agencies, local school ~ystems, private foundations, the press, lobbying organizations, and other private organizations working toward educational reform. "I worked to modify federal and state laws, regulations, administrative procedures and program content in the field of education and to stimulate thought concerning the purpose of schooling for teen-agers," she said. In 1969, as a junior in high school, she set up and directed the Walt Whitman Work-Study Program, a program destined to provide students with an opportunity to learn by doing. In this capacity, she secured 60 positions for students who could be released from school at midday to work in volunteer jobs in Washington. Later, in February, 1970, at the invitation of Congressman Toby Moffett, then director of the Office of Students and Youth, U.S. Office of Education, she accepted the responsibility for founding and directing a national high school student information center in the Office of Education. "The Student Information Center was set up to collect and disseminate information on new educational programs. • • by THOMAS PARRAN, JR. author and educator. Director, Alumni Activities The 50th-year class, under Bill September 28 and 29 will be a time of great celebration on the Gross's leadership, is making Annapolis campus. The classes-of plans for its golden anniversary the Decade of the Forties are celebration. We're betting that planning a grand combined this active group will attend in reunion, spurred on by the force. irrepressible exuberance of the Complete details of the 30-year class, 1949, under Allan weekend have yet to be worked Hoffman's direction. out. We can announce that the Interest will focus on the in- Homecoming dinner and the stallatioIY of Stringellow Barr as traditional happy time which president emeritus of St. John's. precedes it will be held at the Bay And based on the turnout in 1977 ·Ridge Inn this year. Since that is for "Winkie's" 80th birtMay in outside town, the planning Princeton, this should be an even c o m m i t t e e i s -· m a k i n g larger occasion. Speaking Friday arran~ements for some sort of night· will be Jacques Barzun, shuttle-bus service from the ~~~~~~~~~~~~~--~~~~~~~~.- -- - campus and the principal hotels and motels to the inn and return. A detailed schedule will be IT,lailed, with reservation forms, in late July. I Meanwhile, please make your o:vvn arrangements for hotels and otels as soon as you possibly n. The Maryland Inn (301-2632 41), the Annapolis Hilton Inn 01-268-7555 or 800-446-3811), the Holiday Inn ' (3of-224-3150); Howard Johnson's Motel (301-757l~OO), the Thr-rift Inn (301-2242$00) tend to be filled up months ~head. Do not wait until late in ;the summer to arrange for a :~lace to stay. ij �-;- - i!'-. THE REPORTER · PAGE6 Choral This year St. John's gained a new choral group. It is Octet Plus One, a nine-member chorus which has performed at three Collegium Musicums and sang again for the baccalaureate service, this time the difficult sixvoice "Missa Papae Marcelli" by Palestrina. Now who was the One? It could have been Sheep Jones, the wife of a student, Charles Jones, and the only non-student in the group, or it could have been Karen Wachsmuth, who might deny it. Karen Wachsmuth, a senior from Mendham, N.J., takes a modest view of her role, but it has been a key one. This 21-year-old coloratura, who has been singing since she was 13 and who spent last summer at the Peabody Conservatory practicing the piano 10 hours a day (she is fore mostly a pianist), has been the moving force behind the group. A serious musician .who plans to return to music, Miss Wachsmuth early last fall sought out a group of students of varying ability who would be willing not only to sing together but to work toward all the perfection they • music JUNE 1979 • which aims at perfection were capable of. three times a week. "I DECIDED TO get a group of people who would really work because music is not worth doing unless it is done perfectly," she said. "This means not just singing the notes, but knowing that the music must be dynamic, and the piece felt as a whole." As the acknowledged, if not forn1ally titled, leader, she looks upon the endeavor as a cooperative one which has paid off. Members of Octet Plus One have developed, she said, in working on such music as the madrigals of Orlando di Lasso or some of the work of Handel's oratorio, "Solomon." "Everyone has improved tremendously," she said. "We've got to the point where we are at the heart of the music." As for her role: "I did all the yelling, and I was the bossiest one. Everyone gave their opinions, but I had the last say." The two ladies on their elbows are Karen Octet Plus One, from Evan Canter and Robin Slonaqer she could be a conductor and make us do things without off ending personalities,'' one of the more experienced singers of In actual fact, any such noisy Octet Plus One, Roberta Slonager, of Vienna, Va., said. guidance was virtually non"She kept us all going together. existent. As a director, she won the admiration of her fellow · I'm amazed that she can do that." students. "SHE IS VERY well prepared "The interesting thing is that and knowledgeable very Wn..-hc:m11th professional," Evan Canter, who sang for seven years with the Chicago Children's Choir, praised her. Members of the group come with varying degrees of experience. Miss Slonager has sung with both the James Madison High School Chorus and its 16member Madrigal and with the Washington oratorio Society in with character on campus. It's different from any other dormitory because it has only one or two rooms on each floor. H's more like an apartment than a dormitory. -Mr. Salter first had a room at Paca-Carroll his sophomore year, when he grew to appreciate the dormitory; but he decided when he returned for his junior year, he had to renovate. Fortunately, Mr. Salter knows how. He has been building drama sets for plays since he was in junior high school and did a great deal of work here at St. John's for "The Oresteia" and "The Night of the Iguana." For the past five years, ever since he was 16, he has operated a summertime painting, plastering, and repairing company. He also is gifted with an artistic eye for what is right. What is right didn't exist in the room to which he was assigned. "Can you see that corner?" he asked, opening a closet and exposing a shabby section of faded paint and crumbling plaster. "My room was in that color and condition.'' So he arrived early his junior year, three weeks before school opened, and went to work, repairing the walls, painting them white, and burning away and sanding the small Victorian mantel down to its cool, gray marble. THREE FRAMED Chagalls went up on the walls and a Mozart poster on the door. From Rwanda, which he had visited, came a spear he had retrieved from fleeing gorilla poachers. A three headed mask to keep evil spirits away, also from Africa, was hung at the window, (It's effective; no evil spirits have arrived.) To accommodate his books, Bill Salter stands at his mantel where he uncovered the name of a 1926 graduate who occupied Mr. Salter constructed seven, his room 50 years a.go. developed a friendship," Mr. At Homecoming, 1977, William Salter was passiug lhruugh tne Salter recalled. "I was pleased to St. John's College dining hall know that 50 years after he had graduated, I had entered St. when he saw, leaping at him from John's, and he had passed on his a name tag and written for him in room to me." large and compelling letters, Coloru•I J "1 m PS .J. Dugan, who is "Jim Dugan, '26." a retired Marine Corps officer, It was a name Mr. Salter knew well and was seeing daily. He had had not remembered carving his uncovered it under 50 years of name, but he went over to see it on the marble mantel anyway paint carved onto the edge of the mantelpiece of his.room in Paca- and to help identify the former students who had left initials or Carroll. Unable to resist such an oc· scraps of their names along the casion, Mr. Salter went over to edge: !!;award B. Hines, 1931; say in effect to this Towson, Md., alumnus, "Hi. You don't know · Frannie (Frank P.) Hunter, 1929, and Henry C. Zouck, 1928. There me, but I know you. You lived in were the initials, KA, for Kappa my room." "We talked, and I saw him at Alpha House, for the Pacaanothe:r Homecoming, and we Carroll House was a fraternity house at one time. In Colonel Dugan's day his room was used to sleep three stud~nts on triple bunk beds. THE P ACA-CARROLL House is, as anyone familiar with the campus knows, a wreck of an old 19th century building, now used as a dormitory for 21 students. As soon as the college can raise the ,money, it is scheduled for extensive renovation. The building, originally constructed as a duplex for faculty housing, retains something of its original charm, and Mr. Salter is among those who are most aware of it. "I've lived in Pa ca-Carroll since my sophomore year,'' he said. "I love it. It's the only place Gigi Paneha~ photo performances with the National Symphony. Capable of both soprano and alto parts, she has sung at the Kennedy Center, National Gallery, and Phillips Collection in Washington. Besides appearing with the Chicago Children's Choir, Mr. Canter, who comes from a musical family, has sung with the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera (ContinuedonP.7) walnut stained bookshelves between the fireplace and wall. Chests and chess table came from home, and Mr. Salter covered the college bed with a fitted brown corduroy cover, giving the place the appearance of a studio room. In its center this particular day, an architect's lamp hovered over a central table covered with blueprints. Mr. Salter was working on his own idea for the renovation of the Paca-Carroll House, something the architect on the project had invited him to do. Because of expense, the only aspect of work he decided not to undertake was refinishing the floor. But even with that job skipped, the room has become an anomaly; a pearl of a room in this decayed pld oyster shell of a dormitory. The room in fact was nice enough for a party,/.which Mr. Salter has given, shoe horning as many as 70 people in last Christmas. When the building is redone, he hopes the fireplaces .will be retained. "It wouli;l be nice if they were not lost," he said. "This one has a tremendous draft and sheds a lot of heat into theroom." AND THE of that fireplace! ''The University of Virginia is the only other place I know which has ·fireplaces in student rooms," said. "The feeling it gives inexplicable unless you are here on a .winter's night with a few friends.''. Mr. Salter .loves working on this type oi proje~t,. sp. mucl;l, ~o that he hopes fo ni'akki business of homesteading in Baltimore. Under a housing program there, residents may buy a house for a dollar and in two years time must refinish it, a project which may cost from $30,000 to $50,000. The city provides a loan at low interest. �• n .. Wlll ,yt!ie R~Poi1~R- , • .,.. . ! i'' 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . .,.,. . caring _....__,...._,,S Senior activities the closing weeks occasionally can become noisily raucous. Not so Class Day. In talks reflecting a quiet kind of caring, the two principal student spl"<ikNs - Frances Pickering and William Mahorrey - spo.Ke about such matters as f1wo;iv"nl.'S" ::\nd resp0nsibilitiPs to strangers and words and their power to help or hurt while William O'Grady, the tutor seniors chose tor the occasion. spoke of the need of commumon over aloneness. In an extemporaneous speech, another :::.enior. Fred Cox, expressed the class' particular concern for one student who was not to graduate. Mr Mahoney. a JacksoHville. Everett Smith, Jr., and ferris Thomsen, of the lacrosse Hall of Fame, talk over old times with Coach "Dinty" Moore, right, at St. John's lacrosse reunion. Photo by Tom Parron by TOM PARRAN Alumni Director It started with Coach "Dinty" Moore's suggestion to President Dick Weigle. Wouldn't it be great to commemorate in 1979 the first national champion lacrosse team at St. John's? (No matter that the 1929 team was an unofficial champion, since St. John's didn't then belong to the Intercollegiate Lacro!l;se Association.) There was also a natural tie-in which could be used. Fifty years ago the local Rotary Club gave a dinner to honor that bunch of champions, so maybe we could include a celebration of the golden anniversary of that event. Dick liked the idea, so the planning began for the Great Lacrosse Reunion. It soon became clear that the scope of the event should be expanded to include the "real"· championship teams of 1930 and 1931. After considerable research by B.F. Bunny Gessner, JV Coach from the old days, a squad list was put together and invitations were sent. Before long it was obvious that the bond of lacrosse could span miles - and years. People from far and near were gomg to join friends and former teammates in Annapolis on May 21. FROM OUT IN Olympia, Wash., the Bill Zieglers journeyed back to Crab Town. From Florida came the Larry Carpenters and Joe Bean, while the John Bouchers travelled almost as far from Birmingham, Ala. The Ed Lotzes tore themselves away from North Carolina, and brother Phil and his wife came up from Virginia. Maryland, of course, had the largest contingent: the Bill Arma costs, the Bill Atheys, the Mason Cheezums, Ernie Cornbrooks and wife, Harry Cross and friend, the Snowden Hoffs, "Doc" Purvis and his wife, and the Gessners. The north country also sent some stalwarts: Ferris Thomsen Elliott Zuckerman gives the traditional toast to the seniors at the President's Dinner. Anita Ross is at right. Tom Parran photo from New Hampshire and Massachusetts Walter Baird from the latter state, with his daughter; the Bobby Pooles from New Jersey, and the Harold Conns from Pennsylvania. In addition to the championship squads, the guest list included the only two living members of the St. John's contingent in the Lacrosse Hall of Fame not on those teams, Johnny Donohue and Everett Smith, Jr., and their wives. Dick Weigle, Bryce Jacobsen, current athletic director, Alumni Director Tom Parran, and their wives, represented the college. And representing today's Rotf}ry Club was thf" current president, Chester A. Harriman, and Mrs. Harriman. A special guest was the former Marjory Smith (Mrs. John Laying). The actual gathering was a warm and nostalgic occasion, with good food and. good drink and the best of fellowship. The old dining hall rang with cries of recognition as friend greeted friend. Dick Weigle welcomed the group and spoke briefly· on the state of the college and about plans for the renovation of Randall Hall. John Donohue served as master of ceremonies, reminding the group of the accomplishments of the teams represented that night. FOR YOU YOUNGSTERS, that 1929 team, under Dinty's able guidance, beat 13 consecutive opponents, including the top teams in the country, and scored 129 points to 27 for their opponents; in 1930, in a 12-game season, there was only one defeat, by one point, to our old nemesis, Hopkins. In 1931 there was a 9-garne undefeated regular season, followed by the two-game Lally Cup series with a Canadian team. The Lally Cup games were split~ but by virtue of outscoring the lads from north of the border 5-3, the St. Johnnies took home the cup. Coach Moore spoke briefly about his . three championship teams and some of the individuals who were present, and generally about his considerable experience with the great game of lacrosse. And finally, a moment of respectful silence for the teammates no longer with us was a fitting finale for the evening. Fla., student who has received a full schoiarsh1p tor study at the University of Chicago's Divinity School, told seniors "a very real relationship exists between you and me and every stranger." ''Every soul on this earth is bound together and is responsible to one another," he said. " ... I thmk that we are all responsibie to one another. I say this for two reasons. The first is that we are really quite delicate creatures. We are blessed or afflicted with. I'm not sure which, both a powerful and moving force and a frail or woundable sensitivity or balance which is sometimes called heart or spirit or soul. "At any particular time in our · lives our mental or spiritual wellheing is really quite otherwise. "THIS IS THE weather of the soul which is by no means always readily apparent on the surface. But one thing readily evident about this delicate· balance of ours is that we both hurt and are hurt. And the majority of time it is done by speech. But if we have the power to soothe, to refresh, to help. " ... Just as if we were aware that another person was in danger of ~losing his life and we were in a position to help him, our Me, too, wollld be placed on the line before him and, were we to walk away, something would die in us as well." Mr. Mahoney spoke of the senior class itself. "Some of us are stronger, some are sharper, some of us are cool, others are awkward. Some of us are very independent and some of us shy and need each other more than some others would ever need anybody. "I love some of you more than others, not because of qualities like better looking, smarter, or nicer, but just that my heart beats different for different people. But I swear we are a kind of one, that we are not strangers. This is where it gets mystical, if it hasn't been so already. "We've more than lived together. We've partied together .. We've touched each other a lot ... I truly believe that our ex· perience with the books, with the tutors, and with each other has prepared us for the world as I love, fear, and understand it better than almost any other possible experience." Class Day followed events traditionally winding up the senfor year. The Spring Cotillion, held May12, was preceded by the annual senior prank, when members of the graduation class, equipped with water pistols and wearing trench coats, took over Thursday night seminars and then hehl a Humphrey Bogart "Casablanca"-style Rick's Place evening behind stage in the Key Auditorium. THE NEXT DAY seniors invited themselves over for a daylong picnic with square dancing at the Weigles' home, one Mr. Weigle enjoyed so much he invited next year's class for a return engagement. A three-hour boat ride up the Severn on the Harbor Queen followed. Other events have included a variety show and the Real Olympics, mock olympic games with allusions to St. John's matnematicai and classical programs. Senior essays probed a number of wide-ranging subjects, but the one whirh developed the largest interest and resulted in jam packing the King William Room was that announced on the senior essay oral examination schedule for April 30 at 6:45 p.m.: "Div, Flux, Curi, and God,'' a paper based on the four Maxwell equations and aorist verbs. Listed as the examining committee were Elliott Zuckerman, chairman, Nicholas Maistrellis, and Howard Zeiderman. Kermith Barccillie is a character in The Collegian's cartoon strip by Frederick Cox, Scarsdale, N.Y., senior, who on this occasion bore a striking resemblance to his originator. The oral was opened by Mr. Zuckerman, whose one qualification ·as chairman was that he had never read Maxwell's equation, but who had been impressed by the significance of other sets of four: the four deadly sins, the four critiques of Kant, Plato's four parts of the soul. Members of the Commencement and Classday Activities Committee were Frances Pickering, chairman, Ann Schwartz, Rita Bahus, and Kristina Sha par. (Continued from P. 6) Company· in Chicago. A sophomore, he sang with St. John's Small Chorus in its performance of Brahms' Requiem at the next Collegium Music um. A bass, Steven Cramer, Bethesda, Md., freshman, has sung with madrigal and barbershop groups at Walt Whitman High School. He has appeared in musicals, taking the role of Bill in a production of "South Pacific" while he was a high school student at Taipei, Taiwan. Other members have included Mary Pennypacker, ·a senior fiiom Wayne, Pa., who has sung duets with Miss Wachsmuth since their freshman days; Lisa Simeone, Verona, Pa., junior; Charles Jones, Annapolis senior; his wife, Sheep, and Donald E~selborn, Annapolis junior. 1 �JUNE 1 THE REPORTER Published by College Relations Office Sf. John's College Annapolis, Md. 21404 let us kn t Robert Spaeth, a member of the faculty since 1963, has resigned to accept a position as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at his alma mater, St. John's University, Collegeville, Minn. His appointment became effective July 1. In naming him dean, the university also appointed him to the tenured position of professor of liberal studies. Mr. Spaeth has been on leave for two years, helping coordinate a new liberal arts program being introduced <1t St. John's University. A NATIVE OF St. Cloud, Minn., Mr. Spaeth is a 1959 graduate of St. John's University and has done graduate work at the University of Illinois and the University of Wisconsin. During his tenure at St. John's College, he was assistant dean, director of the freshman summer program, co-director of admissions and director of the Graduate Institute in Liberal Education at the college's Santa Fe, N.M., campus. Mr. Spaeth is a consultant to the Executive Council on Foreign Diplomats and has been a consultant to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. (Continued from P. 1) will be gutted, and a suite of offices built there to house the St. John's business office, the print shop. and two offices for student activities. ON THE BACKeCAMPUS side, the iWW addition will extend out from the buildmg, breaking the long vertical line of Randall on that side and providing .the building with a new base. A deck for outdoor dining will be constructed above it. Also planned for that side are two private dining rooms, e.ach capable of holding 25 persons and separated by folding doors. While the present entrance will continue to serve dormitory · rooms, the principal entrance to the dining hall will be relocated on its College Avenue side with a ramp constructed there for handicapped students. A new serving area will be built Trees n May was tree planting time at St. John's College. Altogether five trees - Shingle Oaks and Little Leaf Lindens - went into place in the first two lines of trees along College Avenue. In addition, dogwoods were planted at the Harrison Health Center and Campbell ·Hall. Arthur Kungle, Jr., '67, supervised the planting. He is an executive editor of "Improving College and University Teaching," a quarterly journal. Mr. Spaeth is also a writer. He has a regular column in the St. Cloud Visitor and has published articles in The New York Times, National Catholic Reporter, and Washington Star. He co-authored a book on mathematics for elementary school teachers and wrote a chapter on Annapolis city government in a topical History of Anne Arundel County. IN he served as a city councilman in Annapolis from 1969 to 1973, as a member of the Maryland Democratic State Central Committee, as a member of the Annapolis Planning and Zoning (,0mmission, and as a member of the Anne Arundel County Democratic State Central Committee. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Association of Physics Teachers. He also has been awarded a Danf01 tr. H"ellows up, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, and a National Science Foundation Fellowship. James former admissions director and tutor, is s St. John's College's Graduate Institute has received a $50,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to fund a special program of graduate study for teachers. Geoffrey Comber, Institute director on the Annapolis cam· pus, said it will be used for 3.6 fellowships for secondary or elementary teachers who wish to enroll in the eight-week long summer program either in Annapolis or at St. John's western campus in Santa Fe. To qualify, teachers will be asked to submit a proposal for some significant change in either their classroom or school dealing with the curricula or teaching structures, books, methods, or any aspect they believe would im- n Photo by Tom Pam:in WILLIAM O'GRADY Un the weekend of Apnl 28th, visitin!! parents saw a King William Players production of 1 he urestcrn tn wnich there were many excellences and in which l, at least, saw clearly into certain meanings of Aeschylus I had not well understood before. \ltogrther ::i thons;ind oersons saw it on the two the 1 wa~· l'hl' (•xrd!erices werr many and stnking. The set, designed chit"fly bv Jeff Crigler. was magnificent, supplying grandeur and ~racefuiue~:'l tu ~u~Ldi11 the great motions of the trilogy. Costuming was rich, simple, and careful. Most effective was the transformation of Clytemnestra into her ghost: her gown is at first a deep, brilliant red on a bright stage, then gossamer red in the as part of the new addition, and background of a dimly lit stage. the present serving area will · Kathryn Ranniger as Clytembecome a new dining area with nestra was remarkable for the space for about 30 persons. power and aptness of her Thf' plan" arr hPforP thP Anmovements on stage and for her napolis Historic District Com- perfectly audible as well as . mission for its study and ap- powerful rendering of her lines; proval. The commission she fell only a little short - every l'dl"llL'l' Lhis sµring i:·11actress must fall more or less thus1astically <!pproved ar- short - of the Clytemnestra of chitectural drawings for Paca- the reader's imagination. Carroll, where renovation work I was surprised by the high also is being planned. • nr ........... in his honor at the House. Behind them .,..,..,T.,,..,,.,. rlmnt"'...I the oartv markina his retirement. chats with Mrs. degree of surrrss in the presentation of Apollo (Anthony Cox) and AU1ena (Kim Schraff). This was achieved largely by giving iull eitect to the dignity inherent in the stillness of statues before requiring the actors to move and speak on stage. The presentation of the Furies another extraordinarily difficult task - was also successful. Their words convey their power and fearsomeness; costuming and direction made vivid, not only their repulsiveness, but even more their wretchedness. I found this emphasis very helpful for understanding. the final moments of the play. TWO MOMENTS in the production seemed especially moving and illuminating. The first is the meeting between Orestes and Electra, played excellently by Steve Barkheimer and Julie Boaz, in · which· the audienle c:an sense what it is like to have grown up with no present. Brother and sister have thought only uf µa::.l aml future until the moment of their embrace. It is this consideration rather than any plausibility in Apollo's arguments that makes us glad of Orestes' acquittal. Finally, the softening of the Furies, their first touchingly s prove the quality of teaching. Among the groups of people it is attracting, the Annapolis Insitute will have two other special categories - students from the Near East and an impressive number of students with advanced degrees. Mr. Comber said that for the second year funding has been ob· tained to enroll up to 15 students either here or in Santa Fe. It will provide $3,300 for students from Iran, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, Turkey, Israel, Kuwait, and SaudiArabia. A third of the cost will be borne by the governments of the sending countries, a third by the International Communications Agency, and a third sponsored jointly by Reader's Digest and the DeWitt Wallace Fund. While registration is still incomplete, a preliminary profile on 30 of the students who will enroll for the master's program shows that nearly half of them have advanced degrees. One has a doctorate in medieval studies, another in law, and another in medicine. The group includes nine students with master's degrees. Among them will be seven elementary and secondary teachers, three who are members of university faculties, a nurse, a research chemist, a buyer, a cook, an editor, a retired business executive, a journalist, and a manage,ment consultant. eager movement toward the good things Athena offers them, was most beautifully presented. I realized as never before that the Furies must change, not because they are wrong - Apollo is hardly right - but because they are miserable. Miss Schraff, as Athena, seemed truly to be offering them good things mdeed, and the moment when the Furies - Kate Sam JWcMahon, Lisa 0 Eileen Renno, and Liz Tarr - began to disentangle themselves a little and to move toward Athena made me understand for the first time that the proper response to the play's end is not relief but rather gladness, though it is not simply that for we cannot forget the suffering of Clytemnestra, whom no one offered good things. St. John's is greatly indebted to Robert Butman, not only for his intelligent direction of a great play, but also for the care and kindness he showed to everyone involved in its production. It was, I think, a great event for St. John's. David . Bolotin, who joined the St. John's· College faculty in 1974, has been awarded a fellowship research grant by the Earhart Foundation, of Ann Arbor, Mich. . The $3,400 award for a three months summer program. will be used by. Mr. Bolotin for an analysis of Plato's "Philebus." A classics scholar, Mr. Bolo tin holds bachelor's and doctoral degrees from Cornell University and New York University, respectively, and has done additional work in classics at Yale University. He has been a holder of a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, a University of Chic ago Humanities Fellowship, and the National Defense Education Act Fellowship. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <em>The St. John's Reporter</em> Description An account of the resource College newspaper which started publication in 1974. 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Not only has he received another well-deserved award (the New Jersey Institute of Technology's Literary Hall of Fame golden citation), but he is off to Europe again this summer. The trip will. be under the ,auspices of the Rockefeller Foundation and is for the new study of macro-nationalisms and mini-nationalisms. Louis will also complete a lecture tour of German universities under sponsorship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. 1956 until recently vice nr<P·~ll1Pnl for network news, TV Westinghouse Broad·' Co., has been api:1oin1tee1 vice president and general manager of KPIX (TV) the W. station in San Francisco. 1962 Neil Potash reports that he is employed in the Maryland Hall of Records, is married, and he his wife have a child almost two years old. He sees John Miller quite often; John is curator of the historic Hampton House in Towson, Md. 1964 The Christmas holidays a visitor from Britain, » .. «,,..;,.;.. (Carney) Ceccarelli, who visited with John and Judith (Stockard) White while in Annapolis. Pat would love to see any St. Johnnies who might be passing through England ("Westlodge," Westgate, Southwell, Notts). In July and August she will be in Italy (Via Cairoli, Localita Antelea, Castegneto Carducci ( (Livorno)) telephone 0565-76825). Pat is a consultant , child psychologist to Nottingham social services, and her husband, Giorgio, is a lecturer in planning at Nottingham University. 1965 A brief note from Susan , tells us work in Rebecca Wilson Editor The Reporter is published by the Office of College R~lations, St, John's College, Annapolis, Md,, 21404, Richard D. Weigle, president, Published five times a year, in February, April, June, September and November. Second class postage paid at Annapolis, Md. USPS 018-750 myself with a very dear international direct mail in- friend .... Alas, my friend was not surance marketing, they have at home, and so I was left once created and are marketing more to own devices. Soon "Manna Meals," mixes for , recovei'ing the c0111p1'1lSA'On, natural food meals in 'a while waiting my bag. The new product is carried friend's return, I became aware in many mid~Atlantic stores. In of invitation addition to these business enter- of sorts. prises, Jay and Susan are rearing almost to three sons. another beginning from long ago, 1966 , I unerringly and unswervingly, The Rev. ·William N. , found my way back to the place McKeachie was in Annapolis in where I was reared in· on leave from his post teJlectually,, or at least as diocesan theologian at St. thoughtfully. I have seen no James Cathedral in Toronto, and ghosts, albeit the spirit abides, working for the Office of Church and resounds here. While; Relations at the University ofthe strolling around and through the 'Sewanne, Tenn. While in buildings, I know and feel in my Annapolis Bill delivered a Sun~ soul (when I was a freshman, I morning sermon at St. An- denied the existence of the soul in Church. seminar because I could not 1968-Santa Fe touch it) that tb.e time I spent Vicki Sue now Ani-la here was not long ago, not even as Yeshe in June .yesterday_ The time, the exrecieved the precepts (vows) of a perience was/is now, stilJ. Of novice Buddhist nun and has been course, there are many new eniovine: a most interestine: and faces, still friendly, but life since enigmatically withdrawn into arenas of deep thoughts I would jm agine. The landscape endures the of a couple of new om.ia111gs, also. I can see some changes, indeed, but the everpresent under-current of energy con1971 Are we proud of our St. John's '.tinues flowing rapidly. _ I am there again ~nd wonaduates! Judy Ke Maistrellis had such a high score dering desperately about what it for her Law School Admission is that I am rebelling against, about what it is I am resisting Test - 730 out of a possible 800 that she won an unsolicited Merit here. Studies and defined in· Scholarship at the University of . tellectilalism? Uncomforting Maryland School of Law in solace and solitude? The discipline and the awesome Baltimore. The Faculty Admission responsibility of assuming control of my thoughts and Committee granted the award, feelings? Yes, yes, and yes. The which covers cost of tuition for the freshman year, "in ideas uncovered and opened up recognition of your exceptional here? Emphatically not! I love the ideas, the mind excursions, potential for legal study." Judy, the a venues of thought laid bare who has been· serving on a temporary basis as secretary to for the Ql!esting soul. Love it! Slipping into a state of St. John's assistant deans, will momentary inexpressability 1 begin work toward her law while enjoying Earl Grey in the degree in August. familiar Coffee Shop, I am awash 1972 In a note "for the curiosity with volatile thoughts and file," Willis writes that momentary inexpressibility, after practicing clinical flooded with memories. It is quite psychology for four years, she enjoyable. A small sadness, however, has returned to the University of Chicago to get an M.B.A. degree. lingered the last hour, that from She is enjoying a very active and not being too opportunistic while stimulating job in strategic I was here. I assure you there are planning and development at no regrets, and that sadness is ,Continental II lino is Co r- onJy as real as I make it. I must dip back into another real world poration-international division. shortly, even though I am still 1972-Santa Fe energy field. The following letter was drawn to for the thank received recently at the Santa Fe 1n the us; we are it, lflv!l•or•-.f about St. I it and slightly edited because of space, at the suggestion of Mr. Ault, and passed it along to a friend. Concerning The College, with the of the author: I have not received it for years Dear Sir: the powers that It was, still such a now. be don't have a present address ma',R'I11'ticc~ntj1y bE~au1:1tu1 day that resist the urge to drive or something. Being a non( Continued on P. 6) up to Santa Fe to reacquaint very in Buddhist ideas for Westerners in her tea1cn:m~ activities. 1979 To the Editor: It is with joy that I read (in the November issue) about John Dean's adventures graduation together in I look forward to ..""'""'"'' his "Letter from column. John and I were in tutorials, seminars, especially labs together during three out of four years, and I remember with John . as he McDowell into a Maypole in 1970 as well as his many other harmless However, as John could trick others so his own mind and memory could trick himself. Most particularly, his third "eventful" memory of his senior year the college handball championship - runs at odds with ~Y own memory of victory over John in the match of the tournament our senior year. force to own memory is a currently in my living room engraved as follows: • SJC 1970 Handball Chctm~non Fielding R. rernaps Bryce Jacobsen would like to· arbitrate between the conflicting realities of sterile bronze and John's wonderfully fertile mind. Sincerely, Ronald H. Fieldine:. '70 ~-- ..... p..n,,n,· ! To set the record straight: In 1970 Ron Fielding defeated John Dean in the finals of our handball tournament. This was generally considered to have been an "upset." Ron and John teamed up to win the doubles, prevailing over Jim Spirer and Matt Mallory. The victory that John "remembered" was in the doubles-not in the singles! Bryce Jacobsen Director, Athletics Ill l A jetliner, an exhibit of buggy wheels and molds, a collection of restaurants ... What do in common? All of them have been created Alexander Girard, one of the world's top designers. Another Girard design, the mural in the of Peterson Student Center on the Santa Fe campus, has been turned into a color poster now available to alumni, parents, and friends of St. John's College. It was designer-architectcollector Alexander Girard who conceived the idea of painting Braniff airliners not only magenta but orange, light beige, turquoise, lemon and ocher. It was Girard who designed the unique 180 foot-long, 8 foot-high, 3 foot-deep mural of 2,000 objects from rural America for the Saarinen·designed administration building of Deere & Company in Moline, The same man designed L'Etoile and La Fonda Del Sol in New York City and The Com· pound Restaurant i:n Santa Fe. His international collection of toys and related objects has been given to the Museum of New Mexico. And, it was Girard who used diagrams, formulas and symbols of Western culture to provide the motif for the mural which has become a St. John's College/Santa Fe landmark. The 16" x 20" color poster is available at three different prices: the poster, on heavy cover stock, signed by Alexander Girard, is $50. An unsigned poster on the same stock is $25, and an unsigned poster on lighter stock can be ordered for $10. AH posters will be sent postpaid. Posters may be ordered by writing to Mary Branham, St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501. �' Simon as "a man Valued for the effect of on students as well as his learning, Mr. born December 5, 1893, on ·the Baltic Sea fo Latvia, in what was then of Russia. Mr. left there in 1923 for '"'"''' ........., where he was joined a year later by Mrs. Kaplan. At the time they left Russia Mr. Kaplan was a student at the University of and . Mrs. was heading a versity school · established for workers. his moral " died of cancer March 13 at the age of 85. The former St. John's who until December, when he was hospitalized, had never ceased to teach at St. John's. was in the Kneseth Cemetery following a service in the synagogue in which he had worshipped for 30 years. In accordance with the old and severely simple rites of Jewish burial, he was buried 11'"';n·1111 a a tallis, a relit?ious prayer shawl with pine box for a "He was a man after God's own heart, doing loving mercy, and .. ,.,.11r; ..,,.... humbly with his God," Morris D. Rosenblatt eulogized the service. "He was 01essed with a sense of humor which was unfailing. At all times his kindness blended with courtesy. He was warm, yet not sentimental. He was humble, very modest; yet he was firm. selfeffacing idealism and lofty sincerity was combined with unfaltering strength. His "HE POSSESSED a marvelous familiarity with the Bible and the Hebrew language. He had the moral strength and a saintliness that the prophets had. He would brook no sham nor tolerate the customary illusions that beguile us. He listened to the voice of reason and respected sincere and genuine conviction ... He retained the vigor of mind, the grace, and the charm of his personality almost to the very end." The service · for Mr. Kaplan acquired a larger meaning by serving as a memorial to ·the Jews who lost their lives during World War II and for whom. there could be no burial services. "For those of his contemporaries of college years whose lives .were cruelly shattered by the holocaust and whose graves are unknown, let this service be a memorial also to them," Rabbi Rosenblatt said. SIMON KAPLAN Bert Thoms photo which Dean Edward row took note of n ..... n ........... of men and women have served the college and who have died, including those four within the past 10 months: Jacob Klein, Virginia Walter Bert Thoms. Among others have been Scott Buchanan, Ford K. Brown, John S. Kieffer, Richard and Iola Scofield and Victor Zuckerkandl. "We must try to and same dedinrilnci1>les which be said in relJLect:inJ? upon how much the remains in their debt, even by those members who did not know them. Despite two formal "retirements," Mr. Kaplan had continued to teach until just before the winter holidays when his illness forced him to interrupt a preceptorial on Kant. His ·extra-curricular Tuesday night Bible Class on the Old Testament for St. John's students,· traditional here for decades, continued until this academic year. WITH THE DEATH of Mr. Kaplan, St. John's loses a central, patriarchal figure. Although childless, he and Mrs. Kaplan stood in a relationship of grandparents to several college families. Frequently quoted· and known for his stories, he was also a person of legendary fame on campus around whose legends other grew. Mr. first official retirement came in 1959, when he was 65 of age, but with St. new western at three months. A memorial service will be held at 4 in St. and They subs moved to France and came to the United States after fleeing Paris two days before the Nazis invaded the moving first to unoccupied · Southern France, then to Portugal, and finally to New York. For half a year they were located at Haverford College, where the Quakers had set up a reception center for World War II refugees and then, with an annual stipend of $2,000 provided by the General Jewish Council of New York, the Kaplans moved to Annapolis in 1942 where .he became St. John's scho la r-in-residenc e concerned with the Jewish' traditions. ON SEPTEMBER 1943, he became a member of the regular faculty. From 1953to1956 he served on the college's Instruction Committee. Mr. Kaplan was graduated from the Real· School in Libau, Russia, in 1912, attended the Institute of Technology, Darmstadt, and the University of Heidelberg, 1912-14, and the University of • Leningrad, 1921-23. He earned his doctorate at the University of Jena in Germany in 1927, and, after leaving Berlin, where he· had been associated with the Hermann Cohen Foundation, he undertook research studies at the University of Paris from 1934 to 1936. in Fla~staff, she has her own 'Du.. .,....,M Wo!llu1na Studio. A 1973 My life has changed dramatically in the five years since I graduated. It took me . rather a while to learn and settle down to my present work. In the process I lived and explored the Mojave Desert and the Sierras in California, worked in Los, ·Angeles, moved to where I took cross coun+~ .. skiing while bookkeeper · the Telluride Ski Area, surprisingly, met and studied under a gifted Danish tapestry artist, Kirsten Blichert. The following summer spent sailing in Connecticut, prior to a winter in Europe to study art. I then returned to Colorado to study weaving under Nancy Ward. After a year, I moved to Seattle where I apprenticed under Linda Gilbert, a Danish-trained professional tapestry artist, and attended classes at the Factory of Visual Arts, the Weaving Works, and the University of Washington. After a year in Seattle, I moved to Flagstaff, where I attended Northern Arizona University's fiber program full and part time for a year. At the beginning of this year, I began my weaving in earnest, with a show in Colorado early in the spring. Since then I have exhibited my weavings nationally and regionally in competitive shows, including Interweave '78 at the University of Ohio and Crafts '78 in Scottsdale, Ariz. !HAD THE GOOD fortune this past summer to be offered a fully equ,ipped professional studio and gallery near the university. Since then I have had several apprentices and am offering tapestry classes on a regular basis. · . - I work on _large architectural pieces, by commission and for The work is related to pre~ college . experiences with set design for several Washington, D.C., theater groups. i am interested unobtrusively softening and warming architectural spaces with tapestries which harmonize with them and complete them ... I am currently at work on a series of large pieces whose common theme is the formation rock in geologic ~trata. I have finished a:· fossil shell bed piece and am working on a large tapestry based on of a shelf of ext:omam1g granite. My themes are concerned with the works of time and weathering, the transforming of discrete living entities into a mass of fossiliz-ed rock-a kind of outer record of the acquisition of life experienced by the world (perhaps a map corresponding to the inner archaeological record. · of which Freud speaks) tran. ~lated into a woven fiber image. In speaking of these years and my work, I have barely alluded to the tremendous work and sacrifice which made them possible, the many odd jobs tree planter, sometime reporter, waitress, mountaineering equipment seamstress, law clerk, cashier, etc.-which enabled me to develop . wholly independently as an artist~ just as similar jobs paid my way .through St. John's. r tu St. John's Tutor David Stephenson represented the college at a conference on liberal arts in higher education at Hood · College on March 31. Speaking before educators, primarily from Maryland, Mr. Stephenson delivered a paper entitled . "Humanistic Education and Scientific _Literacy.'' As a fellow of the Hermann Cohen Foundation between 1928-31, he wrote "Das in der H. Cohen.'' His 500-page translation of ·Cohen's magnum opus, Reason - · Out Sources of ""'"'eared in 1972. translation of a section of the book entitled of Atonement" had !:inwla:>!:ira:>n in three successive of "Judaism: A {).,., .. f,,.,.i., Journal of Thought" in 1968-69. ' O'Callaahan at work in her �As a tutor with a doctorate in. ,the social sciences from the University of Chicago, Laurence A St. John's student is helping primarily responsible for in- Berns is by turns bemused and spearhead a national movement flation, recently won a thousand annoyed an occasional but a stop to the dollar prize in a national essay which would persistent criticism that the return of the military draft and contest. college neglects the social He received first place in the halt plans for the creation of a sciences. college division in a contest coµational youth corps. It is true, he says, that the Torn G. Palmer, national sponsored by the Intercollegiate social sciences are not chairman for the Students for a Studies Institute and the Cato here under their conventional Libertarian Society, said the. SLS Institute of San Francisco. labels, but in a sense he believes held 20 press conferences around - In his analysis of what inflation St. John's may be teaching them the country last month to protest is, Mr. Palmer contends it is better than they are taught at six bills in Congress, all of which essentially a creation of the state most other institutions. would require students to and that government action must "We study the books which be blamed not only for everregister for the draft. · explore the foundations of the At each conference one rising prices, "which impose so social sciences, books by Plato member of the student groups many hardships on so many publicly announced, "I will not people, but also for the disruptive . and Aristotle, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, crises into which interventionist register, and I will not go." Hurne, Adam Smith, Rousseau, The Manitou, Colo., junior said 'political 'capitalism' is Kant, Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, the students were basing their periodically thrown." and Freud," Mr. Berns said. "We Drawing on the works of case on the belief that the draft is also study Supreme Court cases, both immoral and un- several economists, Mr. Palmer contended that government de Tocqueville, and The constitutional. "The 13th amendment of the control of money, banking, and Federalist. "We do not shrink from inConstitution prohibits in- credit leads to. unemployment tegrating and interrelating with voluntary servitude except as a and depression. In arguing for a way out of a our prosaic social science punishment for a crime," he said. "We do not think it is a crime to system of "monetary sources what we can learn from that most important source of manipulation and exploitation,'' be 18 years old." understanding of man and he writes: An article protesting the draft society, literature; what we can "The solution is obvious and written by the 22-year-old student learn from Horner, Sophocles, appeared in the "point of view" simple. Remove government column on the op ed page of the entirely from any and all control Aristophanes, Euripides, Chaucer, Dante, Cervantes, over money. In Nobel Laureate March 17 Washington Star. Shakespeare, Milton, During the current session of F.A. Hayek's terms, Dostoyev sky, Tolstoy, and the Maryland Legislature Mr. 'denationalize' money. Money is P aimer also worked for new too important a cornrnodity ... to Melville. (Dare I also add the Bible?)" legislation which would reduce allow its supply and allocation to BY READING THE books the number of voters needed to be determined by political from a philosophic point of view, means. petition successfully to add a "Money is a commodity and with a view to understanding the name to the ballot. It sought a figure which would have been a can be and has been provided on nature of man, of politics and of little higher than the national the market, where it is respon- society, Mr. Berns believes average. Under the formula now sive to and serves the needs of students here develop a "rather used, Mr. Palmer said the voluntary transactions rather good" background in the social number is three times that than those of political and political philosophies which supply the foundations of the required in Pennsylvania and 68 manipulation and fraud.'' times greater than that for New Mr. Palmer said the Liber- social sciences. Parenthetically, he notes, it is a Jersey, both populous states. The tarian Party, formed Iast year, bill was killed in committee. · with 50 high school and college background most American Mr. Palmer, who collects the organizations, believes that in· social scientists lack. This writings of H.L. Mencken and di vi duals have a right to live their prevents them, he believes, from, understanding many of the imwho believes government is (Contirmed on P. 6) portant presuppositions of their own science as well as important alternatives to those presuppositions. · "This is not even to speak of the great impoverishment many students in the social sciences suffer from by being unfamiliar with the rich sources of materials afforded by great literature." This is not so frequently true, Mr. Berns said, of European· social scientists, whose education often includes a background in the classics and philosophy. "WHAT IS ALSO important," he explains, "is that because our students are very much aware of a variety of different ways to approach the study of man and, because they have studied a good amount of modern science and math, they do not accept the authority of any one scientific model dogmatically. "In most social science programs a great deal of time is spent dealing with methodological problems and the nature of science. Often it turns out to be a very extrapolation from what teachers think is modern mathematical Our students are not overwhelmed science as a fetish. . know that in the natural sciences and in mathematics itself there are many arguable, Tom Palmer with one of his H.l. Mencken books. conflictinj! principles. They are LAURENCE BERNS Tom Parran photo not as likely to bow down to or to John's students may not get accept as authoritative simplistic enough analysis of institutions. notions of scientific method." He would like to see more careful Consider, Mr. Berns suggests, reading of The Federalist and the when we speak of a Constitution and thinks that the "psychological" cause or Supreme Court opinions are done reason. It usually means some too rapidly. irrational force or drive pushing "It is the sort of thing we should men from behind in ways that do with a little more care and they can neither understand nor concentration in tutorials," he control. said. "This is too narrow a view of Perhaps, Mr. Berns concedes, the psyche. St. John's students we should do some modern take writers like Plato, Aristotle, economics. and Thomas Aquinas seriously, "Yet, I can't think of anything writers who have considered the that we do do that I would want to whole soul of man, the ways sacrifice for that." different men understand difStudents do spend a good ferent things, the ways in which amount of time arguing and the understanding not only· thinking through the presupsuccumbs to the irrational, but positions of perhaps the two most also how .the understanding important books for the founcooperates with, tames, dations of modern economics: educates, · and can control the Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations irrational forces in man. For and Marx's Capital. Marx is read these writers ethics and social not only for his economics, but science go together." also for his approach to sociology St. John's students also read and his theory of history. Hobbes, whom Mr. Berns conThe reading list also contains siders the first great expositor of Rousseau's The Origin of what is thought bo be modern Inequality Among Men, which, "scientific" psychology. ("For Mr. Berns said, 120 years before the thoughts are to the desires as scouts and spies, to range abroad Darwin worked out an· and find the way to the thing evolutionary approach to the study of man, focusing on studies desired.") NIETZSCHE, HE said, who in of development from anthropoid one way developed what Hobbes apes and primitive men. began, called into question the Rousseau's approach seems to whole . rationalistic tradition of have become dominant in what is the West, and to a great extent currently called anthropology articulates what has come to be and biological anthropology. Mr. the existentialist approach which Berns continued: of the modern "The founders has had great influence on the social science approach, like social sciences in Europe and in Hobbes and Rousseau, are richer this country. because being founders they had Mr. Berns is not without some to be aware of and to take accriticisms of his own. In general count of alternative ways to what he believes the college suffers ways that those from insufficient time for slower, take the modern approach more concentrated study dogmatically are hardly aware of although he said and as serious alternatives. Senior year nri>P<Pntf1,l'Hli'1 "There seems to be a that sorr1ewnat. wrn1Ps11rP:H1 need today, felt both have for more within and outside academia, to concentrated work in the social ethics and social science sciences where courses have At St. John's we been offered on writers as masters of this apdiverse as Freud writers like and Piaget. a r•'ltntl<P and as well as Mr. Berns believes, St. " �Continued from P. 1) State in November, 1784, it was the four acres immediately '5-l!f'rounding McDowell Hall, property for which the first original deed of record was made in 1718 to Thomas Bordley and Thomas Larkin. Later, on October 2, 1744, a Stephen Bordley, possibly a son of Thomas, deeded it to the then Governor Thomas Bladen for what was to become his mansion, "Bladen's Folly," our "McDowell Hall. Not too long after the college opened St. John's underwent a major expansion to a total of 34V2 acres. On July 20, 1795, David Ross, of Prince Georges County, sold for 465 pounds current money what was known ·as St. John's College Creek. This was land .described as running from the Northeast corner of Bloomsbury Square down College Avenue to the ground opposite Benjamin Ogle's stables (Ogle was governor from 1798-1801), north to where formerly stood a "bounded poplar tree" - a tree used to define boundaries - back to Spriggs Creek, now College Creek. The green extended to beyond what is now King George Street. In November, l867, the college made its next change when it decided to deed "10 acres - 3 rods - 3 perches of land'' on what would now be the other side of the street to the Na val Academy. The academy paid $6,000 for the acreage. Until that time King George Street did not go beyond its intersection with College Avenue, then called Tabernacle Street, and from this intersection the boundary line went at an angle to the mouth of College Creek. This end of the grounds was marshy and contained a pond known as Deep Pond. Most of the college property was not used except to accommodate the cows of the citizens of Annapolis which .,,.