6 20 118 https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/a7dd3eac243d26f6ece58694be30b4f9.pdf a27bab62d41a9b172037fa7b208d6162 PDF Text Text ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY 11111111111111111~~nm~111111m ~ l 1111111111111111 31696 01138 0449 Leo, Raditsa, who joined St. John's in 1973, will assume the editorship of the new journal which St. John's College will publishing later this year. in editing at Harvard, he was editor of the Harvard Advocate and founded The Review. in 1956 • LEO RADITSA closely with Jacques Barzun, Lionel Trilling, and W.H. Auden as executive editor of the Readers Subscription, which they then were running. It amounted to a small publishing house, and Mr. Raditsa nut out its monthlv issues. Asked to comment on the direction he hopes the new magazine will take, Mr. Raditsa writes from the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, where he is on leave this year: SANTA FE- The Graduate Institute in Liberal Education is considering the po$sibility of offering its program during the regular academic year. Currently the institute awards a Master of Arts degree to graduate students who successfully complete four segments of the program in four summers. The four segments presently offered include Politics and Society, Philosophy and Theology, Literature, and Mathematics and Natural Science. Dean R. Haggard, director, said that six options are being considered for the winter program on the New Mexico In every case the would have to cornol.ete four segments in order to earn an M.A. The options range from offering one segment a year, one night or one afternoon a week, to completing the four segments of the program in two academic semesters in one academic year. (Continued on P. 5) It will be Plato for parents May 4-6 when the Annapolis campus holds its third annual Parents Weekend. The committee in charge has decided on writings of one of the major authors .of the freshman year and has selected Plato's Apology and-Crito for discussion in parent-student seminars at 10 a.m. on Saturday. Later that to something li William Players' production, ,.,..,.,.f;mce of followed and nl'"<>•~Uiont Of the Student Polity, said registration will be held . on· Thursday ·and Friday between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. in the CarrollBarrister House. Seminars and classes will be open to parents, who also are invited to use the (Continued on P. 2) People kept on cautioning, "We're not professionals." Professionals they are· not, but when members of the newly formed St. John's Chamber Orchestra made their debut at the annual Christmas party, playing Bach with warmth and spirit and accompanying the small Chorus in a· cantata, they excited enough applause to bring down the house; and now, with a successful performance behind them, they are preparing for a second concert the last week in May. The orchestra is providing the college with what in old German musical families was known as "house music." That was formed on occasions when be conductirnz with four of the children .. an aunt or cousin with their instruments evening of making music together. At St. John's the composition of the orchestra is a family affair students with some tutors along with a couple of faculty wives. The audience for which it is intended also is essentially (Continu~dQ!J.P. 71_ SANTA FE - Under a unique campus-sharing plan, St. John's College and the Rhode Island School of Design have reached an agreement under which students from the Providence school be on the Santa Fe campus oeg:mnmg; this fall. Announcement ot the arrangement was made by St. John's President Richard D. and Lee Hall, RISD president and a long-time friend of Mr. Weigle. Mr. Weigle said that the Providence school, one of the foremost art schools in the United States, will share facilities of the 'New Mexico campus, and sorne St. John's ~culty members will be made available for teaching purposes, but that the two academic programs will be kept ,separate and run parallel to one .another. The plan, which was initiated by RISD, will operate on an experimental basis for three years with costs pro-rated between the two institutions. It is expected to bring 40 freshmen to Santa Fe. Following a year on tlie we15tern campus, they will transfer to Providence for their upperclass work. Mr. Weigle said he welcomed the cooperative venture. "THE JUXTAPOSITION of two such different institutions as St. John's and RISD will constitute a most interesting ex~~~;~~nt, he said. "We at St. will benefit from the work in the fine arts that will be open to our students on an extracurricular basis. RISD also will provide direction of our art studio, our lab, and our ceramics "The link between the students at both institutions will be seminars on certain of the great books. Finally, the sharing of costs, of faculty, of ad· ministration, and facilities will (Continued on P. 3) The journal will appear twice a year with a maximum of64pages for each of two issues. I hope soon to add a third issue. The first issue will be out in October or November. I hope to continue the kind of articles Beate (Ruhm von (Continued on P. 6) McCon mcvonneu, Boulder, Colo, senior, has been awarded a Watson Fellowship to make a 900mile walk from Paris to Santiago de in ~r,.,.,.n.,, She is among 70 selected from thr·ou2:h1)Ut ~~ .. ~>-~., a program and another was six finalists tor a Rhodes in the midwinter regional selection held in California. Her walk will trace an ancient religious pilgrimage to the site where James, or Santiago de Compostela, Christ's disciple, was said to have risen from the dead to lead the victory against the Moors and become the patron David_ Stephenson at the harpsichord accompanies Rebecca Brown, violinist, and.James Sorrentino, c:elist. �To all alumni who may consider attendin.e: dress this plea: let us what reading or do for the traditional seminar this year. Too often,- we fear, the reading selection is made on the basis of what someone here at the college thinks you might like. Our batting average has not been too low - at least there hasn't been too much sfatic recently - but we really would like to have some fresh input from you. So jot down your thoughts now, while they're fresh in your mind, and send them along tothe Alumni Office. Your help will be appreciated. And just as a reminder, Homecoming is September 29 and 30. *"'* 1935 William G. Gideon, a long-time resident of Annapolis and former insurance man, has been appointed a member of the Intellectual Freedom Committee of the American Library Trustee Association. The latter is a division of the American Library Association. Bill, in his fourth year as a member of the Annapolis and Anne Arundel County Public Library, is also president-elect of the trustees division of the Maryland Library Association. · . 1947 Jerome Cantor, reports Alvin Aronson, '52, is an engineer in Tel Aviv, Israel, and lives in a kibbutz, Mishmar Haemek. Jerry and his wife, Amira, have two grown children; their twenty-five-year-old son, Ron, is an engineering student at Northwestern University. 1950 In February Thomas K. Simpson, a tutor on the Santa Fe campus, delivered a university lecture sponsored by the General Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Tom was at Notre Dame for four days, meeting with faculty members of the program and leading a faculty seminar. One of the faculty members is Mark Jordan, S73; in attendance at the lecture was Paula Fulks, S76. 1959 A note from Hugh M. Curtler, Jr., serves to counteract the dearth of news from this class in recent months. Hugh, in real life the head of the philosophy department of Southwest State University, Marshall, Minn., has been named to the editorial board of par rapport, a new journal presenting a forum for a variety of points of view on the current state of western culture, especially of the humanities. Contributions are welcome, and may be submitted to Hue:h. or to Prof. Doug Bolling, c/o Southwest State University, Marshall, Minn., 56229. Sa-nford Fernan, we learned recently, passed the New York State Bar examination d1.1ring the winter. 1966 A very fine and newsy letter from Connie (Bell) Holland in February reports on the activities of a number of alumni of this and other classes. Connie herself is still with IBM in the D.C. area, and continues her off-duty interest in ballet and opera and music in general. Her sister, Sarah, '67, who holds a Ph.D. degree in linguistics from M.I.T., teaches at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Sarah is having an interesting insight into the inner workings of Academia as a member of a search committee for a new department head. Their brother1 Sam, is completing his law school requirements, and he and Ellen (Fink), '70, were expecting a sibling for son Adam in the spring. . .. . Last fall Connie visited the Gondas in Toronto: Joe, '65, teaches philosophy at Glendon College there, and is Acting Dean of Students. G~!!; -~73; !s finis~Jng up her Ma~ter's degree in p~ychology iit--th~ University of Toronto. Their son, Gabriel, also attends the University-in day school. Connie, Larry Silverman, and Richard Fielding had a reunion lunch during the winter. L.arry works for Clean Water Action Project. (environmental lobby), is married to Susan ~unter (a "terrific' photographer"), and they have a small son, Abraham. Richard teaches corporate law at George Washington University Law School. Peggy Winter, Connie reports, works in New York as a lawyer for the Socialist Worker's Party. 1968 Kerry Nemovicber, last reported in this column (The College, October, 1971) as a second lieutenant in the Israeli army, is back in the Uni~ed States, applying to Stanford University for entrance to a doctoral program. 1968 Santa Fe C. Carl Bostek, now a captain, Army Nurse Corps, is nurse anesthetist at Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, Wash. Carl received his Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from the University of Texas, Houston, in 1975. He is married to Gail M. Holtzman. Frederick _L. (Rick) Wicks, director of the Butterfly Children's Center in Anchorage, Alaska, for almost two years, may be leaving the center in April. He has applied for a two-year scholarship to study Japanese language and child care. 1969 • Deborah Moll is currently working for the New Mexico Attorney General's Office as a lawyer in the Civil Division. Before that she clerked for Judge Oliver Seth, now Chief Judge ofthe U.S. Courtof Appeals for the 10th Judicial Circuit in Santa Fe. Karen (Stagg) and David Simon now live in Bethesda, Md., where David is an associate with the D.C. law firm of Gregman, Abell, So1ter & Kay, specializing in international law. He received his law degree last June from the.University of Maryland Law School, where he was articles editor of the International Trade Law Journal and " ... won a bunch of awards." He is a member of the Maryland State Bar and ex- "Majoring in English - clean and hard - All Maryland center, football - 4-year mainstay of team - Clever hands - well rounded, 'complete' man undecided about future - would like to do something 'different.' " That's the way -the Rat·T~t entry on Robert Mccawley Snibbe read in 1937, the year he graduated, making note that he had been president of the Literary Club and active in fencing, lacrosse, and the King ROBERT SNIBBIEE William Players and a member of the boxing team. "As far as contacts with old St. As things turned out Bob Johnny's are concerned, I hear Snibbe did go on to do something from Harry Fahrig ( '37-Palm fairly different. Besides Beach Gardens, Fla.), ocbecoming president of Snibbe casionally from Ernie Cory ('37Publications, Inc., of Belleair Harwood, Md.), and from Mike Bluffs, Fla., he also became a Haas ('36-:-Memphis, Tenn.)," he cultivator of orchids and stag reports. "I also had a visit from horn ferns. John Boucher ('29"I HAVE A small, fascinating Birmingham, Ala.) last spring publishing business, and we and correspond occasionally with happen to be the largest Allen Pike ('37-Honolulu). The publishers of our type of books in rest have sort of drifted away, the country and sell about 3-4 but I was delighted to get the million a year," Mr. Snibbe recent alumni roster and also writes from Florida. "We also delighted to get together ocpublish , a monthly sports casionally with Dick Earl ('38), newsletter and are official who lives in St. Petersburg." licensees by the NFL for team medallions and desk acAfter leaving St. John's, Mr. cessories." Snibbe played pro football as a The books are shirt pocket- 165-pound linebacker with the sized booklets measuring about Baltimore Blues and then went five inches by 314 inches and into publishing, first peddling contain a wealth of records and books for Poor's Publishing how-to-do-it hints. Company before it merged with SPI sells its books to major Standard Statistics and then into businesses, many of them the home office in New York as national firms, to use for ad- director of promotions. Within a vertising purposes. A company year of the merger, Mr. Snibbe gets its name and a brief sales was offered a job with U.S. News message on the front cover and a and moved to Washington. page of selling copy on the back THEN WORLD WAR II came cover. "The booklets are primarily along, taking him to Samar and about sports, but if a customer · Borneo. His action in PT boats wants 50,000 of them on tatting, led to a friendship with John F. Bob will have it written and Kennedy. At the war's end, his published in a matter of weeks," business experience landed him a a St. Petersburg sports writer position in New York with the Committee for Economic wrote about him not too long ago. · Mr. Snibbe maintains his links Development. After three years 'tvith th~ coll~ge ~nd. _wae- orre of thei'~, h~ joined Chau!'!~~Y the. Florida residents who took Lufkin, a man who sold part in the Fund for the 1980' s publications aimed at improving labor's opinion of management, activities held earlier last year. pects to be admitted to- the D.C. Bar this spring. Karen works as a freelance editor for various scientific and medical publishers. Son Kell is almost nine, and daughter Corinna is now five years old. um James R. Hill, a resident of southern York County, Pa., is a reporter for the York Daily Record, a morning newspaper with a circulation of about 36,000. Jim has the police and fire beat-" ... all the gory stuff..." -and apparently loves his work. "So I finally have a career, and one'that draws daily on my education," Jim says. 1974-Santa Fe (CiCi) Yerger reports that she is going to be moving to New York this summer to work for the law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. On one of her interview visits to the Big City she saw Nancy Miller, S75, who lives on the upper West Side. CiCi is studying at Nore th western University School of Law. '1976 Further word on Carl Dunn and his recent bride, Lydia (Daffer): she writes that Carl sells automotive parts in, Keene, N.H., by day, and attends Keene State College by night, working toward a teacher's certificate. The Dunns make their home in Harrisville, N.H. They hear frequently from Phil Reissman, '75, who works for a New York law firm and writes science fiction. (One of his stories, "The Golden Arches of the Universe," was published in a national sci-fi magazine, according to Lydia.) The Dunns plan to start construction of a house this spring. 1977-Santa Fe · Marlene Benjamin writes that she started work last fall in New York-" ... this incredibly odd city ... "-for the Quality Care Nursing Service as a home-care coordinator. She reports the pay low by any standards, but the people with whom she works are wonderful. but when Lufkin died in 1955, Snibbe started his own company, Employes Relations, Inc., which continued until he decided to sell it and start his own. sports book company. Commuting, the weather, and the New York traffic began to get to him, and in 1966, when he read about a small but profitable business publishing firm in Florida on fishing, camping, and outdoor life, he decided to make the move. Mr. Snibbe headed south to Florida only to find the man who had made the original offer, after months of negotiations, had decided not to sell. But fortunately Mr. Snibbe decided to concentrate on his own business, which has become highly successful. Even the Army likes it. One . year the ROTC bought 180,000 football booklets as a recruiting gimmick, and the US Army Recruiting Command another 2million spread over 10 titles. "AND YOU KNOW why? Because people never throw a book away," Mr. Snibbe said. "You never see a book in a trash can. If I'm out making a sale, one of my favorite tactics is to throw one of my books on the floor outside the office door and bet the man $100 it'll be gone inside of 10 minutes. And sports books are the best because sports require reference. Fans want to know who's playing who, where the players went to college, and what their record was last year. So they use tl;le,books cou~t;lntly all during · the season. And every time they pick them up, they see my clients' names and messages on the covers ... "Sports are America's ruling passion because they are a vicarious release. People can go through all the emotions-anger, elation, humor, drama-and then just forget it. It's over. And now people have more money, more time, and everything in sports is booming - and so are my publications." PAREN--:-fS WEEKEND (Continued from P. ll tennis courts and gymnasmm. Friday evening parents will be guests of the college beginning at 6 p.m. in the dining hall. Later they are scheduled to attend the Friday lecture. Saturday's schedule will include the seminars for parents and students at 10 a.m., a picnic on the college · quadrangle, a reception at 4:30 p.m. in the Key Auditorium, followed by the play at 8:15 and waltz party at 10:15 p.m. In . emonam 1922 - Augustine V. P. Smith, Chevy Chase, Md., November 24, 1977. 1928 - C. Leslie Ham· mond, Wilmington, Del.,· October 8, 1970. 1938 - Charles F. Koogle, February, 1978. 1939 - Joseph W. Lee, Edg~water, Md., January 31, 1978. 1955 - James A. Kibler, Blackwood, N:J., February 14, 1978. 1972 (SF) - Steven P. Buttel, Philadelphia, Pa. �Ray Cave is a man who has risen to the top, with a sky-high office 25 floors up the Time-Life building at Rockefeller Center. Holder of one of the m-ost demanding editorial jobs in the world, he is Time's new managing editor. _While the management of Time, Inc., would never consider his arrival there a.n accident, his entry into journalism shortly after his graduation here in 1949 had such a casual beginning as to appear so; and the first indication that J;ie might turn to writing, as any alumnus might guess, came at St. John's in a passionate plea to (and where else does one lodge such passionate matters?) the Instruction Committee. His petition, which was successful, ended as a small historical footnote in the history of the New Program. Mr. Cave began St. John's only one month beyond his 14th year and was soon to be a virtual baby among the veterans returning from World'War II. "I went there very young, after two years of high school," he recalled recently, settling back in the cushiony sofa of his Manhattan office. "I think I quote Mr. (Stringfellow) Barr correctly when he said essentially all you learned the last two years of high school was how to dance. And I must report I never learned to dance. "I WAS AWED by the tremendous amount of work I never got done. And the direcWms trild attitudes of the veterans could hardly have been more antithetical than those of what in effect was a high school student.'' Under an experimental admissions program then in effect for young men from 15 to 18 years of age, Mr. Cave's original class consisted of three sections admitted in March, July, and October plus a single late-comer who entered the following January. Of the total 73 freshmen who arri' 1 ~d during that time, only Mr. Cc.~;e, Peter John Davies and John Henry Thomas were to get theil' degrees. Mr. Cave plowed along to the end of his junior year, when enablings then were conducte9. (they come now at the end of the second year), and found himself faced with the faculty decision that he would do better elsewhere. Although Mr. Barr, who was president, and~ Dean Scott Buchanan had a firm policy that every student complete his work within a four-year span, Mr. Cave wanted to stay and formally requested that he be permitted to retake his junior year: "The first indication that I might be in for a writing career was the passion I put in an appeal for one more chance," he said. His petition worked; the Instruction Committee was persuaded. Mr. Cave became the first student under the New Program to have this privilege and something of a pioneering figure for those students who . were to follow, including a sizeable number who increasingly choose to spend their education over a period longer than the conventional four years. OUT OF SCHOOL at age 20, Mr. Cave worked as a waiter, taught school for six months at Wroxeter-on-the-Severn (commanding study hall and, of all things, shop), and one day, jobhunting down West Street, approached the Annapolis paper in search of work, indicating that he was willing to do anything. He was willing, if necessary, to fill one vacancy involving carrying advertising proof, by bicycle, to local merchants for rechecking. Almost as an after-thought,The Evening Capital staff member who interviewed him suggested that a new weekly it had acquired, The Southern Maryland Times, might need a reporter. The one requirement was that he could type. Of course he could,. Mr. Cave said. The fact was, he could not. But he stayed with the Times 18 months, until 1952. From there he went to The Baltimore Evening Sun, where he did police and investigative reporting, served as foreign correspondent in North Africa during the fighting in Algeria, and became assistant city editor of the paper. While working for The Baltimore Sun, he acted as a special correspondent for Sports Illustrated. The later connection led in. 1959 to his becoll!ing a writer for Sports Illustrated, specializing in college basketball and golf. Comparatively quickly he switched to editing and rose successively to senior editor in 1962, assisting managing editor in 1970, and in 1974 to executive editor, Sports Illustrated's second highest editorial post. FOR A SIX months period in 1975 he served as acting editorial director of all Time, Inc., publications. In March 1976 he joined Time as an assistant managing editor, after writing and editing at Sports Illustrated for 17 years. Last September he was named managing editor of Time. It's still too early to tell whether Mr. Cave will leave any distinctive stamp on Time, which last year underwent extensive redesigning. Photographs tend to be somewhat larger than .they were a year ago, but he said that may be attributed as much to the new design as to his belief that the purpose of photographs in a news magazine is to get the reader to want to read the story, to invite the reader in, which picture size helps achieve. Of Time today, he says: ''We are writing in print for the first generati-on totally raised on TV, and we're into an era of mass communication and instant communication, the sort of information availability Mr. (Henry) Luce (Time founder) could never have dreamed of. We are editing for an audience that is more sophisticated than in the past. Television whets the appetite. But unlike television, a news magazine can be read at ·your own desire, at your own pleasure, and that is a tremendous advantage over TV." As an alumnus, he is a strong believer . in the St. John's program and what he considers the "tremendous worth of a RAY CAVE broadly based education." "I came away understanding a little bit about a lot of things," he says of his own experience here. JOURNALISTICALLY his St. John's education has had its own particular value. "To be a good journalist you have to have a critical understanding of people and what their problems are and how they cope with them," he said. "It's the broader perspective about the human condition with which you must look and deal and understand. And there the program is important. "Also, the St. John's seminars, in which so many hours are spent, enable you to deal with and appreciate someone else who may have a different point of view. Right or wrong, it doesn't really matter; you can have a 40 art school freshmen to arrive in autumn (Continued from P. 1) be of considerable benefit to both institutions." In Santa Fe Dean Robert Bart informed the Board of Visitors and Governors at its winter meeting that the idea had met with interest and enthusiasm on the part of the faculty and students with whom he had discussed it. "By sharing facilities, RISD and St. John's College will provide a good model for private higher education," Dr. Hall said in her announcement of RISD's "satellite" program. ~ "We believe we will furnish improved educational opportunity for students, encourage faculty development, and enrich the possibilities for further collaborative efforts .. RISD faculty and students will benefit by contact with the cultural resources of the American Southwest, and, simultaneously, will offer that community the benefits of their· energies and talents in visual art and design." THE DESIGN school has 1,372 students in 19 programs ranging from printing and apparel design to painting and architecture. It has a long waiting list. Earl Powell, chairman of RISD's Freshman Foundations Program, and Baruch Kirschenbaum, chairman of its Liberal Arts Division, arrived in Santa Fe last week for discussion of the program with Dean Bart and other faculty members. In April Dr. Hall and Mrs. Joan Patota, vice-president for public affairs, will be on the Santa Fe campus. Mrs. Patota said the decision to go to the Santa Fe campus had been made because of the general absence of studio art schools in that area. She said RISD does not at present have sufficient dormitory, classroom or studio space to accommodate the number of students it would like. By using the Santa Fe campus, where a dip in enrollment has made the program possible, she estimated that in four years' time RISD could add nearly 200 students, minus a drop-out rate of 10 per cent. Some St. John's tutors will be released from their regular St. John's program to instruct the RISD freshmen in their own liberal arts program. RIDS will supply its own instructors for the courses in drawing, threedi mens ion al, and twodimensional design which constitute its freshman art program. Mrs. Pat-0ta said RISD hopes to make summer programs and visiting lectures available to the Santa Fe community. dialogue on either side. You don't get your mental emotions permanently wrapped around your own perceptions. "St. John's also teaches you to ask the outrageous question. That happens in seminars with impunity. No one thinks you're a fool, although someone may think the question may be time consuming. The job of a journalist is being able to ask the thought provoking question. And sometimes only by asking the surprise question do you get the surprise answer, which is often the important answer. "I don't know where else in higher education you can learn that kind of questioning. It's a _very good basis for journalis_m. '' The St. John's education is particularly valuable at a time when, during the past 30 years, there has been a continuing trend toward specialist education, Mr. Cave believes. . "There are very few 18-yearolds who know what they want to do," he said. "That is not "necessarily a bad thing. if a young person is in the frame of mind to sample careers without a sense of pressure that he' must decide when he's in his teens to be a businessman, or whatever, it opens the possibility of surprising and rewarding career patterns." Elias holds engineering ·journal post Ill • George Elias, '71, is editing and managing the University of California's quarterly engineering magazine; The California 'Engineer. Now in the process of completing his industrial engineering degree, which he began two years ago, Mr. Elias is using much of his free time on the magazine with effective results. "Since I became editor last June," he writes President and Mrs. Weigle, "I have quintupled the staff to over 30 and doubled circulation to over 10,000.Moreover, the magazine is now distributed to all six University of California engineering campuses, ins.tead of Berkeley only.'' Mr. Elias reports that the prospects for persons with industrial engineering degrees is bright. "The number of graduating industrial engineers has dropped to a 15-20 year low," he writes. "Consequently, the demand is brisk. I feel like I am at an intersection. One road leads to engineering work, , another to selling industrial products, and another to manufacturing line supervision. :&efore I decide in April or May, I will have spent much time in interviewing, researching and thinking." ·The Reporter is published by the Office of College Relations, St. John's College Annapolis, Md., 21404, Richard D. Weigle, president; William 8. Dunham, vice president. Published five times a year, in February, April, June, September and November. Second class postage paid at Annapolis, Md. j �herey Unexpected things happen to More important, she feels 1 St. John's graduates. The college, are the physical things around which teaches art orily as an one. extra~curricular subject, and . "It is the meaningful objects only as it is told· used in real life which really books, has reveal the attitudes of the people an historian and who live with them," she said. an historian of art and Nevertheless, it was her highly_ successful one at that. developed visual faculties which who delivered a led lier as an undergr~duate at of regarded art lec- St. John's to look at a great deal tures here several years ago, is of art at the National Gallery of an on precious gold and Art, going there with a student silver metal of the Greek bronze group led by Charles Bell, now of a reason why two exciting the Santa Fe faculty. She was a are about to happen to her. member of the group, As the result of a grant from her visits there helped decide the National Endowment for the her on a career as an art Humanities, she will leave historian. College of the City Another tutor figured in her University of New York this decision. spring to go to Athens and "Eva Brann was also very become involved in the first important in giving me good technical studies of · Aegean· advice," she said. "I remember metalware. Her study will be she defined for me very clearly made in association with and accurately what an art metallurgists from the historian does, and her advice Massachusetts Institute of was crucial in my applying for Technology. · art history." "MIT will use its laboratory Originally Miss Davis intended facilities to make the analyses of going into Renaissance art, but the ware," she said. while she was a student at the "THE MINOANS used New York Institute of Fine Arts, mysterious metalworking considered the finest, graduate .techniques, · and MIT will be school of art in the country sectioning and sampling their (Ph.D. 1973), she was "plucked" work to discover their gilding by Peter· H. von Blanckenhagen techniques and what they used to and channeled to Greek art. She make a kind of 'niello,' a black eventually made her own way substance which appears on back to the Bronze Age. some of their vessels and HER ST. JOHN'S education weapons. We don't know what it helped. "St. John's concentration is. What we find out should on the ancient Greeks was clarify important Egyptian and especially fortunate for me," she Syrian connections, and it may said. And her experience here lead. to technical means to was a happy one. distinguish Minoan and "For me it was a wonderful Mycenean products. preparation even though there "My colleague, Heather was no art nor history," she said. Lechtman, and I will publish the "It worked well for me because, results in a joint article. We hope · in addition to the practical things it will be a pilot project that will I learned, the habit was fostered set the stage for us and for others of questioning everything, and to make further technical inthat has turned out to be the best vestigation of Bronze Age Greek way to approach art history.'' metalworking.'' Miss Davis is also happy at And this summer she will be Queens, a college where stanengaged in a project ardards are high and which has chaeologists view as a special been protected from the politics opportunity. Working with Iris of an open admissions program. Love, noted archaeologist, she She survived the mass firings will help excavate in the sancwhich came with New York's tuary at Knidos on the w.est coast fiscal crisis, when 60 per cent of of Turkey near Rhodes. the Art Department faculty were "She's hit the Bronze Age, cut, and today is an assistant wjiich is my ·specialty,'' Miss professor there, a tenured Davis said. "We're all excited position. because it has Minoan pottery - · (She worries about all the daily use pottery - and it looks young people out of graduate as if there might have been a school attempting to teach at a colony there. We are hoping to college level, pointing out that find chronological associations Lehman College recently had with Anatolian pottery, the local 1,000 applications for 'one pottery.'' vacancy in English). Miss Davis is interested in Miss Davis first joined thedaily use pottery partly because Queens Art Department as a it lies at the center of her work lecturer in 1965. Prior to that she and partly because it is bound up had been a research assistant for with her views of art, which she Professor von Blanckenhagen, studied at the Maryland Institute who also has lectured here, ·of Art prior to coming to St. served as curator of slides at the John's. By the time she arrived Institute of Fine Arts, and had here she had decided she did not been a technical ~ssistant at the want to be an artist. New York Public Library. "I HAVE VERY little respect With an infinitely busy life, she for art," she explained, speaking pursues a number of special thoughtfully on a conclusion interests. One of them are the two about which she obviously has cats which share her 76th Street thought a great deal. "Art seems apartment - Puffetta, who is to be to me deliberately removed half Persian, and Felix, who is from real life and given certain half Burmese and half Siamese. pretentions." A cat lover, she designed a cat T~· shirt which earned $3,000 for a cat shelter students at Queens College maintained. She birding in Jamaica Bay or in Jersey and watches "anything can get" in New York. And she sees a lot of opera. PROFESSIONALLY, however, she keeps tremendously busy. Four years ago Miss Davis and a New York University Bronze Age specialist began an Aegean seminar to share their findings and debate issues. The seminar has gone to the point where it has speakers and regularly draws people from as far away as Philadelphia. There are also the Columbia Seminar for the Eastern Mediterranean area and the Ancient Civilizations Group which she attends. She likes living in New York. The city may have its problems, but for a scholar it is incredibly rich in resources. With so many scholars of classical and other ancient studies in its immediate area, she has access to information on a scale probably impossible in any other American city. "If I have a Latin quotation and need help in translating it or want to find out something about the trade aspects of Egypt, I can get help," she said. Miss Davis also has been very active with the New York ,Chapter of the Archaeological In.stitute of America, serving on its .executive and program commit.:tees and helping book lecturers. :Formerly she was on its national :scholarship committee. "I take a kind of passionate interest in things," she said. "There was a superb early Christian art show recently at the Metropolitan. It's captured my thinking for the moment. I went to the show eight or nine times and was struck by the stylistic parallels of the Late Antique period with today, so I'm now rereading Gibbon. I allow myself to indulge in things that really interest me.'' Galen Breningstall, '73-Santa Fe, a medical student at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, has been nam.ed the 1977 Pathology Scholar of the Year. In an announcement of the award, Dr. Edward S. Reynolds, Jr., chairman of the Department of Pathology, wrote: "This is to inform you that Galen N. Breningstall distinguished himself in the Pathology Course in 1977 by achieving a raw, uncurved score of 90 on the various testing mechanisms in the' course and thereby earned designation as the Pathology Scholar of the Year, an honor for which there is a $50 book award. "This is a prodigious achievement in a course of such breadth, and some depth, as pathology. The grade-curving mechanism used by the department boosted Mr. Breningstall's mark to 98, which paced a quite gifted class. EU.EN DAVIS Along with her "indulgence" has come the discipline of some very scholarly work. In 1977 she edited Symposium on the Dark ages in Greece and her Vapheio Cups and Aegean Metal ware was published both in New York and London.· Among her other publications have been a catalog of Anatolian metal vessels in Ancient Art: The Norbert Schimmel Collection, "The Classic Ideal" in Sculpture, and "Metal Inlaying in Minoan and Mycenean Art" in Temple University Aegean Symposium. too good just for one time by CATHY SIMS St. John's Sophomore A lot of good music, some magic tricks, cookies, and capuccino added up to a good time in a mode apart from the usual for St. John's one recent Saturday night. The mode was a sixties-style coffee house held from 9:30 to 2:30 a.m., and the event was successful enough to "Mr. Breningstall is a pathology scholar of some distinction but he is also a scholar, in other ways, of equal distinction. With his rich liberal arts background, and his wide range of interests, he now enters his clinical years with a Renaissance outlook on life and one can feel confident that he can distinguish himself in the second half of his medical school career as he has in the first half. "His present determination is to enter pediatric neurology, but it seems quite obvious that any subspecialty of medicine that he ultimately chooses will be enriched by his presence.'' Mr. Brening stall's wife, the former Jena Morris, '74-Santa Fe, and their son, Jeremy, aged two, are reported to have "exercised great forbearance while he pursued the study of pathology." Mrs. Breningstall is a co-leader of the Galveston group of the La Leche League. rate an encore in April. Tony Sanders, Annapolis junior, who organized the affair, took his cue from the Musicum Collegium sponsored by the· Student Life Committee in December. Encouraged by the favorable r,esponse to the collegium, but seeking a less formal atmosphere in which to exhibit the talents of st•1dents and faculty, Mr. Sanders arranged the coffeehouse s~W:--(1" in the basement of McDowell <;fall and stressed informality and a certain amount of nostalgia. The evening's entertainment included a short one-act play written by Joshua Kates with Richard Putnam and Alice Mikal Craven in the cast. Geoffrey Baine .read his own poetry, Michael David Blume did a reading, Jim White performed magic and Jim Fryer the trombone. There was of guitar music by various campus musicians. The sale of homemade cookies, cakes, and coffee covered the expenses of the evening and added to the.pleasure. Mr. Sanders was pleased by the response to the first coffeehouse and now plans as many for the future as interest requests. "Since the . coffeehouse met with such a warm response, I've already begun organzing another one for April 8 or 15," he said. "At that time there will be some student performers and a professional blues singer- guitarist named John Jackson." . �P.1) A QUESTIONNAIRE requesting institute students, alumni, and friends to express their views is found below. Mr. Haggard has asked all those associated with the college to duplica.te the questionnaire and give it to any prospective student with a college degree. He said the institute wants the widest possible expression of views. · Barbara """'aidl"!!r visited all five Colleges Claremont Men's and Scripps) to poll some un~ dergraduates and to elicit . opinions from the faculty and ' staff. One of the key faculty members who counseled Miss Skaug was Lucian Marquis, professor of political studies at Pitzer and the Claremont Graduate School, who has been a visiting institute tutor for four summers. The questionnaire also was distributed to alumni of both the institute and the Santa Fe undergraduate college at a seminar conducted by Mr. Haggard and John Steadman, tutor on the Santa Fe campus, in Albuquerque last month. Mr. Haggard said. one drawback of the program is that it has been offered only during the summer. In considering the possibility of offering the program during the academic year, he said .the. institute staff needs to know whether there is sufficient interest to merit its expansion and whether an extension would meet a community term. THE BASIC RL'Jlq!UJ.Ilo.l'JJ.UL!Jl.'l for the degree is completion of the four segments (36 hours) at a level of achievement appropriate to graduate students. In the current program students may offer up to nine hours of acgraduate credits another institutir .. , thus reaucmg the number of r~quired summers to three. matter of the credits need not be identical with the subject matter of the curriculum segment it replaces, but the institute director is· the final arbiter concerning the acceptability of transferred credits. All transfer credits offered for the degree must be completed· prior to the student's last summer at the Institute and may not have been used as credits for another degree. Institute graduates who have pursued three or four of the five curriculum segments often enroll for a fourth or fifth summer in the segment that they missed. Graduates also enroll for one or two preceptorials on fresh topics. In both cases, the credit hours ear)1ed are acknowledged as post-M.A. credits by the New Mexico State Board of Education. The program of the Graduate Institute is open to any qualified person holding an acceptable bachelor's degree. An application form is bound into the back of the Graduate Institute Bulletin. Forms may also be obtained by: writing the associate director or need. Mr. Haggard said there are no plans to include the Annapolis campus's segments in the winter h-~-2::::- 4 a ; :;: : n:::u::nn~: ~:;:::::;:• PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO COMPLETE THIS QUESTIONNAIRE AND RETURN IT TO THE GRADUATE INSTITUTE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. You can also help by Xeroxing this questionnaire and distributing it to your friends with A.B. and B.S. degrees. I am not, nor will I be, interested in any graduate programs at St. John's College --I am, or may be, interested in the graduate program at St. John's. I have checked below au of the options I might be interested in. - Option One (Night) (one night per week, one segment per year) Option One (Afternoon) (one afternoon per week, one segment per year) - - Option Two (Night) (two nights per week, one segment per semester) Two (Afternoon) (two afternoons per week, one segment per semester) - - Option Three (two nights per week, one segment per semester) -Option Four (fulMime, M.A. in two semesters) Regular eight-week summer program (full-time, M.A. in four summers) COMMENTS: PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR-NAME AND ADDRESS IF YOU WISH TO RECEIVE ANNOUNCEMENTS ABOUT NEW GRADUATE INSTITUTE-PROGRAMS. Mail coupon to Graduate Institute, St. John's College, Santa Fe, N.M. 87501. ;;:.,- :::a:nn 'll~::i:~::::::uz:an ::::n::::::u~~~ For the individual who might have occasion to meet an odd the registrar. Applications will be gorilla or two on the loose, two St. considered at any time, but it is John's College students have advantageous to the applicants some words of caution. and helpful if applications for the "If you're charged, don't run 1978 session are submitted by because you won't live," advises William Salter, Towson, Md., Facilities are provided for "Hang your head down student families. and don't meet its eyes. Be as much on the ground as you can THE FOLLOWING are options be, with your arms crossed. Don't being considered for a new winter move." program: As for attitude, Jeffrey Crigler, also a junior, is very specific. OPTION ONE (NIGHT) "Become immediately passive Classes would meet one night per and subservient.'' week, the tutorial before dinner, Both students discovered how the seminar or preceptorial after to cope with these basically dinner. Students would be exfriendly animals when Mr. pected to eat dinner together in Crigler invited his close friend the college dining .hall on a home for the winter vacation. regular basis. This provides the "Home" meant Rwanda, Africa, extra opportunity for the where Mr. Crigler's father is the discussion of joint concerns. At United States ambassador y.nd this rate, one segment of the where the two had the rare opprogram would be completed in to visit Dr. Dian two semesters (12-14 weeks per Fossey, considered the world's semester); half the tutorial and foremost authority on primates. the seminar one semester; half On a trip 10,000 feet high in the the tutorial and the preceptorial cool rain forests of Mt. Visoke, the other semester. Students where Dr. Fossey's research to enroll for would be center occupies a compound of the full segment. tin-covered shacks, they were OPTION ONE (AFTERNOON) able to visit groups of gorillas on Classes would meet in the aftwo occasions. To be wholly ternoon: tutorial, then a break, practical about their encounter, then seminar or preceptorial. they translated the old "when in After classes, dinner would be Rome" adage into Mr. Crigler's available in the college dining version: "When in gorilla hall for those who wished it. country, do what the gorillas do." Students would be required to THAT MEANT, under Dr. enroll forthe full segment. One Fossey's tutelage, approaching a segment of the program would be group on gloved hands and knees completed in two semesters. from a distance of.350 yards wiOPTION TWO (NIGHT) th their bodies pr()tected against Classes would meet two nights prickly nettles by heavy clothing. per week (Monday and Thursday) with classes before · and -To produce the sound gorillas make while feeding and thereby after dinner as in Option One place the animals at ease, they (Night). One segment of the broke into pieces the three to four program would be completed in foot high celery through which one semester; the first eight they crept. weeks devoted to half the tutorial Dr. Fossey, who has learned 17 and the seminar; the second distinct sounds gorillas make and eight weeks devoted to half the can reproduce approximations of tutorial and the preceptorial. them, was able to convey a Sturlents would be required to friendly advance signal by enroll for the full segment. One is expected to eat dinner in the making one of their contentment college dining hall on a regular sounds, which comes out something like "m,mmm·basis. mmmm-mwa." OPTION TWO (AFTERNOON) Gorilla etiquette stipulates that Similar to Option One ( Afyou do not stand up or point, ternoon), save the classes would which is threatening, or even be held twice a week. Dinner straighten out your arms, which would be available in the college should be kept slightly bowed. If dining hall for those who wished you straighten them out, as Mr. it; students would be required to Salter did to rest them on one enroll for the full segment; one segment would be completed occasion, the position can make a gorilla nervous. This female, each semester. whose name is Macho, was OPTION THREE caught by surprise when she Classes would meet two nights per week, as· in Option Two found Mr. Salter as far separated (Night), save that ·all classes from his party as he was and personally protested with one of would meet after the dinner hour. Dinner would be available in the the pig-like sounds which gorillas college dining hall for those who make as a preamble to the real thing. wished it; students would be "Ooough, ooough, ooough," she required to enroll for the full segment. One segment would be scolded him. MR. SALTER GOT the point completed in a semester. and crooked his elbows. OPTION FOUR But the gorillas are peaceable, Classes. would meet full-time social creatures. "All they want during the regular academic year. Two segments of the· to do is sit in the sun and play and program would be completed eat celery;'' they said. The individual groups include each semester. The M.A. degree would be awarded after two members for whom Dr. Fossey semesters· of· full-time work. No has supplied the names. They consist of a silverback, a transfer units would be accepted. Students would be required to dominant, mature male Beethoven for "Group 5" the first enroll for the full program. day and Uncle Bert for "Group 4" the second-some immature males, some females, and the very young. These groups, incidentally, are quite famous, especially ''Group 4,'' since they have been featured in countless movies and wildlife documentaries, including "The Wild Kingdom." Their encounter with ;:iuv·puunu Beethoven's group was a complete success. "Beethoven his group," Mr. "Diane it was very it was one of unique. She the most sights she had for 11 years." Beethoven's second~in­ command, Icarus, will leave in the next year or two and ~et up his own group, stealing females to do so. Uncle Bert's second-incommand was a gorilla named Digit, the first gorilla Dr. Fossey managed to get on terms with and the gorilla featured on a "Come to Rwanda" poster as well as on "The Wild Kingdom" and National Geographic and BBC documentaries. UNHAPPILY HE was :murdered ("he was butchered and beaten") two days after Mr. Salter and Mr: Crigler left, a loss distressing enough for Walter Cronkite to mention it on the CBS Evening News. The decline in the number of animals wo1'ries the students. Officially, Rwanda estimates there are 500 highland gorillas. Mr. Salter and Mr. Crigler feel the count may be closer to 222. No one knows how many lowland gorillas there are. As a species restrained by a low birth rates, gorillas are considered a failure in the animal world, and some animal lovers fear their extinction. "Whether man will be responsible for it or whether it will come as the result of nature is still to be seen," Mr. Crigler said. "They gestate every three years and ·so do not reproduce fast enough. As in humans, gestation is for a nine month period. There is also a great problem in the lack of female babies." In addition, R·wanda is struggling with immense economic problems and with an enormous population slowly encroaching into parks where the animals live. Poaching takes a further toll. The gorillas are hunted not only for their heads but for their hands, which tourists buy as ashtrays. And all this has become a personal matter for Mr. Crigler and Mr. Salter who began to look upon the gorillas as very human animals, including Aunt Flossie, Uncle Bert's favorite, who is getting old and who knows it and shows it "by spending more time with the kids." "THEY ARE SO human," Mr. Salter said. "Their ears are so like a human's, and their eyes are so like a human's. The eyes aren't like a dog, but they have real depth behind them. Gorillas are the only other animal with a heel. By the time I left I had begun to think of them as furry human beings." . �(Continued from P.1) Oppen, retiring editor of The College has been 'Publishing, with St. John's. To see a scene worthy of Plutarch you have to~ have read him. As with the. criticism of books, I think many individuals connected with St.' John's would have a very different sense of the significant than many reporters with no experience of the past in their heads and guts. What I find most terrifying about the United States at present is the amnesia, the lack of knowledge of the past, the un-. willinJ(ness to remember. Also, I would like to run a series of essays on great authors we do not read, such as Giannone, Clarendon, and Bruno, and a series on bad books that are or were wR:fely read, such as Mein independent, as !was then (with, When I left college, I was ofof course, my parents paying my fered jobs by several publishers , keep as a student) and read but refused because I felt I would carefully what came in, which not have the freedom to decide was what nobody else would what to publish on the basis of publish, is likely to be a good ten· merit, a pretty stuffy, righteous years ahead of what will soon be point of view, which I still hold. I read by everybody. then got a job on the' recommendation of Roger Straus, Jr., When I was a senior in the one of the publishers who had spring of 1956 I wrote with offered me a job, as executive several other of my colleagues a editor of the Readers' Subhundred page issue on Harvard scription, which was then run by called Harvard: 1956. ft· was Jacques Barzon, Lionel Trilling, critical of the university at a tin1e and W.H. Aude. ', who, though I when hardly anybody dared open was a kid out L 1 college, dealt his mouth and many unwith me in a ma;mer that now dergraduates talked as if they moves me deeply. were trustees. It sold 4,000 copies Every month I met with them in 24 hours, and you could not with a list of books from which we move in Cambridge without were to pick the selections for one seeing somebody reading it. of the coming months. Usually the books were selected from the publishers' forthcoming lists, but we could also suggest books we wanted for the book club to publishers who would publish • them since we would buy enough copies from them to make it possible for them to be sure they would not lose any money. This amounted to running a small publishing house. I got Erich Heller's The Disinherited Mind published this way and Paul Goodman's The Empire City. There I put out the monthly magazine which always carried an essay by Barzun, Auden, or Trilling. I wrote for it on occasion. I learned how illiterate I was when, on some occasions, I tried to "clarify" Auden's prose, and he answered with a "Listen here, young man ... " There was about that man a very wonderful grace. He lookea the way I imagined Ulysses. articles which do not spare their readers' energies, but which at the same time are not at the same time willfully technical. I intend to add about ten pages of book reviews and other criticism reviews . of books, not necessarily only scholarly ones. In fact, I would like to have new, important books appearing in Europe, like Thomas Mann's diaries or Alain Peyerfitte 's Le Mal Francais reviewed by faculty members. It -seems to me that my peers with their constant contact with Kampf. only the best - in that sense St. As you can see the journal John's is truly aristocratic, in the would have a wide range: aronly way you can be in a republic, not to say a democratic republic,· ticles on Plata,, Newton, etc., and In the dining halls people sat work dealing with the major and read it to their companions in that it never _wastes time issues of the day which will in while the others ate. I learned studying anything that is not the time turn quite minor. And that is from all this the tremendous best-are peculiarly suited, and also need to deal with works precisely what I want, which I power of the r,vord a:qd also. felt think exists nowhere else - one guilty because I felt like a written in the present. The Misanthrope, Moliere's alwa:-s likei:i to pretend that what -They ought to be able to make demagogue although at the time I one is about to do is done nowhere hardly knew the meaning of the comic drama of the hypocraisies unsparing critical judgments, else - the tension between the which are badly needed since so word. That led to about 1C years of society and of the Quixotic broad perspective and the minute · much reviewing stinks of flatof silence and study. I have since "man of integrity" who reviled Jonathan D. Krane, who obthem, will be presented by the tery, and, perhaps, even more perspective - for one can take in come to think that part of the tained his degree from the Yale all the past at a glance, but the guilt I felt was because I told,· King William Players on the importantly dealing with conLaw School in 1976, is practicing weekend of May 20-21. temporary work will test their present comes moment by something of the truth. law with the.Los Angeles firm of "The production will be an vocation to the classics. I mean moment. Irell and Manella where he is attempt to get away from the The tension between those two you have to run the risk of specializing in the area of intraditional staging of Moliere's ·making mistakes in judgment, of perspectives should improve ternational corporate taxation. plays using elaborate Louis XIV one's grasp of both. I mean one's praising the bad or unA Watson Fellow recipient sets and costumes, - which I derstanding the good in works no grasp of the great sweep of the following his graduation from the . frankly think get in the way of the one has ever read before, if your past finds one important Santa Fe campus in 1972, Mr. Harve!' Flaumenhaft, who is play itself," James Walley, love of the old works is to con- correction and confirmation in K'rane recently published an completmg a book on Alexander director said. how one deals with the present, tinue to live and not degenerate ,, '. . . . _ article dealing with domestic Hamilton during his current into a ritual affirmation of what where nobody knows what is sabbatical, wilLdeliver a paper . .we will be. working with an taxation and has assisted a Yale you once were or wished to right on Hamilton's contribution to the mtimate draw~ng room set and professor inthe preparation-of-a become. It is just because we do Of his own experience in mo~ern dress m order to let the multi-volume. treatise which will American presidency during not tend _to put contemporary editing, Mr. Raditsa writes: conference this month at . the aud~ence be reached by what cover all of federal taxation. works in the curriculum that it As an undergraduate I was an Miller Burkett White Center for . M~here wrote rather than by His brother, Matthew Krane, a Federalist,· although Moynihan i editor of the Harvard Advocate Public Affairs at the University bemg . p~t off by _unnecessa~y Santa Fe graduate of two years has been interviewed a lot lately. grand1os1ty. The Misanthrope _is but resigned a.fter a few months· of Virginia. ago, currently is a first year one of the best plays ever writI also would like to have a because I felt you could not run a student at Harvard Law School.· section each month which would serious magazine in which 25 Earlier this year he delivered a ten; it doesn't need any 'help' be an interview or, better still, a editors voted on what was played by Michael DciVid Blurrie, paper, "Alexander Hamilton on from elaborate technical values dialogue, perhaps centered printed. At the end of my Sherry Audette, Frank St. the Administration of Liberty," in order to succeed." . around a text, with a figure not sophomore year with about $250, Amour, Sharon McMahon, Mike at a meeting of the Northeastern · The cast features Tony Sanders connected with St. John's or, for Coss, Jeremy Kilborn, and Political Science Association at as the "misanthropic" Alceste, consisting more or less of the that matter, not connected with William Snyder. Three perMt. Pocono, Pa. The papers are Andrew White as his friend monthly allowance of myself and any other school; for instance, drawn from Mr. Flaumenhaft's Philinte, and Danielle George in formances will be given. in the six of my companions, I founded with Senator Moynihan on: The .The Cambridge Review. book, The Administrative the role of the coquettish Key Auditorium's Conversation Room. , Federalist, although Moynihan Republic of Alexander Hamilton. Celimene. Other parts -will be The first 1ssue consisted of 34 has been interviewed a lot lately. The point of these interviews, pages. Rapidly issues grew first which I hope would become to a hundred. pages and later to dialogues, would be to speak with two hundred. The covers of the people· outside the school. They magazine, which were very' would not be journalistic in- . beautiful, were done by a young terviews but conversations. I am designer then starting out, Ivan not yet clear· ·on what kind of Chermayeff,. who did them for conversations. They would be nothing on condition he could do done by various faculty members whatever he liked and could use the best printers, which he got for and would appear one to an issue. I am also interested in running me at a reduced rate. He is now the first designer in the United some old fashioned journalism. States. By old fashioned journalism, I mean 19th c·entury type . obIn doing this magazine I was servations of travelers or even impelled by a sense of the in18th century ones when there tellectual sterility at Harvard were no newspapers. I mean which was largely positivist. I something like a letter from printed lots of works, stories, Washington or a letter from articles, and plays by Paul Germany. Goodman, who at that time I am. struck again and again by hardly had anybody who would ·the incompetency of journalists. publish him. I also printed Last year I went to the Warnke James Agee (sections of A Death hearings where the press of the in the Family), Prank O'Hara, whole world w..as present and and Herbert Marcuse. All these where the.· scene was in many authors and several others whom moments worthy of Plutarch, and I printed became quite well yet none of this came across in known in the '60s. the United States. Although this does not Of course, here, as with everything else, the problem will necessarily speak for the quality Paper conferences on a.one-to-one basis are a continuing part of student life at St. John's. Writing comes with every part of the program. Here Frank St. Amour, District of Columbia sophomore, dis· be to find contributors from the of· what I did, it does show that somebody who is completely cusses a mvsic paper with Tutor Wye Allanbrook in the St. J~hn'$ coffee shop; photo by James Walley faculty and others . associated Pi ,«,, Misanthrope be given Jonathan Krane practicing law Flaumenhaft to give paper a Af -- ;- \ I I ; El-U: i, .l I 1 �BRYCE JACOBSEN Director of Athletics Recently, at an impromptu meeting (Mr. White, Mr. Starr, and myself), the of the Annual Marathon-Relay Race was raised. Mr. White wished to know why the faculty and staff could not field a team in this event this year, since we now had so many faithful joggers, who had the potential to be "runners." This query produced much discussion and many questions, ,such as: Could we possibly do it? Are you kidding? Would it be setting a good example? Would it benefit the students if they beat us . . . or we beat them? Aren't we rather slow? Can anyone run half a mile? Would a doctor be present? How could we win, without ac· tually cheating? mittee. The marathon is scheduled for April 15, Saturday, 1:30 p.m. Ifwe win, it will be good for the souls of the students. If we lose, it will he good for our souls. In any case, a good time should be had all. completely fair and feasible. (See TWO ADDITIONAL "inside" courses will be laid out. Course #1, the solid line, is the one we have always used. It measures one-half mile. Course #2, the dashed line, rounds off the protrusions in #1. I guess it to be something over threeeighths of a mile. Course #3, the necklace line, squares off both #1 and #2 into a simple rectangle. I guess it to be something more than a quarter of This whole idea has already been "leaked" to the students. Their initial reaction has consistently been ... uncontrollable laughter. am~. "You mean that you tutors are going to run agai.nst us?! !" (followed by more uncontrollable laughter). · · Notice that an interesting and dramatic feature is that all three courses share a common finish line, from B to C and thence to A. This will, of course, encourage those "stretch" duels which are so much a part of the excitement of distance running. ~ -___::..---- start out with #1, then our second lap will be #2, our third will be #3, In order to be fair to the our fourth will be #1, etc. This students (and not have means, by the way, that our 40th Mr. White and Mr. Starr everybody run the necklace suggested that we three con- course), we will agree to rotate and final lap will be the full V2 mile course. We start equally stitute ourselves the Faculty our laps, in order.- I.e., we will Standing Marathon Committee, (U 8ril/lll; f'L/tNT) of which I should be chairman. They proposed that I should draw up a plan, to move forward -on ~ ccuuE ,. :;i. this idea. So here is my plan, (SIPEWPtt.k ~ 1---...... *Co~......_..._ ,..... which I deem to be fair and ,,-....... ~ ~ 'f~ ~ - <IP feasible. · / ~ ~ (,-.. ~ *' \--? ' ''-J ,3 ;~0-~~~-~\ ~ IA I It is taken as axiomatic that there must be a "handicap" systerri; -ill the7 nii:ine' tif simple justice. This scheme must equalize the extra burden of pounds and years that the faculty carries. Rather than using the obvious, but unimaginative, device of cutting down our total lap requirements (from 40 to 20, sa'y), we came up with the following idea, which seems to be j3 !~(S""T""'O &..!._- - - - - - - a rchestra r (Continued from P.1) family members, the St. John's community. THE FACT THAT the orchestra exists at all in a college of 375 comes as the result of David Stephenson's initiative. "Last fall I was struck by the number of students in the freshman music class who played instruments," Mr. Stephenson, who had the freshman chorus at the time, said, "There was a harpist who had been playing 12 years, and some pretty gapd cellists and violinists, and I thought all of thlS should not die.'' Rather than let such potential instrumental music go undeveloped, Mr. Stephenson collected a group of interested students and began weekly rehearsals late Tuesday afternoons. They kept up until the Christmas performance and then stopped for a number of reasons : the holidays, a spate of illnesses, the pressure of papers to write, or the need for some participants, who had received signals at their don rags, to work a little harder. Since the Spring break, the students have resumed, and it's all been, according to Tutor ...,.-- """"' _ ,.. : I .l F1N1•!1) ................................, • : 1 I : ! I : •.• , , , . , , ...' f ,, ,. • ("ffNMS ; ! t ,, -" I Co1.111rrs) • li.(;t WM ~ : .________ ,,.. ( ftlti7 \ {O ::::, ,., " "' - .r St~ LE ) ides c lie ...... e George Doskow, a regular participant, "fun." The orchestra is distinguished by the remarkable diversity of skill in its membership, ranging from some newcomers to instrumental music to such freshman stars as Peter Norton, a trombonist who organized a brass quintet on campus and who could go .professional if he wished, and Elizabeth Mallor, whom one student described as a ''fantastic clarinetist,'' a musician who took a rigorous year of pre-college work at the Juilliard Conservatory during her senior year in high school. Mr. Stephenson takes into consideration the varying expertise when he selects his music. It is chosen with a view to both what falls within everyone's grasp and is at the same time enjoyable. JAMES SORRENTINO,.Laurel sophomore, is among the students with solid orchestral experience. A cellist, he teaches a couple of students privately and formerly performed in the Prince Georges Youth Orchestra and with the Maryland State Festival Youth Orchestra as well as with various s'tring groups in Prince Georges County. He spoke a bout tl\,e problem which many students have of finding time. "It was a good move to start the orchestra in that there are lots of students who play," he said. "Playing in an orchestra is a very difficult thing to do in this environment. It's hard to get time when you are working very hard, and it's difficult because of the break in continuity in rehearsals which you wouldn't have at a conventional school where an orchestra might be part of a regular course. The rehearsals are hard to fit in, but once everyone gets together, we enjoy it." For Rebecca Brown, Santa Fe, N.M., senior, who received her first violin on her seventh birthday, the playing together is the thing that counts. "It's great fun for the few of us who play and our one chance to work together," she said. "We don't have high standards of excellence, which is hard for some musicians, but we take what we can get and do with it what we can." _;;;_-~ ------- ~ with the students and finish equally with them. What more could be asked? With these equalizers, our committee believes that we can actually "run" the 40 laps, and not fall too far behind - although a minority of the committee, Mr. White and Mr. Starr, thought that we would still fall far, far behind! It is presumed that our team captain (me) will have total freedom in making lap assignments, just as the students do. We will run our tortoises and our hares in such a manner as to benefit the team the most. It is also presumed that spouses of tutors or staff members will be eligible. WE HOPE THAT all "fit" tutors will turn out to support the recommendations of our com- But enough of this. We all have our Pride. All things are not Bearable. April 15 will surely be a Day of Reckoning. Our team has stepped up its training so that we will peak in mid-April. We shall see who la ughs last. Appendix: And who might the members of this marathon team be? Those already who have expressed interest in covering some distance, at some velocity, including two alumni and a staff husband, are: Benjamin, Bolotin, Brann, Braun (Mr.), Conroy, Dorfman, Doskow, Druecker, Flynn, Holland (Mr.), Jacobsen, Kutler (Mr. and Mrs.), Rinder (Mr.), Sparrow, Starr, White, Williamson (Robt.), Wilson, Woodhouse, and many others, too numerous to mention. Since we will have two deans in the running, it is most fitting and proper that we should start the race with one, and finish with the other. Our strategy for the other 38 laps cannot, as yet, be revealed. ith 'house music' "The nicest thing is the kind of spontaneous intimacy we have with people with whom we are making music. We get it every time we meet. I come back elated. The performance becomes a kind of anti-climax. It's for the sake of playing I do it, not for the performance.'' JULIA PARKS, Framingham, Mass., sophomore, already busy with her job as editor of the St. John's weekly, helps act as a sort of coordinator, keeping up with rooearsal schedules and notifying members. She is in her twelfth year as a member of various orchestras and has spent four summers at the Amherst Summer Music Center at Raymond, Maine. "We're not out to put on a polished piece," she said. "What we are doing is fun. There is great spirit." Among other students who perform are Caroline Allen and Frank St. Amour, oboes; Elizabeth Groff and Lawrence Fitzpatrick, trumpets; Jam es Fryer, trombone; David Auerbach, tuba; Ralph Brasacchio, violin, and Ray Ingram, viola. For the , Christmas performance the group was joined by Mr. Doskow, Douglas Allanbrook, harpsichordist, and Alice Kurs, a faculty wife who is a violist with the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra. For the May performance three· othe:r faculty members and a faculty wife will join them. They are Gisela Berns, who is also concert mistress for the Anne Arundel Community College orchestra; Saul Benjamin, violinist, and Malcolm Wyatt, flutist. The faculty wife, Charlotte Dunham, a violist with the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, also is a pianist of performing caliber. Mr. Stephenson hopes to do Bach's Fifth Branderihurg Concerto and the 6th Cantata. Trained in conducting in college, he also studied conducting during his recent sabbatical year with Sergiu Celibedachi in Bologne, Italy. Several years ago, during the Annapolis Fine Arts Festival, he was a guest conductOr for the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra. He also has done reviews of the Santa Fe Opera. · �SANTA FE - A new alumni recruitment drive for students is concentrating its efforts in five major cities - Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago. Mary Gallagher, '60, Washington attorney and member of the Board of Visitors and Governors who is heading the campaign, visited cities in February and organized in each of them an Alumni Prospective Student Program. Chairmen were named to coordinate alumni task forces which will reach students who both have inquired about the St. John's program or who want to hear about it for the first time. As persons who have immediate knowleJige of the college, parents of St. John's involved. students also are In addition. durine: the The Earnest, which Oscar describes in his subheading as "A Trivial Comedy for Serious People," will be presented by the King William Players in a theater-in-the-round type per.formance May 6-7. James White, Staten Island, N.Y., sophomore, is directing the Parents Weekend production, to be performed batkstage in thi: Key Auditorium. Curtain time will be at 8:15 p.m. The comedy is the fullest embodiment of Wilde's life-long assault upon ·commonpla·~e life and commonplace values, according to Critic Henry Popkin. 1 'Wl:iat he recommends to us and 'by implication only is not social reform, women's suffrage, .or child-labor laws. but style - a style of life, of behavior, an'd of speech/' Popkin writes. "By showing the height of wit and he criticizes their performers will include: J.P.,' Gordon the Rev. Canon 0 'Malley; Cecily Shannah Frame, and Miss Prism, the governess, Kate Kominars. Kristen Hawkinson will be the .assistant director and Stephen Magee stage manager. Richard Putnam will be . in charge of li~t't tJapef ·.. Ehrenb,eiger· gf costumes,·· and Jennifer · Rap• paport of sets. ! holidays, tUtors from the Fe campus visited each of the five cities along with Susan Ferron, acting director of admissions for the Santa Fe campus. They conducted special seminars in order that prospective students and their parents could see on a first hand basis how St. John's functions. Visiting Houston and Dallas from Santa Fe. was Jack Steadman. Dean Robert Bart conducted seminars in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and in the Palo Alto peninsula area of San Francisco. In Chicago Philip LeCuyer led a seminar and together with Miss Gallagher was interviewed by C. Ranlet Lincoln, '50, in a series of three taped television programs in which he discussed the liberal arts with Mr. Lincoln and a senior member of the TTnhrocr,;,1hr of It on the show called are Houston; Dallas; David Dobreer, Robert Weiss, Jonathan Krane, and Tod Everett, Los Angeles; Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Nelson, C_hicago; Betty Bennett and Bartholomew Lee, San Francisco, and James Frame, South Bay area, San Francisco. Miss Gallagher urged all the alumni to seek publicity in their local cnmr!H!fiit1~5 tu ·ii~gur~ greater public awareness of St. John's College. "If we have enough publicity it will go a long way toward solving our admissions problems," she said. Susan Ferron acting director SANTA FE - Sasan ·Ferron has been named acting director of admissions of the Santa Fe campus, President Richard D. has announced. She replaces Richard Stevenson. Plans call for the po1mune11t of an assistant of admissions time the Alumni interested in position are make their applications Santa Fe. A na.tive of Minn., Miss Ferron was graduated from St. John's in May. She joined the Admissions Office in .August. • Since January a group of St. John's students have been moving between the campus and a· complex of Maryland state offices learning these things: How to complete research for a bill, draft legislation, testify in committee, answer complaints of a delegate's constituents, write press releases, determine voter strength, and even, how to bring their boss his lunch. As legislative interns, they are men and This year Mr. Scott is handling all the press releases for Delegate Roy Dyson of Charles and St. Mary's counties. Rather than being involved in individual legislative efforts, he is spending more time in the office, talking to constituents about legislative matters which involve them; and, with the continuing concern over the future of the Patuxent and Potomac rivers, helping set a public meeting in June to do with sewerage past but who do not realize the benefits of a private home. "I'VE LEARNED a lot," Mr., Fant said. "It's fascinating. The mechanics of the system don't work at maximum efficiency, but you can see the system works, and it's a good system." Bruce Babij, Boynton Beach, Fla., junior, has been concen-· trating particularly on the election of Delegate Miedusiewski of Baltimore mailing lists fliers. are of legislative leveL For Steven Scott, New Canaan, Ct., senior, who is heading for a career in financial management, it's meant solid which may stand him good stead when he someday runs, as he hopes he will, for office in Connecticut. Last year, when he was working for ·Delegate Michael Sprague of Charles and St. Mary's counties, he did a great year as a u:::i;i.:iwuv was the to become a leg:is1:amre The first was '78. When he became aware of the intern program, Mr. Harper was so intrigued that he first volunteered his services. Interested in a law career, particularly in the field of consumer protection and public interest, he sees the program as a "great opportunity" for St. John's t'i~ai ~tuderrt~., uf wvrk on fa;:; Paiuxent at me1etmgs Women's Caucus. Among other St. John's interns are Susan Hunt, Springtown, senior; Bruce Kolman, Wilmette, Ill., junior; Stephen Sharkey, Gaithersburg, junior, and Alan Mittelstaedt, Desert Hot Springs, r1- l~f .ci,aM~A­ l._,-Q..i..i.,i., w~iH:J!. ; ONE BILL ON which he River watershed bill. It was a measure halting sewerage. worked would have banned the treatment plant construction use of certain allegedly car- . until the State is assured that all cinogenic food colorings in present plants are functioning Maryland, a· bill which was properly. dropped because of a ·conflict Mr. Scott saw the measure with interstate commerce John F. Holland, III, '66, through· from its inception until provisions. assignment editor for NBC News William Fant, Holly Springs, its passage. He conducted inin Washington, is serving as terviews, gathered information, Miss., junior, is another intern chairman of a new Alumni with law school plans. Coming and wrote testimony. Committee on Public Relations "I got to testify which was fun from a continual line of attorneys for me," he said. "I represented extending back to his great-great for St. John's. Other members of the com$ ..Tack Whitten, president of the grandfather and all associated mittee 11 with the same office in Potomac River Association. Miss., Mr. Fant is in and sub~ one bill his own, for of Delee:ate Robert Neall, which he did·an the work. Like other interns, he is in"That would have allowed citizen to civil suit volved in a of L"'E, .."'A''". . ·v-c the State for in activities. On one recent occasion of an accident caused by a a. constituent was able to roadway. car had an ac.cident worried about· increas~s in tax then because of a assessment to the State could held liable for General center and getting a read-rmt " Mr. Scott said the measure all tax assessment bills students," Mr. uvu<:i111.1. failed, however, because of brought to want to make it as widely known technicalities irrvolving the , Heworked as possible to each generation of question of state sovereignty. The association presiden·t in problem centered in part on the preparing a bill which would be high school graduates so that question of whether a state has an attempt to equalize taJjes for students will not be deprived of the right to .authorize legislation condominium owners, whot Mr. the opportunity of coming here which ultimately would perlliit Fant.· explained,· . have .. been simply for want of knowledge· of itselfto besued. · · · · · trea~ed . as·· nomeow1er11· the St.:·Joblli'Si!f' John Holland heads group m' :t * ,11 ) I � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <em>The St. John's Reporter</em> Description An account of the resource College newspaper which started publication in 1974. Continued publication into 2000. 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SJC sports: success at cost ·of Harvard's adhesive tape by GLEN MEREDITH St. John's Senior In the fall of 1938, Stringfellow Barr, then in his second year as president of St. John's College, .found himself with an unexpected problem: How was he to reconcile the . conflicting requirements of intercollegiate athletics and a demanding liberal arts curriculum? The situation was clear enough. Education and athletics were working at cross-purposes. The system of intercollegiate athletics which had developed over the years no longer served its traditional function of supplementing and strengthening, study. Something had to be done. Mr. Barr was not alone in his concern. Educators across the country were expressing similar dismay. What distinguishes Mr. Barr is not so much that he recognized the problem, but that he did something about it. The intercollegiate athletic program at St. John's was replaced by an intensive intramural program Since November, when Jacob which is today possibly one of the Klein's newly published book most successful in the country. arrived at the St. John's Mr. Barr announced his bookstore, it has been a best decision over the radio in one of seller. By winter vacation the his regular broadcasts to the bookstore had sold out of its 30 college community. In that ancopies, and another 10 not im- nouncement, Mr. Barr characmediately available were terized intercollegiate athletics promised other buyers. as "a highly-organized 'big' Published by the University of business which substitutes Chicago Press, the book is spectator psychosis for actual en titled Plato's Trilogy; participation, large business Theaetetus, the Sophist, and the staffs with long-term schedules Statesman. It is the second for the old-time impromptu commentary on Plato arid the challenge of natural antagonists, third book by the tutor emeritus · monotonous physical drill for and former dean, who reaches his learning to play by playing, 79th birthday on March 3. pressure from ft::llow-students for Previously Mr. Klein had written zest to p 1a'y, and the A Commentary on Plato's Meno exhibitionism of star performers and GREEK MATHEMATICAL_ for the satisfaction of playing Thought and The Origin of well because it is more fun to play Algebra. a game well than badly." S~ill active in teaching,_ Mr. Barr proposed to remedy the Klem ~onducted a precept.anal on . situation by offering a comPlato s Thea.etetus d~rmg the prehensive program of amateur semester which has Just con- athletics "rich in terms of health, (Continue4onP. 2) · recreation, skill, _ and coor- Klein's book best seller dination." He expressed hope that the system of "semiprofessional intercollegiate athletics" would eventually collapse under its own weight. "But meanwhile," he concluded, "athletics at St. John's will be for the student, not the (Continued on P. 3) Recruitment drive is on! St. John's is conducting a major program through its alumni to assist the admissions offices in their recruitment efforts for the September 1978 freshman classes at both Santa Fe and Annapolis. Mary Gallagher, Washington attorney, a member of the St. John's board and of the Class of 1960, is directing this effort. The campaign will con- · tinue through March. "We urge all alumni to speak to high school student.. who may be inte:;:-t:sted in joining the September freshmen and ask them to contact the Admissions Office at Annapolis or the Admissions Office at Santa Fe," she said.~· "St. John's -College is too little known, we find, and the alumni are among those people who can bes~ inform prospective students of the program." '.~, . ' . •: ~- '. ·~. ·. · ·, ~L- "< ' ; ' ;Fl~e:-~.,. ' · Tutor gets. 11· ··grant , • fiOr e d l•t fRg [ --=-~=------- f~ T11~ 31696 01138 0431 J . VOLUME V ISSUE 3 · ·1f·Jind( •., ·•· ·_ . ·- .· .·.· . ,.· . .. ,A,{ · iS expallded I! Beate Ruhm von Oppen, St. John's tutor, has been awarded a grant · by . the National Endowment for the Huinanities toedit the letters of Helmuth James von Moltke, a German opponent of the Hitler regime who was hanged in early 1945. She will spend a year away from Annapolis on the project. Moltke, ·whom· she considers perhaps the most impressive and interesting opponent of the Nazis, was an in· ternational lawyer before World War II and legal adviser to the High Comman'd of the German armed forces duting the war. · Miss von Oppen already has read hundreds of his letters, "letters in which he is very much alive, in his integrity, his intelligence, his seriousness, and his caustic wit." "THEY GIVE A picture rather different from that in the literature about him," she said. It is to let the man speak for himself that she will devote the coming years to transcribing, translating, and annotating the letters Moltke wrote to his wife. George Kennan, former ambassador to Russia, who knew this young lawyer and landowner in wartime Berlin before America entered the war, described him as "the greatest person, morally, and the largest and most enlightened in his concepts" that he met on either side of the battlelines in the (Continued from P. 7) ·" • . . ',. , •· . ,,,__ . Charles R. Feldstein, fund-raising counsel of the University ·of ~hic~go, has been. named to assist m St. ·John's- current campaign for $25-million. . The drive,_ which' is being .. restructured, also is being expanded to include the assistance of the Albuquerque public relations firm of Newsome & Co., West, a national organization based in Boston. In ·approving the selection of both Mr. Feldstein and Newsome, West, at their January meeting; members of the Board of Visitors and Governors acted upon the recommendation of J. Burchenal Ault, vice-president of the Santa Fe campus who is directing the college's Fund for the 1980's. He is succeeding Charles Cooley, who last fall was forced to . relinquish the office because of illness. ' Mr. ·Ault stressed that all college constituencies - board, faculty, students, alumni, and friends - would be involved in the many activities of the fund along with the president, deans, vice-presidents, director of alumni affairs, and other officers of the college. MR. FELDSTEIN has had extensive experience workin_g in fund raising with colleges and universities, hospitals and museums, Mr. Ault said. "He has· had very solid experience on how to raise endowment, gather constituencl.es, and marshal effort," he informed the board. Newsome, West, is headed by Lee and Marie Hirst, both. of whom had extensive public relations experience on the East Coast before coming to New (Continued on P. 3) Alumni score high On graduate exams · Although St. John's does not train its graduates for any specific graduate program, its alumni score dramatically higher than the national averages on their Graduate Records Exams, a study here has shown. A nine year comparison r~veals that alumni averaged 689.1 on verbal scores and 636. 7 on quantitative scores. The GRE, extensively used at a university level to determine admissions for graduate study, rates students on a scale of 220 to 800. The verbal score is 197.1 points or 40 per cent higher than that for the national average of 492 for examinees tested between Oct. 1, 1973, and Sept. 30, 1976. For the quantitative test, the difference was 127.7 points or 25 per cent higher. The national average for this test was 509. The difference is slightly less when the St. John's figures are compared with national scores limited to students who earned their college degrees during the years 1970-1976. During that span the national verbal mean was 508 and the quantitative mean 528, or a difference of 35.6 per cent and· 21. 7 per cent respectively. The nine-year period used in ·arriving at the St. John;s score was for that between 1967 and 1976. Missing were figures for graduates tested in 1973, which were not available. The year in which alumni take the test does not necessarily coincide with the year of their graduation from St. John's. (Continued on P. 5) Reporter plans new SF issues The alumni class notes are being shifted from The College to The Reporter this month in line with a new publications program at St. John's. The St. John's magazine will appear as a larger issue publishea twice a year without any news copy. Its first appearance in this form will come in July. The Reporter is being expanded to include two more issues published from the Santa Fe campus, one in the Spring and one in th~ Fall. ·I ;:; . ..,..," A �FEBRUARY I 1978 THE REPORl.ER PAGE.·2 · -Will Dunkum has.- rare scientific ,instrum¢ntS \ As a teacher, William Dunkum has a certain affection for the 19th century. Now that was an era when the teaching of science had a flare! There was the instructor, as a sort of grand old man of sdence, · who did · his tricks while his assistants pulled some curtains, and there were the spell-bound students gasping over sparks made to leap a yard long from an early electrostatic machine. . Those astonishing electricity producing devices were coming into the classroom. As a kind of parlor game, eggs, held in place by wooden rings, could be mounted on one another while an electric spark was shot through them all, causing them to light up, and the room to •be drenched with a sulphurous smell. "The whole style of teaching in the 19th century was different," Mr. Dunkum observed. "I don't know whether it was better, but it had more flavor. A lot of showmanship has gone out of it.'' THE SHOWMANSHIP is gone, and with it the instruments which made it possible, some thrown literally out the window, Mr .. Dunkum noted, as schools have been torn down and modernized, and science equipment brought up to date. A lot of them have wound up at the Smithsonian. Most of them have been lost. Five years ago, this 1964 St. John's alumnus started a collection of his own when he saw a gyroscope offered by a New England antique dealer and fell in love with it. Built 'in 1870, it became the first acquisition in his collection of antique instruments, many of them having to do with electrostatic phenomena. Old as it was, Mr. Dunkum said this gyroscope, used to demonstrate principles of mechanics, actually worked better than those of later vintage. He has collected them from the half dozen dealers in the world who sell such antiquities, from schools, and from friends and acquaintances who now know he collects them and watch out for items for him. A couple came from the Lawrenceville School near Princeton, N.J., where their discarded scientific equipment had been pitched into a subbasement. He even found a rotating prism from St. John's optics lab, probably dating back to the 19th century and blackened with age,which he is now having a machine shop polish up. THE PRISM eventually will return to St. John's as will all of Mr. Durikum's collection. In· struments will not be Mr. Dunkum's only legacy to St. John's.· At least 14 students have come to the college from T.C .. Williams High School in Alexandria, where he is a faculty · member, and a large proportion - ten - have been his students. To digress a bit, Mr. Dunku;m, whose interest in the history of science began as a student here, has acquired two master's degrees, one in mathematics from the University of Virginia in 1966, and another .in physics from the University of Wisconsin in 1973. (At one time everyone had said he should be a lawyer so he starte_d out at Virginia as a law student, but he quickly rejected 1 unforgettable because that experiment pointed to the principle that one's grip on knowledge is only af strong as one's ability to recreate that knowledge from the ground up. One piece of some novelty is a Doebereiner hydrogen-generator lamp, made after 1830, from Phillip Exeter Academy and which was made from a giant brandy~glass. There are a number of these at the Smithsonian, but the shape is usually straight. This one may be unique. At Lawrenceville he -found a radiometer built about 1905 with vanes blackened on one side and shiny on the other, which turn as they are heated by radiant energy to demonstrate the differential absorption of heat. There is ~ Pickering Polaroscope, probably 1905, to demonstrate polarization of light, and there is pair of Magdeburg hemispheres, which would WILLIAM DUNKUM require a team of horses to be playfulness. There is something ·drawn apart when held together that career). He is scheduled to wind up his solid and individual a bout them, by a vacuum. There are elecdoctorate in physics at American something to respect, and troscopes, Leyden jars, and other University next August. In the nothing to suggest they would fall items . of a rich scientific summer of 1970 he ~lso went to_ apart once they are taken out ·of a ememorabilia. One Guinea-andCornell on a Shell Merit delivery box and reassembled. Feather tube to show how objects In the playful group is an in- fall in a vacuum still has the 1887 Fellowship and .has won a number of awards for teaching. strument appropriately called a Indian Head penny locked in it Since 1965 he has been teaching Paradox, with a rolling cone, that served as the "guinea." in Alexandria, Va., in an which appears to be moving up a Mr~ Dunkum believes that the unusually interesting school plane. In actuality the center of pieces are valuable more for the district and one of the few in the gravity for this diamond-shaped peculiarities. they tell of their country where secondary aged double cone becomes lower all time than for their actual students are grouped in the 9th the time, and, in an illusionary demonstration abilities. But their and 10th grades at two schools, way, this pulls.it-along up-hill. simplicity ·has always intrigued THERE IS A Zagroscope, also him. And he has an arFrancis Hammond and George Washington, ~nd those in the 11th called a Cosmorama and by chaeologist's view of their worth. · and 12th in another, T.C. various other names as well, in "T. C. WILLIAMS' advanced which one can view a scenic card chemistry lab has just acquired . Williams. Alexandria decided to do this in by double reflection from two an expensive, ultra-violet 1971 on the grounds that the goals mirrors and supposedly get a spectrophotometer from which and maturity rates of 13-year- three dimensional effect. This ,students can get a digital readolds vary radically from those of beautiful piece, with its inlaid out," he observed. "It's nothing ) but a big black box. 17 and 18-year-olds. "The school woods, dates back tol850. for the 9th and 10th grades is Mr. Dunkum has a planetarium "I remember that old rockmuch like a battleship under of about 1815-20 in the form of an · grinding demonstration in St. wartime conditions while that for old-time lantern slide driven by John's lab, in which we produced the nth and 12th grades is like a gearing. a plane surface, and, as corny as Naval base in peacetime," Mr. "It has the wrong number of it was, the imprint it made was Dunkum laughed. planets and the wrong number of HE HAS THRIVED on satellites, and they have the teaching. "I love it," he said. "I wrong speeds, but some move wouldn't do anything else." In faster than others," he said. (Continued from P.1) 1974 he became city-wide "And that's a first order ap- eluded. chairman of mathematics and proximation of the truth." In announcing. the appearance science, a sort of chairman of the His most venerable piece is a of his new book, the University of chairmen with pseudoChicago Press, wrote: administralive duties from cylindrical electrostatic "In 1965 Jacob Klein published machine, built some time betkindergarten through the 12th ween 1805 and 1825 to generate a commentary on Plato's Meno grades. which still' stands as an outAlthough he is the science electric charges. It was made by standing example of Platonic William and Samuel Jones, of department head at . T.C. interpretation. Now Klein applies Williams, he is not teaching there London, the men who constructed his finely-honed sensitivity to much of the science equipment this year, having decided, by way Plato's literary style and his of a change from the advanced for George III. (For dating formidable understanding of the purpose_s, Mr. Dunkum prefers classes he previously was inGreek language to three major structing and as something of a the item to have the maker's dialogues, the Theaetetus, the name on it). ch~llenge, to teach general Sophist, and the Statesman, in science at Hammond to 9th "It was probably used by some order to demonstrate their graders whose science interest is traveling charlatan," Mr. unified nature. marginal. Dunkum thinks. "Klein's method is to treat As a St. John's alumnus gone e.ach Platonic dialogue not as a Another item which had a for 12 years, he has had a _treatise but, as Aristotle. v·iewed remarkable record of directing pseudo-medical application was them, as something akin to students here. ~ two brass balls, discharge spheres once part of an electro- mimes, constituting a dramatic "I look for the kids who will not medical kit and probably used for unity. Each dialogue must be be satisfied with the ordinary shocking people, something done understood irt its own terms; each word must be assumed to college, some who might go in an attempt to set bones. contribute to the overall through college 'untouched by · AN ITEM WHICH turned up in significance. Readers of the human hands,' "he explained. "I don't say St. John's is the place a neighbor's basement was a dialogues must participate as where you should go, but I'll talk monster of an old spark coil, used silent partners-weighing, acwith them about the college until at . the turn of the century to cepting, or rejecting the solutions connect with DC batteries arid that are offered, ever sensitive to they get tired.'' produce high voltage sparks the playfulness of the language in But back to his collection, with across the top, which he is trying even the most serious dialogues. its gleaming brasses and woods. to get to work for school use. "Klein begins with the linking, One is impressed by the . Some pieces Mr. Dunkum interm~diate dialo.e:ue, the gracefulness and- craftsmanship declines because of sheer size. He Sophist then moves back to the of some of the pieces, especially turned down a vacuum pump of Theaetetus, and ends with the by those made in France, by their heavy brass weighing 400 pounds. Statesman. His provocative practicality, even by their "Where would you put it?" conclusion is that the form of the "It shows how fragile our civilization is. It could vanish overnight, and the artifacts which would be left would be unsolvable. People would not know how they worked. We would never be able to recreate it. Their demise would be permanent not temporary. Even some of the things I've found which are only a hundred years old require research to find out what they were for. Nobody remembers.'' Jan Hamill is postulant January Elizabeth Hamill, of Annapolis, who wentto St. John's for two years before going on to graduate summa cum laude from Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vt., has been accepted by the Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Maryland as a postulant for holy orders. Miss Hamill is the daughter of Dr. Peter Hamill, who attended St. John's from 1945 to 1946 and who is now chief medical adviser to the National Health Survey, ·U.S. Public Health Service. A 1971 graduate of Key School, Miss Hamill attended St. John's from 1971 to 1973 before beginning studies in French at Marlboro. Currently she is in her. first year at Berkeley Divlnity School at Yale. Before reaching the decision to enter the priesthood, she was the admissions counselor atMarlboro. Klein writes on Plato dialogues symbolizes the answer to the central question uniting them: whether the professor of wisdom (the sophist), the lover of wisdom (the philosopher), and the statesman are one, two, or three distinct types. Plato's unstated answer, as revealed by Klein's detailed analysis, is that there are only two kinds, not three, to be distinguished. "Klein's concern for symbolic form is evident in his attention to the exact center of each dialogue, to the number of times certain key words appear, and to Plato's dramatic playfulness. He offers programs which carefully schematize the often confusing Platonic method of dialectic. The result' is a challenging work of interpretive scholarship.'' Copies of Mr. Klein's new book are available .through the St. John's bookstore for $16. The · Festchrift written for Mr. Klein in his honor on his 75th birthday also is available through the bookstore at a cost of $10 .. Both books involve an additional $1.25 for postage and handling. The Festchrift has been acquired by the University of Chic-ago and Harvard. A review of its contents by Joe Sachs of the St. John's faculty will be published in a forthcoming issue of The Independent Journal of Philosophy, publis!J,ed in Vienna. :?- l ,.. ; '• .. , l - t ,· -: I I .; ,' ). ( j •y ;. ~ > ( : r .~ 1 ;':ti ._ ~· �·THE·RE.PCRTER.'.':. ·, · · ,FEBRUARY., J 978 PAGE 3 'Highest priority is everyone has good time' Women's and men's basketball games this winter. (Continued from P. 1) student for athletics.'' Athletic Director Bryce Jacobsen, a St. John's student (and athlete) at the time, describes the initial reaction to the announcement as that of "tremendous shock and dismay." In the late 1920's and early 1930's, St. John's had been·a national lacrosse power, completing in 1929 an undefeated and untied season against .such powers as Yale, Harvard, Maryland and Army. An athletic tradition had been established which many of those associated with the college found difficult to give up. Today, that tradition is more or less forgotten. Much has changed since 1939 - the first year under the new athletic system. In its 38year history,_ the intramural program has evolved traditions of its own. New rivalries have supplanted the old. Some new sports have been added. Some of the old sports - including lacrosse - have disappeared. More important, athletics at St. John's has, in a fundamental way, been given back to the students. Mr. Jacobsen estimates that nearly two-thirds of both men and women now participate on a regular basis in the athletic program - an impressive figure ~any account. As for finances, there are no traveling expenses, no stadiums to build, no elaborate uniforms to buy. In almost all sports the' college provides only the ball and the referees. The percentage of the budget allocated to athletics is small in comparison to that of other colleges and universities. "Last year," says · Mr. Jacobsen, "Harvard University spent more money on ;;tdhesive tape than we spent on our entire athletic program." But this is not to say that athletics is taken casually at St. John's, "The competitive spirit on the playing field,'' says Steven Scott, New Canaan, Conn., senior, "is just as intense, just as highpowered as it is at any school. The basic difference is that at St. John's the competition exists on the field, on the court, in the actual game situation; it does not exist outside the playing area." Mr. Scott, who was an AllAmerican lacrosse player in high school, turned down the opportunity to play lacrosse at any of several universities. "I felt that the progr~m they were forcing me into· was obligatory in the sense that if I were to go to one of these places I would have to play lacrosse, and I didn't like that feeling." Student Lucy Tamlyn, who attended another small liberal arts college before coming to St. John's, also prefers the intramural approach. "I was required for graduation to attend gym classes in which we were given drills and rarely got the chance to play," she remembers. "The emphasis was on the acquisition of skills and not at all on enjoyment." Miss Tamlyn feels that one of the virtues of the St. John's athletic program is the wide variation in the e_xperience of the participants. Those of less experience are given the opportunity to develop their capabilities. Those of considerable experience must learn tolerance. How do the better athletes feel a bout having to play with those who may not be so talented? "Because students can participate in as many as seven sports," says Mr. Scott, "they often discover that while they might be great in four of them, they are not so good in the other three. This fact has the effect of tempering any intolerance that might arise." best are those teams which can get the most people out. Teams which do not actively encourage participation throughout the year often find themselves shorthanded when these events roll around. Anyone who has ever watched or participated in one of these intramural games knows that nearly everyone plays to win. But at St. John's, winning is not everything. · In fact, Mr. Jacobsen - now in his twentieth year as athletic director - h.as actually built a spirit of toleration into the competitive structure of the intramural program. It _is unlikely that a given team could ever win the annual championship on the basis of the major sports alone. The marathon and physical ·fitness test are set up in such a way that those teams which do (Glen Meredith photos) "The highest priority," says Mark Sugg, Miami Beach, Fla., senior, "is that everyone has a good time. To whatever extent I have personally enjoyed athletics at St. John's, it's because everyone has a good, decent attitude about competition. And I think this is a function of what we read here. When students go out on the field you see a reflection of it. It's a reflection of what I think is very fine in the St. John's program." Mclanahan museum head Alexander K. McLanahan, chairman of the St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors, has been named as the first, full-time salaried president of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, a position cr~ated for him. position. "While we aren't as complex as the Metropolitan, we have gotten pretty big, with a $2-million annual operating budget," Mr. McLanahan said. "It requires more time than a purely voluntary trustee can put into it." Scheduled to assume his duties in the spring, Mr. McLanahan will leave his position as first vice-president of the brokerage firm of White Weld and Co., Inc. Mr. McLanahan will work with the development fund and put priority on new acquisitions, including private collections. Born in France and educated at Mr. McLanahan served as president of the museum's board of trustees from . 1969 to 1975. During •that time he was instrumental in raising the endowment of the museum from $3million to $20-million and doubling the physical size. In 1977, with two other Houston leaders, he was successful in getting the Texas Legislature and Houston City Council to form a new Cultural Arts Council for Houston, which will dispense some $1.1-million this year in hotel-motel tax revenue to dance groups, operas, symphonies, and museums. L a s t y e a r .• w h e n t h e Metropolitan Museum qf Art in New York announced it would create the salaried administrative position of president - a position still to be filled Mr. McLanahan was one of the men it interviewed. It may have been that interview which prompted members of the Houston board's executive committee to propose a similar Yale, Mr. McLanahan said: "I grew up in France with art, with Gothic things. In 1959 I was taken through the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffaio, N.Y. - one of the truly great museums for the art of our time - by Seymour Knox. I saw magnificent paintings by Adolph Gottlieb, Franz · Kline, and Clyfford Still, and it changed the way I looked at things." Ault redesigns effort (Continued from P. 1) Mexico, where they developed a close relationship with the college and where Mr. Hirst acquired a master's degree from St. _John's Graduate Institute. Recently they opened the Southwestern division of the Newsome firm. In presenting a new program for~ board approval, Mr. Ault along with Board Chairman Alexander K. McLanahan emphasized that there is much to be done to achieve the campaign go~l o_f $25-million. "~><i ''We will· have to sprint the whole way in order to come in where we want to be in June of 1980," he said with reference to the closing date of the campaign. "This is not a four-mile walk but a half-mile run." Some $7.4-million has be~n raised for both campuses, an increase of $400,000 since the board's September meeting. Toward the current budget for the 1977-78 academic year, :however, only $188,000 has been ·raised at Annapolis and $152,747 ·at Santa Fe. The Annapolis figur~ includes Maryland State aid. THE ANNAPOLIS campus will need something in excess of $500,000 and the Santa Fe campus $800,000 to meet current cost before the end of the fiscal year on July 1. Mr. Ault stressed that, while the annual fund and construction money is important, the critical need is for money to increase the endowments of both campuses in order to reduce the heavy load of fund raising which has been facing the college each year. . l;. ·~-~~'~_:7'~~" ' �·-,-·, -\·}\ ;; . ~ ··~ P·A~o£·4·. ~:1~ ·.~~-~ ~--.·-• -'. -' - ,-,'" ~ . ' ·· I • " - T- '.-'_,;.· ·\ :·. .,,,_~·~+e.:~~J.-:.f.~ -~.E.:¥5·.:~. . -,:-:-4J' J-... I : .,; } f -- «'''• • c·wco/# :"' "p.--• ... ' -~·" ~ ·· A-lumnus d·ismay-ed .-:· · :;;) ·' :: . 1: / ;. ~---~ -.let.ter. t:A-Eclitor _"~· ~ .. ~~ ,t, ~ •w .-· \ ,_ -:::_ ·"- .at SF's en·rot:l111enl 1 ,( This · is ·m response to the Report of -the · ~resident in the . Octol;ler issue of The COllege. · I am shocked and dismayed al the serious problem concerning admission& at the - Santa Fe campus. I have been mentally "stewing" ab011t this for several· weeks now and debating to whom · I shoul~ address my thoughts: Since I don't bave any· solutions off the top of my head, and am not in a position to make a formal presentation of anything, I have decided to send this letter to "The Reporter,'' and yoµ can decide what, if anything, you want to do . with it. First of ap., my underlying premise is that St.. John's College is the greatest .college in the country. Secondly, my initial gut reaction is that if St. John's College cannot recruit enough applicants· to fill its freshman class (which is small enough by any standard), something must be wrong with the College. But this cannot be true because (1) the College has survived 40 years now under the New Program; (2) it has overcome_ many difficult obstacles; (3) it has proven leadership; (4) it has a competent faculty with many stars in it; (5) it is not financially so secure that it can sit back and let nature take its course; (6) it has a top-flight governing Board induding many successful alumni of the New Program; and c (7) it presumably has on the ball administrative people handling admissions, recruitment, etc. Third: So where to look for the cause of the problem? President Weigle's summary and analysis of Mr. Richard Stephenson's (director . of admission's) report forces one to face some rather harsh and unpleasant realities. Frankly, I am reluctant to accept the validity of the facts asserted. But this does not mean that I doubt Mr. Stephenson's research or conclusions. I don't know enough about the data or the principles applied to them. My instinct is. to challenge them; I suppose because I don't want to believe that it is true. The charts and figures in President Weigle's Report are in some ways mor~ depressing than he suggests and in other ways less so. But it a_ppears tha,t for this year there were almost 12, 000 interested / potential appUcants (total of "material sent")~ arid only slightly more than soo warm bodies (applicants). That is less than3%. To me, that_ figure is more shocking and distressing than the -_ approximate 50% figure · representing enrollees compared to approved applications. How is it that· in this day and age in this country, with the socalled liberation. movements, free speech movements, Yiet• nam, Watergate, presidential impreachment proceedings, etc . only one out of about 250 (i.e., 12,000 out of 3 million ap~ proximate total of high school graduates) is interested in St. John's College? That is less than 1t2 of one percent! ! ! And only 320 or So apply for admission. This is only about_ 1/100 of one percent (of 3 million);. one out of ten thousand! It seems inconceivable. I remember very vividly when I was a senior in high school, in a small upstate New York city, and feeling a great curiosity to learn, my father giving me a St. John's catalog (about 1939 or 1940 issue) that some friend or acquaintance had given him. I took one look at it, and my decision was made. I suppose the biggest shock of all is the suggestion --that St. John's seek to recruit applicants on the basis of the weather, geography, scenery, etc. On the face of it, that seems intolerable. I consider that it undercuts the basis and validity for the existence of St. John's College. On the other hand, as a prac-tical lawyer, specializing in a very practical field of law which accentuates the harsh realities of life, I fully appreciate the fact that if the College cannot obtain students, it cannot. exist period. This poses a direct confrontation with the question: do the ends justify the means: Must one reluctantly say "yes" in this · particular situation? But for whatever it may be worth I simply pass on to you my feelings and reaction to President Weigle's message, and I hope that other St. Johnnies who may feel the same way that I do will be able to come up with some good ideas for solving the problem. ·-·- - 1 • .. ·.~·.-.·.-.~-.·.-.----- Why students tak~ time Off by MARJORIE ALLISON (The writer, who comes from Bethel Park, Pa., left at the end of her sophomore year to spend a year gaining more experience in writing). More and more students are taking time off from their studies at St. John's to pursue activities as diverse as their reasons for leaving. Thirty-three per cent of last May's graduates took a year or more off. In 1966 only 17 per cent of the graduates did not matriculate with the class with which -they graduated. During their years off J ohnies have done everything from sailing from Annapolis to Mexico to working as an apprentice blacksmith. Anne Fitch, Annapolis senior, started with the class of '73 and left school for several years. Her sailing expertise got her a job crewing on a boat from Annapolis to Mexico. Once in _ South America she taught Spanish. DURING THESE years away Anne, whose maiden name was Hawk, married John Fitch, also of the class of '73. "I'm comfortable both with my decision to leave school for a while and my friends who have Ph.D.'s," Anne said. Very truly yours, Alan Bowers, Annapolis junior, Robert J. Scolnik left and worked as -a maitre Class of '45 ('48) d'hotel and cook at what The New ~ York Times described as "the most famous unknown restaurant," Joe's Restaurant in In Memoriam Reading, Pa. 1916 - Lt. Gen. Thomas Eugene Bourke, Los Altos, Cal.,_ Alan abandoned studies January 5, 1978. because he said he needed a 1919 · - Dr. Charles Frederick Fisher, Houston, Tex., break. November 21, 1977. "So little of wh-at we dd at St. 1930 - Thomas Elliott Dryden, Baltimore, Md., December John's can be pinned down," he 11,1977. explained. "One can almost 1933 - Philip R. Piper, Farmington, Conn., December 30, never say, 'Look at what I've accomplished.' You're always 1977. somewhat uncertain about what 1942-CharlesHoyes, West Newton, Pa., October, 1977. it is you're doing and how im1945 - Robert L. Campbell, Jr., Boonton, N.J., October l, portant it is. And although many 1977. will disagree with me, the pur1947 - Daniel Brown Barber, Charleston, W. Va.,· pose Clf SL,John's is 1 in the end, November 11,_ 1977._ ,I ', .... :' . ~r~ctical. It'.s-~ pr~ctical world. i -, • :· I ,. . .''. " ·-~- Caro Ii ne AUen, left, and Mari~rie Allison gather at David Doremus's desk in the_Admissions Office. "Working for a year gave me a different perspective on my studies and made me appreciate them a lot more. St. John's is a rare opportunity. No one talks about virtue or justice' in a restaurant kitchen." CAROLINE MANDY, also a junior, hoped that a year off · "would be impetus for a change of habits." After working as a bus girl, cook, -and cashier for a ste.ak house in New Mexico ("I never made it to Santa Fe even though it was only 60 miles, away"), this Woodbridge, N.J., student came back East and got a job as an executive secretary at E. F. Hutton, a stock brokerage firm, in New York City. Caroline was a little anxious about returning to St. John's. "I thought I'd be the only one · dropping into this class," she said. "It was a nice surprise to see so many familiar faces." Another Caroline and junior, Caroline Allen, now living in Annapolis, was forced into a year off as the result of a tragic event: the death of her mother and stepfather in a plane accident. Later she also went to New York City where for a few months she was employed as an editorial secretary by Harcourt Brace, working closely with editors on projects such as Anais Nin.'s Delta of Venus. CAROLINE ALSO went.to Italy. and Greece which she said, "Every Johnnie should see." For the final month before returning she was an apprentice blacksmith. 'David Doremus, of Deerfield, Ill., now taking a year off, is seen frequently on campus since he is serving as St. John's admissions representative. David's th.inking is that a year off "will catapult me into a good senior year. It's a sort of motivational strategy." Although David is glad fit: is taking a year off and enjoys his job, he expects that "it will be ',wr:e~~hing JQ see old ·classmates gradua,te in l\{ay.~' - : : ; ;· ' Parents to be hereMay5-7 Parents Weekend will be held May 5-7, Vice President William B. Dunham has announced. A program cbeing ·planned by Stephanie Moore, Raphine, Va., freshman, and by Anthony Cox, McLean, Va., junior, calls for parents who arrive .early to attend seminars on Thursday evenings and to visit classes on Friday. Scheduled for 8:15 p.m. Friday is the weekly lecture. It will be delivered by a St. John's graduate, C. Grant- Luckhardt, member of the faculty of Georgia State University, who will speak on ''Wittgenstein and Religious Belief." Saturday's program will include a parent-student seminar on Chaucer and a play in the evening followed by a waltz party. Because hotel rooms frequently are hard to come by at this time of year, Mr. Dunham advises parents planning to come to make reservations early. Among places suggested are the Annapolis Hilton Inn, Maryland Inn, Holiday Inn Motel, Howard Johnson Motel, and Thr-rift Inn Motel. Watson nominees (Continued from P. 8) monastery.'' Miss Patrone already is somewhat familiar with the Piemontese dialect. She learned it from her mother, Dr. Maryrose V. Patrone, a social worker with the Fairfax County school system, and while doing genealogical work in Italy. She learned to speak Italian itself when she attended a Torino boarding school. "I found that the older Piemontese, normally cold to and suspicious of .strangers, were open and comfortable with me," _.-she ,s~id., "I wpµ\d, ~\tri~ut~ this ~ o.llenn.~~s; fo'-.th~ ·ras!ite!~ I:~~ :of · 1: ,~ ~fie Pielli~p~e~~ ~eow~ '~ 1 �· FEBR\JWRY, 1978 PAGE 5 Mary Pollingue gets Leo Strauss award The Leo Strauss Award for the best doctoral dissertation completed and aceepted in 1975 or 1976 in the field of political philosophy has been awarded by the American Political Science Association to Mary L. Pollingue, who joined the St. John's faculty last fall. Her dissertation, based upon Plato's "Phaedrus," was nominated by the· University of Chicago, where she obtained: her doctorate. The selection committee for the award honoring the late scholar-in-residence at St. John's was composed of Wilson Carey McWilliams, Rutgers University, chairman; Joseph Cropsey, University of Chicago, and Werner Dannhauser, Cornell University. _ This is the third such award in the memory of Mr. Strauss, noted political philosopher and author. He had served as the Scott Buchanan distinguished scholarin-residence at St. John's from 1969 until his death at the age of 74 in 1973. His widow is an Annapolis resident. Miss Pollingue will be on leave next year serving as a member of the faculty of Northern Illinois University, where she previously taught. She will be working on a review of Strauss' book, "Socrates and Aristophanes," for the Political Science Reviewer, an annual journal. The citation for- the award reads: ' ' P r of e s so r P-o 11 in g u e ' s dissertation explOred Plato's theory of rhetoric, beginning with the distinction between that rhetoric appropriate to public subjects and that proper to private matters. The Pha~drus deals with speeches about love, unlike the more 'political' Gorgias, but Professor Pollingue demonstrates that such appearances can be misleading. She observes that the subject of rhetoric must not be equated with the motive of the rhetorician. Statesmen, for example, whose rhetoric is found in laws and legislation, are often moved by private desires for immortality. Professor Pollingue, demonstrating philosophic subtlety and linguistic mastery, develops Plato's idea of the rhetoric truly appropriate to statesmen and philosophers." New holiday at-SJC:. it's Occupation Day By CATHY SIMS St. John's Sophomore A determined alumnus and his - ·~itude'nt' "henchmen" have established a new holiday at St. John's - . November 11. Well, perhaps not entirely new: November 11 already is Veterans Day. But now there's a more directly applicable significance for current Johnnies. It's Occupation Day, the day the first students straggled into classes in McDowell Hall in 1789. The idea to celebrate was that of Arthur Kungle '67, and he enlisted the help of a handful of students to bring the holiday in by way of the back door. Mr. Kungle's plan was to celebrate November 11, for all its significance, first, and actually establish the holiday once people became curious about all the commotion. The plan worked, and it was helped by plenty of commotion. The day began with two members of St. John's new brass quintetPeter Norton and James Fryer and members of the St. John's chorus rendering "The Star Spangled Banner" from the steps of McDowell as the flag was raised and then lowered to halfm ast. DURING LUNCH, a similar band of musicians and singers paraded through the dilling hall, coffee shop, and to an alumni luncheon singing "St. John's Forever,'' that plagiarized fight song which has enjoyed a revival since its use in last year's senior skit. Announcements at lunch explained whaf was going on to innocent by-standers. After lunch, the alumni, most of whom were World War II veterans, joined some students and administrators at the World ;, wa-r ; l ,v1tenu1s' . ~9~t1IJ?-~Q,( ~n , front c~t!IP~~·-· ~'f ·i )'forto~: p.nd Mr. Fryer;' - ~atiortetr at the monument and .at the steps of McDowell, played ""taps" as _red and white roses symbolizing valor and purity of heart were placed at the foot of the monument. Later in the evening, Mr. Norton and Mr. Fryer entertained before lecture in the FSK lobby with trombone duets. Dean Sparrow concluded the day's sporadic and often impromptu activities with a recognition of those activities in his lecture introduction. Alumni get SF invitation Alumni interested in a vacation in Santa Fe are invited to take advantage of the western campus's new alumni-in-residence program. "We believe that alumni and their spouses might enjoy spending a day, a week, or a fortnight in residence at the college, visiting seminars and tutorials, and meeting and talking with tutors and students,'' President Weigle said in issuing the invitation. Visitors would be housed in a college dormitory and eat in the college dining room. Besides auditing or participating in classes, they may shop, sightsee, ski on nearby slopes, or just relax. Charges for a single person for room and all meals are $8 a day and $15 a day for a couple. The weekly rate is $50 for a single person and $90 for a couple. The New Mexico campus is not equipped to provide care for small children, but teen~agers may visit at adult rates. Alumni interested in taking advantage of the program may write•. Mr._ Weigle's. secretary, Mrs. Geneva "Ma·ntelli, or telephone her at (505) 982-3691. New officers of the Delegate Council are, from left, John Lippman, Eloise Collingwood, and Lucy Tamlyn. {James Walley photo} ·cOUUCl.1 lS experienced . . . By CATHY SIMS St. John's Sophomore The new administration.of the· Student Delegate Council, serving from November until March, represents a group experienced in the financial and organizational work of the DC. "I think we have a very good constitution and set-up," Eloise Collingwood, the new DC president, commented on her position. "I see it as my job to inform students of what we have and to encourage them to use it." Miss Collingwood has begun this task by distributing copies of the Student Polity constitution to the dormitory delegates and to winter freshmen. She shows special interest in promoting understanding and use of the "sleep ·and study" law of the polity, and she encourages students to work through the present provisions "of legal recourse for protecting their rights." · A Boston junior who came here as a February freshman, Miss Collingwood served as secretary to the former DC administration. She is an assistant to the director of the summer freshmen, works in the music library, and is active in the sports program. She was the 1977 recipient of the Joan Yvonne Ronay Scholarship. Scores are high (Continued from P. 1) Testing may come later~ In one known instance a graduate did not decide to take the examination until seven years after receiving his bachelor's degree. . Since 1967 scores at St. John's generally have continued to rise. Verbal scores jumped from 674.1 in 1967 to 717.2 in 1976. Those for quantitative scores iiicreased from 615.5 to 676.1in1976. A year-by-year analysis, with 1973 omitted, shows these average scores for St. John's students with the verbal score given first and the quantitative second: 1967, 674.1, 615.5; 1968, 689. 7, 645; 1969, 694.6, 616.6; 1970, 689, 629; 1971, 673.1, 640..8; 1972, 714.1, 644. 7; 1974, 655, 645; 1975, 703. 7, 663.2, and 1976, 717.2, 676.1. HER FAMILY includes two St. John's alumni, her sister, Margery Collingwood, '76, and her father, the Rev. G. Harris Collingwood, '48. Serving with Miss Collingwood on the new council are Secretary Lucy Tamlyn, '78, and Treasurer John Lippman, '80. Miss Tamlyn, another February freshman and native of New York City, previously his served as a dormitory delegate. She was cochairman Qf the old RAM Film Club and now serves on the Campus Development Committee. Last year she attended ·the Santa Fe campus. Her brother, Thomas Tamlyn, is a '75 alumnus. Mr. Lippman, a native of Solebury, Pa., is serving his second term as student representative to the Board of Visitors and Governors and has been a member of the Student Committee on Instruction. Life f ea tu res Nancy Coiner There is Nancy Coiner, standing in the middle of an English rose garden, w.aving a scarf overhead, and looking in : Life magazine's annual of major 1977 events, like the prettiest Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. Miss Coiner, who received her degree last May, was one of the first 13 American women chosen for the honor. The color photograph, with a timbered English cottage in the background, occupies a full page and a third. Now 24, Miss Coiner, a resident of Tulsa, Okla., is studying theological literature. Allanbrooks are parents of son Wye and Douglas Allanbrook, both St. John's tutors, are receiving congratulations on the birth of a son January 11 at Anne. Arundel General Hospital. The baby, who weighed eight pounds, four ounces, will be named John Vincent after Mrs. Allanbrook's father and grandfather. 1'4rs .. Allartbrook wili continue to teach on a part-time basis. What makes wedding day? .How do you spend your wedding day if you are going to be married on a Saturday night? If you are John White, you attend a faculty meeting in the morning and go to the gym to referee two basketball games in the af- , ternoon. Between games Arthur ' Kungle, '67, announces to cheering students your coming marriage that evening to Judith Stockard, of Baltimore. Director of Athletics Bryce Jacobsen had assured Mr. White, who is assisting with men's games, that he was welcome to take the afternoon of January 4 off; but Mr. White, who is no man to be made nervous sitting at home twiddling his thumbs, was bouncing around in the gym refereeing the Druids vs the Spartans and the Guardians vs the Green Waves. (And a good thing! The second game was so close - 76-75-it was decided by one point!) Afterwards Mr. White drove to Baltimore for his wedding to Miss Stockard in a small, traditional ceremony which was performed by the Rev. J. Winfree Smith, fellow tutor and Episcopal priest, at her home. Mr. Jacobsen served as best man, and the bride's cousin, Mrs. Hisaaki Ohiso, as matron-of-honor. LIKE HER husband, Mrs. White is a member of the Class of '64. She is a psychiatric social worker at Spring Grove State Hospital, Baltimore. Mr. White joined the faculty in 1971 and since then has been tenured. They will reside at .16 Carvel Circle, Annapolis. In another recent St. John's marriage, Marilyn Kyle, the college nurse, was married to Dr. W. Charles Mylander, associate professor in the Naval. Academy's Applied Science Department. He is the son of Mrs. Virginia My lander, former manager of the St. John's bookstore whose husband, the late Walter Mylander, '32, was a former member of the St. John's board. They are making their home at 1308 Cedar Park Road. Clare Vetter, a registered nurse and wife of St. John's Senior Thomas Vetter, has become resident nurse\ servi.Ilg night-time' hours, ' while. Mn;. - Mylandef 'continues as c.ollege nurse. �FEBRUARY, 1978· · PAGE 6 -- ------····--··-- Alumni r/ofeJ by Thomas Parran, Jr. Director, Alumni Activities 1968 - Santa Fe Year's end brought a delightful note from Wendy Watson, reporting on several meetings of the Detroit "chapter" of the Alumni Association. Wendy and Kirk Cheyfitz have been married for eight years, and have lived in the Michigan city for three. Kirk is a reporter for the Detroit Free Press and recently became chief of the CityCounty Bureau. Wendy received an M.A. degree in art from Wayne State University, and is currently doing ceramic sculpture and working as an art therapist with emotionally disturbed children. Kirk and Wendy recently met at their home with Anne Strasburg S'69. Anne lives in Los Angeles, and works as a script supervisor for television and motion picture films. Also in Detroit is the former Laney Bancroft, admissions secretary in Santa Fe for the first several years of that campus. Kirk and Laney's husband, who also works for the Free Press, accidently discovered their mutual St. John's connection, and the result was a reunion early in December. La.ney left St. John's to join the Peace Corps, went to India where she met her husband (also PC), and return· ed to the U.S. to recruit for the Corps. She is currently an executive secretary for the Detroit United Fund. 1972 Carol Shub reports being busy in a new job in the laboratory of the Clinton (Iowa) Water Pollution Control Facility; she "likes itfine." 1974 A Christmas greeting from Erica Chaney Gregory ~eveals that she has been transferred from the Marine Corps Air Station, El Toro, Cal., to the base at Camp Pendleton, still in disbursing work. The Gregorys have bought a new home, and are enjoying a quiet, content, home-body life. 1974-SantaFe Janet Braziel is now working for the office of the District Attorney in Albuquerque. 1976 Steve Chew, reports Ann Browning '77, spent the summer in England and Crete, and is now manager of a restaurant in Bethesda, Md. Carl Dunn and Lydia Daffer of Annapolis were married on December 31. Lydia's late father, George Daffer, was a member of the class of 1946. 1976- Santa Fe Charles Gunter is studying at the University of New Mexico (and our correspondent SUSJ?ects the field may be political economy). Glenda Holladay and John Eoyang were married on December 27, and make their home in Norman, Okla. Glenda continues to teach at Casady Schol in Oklahoma City. Another lawyer-to-be is Matthew Krane, in his first year at Harvard Law School. Miriam Marcus, who has been studying nutrition at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has recently been accepted as a machinist's apprentice. , Greg Springer, in his second year of Peace Corps teaching (7th, 8th, and 9th grades) in Upper Volta, reports that he is living "like a 13th century king-except that I finally did get electricity. In other words, I live a rich and dissipated life as far as _that is possible in the world's third poorest country.'' Greg speaks French and the local native language, and eats mostly meat because there isn't much else: the staple African diet of millet apparently doesn't appeal. Chrysa Wickstrom and Peter Kovatis GI75 were married last year in February. They live in Austin, Tex., and both work for the Austin State School for the Mentally Handicapped. 1977 Ann Browning, one of our most energetic class secretaries, sends along the following notes on her classmates and others: (She herself works as a teacher's aide in a Montessori pre-school in Salt Lake City, likes the work, and is considering some graduate work in education). Sara Anastaplo is doing paralegal work for the San Francisco law firm of Furth, Fahrner_and Wong. She sees Bill Kelley '75, Richard Davenport '76, Joan Silver MA '76, Claudia Ingram '75, and classmates Rachell McKay and Michael Levine. Lynne Gately is living in Alaska, where she spent the summer in Pelican cleaning fish. She managed to do some backpacking from Skagway along the Chilkoot Trail. Lynne now works as a mail clerk for Chevron, loves Alaska, and plans to remain at least a year. After le~ving St. John's, Andrea Miano attended both Sacred· Heart College and Mt. Holyoke College. She is now a secretary to the executive vice president and assistant to the treasurer in a federal savings and loan association. Janis Popowicz is also in Washington, working for the Smithsonian Institutkm in mathematics and science. 1977 - Santa Fe Liz Cochran is in the Boston area "looking for meaningful work." Walter Featherly is a classmate of Matthew Krane S76 at Harvard Law School. Annapolis Senior Tricia Kolp advises that Keith Harrison is having a "fun time" at the University of Chicago Law School. Judy Kistler is working for Lebow Technological Company in Santa Barbara, Cal., and is rapidly becoming a "California girl." Another law student is Eric Woods, in his first year at McGeorge Law School in Sacramento, Cal. Abigail Gillesp.ie locates the waters off the coast of Greece where she will do marine archaeology. (James Walley photo) • Student· to seek anctent vessel A few days from now, Abig all Gillespie, with the consent and good wishes of her tutors, will put her books aside and pack up her deep sea diving equipment and fly to the coast of Greece. There , working with professional marine a rchaeologists of the Greek government, she will be excavating a vessel wrecked possibly 1,200 years before the birth of Christ off the island of Dnokos on the trade routes between Crete and the ancient cities of Mycenean culture. For centuries the wreck had been hidden by sea vegetation, and Miss Gillespie believes it was discovered, as so many such sunken vessels are, by fishermen who bring up a vase or a piece of statuary in their nets, hints to professional archaeol9gists that there may be historic treasure worth seeking. Miss Gillespie earlier had obtained permission to take a two to three week leave from her 1 classes this fall, but the expedition was postponed when it - was discovered that the wreckage had been strewn over an area of a mile and a half, more than originally was expectec}. "YOU DON'T begin excavating until every piece of timber is plotted on a grid," she said. "Everything is drawn to scale on a detailed map; The location may be indicative of the ship's design, or a signet ring which might be found could indicate where the captain's quarters were. The • map can be the single most importa_~t reference for the excavat10n team and for future tim~.'' . . . Mis~ G1llesp1e will be one of two American young women who are being .given an opportunity to participate. The other is Peri Blum, of Detroit, who has had five years of experience in scuba diving and whom Miss Gillespie met last summer. They will be working under the direction of George Papathanassopoulos, director of the Institute for Marine Archaeology in Athens. Although this will be _her first experience in marine arcbaeology, Greece will not be a country new to Miss Gillespie. With a background in ancient Greek gained at St. John's, a small amount of modern Greek, and a fluent command of French, she served last summer as a leader for a group of students visiting Greece under auspices of the Expedition Training Institute, an organization which was founded by members of the Explorers Club of New York and which so far has sent more than 2,000 high school and collegeaged students into field research. Together with another leader, they introduced 12 young people to some of the major sites of excavation in Athens, the Peloponnesian Peninsula, Crete, and the Cycladic Islands. THIS SUMMER SHE will be in charge of two expeditions which reflect her St. John's background: plotting the possible course of Odysseus. One will be from Gibraltar to Syria and then possibly into Southern Italy, Sicily, and Northern Africa. The other will start at Ancient Trqy and progress to the island of Delos, which legend holds contains the entrance to Hades into. which Odysseus eventually entered. know India as an American Field Servjce exchange student attending school in Madras. "Greece has an affinity with Europe but also with the Mideast and the Orient," she observed. "It was the foundation and a focal point of that world,· which one needs to know to understand the influences of different cultures with one another-linguistically, artistically, and musically as well as from the standpoint of myths and architecture, dress and dance.'' Her interest in Greece is · somehow understandable for someone like Miss Gillespie, who at 24 is something of a Renaissance woman. A musician, she formerly played the clarinet with the Boston Youth Symphony and is commuting to New York on weekends to study clarinet with the distinguished teacher, Leon Russianoff of the Julliard School. Russianoff oJ the Julliard School. IN PARIS, where she studied clarinet and philosophy at the Institut Catholique, she also sang in a multi~national choir at the American Cathedral. Currently she goes to Baltimore on Tuesdays and Wednesday nights to study ballet. Her scientific interests were demonstrated during a time she "It is also sacred to the god served as coordinator of the Apollo and known for its beautiful bacteriological laboratory at ruins," Miss Gillespie said. · Children's Hospital in Boston. Miss Gillespie began her St. A third expedition will be one in John's education on the college's which she '•hopes to take archaeological majors to the ex- Sante Fe campus in 1971 and cavations underway at Santorini, resumed her studies on the Anwhose culture was contemporary napolis campus last year as a with that of the Minoan sophomore. During her time civilization. One hope would be away, besides study at the Ineventually to catalogue the stitut Catholique and work· in Children's Hospital, she taught frescoes and mosaics on the French a few months at Concord island. Academy in Massachusetts, from Miss Gillespie, who has always which she had graduated, and done a lot of swimming, prepared went to Wellesley for a year and a herself for marine archaeology half. last summer by taking lessons in But the St. John's program has scuba diving near her home in always been important to her, Concord, Mass. The thought of and she felt that she must comGreece excites her. It is a point plete it. So she returned here. and she describes as between Paris, is now a junior', deeply involved where she has lived, and India. in her Great Books program with When she was 17 she grew to time out for archaeology. �FEBRUARY, 1978 PAGE7 THE REPORTER D8Vidson Since graduating last May, Girard Bradford Davidson has not only landed himself a job with a Texas Congressman but has been elected as a member of the District of Columbia's Advisory Neighborhood Commission. • WIDS election give greater home rule to the district. Since September Mr. Davidson has been associated with Congressman E. (Kika) de la Garza (D-Tex.), the second ranking member of the House Mr. Davidson won the office in Agriculture Committee. As a November with Cynthia Nash, member of his staff, Mr. also a member of the Class of '77, Davidson is handling as his campaign manager. Sworn Congressman de la Garza's in on January 3, he will represent agriculture work as well as a 3,000 residents in the Glover Park good deal of his case work. area north of Georgetown in Besides being able to enjoy the issues affecting them which come - rather glamorous Longworth before the City Council, mayor, Building, where his office is and various district agencies. located, Mr. Davidson finds one The commission was set up in of the perquisites of his position is 1974 by Congress in an effort to the privilege of using a license plate marked "Congressional Staff." Miss Nash currently is ·associated with the large Washington management consulting firm of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell, and Company, where 1she is doing copy editing and .proof reading. Active in .theatrical productions at St. :John's while she was a student 1here, she has applied to the Yale :School of Drama for admission ·next fall. In the meantime she has been doing some technical work with the New Playwrights Theater in Washington, working on lighting for a workshop performance of "Whiteman Place" and on a.play, "Nightmare." Mrs. Berg HoffIDan is Mrs. Driscoll is in Rome ·.gets doctorate LI leader on Fulbright Allan P. Hoffman, '49, of in California Lawrence, N.Y., h-as been BEATE RUHM VON OPPEN (Tom Parran photo) Nazi opponent subject of Beute Ruhm von Oppen Marcia and Dennis Berg, both Class of 1971, are at the American Academy in Rome this year where Mrs. Berg holds a Fulbright and a Kress Foun- · dation Fellowship. She is writing a doctoral dissertation for the University of Virginia on Greek mythology paintings found in an Etruscan tomb called the Francois tomb. Mr. Berg is beginning a· dissertation ·on Kant, working with Richard Kennington of Catholic University. "Rome is even more magnificant than I had imagined," she writes the staff of the library, where both Bergs served as book binders during their undergraduate days, "and I walk for miles each day just trying to take in everything around me." leading a series of weekly seminars exploring the origins and traditi9ns of western civilization. They are under the 1sponsorship' of the Peninsula Public Library of Lawrence. Co-leader with him is Littleton Irby, who holds a master's degree from St. John's Graduate Institute as well as master's from New York University and Queens College. The seminar, which began in January with "The Iliad," also · will include the writings of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Plato, and Aristotle. Some time ago Mr. Hoffman conducted St. John's type. seminars for adults as part · of Lawrence's high school program for adults, and recently the/Long Island library requested him to start· such a program again. Assisting on occasion will be Mary Wiseman, '58. Providing his health permits, Stringfellow Barr, former St. John's president, will lead one in late April or May. Margaret Weyerhaeuser Driscoll, Santa Fe philanthropist and member of the St. John's board, was one of five to receive an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from the University of Southern California last month. Among others honored were former Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Author Eudora Welty. Mrs. Driscoll was acclaimed as a "good friend of this university and of all higher learning, generous benefactress of causes humane and nobl~"":" ..~ . __':::':...:~ leader in the advance of society." With a bachelor's degree from Vassar, Mrs. Driscoll holds her LHD degree from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., wf1ere she is a trustee emeritus. She is vice president and a trustee of the Santa Fe Opera Association and a past member of the Board of Regents of New Mexico Highlands University and treasurer of the United Church Women. done much work on them in (Continued from P.1) past years. She also has done second war. Kennan knew him only in the extensive work in archives earlier stages of his clandestine and interviews in England activities against the Nazi and Germany. She will spend regime and was not surprised some of her time next year when he learned later of his trial mVermont, where the originals by a People's Court and of his of the letters are, and some in execution. In his memoirs, Annapolis. Miss von Oppen has made a Kennan concluded his description of the man and their meetings special study of the resistance to with the words that "the image of Nazism since, during the war, this lonely, struggling man, one she worked for the British of the few Protestant-Christian Foreign Office in London. After coming to the United martyrs of our time, has remained for me over the in- States she worked with the A preceptorial exploring two tervening years a pillar of moral captured German documents 19th century novels,. one by conscience and an unfailing project of the American George Elliott and the other by source of political and in- Historical Association and William Thackeray, will be ofcompiled several of its Guides to fered as part of' St. John's tellectual inspiration.'' Miss von Oppen said the German Records Microfilmed at College's adult education loneliness was mitigated by his Alexandria, Va. (National Ar- program beginning March 28. marriage, despite the fact that chives, Washington, 1960). It will be the outgrowth of a fall What lies ahead for Minnesota Her other publications include preceptorial on Jane Austen led most of the time his wife was Documents on Germany under by Minna Doskow, in which politics forms the basis of an op looking after their children and The RAM Film Club has aned article .by St. John's Tutor the family estate in Silesia, while Occupation 1945-54 (Oxford members ex~mined the attitudes Robert Spaeth, which appeared nounced its schedule of movies Moltke worked as a lawyer in University Press, 1955), Religion and relationships between men in the January 18 issue of The for the rest of the school year. and Resistance to Nazism Berlin. and women and their society as New York Times. They are shown at 8: 15 p.m. in · Another mitigating factor was (Princeton, 1971), and numerous 'they were reflected in the world the Key Auditorium and are open his formation of a group of like- articles on related subjects. Her of the Austen novels. Mr. Spaeth is having a first to the public. Films to be shown minded men for the systematic translations include a book on In addition, a seminar dealing hand opportunity to observe will be: discussion of the principles and .The' State of Israel (into German with four major playwrights politics in Minnesota. He is on Feb. 18-19, "Rashomon"; Feb. practical detail for a decent and published by Fischer, - Strindberg, Ibsen, Shaw, and leave this year serving as a 25-26, "La Strada"; March 5, political system to be established Frankfurt, 1959) and the Brecht - will begin March 29. visiting professor at his alma "High Noon"; April 1-2, "Duck Memoirs of Konrad Adenauer Meetings which will run through mater, St. John's University, in Soup"; April 8-9, "The Lady in Germany after the Nazis. THOUGH HE WAS opposed to (Regnery, Chicago, 1965). May 3, willbe held-in Room 24 of Collegeville, Minn., and has Vanishes"; April 15-16, "Jules SHE HAS TAUGHT at St. the assassination of Hitler,' he McDowell Hall. Deborah Renaut, researched the 1944 merger of the and Jim"; April 22-23, "Rififi"; and the group, composed from a John's College, Annapolis, from adult education director, has Democratic and Farmer-Lal)or April 30, "Father Panchali"; broad political spectrum and of 1960 to 1963 and agaLn ~ince 1971. asked interested persons to parties. His analysis, which he May 7, "Public Enemy" and both Christian denominations, In the intervening years she telephone 263-2371, extension 83, wrote after the death of Senator "Little ·caesar"; May 13-14, worked hard to counter the taught history at Smith College to pre-register. Participation in Humphrey, discusses the "Monterey Pop" and "King of purposes of the Nazi regime in and the University of the Jane Austen preceptorial will possibility of a Republican take- Hearts"; May 30-31, "Birth of a whatever positions they officially Massachusetts and engaged in not be necessary in order to take over in November with four World" and "Citizen Kane." writing and translation. occupied. part in the Elliott-Thackeray unelected incumbents of the Panel at Loyola As a member of the Institute It was the enforced, prolonged Democratic-Farmer-Labor party preceptorial. separation from his wife that for Advanced Studies (1968-9) .on the ticket. features Weigle accounts for the existence of over and the Center of International· 'The Reporter is published by the Office of·. Mr. Spaeth also has the lead President Weigle took part in 1,500 letters he wrote to her and Studies at Princeton (1969-71), ;College Relations, St. John's College, she did much of the Preparatory Annapolis, Md., 214Q4, Richard D/.Wei- article in the fall-winter issue of · an ecumenical symposium on the which form a kind of diary. Freya von Moltke was able to work for the planned publication 9le, president, William 8. Dunham,· vice St. John's University's Magazine · theme, "Religion, Society, and president. describing three new American Education," conducted this hide them from the secret police of the Moltke letters. Some of the Pu'blished five times a year, in February, and . even· to get them out research in Europe was sup- April, June, September and November. novelists, Jon Hassler, Michael m·o~th by Loyola College, Baltimore, as part of its 125th of the country after the war. ported by a summer stipend from !~~~nd clas~ts!~ge paid at Annapot~, T. Hinkemeyer, and John Goulet all alumni of that university. ' anniversary. Miss Ruhm von Oppen has theNEH. PrograID set for adults Spaeth writes Times article 11 f I_ ~ ~i 1 Here is fil01 list - ·- �.::,.~--::1.::'.~ • ' .... -~·- ~' . . ·.::'. "l'• ft.,;..~ ~-- ~~ « ,;,.. . -- ~,;::_::->: ·-:. • ......... ~- t· PAGES THE REPORTER FEBRUARY, 1978 Pu b.lished by College Relations Off icr -- ~-----... St. JOhn's College Annapolis, Md. 21404 rDATEDUE ,,.,.. Caritas plans seminar on money for women St. John's Caritas Society, · which early this year voted to contribute $2, 700 to the college in scholarship assistance, has a new offer of aid, this one directed toward the women of the Annapolis area. For a bargain $5, it is sponsoring a day-long seminar to provide women with the basic information they need to handle their financial affairs. It will be held Saturday, April 1. With Anna Greenberg as chairman, the seminar will feature Suzanne Mensh, chief judge of Baltimore County's Orphans Court, as keynote speaker, and will include Julius Westheimer, Baltimore investment counselor, Baltimore Sun columnist, and a frequent participant of the Wall Street Week television program. The program will include a box · · - · - - runch:lt1Sse1feduled to begin with registration at 9:30 a.m. and will be held in the conversation room of the Key Auditorium. Parking will be available in the nearby State Parking Lot Cat the intersection of Calvert and Bladen streets. Judge Mensh, who is incoming president of the Trial Judges Association of Maryland, and Mr. Westheimer will speak during the morning session. Speaking and answering questions during the afternoon session will be Richard S. Foster, special assistant to the chief actuary, Social Security Administration; Abel Merrill, Annapolis attorney, who has made a specialty of estate planning, and George O.R. Brungot, who represents a number of insurance firms, including both the Shenandoah and Philadelphia firms. In planning the day, Mrs. Greenberg is being assisted by Winifred Fowler and the three Caritas Dorothys - Dorothy Noble, Dorothy Gilley, and Dorothy Drummond. GI adds philosophy, theology this summer known as their "MA plus 30," a Annapolis's division of St formula involving 30 hours John's Graduate Institute will beyond the master's degree used expand this summer to include in salary advancement. philosophy and theology. Registration is open, and inLast year, when the summer terested persons may secure master's program was offered additional information by writing. for the first time here, only Mr. Comber in care of the history was given, and students Graduate Institute, St. John's focused on such questions as the College, Annapolis, Md. 21404. ·difference between history and myth and whether people need a history or not. This year, .when the eight-week program opens June 25, teachers and other adults will have an The St. John's placement opportunity to read and discuss a office is enlisting alumni in series of great books centered in locating summer work for philosophy and theology .. In twice students. weekly seminars they will be It has written letters to asking themselves such basic those in the immediate area questions as those surrounding asking them to assist in the immortality, predestination, program. Christian liberty, the fall of man, "Since summer emand the law of the spirit versus ployment is increasingly the written law. Geoffrey Comber, director, ' difficult to find, we hope to assist students by organizing a said students may participate in bank of summer· job either the history or the possibilities," Miss Brenda philosophy and theology Robertson, placement segment. director, said in her letter The program, modeled after St. seeking the cooperation of John's undergraduate former students. curriculum, represents an exBeing asked to help are tension of the Graduate Institute alumni in Maryland, on St. John's Santa Fe campus, Delaware, Pennsylvania, where four segments are offered. Northern Virginia, and in the The program is accredited for District of Columbia. If the teacher recertification on both program proves a success, the campuses. In Maryland teachers. office will expand its coverage may receive credit for what is to other states. Alumni aid iob program Nominated for Watson Fellowships are Sabrina Patrone and Amy McConnell. (James Walley photo) Two are Watson nominees Two seniors, one who wants to walk over the Pyrenees from France into Spain and the other who hopes to record the traditions and folklore of the Piedmont region of northern Italy, are being nominated by St. John's to receive Thomas J. Watson Foundation fellowships. dialect of the Piemontese, a disappearing patois which is a combination of French and Italian and understood by neither the French nor the Italians outside the area. In addition, she wants to collect the folklore of the Piemonte, as the area which borders the French-Italian alps is known. She They are among a pool of 176 wants to seek out its common students from SO private colleges opinions, stories, poems, herbal and universities in the country beliefs, even its tongue twisters. who are eligible to participate in "One generation ago the a program which provides for Piemontese dialect was spoken independent study and travel by everyone within the region," abroad. In all, 70 Watson fellows Miss Patrone, whose grandare selected each year. parents came from ther.e, said. Miss Amy McConnell, who "Now on the streets of t,he comes from Boulder, Colo, would Piemonte only Italian or a like to make a 900-mile walk, southern dialect is heard." tracing an ancient religious Both students will have to wait pilgrimage from Paris to the holy until Spring before they know sanctuary of Santiago de Com- whether they will be selected. postela in northern Spain. Meanwhile, both are making "WHEN MOST IN need .of plans. communication with themselves Miss McConnell, who was a and the world, soine people play regional finalist in the December music, others paint, still others Rhodes scholarship competition write," Miss McConnell said. "I in California, walks regularly, walk." including a 30-mile hike a recent Sabrina Patrone, who- lives in Sunday on the sandy beaches of Fairfax, hopes to record the the Eastern Shore, from Bethany to Ocean City. Last Easter she made her first religious pilgrimage, walking another. 30 miles from Santa Fe, N.M., to the small church at Santuario de Chimayo. The European walk she is planning is to the site where James, or Santiago de Compostela, Christ's disciple, was said to have been buried following his martyrdom and from where Spanish tradition has it that he arose from the dead to lead the victory against the Moors, becoming the patron saint of Spain. "In most villages along the route there are scholars and historians who feel honored to relate the local history and related legends," Miss McConnell said, noting that the people of France and Spain continue to maintain a lively interest in the way of Santiago. "Those age-old centers of learning, _the monasteries, continue to open their doors to pilgrims. 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Mr. Weigle said that as director of the Fund for the 1980's, he will direct the external relations of the drive, including those having to do with alumni and public relations . .He will divide his time between Annapolis and Santa Fe. FORD K. BROWN Brown, "Just -who are you anyway?" a question with which Mr. Brown decided to have some fun. Drawing himself to full height, he replied, "I'm the Secretary of Defense." It was former Dean Curtis WilsoQ. who remembered Mr. (Continued on P. 2) Dohreer, Gessner, Goldwin win awards Alumni Association presented its annual Awards of Merit to three graduates during homecoming exercises marking the 150th year of its founding. The recipients were former Dean Robert Goldwin, '50, now resident scholar with the . American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy in Washington; Bernard Gessner, '27, retired Annapolis businessman, and David Dobreer, '44, California physician and member of the St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors. William w~ Simmo,ns, association president, presented the awards at a dinner at the Hilton Hotel. Also honored was Alumni Director Thomas Parran, who was presented a silver tankard by Mr. Simmons. "When the alumni want to act, he is our leader, when attacked, our defender/' Mr. Simmons said. "For 15 years he has been our director." As master of ceremonies Mr. Simmons took note of the long ~;- ~ ' ·~· - liU·;··~· • .· - - ''\7.., ·Board asks · . Weigle stay II as president , On September 19th there was a which Mr. Brown was e:reeted by a cavalcade of students who came in cars and on motorcycles with their own washboard band to -receive the "King of the Philosophers'! at the station with such an affectionate and noisy demonstration that it caused an impressed porter to ask Mr. :~· :; bott:rd·st·udy mt of laQghter in the Gr.eat Hall, which Jtruck one. of the secretaries:in a nearby office as odd. A memorial service and ·laughter? But no one talks about Ford K. Brown without some laughter, · and so there was a memorial service with his old baseball companion and fellow tutor, James Tolbert, telling stories along with others wh.o had come to remember together, in -Mr .. Talbert's phrase, "some good and ple•~nt things .about that :good and pleasant man." ; "It is• hard, and probably wrong, to be solemn about a man who _so steadily refµsed to be solemn -hhnself," Mr. Tolbert said. It was 2s if everyone agreed. ' :And so whiie there was sadness in the Great llall, where Mr. Brown during his active years had lectured regularly, the afternoon was laced with stories and laughter, too. There was Captain Edward F. ·Lathrop, who had known Mr. · Brown in ·many ways for 42 years, ·first ·as, a, student and later as·colleague, telling how Ford Brown gave him "the lowest grade he could, the square root of F" for an essay which. had aroused particular ire. "WITH ALL HIS compassion, sympathy and love, one thing · Ford could not stand was mistreating the language he so loved," Mr. Lathrop recalled. And there was President Weigle remembering Mr. Brown's train trip to Santa Fe, in ._ history of the association, believed to be fifth oldest in the United States. In brief remarks he traced its beginnings back to February 22, 1827, at St. Anne's Church. Most of the emphasis during the evening, however, was placed upon the men who are making a contribution to the .present life of the college. IT INCLUDED recognition of graduates who have been particularly active in the annual -fund raising campaign. They were· presented citations by Julius Rosenberg, '38, former director of development for the college. Seated at individual tables were classes holding special reunions, including the Class of 1917, which was holding its 60th reunion. Present were E.O. von Schwerdtner, of Baltimore, and John W. Noble, of Easton. Mrs. George Davidson, of Sherwood Forest, whose late husband had graduated a year earlier, joined them. (COntinuedonP. 7) The St.· John's Board of Vit.:itors and (!ov~rnors, has appointed a new ad hoc committee to make a study _of how St. John's m~y best be aditlinistered. · The study will be - aimed at reviewing U1e administrative Richard D. Weigle, who mechanisms of its two campuses reached the age of 65 in March,. to determine if they are operating .ha~ been requeste~ by the St. .. as effectively and efficiently as Jotin's College Board of Visitors they can, Pr.esident Weigle, who and Governors to continue as had sought the study, said. president. . ~e said a second consideration Mr. Weigle is now' in his 29th will be the future of the college. year as head of the college. In its The committee will addres·s itself resolution of intention, the board to the continuing relationship of ' asked him to serve at least the two campuses and cover such through the completion of tlie questions as whether St. John's current drive, the fund for the should have two_ presidents, 1~0'.s, which is seeking $25rathe~ than one serving its An<rr Illillion for both iis Annapolis and napohs and Santa Fe campuses. Sant~ Fe campuses. Charles H. Watts, of McLean, No date was given, . but Va:, forl!'-er pr~sident of Bucknell Alexander K. McLanahan, board University, will serve as chairchairman, said following the man. board meeting that the campaign The st~d~ comes 13 y~ars after had just concluded its first year St. Joh~ s, m a step unique for a and is scheduled to continu.e s~all, liberal a:ts college of this· until June, 1980. size, opened its second, full The board resolution expressed campus 2,000 miles· away under 'its "great confidence" in Mr. govex:iance of the same board Weigle's ability as president and and with the same president. Under the-present system, Mr. said it wished him "to know the support the board feels for him." Weigle divides his time between IT WAS HIS success as a fund the campuses. He is assisted by raiser which was one of the two vice-presidents, William B. considerations in earning Mr. Dunham here in Annapolis and J. Weigle an extension of the Burchenal Ault in Santa Fe. Mr. Watts said the committee. presidency of St. John's, where (ContinuedonP.8) also~~~ review, as an extreme poss1bihty, the question of whether St. John's should have two boards. In. addition, it will review the staffing and the 0 . relationship of one staff member ., with another. • · '" While the study is expected to St. John's Tutor Eva Brann will · be on leave next year serving as require between six months and a the Edward F. Arnold Visiting year to complete, Mr. Watts said Professor at Whitman College, he hopes his committee will be able to issue a report by next Walla W~lla, Wash. She will be there under a summer. In order to complete the study, bequest establishing the position for "visiting scholars and Mr. Watts will be in semi~ residence on both campuses. Mr. educators of the highest order.'' In inviting Miss Brann, Watts is now on a "sabbatical President Robert A. Skotheim year" after winding up duties as said the college was interestecf in president of the Wolf Trap Farm having a representative of the St. Park. He has served as dean at John's approach to education Brown University and at one time whQ could teach two courses each was director of the Commission 'term as well as give two or three on Administrative Affairs for the American Council on Education. public lectures during the year. "We are intending to provide a He joined the St. John's board in new intellectual experience to 1976. The board committee includes students and faculty as we proceed with our curriculum Sharon Bishop, Dr. David discussion," President Skotheirn · Dobreer, James R. Donnelley, W. wrote Miss Brann. "At issue is Bernard Fleischmann, James H. the adequacy of Whitman's Frame, Mrs. George S. liberal education, as opposed to Roudebush, and D. Robert. our program of disciplinary Yarnell, Jr. concentration." This fall Miss Brann par- KWP t'o give ticipated in two conferences having to do with liberal Williams' play education. Early this month she The King William Players will represented St. John's at a planning council sponsored by nresent Tennessee Williams' Hood College to spur new "The Night-of the Iguana" at 8: 15 thinking and reassessment of p.m. Dec. 9 in the Key college education. It was at- Auditorium. The play will be directed by tended by representatives of David Smithka, Alexandria, Va., colleges and universities from junior, assisted by William throughout Maryland. In October she took part in a Salter, Towson, Md., junior. Cast panel discussion in which in the leads will be Jam es White, representatives ()f St. John's, Staten Island,_ N. Y., sophomore; Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Kari Jenson, Gettysburg, Pa., Sarah Lawrence colleges par- senior, and Kimberly Schraf, , _ Latrobe, Pa., junior. - ~ticipated. Eva Brann ., . t b e away 1 -: ..;,,, ~ t:··.·· ~-'-- -·--,.~----------~------· �': ~. !.ti'l ~·.-1 ~AGE.~........... ·.·-·& . . ~. Campbell, '45, .Life editor, dies w w • r ~ - M ~ -·~ ~. ~ ~ ~ ·: ••• s ~ - - --- . . . . . . ~ ~~ ... f. ~1 rn·Ot>:-J!J H.•T ... THE REl'OlfElf,. ~,. -~ .. ,~.~.~... "-~ ~ . ., .. 10 T '< r. 0 ~ ,~,,.~.~ .. '" <;':'~I' .'Hf .\FIY•C 1 f~ ·~' ~ -·--~ NOVEM·aat; T977 •• Brown's death marks end of era (Continu~ from P .1) · "The last time I saw'him, a few 1961. It first was begun in 1928-W days ago in his home, when he when he held· a Guggenheim was weak with imminent death Fellowship to make a study of and his mind had lost its old the life of the English moralist, firmness, it seemed to me Hannah More. In 1930 he was· (Robert L. Campbell, '45, died symbolic that his handshake was· awarded a second Guggenheim to in Boonton, N.J., October 1 of a firm as ever. I don't know continue the work. brain tumor. He was 55. At a whether he knew what he was The book recounts the national memorial. service .afterwards a saying, or to whom, but the words reform movement begun in the close friend; Larry Madison, he spoke came welling up from 1770's by a handful of men and delivered the following eulogy. inexhaustible reserves of cour- women who were shocked at the · Mr. Campbell's opera to which he tesy: Over and over he asked, · moral conditions of England at . referred was inspired by a Ctane Alumni wishing to honor the 'What can we do to help you?' He the time, a national scene· short story, "Maggie of the memory of Mr. Brown ·are .has already helped us, of course, described by Mr. Brown. as a Streets.") · invited to send contributions ·"spectacle of horror, a nighta great deal." by LARRY MADISON to the Ford K. Brown endowed · His courtesy on one occasion mare·of depravity, vice, sin, and · Yesterday, in the New York Memorial Fund being was recalled following the ser- infidelity." It receivM an Times, there was a briefobituary established in . his name./ vice by Ellen Schmidt, Annapolis honorable mention in the Herbert for Bob stating many of the exContributions should be sent to junior, who assisted Mr. Brown Baxter Adams Prize given by the ternaUacts of his life: that he St. John's College. in care of during his final months and who American Historical Association \\'.as a native of Hagerstown, Md., the Office of College took him to see "Star Wars" not for the best work on Eul'Opean a graduate of St. John's, an editor Refations, Annapolis, 'Md. too many weeks before his death. history published by ·an of Life magazine, and a writer of 21404. She remembered one story in American.. {locumentary films. It went on to Most of the research for the which Mr. Brown had loaned a .nention two of his major It was there some of fhe new student an . original edition of work was completed on frequent publications and to list his surstudents got to know him. "Ulysses," which Mrs. Brown trips which Mr. Brown ·and his viving family members: his wife, "Any student who was lucky had purchased at considerable· wife, Zenith, well known as the two sons, his mother and a sister. enough to h~ve dealt directly cost and given him as a present. mystery writer, Leslie Ford, And that he died at age 55. with· Ford K. Brown found him a Wanting to show his appreciation made to England which enabled What it did ·not ·:say, what it fascinating personality and a for Mr. Brown, the student, as a him to spend "many, many could not say, given the dedicated scholar," Mark Sugg, gesture, had the book rebound. months" in the British Museum's requirements of the form, .was Miami Beach senior and Mr. Brown never divulged the reading room. that Robert Campbell lived a life president of the Student Polity, · fact that this could have been 1 of extraordinary bravery. By said at the memorial service. anything but perfectly right for that I mean, quite $imply, that he "It was common knowledge the book .and cordially thanked followed his own voice in a world among the students that a cQn- . the student. Three st . John's tutors that rarely rewards those who do. versation with Mr." Brown always· Although he was a frequent Once he had committed himself proved to be pleasant and Friday night lecturer, Mr. Brown Giesela and'Laurence Berns and to an idea or piece of work he enlightening. His frequent ap- esc:tJ,ewed the question period Michael Comenetz - have articles in current journals. would pursue it far past the point· pearances at the coffee shop or: which usually follows lectures. Mrs. Berns has written on where lesser men would have about campus meant an op- · "!·LOVED HIM," Dr. David given up from frustration or lack portunity to turn slack time or a Dobreer, '44, Alhambra,. Calif., Lucretius for the international, of will, until he and he alone was j walk toward town into a bit .of · physician, said on a trip back for' classical philosophy' and satisfied. education." · : a meeting of the Board. of Visitors ph.ilology · journal, ·flermes, published hi Germany. Entitled LET ME GIVE one example, if It was at the coffee shop table r ·and Governors. I may. Though many of you are I that Mr. Brown demonstrated his. Mr. Brown was his . first "Time and Nature in Lucretius' familiar with it, it deserves kindliness. "He wasthe one who, seminar tutor and taught him 'De Rerum Natura, m'If'is based retelling. We worked together on made the newcomers feel at Euclid. "One night after he on a lecture originally given at St. i. -film back in the late 60's, a home and saw that they met 1finished a lecture on rhetoric," John's. "Political Philosophy and the documentary about schools in 'people," Charlotte Fletcher and Dr. Dobreer recalled, ",Mr. city ghettos. During the year or Kathryn Kinzer of the library Brown annQunced, 'Rhetoric is Right to Rebellion" is the, title of so ,of work on the project we all staff, who frequently joined him silver, sil~nce is golden. -There Mr. Berns' article. It appears in Interpretation, , a journal of became committed to the notion Iat the table, recently recalled. ! will be no question period.' " The political philosophy. It grew in of meaningful social change and They came ·regularly to ·his students loved it. - _ that we were perhaps contabkl along with his old friend of A member of the faculty since part out of questions raised at a tributing in some small way. many years, College Archivist 1925, Mr. Brown was the author of St. John's student forum j.n 1969. -Mr. Comenetz has publishe~ an Well, finally the film was finished Miriam Strange, whose. a 300,000-word volume, "Fathers and it was a good piece of work. association, 'like Mr. Brown's, of the Victorians,"published in article jointly with· T. Chang in the June issue of the Quarterly For the rest of us, the job was bridges Old and New Programs. Journal of Mathematics (Oxover. We'd been paid our money She stood in a special relationship. ford), entitled "Group Actions on and that was it. But not for Bob,. with him and ,was of particular Cohomology Projective ·Planes He had ~en art educational service, helping fetch his order and Products of Spheres." · j>rogtam·()lft.in Brooklyn that he and waiting on him, one G. simply, could not forget. A colleague noted, "like a 16-year- John'sHarris .Collingwood, St. alumnus and father, program that:.was a.oout to lose old." conducted the Episcopalian itsJunding. Another old friend of Mr. solemn requiem mass for Robert Well you could see it bugging Brown's Rhodes days at Oxford, Lowell, the poet who died in New Dean R. Haggard is the new him, getting under his skin. What It was at one of the big tables Felix Morley, was unable to York September 12. director of the Graduate Institute more could he do to save this there that he drew his admirers. attend the service, but Mr. The service at the Ghurch of the in Liberal Education at St. John's thing·~ or at the very least "Students and tut<ll"s-usually Weilde read excerpts of a talk Advent in Beacon Hill, Boston, of Santa Fe campus. .. to document it. "But, there's no., the same ones ~laughed around· Mr. Morley gave last spring l:ie replaces Robert L. Spaeth mo~ey for it, Bob" we'd say,."No the ·table and were inspired by when Key School named its upper which Mr. Collingwood is rector, is near where Mr. Lowell was of the Annapolis faculty, who has one cares anymore." And no one Ford to be wittier themselves school library for Mr. Brown. born and spent his childhood. The resigned to take a year's leave to really did. Except Bob. Bob than they had ever been before," It was his sense of courtesy to 600 mourners, including poets, cared, and that's all that mat-·-··. which Mr. Tolbert paid par- playwrights, .prose writers, and help coordinate a new liberal arts program at St. John's University, tered, you see, that he cared. lived, it, too, one day would have ticular tribute. publishers, came from as far Of course, he would never beat been resurrected, if only· for one "Surely it was his courtesy, his' away as Europe to honor the Collegeville, Minn. President you over the head with it, or more drive up the West Side delight in others, a~ well as his Weigle said the term is for three poet. years. . · a~cuse someone else of copping Highway. wit and his teaching skills, that Mr. Haggard ·:was-anlnstructor out - that kind of thing simply I think it's appropriate here won. him ... lasting friendship," wasn't in 'him ..He just quietly to quote from a book entitled, The· Mr. Tolbert said. "During his last in mathematics at Loyola College pursued his goal until he himself Denial of Death by a philosopher·: months, when a city block was a and was a Fels Fund Fellow in . philosophy at ; Johns Hopkins was satisfied that he had done all named Ernest Becker, because . hard mile for him and courage an he could. The result, as most of it's a· book that· Bob himself: every day requirement, he Patricia M. Comber, 44, wife of University before becoming· an you know, in this case was a book, dearly .loved. 1t states: The ! greeted his friends on Maryland St. John's Tutor . Geoffrey Annapolis tutor in 1961. ae has The Chasm, which attests, more most that a man of courage can · Avenue and King George Street Comber, died· suddenly at her taught on the Santa· Fe campus eloquently than I ever ·could, to do in · this life of anguished and the college campus with the ho'me here on October 5. An artist since 1966 and was assistant dean his courage and his bravery. searching is to fashion same old brightening twinkle and and member of the Caritas •frQ,J;!l 1971 ~o 1973. THIS IS JUST one example; something-an object, a work, or good cheer. Society, Mrs. Comber was a . . , . there are many, many others. hiJ!lself-and drop it i!lto the native of England. She is sur- 1 Reporter is. published by ":• Office 01.; 'The • College Relations, St. Johns Coif~,, "When I visited him during his v1ved by her husband and a son, Annapolis, Md., 214Q4, Richard P;_,.WeiThe opera that he worked on, one confusion, make an offering of it, last hospital stay, I heard no · Geoffrey John, St. John's gle, president, William 8. Du"hcrm,.vice' hour a night 'for 15 years until it so to speak, to the life force." was done. Or tha.t incredibly Bob Campbell was a complaint, except- that when I sophomore, and two sisters. Her pres~dent. . . · . . huutiful automobile that remarkable man. And I want to asked, 'Are they keeping you body WaS cremated and the Publ1~hed ~ve times a yea.', m February, • ' ,April, June, September O'tld November-: - remains scattered in ·pieces say to him, I trust for many of us . comfortable?' he retorted with a grin, 'Are you out of your mind?'; =~~ng~:/ ~ettp"Ded for · [!:.l~nd cla~t~t~~e·_';"' ~t Annapol~:i', , ' · across the coun~y. If ht had . .here: Robert, it was a privilege. Brown's lecture entitled "Shakespeare," which he said, turned out, with entire appropriateness; to be a lecture on the Cathedral of Chartres. In another lecture, in order to define and illustrate imagination, Mr. Brown asked his audience to imagine a series of- spheres, which he described in detail, on top of which appeared the' late superintendent of buildings and grounds·, Archibald Mccourt, with his impenetrable Scotch brogue. . · "He it was who made forever clear for me the difference between accuracy and,precision by pointing out that one could be precisely wrong," Mr. Wilson said. · At 82 years, after 43 years· of active teaching and as a member of the St. John's community for 52 , years, Mr. Brown is dead. Cancer claimed him on September 19 at his home on King George Street. He was cremated and buried at St. Anne's Cemetery in ceremonies an hour before the memorial service.· The rites were conducted by a fellow tutor, the Rev. J. wiiifree Smith, and by the Rev.. Richard V. Landis of St. Anne's. (In the ultimate joke,' one· he would have enjoyed, he was almost buried in the wrong place, . but that was righted in ti:rpe for his burial to be done properly). His death marks the end of an era, for he was the last of the faculty to teach under both the Old and the New Programs._ ·- . Although iii recent years he was forced to use a walker,· he atrived regularly for lunch in the coffee shop, short-cutting across the college green from King George Street like a ship under slow but indomitable sail, fighting 60-hour gijsts in the high . April winds of 1975. · · "FORD HAD A great. spirit,"' Mr. Wilson said of him. "It was clearly somewhat difficult for him at the last. Using his walker, he made it to the coffee shop almost every day t:Qis past summei: until the shop closed .on August · 11. He did for himself what he expected others to do for themselves, to exercise a bit of self~discipline and to have a bit of courage.'' · Mr. Tolbert said. "The democratic implications of the· round table were false, and we knew it: Ford's chair was a· throne. It was he we.s,athered to "hear, and he never di.Sappointed us." Fund honors Ford Brown Three·tutors, ;. write articles · Alum nus has Lowell mass Dean Haggard· heads institute Pat Comber dies suddenly . �~.~~E~-~~'~·'·'~rhr ~~~.~E,P?R!.~~ ·- '' : ' · ....... · Alliil.lal Giving for 1976- 77 Hoff, Snowden '31 (2) Hofmann, Joseph C., Jr. '42 (1) Holland, Constance Bell '66 ( 7) . Bolt, Philip '69 (1) Houck, James A. '63 (2) lkari, RobertN. '50 (1) Kantor, Lawrence '35 (9) Keating, Patrick D. '29 (5) Keller, Earl R. '21 (3) Kelly, J. Sprightly '30 (7) Keown, Lauriston '29 ( 4) Kimpel, Edward A. '31 (7) Kingsley, William '58 (2) Kingsley, Rol,lerta M. '58 (2) Klingenburg, RobertJ. '30 (6) Klug, RobertW. '64 (1) Klug, W. James, III '62 (1) Koontz, L. Donald '51 (2) Kungle, Arthur, Jr. '~7 (9) Kyle, HenryH.''34 (6) · Lansner,Jerome'50(9) Lenihan, Deirdre '67 ( 4) Leniham, Deirdre '67 (4) LObell, John J. '46 (7) · Lotz,-Philip Lee '32 (1) Lyon,E. Carl '34 (2) Mack, John D. '45 (7) MacMannis, Thomas E. '18 (6) .MacNemar, ThomasL. '39(1) Maher, Mrs. Belle Patterson '60 I. Summary of Fund Raising Purpose Current Funds Unrestricted ~ Restricted Total Capital Funds Endowment Funds s Plant Funds $495,424 17,001 $512,425 $344,829 ± $344,829 :a.vi.cu $857,.254 Total funds Raised Source . Alumni Fund . Alumni Capital Parent Fund Individuals Corporations Foundations Government. Bequests (Alumni Other) Total F\inds Raised $57,869 37,040 19,155 185,167 38,807 411,340 107,876 $857,254 D. Special Gifts As in 1975-76, there were again four special gift categories: King William Assoc~tes-gifts of $100249 for current operations only; Francis Scott Key Donors-$250(3) ' 499; St. John's Sponsors-$500999; and members of the Mason, Francis '43 (8) · -· .President's Council, gifts of Merkel, Dr. Carl '29 (5) \ · $1,000 or more.. · M.eyers, Thomas '50 (3) Once again the College is , Michaelson, Benjamin '12 (9) ' ·· especially grateful to the alumni, Milbourne, E.O. '14 (3) parents, and friends who Morrow, Stephen '61 (2)' qualified for a special gift Mottu, Richard '31 (5) category. The example set by Munroe,Jan'73(1) these loyal· supporters of St. Nethken, W. Robert '36 (2) John's is an inspiration to all. The numbers in parentheses Nichols, Lee H., Jr. '27 (1) after alumni names indicate the November, Robert L. '64 (9) total years of qualification for a Owings, Di'. Thomas '45 (1) · special gift category. Padgett, Dr. Vernon M. '41 (1) Panter, Michael '74 (1) King William Associates 1976-77 · Panzarella, Joseph A. ''29 (7) Alumni · Parslow, Morris '45(5) Pembroke, Richard H. '32 (6) Adcock,John'64(3) Polillo, Pa§quale '56 (9) Alexander, John D., Si. '20 (9) Proctor, Samuel E. '23 (1) Allen, Robert C. '42 (4) Riggs, David E. '69 (1) Altengarten, Ronald '65 (1) Rogers, John '75 (2) , · Amos, Everett R. '29 (2) Ross, William Warfield '47 (1) Anthony, G. :f4ichael '69 (2) Ruel, Peter '60 (3) Anthony, Meredith Artis '69 (2) Sasscer, Robert B. '37 (6) Bartis, Dr. Stanley J. '33 (9) Sauer, George E. '56 (1) Bell. Sarah, J. '67 (1) Schmick, Rudy '31 (7) Blaker, Carl B: '43 (1) Seitz, Raymond A. '26 (1) Bo~lden, Harold M. '45 (1) Sheinkman, Dr. Samuel '46 (3) Brubeck, William H. '44 (3) Sherman, Lawrence '48 (2) Brunn, George '45 (2) Shindler, Lowell '64 (1) Burress, James M. '72(1) Shryock, Henry S., Jr. '32 (1) Campbell, James F. '32 (7) Sindall, Robert A., Jr. '34 (1) · Carter:. Richard '54.(3) Sinnreich, Jonathan '68 (1) Chew, Dr. SamuelP. 131 (7) Sinnreich, Masha Zager '70 (1) Clark, Col. JamesH. '41 (6) Slafkosky, Alexander L. '43 (1) Clark, Jesse M. '54 (1) ·smith, Frederick L. '27 (2) Conca, William H. '30 (9) Smith, L. Wheaton '48 (5) Davis, William '63 (1) Davis, Jessica Hoffman '65 (1) Stiles, SamuelV. '54 (5) Stone, James W. '55 (4) Desantis, Frank C~ '27 (6) Taylor, Lloyd ~. '39 (6) Dickinson, Clarence L. '11 (7) Taylor, Myron U. '76 (1) Donohue, John C. '35 (9) Thornton, Gene '45 (1) Dugan, James J. '26 (5) Titles, William R. '59 (7) Dunbar, Samuel '64 (3) Tilles, Carol Phillips '59 (7) Dunkum, William W. '64 (5) Turner, Dr. Thomas B. '21(9) Evers, Walter '35 (8) Faraone, JosephJ. '61 (5) Tyner, Lee Reichelderfer '68 (4) vonSchwerdtner, Ernst '17 (4) Fields, Lt. Gen. Lewis J. '31 (9) Vowels, Susan A. '74 (1) Finnegan, Marcus B.. '48 (2) Weiss, Ira F. '79 (2) Fitzsimon, Jeari K. '73 (1) Fletcher, Charlotte H. '69 (2) Whipple, Peter A. '50 (9) Wich, Carlton E. '23 (9) Fross, Alvin '46 (1) · Williams, John L. '50 (6) Fultori, Thomas I. '46 (2) Williams, Thomas Jr. '51 (4) Gold~ :\dichael W. '61 (4) . Williamson, C. Vernon '32 (4) Goldsmith, William M. '45 (1) Goldwin, Robert A, '50 (1) Wilson,' James C. '35 (2) Winslow, John L. '33 (1) Gore, Leonard C. '61 (1) Witman, Horace W. 'a4 (1) · Gor~, Rixey Murray '64 (1) Wolbarsht, Myron Lee '50 (3) Green~ James M., Jr. '60 (6) Woolsey, Michael J. '65 (1) Grubb, EdwardH. '43 (4) Wynn, Har,vey '57 (7) Ha,nkamer; E. w. '51 (9) Wynn, Rosabelle Gould '57 (7) Hendricks, Theodore W. '50 (4) Zim~erm~n. Charles R. '29 (8), Hodgkin, Cbristop}Jer ·~ (-3) s: I ":' ~ ' :- ., -· ·• "' .-. -· ..'~ ( ~~ .: ' ~ ~ ... - - : . ·~ . •..... - ··~ - .;:>1·t. _-t.1U r:_J ~ :1i [ ;J t ii Stackhouse, Stewart c: '24 (3) Steiner, Andrew D. '63 (6) Parents Anonymous Archibald, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Church, Mr. and Mrs. Philip S. Coffee, Mr. and Mrs. Donn ·. Davidoff, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Dourmashkin, Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Fineberg, Henry H. Glass, Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Goodwin, Johri K. Greisman, Dr. and Mrs. Paul Gunther, Gerald Hankamer, Mrs. E.T. Hawkinson, Dr. John A. Lenihan, Mrs. Ida Long, Mrs. Julia G. Lorenz, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mcconnaughy, John E., Jr. McDowell, Roxanne Mina:rni, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Y. Peoples, Mr. and.Mrs. John Salem,· Samuel J. Salter, Mr. and Mrs. Albert G, Schmidt, Mr'. and Mrs. William Scott, S. Spencer, Jr. Sedlis, Dr. Alexander Sherman, Dr. and Mrs. Paul Silver, Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence Swett, Leonard Villere, James Walley, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Wood, :Mr. and Mrs. George B., ,- _Jr. Parents Bacaj, Dr. and Mrs. Tallah Huber, Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Mackey, Mr. and Mrs. James Rosenberg, Mr.-and Mrs. R.H. Santamour, Dr. and Mrs. Frank S. Friends Burdge, Richard Hammerschmidt, ·Mr. and Mrs. William W. Holland, Karen Leonard, Barbara H. Mullen& Sullivan Mylander, Mrs. Virginia Percy, Mrs. Virginia M. Rochlin, Mr. Herbert Rosendahl, Charlotte · Roudebgsh, Mrs. Dorothy St. John's Sponsors 1976-77 Alumni . Abbott, A. Scott '43 (8) Anderton, Stephen '68 (8) Athey, William B. '32 (9) Bloede, Victor G., III '41 (8) Collier, Bruce '65 (2) DiGiorgio, Joseph S. '21 (8) Jacob, BernardE. '54 (5) Simmons, Haven E. '44 (9) Spriggs, Bert '37 (7) Parents Bayer, Mr. and Mrs. William Cohen, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Gamble, Dr. and Mrs. James L., Jr. " Rhea, Mr. and Mrs. Forrest A. Steers, Mr. and Mrs. Roger Friends Austill, Mrs. George Ball, Prof. and Mrs. N. Hansen Helen W. Barnum Foundation Barton, Henry Brooks, Mrs. Charles Butt, Dr. and Mrs. Harvey Chessick, Dr. Richard Cochran,AlexanderS; Dunham, William B. Eveleigh, Carol Prentice .Ironside, Mr. and Mrs. Donald S. Jackson, David A. Johnson, Mrs. Remsen Lemon, Stanley G. Leonard, Margaret H. McKee, Mr. and Mrs. E. Bates Mills Liquor Mart, Inc. Pinkham,· Jeffrey A. Pullen, Thomas G., Jr. Rich, Mr: and Mrs. Woodward Rinder, Leanore B. · Rowan, Mrs. Gerald Schwartz, Mrs. Margaret W. Smith, Rev. J. Winfree Smith, Mr. and Mrs. W. Kyle Spaeth, Robert L. . Terinant, Mrs. Robert A. Williamson, Robert B. Wilson.• Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Friends · Capital City Federal Savings and Loan Association · Clagett, Mr. and Mrs. Page Davidson :Mrs. George ·' . .Farmers N~tional Bank Howland, Richard.H. . ''' ~;A~'~·~: Mantz, Anna Rader, Louis T. Slakey, Mr. and .Mrs. Thomas,J. Watts, Charles H., II ' PRESIDENT'S COUNCiL 1976-77 ALUMNI Alger, Philip L. '12 (7) Cochran, Edward B. '44 (7) Dwyer, Edward J. '30 (8) Ertegun Ahmet '44 (1) Hoxby, H. Gerald '47 (6) Jones Robert L. '09 (4) Klug, William J.,.Jr. '31 (9) Landers, Arthur E., Jr. '30 (4) Mellon, Paul '44 (9) Parker, Daniel '46 (6) Simmons, William '48 (5) Weigle, Mary D. (H) (3) Weigle, Richard D. (H) (3) Welty, Dr. Dalton M. '35 (9) Zaoujal, Catherine Levin '64 (3) PARENTS ' Fant, Mr. and Mrs. L. Glenn ... , Toler, Mr. and Mrs. James R. Wells, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Wetlaufer, Mrs. G.R. FRIENDS C& P Te1ephone Co. Campbell, Ralph E., Sr. Clapp, Mrs. Clyde A. Ditzen, Mrs. Lowell Driscoll, Mrs. Marbaret Evans, Thomas M. Gempp, Elizabeth Harrison, John T. Hecht-Levi Foundation, Inc. Hodgson, Catherine A. Hunt, Dr. Richard M. Lapides, Jerome McLLennan, Donald Mitchell, Mrs. Carlton Ronay ,'Bela Stebbins, Rowland, Jr. Str~n~, Mrs. Alice Whitridge, Mrs. John Wilcox, Jane Yarnall, D. Robert, Jr. , ~ III. Non-Alumni Contributors Again in 1976-77, the bUlk,.of St. ·John's financial support came from non-alumni sources. the College appreciates deeply the confidence shown by gifts from the following foundations, corporations, individual friends (including members of the College community), and parents of current and former students: A. Parents . Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Hiller Anonymous Mrs. Ethel Hobei'man Mr. and Mrs. Radford Adams Mr and Mrs Arthur Hockman Mrs. Boynton Adler . · ·. · · . ·. · . · Dr. and Mrs. Tallah Bacaj Mr. and Mrs. H~skell Hollander Mrs. Anne Baker Mr. and Mrs.. Michael W. Huber Mr. and Mrs. William Bayer _Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jenson Mr. Saul Blaustein Mr. and Mrs .. Joseph Krafft Mr. and Mrs. Charles Borden Mrs. Ida Lenihan . Mr. Chapman Burk Mr. and Mrs. Marv~n Levme A. Mr. and'Mrs. Charles Campbell Mr. and !tfrs. Otto Lmdermayer Worthington, Miss Margaret ){rs. Mary Carnes Mrs. Julia G. Long Worthington, Miss Virginia Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carroll Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lorenz Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cerullo Mr. John E. Mcconnaughy, Jr. Francis Scott Key Donors 1976-77 F.and Mrs~ Philip Church Mrs. Rosanne McDowell Alumni Mr. and Mrs. Donn Coffee Mr. and Mrs. James M~ckeY: Adamson, Ernie '58 (7) .. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mmam1 Bishop,Sharon'65(2) Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Davidoff Mr. and Mrs. Robe~tNooter Boyle, James E. '39 (1) Mr. and Mrs. Richard Davis Mr. and Mrs. Memt Olson Crooke, C. Eric '54 (4) Mr. and Mrs. JohnDink · Mr. and Mrs. Jo~n Peoples Crooke, Sarah Covington '55 (4) Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Mr. and Mr.s. Irvmg Peskoe Davies, Peter J. '48 (9) _ Dourmashkin Dr. An~e Pierson Gross, William A., Jr. '29 (8) Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ehrenberger ·Mr. Erich Plaut Hetland, John P. '64 (8) Mr. Myron Eisenstein ·Mr. and Mrs. Frank Renaut Hill, T. Lansdale '41 ( 9) Mr. and Mrs. L.G. Fant . Mr. and Mrs. Robert Revere _ ·Hoffman, Allan Paul '49 (8) Mr. Henry H. Fineberg Mr. and Mrs. Forrest A. Rhea . Jarman, Carey '17 (9) Mr. Robert.Forrest Mr. and Mrs. R.H ..i:tosenbe'g ... ·.·. Kennell, Eric '63 (2) Dr. and Mrs·. Lay Fox Mr~ and Mrs. Marvin Rothenberg·~· Kibler, Charles J. '36 (5) Dr. and Mrs, James L. Gamble Mr.. SamuelJ. Salem Kluth, Charles S. '52 (9) jr, · · ' Mr. and ~rs; Albert G. Salter Lush, Edward J. '27 (1) Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Glass .Pr. and Mrs. Frank Santa~our . Mullinix, Edward W. '45 (2) Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Goldin. .Mr. and Mrs. Ai:t~ur~ava~. · ·. · Noble, John W. '17 (4) · Mr. John K. Goodwin ·Mr. and Mrs. William Schmidt . ·. O'Connor, Claxton J~ '30 (2) _Mr. Murray Greene Mr. and Mrs. Frank·Schuld Pike, AlanF. '37 (3) Dr. and Mrs. Paul Greisman Mr. S. Spencer Scott, Jr. Pumphrey, W. T. D. '32 (2) Mr. Gerald Gunther Mr.s. Ruth Seaman ·:; '· . . ·:Rendall, William D. '42 (8) Mrs. E.T. Hankamer Dr. a_nd Mrs. Alexander Sedlis , Ringland, Peter '44 (2) Mr. A. A. Hartman Dr. and Mrs. Paul Sherm~n Rosenberg, Julius '38 (9) Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence Silver Scharbach, Helen. Anastaplo '71 Mr. and Mrs. Ichiro Hasegawa Mr. and Mrs. Roger Steers (2) . '. ·-~· Dr. John A. Hawkinson. . l J :( J t Ji ! .) ,! ' l :I J. JI ' '·' J i; n. J r, < ~· ' ~ J iJ ) , ~·. ; . .i i '.; ·. tJ~:'.ili 1 " . t j c· ·< c n : 3 :'. r ~ > : ~: �-NOVEMBER , 1'977 THE REPORTER PAGE 4 r Gulf Oil Foundation ·Col. Michael Strok Col. Harrison MacAlphine Mary Hicks Hodson Trust Mrs. L. Corrin Strong 1910 Ethel Haberman Hecht-Levi Foundation Students ofSt. John's College ' Roscoe E. Grove Catherine Hodgson C. Markland Kelly Fdn.Mr. and Mrs. Earl Swafford 191120% $100 Mrs. Jack Hoffberger William R. Kenan Trust Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Tarcov · Levin Claude Bailey Mr. and Mrs. John Holland Liberty Fund Mrs. Margaret Tennant Clarence L. Dickinson Mrs. Katherine Hottel Mobil Foundation. Mrs. Guy Thompson Clifford L. Johnson Steven Hourt Presser Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John Tilson Dr. Thomas Parran Judith Hudacek Sears Fo\lndation Mr. and Mrs. Frank Uhlig Mr. RobertH. Irrmann 1912 80'6 $4,845 Sun Oil Foundation Capt. V.V. Utgoff · Mr. and Mrs. Donald Ironside Philip Alger Westminster Foundation A.L. Waldron Mr. David Jackson William Lentz Annapolis Banking & Trust Margaret Wallace Ella Jameson Col. Frederick S. Matthews Charles H. Watts II Annapolis Federal Sav/Loan Mr. and Mrs. J. Carroll Jenkins Benjamin Michaelson Anne Arundel Bicentennial George L. Winslow E.R. Webster B. Friends: . Mrs. Remsen Johnson Comm. Koppel Wekselblatt Miss Ruth Adams Mr. Reverdy Johnson 1913. C& P Telephone Company Thomas G. West Mr. and l\frs. Douglas Allanbrook Mr. and Mrs. Leon Kass Robert A. Tennant , · Capital City Savings & Loan Mrs. John Whitridge Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Alley Miss Katherine Kibler Dr. RobertS.G, Welch Caritas Society · . Mrs. Jane Wilcox Dr. Sigmund Amitin Mrs. John Kieffer 1914 40% $160 ConnectcU:t General Insurance Claggett C. Dorsey Mr. and Mrs. Addison Willey Mrs. A.K. Armitage Elizabeth Kimpton Co. , Robert B. Williamson Mrs. Charles Austrian Ann M. Kinney .. Elwood 0. Milbourne Mr. and Mrs. Curtis A. Wilson Dow Chemical Baptist Student Union Mr. and Mrs. H.L. Kinsolving Dr. W.D.Noble Farmers National Bank Mrs. Glen Wolfe· Mr. and Mrs. N. Hansen Ball Edward Knight ,. Wilmer S. Phillips GTE Information Systems Helen W. Barnum. Mrs; John Worthington Mr. and Mrs. William Kristol JohnT. Tucker Household Finance. · Henry Barton Miss Margaret Worthington Jerome LaPides 1916. I B MCorporation Shirley Bawden Miss Virginia Worthington Mark Laster George Davidson; Jr. IN ACorporation Mr. and Mrs. William Bayliff D. Robert Yarnall Gordon Lay Robert 0. Jones Koppers Corporation Mrs. Dorsey Baynham Stanley Lemon · Harold Zalesch Col. Thomas W. Ligon John D. Lucas Printing Company Mrs. J.W. Bays Mrs. Jorge Zalles Barbara Leonard 1917 25% $650 Matterhorn Travel Agency Mr. and Mrs. William Berry Robert Zelenka Margaret Leonard Carey Jarman McCormick, Inc. AlBiorge Dr. and Mrs. Nathan Lebnard Elliott Zuckerm~n John W. Noble Merck Company Mrs. Ira W. Black ,Walter Lears Ernst 0 ..Yon Schwerdtner C. Corporations and Philip Morris Inc. Merson Booth Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lindauer 191818% $135 Foundations Mullen &Sullivan CPA's Dr. and Mrs. Alex Boro Carl Linden Charles W. Burton; Jr. Amoco Foundation National Merit · Dr. Samuel Borssuck -Mrs. Anne Lipman Thomas MacMannis . A. S. Abell Foundation Peabody Galion Company Eva Brann Nathan Lipsetts · · · 1919109& '50 . Ens. Bickford Foundation Peat, Marwick, Mitchell Mrs. Charles Brooks Mrs. John Littleton: Dr. Robert A. Bier , Borg.Warner, · Raytheon Company Leon Brown Mr. Harvey Lomax S. Herbert Wareheim' Nancy Sayles Day Fdn. Smith Kline Corporation Mr. Richard Burdge Teresina Lucero. 192018% $135 ESBFnd. Snyders Bootery Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel Burnette Robert Ludlum John D. Alexander, Sr. Equitable Life Assuram:e Inc. Sperry Rand Corporation. Edith Burns ~arolyn Macleish JohnH. Birely E.T.C. Foundation Standard Oil Corporation Mrs. Frances Burton, ·Harriet Maling Charles W. Fitzgerald' Exxon Foundation United Virginia Bank · Dr. and Mrs. Harvey Butt Anna Mantz 192141%$975 Fireman's Fund Fnd. Venture Vending Mrs. Gordon Cade Mills Liquor Mart Wilnot D. Brown Gainey Foundation Westinghouse Educational Dudley W. Davis Ralph E. Campbell . Capt. and Mrs. W.A.P. Martin Morris Goodman Fdn. Company Mr. and Mrs. Gunnar Carlson Mr. and Mrs. E. Bates McKee Grace Foundation Joseph S. DiGiorgio Richard Chessick Mr. and Mrs. Robert McMahan Robert F. Duer Mrs. Clyde Clapp . Sarah R. McQuiston · · Earl R. Keller ··, IV. Alumni Fund 6.1929-40% ,1948-1,511 ' William H.Y. Knighton; Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William Clatanoff Benjamin Milner A. Alumni Fund results for the 7.1925-36% ,193~~.470 Mr. and Mrs. Page Clagett Mrs. Carleton Mitchell · John H.E. Legg past two years: 8.1944-36% '1941-1,433 Luther S. Tall -=: :(J ,'. · • • , Alexander Cochran Dr. and Mrs. Michael Monias 1975-76 1976-77 9.1946-36% 1965-1,311 . Richard H. Torovsky, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. A.R. Cole Bruce Morgan Alumni Donors 757 597 10. 1941-35% 1954-1,304 Dr. Thomas B. Turner Mrs. Giles Cooke Mrs. Sue Morosoff Percent Response 25% 19.4% 11. 1932·30% 1968-1,283 · Charles A. Cooley Lillian Musterman 1922 Average Gift $69 1931-1,270 J. Wesley Everett5% $25 $97 12. 1942-29% Mr. and Mrs. Richard Coupland Mrs. Virginia Mylander Total Fund $52,324 $57,869 13. 1943-29% ' 1929-1,160 Willis H. White Richard Cox ·Mrs. Thomas Newton 14. 1957-29% 1950-1~130 Mrs. Wilbur Coyle . . Miss Susan Nettles 1923 43% $441 IV.B. 15. 1950-28% 1937-1,095 PaulL. Banfield Col. and Mrs. Howard Criswell Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Neustadt Top 20- %Response 16. 1927-27% 1932·1,080 William C. Baxter l\l.r. and Mrs. William Cronin H.V. Nutt (10 or more members) 17. 1945-27% 1945-977 IDr. Henry V.'Davis Mrs. Annie Dashiell·. · Dr. Irving Ochs 1. 1936-56% 1935-$8,881 18. 1956-27% 1921-975 C. W. Keefer Mrs. George Davidson Mrs. Virginia Percy 2. 19~-43% 1944-6,112 19. 1954-26% 1943-970 James F. McGraw : . Jean Davison Mrs. Duane Peterson 3.1921-41% 1912-4,845 20.1917-25% 1963-905 William S. Morsell, ·Jr. -Pacita A. de.Jesus Jeffrey Pinkham 4.1930-41% 1964-2,145 -1958-25%. Dr. Gustavo Delgado Mr. and Mrs. Gustave Pitard Samuel E. Proctor . 5. 1914-40% 1946-1,604 1969-25% . Mrs. Lowell Ditzen . Thomas Pullen c-S. Paul Schilling ' George Doskow IV. C. Class Lists Lucille Quintana Frederic C. Stecker Paul Dowling There follows a list of all alumni and alumnae who contributed to Carlton E. Wich Louis Rader Mrs. Margaret Driscoll the College during the 1976-77 campaign year. The percentages and Callender F. Winslow Rebecca Rau . William B. Dunham dollars shown reflect only gifts to the Alumni Fund (current operaMr. and Mrs. Steven Rhoads 1924 12% ' $260 David Earle tions). ·Mr. and Mrs. Edward Rich · Taylor F. Johnston Karen Easley Names in bold-face type ·are those in whose ·memory gifts were Stewart C. Stackhouse Mr. and Mrs. Woodward Rich Mrs. D. Ellwood made on special endowed funds established; income from these Fauneil Rinn 1925 3696 ' .$40 C.T. Elzey special funds annually provides a perpetual gift to St. John's. Mrs. L.B. Robertshaw Stanley C. Brown Mrs. John Engalitcheff Certain names are preceded by the letter "c"; these are class cap• H:w. Eliason Herbert Rochlin Thomas Engeman tains or co-chairmen of the Alumni Fund Campaign. They deserve Fred H. Flounders Bela Ronay Thomas M. Evans particular thanks for their extra measure of effort and support. Charlotte Rosendahl J. Thomas Ritchie Carol Prentice Evelehih Mrs. George Roudehush 1926 169(, $217 1832 1903 Economy Plum bing Mr. and Mrs. William Russell Wilbur F. Coyle, Jr" Dr. William Brewer Drew H. Beatty Rev. and Mrs. Leslie Fairfield Mrs. Gerald Rowan A.M. Cunningham 1847 LeroyT. Rohrer Harvey Flaumenhaft. George Sachse c-James J. Dugan John Mullan Amos W.W. Woodcock Raymond Foery Sol Sacks . 1904 Raymond A. Seitz 1874 Mr. and Mrs. Jack F'orman Manuel Schenker Jiri F. Vranek Frederick W. Brune J:~hn M.J. Hodges Don Fredericksen - -1905 Adolph Schmidt Blanchard Randall 1927 27% I $600 Mr. and Mrs. J. Roger Fredland ·Mrs. Margaret Schwartz 1876 Rev. Benjamin D. Chambers Henry B. Clark Mr. and Mrs. George French Alan L. Seltzer Robert F. Maddox 190650%$25 c-Louis Dorsey Clark Phyllis Gambill · Rev. Winslow Shaw. 1880 E. Earl Hearn c-Frank C. Desantis Elizabeth Gempp . Abrain Shulsky · Walter I. Dawkins ltichard H. Hodgson Charles W. Haas Mr. and Mrs. Alber( Goodman Harry Shofer 1889 Alfred Houeuston Elmer M. Jackson, Jr. Capt. and Mrs. Edwin Greenberg Isabelle Simpson Charles H. Schoff Dr. Amos F. Hutchins Edward J. Lush· Eugene Grether · Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Slakey 1895 Henry F. Sturdy Lee L. Nichols, Jr. ! Thomas L. Hains · Rev. J ..Winfree Smith Rev. Enoch H. Thompson 1907 50%$50 Fred~rick L. Smith Leo Hahn Mr; & Mrs. W. Kyle Smith 1897 Robert Anderson Mr. and Mrs. William Morris Snyder Class of 1897 John T. Harrison 1928 21% .$166 Hammerschmidt ·James Soul 1908 50% $20 James T. Clark 1898 Mrs. Jacques Hamino~d '· Robert Spaeth Class of1898 Dr. George M. Austin David F. Crowley Dr. and Mrs. Alan Harquail Edward Sparrow Dr. Philip H. Edwards Charles H. Schuster. Donald B. Grove John T. Harrison ' Mrs. Stella Spicknall 1899 J. Graham Shannah~n, Sr. W. Royce Hodges Celia Hazzard J.I. Staley Rev. William L. Mayo 1909 Francis L. McDorman Mr. and Mrs. PaulHeineman Raymond Staley 1902 Clarence T. Johnson James F. Miller Mr. ThomasHerlihy Row land Stebbins . . . l l. ::. pr. W. ·Oscar LaMoiteI ~ ·.I • ' ~ >, [1 1": '(:.ro1' ·RoberfE' -Jones---:,:;;. 1 ~ J .: 11 ·1 • James· R. Roseberry. 11 •cu,. ( -~ ~ · . Mr. and Mrs. Robert Strider Mr. anc;l Mrs:. Theodore Strong Mr. Leonard Swett Mr. and Mrs. James R. Toler Rev. and Mrs. Ernest Twigg Mr. ·James Villere Mr. Frani von Lichtenberg Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Walley Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Wells Mrs. G.R. Wetlaufer . Mr. and Mrs. George B. Wood, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Zlotoff >:•. ,, ' . 1 IJ ) t· f:. ',, ~ ~ ~ r. ' : l !~ -' : ! , , . . _ l~.1ltdf. �J ' J 'i,:' f: 'NOVEN\"S~t( '~19Ji' 1929 40% $1,160 ~ l ~. ,f ." ., 1' ~ '.'j THE REPORTER James C. Wilson, Jr. Richard S. Woodman ~ <-E [. 7"• G PAGES 1951 9% $210 Alfred P. Frankliil L. Donald Koontz David W. Lane Herman Small Thomas J. Williams O.H. Thompson 1944 36% $6,112 Granville Q. Adams William H. Brubeck Everett R. Amos 1936 56% $662 James P. Bradley Howell Cobb John W. Boucher Richard Bruce Edward B. Cochran Richard W. Comegys Thomas L. Carter Vernon E. Derr Eugene N. Cozzolino Thomas W. Chandlee Ahmet Ertegun c-William A. Gross, Jr. Garnett Y. Clark Carl S. Hammen S. William Hearne Gilbert A. Crandall Alexander Koukly Lewis A. Hester LawrasonL. Crane, Sr. Patrick D. Keating Casimir T. Krol Frank R. Gessner, Jr. Lauriston L. Keown Paul Mellon Charles G. Goy · Carl G. Merkel Peter Ringland JosephB. Gray James G. O'Neill, Jr. Donald P. Ruhl C. Michael Haas Reginald C. Orem Harrison Sasscer Edward T. Heise Joseph A. Panzarella c-Haven E. Simmons John S. Hodges John C. Smedley William S. Walls Samuel M. Ivrey Charles R. Zimmerman . Joseph C. Smith - -1930 . 41% $1,470 Charles J. Kibler Robert Snower William H. Conca Donald Kneesi Howard L. Sorenson··- -· Robert J. Lau Thomas E. Dryden J. Richard Sullivan · Peter Wolff HarryLuz .. Edward J. Dwyer . Ramon. Fernandez-Marina c-Cyril R. Murphy, Jr. 1945 fl% $977 JohnR. Fountain · W. Robert Nethken George Brunn_ J. Sprightley Kelly William N. Rairigh Harold M. Boulden Martin W. Rausch Robert J. Klingenburg c-George Cayley Ralph W. Schley Arthur E. Landers, Jr. William M. Goldsmith · Richard B. Sellman Claxton J. O'Connor RobertE. John ·William W. Smith, Jr. Matthew O'Neil, Jr. Michael<(. Keane Albert I. Rusteberg Leroy G. Webster William R. Lieb Charles T. Westcott c-G.N. Scatchard William M. Lundberg Richard T. Williams Charles S. Smith.. JohnD. Mack. KonradD. Young · 1931. 22% $1,270 Frank B. Marsh~ll. Jr. Charles E. Athey 1937 19% Jl,095 O.M. Meredith Fred Alexander · · Samuel P. Chew . Alex Morse Henry A. Czelusniak John H. Brown Edward W. MulliDix Lewis J. Fields Harold A. Mil$tead Thomas Owings Merrill M. Mitchell Snowden Hoff', ' . Morris Parslow Edward A. Kimpel, Jr. John B. Owens Gene Thornton James King -.· AlanF.Pike . ·19te 38% $1~804 C-William J. Klug, Jr. Lewis Putzel .· Philip A. Camponeschi · ·. Richard C. Mottu Robert B. Sasscer 'rbomas J. Cosgrove Isadore Scher Elmer R. Noyer Alvin Fross Bert Spriggs Rudy Schmick Thomas I. Fulton 1938 13% $480 1932 309L $1,080 John J. Lobell Louis Bachmann,. Jr. $1,080 John R. Maguire . William Athey J .H. Bushong Vincent W. McKay R. Cresap Dayjs Richard F. Blaul Daniel Parker · Theodore E. deDisse Robert L. Burwell, Jr. Harry C. Rockey JamesF. Campbell R. Warren Hammann JamesW.Sharp Alvin Levy James w. Crabbe Samuel Sheinkman · Philip A. Myers, II William F. Cullom c-Bruce H. Sinkey EmslieN. Gault William C. Owens James T. Taylor E. Peyton Ritchings William C. Hoddinott 1947 199(, $825 Julius Rosenberg Philip Lee Lotz Peter Buri William T. Ross · Walter C. Mylander, Jr. Peter Clogher Richard H. Pembroke Richard W. Wickes Arthl11' 0. Davis Charles E. Pforr 19.19 14% $550 Nathaniel Durlach · William T.D. Pumphrey c-James E. Boyle H. Gerald Hoxby · Arthur L. Budacz HenryS. Shryoc~ Jr. Archer Jones C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. C. Vernon Williamson I. WendellMarine . Thomas L. MacNemar Robert G. Woodman William Warfield Ross Sterrett Day Woods E. Leslie Medford, Jr. · Mordechai Sheinkman Fred Yerkes, _Jr. Dr. John 0. Neustadt John Van Doren Samuel Schenker 1933 19% S.185 c-George M. Vansant Malcolm Silver James T. Bard 1948 17% $1~511 Lloyd F. Taylor $1,511 1940. 7% $25 Stanley J. Bartis Peter J. Davies Harry P. Levely James R. Bennett Marcus B. Finnegan Nathaniel J. Chew Wilbur Matz c-Robert E. Nichols . 1941 35% $1,433 C. Gilbert Hill Jules Pagano William J. Hoffman Lewis M. Alexander Lawrence H. Sherman Walter H. Hoffmeister Victor Bloede William w. Simmons · J.H. Fielding Jukes Jam es :H. Clark L. Wheaton Smith Henry David Cubbage Stefan F. Muzio 1949 16% $185 William A. Percy T. Lansdale Hill Jonathan E. Brooks John L. Winslow, Jr. Albert H. J aeggin c-James W. Conrad 1934 22% $780 c-George L. McDowell PeterV.V. Hamill Bernard J. Casassa VernonM. Padgett Anton G. Hardy - Henry M. Cooper, Jr. . 1942 2996 $820 c-Allan Hoffman John D. Edinger , Robert C. Allen · Chester A. Johnson· c-John H. Engel, Jr. c-Warren Bomhardt Eric A. Teel Joseph C. Hofmann, Jr. JeromeD. Goodman Richard D. Weigle (H) Edward E. Gray .Bryce Jacobsen David B. Weinstein Henry H. Kyle Journet D. Kahn James F. Leslie Thomas Parran, Jr. 1950 .28% $1,130 E. Carl Lyon Albert A.' Poppiti Bernard S. Clorety William B. Mattftews, Jr. William D. Rensall Patrick D. Davis Lewis-E. Scheffenacker C. Robert Sutton Matson Ewell Robert A. Sindall, Jr. A. Charles Wilson, Jr. RobertL. Goldberg Horace W. Witman 1943 · 29% $970 Robert A. Goldwin 1935 17% $8,881 A. Scott Abbott Theodore W. Hendricks John C. Donohue · Carl B. Blaker Robert N. Ikari Walter Evers Jerome Lansner · c-Edward H. Grubb Harry P. Green William T. Hart C. Ranlet Lincoln Lawrence Kantor Ogden Kellogg-Smith Thomas J. Meyers Robert E. Reordan . 1 Francis S. .Mason, Jr. Tylden W. Streett c-E. Roy Shawn, Jr. Milton Perlman Peter A. Whipple Walton Welty Alexander L. Slafkosky John L. Williams . Frank K. Wilson ~ ). .;;;i u , · ... , . , • "" H. Willard Stern ~ ;i .cl, . 1 J · ~ :J .f1 ·1 J}fyron Lee WolbaHnt'' ' ·. ' ,: ' · •( 1 • ' Judith S. Herman John C. Kohl, Jr. Stephen Morrow Linda M. Mueller Eyvind C. Ronquist 1962 . 9% $215 1952 9% $235 David W. Benfield Johan Benson Martin A. Dyer Daniel Cosgrove Charles Kluth Deborah S. Fialka Harry Neumann W. James Klug, III John M. Twigg John F. Miller George Ude! 1953 8% $115 1963 11% $905 Robert G. Cozzolino ~ Eugene B. Adkins: William M. Davis George K. Gerlach Daniel T. Devereux Robert G. Hazo Jam es A. Houck· 1954 26% $1,304 Eric M~ Kennell Richard B. Carter Jesse M. Clark S. David Krimins Charles E. Crooke Elliott A. Rosenberg Vernon P. Sandall c-J anies U. Dernehl Andrew D. Steiner · · Alfred Geier Bernard E. Jacob 19M 22% $2,145 Harley Kilborn . John Adcock Patricia. C. Ceccarelli Samuel S. Kutler Natalie Chambliss · V. Stephen Mainella Sydney Porter, Jr. SamuelF. Dunbar William W. Dunkum Lawrence Sandek Stephen Fineberg Samuel V. Stiles Miriam M. Freilicher 1955 21% $285 Sarah C. Crooke · · · John P. Hetland Alexandra Culbertson F. Kay Huebner George J. Eagler David R. Jordan Hu~son Keithley Robert W. Klug Regina W. Knight. Jeremy Leven Dorothy 0. Krone Judith Meyer Emily M. Kuper JamesNach Carolyn B. Leeuwenburgh . , RobertL. N0-vember c-Paul Lowdenslager; Lowell I. Shindler Arthur Reisz · Sharon K. Wallis James W. Stone JohnF. White Catherine L. Zaoujal 1956 27% $280 Joseph P. Cohen . 1965 23% $1,311 Dale Cummings Ronald Altengarten J enefer Ellingston c-Sharon Bishop c-Janet B. Juinp Jan Blits Faye C. Polillo Bruce Collier Pasquale L. Polillo Jessica H. Davis Anne D. Romano. · Diana Katz ' George E~ Sauer · Carolyn H. Massell J.E. Siemens, Jr. Richard Massell 1957 299(, $270 James R."llcClintoek Robert Bart Nathan Pollack Cornelia ii. Burdette c~Bruce M. Preston Josephine J. J aste.r Daniel Schiff . Sandra'G. Traywick · Arianne Laidlaw · Mary M.-weigle Marcia D. Reff J. Burt Siemens Edward Weinberger Harvey Wynn Michael J. Woolsey Rosabelle G. Wynn . 1966 16% $370 1958 25%' $500 Jaclyn Button Ernie Adamson -· Anne L. DeWees Alan P. Brockway · Richard R. Dewees c-Joseph M. Green . Constance B. Holland Roberta M. Kingsley Christopher Hodgkin David Z. Londow · William Kingsley Nancy E. Lindley William N. McKea'chie DanPeskoe Gerald Milhollan Margaret B. Ruppert Christina S~ Neumann . John Trotter Cynthia H. Siemens Richard Worth Mary B. Wiseman 1959 11% $230 1967 11% '472 Hugh Curtler · Gay S. Baratta Lowell Dyar Sarah J. Bell B. Meredith Burke Peter Rice Alice G. Chalmers Carol P. Tilles c-Lovejoy R. Duryea William R. Tilles Judith Ann Flemer Diana H. Young Robert A. Heiniger 1960 21% $575 Arthur KWigle, Jr. Mark A. Adler Deirdre Lenihan Betty B. Bennett . . .Mark Lindley . . Rosalie L. Boo~in Geoffrey S. Puterbaugh EllenN. Davis Hope Z. Schladen .·. c-Mary Gallagher JamesM. Green 1968 22% $1,283 Rebecca M. Albury Belle P. Maher William R. Albury Sarah R. Munson Stephen Anderton Peter J. Ruel _ Lawrence V. Arnold, Jr. Miriam Strange (H) · Luther Blackiston Kendon L. Stubbs · Donald A. Booth Patricia T. Stubbs Charles L. Wolberg Peter Coen John E. Farmer 1961 18% $3&1 Regina C. Forsyth Nancy C. Adler Victoria M. Blair-Smith Ann Blaine Garson · NanM. Dealy Maria W. Geissel Amelia Ruth Hummel Joseph Faraone Bartholomew Lee c-Michael W. Gold ·Gc;orge Partlow ' Le9Jlard C. Gore ./ -- "' ~ •·H tfi. �i, ' PAGE6 1~i~JrS··\ - __L_ · --· · Stephen J. Forman Dion Frischer c-Theda B. Hitchcock Deborah W. Kalmar Arthur H. Luse, III John P. MacDonald Herbert c. Moffitt, Ill Masha Z. Sinnreich 1s0heisehneider ·· ·· · · Jonathan Sinnreich , c-Lee R. Tyner Charles B. Watson 1969 2591) $56f c-G. Michael Anthony Meredith A. Anthony Joseph P. Baratta Nancy Boyd Stephanie F. Coburn Jeff Cothran _ Kim Fairchild Richard Ferrier Charlotte Fletcher (H) Philip Holt Martin Kalmar Mark A. Mandel Joan J. Mooring G. Dennis Rains David E. Riggs Cheryl E. Sirofchuck M. Richard Stevens Thomas Vazakas ByronE. Wall 1970 14% $315J Gretchen Baugh Roberta P. Bond HenryC. Constantine Ronald H. Fielding THE REPORTER J .·.4 •· ., I. A -JJ - 1971 14% $460 Jane G. Bandier . .Holly Carroll James A. Cockey Kent Guida James R. Hill Helen A. Scharbach Barry N~ Sher Barbara S. Simpson .Harold Stone Martha K. Stone V. Michael Victoroff P ) ... , .~ ( l c-Grant P .··wiggins' ;, -_ Nancy I. Willis 1 ' 1972 11% $.125 I 1975 19% "20 Theodore A. Blanton Laura T. Bridgman -Pamela F. Bush Jon L. Church Gershon Ekman George F. Ellis Sara C. Ellis Donald S. Feldman PeterT.Fox M. Carla Garrettson January E. Hamill Christopher King _ Nancy P. King Tyler M. Knapp Mary R. Kniaz PeterKniaz Elizabeth A. Peterson Sallie D. Raspa ·c-John Rogers Kevin Stacey . Thomas T. Tamlyn, Jr. Annette T. Tullier Robert G. Tzudiker Stephen Weber· 1974 17% $480 Ymelda M. Allison Jan Barton Michael Blaustein _ Roger C. Burk Carol V. Calhoun c-Thomas J. Dolan, Jr. Leslie Epstein Kathryn A. Ferrier Samuel T. Goldberg Jay Gottlieb Michael C. Jordon James S. LeVan Jack Lincoln Michael Panter Susan E. Pigman • 1,j '' -...,~, ", ;).,;- • • I • • - . . . . . i916' . O><po, •..,165 . • , • • Eric Rosenblatt Lester S. Silver Elizabeth J. Tracy Jeff I. Victbroff Susan A. Vowels Mary J?. :vyeigle (H) 1973 996 $312 Veborab Achtenberg David K. Allison Jean L. Bloss -Ronald Davidoff Jean K. Fitzsimon Roger Greene Kimi Hasegawa Fred Mattis Jane Munroe Paul Rosenberg James E. Tourtelott, Jr. Jessica R. Weissman Robin K. Burk James M. Burress David C. Chute Evelyn F. Chute Christine F. Constantine Evan M. Dudik -_ Ann M. Kinney Janet Nelson Deborah Papier NOVEM.!ER, 1~7! .. Pairfcla M: i>ittis 1 Jonathan K: Hustis Jacob Klein Katherine B. LUfkin William W. Nooter Sheri A. Rothstein ' Myron U. Taylor Dinah Wells Andrew Wisniewski Graduate Institute Evelyn P. Burrell Joan M. Capener Edna Frye Edna J. Gullatt Kathleen Hamilton Mary P. Justice Idell Kesselman Teresina G. Lucero James Allan Mahoney Mary1 Navratil Virginia S. Newlin Ruth H. Pritchard George Schloss Darrold K. Smith Linda C. Stabler Megan Tyndall Robert F. Tortolini Laquita Wood ·J~net Works 'Ludie' Tall recalls the changes of 1937 he remembers the, transition from W.W. -Woodcock, whose three..year term preceded -the beginning of the New Program, to that of Mr. Barr, Mr. Tall was Luther Stitt Tall, '21, who was a; elected to the board- as a liaison member of the Board of Visitors between its members and the and Governors at the time the alumni. New Program was adopted in "We had 'a wonderful faculty, 1937, loves to quote Stringfellow and there was no complaint Barr as explaining the need for a · change in higher education in this . academically," he said. "The boys were doing fine. But the way. -· college was heavily mortgaged "Mr. Barr did a wonderful job and had lost its accreditation." in explaining the program," Mr. In deciding -that the college Tall said of its first president. would be better under a different "He was a terrific salesman. He did it in such a humorous way. I· program, board members anheard audiences roar. He used to ticipated a "terrible situation." "Fortunately,. at the last, say St. John's does not run a President Woodcock turned in a cafeteria system of education. proposal under whieh .the· . "If a new student asked what president would gain - more he-would like to study," Mr. Barr · authority, and the board less. said the answer under the old Well, of course that was imelective system was, 'If we don't possible, and the board voted it have it, son, we- can put it in the down. It was lucky for us since we menu.' · didn't have a big fight. "THE AVERAGE 17-year-old "THE BOARD already had in most cases doesn't know what. been in touch with a committee at he wants to study," Mr. Tall the University of Chicago which continued. "Mr. Barr said that · included Barr and Buchanan and St. John's had no- brief with: which, under the guidance of vocational colleges. We have only Robert Hutchins, was working on one curriculum here, and you the present curriculum," Mr. either like it or you don't come. Tall recalled. "A committee from and that's the dose that cures! the St. John's board contacted you. them and liked what they had. The University of Chicago "In those days there were 800' committee was ready to put it in liberal arts colleges all selling the a small college with an old same package, and there weren't tradition behind it. a great many people who understood the program. They felt"St. John's was the perfect we were doing something crazy, college. Robert Hutchins said at' that we had a· 1ot of long-haired, the time; 'If I could put it in the. odd people. Why, we were just University of Chicago, I would going back to Thomas Jefferson, 'blow my brains out in happiness, -_- to reading and writing as it was ·but it can't be done in a large done in his day. Walter Lippman university.' The board agreed: ·· was one of the few who un- that Barr and Buchanan should. derstood. And the; old alumni! come to St. John's. All this was did beautifully in contributing. to being co.Dfidentially negotiated ~New Program." , ,~ _ ·before Woodcock resigned and left we concluded the· In his. Baltimore home, Mr. plan in July._it into practice the and put :.:.:· Tall recalls· those days fondly .. following fall.'' -· Calling himself "the kid on the board" at a time when a man he 1 , • • greatly admired was board Luther Ta~ s me!Dbersh1p on cha· man-Dr ~ H + hin. - tbe board has been JUSt one part t! ., If-_ ~· ~ 'i r oi i f P~ tr1~r~-n~r· · ' · 1 rr, ( ~ : .1 " Ii .: u. l , 1. , 1 i1 t 1 J . c ; ( '; .i f .I ~. f_ s f r «: > i I r, 1.i i AS-A MUSICIAN, Mr. Tall not only played the ukelele and guitar but learned to play the "bones." ·"I grew up in Roland Park." he said. "In those days colored men would come serenade families on a summer night. They usually came in groups. One played the· guitar, and another rattled bones. - · I got my father to buy a pair of ebonyoones and then to buy me a pair of dn:lms." · - "If you get an upset ~tomach eating too many green .apples, . what you need is good food in slow doses to be cured." Mr. Tall became expert enough to play in the minstrel shows of -· his day, including the Kiwanis · Clubs, Paint and Powder Club, and the Ted Mack show.· Writing· for The Baltimore Sun some time ago, Mr. Tall remembers this about the Class of 1921, the "best class" St. John's ever hadLUDIE TALL PLAYS THE'BONES' of his continuing service to St. John's. The retired Baltimore radio executive is a sponsor in the Fund for the 1980's, and he recently accepted membership in its Deferred Giving Committee. For years he was a leader of alumni activity in the Baltimore "St. John's had become a military school. .. and it was consistently among the top ten in the country as rated by the W~i: Department. Its graduates, upon recommendation of the commandant, could be awarded commis-sions as second lieutenants in the Army or Marines... · area, and in 1933 he helped "We lived a military life from reorganize the Alumni morning to night at St. John's. We Association. He served -as its got up fo reveille, marched to president from 1933 until 1936. mess and chapel in formation, For his contribution to the college drilled every day, walked guard he received the Alumni Award of duty if we did anything wrong, Merit during the 1970 -and went to bed withtaps at 10:30 homecoming. (He was the second every night. We were disciplined, member of his family to attend but we liked it, and I feel it was St. John's. An ancestor; Sylvestor responsible for making many of C. Tall, son of Reuben Tall, of us into better students and better Cambridge, graduated around citizens later on. I think our record bears this out. 1845). Known for his humor, "Ludie" Tall was a member ofthe football and baseball squads; advertising man.ager of the college magazine, the Rat-Tat, assistant advertising manager of the Collegian, a member of both th~ Minstrel and Mandolin clubs, and captain of Company "A." St. John's was a military school durJng his day. , • s ·~ 11 '! ·, _; ' U~ 1 , r~ r 11 .< t! , ,, s fij o~ • •~ 1J ~ aI . L vi n ;. . '. 1 ~ 1 1 "AMONG THOSE IN our class was Thomas B. Turner, captain of Company B and later dean of the Johns Hopkins Medical · School. William P. Maddox, battalion adjutant, our class valedictorian and -- a. Rhodes scholar (became) consul general at the United States Embassy in Singapore. Company C's captain was William .H. Knighton, Jr.. , • J SN i U > [ (formerly) with the Washington Bureau of The Sun and president of the White House Correspon-· dents Association .. ~Joseph Di Giorgio became chairman of. the board of the Di- Giorgio Fruit Company in California. All were listed in Who's Who. "We· also bad a friendly rivalry with the Naval Academy, and for one week every year St. John's students -enjoyed a tremendous advantage over the Midshipmen. Once our classes ended, military life was lifted, and we were free at nighUo study for exams or do whatever we wanted. _-_"Midshipmen did not have this ptivilege and had to be in for bed check each night. When we weren't studying, the only thing we could think of was dating the girls who had come from all over th!! country for the Academy's June Week-after the Middies had to say goodnight. "The best-or worst-class prank we pulled was aUhe expense of Professor .Thomas ~ladd~n, . who taught mathematics. He lived in the ChaseStone House and kept a cow. We stole the cow one night, painted it up like a zebra with orange and black stripes, then chained it inside the chapel. "Unfortunately, the cow licked the paint and died. We felt so bad that we took up a collection and _bought the , professor another cow... " Addresses please! If you're moving, the Office of College Relations would like to have your address change six week~ prior to your:move. It will save. the college 25 cents for each address change. The office receives between 300 and 400 such changes every month. _ _ . - - - ,; 9 :~ ~ i ~ H [ :c ii !l 5 d �··n ~H . H?i~ il~:Yi Ovf . "NOVE'M.BER~:l977" .. -, .·. . <A .. ". ,·. · • .-.','",':" . ... ~H HV.. ,tl'l-; ·H lT THE REPORTER Class of 'l 7 has its reunion (Continued from P. 1) · . The· Class of 1927 meeting for· it~ golden anniversary was "one: third .as. ol~, as the . Alumni Association, Mr .. Simmons noted. Others convening were the Class of 1.937, 40th reunion; 1_947, 30th reunion; 1952, 25th reunion; 1957, 2oth reunion; 1967, 10th. reu~ion, and1977,firstreunion. In presenting Mr. Goldwin his Award of Merit, Mr. Simmonssaid: " ... His career since graduation has been much involved with theoretical and practical politics of . all sorts. He h.as earned degrees in political science from the University of Chicago; served on the faculties ()f . Chicago, Kenyon College, and St. J~hn's; been 1dean ?f the Annapolis St. John s,. directed the . Ford F~undabon back~d Publi~ Affairs Conference, first at Chicago and later at Kenyon; helped plan and served as the ~irst ~ire~tor of the Gra_duate Institute m Liberal Educ~tion, Santa_ Fe. i'He;l~ft St. John's in 1973 to be specia\, advisor "fo the Am~ bassador, U.S. Mission to NATO; becalJle: a special consultant to . President Gerald Ford,, and was concur.rently advisor to the Secretary of Defense. ·In 1976 he resign~d his White House post to accept appointment as resident scholar and director of seminar programming at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy in Washington.". . . "Since 1950 he has been St. James J. Dugan, Bernard .F. John's· 'key man' in Southern Gessner, Mr. Desantis, Eugene California and has been especial- C~z~olino, William A. Gross, ly active in _the admissions William J ..Klug, Jr., Dalton _M. assistance· program. He has Welty, Cyril R._ Murphy, Julius served with distinction as an .Rosenberg, Wilbur Matz, H. alumni representative on the Gerald.Hoxby, James W. Conrad, Board of Visitors and Governors Franklin R. Atwell, Carol and since l974 and just last spring. William Tilles, Mary Gallagher, was re-elected for a ·second W. James Klug, III, Lowell 'three-year term." ' Shjndler, and Lee R. Tyner. Persons present for class .. reunions other than for the Class Unable to attend and receiving of 1917 w~re: · citations were: 1927: Bernard Gessner Robert Anderson, Philip _L. Alumni President William W. Simmon~~~rig.ht, congratul~tes chairman, Frank De · Santis: Elmer Jackson Edward Lush 1 Alger, C. Carey Jarman, Fromer Dean Robert Goldwin upon receiving Alumni Award of Frederick Stecker, H. Monroe ·Merit. Lee Nichols Frederick Smith Richard Willlams · 1937 Merrill Helm, J. Sprightly Kelly, Frank Mitchell and Al~n Pfke, co- A. White, Ja·mes E. Boyle, James chairmen, (Mr. Pike, here from H. Clark, Robert C. Al1en, Honolulu, came the longest Warren C. Bomhardt, Francis S.. distance of anyone at . Mason, Haven E. Simmons, homecoming); 1947, George Van George A. Cayley, James P. Sant, chairman; Steven Gilbert, Stewart Washburn, students know about St. John's The alumni Benedict William Elliott Gerald Martin A. Dyer, James V. Der- looking St. John's possibility are · and encourage them to enroll· into the of .Hoxby, 'William Ross', Kyle nell, Jack A. Nadol, Alan P. finding a place on campus where here." Smith, Jr., John Van Doren; 1952, . Brockway, Michael W. Gold, former students might· be Re-elected for two-year terms Thomas Carnes, chairman, Paul Miriam and Richard Duhan, honored. on the association's board. were · . Thomas G. Eaton, and Theda B. Cree, Jo1,m Fllller, Lancast~r The study is the outcome of a Thomas t.. MacNemar, ''39; ,!_Knott, Joseph ~anusov, David Hitchcock. . larger plan presented by the Janet Nelson, ·'72; Edward T. Na~per, Adam Pmsker; . Class of 1927 as its 50th an- Heise, '36, ·and Gilbert Crandall, . 195~, Joan Cole, John K~och, niversary gift to the collegeJ '36. : Reporting on the annual giving Marcia Reff; 1967, Gay Smge:r Meeting here during Baratta, Nanc~ Harve~, Arthur .homecoming, the class suggested of alumni, Mr. Parran expressed Kungle, Mark Lindley; first year, 'an : Alumni Great Hall, which puzzlement over the drop in the Ted Burke, Dan Jerrems, Pam· Two St. John's alumni, Ber- 'Edward J. Lush, of North Haven, percentage of alumni cona tributing to the drive. The Lobdell. . nard Gessner, '27, and Roland R. Conn., said might stand as 11 Class. captams who have_ served Most, '34, who are,working on a "living, visual record of alumni. number is down to 19 per cent for three 1;imes or more durmg the history of the college, are at- It would contain significant the fiscal year ended July 1 as opposed to the.previous year's 25 past ~e years and who were . tempting to find out how much records, memorabilia, drawings, present mcluded: books, and inventions of the men per cent. The national average is interest there is in the project. John C. Donohue, Ernest Von and women who went to school 21.5 per cent.. Actual conSchwerdtner, John D. Alexander, tributions went up ftom $52,000 to here. SPEAKING OF Mr. Gessner, R.ecently they acquired the · Alumni President William W. $58,000. Mr!.S.i.mmQilsJlad thi~,to s~; scholarly and well researched Simmons expressed the feeling of "THE AVERAGE gift was an history written by Francis Tilgh"He is an Annapolis boy who overwhelming 95 bucks, and the association in saying that the man, who taught at St. John's plan was noble in scope, but he that's great," he said. "But even grew up on the fringes of St. from 193hnd 1942 and who is now John~s. so his enrollment in the with the additional impetus of the retired_ from the faculty' of was not certain how to get it 1Fund for the.1980's, overall giving college was just sort of a forstarted. mality. Although he came from·a Virginia Polytechnic Institute. by MARJORIE ALLISON, '79. President Weigle,. who was not what we thought and military family, he was just too The turnout for the alumni The· history brings the .college to previously had discussed three expected: I don't know why. The th~.· Eno.ch B.. Garey'~ ad~ late for the grey uniforms of the seminar at homecoming was major campus construction .money is there. The gentleman · St. John's cadets. He was a double that anticipated. The · ministration. projects awaiting -financing, sittmg next to me is in . ~he standout in athletics, especially reason may .have' been the reported the procedure ·. which recreational boat.~usiness;". ·Mr. football and lacrosse, and after a provocative title, "Can Machines - · "What we would Jikflcrknow is new ·buildings go through, in- · Parran continuecf;:.~.-reterring to year as a school :teacher in Think?" by A. M. Turning, or it this," Mr. Most'-Writes. "Would eluding . their submission for Mr. Simmons:. uand he says Baltimore County, returned to.his may have been the more at- the alumni and friends of St. approval to· both the Campµs business is b~tter than it's ever a.Ima, mater as junior varsity tractive time. It was the first John's be interested in a history Development Committee and the been. we're m,issing somethfng. '' coach of football, basketball, and time the seminar was scheduled of the third oldest school in the Board of Visitors and Governor~A report on the over-all status lacrosse. Two years .of this was for the afternoon. country. This would be a comAs a beginning he suggested .of the campus was given by Mr. apparently enough, for the next Realizing its unwieldy size, plete work: history, pictures, that the Weigle, an honorary member of able to 40 years · or so ·our honoree Tutor Samuel Kutler suggested anecdotes, letters. old and new, provide college might be alumni the Class of 1949. One problem he a place: where traveled the mid-Atlantic states the group of about 40 divide. The articles on all. the presidents, and might be honored in ' the new cited as "worrisome"· was the · selling the 'pause that refi:eshes.' other seminar was led by noted alumni." archival suite which is being ·small enrollment of the freshman planned in connection with the .class at Santa Fe. The western "Since his retirement from the Michael Comenetz of the faculty. Interested alumni are asked to remodeling of Randall Hall. The time between the last ·campus. entered 62 new students Coca-Cola Company he has been senior seminar arid the present write Mr. Most at 4-6 SumTO INDICATE their support .this fall, the· smallest number it· very active in alumni affairs, merfield Place, Annapolis, Md. both locally and on the board of one did not alter the character of 21403, or Bernard Gessner,. 41 members adopted a motion by .has ~ver had. · seminar substantially. the association. He served as· Arguments were followed, Slama Rd., . Edgewater, Md. William B. Matthews, Jr., '34, of He described efforts now un·executive vice-president of that generalities were honeq to 21037. The two men welcome Baltimore, approving in printiple derway seeking money· from the idea of the Class of 1927 and organization from 1970 to 1972, specific topics of mquiry there ideas and suggestions. individuals and foundations for urging the adoption of methods to ·the Paca-Carroll House, Randall, and as its president from 1972 to was no dearth of witty remarks, honor alumni accomplishments. · and Iglehart, all . of which are 1975." . . . and Plato's cave was used in On motion of Alumni Director ,s c h e d u I e d _t o b e Thomas Parran, the association Dr. Dobreer was' prevented more than one analogy. enlarged as the result of a bond ' A number of alumni, such as from attending because of a decided to go ahead with a bill_ for $1, 750,000 passed last speaking engagement at a Tom Meyers, ~75 SF, and Ed 14 committee to look into Spring by the State of Maryland. Mini, '60, have dealt with commedical meeting in Co.lorado. possibilities and report St. John's ·is attempting to. directors at an early date.back to · In . exchang~. · the college is "David Dobreer, although a puters and were able to provide member of the Class of, 1944, had substantial information about locate fourteen former students. Convening for their annual ,contributing approximately three If you have any knowledge of acres "of land for a new Annapolis a war-interrupted career as a "thinking machines." John their where-abouts, please in- meeting during homecoming, the center for performing arts. Mr. student, and received l:tis degree Kinloch ('57) also had an in- form the Alumni Office, · St. association heard , one of its Weigle .said. the. exchange .will with the Class of 1948," Mr. .timate knowledge of computers John's College, Annapolis, Md~ members, Mary Gallagher, take place aft~r St. John's raises Simmons said. "Four years later and described them as chairman . of the· Admissions its first mon~y. _; he received ihe b.O. degree from "evolutionary ·mutations that 21404. The students are: Jonathan Committee of the 'Board ' of Lynn McClive Butler, Visitors and Governors, stress the College of Osteopathic man has created, an extension of In a report on the new alumni Gale Cartland, Gail Marie the importance former students Physicians and Surgeons in Los his mind." register, Mr. Parran said that, Gonda, Eugene Iorgov, Lewis play in recruitment. M a r y Ga 11 a .g her , ' 6 o, because of address and vocation Angeles; in 1962, after further Anthony Jordan, WilliamDenison "The alumni have a central changes, it is out of date "before study, he was awarded the acknowledged this but added, Kelley, Jane-Ellen Milord, 11 degree of doctor of medicine by "Computers should be in human ·vincent J. Morrow, J oAnn role in admissions, she advised it goes to the printer." Members the California College of bodies. Then we would be more Morse, Frank Joseph Novak, them. "We welcome all discussed the desirability. of Medicine. He is currently in the conservative at 43 than 22 and Richard E. Roderick, Richard suggestions you can make yearly supplements or of having · private practice of medicine in \YOuld think better after a two- Edward Sohmer, Neil G. Tucker through the association so that a·new reglster"issued ·evetylhiee . alumni, can help let high school yean. bour w.all." · thecitynf LosADgeles. and Stanley J. Wagner. ,· _SJAA s~ek campus site to honor former students Two working on SJC history 40attend fall seminar I College seeks students �r.' ';, THE REPORTER Published by College Relations OffiC! St. John's College :·Annapolis, Md. 21404 ; PAGES DATE DUE, ~ ; .) "f". ;. ~ .~ ' • - · ;~ .r ., · ,;· -- (' ;: ;t · i· , :;- ' THE REPORTER , •c · .., ~· WdWM·IEtl,~· 1911 . , . ' . ' ·' ' It's from lab to zoofor]anet By CATHY SIMS St. John's Sophomore Janet Ehrenberger wants to be a zookeeper, and she can hold St. John's College responsible. Three years ago Miss Ehre1'berger, now an active senior on the Annapolis campus, was struggling through sophomore laboratory: she refused to dissect the animals, although at the time she could not articulate just why. Today she f~els she has found why, and the discovery has decided her career. As Miss Ehrenberger explains, ''I want to look at animals that are alive. I just don't see dissection as a valid way to study animal behavior." about the computer," he said. That desire to study the living While this will not be a computer course in the conventional organism led Miss Ehrenberger sense, students will be asked to to work as a volunteer at the familiarize themselves with the Pittsburgh Zoo, near her home, characteristic properties of a this summer. On Saturdays she computer. They will work with joined several other volunteers in hand-held, programmable cleaning cages, feeding, and calculators, which, being small watching over the animals in the Children's Zoo section of the zoo. computers, illustrate the comTHE EXPERIENCE afforded puter's power to imitate certain her the opportunity to study the mental processes. "It's difficult t@ have a animals and their behavior firstsustained, intelligent discussion hand, and strengthened her on this subject without solid conviction that such observation background which requires some is not only an excellent way to study of the machine," Mr. prepare for an academic study of animal behavior, but the way. Comenetz said. That conviction, especially in AFTER THAT they will turn to such questions as at what point its early stages of testing during should man exercise his Miss Ehrenberger',s sophomore Janet Ehrenburger confers with judgment - before or after the laboratory class, was not always at left, and Sasha, at her feet. machine is built - or, as Mr. the positive force it is now. · initial interest more than a It caused several p:roblems Comenetz quoted one alumnus at passing phase of her studies. Her homecoming as saying, "Do we initially, although Miss Ehren- work this summer at the Pitt-· trust machines in. preference to berger's tutor Curtis Wilson sburgh zoo further convinced her humans? Do we trust a machine assisted where he could. Mr. that animal behavior is a study on a Vietnam battle field that Wilson insisted that she at least she wishes to pursue on a large says there are enemy forces watch as other students per- scale. present even·though observers on formed dissections on higherPart of that convincing came .· level animals, while encouraging straight from the animals the ground say no?" Another question likely to come her exploration of her strong· themselves. Each fawn, each up: Is the idea of the kind of talk reactions. woodchuck, each skunk took on Another·· tutor, Benjamin its own personality and became we should have with one another to be determined by the in- Milner, directed her to several som~one special to Miss teraction, the kind of talking that books on animal behavior written Ehrenberger. She speaks fondly takes place between man and by authors who shared Miss of Cuddles, a crowd-loving Ehrenberger's objections to porcuptDe; Ermine, an albino machine?, "The preceptorial will begin dissection, and sophomore lab skunk whQ was the -special pet of witli ancient' and modern became a personal search for .the volunteers, and Charles, the examples ·Of algorithms, or finite . what she calls "a way to defend woodchuck with a desire to roam computation-schemes (the most my intuitive position in- outside the wire cage he gnawed famous of which is 'Euclid's tellectively.'' through. HER SOPHOMORE essay algorithm' for finding the DESPITE SOME hesitation on greatest common measure of two dealt with the same problem, her parents' part, Miss Ehrennumbers), and their importance using the works of Claude Ber- berger hopes to work as a in scientific investigation," Mr. nard and Jacques Monod as a zookeeper for several years after springboard. . Comenetz explained. graduation, seeking a Ph.D. in Since her sophomore year, "THEN WE WILL examine the Miss Ehrenberger has continued zoology once she has a firm nature of 'the com:guter, the to study the works of living- background in practical obmachine ·which executes animal behaviorists, finding her. servation. Later plans include serving as a curat?r directing a programs, which are statements of algorithms in ma-chine language. Concurrently, participants will ·spend some time using one of the college's small (Continued from P. l) policy, which calls for annual computers. Having acquired action on a presidential apsome understanding of the retirement normally comes at 65. pointment after age 65, the board computer, we will go on to read Under his leadership, St. John's must confirm its action. each and talk about various questions, has averaged a million dollars a year. investigating 'artifical in- year in gifts. LAST YEAR, PRIOR to his "The success of the campaign. 65th birthday, the board--ha.d telligence,' computer · models,. etc." · depends clearly on a great appointed Mr. Weigle for a twoOne of the books to be read is. spokesman for this institution,'' year period ending in 1978 which "Computer Power and Human Mr. McLanahan said. "Mr. included a year beyond his Reason'I by .J .. Weizenbaum, an Weigle's appointment is essential nor.mal retirement year. .eminent computer-scientist, who if we are to succeed." Recognized , as one of the By October of this year, a presidents with the longest '. views computers as .potentially dangerous . and who feels we 1 month after the conclusion of the periods of continuous service ·in · deceive ourselves if ,we believe first year of the Campaign for the the United States, Mr. Weigle is that their control is a simple 1980's, the drive had raised in senior in that respect in excess of $7-million in gifts.- Maryl;md among major colleges matter, Mr. Comenetz said. The other book is B. Raphael's pledges, and bequests for both and universities. Among all its more optimistic , "The Thinking campuses. institutions Mr. Weigle has been Under terms of the college exceeded inle~.~ service only Cdrtlpd.ter:: Mind; Inside Ma.t~er.'' ·1 A question of values: what about computers? "The primary aim of all computer systems, in libraries as elsewhere, is to hold down unemployment among computer specialists who would otherwise be on the dole. So I do not in any way object because the computers themselves are not monsters, but our faithful servants, and, of course, a large crew is required to feed and water them. "I know of a Bethesda girl who has gone to Tennessee to raise mules, and I wonder if she is computerized, and if not, why not. I love to think of distant places and how we are all bound together in one great chorus of life. Mules and everything." * * *. A St. John's preceptorial group is about to take a more serious' look at what Henry Mitchell, writing in The Washington Post, calls "the great chorus oflife," in a preceptorial, '·'Computer Power and Human Reason,'' which gets underway the middle of this month. Not only did the homecoming seminar draw a large number of alumni for ·discussions centered. on this subject - still very much a new topic - but a group of. juniors · and seniors are investigating some of the major questions posed by computers during the current, eight-week session. Among the readings will be those by two computer scientists whose 1976 books take opposing sides of possibilities of computers, for good or for evil. THE STUDY IS particularly interesting in that whi.le there have been numerous, highly, publicized conferences on DNA and the dangers of genetic research, there have not been too many conferences about issues raised by the development of computers. "The invention and development of the modern computing machine raises .questions of extraordinary interest and importance to educated people," according to Tutor. Michael· Comenetz, who will lead the preceptorial and who personally believes there may be ·dangers in their use. Students will not be discussing computers with an unrealistic view of what these complex machines may be expected to do. Mr. Comenetz will ask them to answer three questions: What can a-computer do? What ought a' computer be made to do? Is man· a computer? "I envisage the preceptorial as proceeding from--developing an, understanding of what a com~uter is to tanmt& abOUt questituts: Board states conjidence Dean Sparrow's dogs, Michelle, zoo, putting to use her first·hand · knowledge of behavior plus her academic studies of .the causes of that behavior.· She would ·even like to one day own her own z.oo. Meanwhile; Miss Ehrenber.ger stays busy with her work at St. John's. Besides her studies, she works in the Alumni Office, is, a member of the Student Committee on Instruction, the ·Film Club's art staff, and the W,altz Party Committee, and cook$ for Dean ·and Mrs. Edward Sparrow at Friday night lecture dinners. Barr writes garden book Former St. John's President Stringfellow Barr, a gardener himself, is co·author with Stella Standard of a book entitled ''The Kitchen Garden Book." Published by Penguin, this handbook combines not only information on vegetable gardening but 499 recipes on how to use the vegetables once they are harvested. ''Fortunately vegetables take_a little time to grow,'' writes The Christian Science Monitor. "Otherwise this delightful collaboration· by Mr. Barr and ·Mrs. Standard might require a Solomon in each.family to decide who reads the · book first ~ardener or cook.'' by George A. Miles, who became · ' president of the Washington Bible· ~\ College in Lanham in 1945. ~ "! In other business, the board authorizea i.ilcr~ases in jui!Wn, ~ board, and room for the 1977-78 academic year, which will result ~ ; in an over-all cost of $5,850 for a year at St. John's. It increased tuition by $250, room by $75, and board by $50. They amount to an over-all jump of 6.8 per cent for neit.JW.- - ._____ -----·- ._. 