· . • p . . .. . .. . • .: . ..... . were pastured there at 50 cents a thus providing the college with _a modest income. The campus remained in this shape until the 1920's when St. John's decided to buy up a series of small lots, 15 feet wide and about 55 feet deep, on what was known as Lincoln Place. This area, which originally belonged to the Annapolis Land and Improvement Company, extended along St. John's Street and the then Johnson Street - a lost street - to College Avenue. The college succeeded between_ about 1926 and 1928 in buying up lots 2 through 53, all except lot #1, which now lies next to Bloomsbury Square. The next change came in 1934 when the college snipped off a corner of its front campus at St. John's Street for the Maryland Hall of Records. The property, deeded the state for $10, represented 12,500 square feet of land plus a 10-foot easement. IN 1001 THE Annapolis Land and Improvement Company had sold the old B&A shortline railroad an adjacent area between the Lincoln Place property and the present Rowe Boulevard. President Weigle persuaded the State to deed this right of way of about one and a quarter acres to St. John's for a dollar in 1958. Nearly a hundred feet wide at Bioomsbury Square, the property tapered to approximately 80 .at the bank of the creek. This particular property is deeded to the State for a parking lot- Parking Lot C- at a dollar a year. Together both the Lincoln Place· area-and the i958 property make up the approximate 3.5 acres which St. John's is deeding to the state in exchange for renovation money for thre~ buildingfon campus. · These acres will be simply whittled off, providing St. John's with the clean-cut, rectangular border for which it already is known. .. ............... . .• ..... -. . " . .. . ...• ..... .. ... .. .. I . ...· St. John's then and now. The small square the nal St. John's site; land enclosed the later cu:The is the the campus takes the rectanale shows line of land fill The The division between work and play melted away for the Friends of St. John's College when they held their first Spring Weekend. For a while they played, joining the more than 75 persons who attended a cheese-and-wine opening of an art show dealing with the preservation of paintings. And it was pure pleasure the ·following afternoon when three of America's top jazz players performed before a standing room crowd in the Great Hall. In what amounts in the jazz world to the equivalent of a chamber music conc~rt, it was Kenny Daverne with his incomparable clarinet, Dick Wellstood demonstrating a brilliant "stride" piano, and Freddy Kohlman, in from New Orleans, with drums, letting "My Blue Heaven" soar out the open doors, down through the campus onto King George Street-a hap·py, exuberant sound for a spring day. Introduced by Annapolis Councilman William Brill of the Friends Committee, the performers were ecstatic about the acoustics, and the audience was (Continued from P.1) colleges and universities throughout the United States. They are designed to give fellows a postgraduate year of their own devising in which they may explore a demonstrated interest. MR. JONES, 26, has produced hundreds of books since 1969 when he first began to bind them as Christmas presents. He will study varying techniques. "Each region has its own traditional differences in taste, design, and binding, dictated by the way they will have received their paper, ink, and language from history," he said. "I will attempt to find those small publishers and craftsmen whose personal statements take the form of books." Mr. Horsey, who plans a career in water resources engineering, became intrigued with stories of the Nile when he was a freshman reading Herodotus. Married to another St. John's senior, the former Mary Classen, he is interested in the contrast of life along the Nile, where some persons still live much as they did in the time of Herodotus, and where, in other areas, new technology has made an enormous impact. (Continued from P. 1) being purchased by funds earned through endowment and sale of back periodicals and as the result of individual gifts. Last year Miss Fletcher said the library acquired 1,616 books, including gifts in kind. In efforts to economize, the library has cut back on its periodicals by 10 subscriptions. (In one instance three tutors have combined to make it possible for the to circulate the so ecstatic about the performers. And afterwards there was a cocktail party given at Mrs. Carleton Mitchell's home in St. Margaret's for members of the organization with just the suggestion of work to come. William W. Simmons, chairman of the Friends' executive committee, told the gathering that "the real purpose of this committee is to help bring the college to the community and the community to the college." For that purpose, he said, there are three new subcommittees. Heading the admissions effort will be Edward Heise, a 1936 St. John's graduate and registrar at the Naval Academy, who said that St. John's, like the Naval Academy, is "not for everybody," but that he and his committee will be attempting to seek the right type of student for this "excellent education." Virginia Ochs will be in charge of community development and will attempt to enlarge community involvement in St. John's music, art, adult education, and film programs. Introduced to St. John's on a first hand basis with "The Nile is a strand binding together the worlds of the past and the future," he wrote in his proposal. "Along its banks the technologies of the Pharoahs and space age man are applied side by side to harness the river. "THESE INCLUDE the Aswan High Dam, trickle irrigation, Archimedes' screw, and the counter balance bucket, all playing a vital role in the life of the Nile people. Each stands as an example of man's attempt to harness the life-giving forces of a river whose only allegiance is to laws of nature." Mr. and Mrs. Horsey will study Arabic for five months in Cairo before beginning their river odyssey. They have decided to purchase a native craft, a large 20 to 25-foot-long, wooden, sail-powered Felucca, used for fishing, trading, and transportation along the Nile. Because the prevailing winds are particularly favorable for upstream travel in November, they plan to embark then, leaving from Alexandria, at the mouth of the Nile, and spending five months traveling upstream as far as Sudan, posssibly to Khartoum. BUT DESPITE these economizing efforts for an already modestly financed library, Miss Fletcher emphasized the college is faced with a worsening problem . ''We see no end of inflation,'' she said. "It is a very serious situation. It could become a harnful situation. I am extremely pessimistic about our ability to maintain a library of the quality which a college of the stature of St. John's deserves without a substantial increase in our book endowment. "The library represents the support center for our classrooms, and if it suffers, we are fearful that the nrm:rram in.cmit~hhr will suffer as her adult education experience, she said she would be "forever grateful to St. John's" for what she had gained. Mr. Simmons, himself, will head what he described as a modest fund-raising campaign the Annapolis comm scheduled to begin in miu-.n.pi and conclude at the end of May. In all, he said, the committee will be mailing 3,000 letters and will endeavor to call upon 190 people. -Working long hours over the past month in detailed planning of the work of the Friends of Annapolis- has been its executive committee. Besides Mr. Sim· mons and Mr. Brill, members include Jack Carr, Geoffrey Comber, Roy Shawn, and Julius Rosenberg. With the exception of Mr. Brill, all are alumni. Coordinating the weekend was Edda Peter, director of St. John's Fund for the 1980s eastern campaign. Judy Bond and Jean Schwerzler were in charge of the gourmet buffet. Speaking on art preservation at the opening of the art gallery was Fred Bohrer, associate curator of the St. John's Art Gallery. (Continued from P.1) Because of the size of the cast, the King William Players held open try-outs and have selected an experienced actress Kathryn Ranniger, of Severna Park-for the demanding role of Clytemnestra, the only person to appear in all three acts. A St. John's alumnus, Michael Bloom, will appear as Aegisthus, her lover and conspirator. Other major parts to be filled by students include Mr. Barkhimer as Orestes; Danielle George, Cassandra; Anthony Cox, Apollo; Kim Schraf, Athenea; Julie Boaz, Electra, and Caroline Dorn, Cilissa. · The first women's chorus will consist of Maggie Argent, Lynn Gumert, Terri Hahn, Mary Williams, and Eileen Renno. The Eumenides will be Kate Kominars, Sam McMahon, Lisa O'Brien, Eileen Renno, Liz Tarr, and Caroline Allen. Also in the cast will be Rick Campbell, Mike Cross, Mark Krinoch, Abe Schoener, Harry Zolkower, Ken Kirby, James DeMartini, Doug Venable, and Eric Marx . Assisting Mr. Butman as director will be Tony Sanders and Bill Salter. There are two other assistants, Patti Pratt and Laurie Crigler. Jeff Crigler will be technical director; Mike Hugh in charge of the set; Kristina Shapar, stage manager; Justin Anderson and Michael Houston, lights; Doug Twigg, publicity; Miss Johnson, costume mistress; Patti Sowa, make-up, and Marion Betor, props. Coming here during his sabbatical, Mr. Butman at St. John's as a Ford Foundation Fellow and tutor the early 1950s. He has been on of Haverford for 23 years. �(Continued from P. 2) graduate, though, I'm not of- fended. You may be assured, in any case, that I am still interested in the scf10ol and have not lost touch. Sincerely yours, work. months as a bookkeeper for a small company in Wichita, Kan., then joined the local carpenter's union, and has been happily · · as an ap· prentice ever since. She to return to the Santa Fe this coming tember ber senior year. he from in with a degree in classics, worked at New York magazine for three months, and left to freelance. He's had stories published in the Nation, New· Leader, New York Post. and New Jersey Monthly. Currently, he works as staff editor of the Civil' Liberties Review in Manhattan and lives. in Brooklyn Heights. He is anxious to reestablish contact with his St. John's friends: Randy lives at 57 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11201. Donald Buchanan writes that he is a wilderness guide and child care worker for a small charitable organization in D. Sharp '72 Ontario. He works (Note to Herley: Until your letter with juvenile delinquents, we did not have an address for he has also taken you in Annapolis, from whence children on ex· Tb_e College is sent. And nonbut e:r~1du,atE~s are as much alumni as rewarding work. are graduates. No distinctions.1976-Santa Fe T .P.) Glenda 1974 writes from McAlester, On February 3, Patricia M. where her Pittis and Roger Sonnesyn were employed as the chief married at St. Stephen's Church psychologist at the state penin New York City. Pat writes that tentiary. She began teaching in Bassan '75 and Donna McAlester High School in late Demac were bridesmaids. J armairy and her work. In Chester Burke and Michael her to she comLittleton provided the music at ments on tile death of the reception. Chester also David St. John ... but ocplayed the flute during the wed- casionally tragedy causes us to ding ceremony. Hermie Littleton, pause for a moment to remem· Phil Mattera, Josephine Thoms, ber. The sudden death of David Laura Bridgmen, Mrs. Denny St. John caused such a pause for Demac, Janet and Donnel me. On February 14 Barbara O'Flynn and Eric Rosenblatt Skaug and I discussed the all were present. Pat's husband is possibility of starting a memorial a second-year student at General fund at the College in David's Theological Seminary in New name. Barbara said that she (Continued from P. 4) York, studying for the Episcopal would discuss the financial priesthood. · details with you. I feel sure that own lives as they choose, un- · 1974-Santa Fe many people who had contact molested by the state, and which On February 18 Roberta A. with David would like to make views government regulation and Faulhaber married Jean-Pierre contributions and that such a intervention as unjust and Razafy-Andriamihaingo, a native fund would aid students who, like disruptive. of Madagascar, and now makes David, make 13pecial con· Mr. Palmer is chairman of the her home in Paris. tributions to the community." board of Liberty, a California· During the winter the following Judy Kistler sent us a card based Libertarian tabloid which was received from Alejandro reporting that she is working in goes out every other month to Medina: "I'm spending a couple the College Bookstore on the · 50,000 students in approximately of nice days in Santa Fe before I Santa Fe campus. 150 colleges and universities and go back to Cologne, Germany, 1977-Santa Fe 30 or 40 high schools. where I am pursuing my Although a letter from Lauren Earlier, during his freshman linguistic studies. I will probably Keir Baillard, asking for ad· year here, he put out a single work in Barcelona as an in- dresses of other alumni, claims 500,000-copy of a Libertarian terpreter when I'm finished. I she has no news of her own to paper called Outlook, subhope all of you-and of the pass along, we must thank her for sequently dropped for financial preceding and following the nice things she wrote about reasons. classes;_who were so .close to me, this column. It is our pleasure to An H.L. Mencken fan who are doing fine." gather these items ofinformation belongs to the Mencken Society of 1975-Sa:nta Fe for each issue; that they provide Baltimore, Mr. Palmer has been In a letter to the Santa Fe a useful service to our readers is collecting the ·works of this campus, Nancy Miller informs us most gratifying. famous Baltimore Sun editor for that she is back, working at, the past seven years and now 1978 Farrar, Straus & Giroux, as Leland Giovannelli has just owns 55 volumes, which he keeps assistant to Mr. Giroux, with the title of assistant editor. She lives finished her second quarter with in his dormitory room in Camp"in a beautiful loft with a piano the Committee on General bell Hall. Among them is a little book not and plenty of windows Studies in the Humanities at the many persons know about called University of Chicago. She apoverlooking the Brooklyn Bridge." She finds New York parently has been given ~lmost ~ "A Christmas Story." "I've seen it only once," Mr. Palmer said. A more and more attractive each unlimited freedom to choose her courses, and has two areas of favorite is "Europe After 8:15." day,· but confesses to occasional "It's a delightful work and concentration: the history of homesickness for Santa Fe. rather rare," he said. "It was science and the . history of From the state of Washington written in 1914 just before the war comes a letter from Ellen (An- Renaissance Europe. Leland and describes the great intends to write her thesis on the derson) and Bill Unbehaun European cities - Munich, reporting that they are com- allegory of patient Griselda and Vienna, Paris, all the while hopes to have it finished by June. fortably settled in a small cottage poking fun at American in Tacoma. Ellen admits to some A nice note from Martha tourists." initial difficulties in the first year McGinnis gives us a new address Another favorite is a book study of law, at least in the first and informs us that after leaving Mencken wrote with George Jean semester, but still enjoys her Annapolis she spent eight or nine Nathan, co-editor of the old American Mercury, and IN MEMORIAM published under the name of 1914- Col. Walter W. N. Y., December Owen Hatteras. It is entitled 1978. "Pistols for Two" and, satirizing 1922other biographical -essays, 1922-W. consists of pages and pages of 1929-Francis S. Katz, Baltimore. trivia about Mencken and 1931-Edwin H. Sudduth. Nathan. 1932 - Edward One book which adds a par1935- Hon. David A. llnJ.n,,,..,., ticular pungency to his um. ''Menkeniana: a 1974-Graduate Institute-Barbara H. Howells, Pueblo, Lexicon," a collection of FP.hrmu•v 1919. vituperative statements about ~';:>h'l"1Ul\l"V 1979, St. Mencken which appeared in the 1920's. The volume was edited MORTIMER ADLER JACK M. l.:AMt''Ult:i..l Jack M. Campbell, one of the One of St. John;s oldest friends, Mortimer J. Adler, who has board's two vice-chairmen, is a lectured here almost annually former governor of New Mexico since 1937, is among its newest who · has developed an outstanding record for public ser·members. Elected at the January board vice. meeting, Mr. Adler is now Now a Santa Fe attorney, Mr. chairman of the board of editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. He Campbell also is a member of the board of Washington's National also is director of the Institute for Philosophical Research, a center Space Institute and of the Space Applications Board, Assembly of he founded in 1952 when he relinquished his professorship at Engineering of the National the University of Chicago to do Research Council of the National AC•"-demv of Science. so. He is associate editor of En· In 1974 he received the cyclopaedia Britannica's Great Books of the Western World, and, Distinguished Public Service with Robert M. Hutchins, edited Award for his work with NASA. He has participated in a wide Great Ideas Today and Gateway variety of panels ·and conto the Great Books. He invented and edited the ferences, including those devoted Syntopicon, to which he has to energy, communication contributed 102 essays on the satellites· and other aspects of great ideas of Western space technology, management civilization. He was the first of the Colorado River basin, holder of the Encyclopaedia m i n i n g , a n d o n i nBritannica . lectureship in . tergovernmental science and philosophy at the University of technology. At the First International Congress on Chicago. · Mr. Adler taught at Columbia Technology Assessment . at the from 1923 until 1930, when he Hague he chaired a conference on went tothe University of Chicago the , technological impact on at the invitation of President education: · Hutchins. With President HutHe has served as director for chins, he developed the Great the Institute for Social Research' Books program, helped to and Development, University of establish the Great Books New Mexico, as a member of the. Foundation, and was in- Atomic Safety and Licensing strumental in instigating many Board Panel, Atomic Energy educational reforms. Commission, and as chafrman of Since 1953 Mr. Adler has an Institute on State Program- · conducted executive seminars ming for the 70's held· at the during the summer months at University of North Carolina. Aspen, Col. From 1956 to 1958 he conducted similar seminars at Mr. Campbell is a former Inland Steel in Chicago. His speaker of New Mexico's House Great Books Seminars in Chicago of Representatives, of which he and San Francisco celebrated was a member for 10 He their 30th and 21st anniversaries serves on Santa Fe's respectively in. 1973. >evelopment Committee. This year marks first in which two successful blood donation davs have been held on the General effort there. Frederick Cox, Scarsdale. and tributed on each college nur.se, reported. In addistudents contributed nine Ind., were in charge of the collection, sponsored Cross. �One has to admit that T.S. an. otherwise sensible made a rather dumb remark when he claimed that was the cruellest month. Nonsense! is here, with willows College Creek radiating behind April is a month over which poets should al; but aside from all is one month removed ruary, which it considerable upmanship on the calendar. Fie. newscasters _ storm the worst since the Knickerbocker blizzard of January 1922, when the weight of the snow crashed the roof of the old Knickerbocker Theater. the time the snow had ceased on this afternoon in Annapolis, the campus had measured close to two feet on grounds already coveredby snow. Early that morning, when he emerged from Pinkney for breakfast, it was hip high for six-foottall Douglas Twigg, Pasadena, Md., junior. At the flagpole the drifts were to his chest. THE was paralyzed, with hugging the curbs like hippopotomi cowering under But as alumnus St. John's no to lose- heart and Thucydides and Spartans are read here for nothing. While virtually every college and university in the Wahington· Baltimore area was closed for several days, St. John's shut down classes for the first time for reasons of weather in the memory of senior tutors, but only briefly. By evening tutors and students living within walking distance were able to wade through snow drifts in yet uncleared streets to all but five seminars. The two major achievements, however, were those performed by students, especially in the dining hall, and by the ground crew. Until Wednesday, when most of the non-teaching staff had dug their way out, students were running some of St. John's vital services. Students took over the entire day's food service the day of the· storm bee:inning shortly after John Kuzma, food service manager, received his first telephone can indicating that none of the kitchen help could make it to the college. Customarily the dining hall is manned by eight employes and five students. A call to Melanie Jago, Ill., junior. at 7 a.m. set matters in motion-. WITH MR. KUZMA in frec1uer1t. te11~phone contact from his in Edgewater ("Where's the valve to turn on the steam line?" do you drain the water do you the fryer fries?''), students what he described as a ufantastic" in the three them. "There was no of res:poJllSil[)ility " Miss Jago said. Kuzma gave us wonderful instructions over the it was reallv fun. I've never cooked for The students where HAD many calls from students who to give us help. It made me feel wonderful." Like townspeople, students ran out of milk and but thP food was described as "won~ derful." · Because the coffee shOp was ·the hall was an hour or so after and lunch for coffee while the and tea. At one storm swirled in full St. John's Tutor Peter a few students in room for an informal class onKmgLear. in for breakfast were seniors, who had their senior essays the before at the traditional senior at the home of Dean who -lives across the street on College Avenue. (There had been a battle of wits the night. Sophomores and juniors sabotaged the seniors' traditional privilege to ring the college bell at midnight, one time for each senior, by locking the bell tower door. Seniors managed to take off the door and start tolling about 3: 30). IT WAS THE GROUNDS crew· who made it possible for the college to function and who distinguished the day with remarkable loyalty. In order to gain extra traction on his ride from Epping Forest, Superintendent Charles Wallace loaded his truck with cinderblocks and arrived at 7:30 a.m. to find thaf three of his men already had walked in through the Arctic weather. Spriggs arrived after a long walk through the near blizzard from the Eastport area, and George Hicks, Gilbert and Thomas Queens had even hikes from Forest. Drive on the outskirts of town. staffed It was war at Randall! One of snowball operator, stayed for the library, assisted by Robert while another guard, Wells, its custodian. Particularly Swingle, occupied an helpful were Carol Colatrella, the library's typist, and Kevin Park- ·ir1frrm !lll'u bed. What was it like outside?· man, its "king filer." John veryone was into snow. There Burke, another student assistant, volunteered to clear snow from was an extended snowball which encircled McDowell Hu> hrick terrace in front of the in his shirt hours when no turned back was sleeves the next when safe. A number of students went croiss-cotmu:v skiing on i,;cu.uvui:l. to were just There was a great ,h., .. i .. i.li.;.,..,,. digging in great," Charlotte Fletcher, librarian, them. The bookstore closed Monday. and some For sliders Students who came to the rescue on and Wednesday were o:!h''""t~1 ct<> was solved the two regular student aides, tern norarv loan from the were linked together Elizabeth Scali and Gina legs to form a Scioscia, plus another student, 1by the Emi Geiger. When telephone sort of flexible toD01Z.12~an. STUDENTS into operators were unable to get here, .another group of students a silent town and passed word the switchboard open: Tom back that some of the ducks at Brintle, Donald Esselborn, City Dock might be hungry. Stephanie Chmiel, Amy Clark, College Creek, itself, was frozen over, a green. Pat Dunn and Joe Roach. All the snowball fighting led to Once here, Dorothy Rosati, one of the regular operators, worked new acquaintances among the students and a new friendliness a double shift. DURING THE STORM the with neighbors across the street. guards performed an extra Julia Neitz reported that eight function: putting four buckets midshipmen practically bodily under the library roof which lifted a Volkswagen driven by a from Washington-a girl leaks during snowy weather. Leaks were a problem !::n111wh,mnu1 here for two days-in elsewhere. The Key Auditorium order to free it from the drifts so also sprang one. As luck would she could be on her way. have it, the spot was directly over It was dazzlingly bright when the grand piano, which, Liz the sun came out on the eyeBolotin, music librarian, had sauintinf! afternoon following the quickly moved out of the way so clear that night before it was greatly damaged. some students went out and And the kitchen, in great need wa1Lch~~d the stars. of modernization, found water When the snow soiled and coming in at two places where it "'v"·'"'l""'"'"' under and The enters with the regularity of a set in at the end night lecture-through one noticed a couole of the walls of the stockroom and the men's room. Most serious damage, ve::;m1,e the bitter weather of came at the gym, which broke on the south where the AmiapcJlls, the stalks side broke the of the roses besides off 60 feet and opemmtg the the time to cold and white Some of the staff remained on asparagus were nillrl"ina the A husband· campus earth. and-wife team. Thomas and and rememberin~ of the all storm. Gigi Panehl photo the good will and exeffort Of students and to add that l""'~"""JJ"' February, after all, cruellest month either. trl'.lrn·,11n !H'U A group of Graduate Institute alumni from the forms the core a seminar which is meeting fortin Washington for four sessions. Joined Geoffrey Comber, associate institute director, the group is reading Melville's Budd, Kafka's The Penal Colony, Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych, and Ibsen's The Enemy of the People. Sessions are held at the Cedar Lane Unitarian Church. As Spring moves for· ward, St. John's students are beginning to think of possibilities of summer jobs. Mrs. Marianne Braun, placement director, is readers of The to assist in the to find suitable work. Students will become available after com· mencement on May 20 and will return to after Labor Day, She of opto write and she will to match students and address ation Mrs. Marianne Braun, Placement Office, St. John's 'VVAA'l;F;'c:, Anmipoils, Md. 21404. �lHE REPORTER Published by College Relations Sf. John's College Annapolis, Md. 21404 The Graduate Institute will launch its summer sessions on June 24, for the thirteenth year on the Santa Fe campus and for the third year in Annapolis. For Santa Fe, it will come a short time after the western campus launched its first, yearround program in graduate studies. · . In a highly successful exwhich has the en.of the Joint Instruction Committee, 15 students entered St. John's the first semester and 23 in the second David Jones,' 59, director of the Graduate Institute in Santa Fe from 1973 to 1975, has returned to that vosition to fill the unexpired who director last October. Jones has been a member of the since 1964, serving first on the campus and the new western campus a year later. semester, completing one segement in literature and a second segment in mathematics and natural sciences. Classes began meeting at 5 p.m. with a break for dinner and continued through seminars. Segments ran for 16 weeks as against the eight they require during the summer. By mid-year OI\.e person had completed requirements for a master's, and another three will receive their master's at Santa Fe's commencement on Mav 13. named David Jones, the institute director, round program will during the 1979-80 academic year when the curriculum segments will be those based upon and theology and and society. New this year for both campuses will be seven fellowships offered by the Edward W. Hazen Foundation of New Haven, Conn., to of and schools from all over l'mmtrv. Altogether the made St. John's a $15,000 grant to cover tuition, room, board, and travel as well as to orovide for a stipend. may attend either campus, persons interested in should do so through the institute June 9. Enrollment is up at the Santa Fe campus for the coming summer with 115 ex- to participants returning after taking a summer off, accordingto Mr. Jones. In Annapolis, where enrollment figures are incomplete, Mr. Comber said that participants who have registered to date follow a pattern in evidence the first two years. With already heavily weighted advanced degrees, they appear more interested in the program itself than in working toward an additional master's. A third of the students who have registered thus far have graduate degrees. Five already have a master's degree, including one with a doctorate in philosophy. Another is a physician, and still another has his do~torate in ;,,"".;"'"'''"''r1"'''" 0 Last year enrolled had bachelor's. were seven with doctorates of various kinds and 11 with master's. In addition, another person not working was toward an advanced student, a 16-year-old Key who had received special ----:M sion to take part. Segments on mathematics and natural literature and and society will be ofhere and in Santa Fe. Santa Fe also will offer a segment on philosophy and th""l""" ~d~l{1.c.k ~x I rt All St. John's freshmen not only learn Greek, but in one music tutorial, they sing one of the half dozen songs from ancient Greece still extant. It is a four-line drinking song taken from a tombstone and written a Greek named Seikilos some time between 200 B.C. and 100 A.D. David Steph1ens,on, John's covered contemporary dards, while att~em1ptir1.e; find examnles of as the chants. "The song is in sDirit." he said of the such now will to find out how many of the 150 will be in actual fact interested in the St. John's and begin behind-the-scenes, highly confic11ential, G:d"rgi.a:>n •11<:t of that group, guidelines laid down the committee. Mr. Yarnall said the committee has yet to see the list of names and will not do so until later this month. "We do not want to be locked into a list too quickly,'' he said. "Dr. Weintraub wants to remain as open and as objective as possible." the initial WPintraub wm seek a person orous to withstand the arduous task of back and forth between Anand Santa Fe, where the nrPs1rlPnt. maintains a dual She also will seek to their is acaoemically and as fund raisers have failed any 111 nn....- ............ ,.... ' ' new policy is expected to result in a more coordinated the two campuses. rhythmically lively composition, "arid of the Skolion tradition, the type of music sung at banquets. It is modal in character and sounds somewhat strange to our ears. Although it does contain in patterns, it's form. In one sense is very nrimitive'. in another sense it is very refined. "Some students find the song 'weird,' " he said. special signs stand for their duration. The words of this Greek song remind the listener of the brevity of ·life. It exhorts the listener: "Show how greatly you live/ Be in no way grieved./ Life is brief./ Time recalls your end." St. John's requires two years of music, Mr. said, because "it balances the soul." it is without modern music notation, said _ Mr. students know how the because notation standard exists. Certain modified and letters represent of music and gymnastics is necessary to have a disposition which would allow you to consider higher things in the frame of mind," plained. 0 Continued from P. 1) From now on, a prospective freshman at one of St. John's two campuses will be at the other. Susan Ferron and John admissions directors in Santa Fe and completed details of the new procedure early this month, working together with members of the Board of Visitors and Governors combined Admissions Committees. "We did so partly because the board reaffirmed at a recent meeting that St. John's was one college with a single nr(>SifienJ.'' Mr. Christensen said. "Students then are apto St. John's a smg1e with a educational curriculum on two campuses. Since this is true, are applying to St. College and not to a nn~~~M.l~- ~--- Mr. Yarnall said the committee will meet in Dallas Anril 27-28 to review their By May 29-30, when members meet again in New York, they hope to begin interviewing the 10 or 12 best prospects. Members have set July 27, on the occasion of the summer board meeting, as a time of stocktaking. In September and October the men and women considered to be the most desirable candidates are expected to visit the campuses, where they would confer with the Instruction Committees and meet other members of the eastern and western college communities. "We have some high quality people who are interested in St. John's," Mr. Yarnall told the board. "We don't have to settle for second best." In its precaution not to overlook any promising the selection process conceivably could remain open until the before the actual election, scheduled for January. Mr. Yarnall stressed that the moistlmt:~ort;ant task task of enormous the selection rm~st~:ier1t. As chairman, the finest man or woman available. "I've made it nl'int>inle> I'm with the very best,'' he said. In a letter to alumni mailed by Board Chairman Charles A. Nelson inviting former students to submit nominations, Mr. Nelson listed the three essential qualities required of such ? person: commitment to liberal arts education, ability and willingness to raise funds for the college, and a and willingness to attend to the welfare of two widely separated campuses. Names should be mailed to D. Robert Yarnall, Jr., chairman; St. John's Presidential Search Committee; c/o Academy for Educational Development; 680 Fifth Ave., N.Y., N.Y., 10019. At least 30 are scheduled to be at the June conference on archaeo-astronomy in the western hemisphere to be held on the Santa Fe campus June 11-June 13. Williamson, assistant dean at the Annapolis campus, who will be in charge, said that particiioants are scheduled to come from and Mexico as well as the United States. � 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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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 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available College Relations Office 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/436efd51d124de12bebdd64e0bf0da3f.pdf 0ac56b794d643211ddaf84565f6d1162 PDF Text Text ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 If1~ ~[1! 1 1 f1 1 '1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1696 01138 0498 E CHARLES A. NELSON Ill l t Charles A. Nelson, '45, father of three graduates and father-in-law of two more, is the first alumnus of the New Program to head the Board of Visitors and Governors. In a recent interview, he answered a number of questions as the board's new chairman. Q. What do you see as our major needs? A. We won't rest very comfortably until Santa Fe gets on its feet. It's pretty clear that that has taken much longer than we expected. I'm referring to full enrollment as well as financial stability. Theimprovement in Santa Fe's enrollment this fall has been very heartening, but you've got to have three points on a line before you can say it's a trend. The greatest need I see is for the college to assert itself effectively in the national debate on higher education. If there is one thing in which we really fall short, considering how special and seminal our program is, it is in getting across the ideas of the college in a way which is persuasive to a substantial number of institutions. We have the experience; we are the most dedicated to the liberal arts, and we know more about how to teach them. But we are scarcely engaged in the debate, much less the focus of it. If we were more involved, it would be very good for American education as well as for St. John's. It would enable us to influence higher education beyond this and the Santa Fe campus in other than a marginal way. ' Let me be clear: I think we should be tal~ing and writing about liberal education and about St. John's only se~ondarily. The college will be interesting to others not by talking about itself, but by creating a better understanding of the liberal arts. The amount of our outstanding bank loans is a matter of concern, but the loans are not the most critical issue. The crucial test of our financial health is our ability to balance our annual expenditures with our revenues. The most worrisome problem is 6ur operating deficitlast year, this year, and next year - unless we do something dramatic. We've got to find a way to break even or better. We can't go on indefinitely facing deficits at the end of the year. Q. How do you view the general state of the college? What are the good things about it? The bad things? A. We always tend to feel we are on the verge of a crisis, probably because the rise or fall of 10 or 15 students in admissions or a drop in private gifts have such a big impact on the college. When I think of the condition of the college in 1941, when I first ce;tme here, and what it must have been like four years before that, I feel that the college is basically very sound today. The college is more heavily dependent upon private support than in former years because of the needs of Santa; Fe. That support has grown significantly under Mr. Weigle's presidency. We still don't do an impressive job in reaching our alumni although their help has gone up appreciably in the last few years. I'm impressed by the proportion of alumni of other good, small colleges who provide regular financial support. Dartmouth and Williams have 60 per cent participation in their annual giving programs. Graduates in the earlier classes of the New Program are now atan age when they can be expected to take part. Those in the first graduating class of 1941 are now reaching theit 60s. The program of · the college is as sound as ever, and it deserves support. Q. Under your predecessor's, Mr. (Alexander) McLanahan's chairmanship, the board became much more active than it has been in the past. Is this something you expect to see continuing? A. Yes, and I expect to expand that activity. We probably have a more elaborate committee structure now than at any previous time. Two new committees - the one on the college's public role and the (Continued on P. 3) The Presidential Search Committee, pledged to "the very best we've got in terms oftime, energy, imagination, objectivity, and we hope wisdom," has decided on the three essential qualities required in a new president for St. John's and drafted its first set of procedures to be followed in a nation-wide search to find him. During intensive discussions held January 19-20 in connection with the winter meeting of the Board of Visitors and Governors, D. Robert Yarnall, Jr., who was elected chairman, said members also set a two-part goal. "The first part is that the board elect in January, 1980, the best possible person for the presidency of St. John's to take office in June, and the second is that all constituencies be pleased and satisfied with the results," he said. He emphasized that the committee is intent on not simply seeking a new man but in assuring that sound procedures be followed. "We decided that good procedures were to be established and followed rigorously to assure that all ideas and suggestions and viewpoints ar:e heard and considered by the committee, and all proposals and applications be treated with St. John's College has a large number of students who transfer here from other colleges, 31 per cent of the freshman class in Annapolis over the past six years. The figure is no larger than that for other colleges, but what makes it unusual is that, since students may enter only as freshmen and no transfer credits are accepted here, students are extending, sometimes substantially, the number of years spent in undergraduate education. Here students tell something of their experience in transferring to St. John's. · In the mid-winter of 1975, Paul Thomson's philosophy class at McMaster Univversity found itself divided on the question of !,the purpose o f education, and Mr. Thomson, alo-ng with three of his classmates, was assigned the task - of devising the ideal education program. E3 courtesy, discretion, and informed judgment," he said. During the seven or eight hours in which the committee met for the first time, Mr. Yarnall said it made good progress on a description of the presidential position, which is to be refined and made public after the committee's next meeting in New York on February 23 when President Weigle has been invited to be present to give members the benefit of his experience. "The committee concluded the new president must possess three absolutely essential qualities," the chairman said. "First, he must have a deep commitment to liberal arts education. Secondly, he "must have an ability and willingness to raise the funds required in order for the college to flourish, and thirdly, he must have an effective presence on both campuses." Mr. Yarnall said once the committee has arrived at its decision, it will make a single recommendation to the board rather than present it with a handful of alternative candidates. In addition to drafting guidelines for confidentiality to protect applicants, committee members also developed during their two meetings the first draft of procedures governing applications, proposals, screening, interviews, campus visits, reports to the board, negotiations, (Continued on P. 4) St. John's has received a $14,000 matching grant from the Maryland Historical Trust toward cost of working drawings for renovation of the P acaCarroll House, President Richard D. Weigle has announced. The small, Federal style dormitory on the St. John's Street side of the campus is one of three buildings the college is planning to renovate and enlarge. Financing will be undertaken in part as the result of the $1. 75million bond bill the State of Maryland has authorized in exchange for approximately three and a half acres of college land on the east side of Bladen Street. Under the bill, St. John's must provide matching money. Besides Paca-Carroll, the other two buildings which the college is planning to renovate are the dining hall, Randall Hall, and the gymnasium, Iglehart Hall. Thus far the college has received $205,000 from the Hodson Trust for the dining hall (Continued on P. 3) What Mr. Thomson· and his group came up with was a curriculum with a striking resemblance to St. John's. He :knows that because the graduate ,assistant who was guiding the small tutorial for his large lecture class, Jack Lincoln, '74, commented on the similarity. Intrigued, Mr. Thomson wrote for a catalog, and the following year he and another member of the tutorial, Martyn Kendrick, came south to St. John's. Mr. Kendrick, who is now living in France, dropped out at the end of his freshman year, but Mr. Thomson is now a junior committed to the completion of his program. Questioning the value of his 400member lecture courses, Mr. Thomson was fully ready for the school which he had so much anticipated. "The attitude at McMaster was almost one of° frivolity," he recalled of his year as a philosophy and . religion major there. "Students thought nothing was more important than getting through the year in April, taking their exams, and 'writing good research n.::mp.rs_" The second semester Mr. Thomson very seldom set foot on campus and never went to lectures. He concluded the year with a grade point average which ranked him ninth in his -ciass of a thousand. A native of Scotland, where he began his education in Edinburgh at age four, Mr. Thomson had moved rapidly along in school during ·his elementary anq • • • • • (ContinuedonP. 5) NMS. figure same at SJC, U. of Md~. St. John's College, with approximately 375 students, had as many National Merit Scholars enrolled as the University of Maryland at College Park in 197778, a year when the university's undergraduate enrollment at one point exceeded 30,000. A study made by the State Board for Higher Education reveals each institution had seven. An average of a third of St. John's freshman class annually hold some sort of NMS recognition, ranging from commended to f1111 scholar. �1 THE PAGE2 Alumni lej By Tom Parr an '42 Director of Alumni Activities too much so since I indulged 1931 myself by attending many lecThe fall, 1978, issue of tures in various subjects without Lacrosse, published by the devoting full time to conLacrosse Foundation, Inc., centrating on any one. It's what I contains a fine article by consider my St. John's vice that I associate editor Milton R. find very hard, or am disinclined, Roberts, entitled "Beaten By a to break. Pool Stick," about, in case you "A seminar on moral haven't guessed, Bobby Pool. The philosophy and lectures on article tells of Bobby's career at philosophical analysis, St. John's and later, listing his· linguistics, and the concept of many very real contributions to language, the history of Greek,·. the game of lacrosse, contribu- and the political philosophy of; tions which earned him a place in. liberalism were the major at-: the Lacrosse Hall of Fame in\ tractions for me the first term, 1963. Milton Roberts makes us\ with a few law lectures thrown in youngsters sorry we missed to justify my obtaining a seat in· Pool's varsity days here although the law library . .. Next term,! there was one Varsity-Alumni] however, I hope to narrow my game in the spring of 1939 which! focus and begin to work out some will always stick in our memories'. thoughts on paper." (no pun intended). ! 1968 Bartholomew Lee, after 1941 Gerard J. Martin, Baltimore/ several years with a large firm: in San Francisco, has opened his Marrager of Passenger Sales for own office for the general American Airlines, has been practice of law. We're not certain elected to serve on the highest just what his new practice engoverning body of the Intails, but from the announcement ternational Association des SKAL we received, Bart obviously can Clubs, an organization of do 'most anything: "Specializing professionals in the field of in Federal Cases, Antitrust tourism with 443 clubs and over Matters, Complex Civil and 25,000 members located Criminal Litigation and Inthroughout the world. At the ternational Intrigue." organization's 39th Annual 1968-Santa Fe Congress, held in Singapore in Steven Shore sends us an ad~· November, Martin was elected to dress change -to Columbia, Md. a four-year term as international director. He has been with - and advises that he is a business analyst with the American Airlines for 35 years, Baltimore firm of PHH, in the and, with his wife, Mattie, makes Fleet Management Services his home in Cockeysville, Md. Information Services area. Steve 1942 says he would welcome Warren Bomhardt, who is living at 1523 Cold Spring Lane, correspondence from friends. He lives at 8796 Cloudleap Court, #14, Baltimore, writes: Lately I have been wearing out in Columbia. 1970 the steps of the Enoch Pratt A brief note from Patricia Library branch up the street Carey Frame reveals that she from me about 100 yards. This is and, Matt, '73 are living in South because of a project on which I Burlington, Vt., where he works embarked in 1975. I am atas a programmer for IBM. She is tempting an overall look at the at home taking care of Laura' pre-war 1930-40 period to do much Elizabeth, born last May. of what Dr. Louis Snyder, your 1971 recent lecturer and 1928 alumnus, Tom Day, whose marriage to did in his many works: an Lois Eckler, '77, was announced analysis of the German in the November issue, has motivation to such unbelievable confirmed all that with a commitments. It is, at different November letter to this office. He times, intriguing, boring, back adds that .Lois graduated from breaking, eye-straining, and Earlham College in Richmond. most of the time captivating. I Ind., this past spring with a wrote to him of my approach and major in English. Their received a very fine, encouraging honeymoon, a "sea-to-shiningletter, in which he urged me to sea cannonball rally," included continue with all possible speed." visits to Rocky Mountain 1946 National Park, the Grand Tetons, A recent letter from Samuel Banff, Custer Battlefield, and Sheinkman reveals that, after. places in between. seven years in New Hampshire, In Seattle Tom interviewed for he has returned to New York City a job with Boeing Aerospace and to live and work. While in the upon his return to Annapolis in White Mountain state, Sam had September, he received an offer an appointment in the psychiatry he accepted. So in October back department of the Dartmouth went the Days across country, Medical School and practiced in and around Peterborough. Back . and they are now settled in Kent, Wash., just south of Seattle. Tom in New York he is in private practice, with appointments at works as a technical aide writing · software connected with the Mount Sinai Medical School and cruise missile program. Mount Sinai Medical Center. 1972-Santa Fe 1956 December brought a newsy Joseph Cohen, on sabbatical letter from Melissa Kaplan anfrom teaching duties at St. nouncing, a bit after the fact, the John's, is spending the year at she and Ray Drolet, S69, were. Oxford with his wife and three married last June 29 at Sedona, children. Ariz. Sister Sharon Kaplan ... The experience of the first term was very full and Wallace, '64, and, brother Bart,) (Continued on Pg. 7) satisfying," he writes, "perhaps ·1· RICHARD M. BURDGE Richard M. Burdge is serving as chairman of the board's highly important Finance Committee and on the executive committee for the Fund for the 1980s. Now executive vice-president of the INA Corporation of Philadelphia, he is a former president and chief operating officer of the American Stock Exchange in New York, a post he assumed in November 1972. Previous to that time, he was executive vice-president and senior vice-president of the exchange. He joined INA in 1975. In 1976 he assumed operating responsibility for the Life and Group Division and the non-insurance businesses of the corporation. Prior to that Mr. Burdge was responsible for the non-insurance subsidiaries comprising the Finance and General Group, data processing administration, and personnel functions of the corporation. During his association with the .American Stock Exchange, Mr. Burdge was a member of the boards of the Depository Trust Company, the American Stock Exchange Clearing Corporation, and the Securities Industry Automation.Corporation. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society and a member of the Pennsylvania Chamber of· Commerce and World Affairs Council. Born in Point Pleasant, N.J., in 1927, he served in the U.S. Navy in 1944-45. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School (1949) and a master's in business administration from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. He lives.in Haverford, Pa., with his wife and four children. SHARON BISHOP Sharon Bishop is a 1966 alumna whose thinking has left an imprint on three board committees and who will be serving on two more this year: the Presidential Search Committee and the An· napolis Admissions Committee. She has been a member of the ad .hoc Committee on the College's Administrative Organization and served as chairman of both the ad hoc Committee on Non-Discrimination and the Annapolis Visiting Committee. Miss Bishop is a managing associate of the Institutional Management Consulting Division, specializing in social welfare, of Booz, Allen & Hamilton, a managment consultation firm whose Washington office is located in Bethesda, Md. A native of Havre de Grace, Md., Miss Bishop came to St. John's at the end of her 11th grade, and following her graduation, entered Bryn Mawr, where she was elected chairman of the Student-Faculty Curriculum Committee. With a master's degree earned in 1970, she became the first person Bryn Mawr admitted to the doctoral program in social service without first doing mandatory field work. She has served as project director and evaluation specialist for the Delaware Division of Social Services, as chief of research, evaluation and planning unit of a Federally-funded social services demonstration project for the Delaware County Board of Assistance, and as a social worker for the Philadelphia Department of Public Welfare. She resides in Reston, Va. A 1949 graduate of St. John's and managing editor of Time magazine, Ray Cave was elected to the board last year and is serving on the Annapolis Visiting Committee. Mr. Cave joined Time in March 1976 as an assistant managing editor after writing and editing at Sports Illustrated for 17 years. He was named managing editor of. Time on September 19, 1977. For -a six month period in 1975 he served as acting editorial director of all Time, Inc., publications. Mr. Cave came to Time, Inc., in 1959 as a writer for Sports Illustrated, specializing in college basketball and golf articles. In 1962 he switched to editing and rose successively to· senior editor in 1962, assistant managing editor in 1970, and to executive editor in 1974, Sports Illustrated's second highest editorial post. Earlier in his career, from 1952, to 1959, Mr. Cave was a newspaper reporter with The Evening Sun in Baltimore. He did police and investigative reporting, was a foreign correspondent· in North Africa during the fighting in Algeria, and became assistant city editor of the paper. While working for the Sun, he was ,a special correspondent for Time .and Sports Illustrated. A native of Tacoma, Wash., Mr. Cave was born on May 27, 1929. During the Korean War he served in the U.S. Army. He began his journalism career in Annapolis, working with The Southern Maryland Times. oard elects three trustees One of St. John's College's oldest friends - Mortimer J. Adler - is among three new members of the St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors. The other two are Thomas M. Carnes, of San Francisco, an alumnus, and Philip Hammond, of Los Angeles. Mr. Adler, who has lectured almost -every year on the Annapolis campus since the outset of the New Program, is the author of more than 20 books, chairman of the Britannica Board of Editors, director of the Institute for Philosophical Research, and a senior associate of the Aspen Institution for Humanistic Studies, of .which he is co-founder. Alamos Scientific Laboratory Mr. Carnes, who graduated in· was formed to exploit his work on 1952, is a principal in thefaw firm high temperature power reactor of Carnes and Bailey. He obtain- . experiments. ed his law degree in 1958 from the The three were elected at the University of Michigan and serv- January board meeting held on ed in the armed forces during the St. John's western campus in Korean War. For a number of Santa Fe. years he and his wife have been involved in St. John's activities: The Reporter Dr. Hammond is an international authority on nuclear power Rebecca Wilson with 30 years experience in Editor handling radioactive materials by the and defining the economics and The Reporter is published John's· Office of College Relations, St. College, technology of energy use. He was Annapolis, Md., 21404, Richard D. Weiformerly director of the Nuclear gle, president. Desalination Program at Oak Published five times a year, in February, Ridge National Laboratory. The April, June, September and November. Second class postage p<itJd flt Anl;il.'lipolis, Reactor Division of the Los Md. �Sabrina Patrone, '78, was back in Annapolis as classes resumed, experiencing a cultural shock borne of three and a half months education in Poland, awed by the rows of oranges and other fruit in the supermarket and the fantastic freedom of once again into American shops knowing she could find clothing in many sizes and colors. She also was feeling very much in need of a party in the Chase-Stone House. Dancing Poland has, but Miss Patrone has reached the conclusion that there is so much ogling by Polish men for purposes other than dancing that she has somewhat uncomfortably retreated to quiet weekends in her to the radio or studying. THERE ARE PERHAPS several reasons for the i;,.....a;.,,,.,. the sum of m Polish are permitted to of the country, the virtually entraps there. For those who want to leave, the best bet is someone to pay all travel costs and to assure some sort of job in the new country. Otnerwise, marriage is a way out, particularly for a woman, and what better place to beJZin this business than on a dance Miss Patrone also has cooled to the notion of dancing in Poland because, with a big black market in American dollars, a Pole may be most of all interested in how dollars he can · ........,... u,,,.. partner. Since· is totally. country, Miss Patrone said the Polish economy is run on American dollars. Certain stores will accept "the big green." Miss Patrone has solved the problem of being hassled over dollars by generally introducing herse1f as an Italian who grew up in America. That also has the advantage of being associated with a country which the Polish respect more than the United States. In actual fact, she was born in Torino and speaks Italian fluently, and her newly got Polish is marked by an Italian· accent. But despite the difficulties of Ii ving . in an Communist country, Miss fi:r.st words are far and directed at alumni: "If you've the money, go to Poland because there are all sorts of op"''""·tnr•iti•~"there." Joining young people from all over the world, Miss Patrone is enrolled at the Badan Institute of Polish studies in Krakow under a program her mother first learned about through television's Sixty Minutes. FOR $2,000 a year she is engaged in a language program which will qualify her next Oc· tober for entry into medical school there and which will permit her fellow students to enter any number of other art, fields-those in mathematics, whatever. "It is not a colorful am!. enor comfortable exit is perience," she exciting and 1ntPr~•!':tlnPMiss Patrone is in a r1.