1 � 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 addition, her findings reveal In all, 82 persons actually that of students who leave, for received their degrees in May, the largest number for any single personal or for financial reasons, commencement since the in- · more and more are choosing to return to complete their work ception of the New Program. here. Of those 82, some 55 students THE STATISTICS also support were right on schedule, having a contention of the admissions entered St. John's four years office that winter freshmen, before as part of the class of 121. whose individual members as a This, too, was the largest number class run to older ages than those of students to receive their of the regular, fall entering class, ·degrees within a continuous, tend to be more serious and to four-year period: possess more than a usual degree Of the 82 graduates, 27 students of stick-to-itiveness. The larger were from other, earlier classes, percentage of students either from those here or as graduating within a. four-year transfers from Santa Fe. Again time block experienced a big that 27 is the largest figure for students who have dropped out of · boost forward when the January St. John's for a time and then freshman class first was in~ returned to pick up their B.A.'s troduced in 1968. Altogether, Mrs. Rinder found later. A study of the percentage of that over a 21 year period, 1,006 of students who graduate with their the 2,329 students who matriculated during that time original class made by Leanore were graduated, some 43.2 per Rinder, college registrar, shows cent. Of these 759 were graduated with their class and 247 some time later. The figures are slightly low for while they include the Santa Fe beginners who graduate here, they do not include Annapolis students who start here and get their degrees on the western campus. The daughter of the first The number of students woman to receive a diploma at graduating within a four-year St. John's is among the 107 freshperiod is running consistently men on campus this fall. _ higher. Beginning with the matriculating class of 1969 the Molly Aston, daughter of percentage of students William and Lydia Aston, of graduating here four years later Greensboro, Pa., was one of three averaged 39. 7. The average peralumni children to begin classes. centage for classes matriculatin·g Coming· here from Kensington, between 1964 and 1968 was 33.3 Md., is Paul G. Cree, III, whose and that for the classes between father graduated in 1952, and 1959 and 1963 was 30.6. Both these from Evanston, Ill., Daniel Van classes demonstrated an inDoren, son of John Van Doren, crease over the 23.3 percentage '47. for the 1953-58 entering freshmen. If figures for the freshman In addition, Alfred S. Newlin, of Paoli, Pa., another member of class are considered . together with total numbers graduating the freshman class, became the four years later, including fifth member of his family with a members of previous classes and St. John's connection. transfers from Santa Fe as well His mother, Virginia S. Newlin, a:s matficulants who graduate at and brother, Peter C. Newlin, Santa Fe, the proportions are hold master's degrees from the even higher and show a sizeable Graduate Institute in Santa Fe. jump over those of ea.rlier years. Peter was a part-time student THEY CLIMB FROM an (Continued on P. 3) (Continued on P. 2) • 1st alumna's daughter is freshman ST JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY -~ .'-.., I Tli~'S't: Lohn 's . \l\ l\ \ \l\ \ l ®li~Hlifl li'il l\ \ l\l~\ \ I 31696 01138 0415 REPORTER VOLUME V ISSUE l SEPTEMBER, 1977 Summer and history go well together here ·Books read SJC casts 'for pleasure' its shadow Why on earth would a group of to Navajos people, in the heat of an An- napolis summer, away from the pleasures of sea and city, want to spend their time attempting to decide what the difference between history and myth is and why a people need a history and whether it matters if it's true or not? Why be concerned with whether Alcibiades' disloyalties .were to be respected or whether Tiberius was in fact a tyrant dealing with a corrupt Senate? And why struggle over Hegel, that difficult German philosopher, and wh'at he meant by "world historical individual"? Seventeen students who came here for . the campus's first Graduate Institute cared and appeared to care intensely. Shutting themselves away from the world and settling down with almost monastic fervor, the students came here with degrees from such places as Harvard, Columbia, and St. John's itself, with study behind them a~_ far away as Edinburgh and Cambridge, England, to read and . discuss a set of books ranging from Herodotus to Thucydides to Pirenne and Lessing. The readings were not the sherbet of summer beachside reading the Sunday supplements suggest. The books were tough and mind-bending, and before the (Continued·onP. 3) How about a great books list in native American literature? Mrs. Grace McNeley, of Shiprock, N.M., who has completed a master's degree at St. John's thinks there should be one. Along with her husband, Dr. James McN,tley, who like her is a member of the faculty of Navajo Community College at Shiprock, Mrs. McNeley would like to develop such a list of books, a list which might include such novels as "A House Made of Dawn," by N. Scott Momaday, the story of a youth torn between two cultures. It could include such books as those by Clyde Kluckhohn, the Harvard anthropologist, or "Ishii"' by Theodora Kroeber, who wrote about the last of a California tribe, or by the Indian anthropologist Alfonzo Ortez on his own Tewa Pueblo. It was her three summers at St. John's Graduate Institute in· Santa Fe which inspired Mrs. McNeley to think in terms of a list centered on the American Indian. Once she and her husband have compiled a roster of those they consider the most significant in terms of native American culture, she would like to use it in an experimental studies program at Navajo College. A full-blooded Navajo herself, (Continued on P. 4) 1st graduate unit is held St. John's embryonic program of graduate studies which came into existence this summer on the 'Annapolis campus is being appraised as both exciting and successful. With history read, explored, . discussed, thought about in a way unlike anywhere in the United,. States, the program came into being as an extension of St. John's 11-year-old Graduate Institute on the Santa Fe campus.. A survey conducted by Geoffrey Comber during the closing days of the eight-week program indicated that there will be a high return rate if St. John's is able to follow up the program with another session of graduate work next year. "Students repeatedly told ·me they had learned more history,d.n their eight weeks here than they had ever done," he said. _The four tutors who participated in this initial effort found some similarites with the Santa Fe program, where all· at one time or another had taught in the summer master's program. While history was offered here as a "fifth segment," the program there includes segments devoted to such subject matter as literature, philosophy, science, and math. 'I FOUND THE response the same," Howard Fisher summed up one major similarity. "The students really appreciate the (Continued on P. 2) Alu01ni to hold 150th Anniversary St. John's Alumni Association, graduation. believed to. be the fifth oldest in PRINCIPAL EVENT marking the nation, will celebrate ·the .the association's ·sesquicen150th .anniversary of its founding tennial will be the dinner at 8 by .Francis Scott Key and others ,p.m. at the Hilton Hotel, William on September 30-0ctober 1. W. Simmons, '48, president of the The founding was no slight Alumni Association, has anmatter for the author of the p.ounced. National Anthem. He marked the - The annual meeting will be occasion, which actually took held at 10:30 a.m. in the conplace on February 22, with a versation room of the Key "Discourse on Education," an Auditorium. The afternoon address of 22 pages. program will include alumniKey, who first entered St. s tuden t career counseling John's at the age of 10 and who sessions at 1 p.m., and a seminar was a successful Washington based upon Allen Turing's "Can a attorney when the · association Machine Talk" at 2:30 p.m. It will was formed, was one of a three- be led by Sam Kutler and Michael member committee which drew Comenetz, St. John's tutors. up the constitution for what was Two events will take place then known as the Society of simultaneously at 4: 30 p.m.: the Alumni of St. John's. Last year marked the 18oth ye~.i:. _of . his (Continued on P. 2) Grace ~cNeley and Charles Richardson take time· for a quiet moment on the qua~. (- -~ •,·,"""' �f ~ L '1) > THE PAGE2 ~ t Small beginning brings enthusiastic response .· .SEPTEMBER, 1977 R-EPO·RT~~ 70 70 I ' 65 I I I I (Conwiued from P.1) ' ' ,. , ,, \ ..; ' - NBC state news sent . via campus \ Homecoming b e ear l E ' r·---,, ' ' ,.. A',/ •f 65 appear to have excited most interest, books which were not opportunity to read serious books 60 60 precisely light summer reading in a serious environment. l found I in Annapolis' unusually hot it in Santa Fe, and I loved it, and I 55., 55 summer of sweltering, 90-degree found it here. I think that much is 4 I weather. portable." I\ ,•, I "Of the books we read, the two If the program had. a 50 I , I 50 I l they responded to most were Vico drawback, it might have been II l I l I ' I '• and Hegel," he said. "In some· that it was too small, with only 17 I\ I\ 1' I 45 . 45 I\ I\ I\ I participants, some here full time .ways they were the most difI\ I \ I\ I c GI ficult. My impression is that and three .students part time, ·' \ I \ I f I , , 'I \ II \I GI these writers ,represented a dividing 18-hour days. between 40 a. 40 confirmation of thoughts the A / 'l books and jobs. Mr. ·Comber I' I A 1• • students dimly had, but had not believes twice the number might 35 35 have been better. "That . seen expressed. The two. books . ,' ' , / f problem would have been graver 'came up again and again." I V Mr. Wyatt noted that · Vico's if the students had not been so 30 30 I ,. ....., l and Hegel's . names came up lively," Malcolm Wyatt said. ~ Participants turned out to· be, · constantly during conferences. 25 25 . '"'""'' ''It may be Hegel's willingness especially strong academically, · and each of them, Mr. Fisher to talk about so many things," Mr. Fisher said. "During the -...... 20 observed, were "unstinting in the 20 course of a single discussion. we spirit they ·brought the 00 N ie i:: co Year of Graduallon ;:; :3 ... "' co !P 00 ; ~ $ ; ~ ~ !.II !.II would talk about morality, program." -. I I I I -. -. ~ ~ t! !!? !:! • • .., :,; I . co ... :8 m "' u; N • I I -. -. I "' I -. CD co Ii co relative degrees of civilization, A major difference between the "' j ~ !!! "' .!! !!! !!! "vear of Matriculation ~ !!! m ~ !!! !!! !!! ~ !!! !!! ~ !! what makes human things difprogram here and in the west was ferent, other things." The solid line of the graph shows what percent of the students who matriculated in the years givt-he lack of Blacks and Hispanics, The smallness of the institute en here graduated four years later. The broken line reveals the total number who graduated as probably because the scholarship was somewhat overcome by the compared with the number of matriculants four years previously aid is not as available here as in interplay with January freshmen Santa Fe. on campus. Since a number of the The mechanics of the classes readings also had been: comwent well. pleted by the freshmen, students "FROM THE standpoint of from both groups were able to (Continued from P.1) the classes the students were largely very equal in their par- talk together about them. Parties average of 29 per cent fm· 1953-58 they must complete certain work. together followed seminars on, ticipation," Mr. Comber said. to 39.5 per cent for 1959-63 to 44. 7 Joanne Aitken, director of Monday and Thursday nights "Tl\ere was no one who per cent for 1964 to 53.4 per cent admissions, attributes the more with the freshme~ responsible for dominated. There were one or for 1969-73. The national average favorable attrition rate to more two who were reluctant to talk,. Monday parties and the Graduate Oh, the uses put ,to the bell runs a -little under 50 per cent for careful screening methods Institute for those on Thursday. but. when they were in smaller those students who remain at the tower of McDowell Hall! If Simon developed over the past years by One expected difficulty - the groups, they talked quite a bit Duff isn't turning in his 18th same institution for four years. admissions officials. An emand quite well. There were a good fact that there were so many - Figures simplified in this century grave at.the thought of it, phasis on campus visitation commuting students - failed to half-dozen students who were this Scottish architect who fashion would mean the before entry along with the be as significant as the institute absolutely first rate. As a whole matriculation figure for 1973 was designed the central building on had anticipated. "They came the students were very shrewd, 121 and the number of graduates development of new admissions campus may at least be making a literature also may have helped early, and they stayed late," Mr. perceptive, excellent in their for 1977 was 82, or 67.8 per cent. few waves-high frequency to convey to prospective students Comber said. discussion, keeping a sense of ones-at the unexpectedness of it Attrition has been considered a a more precise notion of what the humor and saying what they had problem in the past since, unlike college is like. a11. to say. We had an unusually large That is because on a clear aay, . other colleges, St. John's, number of able students." "FOR THE PAST three years because of its non-elective t0 y if you can't precisely see forever, Michael Littleton, who with Mr. we have had very few drop-outs program, cannot accept upperWyatt led the seminar, found the you can, standing in the bell (Continued from P .1) the first two weeks," Dean Edclassmen transferring from other program "very successful." annual alumni-student soccer tower, if your sight is very, very ward Sparrow said. "Previously, colleges. "The conversations were rich classic and a .piano concert by good, see all the way to Nebraska it had been a regular thing to The largest proportion of have several students who and represented quite a range of Nancy Eagle Lindley, '58, who Avenue and the Washington ofstudents leave St. John's between discover St. John's is not the opinion, he said. "I've enjoyed will perform works of Ravel, fices of WRC-TV. It's as if there the experience of working with Schubert, and Mennin in the were a string stretched in a the freshman and sophomore. place for them to leave the first year; the number then lessens week or so. This number has gone adults in investigating history, an Great Hall. Ms. Lindley received straight line there direct enough with each successive . year. area in which I've noticed the her master's in music from the to prove the Euclidian concept of down considerably.'' Students leave for a variety of difference more than in other University of West Virginia and what shortness is. High school students applying causes: for personal, family, or parts of the Graduate Institute. is a candidate for a doctor of That, of course, with all this for admission appear to be those financial reasons, or because I've appreciated their ,Willingness musical arts in performance and business about Governor Mandel, who definitely want to come. they may want to concentrate orr Twenty-five years ago, Mr. to speak out of their own exliterature at the University of is what this NBC-owned station an area of study in which they perience. It was good to discuss Maryland. Secretary of the has been seeking- a high, direct Sparrow said, there may have have become interested while history with people who've lived Alumni Association from 1969 to line between Annapolis and been less understanding of the students here. longer than undergraduates. Our 1971, she was its first woman Washington from which bigh program. As new admissions students were being moved by . , frequency waves can be sent. A dire,ctor. Enablings at the end of the officers have come along, each Preceding the dinner, a. 1 high frequency transmitter must their readings and changed. has added to recruitment sophomore year take their toll. recepti'on will be held at 6:30 p.m. line up visually with the site with There was a lot of fruitful Last year four students were told techniques which permit students During the dinner special tribute not even a tall building in bet- they should not return, and a to judge for themselves whether thinking going on." Some of the discussion touched will be paid to class captains who ween. dozen others were conditionally they definitely want to enter St. As a result, as developments enabled with the understanding have served three of the past nine upon contemporary matters: John's. Freshmen classes are years in the alumni's annual fund surrounding the Mandel trial Vietnam, World War II, believed to have sufficient unraising effort. continued to break, Joel Albert, Watergate, corruption, and derstanding of the program to be CLASSES HOLDING their manager of news pperations for camera crew transmits it on a bureaucracy. considered substantially "self25th, 40th and 50th reunions will WRC and a man with an low powered transmitter to selected." "What didn't we talk about ?" be those of '52, '37, and '27. In imagination as it turns out, came McDowell where it is received. Mr. Littleton said. "We talked , c·harge respectively will be to Annapolis lookin~ for the There it is fed from a short cable ~arger classes of the 60 s a~d about everything." Thomas M. Carnes, of San highest place in town. into a four-foot parabolic dish, 70 s .a~so have been. helpful m Judging from his seminar, he Francisco; Merrill M. Mitchell, "Annapolis has been a tough which concentrates the signal p~ov1dm~ greater mt~llectual feels the most popular book may of Virginia Beach, and Bernard place to get a micro-wave since it and aims it outward to stimula~10~ .and are belieyed to _ have been the "Peloponnesian F. Gessner, of Annapolis. is next to the Bay and lies very Washington and the WRC tower, be a .s1gmf1cant f~ctor m the War." "Thucydides gets the low," he said. where the signal is received and re~ent10n rat~. Durmg the e.a~ly prize," he said. Mr. Wyatt agreed rratum :ije didn't know about St. put on the air. 70 s. ~t. Jo~n s made a. def1mte and added that initially students The June Reporter announced John's, but spotting McDowell on Thus viewers heard about such dec1s10n to mcrease the size of the found the reading boring but as that Eloise Collingwood, Boston the rise of the campus, things as the Mandel trial, Blair college from 300 to 375. the discussion developed, recognized a suitable structure Lee's news conference, and Thucydides appears to have sophomore, had been presented The greater staying power of and said, in effect, "Aha, that's reports on what's happening at the Bela Ronay $1,000 award for become a high point for them. students also may reflect a scholarship. The award correctly it!" IN MR. FISHER'S tutorial, the governor's mansion via NBC nation-wide trend in which As a result of an arrangement and, incidentally, via McDowell . ·college students appear to show devoted to theological and is known as the Joan Yvonne. Ronay Memorial Scholarship. It between the college and WRC, an Hall. philosophical views of history, · greater tenacity in settling into NBC reporter can tell his story at the selections from Vico's is given annually by Mr. Ronay in Move over Simon Duff. We're the serious business of getting an ground level. From there the surprised, to~ ..... , .. .., ~ , ... ~ .... , ,, ... ~.d11cation. "Scienza Nuova" and from Hegel memory of his wife. ,/ . . I i I I Numbers on rise �SEPT EM BER, 1977 Perceptive THE· REPORTER group likes (Continued from P.1) session was out, points-of-view, mind casts, and personal per· suasions, were being bent. People were being changed. Thucydides, A graduate of St. John's and now a Key School teacher, Mrs. Polillo had read most of the major books during her undergraduate years. AMONG THE .PROGRAM'S "IT'S VERY different to read members were teachers, librarians, a pre-med student, a them 20 years later," she said. tobacconist, a recording firm · "When I read them as a student engineer, a governess, and a full- at St. John's, I tended to read blooded Navajo, who, in her own them only to understand what an personal search for universal author was saying. Now I find truths, already has begun to take myself wa!lting to re~d them to bits and pieces of St. John's great understand the ·nature of. man, books back to the New Mexico including myself, my own reservation college where she characteristics, the way in which lview the world." teaches. Rosamond Rice, a Mt. Holyoke The students didn't come here necessarily . for an additional graduate with a master's in library science, worked haH·time degree. Dr. Nicholas Capozzoli, at the Naval Academy in order to Annapolis neurologist, certainly read books she always has doesn't need another diploma tQ wanted to read and never could. hang on his office wall. At least There also was something else. four participants came already equipped with a master's degree "I feel as if I'm learning more and another was well on his way about people than about history," to a doctorate in philosophy. she observed at one point during Four had completed some work the summer. "There are 17 difin Santa Fe, including a graduate ferent people here and 17 dif-. · degree ·there. Another, Mary ferentimpressions." Menner, of Bedford, N.H., St. John's, committed to a completed her institute policy of smallness, began its requirements here and flew back summer program characto Santa Fe to formally receive teristically in a small. way. It's a her master's. beginning, and one which has A large percentage appeared drawn enthusiastic support from like Faye Polillo, to have come participants, including Mark "simply for the pleasure of Faller, a Harvard graduate in physics and philosophy who now learning." teaches math and coaches wrestling at Port Jervis (N.Y.) High School. "I'm impressed by the students, who are strong-minded, intelligent, sensitive, inquiring people, not your normal student,'1 he said during an interview. But just as much he was im· pressed by the teaching method. St. John's has no classroom lectures, and teaching is done through discussion. "MOST OF THE time when I was at Harvard and would seek to develop a new learning situation, I would be told, 'Nope, that's not tpe way to learn; you listen.' At St. John's it's just the opposite. The tutors do not have closed minds. They are very open and go to great pains to keep channels of communication open. Even those who have some already formed concepts seek to develop as many thoughts as they can. Most people at big universities are against a learning situation. They want rote teaching." Fund raising efforts bring $85 7 ,000 here SJC noted in death of Hutchins Under the Fund for the-1980s, fund raising efforts in the fiscal year which ended July 1 realized a total of $857,259 as against $467,295 the previous year, Vice President William B. Dunham has announced. The amount enabled the college to end with a surplus of $39,191 in operating funds. Of the money raised $473,239 was used to pay for current costs, $344,829 has gone into St. John's revenue earning endowment fund, and the surplus operating funds have been placed in the operating reserve. In addition, by the end of June $3,594,808 has· been raised by the Fund for the 1980s in pledges and bequests. Of that sum,-$1,735,399 was in pledges and $995,000 in bequests. "AS PART OF the Fund for the 1980s, St. John's Annual Fund must each year provide the monies required to balance the college's~ annual operating budget," 'Mr. Dunham said. "Once again it more than did so for the fiscal year which ended July 1. "The college received a total 9f $512,430 for current operating purposes. Only $473,239 was required to b:ilance the budget so this campus ended its fiscal year with a surplus of $39,191 which has been placed in operating reserves. The Reporter is published by the Office of 'College Relations, St. John's College, Annapolis, Md., 21404, Richard D. Weigle, president, William B. Dunham, vice president. Published five times a year, in February, April, June, September and November. , Second class postage paid at Annapolis, Md. "In addition the college received during the 1976-77 fiscal year gifts for capital purposes, including, endowment, totalling $344,829. "The grand total of gift income for the 1976-77 fiscal year, the first year of the Fund for the 1980s, was Ums $857,259 as compared to $467,295 the previous year." Sources of giving were: Board, $105,333; college community, $3,265; alumni fund, $57,874 with another $37,040 for capital purposes and $50,000 for special purposes; parents, $18,455; friends, $27,369; cor· porations, $10,525; foundations, $411,340; Association of In· dependent Colleges in Maryland, $28,282, and government, $107,876. . "Inflationary pressures are still forcing a risky dependence on fund raising to balance the operating budget earh year and obviously extraordinary mea· sures continue to berequiredboth to increase gift income and reduce expenditures," Mr.~ Dunham said. "THESE WILL clearly have to be our goals again for the new academic year." A five-year summary of gift income prepared by Mr.Dunham shows the following figures for current operations and all pur· poses, given in that order: 1972-73, $245,090 and $314,538; 1973-74, $335,373 and $385, 764; 1974-75, $372,650 and $429,059; 1975-76, $412,334 and $467,295; and .1976-77, $512,430 and $857,259. Charles Richardson, ·.a dissertation short of obtaining his doctorate in philosophy, worked 18 hours a day, dividing his time between the Graduate Institute and responsibilities as head of Richardson Recordings. He fitted the Peloponnesian and Persian wars into recording sessions for a The death of Robert M. Hutchins, who was elected to the St. John's board the same day Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan were chosen first president and dean of the New Program, brought editorial comment in The National Observer and iri The Washington Post which mentioned St. John's. The National Observer.wrote: 1 -: "Left alone now as outposts of this classical humane education are the St. John's Colleges of Annapolis, Md., and Santa Fe, which prove that Aristotle, Plato, Descartes, and Augustine have' more to say about life than Frankli~ Delano Roosevelt, Henry Kissinger, Timothy Leary, or Johnny Cash." The Washington Post had this to say: "HUTCHINS' IDEA about education might have been more widely accepted during his lifetime if, in the American way, he had been franchised like Burger Chef and had established a chain of roadside universities across the land. That's success, we would have said. But except for St. John's Colleges in An· napolis and Santa Fe, no measurable evidence exists that h i s b e I i e f s w e r e i n· stitutionalized." First named to the St. John's board on April 12, 1937, Hutchins, who was then president of the University of Chicago, served for two years before resigning in the fall of 1939. For a period during that time ne was ooara cna1rman. In a resolution proposed by President Weigle, the present St. r • PAGE 3 •tJ Vico, Hegel new album of music in the Naval brings up tbe question of how important is a myth to a people,." . tradition. Seminar · discus SlO n ~ "What I enjoy is the discussion sometimes center on why and the interchange," he said, "finding out where you are, historians thought and felt as where someone else is, and they did and what their strengths sometimes changing your mind. and weaknesses were. In one You learn in so much more depth series of readings participants viewed history through the eyes in discussion." I of dramatists, considering three He has .been impressed by the views of Electra. as given by tremendous variety of attitudes Aeschylus, Sophocles, and toward history expressed by Euripides. students. WADE. DORSEY, manager of "THEY RANGED all ·the way A. Fader & Son tobacco shop on from whether history is the · Majn Street, · picked up a working out of a divine plan or ·bachelor's degree ·at the whether · it is a mere hap- University of Maryland in 1975. penstance of human accident and He found that the institute's type of learning contrasted with what folly," he said. In . individual conferences, he has experienced in the past. "It made for quite a bit of in· Program Director ·Geoffrey Comber said students repeatedly tern al pressure on oneself," he expressed the view that the in- observed. "Consequently, it stitute .Provided a completely forced one to learn more. Not that new experience for tnem in which anyone was-forcing me; I forced questions of history were being myself. I didn't want to sit in a raised that they never had seminar and· say nothing, and I didn't want to say something thought of before. stupid. I thought I was gaining "Students told me. they came more mastery over my subject thinking they knew what. history matter than I did in the past." really was, and they have had The St. John's method iJTii questions raised they never pressed Joyce Puckett, an dreamed of before - questions ~f elementary school teacher. the meaning of truth in history. Noting the significantly large Some have said that proportion of knowledge students Shakespeare's Richard II is more 'learn from one another, she in· true than Holinshed even though tends to introduce more they admit his Chronicles 'discussion into her fifth grade may be more accurate. Anp that class. Course to he offered for pre-med students medical students, Mr. Sparrow Difficulties raised by changes said the college has decided to in the laboratory program for students who wish to go to . enter into an arrangement with the University of Maryland. The medical school have been solved new course is being offered by the by an arrangement between St. university's off-campus division John's and the University of with Barbara Leonard, St. John's Maryland under which the tutor with a background in university will offer a special zoology, an instructor. Tuition class on campus this year. will be limited to registration and Dean Edward Sparrow ex- other administrative costs, and a plained that the class is planned separate transcript will be for pre-medical students who prepared. must take their Medical College The year-long course in biology Achievement Tests in their junior and biochemistry will cover such year before they are able to take advantage of St. John's full topics as the nervous and endocrine systems, respiratory, biology program. circulatory, skeletal, and Under the new laboratory muscular systems, digestive and program, which goes into effect reproductive systems, evolution, this year, students receive three- bioenergetics, biosynthesis, and fourths of a semester of biology in enzymes. the first semester of the fresh· man year and a full semester in 107 Students the second half of the senior year. Rather than penalize pre· John's board paid tribute to his contribution to the college during its July meeting. The resolution praised Hutchins "for the important role he played in bringing into being the present curriculum of St. John's College, in serving on its board, in providing leadership as its chairman for a brief period, and in showing constant interest and concern for the college and its program." It noted that 'st. John's "is considered to be the principal example of the classical, humane educatfon, for which Robert Hutchins stood." Start Studies (Coniinued from P. 1) here this summer with the Annapolis institute. His sister, -Virginia '(Nina), now Mrs. Charles Heal, was graduated in · 1974 and his brother, John S. Newlin, Jr., in 1967. Another freshman with a family connection is Jessic'1 A. Wasserman, of Spring Lake, Mich., sister of Adam Wasserman, '76. By virtue of the alphabet, Miss Aston's mother was the first . woman to graduate from St. John's after the college went coeducational in 1951. She served as . college nurse for the two years following her commencement in 1955.· "'"'-! ... .-; �-:r~~;{=;~~~~~_-:Yf~·1~~~--.~ ~<i-.__.;>· -'.i-···11-,~~.~-,~., ,_'. ~ .-~·t ~ PAG,~,,4·.,·:·i""':'•;:: :'.l,~l: . lHE '~~ORl"ER Published by College Relations Office St. John's College ·Annapolis, Md. 21404 Board elects eleven; McLanahan renamed ·~ 75. El Paso resident Stephen L. Feinberg is president of Dorsar Industries, a holding company whose interests include Border Steel Rolling Mills, Springer Building Materials, and First State Bank of El Paso. A graduate of the University of Texas, he serves as a director of United Way, the Rehabilitation Center, and the Child Treatment Center of El Paso. California business executive Theodore Smyth has extensive ranching and lumber holdings on tne West Coast and in Hawaii. He has served as president of the Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra Association and on the board of the Children's Home Society and the California Citizens Freeway Association. He is a graduate of Columbia University. DR. DALTON WELTY is in private practice as an internist in Hagerstown. He was gradua.t~cl magna cum laude from St. John's Annapolis campus, received his medical degree, and did his internship at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, a member of the Johns Hopkins Medical and Surgical Association, . and a member of the American Medical Association. He has been president of the. Washington County Medical As.sociation and is on the board of directors of the county chapter of the American Heart Association.· Alexander K. McLanahan of Houston, Tex., was re-elected chairman of the Board of Visifors and Governors. Vice· chairmen are Mrs. Dorothy Roudebush, of St. -Louisi and Dr. Thomas Turner, of Baltimore. Jerome LaPide$ will serve as secretary for 1977-78. Indian list is proposed ,5E~·tEMB6i/1l977 Allison gets historian's post DATE Due Eleven members were elected to the Board of Visitors and Governors of St. John's College of Aanapolis and Santa Fe at the annual meeting of the board held on the New Mexico campus. In addition to those selected the alumni have chosen Dr. David Dobreer, of Alhambra, Calif., and Francis Mason, of New York City, to a second consecutive term as alumni members of the board. Re-elected were Donald R. Kirby, Albuquerque; Mrs. Lowell R. Ditzen, Washington,; Adolph W. Schmidt, Ligonier, Pa.; Mrs. Carleton Mitchell, Annapolis, and Karl R. Van Tassel, Chicago, Ill. New members include Mrs. Pamela Combemale, Winthrop, Me.; Miss Harriet C. Higgins and Eugene V. Thaw, New York City; Stephen' L. Feinberg, El Paso, Tex.; Theodore H. Smyth, Santa Barbara, Calif., and Dr. Dalton Welty, Hagerstown, Md. · . MISS HIGGINS is an associate in the Corporate Finance Department of White, Weld & Company. Prior to accepting her present position she served as aide to the mayor of the city of New York. She received· her bachelor's degree in French from the University of Georgia and has attended the Graduate School of Business of New York University. An art dealer, Eugene Thaw is president of E.V. Thaw and Company. A 1947 graduate of St. John's College in Annapolis, he has done graduate studies in history of art at Columbia University. He is a founding member of the Board of the Art Dealers Association of America and served as president in 1973- THE R,EPORTER ~ (Continued from P. 1) Mrs. McNeley already has crossed two cultures. A graduate of Breschia College in Owensboro, Ky., she did graduate work at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff and at the University of New Mexico before enrolling in the summer graduate program at St. John's campus in Santa Fe. This summer she returned to St. John's, this time to the Annapolis campus for a fifth segment of the college's Gradu-ate Institute. For'.,Mrs. McNeley, who was here on a scholarship offered by the Navajo Tribe Higher Education Department - her eaflier institute education was done under a Henry "Luce Fellowship stud-.iying Thucydides and Herodotus represents part of a search, a careful rethinking of the culture of the Navajo Indian. Some of what she has learned on both campuses will go back with her when she returns to teach philosophy and literature at the Navajo Community College. It will come in small bits. "My students will ask, 'Why study all that ancient stuff?' " she said, referring to the great books. "They will say it's useless." And so she hands the great books back in small bits and with a number of questions to make them relative. She may slip in a small section of Aristotle's "Ethics." "I try to read a passage or an essay and relate it to their background,'' she .. §"~<J ....:'Il9W. David Allison, '73, has just been made the first historian of the Naval Research Laboratory in Anacostia, Md. Chosen for the position from . among a hundred applicants, Mr. Allison may have had a slight edge in being appointed to the newly created post because of work already begun there in connection with his dissertation for his doctorate in the history of science. As a graduate student at Princeton University, Mr. Allison last October began investigations leading to an historical account of the development of radar in the United States, first undertaken at the laboratory. He will continue work on his dissertation as he undertakes his duties coordinating and preserving historically significant documents and carrying on a program of oral history. The laboratory first was conceived before World War I when Thomas Edison recommended that the type of scientific research and development laboratory he himself had organized be set up as a center to mobilize civilian scientists for defense. It opened in 1923 and has been responsible for a number of O'Flynns go to Washington Moving to Washington are the Donnell O'Flynns, both 1973 alumni. Mr. Q'Flynn will enter the Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, and one building down from the Massachusetts Avenue School will be Mrs. O'Flynn, who has begun work as an applicant relations assistant for the Association of American Medical Colleges. Mr. O'Flynn is leaving the Smithsonian Institute, where he has been associated with the mathematics section. Mrs. O'Flynn has been an assistant to St. John's director of admissions. She is being replaced by David Doremus, who is taking a year out after concluding his junior year at the-college last spring. does it i'~late to their own traditional Navajo culture? What was Aristotle's sense of goodness? What is goodness? What is the contemplative life? I try to talk about Navajo goodness and -try to contrast ideas. How are we different? Are we really different? What is the difference? "I try to arrival at universals. I try to point out to our native group that we have universals. We all try to seek what is truth. We have a sense of justice and of virtue. Are those we have and those Aristotle had shared by everyone?" DAVID ALLISON important scientific advances, including the nation's first satellite in orbit. Mr. Allison is married to the former Ymelda Martinez, who began her St. John's studies on the Santa Fe campus and then spent two years,here. She now is completing a degree at· the Philadelphia \ College of Art, working primarily in the field of fibers, especially weaving. Both attended the University of Bordeaux after leaving St. John's. They µow reside at 5833 Fifer Drive, Alexandria, Va. Mrs. Allison is commuting between Alexandria and Philadelphia during the school year. Shakespearean Feast to be Oct. 15 There will be feasting and fanfare and a menu dating to Shakespeare's time on Saturday, Oct. 15, when the Caritas Society holds its annual benefit. scholarship dinner. The toasts to the Queen will come during a Silver Jubilee reception id the Great Hall. The Shakespearean 'feasting will follow at a dinner prepared under the direction of Mrs. Jacob Klein in which guests will dine upon such sumptuous Elizabethan dishes as roasted venison and oysters cooked in a white wine sauce. Afterwards guests will move to the foyer of the Key Auditorium for a "variety of sweetmeats and delicacies." In charge of the desserts will be Mrs. Colby G. Rucker. · AS GUESTS COME and go, there will be an informal program in which Soprano Helen Stephenson and Lutanist Mark Southard will perform Shakespearean music. Rounding out the toasts of the evening will be Admiral Rucker who will sing an old drinking song hailing the queen and believed to date back to the first Elizabeth. Mrs. Howard E. Mullinix, Caritas' first vice-president, who is serving as chairman of the evening, said that during the reception toasts will be offered by Hugh McGrath and David Stephenson of the college faculty, two men known for their wit at St. John's, where toast giving has been developed into a high art. She said a special guest who will be presented to respond briefly will be the consul-general of the British Embassy, G.L. Scullard. Chamber music will be led by a group headed by Caritas member Charlotte Dunham, member of the Anne Arundel Community College faculty and a well known musician. The reception will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Mrs. L. P. Frederick will be chairman assisted by Mrs. Edwin G. Greenberg. In charge of student assistance during the evening will be Roberta Rusch. THERE WILL BE two seatings for the dinner, one at 7 and another at 8 p.m. Admission will be $15 a person with funds raised to be used for scholarship assistance at St. John's. Persons wishing to make reservations may do so by mailing checks and indicating which seating they prefer to Mrs. Donald C. Gilley, 1918 Harwood Rd., Pendennis Mount, 21401. Since attendance necessarily will be limited, those wishing to attend are advised to include their return address and telephone number. Deadline for making reservations is October 3. Mrs. Mullinix said that sherry and sack ("If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked") will be served at the reception. The menu calls for venison, turkey pie, oysters in white wine sauce, roast chine of beef, herbed carrots, "John Murrell's buttered cauliflower," salads of beets and salads of greeqs, and wheat, barley, oats and rye bread along with desserts, all consumP-d with "potations," which at this · event tr.-i.·:.?]'.,~ .:s ,~i'<.\> ..vir1e "In being exposed to the Julia Perkins gets internship studies of western culture,'' she continued, "I'm trying to think of - Julia Perkins, of Barre, Mass.-, Perkins from among 30 apour own culture, and with our a member of the May graduating plica.nts. During her year witq people ·trying to revitalize an class, has been awarded a year's the foundation Miss Perkins will appreciation and lov~ for it." internship at_the Mary Reynolds familiarize herself with fund Babcock Foundation in Winston- r-aising activities, grant The McNeleys maintain a Salem, N.C. evaluation and review, and the summer home.at Cortez, Colo., in The foundation, which supports legal and fiscal aspects of nonaddition to their Shiprock several organizations involved in profit programs. · expe~i~llt\~1.~eJ.~ntiJl~·.-G.h.9~~ l~flSfi residence. � 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 5 · change for 31/2 acres which are to be transferred to the state. A bond bill adopted in the last ,hour of the Maryland Legislature Benjamin Milner will serve as· authorizes the exchange of land for a site for a new Annapolis fine St. John's new assistant dean ·arts center. The bill requires St. July 1, replacing Ray John's to match the funds. Williamson who- has received a Smithsonian Fellowship for the Passed 20 minutes before the coming academic year. General Assembly adjourned, St. John's is facing an acute A tutor here since 1965, Mr. the bill would · partially -finarice shortage of dormitory rooms, Milner is a native of Atlanta, Ga. work on three buildings long in according to Ray Williamson, Following his graduation froin need of renovation. The first is assistant dean. the Paca-Carroll House, a small North Fulton High School in The number of rooms needed dormitory, which also would be ·has grown as real estate costs · enlarged; the second is a have skyrocketed in Annapolis, Christopher Wrenn type building forcing many students who would - Randall - the college dining ordinarily prefer to live in town to return to the campus. The Spring hall, and the third is the college gymnasium . rents for small apartments are St. John's will immediately going up as much as 50 per cent. seek matching funds as part of The crunch is ·affecting sophomores particularly. Fresh- the Fund for the '80's campaign. The land to go to the state men are guaranteed rooms, and juniors and seniors traditionally presently is unused by the college. It is bounded by Rowe have been given first preference; Boulevard, St. John's Street but sophomores, who generally extended to College Creek, double up, must make do with College Creek, and the Bloomwhat is available. At the end of May the assistant deans had 32 (Continued on P. 8) sophomores on a waiting list for ro·om assignments. For the past three years only President Richard D. Weigle congratulates Sara Anastaplo, one dormitory - Chase-Stone BENJAMIN MILNER • whose essay was iudged best of the seniors . . Miss Anastaplo is has not had its common room Atlanta, he attended · Emory the third member of her family to graduate from St. John's. Her pre-empted for housing. Two to · in University, where he received sister, Helen Anastaplo Scharbach, received her degree in 1971, three students are using common By far and away the largest his bachelor's degree in English :md her brother, George, in 1975. Photo by Tom Parran rooms in East Pinkney, Pacain 1949. percentage of St. John's .·Carroll, Campbell and HumDuring the Korean War he graduates go into law. The phreys. served in the Army. In 1955 he medical and biological sciences "This makes it impossible ~o.r obtained his bachelor of divinity students to party, study, or vmt taken together claim the next degree from Columbia Theolargest segment. ther~orsimplytogetawayfrom logical _ Seminary in Decatur, . their roommate," Mr. Ga., and in 1965 his doctorate A study of 866 graduates bet, Williamson said. from Harvard, where he studied ween 1941 and 1976 made by the Early estimates show that next the history and philosophy of admissions and assistant deans' St. John's has graduated its were dropped after the college year there. will be 105 freshmen, offices shows that 146, or 16.9 per religion. His doctoral thesis, largest class in the history of its decided that the designation of 112 to 120 sophomores, more than cent, have entered law. · "Calvin's Doctrine of the New Program, conferring its -such honors had become too 75 juniors, and 83 seniors. Church," eventually was bachelor degrees in traditional subjective to make them pracSt. John's will experience some The medical and biological published. ceremonies distinguished by a tical. Unlike other colleges, St. relief when the Paca-Carroll sciences, with 92 students, claim Mr. Milner joined Wellesley major change in their presen- John's has not used an automatic dormitory is remodeled and 10.6 per cent. When these two College faculty jn 1959 where he · tation. enlarged, a project to be un- sciences are separated, medicine taught - in the Department of grade point aver.,age but other This year all degrees were criteria in determining · which dertaken when funds become stands at 7.2 per cent, accounting Biblical History. He became a awarded "rite." Differentiating students were to receive them. available. That will\ make it for 62 of the graduates, and member of St. John's faculty in honors degrees, such as "cum possible to accommodate 34 biological sciences a:t 3.5 per 1965. This year he has served as Altogether the Class of '77 laude" and "magna cum laude,". numbered 77, including one of the students as against the present cent, with 30 students. chairman of the Campus 21. Meanwhile, the college must Development Committee. first 13 women in the United Philosophy has attracted the make other plans. Mr. Mr. Milner is married and has States to receive a Rhodes Williamson has seriously third largest group of students - - three children. His wife, Mary scholarship for study at Oxford suggested that even ~ore rooms Jane, is a teacher at Key School. Nancy Coiner of Tulsa, Oki~. Ben Milner to become ass't dean Dormitory shortage presses SJC ::' Law leads · careers Larges t c Iass . · - gets degrees Fund tops $6-million (Continued on P. 7) St. John's Fund for the 1980's has reached $6.4-million, Charles A. Cooley, assistant to the president artd director of the campaign, has announced. The money, which will be used to finance both St. John's campuses, includes State funds given under a land exchange arrangement reached during the 1977 General Assembly. The national campaign has a $25million goal. Launched last September 30 in New York City, the drive is seeking funds for both the Annapolis and Santa Fe campuses with endowment a major priority. "A Carnegie Corporation study shows that a private college in Amerka must have a minimum of $10,000 a student in endowment if it is to survive this period of Preliminary architectural drawings are complete for St. John's much loved but decaying Paca-Carroll House, and the project is ready to move ahead as soon as financing becomes available. Tb.e dormitory is one of three buildings to be financed in part by the $1. 75-million the college is scheduled to receive from the state in exchange for 31/2 acres of land. The other two are the dining hall and gymnasium. St. John's must match the state money. Plans prepared by James T. Wollon, Jr., Havre de Grace architect who specializes in restoration, call for the PacaCarroll aouse to be enlarged to (Continued on P. 2) (Continued on P. 7) .(Continued on P. 8) (Continued on P. 2) Paca-Carroll House to he enlarged The Paco-Carroll House with its new wing stretching a long St. John's Street will look like this. Two new principal entrances will be built at either end of the dormitory. ~ �JUNE 1977 THE REPORTER PAGE2 Llb.er~l arts and-a 'manifesto' Some time ago we were chatting with Robert Gold win, then dean of St. John's College in Annapolis (and now a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute here). St. John's is best known, in shorthand, as the "Great Books" school - with a non-elective, liberal arts curriculum. It is a small school, 400 students on the Annapolis campus and not quite 300 on the Santa Fe sister campus, opened in 1964. There are no intercollegiate athletics, no fraternities or sororities and, if there is a school song, generations of students have been innocent of either tune or words. A curious place, we said to Mr. Goldwin. "I hope so," he said. His comment was recalled by two items this week. The first was a news release from th~ school notirig that this year is the 40th anniversary of the "New Program" there; in 1937 Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan est?blished at St. John 's the first fixed curriculum in the 20th century at a U.S. school, based on the Great Books - a tradition so long established in Western higher education that it was viewed as revolutionary when revived. • The second item was a "Manifesto of Liberal Arts College Presidents," a cumbrous rubric but a significant howl. The document came from the presidents of four small liberal arts colleges - Bard, Bennington, Scripps and Wheaton. The manifesto, in Time magazine's jangled metaphor, is th~ "latest salvo in a major debate now roiling" within academe. That is, the searing costs of private college tuition and the alleged difficulty of liberal arts graduates in finding jobs, as against the popularity of allegedly practical "vocational" fields of study. Which, as a matter of fact, are not so practical as the academic salesmen would have you believe; there are more graduating seniors with journalism degrees this year, for instance, than there are total jobs in journalism. Perhaps the epitome of_ vocational philosophy this was expressed last year by T. H. Bell, then U.S. Commissioner of Education: "It is our duty to provide our students with salable skills.'' The four liberal arts·presidents are concerned that colleges are producing students primarily as consumers of the status quo, not in- . novators, while college presidents have become "mere managers, not educators." Furthermore, Time's report · continues, the manifesto asks - do students who come to college "without the skills to read, to think critically and to express themselves leave our institutions with these slfills?" There is a deep chasm between the manifesto signers and the Bellian vocationists. The two thrusts need not be mutually exclusive but, too often, become so in institutional fact. · But the manifesto brings us round again to St. John's. The intense intellectuality of its curriculum is not universally appealing. But the . discipline of mind and spirit it represents, the commitment to the dignity of reason and the critical faculties of the rational animal, is, or . should be, universal. Can education be defined otherwise? In its 40th year, St. John's College is a healthy symbol of these values. It is indeed a curious place, a splendidly curious place. There should be more like it. And we hope the manifesto for a wide resuscitation of the liberal arts awakens response. The Washington Star- I, I I Students presented retiring Dean Curtis Wilson with a mariner's clock and barometer at lunch on the final day of classes. Cliff Adams, who presided and led a cheer for hirri, stands while looking on are Ted Burke, Catherine Sims, and Marianne Braun, '58 now with the placement office. · PhotobyTomParran . How it was to he here . done, what they themselves have A St John's tutor and a St. murdered, but the stakes are done to us through the works they John's senior gave their im- nevertheless our lives and yours, pressions of their years at the whether you are going to let your wrote, is lifted us from the helplessness of ignorance th·at college in Class Day talks just eyes run wild in their beholding prior to graduation. · or live your life forever wan~ doesn't recngnize itself as that. "They've made us stand up __: For Tutor Leo Raditsa, who dering in the shades, as Freud stand up· as our ignorant selves arrived on campus the same year put it, artd drag us down back into but stand up nonetheless. They the seniors did, St. John's is like them. an "enchanted island" where the "In some ways these last four didn't give us any .choice. lines defining student and years have made up my second ·Because to live in-their-company teacher are marked by am- · undergraduate education. My one has to be~ome.a little bit. like. biguity. For William Owen, of· · first one took place almost them. They gave ·us the courage Washington, it's the company the exactly 20 years before. I conand the honesty to stand up as seniors have kept: "the most sider them both unsatisfactory. l ourselves. "Now, I know I've promised ·honest men of all times." hope you consider yours unQuoting some thoughts of Mr. satisfactory also; otherwise you some of you that I wouldn't speak about - this, but I'm going to Raditsa, who is taking a. year's will hardly understand why we anyway. Righi, the primate leave as a National Fellow of the are in the midst of celebrating a Hoover Institute: · beginning . . . I think the most experience. Let us imagine for a moment that there is a spiritual "I .remember some time in my striking difference between my counterpart to what we all know first few weeks here, which were undergraduate years and yours is also your fir~t few weeks, Win- that you appear to be innocent of is one of . the .signal characfree Smith asking ·how I found thinking psychoanalytically. For teristics of the kind of creature (Continued from P .1) myself at St. .John's and . my me and, I think, for : many that we are. And U we remember spiraling inflation," Mr. Cooley with .alumni, fellow_ board an~wering that it was an en- of my contemporari~s. what it must have been like back members, foundation directors, chanted island and that meant psychoanalytical ways of on the savannah, what the world said. DURING THE past · year a and corporate heads,. spreading you had to keep your wits about thinking were the air we must have looked like when we number of individual area the SL John's story. were down there. How the world you lest you turn into a pig. breathed. In fact, it might be said campaigns have been '1fiderway must have changed when we first "I ·still. feel that way, but four that the-amateurs drove many of 11 in Philadelphia, Baltimore, PRESIDENT WEIGLE has· years ago I had no idea of how us to the professionals." . · stood up and regarded it from the Houston, Palm Beach and been on hand for six of the area much wit it took. In fact, as some upright postllte ! I suspect that IN HIS REMARKS; Mr. Owen Clearwater, . Fla., Wilmington dinners as have been both Mr. of you know, I have found it gave these impressions: when one finally does stand up to one's thinking the world will and Washington. They have been . McLanahan and Mr. Schmidt," necessary to retire to the Pacific "The . first thing that we've kicked off at dinners which .have Mr. Cooley said. seem· to change in as great a next year to catch my breath, to done the most of here is talk. way." drawn 600 alumni, parents, and sharpen my wits, and to ·shake We've tried to say to others, as "Jerome LaPides, the cam- the trail of students. At this.place best we could, exactly what was · friends. r meets almost the demand for wit is cumulative. on our minds . . . We've also Here a · e fields "Immediate plans can· -for paign treasurer, _ luncheons and dinners to be held daily with either me, here on the The reason it takes so much wit to asked ourselves a lot of questions ~here alumni go in Hagerstown, Annapolis, and Annapolis campus, or with . survive here is, of course, that . . . And the last thing that has · (Continued from P. 1) the Eastern Shore of Maryland various members of the Board . the lines defining student and · made us good for doing our own some 86 or 9.9 per cent. Teaching and in Boston," Mr. Cooley an- Steering Committee. In his role teacher are remarkably fluid. In thinking "(to my mind it's the comes fourth with 70 students or 8 nounced. "These four key as treasurer, Mr. Lapides has fact, some times they appear to most important one) is the percent. meetings are scheduled during traveled to New York, to Dallas,' me to be written in water. But for company that we've kept · Other fields where alumni are the summer months and possibly to Santa Fe, and to numerous all that, as we B:_ll know, there are throughout these last four years. serVing are: other cities across the country to students, and there are teachers . If I may quote, more or less, early September."· Mathematics or computer The campaign is being ·headed meet with his fellow board Descartes again, it's been the. sciences, 56 or 6.5 per cent; "UNDERNEATH IT all, we all company of the most honest men by Alexander K. McLanahan, of members in this important phase theology, 42, 4.8 per cent; know that what is going on here is of all times. (By the way, it Houston, Tex., and Adolph W. of St. John's history." psychology, · 32, 3.7 per cent; a life-and-death struggle. · We seems as if eaeh of us has a Schmidt, of Ligonier, Pa., who, language, 31, 3. 7 · per cent; MR. COOLEY SAID that Mr. ignore ·it, we deny it, we wail favorite candidate for the least Mr. Cooley said, have crissaloud that it is not so, that such appreciated author on the classics, 23, 2.65 per cent; crossed the country, · ~eeting Schmidt, in: addition to serving as co-chairman of the fund, is things are not 'even thought of program. My candidates for that political science and inheading a . board task force here, thaf your thoughts are only are Descartes and ternational relations, 22, 2.5 per The Reporter is published by #he Office of \ honorable (which is hardly what I Aristophanes). cent; history and philosophy of ·college Relations, St. John's College, ! charged with approaching and soliciting selected national would say about all of mine), that Annapolis, Md., 21404,- Richard D. Wei"N h t 't .. t d , science, 21, 2.4 per cent; business gle, president, William 8. Dunham, vice foundations. At the April board this place is different, as if all o~, '! a ~~er 1 is 0 . 0 one s administration, 21, 2.4 per cent; president. meeting in Annapolis, 42 of the places were not different. But Q.O ~wn t~g, it s s~methmg that, English, 20, 2.3 per cent; social Published live times a year, in February, major foundations, representing matter how much we deny it, we figuratively , speaking, o~e t ~:: work or social studies, 20, 2.3 per April, June, September and November. cent· physics 19 2.2 per cent· 16 states, were assigned to all know that it is a life and death to d~ on ones feet. And t a , Second class postage paid at Annapolis, . - . •'. Md. specific board members. struggle ~ ·. . . That is, nobod~ ~~, ~eadi,ng of gre~t authors has1 " che •. tr 6 n'l ' · '" ., ' ~ f ,. · 1.. '-" .. ~ } ! z:.: ·• • 1 u r1fS 1>1• ~ ~·>- ~~ ~(ep~. _d t r s )if t ~ ' t t. ' .s ., i 7 •.,, . . . . ~· l >f ;.',, ~· ' . . , • ~ . ~ ":. 'l ii '·c? - ;. .. "''1t Increase in endowment is n:iajor goal of drive . . . 1:. ]_• 1 \ Mil ' .l.>i l1·· ~·· .,. ~~ 7 'j '; !, ;. r;. { ~: ( ;;.•1 '.! I f · :~ • ; ·\~.,: P.,\'1 ~ {, t "------~~----· •• t ~ ., . . ... > • 1 ;t,i'", ,,. :~ ' , '.. . ~ --;:? :/, .., ,;~,..i:: ... ; w 111•:\'. . ~J \i ,-o; ,'1.H\9- ·i ~ l-it ~1 iJJ. :}~ :,l);dJi ,3;!hlil) bl. 1>;:crq �On a summer's day in 1886-87, a few years before Amos W.W. Woodcock first enrolled, St. John's College would have looked like this. This sketch, which air peared in a catalog for tfiat ~ar, shows a radically different waterline, one which was to be changed in 1907 when a $2,000 grant from the state and a $1,000 grant from · St. John's benefactor James _ Woodward fill~d in an nlet . T. from College Creek and leveled the football field. The castellated Gothic turrets and octagonal towers on Humphreys along with the turrets on Pinkney came off earlier in this century. Absent from McDowell was the entrance on the Humphreys side of the campus. 1899: Life was 'simple, pleasant, satisfying' St. John's College -1899. Humphreys was plastered over and painted a dull yellow. Literary societies held secret meetings in McDowell Hall, and there was a curious museum on the third floor, which was never opened. An organ in the Great Hall balcony pumped music for the chapel. The ·steam heating plan{ was called "Gregory's" after the fireman, steam engineer, and plumber who operated it. There was a two bar fence along College Avenue with _ some honeysuckle on it. The . fence was removed the next year when College Avenue was paved for the first . time. Around the football field on back campus there was a high board fence_ which blew down in 1900, about the time the field was graded,· and the fence was never restored. · Lutz' Saloon, at the north-east : corner of College Avenue and King George ~treet~ became the college biology laboratory. · Randall was · ·not completed ' until the summer of 1903, and students .ate in the· basement of Humphreys. The menu almost always consisted of cold roast beef ar steak, bread, and milk, with dessert usually canned . peaches, substantial meals which rarely varied except on Friday evenings when there was oyster stew. Ice cream was served twice a week. Students paid $16 a month for board. · No one on the faculty had doctorate, a new academic degree in those days in America, except for the president, who had been given ·an honorary degree by St. John's, and who was very proud of it, signing his checks, Thomas Fell, Ph. D. In his office his grey and fragile secretary, Miss Sarah Berry, who lived with. her mother in Chase-Stone, pecked away at a double keyboard Smith Premier while elsewhere in McDowell Dr. Fell accompanied his Latin classes with table thumpings which, for all the stu<J~nts.knew, Il}ig~'pay~ . been the Vo~s~~oae.' Dr. 1Fen .. prescribed quinine, which he pronounced ~ "queenene" in his British way, for -8:ny student who became ill. WHAT· ST. JOHN'S was like at the · . turn of the century is recorded by Amos W.W. Woodcock, who entered St. John's in 1899 when he was nearly 16. He went on to become president of St. John's in 1934-37 during the financially disastrous (he inherited a debt of $550,000) and series which originally appeared academically troubled era (the ill 1949 in The Evening Capital.. college lost its accreditation), a Highly readable and invaluable time which ·forced · trustees -to as a record of St. John's, they had rethink the goal of St. John's and been kept by the college arled to the institution of the New chivist, Miria.m Strange. Program. They have been gathered Woodcock's memories of St. . together in booklet form for more John'-.s covering his years as a permanent preservation in the student, young instructor, and college library. president were recorded in a A kindly person remembered as ·the man who administered prohibition, Woodcock recognized many of the ills which led to the St. John's crisis and attempted to correct them, but by the time he a.ssumed the presidency, it was almost too late; He wanted · to return the college to the condition he and bis great friend, Clarence W. · (Contlliued on P. 6) ,a Crowds gather during .the 1909 blaze which gutted McDowell. books,_remnant of the first public library in America. The photoDuring the fire ~mos W. W. Woodcock rescued the college's Bray graph is part of Marion Warren's hi_storic series. ~ �PAGE'4 , ···, · · ·,·,' ,,,,,.,,._. ·, · · . Sharon Bishop, . . ·r·,· ~ THEREPORTER - . . . ..... . .... 1· ··~,,. ~. · • • • • • • • .• ,~ - ~ ·r.~· JUNE1977 I College seeks , old pietures problem-solver of a special .sort straight, honest person to know Some time ago the then have earned Miss Bishop, still in governor of Delaware was her early 30's, a place on the high looking over a report evaluating r_ngs of the Boaz, Allen & u the administration of social Hamilton ladder. In announcing services in his state and stopped her new appoinment, Ed Hearle, to demand of an aide: "Who the president of the Government hell is Sharon Bishop?'' . Services Group, wrote: · ' Sharon Bishop is: "Since joining Boaz, Allen in (a) The author of the report, 1972, Sha,ron has developed and critical of one of his pet projects. managed · assignments for such (b) Sharon Bishop is, let's say clients as: Texas Department of it flatly but in a restrained Public Welfare; Community manner, one of the most effective Services Administration/Social · and successful women in the Reha bi litatio n Service; United States in the management Maryland Department of Human consultation profession. · Resources; Wisconsin Council on (c) The newly appointed Criminal Justice; City of Hartmanaging associate in the Inford; National Institute on stitutional and Public Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; Management Division in the and Louisiana Department of Washington office of Booz, Allen Health and-so.cial Service. & Hamilton, a position only one "SHE ALSO contributed step down from vice-president. significantly to an assignment for (d) A St. John's graduate of the Energy Research and 1966. Development Administration on . (e) A member of the SJC's organization of the nuclear Board of Visitors and Governors weapons program working closechosen by alumni as one of their ly with colleagues from the representatives. BAAR Division. (f) AND FINALLY, possibly ,·'Her publications and the only social worker--in the professional. meeting presencountry who has ever worked on tations have earned Sharon a a nuclear weapons .program, a national reputation as a project whtch began with Miss specialist "in needs assessment, Bishop's getting ~ government program evaluation, and imclearance and' being classified plementation of social service and ended with a citation from delivery systems. An imthe Energy Research and plementation manual she Development Administration prepared on assessing combearing the words, "May the Pen munity social service needs and Insure the Strongest Sword." resources has become one of Let's stop there and give St. Booz, Allen's best-ever sellers as John's a pat on the back for (f). over 60 individuals referred to us The letter involved highly by the client have purchased technical questions to be ancopies (at $25+ $3 postage and swered in reaching a decision as ll_~ndling ! ) . '' · to .where the responsibility for The number of copies sold of developing new, high class forms that book actually has reached 75 of energy and nuclear weapons by now, something very ·unusual was to be placed: in civilian or for a management firm . "It was military hands. This was a report a work of enormous labor," she which eventually reached speaks of it. "It was like a mouse President Ford and then giving birth to an elephant.'' Congress. Sharon, who remembers with On this particular project Miss some wryness her late papers at Bishop initially was terrified and St. John's, writes reports, usually said it was mainly St. John's with other staff members, which background which enabled her to can run 600 pages long and be two get through the subject matter, to three inches thick. They are which in some sense was not always on time down to the last completely foreign to her. minute. Miss Bishop is a problem"I am writing and writing and solver, one of those consultants writing and doing it very who, in-this world of entangled, quickly," she said. "But it's not ever expanding governmental organizations, tries mentally to . non-stop. The key is thinking and being able to solve problems." sort out what's wrong, identify Essentially it's very much problems, and advise changes what she did at St. which make it possible for an John's. · agency to operate more ef"THE BASIC THINGS I do is ficiently and more economically. · that I think, I write, and I talk," · Human services are her parshe said. "These are all the ticular specialty. things I did at St. John's." With a master's degree in social work, Miss Bishop is a When she wants to solve a demon of energy, capable of · problem, she wants to consider various . possibilities and to working under very demanding, very pressured circumstances, 50 evaluate quality. "Sometimes the staff give me what they think I to 80 late and long hoµrs a week if necessary, in her Connecticut want to hear which is not what.I Avenue office. · · want," she said. "People who go "On occasion I have worked all to St. John's are not very night in the office," she said. "It authority-oriented. They want to gets a little spooky at 4 a.m., even question, to think for them-. with a guard downstairs.'' selves, and to think creatively.;' A native of Havre de Grace, · Her drive plus brain power plus b~ing _ just . a .coµipletely r nicl?, Md., Miss ~ishOp ~r~~ up on the ' Sharon Bishop listens to Mrs. Clyde Alvin Clapp, of' Baltimore, a long- time St. Joh n' s friend, d uring a recent Fu nd for the l 980's dinner. outs. irts of Philadelphia, where k she attended North Penn High School, helping edit the literary magazine and school newspaper. She was an early entry at St. John's, coming here after the eleventh grade and a week after her seventeenth birthday. It would be nice to say it was a -completely wonderful time for Miss Bishop. It wasn't. She came to St. John's "green as grass, shocked to my roots" at some . views, and discovering that "everyone was as smart or smarter than myself." "It was very scary," she recalled. "I wasn't sure I could cope." So many things were going on · within her emotional life that it became more distracted and more painful. Finally at the end of her sophomore year, in order to do some regrouping, she did what was sensible and dropped out and went to work in the library of Temple University. She stayed there a year. "I thought about going to the University of Pennsylvania, but St. John's does it better so I went back, more capabl~ and not as tortured as I had been," she said. · School cheered up with girls' hockey, with which she played on the all-stars her junior year. She wrote a paper ·entitled "On Obligation" and graduated in 1966. "I wasn't one of the better students," Miss Bishop remembers herself. SHE EMERGED with a C-plus average. Later, after two years of social work in Philadelphia, when she found that Pennsylvania would pay her to get her master's degree, she learned that Bryn Mawr was concerned about 'her grade point average. "They let me in only because I had been at St. John's." At Bryn Mawr she came into her own. She was elected chairman of the Student-Faculty Curriculum Committee, became friends with her teachers and the dean, and engaged in friendly arguments about the way seminars were run. ("There was too much lecturing," she said.) Miss Bishop thrived. She became the first person Bryn Mawr ad- · mitted to the doctoral program in social service without first doing mandatory work in the field. Excited over the possibility of getting a Ph.D., _ Miss· Bishop . A gift of old photographs dating back to 1884 has spurred the College Archives Committee to sound a request for any old photographs St. John's alumni may have in their possession and no longer want. Although the college's old yearbooks are ·of some help, St. John's has a · scanty photographic record of the past. Mrs. Reginald Truitt of Kent Island recently presented the library, which has one of four archival centers on c~m:ipus, with four or five such pictures. She is the former Mary Harrington, daughter of Governor EmersonHarrington, '84. Another person con< tributing old photographs was Mrs. Amos Hutchins, of Annapolis, who&e husband was graduated in the Class of 1906. Mrs . Kathryn Kinzer, member of the Archives Committee and assistant: librarian, requests that donors date the photographs as best . they can and identify as many · persons appearing in them as possible. They may be mailed to Mrs. Kinzer in care of the St. John's College Library, Annapolis, Md., 21404. ·asked Pennsylvania to permit her to go on, but the State would not waive its requirement that she immediately work two years as a repayment for her master's so Miss Bishop went back to work. By then she had a big title chief of research evaluation and planning - and a little salary. The latter caused her to shift her allegiance to the State of Delawar· . Meanwhile, Booz, · e Allen, and Hamilton, who had · listened to a paper she had They went delivered in the summer of 1971 at an American Public Welfare elsewhere· Conference, was sufficiently impressed to offer a job. The and c.ame her:f!: · offer came one week after she Seventy-six per cent of St. · had joined the Delaware Division of Social Services and too late to John's present class of summer · freshmen have attended college accept. Nevertheless, BA&H persisted, elsewhere, according to Joanne and in time, Miss Bishop, whose Aitken, admissions director. grow_ im_pression was that the ing Altogether the college has a state of Delaware was being "run class of 30 men and women who like a mom and pop grocery' will continue their freshmen store," moved to Washington. It's studies until late summer. In been pretty much a success story Septem her they will enter the since·then. regular sophomore class. Of Her recognition has included these, 23 were enrolled in other invitations to speak at HEW- colleges before deciding to enter sponsored evaluauon and ser- St. John's. vices integration conferences, at There are twice as many men the American Public Welfare enrolled in the class as women, Association· northeast and some 20 as against 10. Represensoutheast regional conferences, ting 13 states and the District of APWA Information Systems Columbia, they also include Group national conference, and two students from Canada, two state-sponsored conferences in from Egypt, and one from Virginia, Wisconsin, and Ireland. Nine have received NaMichigan. tional Merit honors. - ' .. t Incoming Dean Edward Sparrow presents his predecessor, Curtis Wilson, with a gift on behalf of the faculty at a dinner given in r Mr. VJils~n's . ~onor. A hund_ed faculty and bi~alf;i ,~~'~b~~~P.p d g ~~sit ~ at~~"~4r~ 1t~e _p ~~ir1 iil ~ tfle co!leg~ ~tn.:ing ~#1~ _ _ £ d r �JUNE 1977 Ma1~t1n PAGES yer helped make history Dyer even then must have been "Nothing dire has occurred," the sort of person who made other the late John S. Kieffer, who people feel comfortable. One couldn't resist this pun, wrote a feels, sitting in his office, that one board member. cou:~· spend whole days chatting There was )lothing dire, with this mellow, highly innothing more peaceful, nothing telligent, friendly man. more correct than the entry of a HE WAS A popular student 17-year-old Baltimore youth, ,then - " a very winning person," Martin A. Dyer, as the first black Robert Bart describes him . "A student at St. John's College in very pleasant person and a hard 1948. working student" is the way Mr. Kieffer was president at Winfree Smith recalls him. One the time. Together with the faculty wife remembers his support of a single board member performance in a variety ~how and the then board chairman, the and was impressed at the time at late Richard Cleveland, against how happily he seemed to fit in. the wishes of the rest of the Charlotte Fletcher, librarian, for board, but with the full support of whom he worked as a student aid, students and faculty, Mr. Kieffer recalls his sell-discipline. broke St. John's unwritten Coming to· St. John's was a segregation policy and enrolled totally new experience. Mar tin Mr. Dyer. It was handled as a had been born and r aised in routine matter ; and it was, Mr. Baltimore and grown up in an all Kieffer once said very simply, black setting, graduating from "the right thing to do." Paul Laurence Dunbar High This Spring, 29 years later, Mr. School in Northeast Baltimore. Dyer has figured briefly in the He graduated at the top of his news during a discussion carried class with an all-A average. on throtig_h the letters-lo-theWhen his counselor heard that St. editor column of Baltimore's John's had announced a policy of morning Sun. There had been open admissions, she encouraged some question as to who was the him to apply. first Black to be admitted to an He filed an application in June, all-white Maryland college or but all during the summer university. President Weigle months failed to hear from the wrote to say that Mr. Dyer had school. The board · had turned matriculated here in the fall of down Mr. Kieffer's request to 1948 and that a year later, when accept him, believing that Anhe himseH became president, he had made continued integration a. napolis' segregated life movies, theaters, and so on condition of his appointment. would make it too hard on a black H there is an earlier entry into student to let him function well. a segregated college in Somehow, Mr. Kieffer later Maryland, that student is not confessed, a letter of rejection known. Not only is Mr. Dyer never got written, and by fall he believed to be tlie first, but Mr. had worked it out with what was Dyer believes St. John's may then the College Committee, a have paved the way for group of faculty and board desegregation in a manner which members, so that Mr. Dyer could is possibly another first for St. be accepted. John's . . __ . .. . By then Mr. Dyer. had enrolled "ST. JOHN'S may. be tliefirst, previously segregated in Coppin State Teachers College college in the country to change in Baltimore. He received a letter its policy voluntarily during the . of acceptance on September 15 and one week later had left o 1940's," he said. "Alth_u.e;h there was internal dissention within the Coppin and was here on campus college, there was no outside on a full scholarship. (Eleven pressure to bring it about. At hundred dollars did it in those other colleges there were court ·days). cases." COMING FROM an all black For Martin Dyer St. John's setting created a great -deal of became one of his best memories insecurity on his own part, which in- a wealth of good experiences which finds him today, at 46, an attorney and top-flight assistant to Thomas M. Tierney, director "Among the most important of the U.S. Medicare program. legal writers in America today" Working at its huge Baltimore is the way the New York Times County complex, one of the few describes Richard Harris, '47, in . Federal agencies located outside a review · of his new book, Washington, Mr. Dy~r has Freedom Spent, which received become one of Mr. Tierney's page 1 placement in a Times' right hand men, serving in a book review section. legislative liaison ca_pacity, Alan M. Derschowitz, professor handling preparation of. of law at Harvard Law School, Congressional testimony, writing begins the review with this speeches, · and working on a paragraph: · variety of administrative mat"Richard Harris, though not a ters. lawyer, is among the most im"I was very warmly received portant legal writers in America by both the faculty and the today. He has written students," he recalls of those . authoritative books, first opening weeks in 1948. "I felt no serialized in The New Yorker, on different than anyone else. the Nixon-Mitchell Justice People frequently try to go out of Department, on the aborted their way to be nice to someone nomination of ·Harrold Carswell who is new and different, but my to the Supreme Court and on the arrival at St. John's was treated politics of the .criminal justice in a matter of fact way without system. Now, in his most amany fuss or fanfare. I was just bitious book, Harris has directed another student, and, under these a scathing and well documented conditions, it was easy to be attack against - the failure of · quickly more comfortable;" , courts to protect the basic T_ at is pet hapsi \beca-u~e sM:r. > freeddmJ granted in our Bill h What is believed to be a definitive study of the Penitentes, the religious lay confraternity tolerated in varying degrees by the Catholic Church in the Southwest, ha·s been written by a St. John's College alumna, Marta Weigle, associate professor of anthropology and English at the University of New Mexico. The book is entitled "Brothers of Light, Brothers of Blood - the Penitentes of the Southwest." Miss Weigle, who is the daughter of St. John's President and Mrs. Richard D. Weigle, went to St. John's her first two college years and was graduated frQm Radcliffe in 1965. She later obtained her doctor ate in folklore· at the University of Pennsylvania. In her book, which has been published by the University of New Mexico, Miss Weigle traces the order from its beginnings in New Mexico and Southern Colorado in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. "In all likelihood, the problem Martin A. Dyer in a photograph taken some time 990 by a classof Penitente origins will never be mate, George Contos, '52. decisively resolved,'' she writes. "A century or more of imhe feels affected his per- music for the first time. Mr. provisation in religious exformance. He believed himself to Victor Zuckerkandl - a mar- pressions, necessitated by the be one of the poorest students in velous man - was the only music · lack of ecclesiastics to minister the class. "This is not so much a tutor at the time. I admired and in times · of sickness and death matter of how true it was but how respected him greatly." · and to celebrate the important I felt, and I know it affected my A recorder player, Mr. Dyer events of the Christian year . . . performance," he said. "I was found the music served him on may well have resulted in a my own worst enemy. In some one occasion in particular good varied conglomeration of lay ways I had not ,been adequately stead. He met his wife, Jane, at a practices, prayers, penances and prepared, and while I eventually meeting of the Baltimore branch processions ... comp~nsated, it was a long, of the American Recorder painful time." Society. They now live at Windsor "It would seem unlikely that Still, as a trail blazer~ his Hills, where on the particular pioneers from independent relationship with the school was a ·• week of this interview Mr. Dyer communities highly involved in good one. was taking care of Jennifer, 11, a mutual aid and defense would "St. John's was an altogether Bryn Mawr School 5th grader, have been immediately good experience for which I shall and Rebecca, 6. (Rebecca had responsive to or even in need of a .be eternally grateful," he said. just provided a major test of new, · imported formal "It was a very imponant part of fatherhood that morning. Freshly organization and form of wormy life. First of all I am grateful dressed for school, she had ship. In all probability, by the for the exposure to many, many popped her elbow in the breakfast early 1800's, they already had evolved both in order to survive things I had never been exposed cereal, spraying it on herself, Mr. physically and spiritually." to. There were the great books, Dyer, and the wall, and making and then the education th~re the two of them late for school This is the second book Miss helped to develop my creative and office). Weigle has written. When she thought processes, which had MRS·. DYER, A former was still in her teens, she wrote Fulbright scholar, who was received little attention l!efore. "Follow My Fancy, the Book of "I learned to appreciate good educated al Smith and at Jacks and Jack Game~." It was We$leyan, was in France for a published in 1970 by Dover Books month with eight girls from as part ·of a series of books ' Oldfields School for Girls, a posh dealing with ·games) stunts, Rights. His thesis is stark: 'The girls school at Glencoe, where tricks and forms of r¢creation. simple and overwhelming truth is she teaches French. Sketches for the book were drawn Mr. Dyer had been in France, that ... the guarantees of perby a St. John's classmate, sonal liberty contained in the Bill himseH, the first two years after Jessica Hoffmann Davis, of of Rights have rarely been en- graduation, serving with a secWaban,_ ~ass. forced. The myth of freedom has tion of the Army at that time been driven into us incessantly assigned to the Air Force. After Congressional Fellowship, a almost from birth, but the reality that came a year as · a social fellowship involving combined of freedom eludes ·us to this worker with the Baltimore private-public funds and awarDepartment of Public WeHare, day.' " ded by the American Political Mr. Harris is now a member of and then law study at the Science Association and the Civil University of Maryland Law The New Yorker staff. Service Commission. The book · also received high School. He graduated there in THE FELLOWSHIP enabled 1959 seventh in a class of 70. praise from Arthur S. · Miller, him to become a legislative professor of law at George "St. John's provides a assistant to Senator Edward L. Washington University, in The Bartlett, which meant a job Chronicle of Higher Education in remarkable experience in drafting bill specifications, its January 17 issue. It con- preparation for law," he 'said. "The discipline of thought is writing ·speeches and monitoring cludes: particularly good in law school." the senator's legislative program . After his degree he worked on · on the Senate floor. "That was "Harris' moving and disturbing book is a trenchant call for the legal staff of the IRS for a the best work .in my life," he all Americans to renew that couple of years and then joined recalls. "The day he died it was spirit. It deserves to be read by the management staff of the like a member of my family National Institutes of Health in every thoughtful American." dying.'' Mr. Miller found the book Bethesda in 1963. From there he After two ye11rs with Senator "brilliant" but "flawed because joined the legislative staff of the Bartlett, he joined Medi~are in his evident anger leads him to U.S. Surgeon General's office. · 1969. :and ;J has been . there ever indulge iri hYJ>erbole." . In 1965 he was awarded a since. Harris book wins praise of Penitentes are"subject. . of alumna I �JUNE 1977 _ W oodcOck wanted - c o-education here (Continued from P. 3) 'When First I Met You on the Stryker, and their faculty group Village Green,' until from the had envisaged in 1911. In- darkened interior through a half terestingly, it was Woodcock who opened w~ndow of the second first advocated co-education for floor would come the sound of St. John's, a proposal the Board fluttering hands in applause. of Visitors and Governors during There was delicacy in those days his day "frostily" rejected. and no bea.utiful head would . It was clear tha- Woodcock, t appear at the window."~ _ who headed his class each year, ·Of Dr. Fell, Woodcock wrote: loved St. John's. He was so happy "I am convinced that he was a here during his seven years as . . great and good man, because he instructor which ended in 1911 made the most pf _his op· that when he returned as a portunities and material. To us bachelor president he wanted to he was 'Tommy' and the friend, occupy the same two room suite adviser, physician, teacher, and / he had lived in on the second floor banker of everyone of us. He was of Pinkney's east end. Instead, he long suffering b\rt never betrayed found himself an occupant of the the slightest bit of irritation or Bryce House. indignation at our behavior In those teaching days a shoot with one exception . : . I have of ivy worked in between the never heard of the slightest brick work and window sill and personal disrespect shown him. flourished in the warmer air. Hats came off when we met him. inside his Pinkney room. A tea We knew that he was our friend kettle, in constant use, occupied and advocate with that body of' an alcohol stove. Hot water could supposed unlimited power over· be obtained by placing the wash- us, the faculty." _ bowl tinder the radiator, which · THE EXCEPTION occurred was a thin steel box, and pouring -when students, during a spree of water from the pitcher over it. mischief making, over-extended "With a little skill m~e could pour themselves by smearing the the water and not spill a single blackboard ·with brown paint, drop." hiding college benches in railroad Faculty members living · embankments, and raided a directly above .and under one professor's quarters. Dr. Fell another had only to rap on the called a-n assembly in the chapel, radiator to signal one another. stinging the students with the Woodcock said it was better and remark that while God had made easier than the telephone. them men, "He had not made us "Living was simple and _ gentlemen." pleasant and satisfying,;, During ·the 1909 fire which Woodcock recalled._ gutted McDowell, Woodcoc-kDuring his student ·days the single handedly saved St. J-0hn's loyalty the faculty inspired was historic Bray books, which were remarkable. "There was never housed in an alcove close to Dr. any question of the loyalty of Fell's office. He was aghast to-see every student to the colle- e and g two members of the Water Witch his implicit belief · that he was and Independent fire companies; att~nding the best college_in the atop a long ladder leaning world," Woodcock said. against the south wall of the RECALLING TB;OSE days, he building, struggling for -wrote that the Mandolin Club possession of the nozzle of the hose. could coax "Hearts and Flowers" Woodcock died in Salisbury in from the wire strings of the mandolins to the energetic 1964 at the age of 80. (The sprig of nodding of the head of its leader, ivy which intruded his Pinkney Bill Chartzer. It was· the day of · room eventually was rooted and the waltz . and -the two-step with -planted at his home, "Chatillon," the dance fl9or waxed and in Salisbury where it covered the rewaxed until it was "as slippery house). Besides his bachelor's as plate glass coated with butdegrees here, he received his · ter." A Sousa march would do for master's degree from the college and then, after leaving here in the two-step, but "Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey" -and 1911, went to Harvard where he "Hiawatha" were pieces enobtained another master's in law thusiastically received. Students and government. While con- "railroaded" by shooting their tinuing to teach, he earned his partners through the crowd from law degree in 1910 from the one end to the other. University of Maryland. "It was a dashing and specAg a former prohibition tacular movement, none too director, he once observed; "My popular with the conservative rep_ tation as a dry -seemed to u masses, bu..t wonderfully thrilling eclipse anything I did." to the couple who could do it." After St. John's he became a "I have been a member of a special assistant to the attorney general and later one of the select group of sentimental idiots," Woodcock wrote, "who prosecutors of the Japanese war - under the leadership of Turkey -criminals. He retired from the Cissel would wander from home military in 1942 with the rank of to home on some sweet evening in brigadier general and wrote a_ May at the late hour of U and book, "Golden Days." A commencement prize in mathematics · warble under the window of some Annapolis belle plaintive airs, is given ann.uallr in his hor:ior. The Guardians won the soccer and footbaU sports . this year; and the Hustlers, helped greatly by two freshmen Christopher Kates and Guy Jennings - captured the basketball title. During the Druids al}d. Hustlers' football and soccer matches, .Stephen Chew reaches for a footba II and Ste·ven Scott prepares to ki.ck the soccer ball. At bottom, in a Hustler and Guardian game, Chris Kates shoots ~ ball into the basket. The Green Waves -sw~pt the volleyball league, winning every game. Two other victorious teams - were the Amazons, in basketball, and the Maenads, in v~lley­ ball. St. John's intra~mural sports program also includes tennis, pingpong, badminton, racketball, softball, and track and marathon relays. Appro~­ imately two-thirds of the studen! b~~y take part. ~ · r e r .: ·, ' 1 n:i ) ~ s ; :i r " /. c photos by Paul Kneisl The Uncertainty Principle Electron, do you move In lines? Whom do you shove? O;r .burn you.in.the.fir.e~i'C?l:ffines?) •iJ .s.rf > £ Ai:i', "'tr a ccw, ,,H~ , l. 1. ~ ! , n .. i "J:i P if .!fF1 · _ '.H.odhey nne ~1 t lbu.I i J:I! . i �JUNE 1977 Dancers swirl through the Great Hall during the May cotillion. Dancing together at right are two members of the senior class, Ann Browning and Girard Davidson. Photos by Paul Kneisl Franks takes top award (Continued from P. 1) and no longer eristic spirit that In addition, President Richard we now engage in the battle of D. Weigle conferred degrees on words. We have learned to listen two alumni from earlier classes more patiently, to wait, to conwho recently completed all their sider what the progress of the graduation requirements: Ben conversation demands. We have Jeffries Cothran, Jr., '69, of become more adept at noting and Woodland Park, Colo., and bringing forth what is in the James Floyd Carlyle, '72, of . fringe, or, as someone has put it, Nashotah, Wisc. at 'thinking aside.' AMONG .THE .. CIDLDREN of "INCREASINGLY, OUR New Program aiumnigraduating thinkihg and speaking can be was Rachel McKay, whose governed and guided by the idea mother, Mrs. Joan Martin, '55, of of totality, that is, of the world Santa .Cruz, Calif., was a member of a whole not encompassed but 6f St. John's first class of women.. to be encompassed. Increasingly, Miss McKay spent the first year thoughtfulness and wonder can of her life on campus living in be atthe center." housing, which since has been Liberal education, he said., is a razed, erected for married quiet affair. students. "It does not operate under klieg Other second generation St. · lights, or with blaring P.A. Johnnies receiving diplomas systems, or in-circuit television, included Theodore W. Hendricks, or anything fancy. It is not easily son of Theodore W. Hendricks, characterizable. It will never Jr., '50, Baltimore; Erica Lerner, answer its critics once and for all. daughter of Charles S. Lerner, That i~ because the issues are '53, Bethesda, Md., and Edward perenmalandgo_ ~e~p_..· · · Charles Nelson, son of Charles A. "Liberal education should be a · Nelson, '45, Croton-on;Hudson, training in arts and habits that · N.Y. The latter is the third continue through life: the habit of Nelson offspring to graduate at attention; the art of 'thinking St. John's. · aside'; the readiness to assume Cold, windy weather with the · at a moment's notice new inpossibility of rain threatened the tellectual posture; the art of outdoor setting for the exercises, entering quickly into another . but despite the threaf the college person's thoughts; the habit of was able to hold its 185th com- submitting to censure and mencement under the Liberty. refutation; the art of indicating Tree as customary, drawing an assent and dissent in graduated audience of more than 500 per- terms; the habit of precise acsons. · curacy where this is required; Principal speaker was Cilrtis the habit of working out what is Wilson, who is winding up a possible in a given time; 'the ~rt second; four-year term as dean of carrying conflict to high levels and who will take a sabbatical of rational articulation; above leave before returning to_teach at all, the virtues of intellectual the college. Selected as speaker courage and intellectual by seniors, whose four years at sobriety." the college parallel his dean- -· The ceremony was marked by ship, Mr. Wilson spoke on a number of awards. Among changes which occur at St. those for seniors wa~ a silver • medal awarded ·by the Board of John's. "Do we in fact advance?" he Visitors and Governors to the asked the class. "Changes in us senior with the highest stand~g. and in our thinking do, I believe, It went to Grant Franks, o~ occur. We are nolonger so quiCk Arlington, Va., and was ·to accept or reject. We become presented by Mr. Nelson, who is a· more soberly and critically member of the board. 1 . t'oughtful. It is. with~ a charn!ed ' ·i J 1ANOTHElli BO:ARD a \ I t I !) ). 11. i: 1 ( ! 11 l ..,. 'O IT ·CY."' . hiemoer: New wing to be adde" to 19th c~ntury dormitory William W. Simmons, who is also (Continued from Page 1) · . president of the Alumni Association, presented blazers to accommodate 34 students as "THE NEW structure," Mr. the senior man and senior woman against the present 20 students .Wollon said, "does not attempt to who have contributed most to the. this charming. Federal style · repeat the architectural style of college athletic program. They building now can house. the original, but, rather, provides He has added a wing along St. a contrast to it, utilizing material were Robert Charles Elliott, of John's Street where six, single, and basic forms blending with it: Baltim~re, and Pamela Lobdell, dormitory rooms will be con- the brick walls will reflect the of Fairfax, Va. Other seniors receiving prizes structed on the ground, first and original; slate roofing materials second floors. A storage area will match the present roof, as were: Best senior essay, Sara would be built on the third floor will the roof's shape. The overall Anastaplo, of Chica_go, with Eric where there will be four more proportions of the addition are Salem, of Laurel, Md., honorable · single rooms. similar to those of the original, One major change will be the and the addition just touches the mention; excellence in speaking, Mr. Salem; best original English addition of two new principal original building, leaving most of entrances for students, one the originalexposed to view." poem, Rodney Anne Strabucchi, of Santiago, Chile, who also looking toward the heart of the and received honorable _mention for · campus_ !he other_ at the end King Pittis " the best English translation of a - of the new wing, opening toward the Reverdy Johnson House. The to he fellows French poem. Two St. John's graduates Mr. Hendricks received present entrances facing College honorable . mention for botn an Avenue would be retained. While Nancy Polk King and Patricia English translation of a French details are still to be worked .out, Pittis - have received poem and for submitting the best one possibility is to have them fellowships for study during the 1977-78 academic year. English translation of a Greek function as windows. Mrs. King is the winner of one A NEW COMMONS room will text. · Underclassmen receiving be carved out of two·rooms on the of three Morehead Fellowships in ground floor and extend across Law at the University of North awards were: idth Mark Fabi, junior or senior the· w_ of the building. Again, Carolina at Chapel Hill. ·. The fellowships, awarded who submits most elegant. final details are still incomplete, solution of a mathematical but Mr. Wollon thinks that they annually by the John Motley should aim in character to be Morehead Foundation, are problem; Kevin Park, freshman or sophomore who submits most something like the common valued at $3,000 a year plus e 1e g ant so 1u ti on to a ro9ms of Chase-Stone House, · tuition and fees to cover three mathematical problem; Philip which he believes are "eminently years of study at the UNC-CH School of Law. Lee Leath~rwood and Stephanie successful." Mrs. King was a inagna cum Another major change will be Anne Nelson, honorable mention to raze the staircase on the St. laude graduate at St. John's, for best original Engli.Sh poem; Scott Cooper, best musical John's side and convert the freed .where she was assistant editor of composition; Rebecca . Brown, . space to new bathrooms on each The Collegian and editor of the best English · translation of a ~oor. At present students living. .literary magazine Complement. m Paca-Carroll· use a single Currently .she is a copy editor for ' · F·rench poem; Christopher Borde·n, be.st bathroom on the ground floor. A the firm of William & Wilkins in English translation of a Greek · new staircase will be erected at Baltimore. She is married to the location of the present . Christopher Kiiig, '75, who also text; Stephariie Anne Nelson, best freshman essay; Charles staircase on the northern side of will study law at UNC-CH. · Norman Hurt, best sophomore the building, and a second · Miss P.ittis has been awarded a essay, with Catherine Eldridge staircase at the .e ndofthe wing. "Externally the original fellowship by the Fund for and Patricia Sellars, honorable Theological Education in its me11tion; Don Edwards, best building will be preserved and North American Ministerial restored in accordance with its junior essay, · with Steven Ross and David Woolwine, honorable historical and architectural Fellows__hip Program. The importance, adhering to strict fellow~hip, a~arded to 85 of 509 mention; Eloise Collingwood, Bela Ronay scholarship award of guidelfues .for these practices," _ a PP 11 ~ants, encourages deepening concern for the church · $1,000; Terry C. Schuld, Kim- Mr. Wollon said. In order to use space in. a.nticipa~on ~f .a V?cation of berly Ann Schraf and Harold . mlDlstry. Miss P1ttls will study at Pugh, C. Markland Kelly, Jr., ·economically, there will be no att~:rµpt- inside to restore ,· the.. • :Ynion 'Ql~olo~icpl ~niipary in .. Memorial Foundation $1,000 '·on <' t ~,. iJ·award for academic.year 1976-77. buW'4~tt.toitSong·malconditi ..,. -.Ne.WYO~! 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It is now Under a special arrangement, devoted to a . program of a policeman will be attending the educating personnel for institute, taking part in a better law enforcement. program modeled after St. John's ROBERT L. SPAETH, institute great books education and director, is personally delighted leading to a m·aster's degree. · about the prospect of having a AND WHAT HAS such a liberal policeman enrolled. education to do with a "A policeman should help policeman? What do Plato and broaden the institute's comWittgenstein have to do with munity, which already is diverse crime in the streets of New York? in terms of people's professions J. Burchenal Ault, vice- and ways of life. We have people, president of St. John's Santa Fe young and old, from all over the campus, who dreamed up the country ---- teachers, housewives, idea of ha~ng one there, has his government workers-and a reasons for thinking such a stu- policeman will help add a new dent is important. dimension. . "'What we need are people who' "We look forward to the time understand what is happening in we can make a contribution to society. The police are fellows law enforcement in a comparable who make order possible out of way to the contribution we make law and order. If they're better in the education profession. It educated, the system will work will be a great thing to look better than the one we have now. forward to." Men on the cutting edge of At the Graduate Institute, peaceful and violent life need a which meets only during the great deal of education.'' summer months, the policeman The New York Police Departwill be engaged in a study inment has set up a committee to volving a seminar, tutorials, and select a recipient of the a preceptorial. The program is scholarship and by the middle of divided into four segments May eight had applied. He will be dealing with politics, philosophy, in Santa Fe on a renewable theology, literature, scholarship of $2,200 for each mathematics, and natural summer. It will be financed by an scienc·e. Tutor gets fellowship doctorate in astronomy, will be on leave from the college for his ·year of research. During that time he also will teach a course in the history of astronomy at the University of Maryland and a single class at St. John's during the second semester. In addition, he has received a In studies at Hovenweep, Colo., second grant from the National Mr. Williamson found that ports Geographic Society to work with. in the tower rooms at Ruin Pueblo Indians in an effort to Canyon and . Cajon Mesa are discover what they may be able oriented to the summer and to tell him about the functions of winter solstices. "At sunset, · on the towers. and near the solstice, and only at this time during the entire year, The $3,540 grant will be for the summer mo~ths. Working with the light of the sun enters the port Mr. Williamson will be Howard and strikes'th-e opposite wall," he Fisher, member of the St. John's said. faculty, and Florence Ellis, Housing needed :professor emeritus of anthropplogy at the University of (Continued from P. 1) New Mexico. They began be constructed since the new working on the project last wing of Paca-Carroll will only summer under a previous grant empty the common rooms. As a awarded by the National more immediate solution, his Georgraphic. office will make a search for Mr. Williamson, who has a rooms in Annapolis; ·Ray Williamson, assistant dean at St. John's College, has been awarded a · Smithsonian Fellowship for the coming academic year to study preColumban Indian towers in the Southwest. -THE.REPORTER . JUNE1977 State money to·he ID8tChed (Continued from P. 1) sbury Housing Development. part of the tract is covered by parking lot "C" rented from the college for state employes. The bill · was introduced by Senator Roy N. Staten, DBaltimore County, considered perhaps the most influential leader in the Senate. It received extensive backing in town by the Annapolis Fine Arts Commission, which for years has sought a new center here and which lobbied extensively for its passage. Plans for the Paca-Carroll House, which is in a dilapidated state but considered an architecturally valuable building, call for its_ inted.or to be extensively rebuilt and fur a wing to be added. . St. John's dining hall, an · English Georgian building, is limited by inadequate service and kitchen facilities. It also is to be enlarged with its north-east end extended back close to a line with the archivist win!! of Pinkney. A new private dining room and deck are part of ten-. tative plans. The gymnasium - Iglehart Hall - was dedicated in 1910. In hard use for nearly 80 years, it is considered still a sound building but one which should be enlarged to accommodate the college's active athletic program. Alumni set 1 50th ·birthday "We're going to have a birthday party!'' That's Tom Parran's way of announcing the sesquicenten. nial anniversary of St. John's Alumni Association. The alumni director said the association will mark the 150th anniversary of its founding at homecoming to be held September 30- October 1. Because it will not be combined with a meeting of the Board of Visitors and Governors, as has been• done in the past, the schedule will be slightly different this year. The annual meeting will be held Saturday, Oct. 1, at 11 a.m., followed by luncheon and seminars at 2:30 p.m. The annual alumni-student soccer classic is set for 4_ p.m. The major :30 celebration will come at dinner at 7:30 p.m. at the Hilton. That will be preceded by a reception at 6:30 p.m. Special class reunions will be the 25th, 40th, and -SOth class reunions. In charge Of those events in that order will be Thomas M. Carnes, of San Francisco, Merrill M. Mitchell, of Virginia Beach, and Bernard F. Gessner, of Annapolis. · Details for homecoming will be worked out by Association President William W. S_ immons, Mr. Parran, and others over the summer months. One special tribute to be paid will be that to class captains who have served in the annual fund drive over the past 10 years. Mr. Parran said hotel rooms are in short supply and advises_ alumni to make their reservations early. Mas_ ter's program unit in history is underway r William J. Jenkins, who has a week. They devote an hour and a master's degree from St. John's half to reading, followed by a and who has attended an break, followed by a seminar estimated 40 individual com- discussion. Since Mr. Jenkins inmunity seminars, is returning to stituted the method four years St. John's this summer for more ago, they have been reading Shakespeare, Chaucer, Twain, study. He is·one of three alumni of the Thoreau, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Graduate Institute who have and such modern writers as received their masters at St. Faulkner, Golding and O'Hara in John's Santa Fe campus and who the St. John's manner. The Caritas Society has voted The institute classes will run are enrolled in a new, fifth segto contribute $3,600 in scholarship ment of the institute being of- here from June 26 to August 19. aid to St. John's College, bringing fered on the Annapolis campus Among the faculty .members will to a total of $21,055 the sum·it has be Geoffrey Comber, director of given to the college since the for the first time. The other two the Annapolis program, Michael are Grace McNeley, of Shiprock, society was organized in 1969. ' Littleton and Howard Fisher. "The money is given to N.M., and Kathleen Horan, of Besides teachers, students will Manchester, N.H. students already enrolled at St. Altogether there are 19 college include an Annapolis physician, John's who have been achieving at high level and who find graduates enrolled for the pro- to b a c c o s t o·r e m a n a g e r , themselves in unexpected gram centered in history. Nine of librarian, and a recordings -exfinancial straits,'' Miss them are teachers, and most of pert. Katherine Kibler, president, the 19 live within commuting distance, but five will live on announced. This year's sum was campus. "I love the discussion," distributed among _ twelve students. So far 32 students have Jenkins, an assistant principal at been able to remain in college as Calverton Junior High School in Baltimore, explained his the result of the Caritas grants. "These are students who over reasons for returning. "It's really Robert L. Spaeth, St. John's the years have been able to at~ great. It's a chance to give your College tutor, will be on leave opinions regardless of how untend St. John's only thanks to the next year helping coordinate a work and generosity of members founded or unkempt they may new liberal arts program being be." of the Caritas Society," Vice introduced at St. John's Mr. Jenkins is not only a man to President William B. Dunham University, Collegevilie, Minn. give opinions, but to listen. He · _ said. "Financial aid is a crucial need has responsibilities for one unit Mr. Spaeth will be in Santa Fe, for students in these inflationary 600 students and 24 teachers - at N.M., this summer where he will times, and we are deeply grateful his 2,200 student junior high serve as director of its Graduate to the Caritas Society for its in- school; and at faculty meetings Institute on SL John's western valuable assistance in increasing he conducts seminar-style, he incampus. He plans to resign from St. John's resources for this sists teachers. give him their opinion, not simply listen.to him. that capacity in late August when purpose." Dean Haggard, faculty member · His St. John's experience also Most of the money was raised of the Santa Fe campus, assumes at Caritas' annual scholarship has rubbed off in a night school · feast and ball held earlier this English class he teaches for 12th that post. year. In addition, the society also graders completing high school A 1959 graduate of St. John's raised funds through a requirements. University, Mr. Spaeth will work "We do it exactly the way you needlework show and a benefit with 30 instructors in developing . play, "The Tempest," given by do it only there is one tutor," he a Freshman Colloquium in which the King William Players. Made said. "The kids love it. They can't up of women from both the An- get over the difference between the stress will be on reading, writing and discussion skills. It is napolis area and St. John's the conventional class and the the first stage of a new Liberal community, Caritas made its way we do it.'' Students meet there for three Studies Prograi;n.the university is first contribution of $2,000 to St. ' ~ ·' and a half hour sessions twice a instituting. John's in 1969-70. Caritas' total gifts hit $21,000 \ Spaeth takes· post for year � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <em>The St. John's Reporter</em> Description An account of the resource College newspaper which started publication in 1974. Continued publication into 2000. 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JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY The St. lohn 's . 1 1 1 1 1 1 W/~l~1 ~1ID1l i1 1 1 1 1 1 1 -·- ew rrogram 3 1696 01138 0381 ----- in 40th year REPORTER VOLUME IV, ISSUE 4 APRIL 1977 Kew Garden has seedling ofSJC An offspring of St. John's historic Liberty Tree is out its first green leaves in the Roni Botanic (For related story of St. John's influences· elsewhere, see Bernard Fleischmann's statement on p. 3) As frequently happens in middle age, one celebrates a birthday quietly, letting it slide by without much fanfare, and so it is with St. John's 40tlf, anniversary of its New Program. The program, neither new nor young anymore, has settled quietly down into maturity. It have been termed exhailed even as in 1937 when and Scott Buchanan said "let's try it," but at the end of four decades, art of America's can measure its inbut terms of 11,.;ucaui:;1::~ in curriculum John's has seen two new modeled in detail Other ................. ~........ "' which have grown out John's while still have but est:nmsnu1g them. John's the in the 20th """'f"""" with cur·r1c·urn:m centered in the 70's which uses St. John's termuo.01~ogy tutorial, tutors-in a program which concentrates on Roman Catholic in with another non-elective curriculum of great books seminars and 55 (Norman Goldberg photo) . who member of the Caritas and herself a native of England, thp·r<l"nnnn found out. From Clint Irwin, chief of the Continued on P. 4) college, also vaicuvAn... , in Moraga, Calif., is with a program modeled after St. John's. Incorporated 21 years ago into its (Continued on P. 3) • ~ Edward G. Sparrow and Robert Bart will become the new deans of the Annapolis and Santa Fe campuses respectively on July 1. Both members of the Annapolis faculty, they will succeed Curtis Wilson and Robert Neidorf, who now go on sabbatical leave. In announcing their selection, President Richard D. Weigle said the two men will serve five-year terms. Mr. Bart and Mr. Sparrow, who are close, personal friends of long standing, each spoke recently of their desire to continue a, strong working relationship between the two campuses located 2,000 miles apart. Mr. Sparrow paid Mr. Bart ..........H .... i .... tribute in from ···the Santa Fe. "In Bob's departure we lose a man of unparalleled dedication," Mr. Sparrow said, "whom all of us - faculty and students - have depended upon for advice and insights as well as for com panionship. I give him my hundred per cent support and endorsement.'' In some ways similar, both men are products of private schools and of Harvard College who have taught and worked on campus committees together, including the faculty committee which led to the opening of the new campus at Santa Fe and the Faculty Polity Committee, both of which Mr. Sparrow has headed as chairman. They currently are mem hers of the Jnstruction which acts on all instructional matters. In addition, Mr. Bart has had an active role on the Campus Development Committee, serving as at the time the library was enlarged. "I FELT I owed a tremendous amount to this college, and I couldn't find any way to say no," Mr. Sparrow said in a joint interview which followed the announcement that he and Mr. Bart had accepted their appointments. "Now is the time to do something about it, and I'll do the best I can. I'm very happy to help the place which has meant such a great deal to me." Mr. Bart spoke warmly of the active exchange of faculty and students made oossible bv the In the heaven where good cops go, there will be Walter Rausch - the brightest angel of them all. If St. John's could arrange it now, it would like to advance him a small, early reward, say an especially shiny halo, for instance. That's because, among St. John's good and faithful servants, Mr. Rausch is the man who invented the word dedication. Mr. Rausch supervises the college's security force of five. That's technically his job, but he has a heart so big and a disposition so conscientious that he would break through the limitations of any job description. As for an eight houx: day, this 58- who normally patrols the campus during day-time hours, simply treats a time punch card like a piece of rubber. He likes his days long, expansive, and watchful. They spill over into evenings and fill whole weekends, seven days a week. It's no wonder that one St. John's senior, Miss Cornelia Miller, of Huntsville, Ala., speaks of his "soul" when she describes his service. "MR. RAUSCH is an incredibly devoted man," she said. "He spends so much time here. He really cares." (Miss Miller spoke these last three words with special emphasis). "It seems the soul of the man is devoted to P.2) �, r ~PRft:,:M77 THE REPORTER PAGE2 New deans to serve for five year terms " (Continued from P. 1) new campus at Santa Fe, where the academic program parallels that at Annapolis. "There is an almost even exchange of students now, and that I think is a wonderful thing," he said. ''.Students can choose the campus which suits them best. Not only the setting but the social circumstances are felt to. be different." He spoke of the need to look at the program with a sense of continuing discovery while both he and Mr. Sparrow stressed the central importance the books play in the St. John's curriculum. "I'm remembering the enthusiasm of Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan and Mortimer .A.dler on reading the Great Books, and I'm ·not ashamed of the Capital G and the Capital B," Mr. Bart said. "That's what we really agree about. That's what we do best." Both stressed the need not simply to read but the value of listening and discussion in the seminar. "They are occasions for whatever thoughts students might have on their first or second readings," Mr. Sparrow said. "They ask him to take a second look at his thoughts and help him understand what is at stake. Presumably during the discussion he is challenged to speak about the book. It's a double thing - to hear, to assimilate, to adjust his thinking, to challenge and in the process to get closer to the author and closer to himself." "As a community of learning St. John's requires not only discussion among tutors and students but tutors and tutors," Mr. Bart agreed. "This implies an effort to share, not just to speak, but to listen. It is implied in the Friday night question period and in the faculty seminars. This is where we get to be a community, learning together not only side-by-side but also face-to-face." Mr. Bart also pointed to the greater stress on writing in recent years. "There is a lot of one-to-one teaching at St. John's," he commented, "and a good deal of writing and conferring. I would say I spend half as much time doing that as I do teaching in class. Some tutors, such as Mr. (Michael) Littleton and Mr. (William) O'Grady, spend perhaps as much time working individually with students as in class. It is one of the surest teaching methods. We have stressed writing a good bit more since I came in 1946.'' HE SPOKE favorably of the added requirement at Santa Fe which asks all students to write an autumn paper as well as a spring paper on which they are examined. Of the strengths of the college Mr. Sparrow had this to say: "The strengths lie in the dedication of the faculty, in the common trat:lition, in the books, the thoughts, the authors, that keep nourishing us down through the years, and in the deep concern of everyone associated with the college - the students, the ,, GI program registration deadline set Enrollment for a new, fifth segment of St. John~s Graduate Institute will close May i, Geoffrey Comber,· associate director of the institute, has announced. With some scholarship money available, the program is being offered persons with a bachelor's degree. Public school teachers participating may gain credit toward recertification, including credit for what is known as their "MA plus 30," a formula involving 30 hours beyond a master's degree used in salary advancements. The eight week program will be an extension of the institute held on the Santa Fe campus, which provides a master's degree after summer study there. The segment here, which participants may take either prior to enrolling at the Santa Fe campus or after completing their master's degree there, will be based upon history. In Santa Fe summer sessions are devoted to philosophy and theology, math and science, politics and society, and literature. Planned primarily as a residential program, the Annapolis session will be limited to 40 participants. Students will explore · a number of major questions of history through great books seminars, a tutorial, and a preceptorial in which one or two single works of history will be examined. Interested persons may call Mr. Comber or his administrative assistant, Rita Bahus, at the college. alumni, the board, and the staff." Mr. Sparrow has been a tutor at St. John's since 1957. Born in Paris, France, he was educated at St. Mark's School, at Harvard College, where he obtained a bachelor's degree of arts in 1951, and at Harvard Law School, where he was awarded a bachelor of law degree in 1954. In 1957 he earned a master's degree from Columbia University's Teachers College. MR. BART received his early education at the Phillips Exeter Academy and obtained his bachelor of arts degree from Harvard College in 1940. He was a Sheldon Traveling Fellow at Harvard from 1940to1941. In 1957 he was granted a master's degree by St. John's. For the past nine years he has held the Addison E. Mullikin Tutorship. He taught in Santa Fe in 1975-76 on an exchange arrangement financed by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Mr. Bart has taught in most parts of the St. John's non-elective curriculum and has written a grammar manual with Hugh McGrath which has been used in connection with the college's language program, a commentary on Newton's Principia, and freshman and sophomore 'mathemafksmamials used in tM study of Ptolemy and Copernicus. 1 Shine up a big,.hright.halb! (Continued from P.1) keeping St. John's safe. I think he's wonderful. I don't think you could find a better man for the job." "He is the man who collects things in time for us to do something about them," College Treasurer Charles T. Elzey credits him. And that means, besides providing St. John's with what Vice President William B. Dunham ·describes as "superb security service'' and without one whit neglecting his principal duties, that he is not above grabbing a mop when an art studio sink overflows or, after alerting the college of burst pipes during this winter's freezing weather, ·standing by a repair crew until late hours. And it also means, when ice and snow make walking treacherous, carrying lunch from the coffee shop so College Archivist Miriam Strange wouldn't have to risk leaving her office. When the college became hard pressed for a night-time switchboard operator a couple of years ago, it was he who volunteered to fill in. AND IT MEANS coming over to the campus on vacations. "I'd just stay home and worry," says Mr. Rausch. For any off-campus organization meeting at St. John's, Mr. Elzey said Mr. Rausch serves as the "college's good will ambassador and unofficial host." He even gained something of an international reputation several years ago when NATO countries housed men here during special maneuvers being staged in this area. On Parents Weekend and during June Week, when Naval Academy families are housed on campus, Mr. Elzey said Mr. Rausch becomes the key person to whom people look for assistance and information. "They look to Walter if they need anything," Mrs. Dorothy Mann, Mr. Elzey's secretary, also noted. "Without one of us would have to be here. He does everything from collect money to show visitors rooms, to occasionally change beds and get clean towels and soap. He is probably the college's most dedicated employee." Since joining the college in 1968 after a stint with Baltimore's Dennis Security agency, he has been present for all major college events, directing traffic, channeling visitors, and steering cars from fire entrances. And what does this kindly, efficient police officer say to all this? He dismisses it. "I'm just doing my job," he says. To see Mr. Rausch ambling up the college walks in a characteristic posturr;, elbow crooked as he nurses along a cup of coffee, is to see a man with eyes alert for anything amiss, particularly for that individual he dislikes the most, the unwanted visitor with no business on campus. At his m~ldest he pro!ects the college with the ferocity of a mother bear. It hasn't always been easy, especially during the 6~'s when he walked the campus with a dog and when he was threatened by a · Baltimore radical political group. "IN MY TIME it's been rough," he said. "I've been beaten up by intruders. I was scared a lot of the time. You get yourself in a situation, and you can't back out." Armed with a nightstick, and a linked to the switchboard and treasurer's office, he has made his share of arrests and feels one nrnblem he must struggle with is appearance that things may be too safe. He worries about students taking undue risks. (No really big college is staged Mr. somewhere father-figuring it. When two alumni held a to benefit an aging dormitory, invited a number of tutors and Mr. Rausch. "The party wouldn't be complete without Mr. Ra us ch.'') When it's necessary, he has the back-up of Annapolis police. In turn, he has helped the city police. In a letter to St. John's President Richard D. Weigle, Former Chief Anthony W. Howes described one such incident: "On December 18, 1970, a local citizen was robbed of his wallet and contents by a lone gunman on King George Street. The gunman fled through St. John's campus, and Mr. Rausch had occasion to observe this suspect as he crossed the premises. When accosted, the gunman discarded the stolen wallet and at this time Mr. Rausch took him into custody for trespassing on the campus. During the course of the arrest, Mr. Rausch, in addition to effecting recovery of the stolen property, relieved the suspect of his we'apen~ r '' '~MR•· RAUSCH'S (Anne Arundel Times photo) indeed invaluable in clearing thi.s case." Unlike Gilbert and Sullivan's policeman, who did not find his lot an 'appy one, Mr~ Rausch does. "I've been with it," he said. "I like it. be honest about it." St. John's is honest about it, too. It's with Mr. Rausch. It more than him. It knows it has a prize - the indispensible cop. Leo F. Raditsa, who has been · teaching at St. John's College for the past four years, has been awarded a National Fellowship at the Hoover Institution on War, Peace, and Revolution in Stanford, Calif. The award. also is given by the National Endowment for the Humanities and amounts to a joint appointment by both the endowment and institution. Mr. Raditsa, who will be on leave from St. John's, will spend a year at Stanford writing a book, "The Division of the West, Ancient and Modern." A graduate of Harvard College with a doctorate from Columbia University, Mr. Raditsa was a ·Fulbright scholar at the University of Munich from 196465. The Reporter is published by the Office of College Relations, St. John's College, Annapolis, Md., 21404, Richard D. Weigle, president, William 13. Dunham, vice president. f;ublis~ed fiyfl times,a year, in February, April,, Jjn1e, s'~ptemoir, and November. Second 'da'ss poiha~e'"pbid at Aimapolis, actions were . Md.· , 'i.:',', �APRlll977 A-n education Editor'sNote: How has St. John's influenced the teaching of its graduates over the past 40 years? One alumnus, W. Bernard Fleischmann, '50, dean of the School of Humanities at Montclair State ·College, Upper Montclair, N~J., describes his impressions here. Mr. Fleischmann is now a member of the St. John's board. By W. BERNARD FLEISCHMANN My undergraduate education at St. John's College was of momentous and continuing influence upon my entire academic career. This influence manifested itself in three ways: I never ceased to regard the St. John's program as a well-nigh ideal curricular model for undergraduate lib.eta! arts education; the St. John's seminar; both in its style and substance, seemed to me the best vehicle of inquiry upon fundamental philosophical questions in undergraduate (and some graduate) education; for its on the nature and of language in the human world, as opposed to a language teaching focus upon the utilitarian application of a given language, the St. John's language tutorial seemed to me ·· way to perof students preparing, for lives in a monolingual society. to bring these to my teaching role on various campuses, I have on balance met with considerable Continued from P. 1) of rson's momen;tous success. Where both fiscal colleagues who saw the courses constraints and the difficulties in European Literature as none encountered by interdisciplinary too serious preparations for study witl-.in the structures of the literary talk at cocktail parties in departm.: ital system have so far the postgraduate lives of not allm• ed me to execute my students. great ideal of making the St. On the other hand, graduate John's program accessible to low courses of Comp ar a ti ve income, regionally bound . Literature I have been instudents on a public campus, I termittently giving since 1972 at was instrumental in making a New York University, profit from resembling course of study ac- a kind of St. John's seminar cessible in this way: Both the approach to texts. This has been liberal studies program at the particularly true for. my course University of Massachusetts- on the eighteenth century Amherst and the A.B. in General Enlightenment, with its reading Humanities at Montclair State - list of not only literary works. College, both of which ·I helped WHILE MY experience in the design, make this an option teaching of ianguage is relatively within the constraints of local limited, it included attempts to institutional resources. work with students in the style of WHEN IT COMES to the St. the St. John's language tutorial. John's seminar, I was able to A happy experience, which guide, and in some instances to worked well, was a summer design at least one year-long course of intermediate level course that would epitomize its German for undergraduate intellectual benefits. This was students of the biological true at Emory University (1961- sciences (including psychology) I 63 ), at the University of guided at the University of Texas Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1963-66), at Austin in 1962. We used an at the University of anthology of important texts Massachusetts-Amherst (1967- (Virchow, Freud, Frisch, Lorenz, 70) and at Montclair State (1970 e.g.) and discussed, in German, to present). both the purport of these and the function of language as this When (1966-67), I was asked to impinged upon scientific convisit at Princeton to be in charge cerns. of two undergraduate courses in In fairness I should add that I li' n·" ...,,., Literature, I went with was dealing with a particul; hopes of turning the preceptorial bright and well-motivated group hour attended of students grounded in funstudents from the lecture sec· damentals of German by tions into a mini-seminar which members of what is generally would probe texts read with considered one of two or three fundamental questions. leading departments of German Here, I was disappointed by in the United States. students who viewed the precepts academic career so in the main as coaching·sessions I found that being a for course examinations and by 1 program. Robert Faulhaber, a professor it of economics at De Paul College, Curriculum of Chicago, Ill., and a former visiting tutor at St. John's Elsewhere, great books Graduate Institute, has inprograms exist. At the University troduced still another great books of Notre Dame 900 course. It is one entitled "Great students take a Ideas, Behavior and Society" in Collegiate a two~ which Sophocles, Plutarch, semester course in which they Aristotle, and Lincoln are :read and discuss a rotating list of read along with parts of the 30 great books. Bible. Books are selected to give A St. John's graduate, William a maximum coverage of such C. Buchanan, Jr., 48, associate ideas as those having to do with professor of humanities at Olivet aristocracy, education, family, College, Olivet, Mich., is justice, labor and leisure, responsible for a four-semester, pleasure and pain, money, and great books course there entitled justice. "The Intellectual Tradition of the Over the years at least two West." It moves from the colleges have taken sufficiently Graeco-Roman civilization to the serious interest to send observers secularization of the West. here for year-long observation, AT PEARSON COLLEGE at and there has been a steady flow the University of Kansas at of inquiries from others. Laurence, 300 students for the Grand Valley State Colleges, a past half dozen or so years have group of five cluster colleges at taken part in a year-long study of Allendale, Mich., considered a different sort. Under that establishing a sixth college ·program three professors discuss modeled after St. John's, and the books in a colloquium before sent two members of their staff, a large audience of listeners, Loretta and Irving Wasserman, which then breaks into small here in 1973-74 for a year's obgroups of about 12 for discussion. servation. But Grand Valley The program was established reached the conclusion that such by Dr. John Senior, a former a college was not feasible and student of Mark Van Doren, a wrote St. John's in 1975 that it long time member of the St. could ''provide neither the John's board, who attributes its money nor the attention and care beginning to St. John's influence. necessary for success." Students also take part there in The now defunct Verrazzano an O}'al La,tin ·co11rse, considered College, which opWJ.e:d.Jn t9e fall ,qne o(ijie Jn$1 e'6itin~ ~jpects · of 1974 at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., of Pea huminitie~ ~Ihlotl$on ~Malmud . Okby convention a 1 PAGE 3 THE REPORTER here as an observer, but Verrazzano closed almost immE~di~1 telly afterwards. n.rl.n.J;l.JL,;J Wofford, Jr., a former Peace Corps was given the opportunity by the State University of New York to found an experimental college at Old Westbury. He hoped to combine a great books program with active participation by students · in community social issues outside the campus. The faculty voted down the great books common learning program, however, and Mr. Wofford left after three years to become presid~nt of B-ryn .1\ifawr. Two schools with great books programs traced to other origins are Columbia University and the University of California at Berkeley. Columbia University, where John Erskine introduced a great books program in 1919, offers a study of major works by more than 20 authors, ranging from Homer to Dostoyevsky, during the first part of a two-year humanities sequence. In addition, fifteen juniors and seniors, selected for their high academic standing, take a Colloquium, an interdisciplinary seminar led by two instructors. At Berkeley Joseph Tussman, a professor of philosophy, operated program briefly from 1964 to 1969, but rather than being derived from St. John's, the , Uni.v:ersity .of California's_ effort was an ·attempt, to 'te~tali~er a - ' 1 WisconsinR~ogram; a influence W. Bemard Fleischmann St. John's graduate made my intellectual person ever more highly respected for that reason as the quarter century rolled by. There is no question in my mind that particularly the last decade has brought respect bordering upon awe to the St. John's program into all corners of American excepting Schools of Education where the undoubted the College to train teachers without subjecting these to form al courses in how to teach is viewed as a threat. It would be difficult and chancy, however, to speak of an influence of St. John's College upon the American educational scene. The historical coming to be of the St. John's program was, after all, part of an educational counter thrust to the scientific fragmentation of knowledge which had been going on since the eighteenth century. Specifically, programs resembling the eventual 1937 "New Program" had been under way at Columbia, Virginia, Wisconsin-Madison and Chicago since the early 1920's. As Columbia's graduate faculties (see "Education," New York Times, December 22, 1976) are debating institutionalizing general education courses at graduate level much resembling St. John's Graduate Institute's it is difficult to assess whether St. John's has a bearing here or whether Columbia is not reviving and augmenting what it conceives of as its own past great strengths. Cautiously, one could, however, attribute some recent changes in the undergraduate teaching of history 1nd literature to the influence uf St. John's: In most places, history textbooks and literary anthologies have now been replaced by important whole texts for classroom consideration. Also, there is some discussion among teachers concerned with remediating English reading and skills as to whether the structura model of the trivium, as adopted the St. John's language may not be of great help in their endeavors. But these discussions, initiated by a minority, are sporadic and only at their beginnings. By the 1948-49 year, when I some of the newness of the New had worn off; the war years had been weathered; and Buchanan, the had left St. John's to go on to another project; ·as Jacob Klein, a new dean, put it, the Alexandrian period of the was succeeding to its Athenian period. That meant we would have to settle down to more patient and pedestrian work, to doing a better job of some of the necessary rote work, to reading old books a bit less "musically" and a bit more carefully and responsibility. There was possibly a bit of sadness in fhe announcement, but there was something sober and reassuring about it, too. We might not be anything so grand as "the seedbed of the American Renaissance," as Walter Lippmann had hoped, but we could do something solid and good. We are still in it-this Alexandrian period. Not that we have turned into dry-as-dust scholars -far from it. We read old books, but with little or no attention to secondary accounts or "historical background." We take the books quite seriously, as though they might be telling us important truths, even the important truths, but we do not overlook the fact that they disagree among themselves. We converse about what we read. We have a community of learning that is pretty genuine; the faculty learn from each other, the students learn from each other, and the faculty learn from the students as well as vice versa. We inculcate not particular knowledges or doctrines so much as arts and habits; the habitof attention, the habit of making mental efforts under criticism, the art of entering quickly into another person's thoughts, the art of assuming new intellectual postures swiftly and appropriately. It may not be revolutionary, but it is worthwhile. I doubt that anyone could give himself to it for a year or more and remain untouched. I like to hope that we are .:;tl\diq.~, jll~ ,~ J.iJtle bit, to the SUllJ.. total ()f intellectt\a.l ~o~rage 1 f;\ri<tintellectualspl:)riety in the. world~ . · .. , · · ., , ' · ,_ ' >,, ,~ i!. _ _; ._ - t, ~ - r �THE REPORTER Published College Relations Office St. John's College Annapolis, Md. 21404 St. John's new Alumni the first issued in will be mailed to in has softball. The caliber of shown in recent years. We must be the effect of the new role women are for themselves in our Thomas Parran, Jr., alumni will said the be a landmark since it will contain for the first time the names of of both the Santa campus and Graduate Institute. Also new in this issue will be occ:up:1tiona1 data which will be where formation has been .... .,.,'""'1°1'1 the alumni office. Addre~ss~~s and names have been up~cun.ea. This is the first since the 1793-1967 edition was issued nine vears a1ul in the has the Women's went to Santa Fe year, in 1975~76. She was and to this imnrovP.mPnt tember how had occurred absence. What is true in soccer is also true in volleyball, basketball and a rec:ept:ion (Continued from P. 1) "phyto-sanitary" certificate state forest operations, she ' required for shipment abroad, learned that the species is related the tree was for travel to the English lime and lindens and placed cold storage. It and should do well in Britain. traveled bare-rooted with roots Initially in the correspondence bedded in damp moss tied in with Mrs. Drummond which plastic. The entire tree was followed, Sir John thought that it ~ 0 r1 in waterproof paper and might be planted ·on the Eden was carried Miss Aitken very estate but changed his mind in much as if were taking an favor of a more prominent umbrella. location where it· could be Like any traveler wishing to marked by a plaque and be ac·make a good impression abroad, cessible to the general public. The tree is now a little over two it had been subject to a bit of feet tall and was hand-carried grooming. Mr. Ayton cleaned off March 31 by St. John's director the lower branches by doing of admissions, Miss Joanne some pruning with hand clippers. The tiny off-spring stands in Aitken, who was visiting her sister in London. At London contrast with the robust Airport it was met by a Tree, a landmark here since representative of the Royal days Washington and Botanic Gardens and transported visited the campus. to the Kew gardens. The Caritas last year "The tree is in very good offered the White House a shape," according to John S. seedling as a Bicentennial gift, Ayton, nursery manager at but it was declined. Rex Scouten, Buckingham, who has been head usher, explained the White personally overseeing it. House had selected a tree more After receivimz the necessary suitable to its larnctscapurigriee(1S Auditorium. The dav will conclude with a of William «n;,..,..,;,.,, at 8:15 p.m. followed at 10:15 p.m. and tennis courts be open to parents throughout the weekend. Co-chairmen in charge of the weekend are Paula Jacobus, of Kane, Pa., and David Doremus. of Deerfield, Ill., both juniors. . ., ......... Archival material gathered at St. John's since 1937 will be known as the Barr-Buchanan Archives after the founders of the college's New Program. The college's Archives and Records Committee decided to do so at a recent meeting in which they discussed the need for a central location for St. John's archives, now scattered on four locations on campus with a fifth collection in the Maryland Hall of Records. A gift of representing the remainder of money collected for Stringfellow Barr's 8Qth birthday celebration has been received for the new BarraBachanan Archives. program. America's coldest winter did its part to some trees on campus, which will be fighting for renewed vigor this Particularly hurt were the Southern magnolias, American holly, the Japanese privet, and various other evergreens. Dan T. of Bartlett Tree said that the magnolias were damaged when frozen than a orocess which roots and the trees or give off moisture. As a result the leaves dried. "It's a freeze drying process," Mr. Helgerman said. "We're feeding them plenty of nutrients, but they will be in a weakened condition this '1 With water locked out, a magnolia planted on the St. John's Street side of the campus together with half a dozen or inside more in the Mellon butld.1rtg evergreens amounts of damage. The weather had no effect on larger deciduous trees, including the Liberty the lindens and ashes. A number of trees have been removed from the during They the late winter have included the old silver maple at the boxwood garden, the limbs of which were rotted. previously had been topped in the hopes that its 40 cent prove chance of favorable, but it experienced some growth, the tree has continued to rot. "It was only a question of time before the tree would crash and damage the boxwood,'' Mr. Helgerman said. Also removed were some trees with diseases which might Dutch elm suffering Dutch elm disease and three Norway maples near the boxwood garden. The latter <mffo..od from a in which � 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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Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf The Reporter https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/64d6f35d77e2d9e147638a19c921285c.pdf b8245a8aa7281a196e1265d7475fdd0e PDF Text Text ~~::T:Y 1 1 1 1 1 1 l~ ~ ~ ~H~ i1 1 1 1 1 1 lnamed Rhod s scholar curriculum CUi:lllMt: 1U. mo·r.e tha.n a de. ca de, St. reducing the _number of 1:ithn:ri:itnrv science. from I . · 1·1 · · h e st · - I ' .,.0 ··hn 's . rr. ..l' - I t1I & The decision was reached by faculties on both the eastern and western campuses in an effort to reduce the, number of classes in the sophomore year, the rather than Next sophomores will have John's l:'!l::'!lllLllC 3 music. The study of biology, heretofore has come during sophomore year, will be divided between freshman and senior years. In advising students of the change, Dean Curtis Wilson wrote them: . John's College "NOT WITHOUT a rather toSt.'eliminate suchhas decided "honors" lengthy consideration of alter· degrees as cum laude and magna natives, and not without cum laude in trepidation, we have been led to bachelor's degrees.awarding its our very simple conclusion: that The decision, jointly reached we should seek a way to do the by both its Annapolis and Santa important and necessary Fe, N.M., campuses, is linked to laboratory science in three the role grades play at St. John's. rather than four years." While To help accommodate the graduategrades are kept here for study purposes, they change, the freshman laboratory are revealed only if a student studies in physical science will be · makes a special request for reduced from 32 to 20 weeks. The them. Given this down-play, St. freshman laboratory now will John's, unlike other colleges, consist of one week of obare determined servational astronomy, 11 weeks where honors by grade point automatically of observational biology, and 20 averages, has used other stan· weeks· of elementary studies of dards in deciding who will matter and measurement. Dean Wilson said the college receive them, occasionally will take a hard look at the awarding honors to seniors who may have a grade point average (Continued on P. 4) · slightly under that of other class members. "At most colleges and universities,. honors degrees are determined automatically," Dean Curtis Wilson of the Annapolis campus wrote students in informing them of the decision. " .... mE FACULTY at St. Strh1gfellow Barr, teacher and John's has always refused to St. John's president for nine accord to grades the officially years, the man who has helped sanctioned importance that such "us to be better than we othet· a procedure would imply. In the wise would have been," last absence of a mechanically apmonth celebrated his 80th bir· plicable criterion, the faculty has thday in the grand patriarchal found it exceedingly difficult, if manner amid praise and honor not impossible, to arrive at from the men whose lives he has . judgments that all or most could helped shape. regard as based on adequate There were speeches and gifts knowledge and uniformly applied and a three-tiered birthday cake standards. and a great deal of laughter, "Arbitrariness in the linear which was the way it should have ranking of students and in the been. Some time ago Francis S. drawing of a line between the rite Mason, Jr., '43, on behalf of some and cum laude and the magna close friends and associates, cum laude graduate, has seeme.d approached "Winkie" Barr to see impossible to avoid." what might be happening in Mr. Wilson said that too often January, 1977, on his 80th bir- final judgments have been thday. reached amid "widespread "But that's a laughing mat- feelings of doubt or resignation." ter," Mr. Barr protested. "As for the recipients, too often "Do you mind if we come and laugh with you?" queried Mr. they have viewed the results as Mason, which is how the birthday unfair or incomprehensible," he party at Princeton University's continued. "These difficulties have loomed larger as the size of Prospect House came to be. "It is wonderful that we all the senior classes has increased. have come to try adequately to "IN BRIEF, while in no way honor a man beloved and wishing to stint our praises for respected by us all,'' Mr. Mason intellectual achievement, we told the more than 125 luncheon have not found that the granting guests, many of whom were at St. of honors degrees could be John's during the era in which carried out with a sufficiently Stringfellow Barr and Scott strict and clear justice." Buchanan established the New {Continued on P. 4) (Continued on P. 2) Honors thine: of past at SJ C WinkieBarr celebrates his eightieth Tuition fees fo go higher St. John's will ask $4,000 in tuition fees next year. Reacting to the effect of continuing inflation, the Board of Visitors and Governors has voted a 7112 per cent increase in tuition for its Annapolis campus. Jt also moved the tuition to $4,000 for the Santa Fe campus, which has· been charging $3,625 as against Annapolis campus' present $3,700. The increase for Santa Fe would be 10.3 per cent. The room fee will move from $575 to $625 on both campuses. Board costs also will go up, but those figures will not be known until later in the year when the college negotiates a con· tract for its food service. College officials estimate ·they may go from $25 to $50higher. Actual cost of educating a St. John's student in Annapolis is estimated by Board Member Charles Nelson, '45, at about $7,800 and at about $8,900 for Santa Fe students. Institute adds year The Annapolis campus is adding a fifth segment of the college's Graduate Institute in Santa Fe. The eight-week program will be an extension of the institute, where college graduates may earn a master's degree after summer study there. Geoffrey Comber, the institute's associate director who will be in charge of the Annapolis program, said that it will get underway June 26 and will be devoted to history. Students will explore a number of major questions both through great books seminars and through a tutorial. A MAXIMUM OF nine hours of credit will be offered. Public school teachers ·participating may gain credit toward recer· tification, including credit for what is known as their "MA plus 30," a formula involving 30 hours beyond a master's degree used in salary advancements. · Students who complete the summer here will be eligible to transfer to the Santa Fe campus, where summer sessions are devoted to philosophy and theology, math and science, politics and society, ··and literature. Graduate Institute alumni, many of whom have requested another segment of work beyond what they received in Santa Fe, will be eligible to (Continued on P. 3) · that Selected i New Orleans, she is one of 13 women who are the 32 winners the receive two to at Oxford coveted for the first in 73-year history to women as well as to men. Winning the honor came as a surprise for her because, as fortune would have it, flu coincided with her final interview. Between Friday, when she met the district committee at a New Orleans cocktail party, and Saturday morning, when she was interviewed, she became ill and spent most of the night awake, finally sending the hotel desk clerk out at 4 in the morning for medicine. Her interview was to come four hours later. The 12 contestants had drawn numbers for the order of their interview, and she was scheduled for first at 8o'clock. "I FELT THAT I had .'bombed,' and that unless I had some sleep and a second interview, there wouldn't be a chance," she recalled her impressions of the 30-to-40 minute interview. "I felt that I hadn't said anything straight and wasn't quite in gear." But no second interview was necessary, and at 5:30 p.m. when Hugh Patterson, editor of The Little Rock Gazette, who coin· cidentally had run Miss Coiner's birth announcement, read the list of winners, Miss Coiner, still too ill to really hear, knew she had won when someone turned to offer congratulations. Miss Coiner found the interviews, both at Oklahoma City at the state level and in New Orleans at the district level, "not at all difficult." "They were much more (Continued on P. 2) City Symphony sets premiere A major· work by Douglas Allanbrook, St. John's tutor, his Symphony in Four Movements for Brass Quintet and Orchestra, will have its premiere performance Sunday, Feb. 20, when it is played by the Annapolis Brass Quintet and the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra. The performance is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at Annapolis High School. A commissioned work, it was written under the sponsorship of the Maryland Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Annapolis Fine Arts Foundation. Works by Mr. Allanbrook, which include orchestral, choral and keyboard music, have been performed both in this country and abroad. Tickets may be purchased at the door. NANCY COINER _Aflld �Flaumenhaft has an the Bicentennial issue of The Political Science Reviewer, an annual journal, entitled "Alexander Hamilton on Foundation of Good Government." On sabbatical next year, Mr. Flaumenhaft will spend his year completing a book doctoral thesis. It will be The Administrative A.1'c:,µu1..1111.:. Study of Alexander .0..1.auuJ:cv;, Political Thought. Mr. Flaumenhaft is earning his doctor's degree in science at the University of Chicago. Laurence Berns has written on "Political Philosophy and the Right to Rebellion" in ,' Interpretations, a journal of. political philosophy published by · the Queen's College Philosophy Department. Robert Williamson has an "-''11-"JNVJllL'l::::;.;:'!I Bernard Mann Peebles, who taught at St. John's during the '40's is dead, slain in an attempted robbery outside his apartment in Northeast Washington shortly before midnight November 23. Police said he was shot in the chest as he returned from visiting colleagues nearby. He managed to climb the 30 stairs to get to his apartment and telephone police and was taken to Washington General Hospital where he died at 2: 35 A retired Catholic University· professor of Greek and Latin, Professor Peebles had taught at St. John's from 1941-42, leaving here for wartime duties, and then returned in 1945. He left again in 1948 for Catholic University, with which he has been associated article, Einstein's 'On the '--Mh""'amics of Moving Bodies,' " is scheduled to in issue of in and of Science. Leo Raditsa has written on the current scene in Italy, where he spends his smnrr1ers, "Letter from Rome," pulJlls.nea in the December issue of Midstream. In the m he has another article, Fall of the Roman Empire in the West-and the Present Crisis." In addition, among the St. John's graduates who are publishing is Albert Mark Smith, '67, a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin, who has written on "Galileo's Theory or Indivisibles: Revolution or Compromise" in The Journal of the History of Ideas. ~.llQJULlll since and where he specialized in Roman and medieval Latin literature and in patristics, the study of the writings and doctrines of early Christian leaders. Since his retirement in 1971, he had continued to lecture at the university and to write independently on his specialty. In 1974 he participated in the World Petrarch Congress at the Folger Shakespeare Library, where leading scholars and writers paid tribute to the great Italian Renaissance poet on the sixth centennial of Petrarch's death. He was a frequent contributor to various periodicals. At the time of his death he was serving as an editorial director of "The Fathers of the Church: New Translation," an 80-to-90 volume set of the early writings. Housman play Amid all the absurdities of the A.E. Housman play at Christmas, there was a note of sadness. Winfree Smith recalled that it was -Bernie Peebles who introduced this "Fragment of a Greek Tragedy" when it first was produced in 1941. Mr. Peebles and his wife, Carrie, took the roles now played by Hugh McGrath and Charlotte Fletcher. The play is not performed every year, but since 1941 it has been a Christmas tradition to stage .it every other year or so at the college party before the winter break. This year the play was given in the Great Hall with a blackboard depicting a "fragment of a palace" and serving both for dramatic purposes and as a dressing room. Behind it Hugh McGrath successfully donned his mop beard, and Charlotte Fletcher, wearing panty hose on her head stuffed On special college occasions Stringfellow Barr used to request grace said in Latin. Rediscovered by College Archivist Miriam Strange, the grace was-recited at Mr. Barr's birthday luncheon by Paula Jacobus, Kane, Pa., junior. For persons who would like to introduce a little Latin at their dinner table, the grace js: and done up like horns, emitted her great shriek. ("That's the part you can't rehearse," Miss Fletcher said). "O, I am smitten with a hat~ chet's jaw, and that in deed and notin word alone," Miss Fletcher is heard to wail while Mr. McGrath, as the Chorus, informs the audience, "I thought I heard a sound within the house unlike the voice of one that jumps for joy." The play continues: Eriphyla: He splits my skull, not in a friendly way. Once more he purposes to kill me dead. -chorus: I would not be reputed rash, but yet I doubt if all be gay within the house. Eripbyla: 0 ! 0 ! another stroke! That makes the third. He stabs me to the heart against my wish. Chorus: If that be so, thy state of health is poor; but thine arithmetic is quite correct. "Benedic, Domine, nos et haec tua dona, quae de bonitate tua sumus sumpturi, per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen." It is the traditional grace, "Bless us, Oh Lord, and these Thy gifts, which of Thy goodness we are about to partake, through Jesus Christ, Our Lord." essay on Dante very carefully. In New Orleans they all knew a lot about Dorothy Sayers and her translation of Dante. It was great fun. It was much easier than an oral exam at St. John's." A grapevine of comments from the committees back to the campus indicated that Miss Coiner was not the only person to enjoy her interviews. The committee did so, too. In fact, one member commented that such groups frequently get speeches from Rhodes contestants. What they had with Miss Coiner might be summed up as an elevated conversation. MISS COINER becomes St. John's first Rhodes recipient since 1945 when Stephen W. Terry, Jr., now state chairman of the Rhodes selection committee in Indiana, was a winner. While competition was stiff enough to make her nervous, she believes a St. John's interviewee has an advantage. "I find it difficult to understand why a St. John's stu~ent would. not make it through if he got to the interview stage,'' she remarked. "This is partly because at other colleges people generally don't talk in class, and when they do talk outside class, they tend to discuss things which aren't really important. "At St. John's," she pointed out with a laugh, "you gain a certain facility by the habit of having people tell you what you do wrong all the time." One reason St. John's has a winner this year is because, possibly for the first time, the faculty Fellowship Committee headed by Sam Kutler is doing what Ivy League universities make a regular business each year. It looked around for potential winners and suggested they apply. It was Saul Benjamin, a member of the committee who himself had been at Oxford, who persuaded Miss Coiner that she was scholarship material. In addition, the college entered three other women, Julia Perkins and Carla Schick, also seniors, and a 197& graduate, Marfan Wolfe. No men. were entered although James Mackey was approached and declined because he wanted to get married, something which automatically eliminated him. QUESTIONS BY the Rhodes selection committees, Miss Coiner believes, suggest they are look~ng for a certa~n type of leadership. They were mtere,sted in such general, modern political questions as what would be the thing she would tell PresidentElect Carter if she had an opportunity. They queried her about Dante, and they were intrigued by St. John's. Miss Coiner will leave for Oxford in September. Present plans call for all the United States recipients to meet in New York go over aboard II. At Oxford the Queen she will church theolor!ical literature. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Henry Coiner, of Tulsa, Miss Coiner was graduated from Nathan Hale Senior High School in Tulsa before coming to St. John's. Besides going to St. John's, she has done a number of things. Among them she has: Acted extensively; as the only Christian living in a kibbutz during the 1973 Israeli war, managed a banana field; lived on an organic farm in Scotland with a woman theologian and her Cambridge-educated husband where Miss Coiner built a cow byre; worked the midnight shift as a press operator in 110 degree temperature in a Tulsa roller skate factory, turning soft plastic into wheels, and worked as a junior clerk with the Tulsa telephone company, serving as a middleman between engineers and construction crews. Last summer she acted in and served as stage manager for the Annapolis Classic Repertory Company. This spring she will appear in a campus production of "The Tempest." MISS COINER, who once seriously considered the priesthood (she teaches 8th, 9th, and 10th graders Sunday School at St. Anne's Church), went to "We got bombed regularly by the Palestinian Liberation Front, but our kibbutz was up a bill, and the Arabs were such bad shots they never got inside the gates. The kibbutz down the road got it constantly." justice' r' · decision • I Israel at the end of year at St. John's because she wanted to exbesides St. John's in its secular way, another community of close relationships. In addition, she wanted an ,..,,.,.,..,...,.f,...,;hr to learn Hebrew. She read Latin, Greek, Italian, and French. "The war broke out at 2 p.m. and by midnight, within a space of eight hours, all the men were gone," she recalled. Israeli high school students, who regularly work the fields, taught her how to irrigate, how to fertilize, how to recognize how old the plants were, and how to spray the trunks with color to indicate when they should be picked. ~ "Managing the field was wonderful," she recalled. "I had a really good time and was very, very lucky to be assigned to the fields. We started early in the morning, by 5:30. I would climb up the ladder and look at the green field and think, 'It's seminar time there.' " The field was three miles from the western border and 40 miles from the action. Is name • ? a m 1snome r: I will i am W. S i·m mo n s , president of the Alumni Association and a member of the college board, suggests that "New Program" may be a misnomer for the St. John's curriculum. He noted that the program, now in its 40th year, has lasted longer than other, less recent St. John's curriculum. programs which he has known. The college operated as a military school for 37 years between 1886 and 1923, and then established a new elective system in 1923. It continued until the New Program · was established 14 years later in 1937. That gives the program a three-year edge over the next oldest curriculum. The New Program might be more correctly described as the Old Program, arid the latter perhaps designated as the Old Old Progrram. cnrcuacnion Despite the demands of St. John's reading program, its students are borrowing more books than ever before. Charlotte Fletcher, librarian, said the average. student borrowed 30 books during the past academic year as compared to 25 in 1971-72 and 22 in 1960-61. Class copies were excluded in (Continued from P. 1) reaching the figures. Mr. Wilson said he did not believe the decision will have an adverse effect on Eraduates seeking admission to graduate or professional schools. "Whatever function ... that the honors degrees may have had, we believe it can be better fulfilled by individual letters of recommendation, which can be more specific and less subject to misinterpretation than the Latin adverbial phrases," he said. · · College's series reaired St. John's televised seminars, "Dialogue of the Western World," first aired in 1972, has been televised by the Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting seven times since its initial showing. Prepared and moderated by former Dean Robert A. Goldwin, the series included among its participants two figures· currently prominent in the news, Patricia Roberts Harris, President Carter's housing and urban development secretary, and Maryland's newly elected senator, Paul Sarbanes. The Reporter is published by the Office of College Relations, St: John's College, Annapolis, Md., 21404, Richard D. Weigle, president, William 8. Dunham, vice president. Published live times a year, in February, Aprl1, June, September and November. Second class postage paid at Annapolis, Md. �happened to one stack of books. Mcm:ia Talley is the librarian. (Evening Ca pita I photos) • 411 • 1111111111 l For the first time grandparents associated with the St. John's community can be supplied with blood under a new provision of the Americ:m National Red Cross Blood Assurance Program, Marilyn Kyle, college nurse, reports. Last fall St. John's went over its quota of 96 pints, contributing 112 pints in all to the annual campus drive. "Our contract with the Baltimore Regional Office of the Red Cross specifies that if 20 per cent of the members of the college community, including students, tutors and staff, an· nually donate blood, then all members and their immediate families are covered for all their blood needs except for cardiovascular surgery," Ms. Kyle said. For the single student or college member blood can be provided his parents, grandparents and brothers and sisters who are still dependent upon the parents. For married members of the community, all blood needs will be met as well as those of the spouse, and unmarried children plus those of each spouse's parents and grandparents. . Ms. Kyle advises these people that if blood is needed they inform their hospital that they are covered under the Red Cross Blood Assurance Program of the Baltimore, Maryland Regional Office with St. John's College. Persons participating should give the name of the college member with whom they are associated; that is, the student, staff member, or tutor. She requested that if blood is used, persons should inform the College Health Service Office, and replacement of the blood will be arranged. Information needed includes the name and address of hospital, name and address of person receiving the blood, date of surgery or transfusion and riumber of pints used. (Continued from P. 1) participate. Planned primarily as a residential program, the Annapolis session will be limited to 40 participants. Besides the tutorial, which will meet four times a week for an hour and a quarter with shorter reading assignments than those of the twice-weekly seminar, two preceptorials will be included in the program. These will be intensive examinations of one or two single works of history. The tutorial will include writings of Giam battista Vico, Johann Gottfried von Herder, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, and Max Weber along with Kant, Hegel and Augustine. "HERDER, LESSING and Kant Were 18th century writers concerned with the question of what is history," Mr. Comber said. "Is history going anywhere? Is there an over-all plan ·which we can read? Are there any over-arching patterns? What is it in history that we can use for ourselves? How is history significantly different or similar to literature, drama, biography, or other forms of writing?'' Seminar writers will include Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch, Tacitus, Gibbon and Shakespeare. A more contemporary historian to be read will be Henri Pirenne, whose book, "Medieval Cities," has become a classic of its sort. Serving as Mr. Comber's administrative assistant will be a former St. John's student, Rita Bahus. Interested persons may write or call Mr. Comber or Miss Bahus at the college. It might be an exaggeration to over to the library on these days. say that twice a year the St. "THE WHOLE community John's College library becomes a participates," Miss Fletcher madhouse. But it's almost that. noted. "People encourage each Librarians stay up until 1 a.m. other to return books. Our Books swarm over a newly set up generosity depends upon such receiving table. A student work cooperation. In any lending increw forms an assembly line, stitution the responsibility falls flipping through pink cards, on those who borrow to make it tucking white cards into book fair and equitable. And our pockets, tieing up individual students are wonderful. They do stacks of books, and carting it with such gQod spirit.'' others away by the hundred. Excused are class copies, By nightfall 2,000 books have which may be kept out- all year, come in. After being the busiest, or specially required books which most visited spot orr campus, the library does a turn-around. For one day the library is deserted ex&ept for librarians and student helpers methodically shelving William O'Grady, St. John's the books. By 7 p.m. it's all done. tutor, was a major speaker in a The library is once more back in series of talks funded by the business. National Endowment for the THE TWO-DAY book whirl Humanities and coordinated by constitutes what St. John's the Cumberland County (N.C.) describes as a "call-in" day, a Public Library last month. His system of accounting, borrowed talks included those at Elon and from Cambridge University in Belmont Abbey colleges as well England, which may be unique as one in Fayetteville. Making among American colleges. the point that some things said by Charlotte Fletcher, St. John's men who believe in God are librarian, explained they were· ;important whether one believes begun six years ago "because of in God or not, Mr. O'Grady based our generosity." The generosity his lecture on reflections of lies in the fact that the college passages from The Iliad, charges no over-due fines and Augustine's Confessions, Dante's only rarely for other breaches of Purgatory, Don Qixote, and faith but needs to have some way The Gospel of John. of accounting for all its volumes. In another talk at Anne Arundel Hearing about the Cambridge Community College, Robert L. system, the library decided to Spaeth of the faculty spoke on institute its own "call-in" days "Annapolis, Seat of Governtwice a year, just prior to the ments" in a panel discussion on Thanksgiving and spring . government in Anne Arundel vacation when books are most County sponsored by the Anne likely to be taken home and Arundel County Bicentennial forgotten or lost there. Committee. A former city "Returning books is one of alderman, Mr. Spaeth currently those things people put off," Miss is a member of the Annapolis Fletcher explained. "I used to Planriing and Zoning Complead with people, put up anmission. nouncements in dormitories, and walk through the dining room, Delivering a Lincoln's Birasking people to return them.'' thday address earlier this month No longer. Everyone, from the in. Washington was a third president and dean on down member of the faculty, Laurence through the academic ranks of Berns. His talk, entitled "Enlightenment, Religion, and faculty, staff and students, trots may be needed those particular two days. As a further encouragement to return books, students who want to take them out again can request that these be set aside for them. Instead of going back on the shelves, these are tied up in bundles to be picked up as soon as the library reopens. "It's just awful," Kathryn Kinzer, assistant librarian, observed, "but the hassle lasts only one day. It works much better than the old system of beg and please." Tutors deliver talks w- - the American Character," was given before the Washington Philosophical Club at Howard University. Robert Hutchins sends his hugs (Continued from Pg. 4) birthday card to "Mr. Barr who helped make St. John's a reality we can experience ... under the great umbrella of learning." It had been designed by Terry Schuld, Glen Head, N.Y., junior, and by Julia van der Veur, Napa, Calif., junior. And Paula Jacobus, Kane, Pa., junior, delivered a traditional grace in Latin,. one which Mr. Barr frequently had repeated during his St. John's days. ONE PERSON unable to be present was Robert Hutchins, former president of the University of Chicago, who sent a telegram saying: ''Please give him hugs from me~" Among the guests were three members of the Class of 1941, the first in the history of the New Program: Paul R. Comegys, who helped plan the luncheon, Victor G. Bloede, III, and William Grant. Mr. Barr enjoyed it all. He made no speeches, but he did have a one-liner to deliver. "In 80 more years," he told guests, "I want to see you again." �THE REPORTER Published by Relations Off ic College Annapolis, Md. 1) v ...-.cr,...,m here. color is four, the present junior-senior laboratory tutorial programs with a view to a schedule of meetmg somewhat shorter sequence, week rather than somewhat different in style and By adding one more weekly content. Two tutors, one from class meeting, the sophomore each campus, will be given time language tutorial will return to off during the next academic _ the frequency of meetings it has year in order to work out the had in the past. sequence in detail. In advocating a reduction in the number of sophomore classes The proposed plan calls for from five to four, Mr. Wilson said juniors to continue to study there was no doubt that students physics, and the senior year to be can manage to prepare for them, revised to contain 10 weeks but that "we would prefer not to dealing with the beginnings of foster by our institutional quantum physics and 18 weeks arrangements the kind of with Mendelian and molecular distractedness that comes from genetics. trying to do too many things at once." To get the program underway, "To be sure,'' he said, "the the present freshman class will program will always, and always have nine weeks of biology in the must, include more than is easily spring following spring recess. encompassable by any one The remainder of biological person, whether tutor or student; studies, which have been taught to settle for comfortable comin the sophomore year, will come partmentalizations and selfduring their senior year. limitations would be to reject the SOPHOMORE CLASSES goal that we have set for ourselves." originally were increased from LAST FALL, IN informing four to five during the 50's in order to include music. Besides members of the Board of Visitors and Governors of possible agreeing to retain music, the faculty, in discussing curriculum changes · under possibilities,· decided not to consideration, the Instruction Committee of both campuses reduce the amount of time · stated: assigned to language tu~orials. "In senior laboratory, the Dean Wilson pointed out that the biology section would surely second semesters of sophomore include the kind of genetics study and senior language tutorials now in sophomore laboratory on are devoted largely to the both campuses, while the materials and approaches reading of English poetry. adopted in the final weeks might "Any step that would diminish differ east and west. We believe it the amount of attention to good would be essential to find room in English writing, or practice in senior seminar for three or four writing, we would regard as Darwin seminars appropriately mistaken. For this reason we are timed. One may anticipate difproposing that, as the sophomore ficulty in arranging a teaching classes are reduced from five to slate if, as outlined, senior laboratory incorporates. both quantum physics and 20th century biology; accommodations ' may be possible through exSt. John's seminar method was change of classes with tutors adapted to a new purpose at a teaching freshman laboratory or small weekend conference senior mathematics." sponsored by Travel Program for Foreign Diplomats, Inc., recently at the Maryland Inn. St. John's Tutor Robert L. Spaeth served as a coordinator in planning a training -session for Non-smokers remain in eight men who will lead predominance among St. John's seminars for diplomats. Former freshmen. Last fall when AdDean Robert A. Goldwin, now missions Director Joanne Aitken with the American Enterprise asked new students whether they Institute for Public Policy, and would prefer to room with Dean Robert Neidorf of the smokers or non-smokers, 76 Annapolis campus took part. requested the latter. Sixteen Among the participants were students said it made no difrepresentatives of the Common ference on way or another, and 14 Market, the United Nations, of the 106 students to whom Miss embassies, Morgan Guarantee Aitken wrote either were living Trust, and the Pillsbury firm. off campus or did not respond. favorite who is so fine a that he to be who to comtpartion:ship of is bound to 11t>11tvt>111." Mr. Mason continued. "We who have read his books and read other books with him have a special kind of that amounts to love the love that results from ilisr.overv after exasneration. but exploration, too." Praise also came from J. Winfree Smith, who first knew Mr. Barr as a 17-year-old student at the University of Virginia and who joined the faculty here at Mr. Barr's invitation. "Winkie Barr is one whose soul could never be satisfied with small things," The St. John's tutor told the gathering. "My first encounter with him was at the University of Virginia in 1931 when I enrolled in a course of his on the history of the world. He had announced it, though not in the university catalog, as 'the history of the world from the amoeba to Hoover.' It was a lecture course. Winkie' s classroom lectures were a delight because of his sharp wit and felicitous use of the Englisl also very instructive, for as a history professor, was always concerned that we try not to accumulate fact but to understand what was going on in ancient Egypt or Greece or Rome or medieval Europe or France in the time of the French Revolution. "WHEN WINKIE came with Scott Buchanan to St. John's College in 1937, it was, as it still is, a very small college by any numerical measure. But what they had in mind for St. John's was anything but small. Winkie has always been very modest Fronds Mason ters on his nuctu:::nu:n1, co-founder about his part in the institution of the St. John's program, and it is no accidtnt that we still speak of' Winkie and Scott as the founders of the program. I think that the fact. that we have continued through these decades what they started is a tribute to them and an indication of the strength of what they have stood for in education. I am not going to tell this audience about the St. John's program and how great it is except to say a couple of things. "Winkie once said of the great books, 'They are in dialogue with every generation that wants to talk with them since they talk much better than most books do.' The eminent worth of the books has something to do with' how great the St. John's program was. "But another factor in the greatness of the program is that it almost forces its own reexamination. That reexamination which goes on constantly though maybe in'adequately was intended by Winkie and Scott. That is not to say that they began the St. John's program as an experiment in the \ One of the letters sent to Stringfellow Barr on his 80th birthday came from John Van Doren, '47. Read by Francis S. Mason, Jr., who presided at his birthday luncheon, the letter follows: "What shall we say to you on this anniversary? Greetings, certainly, and high honor, and great praise - gifts proper to the occasion and such as you deserve at any time. But also, and not least, gratitude for having long ago made us understand the importance of occasions generally. You were the master of such things; you taught us to respect them. There was in all you did an element of form, some note of ceremony, a concern to .have the right words said at the right time. It was as if you wanted us to realize that our enterprise required a sense of dignity, that we could not be well thought of except as we thought well of ourselves. You never made too much of it. Our observances were lightly enough laid down, and carelessly maintained. But by them did we become, at least in part, the community we were. Therefore we stand for you once more today, in thanks for this, and in love of your example. Live forever, Winkie:· amice, magister, praefecte et pater collegii. '' Barr with a collection of let'43, son of Scott of the New Proaram. is at sense of something to be tried and discarded if it didn't work. In 1937 and in the years that followed, they presented it as something that had been tried in the past and found to work and that had largely been forgotten or neglected. "Winkie, after he left St. John's, devoted much of his time, and energy about political and economic questions in a large In what he wrote when nriP~irlP:nt of the Foundation for Government he Americans, without giving up our patriotism, to think of ourselves as citizens of the world and of the world as one human community whose political and economic problems could be solved, if at all, only by all people acting together. Even if the events of the last 25 years have made it harder to think of a world community or of world government as a practical possibility, the idea is one we should never fore:et. "WINKIE'S LIFE and devotion to truth and justice and to the community of human beings help us to be better than we otherwise would have been." The gift presentation was made by Allan P. Hoffman, '49, who had taken a leading part in planning the celebration and . whose freshman seminar was spent with Mr. Barr. It was a three-volume edition of a rare book by J. Hector St. John Crevcoeur, first published in France in 1801 and describing , Pennsylvania and New York. The volumes formerly had been in the library of the Czar of Russia. Also presented Mr. Barr was a collection of congratulatory letters from well wishers. Peter Weiss, '46, recalled his association with Mr. Barr both as an undergraduate and with the Foundation of World Government. ("In 1949 it meant coming out of a cave and moving into 58 Park Avenue"). He praised Mr. Barr's attempts to make virtue real. Two St. John's students took part in the program. Peter Grubb, Los Gatos, Calif., freshman, presented an over-sized (Continued on P. 3) � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <em>The St. John's Reporter</em> Description An account of the resource College newspaper which started publication in 1974. 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JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY Tke St. lohn 's- Drive seelcs 11111111111111111~m~!r1mm1111111111111111 31696 01138 0365 $25-million PORTER If fund was ever a bore for St John's it had ceased to be. thanks to an urbane VOLUME IV, ISSUE 2 enter St. John's This for canl1Pu.ses show 64 of the 189 instudents, .or 33.9 per cent, have received NMS recognition. Combined oe1·ce111ta.ges men classes per cent, 29.9 per 1972, and other St. John's- makes an to NMS students them of the college The college's rigorous curriculum is believed to have wide appeal for these in· tellectually endowed young people. "AT time, the college is not elitist in appealing only to the students with superior standings," Dean Curtis Wilson of the Annapolis campus said. "It is a curriculum designed to be mastered by intelligent students who have the requisite background and who find themselves by the the program. cent of the first The median Scholastic titude Test was 630 for testing and 620 for mathematical which testing. In a excluded 24 students who had no SAT scores, the admission office found these results: 750:800, 2 V, 4 M; . ~ 7V 1 9 M; 650-699, 26 V, 11 M; 600-649, 24 V, 27 M; 550-599, 10 V, 9 M; 500549, rn V, 15 M; under 499, 3 V and 4M. Again this year, as has been the pattern in the past, men outnumber women. The ratio is 58 to 48. Freshmen come from Canada and from 28 states, principally Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey. Twenty-one, or 19 per cent, previously attended college, and 45, or 42.per cent, are ree!eiving financial aid. ' ... who him members country, "'"'~'"" 11 "'~"" for selecting the new the committee is consulting with members of the faculty and staff during the present period. They hope to arrive at recommendations in order for President Weigle to present the names of two new deans for appointment at the February meeting of the Board of Visitors and Governors. Altogether Mr. Wilson will have served eight years as St._ John's dean. His first term was from 1958 until 1962. He sub- P. 1) AGES RANGE a 1s;..year· old studenC to a 59-year-oid retired Army officer who since has withdrawn. One is married and the mother of two children; Continued on Pa.Ile 7) A direct descendant of St. John's College's famed Tree is due to be Britain next Whether it is to go to the Eden estate or to be the Kew Schmidt, will ""'-'~"'""' and with other board from all over the have worked like a staff McLanahan said new - studies show the effort to raise about 20 per cent of the budget annuallyis perhaps uniqu.e in the United States. "There is a vulnerability in that kind of task, somethine: which has been made the extraordinary ,.,;,:i,,,.,+ Weigle and of staff The An:nap1011s stands at which is those in the top three per the on a while Santa student campus has reached more than a (Continued on P. 1) will be ·a sueabout his gray sharkskin suit, Mr. McLanahan, handily pulled himself upon center stage to describe a campaign in which he told students "it is essential you be very much a part." He not only had done his homework and knew his figures down to the last decimal point, but this gentleman from Houston also knew why he, with other members of the concerned about the success. "We have some concern about the future of liberal education in the country," he said. "St. John's is unique in forth to the standards education, have eroded and the unhas to the standards set institution a number years ago." In a spontaneous move, students moved quickly to ,do their bit toward the Fund for the 1980's. A few days after Alexander K. McLanahan, chairman of the Board of Visitors and Governors, appeared to tell the college community about the drive for $25-million, two seniors, on their own initiative, had contributions from proximately two~thirds of student body. The move was led by Mrs. Vicki Cass of New Conn., had the support of Ute president of the Student Miss Pam .1:.an;u.1,:;Ju, of Va. It was <>:11rnriC1"' for Charles A. to turned over the for Pete's sake!" he exclaimed. "This is unbelievable. You great This just tremendous." was . . ..,._,.., . . ,,...., went on to students the Woman. them, announced a that none of the seeds viable. What· was more time . necessary was a (ContinuedonP_. 6) and Alexander K. McLanahan address for the 1980' s. �.: ~ PAGE.2 THE.REPORTER Brief Library adds catalog What the St. John's librarian .describes as an "invaluable' bibliographical tool" has been acquired by the library. It is the massive National Union Catalog, purchased as the. result of a gift of $5,000 from Peter Lauck, of Annapolis, in memory of his wife, the late Margaret Lauck, college registrar at the time of her death in 1972. Altogether, Charlotte Fletcher, librarian,· said the entire set of' 610 volumes included in the ~atalog will arrive by 1980. It lists books cataloged by the Library of Congress and printed prior to 1956 together with every cataloged item of the University of Chicago Library, Harvard U11iversity Library, ):al_e University Library, John Crerar Library, and the New York So far 425 volumes in the ., ............ u .. •n;; arrived. Of particular value to persons seeking volumes on inter-library loan, the collection is the largest addition to the St. John's library during the past academic year~ Altogether the library - has . cataloged 2,044 volumes during the past year. A total of 322 books were discarded. I Beate Ruhm von Oppen, St. John's tutor, was in Germany last summer covering the trial of ~'11111/lllillfml Arthur Reisz, '55, who recently· underwent successful eye surgery, has given the library a visual machine he no longer needs. Called a Visualtek, it can text on a persons' also can use it in writing and to see what they are as they go along. Former Dean Robert A. Goldwin, who has been a special advisor to President Ford for two years, has resigned his White House position to join the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy, a private, nonprofit organization financed primarily by foundation grants. During his White House y.ears Mr. Goldwin served both as a speech writer and organized a series of 10-person seminars, which included academicians and Cabii:i.et members. Mr: Goldwin began-· his new duties November!. Letter 246 years later The ghost of an 18th century Englishman flitted through the morning mail one day recently in the library when a letter arrived' addressed to the Rev. Thomas Bray. "You can't imagine what pleasure your letter gave us since the good Rev. Bray ... died in 1730," Marcia Talley wrote the sender, a New York resident with an information request. "As his successor I regret to inform you that we own only one book" .... etc., etc. · St. John's possesses an historic collection of books which .Bray sent to Annapolis as part of the first public library in this country. The librarians believe the letter-writer mistook Bray as a present-day staff member when he consulted the American Library Directory, which notes, under its St. John's . listing, "Special- Collections: Cfassics, · Annapolitan (Rev. Thomas Bray)." The writer's conclusion must have been that Bray supervised the collection. Of course, on the same basis, in the Naval Academy's listing of "Fine Bindings (Guggenheim)," one might conclude that Guggenheim had a busy job over there, too. New York seminar Alumni in the New York area are centering a fall-winter seminar around the theme, , "Political Economy and Liberty.'' John Wetlaufer, and Martha Stires, both '67, ar_e lead~g the The Reporfer is published by the Office of' College Relations, St. John's College, "'"'"uf"'"''' Md., 21404, Richard D. Wei1:mis1c1er1r, William B. Dunham, vice five times o in February, June, September November. elem postage paid al Annapolis, Md. sessions, which last month and this were to deal with The Wealth of Nations and The Federalist papers. Four other meetings are set. on these topics: Dec. 2, Aristotle, Politics amf Nicomachean Ethics; 16, Marx, · tions of the Critiaue NOVEMBER 1976 ca-Carroll House is James Cai irthplace was looking for a place, providing The Paca-Carroll House has a literary footnote to distinguish it. thaf lhe professor of American history at St. John's could be Jam es M. Cain, the journalist, appointed by the state as curator author, screenplay writer, and. of the hall and have general one-time St. John's teacher who wrote "Double Indemnity'; and charge of those papers to be used for historical study, "not only "The Postman Always Rings the college· · students but Twice," was-born there. students of history." That was on July 1, 1892, when The 1932 minutes show that his father, James Willia·m Cain, Board Chairman Walter H. Buck was teaching here, and the Pacaspoke of the need of such a Carroll House was a two-family, building as a means of giving the faculty residence. The elder Cain was a member of the faculty! college the advantage of "access from 1886 until. 1903 when he to important records to be kept in became president Qf Washington the hall." The idea met with some obCollege on the Eastern Shore. jection that year from S.W. Young Cain, who received his A.B. degree in 1910 at Labrot, chairman of the St. Washington, was a member of John's and grounds The Baltimore Sun staff between committee, wrote Herbert 1918 and 1923 and returned to St. Noble, the next board chairman: ''This is formal objection to John's to serve as a professor of the location such a building on journalsim from 1923 to 1924. Still writing at 84 - his newest the front of of the will campus. This~ novel, "The Institute," was due in size, and I feel would for publication in July - Mr. Cain now lives in Hyattsville. The uu.u"'"'"·'" dominate the of the State seem such fact that he was born in the Pacathat no possible building plan Carroll came to light in a letter this to The Reporter, could be made to harmonize with our buildings now located on the which had asked him for some of campus." his impressions of St. John's HE MODIFIED his time he lived here. stand to say that a building the "I DON'T THINK a memoir by size of Woodward Hall about my brief time on the "providing the architecture was st: John's faculty, if that's what acceptable, might prove unobyou have in mind, would really jectionable, providing there is a make pleasant reading," Mr. definite contract to in no wise Cain wrote. increase this building, 11nd that it "I was brought down there by be used strictly as a Hall of Enoch Garey, who in turn was my father's impressment candidate for president, succeeding Dr. (Thomas) Fell. A worse choice couldn't have been made. He had all the army officer's The Alumni Office is preparing rigid notions about everything, a new, updated directory explus some temperamental pected to be completed and ready peculiarities, to use a for press by 1977. euphemism, that were truly Former students at both appalling. I locked horns with campuses are to be listed through him on an issue involving the the Class of 1976. · administration relations with students, and we really locked. He created such a situation that I had to seek out board members I knew, to get him headed off. So An exhibit dealing with the life my departure, at the end of the of Charles Carroll of Carrollton 1 year, was a sour note, to sa:y the and based upon a major 1975 least. Why rehearse it? show at the Baltimore Museum of "I keep track of the college a little. Curiously, the thing I hold Art opens this month in the lobby most against Garey he did after I of the Key Auditorium. . Open to the public, the exhibit left- was a building, Archives or something, he had built in front of traces the political career of our house, the one I was born in, Charles Carroll, one of that completely loused the Maryland's four signers of the outlook, and as I feel the ap· Declaration of Independence after whom a college dormitory, pearance of that end of ihe the Paca-Carroll House, was c;.ampus." About the Hall of Records • . . named. How it came to be on campus. As unrealistic and farfetched as the idea may now appear, it first was proposed for the St. (Continued from P .-1) John's campus in 1929 while Garey was president with the contributed would not be around thought that it would be as much to enjoy the fruits of the cam· used by students as by the ar- paign. chival staff. . The money had been gathered According to 1929 board by members of the Delegate minutes, Dr. James Bordley, Jr., Council. It is not the only cona board member, had mentioned tribution being made by students. the fact that the college had an Following Mr. McLanahan's talk, excellent chance to develop a a number have approached Mr. Department of American History Cooley and Vice President of a million dollars William B. Dunham asking what could do to help and to the volunteering their efforts with contributing the site other campaign which chores. ff Carroll show is hung here 1 Vicki Phillips leads move Records and nothing .else.'' "I would be much opposed to ~ny building going onto St. John's that is not directly the property of the College .and used by the College," he wrote. "A l!all of Colonial Recorcls· would be as much use to the college as to public, and on that ground should we permit.erection of state building on the college property." Ori February 21, 1934, ·the St. John's board formally deeded that corner of the campus to the state for $10. The property con· tained 12,500 square feet; in terms of the present building, it extends about 10 feet beyond the. walls of the hall. The architect was authorized to What emerged, as knows, is a . building nronortior1s which balanced of the library; but when in 1934, · the first arwas Dr. James Robertson, not a St. John's member, and College there is that John's have made but the hall. With start of the New Program three later, the consulting its possibility of records would have lessened. Labrot's {ears of the:growth of tne Archives to an extent were realized. Now severely hard pressed for space, ihe Hall pf Itec'o'rdS' two years ago asked for permission to expand by adding a two-story underground extension. The plan would have ~eant moving into college-owned prqperty; and, guided 11Jy strong faculty objection, the St. John's board turned down th'e request and asked the .. ;Maryland Department of General Service to study other alternative solutions. Bronowski series starts January 12 Jacob Bronowski's '"Ascent of Man," the scientific counterpart of Sir Kenneth Clark's "Civilization," will be shown at St. John's College on seven Wednesday ·evenings beginning January 12. It will be open to the public without charge. Originally designed for television, tlie series, .which will be on loan from the Prince George's County Public Library, will consist of two programs · shown each evening with the exception of the final evening when only one program will be shown. The schedule will be: Jan. 12-"Lower Than the Angels" and "Harvest of the . Seasons"; Jan. 19-"Grain in the Stone" and "Hidden Structure"; Jan. 26-"Music of the Spheres" and "Starry Messenger"; Feb. 9-"Majestic Clockwork" and "Drive for Power"; Feb. 16"Ladder of Creation" and "World Within a World"; Feb. 23-"Knowledge or Certainty" and "Generation Upon Generation"; March 2-"Long Childhood." �111111111 I. Summarv of Fund Purpose Current Funds Unrestricted Restricted Total Capital Funds Endowment Funds Plant Funds Total Total Funds Raised Source Alumni Fund Alumni Capital Parent Fund Individuals Corporations Foundations Government Bequests Alumni Other Total Funds Raised $365,935 57,214 --$423,149 34,784 20,177 -- $ 54,961 $478,110 $52,324 8,355 14,252 83,081 31,076 147,975 94,666 26,693 19,688 --$478,110 II. Special Gifts In 1975-76 there were four categories of special gifts: King William Associates - gifts of $100-249 for current operations only; Francis Scott Key Donors - $250-499; St. John's Sponsors, $500-999; and members of the President's Council make gifts of $1,000 or more. The. response in these categories was simply great: the number of alumni, parents, and friends who qualified for a special gift category increased 34% to 314. ~The value. of the example thus set for others is most significant, and extra thanks go to this special group. The numbers in parentheses after alumni names indicate the total years of membership in one of the special gift~ groups. A. King William Associates . Alumni Alexander, Fred '37 (2) Alexander, John D., Sr. '20 (8) Alger, Philip L. '12 (6) Allen, RobertC. (3) Amos, Everett R. '29 (1) Anderson, Coleman '24 (1) Anthony, G. Michael '69 (1) Anthony, Meredith Artis '69 (1) Atwell, Franklin R. '53 (5) Baird, Walter S. '30 (2) Baker, Milton G. '21 (8) Barr, W. A. '42 (2) Bartis, Stanley J. '33 (8) Basil, Ileana '73 (1) Bean, Joseph L. '32 (8) Bishop, Sharon Ms. '65 (1) Blanton, Theodore A. '75 (1) Bomhardt, Warren '42 (2) Brown, D. Michael '51 (8) Brown, FordK. '70H (1) Brunn, George '45 (1) Burroughs, F. E. '42 (1) Campbell, James F. '32 (6) Carey, David '72 (1) Carnes, Thomas '52 (1) Carter, Richard '54 (2) Chew, SamuelP. '31 (6) Clark, James H. '41 (5) Collier, Bruce '65 (1) Conca, William H. '30 (8) George W. '28 (1) Gilbert A. '36 (1) Crooke, C. Eric '54 (2) _ Crooke, Sarah Covington '55 (2) Davies, Peter J. '48 (8) Desantis, Frank C. '27 (5) Devereux, Daniel '63 (2) Digges, J. Dudley '33 (7) Dobreer, Sallie Ann '75 (1) Donohue, John C. '35 (8) Dugan, James J. '26 (4) Dunbar, Samuel '64 (2) Dunkum, William W. '64 ( 4) Dwyer, Edward J. '30 (7) Ellsworth, Rudolph C. '49 (1) Evers, Walter '35 (7) Faraone, Joseph J. '61 ( 4) Fields, Lewis J. '31 (8) Finnegan, Marcus B. '48 (1) Fisher, Barry L. '62 (2) Fletcher, Charlotte '69 H (1) Gessner, Frank R. '36 (1) Ginsburg,Jay'65(1) Ginsburg,Susan'65(1) Gold, Michael W. '61 (3) Gross, William A., Jr. '29 (7) Grubb, Edward H. '43 (3) Haley, Michael C. '61 (1) Haley, Linda Levitt '64 (1) Hamilton, Harry L:, Jr, '39 (5) Hankamer, Ernest W. '51 (8) Harrison, Sarah '70 (1) Heller, Bernard A. '32 (5) Hendricks, Theodore W. '50 (3) Hill, T. Lansdale '41 (8) Hodgkin, Christopher '66 (2) Hoff, Snowden '31 (1) Hoffman, Allan Paul '49 (7) Houck, James A. '63 (1) Hovde, Christian A. '45 (2) Jarman, Carey '17 (8) Johnson, Robert S. '72 GI (1) Jump, Janet Beamer '56 (1) Kantor, Lawrence '35 (8) Kaplan, Tina B. '62 (6) Keating, Patrick D. '29 (4) Keller, Earl R. '21 (2) Kelly, J. Sprightly '30 (6) Kemp, Norval F. '37 (1) Kennell, Eric '63 (1) Keown, Lauriston '29 (3) Kibler, Charles J. '36 (4) Kimpel, Edward A. '31 (6) Klingenburg, Robert J. '30 (5) Koontz, L. Donald '51 (1) Krimins, S. David '63 (1) Kungle, Arthur, Jr. '67 (8) Lampietti, Sheela Shah '61 (2) Lansner, Jerome '50 (8) Lee, Bartholomew. '68 (1) Lenihan, Deirdre '67 ( 3) Levine, David '66 (1) Levine, Anne Morin '68 (1). Lobell, John J. '46 (6) Mack, John D. '45 (6) MacMannis, Thomas E. '18 (5) Mattison, Edward '62 (3) Mccurry, James G. '32 (1) McDowell, George L. '41 (5) Merkel, Dr. Carl '29 (3) Michaelson, Benjamin '12 (8) Milbourne, E. 0. '14 (2) Mileto, Anthony F. '34 (5) Moll, Deborah '69 (1) Moskowitz, Ben '50 (1) Mottu, Richard '31 ( 4) Mullinix, Edward W. '45 (1) Murray, Fiona Paul '60 (4) Murray,. Frank B. '60 (4) Nadol, Jack A. '57 (8) Nethken, W. Robert '36 (1) Nichols, Robert E. '48 (4). November, Robert L. '64 (8) O'Neil, Matthew '30 (1) Oosterhout, Barbara '55 (7) Osterhout, John '51 ( 7) Otis, Carol (Dimit) '64 (1) Otis, J. Morrow '63 (1) Panzarella, Joseph A. '29 (6) Parslow, Morris '45 (4) Partlow, George '68 (1) Pembroke, RichardH. '32 (5) · Polillo, Pasquale '56 (8) Rea, David '49 (4) Reeves, Lovejoy '67 (1) Renaut, Deborah (Schwartz) '68 (2) Renaut, Gilbert '68 (1) Rendall, William D. '42 ( 7) Ruel, Peter '60 (2) Sasscer, Robert B. '37 (5) Scharbach, Helen (Anastaplo) '71 Benjamin '35 (1) E. Roy '35 (1) Sin1m4Jns, Haven E. '44 (8) Smith, Dr. Augustine V.P. '22 (8) Smith, Frederick L. '27 (1) Smith, L. Wheaton '48 (4) Snyder, Louis L. '28 (6) Stackhouse, Stewart C. '24 (2) Stiles, Samuel V. '54 (4) · Stone, James W. '55 (3) Tarcher, Jeremy P. '53 (4) 'Taylor, Lloyd F. '39 ( 4) Thomas, Robert '63 (1) Thompson, James U. '31 (4) Tilles, William R. '59 (6) Tilles, Carol (Philips) '59 (6) Tyner, Lee Reichelderfer '68 (3) von Schwerdtner, Ernst '17 (3) Wallis, Sharon (Kaplan) '64 (1) Weeks, Henry R. '35 (1) Weir, W. Douglas '57 (3) Welty, Dr. Dalton M. '35 (8) Whipple, Peter A. '50 (8) -Wich, Carlton E. '23 (8) Wicklander, Roger '64 (2) Williams, John L. '50 (5) Williams, Thomas J. '51 (3) Wilson, James C. '35 (1) Winslow, George L. '12 (1) Winslow, Oliver P., Sr. '15 (1) Witman, Kathleen Beaton '68 (2) Wolbarsht, Myron Lee '50 (1) Wynn, Harvey '57 (6) Wynn, Rosabelle (Gould) (6) Yosef, Raphael B. '46 (2) Zimmerman, Charles R. '29 (7) Parents Ackerman, Mr. and Mrs. L.C. Archibalq, Mr. and Mrs. A.A. Davidson, Mrs. Joan K. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Deane, Leon Dourmashkin, Dr. & Mrs. Leonard Fant, Glenn Farney, Dr. Esther S. Glass, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hankamer, Mrs. E.T. Jemielita, Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Jones, Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Kimble, Charles C. Kirschner, Dr. and Mrs. Gordon Kolp, Joseph W. (Dr.) Kramer, Mr. and Mrs. JulianS. Larrison, M. S. · Long, Mrs. Julia G. Mcconnaughy, Mr. John E., Jr. Pendleton, Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Pennypacker, Mr. and Mrs. Howards. Peoples, Mr. and Mrs. John Quesenberry, John Reissman, Dr. and Mrs. Seymour Salter, Mr. and Mrs. Albert G. Schmidt, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Smith, Col. and Mrs. Albert M. Steers, Mr. and Mrs. Roger Tamlyn, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Walley, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Zimmer, Mr. and Mrs. George A. Friends Austin, Mrs. George Ball, Prof. and Mrs. N. Hansen Bernard, Mr. and Mrs. J. Pierre Bowen, Robert J. Brooks, Mrs. Charles Burgess, Mr. and Mrs. W. Randolph Charney, Dr. Ann P. Chessick,Dr. Richard Fitzgerald, Mrs. Roy G. Hammerschmidt, Mr. and Mrs. Wm.W. Jackson, David A. Johnson, Mrs. Jr. Johnson, Reverdy Kenney, Richard K. Lemon, Stanley G. Mills Liquor Mart Myers, Philip Noble, Dorothy L. .Pm1kh;1m, Jeffre:v A. Reybold, John Rich, Mr. and· Mrs. Woodward Robson, JohnE. · Mr. and Mrs. W. Kyle Schwartz, Mrs. Margaret W. Tennant, Mrs. Robert A. Wadleigh, R'adm. and Mrs. John West, Marie M. B. Francis Scott Key Donors Alumni Adamson, Ernie '58 (6) Belcher, Eugene '34 (1) Dobreer, Dr. David '44 (7) Hetland, John P. '64 (7) Holland, Constance Bell '66 (5) Jacob, Bernard E. '54 (4) Klug, William J., Jr. '31 (8) Kluth, Charles S. '52 (8) Mason, Francis S. '43 (7) Noble, John W, '17 (3) O'Connor, Claxton J. '30 (1) Pumphrey, W.T.D. '32 (1) Rosenberg, Julius '38 (8) Schiff, Howard P. '62 ( 4) Sherr, Julius B. '42 (2) Sommer, Edward '37 (2) Turner, Dr. Thomas B. '21 (8) Weinberger, Edward '65 (1) Weiss, Peter '46 (7) Parents Bacaj, Dr. and Mrs. Tallah Basil, Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Bayer, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Holland, James F. Huber, Michael W. Mackey, Mr. and Mrs. Jam es C. Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Sherman; Dr. and Mrs. Paul Villere, James Friends Adler, Mortimer Annapolis utilities Capital City Federal Dunton, Carroll R. Leonard, Barbara Mullen & Sullivan Rochlin, Herbert Sacks, Sol Wetlaufer, Mrs. G. R. Worthington, Miss Margaret Worthington, Miss Virgip.ia C. St. John's Sponsors Alumni Abbott, A. Scott '43 (7) Anderton, Stephen '68 (7) Athey, William B. '32 (8) Bennett, E. Elmer '07 (1) Bloede, Victor G., HI '41 ( 7) DiGiorgio, J. S. '21 (7) . Lasky, Marshall '59 (1) Merrit, John E. '65 (2) Merrit£, Constance '66 (2) Paine, Walter C. '45 (1) Spriggs, Bert '37 (6) Parents Daskalakis, Mrs. Lois Gamble, Dr. and Mrs. James L., Jr. Rhea, Mr. and Mrs. Forrest A. Rosenberg, Mr. and Mrs. R.H. Silver, Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence Swett, Leonard Friends Bier, Mrs. Robert Clagett, Mr. and Mrs. Page Caritas Society Farmer's National Bank Mantz, Miss Anna Marino, Dr, Frank Morse, Mrs.Theodore Mylander, Mrs. Virginia Paine, Mrs. Richard Schmidt, Adolph D. President's Council Alumni Cochran, Edward B. '44 (5) Hoxby, H. Gerald '47 (5) Jones, Col. Robert E. '09 (3) Mellon, Paul '44 (8) Nelson, Charles A. '45 (2) Parker, Daniel '46 (5) Selby, Dr. George '32 (8) Simmons, William·~ (4) Zaoujal, Catherine Levin '64 (2) Parents Wells, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Friends Clapp, Mrs. Clyde A. Davidson, Mrs. George Driscoll, Mrs. Margaret Gempp, Miss Elizabeth Hodgson, Catherine A. Kieffer, Mrs. John Lauck, Peter McLennan, Donald S. Peterson, Mrs. Duane Ronay, Bela Weigle, Mr. and Mrs. Richard III. Non-Alumni Contributors Each year many sources other than alumni help St. John's meet its operating deficit. The College is most grateful for the generous support of the following corporations, foundations, individuals and parents of current and former students during the year which ended June3oth. A. Parents Mr. & Mrs. L. C. Ackerman Radford Adams Mrs. Herbert Anderson Adele Anthony W. 0. Anthony Mr. & Mrs. A. Archibald Dr. and Mrs. Taullah Bacaj Mr. and Mrs. Karl Bach Mr. and Mrs. Frank Basil Mr. and Mrs. William Bayer Thodore Birnbaum Richard Borden David Robert Dr. and Mrs. G. Bronfin Chapman Burk Mary B. Carnes Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cerullo S. Charles Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Church Mr. and Mrs. Dominic Cicia Elizabeth Covelli Joya B. Cox T. Frank Crigler Mr. and Mrs. Robert Crump Lois Daskalakis Joan K. Davidson Mr. and Mrs. Richard Davis Wilbur H. Day Leon Deane John Doremus Dr. and Mrs. L. Dourmashkin Mr. and Mrs. George Dudik Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ehrenberger Mr. and Mrs. Myron Eisenstein Glenn Fant Esther S. Farney Jack J. Forman Mr. and Mrs. Robert Forrest Dr. and Mrs. Lay Fox Dr. and Mrs. James Gamble Mr. and Mrs. Henry Glass Mr. and Mrs. Robert Glass M. Stuart Goldin Marceline Guerrin �PAGE~ Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Gushue Mrs.E. T.Hankamer Mr. and Mrs. I. Hasegawa Mrs. Lawrence Haugen Col. and Mrs. James Hendry Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Hiller Mrs. Edward Hoberman Dr. and Mrs. James Holland Mr. and Mrs. Haskell Hollander Michael Huber Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Jemielita Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Jenson Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Jones Mr. and Mrs. Hyman Kaitz Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Keefe Charles Kimblle Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Kirchner Mr. and Mrs. James Kocsis Dr. Joseph Kolp Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Korshin Mr. and Mrs. Julian Kramer M. S. Larrison Joseph Lee Ida Lenihan Mr. and Mrs. Marvon Levine Mr. and Mrs. Otto Lindermayer Julia Long Mr. and Mrs.James Mackey John Mcconnaughy Roxanne McDowell Mr. and Mrs. James Mendlin Mr. ~nd Mrs. Daniel W. Morrill Lt. COL. AND Mrs. R. Nash Mr. and Mrs. R. Oggin Mr. and Mrs. George Olinger Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Olson Mrs. Richard Paine Mr. and Mrs. Donald Pendleton Mr. and Mrs. Howard Pennypacker Mr. and Mrs. John Peoples Richard Person Erich K. Plaut Elizabeth Prior John Quesenberry Mr. and Mrs. Richard Reid Seymour Reissman Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Rhea Col. and Mrs. Donald W. Roberts Herbert Rosenberg Mr. and Mrs. R.H. Rosenberg Miriam Ross Samuel J. Salem Mr. and Mrs. Albert Salter Mr. and Mrs. W. SCAIFE Mr. and Mrs. William Schmidt Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schuld Ruth Seaman Dr. and Mrs. Paul Sherman Ann Sibley Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence Silver A. Mark Smith Col. and Mrs. Albert Smith Mr. and Mrs. Harry M. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sohmer Dr. and Mrs. Vann Spriell Mr. and Mrs. Roger T. Steers Mr. and Mrs. RobertE. Strider Leonard Swett Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Tamlyn Robert Tracy Rev. and Mrs. Ernest Twigg Mr. and Mrs. James Villere Franz von Lichtenberg Neil Wald Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Walley Max Weinstein Koppel Wekselblatt Mr. and Mrs. Donald Welcome Amid Wells Mrs. G. R. Wetlaufer Mr. and Mrs. George A. Zimmer B. Friends Mrs. H. Boynton Adler Mortimer Adler Lee Agnew Robert Almeder Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Alpern Sigmund Amitin Mrs. George Austin Mrs. L. Claude Bailey Prof. and Mrs. N. Hansen Ball Stringfellow Barr Mrs. James B. Barrett Mr. and Mrs. Henry Barton Mr. and Mrs. FrankE. Basil William Battin it'EKB ~BRGRTER Mr. and Mrs. William Bayliff Dorsey Baynham Mr. and Mrs. J. Pierre Bernard W. F.Berns William Berry Dr. and Mrs. Paul Berson Mrs. Robert Bier Robert Bloom Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Borchers Dr. and Mrs. Alex Boro Robert Bowen Eva Brann Donald Brill Mrs. Charles Brooks Mr. and Mrs. George Brown Mr. and Mrs. W. Randolph Burgess Charles Butterworth Levin Campbell Mary Carnes Anne Catlin Ann P. Charney Richard Chessick Mrs. Page Clagett Mrs. Clyde Clapp Virginia Clapper Raymond Clark William Clatanoff Tara B. Clifford Geoffrey Comber Charles A. Cooley Mrs. Wilbur Coyle Richard Cox Mr. and Mrs. William Cronin Lillian Crook Annie Dashiell Mrs. George Davidson Frances DeHart Mrs. James Dicken R. Samuel Dillon Lowell Ditzen Mr. and Mrs. Alex Donner Lucy Dortch George Doskow Margaret Driscoll Murray DRY Mrs. Robert Duer William B. Dunham Carroll Dunton David Earle Theodore Egorin C. T. Elzey Kirk Emmert Mr. and Mrs. Vincent D. Egnles Mrs. Prentice Eveleigh Rev. and Mrs. Leslie Fairfield Kim Feinauer Charles Finch Mrs. Roy Fitzgerald Harvey Flaumehaft Don Frederickson Mr. and Mrs. Roger Fredland Mr. and Mrs. James Galloway Evelyn Gass M. Elizabeth Gempp Sam Gensler M. W. Gilden Harry Golding Mr. and Mrs. Albert Goodman Mr. and Mrs. Peter Grandstaff Eugene Grether Fred Habecker Homer Hack Henry Hall Esley Hamilton Lynne M. Hamilton Mr. and Mrs. W. Hammerschmidt Dr. and Mrs. Alan Harquail Mrs. Herbert Harris Mr. ~nd Mrs. Robert Barge Mr. and Mrs. RichardHeintz Thomas Herlihy Mary Hicks Mr. and Mrs. CarrollHildebrand Grace Hilliard Catherine Hodgson Mrs. Jack Hoffberger George Hoffman Karen Holland John A. Holsen Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Hotelling J.Humber Thomas Hyde Robert Irrmann David A. Jackson Mrs. Remsen Johnson Reverdy Johnson Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Johnson "NOVEMBER~ 1976 Amy Kass Mr. and Mrs. W.KyleSmith Bristol Myers Mary A. Keller Maurice Snyder Capital City Federal Savings Richard Kenney Morris Snyder Caritas Katherine Kibler Edward Sparrow Carter-Wallace Mrs. John Kieffer Mr. and Mrs. Alex Speer Connecticut General Life Paula Kieffer Stela Spicknall Corporate contributors through Elizabeth Kimpton Margaret Staley the Association of. Independent H. L. Kinoslving Nell Stevens Colleges in Maryland Szanne Kleiman Robert L. Stone Dow Chemical Jacob Klein Hubert Strange Equitable Life Assurance Mr. and Mrs. Louis Kurs Mr. and Mrs. Earl G. Swafford Exxon Foundation Mark Laster Mr. and Mrs.Nathan Tarcov Farmers National Bank Peter Lauck Margaret Tennant Gainey Foundation Walter Lears Bert Thoms Gould Inc. Robert Leggett Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Tilson Gulf Foundation Joel Lehrfield · Robert B. Towers Guttman Foundation Stanley G. Lemon Mr. and Mrs. Frank Uhlig Hecht-Levi Foundation· Barbara Leonard V.utgoff Hodson Trust Margaret Leonard R/Adm. and Mrs. John Wadleigh Household Finance Dr. and Mrs. Nathan Leonard A. L. Waldron IBM Irving Levy Harvey Walters Illinois Bell Col. and Mrs. Lindauer HelenWebbe Johnson and Higgins Mrs. John Littleton Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Weigle C. Markland Kelly Foundation Michael Littleton Francis Weiskittel Koppers Co. Foundation Carolyn Logan Koppel Weskelblatt Lapides Foundation JohnH. Lomax • Marie West · Liberty Fund Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Long ThomasG. West John D. Lucas Philip Lyons Mrs. John Whitridge Dr. Frank Marino Foundation Carolyn MacLeish Addison H. Willey Matterhorn Mrs. Henry Maling Angeline Williams McCormick Co. Harrvey Mansfield Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Wilson Merck Foundation Anna Mantz Mrs. Glenn Wolfe Mills Liquor Robert Marine Margaret Worthington Mobil Foundation Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Marsh Viginia Worthington Mullen/Sullivan J. W.Marsh Martha Wright Peabody Galion Terence E. Marshall Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Wright Peat, Marwick, Mitchell w. A. P. Martin William H. Wright Pepsi Co. Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Harold Marx Harold Zalesch Philip Morris Don Matthews Robert Zelenka Presser Foundation Donald McClench Sandoz Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Y. Mc- C. Corporations and Foundations Sears Foundation Mahan Singer Cr. Foundation A.A.Abell Mrs. E. I. McQuiston Smithkline Corp. American Broadcasting W. J. McWilliams Standard Oil American Express Mr. and Mrs. Abel Merrill Stornaway Foundation · American Optical Stan Miffleton Sun Oil Co. Amoco Foundation Mrs. T. Leonard Mikules Surdna Foundation Annapolis Banking & Trust Benjamin Milner Annapolis Federal Savings & Union Oil Co. Dr. and Mrs. Kut Moeller United Virginia Bank Loan Alfred Mollin Weems &Plath·:c · Annapolis Utilities Bruce H. Morgan Westinghouse Mary Reynolds Babcock Serge Morosoff Westminister Foundation Bank of America Foundation Mrs. Theodore Morse Lillian Musterman Philip Myers 4. 1917 55% 1946 2,000 IV. Alumni Fund Virginia Mylander 5. 1908 50% 1944 1,900 Robert Natale 6. 1921 44% 1948 1,510 A. Alumni Fund results for the Estate of Caroline Newton 7. 1930 42% 1968 1,480 last two years: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Newton 8. 1945 42% 1930 1,186 Dorothy Noble 9. 1911 40% 1965 1,153 1974-5 Mr. and Mrs. Harold V. Nutt 1975-6 Alumni Donors 806 10. 1932 40% 1950 1,120 757 Dr. and Mrs. Irving Ochs Percent Response 27% P. O'Cronin 25% 11. 1920 39% 1909 1,100 12. 1942 39% 1921 . 1,090 Average Gift 1 47 Philip R. Osburn $ 69 13.' 1954 37% 1931 1,090 Herbert Papier -·Fund Total $38,215 14. 1928 36% rna1- 1,079 $52,324 Paulist Press 15. 1941 36% 1943 1,040 Mrs. Duane Peterson 16. 1929 35% 19i5 1,000 B. Top Twenty Classes Jeffrey Pinkham 17. 1950 35% 1941 955 Thomas Prufer Percent Response $ Response 18,. 1~57 35% 1929 920 Margaret Randol 1. 1906 100% 1964 $3,105 19. 1968 34% 1966 899 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Revere 20. 1909 33% 1954 2. 1907 100% ·1945 2,851 860 John B. Reybold 3. 1912 80% 1932 2,380 1955 33% Steven Rhoads Mrs: Edward Rich Mr. and Mrs. Woodward Rich C. Class Lists. Mr. and Mrs. Gary Richardson Estate of Olga Richmond The list below shows all alumni and alumnae contributors for 1975LeeRinder 76. While the percentages and dollar figures reflect only gifts to the Mrs. L.B. Robertshaw . . Alumni Fund (current operations), all donors for whatever purpose :are listed. .· .· John Robson Herbert Rochlin Names in bol<:J.-face type are those in whose memory special en~ BelaRonay dowed funds have been established; income from these funds ~ually Elerk Rosenbloom provides a perpetual gift to St. John's. · , ,· Mrs. Gerald L. Rowan Names preeeded by the letter "c" are of those who served as Class Adm. and Mrs. Colby Rucker Captains or Co-Chairmen during the Alumni Fund Campa~gn. These Mr. and Mi's. William Russell men and women deserve particular thanks for their extra measure of effort and support.i · George Sachse Mr. and Mrs. Sol Sacks Robert Samuels 1823 1389 Mr. and Mrs. David Schaefer Dr. William Brewer Charles H. Schoff Adolph W. Schwartz 1847 1895 Alan Seltzer John Mullan Rev. Enoch H. Thompson · Winslow Shaw 1874 1897 Mr. and Mrs. John Sherwood Frederick W. Brune Class of 1897 Harry Shoefer Blanchard Randall 1898 Isabelle Simpson . 1876 Class of 1898 Jonathan Skinner RobertF. Maddox Dr. Philip H. Edwards Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Slakey 1880 1899 J. Winfree Smith Walter I. Dawkins Rev. William L. Mayo -- �NOVEMBER 1916 1902 Dr. W. Oscar La.Motte 1903 Drew H. Beatty Leroy T. Rohrer Amos vi. w. Woodcock 1904 John .M.~J. Hodges 1905 Rev. Benjamin D. Chambers . 1906 10096 $4().00 Herbert C. Fooks E. Earl Hearn RichardH. Hodgson Alfred Houston Dr. Amos F. Hutchins Henry F. Sturdy 1907 100% Robert Anderson E. Elmer Bennett Claude W. Owen John T. Harrison 1908 50% $20.00 Dr. George M. Austin Charles Schuster J. Graham Shannahan, Sr. 1909 33% $1,100.00 Clarence T. Johnson RobertE. Jones Col. Harrison MacAlpine 1910 Roscoe E. Grove 1911 40% $110.00 Levin Claude Bailey Clarence L. Dickinson Clifford L. Johnson JohnL; Morris Dr. Thomas Parran 1912 00% $.520.00 c- Philip L. Alger William Lentz Frederick S. .Matthews Benjamin Michaelson, Sr. George L. Winslow 1913 Dr. Robert S. G. Welch 1914 22% $230.00 Elwood 0. Milbourne Wilmer S. Phillips John T. Tucker 191f: 9'l):'.;L$10(),00 Allen L. Fowler Oliver P. Winslow, Sr. 1916 George Davidson, Jr. Robert 0. Jones c-Thomas W. Ligon 1917 55% John J. Dunphy $535.00 CareyJ~man Alfred H. Noble John Noble Ira B. TAlton Ernst O~. von Schwerdtner 1918 27% $100.00 Charles W. Burton, Jr. Frank Ebey ThomasE. Mac.Mannis , 1919 Dr. Robert A. Bier 1920 39% $185.00 c-JohnD. Alexander, Sr. John H. Birely Paul M. Cassen Charles W. Fitzgerald Howard A. Kinhart Horatio Ridout Rudolph A. Torovsky 1921 44% $1,000.00 Milton G. Baker J. S. DiGiorgio RobertE. Duer EarlR. Keller Willia:Ql H. Y. Knighton Johll~~ E. Legg Elwood It. Schafer Luther S. Tall R.H. Torovsky, Sr. Thomas B. Turner 1922 22% $205.00 J. Wesley Everett Robert G. Hackett RafaelRodriguez-.Molina Augustine V. P. Smith Willis H. White Benjamin C. Willis 1923 30% $290.00 Paul L. Banfield William C. Baxter Charles W. Keefer 1.ftltQEP,GIHR Robert E. Mill~r William S. Mrirsell, Jr. S. Paul Schilling Frederic C. Stecker E.E. Wich Callender F. Winslow 1924 18% $.305.00 Coleman M. Anderson Charles S. Dell S. C. Stackhouse 1925 31% $50.00 H. W. Eliason F. H. Flounders H. Monroe Helm J. Thomas Ritchie 1926 29% $190.00 H. Wayne Carrick Wilbur F. Coyle A. Morris Cunningham c- James J. Dugan Stanley Mccomas John G. Purnell Arthur Townshend, Jr. JohnM. Webb Henry F. Wegner 1927 32% $.330.00 H.B. Clark Louis D. Clark c- Frank C. Desantis Bernard F. Gessner Charles W. Haas Elmer Jackson· LeeH. Nichols, Jr. Frederick L. Smith 1928 36% $480.00 Jam es T. Clark George W. Cook c- David Crowley Arthur C. Elgin A. Olin Grimes Donald B. Grove W. Royce Hodges Francis L. McDorman Jam es F. Miller J. R. Roseberry, Jr. Louis L. Snyder Franklin T. Willing 1929 35% $920. 00 Granville Q. Adams Everett R. Amos J. Leslie Basil John W. Boucher Richard W. Comegys Eugene N. Cozzolino c- William A. Gross, Jr. S. William Hearne Patrick D. Keating Lauriston L. Keown Carl G. Merkel James G. O'Neill, Jr. Joseph A. Panzarella WalterW. Phillips William Walls Charles R. Zimmerman 1930 42% $1,186.00 Walter S. Baird William H. Conca Thomas E. Dryden Edward J. Dwyer Ramon Fernandez Marina John R. Fountain J. Sprightley Kelly Robert J. Klingenburg Claxton J. O'Connor Matthew O'Neil, Jr. A. Irwin Rusteberg c- G. Newton Scatchard Charles S. Smith Frederick A, Weisheit, Jr. . 193i 28% $1,000.00 J. W. T.Ar~acost Charles E. ~ey William F. ;Blake Samuel P. Chew Henry A. Czelusniak Matthew S. Evans Lewis J. Fields Alfred J. Gengras, ·Jr. Snowden Hoff Edward A. Kimpel, Jr. JamesKing' · c- William J. Klug, Jr. Richard C. Mottu Elmer R. Noyer JamesU. Thompson 1932 40% $2,300;00 William B. Athey J.L.Bean Richard F. Blaul Robert L. Burwell, Jr. P•4911S James F. Campbell James W. Crabbe Lee A. Gordy Bernard A. Heller William C. Hoddinott John F. Laferty Philip Lee Lotz James G. Mccurry. Walter C. Mylander; Jr; Frederick J. Nassauer Richard H. Pembroke, Jr. Charles E. Pforr W. T. D. Pumphrey Charles S. Richardson c-George D. Selby Henry S. Shryock, Jr. C. Vernon Williamson Robert G. Woodman Sterrett D. Woods Fred Yerkes 1933 23% $445.00 Stanley J. B artis Jam es G. Boss c- Nathaniel J. Chew J. Dudley Digges C. Gilbert Hill WalterH. Hoffmeister J. H. Fielding Jukes Edward M. Kenly Joseph Legum Leonard J. Murphy Philip R. Piper John A. Raudonis William C. Sandrock 1934 19% $490.00 Eugene P. Belcher Bernard Casassa Henry M. Cooper, Jr. John H. Engel, Jr. F. Peter Froio Jerome D. Goodman Edward E. Gray Robert L.' Jones William B. Matthews, Jr. Anthony F. Mileto Austin Winston Horace W. Witman John Woltereck 1935 25% $1,000.00 c-John C. Donohue William R. Eaton Walters Evers MortonN. Fine Lawrence Kantor Robert E. Reordan Benjamin Schiff c- E. Roy Shawn Oscar B. Steely Henry Weeks Dalton M. Welty Frank K. Wilson James C. Wilson Richard S. Woodman 1936 27% $680.00 James P. Bradley Garnett Y. Clark Gilbert A. Crandall S.H.Desch Herbert Eccleston Frank R. Gessner Joseph B. Gray Edward Heise Johns. Hodges Charles J. Kibler RobertJ. Lau W. Robert Nethken William N. Rairigh Ralph M. Schley William W. Smith, Jr. Richard B. Taylor 1937 22% $1,079.00 Fred Alexander LeonBoro John H. Brown Alexander N. Jarrell N.F.Kemp Franklin E. Leslie Harold A. Milstead Merrill M. Mitchell Robert B. Sasscer Isadore Scher Edward C. Sommer Bertram Spriggs 1938 16% $400.00 Louis Bachmann, Jr. Jae H. Bushong Stuart M. Christhilf, Jr. Israel Greengold R. WarrenHammann John J. Lambros ----------------------------------------- E. F. Lathrop Baker Middelton Philip A. Myers II W.C.Owens Julius Rosenberg William T. Ross Louis H. Shuman Francis J. Townsend, Jr. R. W. Wickes 1939 16% $430.00 c-James E. Boyle Arthur L. Budacz C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. Harry L. Hamilton Edward W. Hearn Thomas L. MacNemar E. Leslie Medford, Jr. Dr. John 0. Neustadt Morton B. Schwartz M. Silver LloydF. Taylor 1940 4% $15.00 Wilbur Matz 1941 36% $955.00 Lewis M. Alexander Victor G. Bloede JamesH. Clark Henry David Cubbage T. Lansdale Hill Albert H. J aeggin LewisN. Jones c· George L. McDowell Henry M. Robert, Ill 1942 39% $885.00 John E. Ainsworth Robert C. Allen W.A.Barr ' c- Warren Bomhardt F. E. Burroughs Bryce Jacobsen J ournet Kahn Thomas Parran, Jr. Albert A. Poppiti William D. Rendall J.B. Sherr C. Robert Sutton A. Chesley Wilson, Jr. 1943 29% $1,040.00 Scott Abbott Burton Armstrong Carl B. Blaker Harvey Dubinsky c- Edward H. Grubb William T. Hart Ogden Kellogg-Smith c-Francis S. Mason, Jr. Thomas M. Runyon H. Willard Stern 0. H. Thompson 1944 24% $1,900.00 William H. Brubeck Edward B. Cochran VernonE. Derr David Dobreer Alexander Koukly Casimir T. Krol Thaddeus E. Prout Donald P. Ruhl Harrison Sasscer c- Haven E. Simmons John C. Smedley Joseph C. Smith 1945 42% $2,851.00 Stephen W. Bergen George Brunn c- George Cayley C. Westcott Gallup, Jr. William Goldsmith Chester P. Hewitt Christian A. Hovde Robert E. John Donald Kaplan Michael C. Keane Arthur D. Kelso, Jr. Laurence Levin William Lundberg JohnD.Mack 0. M. Meredith Edward W. Mullinix Charles A. Nelson Thomas Owings WalterC. Paine Morris Parslow Benton B. Perry 1946 31% $2,000.00 Thomas J. Cosgrove Thomas I. Fulton, Jr. John P. Gilbert John J. Lobell Vincent W. McKay ·-~-~-~.,- Daniel Parker Harry Rockey James W. Sharp Bruce H. Sinkey James T. Taylor Charles Van Doren Peter Weiss 1947 15% $730.00 Stephen Benedict PeterF. Buri Arthur 0. Davis William P. Elliott H. Gerald Hoxby Archer Jones I. Wendell Marine Mordechai Sheinkman George M. Vansant 1948 26% $1,510.00 Raphael Ben·Yosef Peter J. Davies Vernon E. Derr ~arcus B. Finnegan Louis Frid Charles W. Grover ·Robert E. Nichols Jules Pagano William W. Simmons L. Wheaton Smith 1949 24% $500.00 Aaron M. Bisberg Jonathan E. Brooks c· James W. Conrad Rudolph C. Ellsworth Anton G. Hardy Allan Hoffman Chester A. Johnson DavidB. Rea Eric A. Teel DavidB. Weinstein 1950 35% $1,120.00 Bernard S. Clorety Patrick D. Davis Matson G. Ewell Herbert S. Feinberg Robert L. Goldberg Theodore Hendricks Ralph Herrod Jerome Lansner John J. Logue Thomas J. Meyers Ben Moskowitz Frederick Schuchman, Jr. Robert Sperber Tylden W. Streett · .George Usdansky Peter A. Whipple John L. Williams Myron Lee Wolbarsht 1951 19% $675.00 D. Michael Brown John Coffey Ernest W. Hankamer Howard V. Herman L. Donald Koontz David W. Lane Ross E. Lilly John D. Oosterhout Robert N. Richman William L. Sprankle Thomas J. Williams 1952 25% $506.00 Thomas M. Carnes .John Fuller Charles S. Kluth C. J. Maguire David E. Napper Harry Neumann Lawrence G. Peters Robert Seelig John M. Twigg GeorgeUdel Warren Winiarski 1953 24% $.163.~ J.J.Ambler William M. Aston Franklin R. Atwell Edward F. Bauer George C. Davis George K. Gerlach Robert G. Hazo Paul Heineman Jeremy Tarcher 1954 37% $800.00 . Howard Bromberg Richard B. Carter Jesse M. Clark Charles Crooke c-James U. Dernehl Gerald Gediman Alfred Geier �Bernard E. Jacob M. Kavanaugh Kilborn .:m.:vhen Mainella nold L: Markowitz Sydney Porter, Jr. Richard A. Samuel V. Stiles 1955 33% $479.00 Lydia S. Aston c- Harold Bauer Sarah C. Crooke Al~xandra J. Culbertson John M. Gordon JohnJoanou Carolyn B. Leeuwenburgh Paul Lowdenslager Joan G. Martin Barbara B. Osterhout Arthur C. Reisz Hilyer G. Shufeldt James W. Stone Barbara D. Winiarski 1956 32% $360.00 Dale B. Cummings J enefer Ellingston James W. Jobes, Jr. Janet B. Jump Roslyn R. Leizman Faye C. Polmo Pasquale L. Polillo George E. Sauer Everett H. Wilson 1957 35% $460.00 S. Douglas Bowers Cornelia H. Burdette JackA.Nadol Marcia D. Reff J. Burt Siemens Arianne L. Strassner W. Douglas Weir Rosabelle G. Wynn Harvey Wynn 1958 21% $133.00 Alan P. Brockway Joseph M. Green Roberta M. Kingsley William Kingsley Nancy E. Lindley Julia Lohr Gerald K. Milhollan Christina S. Neumann 1959 25% $800.00 Hugh Curtler Lowell Dyar William F. Gleason Harvey Goldstein Amye. Jobes Marshall Lasky John McDevitt Robert W. McEnroe Patience G. Schenck Peter Schenck Carol P. Tilles William R. Tilles Barbara S. Tower Diana H. Young 1960 26% $416.00 Mark A. Adler Rosalie L. Boosin c- Mary Gallagher John E. Gorecki Dorothy Luttrell Katherine S. McGuirk · Ronald C. McGuirk Sarah R. Munson Fiona P. Murray Tree Frank Peter Ruel Miriam Patricia T. Kendon L. Stubbs Kenneth H. Thompson Michael V. Trownsell 1961 21% $487.00 Nancy C. Adler Victoria M. Blair-Smith Joseph J. Faraone S. Richard Freis c- Michael W. Gold Michael C. Haley John C. Kohl, Jr. Sheela S. Lampietti Margaret B. Llewellyn-Jones Marcia G. Mathog Linda M. Mueller E. C. Ronquist Paul Rosenberg 1962 18% $810.00 David Benfield Johan T. Benson Elton R. Davis Barry Fisher Cinda K. Graham Frank D. Howden Tina B. Kaplan W. James Klug, III Edward Mattison John F. Miller Howard P. Schiff Mary G. Smith 1963 16% $838.00 Robert G. Cozzolino Daniel T. Devereux Alan H. Dorfman Jam es A. Houck Eric M. Kennell S. DavidKrimins Michael P. Moyer Veronica J. Nicholas J. Morrow Otis Elliott A. Rosenberg c- William Rumpp V.P.Sandall Daniel Sherman Robert Thomas 1964 27% $3,105.00 Natalie Chambliss Peter H. Crippen SamuelF. Dunbar William W. Dunkum Miriam S. Freilicher Linda L. Haley _ Virginia S. Harrison c- John P. Hetland F. Kay Huebner D.R. Jordan Robert W. Klug PaulLiebow MaryMain Judith Meyer JamesNach Jam es A. Nicholson Robert L. November CarolD. Otis Judith Stockard Sharon K. Wallis John F. White Roger Wicklander Kevin D. Witty Catherine L. Zaoujal 1965 21 % $1,153.00 Ron Altengarten Vivian R. Barry Sharon Judith A. Bromberjl Bruce Collier SusanL. Jay Ginsburg Bart Susan Leven C. Grant Luckhardt James R. Mcclintock John E. Merritt Craig Mooring Bruce Preston Daniel Schiff Sandra G. Traywick Marta Weigle · Ed Weinberger 1966 27% $899.00 Robert Axtman W. James Bienemann Mark Bromberg Laurie F. Colberg Julia B. duPrey Richard F. Fielding Pattie T. Hall Ian M. Harris c- Christopher Hodgkin Constance B. Holland Carole P. Kelley David Levine William N. McKeachie James R. Mensch Constance B. Merritt Daniel Peskoe Margaret B. Ruppert Naomi Schwartz Alexis D. Valk Alfreda Verra tti 1967 21% $575.00 Sarah J. Bell Alice G. Chalmers William F. Church, III William F. Cone Lovejoy R. Duryea Helen H. Feeley Nancy G. Harvey Rbert Heiniger Loren E. Kelley Arthur Kungle, Jr. Deirdre Lenihan David L. Levine Mark Lindley Clark Lobenstine Arabelle D. Luckhardt Hpe Z. Schladen J. Robert Starkey Helen M. Wetlaufer JohnP. Wetlaufer 1968 34% $1,480.00 Rebecca M. Albury· William Albury Stephen Anderton Lawrence Arnold, Jr. Stephen E. Bach Donald Booth Mary C. Callaway Peter Coen Vicki D. Cone Linda R. Dewing John E. Farmer Regina C. Forsyth SarahM.Fox Dorothea W. Gillelan Joshua T. Gillelan, II Amelia R. Hummel Bartholomew Lee Sue H. Levine Anne M.. Levine C. Kerry Nemovicher George W. Partlow Deborah S. Renaut Gilbert Renaut Joe Sachs Isobel Schneider c· Lee R. Tyner Charles B. Watson ·Elspeth N. Whitney Charles Whitney Kathleen B. Witman 196~ 24% $634.00 Meredith A. Anthony G. Michael Anthony NancyW. Brown Diana G. Browning Catherine A. Caffrey Bernard Davidoff Robert B. Davis Richard D. Ferrier Charlotte Fletcher Martin Kalmar Mark A. Mandel Deborah A. Moll Joan J. Mooring John A. Myers G. Dennis Rains Cheryl E. Sirofchuck Thomas L. Vazakas ByronE. Wall 1970 20% $654.00 Roberta P. Bond Ford K. Brown (H) Ross S. Brown Henry C. Constantine JohnR. Dean Melanie S. Dunleavy Ronald H. Fielding Stephen J. Forman Sarah Harrison Ives W. Harvey Steven Harvey Juan B. Ianni Deborah W. Kalmar Arthur H. Luse, III John P. MacDonald Rachel Sullivan Patricia W. von Schwerdtner Susan S. Wigutoff 1971 17% $401.00 Marcia J. Berg Dennis Berg Holly Carroll Deborah J. Dumeyer James R. Hill Peter V. T. Lobell Judy K. Maistrellis Helen A. Scharbach c- Barry N. Sher Barbara S. Simpson Harold Stone v. Michael Victoroff 1972 17% $483.00 Bradley Arms Thomas·R. Ascik c- Robin K. Burk James M. Burress David H. Carey David C. Chute Evelyn F. Chute Christine F. Constantine Evan M. Dudik Robert Dunleavy Matthew T. Mallory Antonio Marino Jacqueline L. Miller Janet Nelson Richard A. O'Neill b (Continued from P. 1) for earlier this year the nursery found it had four healthy young seedlings. THE DISCOVERY coincided with Eden Day in June at St. John's when Sir John Eden, a member of Parliament, was present to represent the Eden family in ceremonies honoring an ancestor, Robert Eden, last proprietary governor of Maryland. Robert Eden, himself, had once spoken under the Liberty Tree, persuading Annapolis residents not to force citizens of Tory leanings to leave town. A distinguished orivv coun- Carol D. Shuh Pamela Starr ·Grant Wiggins 1973 19% Deborah Achtenberg Ilena Basil Deborah R. Bowers Jolene M. Cabral Jerrold R. Caplan Frank Carbaugh Bryant G. Cruse Ron Davidoff Nancy K. Deshler Jeffrey S. Flemming Barbara B. Goyette Kimi Hasegawa Robin C. Jannes Melissa Matthews c-Jeanne H. Mooring Daniel S. Pearl Lee D. Perlman Andrew B. Reed Paul Rosenberg Steven Sedlis Peter Squitieri James E. Tourtelott, Jr. Jessica Weissman 1974 21% $343.00 Michael Blaustein Roger Burk Carol V. Calhoun c-Thomas J. Dolan, Jr. Daniel Feinstein Kathryn A. Ferrier Sam Goldberg Michael C. Jordan Gerard T. Kapolka James S. LeVan Ymelda Martinez-Allison Maria K. Masinter Michael R. Panter Susan E. Pigman Patricia M. Pittis Eric Rosenblatt Clare L. Shiprak Lester Silver Webb Smedley Jonathan Stebbins Theodore G. Wolff Karen E. Zimmer LeeZlotoff 1975 ···22% $$12.00 DavidJ.Ashmore Theodore A. Blanton Jon Church Michael Dink Sallie A. Dobreer Gershon Ekman Donald Feldman M. Carla Garrettson Michael Hendry Patricia A. Joyce Peter L. Kniaz Nancy Miller John Rogers Mary S. Rogers Cary Stickney Elizabeth Tomlinson Annette T. Tullier Robert Tzudiker K. C. Victor Rebecca S. Zlotoff 1976 AnnG. Cruse Susan E. Semple Randall Rothenberg Graduate Institute Robert S. Johnson ship cillor, Sir John, who once worked as a partner in a tree and shrub nursery business and who is still greatly interested in forestry, cast an admiring eye on the Liberty Tree and wondered whether this poplar would grow well England. Clint Irwin, chief of State Forestry Operations, had ·the answer. The tulip poplar is related to the English limes and lindens and would do well in that country's general climatic area. Thereupon, Mrs. Anthony Drummond of the Caritas Society formall entered into cm'fe~;po1ride:nce with Sir John. "You are kind to suggest that I might have one of the seedlings from the Annapolis Liberty Tree," he wrote her. "Nothing would give me greater pleasure, and it would be a wonderful link with the of the last colonial governor." INITIALLY he was to discuss with his uncle, Lord Avon, former British Prime Minister Anthony Eden, where best to plant the tree on the Eden estate "so that it may become a landmark for future generations of Edens." But in a more recent letter he has that it might be the tree in some prominent national location, such as Kew Gardens, where it could be marked by a suitable plaque so that "it will be a permanent symbol of AngloU.S. friendship and be accessible the general public." While its future site is being determined, the Caritas Society is .proceeding with such matters as obtaining the requisite certificate" necessary to assure the tree's entry into England and to plan for its transportation. Because of the succulent nature of the root it must be if it is to have the greatest chance of survival. The society also is planning for the disposal of the other three trees. One has been offered to the White House. Before it is accepted, the chief usher, Rex Scouten, has indicated he wants to look at the tree to see how it can fit landscaping plans there. was given as a prize at Caritas' annual feast and ball on November 13. The fourth tree is being preserved for the moment as a "back-up" tree in event anything should go wrong with the others. �A collection of essays honoring Jacob Klein' and presented at a celebration of his· 75th birthday in 1974 are on sale in the St. John's bookstore. Representing the work .of 16 scholars who have been closely associated with the St. John's dean, the collection be obtained by sending a for $10 to the St. John's bookstore with $1.25 for In addition to the essays, tne collection includes a of music for the Black and by ROBERT SPAETH In 1776, while the Declaration of Independence was being written, debated, and voted Edward Gibbon sat in the British Parliament, silent growing American Revolution and silent on all other su1J1jec1ts. In February of the same year, however, the "luminous pages" (R. B. Sheridan's term) of the first volume of Gibbon's had been masterwork, Decline and Fall of the Roman published. Its immediate success, undiminished as volumes two through six came out in 1781 and 1788, grew to universal admiration during the subsequent 200 years, leading to the celebration of a Gibbon Bicentennial in 1976. Decline and Fall was on the 1938 St. John's "Ii.st of great books" in Annapolis and continued on the seminar reading list for about 30 years. Until the '50s, four seminars were given over to the discussion of selections from Gibbon; the number declined to two in the early '60s, and the book itself fell off the .t'l.UUdJJUl't;:) list in 1972. study of the Roman Empire covers the years A.D. 180to1453. His treatment of the years 180-641 is greatly detailed; the :oeriod from 641to1453 is given a summary treatment. book as a whole was said the historian J.B. Bury to characterized not only by literary art, the sustained excellence of his style, his piquant epigrams and his brilliant irony" but also by "ecumenical acuteness of JUClgn1ent. Decline and Fall Animal, Nature and Convention in Human and Politic.s" · Eva Brann, Kant's ..,Li'L"'"" An Robert A. voiawm, Nature Simon Cohen's John S. Logos"; Samuel Source of the Source of the Dedekind Cut"; Robert· R. SelfLachterman, "Self-hood sness, .an . into namum Themes"; Beate von Oppen, "Bach's Way with Words"; Robert Sachs, '~Ptolemy as a Teach,er"; Richard Scofield, "The Christian Phaedra, or Farewell' to Tragedy"; · J. Winfree Smith, "Watchman, What of the Night?"; Brother Robert Smith, "Clues on How to Read Palladius"; Leo Strauss, "On Plato's Apology of Socrates and Crito"; Robert B. Williamson, "Eidos and Agathon in Plato's Republic"; Curtis Wilson, "Newton and the Eotvos Experiment'' ; Elliott Zuckerman, "On Measuring Verse." 33°/o freshmen NMS students (Continued from P. 1) she iS ·Roseanne Shelton, an Annapolis nurse and wife of a psychiatrist. A number have relatives within the St. John's family, including Kathryn F. McKown, of Baltimore, a distant cousin of Douglas H. Gordon, St. John's president from 1931 to 1934. She ·also is a step-sister of Robert Evans, a Baltimore junior. Among children of alumni are Christopher Brinkley, son of Alan B. Brinkley, of Chapel Hill, N.C.; Elizabeth Gordon, daughter of John M. Gordon, of Washington; Tamara Sheinkman, daughter of Mordechai Sheinkman, of New York. Alison Athey is the sister of Bryan Athey, Farmington Hills, Mich., sophomore. Two are children of St. John's faculty members. Eleanor Kurs and Geoffrey Comber have fathers teaching on the Annapolis campus~ work of history ever written." The celebration of the Gibbon Bicentennial in this country has been less than spectacular. Yet there was at least one conference of historians organized for the of reviewing and analyzing Gibbon's life and the American n""'"'"""'" of Arts and Science; nineteen from that conference recently· been Summer 1976 number of Daedalus. • Near the end of his life Edward Gibbon himself wrote a sentence that recommends the reading of both his own great book and comparable others: "That history is a liberal and useful study, and that the history of our own country is best deserving of our attention, are propositions too clear for argument and too simple for illustration." (Continued from P. 1) million. The drive will aim at increasing each to between $12 and $13-million. Another $4-million would go to current operating costs, including $1,460,000 for Annapolis and $2,350,000 for Santa Fe. · "Plant will receive a low priority," Mr. McLanahan said. "We need $2,940,000 in Annapolis and $4,250,000 in Santa Fe. There is a lot of work to be done here, but not many new buildings. Santa Fe will need a gymnasium, a library, and an auditorium." Because St. John's has -less than 4,000 alumni, Mr. McLanahan said the college must attract as donors persons dedicated to the concept of the college. The following day, at New York!s University Club, it was announced that some $4,300,000 had been obtained for the drive including hundred per cent representation on the part of board members. Mr. Schmidt, who is a former ambassador to Canada, said the drive for the "substantial and possibly terrifying amount of $25million" is essential to preserve what he described as "the finest undergraduate liberal arts program in the United Statesbarring none." "I ONLY WISH it had been available at my university when I was an undergraduate," the Princeton alumnus added. were sent by Barr, of Kingston, St. John's president, Paul Mellon. of perville, Va., a special student at St. John's in 1944 and honorary co-chairman with John Gaw Meem, of Santa Fe of the sponsoring committee. Mr. Mellon, who entered St. John's after graduating from Yale and receiving a master's degree with honors in history from Cambridge, wrote: "St. John's curriculum stands for the rational review of universal ideas, the great ideas of western civilization. As Stringfellow Barr once told me, 'You can't understand the world today without reading the minutes of the previous meetings.' This liberal discipline thrives in the atmosphere of tolerance and humanity that exists at the campuses of St. John's-St. John's produces civilized men and women in art age which sorely needs them. Surely the need for St. John's company of scholars will· extend far into the future." Search starts for new dean (Continued from ·P. 1). 'sequently served as a visiting research fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London, ·and in 1964 joined the new campus in Santa Fe. He left there two years later for the University of California at San where he was a of of science. A former Bucknell University Mr. Neidorf has since 1962. - st. John's placement office has enlisted its East Coast alumni in a new career exploration program. The program is designed to give students an opportunity to visit St. John's graduates on their jobs for 'first hand observation and discussion of careers in which they may be interested. "The response was enthusiastic, and we are now ready to begin," Miss Brenda Robertson, placement office director, said. Most of the visiting is expected to be done during the winter or spring holidays. In addition, as another step to help guide seniors after they graduate, the placement office is developing a file of career information letters in which it also is asking alumni to help. Miss Robertson is being assisted by Marianne Braun, who also serves '.in a liaison capacity between the Alumni Association and students in career planning. "THE OFFICE OF Counseling and Placement at St. John's has .been in operation for two years," :Miss Robertson and Mrs. Braun wrote former students. · "We have discovered that most students have little knowledge of various career posJibilities and prerequisites. Standard career publications often do not satisfy the specific needs or answer the questions posed St. John's students. We hope to this gap by developing a file of career information •composed of letters from St John's alumni. "These letters would descriptions of various career fields, education and ex!perimental prerequisites for entry into the career, advice to ·students about the best means of preparing for the career (for example, which graduate schools or training facilities are best, 'which schools look favorably :upon St. John's applicants, wliich companies hire at entry level :positions? etc.). In- writing back to say they would be happy to serve as 'career· consultants, by far the largest response came from attorneys. Other answers came from psychologists, a director of , an arts foundation, a builder of cement boats, the assistant idirector of the Pierpont Morgan 'Library with prior experience in business and the U.S. Information Agency, the vicepresident of a television news agency, physicians, armed service officers, teachers, college administrators, a manager of the national recruiting program for Avon Products, the president of Carter Products, an invest:r- ~nt '.broker, the administratorfcurator of a National Historic !Site, a financial analyst, the special consuitant to the U.S. president, a vice..president for _I!larketing in a retail firm, a Luce Fellow- recipient, a juvenile services administrator, a court reporter, president of a human !relations consulting· firm, a. :writer and a sculptor. 