-.1•mi1t.-.v•u with 800 students, of whom about 80 are from the States or Canada. They come from everywhere, from England, Norway, Am::tl'alia, Finland, Iran, Egypt, Germany, and France. speak four languages just walking down the hall-English, French, Italian, and Polish," she said. "It's incredibly exciting." • • l l (Continued from P.1) other on governmental relations-have been appointed since I became chairman last July. And, ofcourse, the Search Committee to find Mr. Weigle's successor: that began work in January. I'm determined to keep the committees active. With a board our size, active committees are the only way to keep trustees active and informed. At St. John's we're in a period of transition, and it is necessary that the board be more active if we are to have a successful transition. That means not only finding a successor for Mr. Weigle, but in doing so, we have to do our best to see that all the constituencies of the college are behind such a choice: the faculty, the trustees, the alumni, the donors, and the students. We can't do a good job in our selection unless we know what the needs of the college are; that's why the board members have to be active, involved, informed. That doesn't mean running the college. We understand the distinction between policy making and administration, and we are going to adhere to that. Q. Can you foresee any situation in which the board, perhaps because of financial pressures, would bypass the Instruction Committee and involve itself directly in the academic program? For instance, would it be possible for the board to stipulate that there be only one leader, rather than two, for each seminar as a means of saving money? A. I can't foresee any situation in which the board would bypass the Instruction Committee:· We have too much respect for the deans of the faculty to permit that to happen. The board deals essentially with the president and the deans. The president would be very unlikely to bypass the Instruction Committee; he might disagree, but disagreeing is not bypassing. If an issue on instruction were brought to the board upon the initiation of a board member, I would refer it to the president and Instruction Committee for advice. A recommendation on such a matter as one, rather than two seminar leaders, would have to come from the president or dean to the board. I cannot conceive of any instructional matter being acted upon by the board without the process of review on each campus. At St. John's the president cannot do very much contrary to the will of the faculty because of the immense prestige and influence of the faculty. Q. What about the board's relationship to the staff? I'm thinking of what the board can do in enforcing a system of accountability on the part of staff members. A. Here the board would have to be extremely cautious. It is a temptation to become involved, especially when there is a lot of administrative talent and experience on the board. If the president is an extremely good administrator, the board is not going to be very much is not the best admiqistrator in the world, the tempted. If the temptation must still be resisted. Should a situation arise in which the trustees have some concerns, the board might have a conversation about the matter directly with the president; but it would not take any action which.would usurp the authority of the president. The board does have a direct relationship with some senior staff members through its committees in which trustees receive information from persons other than the presidents.: But in listening to their advice, it must not move contrary to the advice of the president. This would confuse everybody as to who is in charge of college administration. Q. Your name has been mentioned from time to time as a possible candidate for the presidency of St. John's. Arq you interested? A. No, I am not. It's not the job for me. I would not have accepted the chairman ship of the board if I had wanted !to be president. Q. Does the board have any contingency [plans for the future, any alternative schemes should our fund raising' program not prove successful? · A. The Finance Committee- and we have a very good committee - is watching the college's budgets very ca)'efully as well as its investments. I'm sure that committee members have their eyes on the warning signals, and they will call for conting ency plans if they are requireO.. Bight\ now I believe the committe e members and the board members in general are convinced that the needed resources can be four r:J to sustain the college and its program. 1 1 This was a program whose conChuck Nelson concluded his first meeting as chairman of St. - cept was very close to St. John's. John's board last fall with a Mr. Nelson selected reading single adjective on the tongue of material-basic texts in political observers scattered throughout thought-and trained discussion the King William Room: im- leaders and groups. It was a program in which two former St. pressive. There are several reasons why. John's deans were active: John A big, calm, somewhat Kieffer, who helped start the proin Annapolis and understated individual, he is, for gram and Robert one thing, an expert on college Washington, management, serving as national Goldwin, who served as research director for higher education for director. Concurrently with that he the New York based management consulting firm of Peat, became director of the Basic Program of Liberal Education for Marwick, Mitchell& Co. Mike McLanahan's act as a Adults at the University of highly skilled presiding officer Chicago, a program which was was a hard one to follow. In an en- an explicit copy of St. John's. "Students came two nights a tirely different way, Mr. Nelson presided with propriety and deft- week for three hours and at the ness, guiding members through a conclusion of four years received series of resolutions and actions a non-credit certificate," he said. at a board meeting of more than "There were close readings of usual importance, clarifying great books, some tutorials which some difficult questions on included math, and a little of the budgetary matters and showing lab, whatever we could work himself to be a trustee who clear- within the framework of our ly does his homework. Prepared resources. "We had powerful support down to the last comma of the agenda, he promises to be a from Bob Hutchins, who was still strong chairman entirely at home president at Chicago; and when we held our first graduation for 15 at St. John's. No surprise, that. Mr. Nelson or 16 students, he spoke at our has been affiliated with the col- graduation.'' Mr. Nelson left Chicago to lege for 37 years. He came here spend two years consulting for first in 1941 from a high school of 7,000 in Cicero, Ill., so big that the Cresap, McCormick and when he was told registration Paget firm in New York, from would be held "in the Great 1956 to 1958; and then, for a 10" he was in and out of the year stretch, operated his own firm - Nelson AssoCiates. In room without recognizing it. "Great Hall!" His high school 1969 he joined Peat, Marwick, stage had been big enough to ac- Mitchell & Co., a huge New commodate two basketball York based firm with a thousand partners in a hundred offices games simultaneously. "At St. John's and in Annapolis scattered throughout -the United I learned something about human States. As director of its higher educascale," he said of the contrast. "The college opened my eyes in tion service, he advises on such matters as long range planning, more than one way." Since leaving St. John's, Mr. organization, financial systems, Nelson has been involved con- executive search, enrollment, tinuously in education. In the library systems, trustee selec· summer of 1947, married and liv· tion, and policy making. His work i:ng in the barracks for married has taken him to such institutions students which then stood on as Stanford University, the back campus, a Chicago lawyer University of California at searched him out in the St.John's Berkeley, the City University of shop and made him an offer to New York, Barnard College, conduct seminars in world MIT, Yale University, and many others. politics for $300 a month. During those years he has seen As a result, Mr. Nelson went to the University of Chicago to three of his children go through direct this post-war program, one St. John's and two of them marry which later was sponsored by St. classmates from the program. John's, the University of Califor- Janet, '72, is married to Kent nia, and dozens of other institu- Guida, 71 and has a master's of business administration degree tions. from the University of Maryland. She is a banker- with the Equitable Trust Company in Baltimore. Chris, a 1970 graduate of Santa Fe along with his wife, the former Karen Thomas, is a partner in the Chicago law firm of Shiff, Hardin, and Waite. Chris obtained his law degree from the University of Utah. He and Karen are active in organizing the St. John's alumni seminar in the Chicago area. Ted, '77, who married a young woman from Croton-on-Hudson, is assistant manager of a Cape Cod motel; he and his wife had their first child in July. Another son Colin, a '77 graduate of Williams, is writing fiction in Marblehead, Mass. Although the children are gone, the Nelsons' Croton house is still a busy scene. Mr. Nelson's wife, Anne, a graduate of Oberlin, is a member of the faculty of Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations in Manhattan, organizing women's programs in labor union leadership. Anticipating much work on behalf of St. John's when he accepted the chairmanship of the board, Mr. Nelson resigned from the board of the Westchester Council of Arts and decided not to accept a reappointment to the National Council on Educational Research, to which he was named by President' Ford. in 1975. Since taking office last July he has spent uncounted hours working on St. John's behalf. The amount fluctuates, but because of the transition between presidents, t.here is more to be done than ordinarily faces a board chairman, and not a day goes · by without _St. John's demanding at least some of his attention. His appearance at board meetings promises to be the tip of the iceberg. (Continued from P. 1) and a $250,000 challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation for the gym. The A.S. Abell Company also has given the college a $10,000 grant for Paca-Carroll. James T. Wollon, Jr., Havre de Grace architect who specializes in restoration, is completing plans which will permit PacaCarroll to accommodate 34 students. �by RICHARD A. SMITH, '54 Son of teachers, Bert's mother's mother was a teacher, his father's sister a teacher, and: Bert's sisters, with us today, were and are teachers. He grew up in rural Michigan near Flint and was taught by his mother until he was seven years old. When he entered school they promptly put him in the third grade, then the fifth, and then, in junior high school, at age 10. He scored 163 on an I.Q. test and, with genius level at 135-140, he became a high school drop-out. It being hard even for geniuses to get jobs in the 30's, Bert hit the1 highways and ribbons of gray and! rode the rods, a young hobo inj those lean, hard times. · After completing correspondence English courses, he entered Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Mich., to study music composition. He didn't graduate from Hillsdale because of World War II, but he did meet his wife Josephine, daughter of Raymond Bowers, a brilliant composer and musician, with whom he studied. Bert really wasn't right for the bouncy young cheer leader and homecoming queen Jo was. Jo said he didn't wear the right clothes. He didn't belong to a fraternity. Their dates were offbeat going out picking strawberries, shooting crows with a 22 rifle. Things like that. He was a Navy fighter pilot and flew Corsairs, Hellcats and Grumman TBF torpedo planes. He was a patriot in the noble sense of the word · and good company to have around in anything from a shipwreck to a stalled auto. AFTER THE WAR he earned his bachelor and master's degrees in philosophy at George Washington University and a doctor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins. A little story from this time: As Bert's student I once sat with him and his friend and teacher Jam es Masterson, three generations of tutors and pupils. Prof. Masterson told me after Bert was in his English classes a couple of weeks, he invited him to leave. Hearing Bert talk and seeing. some of his papers, Masterson told him couldn't learn a thing in his class. He gave him an A and dismissed him from the obligation of putting in time. Bert liked the miscast, oddball, underdog and had a knack for rescuing and nurturing them. William James defines genius as an ability to see most relattons in things, and Bert carried his genius a step further by being' able to get on with all manner of people. An example: The first time he visited my insular, clannish family on the Cimmerian slope of old Catawba in Carolina, where any outsider was automatically suspect, my brother-in-law shortly had him out to the barn sampling choice: corn squeezin's, and when Bert left, my mother, in her long apron, handed him a lunch of country ham and biscuits and thanked him for all he had done 1 for me. What did he do for me? He gave me a place to stay when I had none. He loaned me money for my first car, a '41 Ford convertible. 1 1 St. John's Tutor Bert Thoms died suddenly of a heart attack just before the Chrtstmas holidays. He was 61. He collapsed in mid-morningDecember 12 on the long walk leading to the McKeldin Planetarium where a medical · crew sought unsuccessfully to save his life. He had just finished teaching a special class in freshman math which students said afterwa.rds had been "wonderful." Mr. Thoms, who two days previously had begun reading Grof and Halifax's "The Human Encounter with Death" in preparation for a preceptorial on death next year, was buried at St. Anne's Cemetery, within view of the college and not too far from where Jacob Klein and Ford K. Brown are buried. A service was held on Saturday, Dec. 16, in the Great Hall where Mr. Thoms was eulogized by Richard A. Smith, 54, ·and by two former students at Washington and Jefferson College, where he had at one time headed the philosophy department - Arnold Cushner and James Bauer. BERT THOMS gave an absolutely spell-binding He helped me get throut,'_1 the lecture called "Predication of only college anywhere I could've Value," a still unpublished made it through. analysis of how things are, with a To one who could not say to grammar for how they might himself he had ever known a good best be named and described. man, Bert Thoms became and Incidentally, I never saw him remained his exemplar, thus lose ground in the give-and-take providing the benchmark and of philosophic debate. And not index on how to live, to one who because he was careful in desperately was seeking choosing his battlefields or coherency and light, saving me from the dim prospect of ·debate partners. He never met you with a sophist's stratagem or declaring all men worthless, and, because we can't know, life not verbalization, but with insight and understanding. And he worth living. THIS MONTAGE is a quick and happily met all comers. He loved St. John's. He dirty way of giving you the person, his character and 1 believed by the trivial arts of conduct. It's the journalistic: logic, rhetoric, and grammar and way obituaries are written.' by the beam and balances of the quadrivium would we educate The theory is that of ourselves, i.e. become better mathematical limits. By drawing men. He used to talk about• enough chords you exhaust an someday setting up his own area subtended by his life and academy or college. But he define the man. In Bert's case it's always came back to St. John's. hard to draw enough chords and a This is exactly what he had in big enough montage to tell you mind, and he said he couldn't what a man he was in any improve on it. coherent way. To his educational theories I I first met him in 1950, here, my added a twist of my own. To the freshman lab tutor, and seminar St. John's context, I felt the ideal leader in my sophomore, junior education would be to find that and senior years. In the early and all-knowing wise man, and in middle 50's Bert was in full friendship cemented by mutual flower and at his intellectual and sentiment for rationality and the physical peak. He didn't just search for an intellectual way of teach but made friends and left life, inspissate myself parasitehis indelible imprint on Eric like in the blood of his knowledge. Crooke, John Coffey, Bob Sachs, For me that wisest man was Ernest Piron, Howard Brom- Bert Thoms. berg,· Sinclair Gearing, Sam What did he teach? Kutler, Dave Kaplan, Jeff By example he taught us Greenwell, Harvey Wynne, and language, his first love, grammany others. mar, and in his usage of English With infinite patience and: that there could be precision maieutic concern he helped us equaling that of the French parturiate intellectual conmasters. ceptions involved in building HE TAUGHT US logic, that "flat surfaces,'' solve the crown though tough to make lasting problem, find the meter stick's general statements, with care point of suspension, and unthey can be made. Of prodigious derstand that physical laws are memory, he insisted on the rote never proved, only used so long memory's importance: that a as they explain the appearances, good memory is a prime abandoned when they no longer desideratum of the philosopher, do. and without its use, it becomes IT WAS A SHEER pleasure to dull and rusty. listen to Bert talk, to express his I always listened when he said considerable wonder and there was no need for men to live curiosity. On this dais Bert once like pigs, especially when he The service was conducted by the Rev. J. Winfree Smith, of the faculty, with Leo Raditsa, another tutor, reading in Latin an ode of Horace. Patricia Pittis, '74, a student at Union Theological Seminary, gave the scriptural reading. A native of Flint, Mich., Mr. Thoms was born July 15, 1917.During World War II he served as a Naval aviator. From 1939 to 1942 he attended Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Mich., where he studied theoretical music. He received both a bachelor's and master's degree in philosophy from George Washington University, where he taught briefly, and in 1950 a doctorate in philosophy from John Hopkins University. He first served as a member of the St. John's faculty from 1949 to 1954, leaving to join the faculty of Reed College, Portland, Ore., for a year, and then in 1955 the faculty of Washington and J efferson College, where he· was chairman of the Philosophy Department. In 1969 he returned to St. John's. Mr. Thoms is survived by his wife, Josephine; by a daughter, Adele, and by three sisters. (Continued from P. 1) and final recommendation. At its New York meeting the committee will formalize the manner in which candidates' names will be receiYed. To assure that they be handled fairly and properly, Mr. Yarnall has asked persons wishing to propose candidates to wait until the committee announces the way this will be done. "I believe very strongly, and I believe the other members do, that the single most important task of any board is determining the president and periodically appraising his or her performance," Mr. Yarnall said. "That is where the board does its most significant work. "We as a committee pledge to the board and to all who have a stake in St. John's, that we will give this task the very best we've got in terms of time, energy, imagination, objectivity, and we hope wisdom." All members of the committee were present except John D. Murchison, of Dallas, who was out of the country. Dorothy Roudebush, of St. Louis, was chosen secretary. The board's two other representatives include its chairman, Charles A. Nelson, and Sharon Bishop, Washington, D.C., alumna. The two campuses have elected Robert A. Neidorf and J. Winfree Smith as their representatives, and Deans Robert S. Bart and Edward G. Sparrow are ex-officio members. Besides serving as committee chairman, Mr. Yarnall also is vice-chairman of the board. Alumni wishing. to remember Mr. Thoms may contribute to the St. John's Faculty Scholarship Fund. One-time seminars on a variety · of subjects ranging from the poems of Lao Tzu to a story by Henry James have drawn St. John's friends in Santa Fe and Los Alamos to the western campus for the fifth year. The 15 seminars were attended by 250 persons including 34 members of the senior class. Following the seminars, which were held from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., there was a social hour and then dinner. The seminars were held first in the fall of 1974 in conjunction with the second annual local, fundraising campaign. The purpose was to acquaint people in the town with St. John's. Tutors volunteered to lead seminars and argued that by no logic can any man be said to be bad .while he 's alive, that so long as he breathes there's hope, that coercion of opinion in any form is a mistake, especially by Christian theologians on sensitive areas of doctrine. Bert was persuaded mightily by Socrates' belief that we ought to proceed on the supposition that knowledge is possible, that it makes a man better, braver, and' less helpless. Finally, from my wife, I learn the Spanish have a neat way to sum up a better, braver man of value like Bert, from whom all draw strength and courage: Que Hombre! of the faculty and staff enrolled along with seven dozen townspeople. Five seminars were offered. The format has remained the same each year: late afternoon seminars followed by a social hour and dinner. For the first three years dinner was free but the number of participants increased so that a charge for dinner became necessary although the seminars and social hour are still offered without charge. About half of the participants have stayed for dinner each year. Over the years the number of seminars has increased to the present fifteen. �• • (Continued from P.1) secondary days in Canada, skipping two grades and condensing the four years of his high school into three at Hamilton Experimental Secondary School in Ontario. He has financed much of his education, packing a great deal of hard work into his 21 years. He has driven a truck, worked in 140 degree temperature in Canadian steel mills, served as a program patient at McMaster's medical school, and has been an office manager at night for a transport company and a lifeguard. At St. John's, where he holds down a student aide job with the Fund for the 1980's, Mr. Thomson appreciates the quality of his fellow students. "People are much more serious here because they realize that something is at stake in learning and that's their primary concern and for that reason they are more serious students," he said, "At McMaster there was no need to spend much time on studies. It would be quite possible at St. John's to do nothing but school work here and still not do justice to it." While iUs possible to bluff your way through St. John's, the difference here, he noted with a grin, is that ''everyone knows it.'' Mr. Thomson remembers book reviews written in Canada in which the way to receive a really high mark was to present the views of a number of authorities. "As a freshman, I found new worlds opening up," he said. "It was very challenging to have to think for yourself. What writing we have is much more difficult because it's a product of yourself, and not something culled from a book. It's writing about what you've been thinking and talking about here." Writing is something he feels St. John's students should do more of, perhaps substituting the annual essay (''God around here") with at least two shorter papers, excepting perhaps during the senior year in which writing might be structured differently. Outside graduate work, Mr. Thomson has no plans for what happens after St. John's. In looking them over, he is weighing all his alternatives carefully, attempting to decide what is best and right for himself and setting his goals high. "The problem with St. John's is that it makes you moral," he said with a view to all the possible directions open when he reaches this crossroads next year. Greek weeds out manv applicants Partly in order to study mathematics and science here, James McDonald, 23, came to St. John's last fall after receiving his · bachelor's degree in 1977 at Kenyon College. "It's not hard to find students who go through four years there without any m a t h o r science,'' he commented. "I was one of them.": The most striking difference Mr. McDonald sees is the quality of St. John's students, whom he characterizes as "very in· dustrious, very sharp, and capable of insights which go deeper than those of most fresh· men." He attributes their quality partly to St. John's admissions procedures, which screen out large numbers of unsuitable students. "There are three things which seem to overwhelm the student who is considering St. John's," he said. "First, everyone must take Greek. That weeds out a lot of students who don't want to bother with Greek and helps select students who understand why it is important and are willing to kun. · "Secondly, the St. John's ap· plication· form is not a typical form asking trivial questions and requiring students to sum up in 500 words or less why they want to come. It is quite detailed. It weeds out other students who can't be bothered with this type of application." He believes high school seniors briefed with some knowledge of the sheer amount of work involved in the St. John's program are quick to cross themselves off the list. "People sometimes are very shocked to see how few students apply as against those who are accepted," he said. (The ratio last fall in Annapolis was two to one). "But as I continue here, I find the quality of students is so high that the number becomes irrelevant. The kind of student who does apply is the important consideration. Consistently St. John's has had excellent fresh· men classes. This impresses me. · There are very, very exciting students here. It's the norm; at Kenyon it was the exception. There were many more students along for the ride there with their parents picking up the tab." Mr. McDonald, who is finan· cing his own St. John's education, said he took seminars at Kenyon which . professors sometimes threatened to end unless students completed their reading. At St. John's there is never any question of this. And he pointed to the value of the math and language tutorials in supporting seminars. "Those taking Greek at Kenyori were a very small, tight knit group," he said. "Here they very large, tight knit form group. :But in seminars there, a professpr would have to ask which Students had taken Latin and Greek in order to clarify certain passages. Here, everyone is assumed to be up to a certain level. There are no problems in b a ck tr a.ck in g . It ' s v e r y 1 refreshing. "Also, in Plato's discussion of the divided line, Socrates refers to the study of geometry. We have had geometry, and we know how Euclid went about proving his· propositions. St. John's students are all on the same level. They all have the same tools." . An excellent student, Mr. McDonald may put in six hours a day reading for seminar or laboratory. During the slow off· season period in his job as a weekend bartender, he a 1 frequently slips in work on Greek vocabulary cards between mixing drinks. Like a number of students, his curriculum is augmented by a one-to-one .tutorial~ this one in Greek, which meets once a week, more frequently if his tutor, Gisela Berns, is able to schedule it. In addition, because he looks forward to a career in education, he is teaching a great books course at nearby Key School where his fifth and sixth graders have been investigating C.S. Lewis' "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe." Bouncing off ideas ~fter class- Warren Spector, Chevy Chase, Md., sophomore, left Princeton in January, just before the end of his first semester· While reasons for leaving a good university may be complex, Mr. Spector said he found Princeton "first of all very impersonal, socially and academically." "The primary problem was it was very distant academically,'' he said. "The summer before I had attended a small special program for mathematics students sponsored by the National Science Foundation at Hampshire College. "I was very excited about going to Princeton and knew it had a good math program. But when I got there, there was no opportunity to talk with other students. You would want to talk about an interesting proof or some other aspect of your studies, but find that other students were not interested. "There was no opportunity to bounce off other people ideas that you were talking about in class. That took away from what would be important. At St. John's I have an opportunity to confront the math which we are studying in class, and out of class some op· portunities to talk about it with fellow students. I had none of them atPrinceton." Mr. Spector did not come to St. John's just to study math. Were that the case, he could have found another college. He came for the whole of the program, especially, he said, for the way it is studied here. To slack off might be a student's expected propensity in reading Plato. At St. John's Mr. Spector said he reads Plato with· a continuing sense of motivation. "The nicest thing at St. John's is that everyone talks to everyone else,'' he said. "You have an· immediate sense of belonging and friendliness.'' Like other places, St. John's has its problems, but, he added, no n e of t h e m a r e i nsurmountable. vs Scott Buchanan. Good name :and clearly a good man, in the tradition of his name. But no-no relation. s ,, A type c 0 of analysis Buchanan is a 20 .. year - old freshman from There were . cerfaill things Narberth, Pa., which bothered Anita Ross, who came here Washington senior, before after two years ·.coming to St. John's. part-time study One ·· of tnein at the Univer· was the courses sity of Pennshe had been sylvania's night taking at a school with days Texas com· spent working in munity college the university's and a Northern veterinary Virginia hospital. university: art, In a sense those were years English, peralready spent laboring in St. sonal growth, John's vineyard for they were "the junk food" years not only of earning college of education, she moriey but proving to his ticked them off. parents-still hesitant - that St. "I felt I was indulging an inJohn's, where he would have terest, but at the same time I like'1 to have come right after didn't know what my interests high school, was the right school were," she said. "The lack of for him, rather than the form bothered me. There seemed university, where his father is a no correlation between classes." professor of veterinary medicine. One day she became irked At Pennsylvania Mr. Buchanan when the graduate assistant in a could have received a tuition free political science course, in a sort education. When he completes his of wholesale summary, wrapped education here, he will be sub· up the history of political thought stantially in debt, but it is the in a single day by bagging up . price he will be willing to pay for such names as Plato, Aristotle, an education which he believes to Hegel, Locke, and other writers be the best. and throwing them at the class. "I have friends in most of the "That really irked me," she Ivy League schools," he said. said. "We had three or four "Many of them are dropping out survey books, and some of them' and taking time out to deal with had ideas which sparked interest. questions which are not being They were tantalizing. But they addressed in their environment. were confusing to a young person In order to answer those with no concept of what to listen questions, they usually feel they for or talk about." must leave. The approach here is aimed at answering those Her father, a member of the questions, rather than avoiding Foreign Service, had learned about St. John's in 1941 from one them or leaving the student to of the members of the original work them out on his own." New Program class during long At mid-winter Mr. Buchanan, who is head guide for the adnights in the Navy at sea. Along with her mother, he talked about missions office, has a reaction to the possibility of her coming his first months here which is "very, very favorable." here. "When I heard about the "I've found the atmosphere to science and math," Miss Ross be unusually stimulating. So said, "I said forget it! I hated many people are enthusiastic and math in high school and dreaded personally concerned about the it." material they read and the fact that they are not just memorizing inert facts but receiving insights into themselves makes for a significant education. "In this environment I'm becoming more aware of my thinking and have felt what Plato calls illuminationscomprehensions-which are very satisfying as well as motivating." In St. John's mathematics and biology programs, Mr. Buchanan, who had a great deal of physics and calculus at the . University of Pennsylvania, finds that students are learning "by picking the material to pieces rather than swallowing the data whole." "The same thing holds true with the rest of the program. No one's opinion is necessarily the correct one." And he likes what happens outside the class where as much enthusiasm for the subjects is present in discussion and serious throught as in the classrooms. Elsewhere, he has found a type of stigma attached to any display of concern or involvement beyond the requisite 50-minute classroom time. But, instead, she has found that although she has .had trouble coping with the math and science programs, she has gained from them. "They certainly made my perspective ·for things much richer," she said. "If you have the courage to ask stupid questions, they become some of the most rewarding things you can take. Some of the most rewarding and enriching ideas come to light." For her, St. John's has instilled· a type of analysis, an on-going critique of everything: one's life, the school, one's self, one's friends, one's work. "It certainly has changed my life, and what I'm going to do," she said. "I .can't define it, but I feel more confident, more independent, and happier that the world is so full of all these diversities." In addition to her St. John's studies, Miss Ross assists in teaching retarded children at a small school north of St. John's, including giving them daily in· struction in science, reading, and arithmetic. "I can't help being influenced by Euclid,'' she said. �different year at w a s o n e: a .g e 1 7 of the reasons ttat Anne Schane he, Cairo, Egypt, junior, decided to leave the State University of New York at Albany. Nor was she particularly pleased about the large lecture classes there. Miss Schanche grew up in New York state, where her father, now North African bureau head The Los Angeles Times, was a free lance writer. She had heard about St. John's earlier but had put it out of her mind for financial reasons. That problem was solved, not only for her but for her sister, Didi, a Santa Fe junior, who formerly studied at Alfred University. "The major difference in coming here is one's own attitude," Miss Schanche sum-, marized the transition. "I felt ready to work when I arrived. I expect that most of the students are pretty serious when they come to St. John's. Just filling out the application is quite an accomplishment." Miss Schanche, who is active in college athletics on occasion and who last year supervised the boat house, is one of four women occupying an apartment in the college's Prince George Street Dorsey House, first put into use last fall for housing purposes. With some background in Arabic, she is planning to study languages after leaving St. John's. "It's been trying some times at St. John's," she said, "but I love it. Whenever I think of leaving school, a thought most often prompted by self-dissatisfaction, I'm unable to think of another college I'd rather attend." A conference on arch a e o -astronomy in the. Americas will be held on St. John's Santa Fe campus in June as the result of a to the college from National Endowment for the Humanities. Ray Williamson, member of the Annapolis faculty, who has worked extensively in that said the conference will attempt to define some of the major issues of archaeo~astronomy in the western hemisphere: what it is, who does it, and what connection it has with fields which feed into it. Mr. Williamson has just signed a contract with the New Republic. publishing firm to write a book and is the author of an article on North America native astronomy which appeared in the October~ issue of the Smithsonian magazine. In addition to his St. John's position, he is associated with the new center for archaeoastronomy at the University of Maryland. feeling. And the same thing was true last year in the second part of our laboratory when we were doing chemistry. I had a lot of college chemistry, but the approach to chemistry here made it crystal clear in a lot of ways. The lab was a nice experience." Mr. Roach, a sophomore from Darby, Pa., came here from Windham College, Putney, Vt. Poor financial conditions forced Windham to close a month early in his freshman year, in midApril, and Mr. Roach, who had helped with fund raising, found the whole experience rather traumatic and decided he couldn't afford to return to a college which he wasn't sure would remain open. That summer he learned about St. John's while going through some college guides in the Bryn Mawr College Library. He applied, was accepted, and now serves as a volunteer guide helping show prospective one students around campus, including other transfer students to mature' like himself. "Transfers usually ask very Just before Thanksgiving good questions," he said. "They Joseph Roach pulled out his: are looking at St. John's very French horn· and began working critically. They want to know the for a good tone caliber of the students and production, a · whether the classes are good or process inbad. One student even asked volving natural about the salaries of tutors. They harmonics. are different than high school H e c a n juniors and seniors, who have a remember when much less critical eye and who he began with a think the place is wonderful." French horn in Mr. Roach shares that view. the seventh The place is wonderful. After a grade when year and a half here, he feels he music made no would not want to return to a high sense. caliber, conventionally organized Now in his second year of college set up in the image of music at St. John's, he finds it Windham. Among the reasons he does. Learning about natural would be reluctant to leave is that harmonics and adding to his St. John's is the first place where knowledge of musical phrasing he has been consistently has helped. His session in the challenged academically. music practice rooms have· "It's made me work and become enjoyable. work," he said. "I like the way we're going at Furthermore, it has suc· music," Mr. Roach says of his ceeded in changing the way he classes with David Guaspari, a looks at the world. new tutor here. "The music "At every turn, you compare tutorials are making things the way you are looking at things clearer. I understand why I with the way the great authors understand. That's a really nice ' looked at them and then with the· - -----~---·~--··---~---- David is the sort of universal man St. John's delights memuer of its faculty, he is as much at home behind a baton as he is in tion in or in in quantum mechanics. Ask him to untangle a badly constructed sentence and he does it with the same ease with which he seniors with a and learned commencement week toast. (He learned French at his own dinner table; his mother would allow nothing else to be spoken). His wife, Helen, is a person of more concentrated interests. A gifted lyric coloratura, she has been warmly acclaimed for her performances on the concert and operatic stage and as a teacher of voice at their Prince George Street home. He composes, and she sings, and together, as a musical husband-wife team, the Stephensons' talents will be in evidence when she presents a recital Sunday, Feb. 18, in St. John's Great Hall. For this which will be open to the without charge, Mr. Stephenson has set to music a group of poems which the German poet, Heine, wrote about the North Sea. COMPOSING SONGS for his wife is something Mr. Stephenson has done since his undergraduate days at Columbia University, where he became a music major in his senior year, abandoning a Helen and David Stephenson go over a score. major in physics and then proceeding to earn his master's when they were students in New Pnotos by rom'Partcm degree in composition. York City. She was a soloist for He has written a great deal of Orff's "Carmina Burana" and Mrs. Stephenson has sung the vocal work as well as music for Mr. Stephenson was part of the roles of Constanze, Pamina, and chamber orchestra and other chorus. Within a short time he Gilda in opera emrneement.s in larger orchestral pieces, work had composed music for her to Ulm, Germany. Her perwhich might be described as sing in concert at the Museum of formances have included those at· atonal music that sounds tonal. the City of New York. the Phillips Collection, the "David has written at least Later followed a commission Amerika Haus in Austria, Columtwenty songs for me,'' Mrs. by Mrs. Walter Chan, of New Stephenson said. "It's atonal; York City, to set some of the bia University Contemporary Folger Library, music, but it is very lyrical. He poetry of Ezra Pound to music for Ensemble, Baltimore, Peabody Conserhas a real gift for melodic line, chamber orchestra and voice. and that's why I've found it Mrs. Stephenson sang this group' vatory of Music, and the Museum very gratifying to sing." at Columbia in a performance· of the City of New York. She also One of his compositions reflec- which Mr. Stephenson directed. ' has served as a church soloist for St. Thomas Church in New York. As a conductor as well as comting his interest in great and She has studied voice at serious books was given its poser, Mr. Stephenson has Juilliard and with Alice Gerstl premiere at a concert at the studied conducting both in Duschak at Peabody, and she has Phillips Collection in Washington Europe and in the United States, been a member of the master when it was sung by Mrs. and, while he plays the piano, Stephenson. This was a large clarinet, and viola, his principal classes of Rita Streich in work for voice based upon Molly instrument might be considered Salzburg and the opera class of Tito Gobbi in Florence. Bloom's monologue at the conclu- . the baton. At St. John's, where he In Siena she was able to study sion of James Joyce's "Ulysses," helped develop the freshman music program, he has con- at the Academia Chigiana. She in which she recalls her past loves. A dramatic work in- ducted the college orchestra as has studied opera with George corporating Joyce's flow of con- well as the freshman and small Schick and, under Noah Greenburg, been associated with the sciousness style, it is marked by choruses. During the interim following New York Pro Musica Antiqua wide contrasts i:n the vocal range the death of Kenneth Page and Workshop. and includes spoken words. This fall she began her doctoral Most of Mr. Stephenson's re- the appointment of Leon Fleisher cent comoositions were com- as conductor of the Annapolis program at Catholic University pleted during an extended sab- Symphony Orchestra, he did a while at the same time continuing batical from 1972 to 1974 in rescue job and conducted that or- to give private lessons here. The Stephensons,- musical Austria and Germany, where chestra in a performance at the talents combined one summer in both pursued their musical Annapolis Fine Arts Festival; and he has conducted the St. Santa Fe when they wrote careers. Anne's Chorus and St. John's reviews for the Santa Fe Opera, THE TWO OF THEM met as Small Chorus in a performance of a harried business, they part of· a Renaissance group a Bach cantata, accompanied by discovered, since they would arrive home from the opera about way others see them in seminar. orchestra, at St. Anne's. "One of the hardest problems I A CUM LAUDE graduate of midnight, and the review might had in coming to St. John's is Queen's College, Mrs. Stephen~ be due as early as 8 a.m. Generally she would comment getting over obstinancy, in son's versatility is demonstrated getting over the feeling, 'I'm by the diversified music which on the singers, and Mr. Stephenright, I'm right.' I really hated she sings: grand opera and son on the orchestra, and being told, 'You're wrong.' St. lieder as well as Renaissance,, together on the musical perH~ did the John's really forces you to medieval, and contemporary formance in typing. mature." music. �1 THE REPORTER FEBRUARY 1979 Letter to editor Alumni r/ofej (Continued from P. 2) '65, with Bart's wife Betty and their three-year-old Emily, were present for the ceremony. Melissa and Ray are living on the Navajo Indian reservation at Tonale.a, Ariz., where they manage the Shonto Trading Post. 1974-Santa Fe The November 30 issue of The Santa Fe Reporter ( no relation to our Reporter) contains an interesting music critique by Eric Scigliano, the subject of which is a group called "Jazz Portraits." This is a group with strong St. John's connections, led by vocalist Miyoko Porter, a junior, and including tutor Ray Davis, '62, on piano, sophomore Ed Neal, bass Greg Haggard, son of tutor Dean Haggard on drums, and sophomore Liz Pollard, also a vocalist. The critique was of the group's professional debut last fall, and if Eric's opinion is shared by the general public, we will hear more of and about" Jazz Portraits." 1975 Jan Hamill preached at all three services at St. Anne's Church, Annapolis, on January 28. A ~econd year student at Yale Divinity School, Jan has delivered sermons at another St. Ann's, this one in Old Lyne where she is receiving credit as a parish assistant. 1975- Santa Fe Abigail Smith has completed her work as a hydrologist with the U.S. Forest Service at Lake Tahoe. She is working with a conservation agency in Seattle. Mark Habrel is studying philosophy at the University of Chicago. "Jadis" Ullman Cuzme has two children, a two-year-old boy and a brand new baby girl. She lives in Washington, D.C. David Wallace is now circulation manager of Acquire Publishing Company, Inc., a fastgrowing magazine conglomerate. David is also active in organizing the New York city committee of the Fund for the 1980's. 1976 "Thank heaven for parents," to paraphrase a line from a wellknown Maurice Chevalier song. In this case our correspondent is Charles Goslee, father of Julie, and now, he tells us, father-in-law of Timothy Born, a wedding having taken place last summer in Cambridge, Mass. Tim had studied for a year at Tufts, and Julie had worked for Biomedical Research. Within a month of the wedding they were off to serve in the Peace Corps and as of December were teaching math and sciences (in French) in Middle School in the desert country of Mauritania, formerly French West Africa. Mr. Goslee also reports they would be most happy to hear from old friends; their address: Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Born, Prof esseurs, Lycee d'Aioun, Aioun el-Atrouss, Mauritania, (West Africa). 1976-Santa Fe Aleta Hackney Jones and her husband, Curt, are the proud :parents of Erica Beatrice, born Friday, Nov. 10, in Presbyterian Hospital tn Alpl,lquerque. 1976 - Santa Fe Rick Lightburn received his master's in mathematics at the of Denver in University December. Before returning home he visited Barbara Skaug, Graduate Institute registrar, and Judie Kistler, who has been working in the Santa Fe campus bookstore. He also visited Alan and Lauren who reside Santa Fe. Then took off for Houston where he saw Nancy '77, and on to Austin to see Pablo Collins, also '77. Glenda Holliday is enjoying her work on a master's degree in science education at McAlester, Okla. Bridget Houston is finishing her bachelor's degree in geology at the University of Oklahoma. Greg Spring has completed his Peace Corps assignment teaching English in Upper Volta, Africa, and has returned to Santa Fe where he is playing the guitar professionally. 1977 A late October lengthy letter from Ann Browning arrived just days too late for inclusion in the November issue, but that gives us all the more news of the class of 1977 for this issue! Here is somewhat of a condensation of Ann's letter about the class and some other folks who graduated with it. Among her summer visitors were Janis Popowicz, Cathy and Rob Godfrey, and Deborah Cohen and Julie Perkins. All were enroute to California except Janis, who is now in Philadelphia, doing cancer research at the University of Pennsylvania Research Center. Cathy and Rob were married in June; ¢athy is studying urban plannin!g at Berkeley; Rob is working. Deborah was working at a legal clinic in San Francisco, but planned in January to study at the Anthropology Film School in Santa Fe. Julie is in Stanford Law Sctiool. Ann points out there is now ·a rather large California contingent from the class: Richard Davenport, Sara Anastaplo, Michael Levine, and Rachel McKay are also there. Back in the East Mary Brandon works for ,a large insurance company in New York, Jenifer Smith is in consumer relations for Am~rican Airlines. Richard Plaut. is assistant to the former president (now chairman) of Marborb Books. William Owen lives in a studio apartment in the Bowery'and is writing a play. In the Washington, D.C., area are Cynthia Nash, looking for theater work; Ellen Hamilton, with a small publishing firm in Georgetown; Brad Davidson, now administrative assistant to Congressman de la Garza; Erica Lerner <flass works for center for child r e n with le a rn in g disabilit~es. And last but not least, Ann herself has her own class this year at the Montessori School in Salt Lake City. She is thinking, but very tentatively, about graduate ·work in education. 1 1977-Graduate Institute Peter C. Newlin, one of five· Newlins to attend St. John's, has joined the Annapolis architectural firm of James Wood Burch, whose work has included three college buildings: the Harrison Health Center, which he designed, the remodeling of Chase-Stone, and the Carroll Barrister House, for which he served as consultant when the building was moved from Main Street to the campus. Mr. Newlin explained how he~ found Mr. Burch: "I didn't know Jim Burch from Adam, but I did know I wanted to. work for a good architect and in Annapolis. I spent several days cataloging all the creditable architecture bUilt in the Annapolis area over the past 20 years. "I included restoration work along with new projects. I even included the parking deck downtown. Then I went to the Annapolis office of the American Institute of Architects, asking who had designed each building. A few were products of Washington based firms; I was astonished, however,.to find that Jim Burch was responsible for over two-thirds of the others.'' St. John's Tutor Robert Spaeth, now on leave to serve as director of the Freshman Colloquium at St. John's University, Collegeville, Minn., has been named executive editor of "Improving College and University Teaching," a quar· terly publication. Mr. Spaeth will serve with Dr. Eunice Ewer Wallace of Boise State University and Dr. William Rabinowitz of the Pennsylvania State University in assisting the publisher to review the scope of the journal as well as to develop criteria for accepting manuscripts. Student named as observer Bruce Kolman, Wilmette, Ill., senior and former president of the Student Polity, has been selected by the Maryland Trial Lawyers Association to serve as its legislative observer. During the current session of the Legislature Mr. Kolman, who plans to seek a law degree, is researching bills of interest to the association. Mr. Kolman served briefly in the Congressional office of Representative Peter Rodino· and during Maryland's last legislative campaign worked on behalf of Lee Perlman, '73, who lost a race for the State Senate, and Delegate Ger~ld Winegrad. - Pennies, anyone Anthony Cox, Annapolis senior, is responsible for a friendly idea which is being used in the St. John's bookstore, one he attributes to Stevens Hardware in Annapolis. A dish by the cash register has a sign "If you need a penny, take ' one. If you don't, give one." It also contains a small sign of prosperity. Customarily it's half full of pennies. 'Faint odor of elitism' evokes comments I'd like to react with some comments to the Bill Goldsmith letter of last year to fellow "New Programites" and Ed Cochran's recent response (in The Reporter, Nov., 1978) to his call for our collective re-involvement with St. John's. I agree with much of what both said but also feel that we must look a bit deeper and not respond only on a sentimental, "old alumni" level to Dick Weigle's call for financial support of the college or Bill's unexpressed feeling of guilt. We've all been away a long time, busy with our own lives and interests, and haven't supported "the old college" exclusively enough. I think the best thing we could do to exemplify either the truth or the falsity of the New Program (and the nuances in between!) is to do exactly what we've all been doing: work hard at our jobs and our professions, and by our lives (and not necessarily with our dollars either) show the virtue, in the Platonic sense, of the program. I think Alex Meiklejohn showed us how to thus succeed by apparently failing and also dialectically demonstrate as he did at Brown, at Amherst, at Wisconsin, and in San Francisco that no one place or curriculum is uniquely worthwhile in defense of the course of education, the liberal arts, or freedom. Iri fact, he was as a very old man writing about Harvard's origins as a prototypical university for America (and not as its selfproclaimed acme either), and he never agreed enough with the St. John's New Program curriculum, as far as I know, to regard it as more than a dialectical thesis to be answered with another antithesis and maybe someday with a (Hegelian) synthesis a la "there'll be pie in the sky by and by." He was a utopian in a sense and yet the best dialogue teacher we ever had and was always clear that there was no gospel according to St. John's. I think we'd do well not to believe that either the college in Annapolis or in Santa Fe has such a unique gospel. As my father, Scott Buchanan, said near the end of his life, "no dogma or doctrine for sale"; speaking of himself. I'm unhappy with the faint odor of elitism or uniqueness or "salvation through the Great Books" that I sometimes detect both at the college and in its publications. I'd be happier to work for or even contribute to the original objections, as I heard them from 1937 through late 1946 (yes, it took me nine years to get my BA there - both in high school, college and then in the US Army!), of the "New Program," such as open enrollment ("admission in order .of application," as ~Y father as ~irst dean used to put it democratically), and what I'd call (retrospectively) "don ragging" both Annapolis and the larger US society. a~~· as ;.1Vinkie Barr used to put it, makmg the most of the inevitable town/gown problem. " . St. John's now is awfully co~cerned with fitting in and bemg respectable and has gone quite right from its original (ie. 1937) stance which I think was center/left. We did a lot more with adult education in those earlier years also. For example, its retreat from opposing the Vietnam War into. "scholarship, neutrality, and non-involvement" (and I quote from the student manifesto on the subject by memory and perhaps not exactly since I didn't save it as it made me angry that my old college was so above the battle and so aloof, frankly) was almost cowardly. (Is discretion really the better part of valor?) I felt some of this mood when I spoke about my work in medicine there in 1975 and bit my tongue several times in order not to say so. Now, however, Bill's and Ed's comments open a Pandora's box, I think; and if a committee of correspondence is to begin re the Ends of Education and how St. John's now either partially or completely demands our old boy (or girl) unqualified support and is to ensure public ally (or unhappily whenever we happen to meet and have a beer together - which is too infrequently for me!), then let's ask the tough questions, not get into the bad habits of other college alumni journals and just raise $300 million (as Yale just did) while buying alumni chairs or lamps (instead of ideas?). . Education is presently in a damned low state in this country from primary school through graduate school no matter where one goes, I gather, and the biggest tragedy of my lifetime has been the decline and almost certain fall of the public school. We serve Horace Mann, Alexander Meiklejohn, John Erskine (of Columbia University - who incidentally really started the ·Great Books seminars), Robert Maynard Hutchins, and our. really wonderful teachers at the college poorly by cheering too loud, raising private money,. and letting "the common good" go to Hell. Hurrah for dissent; up the withering of consent; bring on the argument! The future only belongs to that, I feel. Let's have more letters and more points of view. Sincerely, Douglas Buchanan M.D. (Class of 1943) Sparrow is speaker Dean Edward Sparrow was one of the speakers in a series of senior symposiums on education held ·at Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, Va., recently. He discussed the rationale behind the St. John's curriculum. In Who's Who Barbara Leonard, assistant dean of the Annapolis campus, is listed in the new edition of "The World Who's Who of Women in Education." A former zoology instructor at Smith College, she also has been a Fulbright lecturer and honorary professor of zoology at Lady Doak College and the American ·college at Madurai, India. The edition is published by the International Center at Cambridge, England. �... THE REPORTER Published Coriege Relations 0 St. John's College Annapolis, Md. 21404 lt • l Ever think about the particular· skills taught at St. John's? In the first workshop of its sort, four students have analyzed those proficiencies in practical terms for use on job resumes. The resumes are on file in the Placement Office, where they are being 'h1ade available to other students interested in preparing their own. ''Students frequently are distressed at the thought of preparing a resume," Marianne Braun, '58, St. John's new placement director, said. "The primary purpose of those we have developed is to incorporate: the skills gained at St. John's into the resumes so they can serve as: models for students and get them thinking more confidently about themselves in relation to their job-related skills." The resumes are not only important for graduating seniors, but Mrs. Braun is pushing to have them prepared early, in part because they are important for internships and other positions which the students might fill before graduation. She pointed out that the Maryland Legislature requires them as does Congress. Working with Mrs. Braun and Assistant Dean Ray Williamson, students. incorporated information about their education, work experience, and special interests. The four students taking part Katherine Buck, Frederick C. Cox, Marjorie A. Perry, and Anita Ross - all emphasized skills of communication and problem solving the St. John's program had given them: an ability to analyze and compare and · to develop an ·idea and present an argument as well as the terms and laboratory methods used by mathematicians and scientists. Preparation of the resume iS part of an expanded program of the Placement Office, which is open from 9:30 to 4:30 daily. Although the college has maintained such an office for five years, it was combined previously with the counseling service. This year the college decided to separate the two. In her first year as placement director, Mrs. Braun has found that her year is dividing into three periods of concentration: fellowships, graduate school applications, and careers. Her help with the latter can be of very practical assistance. One day earlier this fall a student came in to say he was interested in doing research in chemistry and mathematics, but The Annapolis campus will hold its Parents Weekend April 27-28. Planning the weekend are Anne O'Malley, of Sarasota, Fla., and James Preston, of Buffalo, N.Y., both sophomores. President Weigle will deliver the Friday lecture, "Lao Tzu's 'Tao Te Ching,' " and the King William Players will present ·a play with Robert Butman, visiting tutor here from Haverford College, directing. didn't know where to turn. Mr~ Braun's answer was to provide him with a list of firms in both fields. As the winter months progress, he is blanketing the firms with letters and resumes in an attempt to find the right opening. Positive reaction to the expanded program has been strong from alumni and faculty, who have cooperated, and from students. By the first of the year, without prompting notes to remind them she is available, two-thirds of the 73 seniors had come in for help. Directing students to the right graduate school has involved a substantial part of her effort. For students who plan post-graduate work, Mrs. Braun maintains a directory of programs and catalogs and is able to provide realistic advice with regard to applications and financial aid. She also sees that they have inforrn a tion with regard to Graduate Records Exams, Law School Admissions Test, Medical College Admission Test, and other tests professional training requires.· "A great deal of time is spent in coordinating fellowships and scholarships with the Faculty Fellowship Committee," Mrs. Braun said. "What used to be in the old days, before a placement office existed, a somewhat hit or miss activity, is more structured. This year's chairman of the Fellowship Committee, Nicholas Maistrellis, has done a very able job of chairing the committee and also providing assistance to students in the area of fellowships and graduate schools. "Our faculty is a rich source of information. Many of our tutors give a significant amount of time to this effort." A St. John's College tutor has been awarded a National Science Foundation Grant of $110,456 to make a two year study of what happens to some of the smallest but most essential forms of life in the Chesapeake waters. Kelton McKinley, an ecologist, who joined the faculty last fall, is attempting to develop a new method of measuring the photosynthesis of algae-the rate at which these organisms convert light energy to sugars and other storage products - as well as the rate of bacterial activity in nature. In his investigations, he will be working "in situ," on site in several places in the Chesapeake Bay, but primarily in the Chester River Estuary of the Eastern Shore. "Currently there are two methods of measuring algal photosynthesis, both of which have certain good and bad qualities about them," Mr. McKinley said. "I hope to combine the good things." The need to assess rates of metabolism for organisms within the lower trophic levels is essential to an understanding of ecosystem structure and functions, Mr. McKinley said. To date scientists are unable to accurately assess bacterial activity in aquatic systems because of a lack of suitably sensitive, generalizable techniques. "WHAT WE WILL be doing on site in addition to incubations," he said, "will be measuring the temperature and salinity of the water, what the oxygen concentrations are and the various nutrients available. This will give us some idea of the environment for these organisms as well as a measure of their activity." The laboratory work will be completed in St. John's Mellon Hall and at Johns Hopkins University. Mr. McKinley will be the principal investigator on the project, and Howard H. Selinger, professor of biology at Johns Hopkins, will be a research associate. Miss Martha }Jarrison will serve as full-time laboratory technician. This is the third NSF grant Mr. McKinley has held and will run from September, 1978, to August, 1980. He has just concluded work under a grant directed toward studying the distribution of algal populations. In attempting to assess the Allanhrook is Yale lecturer St. John's Tutor Douglas Allanbrook has presented a concert of his piano music in the Collection of Musical Instruments museum at Yale University and lectured the following day on keyboard music and composition in Yale's School of Music. This winter the Annapolis Brass Quintet performed Mr. Allanbrook's "Symphony for Brass Quintet and Orchestra," originally commissioned by the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, with the Munich Radio Orchestra. The quintet will perform his "Night and Morning Music," which it premiered last summer at Chautaqua, N. Y., in a concert at St. John's on March 2. KELTON McKINLEY. Tom Parran photo rates of microbial metabolism in algae and bacteria, Mr. McKinley will be working with minute organisms. Algae generally run from' five to 50 micrometers in size, and bacteria generally less than two micrometers. Their significance, however, lies well beyond this size. "The air we breath depends algae," he said. " underpinning of anything we can be concerned about in ecology. Larval fish eat algae. Clams and oysters are dependent upon them." Prior to corning to St. John's, Mr. McKinley had served as an associate research scientist in estuarine ecology with Johns Hopkins' McCollurn-Pratt Institute. The author of several . publications and papers, he holds a doctorate in aquatic ecology from Michigan State University. His decision to come to St. John's was made partly because Mr. McKinley, who had done some graduate level teaching at Michigan State University, wanted experience beyond the intensive type of research in which he had been engaged and because he was not generally attracted to the of teaching available at other universities. to THREE MONTHS he St. John's accident;;illy through a Baltimore Sun news story. He had carted around a set of Great Books put out by the University of Chicago which his mother had given him as a teen-ager but had never correlated them with St. John's. "I never realized there was a school that used such books as the basis for a program," he said. "I decided that St. John's was what I was looking for." St. John's Tutor J. Winfree ·Smith is on one-third teaching schedule this year while he works on a history of St. John's New Program. The history, the possibility of which has been discussed for some time here, will be an account of the St. John's non. elective . program instituted in Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan, along with other' documents. He already has interviewed Mr. Barr and will be attempting to talk with other people associated with the early days of the program. 1937. Mr. Smith is working with the papers of the first pr~sident and dean of the program, Financing the project are Eugene Thaw, '47, the J.M. Kaplan Fund, the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, and the Joseph H. Hazen Foundation. Eva Brann 's book due St. John's College Tutor Eva Brann is the author of a book, "Paradoxes of Republic Education," to be published this spring by the University of Chicago Press. The book represents an inquiry into dilemmas arising out of citizenship education in the United States, beginning with the founding of the Republic and corning up to contemporary times. Written from the perspective of the St. John's education, the book includes an account of the reason certain books are read at the college and how they are read.,... "Paradoxes of Republic Education" is an outgrowth of Miss Brann's year as a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington. Miss Brann is on leave this year serving as the Edward F. Arnold Visiting Professor at Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash . � 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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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 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available College Relations Office 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/6d93bda8d00fa54b34cd47acd74e9f7a.pdf 634492708dd8493632405f07746acbf3 PDF Text Text • St. John's graduates of the 40's and 50's are playing an increasingly larger role in the leadership of the A third of the members of the Board of Visitors and Governors are alumni, including its elected chairman, Charles A. '45. All but two-Julius and Dalton M. New Program ·actuates. Mr. Nelson told former students the Homecoming banquet that 14 of the 42 active members of the board attended St. John's. THE FIGURE includes Robert Bart, Santa Fe dean, who holds a master's degree from the college and who is an ex-officio member. Six of the Trustees were elected by the Alumni Association. These include Sharon Bishop, David Dobreer, James Frame, Francis Mason, Mr. Rosenberg, and William Simmons. Other alumni elected by the board as a whole are Ray Cave, Ahmet M. Ertegen, W. Bernard Fleischmann, Mary Gallagher, Eugene Thaw, and Dr. Welty. In addition, Victor G. Bloede has just completed two terms. Both Miss Gallagher and Mr. Frame are serving as members of the executive, committee. Several -are chairmen of board committees. Mr. Thaw is chairman of the Annapolis Visiting Committee; Miss Bishop, the Annapolis Admissions Committee; Mr. Rosenberg, the Alumni Relations ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY 111111111111 St. John's College is preparing to celebrate its first St. John's Week Dec. 1-9 with a mayor's proclamation to make it official. To mark the occasion, the college is planning an open house on Sunday, Dec. 3, when it is inviting area residents to come tour this most historic of all Maryland colleges. Edda Peter, eastern director of the college's current Fund for the 1980's, said two tours are being planned for 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. followed by a reception with spiced cider and cookies in tpe Great Hall, where the tours also will originate. "We want newcomers to the Annapolis area who have not yet had an opportunity to grow to know us as well as old friends who want to know more about the college to drop in for a visit," she said. In addition to the tours, there will be. four other events open that weekend without cost. Two will occur simultaneously on Friday evening, and visitors will have their choice of attending either. One will be the regular Friday lecture, "Socrates' Ideal StatEl," by Professor C.G. Luckhardt, '65, of Georgia State University, at 8: 15 p.m. in the Key Auditorium. The other will · be a special showing of "The Hidden World of Misericords" in the St. John's art gallery, Room 201 Mellon Hall, at 8 p.m. with remarks by Winning football teams other colleges have. What the_ New Mexico campus has is a champion Search and Rescue team. In Santa Fe, where such teams must perform in matters of life and death, St. John's has earned the highest respect among the professionals - the police and military forces, medics and mountain men who have little illusion about the dangers of the rugged New Mexico wilderness. They see the St. John's team, which includes a number of The Santa Fe campus has women, as "tough and smart." received a contribution of six This highly trained team acres of land in Texas from a already has been widely cited for donor who prefers to remain their key roles in rescuing two anonymous, President Weigle women who lay for two days in has announced. the freezing wreckage of a small Sale of the property, anplane which crashed near Eagle ticipated shortly, is expected to Nest. bring the western campus "The members of the St. John's $265,000. team were praised for their work "This gift is extremely and persistence in this rescue," welcome for two reasons," Mr. The New Mexican wrote of their Weigle said. "First, it practically performance. "Their experience eliminates the accumulated and trainin~ had paid off not 'deficit for last year's ,....,,,.,..,1.,,,.., lives of the two and therefore allows the college women, nut also in making sure to move ahead without the burthat some of the rescuers did not den of the past year's debt. become victims. "Secondly, it enables the "The St. John's team is . college t<J claim a third of the recognized as one of the finest value of matching funds from a and reliable search and the Enrescue units in the southwest. Humanities.'' co:ntu:iueia on Artist-in-Residence Burton Blistein. The gallery program will be followed by refreshments, Saturday's program will ininclude a movie based on H. G. Wells' utopia, "Things 'To Come," at 7:30 p.m. in the conversation room followed by a wine and cheese party and . discussion groups. ~1 ~ nr1 1 1 1 r1 r1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1696 01138 0480 St. John's College has been awarded $400,000 under the National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant Program. (ContinuedonP. 8) Since 1974 the Annapolis cam-pus has had 15 students who have received awards or recognition from major national scholarships and fellowships. A new guide to fellowships for graduate study and travel prepared for St. John's students list them as: A Danforth Fellowship (post baccalaureate), two Danforth Fellowships (baccalaureate honorable mention), one Fulbright Fellowship {in art history), one Luce _scholarship (in journalism), a Marshall Scholarship (honorable mention), a National Science Foundation Fellowship (history of science), a Rhodes Schofarship, a Rhodes Scholarship finalist, a Rockefeller ~Theolo­ gical Fellowship, a Rotary International Fellowship (France), and four Watson Fellowships. The list was compiled by Saul Benjamin, former chairman of St. John's Faculty Committee on Fellowships, who himself now holds a Danforth Fellowship for study at Oxford University. "In addition," he notes, "St. John's seniors and recent graduates are regularly accepted at graduate schools ·in various fields of the arts and sciences. Many are awarded , tuition and teaching assistantships." · Competition for entry into law and medical schools is he writes. "But St. John's maintains among small colleges its best students at respected law and medical schools." The booklet contains Cletailed information regarding 32 Continued on P. 3) President Richard D. Weigle said $200,000 of this award will be made available during the Federal fiscal year which ends September 30, 1979, and the remaining $200,000 during the next fiscal year. The sums will be divided equally between St. John's two campuses in Annapolis and Santa Fe with $100,000 going to each during the present academic year. According to the Arts, Humanities, and Cultural Affairs Act of 1976, which provides for the program,' the funds must be matched, in a ratio of at least one to three, by non-Federal contributions. Mr. Weigle said that _St. John's already has received a substantial portion of the ·matching money. The Grant Program funds will be applied for general purposes of both campuses, he said. Richard D. Weigle, who is rounding out three decades of leadership at St. John's, will leave the college presidency June 30,'1980. A new Search Committee will meet in to begin ofwhat is expected to be a hard search for his successor. Normal retirement at St. John's is 65. Mr. Weigle, who is 66, has been asked by the board to continue to serve in order to see completion of St. John's current fund raising drive, the Fund for the 1980's, which is scheduled to wind up in 1980. In recognition of his more than 30 years of uninterrupted service with the college, the board has granted Mr. Weigle a sabbatical beginning July l, 1980, when his successor is scheduled to take office. His retirement will come in his thirty-second year with the college. Mr. Weigle and his wife, Mary, hope to live in Annapolis and spend their summers in Santa Fe, where they own a home. In authorizing its search for a new president, the Board of Visitors and Governors, meeting in Annapolis last month for its fall session, overwhelmingly rejected a plan calling for presidents for each of the Annapolis and Santa Fe campuses. Acting after a two-hour long executive session, the board voted by a substantial majority in favor of a motion put forward by D. Robert Yarnall, Jr., that there be no change in the present college Polity which provides for a single president. THE BOARD APPEARED to be heavily influenced by faculty study groups from the two campuses, which had argued that two presidents would tend to operate against the unity of the college. In Annapolis the committee headed by J. Winfree Smith had been divided over the, issue, but, after debating the question ex( Continued on P. 1) �''""~'\l"l!,i~ . Jiiliii.~Dean~JOiWiil.e By Tom Parran '42 Director of Alumni Activities new 'Letterfrom Paris' column "I wanteq to see if this was "Meet .me. at the statue of 1938 Boyle Midway Division of true. And I discovered, as an r A recent ·note· from Jolin C. American Home pr2ducts and Cha:rlemagne,h. John 'Dean said, expatriate Englishman once ad~ing.,.by wa)r of identification Wagner· reveals thaf he· has said, that En~arid is a ·qu,eer, marks~ .. :1(1~1( 1Je:,:weliring a :retired from ·.. the U;S.i Army attractive, contradictory µtustachearid a smilet~ llviation Systems ·comm·und·~ St. phenomenon." , : 'J!hat was what made ~tl$p e;isy !.Llouis, Mo., and· is. now UVing While, in residence in ~ondon, to. :spot him . ampng ~11 those tiappily ini:For€ Wayne, tnd. Aftet Mr. Dean became president pf his huJ:1dreds of tourists m~lling Bt John's'/Jac:R otitnined a B.S.· University of London Hall, a post arotiPd the squ.are~' faci~g. '.ithe degree·in metallurgy1'from Penn in which he had ·the henor on Cathedral of Notre Dam'e, not ~tate and worlted in that field fbr several occasions· to meet the perha:Ps. the rtm~tache . lM ·his Ford and General Motors as· well Queen Mother and Prince smile-one of the ·.friendliest in as for the Navy and Army~ Charles. France· aM an. affal;>le · ac1944' HIS . THESIS,. "Shakespeare companiment to the coffee cream The August :n issue of the San and the Natur·e 9f Romahce," at the·nearby Notre. Dame. Cafe Francisca Examiner contained a whi,ch goes pack to Hom~r .and where we continued our con~front-page feature by Jim Wood uses Italian, German, and agreat versation about the St. John's of , about our Ed Cochran. Ed .,.is a deal of. English medieval _and his past and what he hopes to be .management consultant who has renaissance material, focuses on doing for St. John's in the future. developed unique ways of using a JOHN DEAN What he will be doing is writing Shakespeare's Pericles, Cymcomputer, not as a handler of the new "Letter from Paris" something of a privileged beline, The Winter's Tale, and data, but, through interactive position being external to par- The Tempest. He received his column which The College will . programming, using the intisan rows, and the newspaper publish when the first issue of the doctorate from the University 9f strument to challenge and Y.C. TSIEN. was a success. We increased our revised magazine appears in London this summer with honors. question programs and scenarios circulation, readership, adit is fed. ·In the process of an· Lever Bros. At French's he will January under the editorship of vertising revenue, the number of His Shakespearean . in-~ be in charge of the advertising Leo Raditsa. swering the questions, Ed is led universities we went to, and volvement led him to another This will not be the first column through a fairly complicated and and promotional p_rograms for event in his life. At a he has written for St. John's. _ improved the overall quality of . sophisticated analysis." ... The ~c;mdiment products . coverage and writing. It was a Shakespearean Institute in While he was a student here he thing most people don't realize is 1966 thoroughly exhausting but highly Stratford-upon-Avon he met his wrote a weekly column on films that the computer is not this big Having received -his .Ph.:b wife, Genevieve, who also satisfying job." as president of the RAM Film dumb idiot that sent you the degree in political science from What clinched Mr. Dean's good teaches English and American Club and helped to publish a luck with Sennet were the literature at the University of wrong bill or a form letter with the University of Chicago in your name misspelled. It's ac- September, David Z. Londow has ' short-lived poetry magazine, British themselves. "Their sense Paris. "P alaestrae." tually an enormous release r: the returned to the University of When he first came to France of fair play and decency are WRITING HAS BEEN one of creative energies of people who North Florida as assistant always there," ·he said. "Two to live in 1976, Mr. Dean began his constant occupations since qualities which ·tend to make professor. David's dissertation know how to use it." teaching English and Comgraduating from St. John's in 1945 was written on the "Conrelationships run smoothly in parative Literature at the 1970. George Cayley (Washburn) in stitutionality of the Legislative Graduate Institute of the He has published more than a England." August completed work for his Veto." After graduating from St. university, the Ecole Normale dozen articles of literary John's Mr. Dean began his M.A. degree in Liberal Arts from Superieure, and then joined the 1968-Santa Fe criticism on subjects ranging graduate studies and teaching the Graduate Institute in University of Paris itself in the Harold Morgan has been from Homer's Odyssey to science responsibilities at the University Santa Fe. He encourages Spring of 1977. named manging editor of The fiction, more than two dozen of Massachusetts in Amherst in alumni who spent a year or two at He now teaches in College 13 of pieces of that "quintessential the Department of Comparative the University of Paris in St. John's, and wlf<> have earned New Mexico Business Review, a new magazine published in art.~' poetry, which have apor may earn their B.A. degrees, Villetaneuse and lives in Paris' Literature. Albuquerque. Mr. Morgan also peared in publications in North to look to the Institute for their "The · greatest discovery in fifth arrondisement, one of the attended the University of New America and in Europe, and graduate school was not graduate oldest and most picturesque master's degrees. Mexico and has degrees in some short stories which have education itself, which I'm sure areas of the city. 1947 business administration and appeared in England and the has its· ups and downs Theodore Ernst tells us he has "Our market street, the rue general management as well as United States. moved from San Diego to Las everywhere," he said, "but the Mouffetard, is part of the ancient in political science. The "I don't see the use of satisfaction and pleasure which Roman road that went from· Vegas, N.M., where he is magazine will feature color restricting yourself to one form of: currently professor of social comes from teaching." Paris to Rome," he described it. covers and profiles of New writing," he told me. "Each form work at New Mexico Highlands HE WON A TEACHING award "And often it seems just as Mexico businessmen and has its special qualities which the. University. at the University of colorful and lively as it must have businesses. writer should use according to his 1949 1969 Massachusetts, continued his been centuries ago." mood and the demands of the The Rev. Frederick P. Davis studies in Greek, German, Finally, in reminiscing back The Rev. Harold 0. Koenig is subject matter." has most kindly sent us a 25-year now s~rving as- a canon of the English, and American upon his St. John's days :as our John Dean also has been a literature, and eventually took an conversation drew to a close, I resume of his. career in the Episcopal Cathedral in Jackson, newspaper editor since he left St. MA in comparative literature, learned that his senior year was : Episcopal Church. Most of ·his Miss. John's. Throughout 1975-76 he with honors, in 1973. service since· completing work at 1972 an especially eventful one for - the Virginia Theological Theophus H.. Smith last April edited Sennet, the University of During his summers in the him, in which he won the senior ) , Seminary in 1953 has been at was appointed director of joh London student-faculty early '70's he also travelled a translation prize in Greek, won newspaper and Europe's largest great deal, spending most of his various missions for American placement and community second place for his senior thesis higher education weekly. Sennet, vacations with his brother in -- Indians. For the past five years relations for the Peninsula on the Iliad, and won the handball with an average ·copy-run of Germany and becoming a championship: <:he has been rector of the "yoked'' Halfway House, a residence for 40,000, has had a distinctive place "Germanophile" overnight. ·1, parish of St. Jam es, Mountain released prisoners in San Mateo, "JIM HILL, PETER Fair· in English higher education since ~~Home, and Grace in Idaho. Cal. Thee has a master's degree "They're most like us than any banks, and I also wound up being World War IL 1954 from Virginia Theological the 'merry pranksters' of that However, as the only American other people," he said, explaining " Arnold Markowitz, a librarian Seminary and has taught at Key that he might feel that way Spring, inventing what later working on Sennet he found ,.at New York University, is the School in Annapolis. became known as the St. John's himself in charge of a staff of because his parents were first ,author of "Paul Zucker, Ar1972 -Santa Fe liquid slide theory' and, as a generation Germans. about 50, all of whom were -thitect/ Art Historian. 1888/1971: Douglas Cotler continues his senior prank, transforming English. "France is probably more McDowell Hall one night into a "a Bibliography," which appears successful musical career. He "I was called a Yank more than fascinating, more 'foreign' for an in Louis Kahn and Paul Zucker: has a new album .out, and his massive May pole with the help of once," he recalled, "and American; but Germany, with its JJ'wo Bibliographies, PAPERS, second symphonic piece will be miles of crepe paper.'' sometimes with mixed feelings. love of gadgetry, efficiency, and ".Yol. XII, The American played by the Seattle PhilharIn his new column Mr. Dean "But all in all it was very ex- the utilitarian is infinitely more 'Association of Architectural monic next spring. Douglas, who will be writing about cultural citing. I became very aware of like the States." , ·Biographers. has never had formal music.al trends in France as well as the special nature of newspapers 1963 training, is employed by a large In 1973, a watershed year for reflecting upon matters · of in Europe. That is, you are either Y.C. Tsien in September was synagogue in Palo Alto, Calif., 'left' or 'right'. But as an outsider him, he had the choice of going to "Classieal French" interest a:ppointed Group Product and operates his own company, on the inside I tried to follow the· the University of Freiburg to which might be especially inYManager for the R.T. French Cotler & Brothers Productions, in traditions of American jour- study Goethe or the University of teresting for St. John's readers. CompanyofRochester,N.Y. Y.C. Los Angeles. As for the future, Mr. Dean is nalism and to make it a credo to London to study Shakespeare. He _,and has been serving as a product 1973-Santa Fe decided on London partly· currently exploring the give all sides their say. ~Jnanager for International The Breningstalls - Galen, "STILL, I WAS constantly because the "big guns" in possibilities of a research -Playtex of New York. After Jena (Morris) S74, and son being asked to identify my Shakespearan research were fellowship for '78-'79 on the .l:eaving St. John's Y.C. earned an Jeremy recently announced the politics and continually being there and partly, as he said, subject of modern uses of the 'M'.BA degree from the Wharton arrival on September 2 of a new criticized for not taking sides. I "because I grew up with the romance genre, the possibility of -school of Finance of the son and brother, David Yohana permanent teaching post in the would tell them, 'I'm an distinctly Bostonian prejudice University of Pennsylvania. His nan, Young David, born at home; or indoctrination - that what United_State_s, or"",alternat~l;yw·in · American. I have no politics.' ·business career also has included vi 'J :::Eu,r\Ope.,r ., (Co:ntiiluecton 7>: ·;'''And in the end~if1:.g;av.e me was English ..,.,.,1-~,Lli~;,.{ -ma:l'keting positions: •.with : ~u1e. r 1 • •. 1 1 - 1 �Johnnies to was just inventea disused elevator shaft in a car park and converting it into a room that had a "Staff Only" ·sign on the'c~oset door. r 1 [ J t But 1more importantly, while at King's College, Cambridge, getting his doctorate, he synthesized a chemical compound that allowed quantitative analysis of various enzymes which a drug company then produced and are now selling in Britaih for pounds sterling per milligram~ · Even more significantly, he has patented a range of standard fittings for connecting small gauge laboratory , tubing that work so beautifully can be dipped into a bath of nastiest of acids or alkalis, and the foreign substance can't attack them. I Robert E, · Fields, who graduated from St. John's in.1966, has become an inventor and manufactµrer. As a matter of fact, his work was directly inspired by St. John's; not, in this instance by the books in the program but by the books in the treasurer's office.. He· needed money to repay college fee,s. Nec~ssity being. the mother of invention, Bob Fields, who had Eva T; H. Brann; representing St. John's, gave a major paper at the recent Rockefeller · Conference on restoration of the liberal arts, an event, closed to .the press. but · which attracted educators from top national colleges and universities; . Delivering papers with Miss Brann were •Dean Henry Rosovsky of Harvard University and Gerald Grant, author and member of the Syracuse University faculty. All three are to be reproduced and circulated. by the Rockefeller Foundation. St. John's two approaches to education stem from an old tradition which bear the medieval designation of: "authors" and "arts," the St.. John's tutor told the conference· in her discussion of the St. John's education. Of the books, she said: "The wisdom of the West is handed down in a collection of books by individual authors, books of words, symbols, notes, and images, books of philosophy, science and poetry, books of · intellect, reason and imagination. "I believe that the existence of such a written tradition is an accepted fact among all educated people. The issuing of definitive lists of these books has been a favorite activity of pedagogues since the Renaissance, and the zestful ·debates concerning the inclusion or exclusion of items have usually confirmed a perennial core. "WE TINKER WITH our listwhich -we find in the main s a ti sf a ctory-for reasons. The main cause is that to work and came ori:ze-1winninte: invention smallincLµttryHenow ~ change from Biolab, under whieh it originally was known bdt r::l'name for which a . Belgium, company holds an earlier trademark. Omnifit Ltd. is on a quiet street in Cambridge and has a staff of five full-time employes and three part-time., While· .there have been many months of riding a somewhat uncomfortable tiger's back, the firm has successful enough to open a second . office in Cedarhurst, N.Y. The fittings now are being used in scientific, medical, and industrial laboratories in England, Japan, West Germany, France, and Switzerland, saving scientists and technicians valuabletime in making connections between tubing of different materials and sizes. Two years ago, with Pam Harris, his administrative 'partner, Mr. Fields received the Technological Innovator Award of Britain's Technical Development Capital, Ltd., and a prize of$4,000. ·believes St. .more than university. This nqt' to1 ;$P.Y: that Cam~ bridg~ pt~yided .·; ~tj .r ~~sy. experience . f~r . ~.r,. • Flelds •on his first arrival. He went .there after he · had been excited i , by a preceptorialwith Wiley Cf3.wford on molecular gen'etics ._ he:found the work building a DNA model fascinating - and he ha~. been further stimulated by some work with Robert Steiner, who ·was head of the biological macromolecules branch of the _Naval Medical Research Institute in Bethesda. Steiner had suggested he try to work at Cambridge, which at that time was looking for someone to handle a particular project. Mr. Fields, who had.been accepted at Edinburgh for a diploma in ·molecular genetics, was eager for direct laboratory experience which his work on a Ph.D. would provide. "The admissions director at King's College had ,heard about the St. John's· program," Mr. Fields recalled. ''He said, 'Let's have one of them and see how he works out/ " . How it worked out was that Mr. Fields was cast among some of England's brightest graduates, who had had a concentrated· undergraduate curriculum solidly packed with science. British students must specialize VHLUAJLLLj· Mr. Fields has been living in England since 1966 and just ;moved this summer to a new residence in a small hamlet just outside Cambridge with his new wife, Bonnie, a N<?rth Carolinian far more books by right belong on it than can be read in four years. (We now have an infor~al rule obligating anyone who wishes to add a book to the list to point out_,.at his peril~the one to be dropped to make room for it.) Again, certain texts turn out to be unsuccessful in discussion. "Also, the splintering of the tradition in recent times makes the modern choices much less settle:d. So,· while we invariably begin. with the Homeric epics, our final readings vary.'' What makes the study of these books relevant to practical .inquiry is that they are all occupied with versions -0,f the same root questions, sh~ pOihted out. : "These books are helpful only on the simple wo_rkin~. assumption that human questions are so continuously transformed as to remain fundamentally the same now, then, and for an time. If that is false, the study of these books-and indeed any book not written here and ·now.....;.is a mere antiquarian amusement." Miss Brann said the books are read chronologically because it makes sense for the students to have read what the author has read. "As Hegel knew his Aristo.tle or Milton his Homer or Stravmsky . his Bach, so, perhaps, ought the student." Miss Brann said that in distinction from other schools, St. John's "has no interest in the past whatsoever," although a good many members of the faculty are privately avid readers ~Qjstqry,, 1; ' '· "THE FACT THAT some of who is herself a student at Cambridge engaged in· oriental studies. "There is a feeling of peace and calm here, as tbough there is something in the air that pervades th~ place," he said of Cambridge. "It seems to have very little to do with th~ actual buildings or the people, bµt is something in the ground itself. .There was a temple to Diana here during Roman times. I always feel happy when I return." IT IS, HE ADDED, a wonderful place to raise_children, of which he has three by his former wife, Elizabeth Blachly, '66. They are continuing to live not far away from him. He thinks that more St. 1 _, these books are written by authors who happen to be physically dead is perfectly peripheral," she continued. "For · insofar as the books really do form a tradition, their matter has: entered into the present.'' students are asked to disc.uss in seminars a small .number of 'lesser or even shoddy books "because of the influence ithese . have had. "In accordance with . the ancient discovery that speculative loquacity flourishes after dark, the seminars are neld at,night,'' Miss Brann noted. "Our second approach to reflective inquiry is through the liberal arts," Miss Brann said in turning to St. John's curriculum as it relates to mathematics, the laboratory sciences, music~ and language. . ,. ·Language and mathematics:root skills-are taught rn tutorials, recitation classes .. "The mathematics tutor!al is apparently the pedagogically most successful part of the program and, many of us t,hink, the most gratifying to teach," Miss Brann said. , "First of all; it ought to be said that in the tutorials the injunction against the use of textbooks: is of necessity somewhat relaxed. As it happens, the most appropriate beginning mathematics text.book is also a work of originality and subtlety: Euclid's Elements. All freshmen begin tneir mathematical studies with a consideration of its first definition: 'A point is that which has no part,' and they end, up, four years later, with the Joµr :'dimen~onal ~··geometry of Einstein's special theory of ' r relativity." THE LABORATORY sequence 'remains somewhat fluid even after 40 years of practice. "At present it begins in the freshman year with the observation and cla;;sification of .living things and the atomic .constitution of matter, that is, roughly biology and chemistry. These .subjects• are taken up again· in the senior year and pursued beyond, the threshold of ordinary observation as molecular biology and quantum mechanics. In between.there is a year of classical physics. Wherever possible the preparatory readings are original papers, from Aristotle to Monod, from Galileo to Schroedinger." Among those attending the conference were Dr. Norman Cantor, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, New York .University; Dr. Burton Clark, Higher Education Research Group, Yale University; Dr. Laurence Cremin, president, Columbl.a University's Teachers ~college; Dr. Patricia Graham, director, National Institute of Education; Also, Dr. Elizabeth Kennan, president, Mt. Holyoke College; Dr. Robert M. Lumiansky, president, American Council of Learned Societies; Dr. Walter Rosenblith, provost, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dr. John Sawhill,· president, New York University;· Dr. John E. Sawyer, president, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Dr. Adele Simmons, president, Hampshire·•. ··coll~ge,C< ·•and Dr. · Horace Taft, dean, Yale College. . language and are left .behind with secon.dairy s~h-0pling. .MRi. FI~LDS FOUND him,~elf struggling; trying tQ .. grasp: the vocabµlary and to .ask the rigl1t questions. He spent ioqg nights doing back reading. And he knew that in or~r to stay with his doctoral prpgram it would .be necessary for him _to discover something exciting .or proudce something.original. Necessity again mothered along this challenge, and Mr. Fields rose to the occasion. Using a spectrophotometer, he developed a chemical process to analyze quantitatively · certain enzymes. The technique turned out to be completely successful and Cambridge liked what he did so much that they _put him to work on the process for nine months too long a time, he came to think - before he could get back to his original project. He went on to develop several other analytical procedures and was awarded his doctorate in 1970. In talking with Mr. Fields, one is impressed with the unexpectedness of his character. He is the most pragmatic of persons, the most practical, the most inventive, even something of an entrepreneur. But he also is a 'mystic. A vegetarian, he practices daily meditation and has a guru to whom he is devoted. (Continued from P. 1) scholarships with particular attention paid the program for which St. John's students have expressed most interest in recent years. Although the awards are difficult to obtain, Mr. Benjamin said, in recent years St. :John's students have · had "increasing good fortune with even the most competitive fellowships:'' While St. John's does not place the emphasis on grades that most conventional colleges· do, Mr. Benjamin advises that transcripts are "unavoidable facts of .. life" in decisions reached during the initial stage of competition for the most prestigious group of fellowships in which one type of excellence is compared with another. A candidate with only good grades, a B-plus average or better, must have "other irresistible qualifications to survive the initial difficult screening," he says. "It must also be said that merely having impeccable academic marks will not· immediately get one past. this hurdle. In th~ competition for the awards just cited, for example, many candidates with straight:A averages are not even invited,to interviews." Copies of the book are available in the Placement Office. The Reporter is published by the Offi&'•of College Relations, St. John's College Annapolis, Md., 21404, Richard D. Weigle, president; William B. Dunham, vir;e president. .Published five times a year, in Febrvaiy, April, June, .September and November. <Second class p~sJage ppid {It 4'.nJJaBRli$, . Md. " - .. ·. �(Continued from P.1) They are well deserved• of this praise. This team, its dedication, and its proven record of work are a source of. pride to Santa Fe.'' OVER THE YEARS other articles have described the feats of the St. John's team, their expertise and sometimes their Homeric-like heroism. What the articles may fail to capture is the team's own interpretation of Homer: the pressures of studying the subtleties of Homeric life as well as living it. What is also missing, says Jeff McElroy, the current president of the team, is the special warmth and consideration that the St. John's team has developed over the years in the care of the relatives of those who are lost. · The search and rescue vperations put a special strain on. the 36 students who must survive the academic program while spending tedious hours in a rescue m1ss10n to help others survive the wilderness. This means lugging books to the base camps and reading the next assignment in the wilderness by daylight, firelight, or whatever light is available. Fortunately for the St. John's students there is waiting time in these rescue operations. There is constant backtracking from false leads; there is waiting for the support of other sub-operations. But while a student either works or waits, the academic life of the school goes on, and one is always conscience-stricken about missing classes. And one always wonders, how one is going to catch up. "The program is always hanging over our heads, and when we are on a mission the lives of people and the program are hanging th~re together,'' says Jeff, who is a senior and a . . I transfer from Kent Stat.e in Ohip., ·, rescue throughout the state, :{!ern is withi the family; and loved: ones of victims. Too often they BUT SOMEHdW over the · always stays close to the St. have felt that those who should be years, Jeff says, a balance has John's team, .p~rticipating . in kept abreast of emergency been kept. ·Somehow.• there is every mission assigned to St. situations :the most-+-namely always another mem,ber of the John's and ca,refully .helping in relatives -and loved ones-are team who will r.elie~e a student their training, whether, the adnot, whic,h could be a potentially who has been out on mission vance training of the student harmful situation .to those inand needs to get back to class, veteran or the con~tant funvolvetj.. , Somehow team members. work damental training of new stud.ent "The strong: point is the conout "deals" when the first alarm members. In terms of relative position in stant concern/' McElroy says. is sounded and decide who can "A lot of SAR teams have the afford to leave campus and who college athletics Herb is the coach, Jeff the quarterback and attitude of keeping people in the cannot. dark. St. John's SAR keeps these Jeff believes the team has been Istvan Fahavery, the director of student activities, is Hie athletic people involved and informed as fortunate in its support from the a general practice. Often we let townspeople members of the director. Istvan is a natural and comthem participate in the action team, who add about 17 more to allow them to go out on searches the team's roster. The most ef- fortable ally to Jeff and Herb or do little things like make fective of these and the un- because the bulk of Istvan's activities !)rogram for all, coffee in an effort to make them disputed "father" of the program feel useful and forget their imis Herb Kincey, who with Jam es students is focused on the outdoors. He himself is an expert on mediate shock in the situation. In Carr gathered together a small the snow. sports, including cross the long run, this is a much more group of students in 1971 to country skiing and snowshoeing. logical and effective way to deal develop the St. John's team. GENERALLY, THE Search with offshoot pressures resulting Herb, who has held every from the prime concern." major position in search and and Rescue Team's main con- a • • By Cathy Sims St. John's Junior Sean Ball and his staff are submitting a tradition to a tradition this year. Following the "St. John's way" of testing an hypothesis before accepting or rejecting it, the new editor of The Collegian and his helpers are introducing a policy of editorial discretion to replace what he feels to be the "we accept anything" non-policy of the past. The implications of such a change are not all immediately obvious. There are theories that editorial discretion will either encourage more thoughtful writers to submit work to the student weekly or stifle the creativity of authors who fear rejection. When Mr. Ball chose one week not to print the minutes of a Delegate Council meeting, some students wondered if The Collegian would become the vehicle of the staff more than a reflection of the college community. Mr. Ball however, the importance of The Collegian as a reflection of its domain. "Some think The Collegian is vital and sustaining to St. John's," he said. "The esteem of the ·books we read sometimes dwarfs us. It shouldn't be allowed. to shut down our own creative processes." He sees The Collegian as one outlet of those processes and a place in which to make people aware of other outlets. Mr. Ball wishes to avoid publishing a weekly "bulletin board." He has designed a layout which separates announcements from more creative submissions, and he has begun assigning articles on topics of interest to "free lance" staff writers. Recent issues have been devoted to such themes as art or poetry and special features, notably one entitled "The Best and Worst of Annapolis." This witty look at the quirks of St. John's home base, partially written by Mr. Ball, was received well by the community as thoughtful and humorous use of The St. John's College library has a key marked "Bowen's Cage." "Strange bird," one of the librarians. And where is this bird? He's fled north to Baltimore, leaving the library staff sadly missing him; and there, in Baltimore, he is doing remarkable things. With his one good eye and a single forefinger, Henry Lee Bowen is condensing an 800-page account he has written on mythological symbolism in the history of architecture. And regularly each day, as the only non-medical person privileged to use its shelves, he hikes himself over to the Johns Hopkins Medical School Library where he is investigating the role of Hermaphrodite in early myths .. "Johns Hopkins has a superb co1lection," he remarks appreciatively, a scholar's delight sparkling in his eyes. "In all the myths the creator god is herpr:imary :'State · of Adam was hermaphroditic before Eve was taken from him." MR. BOWEN SHOULD know. For a good part of his 79 years this former college professor and historian has been interested in particularly as they affect architecture. The splendid library of 1,500 books which he has assembled on myths, architecture, anthropology, history of art, and symbolism he recently presented to St. John's as a special collection. It's there, in "Bowen's Cage," a room separated by a heavy mesh screen in one of the library's sublevels, where he did a great deal of work until the last of three strokes affected the sight of his eye and the use of his left hand. Three strokes! One is dazzled in listening to Mr. Bowen. If this spirited man of courtly charm, mischievous humor (he has just the right trace of wickedness), and wit is like this after . The Collegian. Other innovations at Mr. Ball's by Gigi Pc:mehal) discretion includes a tighter policy toward reprinted material. Wishing to encourage original work, he requires that reprints, when accepted, be accompanied by a short commentary making clear their connection to the college community. "It's good to be thinkingthat' s one thing I think we learn here-even about little things," he adds as he snips the edge off the copy of a menu for this week's issue. "This is our little world. dent upon the Hebraic-Christian strokes, what was he like before? heritage. The pyramfds were the "St. Bonaventura was much visible symbol of Amon-Re and greater than Thomas Aquinas," he proclaims, whacking his cane,· were inspired by the story of a physical world which reaches an to make his ooint. across his bed, which had become a sort of apex after being created from extemporaneous table for a the cosmic sea. The sevengathering in his room. story ziggurats of Mesopotamia "St. Bonaventura told Thomas, and Egypt built in 4,000 B.C. were 'You are reducing truth to a perpendicular symbols of the philosophic formula,' and he was universe. right." And then, soothingly to UNIVERSITY OF Virginia his visitors, "You mustn't mind if educated with a doctorate from I beat the bed." Johns Hopkins University in NEAR HIS BED at Baltimore's · modern diplomatic history, Mr. Church Home is his typewriter, Bowen is a former teacher whose where he is condensing his book schools include Johns Hopkins, from 800 to 400 pages. Rice Institute, Boston College, "You could have no great and, after retiring as a historian monuments to architecture with the Air Force, Baltimore without myth,'' he said,, defining Junior College. myth as the explanation of the In 1942 he entered the Air Force supernatural in terms of the - he claims to have been its creation of the universe. "All oldest draftee - and wrote a myths start with the phrase, 'In number of histories and major the beginning.' " reports for it. Durin.e: most of Some of his examples: The thos,e., yep.rs gothic cathedrals were COllectio'~, I Sports, the menu .... people talk about these things. The Collegian extends our thinking to these things, too." "Our little world," as Mr. Ball puts it, is the basis for his own editorial rule of thumb. ' "Whatever is submitted should be of interest· to the general community, and it should be the original work of the student or tutor." Printing the original, thoughtful work of members of the college community is what draws Mr. Ball to The Collegian. "PEOPLE DON'T realize that only a handful of students put this thing out," Mr. Ball said. The Collegian raises its own funds through advertising and thus has obligations only to itself. Part of that obligation, as Sean Ball sees it, is to produce Collegians in such a way "that the staff can be proud of what they did." "Even if I don't agree with an article in The Collegian, I don't want to apologize for it. I need the editorial policy. I can't do my job without it." classics in the field of mythology and architecture, textbooks, large illustrated works, and many pamphlets. They now constitute what formally will be called the Bowen Library of Myths, Mythology, and Place Symbolism in Architecture. "While Uiere are no rarities, a good portion of the collection would be almost impossible to obtain in other than dealers' catalogues," Miss Charlotte Fletcher, St. John's librarian, said in expressing appreciation for the gift. Among them are Siren's "La periode prehistorique L' epoche Tcheou," Brieger's "Illustrated Manuscripts of the Divine Comedy," and Goodenough's "Jewish Symbols.'' Of these books, Mr. Bowen believes those pertaining to mythology and symbolism are probably the most valuable because thev a~e, tho ..,., ..ri,,i:rl �I HAD .MY· ·differences with Scott, and they were very imsmith, '45, professor of l'listorv at portant to me, but his line about being your own teacher struck a Brandeis University, alumni to joip., in an· ongoing deep chord then as now. , I am, incl.dentally, not one of discussion of the purposes · of undergraduate education. Here is' those who thinks it's· terra.. l .. a response by Edward B. important that the range of Cochran, '44, a management books be expanded beyond consultant living in San Fran- Western Civilization. It is enough at that young age to struggle for cisco. some sense of comprehension of *** the concepts and the nobility of Dear Bill: the West. You and I were never parIn quasi-mathematical terms, I ticularly close at St. John's (was feel that given that base, we can I to anyone?) but your recent later make simple trans· open letter in The College formations to permit reasonable touched a chord when I first comprehension in later years of scanned it, and I have intended to the contributions of other respond ever since. I'm dictating civilizations. The problem is to this now at 3 a.m., instead of get those first real insights, and completing fl recent report, that is what Barr and Buchanan writing a speech to deliver in made such a good start on. There three days and finishing a major is too little time to be sidetracked paper. It must be important. by exotica. this time your mail may have How many of us have become become impossible, since I creatures of our professions to suspect the effect of your char- the degree that we do not think of ming and thoughtful verbosity these things? But I sense that you resembled that of a shower of are interested in communicating sheep guts in a sea of sharks. on a fundamental level. So am I, I must confess that one of the as mutely evidenced by the most profound experiences of my hundreds of pages of life was upon entering graduate philosophical notes written while school at Michigan after St. taking my masters in John's and discovering, to my mathematics, or working sixty horror, that most of the con- and seventy hour weeks in versations around were what I various consulting and executive called "multi-lectural". The positions. assumption that people atI ALSO SHARE YOUR tempted to communicate, or that discomfort and delay in first they had grounds for doing so, returning to St. John's and this proved utterly naive. may have been another reason I A SIMILAR SHOCK somewhat responded. I have not yet done so later was the low level of myself. Though my residence for discussion at several Great 20 years in California gives me Books seminars (I reconfirmed some excuse it does not explain this only recently wth one of my frequent failure to exploit fifteen years standing). How occasional business trips to many of us plunge into our Washington to correct the professional activities. as a situation. substitute for the broader and I'm not sure my reasons are the deeper challenges and same as yours, but I feel a sense satisfactions which we were able of understanding, and perhaps to experience so often in An- such feelings are natural for any napolis? of us to whom such an experience That experience even dims is so important. While it opens what were then the almost doors, it also creates enormous overwhelming problems of post- challenges elsewhere, which adolescence, which we feel so drain energy and emotions away much compassion for in our own from the past environment. children in these times. I'd like to close with two In discussing the meaning thoughts. First, the existence of John's to the current educational this letter is a sufficient philosophy, you expatiate on the demonstration of my agreement Harvard Report. That raised with your plea for us all to reopen memories, since I, too, studied a line of communication. the Harvard Report at great However, I would hope that to be length along. with other less on a more concrete and relevant thoughtful attempts to face the level than some of the arcane issues raised by St. John's mish-mash which winds up in the (Columbia, etc.). SJC periodical material. I thought in 1945 (or whenever SECOND, I WANT to confirm it was), and I think now, that we with others, my own experience were among the most fortunate that the fundamental theory and people of our generation. Not practicality (in both the common · because we came out with and the philosophical sense of something that was complete, but those words) of the St. John's because we came out wth a program was sound. It has helped dedication to discipline of the give me the confidence and mind and imagination, with a leg discipline to take on one new field up on fundamental skills, with a after another, and to become burning desire for the truth (or at expert in it and able to integrate least the strongest possible it with others to a noticeable stimulation of whatever it was degree more effectively than my that guided us to Annapolis in the associates in the business world. first place), and with a delight in This may sound self-centered, the exploration of ideas and but the point is too important for ,accomplishments represented by cavil. I am talking about the a good of the best minds <>ffol'fi'7Pr1P~~ Of OUr edUCatiO:Q. in and ottr' civilization. . EDITOR'S NOTE: Thomas P. Geyer is the new edilto1··pt1bli1sh~er of The Daily Ji'pi:u>nB1n Early this year, in an Article in The College,i William M. Gold- or to he . Mr. gives this 0.1.:1,;uum what has happened to leaving St. John's in by THOMAS p ..... ...,.,.,,rr.