1 In graduate students !wrote representing fields of law, Near Eastern. languages·, business, biophysics, business :administration �8 THE REPORTER REPORTER Published by , College Relations Off ice St. John's College Annapolis, Md. NOVEMBER 1976 i dri 2140~ At St. John's College, if you need someone for short-term help, you students who can: do his three-volume ok, " e Grow h Presidential Power,'' Goldsmith writes: "The sheer size and co1mp1e21:ny of the its economic and tec:nno10g1cai development. have has J who dictated that these additional burdens and responsibilities be assumed by the President. "IN WAR, as well as in peace, whether acting with respect to routine and administrative problems or extraordinary crises, the American presidency, particularly in this century, and even more particularly in midcentury, has developed into the most powerful position in the world. No other political office of executive leadership can compare in scope and responsibility with it." A member traditional "orator alumni" this month, which also More about this alumnus who is wide recognition for his 11.:i>VLU:::&MI Graduate Faculties at the worked at a number of different jobs, and taught briefly at City College and at Hunter from 1956 to 1958 while going to graduate school. He was awarded a Senior Fulbright Fellowship in 1958-59 and spent that academic year at Oxford University in England where he met and married Marianne Lovink Goldsmith. RETURNING TO the United States, he became associated in with . Brandeis Waltham, Mass., where is 1u•11•..:iPv1tlv teaching. For the past years has lived in Concord, Mass. The Goldsmiths three Active in Mr. Goldsmith on the Democratic Town Committee and is an associate of American Kr,Huil.i>1<i: and director of the Louis D. Brandeis Papers Hoover this 22also can a tiny stretch of the Washington Beltway on the Virginia side as her own. As an asphalt laborer, worked a short time the summer of 1973 raking it over, smoothing it . out, and tamping it down. "Horrible work," she sums up those August on the road. too, meant joining a laborers' union. Rather than <>nnhdncr for work at a hiring hall, by going to a roadside The next month she JOmea a ca1·pente~rs' union - Local 132 in the of Columbia - to learn construction work because she felt that would be the best way to learn to build her own home, something: she wants to do. McConnell, the other St construction worker. has done, if not".....,,.,.,"'°'" close to it. Hm11an1g in ·Miss Norton, who left high school at the end of her junior year, thinks she would learn more about house ccmstruction by a crew and seeing a house start to finish. The sort job she had involved building new FBI concrete forms for building. As for her work on the hi:>lt:w:rn the where feet wore boots "of the sort you "the men were concerned She did learn a reasonable amount her year with the her work on an uncle's homes. "We talked to one another it was so she recalled of her fellow. workers. "A lot of older " she said. "The with very He rotated my apprentices." worried Commission. "At Brandeis, in addition to teachini!." Mr. Goldsmith noted, interested in education I "''"'·" ...,""''"'" one of the first Workers Wisconsin. In the fall of 1949 Mr. Goldsmith went south as the southern .,i;;,ivuc:u educational director of Textile Workers Union of i "SOME FOREMEN would me easier iobs or ride me I ! Works. � 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/9a146f29af3e5b0bdb2e5fa6d8e780fe.pdf 367e2d2d36cded69d9c4cc3b894c3794 PDF Text Text Fu·n:ds close ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY The St· l ohn 's . /11/1111111/lllrn]Umf~lmJ~)llliill/ll/lllll 1 3 1696 01138 0340 budget gap ·~--·-·-------------. REPO,RT SJ students SEPTEMBER 1976. VOLUME IV, ISSUE 1 score highon law tests St. John1 s College· students score 23 per cent above the national average in their Law School Admissions test. A survey of 79 men and women tested during the period from September, 1972, through August, 1975,shows the mean LSAT score at 656 compared with the national average of 534. The scale ranges from 200 to 800. On the written ability test in· valving a scale of 20 to 80, St. Johnnies scored 63 as against a national mean of 51, or 24 per cent higher. Fifty-five St. John's students registered for both the LSAT and the Law School Data Assembly Service were found to have a mean score of 669, 118 points or 21 per cent higher than the 55l_for the. national average. Again, in connection with these 'two combined appraisals, St. John's students scored higher in the written ability test: 64 as against the national average of 52, or 23 per cent higher. Only in Grade Point Average evaluations was St. John's a fraction lower. The 55 graduates from here were found to have a GPA of 2.92 as against a national mean of 3.00. Continued on P. 4) ~ -.~..un:.., nlntfnrm ' under the Tree British Ambassador S'ir Peter Ramsootham addresses Eden ._ is Averell Harriman, former ambassador to Great Britain. W ash'mgton ., pnoto ;:otar All over the country this past Bicentennial summer Americans have honored the founders of this nation. At. St. John's something different happened. On Eden Day the college honored a man who was a nominal enemy, an Englishman with a sympathetic "predeliction for America" who used the pronoun "we" when he spoke of himself and the people of Maryland. He was Sir Robert Eden, Maryland's last proprietary governor. Two hundred years ago, with his usefulness ended here, Eden was escorted affectionately and ceremoniously to an awaiting warship to be returned to England. As the centerpiece of St. John's Bicentennial summer, hundreds ~f persons gathered under the Liberty Tree for an occasion which Eden's great-great-greatgrandson, Sir John Eden, head of the present Eden family and the seventh baronet of Maryland, said "we regard as a personal, intimate, family affair." It was a fitting place-one where, too, Robert Eden once had spoken. The speeches were eloquent, the air radiated with fine and warm spirits, and the American, British, and Maryland flags were clustered together to remind the audience that, as Sir John expressed it, the friendship between the two nations had (Continued on P. 2) St. John's is regaining one longtime tutor who left the faculty in 1971 and losing another to the Santa Fe campus this fall. Thomas J. Slakey, who first joined the faculty in 1959, is returning to St. John's after five years at St. Mary's College in California, where he has served as a vice-president for academic affairs and as associate professor of philosophy. Thomas A. McDonald, a tutor since 1963, is transferring to the Santa Fe campus for medical reasons. Suffering from a severe arthritic condition, he has been advised by his physician to move to a dryer climate. He is being replaced by a member of the Santa Fe faculty, Howard Zeiderman. A new faculty appointment announced by Dean Curtis Wilson is Chaninah Maschler. Mrs. Maschler, who has taught four summers at the St. John's Graduate Institute, has been serving as a lecturer at Queens College Special Program in the Humanities since 1972. Also named to the faculty is Joan Silver, a 1971 graduate of Qld Westbury, State University of New York. She entered St. John's in 1971 with a view toward obtaining an additional bachelor of arts degree, but decided later to enter the college's master's program. She received that 1 (Continued on P. 4) A report that annual giving reached a record sum by July 1 and a figure up 10 per cent over last year is being coupled with a w;arning by St. John's fund vice-president that inflation continues to force "a risky dependence" on fund raising as a means of balancing the college's operating budget each year. The Annapolis campus raised $423,149 for that purpose during fiscal 1975-76. Alumni con. tributions exceeded a record $52,000. Altogether funds raised for both the Annapolis and Santa ·Fe campuses during the past year reached nearly a million and a half. President Weigle informed members of the Board of Visitors · and Governors at their July meeting that total monies raised for operating expenses on the two campuses were in excess of $1,400,000, including a $215,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. In reporting on Annapolis fund raising efforts, Vice President William B. Dunham said the campus received $478,110 in total gift income, as compared with $429,059 the previous year. Of that figure, $423,149 was channeled toward current operating purposes in contrast to the previous year's $372,625. "WE ENDED THE fiscal year with a deficit of $33,115 which was covered out of the college's reserves," he reported. Emphasizing that annual giving has become essential to maintain St. John's budget, Mr. Dunham pointed out: "The $456,264 required to balance the 1975-76 operating budget constitutes 17.24 per cent of the budget, the largest requirement for this purpose the college ever faced. This same requirement for the previous (Continued on P. 3) • Alexander K. McLanahan, of Houston, Tex., has been elected chairman of St ..John's College's Board of Visitors and Governors. He succeeds J.I. Staley, of Wichita Falls, Tex., who now joins the executive committee. Mrs. Louise T. Trigg, of Santa Fe, N.M., and Charles A. Nelson, of Croton-on-Hudson, New York, continue as vice-chairmen as will Jerome LaPides, of Annapolis, as secretary. Besides Mr. Staley and the officers, other members of the executive committee are William W. Simmons, Annapolis; Dr. Thomas B. Turner, Baltimore, and Jack M. Campbell, Santa Fe. Acting on recommendations of the nominating committee, headed by Adolph Schmidt, Ligonier, Pa., the board also elected for a second consecutive term Richard M. Burdge, Haverford, Pa.; James R. Donnelley, Chicago, Ill.; Ahmet M. Ertegun, New York City; John T. Harrison, Jr., Stamford, Conn., and Daniel T. Kelly, Jr., (Continued on 2) P. �Continued from P.1) grown strongly and effectively since that day.Robert Eden left Maryland. EDEN DAY AT St. John's College, everyone agreed, was a stunning occasion. In an era of empty oratory, it glittered with the polish of a queen's gift. "Nothing could give my wife and myself greater pleasure," Sir Peter Ramsbotham, ambassador of Great Britain, told guests, many here from Washington and other parts of Maryland, "than to be here at St. John's College in this beautifu~ and historic setting, and to brir.g the warm greetings of the British people to Maryland on this day, on this day above all others, that commemorates the strong links of your famous state with the parent country of the colony from which it sprang." The ambassador spoke from a platform placed facing the library and filled with dignitaries. President Weigle welcomed guests - so many that the program sponsors ran out of the 500 available programs-and Senator Charles McC. Mathias, who had originated the notion of Eden Ua.y, pre:s1ded, while Mrs. Averell Harriman, an old friend of Anthony Eden, Lord Avon and former British prime minister, was present to accept a Maryland bowl given Lord Avon by the Stieff company. Mr. Harriman, a former ambassador to Great Britain and Governor Mandel, also were present. There was another exchange of gifts. Sir John had presented the Maryland Historical Society, one of the organizations sponsoring the day, of which he had been made an honorary member, with a family letter written by George Washington in 1777 to a man believed to have been Robert Eden's secretary. Washington, who was a personal friend of Eden, personally assured the secretary that he would make certain any communication would reach Eden in England via courier to General Cornwallis. THE ARK AND THE Dove Society presented Sir John with a print of the ships which had brought the first settlers to America. And, no matter if none of the items have been located, Historic Annapolis turned over a list of furniture from the colonial governor's home which had been confiscated by the State of Maryland. Mrs. Joseph M.P. Wright made the presentation. "This is a charming idea," Sir John laughed. "If any one finds a piece of furniture, do let me know." In many ways the audience had come to hear a man who was not there. That was the Earl of Avon, who had taped a message earlier this year while he was a guest of the Harrimans at Hobe Sound, Fla. His message was introduced by the ambassador and told of Robert Eden's efforts to advance the interests of Maryland. "This he contrived to do through many troubled years . during which Eden was striving to make his Government see that here was justice in the demands of the colonies,'' he said. "He was still in Annapolis in the Spring of 1776, in spite of complaints from Virginia on the one side and Pennsylvania on the ALEXANDER McLANAHAN, new board chairman, poses with some of the members of the Board of Visitors and Governors who attended the summer meeting. Left to right, they are, first row, Mrs. Louise Talbot Trigg, Mr. Mc:Lcmahan, Mrs. Lowell R. Ditzen, J.I. Staley, Mrs. Carleton Mitchell, William W. Simmons, and Dr. David Dobreer; second row, D. Robert Yarnall, Judge B. other. Maryland had resented any suggestion of interference and its Council had allowed Governor Eden to remain. It was indeed not until May 24th that a committee of five, appointed by the Maryland Convention, called upon Eden to tell him that he was 'at full liberty to depart peaceably with all his effects.' "Eden replied that he should 'still continue most sincerely to wish . for the welfare and prosperity of Maryland, and consequently, for a reconciliation with and constitutional dependency on Great Britain.' He sailed away on his Majesty's ship, Fowey, on June 23, 1776, eleven days before the Declaration of Independence. I believe it is true to say that in no other state did the handover take place so smoothly and with such good humour on both sides.'' IN HIS REMARKS, Senator Mathias pointed out that the reconciliation between the United States and England which followed the Revolution culminated in, the world's most powerful coalition in two world wars. "What does it all mean this 23rd of June, 1976?" Senator Mathias asked. "In the particular, perhaps it does no more than call attention to a single instance of civilized behavior under circumstances not often conducive to civility . "But, on the whole, here beneath this tree which Robert Eden knew and probably' considered a pestilential weed and within sight of the State House where he laid the foundation stone and the governor's mansion ... we commemorate an act in a drama, an important and significant act, in the long drama of mankind's quest for dignity and security and significance. "This is a drama spoken in English. The costumes change with the generations. The scenes are set on both sides of the Atlantic. "Even as we wonder how the play will end, we realize that it is not a period piece. It is going on in real times-today! And we become aware that we are not just members of the audience. We are also the players. "I believe that this is the message of the 23rd of June, 1976 - that we, in our time, in our act and in our roles, are part of a civilized continuum 2nd that we must infuse our everyday lives wlth a nobility that will inspire our posterity as we have been inspired by our forebears." In his addrPss, Sir Peter Ramsbotham described Governor Eden as "one of the most human and beloved of the colonial governors. " ... HE BROUGHT TO Maryland the best of what England had to offer; and as I have often seen in my many visits to your state, he helped to implant that here. The Revolution distressed him deeply. He wrote once to Lord Dartmouth: " 'It has ever been my endeavour by the most soothing measures I could safely use, and yielding to the storm w~en I could not resist it, to preserve some hold of the helm of government' (you will notice from all these nautical metaphors that even then the Chesapeake Bay with its sailing traditions had a firm grip upon him)."- C. Hemc::mdez, Adolph W. Schmidt, Richard D. Weigle, John T. Harrison, and A. P. Thf.>mpson; third row, John D. Murchison, Arnold Wells, Walter f. Evers, Doniel T. Kelly, Jr., Mrs. Walter 8. Driscoll, and Donald R. Kirby; fourth row, Jae Holzman, William B. Dunham, James H. Frame, Sharon L. Bishop, and Francis S. Mason, Jr. photo by Betty Lilienthal (Continued from P. 1) Santa Fe. Mrs. George S. Roudebush, St. Louis, Mo., and Mr. Campbell were returned to the board after a year's absence, and Edward J. Dwyer, Gwynedd Valley, Pa., after an absence of several years. Named for their first threeyear terms were Charles H. Watts, II, of Lewisburg, Pa.; Arnold Wells, of New York City, and Dr. Robert Yarnell, of Philadelphia. Leaving the board after completing two consecutive terms are Miss Ruth M. Adams, Hanover, N.H.; Mrs. Frank W. Bowdle, Wichita Falls; Mrs. Lowell R. Ditzen, Washington, and Mrs. Carleton· Mitchell, Annapolis. Mr. McLanahan is first vicepresident and resident manager of the Houston office of the brokerage firm of White, Weld & Co., Inc. Prior to that he was vice-president of both Dominick and Dominick, Inc,, and F. A. Callery, Inc. He was educated at Yale University, from which he was graduated in 1949, and St. Paul's School. During World War II he served with the 15th Air Force in Italy. Mr. Watts received his doctorate from Brown University where he was professor of English and dean of the college. For the past 12 years he has been president of Bucknell University, a position from which he resigned to head Wolf Trap Farm Park in Washington. The father of two sons enrolled e The Sons of the Revolution were back on the St. John's College campus last month saving a crumbling wall from ruin. . As part of their contribution to the Bicentennial, representatives of the Maryland Chapter made a major repair on the wall partly encircling the French Monument the Maryland Chapter erected 65 years ago. Assisted by members of the St. John's grounds crew, former chapter president William · A. Boykin, of Lutherville, and his brother, Bernard C. Boykin, of Ruxton, current secretary, volunteered to right a section which had tumbled down years ago. at St. John's, Mr. Wells and his brother founded Wells National Services, an ektensive medicalhospital television service subsequently sold to the American Hospital Supply Corporation. He now is engaged in investments. Mr. Yarr.ell is president of the Yarway Corporation in Blue Bell, Pa. The Reporter is published by the Office of College Relations, St. John's College, Annapolis, Md., 21404, Richard D. Weigle, president, William B. Dunham, vice president. Published five times a year, in February, April, June, September and November. Second class postage paid at Annapolis, Md. �article published during the summer for its British dailv edition. Written in connection with Eden Day, the story by Simon Winchester appears under the somewhat dreary headline, "Great Books Treadmill," with a more spirited overline designating St. John's as a ''college not for quitters.'' "In a curriculum that is frighteningly tough even by Oxford and Cambridge standards, the 100 or so young men and women who come to the campus each year have a rich diet of academic goodness forced down their throats like fattened geese." This is the way The Manchester Guardian sees St. John's in an t With the completion of his 27th year last year as president, Richard D. Weigle has served as president of St. John's longer than any other head with the exception of Thomas Fell, who was president for 37 years, from 1886 to 1923. Hector Humphreys, with 26 years, is the president with the third longest tenure; he was president from 1831 until 1857. Next comes John McDowell, who served a split term amounting to 25 years. He was St. John's first president, assuming office in 1790 and continuing until 1807. In 1812 he returned as president, succeeding Bethel Judd, and he remained in office until 1820. The dean's office has received at least two applications for positions on the faculty from India as the result of a recent article on St. John's published in "Span," the American magazine for India. The article was entitled "The Most Revolutionary American College?" and was written by Roger Wicklander, a 1964 graduate, who is now teaching in India. Mr. Cohen, who continued to Joseph Cohen and Martha Wyatt, a St. John's tutor and a St. teach during his three years in John's tutor's wife, each. with law school, previously had families of three children, have earned some credit toward his earned their juris doctor degrees degree whlle serving as a visiting from the University of Maryland fellow at the Yale Law School in 1971-72. During his final semester at Baltimore. A 1961 graduate of St. John's, in law school he was affiliated Mrs. Wyatt is married to with the Legal Aid of Anne Malcolm Wyatt and is the mother Arundel County. Mr. Cohen also is a St. John's of three children, Rachel, 13, Ruth, 11, and Mark, 9. During her ·graduate, receiving his degree three years in law school she was from here in 1956. He has taken associated with Legal Aid of additional work at the University Anne Arundel County and worked of Chicago, where he has served with the legal rights of han- as a lecturer in liberal arts, and dicapped children at a clinic at the University of Vienna. His maintained by the University of three children are Nathaniel, 10; Julie, 8, and Joshua, 3. Maryland. gives St. John's tutor Laurence Berns was a speaker at a conference entitled "The Constitution and the American Character" at Ohio University, Athens, this summer. Mr. Berns spoke on "Enlightenment, Religion, and the American Character." Among the participants were a St. John's parent, George Anastaplo, of Rosary College, who gave the keynote address, and Harrison J. Sheppard, '61, assistant regional director of the Office of the Federal Trade Commission in San Francisco. Almost the ·only one who wasn't excited about it was Lola Nelson, herself, who hardly stopped dusting to tell the cheering Carroll-Barrister staff her big news. A two dollar ticket in the Maryland lottery .....:. Ticket 649had just won her a thousand dollars. Lola took her winnings calmly, and with an eye to the future and retir~ment, planned to put the money in the bank. A member of the college's maid staff for the past 24 years, she picked up her winnings at the Capitol Drugstore, the proprietor of which, Irving Levy, is a longtime friend of the college. Miriam Strange, still going strong as college archivist, was hailed on her 75th birthday by St. John's non-teaching staff this summ.er. "She's been a doll to me," said an admirer of 38 years, Richard Ford, of the buildings 'and grounds crew, who amused luncheon guests with an imitation of how Miss Strange was able to extract with absolute precision any paper she needed from among a mountain of records on her desk. Other speakers included Ford· K. Brown, who praised her "splendid competence," Winfree Smith, who was serving as acting dean, and Charlotte Fletcher. Articles in the field of history of science written by Dean Curtis Wilson and two former St. John's students - Byron E. Wall and Philip Chandler - are appearing in current publications. Mr. Wilson is the author of an essay appearing in a newly published collection entitled ''The Copernican Achievement,'' gathered to honor the 500th anniversary of the birth of Nicholas Copernicus. Published under the auspices of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, the book is edited by Robert S. Westman. Mr. Wilson, who is the author of numerous studies on the history of 16th and 17th century astronomy, is a former professor of the history of science at the University of California, San Diego. His essay, "Rheticus. Ravetz, and the Necessity of Copernicus' Innovation," presents hypotheses dealing with the development of Copernicus' theory of a stationary sun and an encircling earth. Mr. Wall has an article entitled "Anatomy of a Precursor: the Historiography of Aristarchus of Samos,'' which appears in an issue of "Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science.'' In his article, Mr. Wall, who has been studying at the University of Tronoto, assembles and assesses historical evidence with regard to the heliocentric views of Aristarchus of Samos and then proceeds to show that many of the explanations proffered by historians to account for Aristarchus' heliocentricism and for the failure, or success, of his views in antiquity are of less than solid construction. A newly appointed faculty member of the Santa Fe campus, Mr. Chandler worked as a graduate student under the direction of Mr. Wilson at UCSD. His article, "Clairaut's (Continued from P. 1) year totaled $353,440 or 14.38 per cent of the budget. "Inflationary pressures are thus corttinuing to force a risky dependence on fund raising to balance the operating budget each year, and extraordinary measures continue to be required, therefore, both to increase gift income and to reduce expenditures.'' Largest gain for the Annapolis campus in annual giving was registered among gifts from parents, up 106 per cent from $6,555 last year to $13,477 this year. Gifts from the Board of Visitors and Governors dropped by 46 per cent, from $9,290 last yea-r to $4,964in1975-76. Corporations, including those contributing through the Association of Independent Colleges of Maryland, were down by 35 per cent, from $46,307 to $30,076. Friends contributed $21, 723 as against last year's In the first week-long exchange of its sort, two tutors from the eastern and western campuses will teach each others' classes the week lecture on opposite campuses. Samuel Kutler, who will be in Santa Fe to lecture on "Plato's Images of Socrates," will begin teaching the classes of John Steadman on Monday, Nov.15. In turn, Mr. Steadman will teach Mr. Kutler's classes here that week when he comes to deliver the regular Friday night lecture. Jane Young, '73, who has been serving as assistant to St. John's director of admissions, has resigned in order to work toward a doctorate in folklore at the University of Pennsylvania. Her study, which will be financed in part by a grant from the Roothbert Fund of New York City, will be concerned with American mythology of southwestern Indians, particularly as the myths are related to the field of archaeo-astronomy. Prior to joining St. John's Miss Young taught math at Severn School. Succeeding her is Mrs. Janet Christhilf O'Flynn (Mrs. Donnell O'Flynn), '74, who recently returned from Peru, where her husband held a Watson Fellowship. While there, she worked at an orphanage. Critique of Newtonian Attraction: Some Insights into his Philosophy of Science," appears in the British publication, "Annals of Science." The article, part of a projected, longer work of Mr. Chandler, centers on the controversy between Alexis Claude Clairaut, 18th century French m a the m a tic i-a n , a n d th e celebrated natural historian, the Comte de Buffon. • 1se $10,941, a 99 per cent jump. Grants from foundations also went up by 31 per cent to reach $144,225. Largest individual gift was $50,000. Thomas Parran, Jr., director of alumni activities, said that the portion contributed by the alumni was the largest since 1972-73, when former students gave $48,709. WHILE TOTAL alumni giving well exceeded last year's $38,215, there was a drop in the number of donors, down from 806 to 757. The smaller percentage of persons giving meant 25 per cent of the alumni gave compared with the previous year's 26.6 per cent. The size of the average gift moved substantially ahead, from $47 to $69. "This year our fund raising efforts were most significantly assisted by the use of two challenge gifts - one of $100,000 and one of $50,000 - to be matched by alumni, parents, and Last year a student committee, advising on possible economies in the college budget, suggested that more students be used in helping maintain the college grounds. This summer St. John's put the suggestion into practice and wound up with "the best summer crew I can remember," according to Joseph Spriggs, who supervises the maintenance of grounds on campus and who can look back over 26 summers here. "They did a very excellent job," he said. "They were much better workers than we have been getting for the summertime because you could tell them what to do, and they would do it." On the job were Edward Kaitz, William Nooter, Adam Wasserman, and James Dunn. The crew punched in at the power plant time clock at 7:30 a.m. and then saw Mr. Spriggs first thing to get their directioµs for the day. Then they were off to perform the multiplicity of chores their jobs involved: to cut grass, edge sidewalks, hand clip grass around trees, weed, pick up trash, elear brush and small trees, and clean parking lots. When the summer freshmen were here, they also took care of the coffee shop. Switching from one job to another helped keep the work from monotony. "Quality maintenance work is what we got this summer, thanks to the initiative, energy, and concern of this group of students," Vice President 1.Villiam B. Dunham said. "The campus, with their help, is a gem and has been much admired by our neighbors, visitors, and even a few experts from other colleges concerned with the maintenance of their facilities." Pleased with the results, the college has just hired two additional students - Richard Smith and Richard Plaut ses friends," Mr. Dunham said. "The results were an increase of 36 per cent in alumni giving-, 106 per cent in parent giving, and 99 per cent in giving by friends. Foundation grants were also up by 31 per cent. Overall gift income was up by 11 per cent over the previous year." During the July board meeting President Weigle circulated an analysis of board giving to the Santa Fe campus alone since 1961 showing the board has given $8.3million. It was noted at the board meeting that the figure represented a "truly fantastic giving record." Board giving to Santa Fe functions as a form of endowment for the western campus, which was opened in 1964. Consequently, over the same period, since 1961, giving to the A:qnapolis campus has totaled $441,078, or $5.30 for· Annapolis for every $100 for Santa Fe. �THE REPORTER Published by College Relations 0 St. John's College Annapolis, Md. 21404 St. John's College's French Monument, first erected anywhere in the world to the unknown war dead, is the center of two wreath-laying ceremonies this fall. The first was held early this month when 200 French mayors in this country for a Bicentennial visit, paid homage to the French soldiers and sailors of the American Revolution who are buried there. The second will be the annual, traditional wreath-la ceremony of the Nava Academy's French Club, which this year will be held earlv in order to coincide with Bicentennial visit of the French to Navy. It will be in this commemorate the victory of French fleet at the Battle of the Virgmia Capes which led to American independence. This year the Naval Acaw:my· French Club, which sponsors event, will hold it at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 23, instead of on Veterans November 11. Expected to attend will be 25 midshipmen from the French naval college, the Ecole Navale at Brest, approximately 20 French officers, and a hundred French sailors, whose ships will have docked at Baltimore a short time earlier. U.S. Senator Charles Mathias has agreed tentatively to be principal speaker, according to Dr. James Bradford of the Academy's History Department, who is helping coordinate the event. The wreath will be laid by Rear Admiral Kinnaird R. McKee, superintendent of the Naval Academy, assisted a 'representative of the French government. Among the dignitaries invited will be Governor Marvin Mandel, U.S. Senator 'J. Glen Beall, Congresswoman Marjorie Holt, Mayor John C. Apostol, . and Louise Gore and John Warner, who head the Bicentennial commissions in Maryland and for the nation, respectively. The ceremony will be open to the public. Cooperating in the program will be the Sons of the Revolution, which erected the monument in 1911, the Alliance Francaise, and the Military Order of World Wars. Who the French were and how they came to be buried at St. John's during the Revolution remains something of a mystery. They may have died of illness en route to Yorktown, for there was no fighting in this area, or they may have died following the Yorktown campaign, when some were stationed near this area .. Perhaps the best theory has been put forward by Professor Winston B. Lewis, who recently retired from the Naval Academy's History Department. He is an expert on French Naval warfare during the Revolution. "There is another possibility which seems more likely," he suggests. "When Washington and (Comte Donatien de) Rochambeau, (leader of the French forces), arrived at Elkton on 7 September on their way to Yorktown, they found that the British had so completely gathered up or destroyed the boats in the area that they could find water for 2,000 men. "Twelve hundred Frenchmen, from de Custine's advance and from the in this inadequate the rest of the French army, including the cavalry and arto go on toward Baltimore land, under the command of two Viomenils. "The group coming down by water ran into bad weather, so that it took them three days to reach Annapolis.When they were ready to go on, 'The boats were in such a bad state that two or three upset, and seven or eight men were drowned.' This contingent was then held at Annapolis for fear that an English fleet might have entered the Bay. Subsequently they were taken down in ships sent up by de Grasse and de Barras. "It seems to me highly probable that the seven or eight men drowned may be those buried at St. John's." Professor Lewis said he had found this account in Thomas Balch's "The French in America during the War of Independence. '' With some doubt as to where the precise location of the graves on back campus originally were located, the monument may mark a symbolic grave. David, Ridgely, in his "Annals of Annapolis," has reported that traces of the mounds still remained in 1841. Dr. R. Randall, a late 19th century historian of Puritansim in Annapolis, wrote at one time: "Such perfectly reliable people as my father, whose memory went back to the War of 1812, and whose father was living here at the time of the French enc a mp men t, has frequently pointed them (the stones) out to me, declaring that they represented officers' graves, whereas the privates who died in the camp hospital were buried in trenches or pits. When a railroad switch was put through the property eight years ago, a number of human remains were disinterred and reburied, but so far as I can learn, there was nothing to identify the remains." "It's terrible!" That's the way Ingrid Miller, secretary in the Office of College Relations, who helps handle such matters, sums up a new increase in postal service under which the college must pay a 25 cent service charge for each address change arriving here directly from the Post Office. Until July 1 the cost was 10 cents. Now the Post Office has more than doubled the charge. Miss Miller's office processes about 300 such charges a month so you can image what it's done to St. John's already hard pressed postal money. As an example of how costly the change can be combined with the recent hike in first cla'ss mail postage, Miss Miller pointed out that a single letter sent with a 13 cent stamp, returned with a new address at a cost of 25 cents, and mailed out again with another 13 cent stamp can cost 51 cents just for that one letter. If ten such letters come back, it will cost the college over $5 before they reach the recipients. To avoid this unnecessary expenditure, please let us know your address change as soon as_ you have it. Miss Miller would like to have six weeks ahead of time if that is possible; if it isn't, as soon after that as you You'll heln us Jacobsen, St. John's of athletics, and his partner, Warren Drake, of Glen Burnie, upset Maryland's seeded team and won Maryland State Senior Men's Tennis Doubles championship over the summer. They defeated Ben Olsen, of Bethesda, and Doyle Royal, soccer and tennis coach at the University of Maryland, in the championship round play at St. John's. Mr. Jacobsen and Mr. Drake lost their first set 7-6 but bounced back with two <Sets of 6-3. This is the first time such a tournament has been played at St. John's. Mr. Jacobsen said that it was quite successful jn that it drew eight teams, including most of the good teams in Maryland. ·The tournament was sanctioned by the Middle Atlantic Lawn Tennis Association which in turn is sanctioned by the U.S. Tennis Association. The analysis was made Peter A. Winograd, director the Law Program for the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, N.J., which administers the test. Currently about two-thirds of the LSAT scores fall between 425 and 625; the aven~ge of all scores, including those of candidates who have taken the test more than once, is about 522. For writing ability scores, approximately two-thirds fall between 40 and 60; the average is about 50. -- Jack Ladd Carr, president of the Alumni Association from 1965 until 1967, is serving as a new historical-cultural liaison officer for the State of Maryland. He has joined the staff of the Maryland Department of Economics and Community Development in Annapolis to provide a liaison between that department and several historical and cultural agencies attached to it. These agencies, which are funded wholly or partially by the State, include the Maryland Bicentennial Commission, Maryland Historical Trust, Maryland Arts Council, St. Mary's City Commission, Commission on Afro-American History and Culture, and the new Commission on Indian Affairs. Since 1966 Mr. Carr has been secretary for research and planning for the Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore. Between 1961 and 1966 he had served as director of planning and zoning for the city of Annapolis. Under his leadership a study of alumni-college relations was conducted, ahd from that came Assistant Dean Ray Williamson believes some puz800-year-old towers found Colo., may near Mesa have astronomical significance. In Colorado this summer to investigate the possibility as the recipient of a $3,000 grant from the National Geographic Society, Mr. Williamson said the towers of the Hoven weep Na ti on al Monument near Mesa Verde have intrigued archaeologists for years. Working with him was Howard Fisher, of the St. John's faculty, and Dr. Florence H. Ellis, of Santa Fe, N.M , professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of New Mexico. An expert on the Pueblo calendar and the Pueblo sun watching practices, Dr. Ellis was corecipient with Mr. Williamson of the grant. Also assisting was a graduate student, Craig Benson, of Binghamton University. Earlier, in 1974, Mr. Williamson and Mr. Fisher were joined by Dorine! O'Flynn, '74, in some preliminary investigations. What interested Mr. Williamson and Mr. Fisher the most were two towers, 16 miles apart, within a group of a half dozen built in a canyon head by the Anasazi Indians, the "Ancient Ones," as the Navajos called them. These towers differ from the rest because of the special rooms built in each with deep ports pointing directly to where the sun sets during the winter and summer solstices. "In both cases the rooms W€re later additions and seemed to be architecturally contemporary to one another," he said. Mr. Williamson and Mr. Fisher have completed mathematical --- -·-~~- ~ --= - ~--------- JACK LADD CARR the Alumni-College Relations Committee, the Alumni Counseling Program, the alumni lecture series, and the admissions assistance program. A native of Philadelphia, he graduated from the Abington, Pa., High School and served in World War II prior to entering St. John's. He is a member Class of '50. measurements relating to the summer solstices, and one of the tutors will return to additional measurements the winter solstice. Some time after study of their data, will announce their findings. "There is some indication that the ports were used for stellar observations, but this could not be confirmed without some additional, good, solid work," Mr. Williamson said. Mr. Williamson is a Johns Hopkins University graduate in physics with a doctorate in astronomy from the University of Maryland. New are contmue<l ttci~m P. 1) degree A graduate of St. Mary's, Mr. Slakey holds his master's degree from Universite Laval in Quebec and his doctorate from Cornell University, where he was an assistant in Philosophy. He transferred from Annapolis to the Santa Fe campus when it opened in 1964. Mr. Zeiderman spent a year at Dartmouth College before deciding to enter St. John's, from which he received his degree in 1967. In 1972 he was given his master's degree at Princeton, where he had been a Princeton National Fellow. Mrs. Maschler has taught philosophy at Barnard College, the City College of New York, Pennsylvania State, and Queens College. She also has lectured at the Bank Street College of Education. She received a bachelor's degree from City College in philosophy. She then went on to c9mplete a master's degree in philosophy at Yale. � 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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Hock, who gave the invocation, and Dean Curtis Wilson. St. John's honors Barbara Leonard For 255 years St. John's faculty existed as a male bastion. Then came 1951 and Barbara Leonard, first woman to be named a tutor and first woman to be named assistant dean. Next fall this zoology-oriented tutor will leave for half a year's sabbatical bird watching in New Zealand and Australia, and while the college, in its more analytical moments, knows the walls won't come crumbling down with her departure, it also kno,ws St. John's won't be the same without her. Earlier in the Spring, while the college bell rang 25 times to mark her 25 yearS as assistant dean, more than 200 members of the St. John's College community gathered for an outdoor party thanking her for her contribution to the college. It was "Barbara the Great!'', "Barbara - the Goods!" as she was hailed in the loose translation of the title for an especially made, congratulatory card patterned after a Great Book, which members of the college community signed. ' EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second of two articles on teaching at St. John's. ST. JOHN'S HAS always varied from other colleges and universities in its faculty selections. In the beginning the New Program founders rebelled against what they felt was an assembly line production of uninspired and mediocre Ph.D.'s, not necessarily better teachers for the letters after their names. They were interested in effective teaching first. In the past St. John's has not insisted that candidates for positions have advanced degrees. In fact, one of the most highly gifted and respected tutors, Thomas McDonald, has no degree at all, and another tutor, At commencement Miss Leonard was honored again when she was presented an illuminated scroll by President Weigle on behalf of students, faculty, alumni, and the Board of Visitors and Governors. It read in part: · "Over the years she has effectively developed her abilities to teach in the college's program, (Continued on P. 3) Ill In a statement which takes into account St. John's new, 65-yearold retirement age, the Board of Visitors and Governors has adopted a strong resolution requesting President Richard D. Weigle to extend his appointment as president to June 30, 1978. Mr. Weigle, who is concluding his 27th year as president, will be 65 next March 9. The resolution acclaims Mr. Weigle's "energetic leadership" as a "most crucial ingredient of its (the college's) health and (Continued on P. 4) Robert S. Bart, who has played a crucial role in strengthen_ing and enriching the program, came to the college with only a bachelor's degree. (He later completed the requirements for a master's degree at St. John's). But in recent years, as the pool of highly qualified teachers has grown nationally and the curricula vitae arrive fruity with degrees, fellowships and distingushed prizes, the trend may be toward greater consideration of these. Interestingly, St. John's wives tend to come also with more graduate degrees than they did a decade or two ago. For Leo Raditsa teaching at St. John's.has meant feeling his way and shifting gears as a teacher. "The most striking thing is that students_ talk to one another SJ seeks to lighten 2nd year St. John's College will ring its college bell at 2 p.m. July 4 as part of a simultaneous, nation-wide ringing of bells to herald the country's entrance into its third century. The bell will be rung for two minutes in commemoration of the nation's first two centuries, William B. Dunham, vicepresident, said. "The 2 o'clock time selected is exactly 200 years from the precise moment that the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia pro c 1a i m e d the in'.lependence of the new nation," he pointed out. Churches, schools, fire departments, and other agencies throughout Annapolis and the nation are expected to join in. "We know," Dean Curtis Wilson informed the Board of Visitors and Governors at its April meeting, "that sophomores do not die." Die they do not, but the five classes which they are required to take as against the four in other years presents so academically demanding a load that St. John's is considering ways in which to lighten the student's second year at the college. The move to reduce the number of classes is directly related to revision of the freshman laboratory program, designed both to improve its sequence and to reduce the time it occupies to, at most, 24 weeks lasting from fall until the spring vacation. Mr. Wilson was reporting to the board as chairman of the Joint Instruction Committee serving both the Annapolis and Santa Fe campuses. Earlier the committee and faculties at both campuses approved the change in the freshman laboratory program. Both (Continued on P. 4) St. John's will install 40 smoke detectors during the summer months· as an added safety protection, Charles T. Elzey, treasurer, has announced. The devices will be placed principally in student dormitories as well as in other strategic areas recommended by the college's fire insurance agency. Highly sensitive, the detectors can be sef off by smoke from a single cigarette, which will cause them to emit a high-pitched, siren-like sound. They are battery operated. here,'' he said. "Even when they answered each other ·at New York University, it was usually through the instructor, who refereed. Here there is the opposite problem: sometimes the .instructor gets excluded. As a· result, you tend to listen to the student more. Often times the students correct one another in a way I would correct them." There also is another difference, making teaching here for him the "most pleasurable" he has experienced anywhere. "The other thing that is extraordinary is that the students as a whole work without pressure, without the need for me to put the fear of God in them. They are very dedicated and work very hard and on their own initiative." WITH THE EXCEPTION of Friday night lectures, there are no lectures at St. John's, and Mr. Raditsa, in changing his teaching methods, has had to search for the right balance. Elsewhere he has found a teacher may be too aggressive; at St. John's he believes they may not be aggressive enough. In other places he felt students could not be spontaneous. "People talk more readily here, and perhaps are too spontaneous,'' he said. "The problem elsewhere was to give students a chance. The problem here is to know when to take away the chance." St. John's has no policy requiring tutors to publish to qualify for tenure. Mr. Raditsa believes the almost religious (Continued on P. 2) In ceremonies which drew an estimated 600 persons to the college's Liberty Tree, St. John's awarded 65 bachelor's degrees and a single master's degree during its 184th commencement. The program was marked by the awarding of annual prizes, including a new one established in the memory of the late John Kieffer, former president and dean, and the presentation of a scroll to Miss Barbara Leonard, who is completing 25 years as assistant dean. The commencement address was delivered by St. John's tutor, the Rev. J. Winfree Smith, whom seniors had chosen as their speaker. The ceremony was preceded earlier in the day by a baccalaureate sermon by the Rev. G. Harris Collingwood, rector of the Church of the Advent in Boston and a St. John's alumnus, whose daughter, Marjorie, was a member of the graduating class. In his address- to the class Mr. Smith referred to the manner in which Thomas Aquinas had established an order of good and then went on to say the primary concern of St. John's is with the good of the soul rather than with (Continued on P. 3) St. John's has received a $300,000 grant made through the William R. Kenan, Jr., Charitable Trust of New York City, President Weigle has announced. "These monies are to be added to our unrestricted endowment, and the income shall be used each year only for such purposes as will contribute most hopefully to the ongoing life of the college," he said. The funds will remain entirely on the ;tnnapolis campus, and none are to be distributed to the western campus in Santa Fe. In a letter of transferral, the Kenan trust said payment will be made before December 15. "The objective of the Kenan Trustees is to provide support and encouragement to a fine, moderate sized liberal arts college where modern academic programs, excellence in teaching, and sincere interest in students offer well balanced education of quality and strength,'' trustees declared. The trust was established in memory of William Rand Kenan, Jr., who with Francis P. Venable discovered and identified (Continued on P. 3) �Brief t. John's faculty Illelllhers (Continued from P. 1) St. John's tutors are busy giving talks these days. Former Dean Jacob ·Klein, now a tutor emeritus, has . traveled to the University of Alberta in Edmonton to lecture on "Speech, Its Strengths and Weaknesses" and on Plato's "Phaedo." Later he spent three days at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa., where he spoke on the same subjects. His talks at Dickinson were sponsored by the Council for Philosophical Studies of the University of Maryland, which is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities .. On JUNE, 1976 THE REPORTER PAGE2 11.-u•lll-• Eva Brann has delivered a lecture on the Declaration of Independence at Harvey Mudd College, and Robert L. Spaeth has spoken on "Ethics and Politics" at the School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. Two St. John's tutors participated during the past academic year in programs held at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland marking the Bicentennial. They were Laurence Berns and Harvey Flaumenhoft, raises The Board of Visitors and Governm;s is not taking tuition raises lightly. ':There is no single issue we have sweated over more than tttition," John S. Robson, District of Columbia member, said at the April board meeting as students presented the board with a petition protesting next year's hikes. "This board is extremely sensitive to the issue. We have struggled every year to balance the various (budgetary) interests, and we continue to be open minded about the ways to meet the problems. Each year we attempt to keep it as low as possible.'' Dan Jerrems, District of Columbia junior, presented the board with a petition which had been signed by 168 students the previous night. He expressed fear that the college would lose students as the result of the higher tuition. Another board member, Charles Nelson, pointed out that actual costs for financing each student's education at St. John's runs $7, 770 as against $5,100 each will pay for tuition, room and board next year. ''We are trying to stay in business," Board Chairman J. I. Staley commented. "If we did not continue to raise tuition, we would be out of business." Special exhibit When Horace Ridout was a student attending St. John's before the turn of the century, he used to ride horseback seven miles from St. Margaret's to attend classes. On rainy days he rode inside a buggy with hot bricks at his feet to keep him warm. "He rode a lively little horse, Grover," his sister, Miss Nancy Ridout, who now lives in Baltimore, recalls. "People used to say, 'That horse is going to kill that boy.' After. a while, they said, 'That boy is going to kill that horse.' " Despite the vigor demonstrated in his horsemanship, Horace Ridout became ill. He purchased books for his senior year, and although he spent curative months in January and February in North Carolina, where his ........n.. ....... mother had taken him, he died at 19 in July, 1898, of tuberculosis, the disease which claimed so many lives in his era. Recently Miss Ridout took the bus down from Baltimore to bring her old friend, College Archivist Miriam Strange, a portrait of Horace together with a diploma, five certificates of. distinction, and an old copy of Rat-Tat, the former college annual. One diploma from the preparatory school was offerect "as the most honorable testimonial of the excellence of his scholarship and character that we can confer." Others spoke of his having attained the "first grade of conduct and studies." This small testimony of his brief life has been arranged as an exhibit and will be on display in the Great Hall through June. fsrael Along with his 11-year-old son, Oded, Ralph Finkel paid his first visit to St. John's in 30 years . early in the spring and had SC1me interesting observations about St. John's education and its bearing both on Israel and his life as a businessman. Mr. Finkel, who uses the Hebraic name Raphael Ben Yosef in Israel, is now managing director of a firm specializing in power stations. Previously he had operated the Hotel King Solomon on the Red Sea, worked with the movie industry, and handled heavy engineering equipment. He believes there is "no better background in business" than the St. John's educai1on, enald1ug a businessman to learn to move around in many fields. A veteran of all four Israeli wars, including the one for Independence, Mr. Finkel found that his education at St. John's had helped shape his attitude toward the stress of living in Israel. "You learn to look at it through the perspective of time," he said. "That is something you get here at St. John's. One learns to see the politics of the day as ephemeral, and in the historic process of the mind, you know this was not only true for Biblical times and for Greece and Rome but for today as well. With enough faith you know they constitute an evolutionary stage leading toward the good - to us, the Messiah, to the Platonist, the good.'.' ' dedication to the program, coupled with the collective push to deal with it and what he feels is St. John's ambiguous attitude toward scholarship, has its destructive side. He would like to see more scholarship which results in published work, believing, as he does, that publication develops independence of mind and is one of the surest tests of competence. Ambiguous, too, is the attitude toward testing, he feels. Because of the nature of the program, the college never gives anything like the year-end finals which mark other institutions, but somehow the impression, incorrectly, has spread among students that there are to be no tests or quizzes. Mr. Raditsa still feels a little strange when he gives them. "ST. JOHN'S IS the ideal place to give tests," he said. "I can give and correct them. I don't have to grade them, and I don't need to feel hypocritical in not doing so. That would be impossible to do in any other teaching situation in which the university wants to know the specific grades." The manner in which one reads the books at St. John's made the major difference for Elliott Zuckerman when he arrived here from Columbia University. "At Columbia I was unable to· read a book unless I read everything about it," he recalled. "What commentators thought was every bit as important as the book itself. Now I can read a book directly. You get to think you have as much right to talk about the book as the people whose commentaries you might have been reading." St. John's tutors are often asked to teach subjects that are new to them. "We can tell students," Mr. Zuckerman said, " 'I managed to get to understand that last night. Why didn't you?' When it's a subject we have studied before coming to St. John's, we're forced to think a bout fundamentals and deepen our understanding of fundamentals, which is a way of making up for losing touch with what's going on in a particular field. We go more deeply into beginnings. Because most parts of the program are in some way related, certain profound questions recur in new contexts.'' MR. ZUCKERMAN sees a danger in too much interest in techniques of teaching at the expense of the subject. "I see the need for a steady influx of people interested in one or another book who have a subject they can bring to bear, people who want to study something deeply much as Winfree Smith (a St. John's tutor) has worked on Aristotle or on mathematics. The death of the college will come when considerations become simply those of pedagogy.'' Harry L. Golding, now in his· eighth year of teaching at the college, believes St. John's is designed for the tutor rather than for the student. "My learning is subsidized," he said. "I'm paid a very comfortable salary to take an incomparable sabbatical and learn in the great tradition. I enjoy · learning, but most of my life is spent learning. The problem is not so much in putting in time, but just as my interest is whetted, I have to go on to something else. It's frustrating. My life isn't such that I can pause and dig in a way I'd like to. "We drag our students very rapidly around the classroom race course, and I have great compassion for them, but I'm supposed to do it nevertheless. The students miss a lot. A great deal goes slipping through their hands. But by recurrent exposure to classes, a tutor can get on top of it pretty well.'' Unlike some of his colleagues who believe St. John's is the only place to teach, Mr. Golding feels that he pays a "big price" in order to teach here. At DePauw University, where he taught, he enjoyed having a professional grasp of chemistry. "I had to give it up and become a high class dilettante in the pejorative sense. But I had to pay the price, and I was willing to pay. I found it in a woolly depth rather than in a good, clean command of the subject matter." IN CONTRAST TO DePauw, where he deliberately taught for three or four top potential chemists (his purpose he felt was to serve his profession by teachi11g. to the brightest and most interested students), Mr. Golding finds his teaching a tougher task at St. John's. big success One father was so excited by the seminar discussion he couldn't sleep and one set of parents so exhausted by the program paces they had been put through that they nodded away even as the pirates attacked the ship in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead," but everyone - parents, students and faculty - couldn't have agreed more. Parents Weekend was a great success. "The vibrations all around campus were good," Lawrence Clendenin, Arlington, Va., junior, summed up reactions. Mr. Clendenin, along with Jam es Walley, Dover, Mass., planned the weekend. Altogether more than a hundred parents took part in activities which began with Thursday's seminar. The sophomore class brought the largest number of parents with the freshmen and junior classes next. Seniors, whose parents were scheduled to arrive soon for commencement, were the most lightly represented. Altogether they came from as far away as Texas, Iceland and Canada. A heavy rain drowned out a picnic, but there was plenty more to do, including participation in a student-parent seminar based upon "The Tempest" as well as attending regular seminars and tutorials, a lecture, a waltz party, reception, dance program and play. A second Parents Weekend already is being planned for next year. Dates will be May 6-8. ition' "There the intention was to teach a tiny elite," he said. "Here it is to teach any intelligent, disciplined person. I couldn't neglect them in good cons.cience." For Michael Comenetz, St. John's tutor who arrived on campus last fall from the University of Kansas, with its 20,000 student population, it is the sheer smallness and much more personal atmosphere of St. John's which impresses him. St. John's enrollment is about 375. "At Kansas I practically never had the same undergraduate student twice," he said. "It happened to me once, and I was surprised.'' Like Mr. Zuckerman he stressed the emphasis on fundamentals at St. John's. "In the laboratory the search for fundamental ideas involves the same sort of process as in the seminar, but the search can't range quite as widely as it does in seminar.'' No single tutor has taught the entire program at St. John's although two senior tutors, Mr. Bart and Mr. Smith, have taught most of it. Music seems to be the one subject in which a number of tutors without musical training feel that a prior, specialized knowledge is required, and some have expressed a reluctance to jump into this area · of the program. How long it takes to develop a full-fledged tutor is a matter of conjecture. Generally it may take seven to ten years for a tutor to get on top of a substantial amount of the subject matter although a new tutor may arrive on campus with an almost instantly successful grasp of the seminar and tutorial teaching methods. DOES A TUTOR lose his specialty in teaching at St. John's? While there may be argument about this, it is unlikely; otherwise Dean Wilson, during his seven years away from St. John's, could not have been named a full professor of the history of science at the University of California. Mr. Zuckerman, widely recognized for his life of Wagner, is continuing special work in music theory. Mr. Smith, an active member of the staff of St. Anne's Church, has expanded rather than lost his early training in theology. M1ss Beate Ruhm von Oppen is continuing her work on the German resistance movement. Douglas Allanbrook, who concertized and composed before coming to St. John's, remains a prolific composer who continues to perform. This is to mention just several. The Reporter is published by the Office of College Relations, St. John's College, Annapolis, Md., 21404, Richard D. Weigle, president, William B. Dunha1'1, vice, president. Published five times a year, in February, April, June, September and November. Second class postage paid at Annapolis, Md. . �~ JUNE, 1976 College party hails 'Barbara, reat' (Continued fr~m P. 1) both in her own fields of biology, zoology and genetics, and in such disparate ~reas as. math, language, philosophy, literature and physics. "Her understanding and her concern for all students, her essential fairness, her adherence to principle, her sense of humor, and her wide-ranging interests as well as her teaching skills h~ve endeared her to . successive generations of students and also to her colleagues in the St. John's community." FOR MISS LEONARD the party came as a complete surprise. She had been escorted by a fellow faculty member, Robert Spaeth, on the pretext of another engagement. As ~than Bauman, San Anselmo, Calif., sophomore, drummed out "When the Saints Come Marching In" on a piano wheeled to the center of the Key Auditorium patio, she entere? to the applause of the gathermg. Five-year-old Julie Sarkissian presented her with a bouquet of flowers to emphasize that the party was really for her. A f t e r i n d i v i d u .a 1 congratulations, some commg from St. John's first women students who began their studies the same year she joined the college, Miss Leonard was presented silver candlesticks and a silver tray engraved with the words: "Barbara H. Leonard, 25th anniversary, tutor and assistant dean, St. John's College, from the faculty and staff, 1976." The presentation was made by Dean Curtis Wilson in the absence of Mr. Weigle, who was detained elsewhere and who arrived late. "Two phrases come to my mind-'Steady as she goes' and then again 'vive la difference!' " Mr. Wilson said. "We have and have had at this college for 25 years a lady, and the college will be here as long as she will be. We are very grateful she's been here and want to say in some way, 'Thank you, Barbara.'" Miss Leonard accepted the gifts with characteristic quipping, taking into account a current economy drive at the college. "I won't need a mirror now." she said of the glittering tray. "The college is saving money." The candlesticks, she noted, could be used "when the electricity goes off." She called attention to some members of the community who had been there when she arrived, including Mrs. Weigle, former Dean Jacob Klein, and the Rev. William K. Smith, a former assistant dean, who, she said, had "introduced me to the mysteries of being assistant dean." FOLLOWING THE ceremony Mr. Weigle recalled the decision to bring women to St. John's in the fall of 1951, one which initially resulted in a mass protest meeting of the then all-male student body, but which later resulted in the selection of Miss Leonard. "You have played a marvelous role in the development of the college,'' he said. "All of us are immensely grateful." Among the guests present to congratulate her was one of the four academic deans with whom ~ 'THE REPORTER she has served Robert A. Goldwin who ca~e over from the White House, where he is a special consultant to President Ford. Altogether Miss Leonard has served with four other assistant deans and one president. Breaking a barrier as first woman faculty member was an act with a precedent on Miss Leonard's part. "I also was the first woman teaching assistant on the men's campus at the University of Rochester, thanks to World War II," she recalled. "I'm used to breaking barriers." Later, in 1962-63, she did it again, as the first woman to speak to a math colloquium of graduate students and math teachers from five colleges in India during her year as a Fulbright lecturer and honorary professor of zoology at Lady Doak College and the nearby American College. MISS LEONARD is proud of the lecture for another reason. She had learned most of the math not during her student days,' but as a teacher at St. John's, where a faculty member begins with a specialty but is later expected to teach widely in the college's non-elective program. Coming here from Smith College, where she had taught zoology since 1945, Miss Leonard arrived at St. John's in July, just preceding the first group of women to enter St. John's in September. Two of the members of that class - Emily Martin Kutler and Hilliard Gearing Sugg -werepresentfortheparty. Miss Leonard has never acted simply as a dean of women. The second year she was here Mr. Smith, who was the other assistant dean at the time, left for a sabbatical, and she found herself counseling men students. "I never weaned those boys from me," she observed. Over the 25 years she has found students have changed. "They're much more experienced,'' she said. "They're exposed to much more of life's realities when they begin college. In many ways they are more serious, although not necessarily so. The applications from prospective students are better. "One big change has been the way students have responded to emotional stress. The first few years, it was hysterics. I used to have to calm them down. Suddenly, about the early 1960's, that went out of fashion. Now that may be worse than the other, but it's easier for me." SHE REMEMBERS with pleasure that St. John's was spared a lot of the difficulties of the 1960's, when the nation's campuses underwent widespread disruption as the result of the Vietnam war. Part of it, she believes, was due to the St. John's program, with its emphasis on 130 great books and which by the act of registration the students chose for themselves, and partly because of the college size, with its eight to one ratio between students and faculty. "They knew the curriculum was 'irrelevant' when they came," Miss Leonard said. "They couldn't complain about Board acts on archival files Under an arrangement made decades ago, St. John's has one state office building located on its campus - the Maryland Hall of Records. Of all the state offices, this archival center on the southern corner of the campus is the one perhaps most directly useful to the college. St. John's began using the Hall of Records 45 years ago as a depository of archival material dating from 1696 through 1937. That was because the library lacked a room which could be thermostatically controlled for preservation purposes. The arrangement has always been considered temporary in nature; but, under a new arrangement, the Hall of Records is to provide a new St. John's alcove where these items can be placed on permanent deposit. The Board of Visitors and Governors approved the arrangement at its April meeting provided the collection is not removed from the Annapolis area, should the state erect a new archival building, and provided, of course, that the collection not be destroyed. , Minute books of the board and faculty after 1937 also are to be added along with catalogues and other publications. State Archivist Edward C. Papenfuse has proposed assigning an intern to the task of arranging and inventorying the collection. gift (Continued from P. 1) calcium carbide and made known the fact that acetylene gas could be derived from it. For years a chemical and mechanical engineering consultant, Kenan was from 1924 until his death in 1965 president and part owner of the Flagler System companies. His strong support of education was expressed in his final will when he wrote: "I have always believed firmly that a good education is the most cherished gift an individual can receive, and it is my sincere hope that the provisions of this article will result in a substantial benefit to mankind." Carla Schick, Maspetch, N.Y., junior, has received a summer internship position in journalism awarded by the Internal Revenue Service in Washington. Miss Brenda Robertson, placement director, said that originally the service sought a journalism major, but became convinced that Miss Schick's program of liberal education at St. John's would be sufficient. lack ·of contact with their professors. If they wanted to protest, the governor's mansion was a block and a half away or they could go into Washington.'' The campus itself has changed. The women initially lived in Randall and in Chase-Stone. Then Campbell Hall opened as a women's dormitory. "My first social affair was a champagne party given by the contractor for the heating plant,'' Miss Leonard recalled. "Koogle Hall was standing where Campbell is with the housing for married students further behind on back campus. The tennis courts were where Mellon was." PAGE3 Seniors hear Mr. Smith Pekkanen has new book out Former Life Magazine Staffer John Pekkanen, who was a member of the Class of '61, has written a book about rape, this (Continued from P. 1) one based upon a case which the good of the body and with the occurred in Washington, where good of the intellect rather than Mr. Pekkanen and his wife, the with the good of other parts of the former Lynn Kopke, Class of '63, multi-faceted soul. are living. "Even if the good of the in- . Written as a detective story tellect may serve some higher or described by one reviewer as lower purpose, it has its intrinsic worthy of Alired Hitchcock, the worth," he said. "This institution book is Mr. Pekkanen's second. tries to establish the conditions Earlier he wrote "The American under which each one of us, Connection," a description of the whether called teacher or relationship between the pharstudent, may seek for himself maceutical industry and the that thing of intrinsic worth. It is medical profession. His new book presupposed that each one of us is is entitled "Victims: An Account engaged first of all in learning for of a Rape." A Nieman Fellow at Harvard in himself and that the love of one's own soul in that sense precedes 1970-71, Mr. Pekkanen currently is under contract with the Drug the love of the souls of others. Abuse Council, of which he is a "BUT, AS WE KNOW, the search, while it may be and former fellow, to do a book about always is to some extent private, drug laws. Last year his article, is greatly helped by and in its full "The Tranquilizer War range impossible without a Controlling Librium and community of learners. Within Valium," appeared in the July this community each assists issue of The New Republic. He others by questioning, an- will have another article dealing swering, refuting, being refuted, with unnecessary surgery apsometimes resting in an un- pearing shortly in Town and derstanding possessed and en- Country. Mrs. Pekkanen is assistant joyed. The love of our own learning is really inseparable director of the Washington Infrom the love of the learning of stitute for Women iri Politics, a others, the love that finds em- training center in Washington for bodiment in the questions we teaching political skills. The share and explore and in the Pekkanens have three children delight that we share in the un- - Robert, 9; Sarah, 8 and derstanding we attain in com- Benjamin, 4. mon." Mr. Smith referred to the books read at St. John's in its twiceOther awards: weekly seminars, the so-called To the senior for excellence in "great books," books Mr. Smith speaking, Claudia Ingram; to the described as embodying in a pre- senior who has written the best eminent way a long tradition of annual essay, David Clement and questioning and answering. Stephen Gilles with Miss Ingram "When Mr. Barr and Mr. receiving honorable mention; to Buchanan in 1937 started the the junior who has written the program which we still follow best essay, Richard Smith and here," he said, "they did not Chela Weiler; to the sophomore think of its as an experiment. who has written the best annual They thought of it as representing essay, Kari Elizabeth Jenson; to a rediscovery, largely in the the freshman who has written the medium of these books, of a best annual essay, Kimberly Ann tradition of liberal education Schraf, honorable mention; stretching back at least to the TO THE STUDENT WHO Greeks. Miss Eva Brann (a St. submits the best English tranJohn's tutor) was certainly right slation of a French poem, when she wrote in the Collegian a honorable mention to Barbara year or so ago, 'The program at Schmittel and Rodney Strabucci; St. John's is not and never was an to the student who submits the experiment.' " best brief comment on a piece of The award established in music, Susan Wilson; to the memory of Mr. Kieffer, who died student who submits the best last year, was a prize of $50 given original English poem, Gretchen by his widow to the student who Berg; to the freshman or submits the best English tran- sophomore who submits the most slation of a Greek text. It went to elegant solution to a Tina Rhea, of Boothwyn, Pa. mathematical problem, Howard THE SENIOR WITH the Prior and Blake Kline; to the highest standing who received junior or senior who submits the the silver medal and $100 offered most elegant solution of a by the St. John's board was mathematical problem, Richard Marian Iris Wolfe, of Steven- Smith; and to the senior man and sville. senior woman who contribute Among the other major prizes most to the athletic program, was an award for $1,250 made to Steven Gray and Jane Hudson. Carla Sue Schick, of Maspeth, In his baccalaureate sermon, N. Y., for high academic Mr. Collingwood told students achievement, given in memory of that "maturity of life as distinct Duane L. Peterson by his widow, from length of years might be and a prize of $1,000 to be divided characterized by the tenacity among Miss Schick, Terry C. with which an individual holds to Schuld, of Glen Head, N.Y., and the visions of youth and the Kimberly Ann Schraf, of Latrobe, dreams of age." Pa., offered by the C. Markland "To be conformed to this world Kelly, Jr., Memorial Foundation. is to settle for the temporal Another $1,000 scholarship rather than risk the eternal," he offered by Bela Ronay in said. "To be transformed by the memory of his mother, Joan renewal of one's mind is to trust a Yvonne Ronay, was awarded vision, dare a dream, of what is Cherie Lynne Harpell, of Cumgood and acceptable and perberland, R.I. fect.'' �'1 THE REPORTER Published by College Relations Office St. John's College Annapolis, Md. 21404 (Continued from P. 1) faculties now are to consider alternative schema for reallotting the time assigned to music, which will be retained, and to other parts of the laboratory. IN THE "ANNUAL Statement of Educational Policy and Program 1975-76," which the chairman of the Joint Instruction Committee submits each year, Mr. Wilson posed a major question faculty members will be struggling with before a plan is submitted for consideration in October: How will the eight weeks left by the shortened freshman laboratory program be used? "The present proposal includes no stipulation as to how that time is to be employed," he explained. "In the thinking of the Instruction Committee ... the answer to this question has been tied to a prior decision as to how the 'overage' of classes in the sophomore year is to be reduced." Developing a sound laboratory program, Mr. Wilson informed the board, has been a considerable problem to which the college has given much thought since 1941. "St. John's has been attempting to humanize the sciences, providing courses not for professional training and not for giving information, but somehow for doing something else," he said. In his written statement Mr. Wilson asked: "IS IT REALLY so difficult to say what a liberally educated person ought to have some knowledge about in natural science? If we opt not for illustrations ('take a year of earth-science or botany or zoology') but for general scientific culture, then I think the answer should be fairly easy. The science ought to be fundamental, so as to prepare one to understand more science." The Joint Instruction Committee has proposed a sequence of readings and exercises for the freshman year drawn largely from the present sequenpe, but a voiding the initial focus on theory of measurement. It omits such topics as measurement of length, areas and volume, significant figures and estimates of probable error, spirals and calculating machines, and measurement of pitch intervals. Instead, the freshman year would open with a new topic. Mr. Wilson said this would be a "study of 'the system of the world,' observational orientation with respect to celestial pole, equator, and ecliptic, and preparation for a series of astronomical determinations to be carried on during the year of the noonday altitudes of the sun of the north-south line, of th~ changing times of transit of a given star, of the times of the equinoxes, and solstices and so on." The next general topic would be drawn from another ancient science, that of statics. Beginning with the static equilibrium of solid bodies in constraint systems, the sequence passes on to hydrostatics. Next would follow the study of atmospheric pressure and the law of BoyleMariotte relating to the volume and pressure of a gas. Students then would turn to a consideration of thermometry, calorimetry, latent heat, and the three states of matter; chemical constitution of the air and of acids and bases, and finally to work leading to the atomic theory of matter. · "CONCEIVE IT .... as a study of earth', air, fire, and water," Mr. Wilson wrote in his statement. "It starts with ancient and phenomenological science science, in other words, that makes no assumption as to the microstructure of bodies - and advances to modern (19th century) arguments for the atomic constitution of matter. In doing so it vindicates the claim of ancient theorists that the number of kinds of atoms must be finite, in order that the kinds of visible, tangible things should also be finite, forming discrete classes.'' Mr. Wilson said questions of measurement, which form the theme of the present firstsemester manual, will not be handled separately in isolation but as part of the ongoing investigation of natural phenomena within the laboratory. Guttman aid nds The Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation, Inc., of Washington, has awarded St. John's College a $5,000 grant, enabling the college to participate in the scholarship program the foundation established in 1964. In announcing the grant, the foundation said the funds may be distributed among as many students as the college considers appropriate and preferably to students of recognized ability who have completed two academic years of college. Ho-hum frogs cmd a naturally gifted turtle are the center of attention for, in left to Mark Sugg, Steven Michael Levine, Cherie Harpell, and Tricia Kolp during St. frog race. 'Commercial' status ups p hone rates Telephone service becomes the newest utility for which St. John's College will be paying higher operating costs. Under a decision authorized by the Maryland Public Service Commission, St. John's, which is classified as a commercial establishment, will be placed upon a message unit system along with all businesses in Maryland not already included in the practice. The new system, which goes into effect July 1, will result in a reduction of the monthly rate for each of the college's six trunk lines from $185.40 to $45, Mrs. Hope Prout, communications representative, said. The college will be allotted 90 local calls and after that each call will cost eight cents. St. John's officials estimate that college offices alone place 90 local calls within a single day. This will mean that in addition to the $270 it will be charged for trunk lines, it will pay another $216 for an estimated 90 daily office calls over 30 additional days. The figures are exclusive of calls expected to be made by students. St. John's Treasurer Charles T. Elzey said the decision cannot be appealed. The message unit system will affect principally businesses south of Annapolis, including St. Mary's College. Anne Arundel Community College has been under a message unit system fo1 some time. Beginning next fall, Mr. Elzey said the college plans to disconnect all dormitory lines making local calls possible by dialing nine first. As ..an alternative, he said he hopes to have additional pay telephones installed in college dormitories. Receives mention Marian Iris Wolfe, of Stevensville, Md., who received the silver medal as the senior with the highest standing during this year's commencement, made the honorable mention list of the Danforth Fellowship Program for 1976. he turtle, once more., is swiftest · race Without even Aesop around to remind US, it was the most natural thing in the world. A redeyed turtle which entered St. John's first frog race this spring as a sort of dark horse candidate did what turtles legendarily are supposed to do. It outran creatures nature intended to be faster. Regally self-contained and undisturbed by cheering students, with its head poised periscope-style for a better view over the grass, the heavily favored turtle took an even 15 minutes to plow its way through a grassy race course while the uncompetitive frogs, which had copped out of the race almost from the beginning, hid in clumps of clover. It was eight minutes longer than necessary. Seven minutes after the race began the turtle had come within inches of touching the boundaries of an irregular polygon, roped off for the race; but with an apparent scorn at the notion of winning so easily, it changed its mind and circled suspensefully around before lumbering across what amounted to a finishing line. Mr. Flaminghop - "the frog with the mustache," one student quipped - took a few skittish jumps out from the polygon's center, where the race began, and Dr. Wiggily managed a few twitches, but nothing really happened. They were almost as quiet as the second team in the aquarium awaiting another race: Ms. Von Hoppen, Mr. 'Rabbitsa, Mr. Croackett and Mr. Skimmer. The frogs took their names from faculty members whose last names are Flaumenhaft, Weigle, Von Oppen, Raditsa, Crockett and Skinner. The turtle was simply called Turtle. Jeff Shea and Johp. Rees, St. John's seniors, set up the race as part of the annual senior prank. L d h· ea erS lp seen 'Crucial Need' (Continued from P. 1) prosperity." Put forward by Charles Nelson and seconded by Jerome LaPides, the resolution reads: "Whereas, Richard D. Weigle will reach the age of 65 in March of 1977, and "Whereas, under the new Polity provisions it is necessary for the Board to take affirmative action annually to retain an officer beyond the age of 65, and "Whereas, Mr. Weigle's energetic leadership of the College is considered by the Board to be a most crucial ingredient of its continued health and prosperity; "Therefore, be it resolved, that the Board of Visitors and Governors earnestly requests that Mr. Weigle accept an extension of his appointment as President to June 30, 1978." Under a new polity provision adopted this year, administrators appointed by the board may retain their position after 65 upon a resolution passed annually by the board. Members are known to feel that Mr. Weigle's leadership will be particularly critical in the $25-million, fund raising campaign St. John's plans to begin next September for both its Annapolis and Santa Fe campuses. In presenting the first draft of plans to the board, Charles A. Cooley, who will direct the campaign, to be known as the Fund for the 80's, said top priority will be given to raising the endowment in Annapolis from $8-million to $13-million and in Santa Fe from $1-million to $11million. Eva Brann gets center fellowship Eva Brann, St. John's tutor, has been awarded a fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington for the coming academic year. On leave of absence during that time, Miss Brann will concentrate on a study of the founding fathers and education. J � 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 The St. lohn 's 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 mnm~1@1~1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ------ 31696 01138 0324 Key, alumni I REPORTER VOLUME Ill, ISSUE 4 APRIL, 1976 to mark dates SJ to have 1st Parent, 'Mr. Chairman, I present' Sailing interest expanding This is the time when the bay winds beckon, when the fish begin to rise in College Creek, and when sailing, a blossoming sport at St. John's, pulls its students away from quiet study corners to a world of wind and water. With the acquisition last spring of two, new, easy-to-sail Lasers - the "hottest selling boat ever made," according to boat house steward Kimo (James) Mackey, Lafayette, Calif., junior - interest in sailing is picking up. As the new season opens, Mr. Mackey sees two problems: (1) Getting rid of four bridgus, which is impossible. (2) Getting water lines to the boat house, which is possible. The bridges are a nuisance because they mean paddling a quarter of a mile's distance from the campus to open water before a student has a chance to rig a boat. Mr. Mackey is among the patient few who attempt to sail between the bridges, an acrobatic achievement of perpetual motion on his part. For Mr. Mackey, who is in charge of instruction which permits St. John's students to earn their "bay cards" privileges which will make it possible for them to do bay sailing - the bridges exist as a major obstacle, particularly for the beginning sailor. "OUR BIGGEST problems are the bridges," he said. "Sailing is (Continued on P. 3) "Mr. Chairman, I present Mr. Stephen Gray, candidate for the degree of bachelor of arts, for examination upon his senior essay entitled 'Of Doggish Protocol (A Comedy of Representation).' '' And so, with a ceremonial tip of his hat from Dean Curtis Wilson to Chairman Louis Kurs, a moment of peculiar importance in the life of a St. John's senior a time not to be taken lightly ·arrives. While the early Spring light filters through the window of the St. John's library, while King William stares from his portrait at an audience which has swung to its feet to greet Mr. Gray, the first of this year's seniors undergoes an oral examination on his senior thesis. Before commencement arrives in May, some 65 seniors of a possible 70, will have undergone these public, hour-long (Continued on P .. 4) Weekend Ceremony St. John's will hold its first to bring Parents' Weekend April 30-May 1 when parents will be invited to waltz, argue over ambassador Tempest,'' join in points in "The a picnic, and A Bicentennial ceremony marking the 200th anniversary of the departure of Robert Eden, last royal governor of Maryland, will be held Wednesday, June 23, under St. John's College's Liberty Tree, where Eden once successfully quelled an effort to force all Annapolis Tories to leave town. Sir Anthony Eden, former British prime minister, has written and taped a message about his ancestor which will be introduced by the British ambassador, Sir Peter Ramsbotham. Presiding will be U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, whose office is planning the event in cooperation with St. John's College, the Maryland Hall of Records, and the Maryland Historical Society. St. John's President Richard D. Weigle said the ceremony will be (Continued on P. 2) witness a girls' track meet, a dance program, and a play. Vice President William B. Dunham said that registration will be held both days between 9 and 5 p.m. in the Carroll Barrister House. Under a program developed by James Walley, Dover, Mass., sophomore, and Lawrence Clendenin, Arlington, Va., junior, parents will be given an opportunity to attend Thursday seminars and to learn something about St. John's tutorial method and laboratories when they at~~ tend classes on Friday. They will join students for dinner in Randall Hall before going on to a Friday night Bicentennial lecture, "The Declaration of Independence,'' to be given by Eva Brann, St. John's tutor. Liberty Tree sheds leaf for the Tories SATURDAY MORNING will be devoted to seminars for parents and students based upon Shakespeare's "The Tempest." They are scheduled to being at 10 a.m. This will be followed by a picnic on the quadrangle. The first documented instance of the use of Maryland's Liberty Tree has come to light, but for Bicentennial celebrants harking back to the Revolution, it's really just, what can one say, all a bit awkward and irregular. The tree, the last of the so-called Liberty Trees in the United States, sheltered a meeting which advanced a Tory cause. The event was a September,· 1775, gathering called by Maryland's last royal governor, Robert Eden, whose persuasive efforts quelled a "mad-headed The afternoon schedule will include a dance performance by the Annapolis Association for Contemporary Dance and a girls' track meet between 1: 30 and 4 p.m. The gymnasium, tennis courts, art studio a11d art gallery all will be open during the afternoon. In late afternoon there will be a reception for parents between 4:30 and 5:30 p.m. in the Key lobby. That evening parents will be invited to attend a performance of "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" and a waltz party in the Great Hall. scheme" to drive all Tories from Annapolis. Governor Eden, himself, fled the city the following year, and modern-day patriots can rest easy. The tree, located on the St. John's College campus, did not long remain even briefly a center for British loyalists. It became a gathering place for the Sons of Liberty who met to hear Samuel Chase and other patriot-orators. But for the moment it marked a triumph for Governor Eden and his rhetorical skill. Unex(ContinuedonP. 2) Everyone knows that Francis Scott Key wrote a familiar line which begins "O say can you see," but almost no one knows that he wrote this about education: "There are and ever will be the poor and the rich, the men of labor and the men of leisure, and the state which neglects either neglects a duty, and neglects it at its peril for whichever it neglects will be not only useless but mischievous." The poet and attorney who became district attorney for the FRANCIS SCOTT KEY District of Columbia delivered this statement during a long and articulate "Discourse on Education" February 22, 1827, when he also was named to a three-member committee which drew up the constitution for the Society of Alumni at St. John's. This year marks the 180th anniversary of Key's graduation. Next year the college will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Alumni Association, believed to be the fifth oldest in the United States. Sources present conflicting information, but according to the silver anniversary yearbook (1938) of the American Alumni Council there are only four colleges which pre-date the founding of St. John's: Columbia, 1816; Williams, 1821; Pittsburgh, 1824, and Princeton, 1826. "ON THE OTHER hand," Gladys M. Gottlieb, librarian for the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, reports, " J Q h n B . Fu 11 en st a t.e s (Continued on P. 2) hat it's like to te ch at St. John's Colle e Editor's Note: This is the first of two articles on the natlll'e of teaching at St. John's. In the world of Academia, one of the peaceful places in which to teach is St. John's College. Strikingly apparent to the newcomer freshly arrived from the frequently internecine battlegrounds of major universities, the rare and quiet harmony which welds this tiny faculty together is one of the factors which make teaching· at St. John's a unique experience among American colleges and makes its faculty members - its tutors - radically different animals from their professorial cousins elsewhere. It isn't simply that St. John's tutors are necessarily more virtuous than others in the teaching profession. It is that nearly 40 years ago St. John's took certain measures which! are fixed according to an eliminated three sources of .. automatic scale which involves .politicking and divisiveness. age and years of service. Faculty which so frequently beset higher' committees need not meet to education. decide when one of their On one ground the college was colleagues deserves a raise, and fortunate. It was able to do what there is no form of bargaining in might be impossible for a acquiring or ret.aining a tutor. university and many colleges. It Over-scale salaries are unheard eliminated departments with all of. the interdepartmental loyalties THE ONE PROBLEM left and shared in common with other and rivalries. All of St. John's faculty teach within the same institutions is that of granting New ~rog~am of liberal arts tenure, frequently a sad and . wearing business at St. John's estabhshed m 1937. It abolished faculty ranks. A where a new faculty member has faculty member is called a tutor. less than 50 per cent chance of There is no system of assistant, remaining. Such decisions can associate, or full tutorships to leave scars, but at worst, it is a call for review and votes by one's one-time-only affair. colleagues. The fact that even " those who have doctorates are ~fter a. tutor has tenure, he dd ss d as "Mr." further cant prec1se.ly relax - t~e St. a re e . John's teachmg schedule 1s too reduces any suggestwn of rank. demanding for that - but he can And finally, faculty salaries stop worrying about the next rung up the ladder and who his friends are and who aren't,'' Dean Curtis Wilson said. What is teaching at St. John's like? First of all, it is to belong to a highly personal, closely knit community of learning in which 53 tutors - some full time, some part-time - focus on a single program and over a period of years develop, besides their own specialties, rich overlays of knowledge which amount to learnedness of a remarkable sort. In casual talk at a party or in the coffee shop, conversation can range over a breadth brilliant in its scope, from essays on chemistry to Pascal to Hegel to a problem in musical harmony. Despite faculty changes brought on by the new St. John's branch at Santa Fe, by death and by retirement, the St. John's faculty is singularly stable as compared with some universities where the turn-over is disquietingly rapid. Last fall only one new faculty member was added. (He might be considered a fortunate man in that in 1974 the college received an average of one application a day from persons seeking positions here). People remain, putting down ·roots and forming strong friendships. The stability contributes to the community peace. "THE UNIVERSITY where my husband formerly taught was like Union Station," one faculty wife said. "We no sooner formed friendships with a couple, than they failed to get tenure or V:\.Jn a distinguished professorship elsewhere. It was a little disheartening after the friendships of three couples were cut off (Continued. on P. 3) �,. ~ ,.. THE REPORTER PAGE 2 • A ..u11t'H It's an odd thing, in the bicentennia'l year of its publication and in the bicentennial year of the nation's birth, that the volume which represents a cornerstone piece in the American economy is not easily available. The book, Adam Smith's "An into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations," became the definitive basis of modern capitalism, expounding as it does an economy Smith believed would be dependent upon a system of free competition and limited governmental interference. STUDENTS, WHO read more than 300 pages of this book during their junior year, twice have had to postpone seminars this year until a paperback supply could be provided by Penguin, and then Dean Curtis Wilson said the college found it necessary to have the printshop reproduce some sections the Penguin edition did not have. The Modern Library edition is out of print; the twovolume Everyman hard back edition retails at $10. In contrast, the St. John's bookstore finds Karl Marx' "Das Kapital," which the students also read, easily available in paperback, and should one wish it, the bookstore can obtain copies in hardback. Price for the latter, in three volumes, is $25, not a very egalitarian price for this exposition of a communist society. So far there have been no buyers. As an exponent of laissez-faire capitalism, Smith saw his "Wealth of Nations" appear four months before the United States signed The Declaration of Independence. Ten years in the writing at his home in Kirkcaldy by the Scottish seaside, he concluded that the self-interest of people competing against one another can generate more wealth than the same society in which the government attempts to regulate the minute details of economic life. ''There have been thousands of minor improvements on Smith, but no one has damaged the validity of his central thought," George J. Stigler, a Chicago historian and expert on the history of economic thought, said. "We are still basically in a Smithian age." Smith recognized one of the inflationary factors a laissezfaire economy might bring. "People of the same trade," he wrote, "seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." IN BRITAIN the bicentennial of Smith's work is being observed this month by a conference at the University of Glasgow, which will draw close to 300 economists. Skinner gets grant Jonathan Skinner, St. John's tutor since 1970, has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to take part in a two-month long program in Greek at Cornell University. His studies will have special reference to Thucydides and Sophocles. Barharo Leonard chosen Barbara Leonard, assistant dean at St. John's College, has been named to a position within the National Association of Women Deans, Administrators and Counselors. Miss Leonard was appointed co-chairman of the International Program and Students Committee during its Spring meeting in New Orleans. Book includes Bronn, Berns Two St. John's tutors are represented in a new book, "Abraham Lincoln, the Gettysburg Address, and American C onstitutionalism,'' just published by the University of Dallas Press. They are Laurence Berns, who has the first chapter concerning Lincoln's perpetuation speech, and Eva Brann, who wrote the second chapter on the Gettysburg Address~ Another writer represented is a St. John's parent, George Anastaplo, member of the faculty of Rosary College, Chicago, whose chapter is entitled: "American Constitutionalism and the Virtue of Prudence - Philadelphia, Paris, Washington, Gettysburg." In Spring Issue In opposition to the British laws he viewed as onerous, Robert Alexander became not only a member of the radical Sons of Liberty but a member of the local Council of Safety and Committee of 0 bserv ation. In 1776 he took his seat in the Continental Congress. Later, deciding in good conscience it was in the American interest to perpetuate its union with Britain, he disaffected and was forced into exile. His appeal to Maryland's governor to return to "my country, my family and friends'' was ignored, and he died in exile in London in 1805. · The story of this Baltimore attorney is related in the Spring • issue of Maryland magazine by Phebe R. Jacobsen, St. John's faculty wife and a Maryland archivist. A member of the Hall of Records staff since 1960, Mrs. Jacobsen published a book, "Quaker Records in Maryland,'' in 1967 and has served. as coauthor of another book based on Maryland's county records, written with Morris L. Radoff and Gust .Skordas. With Gregory A. Stiverson, she is the co-author of ·a book on William Paca, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and an active founder of St. John's, which is due to appear this year. categorically in an AAC handbook in 1965 that Williams College was first, in 1821. Ana according to a tattered document from AAC both attribution colleges in the second half of the alphabet, Columbia's association dates from 1825 (not 1816), bolstering Williams' claim. Also, it dates Colby's association from 1827. "Other early associations, but later than St. John's, are Bowdoin (1830), Rutgers (1832), and University of Georgia (1834)." Circumstances surrounding the formation of the association are not known. Minutes for the Board of Visitors and Governors meetings for the year 1827 are missing from St. John's archives, and while the March 1 Maryland Gazette, the Annapolis weekly, reports commencement activities on "Wednesday, the 21st ultimo," no mention is made of the Key discourse, possibly because, having heard all six members of the graduating class each deliver an oration, the reporter was in no mind to stay around for another long talk. In terms of a modern-day paperback with small print, Key's discourse would have run 22 pages long. THE ALUMNI Society's constitution ran a brief half page. Besides alumni, membership was opened to both members of the faculty and the Board of Visitors and Governors. Annual meetings were set for the second Monday in January with emphasis on still more orations. An alumnus was to deliver an oration then, a custom which recently has been revived at homecomings when an alumnus delivers the weekly, collegewide lecture, a formal part of St. John's curriculum. Key was there when St. John's opened on November 11, 1789, marching at the age of 10 with other youngsters in the long procession of dignitaries which formed at the Stadt House and Anthony Eden to send tape (Continued from P. 1) held at 10:30 with the audience seated in a manner in which they may see the State House, the cornerstone of which Eden laid, and St. John's McDowell Hall, which was to have been Eden's residence. The ceremony under the Liberty Tree - the last of the so-called Liberty Trees in the United States - will be open to the public. Plans for the event were made at a meeting in Senator Mathias' office attended by Mr. Weigle. Governor Eden boarded a ship to leave Annapolis on June 23, 1776. "He apparently was escorted to the waiting British ship by patriots rather than by Tories," Mr. Weigle reported. "The whole proceeding was very friendly, and Eden intended to come back to live in Annapolis. This never happened because of his early death." Governor Eden's body now rests in St. Anne's Cemetery. continued down College Avenue mate wrote: to McDowell's Great Hall. There "Key was engaged in devising the Rev. _ tricks against unpopular ushers last head master of (the old word for assistant School who became ever and anon getting vice-principal, spoke on "The into scrapes by writing Advantages of a Classical pasquinades on odd characters in Education." town, his impudences sometimes In 1793 Key entered the French rising to the height of sending his School, which Miriam shafts among the prim and starch St. John's archivist, reports cost ladies of Annapolis of a certain him three pounds extra a year age. But- shall I tell it? - his since apparently it was not highest point of glee was to take a considered an integral part of the gallop round the college green education here. Of its special mounted on an unfortunate cow.'' value, Mr. Higginbotham said: Mischievous himself, Key "The student will be enabled chose a mischievous girl to with ease to acquire a knowledge marry - Mary Tayloe Lloyd, of other tongues, especially those who was only 13 when he of modern date, by the assistance g·raduated at 17. He wrote poems derived from the mode of into her, which she took pains to struction used in the French convert to curl papers. They were School.'' married when she was 17 and he IN 1794 KEY entered the was 22 by the rector of St. Anne's college proper and was who was Mr. Higginbotham. graduated two years later, An ardent, even passionate earning the usual bachelor of arts man, Key was the founder and degree. Later, on November 12, principal promoter of the 1800, the college conferred a American Colonization Society, second degree - his master of which sought the emancipation arts. and colonization of blacks, under His college curriculum ema protectorate of the United phasized Latin and Greek, and States on the west coast of Africa. perhaps the body of works these In a court case disputing two languages encompassed would have led him to look Spanish ownership of a ship filled favorably, for religious reasons if with slaves, this St. John's none other, upon St. John's New College graduate had this to say Program with its curriculum in his opening statement on centered on 130 great writings. slavery, a trade he called As a devout Episcopalian, who "abominable and detestable conducted family prayers twice a beyond all epithets that can be day, in the manner of his time, 'given to it": Key noted that "my faith has "The Spanish owners show, as been greatly confirmed by the infidel writers I have read: and I proof of property, their previous think such would be their effect possession; and the-possessor of upon everyone who has examined goods, it is said, is to be the evidences. Our church presumed the lawful owner. This recommends their perusal to is true as to goods, because they students of divinity, which shows have universally and necessarily an owner. But these are men of she is not afraid of them." · At St. John's, Key was not whom it cannot be affirmed above a certain amount of that they have universally and mischief. Years later a school necessarily an owner.'' Eden quelled effort ccontinuedrro~'!.0deport Tories pectedly, in a letter dated October 1, 1775, he refers to the St. John's tulip poplar as the "Liberty Tree," a name not thought to have been given until later. Eden wrote the Earl of Dartmouth, British secretary of state for the colonies, that he had called the citizenry together after a pilot boat belonging to Annapolis had been seized "for having swivels on board" by a British vessel about 10 days earlier. (Swivels were devices used for gun placements). "Some few, but a very few, of the most violent here, made an Attempt, on Wednesday last," Governor Eden wrote, ". . . to collect the people of the City together, in Order to drive, or cart, out of the town all the Tories, as they term those who will not muster, nor sign the Association." (The association referred to an organization which, among other things, agreed not to buy British goods). Besides following the seizing of the pilot boat, the move may have been incited, Eden believed, by the arrival of a Pennsylvania weekly, Bradfords Journal, with its news of what Eden called "violent proceedings" in Philadelphia involving a "Tar & Feathering Committee." He continued: "I must however do the Genthemen of the Town, & the Citizens, the Justice to say that, on my speaking to many of them, and desiring their Attendance, they made a point of being present at the meeting under (the) Liberty Tree, and with Spirit, Resolution, and Threats of Force, totally overset a madheaded ·Scheme, set on foot by only eight or nine very worthless idle FeUows, and I hope to have put an End to any future internal Attempts of a similar Nature in this City.'' The letter was turned over to Eden's descendant, Sir Anthony Eden- the Earl of Avon - by the State Archives after Sen. Charles Mac. Mathias' office was contacted by the former prime minister for assistance. �1 PAGE 3 • l (Continued from P. 1) seriously curtailed by the extreme difficulty of getting out to the water. The students have to paddle to get to open water, where there is no dock; and a very exposed spot to put up a sail and rig boats." Assistant Dean Ray Williamson, who is adviser to the boat house, agrees. And sailing in College Creek isn't the answer. "It's too sheltered, and the winds are 'flukey,' comin2: from all directions and speeds," he said. "You often can't complete a single tack through the eye of the wind.'' Mr. Mackey's answer to the problem is a search, for the moment fruitless, for some place beyond the bridges where some of the college vessels may be safely kept. Finding such a place may be considerably more difficult than getting water to the boat house, for which Philip Storre, Eureka, Calif., freshman, has devised a plan. With an all-student labor force, he and others are willing to dig a ditch extending the water lines of the gymnasium to the boat house if the college pays the cost of the pipes. Water is necessary at the boat house for hygienie and dollar-and-cents reasons. "We need water in order to wash the boats," Mr. Mackey explained. "The Naval Acadewy can keep a boat six years while one of ours will go in two years. That's because the salt in foe water and the industrial wastes pit the fiber glass with minute holes, and the boats then deteriorate rapidly." LIFE AROUND the boat house is informally organized. The boat club, which has existed in years past, no longer is active but has been replaced by a group of students who range from the "fanatics" among the college the sailors to beginners. former, besides Mr. Mr. Ranev. are Porn Steve Coleman, Dale Laurie Dinah Be Graham who all sail the -winter months. Mr. Mackey said the attitude toward women sailors has changed from what it had been in the past. "Sailing used to be a real chauvinist thing and not just at St. John's," he said. "A lot of people still think it's a man's sport. It's not at all. I know more than one woman sailor who could sail circles around most of the men sailors I know." For the winter sailor who sails in the teeth of an icy wind, a wet suit is a must. Mr. Mackey pointed out when the water is cold, a student who finds himself overboard, without a wet suit, can go into shock within 10 minutes and be dead within 15. Over the years the safety record at the boat house has been excellent. No disaster has been reported there, a record Mr. Mackey and other boat house stewards seek to maintain. He emphasizes safety in his sailing classes and won't _give a student bay sailing privileges until he is fully assured that the student won't p~nic if he gets into trouble. IN ORDER TO earn his "bay. weather brings a Tempest and canoe to St. John's dock. card," a student mYst learn to right an overturned boat as well as demonstrate adequate skill in s~ch basic maneuvers as tacking and jibing. Every sailor, of course, is required to know how to swim, and they are all encouraged to wear life jackets. Last Spring the college sold two 420's and used $300 from the boat house fund to buy Lasers, which Mr. Williamson pointed out are very easy to rig and which can be raced by the beginner. They also can be easily righted, a process which means climbing on the high side, hopping over to stand on the center board, and then 'jumping back into the boat as it comes down. Deftly done, one need get only an ankle wet. If you know what to do and don't lose your head, Mr. Mackey insists that capsizing "is not the least bit dangerous." The college also owns three Tempests, a Penguin, a Javelin, two 420's, four canoes, and two or three kayaks. Mr. Williamson would like to get rid of the latter because he feels the kayaks are too delicate to be suitable for college use. Before acquiring another sailboat, Mr. Mackey wants to next add a rowing shell. Admissions director ........ :1-..a ... on An article written by Miss Joanne Aitken is scheduled for appearance in a forthcoming issue of the National Association of College Admissions Counselors. Entitled "A Case for the Liberal Arts College," it originally was presented as a talk. during the national meeting of theNACAC. ~~!£I~tng e perience here is unique in nation that way." To say that the teaching life is busy at St. John's is to describe the situation faintly. A new faculty member normally comes with a specialized competence in some particular field. After that he is expected to acquire a certain expertise and teach widely throughout the New Program. That means, besides the twice weekly seminars in the Great Books, mastering material new to him . in languages, math, laboratory sciences and music. Besides an impressive amount of time spent in conference with individual students, there are hours of preparation and followup time. Because of the demands placed on the tutor's private life, years ago, after the Program first was founded, there was serious thought that only bachelors should teach. St. John's would become something like a monastery. The idea was abandoned when someone pointed out that a whole new set of problems could possibly arise. A St. John's tutor typically has three assignments: a great books seminar and two tutorials, as classes are called, or a seminar, tutorial, and laboratory section. In addition, he is supposed to The Reporter is published by the Office of College Relations, St. John's College, Annapolis, Md., 21404, Richard D. Weigle, president, William B. Dunhat"I, vice, president. Published five times a year, in February, April, June, September and November. Second class postage paid at Annapolis, Md. attend the regular Friday night lectures. Adding this up in terms of "contact" hours, this translates this way: seminar, four and a half hours; tutorials, four hours; laboratory, five, possibly six hours; and lecture, one and a half hours. "This means a teaching load of 14or15 hours," Dean Wilson said. "The average, small college has a teaching load of nine to 12 hours." The classes are followed up once a week by special meetings of tutors who meet to review what they are teaching. For most tutors this adds two additional hours. IN A PROGRAM believed to be unique among American colleges, faculty members who may be leading a laboratory science or a tutorial confer weekly with one another to work out problems arising in classes and to look for implications arising from tutors' or students' questions. Dean Wilson feels the sessions are particularly meaningful, given the type of program St. John's has. "Students now-a-days don't want to go to a course of lectures," he pointed out. "At some universities they would rather have a friend tape the lectures than go themselves. Our students are concerned not only about acquiring information but developing their thinking about what they learn. We want to set up our classes in a way in which this is likely to occur. The classroom is not simply an occasion for the transfer of information." Because there are no departments, there are no chairmen. Occasionally a tutor with special responsibilities for mathematics or laboratory meetings will be called an "archon" - Greek for chief. In mastering new subject matter, tutors not only learn through the meetings but by auditing one another's classes. The latter practice is accepted so universally that tutors learn with some amusement that it generally is considered "an invasion of academic freedom" at other colleges and universities, where such visits are made ordinarily only in cases involving questions of reappointment or tenure. The seminars - readings of approximately 130 "great books" - take place on Monday and Thursday nights. Friday nights will find tutors and usually their wives attending a regularly scheduled lecture or concert in which faculty members or experts from elsewhere speak, frequently on a subject bearing on the program. AFTERWARDS THERE is coffee with students in the foyer of the auditorium - a highly social, often party-like occasion - followed by a period in which members of the college community may question the lecturer. Some of the sessions have ., been known to go on until after midnight. With three nights of the week gone for classes or lectures and the other two for study, faculty members have gained a reputation for a "closed community," existing apart from the "outside world," but by necessity their social and civic life is sharply restricted during the academic year. One faculty wife complained of summer friendships, feeling, with some embarrassment, that they are "turned on like a water faucet." "I can't remember what life was like having all my nights free," one tutor said with something close to a groan. "It's ·difficult to explain to my friends that there will be two nights a week of my life when I'm not available -forever - and I don't know what's on TV those nights." A newcomer to St. John's administrative staff - Charles A. Cooley - perhaps summed it up best in a single phrase: "Total submersion." If the work is hard, tutors play hard, too. A convivial lot, St. John's tutors are like a lot of Hobbits. They like parties, and there are usually a number going on. during the school year although inflation coupled with the fact that there are more working wives than there were a decade ago may have cut down on the number. FOR LEO F. RADITSA, whose academic background includes Harvard, Columbia, and the ',[ University of Munich and who taught at New York University before coming here, there is one quality which impressed him greatly when he arrived at St. John's in 1973. It's another factor which contributes to the peaceful atmosphere. "Faculty members are much more courteous than any place I've been," he said. "That's very astonishing; it is a relief. St. John's really has been the first place I've been where there is a lot of people I like. It's startling, it is so very different. And there is very little snob bism.'' Mr. Raditsa is not the first person to comment about the high level of courtesy and tact at the college, sufficiently fine to please the most fastidious faculty wife. Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan, who founded the New Program, and the generation of teachers they brought possessed manners of a 19th century gentility, and the tradition of civility they established may have been simply passed on to the three or four or so generations of tutors that have followed their era. A more serious and likely cause is the insistence on good manners in seminars with tutors emphasizing careful listening and considerate behavior along with a formal presentation of views. Then, too, St. .John's with its endless grapevine of fascinating gossip, is too small to tolerate too many aberrations from good manners which might be less noticed in a larger setting. �THE REPORTER • Published by College Relations C St. John's College Annapolis, Md. 21404 - Two more cities hold alumni seminars While New York has had alumni seminars for eight consecutive years, the current academic year marks the first time alumni seminars have been conducted in Boston and Chicago and the first in many years for Washington and Baltimore. Boston seminars have included one on "The Symposium" led by Samuel Kutler, another on "Antony and Cleopatra" led by Elliott Zuckerman, a third held in late March, "The Professor and the Mermaid," by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa, led by John White, and a fourth scheduled May 1 in which Nicholas Maistrellis will lead a discussion of "The Winter's Tale." Chicago alumni have scheduled two seminars to date: one led by J. Winfree Smith on "Henry IV," Part I, and the second led by Brother_ Robert Smith on Sophocles' '' Philoctetes.'' Graduates there will gather April 23 for a third, in which Mr. Kutler will lead a discussion of Plato's "The Symposium." Baltimore seminars have inclu~ed one led by Harry Golding on Paine's "Common Sense" and a second led by George Doskow on "Candide." Those in Washington have been led by Laurence Berns. They have been Bacon's "Novum Organum" and "New Atlantis" and a second seminar on "Henry VI," Part II. As part of the Bicentennial celebration of her birth, New York alumni have had two seminars on Jane Austen's novels, "Mansfield Park" and "Persuasion," led by Eva Brann. Hugh McGrath led a third seminar in which New York alumni discussed Balzac's "Cousin Bette." Another major activity in New York included a cocktail party for area alumni given by Ahmet Ertegun, '44, on March 30. Players to stage Stoddard play The King William Players will present Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" at 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, May 1-2, in the Key Auditorium. Alan Collins, Hopewell, N.J., sophomore, will take the role of Rosencrantz and John McDowell, New York junior, of Rosencrantz. Michael Blume, District of Columbia sophomore, will be the Player. The director will be James Mackey, Lafayette, Calif., junior. Other students who will be active will include Steven Mackey, stage manager; Ann Browning, assistant director, and Maggie Rude, producer. College slates June program A two-week summer program of seminars and tutorials is being scheduled for alumni of both St. John's and its Graduate Institute beginning Monday, June 14, on the Annapolis campus. A similar program will be held on the Santa Fe campus beginning August 2. Staged in Annapolis for the first time last year, the program will be open for one or both weeks for both graduates and their spouses. Thomas Parran, Jr., said participants and their children will be housed in campus dormitories. The schedule for the first week includes two seminars led by Dean Curtis Wilson and Joseph Sachs on Sophocles' "Electra" and Euripides' "The Bacchae." Tutorials will one based upon the poetry of Donne, Shakespeare, and T.S. Eliot led: by Geoffrey Comber and one based upon the chapter of Aristotle's "Ethics" dealing with justice led by Joseph Cohen. Seminar leaders the · second week will be Benjamin Milner and J. Winfree Smith. Readings will be Moliere's "The Miser" and Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale." Samuel Kutler will lead a tutorial on the poetry of Marvell, Milton, M. Moore, and Edwin Muir. A second tutorial, in which participants will read J.H. Van Denberg's "The Changing Nature of Man," will be led by Alan Dorfman. A special, extra-curricular class in contemporary literature is getting underway this month under the guidance of Saul Benjamin, St. John's tutor. Given for the first time last year as the result of a student request, the class was devoted to the stories of Jam es Joyce, Thomas Mann, Nathaniel West, and Flannery O'Connor along with some Proust. This Spring students, who customarily meet at Mr. Benjamin's house on Sunday afternoon, will concentrate on the writings of two authors - D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. Mr. Benjamin does not consider himself a "professional" student of contemporary literature. With degrees from both Kenyon College and Oxford University, where he specialized in other areas, he is a writer, himself, whose articles on politics, books, and arts have appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, The New Republic, and The Nation. Although enrollment at St. John's has remained relatively stationary, circulation at the college library has nearly doubled in little more than a decade, and so has the cost of a substantial proportion of books. Last year 16,160 books were circulated as compared to 8,984 in 1963, Miss Charlotte Fletcher, college librarian, said. At the same time book prices have soared. A check as recent as 1967-69 shows that a volume which then cost $8. 77 cost $12.20 in 1973 and would cost almost $16 if it were purchased today. In nearly 10 years British book prices and periodicals already are twice as expensive, and certain categories of American books are almost that much. Miss Fletcher attributed the increase in circulation to the better collection the library has been able to build up, primarily since 1966 when the college received the first grant made under the federally funded Title II program. Grants have totaled at least $30,000 since then, making possible additions to the library it could not otherwise have afforded. Prior to this time the library had concentrated its primary emphasis on adding program related books. AMONG THE volumes Title II money has made possible, Miss Fletcher said, have been modern language books and a collection of art books. Previously no art books had been acquired since a Carnegie gift of 1928. "Fortunately also within this period wonderful paperbacks (Continued from P. 1) examinations. It is a formal time emphasized by the public nature of the event and by the academic gowns worn by both the candidate for the bachelor's degree and his examining committee. As Mr. Gray moves to compare Pascal and Montaigne-blue jeans and ankle high boots extended beyond his black robe . . .::. there is a sense of the medieval past, a moment harking back to the type of examination traditional in Europe but almost non-existent in America. St. John's has no final examination, but the annual essay it requires its students to write each of their four years here becomes critical for their progress through college. In the senior year, when classes close for a month to permit students to concentrate on the paper, it becomes essential. If he is to graduate with his class, a student must write a paper of substance by a stipulated, late winter deadline, have it accepted by a faculty committee of three, and then be successfully examined on it. Topics bear directly on the four years of work at St. John's, particularly with his great books stuaies, and they range widely. This year, for instance, Claudia Ingram is asking "Is Kant's Moral Id.ea Empty?". David Wood is writing on Galileo's methodology, Mary Cerullo on Hegel's conception of history, and Arthur Dixon on "Kant, • 01ng ymnasium bans smoking Cigarette smoke is as scarce as a surfing board in St. John's gymnasium as the result of a new, no smoking regulation nowin effect. Bryce Jacobsen, director of athletics, after considering a num her of alternatives, announced in January a ban on smoking. Since then, he said, the cooperation from students has been "very gratifying." "The problem of smoking in the gym has always been with us, but two trends have brought it more to my attention of late: the number of smokers has increased as has the number of those who object to the smoke,'' he said in an announcement carried in "The Collegian," St. John's weekly, announcing the decision. "The smoke concentration at times has become a serious problem, especially for many of those who like to exercise vigorously. I understand their plight since I include myself in that group." If the gym is ever expanded, a room could be added for smokers, Mr. Jacobsen said, but for the present he believes the only real solution is simply to have no smoking. "Somewhat surprisingly," he noted, "many smokers have told me that this is what should be done. Every smoker that I have talked with has stated that this would be 'acceptable.' Smokers also have agreed overwhelmingly that this would not significantly curtail their use of the gym." have become available, and our collection in these have supplemented our hard back books in literature and modern history," Miss Fletcher pointed out. Another grant from the American Library Association marked the beginning of a collection of source material in American history, including the of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Adams, and Clay. Like libraries elsewhere which have undergone plant expansion, the St. John's library also has experienced an increase in circ ul a tio n with its recent enlargement, Miss Fletcher said. In order to keep up with inflated costs, a library committee headed by Miss Fletcher is seeking $25,000 to bring the library endowment for the purchase of books to $156,383. It estimates income from this amount would yield $9,000 for the annual purchase of books. Space and Geometry." Getting a paper written on such questions is no easy matter, and getting a paper written·on time one that usually runs 20 to 50 pages although some are known to spill over into more than a hundred pages - is almost more difficult. To assist him along the way, each student works with a faculty member of his own choosing. Under a system of deadlines, students must have their papers in the hands of the dean by midnight at the end of the fourweek, essay-writing period, a time when all classes are cancelled. This falls on a day frequently accompanied by elation and black despair, by frantic, last minute revisions, and searches f!)r typists and accessible xerox machines. Traditionally the students turn in their papers to the dean at his home at a party which begins at 10 p.m. and continues until midnight. Then they return to the campus to toss their original notes and drafts into a bonfire and ring the college bell. The sense of euphoria is too great to bring to a premature end to this night of no small achievement. More parties follow, and the celebration continues until daylight. While seniors sleep in the following morning, the dean loads his station wagon with four copies of each essay and hauls them away to his office. At St. John's a committee of two faculty members assigns them to faculty committees. The committees in turn are given a three week period to read them, up to March 8 this semester. If the committee finds an essay satisfactory, it is accepted, and no revisions can be submitted. If the committee finds the essay unsatisfactory, it is rejected; and the senior may submit either a revision or a fresh essay by noon of the first Tuesday following the two-week Spring vacation. The latter is then evaluated by a committee which may or may not consist of the same tutors. If, in the judgment of the committee, the new or revised essay is unsatisfactory, then comes the hard news: the senior may not graduate with his class. He may, however, receive his degree as soon as he writes a satisfactory paper. This can come as soon as a week following commencement, or years later. For the student who sooner or later does complete his essay, however, the arrival of his oral examination is a time some believe to be more important than the actual commencement day. One student, who thinks so, is seeing that his parents come here from Ohio. While the essays themselves may receive letter grades, the oral examinations are graded H for honors, P for passing, or F for failing. Should a student fail an oral - an almost unheard of event - he may retake the examination, this time in private if he requests. � 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/154401004813cc4e28e8952d8dc46bf0.pdf 15aceeea6ffcc8cabbb19ba751624938 PDF Text Text The St. John's REPORTER VOLUME Ill, ISSUE 3 FEBRUARY, 1976 65 becomes 'normal ' to photograph by Charles Post WINTER - McDOWELL HAU Recipes made up here reach NC art school St. John's has had its impact educationally; now it is having its influence culinarily. As the first college with which the Marriott Corporation has signed a formal contract to provide vegetarian meals, St. John's has helped develop recipes which now are being incorporated into menus at the North Carolina School of Art in Winston-Salem, which Marriott also serves, and they may wind up on the tables of some of its hotels, restaurants, and hospital clientele. Marriott took over the St. John's food service last fall with the word that approximately 25 students wanted vegetarian meals. Initially there were some difficulties. "We found out rather fast that our vegetarian menu cycles weren't sufficient," according to Peter Hunt, who until recently managed the campus kitchen for Marriott. "The meals were not properly balanced. Mostly they were some form of pasta and cheese. "We called a meeting of vegetarians and asked them for their help~ We asked them to submit their own recipes. The results were rather bountiful.'' STUDENTS SUPPLIED the kitchen with approximately 30 recipes plus some vegetarian cookbooks, and these in turn were forwarded by Mr. Hunt to Miss Marie-Luise Baehr, head of food standards for Marriott's school and college division in Washington. Under her direction, similar recipes were combined. "Most of the recipes originally were written for servings for six people," Mr. Hunt said. "Our kitchen rewrote them by step so they would adapt in- stitutional equipment and tested them in quantity for texture, taste, and appearance - all the dimensions involved. In some instances we changed ingredients. Eventually we wound up with 12 good recipes. Now they are not only being used here, but at the North Carolina School of Art." Before they became part of Marriott's permanent collections, each recipe was subject to two testing panels involving some visiting critics. Both Rita Shea, Baltimore sophomore, and Joseph Jackins, St. John's (Continued on P. 4) Dr. Thomas B. Turner entered St. John's College in 1916, the day he put on long trousers and abandoned knickers. "I was graduated when I was 19," he recalled, "not through any brilliance. They had no high schools in Calvert County, where I was born, and I was tutored privately for a while after finishing elementary school. I won a competitive scholarship and entered the preparatory school, which was being phased out then.'' "Tommy" Turner had no feeling of being younger than other members of the class, and the attitude of his classmates could only have been one of respect. Demonstrating a leadership which was to mark his medical career, he was chosen president of the senior class and during his years at St. John's president of the Student Senate, of the Athletic (Continued 3) While they may continue to serve the college after their 65th birthday, a new change in the St. .John's polity sets "normal retirement of any person employed by the college" as taking place on June 30 following his 65th birthday. Approved at the January meeting of the Board of Visitors and Governors, the measure primarily affects the nonteaching staff, including top administrators, secretaries, and grounds crew. A 65-year retirement policy has been in effect for tutors for 26 years since adoption of the college's 1950 polity. The change in the polity, however, does permit staff members to continue working after they reach 65. "For persons other than tutors, any extension of employment beyond normal retirement age shall be authorized annually at the discretion of the president and reported by him to the Board of Visitors and Governors," the new provision reads. In the case of the president or administrators who are appointed by the Board of Visitors and Governors upon the president's recommendation, the polity empowers the board, upon its own discretion, to extend their service. The board can do so annually through a resolution. In order to clear the way for a retirement system, the college earlier this year began work toward setting up a new pension system estimated to cost at the outset $44,000 for both the Annapolis and Santa Fe campuses. II tudy Fees for St. John's College students will go up by $425 during the 1976-77 academic year. Total costs will come to $5,100 next year as compared to this year's $4,675. In announcing the increases at a recent college meeting, President Weigle blamed inflation as the major cause for the hike. At present St. John's students pay $3,350 for tuition, $550 for room, and $775 for board. The new rate scale, adopted in January by the Board of Visitors and Governors, call for $3,700 for tuition, $575 for room, and $825 for board. The increases will mean that a freshman who entered St. John's in 1973-74 will be paying $975 more his senior year than he did his beginning year. Indiana Singers coming March 10 The Indiana University Chamber Singers will be presented in concert at 8:15 p.m. Wednesday, March 10, in St. John's Key Auditorium. The group, which consists of 25 members, currently is on its East Coast spring tour. St. John's dining hall was built in · 1903 with what Architect James Burch calls "one of the most sumptuous rooms in Annapolis." Its exterior, with its graceful, wooden ornamentation, reflects what was then a great interest in Christopher Wren architecture. As a London Georgian building, it is more English than American in style. But its elegance stops there. Beyond the dining room door its inadequate service facilities and the downstairs kitchen area need modernizing. Randall Hall has been designated as one of three centers on campus in critical need of remodeling. The other two are the gymnasium and the PacaCarroll House. EARLIER THIS year, during fall meetings, feasibility studies for Randall and the gym were approved by both the Board of Visitors and Governors and the Campus Development Committee. Final architectural drawings are now being completed for Paca-Carroll. They call for renovation and an addition along St. John's Street to the rear of the dormitory at an estimated cost of $613,000. General in nature and not intended to be final, detailed plans, the studies developed for Randall Hall by the Alexandria architectural firm of Michael and Michael would extend Randall by wrapping a broad, rectangular "U" around the rear of the building. It would push the northeast exterior wall back close to a line with the archivist's wing of nearby Pinkney Hall. The feasibility plans, which are still subject to change, call at the present for an outside deck just off the main dining hall looking toward back campus. Windows would be converted into doors linking the deck and the dining room. Office rooms, which are in (Continued on P. 4) Charles A. Nelson, '45, member of the Board of Visitors and Governors, is one of five persons nominated by President Ford to serve on the National Council on Educational Research. The 15-mem ber council, established by the Education Amendments of 1972, sets for the National Institute Education and advises the assistant HEW secretary for education and the NIE director. Mr. Nelson is a principal of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Company of New York, auditors and management consultants. �2 It's hard to imagine, but back in the depression days of the 30's, $150 could make the difference between going to St. John's or not. One father wrote the admissions office that "without the loan of $150 (my son) cannot hope to get through this first year.'' How far the money could go was indicated in another sentence. "(My son) obviously can't buy books, pay for home holidays or board in Annapolis, necessary little extras, etc., without the small loan." In this particular instance the applicant received $100; St. John's felt that the college, facing other similar requests for assistance, could not spare the additional $50. Seven of the 385 students enrolled for the second semester classes at St. John's College are able to continue their education because of $3,000 made available at mid-year by the Caritas Society. The society aids only those students already at the college who run into unforeseen financial difficulties. Now in its sixth year, it has provided a total of $17,000 for scholarships. The money is raised through three events each year, with this year's efforts including the Colonial Feast and Ball in November, the Needlework Show held earlier this month, and a series of three programs given by Annapolis Concerts this Spring. St. John's receives conspicuous play in the Reader's Digest's chunky new 527-page, Bicentennial history, "The Story of America.'' In Chapter 7, "Education for All," the volume boxes a partial list of the works read at the college under the title, "The World's Great Books for Discipline and Perspective,'' prefacing the list with this paragraph: "The concept of learning from great authors is as old as education itself. St. John's College at Annapolis, Md., bases its entire curriculum on detailed analysis of the works of more than 155 writers and composers. Listed below are most of the authors and a sampling of the books that are studied during the four-year course." Mr. and Mrs. Steven Crockett are receiving congratulations on the birth of a son Lincoln Sutherland, born January 3 at Anne Arundel General Hospital. Mr. Crockett has been with the faculty since 1970. Mrs. Crockett is a former psychiatric social worker with Johns Hopkins Hospital. Nicholas Nabokov, who taught at St. John's from 1941 until 1945, recalls the program in music he set up here with the noted American composer Elliott Carter in his newly published book, "Bagazh, Memoirs of a Russian Cosmopolitan." He also recalls his departure from the college, where "I always felt a bit of an imposter." While disliking what he called the "hop hop" from one book to another, Nahokov foiinrl the St. John's community "bright and even brilliant, and the human relations I established with some of its members, both teachers and students, led to lasting friendships. But above all else, the proximity to Washington and in a lesser degree to Baltimore was exhilarating, and in more ways than one, that period became a turning point in my life's progress." With Mr. Carter, then a member of the faculty, Mr. Nabokov devised a program called "great Works of Music" with works to be read in chronological order over four academic years. Because they estimated that only five per cent of the student body could read a The Reporter is published by the Office of College Relations, St. John's College, Annapolis, Md., 21404, Richard D. Weigle, president, William 8. Dunham, vice president. Published five times a year, in February, April, June, September and Novemqer. Second class postage paid at Annapolis, Md. ' . piano score, they developed some technical lectures on the evolution of musical notation. " ... The first lectures (Elliott and I gave them alternately) were well attended and the questions asked showed real interest on the part of the students. We were both pleased. All in all, I had the feeling that we were on the way to finding a more intelligent, more pragmatic way to teach laymen something about the art and the craft of music than the slipshod 'Music Appreciation' courses that flourished in the colleges all over America in those removed years "One day Dean Scott Buchanan sat in on one of my lectures on musical notation, and afterward called me to his office. There was a battle of wits, during which I tried to explain to him that you couldn't teach anything about music before teaching its language. We agreed on an experiment in which together we would expose some students to a Beethoven quartet without a preliminary explanation, 'goading' them to learn Buchanan's favorite method. The experiment quickly revealed the error of Buchanan's method. It turned into a comic fiasco; and Buchanan never forgave me what he called my foolish, gratuitous joke. In April 1942 I knew that my days at St. John's were counted. (Continued on P; 3) St. John's Isabelle Simpson has served two major executives: one a former governor and senator and the other President Weigle, who summed up his feelings for their two decades of association at a party in which the staff presented her with a 20th anniversary gift: "It's been a long and very happy office marriage. I don't know what I would do without her." Mrs. Simpson spares no words for the two men whom she has assisted. Of Herbert O'Conor, whose light grows brighter as scandal has tarnished the records of recent Maryland government officials, Mrs. Simpson, who was his secretary for 23 years, said: "He was a man of complete integrity, even a little penny pinching when it came to the taxpayer's money. In order to keep up with his correspondence, he used to take us with him on trips and dictate along the way. Although under unusual circumstances we were lucky to catch a ride with the state police in coming back to Annapolis, it was never the regular business it frequently became. When we went to Baltimore, as we did once a week, we had to come back on the Wiggle, Bump and Agony (a reference to a local train line). A NATIVE OF Baltimore, Mrs. Simpson went to work for O'Conor in 1930 when she was 19 and he was running for his third term as state's attorney. (In those days, before equal rights legislation had been advanced, she was forced to leave the Maryland Casualty Company, tack, and he turned to private law practice in Baltimore. This time there were some drawbacks. The change of pace was slow since O'Conor came into the office only twice a week, and she herself became ill with pneumonia. In a weakened state, she found the commuting between her home in Epping Forest and Baltimore exhausting. Her doctor advised her to get a position closer to home. ISABELLE SIMPSON where she had been a $12-a-week :secretary to the purchasing agent because it had a policy against retaining married women). Mrs. Simpson left O'Conor not too many months afterward to have a daughter, Janet; and then three years later, feeling the pinch of the depression years, found herself back in O'Conor's office, desperately needed as a replacement for his secretary who had lost her life in a boating accident. At 23 she found herself in charge of his headquarters. Later, when he went to Annapolis as governor in 1939, she went with him and stayed for two terms, handling his correspondence, his office appointments, his engagements - as many as eight in one night - and his office staff. When he went to Washington as senator, the indispensable Mrs. Simpson went with him. O'Conor's public career was cut short in 1952 by a heart at- JUST ABOUT THIS time a friend, M.rs. Helen Quade, tipped her off that President Weigle, then in India on special assignment with the State Department, needed a secretary to replace the one who had moved to California. When he returned home, Dr. Weigle came back ill with infectious hepatitis. Mrs. Simpson was asked if she would object to being interviewed at the Bethesda Na val Hospital. "I went over there, and there was this man in bed, completely yellow, even the whites of his eyes," she recalled her first impression of him. "We talked, and then he asked me if I would mind taking some letters. He dictated 12 letters. I told him I would have to give Mr. O'Conor at least a month's notice.'' Actually one job overlapped with another. Mrs. Simpson found Dr. Weigle's big, circular table in his campus office a mountain of mail, which she attempted to sort out and tend to, taking some correspondence to his home in Wardour nights, and working there until he was able to return to work. (Continued on P. 3) 19 Despite the fact that the Stamp Act was greeted by loud protests in Annapolis, it was a story of "the melancholy affair of {>Oisoning" which dominated the local newspaper the week of August 22, 1765. Two members of the family of John Golder, who sold dry goods at the Sign of the Waggon and Horses on West Street, died of eating toadstools; and finally Golder, after a week's illness in which his skin turned "a very blackish hue," died, too. This was at a time when a collector for the Stamp Act, Zachariah Hood, was unable to land and, to emphasize their objections, a mob had torn down his Annapolis home. THE EPISODES are recorded in an exhibit of old documents and prints dealing with St. John's College and King William School along with the early history of the city dating back to 1651. Assembled by Mrs. Phoebe Jacobsen, archivist with the Maryland Hall of Records, the exhibit will be shown at specified hours in the college art gallery, Room 201 Mellon Hall, through February. One letter suggests that scandal, which appears to have dominated Maryland's political life since its colonial days, touched the life of the city's first mayor, Amos Garrett, an aldermaff and merchant, who died in 1728, leaving the best estate of any man "that ever yet ... (had) dyed ·n the Province." The fact is. his death may have been brought orl by · nightly drinking, viewed with alarm by his nephew, or possibly by an overdose of something called "salvolatile." At any rate Amos Woodward wrote his aunt in England some of the details, guessing it was the salvolatile. "(I) took care to put all the liquor out of his power to gett and locked the door leaving him in the room with a Negro boy that always used to lye there," Woodward recounted his death. " ... He got up in the night and. finding his spirits low took too many drops of the salvolatile out of a bottle that always stood in his room and whether it threw him into a fitt is not known, but I am apt to believe he did take a great quantity of the drops for there was much of them missing out of the bottle." The exhibit is color keyed to have material relating to the college and free school in orange. The school master and board of King William School were suspected of Toryism so that after the appearance of a newspaper editorial the name was changed to Annapolis School. During the Revolution it was used as a military hospital shop. When the school was absorbed into the new St. John's college, it contributed 2,000 pounds, but the school was denied the privilege of selecting visitors in perpetuity. THE EXHIBIT includes a reproduction of a letter from George Washington to John McDowell, first principal of St. John's, about his step-grandson, G,eorge Was.hington· Parke Custis, then a 16-year-old student at St. John's. Washington lamented "an unconquerable indolence of temper" and urged McDowell to "admonish him seriously of his omissions and defects." "Prevent as much as it can be done without too rigid a restraint, a devotion of his time to visitation of the families in Annapolis, which, when carried to excess, or beyond a certain point, cannot fail to unhinge his mind from study," Washington ad vised McDowell. " .... Above all, let me request if you should perceive an appearance of his attaching himself by visits or otherwise, to any young lady of that place, that you would admonish him against the measure on account of his youth and incapability of appreciation all the requisites for a connection, which in the common course of things, can terminate with the death of one of the parties only; and, if it is done without effect, to advise me thereof." Custis, despite his stepgrandfather's fears, turned out all right. He became known as a playwright, a biographer, and the grandfather of Mrs. Robert E. Lee. The exhibit may be visited through February, Monday from 7 to 8, Tuesday from 1: 30 to 4: 30 p.m., Wednesday from 7 to 10 p.m., Thursday from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. and from 7 to 8 p.m., Friday from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. and 7 to 8 ·p.m.i~ and Saturtfay; fromi1:30 to 4130p.m. �3 co:nt1111ue~<1 from (Continued from P. 2) "But Scott Buchanan was a approval, I took over at the kind and generous man. Knowing Peabody Conservatory its that I was in financial difficulties, History of Music courses. I liked he suggested that I try to get a to teach there. At St. John's I part-time teaching job at the always felt a bit of an imposter. Peabody Conservatory in But at the music school I taught . Baltimore in addition to my jobs the stuff I knew." at St. John's. In 1943, with his St. John's talented Robert Tzudiker, who graduated last year, is associated with the Jean Cocteau Repertory theater in New York, where he is acting, helping stage manage, and giving technical assistance in a series of plays. So far this year he has appeared as Andrew Aguecheek in "Twelfth Night," as one of seven readers in "Brecht on Brecht," a production based on Brecht's poetry and other writings, as a heavy-Villefort-in "The Count of Monte Cristo," as the ancient Nagg in "End Game" and in a couple of minor roles in "Desire Under the Elms." An off-Broadway theater, the Jean Cocteau company is located in the Bowery, where Mr. Tzudiker also is living. He shares his quarters with Seth Ginsberg, '75, who is setting out to make a living as a musician. The general area includes a surprising number of alumni, including Playwright Andrew Witwer; Robin Jannes, who is in advertising; Arlene Roemer, who plans classes at the New School; Patricia Pittis and Paul Fishleder, who are both working in a sports store, and Eric Rosenblatt, who is with the Federal Government. Also living there are John Dig gory and Jack Ehn along with two Santa Fe graduates, Nancy Miller and Meg Sheehan. A great lady greatly interested in St. John's Graduate Institute is Mrs. Vincent Astor, who recently invited a group of New York City public school teachers to her Park Avenue Apartment for tea and to listen to their impressions of the four-year summer program which leads to a master's degree. "They were impressive people," Robert Spaeth, institute director, who joined them, said. "A number of them said they were personally better people as the result of their work at the institute. Some said they were much more open to listening and definitely better teachers.'' The Vincent Astor Foundation finances the education of 15 teachers at the Santa Fe institute. Not only was Mr. Spaeth impressed by them, but so apparently was Mrs. Astor, who is active in the direction of the foundation on a regular basis. "She knows all about St. John's and asked a number of penetrating questions," according to Mr. Spaeth, who found her active, interested, and charming. The mystery of how St. John's College acquired its name may never be solved unless some accident of good fortune uncovers a letter or a journal which can explain its origin. In one more attempt to discover if the college was named either for St. John's, Cambridge or Oxford, The Reporter last summer sent archivists at both these British universities a list of names of men who were among its founders to see if any had gone to school there. None could be found in the rosters of either university. Now a new clue has come to light. Charlotte Fletcher, college librarian, in furthering some current research on John McDowell, turned un a one-sentence footnote indicating that the name may be the result of the Masons and the strong influence the Masonic lodge exercised during this era. In a "History of Education in Maryland," written by Dr. Bernard C. Steiner and published in Washington in 1894, Dr. Steiner notes in connection with the tradition that St. John's takes its name from the Oxford college: "Other authorities say the name was given in compliment to the Masonic fraternity, then very strong in Annapolis." The Masonic Lodge was sufficiently prestigious to include such leaders as Washington and Franklin· among its · members. (One remembers the influence it had for Pierre in ''War and Peace"). The Rev. William Smith, who almost singlehandedly founded Washington College and three years later St. John's, was grand secretary of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania at the time he came to Maryland. Although McDowell, the college's first "principal," was not a Mason, its vice-principal, the Rev. Ralph Higginbotham, last head master of King William's School, was. Miss Fletcher said the saints which were held in greatest regard among the Masons were St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist. St. John's was named by 1784 and before the original board was selected. Rather than by a board member, the name may have been suggested by one of the subscribers, who helped raise funds for St. John's establishment. Some further research into their Masonic membership possibly could provide additional leads. "I am not interested in the ephemeral - such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in those things that repeat and repeat and repeat in the lives of millions." Thornton Wilder (1007-19.75) P .1) Association, and president of the Philokalian Literary Society. For this long-time member and former chairman of the Board of Visitors and Governors, the changes represented by the introduction of the New Program in 1937 were not as revolutionary as they might appear. The education his generation received was not as fragmented by the elective system as that which was to follow after World War I. "When I went to St. John's, it was very much a liberal arts school," he recalled. "Everyone took a core curriculum in the liberal arts tradition. Dr. Thomas Fell (president of St. John's at the time) came out of the English classical system of education. For me and my generation the evolution of the college into the great books program was not as much a break with the past as it might have seemed. "The major difference has been that the quality of the staff has improved enormously. There were good instructors then, Professor (Clarence W.) Stryker and Professor (Reginald H.) Ridgely and Dr. Fell himself; but in general, the quality could not be compared with the quality today." Reminiscing, the distinguished retired dean of Johns Hopkins Medical School spoke in a setting rare for most men and one which honors him. He occupies a small office tucked away in the archives suite of a mammoth, $3million building within the Johns Hopkins medical complex, the Thomas B. Turner Auditorium, named, the then Hopkins President Milton Eisenhower said, "in recognition of his unprecedented accomplishments as dean of the School of Medicine." The building was dedicated four months after Dr. Turner retired as dean on July 1, 1968. "I fought for it and helped design it and raised money for it," he said. "It has been a great success as a center for postdoctoral education. It's worked out far beyond my expectations." Upstairs a large oil painting of Dr. Turner dominates the central wall at the conjunction of a divided stairway, the green of his academic hood accentuated by the emerald green carpeting of the lobby. Dr. Turner was a natural choice for such an honor. The reasons are many. Dr. Turner served for a 11-year period as the eighth dean of the School of Medicine, a time which saw the number of students, faculty and physical plant double, and the annual expenditures of the medical school increase almost five-fold, from roughly $6.9-million to more than $29.8-million. Under his direction the school added a department of biophysics, a sub-department of biomedical engineering, and a division of laboratory animal medicine. He was the 30th recipient of the American Social Health Association's highest award the William Freeman Snow Award for Distinguished Service to Humanity. As a physician-educator, he has published some 85 scientific papers, articles, and monographs. One monograph reported on the biology of the treponematoses and venereal diseases, reflecting the work of the treponemal laboratory center of the United Nations World Health Organization, which operated under Dr. Turner's direction at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene. His research interests also have included poliomyelitis, tetanus, and other infectious diseases. For his original work in these and related fields, he earned international recognition. T.B. Since his retirement, Dr. Turner has written a major 648page history of Johns Hopkins medical institutions, "Heritage of Excellence," which The Baltimore Sun describes as "completely fascinating." During his retirement he also has volunteered his unsalaried services working two afternoons a week for a clinic serving the East Baltimore community. In addition, he has given great amounts of time to extrauniversity activities. He is a member of the prestigious Association of American Physicians. In 1965-66, he served as president of the Association of American Medical Colleges, and he is a past president of the American Venereal Disease Association. He was long associated with the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis on policy-making levels, serving as chairman of its Fellowship Committee and as vice-chairman of the Committee on Virus Research 'and Epidemiology. For a number of years he was one of two American members of the Advisory Committee on Medical Research of the World Health Organization. And he was the recipient of the honorary degree of doctor of science from the University of Maryland. He had received his MD degree from the university in 1925. During World War II, he was successively chief of the Venereal Disease Control Division, the Civil Public Health Division and deputy chief of the Preventive Medicine Service of the US Army. He attained the rank of colonel and was awarded the Legion of Merit. Known by that appellative generally given men of fine manners and sensitivity - "a gentleman of the old school" "Tommy" Turner first was elected to the St. John's board in 1951. Members may serve two, three-year terms and after 'that must be off the board a year before they are eligible for reelection. Dr. Turner has served continuously with the exception of those free years. He has been its chairman twice and now serves on the board's Campus Development Committee. During part of that tme his interest took a personal turn. His daughter, Pattie (Mrs. Robert M. Hall of Ipswich, Mass.), became a student here, graduating in 1966. "Over the 27 years of my presidency," Richard D. Weigle commented, "he has been a great source of support and a warm personal friend.'' Besides valuing his role on the board, St. John's has honored him in other ways. In 1957 the Alumni Association awarded its annual Award of Merit to him and in 1969 he received a citation honoring him and other St. John's alumni in the medical profession. Of students, Dr. Turner continues to see a great deal. After a lapse of six years, he is returning to the admissions committee of the Medical School, not an easy job when Johns Hopkins has 3,500 applicants, of whom 600 meet the highest standards. There are openings for only a hundred places. "I think students are better educated than they used to be," he said. "They have a fine sense of ethics although obviously changed in detail since our day. They are just as high minded as we were, perhaps more so. The succession of wars over the past 30 years was very upsetting to them. They have had to bear that burden more than any other segment of society. There is obviously much more use of drugs. "Obviously sexual mores have changed, but I am not sure more for the young than for the old, so the intellectual, moral, and ethical nature of the young generation is a source of optimism for me rather than pessimism. I admire the younger generation of college students." C:orrotnn.1 serves Continued from P. 2) As secretary to Mr. Weigle, she found herself on the brink of two crowded decades. "It's been very exciting and very rewarding to watch the changes made by Dr. Weigle," she said. SINCE 1955 THE student body, faculty, and staff have grown considerably, the Key Auditorium and Mellon Hall have been completed, Humphreys and Chase-Stone dormitories renovated, and the campus overlook constructed. She watched the endowment grow from $1 to $10-million although with the recession it has dropped since. In Santa Fe the second St. John's campus was opened, and she spent much time there assisting Dr. Weigle. On a personal and professional relationship, her admiration for her boss has deepened. If she had a personal problem, Mr. Weigle was the first to help. He gave her constant support when a bizarre lung condition generally attributed to a hair spray found her ill with pneumonia five times within a two-year period beginning in 1973. She finally underwent lung surgery, and today appears back to normal health. �FEBRUARY, 1 THE REPORTER Published by College Relation St. John's Colleg Annapolis, Md. 21404 t After bringing together a number of cow stories, the alumni committee now at work on a new history of St. John's has a dog story. It comes from Professor Louis L. Snyder, '28, who took time from his distinguished career as a professor of history at the City College of the City University of New York, lo write the following account to Roland Most, '34, one of the three graduates gathering the material: "Chon Garrison (D. Merchon Garrison) was a real character. I remember writing his biography for the Rat-Tat of 1927, in which I called him 'this dynamic piece of humanity.' He was a lacrosse star and the most intense practical joker on the campus. "On one early morning he made the rounds of Annapolis and 'captured' every dog he could find. These he brought to the old Liberty Tree on the campus near the library, an historical tree which was then surrounded by a strong wire fence, probably to keep the animals away. Chon deposited all his dogs there male and female - and on the front of the fence placed a large sign: FACULTY MEETING. The resultant activities gave the natives of Annapolis a conversation piece for some weeks. Chon disappeared from sight during those weeks." Working on the history with Mr. Most are Bernard Gessner and Irwin Rusteberg. Alumni or friends of the college with anecdotal material are asked to send the material to: St. John's Forever, c/o Roland Most, 4-6 Summerfield Place, Annapolis, Md. 21403. • concert · in March Annapolis Concerts in cooperation with Sol Hurok will present three concerts at St. John's College this spring. The series, which will be under the direction of a St. John's junior, Jonathan Wells, will include performances by Anton Del Forno, classical guitarist, on March 6, by Norma French, lyric soprano, on April 3, and by Emanuel Ax, pianist, on May 9. The series will be staged in the Key Auditorium. Cost of the series is $15 for townspeople. A special bloc of 125 tickets will be reserved for members of the St. John's community at $7.50. Assisting in sponsoring the series is the Caritas Society. Part of the proceeds will go to its scholarship program. Del Forno, who is in his early 20's, first achieved acclaim for his performance in Broadway's "Man of La Mancha." Currently he is engaged in a concert tour of the United States and Canad:a. Norma French has made numerous appearances in "La Traviata " "LaBoheme " and "Rigoletto," and she h·as appeared with the New York City Opera, Caramoor, Wolf New York Grand Opera, and Opera Company of Nassau. Her recent triumph as Violetta in "La Traviata" at Lincoln Center was hailed by "Opera News" as "electrifying." Emanuel Ax received first prize in the 1974 Rubinstein International Competition. During the current season he will be performing in New York with the Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Winnipeg symphony orchestras as well as in solo recitals throughout the United States. Persons wishing to subscribe may make checks payable to Annapolis Concerts and send them to Mrs. Colby G. Rucker, "Dolphin-in-the-Wood," Lindamoor-on-the-Severn, Annapolis, 21401. Tickets for members of the St. John's, community will be available in the bookstore. Articles by St. John's Tutor Leon Kass and by Mera J. Flaumenhaft, a faculty wife, have made recent appearances. Dr. Kass is the author of a 42page article, "Regarding the End of Medicine and the Pursuit of " appearing in "The Public Interest," a National Affairs, Inc., publication. Besides teaching at St. John's on a time basis, Dr. Kass is Kennedy, Sr., research nrnt"'""m in bioethics at the _ Rose Kennedy Institute and an associate professor of neurology and of philosophy at Georgetown UniverS'ity. His article was adapted from a lecture he gave in the Matchett Foundation Series herself in the service area of the dinspace when Randall is exoanded. David mea (Continued from P. 1) business manager, have taken (Continued from P. 1) part in the testing panels. short supply on campus, would be A sampling of a two-week menu constructed under the deck. In cycle show students eating such the new addition next to the dishes as spinach quiche, which serving area there would be a Warren Wigutow, Alexandria private dining room for small sophomore, a vegetarian and a occasions. cook himself, describes as "very A new service area would be good," ratatouille, Swiss cheese built in the new extension, and croquettes, carrot loaf with white the present service area consauce, lentil bean-nut loaf, and verted to a supplementary dining lima bean casserole. The dishes space for 32 persons. It also have proved so popular that would be reached by a new exfrequently non-vegetarian terior entrance. students have asked for them. A new kitchen area would be And the number of students who constructed OD the ground floor in want to sign up for vegetarian the addition, and the present meals is growing. kitchen space would be converted to additional office and printshop NOT ONLY DID Marriott incorporate student recipes, but, facilities . in another gesture of cooperation DURING THE winter holidays with vegetarians, it made the kitchen received some available such supplementary rehabilitatio.n. A freezer, originally installed along with items as yogurt, granola, wheat other walk-in compartments in germ, honey and peanut butter, the 1930's, was torn out, and a items for which the students asked. new $5,000 freezer built in. On Sundays, when the food Charles T. Elzey, treasurer, explained that the walls of the service restricts meals to two - a freezer had begun to distin- brunch and dinner - it has tegrate completely. In another permitted students to come in operation during the winter and use the kitchen. One student, break, new flooring base and tile John Rees, Arlington, Va., senior, made vegetarian chili for were laid in the service area. Mr. Elzey estimated that ap- all the students dining there. Miss Shea, who is a vegetarian proximately three-fifths of the kitchen equipment will be for the simple reason she doesn't salvagable. One major piece to like meat, feels the service for go would be the dumb waiter vegetarians has grown much which would be replaced by an better since it was begun last elevator capable of carrying two September. "They've come up with some bussing carts and possibly a really good vegetarian meals," passenger. she said. "The combination of food is really satisfying. It's not just nutritious; you enjoy eating. They ran out of cheese croquettes last night because other students at Georgetown. were eating them. The Chinese Mrs. Fla umenhaft, who style dinner is really delicious.'' teaches courses in literature at Miss Rosanne Gleason, who is the Anne Arundel Community not a vegetarian but who eats the College, has written an article meals from time to time, obappearing in "Interpretation, a served that they are "often Journal of Political Philosophy." to regular meals. It is entitled "Begetting and want an Belonging in Shakespeare's inexpensive but nrotein-rich dish Othello." She currently is may want to completing a translation and vegetarian chili. interpretation of Machiavelli's twist: half a cup of "Mandragola." strong instant coffee which he believes helps take away the Appearing in the same issue of "Interpretation" also were ar- - sugary taste tomatoes cooked in a non-meat chili sometimes ticles by St. John's late scholarleave. He explained that the and in-residence, Leo seasonings can be varied aca former St. John's tutor, Seth to taste. His Benardete. Two pounds of dried kidney beans, soaked overnight, and cooked; four to six bell peppers, eight medium onions, add mushrooms if you like; 1 large can (12 oz.) tomato paste, two cans whole tomatoes, 14 teaspoon cayenne pepper, 1112 teaspoons chili powder, 1/2 teaspoons oregano, one to three teaspoons of instant coffee in half a cup of water. When the beans are cooked, add the seasonings, tomato sauce, whole tomatoes and simmer. About half an hour before the end of the cooking time add some butter, the coffee, and the vegetables. Mr. Rees likes his vegetables somewhat crisp. He also likes to serve his chili with cornbread. Morgan gets Thaw group A total of 115 works from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw, has been presented Manhattan's Pierpont Morgan Library, where Francis Mason, '43, member ofthe Board of Visitors and Governors, is assistant director. Mr. Thaw, who is a '47 graduate, currently is underwriting cost of a special series of art lectures at St. John's. Of his gift, Robert Hughes, art editor for Time magazine, wrote: "Thaw, 47, is probably the most successful private art dealer of his generation. His special interest as a collector, however, is master drawings, which he began to buy in the early '50's. The whole collection, including numerous works by Fra Bartolomeo, Rembrandt, the Tiepolos, Claude, Watteau, Goya, Degas and Cezanne, is to be given to the Morgan Library .... In his favorite areas, particularly the 19th century, an exquisitely sure taste has been at work ... As the Morgan Library moves into its second half-century as a public institution, one could hardly wish it a more delectable present than the Thaw collection.'' After its showing at the Morgan Library, the Thaw Collection also will be on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chkago, .anL the National ' Gallery of Canada. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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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/7f9e74b8487c24795353410a65dd8013.pdf 6ba8c785ca114171a29863657ca0152e PDF Text Text ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY The lohn oil 3 1696 REPORTER VOLUME 111, ISSUE 2 ·NOVEMBER, 1975 'P triarch' and tutor Nearly 200 St. John's alumni met the Saturday night of homecoming to honor two men. For the "patriarch" of St. John's College faculty, Tutor Emeritus Ford K. Brown, it was a night for tale spinning and gift giving to hail his 80thyear and his 50th year with the For a vournzer member of the S. Bart, it was an occasion for the Class of 1950, meeting for its 25th to make Mr. Bart an member of the class. Mr. began teaching in 1946 when he was 26, the average age of members of this post-war class when they arrived on campus. In honoring Mr. Brown, the alumni proved more successful than the St. John's faculty and staff, which three times since last February had attempted to hold a surprise party for Mr. Brown. His hospitalization cancelled plans, and the college finally abandoned the party as jinxed. Alumni vowed they would honor ·Mr. Brown whether he could be present or not. This time he was able to attend the banquet at the Hilton Hotel and fully ready to answer the alumni stories with some tale spinning of his own. One of them concerned a street car conductor in Seattle, Wash., who managed to steal five cents and only five cents a week. After attaining an "ignoble competence" doing this, Mr. Brown said he was caught and fired, but despite this he chose to express his gratitude to the street car firm. "I WOULD LIKE to thank you," Mr. Brown quoted him, "for the use of the tracks. "Thank you, thank you for the use of your kindness," Mr. Brown ' St. John's will mark the Bicentennial with a series of seven Friday night lectures which will begin December 12. Scheduled for 8:15 p.m. in the Key Auditorium, the lectures will be open to the public at no charge. The first will be by Mortimer Adler, director of the Institute for Philosophic Research in Chicago, and will center around a book he wrote with former St. John's tutor William Gorman, "The American Testament," a commentary on the Declaration of Independence, the Preamble to the Constitution and the Gettysburg Address. Mr. Adler will speak briefly on the book and then open the evening to an audience-wide discussion in the auditorium. Later students and faculty will adjourn to the conversation room (Continued on 7} win alumni honors FORD K. BROWN told the applauding alumni. Presiding at the meeting was the association's new president, William W. Simmons, of Severna Park, who presented Mr. Brown with a silver bowl inscribed "Ford K. Brown, teacher and friend, 50 years, St. John~s Alumni." Mr. Simmons said it represented a "small token of our warm and affectionate feelings for all you have given and shared with us-the memories, the wit, the insight, the excitement of learning and above all your good fellowship.'' The scroll making Mr. Bart a member of the Class of '50 was presented by Jack L. Carr, of Annapolis, who headed the committee on arrangements. rt read in part: "Because you started with us when we came as freshmen in 1946, because for four years you ROBERT S. BART learned with us and taught us how to learn; because, for 30 years, you have continued to learn and to teach and to love this college, we honor you on this, the 25th anniversary of our graduation and count you among our own." Three other men also received recognition. Seated at the head table was Col. Thomas W. Ligon, '16, who had attended both St. John's preparatory school and the college. He received St. John's annual award of merit for the work he had accomplished between 1955 and 1958 when, as alumni. secretary, he had revitalized the association and established the alumni annual giving campaign. MR. SIMMONS also announced that in June John C. Donohue, '35, a former president of the Alumni Association, was elected to the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame. (Continued on Page 6) There once was a time when there were cows grazing on campus-and mooing in the Mc Dowell cupola and bedded down in Pinkney and occupying the dais of St. John's then chapel. There was even a time when Francis Scott Key galloped gleefully around the college green mount~d on a cow. some are asked to send the material to: St. John's Forever, c/o Roland Most, 4-6 Summerfield Place, Annapolis, Md., 21403. BUT ABOUT THE cow in the cupola, a reminder, Mr. Gessner said, that St. John's pranks didn't simply begin in recent years ... "In 1922," he recalled, "Professor Gladden, known as 'Whiskers' for an obvious reason, kept a cow on the back campus. This was good. It fed the Gladden family and kept the grass down. It was bad, too, because it made the playing fields hazardous. "In the dark of early morning some students coaxed, pulled and pushed Whiskers' cow up the many steps to the cupola where there was much mooing in place of tolling of the McDowell Hall bell. "Getting the cow down again Bunny Gessner knows all about them. That is because this former president of the Alumni Association and two other St. Johnnies, Roland Most and Irwin Rusteberg, are preparing a history of the college "with as much color as fact will allow," Mr. Gessner says. They are searching for all sorts of anecdotal material as well as letters and historical data which might be useful. Any alumnus or friend of the college who happens to know (Continued on Page 7) '--7 ts study grant The day Taft came toSJC The day President William Howard Taft dedicated the French monument on St. John's College's back campus was a gala one. He marked it by arriving in the city in what was described as a "handsome new parlor car recently purchased for just such an occasion by the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railroad." With the Ambassador from France and his secretaries of war and agriculture, President Taft ...i:n~~~-n~~~.:i at a snot convenient corner of George Street - and then moved, a hulking, 260-pound figure, to the monument honoring the French soldiers and sailors who died during the Revolutionary War, a monument which was to become the first .of its kind in this country honoring the unknown war dead. The trip over the electric line had been a smooth one with the presidential party given the right of way all the way from Washington. The train had barely paused on West Street. PRESIDENT TAFT'S presence was a singular honor for the college. He had been invited to another ceremony in Annapolis a few days later honoring American seamen who had died during the Revolutionary War, but the President was compelled to decline. He could not, he explained, leave Washington twice within the same week. President Taft was reportedly the third American president to visit Annapolis. George Washington, whose stepgrandson and two nephews went to St. John's, was the first, and Theodore Roosevelt was said to be the ·second. Happy as the ceremonies were on back campus, one writer thoug-ht something was missing. "There wasn't a piece of colored bunting or a flag on the (W.B. & A.) station to indicate (Continued on 7) Joseph Alsop, noted American journalist, will deliver a Sunday night lecture February 15 as one of three special lecturers on art scheduled this year. He will speak at 7:30 p.m. in the Key Auditorium. Since his retirement as a nationally syndicated columnist, Mr. Alsop has been engaged in writing a history of western taste. He will speak on Medici art collecting in the 15th century. Earlier this month James Ackerman, professor of art history and architecture at Harvard University, spoke on "Michaelangelo's Religion.'' The series was begun by Charles Bell, member of the Santa Fe faculty, in September. It is being sponsored by an alumnus, Eugene V. Thaw, '47. St. John's College has been awarded a $25,000 grant by the Surdna Foundation of New York to finance a new faculty study group designing a new course in perception, its neurophysiology and psychophysics. Vice President William B. Dunham said the sum will free five faculty members from a third of their normal teaching duties to develop a sequence of study and experimentation which can be used in St. John's nonelective undergraduate program. It also would finance visits from special consultants, books, laboratory supplies and other expenses involved in the yearlong study. Members of the committee, who are meeting twice a week for reports and elude Robert L. man, Barbara Leonard, Harry L. Golding, Nicholas Maistrellis and John White. Sitting in on the discussions this semester is William P. Banks, '64 associate professor of psychology at Pomona College, who is doing special work at Johns Hopkins during a sabbatical leave. He recently was awarded a major National Science Foundation research grant to conduct studies on human visual perception. DEAN CURTIS Wilson said the study group is in part the result of a special review of the entire laboratory program made by a St. John's tutor, Howard Fisher, who recommended that the :Program be broaaened to include more study of natural life and suggested explicit consideration of the higher functions of organisms, such as perception. (Continued on Page 1; iew hack An exhibit arranged by the Maryland Hall of Records and telling the story of Annapolis as it relates to King William School and St. John's College will go on display following the Christmas vacation at the college. To be shown for a two-month period as part of the college's observance of the Bicentennial, the exhibit has been prepared by Mrs. Phoebe Jacobsen, a Maryland archivist, and tells the history of Annapolis from the time the first warrant was issued to Thomas Todd in 1651 to the present. It may be seen by the public. One display relating to King William School, founded in 1696 and absorbed into St. John's College when it was opened, tells how its teachers were suspected of Toryism and how the school changed its royal name to Annapolis School. Another tells that peace following the Revolution brought a renewed emphasis on education with a University of Maryland planned with sc,hools on both shores of Maryland. One branch would become St. John's. One case presents students from the Annapolis School marching in procession with other dignitaries from the old (Continued on Page 8) - �PAGE'2 THE REPORTER Brief SJC a founding member St. John's College bas participated in the founding of a new organization of colleges and universities offering graduate programs in the liberal arts. Robert L. Spaeth, director of the Graduate Institute who attended a meeting at Dartmouth College last month, said that like St. John's, none of the graduate programs represented offer graduate degrees in a specific field such as French or geology. All offer such degrees as Master of Liberal Arts or Master of Liberal Studies. Like St. John's, most participating institutions report two-thirds of their students are teachers. The organization is entitled the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs. Planned as a forum for the exchange of information and to promote the goals of graduate liberal studies, the GLS association includes, besides St. John's, Dartmouth College, Drew University, Georgetown University, Hollins College, Johns Hopkins University 1 the Metropolitan College of Boston University, University of MichiganDearborn, the New School for Social Research, University of Oklahoma, University of Southern California, Southern Methodist University, and Wesleyan University. Meanwhile, Mr. Spaeth said that the Graduate Institute, which will be holding its tenth year in Santa Fe next summer; is now open to graduates of St. John's. Alumni interested in the eight week program may write him in care of the college in Annapolis. Eva Brann is eonsultant Eva Brann, St. John's tutor, serves as commentator for a new recording of the Declaration of Independence issued by the ·Nightingale-Conant Corporation. As a Bicentennial production of the company, it is available either in a casette or record version. Miss Brann is introduced by Earl Nightingale, who supervised its production. Her discussion is interspersed by comments on the document from actors representing such Revolutionary era figures as John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and Tom Paine. A booklet containing the commentary accompanies the recording. "It is clear that Lincoln considered the Declaration to be more central and more basic than the Constitution," Miss Brann states in her comments. "That is really a tremendous thoughtbecauseitmeansthatthe American situation is to be understood as something never before heard of in human history-the United States, unlike other nations, is not first of all a country and a government, but it is the incarnation of a principle, the principle of liberty. It means that this nation is not ultimately shaped by the land, language or birth of its people, but by a document stating a philosophical truth.'' Copies are available in the St. John's book store for $4.50 for casettes and $3.50 for recordings. For persons placing mail roders, an additional charge of $1.25 will be made for postage and handling. Staley gets humanitarian designation. J.I. Staley, new chairman of the St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors, is the recipient of an old baluster taken from a freshman dormitory at Stanford University which recently was' converted to administration purposes. The baluster is not without significance. A 1935 graduate .of Stanford, Mr. Staley received it as an award on the occasion of the 40th reunion of his class this summer when he was designated "Mr. Humanitarian" in recognition of his contribution to the college and to other national causes. Not only does Mr. Staley serve on the St. John's board, but he is vice-president of the board of the Santa Fe Opera, a member of the Wichita Falls, Tex., Symphony Orchestra, and a member of the Wichita Falls Museum and Art Center. Mr. Staley, who is president of the Staley Oil Company, is an independent oil producer. First elected to the St. John's board in 1967, he served as chairman during the 1971-72 year. The board, which elected him at the summer meeting to succeed David Ginsburg, who was not eligible for another term, also named Charles Nelson and Mrs. Louise Trigg as vice-chairmen and Jerome LaPides as secretary. Besides the officers, members named to its executive committee J. Burchenal Ault, Richard M. Burdge, Daniel T. Kelly, Jr., and Thomas B. Turner. NOVEMBE'R.,.1915 Alumni seeking greater visibility BERNARD GESSNER, president of the Alumni Association for the past three years, receives a small, pewter bowl from the association's new president, William W. Simmons. Seated is Thomas Parran, Jr., director of alumni activities. (photobyWillsimmons) by JOHN ROGERS Failure to publicize more fully the accomplishments of St. John's alumni was scored by William W. Simmons, president of the Alumni Association, at a joint meeting between the college's Board of Visitors and Governors and association directors during homecoming weekend. The meeting, the first of its kind, originally had been suggested by Mr. Simmons to inform the board more extensively of the alumni efforts in recruiting, career counseling and fund raising. rs ................ -. A faculty wife, Larissa Raditsa has served as a major consult~nt for "The Etruscans," one in a series of Time-Life Books appearing under the general heading of "The Emergence of Man." A classicist and archaeologist, Mrs. Raditsa is well known as an Etruscan scholar who is a member of the faculty of New York University and of the Institute for Etruscan and Italic Studies in Florence. She is the author of a book entitled "Etruscan Dress" and co-author A of a forthcoming volume on Greek and Roman dress. Her husband, Leo F. Raditsa, joined St. John's in 1973. In order that Mrs. Raditsa mieht continue to teach, ML and Mrs. Raditsa maintain apartments both in Annapolis and in New York. "The Etruscans" describes a people who lived in north-central Italy and who, between 750 B.C. and 100 B.C., developed Italy's first great civilization. "Etruria filled the whole length of Italy with the noise of her name," Livy wrote. Elzey "Anyway, who is the walking man who walks all the way from Ritchie Highway about 8: 15 in the morning over the Severn River bridge to his office near Saint John's?" eight-year-old Olaf ·Rask wrote The Evening Capital recently. "If he reads my letter, I want him to send me a letter." And so Charles T. Elzey said. "Dear Olaf," he wrote. "I read your letter to the editor in the October 10th issue of The Evening Capital. I am the walking man. "It all started seven years ago when I injured my shoulder and was unable to drive. So I decided to walk to work. (I live in Pendennis Mount). I find that I enjoy walking, and I am daily inspired by the view of the Severn River, the Naval Academy, and the skyline of Annapolis that I see as I walk down Ritchie Hignway and across the Severn River bridge. "Next time we pass on the highway, blink your lights so I I ow who you are." The Reporter is published by the Office of College Relations, St. John's College, Annapolis, Md., 21404, Richard D. Weigle, president, William B. Dunham, vice, president. Published five times a year, in February, April, June, September and November. Second class postage paid at Annapolis, St. John's ·Tutor Robert L. Spaeth is the author of a review of Seymour M. Lipset's and David Riesman's "Education and Politics at Harvard" which appeared in the September issue of "Perspective" magazine. Reflecting a nation-wide said. pattern, scores on verbal and "The surprises are usually mathematical aptitude tests taken by entering freshmen at St. found in the math scores," Ms. John's College have dropped Aitken said. "Sometimes an applicant will come through with during the past ten years. Ms. Joanne Aitken, director of very mediocre high school math admissions, said that the median grades but with a high SAT score for September freshmen is score." 640 on their verbal scores and 620 Figures for the past ten years on their mathematics scores this for entering freshmen are given here ·with verbal scores listed fall. This compares with 696 for the verbal scores and 671 for the first and math s'cores second. 1975-76, 640/620; 1974-75, mathematical scores ten years ago or a drop in both instances of 650/620; 1973-74, 650/620; 1972-73, 660/610; 1971-72, 670/633; 1970-71, more than 50 points. NATIONAL SCORES - an 689/661; 1969-70, 692/661; 1968-69, average of 434 on the verbal part 670/636; 1967-68, 684/636; 1966-67, 662/635; 1965-66, 696/671. and 472 on the national division were ten and eight points lower MS. AITKEN said that this fall than those for 1974. They educators believe that while were 44 points lower on verbal there is no firm evidence to exscores and 30 on mathematical plain the decline, it may come as scores than they were in 1962-63, the result of shifts in secondary the year before results began to education away from traditional decline. Unlike other colleges where the areas into more innovative ones Scholastic Apititude Tests play or it may be the result of the an important role in entry, St. influence of television. In a policy statement included John's uses them only minimally in the catalog, the college says: in deciding which students the "St. John's attaches less imcolle"'" will accept. SAT scores portance to objective test scores are not required, but usually are forwarded routinely to the (the ACT or the SAT) than most college as part of the high school colleges seem to. No applicant is accepted or rejected exclusively transcript. or mainly because of such scores. Occasionally Ms. Aitken said that SAT scores are used in ad- Far more important is the scholastic record, especially in missions decisions if more inconjunction with the written formation is needed for an apapplication and the school's plicant. Customarily verbal report on the applicant's personal scores bear out what already is qualities. Such evidence may known about the student, she make test scores irrelevant." "Alumni have always been involved in counseling,'' remarked Carol Phillips Tilles, '59, who, as chairman of the association's counseling and placement committee, works with Brenda Robertson, the college's couns e'ling and placement officer. "The association can maximize this counseling.'' She described efforts in recent years to bring together students interested in particular fields and alumni who have entered them. The placement office-maintaiils a counseling file of alumni and their professions. "The association can provide a structure of communication that can be very helpful for Ms, Robertson and the students, Mrs. Tilles concluded. Marianne DeCamillis Braun, '58, cited "facilitating contact between alumni · and prospectives" as her concern in working with Joanne Aitken, director of admissions. Ms. Aitken affirmed that alumni are the best source of information for prospective students and that she and Mrs. Braun are attempting to increase alumni assistance. Bernard Gessner, '27, gave a brief account of the alumni's history of financially supporting the college, tracing it from Francis Scott Key's concern in 1827 for "the mouldering walls of McDowell.'' Mr. Gessner hopes the association will be able to raise $75,000 during the current year. In concluding his remarks to the board, Mr. Simmons expressed concern that the alumni achieve a greater visibility. He characterized St. John's as divided into two communities: the "on-campus" community of faculty and students and the "offcampus" community of alumni and the board. The latter suffers from underrepresentation in the college's publications, he said. He suggested that changes be made or publications be added to correct the situation. "Our graduates are everywhere," he concluded. "Making them visible to each other and to the world would make them beneficial for recruiting, counseling and fund raising." �1. Summary of Fund Raising Purpose Current Funds Unrestricted $354,360 Restricted 18.265 Total $372,625 Capital Funds Endowment Funds $ 40,566 Plant Funds 15.868 Totai $ 56,434 Total Funds Raised $429,059 Source Corporations $ 46,307 Foundations 119,900 Government 50,522 Individuals 28,949 Parents Fund 6,555 Alumni Fund 38,215 Alumni Capital _17.766 Gift Totals $418,054 Bequests Alumni $ 1,005 Other 10.000 Total Funds Raised $429.059 II. Special Gifts A special category of donor, King William Associates, was established in 1968-69 for alumni donors of $100 or more for current operations. This year the category was opened to all individual donors, and two new categories were added. St. John's Sponsors are donors of $500-999, while members of the President's Council contribute $1,000 or more. A gift for any purpose qualifies for these two new categories. The response has been most encouraging, as the following lists attest. The numbers in parentheses after alumni names indicate the total years of membership in the King William Associates (or a higher group for this year). The importance of these special categories is considerable, both in the sheer financial support (20% of alumni donors gave 61 % of all alumni gifts) and in the example set for others. Special thanks are indeed due the 234 alumni, parents, and friends who made the extra effort this past year. A. King William Associates . A. Scott Abbott 1943 (6) Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Ackerman Mr. and Mrs. George Adams Ernie Adamson 1958 (5) John Adcock 1964 (2) John D. Alexander, Jr.1953 (2) John D. Alexander, Sr.1920 (7) Philip L. Alger 1912 (5) Robert C. Allen 1942 (2) Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Archibald Franklin R. Atwell 1953 ( 4) Mr. and Mrs. N. Hansen Ball W. A. Barr 1942 (1) Robert S. Bart 1957 (3) Stanley J. Bartis 1933 ( 7) Mr. and Mrs. William Bayer Douglas Bennett 1971 (1) Mr. and Mrs. J. Pierre Bernard J. Jermain Bodine 1963 (1) Warren Bomhardt 1942 (1) Mrs. Charles Brooks D. Michael Brown 1951 ( 7) R. Penfield Brown 1922 ( 4) Richard Burdge James F. Campbell 1932 (5) Richard Carter 1954 (1) Ray C. Cave 1948 (2) Samuel P. Chew 1931 (5) James. H. Clark1941 (4) Edward B. Cochran 1944 (5) William H. Conca 1930 (7) George I. Cowell 1951 (2) Mrs. Joan K. Davidson Peter J. Davies 1948 (7) Leon Deane Frank C. Desantis 1927 (4) Daniel Devereux 1963 (1) David C. Dickey 1967 (4) Clarence L. Dickinson 1911 (6) J. Dudley Digges 1933 (6) David Dobreer 1944 (6) John C. Donohue 1935 (7) Philip H. Dorsey 1923 (1) ,James J. Dugan 1926 (3) Miriam G. Duhan 1963 (2) Richard Duhan 1963 (2) Samuel Dunbar 1964 (1) William W. Dunkum 1964 (3) Edward J. Dwyer 1930 (6) Ralph Englesby 1964 (2) Walter Evers 1935 (6) Jo:>eph J. Faraone 1961 (3) Lewis J. Fields 1931 ( 7) Barry L. Fisher 1962 (1). Mary Gallagher 1960 (1) William Gideon 1935 (2) Mrs. Dorothea D. Glass Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. Glass Michael W. Gold 1961 (2) John K. Goodwin James M. Green 1960 (5) Dr. and Mrs. Paul Greisman William A. Gross, Jr. 1929 (6) Edward H. Grubb 1943 (2) Harry L. Hamilton 1939 ( 4) Mr. and Mrs. Wm. W. Hammerschmidt Steven F. Hanft 1970 (1) Mrs. E.T. Hankamer John T. Harrison Bernard A. Heller 1932 (4) John P. Hetland 1964 (6) T. Lansdale Hill 1941 (7) Mr. and Mrs. Abrahan Hiller Christopher Hodgkin 1966 (1) Mrs. Jack Hoffberger Allan P. Hoffman 194fl (6) Constance Bell Holland 1966 ( 4) Christian A. Hovde 1945 (1) H. Gerald Hoxby 1947 ( 4) Dr. and Mrs. Perry B. Hudson David A. Jackson Bernard E. Jacob 1954 ( 3) Carey Jarman 1917 (7) Mr. and Mrs. M. Jemielita Mrs. Remsen Johnson Reverly Johnson Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Jones Robert E. Jones 1909 (2) Lawrence Kantor 1935 (7) Tina B. Kaplan 1962 (5) Michael C. Keane 1945 (1) Patrick D. Keating 1929 (3) J. Sprightly Kelly 1930 (5) Lauriston Keown 1929 (2) Charles J. Kibler 1936 (3) Edward A. Kimpel 1931 (5) Roberta M. Kingsley 1958 (1) William Kingsley 1958 (1) Dr. and Mrs. Gordon Kirschner Robert J. Klingenburg 1930 (4) William J. Klug, Jr. 1931 (7) Charles S. Kluth 1952 (7) John C. Kohl 1961 (5) Arthur Kungle, Jr. 1967 (7) Henry H. Kyle 1934 (5) Jerome Lansner 1950 (7) Roslyn R. Leizman 1956 (1) Deirdre Lenihan 1967 (2) Mrs. Ida Lenihan Stanley G. Lemon Thomas W. Ligon 1916 (6) John J. Lobell 1946 (5) David Long 1966 (3) E. Carl Lyon 1934 (1) John D. Mack 1945 (5) Mr. and Mrs. James C. Mackey Thomas E. MacMannis 1918 (4) Belle P. Maher 1960 Francis S. Mason 1943 (6) Mr. and Mrs. John E. Mcconnaughy, Jr. George L. McDowell 1941 (4) Carl Merkel 1929 (2) Wilbert L. Merriken 1915 (2) Mr. and Mrs. John E. Merritt · '65, 66 (1) Benjamin Michaelson Sr.1912 (7) E. 0. Milbourne 1914 (1) v- Anthony F. Mile to 1934 (4) Mills Liquor Mart Richard Mottu 1931 ( 3) Fiona P. Murray 1960 ( 3) Frank B. Murray 1960 (3) Philip Myers Jack A. Nadol 1957 (7) Frederick J. Nassauer 1932 (5) Robert E. Nichols 1948 (3) John W. Noble 1917 (2) Robert L. November 1964 (7) Barbara Oosterhout 1955 (6) John Oosterhout 1951 (6) 'Dr. and Mrs. Theodore Osius Joseph A. Panzarella 1929 ( 4) Morris Parslow 1945 (3) Richard H. Pembroke 1931 ( 4) Pasquale Polillo 1956 (7) E. F. Raspa, Jr. David Rea 1949 (3) Dr. and Mrs. Seymour Reisman William D. Rendall 1942 (6) Mr. and Mrs: Woodward Rich Mr. Herbert Rochlin Julius Rosenberg 1938 (7) Louis Rosenbush, Jr. 1931 (5) Mrs. Gerald Rowan Peter Ruel 1960 (1) Sol Sacks Robert B-. Sasscer 1937 ( 4). Rowell Schleicher 1947 (1) Rudolph Schmick 1931 ( 6) Howard P. Schiff 1962 (1) Deborah Schwartz Renaut 1968 (1) Mrs. Margaret Schwartz George Selby 1932 (2) Alexander Sedlis Mordechai Sheinkman (1) Samuel Sheinkman (2) Lawrence Sherman 1948 (1) Dr. and Mrs. Paul Sherman James H. Shreve, Jr. 1931 (2) Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence Silver Mrs. Richard Silver Haven E. Simmons 1944 (7) Col. and Mrs. Albert M. Smith Augustine V.P. Smith 1922 (7) L. Wheaton Smith 1948 ( 3) Louis L. Snyder 1928 ( 5) Edward Sommer 1937 (1) Mr. and Mrs. richard Sonnenfeldt Dr. and Mrs. Van Spruiell Stewart C. Stackhouse 1924 (1) Mr. and Mrs. Roger Steers Samuel V. Stiles 1954 (3) James W. Stone 1955 (2) M-r. and Mrs. Thomas Tamlyn Jeremy P. Tarcher 1952 (3) Lloyd F. Taylor 1939 ( 4) Mrs. Robert A. Tennant .Tames U. Thompson 1931 (3) Carol P. Tilles 1959 (5) William R. Tilles 1959 (5) Thomas B. Turner 1921 (7) Lee Reichelderfer 1968 (2) Michael Van Beuren 1975 (1) Mr. and Mrs. James F. Villere Ernst von Schwerdtner, 1917 (2) Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Walley Ira F. Weiss (incoming student) Peter Weiss 1946 (6) Dalton M. Welty 1935 (7) Mrs. G. R. Wetlaufer Peter A. Whipple 1950 ( 7) Carleton Wich 1923 (7) John L. Williams 1950 (6) Norma E. Williams 1967 (3) Thomas J. Williams 1951 (2) Harvey Wynn 1957 (5) Rosabelle Wynn 1957 (5) Raphael B. Yosef 1946 (1) Charles R. Zimmerman 1929 (7) B. St. John's Sponsors Stephen Anderton 1968 (6) William B. Athey 1932 (7) Joseph L. Bean 1932 (7) Victor G. Bloede 1941 (6) Mr. and Mrs. Page Clagett · Mrs. George Davidson J.S. DiGiorgio 1921 (6) Mrs. Russell P. Hartle Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Huber Peter Ringland 1944 (1) William W. Simmons 1948 (3) Bert Spriggs 1937 (5) Andrew D. Steiner 1963 (5) Mrs. Guy D. Thompson L. Phillips Wood 1967 (3) Mr. and Mrs. Michael Zuckert C. President's Council Anonymous (Class of 1944) Mrs. Clyde A. Clapp Mrs. Margaret Driscoll Dr. and Mrs. James Gamble David Ginsburg John T. Harrison Robert E. Jones 1909 (2) Arthur E. Landers 1930 Mrs. Duane Peterson Donald McLennan (Stornaway Fdn) Eugene V. Thaw 1947 Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Weigle Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Wells Catherine L. Zaoujal 1964 III. Non-Alumni Contributors Gifts from many sources other than alumni each year help St. John's meet its operating deficit. The College is most grateful to the following corporations and foundations, individuals, and parents of current students for their support during the year 1974-75: A. CORPORATIONS-FOUNDATIONS American Express, Fdn Annapolis Federal Savings and Loan Annapolis utilities A. S. Abell, Fdn Mary Reynolds Babcock Fdn The Bank of California Milton Bradley C & P Telephone (2) Caritas Society Conn.General Ins.Corp, Cumberland Assoc. Dow Chemical Earle's Moving and Storage (2) Ensign-Bickford Fdn. Equitable Life Assurance Co. Farmers National Bank of Annapolis First National Bank of Chicago Gulf Oil Fdn .. Harris Foundation Joseph Hazen Fdn. Hudson Trust HormelFdn. Household Finance Co. IBM Johnson and Higgins· J.M. Kaplan Fund Ens. C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Fdn. Koppers Foundation Lapides Fdn. Sol Levinson and Brothers Inc. Liberty Fund, Inc. Merck Co. Fdn. Mills Liquor Mart Morgan-Guaranty and Trust Mullen and Sullivan Na bis co Fdn. Parker Fdn. Peabody Galion Corp. Peat, Marwick & Mitchell Pepsi Co. Fdn. Philip Morris, Inc. Presser Fdn. Sadlers Hardware Sandoz-Wander, Inc. Sears Roebuck Fdn. Sheridan Fdn. Stornaway Fdn. Tenneco Fdn. Time, Inc. United Engineers and Construction Inc struction Inc. Westminster Fdn. of Annapolis, Md., Inc. C& WWinslow W.R. Winslow Co. B. GOVERNMENT State of Maryland-Aid to Private Colleges and Universities C.FRIENDS Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Ackerman Mrs. H. Boynton Adler William Allen Mrs. Herbert Anderson Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Archibald Joan T. Attaway Rev. and Mrs. Karl A. Bach Mr. and Mrs. John Baer Mrs. Levin Claude Bailey Prof. and Mrs. N. Hansen Ball Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Barker Mrs. Henry Barton Mr. and Mrs. E. Bates Prof. and Mrs. William J. Battin Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Bayliff· Allan R. Beckanstin Mr. and Mrs. J. Pierre Bernard Wm. Berry Dr. and Mrs. Paul Berson Miss Elmira Bier Mrs. Robert Bier Rev. High Birdsall Mr. and Mrs. Saul Blaustein Mr. and Mrs. Doyle J. Borchers Dr. and Mrs. Alex Boro Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Bowen Dr. Robert Brill Mrs. Charles Brooks Katherine L. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Chapman Burk Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Burroughs Dr. and Mrs. Harvey Butt Charles E. Butterworth Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Campbell L. H. Campbell Mr. and Mrs. Gunnar Carlson Mrs. Mary B. Carnes Helen C. Carroll Mr. and Mrs. John Chaconas Ms. Ann Charney Mr. & Mrs. Page B. Clagett Philip F. Clapp Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Clark Mrs. W.O.P. Clarke Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Cleveland Mrs. George Cobb Mrs. WillH. Corey D.r. Rchard T. Cox Mr. and Mrs. Royale Crabtree Mr. and Mrs. Wm. B. Cronin Lillian Crook Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dain Mrs. George Davidson Mr. and Mrs. Edw. Davis Dr. Gustavo Delgado Nicholas L. DiLiello Bertha T. Donahue Mr. and Mrs. Alex Donner Mrs. Isaac Dortch Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Dourmashkin Mr. George Dudik Theodore Egorin Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Emmert Carol Prentice Eveleigh The Rev. and Mrs. Leslie L. Fairfield Nathan Farcow Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fedczak Mr. and Mrs. James Fedczak Miss Marylyn Fedczak Mr. and Mrs. Michael Fedczak Helen B-. Fisher George Fraser Donald L. Fredericksen Mr. and Mrs. John R. Fredland Mr. and Mrs. Aaron D. Freedman Mrs. Simon P. Fullinwider Prof. and Mrs. James Galloway Sallyann Garner Dr. Anne Garrison Samuel Gensler Meyer W. Gilden �:PAGE4 Mr. and Mrs. Albert Goodman Gerit Grahl and Mrs. Charles E. Grahl Dr. Eugene R. Grether Leo Hahn Capt. and Mrs. Henry Hall Mr. and Mrs. Wm. W. Hammerschmidt Mrs. Jacques Hammond Mrs. E.T. Hankamer Mrs. Lulu Hardesty Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Hardisty Dr. & Mrs. Alan G. Harquail, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hartge Estate of Gertrude L. Harrison Mrs. Russell Hartle Mr. and Mrs. Ichiro Hasegawa Mrs. Lawrence T. Haugen Louise H. Heisler Thomas Herlihy, Jr. Miss Mary Louise Hicks Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Hiller Grace Hilliard Mr. and Mrs. Andrew W. Hobart Rf Adm. F. S. Hoberke Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hockman Mrs. Jack Hoffberger Mr. and Mrs. George Hoffmann Leavenworth Holden Ethel Ho berm an Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Howard Mr. and Mrs. Michael Huber George C. Hudacek Mrs. James E. Hunt Thomas D. Hyde Robert Irrmann David A. Jackson Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Jacobs Cdr. and Mrs. T. W. Johnson, Jr. Mrs. Remsen Johnson Reverdy Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Richard Johnson Dr. Elaine Kepner Miss Elizabeth Kimpton Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Kinsolving Harry Kirson of Harry Kirson's, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey C. Kitchen Suzanne Kleiman Nathan Korshin Julian S. Kramer Wm. Kristol Millerd G. Larkin Mark Laster Josephine Lefford Rabbi Joel Lehrfield Stanley G. Lemon Margaret H. Leonard Dr. and Mrs. Nathan Leonard Mrs. Ida Lenihan Dr. Franz von Lichtenberg Mrs. Leon Lipman Mr. and Mrs. Otto Lindermayer Mr. and Mrs. Luther S. Ling Mrs. John W. Littleton Mrs. David Long R/ Adm. Elliot Loughlin Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ludlum Lawrence M. Lyons Philip B. Lyons Mr. Frederick P. Lyman Mrs. Kenneth MacLeish Harriet M. Maling Dr. and Mrs. Robert Marine Dr. J. W. Marsh Capt. and Mrs. W. A. P. Martin Mr. and Mrs. G. Donald Matthews Mrs. Christine McClench Mr. and Mrs. Stan Meffleton Mr. and Mrs. T. Richard McGraw Mr. and Mrs. Marvin McKenzie Stephen P. Menninger Mr. and Mrs. Jamison Meredith Mrs. T. Leonard Mikules Mrs. Orville M. Moore Dr. Michael Monias Eleanor Moore Mr. and Mrs. Harry Morris Zola Morton Lillian P. Musterman Dr. Philip Myers Robert C. Natale Paul Nelson Susan Nettles Mrs. Tb :>mas G. Newton Miss Dorothy L Noble Dr. and Mrs. Irving Ochs Oldtown rtealth Clinic Mr. and Mrs. George Olinger 'Tff!,'REPORTER Dr. and Mrs. Theodore G. Osius Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Philip Jerry Pinkham Edward Pollak Charles H. Rawlins Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Reid Mr. and Mrs. Frank Renaut Steven Rhoads Mrs. Edward N. Rich, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Woodward Rich Mrs. L.B. Robertshaw Herbert Rochlin Mr. Bela Ronay Herbert L. Rosenberg Mr. and Mrs. R.H. Rosenberg Mrs. Gerald Rowan Mr. and Mrs. Buford Rowland .Mr. and Mrs. Russell The Hon. George Sachse Sol S;iek~ Robert M.Samuels Estate oi .Fiora Sayles Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Schmidt Peter W. Srhramm Mrs. M;irg;iret Schwartz Mrs. Ruth Seaman Dr. Alexander Sedlis Semmes, Bowen and Semmes Alan L. Seltzer Karen Sever Harry Shafer Rev. & Mrs. Winslow Shaw Dr. and Mrs. Paul Sherman Abram H. Shlsky Seymour Siegel Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence Silver Morris Snyder of Snyder Bootery Stella Spicknall Mr. and Mrs. C. Carney Smith Col. and Mrs. Abert Mark Smith II Mrs. Russell E. Smith Mrs. Lewis E. Snoot Margaret Staley Mrs. Dorothy Strickland Mrs. Robert Tennant Mrs. Guy D. Thompson Mrs. Willson S. Thompson Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Tracy John Uhr Capt. V. W. Utgoff 0. Paul Varnell Mr. and Mrs. James F. Villere Mrs. Harvey Wabbe Margaret Wallace Harvey Walters Anna B. Watts Prof. Eleanor Webster Koppel Wekselblatt Ira F. Weiss Mr. G. R. Wetlaufer Mrs. John Whitridge, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Addison H. Willey Mrs. D. E. Williams Audrey L. Wrede Ms. Martha Wright Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wright Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Zlotoff Mr. and Mrs. Michael Zuckert IV. Alumni Fund A. Alumni Fund results for the last two years: '73-4 '74-5 Alumni Donors 724 806 Percent response 24 27 Average gift $46 $47 Total Fund $33,047 $38,215 B. Top Twenty Alumni Classes. Pct. Response $Response 1. 1906-100 2. 1914- 60 3. 1907 - 50 4. 1908 - 50 5. 1917 - 50 1964 - $2,508 1932- 1,930 1931- 1,365 1968- 1,312 1948 - 1,275 1874 Mr. and Mrs. George Adams Mr. Radford Adams Mrs. Adele A. Bauman Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bayer, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Bloemker Richard L. Borden Dr. Robert Brill Mr. Charles Campbell Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cerullo Mr. S. Charles Mrs. Ruth Crump Mrs. Joan K. Davidson Leon Deane Mr. and Mrs. John H. Dink Edward de Grazia Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Ehrenberger Ms. Elizabeth Ellis Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Feinstein Rev. Samuel Fleming Dr. and Mrs. James F. Gamble, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Garrettson Mr. and Mrs. Henry Glass Mrs. Dorothy D. Glass John K. Goodwin Dr. and Mrs. Paul Greisman Mr. and Mrs. C. Guerrein Cdr. James D. Hendry Mr. and Mrs. Haskell Hollander Mr. and Mrs. Perry B. Hudson Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Jenson Mr. and Mrs M M. .Temielita Mr. and Mrs. Walter Jeschske Dr. and ~\frs. Arthur Jones Dr. and Mrs. Arthur T. Keefe Dr. and Mrs. Gordon Kirschner Joseph T. A. Lee Mr. and Mrs. Marvon Levine Mr. & Mrs. James E. Mackey Mr. and Mrs. John E. McConna ughy, Jr. Ms. Roxanne B. McDowell Mr. and Mrs. James Mendlin Mrs. Rose Miktus Burton H. Mortimer Mr. Hnd Mrs. Merritt Olson Mrs. Maryrose Patrone Mr. ano Mi's. L. D. Pickens Erich K. Plant E. F. Raspa, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Seymour Reissman Mr. and Mrs. Wm. C. Rogers Mr. and Mrs. Arnold J. Rothstein Mr. and Mrs. James Ryan Major Samuel J. Salem Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schuld Mrs. Richard Silver Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Sonnenfeldt Dr. and Mrs. Vann Spruiell Mr. and Mrs. Roger Steers Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Tamlyn Mr. and Mrs. David H. Wallace Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Walle_y Mr. cind Mrs Arnold Wells Mr. and Mrs. Wm. M. Wright 6. 1942- 48 7. 1912· 44 8.] 9~J - 44 9. 1943 - 44 10. 1930- 43 11. 1920-42 12. 1923 - 42 13. 1919- 40 14. l!l~2- 40 1.5. 1949- 37 16. 1964 - 37 17. 1927 - 36 18. 1944- 36 19. 1945- 36 10. 1957 - 36 1944 - 1,24() 1967- 1,164 1937 - 1,158 1963 - 1,043 1929- 940 1943- 913 1941- 900 1945- 855 1950- 840 1935- 826 1942- 790 1921- 742 1946- 690 1934- 675 1954- 675 C. CLASS LISTS During 1974-75 some 806 alumni and alumnae helped St. John's achieve a new high in contributions to the Alumni Fund. The College is most grateful to this group for its loyal support. The list below shows all alumni and alumnae contributors for whatever purpose, although the percentages and dollar figures reflect only gifts to the Alumni Fund (gifts for current purposes). Names in bold-face type are those in whose memory special endowed funds have been established; income from these funds annually provides a perpetual gift to St. John's. Names preceded by the letter "c" are of those who served as Class Captains during the Alumni Fund campaign; particular thanks are due these men and women for their extra measure of effort and support. 1823 1847 Dr. William Brewer ''NOVENH4!R 1975 D.PARENTS John Mullan Frederick W. Brune Blanchard Randall 1876 Robert F. 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 1902 Dr. W. Oscar LaMotte 1903 Drew H. Beatty Leroy T. Rohrer Amos W.W. Woodcock 1904 John M. J. Hodges 1905 Rev. Benjamin D. Chambers 1906 100% Herbert C. Fooks Earl Hearn $30.00 Richard H. Hodgson Alfred Houston Dr. Amos F. Hutchins Henry F. Sturdy 1907 50% Robert Anderson Claude Owen $70.00 John T. Harrison 1908 50% $20.00 Dr. George M. Austin Charles H. Shuster J. Graham Shannahan, Sr. 1909 25% $100.00 Clarence T. Johnson Robert E. Jones Col. Harrison MacAlpine 1910 Roscoe E. Grove 1911 17% $100.00 Levin Claude Bailey Clarence L. Dickinson Clifford L. Johnson Dr. Thomas Parran 1912 44% c- Philip A. Alger $315.00 William Lentz Frederick S. Matthews Benjamin Michaelson, Sr. George L. Winslow 1913 Dr. Robert S. G. Welch 1914 60% $227. 00 Godfrey Child R. L. Christian C. C. Dorsey E. 0. Milbourne Wm. D. Noble Wilmer S. Philips John T. Tucker 1915 22% $195.00 Allen L. Fowler Wilbert L. Merriken D. Eugene Walsh Oliver P. Winslow, Sr. 1916 22% $225.00 George Davidson, Jr. Robert 0. Jones Thomas W. Ligon John A. Worthington 1917 50% $520.00 Marion Cox Carey Jarman J. W. Knighton Alfred H. Noble John W. Noble J. Turnbull Spicknall Ira B. Talton c - E. 0. von Scherdtner 1918 14% $150.00 Charles W. Burton, Jr. Thomas E. MacMannis 1919 40% $115.00 Eugene H. Beer Dr. Robert A. Bier Charles C. Nathan S. H. Wareheim J. Ogle Warfield, Jr. 1920 42% $250.00 c - John D. Alexander, Sr. John H. Birely Charles W. Fitzgerald, Jr. William T. Fryer Reginald F. Hall Howard A. Kinhart Horatio Ridout Rudolph A. Torovsky 1921 44% $742.00 Wilmot D. Brown J. S. DiGiorgio Robert E. Duer Earl R. Keller William H. Y. Knighton, Jr. JohnH. E. Legg Elwood E. Schafer R.H. Torovsky, Sr. Joseph E. Trovinger Thomas B. Turner 1922 27% $410.00 R. Penfield Brown J. Wesley Everett .Robert G. Hackett Henry A. Hornthal S. Denmead Kolb Frederick G. Madara Augustine V. P. Smith Willis H. White 1923 42% $330.00 William C. Baxter Paul L. Banfield Henry V. Davis Philip H. Dorsey Charles W. Keefer T. B. Klakring John F. Layng, Jr. Robert E. Miller William S. Morsell, Jr. S. Paul Schilling Frederick C. Stecker Carlton E. Wich C. F. Winslow 1924 18% $300.00 Charles S. Dell, Sr. Taylor F. Johnston Stewart C. Stackhouse 1925 31% $80.00 Stanley C. Brown H. W. Eliason F. H. Flounders H. Monroe Helm J. Thomas Ritchie 1926 29% $222.00 H. Wayne Carrick Wilbur F. Coyle, Jr. A.M. Cunningham c - James J. Dugan John G. Purnell Arthur Townshend, Jr. Jiri F. Vranek JohnM. Webb Henry F. Wegner 1927 36% $310.00 H.B. Clark Louis D. Clark Charles C. Cockey c - Frank C. Desantis Bernard F. Gessner Charles W. Haas Elmer M. Jackson, Jr. Lee H. Nichols, Jr. Frederick L. Smith 1928 24% $245.00 David F. Crowley Donald Grove Jesse L. Hall Francis L. McDorman James F. Miller J. R. Roseberry Louis L. Snyder Franklin T. Willing 1929 35% $940.00 Granville Q. Adams Everett R. Amos J. Leslie Basil John W. Boucher Richard W. Comegys c - William A. Gross, Jr. S. William Hearne Francis A. Katz Patrick D. Keating Lauriston L. Keown Carl G. Merkel James G. O'Neill, Jr. Joseph A. Panzarella William S. Walls Charles R. Zimmerman 1930 43% $656.00 Walter S. Baird Vernon D. Bunce William N. Conca �Thomas E. Dryden E. J. Dwyer R. Fernandez-Marina J. Sprightley Kelly Robert J. Klingenberg George E. Moss Claxton J. O'Connor c - Matthew O'Neil, Jr. A. Irwin Rusteberg G. Newton Scatchard F. A. Weisheit, Jr. Arthur E. Landers 1931 33% $1,365.00 Charles E. Athey John A. Bernstein William F. Blake Samuel P. Chew Matthew S. Evans Lewis J. Fields Snowden Hoff Edward A. Kimpel, Jr. James King c - William J. Klug, Jr. Joseph L. Lingo Elmer R. Noyer Richard C. Mottu John S. Price William W. Quinn Louis Rosenbush, Jr, Rudolph Schmick James N. Shreve James U. Thompson 1932 40% $1,930.00 Wm. B. Athey Joseph Bean Richard F. Blaul Robert L. Burwell, Jr. James F. Campbell James W. Crabbe Lee Gordy Bernard A. Heller Wm. C. Hoddinott John G. Laferty Philip Lee Lotz Willis K. Lynch J.C. Mccurry Walter C. Mylander, Jr. Frederick J. Nassauer .. Richard H. Pembroke, Jr. Charles E. Pforr David H. Pugh, Jr. William T. D. Pumphrey c - George D. Selby Henry S. Shyrock, Jr. C. Vernon Williamson Sterrett D. Woods Fred Yerkes, Jr. 1933 23% $545.00 Stanley J. Bartis c -Nathaniel J. Chew J. Dudley Digges C. Gilbert Hill William J. Hoffman Walter H. Hoffmeister J. H. Fielding Jukes Joseph Legum Leonard J. Murphy David C. Ninde Philip F. Piper Wm. C. Sandrock Daniel J. Ward 1934 24% $675.00 c - Bernard J. Casassa H. W. Conn Henry M. Cooper, Jr. John D. Edinger John H. Engel, Jr. Edward E. Gray Robert~. Jones Henry H. Kyle Howard A. Legg E. Carl Lyon William B. Matthews, Jr. Anthony F. Mile to Austin W. Winston Horace W. Witman John G. Woltereck 1935 2596 $826.00 John C. Donohue Bayard Evans Walter Evers Morton N. Fine William Gideon Lawrence Kantor John B. O'Donnell Robert E. Reordan Charles F. Rose E. Roy Shawn Dalton M. Welty Frank K. Wilson ;.P'A.Gl{s THE 'R'!PORt'ER NOVE·MBER, 1975 James C. Wilson, Jr. Richard S. Woodman 1936 23% $475.00 James P. Bradley Thomas L. Carter Garnett Y. Clark Joseph B. Gray John S. Hodges Charles Kibler Robert J. Lau c -Cyril R. Murphy W. RobertNethken William N. Rairigh Martin W. Rausch Alfred Satterthwaite Ralph M. Schley William W. Smith, Jr. Richard B. Taylor 1937 35% $1,153.00 Fred Alexander Harold L. Brooks J. H. Brown Ernest Cory, Jr. Charles D. Hyson Alexander N. Jarrell Norval E. Kemp Franklin E. Leslie Merrill M. Mitchell c - L. Lee Moore, Jr. John B. Owens Robert B. Sasscer Marcus E. Smith Robert M. Snibbe Emanuel P. Snyder Edward C. Sommer Bert Spriggs Cyrus W. Straw Ferris Thomsen 1938 23% $580.00 David Bacharach Louis Bachmann, Jr. Jae H. Bushong Stuart M. Christhilf Theodore E. de Disse Charles H.B. Edel Israel Greengold Todd Grier R. Warren Hammann Howard P. Hill J. S. Baker Middelton Philip A. Myers II James Randall E. Peyton Richings Julius Rosenberg William T. Ross Henry Harrison Sadler Francis J. Townsend. Jr. 1939 30% $495.00 c - James E. Boyle LeRoy W. Brooks Arthur L. Budacz Miles R. Carroll, Jr. C. Thomas Clagett Harry L. Hamilton, Jr. Edward W. Hearn Edwin F. Heinen William J. Hopps Clarence L. Kibler Thomas L. MacNemar E. Leslie Medford Dr. John 0. Neustadt C. E. Roache Samuel Schenker Kenneth Schmick Norton B. Schwartz Malcolm Silver Lloyd F. Taylor 1940 17% $105.00 Richard W. Barton G. Taylor Lyon Wilbur Matz Robert H. Reynolds Thomas E. Strange 1941 32% $900.00 Victor G. Bloede III James H. Clark T. Lansdale Hill Bruce A. Graybeal c - Albert H. J aeggin George L. McDowell Henry M. Robert III Francis P. Williams 1942 48% $790.00 John E. Ainsworth Robert C. Allen W. A. Barr c - Warren C. Bombardt Francis E. Burroughs Joseph C. Hofmann, Jr. W. 0. Hutlinger Walter E. Hutson Bryce Jacobsen Journet Kahn Hirsch Nadel Thomas Parran, Jr. Albert A. Poppiti William D. Rendall William A. Ruhl, Jr. C. Robert Sutton A. Chesley Wilson, Jr. 1943 38% $913.00 A. Scott Abbott c - Burton Armstrong Carl B. Blaker Norman T. Crandall Harvey Dubinsky Edward H. Grubb William T. Hart John F. Hoover, Jr. Ogden Kellogg-Smith Francis S. Mason, Jr. Thomas N. Runyon H. Willard Stern Jam es L. Waranch 1944 36% $1,240.00 W. H. Brubeck Edward B. Cochran Vernon E. Derr David Dobreer Carl S. Hammen Casimir T. Krol C. Russell Levering T. E. Prout Peter Ringland Donald P. Ruhl Harrison Sasscer c - Haven E. Simmons John C. Smedley Joseph C. Smith Robert Snower Howard L. Sorenson Herbert Taylor Martin Z. Vogelhut Peter C. Wolff 1945 36% $855.00 Stephen W. Bergen George Brunn George Cayley C. W. Gallup Christian A. Hovde Donald Kaplan Michael C. Keane Arthur D. Kelso, Jr. William R. Lieb Lawrence Levin JohnD. Mack 0. M. Meredith Edward W. Mullinix Charles A. Nelson Morris Parslow Benton B. Perry Gene Thornton 1946 32% $600.00 Thomas J. Cosgrove S. H. Fitch Thomas I. Fulton, Jr. John P. Gilbert John J. Lobell John R. Maquire Vincent W. McKay .James W. Sharp Samuel Sheinkman Bruce H. Sinkey James T. Taylor Charles Van Doren Peter Weiss 1947 15% $655.00 Victor E. Barton Stephen Benedict John Brunn Arthur 0. Davis H. Gerald Hoxby Joseph I. Killorin I. Wendell Marine William Warfield Ross Rowell A. M. Schleicher Mordechai Sheinkman Eugene V. Thaw 1948 30% $1,275.00 Raphael Ben Yosef Ray Cave G. Harris Collingwood Peter J. Davies Marcus B. Finnegan Louis Frid Alan S. Maremont Robert E. Nichols Jules Pagano Lawrence H. Sherman William W. Simmons L. Wheaton Smith 1949 37% $493.00 Clarence A. Anderson Teddy F. Betts Aaron Bis berg Jonathan E. Brooks c - James W. Conrad Frederick P. Davis Peter V. Hamill Anton G. Hardy Allan P. Hoffman Chester A. Johnson Ian Lea David B. Rea Philip A. Scott Eric A. Teel David B. Weinstein 1950 33% $840.00 Bernard Clorety Patrick D. Davis Matson G. Ewell Robert L. Goldberg Ralph J. Herrod Irwin Hunt Robert N. Ikari Jerome Lansner C. Ranlet Lincoln John J. Logue Thomas J. Meyers Ben Moskowitz John Sterrett Tylden W. Streett Peter A. Whipple John L. Williams Myron L. Wolbarsht 1951 27% $594.00 Richard J. Batt D. Michael Brown John Busa John J. Coffey George I. Cowell Alfred P. Franklin Howard V. Herman Donald Koontz David W. Lane Ross E. Lilly c - John D. Oosterhout RobertN. Richman Ronald L. Simmons Herman Small William L. Sprankle Thomas J. Williams 1952 16% $250.00 John L. Fuller Charles Kluth Lancaster B. Knott Joseph Manusov David E. Napper Harry Neuman George Udel 1953 34% $501.00 Eugene E. Adkins John D. Alexander, Jr. William Aston Franklin R. Atwell c - Edward F. Bauer Duncan Brockway George K. Gerlach Stewart Greenfield Richard M. R. Hall Robert G. Hazo Paul Heineman Jerome P. Tarcher Frederick S. Wildman, Jr. Addison Worthington 1954 34% $675.00 Howard Bromberg Richard B. Carter Jesse M. Clark Charles E. Crooke c - James U. Dernehl Gerald Gediman Alfred Geier Jerry Gilden Bernard E. Jacob Joseph Kavanaugh Harley Kilborn Stephen Mainella Sydney Porter, Jr. Lawrence Sandek Samuel V. Stiles 1955 19% $181.00 Lydia S. Aston Jam es P. Chrestensen Sara C. Crooke Alexandra J. Culbertson Paul A. Lowdenslager Robert I. Marshall Barbara B. Oos.terhout Arthur C. Reisz James W. Stone 1956 27% . $308.00 Diana B. Cartier Joseph Cohen Dale B. Cummings James W. Jobes Roslyn R. Leizman Pasquale Polillo Anne D. Romano George E. Sauer Everett H. Wilson 1957 36% $400.00 Robert Bart S. Douglas Bowers Cornelia H. Burdette Jack A. Nadol Marcia D. Reff John J. Rodowsky J. Burt Siemens Alrienne L. Strassner W. Douglas Weir Rosabelle G. Wynn Harvey W. Wynn 1958 32% $412.00 Ernie Adamson Alan P. Brockway Jacques F. Cartier Raymond T. Haas Barton Johnson Roberta M. Kingsley William M. Kingsley Julia M. Lohr Gerald Milhollan Christina S. Neuman Barbara H. Palmer Mary B. Wiseman Thomas S. Yoon 1959 23% $286.00 GayP. Ahlf c - Hugh Curtler Lowell Dyar Harvey N. Goldstein Amye. Jobes David C. Jones John McDevitt III Peter M. Rice Patience G. Schenck Peter B. Schenck Carol P. Tilles William R. Tilles Diana H. Young 1960 35% $673.00 Mark Adler Betty B. Bennett Rosalie L. Boosin David Chang Ellen N. Davis c - Mary Gallagher John E. Gorecki James M. Green Katherine H. Haas Belle P. Maher Katherine S. McGuirk Ronald C. McGuirk Suzanne W. Mini Sarah R. Munson Fiona P. Murray Frank Murray FrankM. Orr Joan P. Rodowsky Peter J. Ruel Kendon L. Stubbs Patricia T. Stubbs KennethN. Thompson Michael V. Trownsell Charles L. Wolberg 1961 20% $378.00 Nancy C. Adler Victoria M. Blair-Smith Nana L. Dealy Joseph J. Faraone S. Richard Freis c - Michael W. Gold Michael C. Haley MaryR.Ham Michael W. Ham John C. Kohl Linda M. Mueller Eyvind C. Ronquist J. David Shapiro 1962 18% $485.00 David Benfield Joh an Benson Jonathan Cohen Daniel H. Cosgrove E. Ray Davis Barry L. Fisher Cinda K. Graham Tina B. Kaplan T!lmac;: l<lncr TTT �John F. Miller Howard P. Schiff David R. Schiller 1963 , 22% $1,043.00 J. Jermain Bodine Paul C. Cochran Robert G. Cozzolino Daniel T. Devereux Alan H. Dorfman Miriam G. Duhan Richard A. Duhan Marcia E. Herman-Giddens James A. Houck Margery T. Korn Sally M. Moite J. Morrow Otis Elliott A. Rosenberg c - J. William Rumpp Vernon P. Sandall Andrew D. Steiner Robert K. Thomas 1964 37% $2,508.00 John H. Adcock Arlene A. Banks William P. Banks Peter Hall Crippen Samuel F. Dunbar William W. Dunkum III Ralph E. Englesby Lawrence Feinberg Stephen C. Fineberg Miriam M. Freilicher JamesNach Linda L. Haley Scott Herman-Giddens c - John P. Hetland ·Kay Huebner Robert W. Klug Samuel N. Kramer David Jordan Paul Liebow MaryB. Main Judith C. Meyer Martha W. Nesbit Robert L. November James A. Nicholson Carol D. Otis Judith E. Stockard Jan C. Thorpe Thomas D. Watkins Jeannine P. Watson Sharon K. Wallis e rly (Continued from P.1) He was the fifth from the college to be so recognized. In addition, he told guests that John Lambros, '38, was elected to the Maryland Athletic Hall of Fame last February, the eighth from the college to be so chosen and an honor also shared by Mr. Donohue. Edward F. Lathrop, '38, a former tutor and the first to speak on Mr. Brown, recalled that he knew him first as an English student, when he wrote what he felt was a deserving paper which would bring him an A. It came back not with an A, not with a B, not with a C, D, E or even an F. "Now what could be lower than an F?" Mr. Lathrop queried. "The square root of F ... Perhaps, more importantly, I remember him as a very loyal, devoted and enthusiastir drinking companion. Ford, Kitty, and I have covered most of Maryland, both Eastern and Western shores, at one time or another. l loved him then; I love him now." BERNARD GESSNER retiring Alumni Association president, recalled the advent of the "New Regime" in 1923, when St. John's military program was abolished, and the arrival on campus shortly afterwards of the former Rhodes scholar, a "young, burley Oxford man wearing English type clothes which made him look even .Judith L. Catherine L. Zaoujal 1965 20% $401.00 Lewis Archibald Vivian R. Barry Sharon Bishop Judith A. Bromberg Abby K. Cantlon Bruce Collier Grace L. Dawson Jethro M. Eisenstein Milo H. Gibbons Jay B. Ginsburg Susan L. Ginsburg Susan Roberts Leven James R. Mcclintock John E. Merritt Craig Mooring Bruce M. Preston Scheherazade F. Smith Sandra G. Traywick Michael Woolsey 1966 25% $635.00 Robert Axtman Mark B. Bromberg Jaclyn H. Button Laurie F. Colberg Anne L. Dewees Richard R. Dewees Christopher H. Hodgkin Constance B. Holland John E. Holland III Carole P. Kelley William N. McKeachie Constance B. Merritt David E. Long James R. Mensch Douglas C. Proctor Margaret B. Ruppert Alexis DuPont Valk Cynthia S. White 1967 22% $1,164.00 Sarah J. Bell Judith S. Cannon Alice G. Chalmers Virginia V. Devenny David C. DicK.ey Helen H. Feeley Ezra Harris Nancy G. Harvey Loren E. Kelley c - Arthur Kungle, Jr. Dierdre Lenihan Clark Lobenstine E. Lovejoy Reeves Hope Z. Schladen Karen S. Walker .i\.Jorma E. Williams L. Philips Wood 1968 29% $1,212.00 Rebecca McC. Albury William R. Albury Stephen Anderton Lawrence Arnold, Jr. Luther Blackiston Donald A. Booth Mary H. Callaway Peter Coen Linda R. Dewing John Farmer Regina C. Forsyth Maria W. Geissel Dorothea W. Gillelan .Joshua T. Gillelan II Bartholomew Lee C. Kerry Nemovicher George Partlow Gilbert T. Renaut Maurine H. Rosenberg Sally Rutzky Joe Sachs Linda Sampey Jonathan H. Sinnreich Deborah Schwartz Gabrielle B. Smith c - Lee R. Tyner Charles Watson 1969 23% $330. 00 Meredith A. Anthony G. Michael Anthony Nancy W. Brown Jeffries Cothran Deborah Kalmar Anne S. Lewis Arthur H. Luse III John P. MacDonald Herbert T. Moffitt, III Joanne L. Murray Masha Z. Sinnreich 1971 29% $346.00 Douglas Bennett Dennis Berg Pamela J. Berg H. Buell III Holly Carroll .James A. Cockey Thomas N. Day George H. Elias, Jr. Jay Alexander Gold Robert B. Davis Richard Ferrier Charlotte Fletcher Andrew Garrison Maya Hasegawa c - Martin Kalmar Mark Mandel Deborah A. Moll Joan J. Mooring Barbara Mordes Cheryl E. Sirofchuck John D. Smith Thomas L. Vazakas Catherine A. Wagner Byron E. Wall 1970 24% $462.00 Roberta P. Bond Ford K. Brown Charles Carroll David D. Cicia Henry C. Constantine c - Steven dos Remedios c - Theda B. dos Remedios Melanie S. Dunleavy Ronald H. Fielding Stephen J. Forman Steven P. Hanft Steven Harvey Juan B. Ianni Kenneth Desousa Joseph James R. Hill Martha J. Kaufman Susan V. Lawrence (SF) Peter Lobell Sujay Mackey Jocelyn L. Moroney Helen A. Scharbach c - Barry N. Scher Harold Stone Lelia Straw V. Michael Victoroff 1972 13% Thomas R. Ascik Robin C. Burk $218.00 David C. Chute Susan Jane Conlin Christine F. Constantine Charles Donahue, Jr. Evan M. Dudik Ann M. Kinney Janet A. Nelson Dana E. Netherton Carol D. Shuh Grant Wiggins 1973 11% $273.00 Deborah Achtenberg David K. Allison Robin C. Jannes Mary Coughlin Jon Ferrier Richard Gasparotti Donald F. Harrison, Jr. Jeanne H. Mooring Daniel S. Pearl Paul Rosenberg Steven Sedlis Vanessa Lynn van Manen Mary Jane Young Robin Zenger 1974 14% $205.00 Ymelda M. Allison Michael Blaustein Roger C. Burk Carol V. Calhoun Erica F. Chaney Thomas Dolan Katheryn A. Ferrier Samuel T. Goldberg Michael C. Jordan Maria E. Kayanan Richard Panter Susan E. Pigman Patricia M. Pittis Charles C. Post Deborah Ross Susan A. Vowels 1975 Michael Van Beuran Graduate Institute Cecelia M. Holtman Virginia S. Newlin Mrs. Harold C. Prendergast Juanita L. Wilkinson 00 attend homecoming banquet burlier than he was," a man whose sports prowess caused the football team, which was then constantly penalized by the loss of one player or another, to look enviously toward him. In his remarks President Richard D. Weigle pointed out that, besides this being a Bicentennial year, it was the 50th anniversary of Mr. Ford's "D. Phil." degree from Oxford and the 60th anniversary of Tommy Ligon's graduation from St. John's. "The Class of 1950 was the first one for which I could sign diplomas," he said. "I still feel very close to this class." He recalled the reception given Mr. Brown when he was met at the Lamy railway station near Santa Fe by a caravan of students, who decorated their cars with such signs as that hailing him as "King of Philosophers," and who formed a band of homemade instruments. When the train finally arrived and a conductor had placed a stool at the door for Mr. Brown to step onto, the train man, who had absorbed all the excitement, observed that Mr. Brown must be an important visitor and inquired as to who he was. MR. BROWN DREW himself up to his fUll height and announced, "I'm the secretary of defense." In still another tribute, a poem to Mr. Brown was ready by St. John's tutor J. Winfree Smith in the absence of its author, Harry I. Rusteberg, '30. Altogether 22 of the original 32 members of the Class of '50 returned for the anniversary. "I think there is no greater honor a tutor at St. John's or a teacher anywhere can have than to be counted a student with his students," Mr. Bart said in accepting his honorary class membership. He went on to add that "the alumni have showed what the college can be. We are enormously proud of all their achievements at all levels." He praised particularly two leaders who he said had made it possible for St. John's to continue during the past 25 years President Weigle and former Dean Jacob Klein. The secretary of the class, Theodore W. Hendricks, in announcing that Mr. Bart had been named for the honor, cited the leaders his class had produced in the academic world - Tom Simpson, Ranlet Lincoln, Bern a rd Fleischmann, Myron Wolbarsht, Bob Goldwin, and Bob Goldberg-and those in the business world- John Williams, Jim Frame, Tom Fromme, and Herb Feinberg. "Time is passing on, and those of us who have returned to the campus over the years have noticed that Archie McCourt's strip mining operation is no longer present," he said. "Archie THEODORE HENDRICKS, of Baltimore, speaks during alumni homecoming ceremonies in which Robert Bart, far left, was ·honored. (photo by Will Simmons) Mccourt was the indomitable Scotsman who had charge of the physical plant of the college, including the heating system. "EARLY IN AUGUST he began to stockpile soft coal on the back campus for use in the winter. We often wondered what was the use of this huge mountain of coal since the heating system did not work half the time. But each year it appeared for our wonder, and now it is gone. "Much to our delight, this is one of the many problems that Dr. Weigle has solved at St. John's. The whole place is heated up since he has come. And we are grateful for his leadership although I daresay he would like to have some of that soft coal back." The invocation was delivered by a member of the class, the Rev. Frederick J. Beardsley, of Richmond, Va. As part of their silver anniversary, the Class of '50 held a seminar on Saturday morning led by Mr. Bart and Mr. Goldwin, former dean and now a White House counselor to' President Ford. "We talked about ourselves during the seminar and about how we had changed, and in thinking about it afterwards, what we concluded that it all boiled down to was that we all loved each other," Mr. Carr said. �(Continued from Page the gala day or the arrival of nation's chief," the city's daily, The Evening Capital, reported, recalling the abundance of both which had greeted Teddy Roosevelt. As for flags, there was only one between the station and Church Circle, and that, the paper said, was displayed "by a Greek," over his home and confectionery store on, West Street. He was Gus Cardes. "A Greek honored the President's coming more than the native born American citizens,'' the writer continued. A stranger on the campus shared his feelings. "Does the Annapolis public ever enthuse?" he lamented. "Well, hardly ever,'' came the answer from a resident, a person described by the paper as "not a native." • I (Continued from Page 8) photoelectric effect in a way that could not be done while scientists assumed that light travels only in waves. Students perform another experiment due to Robert Milliken which verifies the equation for the photo-electric effect that Einstein proposed. Using a mercury vapor lamp with light filters and a electric cell, students show that the energy of the electrons released from the cathode of the cell is proportionate to the frpm1PnP.v of the light. who won the 1922 Nobel prize in physics after developing a theory of the nature of the atom that explained the atomic spectra. At 28 Bohr proposed that electrons revolving in a fixed orbit do not radiate energy, but that when the electron jumps from one orbit to another, energy is either radiated or absorbed. The radiated energy is given off in the form of light rays of certain .discrete frequencies. The frequencies form series fitting a certain mathematical formula first discovered by Johann J. Balmer, a German spectroscopist. Bohr was the first to devise a theory from which Balmer's series could be derived. Students verify Balmer's series for hydrogen using a spectroscope. IRWIN SCHROEDINGER, an Austrian who developed one of the great theories of quantum mechanics. In 1926 Schroedinger put into mathematical form the revolutionary idea of a French physicist, Louis Victor de Broglie, that the motion of material particles is guided by the so-called pilot waves. The formulation of the "Schroedinger equations" put quantum theory on a strict mathematical basis and provided the foundation for its further rapid expansion. CLINTON J. DA VIS SON, American who checked Schroedinger's paper experimentally, provides the laboratory with an electron diffraction experiment. in it a 7 • l The monument was dedicated April 18, 1911, one day earlier than the bronze plaque indicates to accommodate President Taft's schedule. This year the Naval Academy's French Club held its annual wreath laying ceremony at 4 p.m. November 11 to honor the Frenchmen who died in Annapolis en route to Yorktown where, 9,800 strong and under the leadership of Lafayette, they helped win a crucial battle of the Revolution. They encamped in Annapolis in September, 1781. OFFICIALS FROM St. John's and the Naval Academy were joined by representatives of the French Embassy for the occasion. "Old - very old - Annapolitans can recall their greatgrandfathers speaking of a few simple headstones that marked the E!Taves of some of the French dead buried here," The Evening Capital reported. It was a Naval Academy professor, the late Professor Henry Marion, who suggested the monument. He had been in Cherbourg when the body of John Paul Jones was removed from French soil to the Naval Academy and was touched by the care given by the French to a cemetery for American seamen. They had been killed June 27, 1864, in a sea fight off Cherbourg between the US sloop of war Kearsarge and the Confederate cruiser, the Alabama. It was time, Professor Marion felt, for a reciprocal act which would honor those French who had given their lives to the American cause. The Sons of the American Revolution agreed, and in April 26, 1906, five years ~ndependence." narrow beam of electrons is scattered by a thin metal foil, and the pattern of scattered electrons is photographed. WERNER whose "Physical Principle of the Quantum Theory'' introduced what is known as Heisenberg's "Uncertainty Principle." This holds that when measuring certain quantities which come in pairs, such as position and velocity, the more precisely you know one, the less precisely you know the other. The laboratory concludes on a philosophical note: th.e precise description of the physical world becomes impossible. Discussion can return to questions raised in the students' great books seminars. To quote from Heisenberg: ". . . It is now profitable to review the fundamental discussions, so important for epistemology, of the difficulty of separating the subjective and objective aspects of the world. Many of the abstractions that are characteristic of modern theoretical physics are to be found discussed in the philosophy of past centuries." memory. St. John's President Thomas Fell accepted the monument for the college, and Ambassador Jusserand spoke. The monument, which was the work of .J. Maxwell Miller, Baltimore sculptor, reads: "A tribute of Gratitude to the brave soldiers and sailors of France buried here who gave their lives in the struggle for American Independence The memory of their deeds will endure forever 1781-1783" Years earlier, in 1885, the men previously had been honored. Col. Oswald Tilghman, an historian, located the place where the French had been buried. men climbs • . . . . . . . . . . . . . ., . . . . . class Adler to deliver first (Continued from P. 1) of the Key Auditorium for a continuation of the discussion. Other lectures will be: January 30 George Anastaplo, member of the faculty of Rosary College, Chicago, a student of constitutional law, particularly the Bill of Rights, title to be announced; February 20 - Robert Goldwin, special White House consultant to President Ford and former St. .John's dean, "John Locke and the Constitution"; March 5 - Herbert Storing, member of the faculty of the Department of Political Science, University of Chicago, "The· Founders' View on Slavery''; April 2 - Donald L. Kemmerer, professor of economics at the university of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "The Role of the Monetary System in American History"; April 23 - Max Isenbergh, professor of law at the University of Maryland, "The Pursuit of Happiness in the American Constitutional System"; April 30 - Eva Brann, St. .John's tutor, "The Declaration of before the monument arrived in Annapolis and was dedicated, the cornerstone was laid. Miss Amelia Fowler, greatgranddaughter of the Comte Francois .Joseph Paul de Grasse, the brilliant French Naval officer who held the English at bay long enough to permit the Yorktown victory, placed the first bit of mortar under the stone with a silver trowel. Madame Jean J. Jusserand, wife of the French ambassador, laid a wreath upon it. FIVE YEARS LATER the ladies were back for the dedicatory services. It was Miss Fowler and a gentleman identified as Count de Chambrun, a descendant of Lafayette, who pulled the canvas from the pink granite monument with its bronze plaque of a heroic, female figure, emblematic of sorrowing (Continued from Page 1) "Once the planning group arrived at a coherent and cogent sequence of reading and experiments, we would envisage trying out the sequence as an alternative track to the atomic physics presently studied in the second semester of the senior year," he said. "We do not propose atthis time to venture on decisions as to the final form of the laboratory program as a whole. It could be that ultimately we would allow for limited alternatives in the senior year." ln a proposal to the Surdna Foundation, Dean Wilson wrote: "The study of perception - of the processes whereby the visual, tactile, sounding world comes to be for human beings - first became the subject of systematic scientific investigation in the work of Fechner, Helmholtz, Hering, Mach and others in the second half of the 19th century. "In recent decades there has been an upsurge of interest in the subject, and some remarkable advances have been made, dependent in part on new refinements of instrumentation, but spurred on too by the realization that results here can be relevant to age-old philosophic inquiries. It was Mach's conviction that 'the foundations of science as a whole, and of physics in particular, await their next greatest elucidations from the side of biology, and especially from the analysis of sensations'; and the claim remains a serious one. "IN ANY CASE, what appeals to us at St. John's is that the study of perception can involve the student quickly in an accessible, ongoing, open ended investigation, in which questions of a philosophical nature, naive or otherwise, can be legitimately and appropriately encouraged. No study lies more directly athwart the intersection of 'self' and 'world.' For today's undergraduate, faced in one form or another with the dichotomy of the 'two cultures,' we believe such study will hold a special interest and can have a special value." Meet any of St. John's 107 freshmen at random and chances will be almost two to one that the student will be a male. There are 69 men and 38 women. No one knows why the major increase in men students. Every third student will be 19 years of age or older. Thirtyseven members of the class fall into that age group as compared to a fourth of last year's freshmen. A statistical~ man class compiled by the admissions office reveals that 14.9 per cent are over the age of 20, including one student, Ira Weiss, who last month turned 66. Five other students are 20, and another 16are19. "WE DON'T KNOW the reason why we are getting a much older class," Joanne Aitken, director of admissions, said. ''Older students tend to be serious. They've done other things, and know what they want. More of them tend to be really good students." Every third student will be a National Merit Honors student, and a large proportion, some 36 students, will have been to college elsewhere before coming to St. John's. They include two students, Mary Cumming and Mr. Weiss, who already have their bachelor's degrees. Last year's fall class included 23 who had been to college elsewhere. A solid 52 per cent of this year's freshmen graduated in the top academic fifth of their class. Most of them - 77 - went to public schools. Nineteen attended independent schools and 11 parochial. Two of the students will have entered St. John's before completing high school. Altogether 36 or 33.6 per cent will be receiving financial aid. STATISTICS developed by Ms. Aitken reveal these figures: Percentage of men, 64.5 per cent; women, 35.5 per cent. National Merit Honors, 39, or 36.4 per cent, including two scholars, 12 finalists, five semifinalists, and 20 commended. Rank in class: First fifth, 52.3 per cent; second fifth, 30. 