•n My newspaper career was inaugurated accidentally by an unfriendly wager between my grandfather and one of his drinking companions, the publisher of my hometown (Pottstown, Pa.) paper~ The publisher was thoroughly sick of hearing about me and St. John's College. Although my eareer as a student was so utterly undistinguished that on graduation day the dean was ignorant of my name, Grandpa had been bragging throughout the five years it took me to earn a degree. THE PUBLISHER was tired of being reminded that he had never heard of Homer or Hegel. He was gleeful at the news that, having been expensively schooled in the Great Questions without receiving so much as one Right Answer, I was about to be cast into the world without a job, income or prospects. He bet Grandpa I couldn't survive three months in his newsroom. He lost, but not by much. As a novice reporter I was squeamish about calling the relatives of the newly dead for information. I could not spell. When news was scarce the editor would make me walk along Main Street with a watermelon on a leash. Or assign me to write the biography of Howard Hughes - who turned out to be a 7-yearold kid who lived in the next town. I stuck it out, trying upon Eva Brann's recommendation to earn money for law school. But before long I was hooked on newspapering, on its silliness and vulgarity as well as its high purposes. In an serious way the of my name in the paper every day that I existed. And I plied with more and more the trade of rhetoric, last of the seven the bottom of fhe trivium. (It can be a art the way; its neglect at the coll~ge is probably appropriate. For a reporter it becomes a matter of capturing the interest of sleepy factory workers as they skim the paper over coffee, of the complex seem simple, nebulous concrete, and the remote seem near. So inspection, an of prevarication.) I TURNED INTO A ,good reporter. Naturally I was !completely ignorant at first of "current affairs," but in more essential ways was much better be virtuous. I remain , the iconoclast, and I am sure that all of us maintain the fundamental and social characteristics w:hich distinguished us originally. But I also suspect that many of us share a sense of the passionate reality of the St. John's . experience, beautifully expressed by your excerpts from Scott's last don rae:. Be advised that at least hopes to continue! the ' ' B. \JV,,,,Ll..i.llo.n.!.'O It's been one of those known better moments went wrong with the prepared for reporting than my colleagues. The discipline of seminar particularly helped in "getting to the point" of stories. Because I wasn't afraid of mathematics and physics, important assignments came early. In 1971, a 50,000-word report I wrote on the arguments developing over nuclear power was inserted in the Congressional Record and was given the annual public information award of the American Nuclear Society and the Atomic Industrial Forum. The next year I was nominated for ,the Pulitzer Prize for a series on the care of tbe mentally retarded in Pennsylvania. 1973 found me in Boston as managing editor of "Computerworld," the weekly trade newspaper of the computer in- Interest in the Santa Fe campus continues to increase among high school students, Sue Ferron,. admission director, reports. By November 1 there were 16 deposits for Jhe January entering class as compared with the total of 14 freshmen who made up the 1978 class. Miss Ferron expressed belief that the class could go as high as 30 should the college find it feasible. The fall freshman class experienced a 33 per cent increase in enrollment over the previous class, jumping from 62 to 82 freshmen. Additionally, there has been a sz:reater :Interest among who are 1 dustry. The next year I moved on to the editorship of a daily in Claremont, New Hampshire, to joust for a while with William Leob's infamous "Manchester Union-Leader." Since the first '76 primary was there, it was a chance to get to know Jimmy Carter before anyone had heard much about him. For the past two years I've been iri Kingston, New York, a city on the Hudson River at the edge of the Catskills - a good place to stay put for a while. The Freeman is the daily /Sunday paper of Ulster County with about 25,000 circulation. As editor and publisher I'm half newsman and half businessman, not always a comfortable combination. But being publisher means more money for less work. considering entering in the fall of '79. Miss Ferron said that as she began making her trip to western cities this fall, she found in most cities that she has ten times more prospects to interview than were available last year. "This is due to the mailings we made to potential prospects this summer," she believes. "These mailings were to students who had announ_ced interest in liberal :arts and who also had good to superior academic records. In noting the continued interest of transfer students, she reported that 40 per cent' of the fr~shmen had attended elsewhere. �I wouldtake the brightest 1 lantern on the briglHest : morni:ng of the brightest day of the almartac and look and look and look.'' . .In words recording his personal sorrow, Robert Hazo, '53, was one of · the nine speakers at a Homecoming memorial service honoring Jacob Klein, St. John's dean from 1949. to 1958, who died July 16. "In a very real sense he was, for a very long time, St. John's intellectual guardian,'' Mr.· Hazo said. "The result of what he accomplished through endless effort should, I believe, be recorded in high relief and given a foremost place in the annals of this college. "I do not think it is any exaggeration to say that St. John's College would not be what it is-or' perhaps not even bewere it not for what he did.'' Elliott Zuckerman, St. John's tutor and close friend, who was with Mr. Klein when he died, spoke of a friendship which he said in large part was based upon an interest in words. "But more than the speech I shall miss the silence,'' Mr. Zuckerman said. "Even more than the words, the silences were eloquent. J remember that five years ago, when I was ill and he was elderly, he visited me almost daily. There was little to say that was new or amusing,· but his presence alone was touching. "IN HIS FINAL months, when he sometimes confined himself to his upstairs mom, I could, in return, visit him. There was no manuscript to read, and by then he seemed to have lost interest in what was happening at the college, or in the world. I sat William W. Simmons'" retiring Alumni Associat.ion presid,ent, presents Alumni Awards of _Merit to . there in silence while he silently Byrce Jacobsen, college athletic director, and Elmer Jackson, journalist and new owner of Annapo- rested. He would - break the lis' ScottBook Center. . Photos by Tom Parran silence only to thank me for being there. "We both knew that one thing we could never share was the love for music. But now I think of those silences as a kind of music longer local in any meaning of the "After wartime service in or, to say it more daringly, as the Bryce Jacobsen, St. John's word·. The program, though still Naval intelligence, he returned in C()llege's director of athletics, new and different in education 1947 as general manager and sort of stillness that must be the who has shown that "Socrates circles, is increasingly well managing editor of the Capital ultimate aim of even that music and softball, philosophy and recognized. Our student body and Gazette as well as vice- that moves the most. football, and Ptolemy and tennis "Jacob Klein was never forcomes from all over the country, president," Mr. Simmons said. a r e b y n o m e a n s i nand our alumni have penetrated "In 1969, after a change of mally my teacher or officially my commensurate," was. one of all walks of life with honor and ownership, Jack found himself dean. I knew him best in his years three men cited at Homecoming of waning activity, the same distinction.'' and his two sons on the outside. last month. years which have so far counted Following ·his military ~'With typical resilience, Mr. Jacobsen was given the service and work for 'several however, the Jacksons a few as the second half -of my adult award for "distinguished and other advertising agencies, Mr. months later published what was . life. I heard the stories of his meritorious service to St. Bloede joined the firm of Benton to become the Anne Arundel thoughtful and worldly early John's." Two other alumni were years, of his importance as a and B-0.wlg_s as a copywriter in Times. recognized for outstanding 1950. He SUbsequently moved Mr. Jacobsen entered St. scholar, of his imspiration as a achievement in their particular through a series of executive John's 40 years ago, this fall, and- teacher, of his strength as dean, field. posts and in · 1968 became 20 years ago this fall returned as and some of the qualities that Elmer M. Jackson, Jr., a 1927 marked those eras were still president and executive officer of a tutor and director of athletics.. · graduate, was recognized for remarkably present up until "For the past two decades Bryce achievement in journalism, and · thefirm. Three years later he was has, by his own quiet and sincere· almost the very end. Victor G. Bloede, III, Class of "The true end of his life - the elected board chairman and chief example, instilled in thousands of· 1941, of New York City, for his executive officer. · In 1974 he students an exemplary spirit of telos, which is, as he often said work in advertising. assumed additional duties as fairness and tolerance in all sorts when talking about Aristotle, the All three were presented the chairman of B&B International, of athletic competition," Mr. beginning-that end is still alive in the people he has taught and awards by William W. Simmons, relinquishing the chief executive Simmons said. retiring association president, officer title. "He personifies certain those whom they in turn shall who introduced his successor to characteristics he outlined in his teach. Mr. Jackson has been a jour"BUT HE WAS NOT allowed to the membership-Franklin R. nalist since his student days, memorable Class Day remarks die as Socrates died. There was a Atwell, of Annapolis. when he started part-time work last May: that we have been part of a community that set a high brief and final decline that More than 130 alumni heard for The Evening Capital and. value on asking important preceded the ending of his life. It Mr. Simmons hail the progress Maryland Gazette. In 1930 he questions, that cherished clarity was difficult to watch, and until became city editor of the Ca vital. made by the college. Gazette newspapers .B,Jl!iL for 10 of t}).ought., i~nP.1 . tha~ 1 NUf~ v~ry. recenttv: I fo:u,nl,ijt h{ltd to wayi,~eh,ind ,~~e, a&~·itill; a "small, school." ;y,e a r s w a.0&.. " .e n,:i,t:O' ~cf genuinely concerne~· ,ab9¥;t1WQqt death. Yet at the same time I he told alumni, "but we are no both.· it meant to be truly human." 1 1 Three get alumni awards r, , . my ther~ W/:l.S a CE:iftaiil nll'ivilMP in witnessing end. is I fin'<Ht hartl to articulate. Part bf it was td notice the echoes' and reminders of his wisdom and his humanity . "But perhaps my sense of privilege has to do 'with something'! learhed mostly from Jasrra hiinself: 't:tiat one must try to see things in thelr wholeness. Right :qow the final days seem mysterious to. I still ·feel haunted by them, and I -feel bereft.''. . Tracing a friendship of more than 50 :·r2tJ•s, ·Simon Kaplan, tutor : emeritus, told of their acquaintance in Berlin in 1925 as part of a group mainly made up of Russian emigrants interested in philosophy and theology, a 'group whtch also included the late Leo Strauss; former scholarin-residence here.· · It was at this time that Mr. Kaplan became aware of the kind of "self-lessness and unconcern about'his time and his own tasks and achievements (which) has been a· basic character tr<i-it of Mr. Klein." Parted from one anot.her in 1933, they met again in 1941 in America after Mr. Klein, now at St. John's, suggested Mr. Kaplan join the faculty. "These were the years of enthusiasm for the program of this college and of endless discussions about it. For many yenrs, Mr. Klein' ..and other friends met regularly in our· apartment after the . Friday.. night discussion periods and·· continued to converse, drinking tea until late at night.·. . ''A:LL o:F' OS WERE at" that time ypunger, and drinking tea helped us to stay: awake until late. It was on one su'ch midnight that Mr. Klein and Mr. Winfree Smith appeared in our house with a shiny samovar to facilitate the tea drinking and 'the discussions."' Mr. ,Smith spoke of the immense range of Mr. Klein's interest, understanding, and learning. · "When on his 75th birthday, he was presented with a collection of essays, Mr. Kutler read a list of .the titles of· the lectures he had given here. "Thos~ lectures covered . a tremendous variety of books and themes, great poetic works such as the Ila!d, .the Aeneid, and the Purgatorio, dialogues of Plato, the philosophy of Aristotle, the philosophy of Leibnitz, the 19th century with Hegel and the antillegelian Hegelians, Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche, and many, many more.. 1 me. "Every one of these lectures contained something solid and something fresh. It was Mr. Klein I believ_e who was responsible for the addition of certain of the writings of Kierkega'ard to our semfaar list." · President Weigle presided at the service. Among other speakers were Barbara Dvorak Winiarski, Robert Bart, Eva Brann, Samuel Kutler, Brother Robert Smith, and Curtis Wilson. Instead of speaking, Douglas ;\l,l~~~r90~ .P~~fpr;ll}eq ~ pjefl~,pf ~Jc ~?1 was:J¥Pr4:illg p,~(!at ,t~~ time of Mr. Klein's death. �...,, (Continued from P. 2) is named in honor of Janusz Korczak, Polish Jewish physidan, child educator, and tender of orphans who accompanied his children. from the Warsaw ghetto to the death camp at Treblinka in; 1942, .reports Galen. 1 . c; 1974. . : From the great northwest ;--:Seattle~ to be .~qre exact r c~me a wel~ome note ~rom Jan Bartpn. She ,has comp~ted.requiremerits for teacher eertification . 1n Washington ·State'. 'at. Western Was~ington Unhr~rsitY: in Bellingham, where she ran into John Bremer. 58?i1A and Dan Larner, •both former faculty in Annapolis. Jan now teaches ,4th grade in a district just north of Seattle, lives in that city, and plays on a soccer team. "lreally like where I am and what I am doing. I love this area, I love soccer, and I love te~ching kids!'' Another birth announcement, this from Virginia (Newlin) and Charles Heal, heralding the arrival on July 28, at the civilized hour of 1:47 p.m., of "a beautiful, red-haired, blue-eyed, 8 lb. 2% oz. daughter, Elizabeth Newbold Heal." To our knowledge, the note from Ed Myers in early October was the first ever - but we are pleased to have caught up with him. Ed works for the Legal Services of Northwestern Pennsylvania in Erie. In law school he earned some distinction: nominated for but did not win the prize for "The Student Most Likely to Have Come from Outer Space," but won "Best Dancer." He would like to hear from Jon Diggory, Susan Semple, Jean Bloss (now Weld), Jennifer Blaisdell, Chris. Lee, Ted Wolff, ·Howard Meister, the brothers Harris. He may be reached. at: Legal Services of Northwestern Pennsylvania, 121 West 10th Street, Erie, PA 16502. Speaking of Ted Wolff: in pursuit of his master's degree in landscape architecture, Ted was give11 the Russell Pelton Award for "sensitivity in planting design" at the spring honors .convocation at the University of Michigan. : Karen Zimmer and Cliff Martid ' 71 were married on August 19, reports Erica (Chaney)· King. Erica .'was in 4\.llnapoJ,is (we, unfortunately' were. away that week in August) as part of an East Coast trip to visit friends and relatives. · 1974-Santa Fe Cici Yerger writes from Northwestern University that she will be married in December to' classmate Andy David. Recently Debbi Hathaway, Mary Shoemaker, Liz Goldwin, and Jon Bunner held a class picnic on the rocks above Santa Fe's G-dorm. During the picnic the clouds opened, and, to escape the rain, they rushed to the quad room where the picnic continued. Debbi, who is married to Brad Hathaway, teaches junior high school in Santa Fe and is building a hq_use and keeping goats. Mary has been living and teaching in New Hampshire, where she was in the Seabrook demonstration. Liz, who lives in Washington, is a Montessod teacher "in, Virginia. M~r r: saft ilfha~ 1 b'e~ii j shown in galleries in the Washington area. Jon has performed in the theater, in the !stx:eet, and on. film and is a.ctivities director in a Santa Fe school this .year. 1975 · Elizabeth (Betsy) Brown' (was Randolph) is now assistant to the director of admissions in An· napolis. October seemed to be a good month for letters, perhaps spurred on by receipt of the September issue of this paper. Among our correspondents was Charles E. N. Hoffacker, now Brother Seraphim of the Order of the Holy Family. He writes that he spent three years at St. An· drew's Abbey, an Episcopal monastery in Denver, and was received into the Junior Profession of the Order of the Holy Family. (The order is among the youngest in the Church, but Bro. Seraphim says its spirituality and discipline are quite traditional by today's standards.) He is also a postulant for Holy Orders in the Diocese of Colorado 'find hopes this will be the first step toward eventual ordination to the deaconate and the priesthood. Bro. Seraphim would welcome letters and visits at St. Andrew's Abbey, 2015 Glenarm Place, Box 2169, Denver, Colo. 80201. 1976 Mary Cerullo, after several years in the Washington, D.C., has moved to Portland, Ore., and teaches in a Montessori school in Vancouver, Wash. 1977 Lois Eckler and Tom Day, '71, were married on July 29, in Morristown, N. J., reports Roberta Ru~ch, who was maid of honor. The Days are making their home in Annapolis. 1977-Santa Fe Andrea Williams and R. Jam es Ham were married on July 8 in Tiburon, Cal. Her sisters, Pamela and Eugenie, were her attendants; a third sister, India, is a 1973 Santa Fe graduate. Shawn K. McCoy, S77, was best man. Andrea's father, John, is a 1950 graduate of Annapolis. The Hams are living in Sacramento, where Jim attends McGeorge School of Law. 1978-Santa Fe James. Kelly Walton IV was married in September to Margaret Giles Hutchinson. James attends Southern Illinois University. The couple will reside in Anna, Ill. 1978 Diane Lamoureaux, '80, and Michael Ciba were married on June 3 in her hometown of Newport, Vt. In attendance were Phil J emielita and Steve Perry, both '78, Kit Bolle, '79, and Jim, '78, and Sherry (Audette) Walley '80. Diane and Michael spent the summer in Washington, D.C., were 'she worked at the Agriculture Department, he at the Department of the Interior. They now live in Chicago, where Michael has begun graduate study in international relations. Carol Lackman has returned to college this fall and serves as the campus resident nurse. .Janet· Ehrenberger, · '78, is PUl.lft?lliHt tOJ snletJ tlie£ Library and Inform a ti on Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh in January. If this seems a far cry from the zoo work in which she had planned a career, it's because her search for an appropriate zoo job 'prove<;! . totally fruitless last summer. : ·. Ai.igust I beg~n working at Westinghouse· . in• tP.e · Litigation Support R.esources . Depart~ ment,'' she :writes. ' 1What I do can •be :vaguely qescrfbed . beirig a ! cros.~ between legal research.• and working . with ·in- · formation tetrieval systems and transcribing. information. ~'It .is .fasciriatmg work. My boss. received h¢r. degree ,from Pitt in the same program I hope to enter: I find the process of extracting relevant information from documents and print-outs, throwing out the chaff and rearranging the wheat, endlessly interesting, and I decided it would be a good and useful beginning for a career along with being work I like. I hope, once I get out of school, to do work in designing systems to retrieve information for different industries and sciences. I am looking forward to returning to school." Other than her work, Janet says she is doing little els~ ·besides singing in her church choir. She reports that Steve Perry, '78, is working hard in California, where he is taking classes in Japanese and French at Berkeley and working as a kitchen manager · in the restaurant where he has worked the past several summers. He also is singing in a Monteverdi choir in San Francisco. Tricia Kolp is living in St. Louis where her fiance, Ralph Spada is a first ye(lr medical student at St. Louis University. They will be married on December 23. While she plans for her wedding, she is also busy looking for a job. · A nice note from: Larry Ostrovsky informs us that he is living in Portland, Or~.. and studying at Lewis and Clark Law School there . 1 In Memoriam 1918 - Dr. Russell Cook, Cumberland, Md. 1923 - Callender F. Winslow, Richmond, Va., September 18, 1978. . 1927 - Leonard ·J. Bock, Glen Burnie, Md., M'ay 4, 1978. 1931 - R. Tilghman Brice III, Annapolis, Md., August 28., 1978. 1948 - G. Harris Collingwood, Boston, October 29, 1978. Books available Copies of the Anne ArundelAnnapolis Bicentennial Committee's two-volume history are on sale in the St. John's bookstore at a reduced rate of $8. 75 aset. The first is a reprint of Elihu S. Riley's "The Ancient City." The second volume, edited by James C. Bradford, contains a chapter by St. John's Tutor Robert L . Spaeth,,, "'Annapolis·: ·Seat of Go\teriitmendt''r' :: - - ees endorse one president plan of William B. Dunham. In a (Continued from P. 1) resolution the board expressed its tensively, decided by a split vote gratitude for his "five excellent to recommend only one years" with the college and for president. The faculty as a whole1 his "helpful administrative" and endorsed its position. Members of fund-raising services. the non~teaching ·staff in .AnThe office will be left vacant napolis. previously ·had voted iri until the appointment of a new favor of the two~president president. Its duties are being structure. · absorbed partially by the d~a.n · · William Ao ·Darkey, forme.r and treasurer while Thomas Santa.· Fe' dean,. headed the . Parran, Jr., alumni director, has committee from the western been made director of college campus. A resolution· by the relations. Santa ·Fe faculty to the board said Similarly, in Santa Fe the that the proposal to divide the administrative functions of the office of the presidency. into two vice president have been separate and . co-equal offices assumed by the dean and "would disrupt, weaken, and treasurer while J. Burchenal Ault ultimately destroy the desired acts as director of the Fund for unity" of the program and that it the 1980's, a position in which he would be "especially disruptive is dividing his time between to the teaching functions of the Annapolis and Santa Fe as well faculty." as traveling extensively. Both the Annapolis faculty and The motion granting Mr. Mr. Weigle has indicated that the Weigle his only sabbatical was question could be reviewed at made by Adolph Schmidt, who some time in the future. termed it a "very well-earned In its recommendation to the sabbatical indeed." board, the Annapolis faculty "I appreciate that," Mr. advocated that within three years Weigle said. of the beginning of the new president's term of office, he New seminar have an opportunity to review with the board the administrative policy is told structure of the college. New funding procedures for President Weigle also tutor travel to regional seminars, suggested to the board that an as part of an overall belt· appraisal of the situation be tightening by the college, have made after two or three years of been announced by President experience by the new president. Weigle and Franklin R. Atwell, He said that the one president '53, new Alumni Association plan should not preclude the president. possibility of working out some "Simply stated, for any new responsibilities or a new title regional alumpi group that for the vice-president of each will commft itself to six :semina-rs campus. in an academic year and pay for THE MOTION authorizing the tutor travel for one on these, the Search Committee was made by college will pay for a second, Board Member · Theodore H. while the association, at least for Smyth, of Santa Barbara. 1978-79, will fund a third," Charles A. Nelson, '45, new board Thomas Parran, Jr., alumni chairman who was presiding at director, said. "Local alumni his first meeting, listed the would be expected to lead .the Search Committee members as remaining three seminars." The new plan applies to both consisting of five members of the board, the two deans, and one campuses. faculty member from· each · Budgets for regional seminars, campus selected from among as for all other activities of St. themselves by the tenured tutors. . John's, this year, have been ; It will hold its first meeting when scrutinized more closely than the board convenes January 19-20 ever, Mr. Paran said. This· review showed the cost of tutor • in Santa Fe. Meanwhile, the office of the travel for alumni seminars to be : vice-president in Annapolis has unrealistic in terms of cost per . been vacated with the departure· participant. Faculty fund over $50,000 Reaching a new high, St. John's Faculty Scholarship Fund scaled the $50,000 mark this fall, attaining a total Thomas Parran, Jr., . director of college relations, described as a "remarkable achievement" for a tiny faculty such as St. John's has. . The fund was organized by a handful of Annapolis tutors in 1952 to act as an endowment with earnings devoted to scholarship purposes. By July l the figure had reached $47,910, and by June 30 new gifts pushed it to $49,945. Under an arrangement made by an anonymous donor, each sum up to $40 each is matched. This brought the total to $50,945. "The Fac.ulty Scholarship Fund was started by thoughtful, far-seeing faculty members at a time when financial aid for deserving students received far less attention than it does today," Mr. Parran said. "Thanks to their initiative and the loyal, dedicated support of the faculty, the fund grew over the years into a significant endowment which is providing invaluable help for our students at a time when it is now most needed. "Those students and all of us in this community owe an enormous debt of gratitude to those concerned and to the farsighted founders of this fund for the initiative they took so ma;ny years ago." . . ', ~ . i1 ,, r l 1 . �JHE REPORTER Published College Relations John's ';l'hree things have happened to Saul Benjamin, a St. John's tutor since 1974. He has received a Danforth Fellowship for study toward a doctoral degree this year at Oxford University, and a script written by him together with a friend of his earlier Oxford days has been accepted by BBC for production. SAUL BENJAMIN And in September he was married to Nancy Coiner, '77, St. John's Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. Dorsey items ht St. John's is looking for conributions of furniture. for possible use in the reception room of the Dorsey House, Prince George, Street house now being used as a residence for a selected group of students. Mrs. Edward Sparrow, who is in charge, of redecorations, said that among the items needed are an Oriental type rug, 12 14 feet, a wing chair, sofa, dishes, and pictures for the wans. The college will welcome contributions which are not strictly of the 18th century or Greek Revival style. Persons wishing to suggest items for donation are requested to call Mrs. Sparrow at (301) 263-9351 or write to her at 53 College Ave., Annapolis, Md. 21401. Mr. who was a last summer for speech Vice Walter Mondale, was one 44 persons selected from among 2,745 candidates for a Danforth. He will use the fellowship, renewable for a period of four years, to study theology and politics. Date of production for "England and Alcatraz" has not been set. If it is not produced within a two-year period, the production rights of the script will revert to the authors. Meanwhile, the American rights may be sold here separately under an arrangement which would permit the simultaneous production of the television play in this country. to Mr. Benjamin BBC '""""""''"" 2,500 script proposals annually, from which a hundred ate selected for serious consideration. From this number, about 15 to 20 are chosen for production. MR. BENJAMIN ALSO is the author of a 33-line poem. "Aeneas to His Father," due to appear in The Yale Review. Last winter The Christian Science Monitor published a page-long essay of his on Henry Adams. His poems have appeared previously in the Monitor. and The American Oxonian. Mr. Benjamin held a summer fellowship in 1977 from the National Endowment for the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University, where he did research on Hegel's philosophy of history. lumni (Continued from P. 1) Committee, and Mr. Mason, the board's new Committee on the College's Pul)lic Role. "THE PARTICIPATION of such an unusually large proportion of alumni among its membership is of great help in providing the entire board with a sympathetic and comprehensive working knowledge of the college and its program," Mr. Nelson said following the meeting. "Their devotion and hardwork has been invaluable in the past, and they will continue to be of great importance tie l:>etwe~~n college commu:un.Y as a whole." Sunday's program also will be highlighted by a concert at 8~15 p.rn. Selma Epstein, pianist. t>t11.r1t1.o...: will continue into the followimr weekend when the Frank tive. new Alumni Association president, student alumni representaTom Pam:m photo Franklin K. Atwell, '53, the newly elected president of the Alumni Association, would like to see an active, new, second association formed for the Santa Fe campus. "The Santa Fe campus ought to have its own alumni association to serve the western part of the the country and to alumni the attention they deserve," he said. "Few of the western students are able to show up at our homecoming~ Whether or not there is any overlap in activities, they ought .to have their own alumni association." Mr. Atwell said he would like to find some alumnus who would be willing to work toward such an organization. He also hopes to expand the alumni's program of fund raising for the two campuses and increase its student recruitment program. Named to succeed William W. Simmons, who has headed the association for the past four years, Mr. Atwell will serve on a board along with¥· Roy Shawn, t The Santa Fe campus soccer team, after years of trying to win the annual Soccorro, N.M. tournament, conceded this year's final championship m_atch. But at the same time the team won an overwhelming reputation for sportsmanship. After two days of fighting its way to the winners' circle and the final match, the Santa Fe team played N.M. Institute of Mining and Technology to a 0-0 game. The team felt it could eventually win. But members voted to return to the St. John's campus 136 miles away to fulfill their academic responsibilities rather than continue the match to a definitive score. So conceded the ch;;tmI>iontship. The Soccorro their sense of responsibility and sportsmanship throughout tournament as an demonstration. He . '35, executive vice-president; Janet A. Nelson, '72, secretary, and Frank K. Wilson, Jr., '35, treasurer. A research program analyst for the Illinois Institute of Technology, Mr. Atwell has been associated with IIT's electromagnetic capability analysis center in Annapolis since 1962. From 1953-56, during thei (Continued from P.1) William Players present Ionesco's Macbeth. Among the buildings to be shown are McDowell, the library, Chase-Stone, the gymnasium, where Athletic Director Bryce Jacobsen will speak briefly, the dining hall, Mellon Hall, and the art gallery, where Mr. Blistein will be on hand once again to discuss the exhibit. A proclamation issued by. Mayor John C. Apostol declaring St. John's College Week cites the fact that the college is the third oldest in the United States, of _ ... • ..._, that it was the only team to have three girls participating. Co-captain Steve Crampton said, "The girls Susan Hamilton, Valerie Kinzer, and Elizabeth Gordon played outstanding soccer.'' Coach Istvan Fahavery said his nomination for outstanding of the tournament was St. John's Co-Captain Ben Goldstein. The other teams were: Isleta N.M. Institute, Tech (the host team), University of N.M., N.M. State U., AFB (Lubbock, Texas) and Texas Tech. The Santa Fe team includes James Lorenz, Javier 1-1'""'"" 1 cr 1 " ' " Susan Reid Kir1gsbm·y Valerie Kinzer, Solomon, Michael Urena, Elizabeth Gordon, Eric Ebert, Mark Dayton, Peter Fisk, Jesse Peterson, Steven Warschauer and Ben and :stephem cra11npton. Korean War, he served with counter intelligence. Later he was with the Martin Company of Baltimore, Montgomery-Ward, the Council's Economic and Industrial Research in Washington, and Aircraft Ar· maments, Inc., of Cockeyville. He has been a member of the alumni board for the past six years. great historic interest in the and that St. John's "has historic interest in the city. and that St. John's ''has distinguished itself as a college which stands in the forefront of liberal education in the United States." He also notes that "its concerts, lectures, plays, seminars, and other public programs have brought both pleasure and enlightenment to the citizens of Annapolis" and that "its students and - faculty have added substantially to the cultural and civic life of the city.'' The Rev. G. ·Harris Collingwood, Jr., '48, died of a coronary attack Sunday, Oct. 29, while preparing to retire for the evening. He was 51. Mr. Collingwood was rector of the Church of the Advent in Boston and the father of Margaret, '76, Eloise, who is taking a year's leave from her studies here, and Page, a freshman. A graduate of Divinity School, he nJ01>mrn1c:1v had served as rector in Kansas, including Church, Kansas City. na Richard R. Dalrymple has been appointed chief of security at St. John's, Walter .nau;,1...u, who died.September 11 of cancer. � 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~m ~1 m1~1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1696 01138 0472 Mr. construction available $L 75-million arn)roved General ,.,_.,~•-.c•u.ui.v claim funds on a dollar-for.,, .... ,.,.,,..... 5 basis for this and other This means that the have to raise a half rn for the-~ In consideration bill, the of St. for the 1980s swung this.summer on the West Coast with alumtheir heads in · search those dollar all American need. Under the of J. Burchenal of the Santa Fe campus and the drive's new alumni met in San Francisco and then in Los for their initial and its long-term needs, an ad hoc committee of the board has recommended the establishment of a new St. College Foundation and appointment of presidents for the and Santa Fe campuses as well as for the Foundation. The the heart of the report is the committee's conclusion that rather than the Santa Fe camnus become an autonomous in a fraternal to Annapolis, the two colleges should institution under a crn1.r,;J;rn 1111 a board. pn~se11ur1g its .,..,.."""""'' meeting of Alumni 39.9 per cent of all raised for the Annapolis campus the year which 1, Thomas Parran, Jr., alumni director puses. The report was prepared by a nine-member committee,. which includes four St. John's alumni and which is headed by Charles former president of Bucknell AMONG recommendations expenditure of time . on the part of the board in the operation of the college, it affects the chairman's" to the new foundation with board's Finance Comand (Continued on P. 10) alumni g1vmg over the past 12 years has accounted for about 33. 7 per cent of all funds raised," he said in his annual "The """~"''"' """M the same co-educational institt1ticms, was 21.3 per cent. It would appear that alumni are ,..,..,..,..,,;~..., their share of the load." also Following a year-long study of ~eneral administration of St. the is one wno age of 79. Death came as SANTA FE - Freshman enrollment for the 1978 Santa Fe class has per cent to 80 last year. ,,,.,,,..,.,,,.i..;,.,,.,. we could _ Susan who became admissions ,director last winter. "We even tried an intensive lists of in the that we school could interest them had not vet made a choice. heart a series which members of the St. John's will in a conference on the - "Toward the Restoration of of the Liberal Arts Curriculum" which the Rockefeller Founda= tion is on SeT:>ternbi~r 28inNew Joel the foundation's director for humanities, said it will include discussion from St. John's books apto 11-1., .....,,~ .. r1 11nnr~•T'\:'1tv' ·new core curriculum as .well as initiated the 1960s which led to a wide tion of curriculum reauirements. St. John's cess was due to our own students to the Alumni music. Born March Russia. �mrector of A!umni Activities has been appointed to the adjunct is specializing in faculty of Western State munications electronics in University College of Law in Air Force, which means, Fullerton, Cal. Burt will teach says, that he can continue contracts during the fall computer career. Robin,. semester. After-his three years of meanwhile, is working in com-1 teaching, he earned a J.D. degree puter software for Information! 1944 from the George Washington Systems Consultants, Inc., of The month-end mail in May · University in 1965. Vienna, Va. ("My own ex• hmm1ht a very interesting letter · perience is that St. John's really 1961 lliam H. Brubeck, now A release from Rutgers in- does equip its graduates to retired from the State Depart- 'forms us that John C. Kohl, Jr., master technical detail.") Their ment and the ropes in received a Master of Science daughter, Charity Jane his new position as managing degree from that university on Elizabeth, is a "Terrible Two." editor of Daedalus, journal of the May 25. Earlier word from John 1973 I American Academy of Arts and indicated that his area of Jean Lorain Bloss and John Sciences. Bill's experiences with graduate study was to be en- Breslin Weld were married in State covered England, Africa, vironmental sciences. July in Pasadena, Md. Jean more recently, the Middle completed her undergraduate 1964 East; for the last six months he Judi (Laws) Wood writes that work at the University of was involved heavily in she is a bookkeeper at a hotel Maryland and attended the Israeli-Arab Peace negotiations. complex in Claremont, Cal. Judi University of Baltimore Law A resident of the Washington, and her husband, Graham, have School. D.C., area for the sever;.l children 4 and 6. D:r. Debora J. Gilliland is in a years, Bill and his mov 1 ~d Jl>hn ( and (Stockard) clinical graduate program at St. to Massachusetts m,d- White are receiving Vincent's Health Center, Erie, summer. congratulations on the birth of a Pa., following receipt of her son, Matthew. Born caesarian medical degree las.t June. 1947 In May Jane Young received on August 14, the baby Paul G. Sifton has commei;eu her Master of Arts degree in wei!!hed six two ounces. his term as director is a John's tutor, and Folklore and Anthropology from Manuscript Society, is a former psychiatric the University of Pennsylvania. has been appointed editor worker at Spring Grove During the summer she had a "News Notes" section of "'~aduate research appointment State Hospital in Baltimore. Manuscripts magazine. Paul is the Smithsonian Institution to 1965 the specialist in early American study American Indian brought a fine letter from history with the Mark, now Pamela linguistics. This fall she plans to Division at the u.,. ...v ..w•»fl••u Pam and Daniel return to Pennsylvania to Congress. were married in April complete the course work for her William Warfield Ross was after two years of using doctorate in folklore and aninstalled on August 10 as chairthronology. man of the American Bar their "birth-given" names, 1973-Santa Fe combined them legally. Four Association's Administrative July brought a delightful letter Law Section during the years ago Pam left a senior association's annual meeting in position in the computer field to from Bob Hampton; let us quote New York City. The section attend Earlham School of directly: "First off, since I was concentrates on improving and .1.l.'CJ.1,1;;1'l1u in Richmond, Ind. She last featured in your pages (The pastoring a Friend's Collee:e. April 1975), I have gotten preserving the administrative has to a lady named Ann (Quaker) Church near the school process necessary to effective government and safeguarding while pursuing a Master of Steele Hampton who was a the rights of both individuals and Divinity degree (received in contemporary of mine whilst businesses. Bill, a partner in the June). In addition, she has been growing up here in the urban caldron Mineral Wells (Tex.). active in clinical Washington, D.C., firm of Wald, Harkrader and Ross, received his education (internship in a We were married on Friday the law degree from Yale Law School general hospital in 1976 and in a 13th of May, 1977, here in town; I add that we were honored pediatric hospital in 1977). In in 1951. cheered by the attendance of September she will begin a Doctor of Ministeries program in several of my erstwhile 1954 Richard Carter, former family ministeries at Colgate- colleagues from St. John's in professor and chairman of ~ochester Divinity School, after Santa Fe, namely: Gerald Political Theory at Windham being "recorded" (Quaker Zollars '65, formerly admissions College, has joined the staff of the analogy of ordination) as a director at St. J's; Larry Dutton, Ecology Department of the Friend's minister in August. Pam Maria Baltimore City Bureau of assigns to St. John's a significant and Recreation. He will present a of her "spiritual formation,'' series of seminars for the bureau to quote her letter, as well as the during 1978 and 1979. The first of ease with which she reentered these will be on the influence of academic life in 1974. modern biological 1968 and its """n~,1.;~~ Deborah Renaut will be ""'"t·"'......,"" at St. John's Politic." For in order to devote more time to Baltimore area who son, Jonathan, who arrived in the interested, information may be Renaut household on Anril 22 obtained b:v calling 396-5643 in seven _ he Baltimore. a little over 15 1974 Siemens, former pvuuu". "He talks up a storm, sits J. Leslie in Connecticut school teacher up 20 seconds before he over, and has- got · beautiful will commence studies at and an Officer smile," reports Debbie. Stanford toward a Doctor of the Internal Revenue Jonathan's other Musical Arts degree, with a Gilbert Renaut, is with the Master's the way. The Reporter is published by the Office of. non.:irtm&>nt'~ Office of Solicitor,. College Relations, St. John's College, Michael and Maria briefs workers' Annapolis, Md., 21404, Richard D. WeiMasinter announce with great gle, president; William B. Dunham, vice compensation appeals. the birth of their son, Joseph president. 1972 on 28, 1978, at 8:30 Published five times a year, in February, letter to the 'Q,,.-.;...t ........ a.m. Our m,ost sincere April, June, September and November. 1942 We hear a rumor that Journet :Xahn has founded and is running_. a school, to some degree modeled after St. John's, in - hold on to your hats -Athens, Greece! Second class postage paid at Annapolis, Md. .r. .. . P. 9) is in conversation with OfBOiher W. Simmons, who also is oresident Charles A. Nelson, '45, of Crofton-on-Hudson, N.Y., has been elected president of the St. John's College Board of Visitors and Governors. He succeeds Alexander K. McLanahan, president of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, who, under terms of the college Polity, is leaving the board after two consecutive terms as a member. Chosen as vice-chairmen are Jack M. C'ampbell, of Santa Fe., former New Mexico governor, and D. Robert Yarnall, Jr., of Philadelphia, president of Yarway Corporation. Mr. 'McLanahan, Who was given a standing vote of thanks at the final board meeting in July, has chaired the board during an unusually active period. During his two-year administration the board launched its Fund for the 1980's campaign, reactivated its visiting committees, and undertook a study of the overall administration of the college. The board also made a detailed study of the question of discrimination on campus, reaffirming St. John's position of total nondiscrimination. Skilled as a presiding officer, Mr. McLanahan is known for the grace and tact with which he guides meetings. Lou.ise Trigg, Santa Fe invester and rancher, who is returning to the board after a year's absence, will serve as secretary. Named to the executive committee are Mary '60, James H. Frame, '50, T. and Theodore H. m2magin:g editor urn1i=;i;l;e,1111::, was elected as me:mbi~r of the and W. Bernard Fleischmann, and B.C. Hernandez also were re-elected. Mr. Nelson is a Peat, Marwick, Company of New and whose include a number of institutions of Recoimized for the field of _ Mr. Nelson was one of nve persons nominated to serve on the National Council on Education the oresidency of Gerald 4"1.. ... ~,.. St. 1rnnapous or The been on purpose because we think you would like to know what is ham:ienin2: both campuses. academic out pus �Carr, Jack L. '50 (5) Ceccarelli, Patricia Carney '64 (1) Purpose Current Funds Unrestricted Restricted $430,063 19,290 -$449,353 $ 88,469 Plant Funds Capital Total Total Funds Raised Source Alumni Fund Alumni Alumni Parent Individuals Corporations & Foundations Government Bequests Total Funds Raised 125,005 -- $ 74,966 41,132 125,000 18,368 79,384 196,010 108,419 19,548 -- $662,827 H :>pe!c1a1 A successful fund-raising drive depends heavily upon a core of special contributors who make an extra effort to respond to appeals. In recognition of these alumni, parents, and friends, St. John's for a number of years has designated certain categories of Special Gifts. The number of Special Gift members this year exceeded all previous years: 268 King William Associates, 62 Francis Scott Key Donors, 23 St. John's Sponsors, and 37 members of the President's Council. The special thanks of all the college community go to these loyal supporters whose names are listed below. The numbers in parentheses after alumni names indicate the total years of qualification for a special gift category. King WiUiam· Associates ALUMNI Alexander, Dr. Fred '37 (3) Allen, Robert C. '42 (5) Amos, Everett R. '29 (3) Arms, Bradley C. '72 (1) Baird, Walter S. '30 (3) Banks, Arlene Andrew '64 (1) Banks, William P. '64 (1) Barr, W. A. '42 (3) Basil, Ileana '73 (2) Basine, Patricia Grady 58 (1) Bea~. JosE}ph):,. '32 (9) · Bell, Sarah J. '67 (2) Bennett, Betty Beck '60 (1) Bergen, Stephen W. '45 (2) Blackiston, Luther '68 (1) Bombhardt, Warren '42 (3) Broschart, James '62 (1) Brown, Dr. D. Michael '51 (9) Brubeck, William H. '44 ( 4) Brunn, George '4:5 ( 3) Burress, James M, '72 (2) Burroughs, F. E. '42 (2) Bushone:. Jae H. '38 (1) Chew, Dr. SamuelP. '31 (8) ·c1ark, JamesH. '41 (7) Clark, James T. '28 (1) Clark, Jesse M. '54 (2) Cochran, Edward B. '44 (7) Cohen,Joseph'56(1) Conca, William H. '30 (10) Cook, George W. '28 (2) Cozzolino, Eug~ne '29 (~)­ Cree, Paul G., Jr. '52 (2) Cross, Harold E. '29 (1) Dr. Bernard '69 (1) Davidoff, Paula Truitt '76 (1) Davies, Peter J. '48 (10) Davis, Frederick P. '49 (1) Patrick D. '50 (1) Nana L. '61 (1) Desantis, Frank C. '27 (7) Donohue, John C. '35 (10) James J. '26 (6) um 11:n:11, Nathaniel '47 (1) Edward J. '30 (9) Eckhart, Alan '43 (1) Elliott, William P. '47 (1) EllSworth, Rudolph C. '49 (2) Evers, Walter '35 (9) Faraone, Joseph J. '61 (6) Fields, Lewis J. '31 (10) Fine,Morton'35(1) Finnegan, Marcus B. '48 (3) Fisher, BarryL. '62 (3) Fletcher, Charlotte '69-H (3) Forman, Stephen J. '70 (1) Frame, J. H. '50 (3) Fulton, Thomas I. '46 (3) Gallagher, Mary '60 (2) Garrettson, M. Carla '75 (1) Gessner, Bernard F. '27 (1) Gilbert, John P. '46 (1) Gold, Michael W. '61 (5) Goldberg, Robert L. '50 (1) Goldwin, Robert A. '50 (2) Gore, Leonard C. '61 (2) Gore, Rixey Murray '64 (2) Green, Michael K. '72 (1) Greenfield, Stewart '53 (2) Grubb, EdwardH. '43 (5) Hasegawa, Maya '69 (1) Hazo, Robert G. '53 (1) Hodgkin, Christopher '66 ( 4) Hoff, Snowden '31 ( 3) Hoffman, Allan Paul '49 (9) Hofmann, Joseph C., Jr. '42 (2) Houck, James A. '63 (3) Hovde, Dr. Christian A. '45 (3) Huebner, F. Kay '64 (1) Ikari, Robert N. '50 (2) Jemielita, Philip '78 (1) Kantor, Lawrence '35 (10) Kaplan, David L. 54 (1) Kaplan, Tina B. '62 (7) Keating, Patrick D. '29 (6) Kelley, Loren E. '67 (1) Kelley, Carole Picardo '66 (1) Kelly, J. Sprightley '30 (8) Keown, Lauriston '29 (5) Kimpel, Edward A. '31 (8) King, James '31 (1) Klingenburg, Robert J. '30 (7) Kohl, John C. '61 (6) Koontz, L. Donald '51 (3) · Kungle, Arthur, Jr. '67 (10) Lansner,Jerome'50(10) Lee, Asb,ury, III '37 (1) Levine, David '66 (2) Levine, Anne Morin '68 (2) Lincoln, C. Ranlet '50 (1) Lobell, JohnJ. '46 (8) Lufkin, Katherine '76 (1) Lush, Edward J. '27 (2) MacMannis, Thomas E. '18 (7) MacNemar, Thomas L. '39 (2) Marine, I. Wendell '47 (1) Mattison, Edward '62 ( 4) Mccurry, James G. '32 (2) McDowell, George L. '41 (6) Merkel, Dr. Carl '29 (5) Meyers, Thomas J. '50 ( 4) Michaelson, Benjamin '12 (10) Middleton, J. S. Baker '38 (2) ·Milbourne, E. 0. '14 ( 4) John L. '11 (1) m1.uuuw, Stephen '61 (3) Richard '31 (6) l\llf .. ni ... ,~ Edward W. '45 (3) NPthi:>rton. Dana E. '72 (1) l'letnKen, W. Robert '36 (3) Judith L. '61 (1) Nichols, Lee H., Jr. '27 (2) Nichols, Robert E. '48 (5) November, Robert L. '64 (10) Noyer, Elmer R. '31 (1) Winslow, George L. '12 (2) Wolbarsht, Myron Lee '50 ( 3) Wood, L. Philip '67 (1) Woods, Sterrett Day '32 (1) Woolsey, Michael J. '65 (2) Wynn, Harvey '57 (8) Wynn, Rosabelle Gould '57 (8) (8) Paine, Walter C. '45 (2) Parran, Thomas, Jr. '42 (2) Parslow, Morris '45 (6) Pinsker, Adam A. '52 (1) Randolph-Back, Kay Elizabeth Kohn, Elizabeth P. Kurs, Mr. & Mrs. Louis N. Allardice, Mr. & Mrs. C. Anderson, Dr. & Mrs. Burleigh Ashmore, Mr. & Mrs. James Lemon, Stanley G. Leonard, Margaret H. Bartlett, Mr. & Mrs. Charles Mr. & Mrs. William · Mr. & Mrs. Virgil E. Church, Mr. & Mrs. Philp S. Ciba, EdwardP. Cummins. Mr. & Mrs. Frank (3) Renaut, Gilbert '68 (2) Reynolds, RobertH. '40 (1) Rogers,John'75(3) Ross, William Warfield '47 (2) Sasscer, Robert B. '37 (7) Schuchman,Fred'50(7) Sedlis, Melissa Matthews '13 (1) Shawn, E. Roy '35 (2) Sheinkman, Mordechai '47 (2) Shindler, Lowell '64 (2) Shryock, Henry S., Jr. '32 (2) Slafkosky, Alexander L. '43 (2) Sloyan, Deirdre Lenihan '67 ( 4) Smith, Frederick L. '27 (3) Stone, James W. '55 (5) Stone, James W. 55 (5) Tarcher, Jeremy P. '53 (5) Taylor, Richard B. '36 (1) Teel, Eric '49 (1) Thompson, James U. '31 (5) Thornton, Gene '45 (2) Tilles, William R. '59 (8) Tilles, Carol Philips '59 (8) Tyner, Lee Reichelderfer '68 (5) Mrs. Evans, Paul G. Walls; William '29.(1) Wegner, Henry F. '26 (1) Weinberger, Edward '65 (2) Weir, W. Douglas '57 (4) Weiss, Peter '46 (8) Weiss, Robert R. '47 (1) Whipple, Peter A. '50 (10) Wich, Carlton E. '23_ (10) Williams, Robert H., Jr. '35 (1) ,Williams, Thomas J. '51 (5) Williams, W. Richard '27 (1) Williamson, C. Vernon '32 (5) Wilson, A. Chesley, Jr. '.42 (1) Percy, Virginia M. Rich, Mr. & Mrs. Woodward Leanore B. · w. Mrs. Tawes, J. Millard Roberts. Weiss, Mr. Ira West, Marie M. Williamson, Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Glass, Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Hawkinson, Dr. John A. Hester, Ross W. Hollingshead, Mr. & Mrs. J. Jenson, Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Johnson, Sally S. Jones, Dr. & Mrs. Arthur Kirschner, Dr. & Mrs. Gordon Kolp, Dr. Joseph W. Larson, Mr. & Mrs. John C. Lenihan, Ms. Ida Long, Mrs. Julia G. Lorenz, Mr. & Mrs. Robert Mccann, Dr. & Mrs. William D. McMahon, James J. McNesby, Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Miller, Mrs. Cornelia T. Nordin, Mr. & Mrs. Glen Olson, Mr. & Mrs. Merritt Peterson, Dr. & Mrs. Elroy R. Salter, Mr. & Mrs. Albert G. Schanche, Mr. & Mrs: Don A. Schwartz, Mr. & Mrs. William Scott, S. Spencer, Jr. Sherman, Dr. & Mrs. Paul Smitn, Col. & Mrs. Albert M. Steers, Mr. & Mrs. Roger Tamlyn, Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Truitt, Mr. & Mrs. James Villere, James Van Doren, Charles '46 (2) Van Massenhove, Suzy E. Miller '62 (1) Van Sant, George '47 (1) von Schwerdtner, Ernst '17 (5) Myers, Dr. 1:;:,,J..m.,,..h Doremus, Joellen C. Dourmashkin, Dr. & Leonard Dudik, George F. Dwyer, Mr. & Mrs. Edwin '66 (2) Raspa, Sallie Ann Dobreer '75 (2) Rea, David '49 (5) Renaut, Deborah Schwartz '68 Jackson, David A. · Johnson, Reverdy PARENTS Oosterhout, Barbara Brunner '55 Otis, Carol Dimit '64 (2) Otis, J. Morrow '63 (2) Owens, John B. '37 (1) ':Eveleigh, Carol Prentice Holland, Karen Hunt, Capt. & Mrs. Robert F. Walley, Mr. & Mrs. Bernard White, Dr. & Mrs. A. Burton Wood, Mr. & Mrs. George B., Jr. Wright, Mr. & Mrs. William M. FRIENDS Anastos, Rosemary P. Austin, Mrs. George Bailey, Aurelia P. Ball, Prof. & Mrs. N. Hansen Barton, Henry Bowen, Robert J. Brooks, Mrs. Charles Butt, Dr. & Mrs. Harvey Chessick, Dr. Richard Eisenhower, .Uilton Wilson, Mr. & Mrs. Curtis A. Worthington, Miss Margaret Worthington, Miss Virginia Wubnig, Mr. & Mrs. Arthur ALUMNI Adamson, Ernie '58 (8) Alexander, John D..Sr. '20 (10) Bartis, Dr. Stanley J. '33 (10) Bishop,-Sharon '65 (3) Bowman, Dr. Philip I. '31 (5) Campbell, James F. '32 (8) Carnes, Thomas '52(2) Cave, Ray C. '48 (3) Collier, B-ruce '65 (3) Comegys, PaulR. '41 (4) Duhan, Richard '63 (3) Duhan, Miriam Glub '63 (3) Dunkum, William W. '64 (6) Gross, William A., Jr. '29 (9) Hankamer, Ernest W. '51 (8) Hetland, John P. '64 (9) Hill, T. Lansdale '41 (10) Holland, Constance Bell '66 (7) Jarman, Carey '17 (10) Kibler, Charles J. '36 (6) Mack, JohnD. '45 (8) Mileto, Anthony F. '34 (6) Murray, Fiona Paul '60 (5) Murray, Frank B. '60 (5) Nassauer, Frederick J. '32 (5) O'Connor, Claxton J. '30 (3) Padgett, Vernon M., M.D. '41 (2) Pumphrey, W.T.D. '32 (3) Rendall, William D. '42 ( 9) Rosenberg, Julius '38 (10) Ruel, Peter '60 ( 4) · Scharbach, Helen Anastaplo '71 (3) Schmick, Rudy '31 (8) Smith, L. Wheaton '48 (6) · Sommer, Edward '37 (3) Stackhouse, Stewart '24 ( 4) Turner, Dr. Thomas B. '21 (10) Van Doren, John '47 (3) ·Witman, Horace W. '34 (2) c. PARENTS Archibald, Mr. & Mrs. A.A. Bacaj, Dr. & Mrs. Tallah Bromberg, Esther B. Gamble, Dr; & Mrs. James L., Jr. Goodwin, John K. Hinsch, Mr. & Mrs. K.W. Jemielita, Ur, & Mrs. M.M. Ma~key, James • �s. Bloede, Victor G., III '41 (9) Dr. David '44 FRIENDS w. .nemsen, Jr. ALUMNI A. Scott '43 (9) Anderton, '68 (9) Bart, Robert '57 ( 4) nir..;n.,.ain J.S. '21 (9) Hobart '67 (1) !\.enneu, Eric '63 W. III '62 (2) W. Jamws, HI '62 (2) Charles S. '52 (10) Nelson, Charles A. '45 (3) Polillo, Pasquale '56 (10) Simmons, Haven E. '44 (10) Spriggs, Bert '37 (8) Steiner, Andrew D. '63 (7) Welty, Dr. Dalton M. '35 (10) PARENTS Cohen, Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Mr. & Mrs. L. Glenn Sacks, Sol FRIENDS. Austrian, Mrs. Charles R. Burdge, Richard Olfson, James 0. H. Gerald '47 Jacob, Bernard E. '54 (6) Jones, Robert E. (5) William J., Jr. '31 (10) Arthur E., Jr. '30 (5) Mellon, Paul '44 (10) Merritt, Constance R. '66 ( 4) John E. '65 (4) Noble, John '17 (4) Parker, '46 (7) Edmund F., III '74 (1) Schiff, Howard P. '62 ( 4) Simmons, William '48 (6) Thaw, Eugene Victor '47 (5) Tho1m11son, Robert T. '45 (1) Mrs. Ann GI'72 g (1) D. (4) R;chard (H) (4) John L. '50 (7) "'"'"'-''-"J'~" Catherine Levin '64 ( 4) ttanKalm€:I", Mrs. E.T. J. Pierre Mr. & Mrs. Mrs. A. Davidson, Mrs. George Evans, Thomas Mellon Gempp, Elizabeth Harrison, John T. Lapid.es, Jerome McLennan, Donald Mitchell, Mrs. Carlton Peterson, Mrs. Duane Ronay, Bela Schmidt, Adolph Smyth, Theodore R1>1•n!!1~il St. John's again in 1977-78 is deeply indebted to non-alumni sources - parents, friends, corporations and foundations - for the bulk of its gift support. These interested and loyal supporters assure the continued viability of the College.~ PARENTS Mr. & Mrs. CorbinAHardice Dr. & Mrs. Burleigh Anderson Mrs. Herbert Anderson Anonymous Mrs. Adele Anthony Mr. & Mrs. A. A. Archibald Mr. & Mrs. David Ashmore Mr.&Mrs. T. Mr.&Mrs. Mr. & Mrs. William Mr. & Mrs. Charles Bartlett Mr. & Mrs. Richard Beckhard Mr. & Mrs. David Mrs. Margot Ben Dr. & Mrs. Richard Berkowitz Theodore Birnbaum Mr. & Mrs. Saul Blaustein Mr. & Mrs. Richard Borden Bowser Mr. Mrs. Brintle Mr. & Mrs. Burk Col. and Mrs. & Mrs. Charles ca1mplJell Edward Ciba Cohen Leila cou1g.111ana Mrs. Joya Cox Mr.&Mrs. Mr.&Mrs. Mrs. Mary Rose Mr. & Mrs. Church c-Mr. & Mrs. Nathan Davidoff Mr. & Mrs. James P. Davis Mr. & Mrs. Richard DaviS Mr. & Mrs. Wilber Day Mrs. Joellen Doremus Dr. &M:rs. Leonard Dourmashkin George Dudik Mr. & Mrs. Edward Dwyer Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ehrenberger Mr. & Mrs. Henry Eh:renberger Mr. &Mrs. Myron Eisenstein Mr. & Mrs. Roswell Eldridge Mr. & Mrs. Francis Ellis Paul Evans Mr. & Mrs. L.G. Fant (Parent Chairmen) Mrs. Rhoda Fishleder Robert Forrest Dr. & Mrs. James L. Gamble Dr. & Mrs. Jason Geiger Gilbert John Giordano Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Glass Mr. & Mrs. David Goldberg Mr. & Mrs. John K. Goodwin Mrs. Elizabeth Green Greene Mrs. Griggs Mr. & Mrs. George Grubb Dean Haggard Mrs. E.T. Hankamer Robert J. Hammett Mrs. Marielle Hammett Mrs. Barbara Mr. & Mrs. Ichiro Dr. John A. Hawkinson Cdr. & Mrs. James Ross Hester Mr. & Mrs. K.W. Hinsch Mrs. Ethel Ho berm an Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Hockman Mr. &Mrs. John Hollingshead Mrs. Marvis Jemielta Mr. &Mrs. Robert Jensen Mrs. Sally Johnson Mrs. Janet Jonas Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Jones Mr. & Mrs. Walter ..... .,,.......,,. . _, Mrs. Elizabeth Kiralis Dr. & Mrs. Gordon Kirschner Mr. & Mrs. Nathan Korshin Mr. & Mrs. James Kocsis Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Kolp Mr. & Mrs. Nathan Korshin Dr. & Mrs. Millard Larrison Mr. & Mrs. John C. Larson Dr. & Mrs. John C. Larson Mrs. Ida Lenihan Mrs. Lois Lieberman Mr. & Mrs. Otto Mrs. Julia Mr. & Mrs. Lorenz Dr. & Mrs. William D. Mccann Dr. W. F. McKemie Mr. & Mrs. Edward Mcr~e:my James McMahon Mr. & Mrs. James C. Edward Mahler Dr. & Mrs. Julius Mallor Mrs. Cornelia Miller Mrs. S. P. Morosoff Gerald Glen Nordin &Mrs. &Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Helena Mr. & Mrs. Thorne c-Richard N. Person Nathan cc-Erich c-Mr. & Mrs. Elroy Peterson Dr. & Mrs. Mr. & Mrs. J. Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Rosenberg Mr. & Mrs. R. H: Rosenberg Sol Sacks Samuel Salem Albert Salter Dr. & Mrs. Frank Santamour Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Savage Salvatore Scali Mr. & Mrs. Don A. Schanche Mr. & Mrs. Ed.gar Schauber Mr. & Mrs. William L. Schmidt Dr. & Mrs. Bradford Schwartz Mr. &Mrs. William Schwartz Mr. &Mrs. S. Spencer Scott Mrs. Ruth Seaman Dr. & Mrs. Paul Sherman Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Silver Joseph Slowinski Mr. & Mrs. Harry Smith Mrs. Mark A. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Philip Spector Mr. & Mrs. Roger Steers Charles Stuck Mr. & Mrs. John W. Stukenberg Mr. & Mrs. PhilipH. Suter Dr. & Mrs. Thomas Tamlyn Mr. & Mrs. James Trent Mr. & Mrs. Jam es Truitt Mr. & Mrs. Peter Tullier · Rev. & Mrs. Ernest Twigg Mr. & Mrs. Alan VanFleet Mr. & Mrs. Philip Varrichio Mr. & Mrs. James Villere Mr. & Mrs. Ernst Wachsmuth Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Walley Mr. & Mrs. Francis Weaver Mr. & Mrs. Robert Weis Mrs. Gerald Wetlaufer Dr. & Mrs. Burton White &Mrs. &Mrs. FRIENDS Ruth Mr. & Mrs. Allanbrook Dr. & Mrs. Sigmund Amitin Anastos nv•"OUJLUAJ Mrs. Prof. & Mrs. Hansen Ball Prof. & Mrs. William Battin Mr. & Mrs. William Mr. & Mrs. William Berry Mr. & Mrs. J. Pierre Bernard Dr. & Mrs. Paul Berson Merson Booth Mrs. Doyle Borchers Mr. & Mrs. Robert Bowen Frances Boyd Susan Brailove Elsie Brand Eva Brann Noelle Burke Dr. & Mrs. Mrs. Charles Butterworth Mr. & Mrs. Gunnar Carlson Cates Richard Chessick Chick & Ruth's Deli William H. Choate Estate of Caroline Newton Mrs. A. Mrs. Thomas Newton Clark Estate of Theo O'Brien Mrs. w. P.Clark Phillin Osborn Mr. & Mrs. Clatanoff Mrs. Don Chic & Ruth's Deli Mrs. Mr. & Mrs. Louis E. Clemens Randel Mr. & Mrs. John Clifford Mrs. Rector r.:!.,,,,..1-:..,,... rnm hi:>r Sr. Rosamund Rice Richard Cox Stephamie Rich ' Mrs. Wilbur Mr. Mrs. Woodward Rich Mr. & Mrs. William Cronin Steven Rhoads Mrs. Cosgrove Charles Richardson Lillian Crook Leanore Rinder Miss Annie Dashiell Mr. & Mrs. Richard Mrs. & Mrs. William Russell Dr. & Mrs. Edward Davis & Mrs. Herbert .1:to~;ent1erg Dr. Gustav .uo;;;J.J:<a••v Mrs. Charlotte Rosendaul Mr. & Mrs. Alex Quantum Electronics Mr.&Mrs. Margaret '""'11 !! 1't'1 W. Drown Alan Seltzer Mr. &Mrs. B. Rev; & Mrs. Winslow Shaw Elizabeth Duvall Mr. & Mrs. A. Whitney Shoemaker David Earle ·Shofer · Bruce Eberwein Abram Economy Plumbing Isabelle Sirr1ps1)n Dr. Milton Eisenhower Walter Skernolis C. T. Elzey Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Slakey KirkEmmert Rev. J. Winfree Smith & Mrs. Vincent Egnels Rev. & Mrs. W.Kyle Smith Mrs."Prentice Eveleigh Morris Snyder Mark Faller · Mrs. Jam es Soul Mr. & Mrs. Robert 0. Felter Mr. & Mrs. Edward Sparrow Mr. & Mrs. Fred Fishback Stella Spicknall Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Flaumenhaft Mrs. Raymond Staley Mr. & Mrs. E. E. Fogelson Gladys Stanfield George Fraser Robert L. Stone Fotos & Frierson Mr. &Mrs. Earl Swafford Mrs. Gordon Galloway Tarcov Mr. & Mrs. James Galloway J. Millard Tawes Elizabeth Gempp T. V. Clifford TichenorHarry Golding Mr. & Mrs. John 0. Tilson Mr. & Mrs. Karl Haiger Mr. & Mrs. James Tolbert Capt. & Mrs. Henry Hall Capt. V. V. Utgoff Rev. Carl Harris Mrs. Dorothy VanDoren Mrs. Herbert Harris 0. Paul Varnell Mary Hicks John Wadleigh Dr. & Mrs. S. L. Hilbert Capt. & Mrs. Alton Waldron Abraham Hiller Carroll Walker Grace Hilliard Joseph Walker Mrs. Jack Hoffberger Harvey Walters George Hoffmann J.C. Warren Karen Holland Robert Weber Mr. & Mrs. M. FawcettH01pki11s Prof. Eleanor Webster George Hudacek Koppel Wekselblatt Connie Hudson Mrs. Richard West Capt. & Mrs. Robert Hunt Mr. & Mrs. Robert Williamson Robert Irrm ann Mr. &Mrs. Curtis Wilson David A. Jackson Miss Worthington Mrs. Johnson Miss Worthington Reverdy Johnson Martha Dr. Milnor Jones WiUiamW. Mr. & Mrs. Herbert T<inMJu;,.,..,. Elizabeth Kohn Mr. & Mrs. Roland Kuniholm Frederick Wulf Anita Kurland JohnC. Mr. & Mrs. Louis Kurs Ed Larkin Lenore L. Laskin Mr. & Mrs. Robert Leggett Lemon Barbara Leonard Leonard Leonard AICM Mr. &Mrs. Gordon Levy American Can Carol Linden American Express Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Nathan Lipsetts Amoco Foundation Anne Lipman Annapolis Banking & Trust Co. Mr. & Mrs. John Littleton Annapolis Federal Savings & Joan Lion Loan Linda Loughrey Annapolis Utilities Mr. & Mrs. Robert Ludlum Inc. Phillip Lyons Armstrong Cork Capt. Donald. McClench Avon Products Mr. & Mrs. Donald McCormick Mr. & Mrs. Hugh McGrath Bank America Foundation E. Bates McKee Ensign Bickford Foundation Mrs. Edward McQuiston James G. Biddle Foundation Carolyn Macleish Bristol-Myers �Dr. Amos F. Hutchins Sturdy John D. Lucas Printim!: Co. 1907 . 50% Robert Anderson Macmillan Publishing Robert Sterlir1g u . . H,,..horn Travel Columbia Connecticut General co1tme~cucut Mutual 1n~·11r$\nrP Foundation Merck Foundation ·Mills _ Minnesota Mutual Co. ·. Mobil Oil Foundation •·. Philip Morris, Inc. Endowment Management Corp. ETC Charitable Trust Equitable Life Assurance·co:. Exxon Foundation ·· Dr. Jiri F. Vranek $50 c-Frank C. Desantis. Bernard F. Gessner 1908 Dr. George M. Austin Charles H. Schuster J. Graham Shanna,han, Sr. . 1909 Clarence T. Johnson Col. Robert E. Jones Col. Harrison MacAlpine Farmers Natlonal ·Bank Natfonal Merit Scholar.ship Corp. . 1910. · RoscoeE. Grove Gainey Foundation · General Elevator Co. Goodyear Tire Company Gulf Oil'Foundation · Guttman Foundation Peat, Marwick &Mitchell Pre.sser Foundation · . Price Wab~rhouse Foundation 1911 25% $100 .. Levin ClaudeBailey Clifford L. Johnson John L. Morris Raytheon Co. Dr. Thomas Parfan 1912 6096 Philip Alger Sandoz, Inc.· · SingerCo. · Smith~Kline Corp. Sperry Rand Stanadyne; Inc. Surdna Foundation Joseph H. Hazen foundation Hodson Trust Household Finance . ·Houston Natural Gas Co. Hughes Aircraft $260 William Lentz · Benjamin Michaelson, Jr. Raymond E. Staley George L. Winslow 1913 Time, Inc. Robert A. Tennant Dr. Robert S. G. Welch Westinghouse Foundation Westminster Foundatfon 1914 22% $150 Elwood 0. Milbourne Cot Wilmer S. Phillips IBM Corporation J.M. Kaplan Foundation Ensign C. Markland Kelly Foundation A. Alumni Fund results for the past two years: 1976-77 1977-76 Alumni Donors 597 755, Percent Response 19.4o/{ 24.8% Average Gift $97 $99 Total Fund $57 ,869 $74,966 B. Top 20 classes Response and Total Amount % '% 1.1941 2.1945 3.1925 4.1930 5.1921 54% 50% 45% 44% 40% 40% 6.1927 7.1942 8.1951 9. 1923 10. 1929 11. 1917 12.1918 13.1928 14.1950 15.1931 39% 38% 37% 37% 36% 36% 35% 35% 34% John T. Tucker Yarway Corp. 33% 16.1958 17.1956 18.1975 19.1944 20.1968 32% 32% 31% 31% $ 1915 22% $125 Wilbert L. Merriken OliverP. Winslow, Sr. 1916 George Davidson, Jr. Robert 0. Jones Col. Thomas W. Ligon Col. Guy 1). Thompson 1917 36% $500 Marion Cox Carey Jarman John W. Noble E. O. von Schwerdtner 1918 36% $175 Clyde E. Bourke Charles W. Burton, Jr. Thomas E. MacMannis H. LeRoy Mencke 1919 14% $25 1,955 1,920 Dr. Robert A. Bier 1,874 S. Herbert Wareheim 1920 24% $171 1,765 1,740 John D. Alexander, Sr. 1,732 William T. Fryer 1,697 Rev. Reginald F. Hall 1,585 R/ Adm. Horatio Ridout 1921 40% $910 1,585 1,560 c-Wilmot D. Brown 1,495 Joseph S. Di Giorgio 1,447 Robert F. Duer 1,445 Earl R. Keller William H. Y. Knighton; Jr. $7,115 5,950 2,592 2,592 2,441 2,375 2,045 2,019 1.1962 2.1944 3.1964 3.1964 4. 1945 5.1941 6.1948 7.1935 8.1931 9.1947 10.1965 11.1946 12.1967 13.1966 14.1954. 15.1950 16.1968 17.1932 18.1937 19.1967 20. 1930 JohnH. E. Legg William P. Maddox The alumrii and alumnae listed below contributed, some of them several times, to St. John's in 19.77-78. The percentages and dollar amounts are only for gifts to the Alumni Fund. Na mes in italics are of those alumni in whose memory gifts were made or for whom special endowed funds have been established. Income from those special funds annually provides a perpetual gift to St. John's. Names preceded by the letter "c" are of the Class Captains this year. Their extra measure of effort and support deserves particular thanks. 1832 1898 Dr. William Brewer 1847 Class of 1898 Dr. Philip H. Edwards 1899 John Mullan 1874 Frederick W. Brune Rev. William L. Mayo Ridgely P. Melvin 1875 1902 Blanchard Randall Charles G. Mantz Dr. W. Oscar LaMotte RobertF. Maddox Drew H. Beatty Leroy T. Rohrer Amos W. Woodcock 1880 1903 1904 Walter I. Dawkins 1889 John M. J. Hodges 1905 Charles H. Schoff 1895 Rev. Enoch H. Thompson 1897 Class of 1897 Rev. Benjamin D. Chambers 1906 50% E. Earl Hearn Richard H. Hmt~s<m Luther S. Tall Lt. Col. Richard H. Torovsky, Sr. Dr. Thomas B. Turner 1922 18% $105 c-J. Wesley Everett Robert G. Hackett S. TownshendNaylor Willis H. White 1923 37% $425 Paul L. Banfield William C. Baxter Charles W. Keefer John F. Layng, Jr. Col. James F. McGraw William S. Morsell, Jr. c-Dr. S. Paul Schilling Frederic C. Stecker Carleton E. Wich 1924 13% $260 Lt. Col. F. Noble Howard H. Boyns MacMannis Stewart C. Stackhouse 1925 45% $115 Stanley C. Brown c-Dr. H. W. Eliason Fred H. Flounders H. Monroe Helm J. Thomas Ritchie 1926 17% C. Jr. H. Kyle James F. Leslie · William _ Clark John T. Harrison M. Keith Neville Mullen& Sullivan· Robert L. Jones Charles W. Haas Elmer H. Jackson, Jr. Edward J. Lush Lee H. Nichols, Jr. Col. frederick L. Smith Col. W. Richard Williams· . 1928 35% .$660 James T. Clark George W. Cook David F. Crowley' . A. Olin Grimes . Donald B. Grove Dr. Richard V. Hauver Jam es F. Miller c-J am es R. Roseberry Dr. Louis L. Snyder 1929 37% $1,220 Granville Q. Adams John W. Boucher Dr. Richard W. Comegys Dr. Eugene Cozzolino Capt. Harold E. Cross c-William A. Gross S. William Hearne Lewis A. Hester Patrick D. Keating Dr. Lauriston L. Keown Dr. Carl G. Merkel James G. O'Neill, Jr. Reginald C. Orem William Walls 1930 44% $1,445 Walter S. Baird William H. Conca Edward J. Dwyer David Jenkins J. Sprightley Kelly Robert J. Klingenburg Arthur Landers Claxton J. O'Connor Matthew O'Neil Albert I. Rusteberg c-Dr. G. Newton Scatchard Charles S. Smith Frederick A. Weisheit, Jr. 1931 34% $1,955 J. W. T. Armacost Charles E. Athey William F. Blake Philip I. Bowman Samuel P. Chew Henry A. Czelusniak Judge Matthew Evans Lt. Gen. Lewis J. Fields Snowden Hoff Ed.ward A. Kimpel, Jr. James King c·William J. Klug, Jr. Richard C. Mottu Elmer R. Noyer Rudy Schmick James V. Thompson James E. Torbet 1932 32% $1,560 Joseph L. Bean Richard F. Blaul Robert L. Burwell, Jr. Hon. James F. Campbell James W. Crabbe William F. Cullom Lee A. Gordy William C. Hoddinott James G. Mccurry WalterC. Mylander, Jr. c·William T. D. Pumphrey Henry S. Shryock, Jr. C. Vernon Williamson Sterrett Day Woods .·Rev. Fred Yerkes, Jr. 1933 11% $470 Dr. Stanley J. Bartis Nathaniel J. Chew Rev. C. Gilbert Hill Walter H. Hoffmeister J. H: Fielding Jukes c-David C. Ninde William A. Percy Harold W. Conn Henry M. Cooper, Jr. c-John H. Jr. Jerome D. uv•lluui!otl!l Jr. Anthony F. Mile to .'Roland Most . · Lewis E. Scheffenacker "Robel1'tA. Sindall, Jr. NormanV; Stevens · . Horace W. Witman . . i935 . 26% .John C. Donohue .· T. Bayard Evans • Walter ·Evers . M<:>rtori N. Fine · Lawrence Kantor · William T. Mason ··.Robert E. Reordan c.,E; Roy Shawn · . Dr. DaltonM. Welty RobertE. Williams, Jr. ·Frank K.Wilson · · James c~ Wilson, Jr.· , ·. · · Ri.chard S. Woodman 1936 22% $72'4 ThomasL; Carter- · Garnett Y. Clark Charles G. Goy Joseph B. Gray Dr: Charles J. Kibler c-Cyril R. Murphy, Jr. W. Robert Nethken Col. Wm. W. Smith, Jr. Richard B. Taylor Leroy G. Webster Charles T. Westcott 1937 29% $1,495 Dr. Fred Alexander Robert L. Boro Lt. Col. John H. Brown Alexander Jarrell AsburyW. Lee, III Dr. Franklin E. Leslie Okey E. Michael c·Merrill M. Mitchell John B. Owens Lewis Putzel Dr. Robert B. Sasscer Dr. Isadore Scher Col. Emanuel P. Snyder Edward C. Sommer Bert Spriggs 1938 15% $685 Louis Bachmann, Jr. c-Jac H. Bushong Israel Greengold John J. Lambros .1~ ,,. \· Philip A. Merers II J. S. Baker Middelton . Ferdinand H. Noble Dr. William C. Owens E. Peyton Ritchings Julius Rosenberg . William T. Ross Francis J. Townsend, Jr. 1939 19% $380 Frank B. Bauer c-James E. Boyle Arthur L. Budacz C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. Edward W. Hearn William J. Hopps Clarence L. Kibler Thomas L. MacNemar Dr. John 0. Neustadt Samuel Schenker Dr. Malcolm Silver William H. Spurgin 1940 7% $125 George T. Lyon, Jr. c-Wilbur Matz Robert H. Reynolds \1941 54% $2,375 Dr. Lewis M. Alexander Victor G. Bloede James W. Clark Paul R. Comegys Henry D. Cubbage William M. Darden Bruce Graybeal T. Lansdale Hill Albert J aeggin c-George McDowell Vernon M. Padgett, M.D. Henry M. Robert, III A. C. Sherrard, Jr. 1942 39% Robert C. Allen A �Wlllia.mA. Warren Bomnardt F. E. Burroughs JosephC. Hofmann, Jr. Bryce Jacobsen Thomas :Parran, Jr. e-Albert A. Poppiti William D. Rendall Rev. C. Robert Sutton A. Chesley Wilson, Jr. Jules Pagano Lawrellcell. Sherman WllliamW. Simmons L. Wheaton Smith 1941~16 $1,025 ' 2411 '890 . 1943 A. Scott Abbott C.B.Blaker Harvey Dubinsky Alan Eckhart c•Edward H. Grubb William T. Ha.rt Dr. John L. Hedeman Ogden Kellogg-Smith Alexander L. Slafkosky 1944 31% William H. Brubeck Edward Cochran y ernon E. Derr Dr. David Dobreer Carl S. Hammen Casimir T. Krol C. Russell Levering Paul Mellon Dr . .T. E. Prout Donald P. Ruhl Aarm M. Risberg . Jonathan it Brooks e-James W. Conrad Rev;,FM!erickP. Davis Rudolph C. Ellsworth Dt. Peter\r, H.amill Anten G. Hardy . AllaaHdmil Chester A. lohnson J)aVid B •. B.ea Erie Teel Dr. David. 1,, Weinstein i9IO 3•% $1,585, $5,850 · JaekL.Can Bernard. S. Clo~ty ,c;.Patrick D. Davis · Matson Ewell James H. Frame Robert L. Goldberg Robert A. Gcldwin Harrison Sasscer c-Haven E. Simmons John C. Smedley Dr. Joseph C. Smith Robert P. Snower Peter Wolff Warren M. Zeilt 1945 50% . $2/.dl Stephen W. Bergen JosephP. Blocher Judge George Brunn c-George Cayley Duane K. Furbush Dr. Christian A. Hovde RobertE. John Michael C. Keane Lt. Col. Ralph H. Kenney Arthur D. Kelso, Jr. William R. Lieb JohnD. Mack Frank B; Marshall Dr. Orsell M. Meredith Alexander B. Morse Edward W. Mullinix Charles A. Nelson Walter C. Paine Morris Parslow William E. Schaefer George P. Stacy, II Robert T. Thompson Gene P. Thorton Schuchman, Jr. c-HermanSmall 21% c-Alvin Aronson Thomas M. Carnes Paul G. Cree. Jr. A. Charles _ Manusov DavidE. M.Neumann 194629% Philip A,. Camponeschi Thomas]. c;osgrove Thomas I. Fulton John P. Gilbert Rev. John J. Lobell Vincent W. McKay Daniel Parker James W. Sharp c-Bruce H. Si$)! James T. Taylor, Charles Van Doren Peter Weiss 1947 Victor E. Barton Stephen Benedict John Brunn Peter Clogher Nathaniel Durlach · William P. Elliott H. Gerald Hoxby Dr. Archer Jones Joseph I. Killorin Ralph L. Klein I. Wendell Marine William W. Ross Mordechai Sheinkman Eugene V. Thaw John Van Doren ~-Georg_e Vansant . ' · Robert R. Weis_s__ DonaldG. C. Cave J. Davies $550 -"""15"A·'" B. c-\:reo:r2e Gerlach Greenfield RobertG. Paul Heineman ~ti:>wJ:&'rt ......... rn,..,. Tarcber 30% Richard Carter Jesse M. Clark c-James Gerald Gedlim~m Alfred Samuel V. Stiles 1955 27% Harold Bauer Elisabeth M. Chiera James P. Chrestensen AlE~xancu·a· Culbertson J enefer Ellingsto1;1. James W. Jobes, Jr. c-Janet B. Jump John E. Siemens, Jr. Rosalyn Rosenbaum Leizman Robley T. Levy' Faye CouncelYPolillo Pasquale L. Polillo 1957 . 38% $590 · Robert S. Bart Mary Sullivan Blomberg Cornelia Hoffman· Burdette Adrianne Laidlaw Jack A. Nadol c·J. Burt Siemens Dr. W. Douglas Weir Harvey Wynn Rosabelle Gould Wynn . 1958 33% $575 Ernie Adamson Patricia Grady Basine Alan P. Brockway c-Dr. Joseph M. Green Barton Johnson Roberta Markley Kingsley William Kingsley Naricy Eagle Lindley Michael K. Mechau Gerald K. Milhollan Christina Sopher Neumann Thomas Powell Cynthia Martwick Siemens 1959 20% $299 Hugh Curtler c-Lowell Dyar William F. Gleason Amy Carle Jobes Blakely Littleton Mechau .Peter Rice Carol Philips Titles William Titles Barbara Stowe Tower Sara Petty Woodruff Diane Hartwick Young 1960 24% $901 Betty Beck Bennett Rosalie Levine Boosin Robert B. Davis c-Mary Gallagher John Gorecki James W. Fastner, Jr. Sarah Robinson Munson Fiona Paul Dr. FrankB. Murray Frank M. Orr, III Peter J. Ruel Miriam Strange Kendon L. Stubbs Patricia Townsend Stubbs Michael V. Trownsell 1961 25% R. Douglas Bendall Victoria Meeks Blair-Smith Nana May Dealy Joseph J. Faraone Richard Freis c-Michael W. Gold Lon Gore Micha.el Ham John C. Kohl, Jr. Sarah Robinson Mara Linda Mueller McConnell Stephen Morrow Judith Lasky Ney· Eyvind C. Ronquist Dr. Paul Rosenberg 1962 25% $7 ,115 Dr. David W. Benfield Johan T. Benson Jam es R. Broschart Jonathan Cohen c-Daniel Cosgrove Elton R. Davis Deborah Sollars Fialka Dr. Barry Fisher Tina B. Kaplan W. James Klug, III Edward Mattison John David Pyle carmm Banks Leeuwenburgh Lowdenslager Barbara Brunner Oosterhout Arthur Reisz James W. Stone Howard P. Schiff David R. Schiller William D. Shafer Grant Smith Ellin Van Massenhove 1963 J. Golub Duhan Richard Duhan Scott Herman-Giddens James A. Houck Dr. Eric M. Kennell c-Dr. s. David Krimfns Sally Myers Moite J. Morrow Otis Elliott A. Rosenberg John W. Rumpp Peter Silitch .Andrew D. Stein~r Robert K. Thomas 1964 27% $2,592 Arlene Andrew Banks William P. Banks Patricia Carney Cefcarelli SamuelF. Dunbar William Dunkum, III Sanford Fernan Rixey Murray Gore~ Marica Herman-Giddens J obn Hetland Sara Hobart Homeyer F. Kay Huebner David R. Jordan Robert W. Klug JamesNach c-RobertL. November Carol D. Otis Lowell Shindler Jan Caldwell Thorpe Judith Stockard White John F. White Catherine Levin Zaoujal 1965 19% $1,874 Sharon Bishop Mark Bromberg Sophia Van Arsdale Brooks Bruce Collier Sandra Gillmeister Karl Diana Katz I Susan Roberts Leven Carol Hilder Massell Richard Massell John E. Merritt James R. Mcclintock Craig V. Mooring Bruce Preston Daniel Schiff Susan A. Smolin Edward Weinberger Michael J. Woolsey 21% Judith Abrams Bromberg Jaclyn Button Anne Lowry Dewees Richard R. Dewees Ian M. Harris Christopher Hodgkin Constance Bell Holland Carole Picardo Kelley David Levine c-David Londow Constance Baring-Gould Merritt Dan M. Peskoe Kay E. Randolph-Back Janet Huber Schiff Alfreda Verratti Goodrich Frances Borst Wright 1967 c-Gay Singer Baratta Sarah J. Bell Judith Schultz Cannon William F. Church, III William F. Cone Lovejoy Reeves Duryea Helen Hobart Feeley Rbert A. Heiniger Loren E. Kelley Arthur Kungle, Jr. Jack Wan Tien Leung Mark A. Clark Lobenstine Hope Z. Schladen Gregory Scott Deirdre Lenihan 1968 31% Stephen Anderton Stephen E. Bach c-Luther Blackiston Donald A. Booth Peter Coen Vicki Davis Cone Linda Rodman Elizabeth Dobbs AnnB. Garson Maria Whitaker Geissel Thomas P. Geyer Dorothea Wend Gillelan Joshua T. Gillelan Amelia R. Hummel Batholomew.Lee Ann Morin Levine David Levine C. Kerry Nemovicher George W. Partlow Deborah Schwartz Benaut · Gilbert Renaut Joe Sachs Eva Fass Sherman Lee Reichelderfer Tyner ·Dr. Charles B. Watson David Wigutoff 1969 22% $585 Vance M. Benguiat Linda Torcaso Bernstein Ben J. Cothran Dr. Bernard Davidoff Richard D. Ferrier Charlotte G. Fletcher (H) Maya Hasegawa Philip Holt Martin Kalmar Mark A. Mandel CharlesE. Maurer Deborah A. Moll Joan J. Mooring John A. Myers c-Dennis Rains Cheryl E. Sirofchuck M. Richard Stevens BryonE. Wall 1970 Maureen Roberta Ross Abby Schauben Brown Henry C. Constantine JohnR. Dean Ronald H. Fielding Dr. f~tenhen Form an Hitchcock Deboi·ah Warren Kalmar Arthur H. Luse, III Herbert C. Moffitt, III Connie Shaw Susan Smith Wigutoff 1971 22% _ J. Braunstein James A. Cockey Diane Love Collins Jeremiah A. Collins ThomasN. Day George H. Elias, Jr. c-J am es R. Hill Judy Kepner Maistrellis Helen Anastaplo Scharbach N. Sher Sherman Simnson Harold Stone Martha Kaufman Stone Dr. V. Michael Victoroff 1972 19% Philip T. Ansteth Bradley C. Arms Jane Boedecker Robin Kowalchuk Burk James Burress Christine Ferrarini Constantine Evan Dudilt David Finney Michael K. Green Elizabeth Molnar Hinton Ann M. Kinney Janet Nelson Dana E. Netherton Miss Deborah Papier Carol D. Shuh Pamela Starr Jeremy Whipple c-GrantWiggins Nancy I. Willis 1973 18% Edward Allen Ileana C. Basil Bloss Deborah R. Bowers Nancy Boyd Roland Davidoff Peter M. Fairbanks c-Jean Fitzsimon Kimi �Purpose Current Funds Unrestricted Restricted $436,087 153,784 -- Total Capital Funds Endowment Funds Plant Funds 589,871 , 105,661 •O· --105,661 Total Total Funds Raised $695,532 Source Board College Alumni Parents Friends Foundations Government N.M.I.C.A. $284,734 4,004 7,210 9,456 54,180 14,919 232,502 72,184 16,343 -ICA) -- Total Mrs. Brom well Ault Mr. and Mrs. J. Burchenal Ault Mr. Robert S. Bart Mr. Richard Burdge Mr. Jack M. Campbell Mr. andMrs. JohnR. Dodds Mr. James R. Donnelley Mrs. Walter B. Driscoll Mr. and Mrs. Walter F. Evers Mr. Stephen L. Feinberg Col. E. E. Fogelson Mr. James Frame Mr. John Greenway Mr. John T. Harrison, Jr. Judge and Mrs. B. C. Hernandez Mr. Jae Holzman · Mr. and Mrs. Daniel T. Kelly, Jr. Mr. Jerome LaPides Mrs. Julia J. Matthews Mr. and Mrs. Alexander K. McLanahan Theodore w. Hendricks, III Robin Chalek J annes Jeanne Harrison Mooring Donnel O'Flynn Elspeth Revere Paul M. Rosenberg Melissa Matthews Sedlis Dr. Steven Sedlis Jeffrey A. Sinks Robin Zenger 1974 20% Robin Kowalchuk Burk c-Thomas J. Dolan, Jr. Leslie Epstein Daniel Feinstein Richard A. Ferguson Kathryn Austin Ferrier Paul M. Heylman Steve Key James S. LeVan M~ 1\11ecca T: .• ·'"' rcisthilf O'Flynn Edmund F. Raspa, III John Rees v. '-'"1JLUV~ll! $695,532 Mr. and Mrs ..John G. Meem Mrs. Carlton Mitchell Mr. John Murchison Mr. Charles Nelson Mr. John D. Oosterhout Mrs. Duane L. Peterson Mr. John Robson The Honorable A. W. Schmidt Mr. Theodore H. Mr. J. I. Staley Mrs. L. Corrin Strong Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw Mr. and Mrs. A. Paul Thompson Mrs. Louise T. Trigg Dr. Thomas B. Turner Mr. and Mrs. Karl Van Tassell Mr. Charles Watts, II Dr. and Mrs. Richard D. Weigle Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Wells Dr. Dalton Welty Mr. and Mrs. John L. Williams Mr. D. Robert Yarnall Clare L. Shiprak Lester S. Silver Elizabeth J. Tracy Jeffrey I. Victoroff Theodore G. Wolff 1975 32% David J. Ashmore Gretchen Berg G. Kay Bishop Laura T. Bridgman Jon Church Matthew DeBacker Michael Dink Gershon Ekman George F. Ellis Sara Coulson Ellis Donald S. Feldman .Peter T. Fox M. Carla Garrettson Caren Greisman Michelle Geurrein January E. Hamill Michael E. Hendry $935 Miss Mary Branham, Mr. Samuel E. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Bunker Mr. and Mrs. Don B. Cook Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Crawford Dr. and Mrs. E. 0. Goodrich Mr. and Mrs. Dean Haggard Mr. and Mrs. R. Thomas Harris Mr. and Mrs. Emery C. Jennings Mr. Philip J. LeCuyer Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mantelli Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Miller Mr. and Mrs. RobertNeidorf Mr. and Mrs. Stanley C. Nordstrum Mr. and Mrs. Roger Peterson Ms. Alberta Rivera Mrs. Priscilla Rose Mr. Robert Sacks Mr. and Mrs. Thomas K. Simpson Mr. and Mrs. John S. Steadman Mrs. Alice H. Whelan Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Ballen A. 'Brewer Dr. and Mrs. III Mr. and Mrs. John F. Buchen Dr. Gerald J. Bronfin Mr. Leon Deane Mrs. Dorothy Van Doren Mr. and Mrs. George F. Dudik M!'. and Mrs. Sam Drolet Dr. & Mrs. H. A. Everett Mrs. Agnes Fansler Mr. and Mrs. RobertW. Faulhaber · Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Fest Dr. Fineberg Dr. and George A. Fowler Mr. and Mrs. Homer C. Fulks Mr. and Mrs. Francis Gerlits Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Girard Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Goldin Rev. and Mrs. Shirley Goodwin Mrs. Peggy Groves Mr. and Mrs. C. Hall Mr. and Mrs. ! .Hemm endinger Mr. and Mrs. Jam es L. Higham Ms. Mary Ann Hinshelwood Mr. and Mrs.Robert M. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Arnold C. Kimmel Mrs. Irving F. Mr. John L. Lightburn Mr. and Mrs. WilliamP. Lundy Mr. and Mrs. Albert U. Melli Mr, and Mrs. Lee Milner Elise Knapp Tyler M. Knapp Mary Rogers Kniaz Peter L. Kniaz Ruth Maassen Susan Mattis Harriet Quesenberry William Randolph s·ally Dobreer Raspa · RogerK. Ray Philip Reissman c-John Rogers Carey Stickney Thomas T. Tamlyn, Jr. Annette T. Tullier •Robert Tzudik:er K. C. Victor 1976 13% $283 Edward T. Burke Mary Cerullo Stephen R. Chew Paula Truitt Davidoff Susan Fitzpatrick DeBacker Joseph Di George James Dunn Mr. Sidney Moore Mrs. Maryrose V. Patrone Mr. & Mrs. Eliot Porter Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Regier Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Richman Mr. George Robson Mr. Sol Sacks Dr. J. H. Scanlon Mr. and Mrs. John A. Stern Mrs. Stella Strickland Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Schulak Mr. Albert Tortolini Mrs. Joan Unbehaun Mr. John A. Ware Mr. RobertH.Wechsler Mr. and Mrs. Alan Wicks Tien Hsing and Pei Hsing Wu Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Zinn Mr. and Mrs. Harold M. Mr. Robert C. Albers Ms. Anne Albrink Mr. and Mrs. C. I. Alexander C. Allred Mr. and Mrs. David Mr. and Mrs. Robert L.Amsden Mrs. Herbert L. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. RussellP. Andrews Mr. and Mrs. George E. Applegate Mr. and Mrs. Harold Argo Miss Alice Armstrong Mrs. Frank Armstrong Mr. and Mrs. Edmund F. Ball Dr. and Mrs. Harris Barber Mrs. Emily 0. Barnes Mr. and Mrs. David Barton Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bateman Mr. and Mrs. Ken Bateman Dr. John W. Bates Mrs. Winnabelle Beasley Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Beenhouwer Dr. and Mrs. Raphael Benjamin Mrs. Mills Bennett Mrs. George B. Berger, Jr. Miss Susan Berman Mr. Marshall Bond The Reverend and Mrs. Robert Boshen Mr. and Mrs. John Boylan Ms. Carol Boyle Mr. and Mrs. Norris E. Bradbury Brother Brendon Mr. and Mrs. James W. Brennan Dr. Kenneth Brooks &Sarah Otto Mr. Carl L. Broughton Mrs. Clara Browne David V. Glass Jane M. Hudson The Reverend and Mrs. James D. Brown Mrs. Mary Bryan Mr. and Mrs. Clay Buchanan Mrs. Nancy D. Buchenaur Mr. and Mrs. Sumner Buell Mrs. Margaret Burnett Mr. Clayton Campbell The Reverend Donald L. Campbell Ms. Juliet Charnas Mr. and Mrs. Courtney Carswell Mr. Jacques Cartier Mr. and Mrs. John B. Cartwright Mr, P. M. Casady Mr. and Mp;. William P. Caskey Mr. and Mrs. A. D. .Cernicek Mrs. Peggy Pond Church The Clark-Benton Gallery Miss Gertrude Clarke Mr. George M. Coates Mr. and Mrs. Saul Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Colgate Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Collins Miss Virginia Lee Comer Mr. and Mrs. C. James Cook Mrs. Theodore Cotter Mr. and Mrs. George A. Cowan Mrs. Jan Coxan Mr. John Crosby Mrs. Jean Critchfield Miss Nina J. Cullinan Mr. and Mrs. John M. Currie :Mr. and Mrs. Georges Dapples Mrs. Eleanor DeGhize Dr. and Mrs. R. C. Derbyshire Mr. and Mrs. David Davenport William G. Davey Endicott P. Davison Mr. Sam Dazzo Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth D. .IU''-JU<4!Jlf'> Jr MJss E. Dempsey Mr. William F. Denious, Jr. Mrs. J. R. Dion Lt. Gen. and.Mrs. H. C. Donnelley Mr. 9.nd Mrs. J.B. Donnelley Mr. William Dougherty Mrs. James Doyle Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Driscoll Mr. Joseph Drown Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Duffield Dr. Bertha P. Dutton Mr. and Mrs. V. G. East Miss Ginger Evans Mrs. Betty Binkley Farrar Mr. Leo D. Fialkoff Mrs. Vivian Sloane Fiske Mrs. E. M. Foley Mr. David C. Forbes Mr. Robert E. Fox Mr. and Mrs. Robert Frank Mr. and Mrs. J. Arthur Freed Mr. and Mrs. Denis P. Galvin M/M Denis P. Galvin o 1978 Philip Jemielita Jacob Klein (H) c-Katherine Lufkin Kimberley Beaton Quintero Jeffrey B. Shea Joan Silver 1971 18% Charles W. Borden AnTI ~rowning Girard B. Davidson Grant H. Franks Marlene Strong Franks Lynne Gately Erica Lerner Glass Edward F. Grandi ,Rachel McKay Cornelia P. J. Miller Cynthia D. Nash Julia Perkins Vicki Cass Phillips Janis S. Popowicz Robin M. Street Chela R. Weiler Graduate Institute Raquel Bech Marjorie H. Davis Walter W. Dudley Carol Hinds Cecilia Holtman Robert S. Johnson Mary Pat Justice Miriam B. Kalis Idell Kesselman Lois B. Martin Terry W. Milligan Nedra Phillips Gwendolyn R. Morgan Virginia S. Newlin Richard Rickard Sandra N. Robinson Darrold K. Smith Megan Tyndall Ann Wall �Patricia v.:u:uu~;u Mrs. C. Garcia . Mr. and Mrs. John S. Gianardi Mrs. Fabiola C. DeBaca Gilbert Mr.and Mrs. H. H. Gilkyson · Miss Katherine Gladfelter General and Mrs. McG. Goodwin Mr. and Mrs. Loren D. Gordon. Mr. and Mrs. LE. Metzge,r Mrs. H. F:.Grand-Girfird . Mr. Donald Miller · Dr. and Mrs; Bruce Greenfield Mr. 'l'. C. Milne .. Mr. David Greenhood Mrs. Carmen Moore Mr. and Mrs; Kenneth 'Grubb·· ·Mrs. Henry,Motz Mr. and Mrs. Martin Gursky Mr. andMrs ..JohnH.Muc,hmore Miss Lily Hagerman ' Mr. and Mrs. Har,vey Mudd,II · Mrs. Suzanne Harkins Mr:. and Mrs. Allan R Murphy Mr. andMrs.DavidB. Hall . Mrs. Elsa Naumann Mr. and.Mrs. EdwardT. Hall Mr. GuyNeff · Mr.and.Mr.s. Donald B. Hamilton . Mr. and Mrs. Sam L. Neidorf · :Mr.J.StewartHarvey. . Mrs.. Nancy B.Nishkian . Mr. arid Mrs. E. A. Hassebrock. Mr. and Mrs; Ralph O'Connor ·Mr. and Mrs. Leori Heller Mr. and Mrs. CarlF; .J.Overhag~ .. · Dr. John B,. Hibbs Mrs. Aileen Paul . ·· Mrs. David Higham. · Mr ..and Mrs. Forbes Pennycook Mr. and Mrs. John Hightower Mr. and Mrs, Gene Petchesky Mr. and Mrs: George F. Hocker Mr ..imd Mrs. Melvin Pfaelzer . Mr. and)\frs. Herman Hoerlin Dr. and Mrs. Alfred Pinkerton Mr. Allan P. Hoffman Mrs. E. N. Pollock Dr. and Mrs. Irwin Hoffman Mrs. Marcella Powers · Mrs. Cecilia Holtmari ·Mr. Thomas W. Prisloe Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hoyt Mr. and Mrs. Leslie M" Redman Mr. and Mrs. William Huey Ms. Mary Riedell Mr. and Mrs. William E. Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Rivin Mr. andMrs. Sy Hyman The Reverend Milton Rohane , Mr. RobertH. Irrmann Mr. and Mrs. Louis Rosen Mr. and Mrs. Gardner Jencks Mr. and Mrs; Roy Rosen Mrs. Percy Jones Mrs. Edgar L. Rossin Mrs. Richard Joppa Dr. and Mrs. DeWitt Safford Mr. and Mrs. August Kaiser Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sandstrom. Mrs. Barbara Kauffman Mr. and Mrs. Ralph S. Saul Dr. F. F. Khedroo Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Saunders Dr. and Mrs. Rudolph Kieve Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Sawtell Mr. L. D. P. King Mrs. C. Wenzell Schenck Mrs. •Elizabeth Kingman Mr. and Mrs. George Schloss Ms. Beth Kirchhoff Mrs. 0. R. Sellers · Mr. Donald S. Klopfer Mr. H. D. Sharp Miss Evelyn Knight Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Shaw Dr. and Mrs. Paul J. Kovnat Mr. and Mrs. Abe Silver, Jr. MR. and Mrs. Walter Kunz Mr. William A. Small, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. David Kyger Mr. Forrest Smith Mr. and Mrs. Hubert W. Lamb Drs. Carol a.nd Marcus Smith Mrs. Gertrude Landman Mrs. Virginia H. Smith Mrs. Sara Jane Laselle Mr. and Mrs. Harold Soderberg Mrs. Loraine Lavender Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Spiegel Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Lazarus Mr. Richard L. Spivey Mr. and Mrs. John Lenssen Mrs. Elizabeth Sprang Miss Marion Lew Mr. and Mrs. Paul Stein Mr. and Mrs. H. Ralph Lewis Mr. and Mrs. Richard Martin Mr. and Mrs. David Liberman Stern Mr. and Mrs. James R. Lilienthal Mr. Donald G. Stevens Mr. George W. Linn Mrs. Barbara C. Stevenson Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Livingston Dr. and Mrs. William Stone Mr. and Mrs. Anton Long The Reverend George U. Stracke Mr. and Mrs. Owen Lopez Mrs. Phoebe Sumner Mr. and Mrs. James Lorie Mr. and Mrs. Bergen R. Suydam Dr. and Mrs. James E. Loucks Mr. and Mrs. Richard Taschek Mr. and Mrs. Lamar Lunt Mr. and Mrs. Antonio J. Taylor Mr. William I. MacGillivray Mrs. Jean Thomas Ms. Anna Mack Mr. and Mrs. Leland Thompson Mr. and Mrs. J. Carson Mark Miss Susie Tixier Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Markowitz Mr. and Mrs. Ralph S. Trigg Mrs. Christine Mather Mr. and Mrs. James Tuck Mr. and Mrs. William Mauldin Mr. Billy Turnbull Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mayer Mr. and Mrs. Robert Turner Mrs. Beverly Mccrary Mr. and Mrs. John Tuthill Mr. and Mrs. Scott McCulloch Mrs. Margaret Twyman SANTA FE - At a time when could not understand why more most discussions between near· American Ph.D.'s do not take Easterners and Americans are advantage of the Graduate Inabout oil, economics, and stitute to "complete their politics, St. John's in Santa Fe education." and Annapolis this summer · The program of Middleparticipated in one of the few cultural exchanges on an in- Easterners began last year when J. B. Ault, vice-president, Santa tellectual level. Fe, made a trip through Egypt, Six Mid-Eastern students, all Bierut, Jordan, Kuwait, Iran, with doctorates, spent the Saudi Arabia, Syria, and the UN summer at Santa Fe. Their Emirates. Mr. Ault obimpressions were recorded in Arab support from the Reader's tained radio interviews and newspaper Digest-DeWitt Wallace: Founa stories in New Mexico. Their and the ComimnrP~~ion was that ni unic a tion Agency of Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Alan C. Vedder Mr. JamesP. Ward w. Wardman Mrs. . Mrs. S. Mr. and Mrs. and John C. and Mrs, JohnT; Watson and Mrs. Robert ff, Weil and Mr·s. HerbertWeinstein Samuel Weston Mrs. K. Rose Wood · Mr. and Mrs. E. R. (N?d~Wood . Mr ..Charles .A. Yourig 1968 67 83 77 56 1970 1972 . 1973 7 10 ' 7 84 110-' 1977 ·.Total 1 .l,024 102 .· four1dation. Giving . lumni. . ·.The Vincent Astor Foundation Charles Ulrick and Josephine Bay Foundation · ·Edwin J. Beinecke Trust The Brown Foundation The ·Morris K. and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Cities. Service Foundation . Robert Sterling Clark Foundation Continental AirUnes Foundation A. B. Dick Foundation The Ensign-Bickford Foundation Gannett Newspaper Foundation The Hoffberger Foundation Houston Endowment · INA Foundation The Henry Luce Foundation The .Edward John Noble Foundation The Reader's Digest Foundation The Riot Relief Fund Sears-Roebuck Foundation The Thorne Foundation The DeWitt Wallace Fund Mr. Bottle Carl's Pontiac-Buick Dendahl's, Inc. Durham's Cadillac Fayez Sarofim & Company Healy-Matthews Stationers Household Finance International Business Machine Corp. A. and H. Montgomery Morgan Guaranty Trust Company Mullen & Sullivan New Mexico Independent College Association Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Jam es H. Russell Agency Santa Fe Imported Cars Santa Fe Lincoln-Mercury and Toyota Texas Eastern Trans. Corp. Time Incorporated Transamerica Corp. · Vergara Printing Company Yarway Corporation Washington. They also came with the support of their own government. The Santa Fe students included Dr. Gholam Reza Ghanadan, Ferdowsi University, Iran; Dr. Nebile Direkcigil, University of Istanbul; Dr. Wail Benjelloun, Mohammed V, University of Morocco; Dr. Havva Houshmand, National University of Iran; Dr. Ossama Abul-Haggag, Cairo University, and Dr. Reza of no rs Class of 1968 -:- $360 ~ Vicki S. Brown Todd Everett George Bingham Ann Harlan Aug~ta Goldstein Conme (Weigle) Mann Class of 1969 - $709 Frank Adams Rbert Chassell Daniel Cleavinger William Cromartie Mrs. Alexandra Dorner Lee Mc:Kusick Peter Naumburg Robert Rosenwald, Jr. Capt./Mrs. Carl Severance Rev. John Strange Joseph Tooley Mrs. Carol Lightner Tucker Class of 1970 - $219 Thomas Hoover Sushiela Horwitz Beth Kuper M/M Christopher Nelson M/M Douglas Shaller Class of 1971- $1,994 George Brown, Jr. Amanda (Fowler) Stimson (Pledged) Mrs. Dean Haggard . Margaret Jacobs Mary Pat Justice Dennis Plummer John Melarkey & Dolores Strickland Class of 1972 - $860 Mark Appleby Philip Ansteth Joseph Burroughs Seth Cropsey Glenn Gladfelder Charlotte Gray Pat Hanson Juan Hovey Tony Jeffries Pauline Pederson Louise Romanow Herley Sharp -· '10% Barbara Harry M/MPaulKnudsen Mrs. T. K. Jeffries Constance McClellan MichaelMongeau Joan Paine Ann Ray Eric Springsted David Weaver Class of 1974 - $248 M/M.David Allison (Ymelda Martinez) SallyR. Bell. Elizabeth Goldwin Catherine Gordon M/M David Maclaine Mrs. Lois Martin Donald Merriell Rachel Trueblood Phillip Weathers Michael Wood Class (Mrs.) Ellen Anderson (Unbehaun) Ann Claassen Leslie Johnson Kristin Lucas Margaret Sheehan DickSkaug M/M Jonathan Teague Class of 1976 - $408 Khalil Ayoub Lauren Baillard Agnes Borzo Chris Burks/Janet Moody Thomas Byrnes Pablo Collins Mark Copper Eric Freeman Charles Gunter Carol Highsaw Glenda Holladay Bridget Houston Dick Lightburn Mrs. Victor Mansure (Debbie Reynolds) AlanMcVay Barbara Skaug Rachel Trueblood Denise Waxman Class of 1977 - $284 Luis Ca barillos Rebecca Ann Davis Michael Dubetz Lawrence Clendenin James Gollin Paula Lundy Class Gift Class of 1978 Susan Johnson Class of 1973 -'- $230 M/M Galen Breningstall Kathleen Callender Steven Goldman (Continued from P. 1) tland, Seattle, Minneapolis, Kansas City, St. Louis) Dallas, San Antonio, Houston, Phoenix, Denver and Chicago. Tu.tors participating will be John Verdi, Alfreda Verratti, Jack R. Steadman, Steve Van Luchene and Philin Le are in 17% 6% 1% ' 19 7 . 113 122 1978 I 12 108 93 ' 1976 · Zachariasen · · · · · .Dr. and M;rs. S. R. Ziegler . · 6 111' 1974 1975 Mr; anqMrs~ D. W. H. 8 9% 16% 9% 14% 11% 11% 11% 9% 13 and will be selected for other cities this year. They include Dr. David Dobreer (A '44) and Mrs. Dobreer, Los Angeles and San Diego; Betty Bennett (A '60) and Bartholomew Lee (A '68), San Francisco; Regina Forsythe (A '68), Dallas; Barbara PrenGI '72), Houston, and '70), �wishes for ordination Episcop:al church. 1977 In Julia Perkins left her pm:mcm with the Babcock Foundation Carolina and is 11>nt·,pr11n0' prE~parat1on at Medicine in and his old friends June. He spent July urnr1dn0' in general at 1101DKIJ1s Hospital. persons took in the alumni summer seminar programs this year Santa Fe. _ the first session centered around William and Jam es, Wallace :StE~vens. de and Leibnitz. second week alumni discussed Moliere, Plato, and Hannah Arendt. VU<UUA.> . . month. 1976 - Santa Fe From David Shapiro comes tbis word from "I finished my year's apunthe her prE~cec1entea number of over 30, one way or another were damaged so I was - too busy. I was also, the first time, supervisi" myself, and the fudge factor repairing a plane - overnight, no less - just ain't as big as in a St. John's lab! I never suffered from nervous exhaustion before, even while working on my senior essays. "I made a lot of friends, even had some time to enjoy myself, and got job offers from all over, including one that's irresistible and probably too good to be true, involving building a prototype glider, doing original inflight r.esearch, and working toward an aeronautical engineering degree, all at the same time, perhaps a mile from my old house in Melbourne, no less! "Until then - next summer - I plan to travel around Europe for a few months and then return to work at Schempp-Hirth and a glider for myself during those long, winter nights. I might even return to the U.S. sometime. Meanwhile, anyone who's got the urge : can write c/o SchemppHirh, 7312 Kirchheimteck, West and, of course, feel in. I do miss Santa Fe, . .Maybe next summer ... 1976 John Bukacek in July was scheduled to move to Kyoto, Japan, to continue his work as a Montessori teacher. He reports a short visit from Brian in January and also tells us that Paul Krol graduated from engineering school at the University of Illinois and was to work for IBM in Tucson, Arix. Kate Lufkin sent a good letter in July, bringing us up to date on the addresses of some of her classmates (why is the Alumni Office always the last to know?) and herself. This fall she is starting work toward an M.A. in theology at the Graduate _ writes to correct an error in the June issue: she is studying international affairs, not theology, at Columbia. Teachout, who left us after one year to follow the call of reports that he is a music critic for the Kansas City Star and in charge of "mainstream jazz" and secondstring man for classical music, and contributes book reviews and features. This summer Terry attended the Aspen Festival as a Fellow, of the Music Critics Association, one of seven chosen competitively. He also does freelance writing, arranging, and playing (piano and bass) for fun and profit. Graduate Institute The following from Virginia Newlin, GI '74: "St. Johnnies can always pick each other out of a crowd. At Crosby Hall, residence for University women in London, Virginia Newlin and Fanny Rinn looked at each other, thought there was a certain glint in each other's eye, and found that it came from the summer of 1973, spent together at the Graduate Institute in Santa Fe. "Immediately they were off for a pub. Fanny was on a sabbatical from San Jose State University and was taking in Shakespeare on her way to Greece. Ginnie had been in London writing a_ novel and was finishing a second Master's degree through Antioch's Centre for British Studies. "They both suggest that St. Johnnies who belong to the AAUW reserve a room at Crosby Hall, Cheyne Walk, London for their stay in the city. "Newlin and Rinn would be glad to welcome them if they're back from the pub." Ginny Newlin also reports that -she will present a short talk on going to St. John's Graduate Institute on BBC's Woman's Hour in the early fall. She has had two short stories broadcast by BBC's "Morning Story Hour." I 1920 - Roger W. Peck, Tacoma, Wash. 1923 - Paul L. Banfield, Bethesda, Md., June 6, 1978. 1933 - Dr. Stanley J. Bartis, Nashua, N.H., May 16, 1978. 1935 - Wycliffe R. Eddy, Collinsville, Conn., June 1977. 1935 - David Newtown, Conn., ~-- 197)'.t J. Howard McWilliams, Huntington Beach, Cal., May 29, 1978. - Thomas Johnson, Cairo, Ga., May 15, 1978. 1951 Theodore L. Hcpkins 1937 - Faculty /Honorary Alumnus - Jacob Klein, Others attending included Gretchen Dale Cummings, Don Cummings, Jack Homann, Patricia Mager, Theodore Merwin, Rachel Sullivan, Elizabeth Trujillo, Herbert Weinstein, Michael Woolsey, Thomasina Brown, John Cantwell, Toni Drew, Sally Dunn, Todd Everett, Hugh Himwich, Susan Johnson, Debby _.,........,uw.,, Judy Kistler, Vernon Padgett, Nedra Phillips, Lucille Quintana, Linda Stabler, Jon Teague, and Rany Teague. • at -Arthur Kungle Photo • tropical beach, I expect - palms, cuisine isn't the best. In Togo, West Africa, Corry sand, banana trees, etc. Lome is · "They will make a pate (pasty Miller has discovered that a busy place. There are quite a stuff) out of nearly any starch Rachel Roberts, who has just corn, manioc, few paved roads and many dirt available graduated from the Santa Fe ones, busy with the traffic of igname (the potato-like root here, campus, is a member of the same hundreds of tiny Renault taxis much drier), and will eat huge Peace Corps group which Corry quantities of same, dredging it in (100 francs a ride, less than 50¢), joined early this summer. "How · people, mopeds, goats, chickens, a sauce made of anything about that?" writes Corry. "I available. Available are etc. really didn't expect another St. "There isn't much sanitation in tomatoes, okra (it's really gross, Johnnie in a of 70. It is Togo, and often it's a pretty makes the sauce of a disgusting indeed some of small smelly place. Along thf roads, consistency), onions, chicken, world." too, are women seated, selling goat, dog, beer, mutton, fish Now living in Solcode in a house fruit and hot food (like colicoes, ·(complete - bones, guts, etc.), with seven other persons, Corry sort of French fries, or beans and various local nameless flora and is speaking French almost all the rice, or brochettes, or fried fauna. 1 haven't seen termites in time and preparing to teach doughnut-like balls) and candy a sauce yet, anyway. Well, some math, far more difficult than sauces are better than others, and soap and all kinds she had imagined because the get used to it. We do eat a "Those. who aren't seated are and French aooroach to math is very constantly oromenadin2 with lot yovo food; yovo is the local _ different from word for white man. The bakeries what she believes is ·the more here turn out great bread, and in m::il"til"::il anoroach in the United cities you can cheese, saie. are all etc. These things are not incredible African cloth their initial six weeks but luxuries are always here, incredibly beautiful and Rachel lived of and colors. Most often welcome." dorm. Corry's address is: Miss the women have a blouse made of LIVED with our profs, Cornelia Miller, Corps de la one cloth and a skirt too, around 20 ycmng, intelligent, B.P. 3194, Lome, Togo, W. Africa. wrap of same , and charming themselves and fasten it with a students,'' tuck. Men for the most taught us part dress in nants and shirts French, ate meals with us, western showed us the good bars in the "THE TOGOLESE love a good Jonathan D. Krane, who obarea, and generally became our friends. The Togolese in general party. Weekends here really get tained his degree from the Yale are wonderful people. They are hopping. Everyone packs into the Law School in 1976, is practicing unfailingly patient with our bistros and dances. Everyone law with the Los Angeles firm of French. After all, it is their dances, rather like St. John's. Irell and Manella where he is second (or third) language, too. The local beer here-Biere specializing in the area of infamous ternational corporate taxation. They al'.e · also friendly and Benin-is jus A Watson Fellow recipient welcoming and seem to love all throughout West Africa. It is American ... Our reception wonderful stuff, strong like a following his graduation from the has been very warm. Our Europe an beer ... And the Santa Fe campus in 1972, Mr. teachers are tireless, seemingly; Togolese will dance on and on .Krane recently published an they are always ready to help; into the night. You're wondered article dealing with domestic they want us to succeed very at if you stop around 2 o'clock. So taxation and has assisted a Yale much and are very conscientious. we've had some good parties professor in the preparation of a multi-volume treatise which will ' "So what's it like in Togo? here." Corry has found the African cover all offederal taxation. Well, the beach is like any �The tlistinguished American historian, Louis L. Snyder. '28. will lecture here on September 29 at Homecoming as one Clf St. John's traditional "orators before the alumni," a phrase which dates back at St. John's to the 19th century and the founding of the Alumni Association. Professor Snyder will be at St. John's as a member of the Golden Anniversary Class of 1928 which will be celebrating its 50th anniversary. A native of Annapolis, Professor Snyder, who recently retired from City College of New York after an association there of 44 years, will address alumni and the college community at 8: 15 p.m. in the during one of the night lectures. His (Continued from P. 1) prepared by the architectural firm of Michael and Michael, Inc., of Alexandria, Va. These call for additional floor space for volleyball and badminton as well as for an indoor-outdoor swimming pool. Squashhandball courts will be added. The old basketball court and indoor running track and- specialist on World War Reich, and. Nationalism, Dr. ha! written 55 books and five L1 press or being completed. Roocs of Germa11 Nationalism is scheduled for early publicatio'.L A recent book, The Drf yfus Case: A Documentary ID;tory, published jn 1974, won hi.m the Anisfield-Wolf · Prize in Race Relations. His long list of books dates back to 1932 when he published Hitlerism: The Iron Fist in Germany, in which he predicted Hitler's rise to power, his alliance with Mussolini, the war with France, and the persecution of the Jews. LOUIS l. SNYDER Walter Lippman dismissed the book at the time with the comment, "Youth is inclined to exaggeration." Dr. Snyder, who. had just received his doctorate in 1931 from the University of Frankfurt-am-Main, today considers the book "a bad one full of prophecies." In actual fact, most of the prophecies proved correct. His wife, Ida Mae Brown, doubles as editor and "unofficial collaborator" for many of his works which include The Meaning of Nationalism (1954); Documents of German History (1958); The Ma.king of Modern • ; (Continued from P.1) Spring of 1979. This date might be mitte~. It also calls for regular advanced if it were deemed meetings · of the Executive desirable. Committee at relatively frequent This date might be advanced if it intervals, perhaps every six or were deemed desirable. eight weeks. "Meanwhile, the board has The committee said the St. asked me to continue as president John's College F-0undation would until June 30, 1980, unless the serve as an operating arm of the polity were changed earlier, and .board and be responsible to it. I were asked to assume and "The central and continuing accepted the proposed position of obligation of the foundation president of the St. John's College would be the procurement of Foundation." proper endowment funds for the Emphasizing the point that "all entire institution,'' the report administrative structures are stated. imperfect," the Watts Committee "While the committee neither recommends that, because of the seeks nor would accept far-reaching effects of its · jurisdiction in matters of perproposals, the Polity Review sonnel, it does not seem improper Committee set a specific time for to us to suggest that, should careful review of the effects of the recommendations. It President Weigle see this as a satisfactory elaboration of his, suggested the time for review be four years hence. long commitment to St. John's, The Watts Committee, which he would make an ideal president reached its conclusions after of the St. John's College Foundation,'' it noted parenthetically. . considering several possible alternatives for administrative Mr. Weigle, who is now 66, is· patterns, stressed .that its founbeginning his 30th year as dation - two president plan president of St. John's. Like a number of faculty and staff· evolved as a result of the college's present financial crisis. members, he has continued to serve after his 65th year, the "It is clear that what goes on in normal age for retirement at St. the classrooms at St. John's goes J'ohn's. on effectively and well," the committee . said. "It is equally "Should the board decide upon clear ... that our financial needs, a new ,~administrative especially for endowment, are organization for St. John's •College, Polity amendments very great indeed and must be met rapidly if those classrooms would be necessary," Mr. Weigle and their people are to continue has advised the faculty. fr'fHE NORMAL TIME table to prosper." Under the plan, the foundation for the next quinquennial review ' would be headed by its own of the polity would call for salaried president, who would be review election of a provide~ wi!!l adequate staff a:11d committee by in serv '1the necessary travel and en· tertainment funds. "THE CHAIRMAN of the St. Johri's College Boarffwould serve as chairman of the foundation's own board, and a member of each class of the Board of Visitors and Governors would serve also on the foundation board, along with a limited number of other persons whose interest in St. John's is deep." It suggested the foundation might wish to establish an advisory council made up of men and women who respect the college. The council would meet once a year. "This decision would shift the major fund-raising burden, that of seeking endowment funds, to a specialized and vital agency, would focus the talent of those members of the college's board who might be asked to serve on the foundation's board, and would permit the addition ·of other supporters to the board of the foundation. Acting nationally, and serving both Annapolis and Santa Fe, it seems probable' that the foundation and its president could add a new dimension to St. . John's." THE WATTS COMMITTEE recommends a president for each campus who would be the chief exec.utive officer of the campus he serves. Each would be assisted by - a dean and a treasurer. "Each president would immerse himself deeply in the affairs of his own campus and region," the report states. "His fund-raising tasks (hardly small Man: Western Civilization since 1500 (1972); The Blood and Iron Chancellor: A Documenta..ry Biography of Otto von Bismarck (1967), and Frederick the Great (1970). His book, The War: A Concise History, 1939-45 (1961), has been translated into 12 languages. Among the honors he has received have been a Ford Foundation Fellowship in 1952, a Rockefeller Grant for Amsterdam, and a Professorship at of Cologne, West Germany, in 1975. In 1976 Professor Snyder gave 45 radio interviews on his Encyclopedia of the Third Reich. His most recent book, Varieties of Nationalism, was named "outstanding academic book of 1977" by the Library Journal, and he himself was named "Literary Luminary" at the 12th annual New Jersey Writers Conference. Last summer he was featured on the David Suskind TV show on a panel of "Hitlermania." rm will be retained, but new men's and women's locker rooms will be built, and the present exercise rooms will be redesigned. Mr. Weigle said that Iglehart Hall, erected in 1910, has long been in need of renovation and enlargement to meet the needs of St. John's voluntary- athletic program, which emphasizes individual and intramural sports. Two-thirds of the student body participate in it. He expressed the gratitude of the college community to the trustees of the Kresge Foundation for this significant challenge He said that the would have effect the general health and well of the students. Weigle said he considers the grant a vote of confidence in St. John's on the part of the Kresge Trustees, for less than one sixth of the institutions reciuesUI1~ grants received them. Kresge Foundation made only 203 grants this year after having considered 1,229 qualified applications. Most grants were for construction and renovation of facilities and almost always required the raising of additional money on a · challenge basis. THIS IS THE third grant re~eived by St. John's from the foundation toward construction programs. Both earlier grants were made to the Santa Fe campus . of at this moment) would be limited to procuring funds necessary to meet any anticipated operating deficit ... "Organizational purists might well prefer, given the committee's commitment to maintain a single program and polity, a single office of the president governing both campuses. The committee believes, however, that St. John's present circumstances strongly suggest the course we have proposed above. Our proposal would, we believe, lessen certain present ad· ministrative problems and, of course, provide greater fundraising energy for the whole institution." In declaring that the board "must now perhaps as never before regard itself as the force which both sustains and unifies St. John's," the committee suggested certain changes. It noted that more of the chairman's time may now well be required. "So that great continuity may be achieved in this office, we propose that, upon his election, it be deemed he or she has at that moment commenced the first of the two three~year terms permitted under the polity, however many years he or she may have previously served as a board member." THE CHAIRMAN of the board would serve as the Executive Committee chairman, which also would include the board's two vice-chairmen, the chairmen of the Visiting Committees, the Finance Committee, and the Admissions Committee~ "Given St. John's present precarious financial situation,'' , the report said, "the committee also urges that the Finance Committee be particularly attentive to matters of longer range budgeting as well and, indeed, that it develop contingency plans for the board." It suggested a new standing board committee on admissions and no change in the present Visiting Committees. Besides Mr. Watts, members of the ad hoc committee include Sharon Bishop, Dr. David Dobreer, Bernard Fleischmann, and James Frame, all alumni, along with James Donnelley, Dorothy Roudebush, and Robert Yarnall. In Annapolis the faculty committee now studying the Watts report is headed by the Rev. J. Winfree Smith, chairman, and includes Edward G. Sparrow, dean; Charles T. Elzey, treasurer, and two other senior members of the faculty, Douglas Allanbrook and Thomas J. Slakey. - The Santa Fe- faculty has chosen a committee of five senior tutors, all of whom have taught on both campuses. It will be chaired by former Santa Fe Dean William A. Darkey and will include another former dean of the western campus, Robert . A. Neidorf. Other committee members are Dean Haggard, David Jones, and Thomas K. Simpson. The two committees plan to issue separate reports to �St. John's present housing shortage will be alleviated this fall when apartments in an 18th century Georgian mansion on Prince George Street are occupied by students, and the house itself becomes a new center for college functions. The house, known as the Dorsey House, was presented the college as a· gift in December, 1973, Dean Edward G. Sparrow. Thirteen students will occupy separate apartments there. Use of the house will enable the college to free common rooms in college dormitories, which it has been forced to convert to bedroom space iIJ 11revious years to acc~0Ilnm,1oaar.e capacity enrollments. Vice President William B. Dunham said the first floor of the Dorsey House, located at 205-213 Prince George Street, will be reserved to provide much needed space for such college functions as receptions and meetings. It includes a drawing room, dining room, main hallway, and kitchen. The drawing room opens through French doors into ·a boxwood garden, considered one of the most beautiful in Anna11ous. "The Dorsey House will a lovely setting for members of the college comstudents, parents, trustees, and Mr. Dunham said. "We are deeply grateful to Mr. Sparrow for the gift of< mother's home to the college. will provide a warm welcome and great pleasure to visitors. In addition, it will give invaluable help in relieving crowding in the dormitories." Two rooms set aside for college community use will include dining and drawing rooms. Mr. Dunham said the college has a beautiful table and glassed-in break-front that can be used in the dining room, but other furniture will be needed for the drawing room as well as rugs for rooms the and hall. The historic significance of the is yet to be thoroughly Historic Annapolis ,records indicate. A plaque of the iDaughters of the American Revolution identifies it as the house of Major Edward Dorsey iand the location for the first iMaryland Assembly in 1695. 