7 per cent; third fifth, 12.5 per cent; and fourth fifth, 4.5 per cent. (Continued from p. 1) "When he climbed past a the next day proved more of a task than getting it up there. The jalopy and tried to enter his ofpoor cow was so done in it had to fice, there was more awaiting be disposed of. There being no him. The doorway had been confessors, the whole student bricked up with real bricks and body was assessed for the price of mortar. "More has happened at St. the cow. "More recently former Dean John's than a series of financial Robert Goldwin found two crises, but even those are inautomobiles half way up the front teresting.'' AN 1899 RAT Tat is full of cow stone steps of McDowell and on the steps of the Pinkney Hall side stories, including an account of a as though they had been driven calf taken bodily up two flights of stairs in Pinkey and placed in the there recklessly and abandoned. bed of a professor, who already Supplying expertise will be a had a room full of "ponies" group who will include Dr. Myron books used for cribbing which he Wolbarsht, '50, Duke University had confiscated. "Of course, when the professor Medical Center bio-physicist, who has broken new ground in his returned home and found the work on the neurophysiology of addition to his stable, the calf was vision in the goldfish; Dr. cuffed and kicked all the way Stephen A. George, who is downstairs,'' the Rat Tat said. The appearance of a cow upon associated with the Neuroscience Program at Amherst College; the dais in the college chapel, Dr. Robert Steinman, chairman located in the Great Hall, caused of the Department of Psychology, some sensation during the days of University of Maryland, and Dr. Dr. Thomas Fell. It was an John C. Levenson, member of the episode which was said to have Department of Psychology, ended the practice of pasturing cows on campus. University of Maryland. �THE REPORTER Published College Relations St. John's College Annapolis, Md. 21404 • • t A mass by Douglas Allanbrook especially commissioned for one of a series of four concerts St. Anne's Church's will be sung by the at 7:30 p.m. - a service of of which the music intended to be a part. Scheduled for the third Sunday in Advent, it will be played by John Cooper, church organist, on St. Anne's new $80,000 Freiburger organ, a German constructed, tracker action organ built like those of Johann Sebastian Bach's day. The work was commissioned for St. Anne's Church by Mrs. L. Corrin Strong, an honorary member of the college's Board of Visitors and Governors. Late this winter Mr. Allanbrook, who presented a harpsichord concert at the college earlier in November, will be heard in concert at 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 15, at the Phillips Art Gallery, Washington, when he plays a program of his own piano music. Besides the mass, which he completed during the summer, the St. John's tutor and composer recently finished a quintet for oboe, clarinet, violin, viola and cello which is dedicated to his former teacher, Nadia Boulanger. He also recently completed a piano piece entitled "Naples," a tarantella which serves as a companion piece for another of his compositions with an evocative Italian theme, "Venice," a barcarolle. P.1) school by the State House to the new college on Nov. 11, 1789. William Pinkney is one of the two known graduates of King William School. Two major heads of the college - John McDowell and Hector Humphries, the first principal and fifth president - figure in another exhibit. Washington is seen writing to McDowell concerning "the dereliction" of his grandson, a lad of sixteen and then a student at the college. The exhibit continues with material covering the Civil War, when St. John's was closed, and through the early part of this century. The gallery will be open Monday from 7 to 8, Tuesday, from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., Wednesday from 7 to 10 p.m.; Thursday from 1:30 to 4:30 and from 7to8p.m., Friday from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. and 7 to 8 p.m. and Saturday from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. ' "Civilization," Kenneth Clark's color film series, will be seven to the on evenings 7. cneau1ed the Auditorium at 8 p.m., the series will be shown in sets of two, 35minute films an evening until the final evening when only one will be screened. There will be no charge. "Civilization" traces the cultural life of western man from the fall of the Roman empire through the 20th century and focuses on the literature, and history of each successive period. The schedule for the films includes: Jan. 7: "The Frozen World" and "The Great Thaw"; Jan. 14: "Romance and Reality" and "Man - The Measure of All Things"; Jan. 21: "The Hero as Artist" and "Protest and Communication"; Jan. 28: "Grandeur and Obedience" and "The Light of Experience"; Feb. 11: "The Pursuit of Happiness" and "The Smile of Reason"; Feb. 28: "The Worship of Nature" and "The Fallacies of Hope," and Feb. 25: "Heroic Materialism." electron in an exn4!!rim""nt ll'!""v1<1:""11 manager. The classics aren't limited to 130 great books in the humanities at St. John's College. Another scientific set marks the second semester of the senior year. They are a series of milestone papers, almost all published in the first three decades of the 20th century, which have revolutionized man's understanding of the universe and laid the foundations of the atomic age. Beginning with those of Michael Faraday and J.J. Thomson, the papers represent the landmark discoveries of atomic theory written by men who were .giants among modern physicists. Almost all were Nobel prize-winners, and the experiments which they describe or suggest are those which the students spend a semester repeating. Among the papers are those of Ernest Rutherford, Albert r Einstein, Irwin Schroedinger, Clinton J. Davisson, Werner The St. John's College Student Heisenberg, and Neils Bohr. The experiments vary from one Employment Office has opened for the third year with a number used by Rutherford to determine of students available for part- the structure of the atom, fo one by Einstein indicating that light, time work in town. Jeffrey Shea, Albany, Calif., in addition to being a wave, is senior, who is serving as composed of quanta. - small manager, said the office may be particles of energy - to that of reached Monday through Friday Neils Bohr's important exfrom 1 to 4 p.m. by telephoning p e rim en t involving the measurement of wave lengths of 263-2371, extension 21. in the hydrogen spectrum. "The Student Employment PAPERS extend the study Office provides an alternative source of workers for local of electricity and magnetism, businessmen seeking part-time which marks the first semester of help compatible with academic the senior year. During that semester readings center around schedules," Mr. Shea said. "The versatility of the students a textbook type manual written is seen through some of the past by St. John's tutors. As a concentrated study of jobs: draftsmen, clerks, watchmen, proof readers, painters, physics, the work does not chauffeurs, and house and boat provide a particularly easy year in which a student completes his repairmen. "Students this year again offer four years at St. John's. "On the whole the senior a variety of skills. They are available for tutoring, in math, laboratory is tough," Robert L. the sciences, French, German,f Spaeth, who has taught it, said. Spanish, Italian and Greek, "We go into some of the expainting, sailing, working as periments, which tend to become more and more complicated, in heavy equipment operators." used to measure the ratio of J.J. Thomson. At left is great detail. It's a challenge. Much of what students have learned in previous years they are actively using in the senior laboratory, including what they have learned in mechanics, optics and electricity. "We use experiments involving mathematical techniques which are accessible to the students. Some of it involves calculus. We don't include Einstein's Theory of Relativity in laboratory although a whole semester is devoted to it during the senior mathematics tutorial." Among the men whose papers the St. John's students study and whose experiments they repeat are: SIR JOSEPH JOHN THOMSON, British physicist who received the 1906 Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of the electron. In 1895 Thomson began to investigate the mysterious rays which occurred when electricity was passed through a vacuum in a glass tube. Because they seemed to come from the 1cathode, or negative electrical 1pole, in the tube, they were called 1cathode rays. No one had succeeded in deflecting them by an electric force. It was assumed that cathode waves were like light waves. Thomson felt they were really tiny particles of matter. He built ·a special cathode-ray tube in which the rays passed between charged metal plates inside the glass. The rays became visible a~ a dot on a fluorescent screen placed inside the tube. By measuring the deflection of the dot, Thomson could determine the ratio of the charge to the mass of the particle. From the direction of their deflection, he decided that they were negatively charged. Because the ratio for these particles was always the same, he felt sure that they were fundamental parts of the atom. These particles were called electrons. After their study of Thomson, students perform "Milliken's oildrop experiment," named for Robert Milliken, who first devised and performed it. This entails spraying oil into a ,little space between two electrically charged plates of metal and then turning on electrical voltage and watching the drops rise and fall. By measuring speed and time, they learn the number of electrons on each drop. ERNEST RUTHERFORD, British physicist known as the "father of nuclear science," who worked out the nuclear theory of the atom in 1911. In 1902 Rutherford published his theory of atomic transmutation. The theory explains that radioactive elements give off electrically charged particles known as alpha and beta rays. Later he bombarded thin metal foils with alpha particles and from the pattern of scattering of the alpha particles concluded that most of the material of the atom must be concentrated in a tiny nucleus. The paper of EINSTEIN which students read is entitled "Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Production and Conversion of Light," one of three papers he published at the age of 26 in the epoch-making year of 1905. This was the first paper to claim that light, in addition to being a wave, was composed of quanta, small particles of energy. He used the quantum theory to explain the photoelectric effect. This effect takes place when light hits certain substances, particularly metals, with sufficient force to release electrons. Einstein showed that when quanta, or packets of light energy strike metal they force it to release electrons. These elec· trons form an electric current, as in a photoelectric cell. This helped justify the quantum theory and explained the. (Continued on Page 7) � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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/bfd66b8b05d262bfda25f9f81837b18c.pdf 1a8b62b8e5772a7fa1258dab35771237 PDF Text Text ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY The St. John's do they do? What can you do with a diploma from St. John's College? The a n s w e r , put s i m p 1y ,' i s everything. That emerges as a result of a study compiled by the Alumni Office showing that students with degrees granted since 1941 under the current New Program curriculum have careers ranging from A (actors) to Z (zoologists). A quick glance reveals a student can become a mathematicalstatistician, a computer systems program planner, a psychologist working with disturbed teenagers, a trial attorney, a foundation head, a stockbroker, a librarian, an oral historian, a geneticist, a clinical research coordinator for a drug firm, a professor, a psychotherapist, and a foreign service officer. The results come in the midst of a national trend redirecting college curricula toward specific careers, and in the face of predictions that the liberal arts college in America is an impractical vestige of a more luxuriant time and that its days are numbered. St. John's represents perhaps the ultimate in undergraduate liberal education in the United States, an effort to prepare young men and women as well educated persons in the fullest, most serious sense of the word. It makes no pretense at channeling them into particular vocations; but a hard-nosed look at what graduates of the New Program have been doing since 1941 reveals that in the crassly cold terms of professional advancement and of dollars and cents, the preparation here has led to an ~stonishing variety of successful careers. FOR THE STUDY the Alumni Office used in part questionnaires it had gathered from graduates of the New Program, excluding replies from alumni who did only part of their undergraduate work here. Of the 1,122 alumni who have received degrees from the Annapolis campus since 1941, when the program's first class was graduated, and of the additional 268 who had received degrees from the Santa Fe campus, or a total of 1,400, some 324 graduates or nearly a quarter returned the forms. Of the 324, Thomas Parran, Jr., director of alumni activities, said more than two-thirds have either gone to graduate school or have taken additional training or are doing so now. · The questionnaires continue to bear out what has been true of St. John's from the earliest years of the New Program; a large percentage of graduates become educators. More than 75 answers reveal that graduates are either teaching or in supportive positions in education. Law came next with about 30 graduates actively involved. A wide variety of businesses involve 22 graduates, not to mention those persons in finance, real estate and insurance. Next came medicine, with doctors, nurses, and hospital administrative personnel accounting for 17; then came government with nine. After that vocations · narrowed ·down into smaller groups, with many dif• 13o/o meet spouse here St. John's College students have a 13 per cent chance of meeting their spouses here, according to a sampling of alumni who have attended the college since it first admitted women in 1951. Replies to a questionnaire sent by the Alumni Office disclose that 66 of 478 former students met either their husband or wife as students here. Data on divorces appeared less specifically recorded on the forms; five persons indicated divorce. Information on the current national divorce rate was not im.mediately available to determine whether St. John's marriages enjoy greater viability than in the country as a whole. ficult to categorize. Some graduates in business, government and engineering also can be interpreted as falling into the realm of science. IN SPEAKING OF St. John's non-specialist education, several graduates have commented on its career value. Miss Sharon Bishop, '65, of Reston, Va., who has been promoted to an associate in the Washington office of the country's largest management consulting firm Booz, Allen & Hamilton - in a recent letter to the college business office, said of her advancement: "Clearly not any of this would have been possible without the prior investment by the college. In addition, I have used the St. John's experience throughout my academic and business career and have always found an advantage over the more typical education my colleagues receive. The ability to think, clearly, insightfully and incisively, has been invaluable and quite literally, money in my pocket.'' The survey brought one comment from an alumna that the St. John's graduate "is so adaptable because of the kind of education he has received that he is equipped to handle anything." It came from Mrs. Rosalie Levine Boosin, '60, a New York City teacher, who wrote: "You ask how the Alumni Association can be of help. St. John's is a small college and not widely known. Yet the type of education offered is superb and unique. St. John's should be more widely publicized. Emphasis should be placed on the fact that the thinking processes of the students are developed, cultivated, and enhanced. "This kind of publicity should be brought to the attention of business and professional employers. They should be made to realize that the St. John's graduate is so adaptable because of the kind of education he has received, that he is equipped to handle anything. Many employers in our world of specialization are of the opinion, and wrongly so, that students who did not specialize are ill-fitted to serve in a specifialized field. cox1tin.ued on .P. ·--, 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1~ ~1 1 1~1 1m1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1696 01138 0282 __r PORTER VOLUME Ill, ISSUE 1 SEPTEMBER, 1975 Graduates lead St. John's alumni contributed $38,000 during last year's annual giving campaign and led the way in the number of gifts made under the college's three special gift categories. In addition, alumni contributed $18,800 in capital gifts. "The figures underscore their continuing support for St. John's, making alumni the college's most substantial, individual donors,'' Thomas Parran, Jr., alumni director, said. Since 1949 alumni have given a total of $3,956,605 to the college. All other individuals have contributed $2,467,736 for the same period. In connection with its fund raising effort, the college established two additional, special gift categories last year. Besides its already existing King William Associates, who give $100, it established the St. John's Sponsors for $500 donors and a category called the President's Council for $1,000 donors. ALUMNI LED IN each category. A breakdown for the year ended July 1 revealed these figures: King William Associates, 153 alumni, 23 parents, 28 friends, or a total of 204; St. John's Sponsors, 10 alumni, no parents, 6 friends, or a total of 16; President's Council, 5 alumni, 2 parents, 7 friends, or a total of 148. "The worth of these prestige gift categories is readily seen in the case of the alumni," Mr. (Continued on P. 4) Nat'I group selects tutor Eva T.H. Brann, St. John's tutor, is one of four persons to be nominated by President Ford for membership on the U.S. Advisory Commission on International Education and Cultural Affairs. The nine member body appraises the educational and cultural programs of the U.S. Government and gives the President advice and guidance about the programs. Nominated along with her for terms ending May 11, 1977 were Richard T. Burress, associate director and senior fellow, Hoover Institute, Stanford University, and William French Smith, San Marino, Calif., attorney. Nominated for a term expiring May 11, 1978, was James A.S. Leach, president of Flamegas Companies, Davenport, Ia. Earlier this month Miss Brann participated in a panel dealing with the smaller Platonic dialogues at a meeting of the Americal). Politic.al, ,Science Association in San Francisco. WILLIAM B. DUNHAM (photo by David Pickall) Ex65, enters class '79 Ira Weiss, St. John's 65-yearold freshman, believes he couldn't be starting to college under more auspicious circumstances. The college has been "more than kind." His three sons are heartily behind him, and he has quickly made friends with his ne]ghbors near his 200-year-old house on Cornhill Street, five minutes walk from the college. Mr. Weiss retired last November as senior vicepresident of the National Bank of North America in New York, winding up 40 years in banking and law. He comes here with a law degree from Brooklyn Law School, earned in 1931 when he was attending school at nights. Mr. Weiss first heard about St. John's during the 1960's when one of his sons thought about enrolling. "They all love the idea of my going," he said. "They are all a hundred per cent behind it. They say, 'If inflation gets too much, we'll chip in and send you. You sent us; now let us send you.' '' He paid a second visit to the campus in November,-1973. "Everyone wa5 more than kind," he recalled. "I felt then that there never had been such a group of people, none of whom I had ever met before, more warm, lovely, receptive and encouraging, and doing all the things to make one feel good." ' p.,4) William B. Dunham, for the past two years director of the Office of College Relations, has been named St. John's vicepresident. President Richard D. Weigle said he assumes a new post established as the result of St. John's quinquennial review of the college polity. With the revision, the former position of provost has been replaced by that of vicepresident. As vice-president Mr. Dunham will have primary responsibility for fund raising as well as for the general administration of the Annapolis college. With careers in both government and education, Mr. Dunham came to St. John's from a position as senior consultant and member of the Washington firm of Douglas Trout Associates, Inc., consultants in higher education. Prior to joining that firm, he served as vice-president and secretary of Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., from 1963 to 1972. DURING THE 20-year period from 1943 to 1963, Mr. Dunham (Continued on P. 4) SJ campuses add expert Charles A. Cooley, a consultant in fund raising to private schools, colleges and other non-profit institutions, has been named a special assistant to the president of St. John's College with responsibilities at both its Annapolis and its Santa Fe campuses. Mr. Cooley, who recently moved to Annapolis from Dorset, Vt., will assist the college on a half-time basis, President Richard D. Weigle said. Author of six books on fund raising, Mr. Cooley since 1961 has assisted insititutions extending from Nova Scotia to Florida in long range planning and development. Among his services has been to conduct four seminars a year for college presidents and secondary school headmasters, workshops at which more than 1, 700 institutions have been represented. Prior to establishing himself as an individual consultant he was associated with the University of Pittsburgh, where he was director of development for the university's undergraduate college and where he was a special assistant to the chancellor, helping with a long range $75-mill,ion qevelopment p~o~ra111 ~onsisting of m,ore than 1,400 ·projects. · · ' �PAGE 2 SEPTEMBER, 1975 THE REPORTER t. ohn's graduate 'can do ( ContinuM from P. 1) "YET THE EMPHASIS on logic, comprehension, and application of principles along with the development of verbal ability is so superior in the St. John's curriculum, that a St. John's graduate is better prepared for employment than graduates of most conventional colleges. This kind of information should be passed on to the business and professional community." From records drawn from its alumni survey and from others maintained by the Alumni Office, Mr. Parran said a student can leave St. John's and become a director of an information center advising foundations, as has Stephen Benedict after 14 years as an. associate with the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. , He can become a city planner like Jack Ladd Carr, now secretary of research and planning for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Baltimore, or Bruce R. Baldwin, planner for a municipal housing program at Ft. Wayne, Ind., or a musician like Joel Shim berg, who makes his living as an "old-fashioned fiddler" in Mt. Vision, N.Y. Mr. Shimberg is one of several one-of-a-kind careerists among New Program graduates. That category also includes Stephen Bach, farmer; Michael Wiener, boat builder; David Simon, typographer; Leslie H. Gould, park ranger; Ellsworth Bingham Davis, cartographer; Peter J. Davies, director and program coordinator with Family Planning in the Bronx; Deborah Achtenberg, a research assistant with the National Urban Coalition, and Robert E. Fields, inventor and manufacturer. Other one-of-a-kind careerists for St. John's are Thomas I. Fulton, retirement fund administrator for the United Mine Workers Welfare and Retirement Fund; David Roberts, a war games designer, and Warren P. and Barbara (Dvorak) Winiarski, who operate a vineyard. St. John's has produced writers, including Richard Harris, author and member of The New Yorker staff, and Robert Campbell, former Life writer and recent nominee for the National Book Award. Warren M. Zeik has written three books, including a "St. John's type phantasy" called "The Karma Machine" under the pen name of Michael Davidson. J.P. Tarcher earns a living as a and T. Lansdale Hill as a partner in an n,,ll,,.~m~i.,,.;.,.,. and public relations firm. Among graduates who are free-lance writers are Gene Thornton, Rachel Sullivan, and Robin Chalek. Editors include Ray Cave, executive editor of "Sports Illustrated;" Philip T. Ansteth, editor on The San Antonio Express News;" Nana L. May Dealy, editor for the European Free Trade Association; Susan V.. Lawrence, copy editor for Physicians International Press; Sara Robinson Mara,. managing editor for an Orlando, Fla., weekly, and Karen Stagg Simon, copy editor for a New York publishing firm. Serving as production editors for two different textbook firms are Pamela Starr and Laurence Feinberg. Gay-Diane Singer Baratta is a writer for a firm devoted to "team buildinl! and creative problem solving." George Udel ·. is a mediaconsultant, film maker, editorwriter and producer. The Encyclopedia Britannica employs three alumni: Charles Van Doren, vice-president of the editorial staff; John Van Doren, philosophical researcher; and Meredith Artis Anthony, a research specialist. In education a number of graduates teach at elementary or secondary levels in both public and private schools. An incomplete list of graduates teaching in colleges or universities reveals these persons and institutions to be represented in teaching or in academic ad- · ministrative posts: C. Robert Morris, University of Minnesota; Harry Neumann, Scripps College; Morris Parslow, Grinnell College; Peter M. Rice, University of Georgia; John William Rumpp, University of North Carolina; Bruce Collier, Harvard University; Priscilla Shore, Santa Barbara Art Institution; Alan P. Brockway, University of Colorado; Herman Glenn Ballard, St. Mary's College; W. Douglas Weir, University of Maryland; Myron Lee Wolbarsht, Duke University; Rogers C. Albritton, University of California at Los Angeles; Stephen Fineberg, University of Texas; Daniel T. Devereaux, University of Virginia; Joseph Killorin, Savannah State College; James A. Houck, Youngstown State University; Charles Grant Luckhardt, Emory University; Ellen Davis, SUNY; Carl S. Hammen, University of Rhode Island; John Kinloch, East Tennessee State University; C. Ranlet Lincoln. University of Chicago; Linda McConnell Meriam, St. Norbert College; Alfred Geier, University of Rochester; Kaymond Seitz, SUNY; George M. Van Sant, Mary Washington College; Neal Weiner, Marlboro College; Warren M. Zeik, Marymount College; Edward Bauer, Colorado College; William P. Banks, Pomona College; Adrian C. Mayer, University of London; William A. Barr, Naval Academy; Richard Carter, Windham College; William Cromartie, Stockton State College; Philip P. Chandler, University of Notre Dame, and Jan Blits, Boston College. Mary C. Callaway is a tutor in Old Testament at Union Theological Seminary. Two graduates associated with development offices are Allenna Dungan Leonard, member of the Federal City College staff, and James Baldwin, associate dean of development of the University of Miami School of Medicine. Donald S. Kaplan is a principal assistant to the schools superintendent of New York City, where he supervises 18 schools; Dorik V. Mechau, an education consultant in Alaska, and Ralph Englesby, school administrator with International Schools Services in Indonesia. Among graduates who have entered the field of social work are Helen Hobart Feeley, who does social work in Staffordshire, England: John C. Smedley, supervisor of a residential care treatment center for children; Sandra Gillmeister' Tra~wick, who works with handicapped children under auspices of the United Cerebral Palsy Association; Carolyn E. Brown, a school social worker, and Henry D. Braun, regional supervisor for a three-county area for Maryland's Department of Juvenile Services. The church has claimed a number of graduates. Among them are Frederick P. Davis, John W. Hildebrand, J. Donald Libby, John J. Lobell, John H. Strange, C. Robert Sutton, G. Harris Collingwood, Paul Coleman Cochran, -R. Douglas Bendall, and Christian A. Hovde. spent tapestry weaving ( Gobelins method) will enter the Benedictine Priory in London this fall as a postu1ant. Among graduates who have become librarians are Rudolph Charles Ellsworth, Queen's University, Ontario; Toni Karen Thomas Nelson, medical reference librarian in Wilmette, Ill.; Cynthia Siehler White, Library of Congress; Duncan Brockway, Hartford Seminary Foundation; Rebecca Brinkley, Lovington, N.M., public library, and Jeffrey A. Sinks, California State University at Fresno. Francis S. Mason, a former assistant to the president of Steuben Glass, recently became a new associate director of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. The government at both Federal and State levels employs a number of graduates. Robert A. Goldwin is a White House consultant for President Ford; Miriam S. Freilicher, an oral historian with the Department of Labor; Donald A. Phillips, personnel manager, US Civil Service Commission on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse; Harrison J. Sheppard, assistant regional director of the Federal Trade Commission, and Jacob de Raat is an executive officer with the Consumer Products Safety Commission. Peter Hall Crippen is a public health adviser for the U.S. Public Health Service and Cheryl E. Sirofchuck a psychometrist with the Veterans Administration. Martha J. Kaufman is an investigator for the Ohio Civil Rights Commission, which administers Ohio's laws against discrimination. John D. Oosterhout is a member of the tracking division staff for the Goddard Space Flight Center. An incomplete list of New Program graduates reveal that these are practicing law: Gilbert T. Renaut, Bettina Briggs, Jay Alexander Gold, Lee Reichelderfer 'fyner, Daniel E. Walsh, George · F. Bingham, Irwin L. Schroeder, Harvey Goldstein, Joshua T. Gillelan, Peter Weiss, Alvin Fross, Richard F. Fielding, Helen Anastaplo Scharbach, David C. Dickey, James G. Huber, Bernard Jacob, David Warfield Ross, Sally Rutzky, J. Burt Siemens, Ronald Silver, Wayne R. Brandow, and Sinclair Gearing. An abbreviated list of graduates who are physicians includes Joseph Green, W. Kyle Smith, Jr., William Hatfield, J. Louis Hedeman, Stephen J. anything' Forman, Barry Fisher, David Dobreer, Thomas G. Keens, Sharon Marselas Landman, Paul Rosenberg, and Oliver Korshin. D. Michael Brown is a dentist. Among women who have become nurses are Judy Meyer and Amanda Fowler Stimson. K. Elizabeth Jackson (Foxe) is a medical administrator in Saginaw, Mich. A large proportion have chosen to enter business. These include Allan Hoffman, marketing manager; Joseph C. Hofmann, executive with Goodyear; Ahmet Ertegun, president of the Atlantic Recording Co.; Harry Gerald Hoxby, managing director of DuBois Chemicals in New South Wales; Charles S. Lerner, vicepresident of an economics and operations research firm; Merle Shore, proprietor of Santa Barbara's The Village Frame; Temple Porter, owner of a Good Earth Country Store; Lovejoy Reeves, manager of sales promotion for Avon Products; Allen H. Reid, camera repair shop owner; Lowell Shindler, president of Coffee Breaks Industries, distributor of machines and coffee supplies; W.W. · Simmons, vice-president of a boat supply firm, and Shire Chafkin, a sales manager. The computer industry claims such a large proportion of New Program graduates that it . deserves a special category. Graduates are affiliated with private industry, government and with social systems. Among the men and women in this field is L. Wheaton Smith, IBM data processing executive in Tokyo. David E. Riggs, who has mastered Persian, is senior systems programmer with the Louis Berger International in Iran. George R. Trimble, Jr., is president of his own independent computer consulting company, TLogic, Inc., at Princeton, N.J. James H. Frame is a director with the IBM System Development Division Programing Center in Palo Alto, Calif. Working as analysts, programmers, and in the manufacture of equipment are such people as Michael Ham, David E. Long, Robin Kowalchuk Burk, Susan Smith Wigutoff, George E. Sauer, Susan A. Vowels, Thomas N. Day, Grayson Dean Hendricks, John Hetland, Constance Bell Holland, Chester A. Johnson, · Gayle Orvis Costello, Richard S. Cahall and Vanessa Lynn van Manen Gartrell. St. John's graduates do museum work. John Franklin Miller is museum administrator of the Hampton National H1storic Site, maintained by the Society for the Preservation of Maryland Antiquities. Michael Gold is director of the Historic Richmond (Va.) Foundation, and Kathleen Beaton Witman a tour coordinator for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Among those in the engineering field are David W. Lane, group engineer for Lockheed Missiles and Space; Addison Worthington, logistic support manager for Chesapeake Instrument Company, and John M. Twigg, who is with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Finance finds William Merritt Davis vice-president of a Boston stockbrok~r firm, John W. Cobb vice-president of a Cambridge, Mass., trust company, Robert Michael Weaver a loan officer for a Columbus, 0., bank; Kevin D. Witty, a trust officer and manager of an employes' benefits trust, and Frank B. Marshall a stoe:kbro"ker for an Annapolis investment firm. Steven A. Jackson is associated with the Santa Fe National Bank. Active in insurance are Jam es Morrow Hall, Charles Baldwin, Burton Armstrong, and Regina Forsyth. Mr. Armstrong is vicepresident of Metropolitan Life Insurance. Michael C. Haley is a real estate broker in Albuquerque. Foreign service officers include James Nach in Washington, D.C., William Brubeck in Casablanca, and Robert K. Thomas in Paris. James W. Stone, a linguist, is director of Southern Asian languages for the State Department. Following careers in the services are John Lane, Air Force; Dana E. Netherton, Navy; Erica Chaney, Marine Corps, and Robert G. Cozzolino, U.S. Coast Guard. Psychology and psychiatry are represented by a number of graduates. Douglas Buchanan is a psychiatrist and Melissa Smith a psychoanalyst. Psychologists include Anton G. Hardy, Mark H. Seglin, Joseph Tooley, Nancy I. Willis, Theodore X. Barber and Dorothea Wend Gillelan. Among those pursuing careers in science. are these: Alice Gordon Chalmers, zoologist doing research with the Georgia Office of Water Resources; Vernon E. Derr, research scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colo.; Marcia HermanGiddens, a former research assistant in genetics; F. Kay Huebner, who does biomedical research; John C. Kohl, Jr., an environmental scientist; Claude S. Leffel, Jr., physicist with the Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins; I. Wendell Marine, research associated with E.I. Dupont at Aiken, S.C; Sydney W. Porter, Jr., president of a firm doing consultation i11 radiological environmental surveillance and radiological safety; Ronald L. Simmons, supervisor physical scientist, Army Material Systems Analysis Agency, and Edward W. Gorrell, clinical research coordinator for the Upjohn Company. John Louis Kvapil and Bruce Preston are architects. The visual arts, dance, the theater and all are represented. Eugene V. Thaw is owner of a New York City art gallery. Robert B. Davis is a San Francisco designer; Ogden KelloggSmith, a former educator turned sculptor, and David Moss an artist. Adam A. Pinsker is president of the Association of American Dance Companies. The theater and film industry includes Alan Laurence Gargle, president of a New York firm producing film documentaries; Jacques Cartier, director of Baltimore's Center Stage; Deborah Ridgley Sollers Fialka, television producer and film writer; Deirdre Lenihan, actress, and Vronica Soul, independent film maker in Montreal. �SEPTEMBER, 197 5 Briefs The original Lord Peter This story belongs to the small world category. The model for Lord Peter Wimsey of Dorothy Sayers' detective series fame may have been the step-father of a former St. John's student and tutor, Alfred W. Satterthwaite, who taught here between 1948 and 1951 and who was a special student for one year, in 1932-33. The matter came to light in a letter Mr. Satterthwaite, who is now with Haverford College, wrote to the London Times literary section protesting a review of a biography of Dorothy Sayers entitled "such a Strange Lady." Professor Peter Green, who wrote the review, describes the step-father, John Cournos, as a "mysterious Russian emigre who was in London and Oxford at this period cultivating the literary scene with some assiduity ... " He also called him a "third-rate writer.'' Mr. Satterthwaite writes: "The fact is that my stepfather, the late John Cournos, who died in New York City in 1966, had been in England from 1912 until the period that Professor Green mentions. He had been pursuing what at that time was regarded as a reasonably successful literary career. He was a Russian emigre only in respect to having come to the United States (Philadelphia) in the early 1890's, as a child, with his refugee family which was fleeing pograms in Zitomir, near Kiev, in the Ukraine. Cournos was a Jewish refugee, not a Russian emigre. His literary career then and later, which involved the publication of novels, a book of poems, of translations from Russian, of reviews and articles, also included writing regularly the Russian Chronicle for T.S. Eliot's 'Criterion,' from its inception. This is not the career of a third-rate writer. Responsible reviewers read an author's work before making a public judgment. Professor Green's judgment is not only harsh; it is also irresponsible and in- correct." Mr. Satterthwaite writes that Cournos formed a liaison with Dorothy Sayers, which occurred in 1921 and 1922. It was terminated by Cournos, not by Dorothy Sayers, as a series of letters written by Dorothy Sayers to Cournos in 1922 and 1923 demonstrates. "These letters were in my possession from 1938 to 1949 or 1950, when I returned them to Cournos at his request. In his old age he was, among other things, a sentimentalist. It was not sentimentality, however, that governed the ultimate disposition of the letcers. Subsequently, Cournos sold these letters to the Houghton Library at Harvard University, to be kept under seal until the death of Dorothy Sayers." College Archivist Miriam Strange has within her files several routine letters written by Cournos with regard to the entry of Mr. Satterthwaite into St. John's. shows Two art shows are scheduled for the college's art gallery, Room 201, Mellon Hall, through October, Anne Geddes, artist-inresidence, has announced. · The first will be drawings and prints by George W. Olson, who teaches painting and printing at the College of Wooster in Wooster, 0. It will be shown September .21 - October 10. The second will be paintings in oil and gauche to be shown Oct. 18-31 by Bosiljka Raditsa, Nora Kersh and Peggy Smith. Mr. Olson, whose work has been acquired by art centers, universities and private collectors, is known both for his delicate drawings of plant life and for his prints, in which he works with multi-textured surfaces of scr:.ap wood and junk metal, arranging them into strong associative patterns. The three women previously have exhibited their work together in Paris, combining abstract expressionism with the content of surrealism. In a review in the International Herald Tribune, a critic wrote: ". . . Raditsa (has) an eloquent graphic gift and an ability to convey interesting ambiguities of perspective. Smith's work is more expressionistic and raw in color constructions ... '' Louchheim had become acquainted with the St. John's program when she attended the early adult seminars of Scott Buchanan held in their Georgetown home. The books are largely philosophical in nature, Miss Charlotte Fletcher, college librarian said. "They're just the things we want for replacement purposes," she said. "Some are books which are hard to get. One or two are volumes we never have been able to get." Gift of books Some 130 books have been presented the St. John's library by Katie Louchheim, Washington writer and former vice-chairman of the Democratic National Committee. With her husband, the late Walter C. Louchheim, an investment counselor, Mrs. Faculty marriages Two faculty marriages which took place in August were the weddings of Deborah Schwartz and David Bolotin, both of whom have just completed their first year of teaching at the college. Miss Schwartz, '68, was married to another member of her class, Gilbert Thornton Renaut, in a ceremony which took place August 18 on Nan- tucket Island. Mr. Renaut is an attorney with the Labor Department affiliated with the Employe Benefits Division of the Office of the Solicitor of Labor. They will live at 15 German Street, Annapolis. Mr. Bolotin was married August 10 to the former Elizabeth Fellowes, who holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Mary Caritas dinner-dance Another St. John's College student will be able to remain in school this year, thanks to the Caritas Society. During the summer it voted another $700 in scholarship aid, bringing its total contribution for the society's 1974-75 year to $3,100. During the five years since it was organized Caritas has raised $13, 730. 91 in various fund raising projects. "The members of Caritas should be as proud of that achievement as we are grateful to all of you for such loyal dedication and constant support," Vice President William B. Dunham said in a letter to the society. "Our students are the true beneficiaries of your efforts and can take great satisfaction in knowing that there are many who would never have been here, or would not be here now, were it not for your steady and unstinting work on their behalf." As a major scholarship fund raising event for the coming Academic chairs The St. John's College bookstore has located a furniture company which will deliver traditional black and gold academic chairs to homes of bu.yers. The chairf ,,~rocket for $00 urd PAGE 3 THE REPORTER a captain's chair for $72, both are decorated with the St. John's seal. Orders may be placed with the St. John's bookstore, and the chairs will be. mail~d Jrom the ~~~t~.1'.?~r~g¥a Benedict assumes • • • pos1t1on 1n arts Stephen Benedict, a 1947 St. John's graduate, has been named director of the Project in the Arts of the Council on Foundations. Mr. Benedict assumes the new advisory project in the area of cultural programming after serving for 15 years with the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, where he was an associate principally concerned with the fund's program in the arts and cultural development. As director of the Project in the Arts, Mr. Benedict will help maintain an information center on the economic condition of the arts in the United States in a way which can be of help to grantmaking organizations. A native of New York, Mr. Benedict went to Chicago following his graduation from St. John's to serve as associate editor of the magazine, "Common Cause,'' a monthly journal of the Committee to Frame a World Constitution. In 1948-49 he worked in New York and Paris for the Foundation for World Government as assistant to the president, Stringfellow Barr. FOR THE NEXT two years he studied music and languages in England, France and Italy. Following the election of President Eisenhower, he joined the White House staff as a special assistant to the President's economic advisor. In 1954 he was aprminted assistant staff secretary of the White House and a year later policy officer for disarmament and United Nations Affairs for the U.S. Information Agency, serving also as USIA member of the United States delegations to the disarmament conferences in London and Geneva in 1956-68. He STEPHEN BENEDICT covered the UN General Assembly sessions in New York during the same period. In his work with the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Mr. Benedict collaborated closely with Miss Nancy Hanks in the planning and direction of the fund's report, "The Performing Arts: Problems and Prospects," published in 1966. Other major concerns in the arts have been the establishment of the Business Committee for the Arts and a number of other service organizations in the arts, includiqg Volunteer Lawyers for tJ1.;.. Al' ts' the Tl: ea~::-~ D 0 -Yelop_.,., ment Fund, the Off-Off Broadway Alliance, the Black Theatre Alliance and Opportunity Resources for the Performing Arts. Mr. Benedict also developed a program of support for promising cultural initiative in minority and low-income communities in New York City. Seeds fail; fund gets young tree For lovers of St. John's Liberty responsible individuals. Tree, the State Forestry Upon hearing the Fund was Department nursery at Harm ans particularly eager to acquire a has issued bad news. None of the descendant of the tree, Mrs. seedpods the Caritas Society Richard D. Weigle, wife of St. pic~ed last year in hopes. of John's president, contributed one sell~ng a t~ousand . see?lmgs she had successfully raised at her durmg the Bicentennial yielded home in Wardour. It was taken to viable seeds: Not one. . . Indianapolis by Vice-President The so.c1ety, which gives William B. Dunham during a scholarship support to the Midwest trip. The Fund, alerted college .. learned a day or so that the tree was coming, before it gathered the pods last welcomed.it with a prepared hble year, the Caritas Society is September that chances for a in the garden behind its planning a bicentennial event, a good seed set for the tulip tree, or headquarters. yellow poplar, run only about On hand to do the honors was a King William's Feast, in the three to- ten per cent annually. welcoming committee consisting Great Hall followed by dancing in This is becatlse the pollen, which of Miss Helen E. Schultz, Liberty the foyer of the Key Auditorium. is waxy rather than dusty, does Fund president; William H. In charge of the dinner-dance not rub off easily, and fer- Fletcher, vice-president ·and on November 15 will be Mrs. tilization is slow. treasurer, and Mrs. Linda N. William Jabine and Mrs. Alden If there were any fertile seeds Walker, a member of the staff. R. Hefler. Mrs. William T. on the tree, the society was "The tree is doing wonSpence will be honorary chair- unlucky and missed them. The derfully," Mrs. Walker reported man. The menu for the dinner State Forestry Department late last month. "It's even putting will feature food served during volunteered to help grow the out new growth. We're very the colonial era. trees, but reported that the pleased to have it." seedbeds at Earmans were In hopes of assuring a more barren. certain way of reproducing the Meanwhile, at least one tree, Arthur Kungle, St. John's ditectly to the buyer, who will be organization in the country has unofficial gardener, this summer .charged a separate tranan oJf-spring of the Liberty Tree. took cuttings to the National sportation cost figured on an individual COD basis. St. That is the Liberty Fund of In- Arboretum in Washington, which dianapolis, a foundation has offered to attempt to grow John's will bill recipients following delivery. for the co.st of• esta.blished to encourage study of some .trees. The results there will ~.ttl:)Jt~f\l fl·soeie~"of freJi¥anQ,, ;, Pt>tQ~~now11tgn~Ol1l'eilim~.·. 1 ,,,' <' tp~:P~·~tr· ~JPPJh. Washington College of the University of Virginia and a master's in medieval studies from the University of Connecticut. She is associated with NUS, a nuclear engineering firm in Rockville, Md. The couple, who spent their honeymoon i1fFrance, are residing in Silver Spring. ''A h; ( \' ' ' < <'; A >'>) j f ,,, •,' '< j \ �SEPTEMBER, 1975 Published by College Relations Off ice .St. John's Colle~e Annapolis, Md. 21404 The Apple Hill Chamber Trio will perform here Friday, Sept. (Continued from P. 1) 19, as the first of eight conc-erts St. John's College will sponsor Parran said. "The 164 alumni during the 1975-76 academic year. whose gifts were unrestricted With the exception of an outdoor represent 20.4 per cent of all Stravinsky program, all contributors to the Alumni Fund; programs will be held at 8:15 their gifts amounted to 60. 9 per p.m. All of them will be free to the cent of the fund.'' public. Alumni fell short of attaining The trio, consisting of a pianist, their goal of $40,000, the same set violinist and cellist, will perform for 1973-74; but they came closer works of Haydn, Brahms and by $5,000 to reaching it than they Dvorak in the Key Auditorium. did thr preceding year, and there Taking their name from a large was a greater percentage of farm in southern New Hampshire alumni participating in the drive, where they have established a some 27 per cent as against 24 per center for teaching and per- cent for the previous year. The formance, the trio has been ac- percentage of participation is claimed for its appearance in higher than that of the average New York, Boston and rural New private co-educational college, England. which is 19.5 per cent. The The performance of S~rnvin" average gift of the St. John's sky's "L'Histoire du Soldat" is alumni rose by $2 to $47. planned for the campu_s This year the class of 1964 led quadrangle at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5. It will be presented by classes listed since 1920 in the "Theater Project," an ex- amount of their gifts. They gave perimental group with musicians $2,508. Following it was the class from the Peabody Conservatory. of 1932, $1,930; Class of 1931, "The Soldier's Tale," composed $1,365; Class of 1968, $1,312, and in 1918, is a stage work to be Class of 1948, $1,275. In terms ·of percentage of narrated, acted out and danced. response, Mr. Parran said The music is based on a score for seven musicians and was con- classes came in this order: CLASS OF '42, 48 per cent; ceived as incidental to a play involving four characters. It Classes of '21 and '43, 44 per cent; Class of '30, 43 per cent, and consists of 16 short pieces. Classes of '20 and '23, 42 per cent. Homecoming honor Bart Robert S. Bart, St. John's tutor who first joined the faculty when members of the Class of 1950 enrolled as freshmen, will be honored at homecoming activities in October. Mr. Bart will be made an honorary member of the class during the homecoming banquet scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25, at the Hilton Hotel. He will fly here for the occasion from Santa Fe, where he will be teaching on the western campus during the first semester as part of a faculty exchange. Mr. Bart also will lead a special seminar Saturday marking the class' 25th reunion. Leading it with him will be a m~mber of the 1950 class, Robert Goldwin, special White House adviser to President Ford and a former dean. Lecturing on Friday, Oct. 24, will be another member of the class - Thomas K. Simpson, a tutor from the Sant9. Fe faculty. His lecture, "Newton and the Liberal Arts," will be followed by an informal get-together for alumni and guests. In charge of the class reunion will be Jack Carr, Theodore W. Hendricks, Jr., Peter A. Whipple, and W. Bernard Fleischmann. Thomas Parran, Jr., director of alumni activities, said homecoming also will provide an opportunity for Alumni Association directors to meet with board members, who also will be holding their fall meeting here that weekend. They will meet together at 3 p.m. Friday. Saturday's program, which will begin with registration at 9 a.m., will include luncheon in the dining hall with students at 11:30 a.m., the annual meeting of the association at 1:15 p.m., and the annual alumni-student soccer classic on back campus. A reception for alumni and guests at 6: 30 will precede dinner at the Hilton Hotel. ' ' ' E REPORTER Comenetz' • son1• zns faculty THE Spaeth new · Two new faculty members, including the son of the man who originated St. John's mathematics curriculum when the college adopted its New Program in 1937, are joining the faculty this fall. They are Michael Comenetz, son of George Comenetz, of Pittsburgh, a tutor here from 1937 to 1943, and Joe Sachs, a St. John's cum laude graduate of 1968 who had received an earlier, temporary appointment in January. Ranking first in his 1965 graduation class at Johns Hopkins University, Mr. Comenetz received both his master's degree and doctorate in mathematics from Brandeis University. The latter, obtained in 1972, involved research in which he developed a duality theory for topological spectra. Formerly assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Kansas, he received a postdoctoral National Science Foundation Research Grant in 1974-75. He previously had received an NSF graduate fellowship in 1968-69 and a Revson Science Fellowship in 1965-68. He also was accepted into the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Internship Program in 1967, a position he declined in favor of the Revson Fellowship. Mr. Sachs received his master's degree in philosophy in June at Pennsylvania State University, where he has served as a teaching assistant between September 1973 and January 1975. Between 1971-73 he was a parttime student at the New School for Social Research in New York City. fills new (Continued from P. 1) was an officer of the Department of State and the Foreign Service. From 1961 to 1963, he was stationed at the Pentagon, Washington, when he was on special assignment to the Defense Department under the first exchange program between the Departments of State and Defense. He served there on the staff of General Curtis E. LeMay, chief of staff of the United States Air Force, as assistant- deputy director of plans for the U.S. Air Force. For five years prior to this special assignment Mr. Dunham had been first secretary and chief of the Political Section of the American Embassy, the Hague, Netherlands. He also served in the State Department as chief of SwissBenelux (Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg) Affairs; assistant chief of French-Iberian Affairs, and senior desk officer for Spain and Portugal where he was responsible for all aspects of U.S. relations with the two countries from 1947to1953. For his outstanding work Mr. Dunham received the Department of State's Meritorious Service Award and the Department of the Air Force's Exceptional Service Award. of Gra Robert L. Spaeth, St. John's tutor, has been named director of the college's Graduate Institute held each summer at the western campus in Santa Fe. Appointed at the July meeting ROBERT l. SPAETH (photo by David Pickell) of the Board of Visitors and Governors, Mr. Spaeth will succeed David Clifford Jones of the Santa Fe campus. H~ will continue to teach at the Annapolis campus during the academic year. As director Mr. Spaeth wm go to Santa Fe each summer to direct an eight week program in liberal arts offered members of the teaching profession and other qualified persons. Based upon the educational philosophy and ' 4 te Program teaching methods of St. John's undergraduate program, the institute is divided into four segments: politics and society, philosophy and theology, literature, and mathematics and natural science. By enrolling in one segment students may earn nine hours of graduate credit in eight weeks. Those who complete successfully all four segments during their four summers at the institute are awarded the degree of master of arts. Students having nine hours of qualifying credits from another institution are eligible to graduate in three summers. The program is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and approved for teacher recertification by the New Mexico State Board of Education. Approximately 130 students from all parts of the country are enrolled each summer. A graduate of Cathedral High School, St. Cloud, Minn., Mr. Spaeth received his bachelor's degree in 1959 from St. John's University in Minnesota. He has taken graduate work in physics and in mathematics at the universities of Illinois and Wisconsin respectively. Since 1963· he has been a member of the St. John's faculty, serving as a tutor, assistant dean, director of the summer program, and of adult education. In 1973-74 he was a fellow of the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research at Collegeville, Minn. He is a former member of the Annapolis City Council. u 'll 3 rs' (Continued from P. 1) In December, 1973, he filed his application, and it was accepted a month later. "WE CONSIDERED his application the way in which we did everyone else," Ms. Joanne Aitken, director of admissions, reported. "We're delighted to have him. As far as I am concerned, I think he will do well here." · "I didn't tell anyone at the bank what I was going to do because they would think I was out of my cotton pickin' mind to do it," he chuckled. The bank asked him to remain on an additional calendar year for a special assignment, but Mr. Weiss cut the assignment short in order to move here in August in time for the fall opening. As a divorced bachelor, he quickly made friends with the neighbors, who already have had him to· dinner. "The neighbors are very charming and helpful and warm," he said. "I've lived in mid-Manhattan, and it's quite a change from coming into an elevator filled with stony faces." A former chief loan review officer for the thirty-first largest bank in the country, Mr. Weiss views his St John's experience with perhaps a few qualms. "I'm not bothered about the seminar," he said, "but I am worried a little about the science, mathematics and language, and my ability to absorb, remember, concentrate, etc. I'm not altogether certain I'll succeed, but I have no trepidation in trying. I know there will be low moments, and that from time to time I will need the succor and encouragment of my friends to bear with me and to help me along the way. But I've never started anything under more favorable circumstances, and if I bust, it will be my fa ult.'' MR. 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JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY The St. lohn's 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ~ ~r1t1r1 1 r~r i1i ~ ~1 1 1 1 , 31696 01138 0274 REPORTER VOLUME 11, ISSUE 5 • receives top awards 1 111 NE, 19 The senior who received St. John's top academic award also proved to be the senior man to be granted the Alumni Association's new athletic award, made for the first time in commencement 25 at the college. a cum laude from Cir1ciIJma1ti, received both in the commencement exercises President Richard D. Weigle said had ever been held at the Un:11m1nas were awarded to 64 members of the Class of 1975 and to three students of classes in ceremonies held in the so crowded that had to be ...... ,....,;,:i,...,:i In addition three other students de!lrees during the immediately following commencement. made and the principal speaker, St. John's Tutor Robert Bart, was heard from, Mr. Weigle took time to read a letter originally intended to mark the retirement John S. Kieffer, a former president, dean and ·tutor, who died March 29. A moment of silence was held in his honor. Besides the athletic award for Mr. the Alumni Association also presented one to the senior woman who had contributed most to the college's athletic~~~,.,.~~­ It went to Clarke. Both were nres1>nt1>rl the association nard Gessner. Other awards announced Mr. Weigle were: To the junior with academic achievement and commitment to later graduate work, Joseph Di George; to students with scholarship who have perpetuate the ideals that have made America great," David Evan Clement, Vicki Louise Cass and Terry Clifton Schuld; to a student of high scholarship particularly interested in sciences, Julia Perkins; to the senior for excellence in speaking, Edward Cary Stickney; To the senior for the best senior essay, Laura Tremaine Bridgman and Mr. Stickney; to the junior for the best annual essay, no award but honorable mention to Susan Elizabeth Kirk and Katherine Myfanwy Owen; to the sophomore for the best annual essay, Stephanie Meline Eiger with an honorable mention to Eric Michael Salem; to the Mr. Weigle had a little fun with Homer in explaining to the 700 persons present why the exercises were being held inside instead of under the Liberty Tree, where commencements traditionally have been held since 1929. Improvising from Book 12 of St. John's tutors emeriti gather for a photograph taken The Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize the "Odyssey," he quoted it as winning photographer, Matthew Lewis, in connection a recent article on the colleae. From saying: " 'In the third watch of the are Simon Kaplan, ford K. Brown, the Rev. W. Kyle and Jacob Klein. night when the stars had shifted was made at Mr. Brown's home. their places, Zeus raised a great gale of wind that blew a 11111111 hurricane so that land and sea were covered with thick clouds and night sprang forth out of heaven,' and the goodly company could no longer bide their rites under the branches of that ancient tree." BEFORE AWARDS were It is Tuesday evening, and St. John's College has decided Leonard, and Treasurer Charles (Continued on P. 4) outside on the quadrangle in the to abolish its office of provost and T. Elzey. Revision of the polity was long, blue, daffodil flowered to replace it with the office of recommended to the board by twilight, students are whirling vice-president. frizbees. Downstairs, in the Acting at their Spring meeting, both the Annapolis Faculty Polity Great Hall, a piano sounds in members of the Board of Visitors Committee and a corresponding broken phrases as a modern and Governors voted to do so committee representing the following St. John's quinquennial western branch. In acting on dance class goes through its motions. In Room 21, away from review of the college polity, its them the board also authorized St. John's College's Liberty library side. Its angular-branches formation of a new search the frizbees and leotard clad governing constitution. Tree, like the Liberty Bell, has appear flung westward to the The organization of the An- committee to serve at some students, Simon Kaplan meets inner campus as if blown and developed a crack. napolis campus now will parallel future time when St. John's next with his Old Testament Class, Early April winds powerful held there by a perpetual wind. that of St. John's western campus president is selected. ears open and responsive as THE LIBERTY Tree's enough to overturn the campus' The committee would· be in Santa Fe, where an office of radar antennae, eyes watchful, champion Ailanthus and to cut tenacious, 400-year-old life, vice-president was created five composed of five members of the missing nothing in a discussion down three other trees on campus however, is not due to want of board, the deans, and one tutor years ago. of Judah Halevi's ancient comextended a crack which had stamina. A tough old guy, it is Edward G. Sparrow, chairman from each campus selected from mentary, "The Kuzari." existed for some time in the expected to begin branching of a Faculty Polity Review among tenured tutors. His face breaks into a smile, his upper trunk to more than six feet. anew and to start greening up Committee, which recommended Representing a refinement over eyes marked by a sunburst of By early last month, it had considerably by this time next changes to the board, said that in the previous polity, the provision twinkle wrinkles, as he remarks widened at some places to the year. While the Bartlett crew was terms of nomenclature his for the committee's appointment "Job was not a Jew," and then size of a man's fist and was as working, one member encircled .committee felt the position of will assure faculty represengrows concentrated and intent as the tree with 18 to 24 inch deep much as eight inches deep. tation to assist in the initial vice-president more correctly the discussion deepens. His exholes into which he poured a describes the role of such an selection of candidates for the To withstand the pounding any special, medicinal mix of pressive hands fling open, palms position, a measure the previous office than that of provost. Duties future storms might bring, the nitrogen, phosphorous, ·and upward to the ceiling, as he will remain substantially the policy did not explicitly provide. tree has undergone surgery. potassium to speed new growth. makes a point. "Wait a minute," Changes in the polity, which same. Bartlett Tree Experts initially he cautions, insisting, "let's get To prevent the crack from (Annapolis has been without a will go into effect with the start of thought it would be necessary to enlarging, six steel bolts were inside the book. What do you provost since Paul Newland, now the new college fiscal year next remove the top third of the tree to threaded into the tree on ~ither mean by the validity of a vice-president at Lake Erie month, involved minor details relieve the pressure on the in- side of the crevice, pinning and tr aditi on?" College, resigned last spring. and were not as far reaching as jured trunk. While abandoning securing that section in place. He holds the unswerving atthose made in 1970 following the Since then functions of that office this plan, it decided on a surgical The crack was then filled with a tention of the students until the have been absorbed by other last five year re:view, Mr. course almost as radical, the plastic mastic. (Mr. Helgerman hour's end, and there is a sense of Sparrow said. college offices). removal of 25 to 30 larger limbs reported one bird which had been rapport, of something like· mutual At that time the polity was THE FACULTY, meanwhile, and about 40 smaller suckers. building its nest inside lost its tenderness, a quality to be changed to enlarge the notion of has elected a search committee home). As a final touch to measured in gentleness, in the "It was extreme pruning to to assist President Richard D. the faculty and to minimize any moments before they go clat- match the problem of the tree," prevent damage from tree idea of separation of faculty and Weigle in finding a new vicetering down the McDowell steps. Daniel T. Helgerman, who climbing, the treemen cut away a president. Members include Miss administration, a move which gall - a rounded growth - a helped formalize a major concept . For St. John's the hour is one of supervised the job, said. Eva Brann, the Rev. J. Winfree short distance up from the the college's special, stabilizing Smith and Ed.ward G. Sparrow, regarding the organization of St. Now gaµnt and thrown off ground which had served climsymbols. Mr. Kaplan's extra- balance as Jr. Also named by virtue of their John's which the college has held happen to the best curricular Old Testament class is of surgical: patients, the tree is bers as a step. positions are Dean Curtis Wilson, since the New Program was Senior Assistant Dean Barbara almost barren of branches on the (Continued on P. 3) (Continued on P. 2) (Continued OD p. 4) • will �A major work on presidential power has been published by a St. John's Colleg'I graduate, William M. Goldsmith, '45, of Concord, Mass., professor of history at Brandeis University. Entitled "The Growth of Presidential Power: A Documented History," the 2,340page book has been published in three volumes by Chelsea HouseR.R. Bowker and is retailing at a cost of $96.50. In his foreward, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., writes: "In the earlier period Professor Gold· smith's book would have been invaluable. After Vietnam and Watergate it is indispensable." Another honorary degree was aMed to the long list following President Weigle's name when St. Marv's College of Marvland awarded him an honorary doctor of letters degree at its commencement May 31. The degree becomes his eiE:hth such degree. Photo by Jon H uslis In order to give the western campus the advantage of more teaching, three tutors from Annapolis will be in Santa Fe next year. In exchanE:e. a member of that the year. Robert Bart, a tutor since 1946, will ioin the faculty there in returning here for second semester when Mr. The Caritas Society has voted to make $2,400 available in scholarship aid to enable five St. John's students to continue their education. The money, allocated since March, was announced Mrs. Richard F. Blaul, treasurer, at the annual membership tea at the Naval Academy Alumni House. . That the assistance, which to more than $13,000 the sum the society has contributed to the college since it was Fe will be who last year. A graduate of cliffe, she holds her doctorate from the University of California at Santa Barbara, where she has served as a lecturer in English. organized five years ago, was warmly welcome was emphasized by Robert Bart, a member of the faculty who was present to extend the college's personal thanks. "What Caritas has done for the college is simply irreplaceable," he said, explaining that Caritas can give in an individual to students who are not eligible federal assistance for other regular grant programs. Brother Robert Smith and Malcolm Wyatt have been elected to the Faculty Instruction Committee for three year terms. They succeed Elliott Zuckerman and Michael Littleton, who are not eligible to succeed them- selves. Brother Robert, who formerly headed St. College's Integrated Program, has been with St. John's since 1972. Mr. Wyatt joined the in 1958. Charles T. Elzey, St. John's College treasurer, has been elected president of the Maryland Association of College Business Officers. Formed 10 years ago, MACBO is made of business officers from 34 institutions. Mr. Elzey, St. John's treasurer for the past 14 years, received his undergraduate degree from the Wharton School of the University of and his master's degree George University. 1.1!<uuuui::: to enter St. Next for the first John's will be taking a series of standardized language tutorial tests. or but one which trancriticisms or proposals to The move is news because (1) the students are asking for it, and (2) because testing is deemphasized at St. John's where small classes, in which there is a great deal of discussion, generally indicate to the tutor how much a student may know. Tests are seen as less necessary than in the larger classrooms of other institutions where a lecturer has less of an opportunity to measure the ~+ .. ..J~- Most of the things the group is concerned with come under the "how" rather than the "what" of the St. John's program, Miss Kate Lufkin explained. " THIS THE group has spent a sizable amount of time considering proposals to change the biology laboratory and finally recommended that if any changes are adopted, they be for a year's trial run involving two classes. The move is news also because marks a positive acof the Student Committee on Instruction, a fledgling group in terms of college committees and one founded about four years ago. Miss Lufkin,a particularly articulate member, feels strongly that the college should give some thought to how more writing can be incorporated into the program. Accomplishment Two will be a college-wide seminar to be held next fall on November 7, replacing a regular Friday night lecture. Such a seminar, which won faculty approval at a meeting last month, has been strongly advocated for two years the committee. One such seminar had been held three years ago. "I'd like to see a big change in the way people write papers," she said. "I think people should learn to write four or five papers during their freshman year without a great hassle and then finish them on time without a great amount of pain. It shouldn't be a crushing experience. Every single year a paper becomes a traumatic experience for some students." it This past year ·students once again asked for the seminar in addition to a Greek examination which they feel will freshmen more and more thoroughly for their sophomore language tutorial. The Instruction Committee accepted the notion but decided on a series of tests as preferable to one examination. Other members of the 1974-75 committee have been Paul Fishleder, Stephanie Forrest and Tom Blumenthal. The welcomes their serious and concerned. "As a ccmmittee tney are students who want to see academic standards tighte~neict, Dean Curtis sa need of them students are expressed his "I THINK IT'S a good that we meet two or three times a year," he said, "not so much because the committee is presenting things which are totally new to us, something we have not thought of before, but there are some things which drift into the background, some matters which might have third or fourth priority for us but top priority for them. And in some cases they are matters which can be remedied in a minute if the teachers knew this." t;ozltlnuea from P. Wood removed from the tree has been salvaged and once it is cured will be fashioned into a piece of memorabilia by Nicholas Maistrellis, St. John's tutor and a skilled carpenter. The three days of heavy gusting to 65 miles an brought down the state's champion Ailanthus at noon. It is a fast growing, low quality, weed type tree although specimen was a one. With a trunk in ivy it stood on the right of the central walkway as it leads from McDowell Hall to College it to a a cliff-like l'omn~red rose to 10 feet before removal. A new rPnhlrini:t it. state The College Annapolis, Md., Richard D. Weigle, William B. Dunham, direcRelations. times a year, in February, April, June, September and November. Second class postage paid at Annapolis, Md., one. she said, to apply for the 1975-76 year. The others are less certain of interests and are planning to work full time before academic programs. is to refine and perand to pass it on to Instruction Com" Steven Gilles said. "Our role is not primarilv as a in Their advice counsel goes in the direction of conservation and chan!le. in one direction. Michael Littleton, an rn1t-i:rnin11 member of the struction �(Continued from P.1) in its 33rd year. *** "Ripeness is all,1' Mr. Kaplan had once wanted inscribed in the commons room, that and another Shakespearean line, "I wasted time, and now doth time waste me," with the latter inscription to encircle the clock in the coffee shop. THE STATEMENT on time from Richard II appeared _ cut out in cardboard letters as as time itself for they vanished suddenly a loss Mr. felt for one students who need to reminded as the hours march onward that time can be wasted. The first quotation never did appear. At a age, when one harvests time and its fruits with a certain Mr. detached knows the value of both: of and of ripeness and what both may For him it ning. Among the tribe wisemen - St. John's surviving tutors emeriti whose teaching days stretch back to the early years of the New Program - Mr. Kaplan at 81 is St. John's oldest, active teacher. His Old Testament Class, which he began in 1942 when he first arrived at St. John's, opened strong last fall with students overflowing the number of seats and sitting on the floor, and he also has had a succession of preceptorials on Kant, including one last winter. Despite two "retirements," Mr. Kaplan has never ceased to teach. His first official retirement came in April 31, 1959, when he was a mere 65 years old; but with St. John's western campus underway and with the college struggling with the need to find experienced tutors for both campuses, Mr. Kaplan received eight additional oneyear appointments, three more than is normally given. "The strongest effect of Mr. Kaplan on his students (among whom I count myself)," Dean Curtis Wilson wrote of him in 1959, "is an effect of moral character. Almost everyone who comes in contact with him is struck by his kindness and simplicity, and by his charming but persistent emphasis on moral virtues and obedience to law.'' HIS SECOND retirement came in 1968 after the Board of Visitors and Governors designated him a tutor emeritus, a retirement which a cry of from who petJWJn€~d. his retention. "We cannot understand a that would discard as wise a man and as a tutor wrote Hermann head of the neo-Kantian School who lived between and and who is considered by some to be the all Jewish philosc>ph1tca1 meo10gians. This he did with the assistance of his wife, who completed the indexing, a task which came naturally for Mrs. Kaplan for, besides her own extensive education which earned her a law degree in Russia, she had for 27 years been a cataloguer in the college library. Mr. Kaplan already had published a book on Cohen while he was associated as a fellow of the Hermann Cohen Foundation in Berlin between 1928-31. "Das Geschichtsproblem in der n111oso1ph1e H. Cohens" appeared in 1930. His new, 500-page translation of Cohen's posthumous theological magnum opus, "Religion of Reason - Out of the Sources of ... ~~a"'""'" appeared in 1972. Earlier his translation of a section of the book entitled of Atonement" had appeared in three successive issues of Journal "Judaism: A of Jewish Life and in 1968-69. BORN DECEMBER 5, 1893, on the Baltic Sea in Latvia, in what was then part of Russia, Mr. has always considered himself an emigrant from Russia. He left there in 1923 for Germany, and Mrs. Kaplan joined him a year later. At the time they left Russia Mr. Kaplan was a student at the University of Leningrad, and Mrs. Kaplan, a remarkable woman who speaks five languages, was heading a university school established for workers. Later they were to leave a second country. Mr. and Mrs. Kaplan came to the United States after fleeing Paris two days before the Nazis invaded the city, moving first to unoccupied Southern France, then to Portugal, and finally, aided by the English they had learned in school, to New York. "There were emergency visas for intellectuals," Mr. Kaplan explained. "I was supposedly an intellectual.'' They went first for half a year to Haverford College, where the Quakers had set up a reception center for World War U refugees and then, with an annual stipend of $2,000 provided by the General Jewish Council of New moved to Annapolis in 1942 where he became St. John's scholar-inresidence concerned with the Jewish tradition. (One of St. John's most carefully nourished repeated by successive of students, is that _ met Mr. Buchanan and former Dean Jacob Klein while the two were in a taxi he drove in New Supposedly Mr. such John's. wrote: "St. John's is renew the old tradition that mediate between the educational process within the College and the religious activities outside ... In the light of this picture of St. John's in its religious environment, one may approach the more peculiar problem of the relationship between the St. John's curriculum and the Jewish tradition. This problem presents immediately a two fold aspect: on the one hand, the of necessity, is around the genuine tradition and those Hellenic features that are inextricably woven into both Christian theology and modern science. The genuine Hebraic tradition can, at best, be met within this context in the guise of a rather dark background illuminated, if not clarified by Christian thought. Concerned as St. John's is about the ultimate sources of our intellectual and spiritual life, it cannot help feeling that it should have a more intimate relation with the Hebraic - and, by amplification, the Arabic-Judaic tradition· than it now possesses. "On the other hand, the Jewish students who, for the most are estranged from their own tradition, are anxious to see the connection between what they learn and what they are. This anxiety takes many forms and has many facets, ranging from a vague feeling of incongruity to a deep, emotional upheaval; and it is necessary to satisfy this in some way. "It seems, therefore, important to have a man with the appropriate knowledge and appropriate pedagogical sensibility who would take care of this two-fold.problem confronting St. John's College and paricularly its Jewish students. At the same time it is that the initiative for such a man should come from those concerned with and _ _ sm;ta1mr1g n~ug;wllS communities as Jewish in~ who take an interest atters. The philosophy and psychology, and at the same time, he is a man imbued with a knowledge of human relations and affairs. He understands the aims of the College and its teaching methods; the College, on its part, is not only thoroughly satisfied that he is the proper person for this work but would also willingly sponsor his activities." His appointment came when the General Jewish Council wrote to say that the $2,000 stioend had been raised. That Mr. first few weeks on campus were a warm another success is attested letter from Mr. Buchanan to the council. "Mr. has been here now for about weeks and has made a very remarkable beginning," he wrote. "We made a nouncement of what to read the book of to do; Genesis any student who wished to do it. About half the College responded. After the first excitement had died down, it appeared that two groups of about 15 students remained to do the hard work. Mr. Kaplan has their complete respect and a great deal of affection. I know this is true of the whole student body, even for those who are not attending the class. His quiet wisdom and obvious goodness have met with a very full and genuine response ... "One of the startling things about American colleges is their lack of moral and religious support, and we are very proud to be able to initiate something that, in all likelihood, will show the way to a solution of many educationa1 problems. I think it is a good sign that you and your organization are interested." THE FOLLOWING YEAR, in June 1943, after Mr. Kaplan had been with the College a full year, Mr. Buchanan again wrote the council: "Mr. Kaplan has been at his work in a more permanent and planned fashion at the opening of this session and has continued throughout the year with what must be judged a still remarkable success. The year has been a very rough one, with disturbances and interruptions of an almost fatal kind to the regular curriculum work. "One would suppose that an extra-curricular enterprise of Mr. Kaplan's sort would suffer even more. Comparatively, I think it has suffered less than the rest of the College the numbers are not He has about 15 students out of a that started with 175 and with about 103. He himself <mrnri.;:t>li to that there as Jewish but I have "The effects have been even greater. has attended seminars and has in this and other genume ways made himself familiar to every member of the College. A few students have become very intimately acquainted with him and have gained much from his criticism, advice, and guidance in their work and personal problems. He has become a very genuine and influential member of the community. I am not sure that I am competent to judge as to how much of the Jewish tradition has been revived inthis way, but I am sure that the total effect has been good and that is very highly valued all of us." BY THEN MR. had himself such a valuable person that the Board of Visitors and Governors invited him to become a member of the regular on September 15, 1943, and in 1951, the first year of St. John's granted tenure to any tutor, Mr. Kaplan received it. From 1953 to 1956 he served on the college's Instruction Committee, the committee which acts on all instructional matters. Coming five years after the New was established, Mr. has watched the college program move from an experimental stage to a curriculum of tested stability. "There was so much freedom then as to verge on license," he recalled. "In opposition to that time the college now has been tested for 42 years. It does not need to stress its New Program. It has been consolidated financially and organizationally. St. John's has very good and devoted teachers, who are much better educated today than those who were here before. The students are better. There is much more disciplined learning now.'' Mr. Kaplan was graduated from the Real-School in 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 1927 and, after leaving where he had been associated with the Hermann Cohen Foundation, he undertook research studies at the University of Paris from 1934to1936. Retirement has provided Mr. Kaplan with an opportunity to read widely in the works of a fellow Russian, Solzhenitsyn. "He is a very powerful writer, not prejudiced by an philosophy,'' Mr. other hand, very """""''"""'" in our house where on after the discussion the conversation with friends continued into the · of the night.'' 'he �THE REPORTER Published College Relations Office St. J0hn's \..u11t:i.;1t: Annapolis, Md. 21404 t St. John's College may have the undergraduate biology course in the in which Aristotle is read ser·10utsly The college combines a reari•na and discussion of Aristotle some other great biologists with its own nr:ilf'tilf':i and freshman for the best annual Caroline Elizabeth honorable mention to Michael Josenh Ciba and Eric to the student written the best ''-" '•f">'""" speakers inMiss and Bryce nyo.n.u.Or:a.o.rl by or sophomore who submits the most mathematical with honorable mention to Mr. to the Richard Daniel served as master of ceremonies. student who the best of a Greek Orville to the submits the best -'-'"'eu"u translation of a French poem, Barbara Lois Schmittel continued. from with honorable mention to James established in 1937. David Walley. "We believe that there should In his talk to the graduating be no bioc called 'the adclass, Mr. Bart spoke in praise of ministration' within the St. the art of listenim: as one "inJohn's community," Mr. use of the who also served on the he said Review Comn[1m:ee, students at St. John's. said. "We also "I have no hesitation in saying authority not so much as the that you have spent these years in ownership of lands and buildings learning to listen: to listen better with the power to make contracts than ever before and in a way with students and teachers but as that you did not imagine," he service in concentric rings said. around the classroom." "It is hard, I know, to learn to In enlarging upon the concept speak, to express the feelings and of faculty, the polity was changed desires and opinions we are to identify the faculty as one aware of in ourselves. Yet almost comprised of the president, every human being becomes deans, tutors emeriti, viceproficient in that art and says president (then provost) and pretty much what he means. associates. The latter are Alas! That we are so reluctant to designated non-teaching but learn the related art of learning. voting members of the faculty. It sometimes seems as if with all · IN 1970 THE term "tutors these master speakers, there emeriti" also was adopted for were none left to hear. retired teachers. While official "I am especially delighted retirement comes at 65, tutors when a visitor to our classes may be granted appointments on appreciates the kind of attention an annual basis and teach until everyone pays to each speaker in 70. They retain full voting rights turn. For not only is the art of at faculty meetings, and their listening indispensable to the presence is counted in right use of the mind (reading, establishing quorums for voting too, is a kind of listening), but it is purposes. also the most gracious, the most "They remain full members of open and the most generous of the community although they are human habits. Wherever you go, no longer teaching," Mr. whatever you do, you will be Sparrow said. "It is one, small welcome and loved if only you way of showing our great respect continue to be able and eager to for them." listen. To you, as to Alyosha Mr. Sparrow expressed belief Karamazov, everyone will unfold that the St. John's polity may be the secrets of his heart and the a unique document· for an most daring, the most difficult of American college. his thoughts." "It articulates a scheme of THE ABILITY TO listen, Mr. relationships among different Bart said, came in part from persons of the St. John's comstudents' awareness of their own munity," he said."The institution ignorance, "an awareness which is viewed as a whole in which an we have done everything to individual member of the comsustain by the vast breadth and munity is seen as a part of it, the rapid pace of the curriculum whether he is a member of the we have set before you." board, president, treasurer, He stressed the role of courtesy in tutor, an alumnus or a student." listening. Letters of appointment to St. Earlier in the day Rabbi John's tutors are given under Rosenblatt of the Kneseth Israel terms of the polity rather than in Congregation delivered the , the form of a contract, as 18 baccalaureate sermon. Saturday customarily done. and preserved work with living chick eggs; observation and dissection of vertebrates and and a demonstration of the laws of inheritance as shown in fruit flies. In poses is the question of "aliveness," which can be a subject for philosophic discussion as well as scientific investigation. Mr. White out that of organisms as emerge in biology starting points for major topics of philosophy, including those raised by Aristotle, Descartes and Spinoza. Tutors feel Aristotle raises enduring questions, including those having to do with the relation of part and whole, of form and function and with the directedness of the activities of living things. "Some Aristotelian answers seem to be mistaken, but one can't escape his questions," Dr. Leon Kass, a physician who serves as a part-time tutor, ob· served. Students read Claude Bernard, whose "Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine," published in the 19th century, ~ontains the tantalizing first ~ine: "Most of the things in the world are hidden from us." "That turned out to be very exciting for us for he wrote about what an experiment should be and what makes a good discussion,'' Miss Leonard noted. The book is consid.ered pivotal in the making of modern biology. Students read D' Arey Thompson's book "On Growth and Form," which discusses animals and plants as they relate to mathmatical form, a topic Miss Leonard has found particularly :fascinating and parenthetically ,one · on which she lectured in Madurai, India, a decade ago. (Her audience of post graduate mathematicians also was · intrigued., She was the first zoologist and first woman to lecture to them). ANOTHER BOOK is "On the Natural Faculties" by Galen, the most ing,uential figure in biology after Aristotle until the time of the Renaissance. Students read Mendel's paper which launched the modern science of genetics. And thev read Jean Baptiste de an 18th and early 19th as an early evolutionist, had ideas something like Darwin's but differing substantially from them. Students read all of William Harvey's book on the circulation of the blood, first published in 1628. They read Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species" almost in its entirety which John Sarkissian, another biology tutor, pointed out, "99 per cent of today's biologists never do.'' Mr. Maistrellis emphasized that students read Darwin thoughtfully, not presupposing the truth of evolution as an accomplished fact, but attempting to view the theory through his eyes and considering it from the standpoint of the man who first presented and defended the case for evolution. One reading Mr. White chose for his class filled a couple of fellow tutors with disbelief. It was a chapter called "Research" from Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain," which Mr. White chose because it is an account of a man who sits down to review the problems of science and of studying science. Mr. White subsequently won the support of some of his skeptical friends, and Mr. Sarkissian also now includes the chapter in his laboratory. Through the books and laboratory work St. John's deals with a number of major themes in biology: the relation of the part and the whole, of structure and function, the coming to be and differentiation of whole and parts, how like produces like and how differences arise and are inherited, and the origin of diversity and relationship of animal forms. J � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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St. John's College, has become the first woman to be named director of admissions since the college was chartered in 1784. At 24 she is one of the youngest college admissions directors in this area of the country. With Robert L. Spaeth, St. John's tutor, she has been serving as co-director of the admissions office since last September, when Michael Ham resigned from the office to accept a position with the American College Testing Program, Inc. Her appointment as director was approved at the April meeting of the Board of Visitors and Governors. Earlier, last July, Ms. Rowbottom had been named assistant director with full-time traveling responsibilities. She is being succeeded as assistant director by Miss Susan Seidenstricker. Ms. Rowbottom originally joined the admissions office during Spring vacation of her senior year, having previously served as a lab assistant and as a student aide in both the alumni office and library. Following her graduation from college she was employed as a secretary. During the present year Ms. Rowbottom has been spending six to eight weeks traveling and (Continued on Page 2) Summer plans set The Annapolis campus of St. John's College will hold its first alumni summer program here June 15-28, President Richard D. Weigle has announced. The two-week session follows last year's initial, highly successful program undertaken on the Santa Fe campus on an experimental basis. This year a similar program for the Santa Fe campus is set for August 3-17. Besides being open to undergraduate alumni of both campuses and graduates of the Graduate Institute, the program also may be attended by spouses. Participants may plan to be present for one or both weeks of each session. Seminars will meet on the traditional Mondav and Thursday evenings,· and tutorials, which will not be held simultaneously, will meet three or four mornings each week. Afternoons and other evenings will be free. IN ANNAPOLIS seminars will be led by Dean Curtis Wilson and Robert L. Spaeth, director of the St. John's Summer Program. onPage3) for l{ieffer NSF gives grants here The first student to be granted a summa ·cum laude degree by St. John's and a member of the present senior class have received Graduate Fellowship grants of the National Science Foundation. They are David Kite Allison. of Fernandina Beach, Fla., a 1973 graduate, and George M.D. Anastaplo, of Chicago, Ill., both of whom will study history of science. The grants cover three years of support. · Mr. Allison plans work at Princeton University and Mr. Anastaplo at Indiana University. Mr. Allison came to St. John's after graduating from Fernandina Beach High School and attended Purdue University from 1968 until 1970. Upon his graduation, he was awarded the silver medal for the senior with the highest standing. He also received honorable mention for his senior essay. Mr. Anastaplo is one of three members of· the same family to attend St. John's. His sister, Helen Anastaplo Scharbach, was graduated in 1971, and his sister, Sara, is now a sophomore. A resident of Chicago, he was graduated from the University of Chicago High School. Altogether the National Science Foundation awarded 550 Graduate Fellowships in the sciences, mathematics and engineering for the 1975-76 year. John S. Kieffer l904-1975 . . The day John Ki~fferdied, he had a conversation filled with humor and his customary calm with a faculty wife, Priscilla Starr, in which, pronoimcing his own benediction, he remarked that he had led a full and good life. Then six hours later, with his hand in a gesture of outreach to his wife, he left this world which had gained so greatly from him. He departed as he 'had lived, as a scholar, dying with his academic boots on. Despite the debilitating nature of his cancer, he was eager to return to the classroom when others would have given up, teaching until within a few days of his final -hospitalization. At the hospital he surrounded himself with Greek books and professional journals and a few Simenon mysteries although in the end even the Simenon became too much. He engaged in.a conversation with a small group of young people enrolled in a Johns Hopkins medical ethics class who had gathered around his bed. Did he feel angry, they asked him, because he had cancer? One young woman said she would feel that way. Mr. Kieffer demurred. Anger was not his way, but talking with young people was. He had always done that. He had always enjoyed it, and he enjoyed these young people. And finally, in something of a last gesture sealing off his days of teaching, when Johns Hopkins doctors sought an autopsy to find out more about his terrible disease he gave of his own body in the cause of learning. His courage and uncomplaining good spirits lasted until the end. Although he was not expected to live long, his Easter Saturday death came more suddenly than was expected sending a shock wave of sorrow through the St. John's and Annapolis communities. It is a special loss because the precise character of some men make them irreplaceable; the exact combination of their traits cannot be duplicated in others, and it was those of Mr. Kieffer's which make him an irretrievable loss to the college felt by the hundreds and hundreds of students who knew and loved him and by his colleagues who admired him. His legacy of learning, his patience, his detachment, his sweetness his unfailing courtesy, a certain nobleness of c-haracter, leav~ the college the richer for his life, the poorer for his death. John S. Kieffer, 17th president and former dean of St. John's, died Saturday, March 29, of cancer. He was 70. Death came in his final and 46th year of teaching at St. John's, where he had played an important part in shaping its New Program into a nationally known alternative in higher education. Ill with cancer of the liver for more than a year, Mr. Kieffer had fought the disease with a courage which impressed colleagues and students alike. He had resumed teaching in November when he began leading a small preceptorial on Plato which met at his home. In January, although he was becoming increasingly weak, he began teaching a freshman Greek class, which he was forced to relinquish when he returned to Johns Hopkins Hospital March 14 for intensive treatment involving chemical therapy. He died a little after 5p.m. St. John's lowered its flag to half mast for a three-day period and dismissed classes for crowded funeral rites held To honor Mr. Kieffer and the memory of his lifetime of dedicated service to the college, gifts will go into a scholarship fund to continue to benefit generations of worthy students. They may be mailed to the Office of College Relations, St. John's College, Annapolis, Md., 21404. Wednesday, April 2, at SL Ann's Church. At 12 noon that day tutors on the Santa Fe campus who had known him gathered for a memorial service. Curtsies bow out for convocations DeBacker gets award (Continued on Page 4) The St. John's faculty has taken a look at the calendar and decided that this is, after all, 1975, and perhaps time to end all the bowing and curtsying. By a unanimous vote, they have swept away what many view as an anachronistic requirement for annual freshmen convocations. In so doing, they have put an end to one of the great spectator sports of St. John's. Having survived the trauma of deciding (Continued on Page 2) RE~UTY WEEK~N~ is _set ~or 9-10 with students hoping for better weath~r than the deluge wluc:h mad~ thas L1qu1d Shde an ever wetter affair one recent Spring. The liquid Slide marks the Real Olymp1c:s, a set of mock games which traditionally are staged during the weekend. (photo by Eugene lorgov) A proposal to investigate European farming to see whether a career in agriculture can leave time for a satisfying personal life has won a St. John's College student a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. Matthew DeBacker, who comes from a dairy farm at Jonesville, Mich., will leave in August to visit farms in France, Belgium, Germany and England during a year of independent study and travel abroad. Accompanying him will be his wife, the former Susan Fitzpatrick, of Boston, a St. John's junior, who will take a year's leave from her studies to travel with him. "I HAVE BEEN a member of a farming family since I was 12 years old, at which time my parents purchased a dairy farm in Southern Michigan," Mr. DeBacker wrote in proposing his investigation. "From that time on I have worked assisting my family; since enrolling in college I have worked there on all vacations. St. (Continued on Page 4) �Beate Ruhm von member of the St. has been A 1970 College, Reed Woodhouse, a St. John's tutor since 1975, has been awarded a Rockefeller Brothers Theological for the academic the Fund for the will enable Mr. to work toward his at a Association of .l!;PJlSC01na1 ,_,v.1.;.0::~1c;:i which enabled to "'H·n-n1oto second bachelor's Oxford Univers who is a served as a substitute ,.,.. r1""'"t for the College "'""''"'"'"' who have sign on the library door, Scouts, there are seven in the Collection,'' .there is an c:.1>.~'u"·'" LJcvu. Miss Charlotte Fletcher, librarian, explained that it had been put. there to facilitate scavenger hunts a travel agency for Boy Scouts visiting Annapolis. One of the questions they are asked to answer is, "How many books are there under the glass case in Woodward Hall?" The case housing the remnants of the first public library 1n America is located on the second floor. Miss Fletcher said the sign had been there with a view toward the Scouts time. some Boy Scouts come really wants to see the and in this case we take them up," Miss Fletcher said. "We don't want to dampen their interest.'' Miss Fletcher doesn't know who decided on an additional notation for the library door: "Mr. Bray, there are seven Boy Scouts in the book collection." "One of our witty assistants," she surmises. over awarded a for the Humanities for research this summer in ~n101;rnrw. and in Germany. will interview persons who . knew Helmuth James von a counselor to the German Command whose res:istanc'.e to the Nazis led to his execution in Berlin in 1945. Her work, scheduled to June 15, also will investigations of documents connected with his life . ,_,.._A,VUU AJ f Coint:iJouE~d from 1) Wednesday at 4:15 p.m. exacfly how he or she was to bow a group of tutors gather in Room or curtsy during the freshman 24 of McDowell Hall for a session registration ceremony which which might be the reverse of marks the start of the new school what one would find at a conyear, upperclassmen for years ventional university. There, on similar Wednesday traditionally have settled themselves comfortably back afternoons, a group of specialists into the Key Auditorium chairs to might meet to discuss "their watch incoming freshmen bow or man." The tutors are not curtsy to the president just prior specialists in the usual sense nor man. to their signing the official is the philosopher they are The New York Alumni Organized informally, the New college register. The exercise studying - G.W.F. Hegel Association will conclude its year York alumni previously held anyone's "man" among them, was viewed as body language of with the fifth in a series of seminars on the "Timaeus," the most telling sort. · although the two tutors who are Platonic seminars, this one on "Theateatus," "Sophist" and "It was important in sizing up leading the group are among "The Republic" and led by "Statesman." Tutors Sam Kutler the freshman class," one UP~ those who have devoted stretches Stringfellow Barr, president and Robert Bart alternated perclassman remarked. "It gave of time in recent years to confrom 1937until1946. leading the sessions, which were centrated study of Hegel. · us an opportunity to know them a The seminar will be held June 9 held monthly from December to Instead, the Faculty Study little better.'' at the Graduate Center of the City March at the Graduate Center. Bows and curtsies came in a Group, which includes a number University of New York. Mrs. Earlier in the year the variety of styles; including self- of the more experienced tutors, is Mary Bittner Wiseman, faculty association members were assured salutes of the heel coming together in a nonmember at City University, who guests of Mr. Mason at a cocktail clicking, military sort and curt- specialist way to puzzle out the is helping coordinate them, is party for President Richard D. sies ranging from short-bob· principal points of Hegel's serving as coordinator along with Weigle and William B. Dunham, brief~nod acknowledgements to "Phenomenology of Spirit," one Francis S. Mason, Jr., Mordecai director of St. John's College of the most demanding books on deep, dramatic swoops. Sheinkman and Allan P. HoffRelations. "We were all very nervous, but the St. John's program. "Just to open the book and read it really wasn't so horrible," one sophomore recalled. "We went it is to find it almost uninan economy move by the college, through it. Our principal reaction telligible," Robert Bart, one of For the second year seniors which has found shipping costs of was that we couldn't quite believe the leaders, said. receiving their degrees in next Released from a third of his month's commencement will be rented gowns increasingly costly. · ,we really were doing it. I kept on The fact that they may be kept by thinking, 'Can this be me?' Part teaching duties for half a year wearing paper gowns. students, something Mrs. Unlike the old cloth gowns of the trouble was that we were along with Laurence Berns, the Frances DeHart of the bookstore on stage· and up so high. It tutor who originally suggested which had to be returned to the bookstore, the paper robes, which staff said they appear to enjoy, wouldn't have been nearly so bad ·the study group, Mr. Bart feels that the manner in which the are known as souvenier eliminates a hectic time for the at ground level." disposable gowns, may be kept bookstore staff, which in other Two tradition-conscious men, participants are undertaking years have had to round up all by the students. Made of acetate one a senior and the other. an their search for understanding robes immediately following and light-weight, a welcome alumnus, both expressed regret represents "St. John's at its characteristic on a sticky com- commencement. that the decision had been made. best." "We are reading a difficult mencement day, they represent ''I like the formality, and it did let book together and are very, very you know the college had Heating up dollars traditions," one of them said. "In open about our difficulties," he said. "We are sharing these with a way it was good." · St. John's College shut down at 160,583 gallons. But another student welcomed one another frankly along with Christmastime and again during College Treasurer Charles T. the faculty action, which was our insights. We are all students the Spring vacation. It has in- Elzey said the week all offices taken on motion of Tutor Edward together, and if these were don stalled thermostatic heating and · dormitories closed for the Sparrow. He agreed that the time rags, they would turn out pretty controls on McDowell Hall and at winter vacation St. John's saved had come to eliminate what for much like student don rags: some the Reverdy Johnson dormitory 1,200 gallons for every 24 hour many students was too frequently people should be encouraged to and practiced sufficient good period. Savings also were made housekeeping conservation during the Spring vacation but in an embarrassing and self- take an even more active role. Mr. Berns deserves great credit consciously awkward business. methods to cut its fuel oil con- not as large proportion because "It didn't do us any permanent for having the courage to initiate sumption by 46,000 gallons ·over offices were heated. damage, but it was stupid," was the study." the past two years. THE FACULTY STUDY Group Mr. Elzey said the reduced oil his unequivocal opinion. Despite its efforts, costs have is the second such group of its more than doubled since 1972-73 consumption has been due to sort in recent years. A few years major efforts of David Tucker, when; by March 31, they had ago two other tutors, J. Winfree registered $22,417 for 206,566 superintendent of the physical Smith and Robert Williamson, plant, and to the cooperation of gallons of oil. led a group devoted to Aristotle's This year by the same day the college community as a "Metaphysics." whole. Last year additional (Continued from Page 1) costs have soared to $53,600 for a Both Mr. Berns and Mr. Bart substantially reduced total of thermostatic controls were added at McDowell, and during the intervewing prospective students have led preceptorials on Hegel. Spring vacation they were in- as well as heading a massive, During the past five summers The Reporter is published by the Office of stalled at Reverdy Johnson. mailing program aimed at Mr. Bart has been reading him College Relations, St. John's College, Annapolis, Md., 27404, Richard D. Weiwhen he has been able, and he Others are planned at Randall · student recruitment. gle, president, William B. Dunham, direcalso devoted some time to him this summer. tor of College Relations. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. during his sabbatical. Mr. Berns Published five times a year, in February, Allan Aitken of Del Rio, Tex., Ms. began to take up the challenge of The increased costs are a big April, June, September and November . • Rowbottom was graduated from studying Hegel about five years factor in causing tuition to go up Second class postage paid at Annapolis, by $350 next year. Del Rio High School in 19G8. Md., ago. wear paper gowns burning Graduate is new director The pace is deliberately slow, usually involving no more than 10 or 15 pages a week. "It is impossible to read Hegel rapidly," Mr. Berns said, "and more than one serious man has given a life-time to studying him. The breadth of the book is enormous, since Hegel's selfappointed task was to bring to completion all serious, previous scientific, philosophic and theological thought. There is a sense in which he could be thought to be even articulating 'the mind of God.' "We meet in a very good atmosphere of inquiry because, on the one hand, we can't have the usual presumptions about what we know, and, on the other, we, wHlifl.g as good St;) to expose our ignorance by asking questions. We must be frankly speculative, but we can also try to be very careful about checking and rechecking our speculations. "THE AMOUNT OF relative success we have had in understanding this most difficult text I find rather impressive. Part of this is surely due to Bob Bart's capacities for careful analysis and clear exposition and to the breadth of learning in the group as a whole: knowledge of Newtonian physics, biology, classical (especially Platonic and Aristotelian) and ~ntian philosophy and Christian . theology all play important roles." Faculty representation ranges from such senior tutors as Mr. Smith to Joseph Sachs, who joined the faculty only in January. Former tutor Carl Linden, who now teaches political science and political philosophy at George Washington University, drives here from. near Washington for the sessions. Others include Hugh McGrath, Brother Robert Smith, Elliott Zuckerman, Samuel Kutler, Douglas Allanbrook, Bert Thoms, Robert Williamson, Nicholas Maistrellis, John White, David Starr and Robert Zelenka. "In a way,'' Mr. Berns said, "we are both intimidated and attracted by Hegel's prodigious attempt to integrate or to combine in one system the fundamental principles of all of western and more than western - thought: religious, artistic, political and philosophical. We are often baffled by the special language he constructs. to,do it in." . �St. John's College has taken a to lessen the distance and the "outside for its seniors, the this year of its new Placement It is aimed at students on find the best schools, and even adon transferring to another college should John's. Miss · Brenda housed on the Robertson second floor of McDowell, the Placement Office contains a · small, fast growing of catalogs and vocational material planned to ease the student's way into the years which immediately follow his graduation. For students interested in graduate study, it is maintaining information on Graduate Record Exams and on such standardized tests as those required for law and medical schools plus information about-deadlines. It i~ attempting to keep abreast of current information regarding scholarships, fellowships and financial aid. FOR STUDENTS concerne~ about careers, the library is building up a file of detailed information regarding vocational possibilities and maintaining another file of alumni who have indicated they would be willing to advise students. A new addition is a testing device, a "SelfDirected Search," wlii'cff'fs:h~st developed by a Johns Hopkins expert permitting a student to examine himself and discover on the basis of his personality and skills what occupations he may be best suited to enter. Miss Robertson said the test is particularly helpful for students who have no idea what they want to do nor even, in some instances, what interests them. It is tied lo the "Dictionary of Occupational Titles," the Bible of job placement books. The Placement Office comes as the result of appeals from alumni, who have advocated such assistance for a number of years. The movement received its impetus in 1967-68 when Jack Carr, of Annapolis, headed the Alumni Association. At that time an appeal for alumni willing to assist students with careers brought 300 responses within a 30· · day period, and for the next seven years the association sponsored _ periodic counseling sessions. In 1970 the Alumni Associatfon adopted a formal recommendation urging St. John's to improve its placement procedures by instituting standard placement techniques. Until this year such assistance has been handled by Charles Finch, who advised students as he was able while serving as director of financial aid. Such faculty members· as Miss Barbar a Leonard, for biology. oriented students, and John Sarkissian, for medical students, extended their aid in individual cases. In ~?rlY 1974 the college. administration decided to acquire a placement officer who also could counsel students on , , personal problems. 