1 I ! I . According to Former Maryland State Archivist Morris Radoff, however, Dorsey is a misnomer for the house. He states that the real Dorsey House is located near College Creek. HisJoric An- reports that a house may have been standing at the Prince George Street location in 1740, which may have been destroyed by fire. It may have been rebuilt by John Brice in 1766. Between 1865 and 1937 the house was known as the Marchand Mansion. In 1958 it was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas 0. Warfield, who restored it and developed the boxwood gardens. Georgian in style and of Flemish bond brick with belt courses, it has received alterations in both Greek and Italianate styles. • There's no question in Harry mind how to describe second session of the , Institute. "It was is because it gathered together what he termed a constellation of people,'' men women and one sixteen-year-old School student who constituted a exceptionally motivated lot, "wonderful people - alive, intelligent adults" who were there because they to learn history or to in a segment in philosophy and theology, the first unit of the institute has been offered here. And among participants were the Arabs - three from Jordan along .with two students from Turkey. One Near . Eastern participant particularly soaking up all the institute has to offer With a 1977 bachelor's degree behind him from Kenyon, James McDonald, 23, entered St. John's Annapolis campus as a freshman this fall. It is the mathematics and science which brought him. "And in math, it is the booksEuclid, Ptolemy, and Coper" he said. "I'm very, very excited about beginning study." Mr. McDonald concluded his college education with the conviction that there were still things he wanted to understand at an undergraduate level. After having had no mathematics since his sophomore vear in he had floum!ering around in a course in calculus Kenyon and then discovered there was no way at he could take the regretted the lack of from a historical n,p1·~ni:>i'tnri:> as it is taught at St. John's. Now he wants both. A resident.of Rocky River, 0., Mr. McDonald heard. from St. John's first a Victoria John's alumnus Jonathan E. Brooks, also of River, a suburb of Cleveland. He visited the campus a of times. enough to gain an was Professor Abdel Rabbai, of Albarha, Jordan, who plans to take some of the St. John's method home to his classes. The Near Eastern group came to St. John's under a program arranged J. Burchenal Ault, vice-president of the Santa Fe campus. It was financed by the United States International Communications Agency, the Readers Digest jointly with the DeWitt Wallace Fund, and by the sending country. Geoffrey Comber, director of the Annapolis program, said there was no need for a master's program, which the GI offers, for fully half of the 36 persons attending. Eleven already had their master's, and seven others came . with doctorates in anthropology, -Arabic language and literature linguistics, political science, law, classroom time as that .of humanities students at Kenyon. Since he had no laboratory science there, he can't compare the laboratory class time. Financially, he will be on his own since his parents already have assisted him in obtaining one degree. While sympathetic toward his desire to come herehe has no academic goal to be achieved by a certain time-he said they would have preferred that he start on a master's. "But a BA here is at least as good as an MA elsewhere," Mr. McDonald said with the loyalty of someone quite convinced of the rightness of what he is doing. From the Alumni comes the former students let the colknow as soon as possiof any address '"""'§"'"'· come in at the rate about 300 a month, and for those made by the the must pay 25 cents. The colwould like new addresses as much as six weeks in advance whenever They may be to Mrs. Jan .of the (Continued from P.1) elsewhere in the country it profall. Mr. Ault mises to be a said Phase One sessions are being held in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Tucson, Phoenix, Denver, Colorado Springs, and Chicago. On the East Coast William B. Dunham, vice-president of the Annapolis campus, who is directing the effort in this geographical half of the United States, has held a planning session with Walter F. Evers, of the Board of Visitors and Governors, who will lead the drive in six Midwestern cities along with Pittsburgh: Cleveland, Akron, Toledo, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and Detroit. and medicine. one Annapolis neurologist, ·Dr. Nicholas Capozzoli, who attended the institute last year on a part-time basis, managed to come full time this year and still keep up with his practice. Others enrolled were an architect, four business executives, two editors, a book reviewer, seven elementary teachers, seven university or college faculty members, two nurses, a computer programmer, designer-craftsman, law clerk, legal secretary, librarian, legislative aide, management consultant, research chemist, and three students. "My history class undoubtedly was the best class I've had in 20 years of teaching," Mr. Golding said . t St. John's Caritas Society, which last year helped maintain a dozen students in college, is planning a Viennese evening with toasting, feasting, and waltzing on Saturday, Oct. 28. Mrs. Daniel Cohn, chairman, said the dinner, planned as a major fund-raising event, will be preceded by a reception beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the college's Great Hall in which toasts will be offered by President Richard D. Weigle and by Dean Edward Sparrow. Responding will be a representative of the Austrian Embassy. Two seatings are piauut:u the which traditional Viennese 7: 30 and the other at 9 will be in the college Mrs. Jacob who n'"'"""1'"n the food orenaration for music _ Zuckerman, St. John's tutor. Persons to make reservations mail checks a to Mrs. of Chester Ave., An· 21401. Last year the Caritas Society contributed $2, 750 toward scholarship aid, bringing total contributions from the society to fOUJ(ld~IJtg to - Now being planned are Phase I meetings in Annapolis, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. · All these meetings scheduled for 15 geographical areas are geared toward increasing annual support from alumni, parents, and friends. At the same time, President Weigle, Mr. Ault, and (Continued from P.1) Mr. Klein served as dean from. January, 1949, to July, 1958, helping bring stability after a period of ranid administrative changes. President Weigle has credited his leadership, during his nine years as dean, in the significant molding and development of the St. John's program and in the strengthening of its faculty. Reco~mi:~ed as a brilliant teacher, Mr. also won recognition to for the challenge he the student body and the sense of excitement over the in'°""'"'""' which he students. the late Richard individual board members are on prospects for the Fund for the to Hientlfy them. not to conflict with of the annual fund, .uu.111112111 said the work of in... ,u.upcui:;, .. committees in to be com-· these cities is pleted prior to the time class captains mail their regular letters of solicitation in March. At the San Francisco session Mr. Ault was joined by St. John's new consultant on fun· ding, Charles Feldstein, of Chicago. Present for this session were Amanda Fowler, Tom Carnes, Alice Carnes, Bart Lee, and Harrison Shepherd. At Los Angeles the meeting was led Mr. Ault and Mary Branham, the campaign's western director. Alumni who gathered to help were David Dobreer, also a board member, Bob Weiss, Bob Thompson, Heidi Wernett, Jonathan Krane, and Burt Siemens. Mrs. Dobreer also joined them. summer of 1938. He was awarded his doctoral degree from the University of Marburg-Lahn in 1922 and conducted research work at the Universities of Berlin and Marburg from 1924 to 1933 after which he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Prague until 1935. MR. KLEIN WAS a fellow of the Mendelssohn Stiftung zur Foerderung der Geiswissenschaften from 1935 until 1937. Before leaving Gerhe Greek and the aaolnw1n, he wrote A Commt:mt1:iry on Plato's his year, he pu1>11s.nee1 book, Plato's 'l'l1l~ae1~etl.lrs, the and the Statesman. A letter last from the of ~·..,~~t,~ Press that a LUU•u,;:o1>.uu copies of the latter had since publication. his association with the vote said upon his retirement. he wrote more than 50 After he left the deanship he lectures, a few of which have received an Addison E. Mullikin been published, notab tnfori;:hin at the college. ''Aristotle, an Introduction, the volume Ancients_ and Moderns.· �-- _, ·---~ - ---------- - 9 Curtis member of the St. John's has received a from the National Science Foundation to study the history of solar theories the 1740's until 1827. Mr. Wilson. who has written the field of will be on leave the fall-winter John's. He will "Even if it were sufficient, there were enormous difficulties its -and is the motion, for all posmona1 and astronomieal time-keeping, Mr. Wilson said of !:ITH'!:l,."'nt Total cost of John's College academic year will be 12 per cent than for the current _ Board of Visitors and Governors has authorized increases which will fees to a year from now. Costs will be identical at St. John's two at Annapolis and Santa They will be: tuition, 11.8 per cent room, $800, 14 . 3 per increase, and board, $1,000, cent. These compare and of the at the Rhode the director at St. new John's «::;i:;.<:;, A native of Visalia in the Central of Mr. Christensen was from Mt. School there bachelor's .........,.,u.,.. in 1970 from the t '!:!lifrn·n1!:1 at Santa Barbara. In 1971 he obtained his master's from Northwestern He earned his doc.u..:m/:!;lish 1974, dealt with more vUJ... shows _ received cent of its _ derived from student fees, 16 per cent its endowment, and the balance 25 per cent in and outside sources, vrivate and Pe1·ce11taJges for the Santa Fe campus for the same year reveal that 54. oer cent of its income is 3 per cent from and 43 per cent from outside sources. the sun's annual motion is not but up in winter and slows in summer, was known to the ancient and Greeks," he said. "The inec:m:alit,v could be accounted for considerable means of an Pnirv«'IP circle and by means and area rule inin 1609. "BUT IN 1687 Newton's universal and, if correct, the of _. who efforts to establish a new core at will outline some of Harvard's new Horace dean Yale Colhas been invited to repreled Yale. trace. the astron1om1v that statistical n1f'n,ff'Of'h!W'•><:> are first introduced to cope with to """'<"I"''"" observations error; that or or error due to difno1r-nr1na from forces of at- tPl"'Pnir>P<;: in the reaction times of traction that the moon and other that the exert upon the earth." Whether you could and these however would be another matter, Mr. Wilson nointed out. Universal in accordance with law mia:ht be Mr. 1974 and has been internal mecncme for the past three be associated ward service. Dr. Pearl was graduatea the School those scheduled to are Gerald author Dean Keller of Harvard; Kuhns, of Columbia Universiwritten the ques- _ of has co-authored several papers the area of the Effect of Ps Medications · on dium.'' This month he is of his residency then will go on to work atient sychi ps~rcnosc~m::ttlc medicine. John's the with the They are literature stitute vroizram with the devoted to seminar and the second weeks to seminar and torial. Another segment will the second semester. "All all, we are whether an 'on site not be order," he said of the institute's coterie of John's E!r<Jtc1uates. � 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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Bryce Jacobsen, athletic director, and John White, assistant director, have their solution. They let the students call it. · Case in point: Some time ago, in a soccer game between the Green Waves and the Guardians, the Guardians shot a goal which neither Mr. Jacobsen nor Mr. White could tell was valid; The game could have reached an impasse had not Eugene Glass, Melrose Park, Pa., senior, and a member of the Green Waves, (Continued on P. 3) Maria, Mark, and Theresa Fabi on the college quad. ' For Nancy Coiner, the overriding impression of Oxford is an aesthetic one. It's the architecture which has impressed her the most during her first year as a Rhodes Scholar there. "And how beautiful the place is: the walks - there are wonderful places to walk - and teatime, and working in the library with its high ceilings, and all the people," she listed some of the pleasures of the place. M:iss Coiner, a 1977 alumna, was here between terms from Oxford where she has been enrolled this year as one of the first 13 women from the United States to win a Rhodes Scholarship. Next to being immersed in an aesthetic experience, it has been the high (Continued on P. 4) A premiere performance of a new work Douglas Allanbrook, St. John's College tutor and composer, will be performed by the internationally known Annapolis Brass Quintet on June 30. The composition, "Night and Morning Music," will be played by the quintet in a concert at Chautauqua, N.Y., Fest:ival and will be performed again here next Spring when the quintet gives a concert at the college. It is being published by Boosey and Hawkes. A recognized composer, Mr. Allanbrook's works have included operas, symphonies, chamber music, and compositions for the. keyboard and voice. Four point three per cent of St. John's College's graduating senior class is pure Fabi. Another way of putting this is that there are three Fabi siblings (no twins) from Scranton, Pa., who are members of the Class of 1978. In order of seniority, they are Mark, 23; Maria, 22, and Teresa - Teri - 21. They demonstrate what one persuaded ~ather can do. Some time in the late 1960's, their father, Dr. Mario Fabi, a Scranton, Pa., physician, attended a medical seminar at the University of Chicago when the person who was running it suggested that participants read Mortimer Adler's "How To Read a Book." Dr. Fabi read the first version, which still contained St. John's name (dropped from subsequent editions) and then sought out the oldest of his six children and talked about the program to which Adler had made numerous references. , Mark, then in Scranton Central High School, liked the idea of coming and enrolled in 1972. Two years later came Maria ("kicking and screaming," teases Mark) and Teri as an early entry, skipping her senior year in high school. Meanwhile, Mark began two years leave from his studies and then returned to share his junior and senior year with his sisters. EARLY ENTRY BY Teri and delayed exit by Mark enabled them to receive their diplomas together. It's been a collective Fabi achievement for this trio of young people who have survived a tough undergraduate program, which included their senior essay examinations. "It's a great program," Maria, her initial objections over, says. "I've been sold." As for their senior essays, Ma::k wrote on "The Ether on Trial: Hypothesis Vindicated,'' based on the papers of Farac.ay, :'.\iaxwell, and Einstein; Teresa Scholastic Aptitude Test ratings attained by St. John's freshmen were the highest held by students in both Maryland's public and private colleges for the college year just ended. Among the state's nine independent institutions, they were exceeded only by those recorded by freshmen at Johns Hopkins University, where higher mathematics scores explain the difference. Freshmen here scored 640 and 610 on verbal and mathematical scores respectively or a total of 1,250. This compares with 618 verbal and 667 mathematical or 1,285 for John's Hopkins. St. John's combined SAT scores of 1,250 is substantially higher than the 950 scored ~Y (Continued on P. 5) Of the temptations awaiting them in the "outside world," graduating seniors were warned at commencement of a particularly distracting one to guard against: ''the noonday devil.'' And who is the "noonday devil?" Known by his Greek name, he is Akkedia, which Brother Robert Smith told seniors is "translated by the notvery-revealing term 'sloth."' Do not, he admonished seniors, be deterred by indolence in the performance of good works. Brother Robert, a Christian Brother released from his order to teach at this secular college and chosen by the class of 73 seniors as their commencement speaker, described the nature of Akkedia as delineated by the fifth century monastic writer, Evagrius. Brother Robert quoted Evagrius and how this demon affected his monastery: "The demon of Akkedia, or the noon-day devil, is the most burdensome of all. He attacks monks about ten o'clock in the morning and continues his siege until about two in the afternoon. He makes the sun seem to move ·slowly-even not to move at all. The day seems to be fifty hours long. He makes the monk keep looking out the· window, rush out of his cell, look at the sun to see if three o'clock (the time for the single monastic meal) is near ... " BROTHER ROBERT said the succession of obsessive thoughts described by this desert father became the model for Dante, and in the 18th Canto Dante has Virgil speaking of "luke-warmness in well-doing." "Luke-warmness in welldoing" is not as graphic as the expressions heard in Evagrius, Brother Robert pointed out, but Dante's voyagers already are assured of salvation. "Evagrius is talking of men in this life who still face as a possibility the ultimate shipwreck described by Dante in the Inferno," he said. (Continued on P. 3) (Continued on P. 5) President Weigle has made his first trip to China since he left it in 1945 and come back impressed by the "tremendous changes" which have taken place there. In China first in 1931-33 as an English teacher and later during World War II with the military, Mr. Weigle returned as part of a reunion of men who had served with the_ U.S. Army Observer Group in Yenan. The group consisted of 36 persons, including wives and three sons, who separated to follow two different itineraries. Mr. and Mrs. Weigle chose 'an eastern tour in part to visit Changsha, where he had taught at the Yali Union Middle School as part of a medical-educational mission sponsored by Yale alumni. (ContinuedonP. 4) President Weigle awards Mary Hanna Jones, of Chesapeake, 0., and Steve Ross, of Alexandria, Va., prizes for their senior essays. 1omPam:m �JUNE, 197~ .THE RePORTER PAGE2 nofej By TOM P.ARR.AN Number from '78 class plan graduate study Director of Alumni Activities Two informal gatherings of alumni from the WashingtonBaltimore-Annapolis area have been held this Spring. The first brought together 24 alumni, principally from the classes of '57·'58-'59, to the Marriott Hotel Lounge in Arlington, Va., for lots of talk. Sue Lerner, '57, of Columbia, and Don Phillips, '55, of Alexandria, planned it. Bob and Alice McEnroe, '59, flew down from Long Island to join the group. Last month there was a smaller, follow-up gathering at Blob's Park (that's really the name) at Odenton attended by 10 alumni. * * * * * 1937 Asbury W. Lee III writes that he is living in DuBois, Pa., very near his long-time home in Clearfield. Asbury, whose fifst wife dietl 2V2 years ago, reports that he and the former Esther Buck were married last February. He is retired as president of the Clearfield Banking & Trust Co., but con· tinues as chairman of the board and as director and consultant. Asbury proudly reports six children and ten grandchildren. 1950 Robert A. Goldwin, resident scholar and director of seminar programs for the American Enterprise Institute, participated on May 4-7 as an essayist and conferee at Kenyon College's Public Affairs Conference Center. Twenty-four carefully se1ected leaders in politics, in· dustry, education, and journalism debated, behind closed doors, in off-the-record sessions, the sources of power in American government. 1955 Barbara Oosterhout informs us that she is associated ' in the practice of law with Robert H. Symonds of Lanham, Md. 1965 Sandra ( Gillmeister) Traywick was married in April, and.is now Sandra Gillmeister Karl. She lives in Fayetteville, N. Y., and works as Director of Intake and Family Service at the Syracuse Cerebral Palsy Center. 1968 Anne Beaumont (for· Anne Beaumont Reid) writes that she is living in Oak Forest, Ill., and is employed as an engineer with Johnson & Johnson Baby Products Co. 1970 The first word we're received in a long while from VittO -~~~M~n nnmnlnfi Ph.D. National Tenn. He is now a post-ctoctora fellow (research in the ment of at the of Medicine of the University of California (San Diego) in La Jolla. 1973 One rainy Monday morning in was brightened by t~e of a most welcome mvitation: The Medical College of Pennsylvania requested the honor of our presence at the conferring of degrees on Satur· day,· June 3. The enclosed card announced that Debora Jeanne Gilliland would receive h~r. M.D. degree on that ~ate. (To fm~sh the story, a prevmus c?mm1tm ent prevented our atte_ndmg, but our v er Y be ~t w Is hes• . and congratulations, go to Debbie). George and Robin ( Chalek) Jannes became the proud par~nts of John Arden Jannes on A_Pril 1, 1978. Our tardy congratulations. 1~74 sloop of his own design known as "Windsprite." John Rogers has left Columbus t 0 j 0 i n t h e wi 1I i a m Tolley Company in Washington,· a city of many good friends where he is doing calligraphy, working in color, including gold. "It gets better and better every week," he reports. As soon as we have a home address for John, we'll let you know. Right now he is attempting to move into the same apartment complex in which Janet and Donnel O'Flynn live. Of St. John's 73 graduates, a number are entering graduate schools immediately this fall. The Placement Office said that they include: Jill Potkalitsky, teaching fellowship in physics, College of William and, Mary; Frances Merritt, law, 'Boston University; Michael Ciba, partial tuition scholarship in international relations, University of Chicago; Don Edwards, classics, Brown University; der Veur hopes to apply to a Montessori teaching school in Perugia, Italy, and to the University of California at Berkeley for elementary teachers accreditation, but plans to work, meanwhile, possibly as a carpenter's assistant in the San Francisco area. Two students will have major fellowships-Amy McConnell, a Watson to make a 900-mile walk following an ancient pilgrimage between Paris and Spain, and Christopher . Olson, a Rotary Fellowship for study in France. Stephen Key fin~lly let us k~ow that he an~ Leslie Graves, 76, were married last September. She is executive director of the 1976 Leland Giovanelli, $3,000 Wisconsin Libertarian Party and At the specific request of David tuition, Committee on General the campaign manager for Fields Clement, we advise all his friends Studies in Humanities, Univerfor Congress: Steve works as a that he is living at 514 East 81st sity of Chicago; Paula Jacobus," programmer for an industrial Street #8, Ne:w York City 10028, tuition free grant with stipend, mkro computer systems telephone (212) 628-9092; David post-baccalaureate, pre-medical (Continued from P. 8) .Program, ,:Bryn Mawr; Phil manufacturer. While on their 1 e~ends a11 oj>¢h invitat;!on to Jemielita, economits and ape walk~d .across the stage. ho!fey~oon i,n Chicpg'o, '1be Keys any of his friends who happen to philosophy, Oxford University; discovered Mortimer Adler be in New York to drop in. He is "Another.time, the whole front Richard Levy, tuition scholar- row was occupied by students autographing copies of his new working at Windows of the World ship, business, University of wearing the whitened faces and book in a bookstore - just a (billed as the world's tallest Chicago; normal St. Johnsian honeymoon, restaurant) on the 108th floor of reddened Ups of clowns (I asked of course. the World Trade Center's north them to . stand up, ·face the 1974-Santa Fe tower. David says it isn't all that Robert Levy, English audience, and take a bow); still Jennifer (Jordan) Bredell different from the old Upper literature, Oxford University; another time, my lecture was writes from Willow Grove, Mo., Crust in Annapolis, and the Dale Lively, $2,000 fellowship and int~rrupted by a repeating sound that she is raising pigs. What's waiters make a lot of money. He $2,000 teaching assistantship, that no one in the room could everybody else doing? she asks. has been accepted at the mathematics, University of identify and that was so Alejandro Medina, last University of Virginia's English Virginia; Stephen Magee, mysterious that it distracted reported in the October 1977 The . Department and at Columbia graduate assistantship, physics, everyone's attention from the College, has been in Germany for University's Department of State University of New York, lecture, including mine. the past six months, studying English and Comparative Stonybrook; Steven Ross, Someone in the rear of the German at the University of Literature; a decision must be theology, Union Theological auditorium, which was sloped Cologne. made soon. Seminary; and graded, had dropped on the 1975 Bernadette Keefe reports she is stone floor marbles which pinged Lucy Tamlyn, theology, as they rolled down from level to Paul and Tina (Saddy) Bell attending Columbia University's Columbia University; Robert level. visited the Annapolis campus Medical School and thus will be in Perry, physics, University of New York City for some time. during the spring, accompanied Maryland; Emily Fox, stipend in by their 22-month-old son, S. Larrison is a photo"IT IS NOT because I could philosophy, Georgetown Joseph. Paul does computer work typesetter in New Jersey, playing always expect some prank of this for BMW, the German witha''dearlittlecomputerthat --university; Russell Dahlberg, sort that I have always looked teaching assistantship, physics, automobile manufacturer, while masks her lack of techne in forward to giving a lecture at St. Northwestern University, and Tina teaches religion to 5th typing." She also reports that a .John's. With hardly a single James Walley, Gray Film graders once a week. They live in New York print shop and lots of exception, my lectures there Atelier. little theaters await her, and that Nyack, N.Y., want more kids, have been prepared especially often see members of the New she is learning to hustle with In many instances, these for that occasion and have York : Johan De Roos, Steve Weinstein. represented an intellectual '76, P Kimberly (Beaton) Quintero students were accepted for study venture or a phase of thought in at other institutions, but chose writes that she has just received Donabedian, and S. Larrison, '76. which I was intensely engaged at (The last of these was with the her second undergraduate not to go there. Among them have the time. been Case Western, Berkeley, Bells when they visited). degree, this one in comDrexell, Rensselaer, Cornell, On 13 Michael Dink was munications from Brigham "I would not have dared to give Wharton, Brandeis, and such scheduled to receive his M.A. Young University. She was anywhere else lectures as heavy universities as the universities of degree in philosophy from elected to Kappa Tau Alpha, the in substance and as complex as Massachusetts, M , Catholic University. He has national honorary fraternity of the ones I prepared for the St. Michigan, North Carolina,. and his doctoral course journalism. While her future may John's audience. Not only were Arizona. work, but (as of April 4) had two include graduate school, KimSt. Johnnies an alert and atcomprehensive examinations currently is doing freetentive audience, but took and a dissertation to complete.· lance writing and editorial work. ·-The Placement Office said a part in an open forum for an hour Next year he is scheduled to She and her husband, Joseph, live number of students will delay or more after the lecture, often teach a section of the unin Springville, Utah, and are their graduate studies. Julia Van asking questions that advanced expecting their second chtld in my own thinking about the October. subject of the evening. This, it llml 1977 seems to me, is an ex~ Roberta Rusch is rece1vmg If Africa were ever truly dark, traordin significant it will be less so next year when i-"""'",..,,., in the systems engineer measure of the intellectual development program of Elec- vitality of a college devoted to . welcome. St. John's ebullient Miller LL lJg.) Gerry tronic Data Systems. Since starts lighting up that continent. the great books and to promoted to his present rank last Corry joined the Peace she has been ~,.rmi,.1n11 some discipline in the this has been in the U.S. associated with the Rockville, month and has begun a 11-week by discussing as well Navy for two-and-a-half years. training period in the Md., division, where she will be as t>y reading them." of After more than a year as boilers Togo, a country so tiny stationed for a six to nine month hard officer of the U.S.S. Duluth (LPD- to find but there· it is, tucke_d period. After that she is . Adler's newest book is Aristotle 6), Gerry became assistant . away under French West Africa. scheduled to go to Dallas for Difficult Thought erigineer. The was rlP111011Tpfl three months classroom work. Made Easy. will be. to the Western last fall French and has since been in and arnund the she the Inland Sea of and the is committed to island of Kyushu. 1908-John I. Burton, Herndon, before return· The "W.eekender" section of 1913-Col. Daniel E. Campbell, ing to the States. Corry The Washington Post for April 21 1921-William F. Williamson, East New Market, has the year since graduahad an interesting write-up of the March1978. tion a sort of rest-and recovery activities of 1929-0scar H. MacNemar, Millersville, Md., May 1978. period, odd jobbing in the HuntEugene Kelly. Heading his own 1932-Robert B. Smith, Edenton, N.C. sville, Ala., area, including firm, Kelly Craft, 240 Patapsco 1934-Lawrence P. C. Brown, White Plains, N.Y., April 1977. becoming expert in clock repairs Avenue, Dundalk, Md. 20017, 1955-Mrs. Joan Eisner Gearing, Annapolis, Md., May 1978. in the Westclox factory there. Gene is soecializine: in a 16-foot are �r ·~ 11· essay; Roberta with of awards. Two went to Steven Kirk Ross as one of two first winners the senior essay and for excellence spe~aking·. His father, Rev. F. Ross, of the ~Dilscc,nai Seminary at the invocation benediction. Presented President the awards were as follows: MARK EB Steitz, Bethesda, Md., of Visitors and Governors silver medal as senior with Alan Lee Bowers, Elkins Pa., Duane L. Peterson with academic Markland Foundation; Kimberly Schraf, Latrobe, Pa., $1,000 scholarship offered by Bela Ronay in memory· of his wife, Joan Yvonne Ronay; Mary Hannah Jones, of <;hesapeake, 0., with Mr. Ross, first for best senior essay, and Mark Silver Wilson, Annanolis. and Bowser, Alexandria, Va., honorable mention, best fresh· essays; Miss Jones, honorable best Ene:lish translation of a Greek Rebecca Brown, of Columbia, translation a French poem; Moeck, first Michael Glenn Conner, San Tex., honorable men· tion, best original English Gregory Pa., best brief comment on a of Sharon Ann McMahon, Lake Katouah, N.Y., member of an or class who submits solution to a Rochester, N.Y., Robert James Perry, and Mark Bernard Fabi, Scranton, Pa., all honorable mention, members of or senior class who sub· mits most elegant solution of a mathematical ; Ethan Bauman, San Anselmo, Calif., and Patricia Ann Canton, 0., senior man and woman who have contributed most to college's athletic program. St. John's Board Member Charles H. Watts indicated at the board meeting that a special ad hoc committee he is heading is inclined to believe St. John's two campuses should continue to operate as a one- r r Alumni seminars have been a regular feature of Annapolis Homecomings since 1969. The 1977 session was well attended, and the conversations were lively and quite good. Here is the list of the readings that have been offered over the years: 1969-Plato, Crito, and Martin Luther King, Letter from a Birmingham Jail. _ 1970-Selections from Political Writings by Black Americans. 1971-Plato, Phaedrus (24C-275C), and Thomas Mann, Death in Venice. 1912-The Federalist (10, 39, 51, 61-77). 1973-T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets. ' 1974-Einstein, Geometry a.nd Experience, and Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra. 1975-Nietzsche, Joyful Wisdom. 1976-Bible readings from I and II Samuel and the Psalms. 1977-Alan M. Turing, Can a Machine Think? Here are some suggestions for future seminars: Sophocles, Electra, and Euripedes, Electra. George Santayana, Imagination (an essay). Plato, Philebus. Pascal, De l'espirit Geometrique et de l'art de Persuader, (translated by R. Scofield). Kant, Perpetual Peace. Edwin Muir, The Animals (a poem), and the Prologue to the St. John Gospel. The Alumni Association would appreciate your comments and recommendations for other readings. Please send them to the Alumni Office on the Annapolis campus. program, one-president; oneboard institution. "We are still on the side of a unitary system," he said of discussions underway by the committee, which has been considering the best way to administer the college. Mr. Watts said members hope to have a series of alternative schemes ready for board review at its July 29th meeting. Of these, the committee would be prepared to recommend one. "We have come increasingly to the conviction that we are and should continue to be one institution and one program," he said of the campuses at Santa Fe and Annapolis. Mr. Watts said the committee may be at variance with a concept held at the time of the founding of the western campus that it be "spun off" from the parent campus once it reached financial stability. Prior to its meeting, the committee also is to meet with the board's Finance Committee headed by Richard M. Burdge, of Philadelphia, to make recommendations which that group also 'would review for -board consideration. Mr. Watts said it was the feeling of his committee that members do not want to be "prescriptive" in making tneir recommendations but rather would prefer to propose several alternative models. clarified the matter in a way which helped his opponents. The ball had gone in. Second case in point: Last fall Sanford Smith, Kenilworth, Ill., sophomore, again of the Green Waves, scored a touchdown, but no one could tell whether he had been out-of-bounds. As possibly the one person who knew, Mr. Smith spoke up. He had been outof-bounds, he told the referees. The Green Waves lost the touchdown, and the game went on. MR. SMITH dismissed the incident. "That happens quite frequently here," he said. "My conscience would bother me for weeks if I didn't bring something like that to the- attention of the refere es.'' Mr. Jacobsen cautioned that it was just a coincidence that both men were members of the Green Waves. Other teams produce their share of integrity, too. While there may not be a hundred per cent perfection in all such cases, generally Mr. Jacobsen believes that St. John's players "have a pretty good batting average" for describing a play as it really is. More so, Mr. White believes, than existed ten years ago when he was a student. One of the reasons, he says, is that teams have been reorganized, not by individual classes, but by cutting across classes, which has made them less cliquish and more in tune with the spirit of the college's intramural program. And since one finds friends on opposing teams, playing becomes very personal. You don't want to undo somebody you know. "BY THE WAY, the girls are especially virtuous," Mr. Jacobsen noted. "It's not just because they are sweeter and nicer, but this so-called winning thing is not so much emphasized. They like to play and have fun, and they are more relaxed. It's common among the girls when we hesitate in a call to tell us and tell us the truth.'' Mr. Jacobsen chuckled over his softball games with girls. When he hasn't really seen a play, he may call out to the batter, "What was it? She'll say maybe a strike or a ball. Or maybe I'll ask the pitcher." Mr. Jacobsen is cheered by the fact that St. John's may he reaching some of its go::lls regarding the college's intramural games. Certain attitudes of spirit have been more realized as time has gone by namely, telling the truth. "When you win at all costs, you are apt to cut corners," he says of more competitive situations. Mr. White attributed the dependability of students to Mr. Jacobsen. "He's tough as nails, but absolutely fair. It'~ his in· fluence," Mr. White said. �~;~4~1:,~0,~,,;:;---.::,\ l,' ',' ,, .... · ··.· ' : • ~W:ef:~'Yacations witl160 hooks to re (Continued from P.1) level of cultural life of which she is most conscious. Since the third week after the fall term began, there have been at least three a week, of which she customarily sees one. This term Misgc who was active in John's the lead in St. Catherine's of "Who's Woolf." " "IT'S BEEN very she said of Oxford more than ·the freshman or sophomore year here. I had to learn an incredible amount how things where things are, where to spend time. "In some ways Oxford is like St. John's. You are over-assigned work, and you have to figure out where to concentrate and how NANCY COINER much you want to do. There are no lectures required, but you can go to as many lectures as you please." Oxford terms are weeks vacations are six. "But just before you leave for vacation you are a '' she monumental said. "For my next term, which I read Chaucer, have a reading list of 40 books, mcluding all of Chaucer's works. nhui"''"'~i,, I'm not going to make it. I will be able to read a third of the books, but I have to consider the list a bibliography." In working toward a B. Phil. degree, a two-year degree in England, Miss Coiner meets once a week with a tutor, to whom she delivers a weekly essay, usually eight to ten pages long. "It's probably the hardest thing I have had to do," she said. "It means you must have all the reading and all the thinking done, and the essay written within a week. You have to see a question and find an immediate way to organize your material. It certainly develops facile writing, but I'm not sure if it has anything to do with depth." FOR THE FIRST term, when she was studying theology, she might write on such a question as: "What effect did the delay of the second coming have on the writings of Paul's Epistles?'' For the second term, devoted to medieval philosophy, one of her topics was: "Would Latin Averroism be'· an appropriate name for the movement of the faculty. of arts in Paris in the third quarter of the 13th century?" Parenthetically, Miss Coiner said she felt that she had not had writing experience at St. John's of the kind to enable her to move with the ease with which she would have liked. When St. John's papers are read, she noted they are read principally for content and substance, and not much attention is paid to style. It helps a lot, Miss Coiner believes, to have the simple logistics of under Miss Coiner believes she been fortunate in her tutors. have included A. E. wrote for the new Cassian warden of the Franciscan order, and Pamela Gradon, a suecial1:st the Pearl Poet. LIK OTHER Rhodes scti101~trs, Miss Coiner has the Oxford dons to be tempting to encourage good points and not being hard on bad ones. She said sme Americans feel they even may not be strict enough, especially those who come from, some universities where the professors are accustioned. to "ripping you to shreds." In order to cover the two to three miles across town and make classes, she joins the thousands of bicyclists who must keep clear of automobiles. She already has been knocked off her bike once, not an uncommon occurrence for other _ Miss is associated with St. She lives in big with seven other students were she cooks for herself. She.prefers it that way, having found out that the "'fJ'lL""·"vu for food is justified, least in an institutional sense. Each term she is five meal tickets to eat with derclassman. It can't be! But is it! President and Mrs. Weigle and Arthur Kungle, Jr., '67, on separate trips to China, ran into each other in Peking's Forbidden City. China is (Continued· from P. l) "There have been tremendous changes in the country," Mr. Weigle said. "The most important change is that everybody is working very hard toward a cause - a - and that is to and to it and do it on their own without aid or advisers. "IH'uo»•nh.nrl'1 has a whether sweening a floor a hotel or no there is no conversation at tabie. "Peop1.e slurp down their food anC. le<'lvi:>. Anr who are _ the laundromat hardly acknowledge your presence in the dining hall." Undergraduate life is overseen much more strictly than at St. John's. The administration can be very concerned about such matters as party sizes, and the gates are locked at midnight. Among the group of friends she has made, luncheon dates tend to dominate the social life. "That's when we talk," she said. "I have no idea when the English talk." Ham,mond gets grant Ernest C. Hammond, member of the Class of '62 and a Morgan State University faculty member, has received a $22,648 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to study photographic and spectroscopic film calibration. Mr. Hammond will use the grant to provide NASA with a profile of the ultraviolet, infrared, and visible responses for. spectroscopic and standard film uses in astronomical research. re~;;puins:ibillity service whatever a oea or whether it is _ table. Hotels are with such personal items as combs bedroom potatoes, potatoes, and more potatoes, and when you she starches, and both reasons and to erosion. There are a number of " -is much cleaner than Mr. Weigle remembers it. There were many '"'" 1~t"''" 1 "·" 1u old women, sw~eenim.e:, roads and sidewalks. There was no refuse, no beggars, and despite the humid weather of southern cities, flies appeared to have been eradicated. And so, also, Mr. Weigle discovered, have been dogs, or nearly so. The Chinese have discovered that dogs eat food, and Mr. Weigle estimated that he may not have seen more than a dozen during his three weeks in China. "Railroads have been extended, and the roadbeds are great," Mr. Weigle noted. "We rode in a beautiful, airconditioned car from the border to Cantc>n: It had reclining seats, lace curtains at the windows, and antimaccasars. And there were teapots. The Chinese ply you with tea." The Chinese are particularly proud of a two-tier bridge more than a mile long over the Yangtze River, for which they completed all the engineer work themselves after the Russians defaulted on promised technical and material assistance. The upper level is used for automobiles, the lower for trains. awarded to the 10 beo:>t people in each of three sections, but money paid in recognition as well. Workers are reimbursed for over-time. At home they can raise vegetables and sell them. Salaries run from about 50 to 350 vuan a month - $30 to $210 the higher salaries going to officers or such as senior _ see it as their as their abominable - -~-~-':" 1 ·-bland." The Weigles were impressed by .the immense honesty on the part of the people. "No one ever locks his door," he noted, adding that they used a key once or twice at a hotel, 'but if a key is used at visitors may do so to themselves against than the Chinese. left something, you Co m unist rnment, Mr. a system of property exists. People may own deposit money in the and use the money to what need in stores. In factories, as contrasted with the former days of the "Gang of Four,'' there are financial incentives through bonuses. One such factory the Weigles visited found not only medals are overvisited one three-room flat which was shared by seven persons of three exc:1t11~1g I ni homecoming housing Calling all Annapolis area alumni! Would you be willing to house alumni/ alumnae over the Homecoming weekend? Lee Perlman '73, a director of the Alumni Association, has suggested that many younger alumni in particular stay away from the festivities because of the high cost of lodging. Lee thought perhaps local alumni could help out in this dilemma. If you have space and would like a guest or two for September 29-30, please call the Alumni Office (2632371). And if you want to \,:' place saw was the arcenter in China's Yellow River where thousands of six-foot-tall, terracotta warriors have been uncovered near the tomb of Ch'in Shih-Huang-Ti, first emperor and builder of the Great Wall whose dynasty provided the name China. Less than a mile away, they also saw his burial mound dating to 210 B.C. which is yet to be excavated. specify general age groups or sex of your guests, do so when you call. We would like to publish a list of available housing when we send the detailed H o m e c o m i n g a nno un cement in early August, so call soon. And to those from out of town who will be staying in hotels or motels, we urge you to make your reservations NOW, even if you find you must cancel at a later date. The Alumni Office has absolutely no influence with local hostelries when it comes to last-minute reservations! �THE REPORTER t'A\:Plt 3 • What is a crackerjack New York policeman doing in Santa Fe's Graduate Institute? For one thing, he has been cherishing every minute of his first year, and for another into an he's packing his AMTRAK train and coming back fast. John McGuirk possesses New York have: and furin the best New York he comes from that race which has produced so many great New York p_olicemen - the Irish. He's the Irish sort, Irish enough to be one of eight men, all vice-presidents, marching eight abreast up Fifth Avenue St. Patrick's Day when the Police Department's Emerald Society threw the biggest party in the city of New York, and he was there, enjoying it all the way. He got from the New York Commissioner's Office to the Santa Fe campus last summer on a competitive scholarship, not too many years after, at the age of 31, he decided to take his first undergraduate course at Staten Island College. This was while he continued to hold down his decided to it,'' he recalled. "I decided not and see if I could hack a course in economics. I could, and then decided I could hack two." nature. People actually listened to you. People reflected. There was action and reaction." AMONG THE BEST times were those spent in the coffee shop after seminar, he recalled. "In seminar you mi.ght hold back to other chance to speak, to ones. Of course, been in my life. But conversations you would let out all your inner " He was the comraderie and friendliness, the warmth of the St. John's comWhen the Sam Kutlers of the St. John's faculty lent the McGuirks a car their second in Santa Fe, he was astonished. "Your next door neighbors in New York might do it after 30 years if they got a deposit before hand," he said with something of a New York cop's cynicism. The program itself he found everyone on an equal basis. could talk to an Irish Christian brother, a Benedictine monk (we found ourselves going to mass with both of them), school teachers, tutors, all on a one-toone basis," he said. "The course of the study was the great equalizer." IN THE BEST St. John's tradition, Mr. McGuirk found himself talkinE: a bout the the Olson receives Rotary grant Christopher Olson, of Reston, Va., has received a Rotary Foundation graduate fellowship for study in France. Mr. Olson, a member of the graduating class, will study political philosophy. He is seeking to have the award delayed until the 1979-80 academic year. Under a program which seeks to enlarE:e international un awards the to said. "She began awestruck, but she some the books, and we would go back to the dorm and hold a small seminar there." (It's now turn for his wife to go to college; currently she is enrolled in his old aim a mater Staten Island). Mr. McGuirk paced himself by reading 150 pages a night, 400 on weekends. He would study until noon and then on Saturday and Sunday join some of his friends to visit nearby places, including Christ-in-the-Desert Monastery one week and St. Anne's Church, where there were 12 guitarists. One Sumi found themselves attending mass in the Pecos. Mr. McGuirk has worked with the office of the commissioner since 1972. tivities. Thomas K. Simpson, tutor on the Santa Fe campus, delivers the commencement address to the doss of 54 seniors, the dass since the Santa Fe campus was founded. In the academic · procession below are Marion Billington, of las Cruces, N.M., followed by Rene Christian Michel Barnes, of Decatur, Ala., and Vidor Austin, of Woodward, Olda., recipient of the Board of Visitors and Governors medal as the senior with the highest academic record. photos by John DeJournett Freshmen score (Continued from P. 1) students - at the University of Maryland at College. Park and the 910 at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. National averages for SATs are 429 in English and 470 in mathematics or a total of 899. Both verbal and mathematiCal tests are rated on a scale of 200 to 800. In its lead among private Maryland colleges, St. John's was followed by Goucher College, where verbal and math scores tOtal 1,060, and by Loyola College, which fQllows Goucher closely by eight points. well Altogether Johns Hankins and the eight private colleges had an average .combined score of 1,013, averaging. 499 for verbal and 514 for mathematical testing. Besides St. John's, Goucher, and Loyola, other private Maryland colleges, listed alphabetically, include the College of Notre Dame, Hood, Mt. St. Mary's, Washington, and Western Maryland. Among Maryland's statesupported colleges and universities, com6iilea scores ranged from 950 at UMCP to 582 at ,,Coppin State. of Absolute Hobbes's Com one of the based upon Hobbes's reasons an called "Leviathan," and Maria Fabi's the New York Relief Fund, was entitled "God, Job, and. the which has a program ed11c2ttirtg Problem of Human Suffering," for better law enq based upon the Book of Job. forcement, chose him to receive a Aside from the fact that the to the Graduate Fabis numerically justified the Institute. use of the family station wagon This montli he and his instead of buses for college Maureen, and their three holidays, they found there has children, will arrive in Santa Fe been an advantage to going to where he will be enrolled in the this school together. They share a math and natural science• great deal in common. Their segment. Last year he took the table conversation shows a difsegment on ROlitics and society. ference. "Some of last summer's All of them mentioned the readings I already had done in advantage of attending a college college," he said, "but the apof less than 400 students. proach at St. John's is different. "ST. JOHN'S HAS such a small Some times there was a situation community," Maria said. "In a in which there wasn't a right or way that permits everyone to wrong, but the possibilities of develop his potential and in· being two rights. terests. If you are interested in "My wife sat in on a tutorial acting, you can be the class actor. with Sam Brown (St. John's tutor) dealing with the Con- If you're interested in art, you canoe an artist. The school gi.ves stitution and civil rights. Our you so much leeway. You can do class was ethnically balanced anything you want, and you will between blacks and whites. We be recognized.'' agreed it was the first time we Mark agreed. had ever sat down and had seen "The size of St. John's is one of something solid come out of the the things that is attractive," he discussion rather than heated said. "I have visited larger argument about who was right schools, but there is no way to go and who was wrong. except to be reduced to a six-digit "I can't say I've changed, but number. The college is very sel~~ I've learned. It was a personal contained socially. Some persons thing. The summer was very think we spend all our time beneficial from the standpoint of discussing metaphysics in the understanding and relationships coffee shop. That goes on an4 with other people. I arrived at should, but it is by no means the' more understanding of human entire e~tent of the social ac- Fre,11hmnn 11r.nrR/WRll.an .'tAT'S the senior and the William Players. Activities A couple of years ago it was rock climbing and karate. We're still playing war games in the coffee shop." "We play a lot of croquet in the spring," added Teri. And the she believes, has helped instill the feeling of a family. "I've loved coming here. By the time you are a senior, after going through the college for four yearsr it's like a family. You know everyone so well. It's nice." MARK HAD a lead in the college's May production of "The Importance of Being Earnest" in additioµ to having appeared in past performances of Shakespeare and Eugene O'Neill. He also has been active in sports, playing with the Druids and Hustlers' teams. Maria and Teri have been "into social life" . wlth Maria picking up a couple of awards at rock parties as the best dancer there. All of them are excited about what lies ahead. For Mark, there will be a year in Europe and Africa traveling with St. John's Alumnus Johan de Roos, '76, before graduate work in physics; for Teri, also a year off befnre law school. Maria's plans are undetermined. And, for a while, St. John's will be Fabi-less. But perhaps not for long. Standing in the wings are Diana, 16 in July; Andrea,~13, and Pamela, 10. Word has it that Diana alre~dy has begun to think about early entry. · ."~,--,-~ �4 'l'MS.Dl:.D-"\ll"l'R.D DEAR EDITOR: While it was delightful to read about my old·college friend, Ray Cave, and a bit shocking to see him in full beard, it was even to read that I, Mason, Simmons, Smith, Wilson have been,.,,,.,~,..;,,"',., of our ("Of the total 73 fresh- men who arrived that time, only Mr. Cave, Peter John Davies, and John Henry Thomas were to their Jurte 7, 1948: Donald S. Elliott, David B. Lowdenslae:er. Jack L. Mason, C. Robert Oswald Na Maremont Schutz), William W. Simmons, Wheaton Smith, Jr., George R. Trimble, and Robert C. Wilson. The three were graduated on June 6, 1949: Ray C. Cave, Peter J. Davies, and John H. Thomas. The ") But you know which no one had the ,-.m1r:::ic1"" to tell me. President a few had some years ago about make ~ifts to to institutions of I should to his But Bill Simmons would not suffer such a fate. c. WE Tricia Kolp, Canion, Ohio, senior, who was in charge of women's sports this year, umpires a particularly tense moment of a softball game. Cathy Buck, Fairfax, Va., junior, leaps for base as Kathryn Kominars, Alexandria, Va., catches the ball. Below, Mari Perry, Annapolis junior, reaches for a ball as Elizabeth Groff, Conshohocken, Pa., sophomore, comes running in. Parents hold session with Dean Sparrow (Continued on P. 8) from other colleges," Dr. Dorothea Glass, here from Massa chusettSy interjected. St John's has never made a correlation of the ·academic performance of students who live on or off campus. Permission is necessary from an assistant dean to live off campus. One father of two St. Johnnies, John Bowers, of Elkins Park, Pa., noted that his daughter, Deborah, with a "tremendous grasp of math and science" at St. John 1·.s; is doing yery w.ell m ~.) ,' ~ ,i l ' ,+, ,, medical school. St. John's appears to have a ratio of students in medical. school higher than that of the Ivy League colleges. (A new career study shows the biological and medical sciences claim the largest proportion of St. John's graduates). Competition among St. John's sports teams is intense. One parent said the sports program is better here than in the Ivy League colleges, where it is largely a spectator sport. AMONG THE events which drew parepts over the weekend ·were softball gam.es (one father was spotted playing first baseman) and the King William Players' production of "The Importance of Being Earnest," which Saturday night saw an overflow aµ,dience of 240 persons crowded back stage for the first of three successful per· formances. Altogether about 200 persons attended the waltz party in the Key foyer. Among the students helping tutors co-lead seminars besides Mr. Jemielita were Richard Levy, Lµc-y Tamlyn, Kari Jenson, Two St. John's tutors, Elliott Zuckerman and Thomas will each a week at Anselm's Manchester, N.H., this summer a nro2ram of ... .,,..,,,;..,.,r1 will be Lucian of political science at the Claremont colleges, who has in St. John's Graduate Institt1te. the St. John's tutors invited to sneak on for the figures. Miriam archivist, in her usual wav. has tried to make sense of presenting us with names and served as a dates of three groups which State matricul::..ted in 1944. wav of which has ex1-murn1,1.un, she out construct a of the new core curncumm. A former World War II draft, St. John's, vice for academic like other colleges, offered an affairs at St. Mary's College, accelerated year-round program Moraga, Calif., Mr. Slakey and opened its doors to discussed the program derived youngsters who had not yet from St. John's which he had completed their high school suggested for that college. courses. Two tutors have spoken at The purpose was to enable Canadian institutions. Nicholas these boys to complete their Maistrellis, discussed the science undergraduate education before and mathematics program at the entering upon military service,. University of Western Ontario at Miss Strange said. Because of the London, and Thomas K Simpson tensions and uncertainties of the of the Santa Fe campus took part times, this accelerated plan did in a day-long memorial service at not prove too effective, and ·the University of Toronto during the summer of 1945 more honoring the late Jacob normal procedures were re- Bronowski. During a panel established here. discussion, he spoke on the use St. Here are the figures and names John's makes of the great books for the class which matriculated · of science. in 1944 and which were admitted Appearing on public radfo last at three different times -March, month were Edward Sparrow July, and October. and Robert Bart, deans of the THERE WERE 71 Annapolis and Santa Fe cammatriculants in the class who puses, respectively, who were joined at one point by two discussed the program during an re-entrants from earlier classes. 85-minute interview on the Of those 71 matriculants, i5 "Home Show," and Former Dean were graduated; 56 · were not Robert Goldwin, now with the graduated. American Enterprise Institute Of the 15 graduates, the for Public Policy Research, who following 10 were graduated in appeared on "Options in Education." Both shows were broadcast from Washington. Robert Perry, Leland GiovanGeoffrey Comber, director of neli, David Woolwine, Don Edwards, Roberta Rusch, Mark Annapolis's Graduate Institute, is serving as a consultant to the Steitz, and Eugene Glass. The only seminar in which both Department of Higher Education leaders were faculty members of the State of New Jersey in turned out to be something of an evaluating a document which experiment. It was led by would result in expanding Laurence and Gisela Berns, who financial support for a graduate had wanted to lead a seminar program. Earlier this spring he assisted together by way of showing that a husband-wife team need not in an evaluation at Georgetown cause the walls of McDowell Hall University undertaken by the to come tumbling down. It is Association of Graduate Liberal believed to be the first time this Studies Program, of which the has occurred. e.olleg~ is . a. membe~.· �• to understand how not to contract venereal disease. It's rising to , and One nice thing abom this little seriously attectm.e: talk to you is that I did not have to capabilities.' announce beforehand what I was " 'So I spent the rest of the war, going to talk about, or what my as a good soldier, fighting this title would be. The right subject age old battle." and tone for this occasion are Thus, in the War that was to difficult to find ... and a good end all War, in the war that was title is almost hopeless. One to make the world safe for struggles, in vain, for a title that democracy, Mr. Barr's unique would be brief, original, talents as a liberal artist were put humorous and relevant to the to good use. Through a kind of presumedsubjectmatter. gutter grammar, My favorite example of a good rhetoric and lusty logic he suctitle for a lecture was one given ceeded in containing the by Scott Buchanan, our first problem. He was proud ofthe fact Dean and Mentor, and founding that his regiment, after a time, father of our present curriculum. had one of the lowest infection This lecture would have occurred rates in the Army. Whenever ask th.at perennial in the period 1938-1942, when I was a student here. It was en- question, "What good is a St. titled "Clothes" - not c-1-o-s-e, John's education?", I smile and but the kind that you wear. It was think of Mr. Barr's special brief, and original, at least for.a contributions to the Allied Cause Friday night lecture. And if you in WWI. knew Mr. Buchanan, one of the I remember a few lecturers. I world's worst dressed men (but marvelled that Mortimer Adler, always with the proper jacket still a very young man then, could and tie), you could appreciate the be so intense, and so certain; deep levels of ambiguity, self- about such complex philosophical mockery and humor in the title. minutiae. I marvelled that Also it perfectly expressed, in one Robert Maynard Hutchins, still a commonly used the subject young, famous, tall, handsome matterofhislecture. and man, would even If I had been askefl +n ~upply a to come all the way to I would have looked for.one Annapolis from Chicago, to talk as Mr. Buchan·an did... to us about Aristotle - and virand that one word would have tue. I marvelled at the exquisite been Memories, which is not very language and penetrating inoriginal, or humorous, or even sights of Mark Van Doren, when specific. However, it would have he talked to us about the great been brief ... but ·alas, a poor poets. And I marvelled that step-child to Mr. Buchanan's Alexander Meiklejohn could be so Clothes. old in years, yet so young, and SINCE I WAS here as a student vigorous and forceful in h!s -love many years ago in the so-called of freedom. I REMEMBER Dr. Kasner, Golden Age of the Program, and since tradition and continuity are our visiting lecturer on such important aspects of any m a the m a tic s , a s m a 11 , educational scheme, I thought I dishevelled, mustachioed man, would share with you some of your typical absent-minded what I remember of my student professor type. He never really days. It will come as a shock to understood clothes properly, no you, and especially to the tutors doubt having missed Mr. present, but I remember only Buchanan's lecture! He had about half of my tutors by name! trouble with clothes, matching Mr. Kieffer, Mr. Bingley, Mr. them, keeping them in place, and Scofield, Mr. Martin, Mr. even keeping them on! During Neustadt, Mr. Tilghman, Mr. one of his lectures it became MacFarlane, Mr. Klein, Mr. clear that he h'ad forgotten his Barr and Mr. Buchanan. One belt, or his suspenders, because . only remembers tutors who are he kept a firm hold on his pants especially virtuous, or otherwise. with one hand, all the while I remember most of all Mr. gesticulating with the other. But Barr, our first new .program remembering important things president, and my seminar was not his strong suit, so after leader for several years - awhile it happened, what we all energetic, questing, bold, were waiting.breathlessly for: he imaginative, outrageous, always used both hands to describe some pushing us to t~ink more geometrical figure, and, of seriously about thmgs worth course, his pants fell down, right never satisfied, down to the floor, right about restless, but a most gracious and here where I am now standing! humane person, with a wonderful Well, this was too much, even sense of humor. For example, in a formal lecture, in this very when asked what he had done in Great Hall. We all just the Great War (i.e., WWI), he collapsed with laughter. While we would tell this story, that he howled and the tears rolled, he never tired ofrepeating: just stood there, pants down, "WELL, I ENDED up in the watching us, unperturbed. Army somehow, and one day I Finally we came to our senses was called up before the Captain, and quieted· down. Then Dr. and he said to me; Kasner, waiting there patiently "'Barr; we have a big problem in his underwear, drew himself in this Army. 1 see where you up haughtily, and - said, "You scored rather well on our basic think my pants have fallen? Hahl literacy test, and it says here that Just shows you how wrong you you studied foreign languages. are. My pants have not fallen. No, Now Barr, you're just the man we my body has risen! I shall now need to explain certain things descend." And sure enough, he clearly to our troo,ps. So I'm then descended, and be and his, putting you in charge ?f a special pants, >once again, .bore their detail. You've got to getour lads preper relatitn&hiJ :.to ·one another. Needless to say, I never forgot . this elementary instruction in the theory of relativity. Years later it occurred to me that maybe he had staged the whole thing, on purpose! Also, I remember all of the good times that I had participating in the intramural athletic program. Mr. Barr was particularly interested in this program. When I, and others, won our blazers, he would personally present them to us, in the presence of the college community .. IN THOSE EARLY days, the concept of the college as a monastery began to take firm hold. Given the nature of the program, this was inevitable. Mr. Barr and Mr. Buchanan would remind us, however, that very shortly we would all be back in the world, confronted at that time by another of its periodic wars. This natural, monastic idea has become corrupted somewhat, over the years. We see ourselves as separate from the things of the world, and so we are, to a certain extent. But we are not superior to the rest of humanity, who are out there busily engaged in the world's work. We should always be especially grateful to those who are doing the necessary, nonglamorous, and even dangerous jobs out there, such as janitors, cooks, policemen, sheriffs, judges, tax collectors, money lenders, garbage collectors, raisers, butchers, grave diggers, etc. Without this fortunate division of labor, we would all be forced to do these things, which might give us · pause. We are not morally superior to those worldlings, nor, in fact, are we intellectually superior. It pains me deeply when I hear us sometimes talk that way. We are not a philosophical paradise, or any kind of paradise. We too have feet of clay. We possess, in ample quantities, all the weaknesses that we note in those "outsiders." SOME STUDENTS back in the Golden Age used to drink themselves into insensibility on Friday nights, out of sheer boredom and thrill-seeking, I know, because I did, on occasion. Students do it now and will probably continue to do so. While we are in ·this critical frame of mind, let us recognize . that there is a great disparity between the college as depicted in the college catalogue and the college as it is. We fall woefully short of to the standards and ideals are set forth in that noble document. Every'tutor and student knows this. Yet that does not mean that we have the wrong idea about or that this is a bad means that place. It organized and institutionalized education is a perilous and enterprise, fraught with ficulties and pitfalls. So whatwill YOlJ remember in the years to come? Certainly not this little talk, since I thought to wear a belt! M~rcifully, you will not remember the bad classes, the repetitive seminars and the boring lectures that have been a part of your life here~ Nor .will you remember much· in the way of information, • • pigeonholes that the world has waiting for you. We hope that you don't. We hope, in short, that your life will continue to be an educational experience. We wish you well in this most difficult of all endeavors. I have spoken of memories, and of which I hope that you remember. However, memory in its highest and ultimate sense is not mine, or yours, but ours. It is common to us. It is that recalled and persistent vision, that always present and remembered vision, of the good, that good which uplifts us from beasthood, and beckons us always to that which we might become. It is to this Memory that I refer, in closing. Let us continue to nourish it, to keep it safe. Let us always remember. technique, or knowledge in the conventional sense of the word. What you will remember, I hope, is that, for a short while in your life, you were part of a community that set a high value on asking important questions, that cherished clarity of thought, and that was genuinely concerned about what it means to be truly human. And I hope that you will remember, as I did, that this community was richly endowed, at all levels, with questing, reflective and concerned in· dividuals. IN ALL PROBABILITY, those institutions, orga:µizations and family situations that you will now move into will not set such a high value on those things. It will be difficult for you to make the adjustment. But you must, if you are to function meaningfully in this society, or any society, for that matter. Mr. Buchanan is quoted as having said, "The St. John's mission is preparing people to be misfits . . ." This is a typical Buchanan utterance - shocking, alarming, provocative - and both true and false. He did .not mean that we were turning out students who could not, or would not, fit into the maze of custom and law that constitutes the glue of our social fabric. He and Mr. Barr were confirmed traditionalists, in that respect. I tested Mr. Buchanan on this point once. He said, after a long discussion, that "Yes, neckties are absurd, and yes, the Chinese are much more sensible about clothes" but if I insisted on going to dinner without a tie, he would then have to ask me to leave the college. I decided to stay. What he did mean by misfits, I think, is that insofar as the world sets a high value on things other than those I mentioned as worth remembering, our students will not easily "fit". We hope that you will continue to question, to reflect, to be concerned; if so, you will not "fit" into the St. John's Outdoors Club, reactivated last January, is planning a camping trip to the Appalachian Trail in the Shenandoah Mountains of Virginia next fall. It also is thinking in terms of a canoe and rock climbing. Douglass Gray, Catonsville, Md., junior, who is president, said the club already has sponsored several trips, including a two-day, 40-mile bicycle trip down the C&O Canal the weekend of May 20-21. It was led Stephen Sharkey, Gaithersburg, Md., junior. Winter activities included two ski trips, the first a one-day, cross-country ski trip in the Catoctin Mountain Park near Camp David, and the second a combination cross-country and down hilr skiing trip to Blue Knobb,Pa. Members also have hiked for or five miles along the C&O Canal at Great Falls and completed a four and a half mile circuit hike across the river from- Harpers Ferry. Dr. Thomas B. Turner of the Board of Visitors and Governors con9~atula····.tes./la.ctrk\.Sh~~t.:z:. '.. o.f 8·~t~e str;:a ~. t. ~5·'e.IJ.i9.1:'1 w ~ f;eC!liv~d:. . .. .. ..• the board's salver medal a.s the ~tudent 1,Mltft.tf}e highest stand; ing. ·. 1 ·• •· · letmPan-G~ pl'idto �seminar, parents argued over· the justice of the charges brought against Socrates and then went on to lunch and talk and applaud a play and finally to dance together in St. John's third annual Parents Weekend. "I found the weekend delightful, exhilarating, highly rewarding," Mrs. Richard White, here with her husband from Arlington, Va., enthusiastically told other parents in an afternoon session with Dean Edward Sparrow. The meeting had been called to answer any questions parents might have, but it also turned out to be an occasion for parents to express their admiration for the students who had helped co-lead seminars that morning. Mrs. Diane Moore; of Orlando, Fla., was in a seminar with Philip was one of ticularly impressed · leadership. "If freshmen really saw how th-Oughtftil and interesting seniors are, they might be more encouraged," she observed of the seminar skills which are developed here over a four-year p~riod. · ALTOGETHER approximately 150 parents were on campus, dodging . raindrops, observing classes, and generq.lly having a good time among themselves and with their sons and· daughters. Anthony Cox, Annapolis junior, and Stephanie Moore, Raphine, Va., fresL"'n. wr:-"' in charge. Mr. Sparrow mace a number of points during ~1is session with parents. The college neither encourages nor discourages exchanges between Annapolis and St. John's Santa Fe campus; the option is always open to transfer if a student wishes. Mid-year returns are not encouraged, however, and there is agreement between both campuses not to export problems. On the whole, loyalty usually develops on the campus where the student begins although .this is not always so. The western campus generally handles recruitment west of the Mississippi; Annapolis, east of that river. Freshmen go through quite a shock their first year here, plunging into Homer, Euclid, the Greek language, Aristotelian and atmosphere from that which they have· been used to. Attrition runs to roughly a third of each matriculating class. Reasons for leaving are almost as various as the students themselves and are hard to categorize. If all students left the following year, it would be a dismal sign, but it isn't clear that attrition is a bad thing. Other priorities emerge which take · students away. "THE DROP-OUT rate is no greater here than anywhere else given. you can't accept transfers :Mortimer J. Adler remains one of St. the good-humored pranks which students now make traditional on his visits here don't bother him a bit. In fact, he likes to write about them. "St. John's is the only college in the country that, in my judgment, has the right kind of curriculum," America's philosopher-at-large said in a spring interview in The- Washington Star. "In the first place, it's a completely required curriculum. There are no electives. They read the great books for four years. (Continued on P. 6) . . . . . . _ _"' Looking over the program font Parents We11kend with Anthony Cox, Mclean, Va. 1 iunior, are, :from ,. 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When the hour was up, every alarm clock in the college, hidden in the balcony of the lecture room in Asked if that was what he McDowell Hall, went off · would do on most college cam- · simultaneously. puses, Mr. Adler said: "I stood my ground, waited for "I would love to do jt on every the din to subside, and then, with college campus. If I were the a smile and bow to acknowledge educational czar in this country, I their ingenuity, completed the lecture. The students plotted would use the St. John's another way to defeat me. . curriculum in one form or "ON THE OCCASION of my another. There might be variations in it." next lecture, someone pulled the main electrical switch when the ONE OF ST. JOHN'S oldest canonical time was up. Utter and most loyal supporters, Mr. darkness and silence Adler has lectured here with rare reigned for. a moment. I knew exceptions every year since 1937, they expected me to rise to the an event which has become an challenge, so I took matches out occasion for campus pranks. In of my pocket and continued the his new biography, Philosopher lecture by matchlight for the at Large, he traces their history: brief interval it took for. a member of the faculty to restore the electricity. "From the beginning, my relation to the changing· student "I subsequently shortened my body at St. John's has retained an lecture to an hour and a half or an unchanging element of goodhour and a quarter, warning the audience that I would go beyond humored personal tension. It started with the exorbitant length an hour and also telling them that of the lectures on ArMotle which I would find a resting place I gave during the first year. within the hour, at which I would pause and ask them to stand up Consisting of single-spaced, typewritten· notes running to 35 and to take. three deep breaths before I resumed. and 40 they took me at least two to deliver, "In the years since then, there has seldom been a lecture of mine «That first year, the students, at St. John's when the students, not yet realizing that this was inheriting the tradition of playing much more then they should some prank on Adler, have not reasonably be expected to suffer, graced the occasion with some sat through them with admirable form of good-humored frivolity. patience, and even returned, Once, quite recently, just before 1 after a short break, to engage in reached the rostrum to give a open discll,ssion. lecture on the defense of man "Before I made my first visitto against Darwin, the figure of an have discipline in the to s i ce , in languages, mathematics for four years. And at the end of four years, I think they are as near to being generally schooled, educated, as any college graduate could be." 11 i• ·.·1,·1···.·· •..• r··.e·······c· tt=•rl~·•r~?Jl � 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 The St. Johns \II I\ \ ~\ \~{l\\\~1\1111~\ll\i~I~\tiI\\IIIll 1 · 31696 01138 0456 ~- ... -·~ REPORTER Santa Fe, New Mexico Volume V Issue 5 May, 1978 54 Seniors Ask Simpson To Speak Excerpts From Commencement Address At a meeting in Annapolis, the Western recruitment' team of Mary Gallagher, Alumna, Dean Robert Bart and Susan Ferron, Admissions Director seek student recruitment help from Eugene Wise and Rebecca Fine, who will be on the S.F. Campus next year. e obllizes Forces • ste c 1tment The St. John's College Santa Fe Campus community-:--alumni,students, faculty, administration and friends-have mobilized in a recruitment program for new students. The alumni~both of the undergraduate college and the Graduate Institute-opened a ·campaign in five cities in February and were assisted by the faculty and the administrative staff. The cities were Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago. Mary Gallagher, '60, member of the Board of Visitors and Governors, spearheaded the drive to enlist the cooperation of alumni in the five cities. In an intensive campaign in February of one and two day visits, she and an admissions team from St. John's, Santa Fe, and alumni put together committees in each city. A second set of visits was set up for spring break in March. In the interim, committee members contacted students who had made inquiries either to the Annapolis or Santa Fe campus, inviting them to meet the committee at spring break. Just before the spring break most all of the students on the Santa Fe campus attended a meeting with Dean Robert Bart and Director of Admissions Susan Ferron and pledged support of the program and promised to talk with high school students in their own home towns. Some students visited their home town newspapers to announce that they were seeking .recruits and to ask the newspapers to begin a file on St. John's College. During spring break Santa Fe tutors went to each of the five cities to participate in meetings. to which student prospects had been invited by the alumni committee members. The Chicago meeting was held Saturday, March 18, in the law offices of Schiff, Hardin, & Waite under the direction of Chris Nelson, '70. Nine prospective students attended with their families. They met for three hours with committee members, Mary Gallagher, Miss Ferron and Philip LeCuyer, Santa Fe tu- tor. The meeting was reported by Mr. LeCuyer to be "lively and interesting, with the high school students getting the opportunity to see how St. John's people enter into spirited discussion". On Sunday, March 19, Mary Gallagher; Leon Cass, M.D., Henry R. Luce Professor, University of Chicago and former part-time tutor at Annapolis; and Dean Jonathan Z. Smith of the Undergraduate College, University of Chicago were interviewed on the television program "Perspectives" hosted by C. Ranlet Lincoln, 'SO. The series of three programs were aired during the following· week on WLS-TV, Chicago. Other alumni participating in the Chicago March meeting were Ms. Raissa Landor, Mr. (Continued on P. J} e The St. John's College Search and Rescue Team is unique. No other college has one like it. It was organized in 1971 by James Carr with Herb Kincey of Santa Fe, long prominent in search and rescue throughout New Mexico. Jeff McElroy, Santa Fe junior and president, sums up the spirit of the team in this way, "If you are a member you are under two powerful pres- sures-the curriculum and the possibility that you are needed to help someone who is in trouble. But we all work it out, mostly because of close cooperation among team members." Life in the mountains puts an interesting pressure on students who spend time in the outdoors themselves and know the hazards which face the amateur. This accounts Thomas King Simpson of the class of 1950 and a tutor at the Santa Fe Campus, was selected by the graduating class of 54 seniors to give the commencement address on Sunday, May21. Former Governor of New Mexico, Jack M. Campbell, who is a member of the St. John's College Board of Visitors and Governors, .will preside in the absence of President Richard Weigle who is on a trip to the Republic of China. In the ·commencement Weekend events the seniors will picnic with their families on Saturday, May 20, at noon. The picnic preceeds the traditional faculty-senior softball game on the athletic field. Later at 6:00 p.m., Vice President and Mrs. Burchenal Ault will have the seniors and their parents for cocktails at their home.' The Commencement Ban will be at 9:00 p.m., in the dining room of the Student Center. On Sunday, the Baccalaureate Service will be at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Faith in Santa Fe. Mr. Ault will give the address. Commencement will be at 3:00 p.m., on the Campus Plaza. Following commencement there will be a reception in the the Junior Common Room. In his address to be delivered to the graduating class at Commencement on Sunday, May U, 1978 on the St. John's College, Santa Fe Campus,. Thomas K. Simpson offers "Five Propositions Concerning St.John's College." In the first part of the address from which these "propositions" are taken, Mr. Simpson identifies two principles on which he feels the College rests. The first is "dialectical reason", reason which is not content to draw conclusions from, accepted principles, but insists on rising to the source of arguments to question assumptions and consider new possibilities for thought-this is the principle of the seminar conversation. The second, broader principle of the College he terms simply the "liberal mind", that spectrum of powers which includes all the modes, poetic and musical, comic and tragic, as well as logical and mathematical, through which the authors of the Great Books have worked to transform the world. The five propositions which follow are seen as consequences of these two principles, which together mark the College as "liberal" in the "im- er than the College itself-in portant sense that an institu- ·trying to catch the College in tion founded on them cannot its essence, I have caught the be constrained to any prede- whole world. For what I have termined channels or limits. called the 'liberal mind' is St. John's takes that liberal really man himself, when he is commitment seriously in a most himself, free and creaway few institutions do.": tive. Such moments of human freedom may be rare, but they "PROPOSITION I. are pervasive-that is, they may occur anywhere, at any "The principles which ener- time, and they may take any gize St. John's are not specific form known to the liberal arts. to education; hence the pri· They are everywhere the livmary commitment of the Col- ing, growing edge of human lege is to a much broader life. Whenever and wherever community of the liberal they· occur, they are ·part of mind, which runs through so· that fabric of liberal expericiety, and thr~ughout history. ence which is the object of our concern at St. John's. "The two principles of 'dia"At a time when the liberal lectical reason' and the 'liberal arts are in crisis, as thev are mind' are evidently far broad- today under ungoverned ·technological pressures, even an institution as small as St. John's which is dedicated to the reconstitution and exerfor the enthusiasm of the 48 cise of .the liberal arts may members of the team-26 St. have a significant responsibiJohnnies, the rest from lity to that larger community town-all of whom are conof learning, the community of stantly ready to drop what the liberal mind. they are doing to face cold, "PROPOSITION II. snow and altitude to -accomplish their mission. The Santa "Within this larger community Fe Reporter will do a series of the liberal mind, St. Johns on the Search and Rescue has a specific and unique role. Team, beginning in June. (Continued on P. 4) �2 1927-A It was with great sorrow that we learned of the sudden death on March 27 of Joy Remer Lush, wife of Edward J. Lush. Mrs. Lush was for many years a· professional vocalist with dance bands in New England. Our deepest sympathy to Ed and to their son, James. 1948-A Peter Davies and his wife, Phyllis, paid their first visit to the Santa Fe campus in mid-March. They were much impressed by the architecture, and although it was during spring vacation, they were lucky enough to happen on an instrumental quartet playing Bach. 1949-A Chester A. Johnson, on loan this year from IBM, has been teaching at Talladega College in Alabama. Talladega is a small, black, liberal arts college. 1966-A Karen (Beckvold) Ivey writes that she and her husband are returning to Little Rock, Ark., from Madison, Wis., where he finished work on his Ph.D. degree in archeology. Karen and Robert have sons Robert, 9, and Jefferson, 5. Karen plans to finish graduate work in accounting and finance. More than two-thirds of all students on the Santa Fe campus participate in at least one of the physical activities of· fered by the Student Activities Office. Additionally, many of the other students are pursuing independent physical programs. These are estimates of Ist· van Fehervary, director of Student Activities, who thinks the rate of all this activity is remarkable. "First of all, this is a higher percentage of physical activity for students than any col- applying his talents and efforts to making a full-time career of writing. Apparently her experience as a graduate student at the University of Chicago (Near Eastern Languages) was both frustrating and disappointing. 1974-SF David. G:ross and Kate Gordon are going to be married .May 27 on Martha's Vineyard. 1968-SF 1975-SF Phil Chandler and his wife, Verl, will be senior residents on the Santa Fe campus next fall. 1968-A More specific information about C. Nemovicher (see April Reporter): he is completing work on an M.Sc. degree in industrial engineering at Lehigh University, and hopes to enter doctoral studies as the next step in his edueation. Since 1972 has been involved in computer work for Control Data of and would like to return there as a Senior SysEventu~Lll'\i he would like to leaven his industrial some experience in the academic world. Kerry and Hadassah, have a daughter, Sivan, almost 5, and a son, uai, turned one year old. 1969-A A fine letter in saken Iran for but P.,.h .... .,, ..., lege or university program I have ever observed," Mr. Fehervary says. "Ive never heard of any college coming close to it. If these percentages were applied to the University of New Mexico you would have a tremendous mob of 15,000 students in action." The Santa Fe campus activities are wide ranging: from skiing-both cross country and down hill-to fencing, to softball, to the dance. Soccer is still popular, but this year Mr. Fehervary believes .that who has for- Dick Sbug married Carol lossi December 23, 1977, and is working in Sacramento, California, as a mason and adobe contractor. Abigail Smith. has completed her forestry degree specializing in water shed at Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado. She has been working for the U.S. Forest Service at South Lake Tahoe, California. Russell Mayfield. has been appointed Graphics Director for the citv of Santa Fe. He continues workin2 on his music. 1975-A Elizabeth Martin writes in April that she is now living in Charles Town, W. Va., as part of the Claymont Society comthere. She reports receiving her baccalaureate degree :__ :_:a Polytechnic Institute, and studying at the Clay(connected with the Gurdjieff psychological and nhilosophy system). As she wrote, she was in the proa soybean curd (tofu) manufacturin2 business. softball is even more so. Long distance running, which is mostly an individual activity, is fast developing. The College recently sponsored its First Annual Marathon. Hiking, camping, climbing, rafting-all available because the campus abuts the Sangre de Christo National Forest-continue to be popular. There is no question that the mild and sunny climate in New Mexico plays a part. "But still," says Mr. Fehervary, "St. Johnnies are much mor~ active than other New Mexico college students." Why? Whatever the answers are, Mr. -Fehervary thinks one has to consider the curriculum. On the other hand, St. John's students have less time for physical activities than other students. The curriculum is demanding. Mr. Fehervary points out that the fencing team which draws from a student body of 250 competes commendably against the Air Force Aca.: demy, whose corps numbers 4,000. "But when we go up to Colorado for a Saturday meet we don't leave until Saturday morning at 5:00 a.m. because of the Friday lecture," Mr. Fehervary jump from cars right into the meet with little warm-up. Then after the meet we have to think about going home and ....... ,,, .... ,, .._ for Monday cludimi Monday night semiget in about three ~ .. actices a week. "The Air Force and mana12:es Friday 1976-SF Houston is studying geology at the She thinks it is important for the math and science at St. John's are of 1;1eo]rnrv the Santa Fe Ghamber Music is Festival. Janet Farr reported to Barbara that she has been attending Mills College, first in education, more recently in music. Having taken care of certain missing undergraduate units in music, she plans this coming fall to start a program of music literature and performance (voice). she would like to make a career of performance. William A Malloy sends an interesting and lengthy summary of his activities since last May: several months of travel and relaxing after graduation; temporary employment at the VA Regional Office (Finance Division) in Houston; permanent employment and then resignation from the VA because a 40-hour workweek interfered with his biology studies at the University of Houston; participation in the choir and a study group at St. George Antiochan Orthodox Church in Houston. How's that for a busy life? Bill also reports meeting old friends while working on the Alumni Prospective Stuqent Committee: Galen (SF73) and Jena (SF74) Brenigstall and their two-yearold Jeremy (Galen is finishing his second year at the University of Texas's Galveston Medical School); and Sample, who works for a Houston brokerage firm. Hr11aeiet .......,,u.....,•uu... 1972-A f't..n:su.::m, after receiving two master's degrees, (journalism, University of Missouri; philosophy, Claremont Graduate School) in now a reporter for the Claremore (Okla.) Prol!ress. 1972-SF A welcome letter from Douglas Coder in March brings all of · us up-to-date on his doings-and they have been varied. After graduation he joined the Taos Ski Patrol, started playing piano, moved back to Santa Fe to study music full time,_ joined Mason Williams' band, The Santa Fe Recital, as a bassist, and toured with the band for two years. In 1974, Poug moved to the San Francisco Bay area, became a cantor in a -large synagogue, studied and composed music, and started his own band. With his two older brothers, he started Cotler and Bros. Productions in Los Angeles. Brother Alan is a screen writer, Steve a producer, and Doug a composer. The Seattle Philharmonic performed his first symphony last year, while this year Doug will conduct a 30-piece orchestra doing his first full-length motion picture score. With all this, he still tours with his band; their latest album, "The Stranger", has apparently enjoyed some success. Doug says he is interested in hearing from any musicians, pop or classical-he can be reached at 140 South Wilton Place, Los Angeles 90004. Just received on the Santa Fe campus was an interesting letter from Christie Madame. She and David are now in Portland, Ore.; she is studying calligraphv to the epigraphic of philology' mtTI'.JIV'U 1977-SF Elizabeth Cochran is working as a travel agent at the Crimson Travel Service, Harvard Squar~, Cambridge, Massa-:chusetts. Michael Dubetz is in California learning to be a film maker, He says he thinks he will be up to makfog cat food commercials in about a year. . Susan Otto is enjoying her first year of law school at Oklahoma City University. won a t'trst in an tournament." That's one side of the coin. On the other side is his theory that students welcome the brief moment of ~'free" time from classes and study and naturn to physical activiof course, the curriculum itself has some advice. Mr. Fehervary points to Plato, who in the Timaeus (88 b&c) says: " ... we should not move the body without the soul or the soul without the body, and th us they will be on their guard against each other and be healthy and well balanced. And therefore the mathematician or anyone else whose thoughts are much absorbed in S()me int.ellectual pursuit, must allow his body also to have due exercise, and practice gymnastics, and he who is careful to fashion the body ·should in turn impart to the soul its proper motions ... " Dancing in many forms joins soccer, fencing, swimming, rafting and others as an important exercise in activity, in Mr. Fehervary's view. It is neither more important or less ;~~~~ n~ to the Student Ac.. .. (Continued on P. 3) �When three major award winners got together for pietures, some interesting points of view came up in conversation on the subject of what brought each one to St. John's in Santa Fe. From widely divergent backgrounds, each focused on the structure of St. John's curriculum. GERALDINE GLOVER, '80, who won a Thome Foundation Fellowship for pre-medical study, comes from northwest Montana, close to Canada. Before coming to Santa Fe she had never traveled south of the Montana border, so she was looking at colleges in Washington, Califomia, the east and the southwest. She had watched older brothers and sisters in college change their majors-one brother changed his major five or six times. She felt the structured program of St. John's would give her a wide scope of learning and time to decide what she wanted to do. Although medical training has always been in of her mind it cr1vstau1ze:<1 after a at came up with the same ending-the structured program appealed to him. For one thing, Mr. Tortolini is 29 years old. He- has been through a series of school and college experiences. He was an honors graduate with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Lowell Tech in Massachusetts in 1970. The following two years were spent working for the government. He also attended Oxford. In 1972 he was a prospective freshman at Annapolis. At this time he learned about the Graduate Institute in San- Award winners announced before Commencement Week were left io right, back row: ta Fe, and he enrolled. He Nigel Hinshelwood (Community Scholarship), Patrick Woods (language Study), Dawn spent the winters at the Mon- Ellinwood (Language Study), William Boon (Coanmunity Scholarship), Alan Cook (Lan· sarrat School of Art in Massa- guage Study), Anne Wu (Ault Scholarship), Jeff McElroy (Community Scholarship), chusetts. By the time he gradCharles Hamm Scholarship). uated from the Graduate Institute he had completed his Front row: Terrilyn Hicks (Community Scholarship), Carla (Community Scholar· freshman year at St. John's. ship), Chris Currin (Watson Fellowship), James Forkin (Ault Scholarship), Geraldine It is at St. John's that Mr. Tor- Glover Scholarship and Thorne Foundation) Robert Tortolini Foundation). tolini has discovered his interest in medicine. Two Bay area meetings The Fasching held in Biology fascinated him, and were held on Monday, with his engineering back- the style of the European celeMarch 20, in the law offices ' ground he already had a lively bration, has become a tradiof Furth, Fahmert and Wong, interest in control systems. He tion on the Santa Fe campus under the supervision of Bart eventually go back to after nine years. Lee, '68 and on Tuesday, but feels that for the Fe campus after nine March 21, in Palo Alto St. John's edu<Ja- . In the Fall is the Oktober· (Continued from P. 1) at the home of James Frame, and like the First has given him enough John VanDoren, Mr. Peter 'SO. An impromptu seminar it is Miss Glover will study or- ''humanism" to last through ganic chemistry at the Univer- the dedicated, one-sighted "somewhere in the Pecos Wil- Ruel, Ms. Cilia Yerger, Ms. developed at the San Francissity of New Mexico, Albu- years of training to be a doc- derness" in an idyllic location Susan Lobell,. Sara and Fred co meeting, the question being, "Can one learn art by in the Sangre de Christo Ellis and Ms. Martha Stone. querque, taking the first half tor. Jack R. Steadman, tutor in discussion?" of their two-semester course. Mr. Tortolini will be a- range, which begins just in Susan Ferron, campus Santa Fe, attended both the She will earn some money in a warded up to $450 to cover his back of the job related to her future ca- ex1pe11se:s for advanced cours- dorms and ends central Co- Houston and Dallas meetings. tended the meetings reer in medicine. She will be es chemistry and biologv at lorado, more than 300 miles to The Houston meeting was go, Los Angeles, the north. "At these parties held Sunday, March 19, at the co and awarded $900 toward tuition. the College of Santa Fe enjoys," says home of Mrs. Barbara Pren- pressed that summer. He is presently com- everyone books and - ,L_ Fehervary, "because dergast, GI'72.!Those assisting minars" his study of organic Mr. CHRIS were Ms. Nancy Sample, dancing and SON chemistry at the Los Alamos there is Bill Malloy, Galen and Jenna ent, also looked at a the Universitv of games, besides refreshment." AU campus activities are of- Breningstall, Mr. and Mrs. doing the variety of colleges, without New knowing exactly what he ratory work on alternate Sat- fered to both men and wo- Ronald Deal, Mr. Dale Garrand wanted to do to aim for a camen. There are no excep- zynski, Ms. Sarah in vere the St. tions. In the annual soccer Mr. Scott Kelso. reer. He wrote and produced The Dallas meeting on John's education worth it?" tournament sponsored by St. movies while in a Jesuit usually in April, the Monday, March 20, was held School in Dallas, but did not Chris Currin verbalized the yet wish to commit himself. answer for all three. Said Cur- team generally fields women in the club house of the of meetHe felt that the more he rin, "At St. John's I have been players, sometimes as many as Woodcreek Apartments. Re- "These two looked at colleges the more confronted with things I three. This year Winkie War- gina Forsyth, '68 chaired the ings have made a nice beginthey sounded alike. The struc- would never have come across field distinguished herself with meeting with assistance from ning in alumni working on retured program appealed to his by pursuing my own interests. "fighting play" at wing and at Khalil Ayoub, Rev. and Mrs. cruitment. Our alumni are a desire for developing critical This education is an incredi- half-back, according to Mr. James F. Carlyle, Mr. Phil powerful tool in explaining St. Weathers, Mr. Doug Mayer, John's and what makes our and analytical skills, which he . ble luxury." Fehervary. College a different learning feels are a prerequisite for any One reason for the high rate and Mr. Jonathan K. Hustis. Dean Robert Bart visited experience. They can speak endeavor. of student participation in Mr. Currin will follow in Activity physical activity, Mr. Feher- Los Angeles and the Bay area with authority on the value of Vincent Van Gogh's footsteps vary believes, is that women surrounding San Francisco. the St. John's education in On Sunday, March 19, in Los preparing young people for a for the next year. He will be- (Continued from P. 2) are welcome. Another reason gin his odyssey in London, tivities Office. Those distinc- is that students who have ne- Angeles Dean Bart spoke with broad variety of careers." She where he· will visit with some tions, if made at all, are left to ver before engaged in sports ten students who were in- continued, "The College is apVan Gogh scholars. Then his participating students. But it tum out. Of 60 to 80 skiers terested in St. John's. The pealing to all alumni who are travels will take him to the is evident that a lot of students each year there are 20 to 30 meeting was held at the home willing to assist. If any alumni of Dr. David Dobreer, '44. are interested in doing so, we Netherlands where Van Gogh participate. Classes include who have never skied before, lived and worked on his art modern dance, ballet, folk although some of these stu- · with Mr. Bob Weiss, Jackie will be happy to provide them Dashiell Weiss, Mr. Jonathan with materials and suggesduring the first period of his and social dancing. dents have had previous athleKrane, Mr.Todd Everett, Ms. tions. And we will be most commitment. From the NeSocial dancing includes tic training. Instruction is . therlands Mr. Currin will go to· classes for the waltz, often in free, provided by Mr. Feher- Paula Lundy, Ms. Deidre grateful for their help." Lanihan Sloyhan, Ms. Maria The Admissions Office in Belgium and to Paris looking preparation for waltz parties. vary or students who are exKwond, Sally and Edmond Santa Fe is receiving assisfor Van Gogh scholars. His In preparation for the Fasch· pert skiers. Fees are minimal, Raspa, Mr. Burt Seimans, Ms. tance from alumni in recruitultimate goal is to produce a Ban on February 11 there $3.00 for transportation, all Augusta Goldstein, Ms. Meg ment in other ways. When the film on the Dutch painter's was a waltz party practice fol- equipment, instruction and Sheehan, Mr. Robert Thomp- office receives an inquiry life. lowing the Saturday night mo- lift tickets. son, Ms. McKenzie Wagga- from a prospective student, ROBERT TORTOLINI '79 vie on February 3. "Come poWINNER of a Thorne at San· man, Mr. Larry Dutton, Mrs. alumni in the prospect's area lish your technique for the Next: The teams Dobreer and Mr. David are contacted and asked to ation Fellowship, is Fasching Ball." said the an- ta Fetalk to or write students. different story-but a:nd the neuncement. �Page4 THE THE REPORTER St. John's r -------------Santa Fe, --~ 8~ Simpson (Continued from P. J) ---------~- - - BULKRATE 11'.J-<>n-Profit Org. J. S. Postage PAID ,ermit No 231 successful, can never be more than a working hypothesis. We remain a 'comm unity of learning' in the most earnest sense. "We can usefully specify our function in relation to that larger human community by "PROPOSITION IV. asserting that we at St. John's "St. John's is inherently not exercise the liberal mind in isolated, but has by its very the mode of unspecialized definition a ramifying interest teaching and learning. To say and involvement in the world. this is to contrast our College with virtually every other. For "Many have urged a 'moeverywhere colleges are founded on an illiberal und'er- nastic' strategy for the Colstanding of undergraduate ed- lege, asking students deliberucation as a derivative, and ately to turn their backs for a inherently inferior, version of time on problems and consomething else-namely, of cepts which elsewhere seem what is called 'real' or 'serious' inescapably pressing. But such advice can be no more scholarship: Yet we know that than a strategy, adopted partone of the central ills of our ly in order to permit the contime is that serious, advanced centration of effort which the scholarship, however 'respectProgram indeed demands, able, is intensely illiberal. and partly to be able to see, "We might almost say that 'scholarship' is so narrowly de- for a while, with eyes other than those the world so infined as to exclude liberality. '""1r ...... t-1u offers. Tb.us where others derive their curricula from illiberal "PROPOSITION professional elements, we build ours on its own liberal "Si. John's cannot rest confoundation, our inheritance of tent to be economically or sothe Great Books. isolated or exclusive. "From this base, this breath "It was an old vaunt of the of liberality, we go out to the disciplines-principally College's that 'anyone who through our Alumni, who can vote should go to St. constitute a dispersed College John's'. This democratic iof very genuine importance, mage of the liberal arts, righttaking with them into the - ly I believe attributed to Scott fields they enter a liberal per- Buchanan, is rudely contraspective for the lack of which dicted by economic and sothose specialized disciplines cial fact, which makes four are suffocating. years of education at St. John's prohibitive for most "PROPOSITION III. people. "Liberal education is inhe"The St. Johns program is in- rently expensive, for it deherently dependent upon a mands generous application continuing process of 're- of human time, and we should search into the liberal arts'. beware of short-cut substitutions which preserve the ap"Since St. John's, unlike pearance but let the reality other colleges, cannot derive slip away. Yet by definition the form and content of its our enterprise is not aristocraprogram by reduction from tic, as it so easily appears unexisting academic disciplines, der these circumstances, but it has had to build its own deeply democratic: the arts curriculum, taking the Great we teach are those of man as Books as foundation. The fact man, not those of a prof~s­ that the present program is sional or social elite. highly successful should not "Until this contradiction is tempt us to believe that this resolved, we cannot rest. We work is now complete. Nei- must keep seeking new, acther we, nor anyone else, has cessible forms of our liberal mastered the liberal arts in the teaching, perhaps very unlike modern world-we can hardly our present four-year undercomprehend what such 'mas- graduate program or even our tery' would mean. Graduate Institute, though "The liberal arts weave their the latter has been a major ways through the arts and sciforward in this direction. ences, and all the branches of as in so many of the mathematics, through langu- concerns of the College these ages and literatures-and as propositions have elicited, we they do so, they are constant- can look to our Alumni as ly taking new forms. Our likely sources of crucial adteaching program, however vice." • • New Yorkers themselvesan allegedly sophisticated lot-may not have noticed, of course. The quality of life in their bustling city nonetheless has been receiving steady, albeit quiet enrichment ever since the summer of 1971. Further infusions are in store -for them this year as Laurie Grand, Celia Hazzard, Aletta Seales, Joan White, Lolita Wood, Anna Giles, Ella Jameson and Stephanie Miller arrive in Santa Fe for another summer at St. John's Graduate Institute in Liberal Education. Laurie, Celia and the others are Vincent Astor Foundation fellows, returning to complete or add another leg toward their Master of Arts Degree. This summer they will be five freshmen who not yet been announced, as newcomers to the St. John's Santa Fe summer communLATE VINCENT ASTOR established the Foundation in 1948 "for the alleviation of human misery." This broad franchise has been finely tuned over the years. Mrs. Astor herself, writing in the Foundation's 25th Annual Report, in 1973, noted the "people-oriented" thinking of the .Foundation as wen as its that Foundation were to be spent in New York City. "Essentially," Mrs. Astor wrote, "we are concerned with urban as attractive as possible throughout all five boroughs ... but we have always kept a special eye out for the less fortunate." Not yet a borough of congested New York, Santa Fe and St. John's and the Graduate Institute have found themselves part of the Foundation's worthy objectives through the spirited presence of students like Laurie Grand, Celia Hazzard and the others. Laurie and Celia, like Mich- dents at Junior High 35 to inael Castagna or Martin Drew , troduce a seminar approach ... before them, are all teachers "to get away somewhat from in New York public schools. the chalkboard routine." Linda L. Gillies, director of "We did Oedipus one year," the Astor Foundation, noted she reported, with the same the other day the Founda- sort of enthusiasm she seemtion's long interest in New ingly brings to any substantive York education. Fellowship talk. Indeed the c grants enabling New York over the St. John's public school · teachers to Institute generated in and complete graduate study pro- maintained by the Astor grams at St. John's, Santa Fe, Foundation fellows is enrichunquestionably contribute to ing to encounter on or off the improving the quality of life in sidewalks of New York. the nation's largest city. The reading supervisor at "It's magic," says Laurie Laurie Grand's same Junior Grand, whose upcoming sum- High~ 35, for example, is Mimer on the Santa Fe campus chael Castagna. Michael, who will be her third. "I still just graduated from Long Island don't believe it. This program University with a bachelors is the type I'd always wanted." degree in English in 1970, has Laurie graduated from been associated with Junior Brooklyn College in 1971 with High 35 for the past eight a bachelors degree in history. years. A native of nearby SheepsAs an Astor Fellow, Mihead Bay, she started teaching chael attended the St. John's reading, languages and sci- Graduate Institute in the sumence in Junior High School 35 mers of 1974 through 1976. in the Bedford Stuyvesant sec- Reached by telephone recenttion of Brooklyn in 1973. She ly in his busy office at the has since shifted to teaching school, Michael said of his St. social studies at the same John's experience: "I grew school, located in a section of personally first. I've been Brooklyn that serves-inter- growing professionally ever mittently as a social study in since." itself. LAURIE, WHO IS 29 years of age, will be taking the math and science sei!ment of the this summer in saving the philosophy and theology segment for last," she commented the other day. In her view the St. John's tutors "are all exceptional." She has thoroughly enjoyed the variety of students she's met at the Graduate Institute and the chance to participate in lively discussions with them during and after seminars. Stressing that "classroom technique" is not at all a part of the St. John's Graduate Institute curriculum, Laurie said she has attempted in classes with some of her better stu- R.I. Miss .Aitken To Leave Delays Plans S.F. ~ ............. Annapolis The Rhode Island School of Design and St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, have delayed commencing a program whereby some R.I.S.D. students would take their freshman year on the St. John's campus. In an announcement to the Santa Fe Campus community on May 8, Dean Robert S. Bart said that Rhode Island School of Design was unable to come next fall because the R.I.S.D. had not had enough time to work out plans. "I want to thank all of you for the openness in receiving the idea and for your generous cooperation in making plans to accomodate them," Mr. Bart said. Joanne Aitken is resigning her position as admissions director of the Annapolis campus to study architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. She will begin a three-anda-half year master's program in September. Miss Aitken has been associated with the admissions office since her graduation from the college in 1973. She was made assistant director in 1974 and then almost immediately afterwards acting director upon the resignation of her predecessor, Michael Ham, '61. A year later she was made full director. Miss Aitken will continue to direct admissions activities at Annapolis until late August. The Graduate Institute in Liberal Education expects that its incoming "freshman" class will be its largest and the Institute should readily meet its total student goal of 108 students for this summer's session. · "At the rate applications were coming to us in April we may have more than 108 students. Dean R. Haggard, director of the Institute said, "We are fortunate this year to have five new Astor Fellows under the renewal of the Astor Grant, as well as five new Noble Fellows: In addition, we have some students from the Near East." Mr. Haggard said that the large "freshman" class would help to insure full enrollment in the next two summers. Students are enrolled in one of four segments: Politics and Society; Philosopy and Theology; Literature; and Mathematics and Natural Science. In each segment students follow an established curriculum in Seminars and Tutorials. Students also .attend Preceptorials to study a single book or problem and prepare a loRg essay. The subject of the preceptorials are always of special interest. President Weigle said the college now is attempting to find a successor. 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