1 John's small candle the Canadian cold to Toronto and the hundred mile area and east of it. bearer is a St. John's the Rev. William N. who it was for them to read firstsome of the classic works of theology so he turned to certain of the writers who had an il"l"l·n1w·t<>v1t influence on his own understanding: Augustine, Dante, Luther, Pascal, Kierkegaard, and Karl Barth among others. Two years ago he launched new to discussion groups of a most of the participants. "Initially, it was difficult, among the particularly, expected lecturing," he said, "and there was a hesitancy to discuss ideas and issues. Perhaps because of impoverished preaching -in recent years, the great themes ot theology were quite unfamiliar. But gradually this work is bearing more and more fruit. MR. MCKEACHIE began his seminars as part of his work as diocesan theologian, a position originated by Toronto's Bishop Lewis Garnsworthy. He likes to describe himself as a "theological rehabilitation ofAS SPRING GETS underway the new appointment is viewed as even more important by college officials in view of the recession and the shrunken job market. Miss Robertson said she is meeting with excellent cooperation from students, some hundred of whom had talked with her by December. More students, of whom she has not kept a count, had used the Placement Office library by that time. In a report detailing vocational interests of members of the present senior class, Miss Robertson wrote, "It is my im· pression that students are aware of only a limited number of career possibilities." She is attempting to inform them of some lesser known possibilities. ''Placement officers from other colleges with whom I have talked are very discouraged on the basis of what they read in newspapers," Miss Robertson said. "They say that graduates can be placed easily in engineering and accounting, but there is no hope at all for liberal arts graduates. I personally think the jobs are still there, especially for St. John's students." As alternatives to the professions St. John's students traditionally enter-teaching, law and medicine-Miss Robertson is attempting to emphasize other careers, such as those in business. While a substantial number of alumni in actual fact have business connected jobs, Miss Robertson believes that most St. John's students do not think of such careers while students here. "THE MOST disparaging remarks I hear are those about going into business," she said. She also is attempting to get them to consider possibilities in government. Recently three students went to Towson to attend a session devoted to such careers. ficer." "The conviction, the so-called Death of God movement and the of foundations that the life of the not be lost nor neglected,'' Mr. McKeachie said. "This isn't a matter of at all throug:n011t the Diocese.'' work is to read, think and talk about matters of Christian life in terms of their theological perspective. This he does with representatives of the more than 220 parishes that make up the Diocese of Toronto. "This is at once an absurdly ambitious, and necessarily limited, undertaking," Mr. McKeachie acknowledges. "Seminar groups are not able to meet more than once a fortnight, or even every three weeks. We do barely more than skim the surface of the books read. Yet a beginning has been made, seeds are sown, people become excited by some of the enduring themes and pursue them on their own. "One of the really critical questions for Christianity today is whether knowledge and speech about God and God's relationship to Man will retain its cogency for most people. That represents the front line of the crusade on which we are embarked." . MR. MCKEACHIE':S present .work marks the second time he has led great books seminars in Canada. The first occurred when he was moonlighting while working toward his divinity degree at Trinity College in Toronto. During those three years he commuted 15 miles across town to York University where he taught what were essentially great books courses in its Division of Humanities. At 32, Mr. McKeachie has had an unusually varied beginning in his ministry, in which the incorporation of his St. John's experience has played a major part. He is one of those St. John's alumni who left before graduation yet on whom the college made a lasting impression. Indeed, Mr. McKeachie believes that the value of his St. John's education has grown on him increasingly since 1962-64, the years when he was on campus. "In many ways I was an immature and obdurate student at St. John's," he recalls, "unwilling to submit to the true discipline of the Program, unwilling to go through intellectual catharsis. I went to St. John's with certain expectations and prejudices, and it was only later that I came to understand the extent to which the college was trying to liberate me from them.n But Mr. McKeachie also had positive reasons for transferring from St. John's. He was at the time considering a vocation in the church and wanted to make up his mind within the milieu of the Episcopal setting provided by the University of the South at Sewanee. For that decision and for Sewanee's role in it he has no regrets. Sewanee',s .t~:reefql~ heritage - Anglican, Oxonian and Southern - remains an integral part of Mr. McKeachie's outlook. ELECTED TO PHI Beta Kappa, he was graduated summa cum laude in 1966 with a degree in philosophy and English. Then, as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, he undertook graduate studies in Canada, a natural choice for one whose youth had been almost evenly divided between the United States and England. Born in Manhattan, he moved with his parents to England at eight and attended King's College School, Wimbledon. As a resident of both countries, he seemed to develop "a certain schizophrenia. Canada appeared to be the perfect compromise." After a year at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, he went on to obtain his divinity degree from Trinity College in 1970. He was ordained deacon in Toronto, but his ordination to the priesthood took place in England to which he returned as assistant chaplain at St. John's College, Oxford - a name which, when the appointment came, had the sound of a good omen. During his stint across the Atlantic, Mr. McKeachie undertook a concentrated course of study in Orthodox theology and liturgy under the joint auspices of the World Council of Churches and St. Sergius' Institute, Paris. In the spring of 1973, he participated as visiting lecturer in an ecumenical program in Frankfurt, Germ any. On taking up his present position back in Toronto, he was appointed. to several interchurch committees, and now serves as secretary of the Faith and Order Commission of the Canadian Council of Churches. "One of the indirect influences of St. John's on my recent work," suggests Mr. McKeachie, "had to do with a study of scripture and tradition which I was commissioned to write for the Anglican-Rom an Catholic dialogue. One of the theological problem areas in the understanding of scripture today arises out of the unreflective use by modern scholars of historicist methods of study. Even Rome is no longer immune to this problem. "INSOFAR AS I was able to focus some points for discussion ecumenically concerning scripture and its interpretion, it was St. John's that alerted me in the first instant to this theological dilemma." As a change from ecclesiastical matters, Mr. McKeachie serves on the board of directors, Qf, •$~ ,1 of Theatre Arts in This drama school is to the tradition of in acting and the of plays in the classical tradition. Toronto has become a center of ex· perimentation and innovation in modern theater, and the ac::1ctemy is almost alone in its traditional orientation. "We are McKeachie, "in the sense John's is radical. repertoire is 20th ""',.,'t-""'" our concern in style persubstance is to formances of plays in some measure fulfill the Aristotelian criteria." St. John's influence remains very much with him. "Undoubtedly St. John's introduced me to a kind of reading and thinking that has more and more affected my life," Mr. McKeachie said. experiences at St. John's remain continually important to me, enabling me to grapple with intellectual and moral issues in what .I hope is a discriminating way." Retrospectively, he sees St. John's in his own life in terms of Socrates' perserverence with the recalcitrant Meno. '~As Mr. Klein (former Dean Jacob Klein) says at the end of his commentary on that dialogue, it is up to us all to continue the journey," Mr. McKeachie said. (Of St. Johnnies in the Toronto area, Mr. McKeachie's closest friend from the college, James R. Mensch, received his MSL at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in 1970 and is now te~ching on the Santa Fe campus. Daniel Sullivan is in advertising, communications and public relations work there. He occasionally sees Julie Busser and Pierre de la R. du Prey, who now reside in Kingston where he is a tenured member of the Art Department at Queens and she is an up and coming soprano. Veronika Soul, with whom he also is in touch, is making movies in Montreal.) June program for alumni to he first (Continue~ from Page l) . Readings for the first week will be Sophocles' "Antigone" and Shakespeare's "Othello." Those for the second week will be Sophocles "Philoctetes" and Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale." Tutorials scheduled for the first week include one on Plato's "Gorgias," led by John F. White, and Whitehead's "Modes of Thought,'' led by Bert Thoms. The second week the tutorials will be based upon Erwin Strauss' "The Upright Posture" and sophistry in Plato's "Euthydemus." They will be led by Nicholas Maistrellis and Alan Dorfman, respectively. Faculty members will contribute their time in order to minimize the expense of attending the program, which will be limited to actual costs. IN ANNAPOLIS participants will be housed in Campbell Hall at a rate of $25 a week, which will c0?rr !ir~~·~~e~4~Pr· ~P? t~~~1f:·i �APRIL, 1975 THE REPORTER Published by Coliege Relations Office St. John's College Annapolis, Md. 21404 PAGE4 THE REPORTER Did Wolfgang Mozart write old college song? St. John's music tutors are fond of making a special claim for the college. It may have been Mozart who has written the college's old school song. A few persons can recall the words and melody of "St. John's Forever," but almost The Modern Theater Group of St. John's College will stage everyone at St. John's today can an outdoor presentation of Anouilh's "Antigone" at 8:30 p.m. sing Mozart's "Ave Verum Saturday and Sunday, May 3-4, on the college's quadrangle Corpus.'' steps. _ Possessing possibly the only In event of rain, the performance will be staged in the freshman class in the country Francis Scott Key Auditorium where an alternative set is being which meets as a whole once a constructed. The play, to be directed by Lee Zlotoff, will be open week to sing together, St. John's to the college community without charge. There will be a $1 fee introduces students to the music for visitors. of Mozart during sessions of its Anouilh's version of the play centers more on the struggle freshman chorus, which are part between Creon and Antigone than does Sophocles', according to of the required music program at Robert Tzudiker, who will play Creon. St. John's. "The key notion of the play is necessity: political " 'Ave Verum Corpus' is the necessities, religious necessities, dramatic necessities," Mr. music which students sing the Tzudiker said. "Necessity itself almost becomes a character in most-> that and Haydn's 'The the play.'' Heavens Are Telling'-and they Members of the cast include Michael Blume, Chrous; Kari sing it with great enjoyment," Jensen, Antigone; Cybthia Nash, Nurse; Sue Larrison, Ismene; according to Steven Crockett, Peter Janssen, Haemon; Mark Kelly, First Guard; Jeff Herrod, who currently is conducting Second Guard, and Mary Blanton, Mime. freshman chorus but who himself personally prefers Palestrina, with its counter melodies and tenors to go around. At least one Telling," one of Haydn's pieces shifting rhythms. from his great oratorio, "The "Mozart is very singable. You is needed for each section. "ONE EFFECT of 'evolution' Creation," selections from always know where he is going; Purcell's "Dido and Aenaeus" he points a very big finger in all is that the tenor is disappearing," and some Renaissance music. Mr. Zuckerman quipped, obsorts of ways. He counts within Students also sing a lot of serving that "that may be the powers of two's, working within a rounds, including those of Purresult of better nutrition." very narrow, metrical limit. cell, which Mr. Crockett said ~re The effects of the freshman. Students can remember him "excellent rounds, long, mwhereas Palestrina appears training can be seen on such volved, funny and serious with occasions as the annual Christcompletely free with his musical very glorious sounds." There is line, twisting and turning and mas party when students sponone of which he is particularly seeming to be under no restric- taneously sing parts of "The fond beginning, "Let dogs delight tion. It's the most beautiful music Messiah" along wit.h customary and bark and for nature I know. But that's not the im· Christmas carols. Usually Mr. made them so." Crockett has students begin their pression of young people. They Students who really want to freshman chorus with ''a rousing sing well what they remember.'' continue to sing during their four chorus," Handel's "Israel in FURTHERMORE, Mr. years at St. John's become part Crockett added, "You can even Egypt." Then may follow of the Small Chorus, which meets Faure's "Kyrie" from his shout Mozart. You can't on Tuesday nights. "Requiem"; "The Heavens Are Palestrina." The freshman chorus has existed since the late Victor Zuckerkandl almost singlehandedly launched the college's music program. Elliott Zuckerman, a member of the Faculty Instruction Committee, Mr. Kieffer first joined St. (Continued from Page 1) who will conduct the chorus next J.ohn's in 1929 as an instructor in year, said a principal aim is to The funeral was conducted by classical languages, the only familiarize students early with a the Rev. James F. Madison, Marylander serving on the body of music which they will be rector emeritus of St. Anne's, and faculty at that time. able to discuss during their by a St. John's tutor, the Rev. J. "St. John's College halin truth sophomore music tutorial. Winfree Smith. John Cooper, who been your life for over four and a The chorus has succeeded in had served as a music tutor, was half decades," President Richard varying degrees since it was the organist. D. Weigle said in a statement begun, going well some years and SERVING AS pallbearers were originally prepared to be given at not so well others. Part of the William A. Darkey, former dean the May commencement to mark difficulty may lie in its am- of the Santa Fe campus who Mr. Kieffer's retirement. biguous nature. Freshman represented the western campus; chorus is not a class although James A. Tolbert, St. John's "Probably no one has served attendance is required, but the tutor; William B. Dunham, the College in a wider range of student's participation is never director of college relations; positions than you have: acting mentioned in his don rag. AtEdward F. Lathrop, former tutor president, president, visitor and tendance, strong at the beginning who represented the Alumni governor, dean, assistant dean, of the year, often tends to drop Association; Professor William director of adult education, away despite the attendance H. Russell of the Naval Academy, leader of the European seminar, requirement. a neighbor and close friend, and director of the summer freshNext year, in one move to three St. John's students, William men, and last, but most imstrenghten the chorus, a teaching Campbell, Stephan Weber, and portant, tutor;" post will be established for the Temple Wright. When he retired as dean, a first time for the tutor who Honorary pallbearers included scroll presented him took note of conducts the chorus. In a solution a tutor emeritus, Ford K. Brown, designed to represent the best of who was recovering from a his wide participation in college two possible worlds, the chorus recent operation and who was affairs. It said: will be given greater wheeled into church for the "As dean, over the past seven significance, but np more time service .. Others were President years, he has held the program will be required of the students Richard D. Weigle, Dean Curtis steady on its course~ As scholar than normally is. Wilson, two other tutors he is erudite and precise. As Mr. Zuckerman plans to divide emeriti, Jacob Klein and the Socratic teacher, he has led ten the class into groups of 20 which Rev. William Kyle Smith, and generations of students to love will meet alone on alternating Robert Bart of the present learning. This man of calm weeks and together with all faculty. dignity has always been sections present on other weeks. Burial followed at a family passionate in his love of the An incidental worry he faces is burial plot at Rose Hill Cemetery Greeks, qf . ~he ,~ood, and of St. that· tliere may not be endl.tgh in Hagerstown. John 1sC<fllege. Quadrangle steps to be scene of play David Sta 's book to be published A book written by David E. Starr, St. John's tutor since 1972, is scheduled for publication this summer. A revision of a dissertation written for his doctorate, obtained from Boston University in 1972, the book will be published by Burt Franklin, Publisher, New York City, the scholarly division of the Lenox Hill Press. The book, entitled "Entity and Existence," explores two ways of ontological thinking-Aristotle's and Heidegger's. Aristotle, according to Mr. Starr, focuses his theory on the intelligible presence of natural things and, interpreting their being as the activity in which they present themselves for theoretic c~­ prehension, reasons from/the order of natural activities to the superordinate activity of a selfcontemplative divine being. Heidegger, Mr. Starr says, begins with the thinker's own quest for self-understanding and, interpreting being as the power whereby men strive to comprehend their circumstances integrally in a course of life, finds metaphysical thinking a mode and metaphysical doctrine a reflection of that activity. IN THE COURSE of his investigation, Mr. Starr finds Aristotle's practice to support Heidegger's claims. He concludes that Aristotle's assumption of the ontological primacy of what is usually translated ''substance'' -ousia-is mistaken, and that the human soul resists description in Aristotelian terms because its power and way of being are more fundamental than Aristotle's principal subject of ontological investigation. Nevertheless, while for the most part agreeing with Heidegger about the primacy of personal existence and the historicity of essential being, Mr. Starr seeks to show that much of · Aristotle's method and doctrine needs to be preserved, either as a general necessity for any ontology or as truth of less fundamental import than Aristotle supposed. Since his graduation ·from Gordon College in 1962, Mr. Starr has studied philosophy at Boston University, with particular emphasis on ethics, theology and general metaphysics. He has served as a teaching intern in Boston University's College of Basic Studies and as an instructor in philosophy at the University ofRhode Island. · Also scheduled for publication lihlhecohiihg ye,ir1is an a~ticle1 on DAVID STARR Plato, "The Sixth Sophist", to be published in The Philosophical Forum, a quarterly journal. The article, says Mr. Starr, was written during the past year partly as a reply to an earlier article in the same journal and partly as an occasion for working out some thoughts on Platonic enumerations. Student ing (Continued from Page 1) John's College and the liberal arts education I have pursued here have helped me to reexamine seriously the desirability of farming for myself as well as for those to whom farming already is a way of life. Questions concerning this way of life also have been the topic of many dinner conversations with my family as well as conversation with other farmers ... 'A crucial question to many families is how are the younger members of the family to be kept on the farm? The vision of farm life as wholly idyllic is an illusion. Not all farmers are robust, redfaced and happy. Could it be that leisure time is necessary for all people? Is it not essential to have time to read, to attend plays and movies, to participate in an active political life, and time simply to reflect upon things that should be done concerning one's own life and the life of the farm? "The situation I have experienced has taught me that farm life as it is offers no leisure hours. If one works between 14 and 16 hours daily, he is more likely to sleep in those few remaining hours than to devote himself to other things that concern him. I am of the opinion that the family farm properly run would offer each individual more free time. But has the farmer been educated to assure his use of leisure in a way that would be fruitful to himself and his community? In America the question seems only to be answered 'negatively." Courage marks his fin al weeks j 1 1 � 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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It has reinstituted selections from Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations" in order that students might study, besides Epictetus, another Stoic. At Santa Fe, the change has been more marked. "Alice in Wonderland," once read at both campuses, is off the list completely. Heidegger is being dropped there on the grounds that German existentialism requires two or three weeks or should be read not at all, according to Dean Robert Neidorf. "The Song of Roland" is being excluded at Santa Fe in favor of more Chaucer. New additions there are Pavlov's lectures on conditioned reflexes and John Maynard Keynes' classic study on economy, "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money." AT EITHER CAMPUS authors read during senunars or tutoriais can disappear completely, as have Walt Whitman and Charles • IS • fa Dickens, or may be added, as have Franz Kafka and Thomas Mann, or can reappear a8 have Melville and Marcus Aurelius last year and this. A comparison of the list for the 1937-40 period with those writings listed in the current catalogue show that the list has changed radically. At least 70 writings alone read during the first three years of the New Program have been dropped. Particularly marked is the absence of a number of Latin writers who distinguished the early lists. Other writers have been deleted partly because of a IC the pressure of time. New ones have been added when the faculty felt them to be of greater importance. A study compiled by John S. Kieffer in connection with a 1967 Statement of Educational Policy and Program show these books to have been read during the first jrears of the New Program but not 30 years later: Hippocrates' "Selections"; Aristarchus' "On the Distance of the Sun and Moon"; Aristoxenus' "Harmony"; Lucian's ''.True History"; Strabo's "Geography"; Cicero's "De Officiis"; Horace's "Ars Poetica"; Ovid's "Metamorphoses"; Quintilian's· "Institutes"; Marcus Aurelius' ''To Himself"; Justinian's "Institutes"; Augustine's "De Musica," "De Magistro"; "Song of Roland"; "Volsunga Saga"; Bo.naventura's "On the Reduction of the Arts to Theology"; Bacon's "Opus Maius"; Da Vinci's "Notebooks"; Erasmus' "Colloquies"; Grotius' "The Law of War and Peace"; Spinoza's "Ethics"; Boyle's "Skeptical Chymist''; Montesquieu's "The Spirit of (Continued on P. 7) Goldwin goes The St. John's REPORTER FEB. 15 , 19 7 5 VOLUME 11, ISSUE 3 Happy birthday, Jane Austen! Gordon Sillars, Bowie freshman, takes ~ dose view of the library owl. (photo by Jon Hustis) This year is not only a bicentermial year in American history but a bicentennial year for Jane Austen, whose birth on December 16, 1775, has resulted in some of the happiest reading in all of English literature. "Jane Austen wrote a perfect number of perfect novels," Miss Owl persuades • pigeons to go The other day a faculty wife rushed into the St. John's College library and hailed the librarians with "Quick! There's a big bird out there!" The librarians kept their seats. They knew there was a big, grey bird of prey out there occupying a second floor window ledge of Woodward Hall. Furthermore, with some sense of satisfaction, they knew it was likely to remain for some time to come. The bird, which is still on the window ledge, is an owl. It's plastic, and it has duties to perform: it must keep the pigeons away. • place upon a block of wood. Realistically designed so as to be (Continued on P. 8) SJ tuition upby$350 Faced with an unforeseen 14 per cent inflation rate, St. John's College is raising its present $3,000 tuition next year by $350. While rates for dormitory rooms will remain at $550, college dining hall fees, now $750, are uncertain. Their rate will depend on a contract yet to be negotiated Measuring about 18 inches high, it is the first constructive with Action One, Inc., a Baltimore catering firm that answer the library has been able the college. Tentatively to find in its continuing battle servesfoes for 1975-76 will be total with pigeons which goes back, $4,650. one gathers, to the day the The big jump in tuition this Corinthian columns of this Greek year was caused in part because revival building first were the tuition increase last year erected in 1899. was held to only 3 per cent or The owl is hollow and, mounted $100, according to College on a broomstick, is secured in Treasurer Charles T. Elzey. JANE AUSTEN Eva Brann, St. John's tutor, said of her six books in a lecture given last month at both St. John's and Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. Her "Pride and Prejudice" first was added to the college's Great Books list in 1950 and has been there continuously since except for a period of time when "Emma" was substituted. " 'Pride and Prejudice' was a novel which exemplified a certain kind of sensibility you don't find in other novels on the list," John S. Kieff er of the faculty said in recalling the decision to include it. Besides Miss Brann's lecture, an additional bit of fanfare unContinued on P. 8) to White House St. John's old '66 stake body truck shambled over to the White House the other day, rattling its way down Executive Avenue to the Southwest gate where guards swept away some red standards and made room for it to park. St. John's had something to deliver: Robert Goldwin's specially designed, stand-up desk, built for a man who has a chronic back problem. The desk, which has been kept in the Admissions Office, now goes to the former dean's White House office to serve him while he acts as special consultant to President Ford. In his work with the Domestic Council and the Office of Public Liaison, Mr. Goldwin will serve as President Ford's liaison with the academic community. Tutor Robert Spaeth, who drove the truck and saw the desk safely in the door, then went off to have lunch with Mr. Goldwin in the White House "mess," the small restaurant reserved for senior staff members. Mr. Goldwin originally was to have joined the University of Pennsylvania to direct a program of executive seminars beginning November 1, but he has been released from duties there. As a special consultant, Mr. Goldwin hopes to assure a flow of ideas and information to the President from individuals outside government. SOON AFI'ER assuming his duties he set up a dinner seminar for 10 with the President in which the Bicentennial, food-aid program and crime were discussed. Mr. Goldwin, who is also a 1950 graduate of the college, compared the seminar to those at St. John's. He said the non-vocational education he received at St. John's was "the best vocational preparation for this kind of work. I've had the odd experience to be doing what I learned to do at St. John's." One of the fringe benefits Mr. Goldwin holds is the privilege of inviting friends to occupy Box Number 1, the President's Box, at the Kennedy Center when it isn't in use by the first family. Recently the Goldwins invited four St. John's tutors - Miss Eva Brann, Mr. and Mrs. Allan brook, and Zuckerman-to attend a performance of Alexander Schneider and the New York String Orchestra. AT INTERMISSION the St., John's group gathered with the ROBERT GOlDWIN Goldwins-in the anteroom where champagne was served from the refrigerator disguised as a wooden chest The subject of articles appearing in the national press, Mr. Goldwin was adviser to Sen. (Continued 011 P. '1) Council acts on smoking St. John's College students have taken the lead in limiting smoking at the college. In order to balance the discomforts of those who don't smoke with those who do, the Delegate Council, representing the student body, has asked that the first hour of St. John's twice· weekly, two-hour seminars, which all students attend, be free of smoking. The new policy went into effect with the start of the new year. It extends a practice underway for some years for the question period which follows St. John's regular Friday night lecture. As a result of a previous student request, there is a ban on smoking during the first hour o~ the question period. St. John's library also restricts smoking to the lowest floor of the building. �P'c,1,,11,~11. ... ll"' 2 The St. John's College Caritas Society can be credited with helping keep nine St. John's students in college during the past three academic years. Between its formation in 1970 and the end of its last fiscal year it contributed $10,630 toward scholarship purposes. Mrs. Manuel Rosen, president, said the society gave $5,405.91 directly to the college scholarship fund between 1970 and 1972 before a change in Caritas' by-laws allowed donations to individual students upon recommendation of the college deans. In 1972-73 the Caritas fund, called the Rosalie C. Blaul Scholarship Fund in honor of the society's treasurer, provided three students with a total of $2,175. During 1973-74 another six students received $3,050. The society together with the Alumni Association is planning a ball March 22 at St. John's to raise additional funds. Mrs. Richard Koren, chairman, said the dance will be held in the foyer of the Key Auditorium, which will be transformed into an Italian piazza. With the price set at $12.50 a person, reservations may be made with Mrs. Stanley C. Bogart, who may be reached at 267-8354. Roy Shawn and Julius Rosenberg are representing the alumni. in planning the event. Hutehins in Santa Fe? "Remember that timeless list of 'Great Books' compiled under the editorship of Robert M. Hutchins at St. John's College in Santa Fe, N.M., back in 1937?" No, I can't say that I do, nor, I imagine, will Mr. Hutchins either. However startling a twist the rewrite of a news release sent out by St. John's in December, we owe our thanks to a columnist on the staff of The State newspaper in Colwnbia, S.C., who has stirred sufficient interest in our list to keep .requests pouring in for copies. Half of South Carolina wants to know. Those who have asked for the list include teachers, librarians, an attorney, an industrial psychologist and members of the American Association of University Women. Mention of the great books list by The Washington Post at about the same time brought a request from one old gentleman from Virginia who not only wanted the list but some examples of "deathless prose." Fund up to $40,000 The Faculty Scholarship Fund, which had its modest beginnings in 1952, has grown to :more than $40,000. . .. With the first contribution made by the late George Bingley, the fund was established by a group of faculty members to assist needy St. John's students. The Caritas Society added $5,405.91 to it between 1970 and 1972, and the Old Dominion Foundation gave $2,359. Occasionally a few individuals not directly connected with the campus have made contributions. "Other than these gifts, however," William B. Dunham, director of College Relations, said, "the fund is entirely the result of the personal concern and remarkable generosity of St. John's faculty and staff." Mr. Bingley launched the fund on November 6, 1952, with his initial gift. Other donors who helped establish the fund during the remainder of that fiscal year, in order of their contributions, were Miss Charlotte Fletcher, Curtis Wilson, Robert S. Bart, Ford K. Brown, Simon Kaplan, the late Richard Scofield, W. Wiley Crawford and Miss Barbara Leonard. · Adult Preeeptorial In addition to its customary seminar, St. John's College's adult education program is being expanded with the Spring reading series to include for the first time a preceptorial, Robert L. Spaeth, director, announced today. The preceptorial will be modeled after those offered during the junior and senior years of the St. John's undergraduate program in which students give a close reading to a major work. In this case, Mr. Spaeth said the book selected for the Adult Preceptorial will be Plato's "Republic." Leading the discussions will be Nicholas Maistrellis, St. John's tutor. Sessions will be held beginning Wednesday, Feb. 19, in Room 21, McDowell Hall, with enrollment limited to ten persons. The seminar will be held on Tuesdays beginning February 18 in Room 24 of McDowell Hall. Mr. Spaeth said that it will have a generally literary theme in which participants will read books and plays of importance as well as Artistotle's "Poetics" and a short work of Kant dealing with his theory of aesthetics. Trollope's library St. John's collection of old and rare books is continually turning up surprises. Mrs. Marcia Talley, library cataloguer, finding herself with a mis-matching book card, traced it to an 1811 volwne bearing a bookplate indicating it had once belonged to the library of T. Adolphus Trollope, older brother of the English novelist Anthony Trollope. The book was one of a series of six entitled (three of English ''metrical romances" and three of other poetry) edited by George Ellis, Esq., all of which belonged to Adolphus Trollope's library. Five years older than his more famous brother, he himself was a prolific writer. Three of the books are in their original leather binding. They were given St. John's by an unknown donor on March 23, 1874, some 18 years before the death of Adolphu~s'lll"Jl:tlope in,,189~':1 It really shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that Brother Robert S. Smith, F.S.C., should wind up not too many years before his retirement at St. John's College as an established tutor quickly absorbed into a secular college community with tenure coming almost as a matter of course. It was all inevitable. Brother Robert and St. John's were destined for each other ever since Brother Robert obtained his first St. John's catalog for 1937-38, the year the college decided to abandon its elective program and establish its New Program of Liberal Arts. It was one passage which particularly struck him: "But the words we learned from our parents' lips, the language we think and speak in, the ideas which lie behind that language, all these represent a complex which we call tradition. If we understand that tradition, if we constantly expand and criticize it, we utilize the full heritage of civilized human animals. If we try to escape from tradition, to live without the heritage, we are doomed to live blind and uncivilized lives.'' He took the words sufficiently seriously to translate them into action. As a result the first program in the country modeled after St. John's New Program came into existence. THE FIRST YEAR Brother Robert joined St. Mary's College, a Christian Brothers College at Moraga, Calif., which was 1941, he helped start a seminar based upon the St. John's reading list. In 1942-43 the seminar expanded into a program very much patterned upon the St. John's program, and in 1956 the Integrated Program at St. Mary's formally was established. . Brother Robert headed it until 1964 and then was followed on a temporary basis by two St. John's tutors, who administered it: Edward Sparrow and Winfree Smith. Meanwhile, over the years he had become a close friend of a number of St. John's tutors: Jacob Klein, Elliott Zuckerman, Douglas Allanbrook, William Darkey and Michael Ossorgin, to mention a few. In visits with them, in correspondence, in telephone conversations, he maintained a warm tie with the college. In 1966 he joined St. John's as a visiting tutor, then returned to St. Mary's to once again lead the Integrated Program. But by then, after doing a great deal of thinking about it, Brother Robert had decided he wanted to put administrative duties behind him. In 1972 he applied to the Provincial, the head of the Christian Brothers' California Province, for permission to come to St. John's. "I simply wanted to spend the rest of my life teaching and thinking about things without administering," Brother Robert explained his decision. IT WAS A STEP he also viewed as one which would give his success!lf ~ ;tj~q sh.:~ community which since has disappeared and been absorbed into the general population. When he decided to enter graduate school, he chose a French university-the Universite' · Laval in Quebec, which, during those World War II days, was a particularly exciting place, with its influx of middle European journalists, political figures and refugees from Belgium, Holland and France. He obtained his doctorate in 1948, writing a dissertation which was concerned with the liberal arts in the Thomist tradition. Brother Robert became a BROTHER ROBERT Christian Brothers novice at 18 and was graduated from St. (photobyEugemt lorgov) M . . ary ,s College m 1935. He ta ug h t determining the direction the St. Mary's program might take. Brother Robert has been heard to comment that being at St. John's is like "Paradise" although, for a scholarly man, he prefers a simpler analogy: "It's like being in a garden in which one can do one's work without distraction." He has another analogy, in part derived from a research project to which he has devoted the last three of his six summers in France. That is a study of the Desert Fathers, the group of Fifth Century Christians who lived principally in Egypt, some times in Palestine, in solitude reading . the Scriptures and attempting to make sense of their existence. Eventually he is planning to publish a translation from the Greek of a work concerning these men. St. John's he finds is rather like a monastery. But instead of fwictioning as a religious · institution, he sees it as a community in which its members are able to step aside from the usual industrial-commercial world and are attempting to make sense of all of western civilization. Cosmopolitan, a man for all seasons, a man of infinite interests for whom no story is too small to summon instant sympathy, a person of rare highmindedness, Brother Robert can turn from such a mystical subject as the Christian Fathers to gourmet cooking, mostly French, at which he is particularly good, or wines, of which he has a fine understanding. ("He loves to eat and is full of grace," a colleague affectionately says of him). Or he can turn to that most worldly of all writersRabelais-on whom he has become something of a specialist. HE SPENT ONE year in Venice in 1963-64 studying Rabelais and the Nominalist philosophers, immersed in the life and works of this former monk who revolted against monasticism and then restated what life meant to him in terms of his own philosophical and religious thought. Brother Robert's French background makes him particularly valuable in St. John's language program. Until he was 11 he lived in the French section of first at the Christian Brothers High School in Sacramento for six years before joining St. Mary's College faculty in 1941. WITH YEARS OF experience at St. Mary's leading a seminar, Brother Robert has become known for his great skill in guiding discussion. "He has a great sense of understanding not only of what students are saying but of what they appear to be meaning," one seminar observer said in stressing the real sense of empathy Brother Robert extends to all those around him. "He is enormously generous in his willingness to let students entertain and examine the widest variety of points of view, even if it is simply to show that a viewpoint is peripheral or leads away from the subject or to a dead end." "The thing that's great about Brother Robert is his spirit," Dean Curtis Wilson said. Black masks to he shown An exhibition entitled "A Face for a Spirit: Ritual Masks of Black Africa" will mark .the second show at St. John's College's new art gallery. Scheduled to open Tuesday, Feb. 18, the show will continue through March 17 in Room 201 of Mellon Hall. Visitors may view it between 7 and 8 p.m. on Weekdays other than Tuesdays and between 3 and 5 p.m. on Tuesday. and Thursdays. The exhibition, which has been made available by the Baltimore Musewn of Art, contains masks from sub-Saharan black Africa along with photographs of several of the pieces as they are used in traditional ceremonies and rituals. "For people with great appreciation of the supernatural, spirits are integral parts of daily life," Dr. Glenn A. Long, curatorin-charge of African art at the Baltimore museum, said in notes prepared for the exhibit. The Reporter is published by the Office of College Relations, St. John's College, Annapolis, Md., 21404, Richard D. Wei· gle, president, William B. Dunham, direc· · tor of College Relations. Published five times a year, in February, April, June, September and November. Second class postage p°{d ,,f .frnn,opolisb Md., · ,:r ,1,;,a~1v·~if. �FEB. 15, 1975 I Summary of Fund Raising THE REPORTER Dr. & Mrs. Alex L. Boro Miss Eva T. Brann Purpose Mr. Robert J. Brown Current Funds: Mr. Myer Bronstein Unrestricted $316,857 Mrs. Charles H. Brooks Restricted 19,016 Mr. & Mrs. J. Prentiss Browne Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Browne $335,873 Mr. James S. Burk Mr. & Mrs. Charles Butterworth Capital Funds: Mr. Brodnax Cameron Endowment Funds $ 26,379 Gen. & Mrs. Levin Campbell, Plant Funds 23,512 Mr. & Mrs. Gunnar Carlson Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Carren $ 49,891 Mrs. Ann P. Charney Mrs. Virginia Chase Total Funds Raised $385,764 Mr. & Mrs. Page· B. Clagett Mrs. Clyde A. Clapp B. Foundations Source Mr. Philip F. Clapp Corporations $ 46,688 The A. S. Abell Company Mr. Raymond B. Clark, Jr. Foundations 195,698 Mrs. Glen M. Clarke Foundation Government 35,500 American Express Foundation Mrs. W.P.O. Clarke Individuals 23,040 Mary Mr. & Mrs. William Clatanoff Reynolds Babcock Parents Fund 5,159 Foundation, Inc. Mr. Geoffrey J. Comber Alumni Fund 33,047 Baldwin Foundation, Inc. Dr. Richard T. Cox. Alumni Capital 34,144 Bank of America Foundation Mr. & Mrs. William B. Cronin Booth-Ferris Foundation Mrs. Annie C. Dashiell Gift Totals $373,276 Borg-Warner Foundation, Inc. Mrs. George Davidson, Jr. Robert Sterling Clark Foun- Dr. Edwin Davis, Jr. Bequests dation, Inc. Miss Marie Louise DeBronac Alumni $ 7,488 Corning Glass Works Foundation Mrs. Frances Boyd DeHart Other 5,000 Earhart Foundation Dr. Gustavo Delgado Thomas Alva Edison Foundation . Mr. & Mrs. Dudley P. Digges Total Funds Raised $385,764 Gulf Oil Foundation Miss Mallory Fleet Digges The Hecht-Levi Foundation, Inc. Mr. Nicholas F. DiLiello The Hodson Trust Mrs. Lowell Russell Ditzen Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Mr. George Doskow The Koppers Foundation II. Non-Alumni Contributors Mr. & Mrs. Philip Drill The Lapides Foundation, Inc. Mrs. Walter B. Driscoll Liberty Fund, Inc. Gifts from many sources other The Merck Company Foundation Mr. Murray Dry than alumni each year help St. Mobil Foundation, Inc. Mrs. Robert F. Duer, Jr. John's meet its operating deficit. The Nabisco Foundation Mr. Carroll R. Dunton · The College is most grateful to Parker Foundation Agency Mr. & Mrs. Myron Eisenstein the following corporations, The Peat, Marwick, Mitchell Mr. Louis Eliasberg foundations, individuals, and Mr. Richard A. Eliasberg Foundation parents of current students for PepsiCo Foundation, Inc. Mr. Charles T. Elzey their support during the year The Presser Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Kirk Emmert 1973-74: Mrs. Richard W. Emory Sears-Roebuck Foundation The Thomas B. and Elizabeth M. Mr. & Mrs. Vincent Engels Sheridan Foundation, Inc. Mrs. Quentin E. Erlandson A. Corporations United Virginia Bankshares, Inc. Mrs. Carol Prentice Eveleigh American Broadcasting ComMr. & Mrs. Samuel E. Ewing panies, Inc. C. Government Rev. & Mrs. Leslie L. Fairfield The Annapolis Banking and Trust Mrs. James H. Farland State of Maryland - Aid to Private - Mrs. Mary S. Farler Company College and Universities Annapolis Federal Savings and Dr. Esther S. Farney Loan Association Mr. Robert Faulkner Annapolis Utilities, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Robert 0. Felter The Association of Independent Mr. L. D. Feuchtenberger, Jr. D. Individuals Colleges of Maryland, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Goeffrey Fielding Capital City Federal Savings and Mr. Charles E. Finch Loan Association Mrs. H. Boynton Adler Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Finlay Chesapeake Instrument Cor- Mr. B. E. Alexander Mr. & Mrs. Fred D. Fishback poration Mr. & Mrs. Augustine 0. Allen Mr. William A. Fisher, Jr. Connecticut General Insurance Mrs. Herbert T. Anderson Mrs. Roy G. Fitzgerald Corporation Mr. & Mrs. A.A. Archibald Mr. Harvey Flaumenhaft The C & P Telephone Company Mrs. Marshall T. Augustine Mr. Raymond W. Foery The Dow Chemical Company Mr. & Mrs. Charles D. Auld Mr. Nicholas J. Fotos Economy Plumbing and Heating Mr. Donald L. Fredericksen Mrs. Charles R. Austrian Supply Company, Inc. Prof. & Mrs. James Galloway The Equitable Life Assurance Mr. & Mrs. John Baer Mr. & Mrs. Ludlow H. Baldwin Mrs. Hilary W. Gans Society of the United States Prof. & Mrs. N. Hansen Ball · Miss Elizabeth Gempp Fawcett Boat Supplies, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Meyer W. Gilden Federated Department Stores, Mr. Stringfellow Barr Mr. Henry Barton Mr. Harry L. Golding Inc. Mr. William J. Battin Mr. & Mrs. Albert Goodman First National City Bank Mr. & Mrs. W. H. Bayliff Mrs. R.M. Graves Ford Motor Company Fund Mrs. John W. Bays Dr. Eugene Grether W. T. Grant Company Mr. & Mrs. C. J. Guerrein Household Finance Corporation Mr. Allan R. Beckanstin R Adm. Frederic S. Habecker International Business Machines Mr. & Mrs. James F. Bell Capt. & Mrs. Henry H. Hall Mrs. George L. Beneze Corporation Mr. Esley Hamilton Mr. & Mrs. J. Pierre Bernard Katcef Brothers, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. William W. The John D. Lucas Printing Mr. & Mrs. Laurence Berns · Company Prof. & Mrs. William H. Berry Hammerschmidt ·· Matterhorn Travel Services Dr. & Mrs. Paul Berson Mr. & Mrs. Burton H. Hanf' Morgan Guaranty Trust Com- Mrs. George A. Bingley Mrs. E.T. Hankamer pany of New York Reverend Hugh Birdsall Dr. & Mrs. Alan Harqua ...., Jr. Mullen and Sullivan Miss Deborah L. Black Mrs. Herbert J. Harris National Merit Scholarship Mr. George R. Black Mr. & Mrs. John Harrison, Jr. Corporation Mr. and Mrs. Royden A. Blunt Mrs. John T. Harrison, Sr. 1 New -"Canton, Irie: .\.l\1 Mr. 1 &'Mrs? fi0yte .1. Bd~chets M\'s. 1tt1ssen !t>'efer Hartle· Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company Peabody Ga.lion Corporation Philip Morris Incorporated T. Rowe Price Associates Rentex Services Corporation of Washington, D. C. (Division of Rentex Services, Inc.) Rotary Club of Annapolis Sandoz-Wander, Inc. Simpson Electrical Company, Inc. United Aircraft Corporation United Sanitary Chemicals Corporation WANN Radio Station - Annapolis 3 Mr. Robert D. H. Harvey , Mr. & Mrs. Ichiro Hasegawa · Mrs. Lawrence T. Haugen Mr. Thomas Herlighy, Jr. Miss Mary L. Hicks Mrs. Robert 0. Hill Mr. & Mrs. Abraham Hiller Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Hobart Mrs. Edward Hoberman Mrs. Catherine A. Hodgson Mrs. J. H. Hoffberger Mr. LeRoy E. Hoffberger Mr. & Mrs. George Hoffmann Mr. Malcolm A. Hoffmann Mr. & Mrs. D. Luke Hopkins Prof. & Mrs. David G. Howard Mr. Michael Huber Miss Eleanor H. Huber Miss Judith M. Hudacek Mrs. Thomas R. Hughes Capt. & Mrs. R. F. Hunt Mrs. Amos V. Hutchins Mr. Thomas D. Hyde Mr. Robert H. Irrmann Mrs. Remsen Johnson, Jr. Mr. Reverdy Johnson Dr. Leon Kass Miss Katherine M. Kibler Miss Elizabeth Kimpton Mrs. Benjamin A. King Mr. & Mrs. H. L. Kinsolving Dr. & Mrs. Charles Kinzer Mr. Harry Kirson Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey C. Kitchen Mr. Jacob Klein Mr. & Mrs. Edward V. Knight Colonel Allan J. Lamb Mrs. H. G. Larsh Mr. Walter L. Lears Rabbi Joel Lebofeld Mr. Joseph B. Ledlie, Jr. Mr. Stanley G. Lemon Mrs. Ida H. Lenihan Miss Barbara Leonard Miss Margaret Leonard Dr. & Mrs. Nathan Leonard Mr. Irving Levy Mr. & Mrs. Walker Lewis Mr. Harry Licht Mrs. John Littleton, Sr. Mrs. David Long, Sr. Mrs. Malcolm W. Lowenstein Capt. Burke D. Lucas Mr. Richard T. Lurman Mrs. Lawrence M. Lyons Mr. Philip B. Lyons Mrs. Kenneth D. MacLeish Mr. Michael J. Malbin Mrs. Henry F. Maling Miss Anna E. Mantz Dr. Robert M. Marine Miss Jeannette S. Markell Mr. & Mrs. H. C. Marsh Miss Susan Martin Capt. & Mrs. W. A.P. Martin Mrs. Thyrrice C. Marx Mrs. Merrill S. Matson Mrs. G. Donald Matthews Mr. Francis M. McGlannan Mrs. Carol A. McKenzie Mr. & Mrs. E. Bates McKee Mr. & Mrs. W. Carroll Mead Mrs. T. Leonard Mikules Mrs. Clarence W. Miles Dr. Kurt G. F. Moeller Mr. Alfred Mollin Mr. J. Anthony Moran Miss Zola E. Morton Mr. & Mrs. Charles 0. Mount Mr. & Mrs. Howard E. Mullinix Mr. & Mrs. Clapham Murray, Jr. Dr. Philip Myers Mrs. Virginia Mylander Mr. Emory H. Niles Miss Dorothy L. Noble Mr. Harold V. Nutt Mr. Edwin W. Obrecht Mr. Je~ali P. llli'GraciyL ;t Mr. George W. Olinger Mr. Lawrence Perin Mrs. Duane L. Peterson Mr. James C. Pine Mr. Stephen M. Pitts Miss Helen V. Price Mrs. Grenfell Prior Dr. & Mrs. Donald F. Proctor Mr. John B. Ramsey, Jr. Mr. Charles F. Reese Mr. & Mrs. J. Richard Reid Mr. Steven E. Rhoads Mrs. Edward N. Rich, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Woodward B. Rich Mr. Thomas B. Robertson Roland Park Country School Mr. & Mrs. R. H. Rosenberg Mr. Elerk Rosenbloom Mr. Lewis Rumford, II Mr. James F. Russell, III Judge George Sachse Mr. Sol Sacks Mr. Robert Samuels Mr. Manuel Schenker Mr. & Mrs. William F. Schmick, Jr. Mr. Adolph W. Schmidt Mr. & Mrs. William L. Schmidt Mrs. Margaret W. Schwartz Semmes, Bowen & Semmes Mrs. Karen Sever Rev. Wjnslow Shaw Dr. & Mrs. Paul Sherman Mr. Harry Shofer Mr. Thomas Shofer Mrs. Ann R. Sibley Mrs. Isabelle Simpson Mr. Frederick J. Singley, Jr.' Mr. Martin Sitte Mr. Jonathan L. Skinner Mr. W. Cameron Slack Mrs. H. Elizabeth Slater Mr. Charles W. Smith Rev. J. Winfree Smith Mr. W. Kyle Smith Mr. Alexander Dunbar Speer Mr. Edward G. Sparrow Mrs. Stella Spicknall Mrs. Raymond E. Staley Rear Adm. Hubert E. Strange Mr. Nathan Tarcov Mrs. Robert A. Tennant Mr. Bert Thoms Mr. & Mrs. John Q. Tilson Mr. Harold Tschudi Mr. Joseph D. Tydings Capt. V. V. Utgoff Mr. & Mrs. James F. Villere Dr. & Mrs. Franz von Lichtenberg Rear Adm. John R. Wadleigh Mrs. Robert E. Wagner Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey D. Wallin Mr. Harvey Walters Mrs. Henry H. Waters Prof. Eleanor R. Webster Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Weigle· Mr. Koppel Wekselblatt Mrs. John Whitridge, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Curtis Wilson Mrs. Harrison L. Wmter Mrs. Harve J. Wobbe Mr. & Mrs. Glenn F. Wolfe Miss Margaret M. Worthington Miss Virginia R. Worthington Miss Martha Wright Mr. & Mrs. William H. Wright Mrs. Helen Wyle Dr. A. Dougal Young Mr. Alexander Zelenka Mr. & Mrs. Michael P. Zuckert E. Parents Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. & Mrs. L. C. Ackerman & Mrs. Frank E. Basil & Mrs. Saul Blaustein & Mrs. Richard L. Borden · w: NMrMr1 Y. 'Byrn~k Dt,.,~.Mr~1'µ. ~opfin" �. 15, 1975 E4 Mr. & Mrs. Charles _H. Campbell Mr. & Mrs. Edward Cerullo Mr. & Mrs. John S. Charles Mr: & Mrs. Philip Church Mrs. Helen Corchado Mr. & Mrs. John S. Coulson Mr. & Mrs. Leon Deane Mr. & Mrs. John H. Dink, Jr. Mrs. Elizabeth S. Ellis Dr. Mario N. Fabi Mr. & Mrs. Malcolm Feinstein Mr. & Mrs. Henry Glass Mr. & Mrs. Robert Glass Mr. & Mrs. John D. Goodwin Mrs. Louis Gottlieb Mr. & Mrs. Albert S. Hartheimer Mr. & Mrs. Denison H. Hatch Comdr. & Mrs. James D. Hendry Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. & Mrs. James J. Highsaw & Mrs. Haskell Hollander John H. F. Hoving Michael W. Huber Dr. & Mrs. Gordon Kirschner Dr. Millard S. Larrison Mr. & Mrs. James C. Mackey Mr. & Mrs. Howard M. Magen Mr. & Mrs. John E. Mcconnaughy' Jr. Mr. Burton H. Mortimer Lt. Colonel & Mrs. Razeal Nash Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Nooter Mr. & Mrs. Nathaniel M. Pigman Mr. & Mrs. Erich K. Plaut Mr. & Mrs. Joseph J. Popowicz $500 to $999, and President's 111. Alumni Fund A. Alwnni Fund results for last two years: '72-3 '73-4 779 724 Alumnf donors Percent Response 25 24 Average gift $48 $46 Total Fund $37,497 33,047 B. Top Twenty Alwnni Classes Pct Response $ Response 1. 1906 - 100 1950 - 1,885 2. 1911 - 67 1932 - 1,310 3. 1919 - 67 1964 - 1,238 4. 1907 - 50 1948 - 1,210 5. 1923 - 50 1935 - 1,191 6. 1930 - 46 1968 - 1,183 7. 1916 - 44 1941 - 1,140 8. 1917 - 44 1931 - 1,045 9. 1920 - 42 1929 980 10. 1957 - 41 1944 855 11. 1950 - 39 1966 826 12. 1929 - 38 1921 805 13. 1921 - 37 1943 794 14. 1943 - 37 1967 709 15. 1944 - 37 1954 680 16. 1912 - 36 1946 665 17. 1918 - 36 1930 652 18. 1908 - 33 1937 640 19. 1958 - 33 1949 625 20. 1960 - 33 1933 615 1963 615 C. King William Associates King William Associates during the period July 1, 1968, through June 30, · 1974, were Dr. & Mrs. Seymour Reissman alumni and alwnnae who gave Mr. William C. Rogers $100 or more for unrestricted use. Mr. & Mrs. Samuel J. Salem In 1973-74 there were 151 memDr. & Mrs. Lawrence Silver bers, of whom 27 were newly enrolled. Their names are listed Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. L. Strider below, with numbers in parenMr. & Mrs. William Sullivan theses showing total years of Dr. & Mrs. Thomas T. Tamlyn membership. Mr. & Mrs. Robert L:' Tracy Starting this year, 1974-75, membership is open to all conMr. & Mrs. Joseph N. Uemura tributors who give $100 to $499, Mr. & Mrs. Arnold Wells and two new categories of Mr. & Mrs. William M. Wright recognition have been created: Mr. & Mrs. George A. Zimmer St. John's Sponsor for gifts of 1 D. Class Lists St. John's is deeply indebted to all alumni and alumnae, living and dead, who gave financial support last year. That support amounted to 19 per cent of all gifts received, second only to Foundations ( 51 percent). The list which follows shows all alumni and alumnae contributors; the percent.ages and dollar figures which introduce each class reflect only gifts to the Alwnni Fund (gifts for current operations). The names in bold are of those in whose memory special funds have been established as part of the College's endowment; income from those funds provides a perpetual gift to St. John's. 1823 Dr. William Brewer Drew H. Beatty Leroy T. Rohrer Amos W.W. Woodock John Mullan 1995 1874 Rev. Benjamin D. Chambers M. Keith Neville Frederick W. Brune Blanchard Randall 1876 1906 Robert F. Maddox 1880 Walter I. Dawkins 1889 1907 1895 100 Pct $20 Herbert C. Fooks E. Earl Hearn Richard H. Hodgson Alfred Houston Dr. Amos F. Hutchins F. Charles H. Schoff :_Kev. Enoch H. Thomnson 1897 50 Pct Robert Anderson John T. Harrison Claude W. Owen Class of 1897 . 100 Pct Colonel Harrison MacAlpine 1910 Roscoe E. Grove 1911 67 Pct $75 Clarence L. Dicldnson Clifford L. Johnson John L. Morris Dr. Thomas Parran William F. Stone, Jr. 1912 36 Pct $245 c-Philip L. Alger Herman A. _Gailey, Sr. William Lentz Benjamin Michaelson, Sr. George L. Winslow 1903 1847 Council, for gifts of $1,000 or more. Last year's King William Associates were: A. Scott Abbott 1943 · ( 5) Ernie Adamson rnsa: (4) John D. Alexander, Sr. 1920: (6) John D. Alexander, Jr. 1953 Philip L. Alger 1912 ( 4) Robert C. Allen 1942· Stephen Anderton 1968 ( 5) William B. Athey 1932 (6) Franklin R. Atwell 1953 ( 3) RobertAxtman 1966 (2) 1921 (6) Milton G. Baker Robert S. Bart 1957 (2) Stanley J. Bartis 1933 ( 6) Joseph L. Bean 1932 (6) 1919 ( 6) Robert A. Bier Victor G. Bloede, III 1941 ( 4) Donald A. Booth 1968 Philip I. Bowman 1931 ( 4) D. MichaelBrown 1951 (6) William H. Brubeck 1944 (2) Jack L. Carr 1950 ( 4) Samuel P. Chew, Jr. 1931 · ( 4) Elisabeth M. Chiera 1955 James H. Clark 1941· (3) Edward B. Cochran 1944 ( 3) 1930 ( 6) William B. Conca George I. Cowell 1951 C. Eric Crooke 1954 Sarah C. Crooke 1955 Hugh M. Curtler, Jr. 1959 Peter J. Davies 1948 (6) Frank C. Desantis 1927 (3) David C. Dickey 1967 ( 3) J. Dudley Digges 1933 ( 5) Joseph S. DiGiorgio 1921 ( 5) David Dobreer 1944 ( 5) John C. Donohue 1935 ( 6) James J. Dugan 1926 ( 2) Miriam G. Duhan 1963 1963 Richard A. Duhan 1063 1963 William W. Dunkum, III 1964 ( 2) Edward J. Dwyer 1930 ( 5) Ralph Englesby 1964 WalterF.Evers 1935 (5) Lewis J. Fields 1931 (6) 19351 William G. Gideon Joseph M. Green, Jr. 1960 ( 4) William A. Gross 1929 ( 5) $20 Edward H. Grubb i943' Harry L. Hamilton, Jr. 1939 Ernest W. Hankamer 1951 Theodore W. Hendricks 1950 John P. Hetland 1964 T. Lansdale Hill 1941 Allan P. Hoffman 1949 John S. Hofmeister 1933 Constance B. Holland 1966 Jae Holzman 1952 H.GeraldHoxby 1947 Bernard E. Jacob 1954 C. Carey Jarman 1917 · Robert E. Jones 1909 Lawrence Kantor 1935 Tina B. Kaplan 1962 Patrick D. Keating 1929 J. Sprightly Kelly 1930 Edward A. Kimpel, Jr.'1931 Robert J. Klingenberg 1930 William J. Klug, Jr. 1930 Charles S. Kluth 1952 John C. Kohl 1961 Arthur Kungle, Jr. 1967 HenryH.Kyle 1934 Sheila S. Lampietti 196l' Jerome G. Lansner 1950 Thomas W. Ligon 1916 JohnJ. Lobell 1946 David E. Long 1966 John D. Mack 1945 Thomas E. MacMannis 1918 Francis S. Mason, Jr. 1943 Edward L. Mattison 1962 George L. McDowell 1941 Dorik V. Mechau 1956 Paul Mellon 1944 Carl G. Merkel 1929 Thomas J. Meyers 1950 Benjamin Michaelson, 1912 Sr. Anthony F. Mileto 1934 Edward H. Mongeau 1949 Richard C. Mottu 1931 Fiona P. Murray 1960 Frank B. Murray 1960 Jack A. Nadol 1957 .Frederick J. Nassauer 1932 RobertE. Nichols 1948 1964 Robert L. November Barbara B. Oosterhout 1955 John D. Oosterhout 1951 Joseph A. Panzarella 1929 ( 3) ( 6) (2) ( 5) ( 6) ( 5) ( 6) ( 3) ( 4) (3) (2) ( 6) (6) ( 4) (2) ( 4) ( 4) (3) (6) (6) ( 4) ( 6) ( 4) (6) ( 5) ( 4) (2) (4) (3) ( 5) ( 2) (3) (3) (6) (2) (6) (3) ( 2) - (6) (3) (2) ( 6) ( 5) ( 5) ( 3) C. Carey Jarman J. W. Knighton Alfred H. Noble John W. Noble Ira B. Talton c-Ernst 0. von Schwerdtner 1918 36 Pct $270 c-Clyde E. Bourke Charles W. Burton, Jr. Worden E. Mack Thomas E .. MacMannis Russell E. -Smith 1919 67 Pct $430 c-Robert A. Bier Edward E. Hargest, Jr. Charles C. Holmes Joseph M. Marx Charles C. Nathan 1913 Philip H. Recher Dr. Robert S. G. Welch William L. Slade S. Herbert Wareheim 1914 30 Pct $65 J. Ogle Warfield, Jr. Ellwood 0. Milbourne George F. Wohlgemuth William D. Noble Wilmer S. Phillips 1920 42 Pct $170 John T. Tucker c-John D. Alexander, Sr. John H. Birely 1915 9 Pct $20 Leon W. Biser Allen L. Fowler Paul M. Cassen Oliver P. Winslow, Sr. Charles W. Fitzgerald Reginald F. Hall 1916 44 Pct Kinhart A, Tn~~nnl Jr. Jones c-Thomas 1921 Jacob M. D. Thompson 1899 Elwood E. Schafer Luther S. Tall Thomas B. Turner 1922 t 1917 l\.m1mwn. ;J:r. 12 Pct $125 Robert G. Hackett Henry A. Hornthal Augustine V. P. Smith Willis H. White 1923 50 Pct $390 Paul L. Banfield William C. Baxter Henry V. Davis Philip H. Dorsey Charles W. Keefer T. B. Klakring John F. Layng, Jr. Robert E. Miller William S. Morsell, Jr. S. Paul Schilling c-Frederic C. Stecker Charles R. Todd Carlos V. Urrutia, Jr. Carlton E. Wich Callender F. Winslow 1924 1925 12 Pct $100 Coleman M. Anderson Stewart C. Stackhouse 29 Pct H. W. Eliason Fred H. Flounders L. Helm 1926 1009 1902 Morris A. Parslow 1945 ( 2) Richard H. Pembroke 1932 ( 3) Pasquale L. Polillo 1956 ( 6) Anne von I. Poundstone 1964 ( 5) John W. Poundstone 1962 ( 5) David B. Rea 1949 ( 2) William D. Rendall 1942 ( 5) Julius Rosenberg 1938 ( 6) Louis Rosenbush, Jr. 1931 ( 4) Leon E. Rottner 1963 ( 5) Margaret W. Rottner 1966 ( 5) Robert B. Sasscer 1937 ( 3) Rudolph Schmick 1931 ( 5) Frederick Schuchman,Jr. 1950 (5) George D. Selby 1932 (6) NelsonE. Shawn 1939 (3) Samuel Sheinkman 1946 Haven E. Simmons 1944 ( 6) William W. Simmons 1948 (2) Augustine V.P. Smith 1922 (6) L. Wheaton Smith, Jr. 1948 (2) Louis L. Snyder 1928 ( 4) Bertram E. Spriggs 1937 ( 4) Andrew D. Steiner 1963 ( 4) Samuel V. Stiles 1954 (2) James W. Stone 1955 (2) Jeremy P. Tarcher 1953 ( 3) Guy D. Thompson 1916 CarolP. Tilles 1959' (4) WilliamR. Tilles 1959 (4) ThomasB.Turner 1921 (6) Lee R. Tyner 1968 Charles L. Van Doren 1946 John Van Doren 1947 (2) Ernesto. von Schwerdtner 1917 J. Ogle Warfield 1919 (2) W. Douglas Weir 1957 (2) Peter Weiss 1946 (5) Dalton M. Welty 1935 (6) Peter A. Whipple 1950 (6) 1923 (6) Carlton E. Wich Roger V. Wicklander 1964 · John L. Williams 1950 (3) 1967 (2) Nancy E. Williams Thomas J. Williams 1951 • Charles V. Williamson 1932 (3) Kay B. Witman 1968 Lyman P. Wood 1967 (2) 1957 (4) HarveyW. Wynn Rosabelle G. Wynn 1957 ( 4) CharlesR. Zimmerman 1929 (5) �.15,1975 John A. Sowers Arthur Townshend, Jr. John M. Webb, Jr. Henry F. Wegner 1927 Sterrett D. Woods Fred G. Yerkes, Jr. 1933 25Pct $615 Stanley J. Bartis John S. Carver Nathaniel J. Chew J. Dudley Digges -William S. Eramo C. Gilbert Hill Walter H. Hoffmeister John S. Hofmeister Thomas C. R. Hughlett, Jr. J. H. Jukes Joseph Legum Leonard J. Murphy David C. Ninde William C. Sandrock Daniel J. Ward 22Pct . $255 Frank C. Desantis 't-Bernard F. Gessner Charles W. Hass Elmer M. Jackson, Jr. Edward J. Lush Lee H. Nichols, Jr. Frederick L. Smith 1928 1929 5 29Pct $313 David F. Crowley A. 0. Grimes Donald B. Grove E. A. Hollingsworth Francis L. McDorman James F. Miller J. R. Roseberry Louis L. Snyder Franklin T. Willing 38Pct $985 Granville Q. Adams Everett R. Amos J. Leslie Basil John W. Boucher Richard W. Comegys Eugene N. Cozzolino c-William A. Gross Francis A. Katz Patrick D. Keating Lauriston L. Keown Carl G. Merkel James G. O'Neill, Jr. Reginald C. Orem Joseph A. Panzarella Walter W. Phillips Williams S. Walls Charles R. Zimmerman 1930 1931 46Pct $652 Walter S. Baird Vernon D. Bunce William H. Conca Thomas E. Dryden Edward J. Dwyer R. Fernandez-Marina John R. Fountain J. Sprightly Kelly Robert J. Klingenburg George E. Moss Claxton J. O'Connor Matthew O'Neill, Jr. A. Irwin Rusteberg G. Newton Scatchard Charles S. Smith Frederick A. Weisheit, Jr. 27Pct $1045 Charles E. Athey William F. Blake Philip I. Bowman Samuel P. Chew Matthew S. Evans Lewis J. Fields Calvin Harrington, Jr. Snowden Hoff Edward A.·Kimpel, Jr. James King c-William J. Klug, Jr. Richard C. Mottu W. T. D. Pumphrey Louis Rosenbush, Jr. Rudolph Schmick Stephen Wolanske 1932 30Pct $1310 William B. Athey Joseph L. Bean Richard F. Blaul Robert L. Burwell, Jr. James W. Crabbe Emslie N. Gault Lee A. Gordv 1934 23Pct $570 Bernard J. Casassa Henry M. Cooper, Jr. John H. Engel, Jr. F. Peter Froio Emil Gathman, Jr. Edward E. Gray Robert L. Jones Henry H. Kyle Howard A. Legg William B. Matthews, Jr. Anthony F. Mileto J. Oliver Purvis, Jr. Austin W. Winston c-Horace W. Witman Jolm G. Woltereck 1935 23Pct $1191 ct-...'ohn C. Donohue Walter F. Evers Morton N. Fine William G. Gideon Lawrence Kantor Jolm B. O'Donnell Robert E. Reordan Oscar B. Steely Dalton M. Welty Robert H. Williams, Jr. Frank K. Wilson James C. Wilson, Jr. Richard S. Woodman 1936 26Pct $355 Thomas L. Carter Garnett Y. Clark Gilbert A. Crandall Lawrason L. Crane Samuel H. Desch Joseph B. Gray Edward T. Heise John S. Hodges Samuel M. Ivrey Charles J. Kibler Robert J. Lau t-Cyril R. Murphy, Jr. W. Robert Nethken Martin W. Rausch Richard B. Sellman William W. Smith, Jr. Richard B. Taylor 1937 21Pct $640 R. Leon Boro John H. Brown Charles D. Hyson Alexander N. Jarrell Franklin E. Leslie Robert Lewis L. Lee Moore, Jr. John B. Owens Lewis Putzel Robert B. Sasscer Marcus E. Smith Emanuel P. Snyder Bertram E. Spriggs 24Pct 1938 T. Leonard T. DeLisio K Charles Richardson $560 Philip A. Meyers II William C. Owens t-James I. Randall , -E. Peyton Hitchings ct-Julius Rosenberg William T. Ross c-James H. Rowe Louis H. Shuman Tad Stanwick Francis J. Townsend, Jr. Richard W. Wickes; Jr. 1939 28Pct $585 George F. Bonifant, Jr. James E. Boyle Leroy W. Brooks Frederick R. Buck Miles R. Carroll, Jr. C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. c-Harry L. Hamilton, Jr. Edward W. H~C!fn William J. Hopps Thomas L. Macnemar E. Leslie Medford, Jr. Dr. John o. Neustadt C. E. Roache Samuel Schenker. G. Kenneth Schmick Norton B. Schwartz Nelson E. Shawn Malcom Silver James M. Tindall, Jr. Frank A. White, Jr. 1940 14Pct $60 Richard W. Barton George T. Lyon, Jr. c-Wilbur Matz Thomas E. Strange, Jr. 1941 31Pct $1140 Victor G. Bloede, III James H. Clark Bruce A. Graybeal T. Lansdale Hill Albert H. Jaeggin Lewis N. Jones George L. McDowell c.Henry M. Robert III T. Herbert Taylor Martin Z. Vogelhut $549 1945 31Pct Stephen W. Bergen George Brunn Robert L. Campbell, Jr. c-George Cayley Christian A. Hovde Robert E. John Donald S. Kaplan Michael C. K.eane Arthur D. Kelso, Jr. William R. Lieb John D. Mack 0. M. Meredith, Jr. Alexander B. Morse Edward W. Mullinix Morris A. Parslow Robert T, Thompson 1946 20Pct $665 c-Thomas J. Cosgrove Thomas I. Fulton, Jr. John J. Lobell Vincent W. McKay Samuel Sheinkman Bruce H. Sinkey James T. Taylor Charles Van Doren Peter Weiss lSPct $450 1947 Victor E. Barton John Scott Desjardins· H. Gerald Hoxby Joseph Killoi:in I. Wendell Marine William W. Ross Mordechai Sheinkman John Van Doren George M. Van Sant 1952 16Pct $425 Thomas M. Carnes c-Martin A. Dyer Jae Holzman Charles Kluth Robert S. Seelig John M. Twigg George Udel Warren P. Winiarski 1953 24Pct $415 John D. Alexander, Jr. William L. Aston Franklin R. Atwell Edward F. Bauer George C. Davis George K. Gerlach Paul T. Heineman Jeremy P. Tarcher Addison Worthington $625 30Pct Aaron M. Bisberg Jonathan E. Brooks c-James W. Conrad Robert Dixon Fox Peter V. Hamill Anton G. Hardy Allan P. Hoffman Chester A. Johnson Edward H. Mongeau David B. Rea Philip A. Scott Eric A. Teel David B. Weinstein 22Pct $680 C. Eric Crooke c-James V. Dernehl Alfred Geier Bernard E. Jacob Harley Kilborn Sydney W. Porter, Jr. Lawrence Sandek Richard A. Smith Samuel V. Stiles 24Pct $590 Lydia S. Aston Harold G. Bauer Elisabeth M. Chiera Sarah (Covington) Crooke Alexandra J. Culbertson John M. Gordon Dorothy (Olim) Krone Paul A. Lowdenslager Barbara (Brunner) Oosterhout Arthur C. Reisz James W. Stone 1956 23Pct $290 Joseph P. Cohen Dale E. Cummings Jenefer ( Ellingston) Carsiotis James W. Jobes, Jr. Dorik V. Mechau Faye ( Councell) Polillo Pasquale L. Polillo Everett H. Wilson 1957 41Pct $555 Robert S. Bart S. Douglas Bowers Cornelia <Hoffman) Burdette Josephine J. Jaster Jack A. Nadol Marcia ( DelPlain) Reff J. Burt Siemens (Laidlaw) Arianne Strassner W. Douglas Weir Harvey W. Wynn Rosabelle (Gould) Wynn 1958 33Pct $405 Ernie Adamson James A. Baldwin, Jr. c-Alan P. Jacob H. deRaat M. Green Haas Barton K Johnson (Ma Roberta 24Pct $1210 Thomas H. Blatt William C. Buchanan, Jr. c-Peter J. Davies Louis Frid Charles W. Grover Robert E. Nichols William W. Simmons L. Wheaton Smith, Jr. George R. Trimble, Jr. Raphael Ben Yosef 1949 1954 1955 1948 1942 32Pct $435 John E. Ainsworth c-Robert C. Allen William A. Barr Warren C. Bomhardt Francis E. Burroughs Bryce D. Jacobsen Thomas Parran, Jr. Albert A. Poppiti William D. Rendall William A. Ruhl, Jr. C. Robert Sutton A. Cheslev Wilson. Jr. 1943 37 Pct $794 A. Scott Abbott Martin Andrews Burton Armstrong Carl B. Blaker Harvey Dubinsky Edward H. Grubb William T. Hart John L. Hedeman Ogden Kellogg-Smith Claude S. Leffel, Jr. c-Francis S. Mason, Jr. Milton Perlman H. Willard Stern James I. Waranch 1944 37Pct $855 William H. Brubeck Lindsay E. Clendaniel Edward B. Cochran Vernon E. Derr David Dobreer Carl S. Hammen Casimir T. Krol C. Russell c-L. Donald Koontz John D. Oosterhout Robert N. Richman Ronald L. Simmons William L. Sprankle Thomas J. Williams 1950 39Pct $1885 James W. Archer t..Jack Ladd Carr c-Bernard S. Clorety Patrick D. Davis Matson G. Ewell Herbert S. Feinberg Robert L. Goldberg t-Theodore W. Hendricks Ralph J. Herrod Jerome G. Lammer Thomas J. Meyers Benjamin J. Moskowitz Fred Schuchman, Jr. John Sterrett W. Streett Peter A. John L. L. Wolbarsht Marvin �PAGE 6 E Dear St. John's alumnae and alumni: I want to use this opportunity to thank the 1,000 of you who supported the Alumni Association through payment of your 1974 dues. So far as we can determine, this is the greatest number of dues payers we have ever had in a single year. That wonderful response has provided funds for the activities of your Association, which this past year included honoring President and Mrs. Weigle at Homecoming, and purchasing much-needed lighting equipment for the Francis Scott Key Memorial Auditorium. But I am disturbed that only 724 of our number made a contribution to St. John's College last year. Just as your dues payments permit the Association to function, so your contributions to the Alumni Fund help keep St. John's in operation. While obviously closely related, the College and the Association are financially and legally quite separate and distinct organizations, and each needs its annual support to function. I urge you, then, to continue to pay your dues to the Association, but do not forget your "dues" to your College: please give now, and give generousl~, to the Alumni Fund. Sincerely Bernard B. Gessner '27 President Alumni Association c-Hugh M. Curtler William F. Gleason Harvey M. Goldstein Amy (Carle) Jobes Grace (Prevost) Lane Peter M. Rice Christ Sagos Patience (Garretson) Schenck Peter B. Schenck Carol (Phillips) Tilles William R. Tilles Barbara (Stowe) Tower Diana (Hartwick) Young S. Richard Freis Michael Warren Gold c-Leonard C. Gore David N. Kelsey John C. Kohl Sheela (Shah) Lampietti Judith ( Morganstern) Licht Sarah Ellen (Robinson) Mara Linda (McConnell) Meriam Pamela (Parker) Patti Eyvind C. Ronquist Mary (Horton) Sagos Vernon P. Sandall Andrew D. Steiner Robert K. Thomas 1964 25Pct $1238 John H. Adcock Peter H. Crippen Samuel F. Dunbar William W. Dunkum, III Florence (Campbell) Eaton Ralph E. Englesby Lawrence Feinberg Sanford N. Fernan Miriam (Mintz) Freilicher John P. Hetland Sarah (Hobart) Homeyer F. Kay Huebner David Randolph Jordan Robert W. Klug Paul Liebow Judith C. Meyer Martha (Wendt) Nesbitt Robert L. November Carol (Dimit) Otis Ann ( von Isakovics) Poillldtone Barbara (Kulacki) Vona John F. White Roger Wicklander Kevin D. Witty. 1965 8Pct $118 Dana Allen Bruce Collier Pierre de la R. du Prey Thomas G. Eaton Milo H. Gibbons c-Bart Kaplan Susan (Roberts) Leven Pamela Mark $439 33Pct James R. Mcclintock 1962 21Pct $497 Mark A. Adler John E. Merritt David W. Benfield Betty (Beck) Bennett Sandra ( Gillmeister) Jonathan Cohen Rosalie (Levine) Boosin Traywick Deborah R~9gl~y (Sollers) David T. Chang Edward D. Weinberger Fialka Ellen N. Davis Barry L. Fisher 1966 Joseph W. Fastner, Jr. 23Pct $826 Cinda (Kelly) Graham. c-Mary Gallagher Robert B. Axtman Tina B. Kaplan James M. Green, Jr. W. James Bienemann Marta (Hoekstra) Kelsey· Katherine (Hsu) Haas Anne McN. (Lowry) W. James Klug, III Dewees John J. G. Lane E. Brian Lewis Richard R. Dewees Dorothy D. Luttrell Robert A. Licht Julia (Busser) du Prey Katherine (Sauer) Edward L. Mattison McGwrk Christopher H. Hodgkin John Franklin Miller Ronald C. McGuirk Constance (Bell) Holland John W. Poundstone Sarah (Robinson) Munson John F. Holland Howard P. Schiff Fiona (Paul) Murray George Kaldro Mary (Grant) Smith Frank B. Murray Carole (Picardo) Kelley 1963 Frank M. Orr David Levine 19Pct $615 John J. Bodine John H. Patti David E. Long Ann C. (Wisotzki) Chang Peter J. Ruel William N. McKeachie Robert G. Cozzolino Miriam Strange James R. Mensch Kendon L. Stubbs Daniel T. Devereux Constance (Baring-Gould) Alan H. Dorfman Patricia (Townsend) Stubbs Merritt Kenneth H. Thompson, Jr. c-Miriam (Golub) Duhan Richard E. Roderick c-Richard A. Duhan Charles L. Wolberg Margaret (Winter) Rottner Gary A. Hetrick A. S. Rubin, Jr. 1961 . 21 Pct $370 Eric M. Kennell Margaret ( Baroniak) Nancy (Clark) Adler J. Morrow Otis Ruppert R. Douglas Bendall Elliott A. Rosenberg 1967 20 Pct Victoria (Meeks) Leon E. Rottner $709 Blair-Smith John W. Rumpp Sarah J. Bell 1960 Christina (Lauth) Connell Virginia (Venning) Devenny David C. DickeyHelen (Hobart) Feeley Timothy A. Harrington Nancy ( Goldwin) Harvey Loren E. Kelley c-Arthur Kungle, Jr. Deirdre Lenihan David L. Levine Clark E. Lobenstine E. Lovejoy Reeves Hope (Zoss) Schladen Larry M. Schlueter Gregory R. Scott Nancy (Zimmerman) Scott Daniel O'N. Vona Norma E. Williams L. Phillips Wood 1968 32Pct $1183 Rebecca (McClure) Albury William R. Albury Stephen S. Anderton Lawrence V. Arnold, Jr. Stephen E. Bach Megan Anne Beaumont Luther G. Blackiston, Jr. Donald A. Booth Peter Coen Linda (Rodman) Dewing John E. Farmer Regina Clare Forsyth Maria (Whitacker) Geissel Dorothea (Wend) Gillelan Joshua T. Gillelan, II Sharon ( Marselas) Landman Bartholomew J. Lee Anne (Morin) Levine Sue (Hinsch) Levine H. Stephen Morse George W. Partlow Amelia Ruth (Hummel) Rarick Gilbert T. Renaut Maurine (Hellner) Rosenberg Sally Rutzky Joe Sachs Isobel M. · Schneider. Deborah Schwartz Jonathan H. Sinnreich c-Lee (Reichelderfer) Tyner Charles B. Watson David H. Wigutoff Kathleen (Beaton) Witman 1969 22Pct $214 Anne (Miller) Ahern G. Michael Anthony Meredith (Artis) Anthony Nancy (Williams) Brown Mariam (Cunningham) Cohen Robert B. Davis Charlotte Fletcher Maya Hasegawa Philip G. Holt Martin Kahner Mark A. Mandel Joan J. Mooring John A. Myers G. Dennis Rains Hazel A. Schlueter Cheryl E. Sirofchuck M. Richard Stevens Catherine (Allen) Wagner Byron E. Wall $230 21 Pct Henry C. Constantine John R. Dean c-Steven M. dos Remedios c-Theda (Braddock) dos Remedios Ronaki H. Fiefding Stephen J. Forman Sarah C. Harrison Ives Wallace Harvey Steven Harvey Juan B. Ianni Deborah (Warren) Kalmar J. Coleman Kitchen, Jr. Arthur H. Luse John P. MacDonald M. Elizabeth Perry Roberta H. Petty Susan Ellen Seaman Masha (Zager) Sinnreich Mark L. Sittler James F. Villere, Jr. Susan (Smith) Wigutoff Eleanore E. Zitani 1970 1971 $74 9Pct Helen Anastaplo Holly Ann Carroll Bonnie L. Gage (sf) Judy G. Kepner Susan J. Mackey Barry N. Sher Barbara (Sherman) Simpson 1972. 9Pct $68 Sue J. Conlin Christine (Ferrarini) Constantine Evan M. Dudik David Gilmore Janet A. Nelson Dana E. Netherton Sus~n (Ferwerda) Peterson Carol D. Shub Pamela Starr 1973 6Pct Martha Birnbaum Melissa Matthews Richard A. O'Neill Daniel S. Pearl Paul Rosenberg Jane E. Spear Elayne Warren Mary Jane Young $51 GRADUATE INSTITUTE Yvonne M. Davis Susan Herbert $41 send consul tan St. John's College's continuing influence in the field of education was being pointed up this month by invitations to two institutions and a conference. Both the Grand Valley State Colleges in Michigan and Simpson College, a small, 750-student college in Indianola, Ia., have asked St. _John's for consultants. Grand Valley, which already has had representatives on extensive visits here, is considering establishing a new college modeled after St. John's. Present last weekend to talk with faculty members who wish to know more about St. John's New Program were Deans Curtis Wilson and Robert Neidorf of the Annapolis and Santa Fe campuses, respectively; and Robert sp,1t~~. associate director of admissions llliversities planning to make substantial changes in their and St. John's tutor. Mr. Spaeth also will represent programs. The 10 taking part in the college at Simpson. It is the conference, "Change in seeking to abandon its program Education," include besides St. of majors and departments in John's, Antioch, Austin, Ben-. favor of a division structure and nington, Empire State, has indicated it wants to consider Evergreen State and Hampshire the possibility of either a two or a colleges, Miami-Dade Comfour-yeat Great Books program. munity College, Ottawa Invited there Feb. 25-26, Mr. University and the University of Spaeth will be joined by a Wisconsin. representative of Kansas As still another campus conUniversity. . sultant, Miss Eva Brann, St. John's tutor, also served as one of St. John's is being represented a committee of five persons who this weekend at a Washington spent 12 days in January at meeting as one of 10 institutions Hobart and William Smith with histories of innovation and Colleges, Geneva, N. Y. The experimentation. They have group had been asked to make agreed to share their experiences "an impressionistic study of the Winter comes to College Creek as snow blankets the back cam11 witn a ~P\l~ in~lfectual l:J.if@ ·01 sfutl~ntsJ'( 1 : '· '~ '' , (photobyEu9ene~1.d:iiorJ �l) the Laws"; Voltaire's "CanG dide"; Hegel's "Science of Logic"; Schopenhauer's "The World as Will and Idea"; Coleridge's "Biographia Literaria"; Mathus' "Essay on the Principles of Population"; Mill's "System of Logic"; BALZAC'S ''Pere Goriot''; Thackeray's "Henry Esmond"; Dickens' "David Copperfield"; Zola's "Experimental Novel"; Ibsen's "The Doll's House"; Dalton's "A New System of Chemical Philosophy''; Clifford's "The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences"; Fourier's "Mathematical Analysis of Heat''; Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity"; Peacock's "Algebra"; Bernard's ''Introduction to Experimental Medicine"; Gal ton's "Enquiries into the Human Mind and its Faculties"; Gauss' "Mathematical Papers"; Galois' "Mathematical Papers"; Boole's "Laws of Thought"; Hamilton's ''Quarternions"; Riemann's ''The Hypotheses of Geometry"; Virchow's "Cellular Pathology"; Poincare's "Science and Hypothesis"; Freud's "Papers on Hysteria"; Russell's "Principles of Mathematics." Other books no longer read and on the early lists are Flaubert's "Madame Bovary"; Joule's "Scientific Papers"; Maxwell's "Electricity and Magnetism"; Cantor's "Transfinite Numbers"; Hilbert's "Foundations of Geometry"; Russell's "Principles of Mathematics"; Vehlem and Young's "Projective Geometry"; "Burnt Njal"; Scotus' Erigena ''On the Division of Nature"; Grossetest's "On Light"; Bernard's "Experimental Medicine": Villon's "Le Grand Testatement" · Fielding's "Tom Jones"; Gib: hon's 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"; Ibsen's "Ghost's," "Rosnersholm," and Bentham's "Principles of Morals and Legislation." Former dean is consultant (Continued from Page 1) Charles H. Percy (R.-Ill.) in his unsuccessful 1964 campaign for governor. He first met Mr. Ford in 1961 when the future president attended meetings at the public affairs conference center at the University of Chicago, which Mr. .Goldwin directed. Mr. Goldwin also served as adviser to Donald Rumsfeld, now White House staff coordinator, when the latter was US ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Dean at St. - John's from 1969 to 1973, Mr. Goldwin came here from Kenyon ) John Rogers has never really liked the little letter "g." On the other hand, he particularly would like to see what the capital "G" looks like 0fl the Second noroTrnr•u Trajan's column in Rome, where Mr. Rogers, who at the moment is in search of the world's most beautiful "A," feels the world's most impressive lettering exists. "To be an elegant alphabet, the letters must be both beautiful and simple," St. John's College's unofficial calligrapher explained. "I don't know any alphabet as stately, as dignified, or as elegant as the one on the Trajan monument.'' Lettering has been an art form in which Mr. Rogers has been interested almost all his life, even before he began reading and found the strange, magical shapes of the letters more fascinating than the process of learning to read itself. Individual letters appeared to possess unique, distinctive personalities. "It has always seemed appropriate to call them 'characters,' " he commented. HIS FASCINATION with them got him into some trouble at elementary school in Worthington, 0., a suburb of Columbus. "I thought the letters were ugly, and I was always trying to modify them," Mr. Rogers explained why. His teachers, who accepted at face value their fixed shapes as they marched across the top of the blackboard, were less sensitive to the need to improve the alphabet's appearance than he. Consequently John received poor marks in penmanship, but it was only a temporary setback. By fiddling with the tail of a "Y" here or experimenting with the top of a "T" there, by testing innumerable upstrokes and downstrokes, by simply drawing a lot of letters through junior and senior high school, he arrived at the point where, by last year, he had become sufficiently expert to be called upon by the college for calligraphic duties. He has lettered awards, inscribed honors on the St. John's diplomas, designed and lettered inscriptive pages and honorary scrolls and copied an occasional prayer or poem for someone who has heard of his calligraphic work. Mr. Rogers wants to study calligraphy seriously, to find that perfect A. To study hand-copied manuscripts and carved monuments from the days when the printed pages were a work of art and a labor of love is the most absorbing, immediate ambition of a number of strong interests held by this witty, self-effacing 21-year-old senior who already has won a prize for one poem and published a collection of others. CURRENTLY HE is concerned with finding a way to make the study financially feasible. Mr. Rogers has nourished the rich patron dream, and abandoned it as a bit of fancy. Now he is thinking in terms of a fellowship or a grant, something which would make it possible for him to study manuscripts and monuments dating from the early, Christian period until the end~'ot the Middle Ages. He would like nothincr than to spend hours in Museum or burrow deeply into the Vatican archives or over fell ow scripts prepared by calligraphers of hundreds of years ago in the ancient monastic communities and old university libraries of Europe. St. John's has taken him seriously and formally recommended him for a Watson Fellowship, which would make such study possible. Should he become a professional calligrapher, Mr. Rogers said he would like to settle in a warm climate such as the one he found at Lago Maggiore, a lake between Italy and Switzerland. He discovered- that area while residing with a German family the summer he turned sixteen, one of 40 young people to be selected for a youth exchange program sponsored by Volkswagen of America. As a National Merit Scholarship winner, Mr. Rogers came to St. John's four years ago and since then has furthered his interests in half a dozen other areas, including theology, academic rather than that for the ministry, and languages. "I HAVE AN EVEN stronger interest in math, not modern math but in the theory of numbers and, of course, geometry," he said. He wrote a great deal of poetry while a student at Worthington High School, some of which was published in. the Columbus Citizen-Journal; and recently he won a prize for a poem, "Iphigenia," in a contest sponsored by a writers' group from Hamilton, 0. At the end of high school he gathered much of his poetry together for his collection, "Applesweet Temptation." The succinct, frequently very wise selections it includes are many times superior to what one might expect from an adolescent. At. St. John's Mr. Rogers describes himself as a "pretty reclusive, silent"· type. He has had one experience in public life, however, since arriving on campus. He served as president of St. John's student body for what surely must have been one of the briefest terms on record. He was elected in December of his sophomore year to fill an unexpired term, but resigned himself in January, partly, he explained, because he felt his presidency coincided with a :period in which the Delegate Council was taking itself too seriously, a time which was ''too grave and somber" for his taste. Mr. Rogers is not an organization man, but he is a faithful member of what he calls the Mailbox Watchers, those students who frequent the area of their mailboxes to see if there is anything from home. For all four years he has been principal student aid in the college printshop, a job which comes easily for someone whose father, James E. Rogers, owns a printing firm, The Inkling, half a block from the statehouse in Columbus. The Inkling~, r'§~Sj -~med JOHN ROGERS (photo by Eugene lorgov) MR. ROGERS previously had Rogers in a family contest in '66 in competition with four siblings. decided what he wanted by way ONE OTHER THING might be of a college. It had to have no mentioned about Mr. Rogers as physical education requirements, rather remarkable. He failed his to have a junior year abroad, to enablings, student appraisals be located in a very warm teach many given at the. end of the sophomore climate, to year to determine whether a languages, and to have a fourstudent can continue his St. .one-four schedule (January free John's education. month. The University of Hawaii had ·the weather. This is partly because Mr. Macalester in Minneapolis had Rogers is a silent seminar par- everything but the weather). ticipant, something frowned upon at St. John's and in itself a rather But one morning, while he was unexpected characteristic since sitting in homeroom at Worhe is unusually articulate in thington High, a copy of the St. personal conversation. He also John's publication known as wrote a critical sophomore paper "The Pygmy" arrived. without reference to either great "It was just wonderful," Mr. books or · great authors, something which was thought to Rogers recalled. "I decided if I could ever get into St. John's, have been a mistake. that would be the place I would Mr. Rogers, who felt personally go. It was the only college that he should remain at St. John's, didn't appeal to my vanity." wrote a seven page letter of appeal, stating the reasons why The others flatteringly had told he should stay. It must have been him that since he was an NMS one of the most persuasive pieces finalist he could skip a number of of rhetoric in the history of such courses. cases for the Instruction ComMr. Rogers came for a visit the mittee, which acts on such matters, moved toward a following April. That was the first reversal, not a usual thing, by week after spring vacation. It leaving the decision up to the wasn't an auspicious beginning. He hated the school, "an undean. friendly, cold, miserable place." Then Acting Dean Winfree Then, he did some thinking and Smith enabled him, and Mr. decided at that particula_r Rogers is now scheduled for week, human nature at St. John's graduation in the spring. This wasn't at its best. The time was time he will use a program book one of the college's grumpiest. for writing his senior paper; it After all, who wanted to return will be concerned with divine after spring vacation? He revelation as a source decided that he must have had of knowledge in Kant's system. the wrong impression and came back in the fall His decision to come to St. John's came after being "It was a calculated risk that barraged, as a National Merit didn't let me down," he said. "I Scholarship finalist, with found the atmosphere as friendly literature, ~urinK in from hWl- and, fQi;,di.a) as I 1 drMs of! AftfurreM cMM~es. 1 1 J ' hOPed."'~11 ' "'J '.'! r ' 0 �THE REPORTER Published Relations Off ice St. Annapolis, Md. 21404 marvel see (Continued from Page 1) mistaken as real by man or bird, it was the brainstorm of Mrs. Kathryn Kinzer, assistant librarian, who purchased it in Easton for less than $5. She got the idea· from a house facing College Avenue which already had an owl in place. There may be one possible drawback. "ALTHOUGH THE OWL drives away pigeons, occasionally it is said to attract crows,'' Mrs. Kinzer said. While she has spotted a crow's nest on State Circle, crows, which are reported to enjoy harassing owls, so far have not been near the owl these wintry days. The thought doesn't disturb her. "A crow at any rate would be more elegant than a pigeon," Mrs. Kinzer is deeply convinced. pigeons, Mrs. Kinzer and the have had enough. Charlotte Fletcher, Miss librarian, said the staff had come up with some ideas in the past as to how to cope with them, including the possibility of installing a wire barricade, applying some types of repellent paint at strategic points of the library, and even the possibility of an electrical charge. But the staff was dubious about the effectiveness of any of these methods. ''This seems to be the simplest method, and it seems to be working," Miss Fletcher reported, adding that "the library steps used to be a perfect mess." As far as Robert Wells, the library custodian, is concerned, the owl has been a "hundred per cent" effective since it assumed its vigil early in November. The pigeons are gone. "None have been here since we put it up," he said. "I used to have a rough job cleaning the library steps. I used to have to wash them down. Now I only need to sweep them." Occasionally, Mrs. Kinzer said, a pigeon will flutter in the direction of the library, see the owl, utter something like "yuk! " and turn and flee. WHILE A NEW YORK City museum has reported that its rubber owl failed to fool the pigeons there, the St. John's owl may have a more realistic impact, not because Annapolis pigeons are so much more gullible, but because this plastic owl may have an added asset. It moves with the wind. Pivoting on its broomstick, it occasionally can be seen with eyes riveted on the crosswalk leading to the inner campus. Another time it appears totally absorbed in a traffic count of College Avenue. And it can give library occupants an eerie feeling as it stares into the window with its bright, orange eyes, the part of the owl which really stirs fear in the heart of a pigeon. Mrs. Kinzer learned after purchasing it that pigeons are so stupid that!' all the library really needed to do was to put up two orange reflectors on a stick. Meanwhile, the library staff has grown rather fond of the owl. There's nothing fancy about it. It looks like a replica of what must be a simple, straight forward, allAmerican owl. But Mrs. Kinzer believes it is especially finely marked. She takes pleasure in the absence of cooing. The only cooing being done is by the librarians themselves. They're pleased. bicentennial (Continued from Page l) derscoring her bicentennial came this year with a special preceptorial on Jane Austen for juniors and seniors conducted by Malcolm Wyatt, St John's tutor. At least three students are writing senior papers on the author, whose death at 42 was lamented by one of her great admirers, Sr. Walter Scott. "The big bow-wow strain I can do myself... but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary common-place things and characters interesting... is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died so young!" Miss Brann suggests that Jane Austen almost certainly would have won the admiration of another figure who dominates St. John's freshman readings. "It clear that Jane Austen is completely in accord with Socrates in thinking that. knowledge and that to know the good is to do it,'' Miss Brann said. "Understanding is the sole condition of moral excellence while ignorance of the real wrong that is being done accompanies all transgressions.'' Another writer studied here, Immanuel Kant, also the subject of a lecture by Miss Brann last year, marked the 250th year of is... his birth in 1974. He was born on 1724. Frederick Bohrer, Baltimore freshman, is serving as curator of the college's new cut gallery. (photo by Norm Goldberg) Admissions Office Gallery broadens St. John's opened its new art gallery in January with shoulderto-shoulder crowds so heavy as to make impossible at times the exhibit viewing of the of 20th drawings. Visitors had to come back for that, but they have appeared pleased to do so with such frequency that the gallery, which had planned to open only an hour four nights of the week, is adding an hour to its Wednesday schedule and is now open from 7• to 9 p.m. The several hundred persons who poW'ed into the converted laboratory room on the second floor of Mellon Hall indicated that the new gallery clearly answered a need of both members of the college community and Annapolis residents eager to see significant work from major museums. One guest told student curator Frederick Bohrer, Baltimore freshman, that it was reassuring to find one gallery "with no axe to grind." "At long last, a legitimate musewn," another guest was heard to say as she moved past the works of Whistler, Picasso, Matisse and Rouault. Mr. Bohrer said a nwnber of visitors had expressed surprise over the high quality of the exhibit, on loan from the Baltimore Museum of Fine Arts. Quite a few students, he believes, would not see the prints without the museum. Mr. Bohrer said among the visitors have been midshipmen from the Naval Academy. has new mater ... __ _ · High school students interested in attending St. John's no longer are receiving a standard college catalog as a routine answer to their inquiries. The Admissions Office has developed bright, new, readable publications which differ from such material generally in two ways. First, the college's new ''Reply Book," now sent to prospective students instead of a catalog once they write to learn more about the college, has been planned to serve as counseling booklet as well as a booklet of information on St. John's. St. John's non-elective program is not always easily understood, and the "Reply Book" spells out in de-tail what the college program is all about by speaking directly to its high school readers. It also asks the prospective student to consider whether the curriculwn is the one · which will meet his needs. "IT'S AN . honest booklet," Rabert Spaeth, tutor and students to think seriously about· their education. We say to them, 'You have ideas on your own education; we invite you to compare your ideas with what we do!' " The booklet also is different because of the precise nature of its description of St. John's, according to Loren Pope, director of the national headquarters of the College Placement Bureau. "It tells the student very specifically what he is in for, which I think is important," Mr. Pope said. "It puts St. John's in a ·very select position of being among a dozen colleges which do this. Most college catalogs can be considered interchangeable. That's one characteristic they The gallery is open 3 to 5 p.m. share. They're all a blurr-puffs on Tuesdays and Thursdays and of public relations - so that a from 7 to 8 Mondays, student has no idea what a Thursdays and and from college is really like." The "Renk Book" is the 7 to 9 p.m. on wedn(;:so,ivs centerpiece of the new material, developed along a three-fold plan. Handsomely done from a graphics standpoint, the publications make use of a motif suggestive of a great book as one might have been printed in the Victorian period. Black and red ink are used on a cream colored paper. All the publications make extensive use of photographs. With the exception of material excerpted from the catalog, the publications were written by Michael Ham, who recently resigned as St. John's director of admissions to join the American College Testing Program in Iowa City, Ia. The first publication in the set is an "initial mailer," entitled "In the Presence of Greatness," which will be sent in unsolicited mailings to an estimated 72,000 high school students this year. Incorporating a list of great books, it is designed to arouse interest in the college. IF THE STUDENT is sufficiently interested to fill out a reply card, the college then sends the "Reply Book." "We think the 'Reply Book' is the most important piece of the three,'' according to Mrs. Joanne Rowbottom, who, with Mr. Spaeth, is serving as associate director of admissions. The booklet, which addresses high school students with a personal "you," attempts to explain the type of program St. John's has, why it exists and what its benefits are. It also describes both the Annapolis campus and St. John's western campus in Santa Fe and says something about the admissions procedure and tuition and fees. Finally, as a follow-up to the booklet, if the student does in fact apply, he receives a third packet, an admissions portfolio containing several booklets. One concerns a visit to the campus, another contains a description of student life, a third is the statement of the St. John's program. � 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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Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf The Reporter https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/32797b0bd92a616761315a743c9c2576.pdf c677b709d4ace597fc44d7b57bcd78bb PDF Text Text Q VOLUME U, ISSUE 2 ~ NOV. 15, 19 harm alon can't s ve aca-Carroll; aid OU ht St. John's College has its own particular project for the Bicentennial: renovation of the Paca-Carroll House named for two of Maryland's foW" signers of the Declaration of Independence, William Paca and Charles Carroll of Carrollton. Both are men who also played an important part dW"ing St. John's early, post-Revolutionary history. Almost the only thing left of this small dormitory located on the south-west side of the campus is its own dignity and good strong lines which time has been unable to obliterate. Even the ghost of the Civil War nW"se which students say haunts the Paca-Carroll House may be forced to vacate. Charm alone can't hold its red brick walls together, and with walls aslant and floors askew, college officials are concerned as to how long this high ceilinged building, with its double entrance and early Federal favor, may survive. "It would be unthinkable to raze so fine an historic old house, but it is also becoming impossible to use it much longer in its present condition," President Richard D. Weigle said. DURING THE PAST year, the college consulted a number of architects about campus development needs and retained one firm to prepare a study for CW"rent projects. "All agreed that the PacaCarroll House is in W"gent need of renovation, if for no other reason than to make it safe for · habitation,'' Mr. Weigle said. Cost of the renovation is estimated at over $200,000. The work would be financed separately from other campus building projects now being considered. Ideally, the college would like to do for Paca-Carroll what it has done to three other campus (Continued on Page 3) s t The downhill slide of stock market values which began nearly a year ago has cut sharply into St. John's College's endowment funds. The market value of the college's endowment, which has averaged $8-million in recent years and hit a high of $10-million three years ago, dropped to (Continued on Page 4) , Dean has • security statement Annapolis police are in their second month of investigations in their hunt for the assailant who attacked a 19-year-old St. John's College student sometime between 1:30 and 2 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 6. In the most violent episode of crime on campus in the memory of college officials, the student was beaten with a metal implement by a inan waiting in the basement women's room of McDowell Hall. Police described him as a black male of slight build. Although the assault appeared sexual in natW"e, police ruled out rape. The victim, Miss Gabrielle de Seife, suffered multiple fractures of the skull and a smashed hand. Discovered by another student, she was rushed to the hospital where she underwent five hoW"s of brain surgery. She now faces plastic sW"gery which is expected to continue over a two-year period. DETECTIVES WITH the Annapolis police force, who spent 11 hoW"s in evidence gathering, had built up a file by late October of more than a thousand pages in their effort to identify the assailant. As a community, St. John's has share a snack on the steps of been oppressed and hear~ (Continued on Page 4) (photo by Jon Hus tis) • The St. John's College Class of their 25 years with the college. As their personal present, the Joining a handful of others class gave him a multi-faceted, '49 has succeeded in doing what time and circumstance selected for the distinction, they Steuben glass sculpture bearing previously made impossible. were named honorary members the letters "RDW '49." President Richard D. Weigle and of the association. Bernard F. "It's difficult to put into words former President Stringfellow Gessner, president, presented what we think of Winkie," Mr. Barr are classmates. them with an engraved silver Hoffman said, in presenting a In a high point of homecoming bowl and a scroll expressing the scroll to the 77-year-old former activities over the weekend, they association's "gratitude and president, who headed St. John's were made honorary members of appreciation" for their years when the college abolished its the Class of '49, which was with the college. elective system and instituted FOR MR. BARR, who had what became a revolutionary meeting here for its 25th reunion. "By this action tonight it taught the Class of '49 prior to his New Program of liberal makes both Winkie Barr and departure from the college, and education. Dick Weigle classmates and an .. for Mr. Weigle, the dinner was an In a tribute which recognized honor for our class," Allan occasion for standing ovations his leadership that morning of a Hoffman, of Lawrence, N.Y., told and warm tribute. The class had class seminar based upon the nearly 200 guests at the annual graduated in June just prior to Alumni Association homecoming Mr. Weigle's arrival in Sep- Federalist papers, the scroll read tember, 1949, to assume his in part: banquet at the Hilton Hotel. "We, who are so fortunate to be duties and members had not Members of the class and Mr. in your company today and are Weigle were co-celebrants of known him as president. "But you have been our privileged to have touched our silver anniversaries on a weekend which marked the first president during all our years as minds and our hearts again with opportunity for the Alumni alumni," Mr. Hoffman said. yours, will be grateful and Association as a whole to honor "We're proud of St. John's, and remember these and other (Continu~d on Page 4) President and Mrs. Weigle for we're proud of Dick Weigle." St. John's College will open a small, new art gallery in Mellon Hall in January, an event which will be marked by an exhibit of 20th Century prints and drawings and the first showing of a series of films on painters who influenced the history of modern art. The opening· coincides with a new impetus to incorporate visual arts into the experience of students and faculty made possible by Eugene Thaw, of New York City, a 1947 graduate, who himself owns probably the best private collection of drawings in the United States. Dean CW"tis Wilson said the gifts have underwritten two Friday night lectW"es this year devoted to the visual arts and will support a third which tentatively has been scheduled for later in the year. Mr. Thaw also has offered to prepare a list of paintings and drawings which could be related specifically to the program and which may be seen in the original .at galleries near Annapolis. In a departure from the past, for the first time a Saturday morning faculty seminar was held last Spring devoted to an analysis of two paintings, one a Rembrandt and the other a Titian. The college also is considering the possibility of extracurricular seminars dealing with particular works of art for later this year. The first preceptorial devoted to visual arts also is underway. BW"ton Blistein, the college's sculptor-in-residence, is conducting one devoted to "Elements of Meaning in the Visual Arts," in which both sculptW"e and painting are -being discussed. THE GREATER interest is reflected in the doubling of the collection of art slides at the library. Mr. Blistein is assisting in equipping a special area where the slides, which are now being catalogued and which may also be checked out like books, can be projected onto a large screen. Trips to nearby art galleries led by two tutors especially (Continued on Page 14, • Don rags are being replaced by conferences for St. John's juniors as a method of twice-yearly appraisal of their work. . Adopted on an experimental basis by the faculty at a meeting earlier in the fall, the conferences Vlrill incorporate only one change of substance. Instead of being asked as he is at the conclusion of a don rag for his comments, a student will be asked at the outset of the meeting to give an evaluation of his work. (Continued on Page 4) �2 • ' start preceptor • This week St. John's juniors and seniors began clustering in small study groups, many of them in their tutors' homes, for the first sessions of their preceptorials, the nearest thing to electives St. John's curriculum offers. Replacing seminars until the end of the semester January 19, the preceptorials were instituted in 1961-62 to permit students to study a reading, a book, or a topic in greater detail than is possible during a traditional seminar, in which a great deal of material is covered very rapidly. Preceptorial sizes average eight to ten persons but may include as few as three or four students. Subjects, chosen by each tutor, are announced during the summer months, and students are requested tO indicate their first three preferences before returning to school. Generally, the preceptorial topic is drawn from some aspect of the reading list, but the subjects may arise elsewhere. This year, for instance, Louis Kurs is offering a preceptorial on the National Environmental Protection Act of 1969. It has been announced as a "study of how it came into being, what it says, how its mandate is being carried out, how the courts have been interpreting it, etc. A case study in the theory and practice of American government.'' OCCASIONALLY, a preceptorial topic may be drawn from readings. no longer on the great books list. Jonathan Skinner is conducting a pr€ceptorial on three Icelandic Sagas, including the "Njal's Saga," which students formerly read. The other two sagas are "Grettir's Saga" and "The Laxdale Saga." A topic in a completely new area this year is one dealing with the visual arts, ''Elements of Meaning in the Visual Arts," in which Burton Blistein, St. John's sculptor-in-residence, and students will study a hundred or so works of art to discern the ways in which such elements as line, plane, color, space and symbolic imagery contribute to their meaning. One preceptorial has resulted in an enrollment which is entirely feminine. That is a preceptorial on the novels of Jane Austen led by Malcolm Wyatt. Other preceptorials are: Douglas Allanbrook, Sonata form; Robert Bart, Shakespeare's "King Lear"; Gisela Berns, Rousseau's "Second Discourse (On the Origin of Inequality Among Men)" and "First Discourse (On Whether the Reestablishment of Arts and Sciences Has Contributed to Purifying Morals)''; Steven Crockett, Richard Dedekind's "The Nature and Meaning of Numbers'' and Gottlob Frege's "The Foundations of Arithmetic,'' essays concerned with the deduction of the premises of arithmetic from logic. • ....... Harvey Flaumenhaft, "Machiavelli"; Harry Golding, William James' main essays on pragmatism and radical empiricism, such as "The Sentiment of Rationality," "Does Consciousness Exist?" "A World of Pure Experience,'' ''What Pragmatism Means," "Pragmatism's Conception of Truth." SIMON KAPLAN, Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason"; John Kieff er, Experiment in the problems of translation, using Plato's "Lysis," in which the aim will be a finished translation in good, modern English; Jacob Klein, Plato's "The Statesman"; Hugh McGrath 1 Dostoevski's "The Brothers Karamazov''; Beate Ruhm von Oppen, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's "The Cost of "Temptation,'' Discipleship,'' "Ethics," "Letters and Papers from Prison,'' which is concerned with the interaction of theology and politics or the political relevance of religion; The Rev. JH Winfree Smith, Dante's "Inferno"; David Starr, Parmenides' poem, ''Peri Physeos,'' along with interpretive and critical reflections on its content in the writings of Melissus, Plato and Aristotle; James Tolbert, Understanding Poetry, the study of English and American poems not now studied in the curriculum with a view to developing the skills needed for the intelligent reading of poems; John White, Aristotle's "Physics"; Robert Williamson, Homer, "The Illad"; Robert Zalenka 's Goethe's "Faust.'' French films to be shown French, the language of diplomacy, is spanning King George Street, bringing St. John's College and the Naval Academy closer together. The Academy recently made available a series of French films, "Les Chroniques de France," which will be shown during the school year except when classes are in recess. Open to the public, they will be screened at 7: 15 p.m. Fridays in the Key Auditorium just prior to the college's regular Friday lecture. The films were brought to this country by Lt. Commander Patrick de la Rochebrochard, an exchange professor, who has shown them to his Academy classes and who is making them personally available. Each is divided into a number of subjects, touching on such matters as science, art, and entertainment as they are developing in France, some history, and some current events. Miss Karen Strauss, Long Island freshman, who is in charge, said that a 15 cent admission charge will be made to cover the cost of the projectionist. • I Ii Between the United States and the Soviet Union there are two hot lines. One connects the Pentagon and the Kremlin. It's there to prevent war. The other is there to promote peace through collaboration. It is a direct line between the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in Rockville, Md., and the Ministry of Health in Moscow. Installed to implement America's only active collaborative program in the field of medicine, it is supervised by a St. John's College graduate of 1963, Dr. Oliver M. Korshin, as part of his duties as director of the US-USSR Health Exchange Program. The hot line is actually a pizzazz styled name ·for a Telex teleprinter, a deceptively simple looking machine in a remarkably ordinary room located on the 18th floor of HEW's Parklawn Building. Considering the impressiveness of the program, which falls under the Office of International Health, and the almost incredible capacity of the machine one expects something more imposing. Standing watching the technician punch a one-plus signal which activates a duplicate machine in the Ministry of Health in Moscow, Dr. Korshin explained, as the red letters from Moscow signal their instant response, that the line is capable of sending messages in both Russian and English. Overhead clocks for Washington, Geneva, Moscow and Tokyo inform him it is 6: 20 p.m. in Moscow, seven hours ahead of the United States. A CLIPBOARD in Dr. Korshin's hand indicates how valuable the program has become since the Telex relayed its first message on September 7, 1973. First message on the top sheet carried an urgent request from an American physician seeking status reports from Moscow and Leningrad on a study of arteriosclerosis as "indispensable for continued progress" of the study. Heart disease is just one of the fields covered by a 1972 agreement to work together in the field of medical science and public health. The two nations are committed to extensive cancer research, attempting to test new anti-tumor and antileukemic drugs and to discover viral causes of cancer. Currently underway is a joint investigation of the complex treatment of lung cancer. "Cancer and heart diseases are the leading causes of death in the USSR, just as they are here," Dr. Korshin said. "The two countries are attempting to study the causes of sudden death following heart attacks, a study which potentially could save thousands of lives." Boris ,This month Dr. Petrovsky, a practicing heart surgeon whom Dr. Korshin describes as an "energetic and affable" man and who heads the Dr. Oliver Korshin poses with two~year-old son a taken his wife. USSR Ministry of Health, is scheduled to arrive in the United States to begin talks about the development of an artificial heart. In their study of environmental health, the two countries are attempting to develop more rapid methods of assessing biological effects of various chemical substances in the· environment. They also are conducting joint laboratory and clinical research projects concerning arthritis, influenza and acute respiratory diseases. "IT'S A PROGRAM in which collaboration can be of benefit to everyone," Dr. Korshin said. "not only to the people of the United States and Russia but to everyone. The program is unique. There's nothing like it. We have bilateral programs with Poland, Yugoslavia and Romania and agreements with Canada, England and Mexico, but this is our only program of medical collaboration which the United States has with another country.·· Dr. Korshin was asked to head the program while he was in London, serving as a graduate research student at the London School of Economics and Political Science and where he became an expert on the National Health Service of England. To prepare himself, beginning in December, 1972, he studied Russian eight hours a day for six months at the Foreign Service Institute in Rosslyn, Va.-a language he described as "extremely difficult but a pleasure to learn because it is very, very logical.'' for Since becoming director of the US-USSR Health Exchange Program in November, 1972, Dr. Korshin has averaged about two trips a year to the Soviet Union. When he went to Moscow in June, he traveled through Siberia across to the Pacific, swimming in Lake Baikal en route where the water registered four degrees centigrade. ''The Russians are very warm and hospitable,'' he observed, "and the people with whom we deal are highly capable, innovative and practical." Graduated magna cum laude from St. John's, Ollie Korshin acquired his medical degree in 1967 from Harvard and then took an internship at Boston City Hospital in internal medicine. During that time he married the former Lucy Brown, a professional photographer from Reading, Mass., whose photographs of their two-year-old son, Matthew Harrison, decorate the walls of his office. Their daughter, Fara Carolyn, was born October 22. . DR. KORSHIN'S first assignment was as a medical care consultant for Community Health Service from 1968 to 1971. He and his wife lived in the San Francisco area, a place which they grew to love and to which some day they hope to return. The Reporter is published by the Office of College Relations, St. John's College, Annapolis, Md., 21404, Richard D. Weigle, president, William 8. Dunham, director o1 College Relations. Published five limes a year, in February, April, June, September and November. Second class postage paid at Annapolis, Md., and at other mailing places, �E n~n"'nT~n I t • I A number of requests have come in for a list of lectures available in the bookstore. Orders may be placed with Mrs. Frances DeHart of the bookstore staff. She advises that prices range from $1.50 to 50 cents with an additional charge for postage and handling. Persons seeking lectures will be billed upon receipt of their requests. The list follows: Allanbrook, Douglas - "The Word, Culture"; "Prudence and Passion." Allanbrook, Wye - "Dance, Gesture and the Marriage of Figaro" Bart, Robert- "Literature in the Liberal Arts Curriculum" Bell, Charles - "Satanic Math"; "Shakespeare: The Phoenix and the Turtle'' Berns, Giesela- "Nomos and Physis: An Interpretation of Euripides' Hippolytos"; "Time and Nature" Berns, Laurence - "Gratitude, Nature and Piety in King Lear"; "Speculations of Liberal and Illiberal Politics"; "RationalAnimal-Political Animal"; "Aristotle's Poetics" Bloom, Allan - "Gulliver's Travels" Brann, Eva - "Thomas More's Utopia"; "An Appreciation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason"; ''The Poet of the Odyssey"; "What Is a Body in Kant's System?"; "Student's Problem"; "Elements of Science"; "Music of the Republic"; "A Reading of the Gettysburg Address" Buchanan, Scott - Untitled lecture Cox, Richard - "The Circle of the Moon" Goldwin, Robert - "St. John's College Asks John Locke Some Questions" Henrich, Dieter "Basic Structures of Modern Philosophy" · Jonas, Hans - "Is God a Mathematician?" Kieffer, John- "A World I Never Made"; "Plato" Klein, Jacob - "Dante's Mount of Purgatory"; "History and the Liberal Arts"; "Plato's Ion"; "Speech, Its Strength and Its Weakness"; "Arisfotle; An ]ntroduction"; "Leibniz: An Introduction"; "On Liberal Education"; "On the Nature of Nature"; "About Plato's Philebus"; "On Precision" Milner, Benjamin - "Calvin" Neidorf, Robert - "Biological Explanations" Q'Grady, William - "Plato's Republic and the Search for Common Objects'' Ruhm von Oppen, Beate - "Bach's Rhetoric"; "Student Rebellion and the Nazis"; "Trial in Berlin" Slakey, Thomas - "Justification and Grace"; "Personal Freedom'' Smith, J. Winfree - ''Commencement Address to the Class of 1965"; "Teaching of Religion at St. John's" Spaeth,Robert L. - "The Philosophy of Niels Bohr" Sparrow, Edward - "Noun and Verb"; "Logic and Reason"; "Rights, Laws and the Right" Wilson, Curtis- "Kepler's Discovery of the Elliptical Orbit of Mars"; "The Discovery of Deductive Science" Wyatt, Malcohn - "Modern Mathematics" Zuckerkandl, Victor - "On Nimesis" Letter to editor ·ain 'My Third Campus l.ong Way Off The development of a third St. John's College campus in California is not expected to take place in the foreseeable future, r: President Weigle has made clear. "We have a beautiful, 760-acre Al Main was my Socrates at ·c. Perhaps it can only be said site west of Salinas," Mr. Weigle St John's that, although he told parents Qf freshmen in ants never an assigned tutor of swer to a question at a meeting 'tne, he was among my greatest earlier in the fall. "My successor 1chers. He was unrelenting in once or twice removed can ; application of the intellectual develop it." The site has been made llpel, and he was disarmingly 11est in accepting whatever the available to the college by llpel uncovered. He forgave so Herman and Andrew Marks and my of my intellectual tricks in their sister, Miss Agnes Marks, of rsuit of debate-winning, Salinas. Deeds recorded in 1973 .wing by example that lear- set value of the property at g is more important than $584,000. ng "right." His persistence, While Mr. Weigle has admsity, honesty, and passion in vocated as many as six campuses ist of learning was located over the country on a nomenal. But my largest regional basis, he said no further iression of Al Main is, I think, development can be undertaken one by which he'd like most to until both Annapolis and the recalled: he was an honest Santa Fe campuses have 1. adequate endowments and are AJIAlumnus fir'mlY established. Socrates' -~-'l!."11111"" ' I For their winter production, the St. John's College's King William Players have selected a comedy by a man born 400 years ago, Ben Jonson, the Elizabethan Age's angry man, and perhaps England's most formidable satirist before the advent of Jonathan Swift. The players will stage "The Alchemist" at 8:15 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 6-7. The satire is one of a trilogy of which T.S. Eliot has written that Jonson created his own world of "great caricature" and "non-Euclidean humanity." "The Alchemist," written in 1610 and considered by some critics to represent Jonson's zenith for mordant comedy, is a study of several forms of hypocrisy aimed at fulfulling what Jonson saw as the duty of the comic poet: castigating erring humanity and "scourging those apes," his contemporaries. For the players production in the Key Auditorium, Director Robert Tzudiker, Alexandria, Va., senior, the director, has chosen a cast with a sizeable amount of previous experience. CAST IN THE lead as the cunning and nefarious Subtle is David Smithka, Alexandria freshman, who previously took the lead in ''The Man Who Came to Dinner" in a T.C. Williams High School production. He also has had a hand in set building for the Arlington Theater Associates. Eugene Glass, Melrose Park, Pa., sophomore, will take the part of his servant, Face. Last year he played Jacques Roux in the St. John's modern theater group production of "MaratSade." In high school productions he had a major role of Bobby Hargreaves in the British farce, "Chase Me Comrade," as well as minor roles in "Ben Franklyn in Paris" and in a musical, "Car-. nival." · The part of Dol Common, Subtle and Face's colleague, will be taken by Barbara McGrath, of Annapolis, who last year studied voice-production in London with Miss Jean Wyn-Scott, a professional coach who rarely takes amateurs. She received a second place rating among more than 50 contestants in competition sponsored by the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts by delivering a speech of Jennet from "The Lady's Not for Burning." She also received the adult certificate and bronze and silver awards for readings delivered before the National Poetry Society, made up primarily of teachers of drama. In performing with the King William Players, Miss McGrath will be helping establish a family tradition. Her father, St. John's tutor Hugh McGrath, also has performed with the Players. Randall Rothenberg, Fair Lawn, N.J., freshman, will be Dapper, a lawyer's clerk. Active in high school theater, Mr. Rothenberg has been associated for two years with the Classic State Company Repertory 3 t • I I Theater in New York, with which he had a five month run as Alfred, the Player Queen, in "Rosencrantz and Gildenstern Are Dead." He has done children's theater with the Courtyard Playhouse Theater in New York, serving as a lighting technician and stage manager and appearing in two shows; He also has done a considerable amount of community theater, mostly acting but also working as a designer preparing sets for "The Chalk Garden." His last show in May was marked by his appearance as Lucky in "Dames at Sea." IN THE SUMMER of 1972 Mr. Rothenberg served as an apprentice with the Summer Barn Theater in Augusta, Wisc., where he worked with lights and set designs and played the guitar in the orchestra. • 1111111 Mr. Tzudiker himself will take part of the greedy Sir Epicure Mammon. With two summers of performances behind him with a professional company, the Mill Mountain Play House in Roanoke, Va., he also has done a great deal of acting at Mt. Vernon High School in Alexandria and earlier at Derryfield High School in Manchester, N.H. Last year he directed the King William Players' production of Moliere's "The Precious Damsels." Other members of the cast include Mark Kelly, Drugger; Rollie Feuchtenberger, Lovewit; Greg Bayer, Surly; Steve Grey, Tribulation Wholesome; Adam Wasserman, Ananias; Kevin Stacey, Kastril, and Cynthia Nash, Dame Pliant. Jenifer Smith, ·Carl Dunn and James Walley will appear as neighbors and officers. yprogr~ ... .11111. • (Continued fromPage 1) buildings during the past twenty years: retain the exterior and renovate and refurbish the interior. Built before the Civil War to house two faculty families, the building stands on a quiet spot on campus, a coveted dormitory for the 21 students who prefer the additional seclusion they find there. As the old lady among campus buildings, the dormitory is as severely upright as a Sunday sermon of the era during which it was erected. St. John's would like to keep it that way. napolis, Charleston, S.C., and Providence, R.I., also noted on a recent trip to visit the dormitory. "Basically it's very sound," he said, in observing that it is also similar to a building at the University of South Carolina on which he also has been working. Richard Kearns, preservation administrator for Historic Annapolis, has urged that it be preserved for practical as well as aesthetic reasons. He feels that it would be difficult to duplicate a building scaled to its proportions in this era of rising costs. PACA-CARROLL HAS been WITH ITS THREE flights of steps grown concave by part of the campus since Hector generations of students who have Humphreys, who became St. occupied the building, the dor- John's president in 1831, sought to mitory is not only loved by make St. John's a self contained students but admired by ar- unit, announcing that "the town chitects who encourage its should come to the college, but the college should not have to go retention. "This is the kind of well to the town." · proportioned, simple, straightHe thereupon went on what forward Federal building which Charles Elzey, college treasurer, most eastern cities have lost," called a building spree, and James Burch, Annapolis ar- succeeded in flanking the central chitect, said in urging that at administration and classroom least the shell be kept. building - McDowell Hall- with "We are losing so much of our four other high brick buildings. architectural heritage. Paca- Paca-Carroll was built as a Carroll is similar to group of duplex for two faculty families. houses which were torn down Along with other buildings on some years ago on Pennsylvania campus, it was commandeered Avenue in Washington near by Federal forces during the Civil Washington Circle and. a cousin War and used as a hospital. to the buildings in Georgetown. Elzey, himself, feels parPaca-Carroll is important because it is part of our old ticularly worried about Pacacampus plan - an integral part Carroll. From the standpoint of fire, he said, it meets standards. of the college." The building can be cleared in 30 Although the building dates seconds if necessary, but back to 1857 and essentially to the currently it is not up to presentVictorian era, Burch noted that it day building standards. was not as "fancied up as its "Lots of people have lived in sisters of that vintage." It has a simplicity reminiscent of early Paca-Carroll and loved it," he Federal architecture which said, "but I don't know how much Russell Wright, a consultant in longer the building can be historic preservation for An- maintained." a I I �THE REPORTER SECOND CLASS Published by POSTAGE College Relations ( St. John's College Annapolis, Md. I . PAID AT 21404 ~POLIS, MD. • I s, (Continued from Page l) knowledgable in the field of art Robert S. Bart and Elliott Zuckerman - also are planned. The new emphasis on the visual arts will not include studio work which will continue to be available as an extra-curricular activity. For this purpose the college employs an artist-inresidence, Anne Geddes, and offers a number of extracurricular art classes which also are open to townspeople. THE ART GALLERY, itself, is being established in a room used previously for laboratory purposes on the second floor of Mellon Hall. Until now the foyer of the Key Auditoriwn generally has served for exhibits, but William B. director of the Offic:2 of College Relations, explained that the college had found it necessary for security reasons in connection with shows on loan from major museums to establish the gallery in an area that can be supervised when open and otherwise kept locked. The work to transform the room into a gallery calls for enclosing laboratory tables with eight-foot high partitions. Molding strips will be placed at the top from which pictures may be hung. Open areas in the room will be used for standing exhibits, sculpture and the like. Two shows planned for early next year will be the one on 20th Century prints and drawings scheduled for January 6-27 and the second will be one of ritual masks of Black Africa, set for February 18-March 17. Both will be on loan from the Baltimore Museum of Art. In colll1ection with the opening of the gallery, St. John's and the Annapolis Fine Arts Foundation will co-sponsor the showing of a series of six films written and narrated by Sir Kenneth Clark, "Pioneers of Modern Painting." Made available by the National Gallery of Art and the National Endowment for the Hwnanities, the films will be shown at 8 p.m. successive Wednesday on evenings in the Key Auditoriwn. They will be devoted to the six painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: Edouard Manet, Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, Georges Seurat, Henri Rousseau and Edvard Munch. Each will run 40 minutes. All will be open to the public without cost. The lectures made possible by Mr. Thaw's gift included one by Francis V. O'Connor, who spoke in September on "Symbolism in ' e Abstract Art" and another by Philipp Fehl, who spoke last month on ''Grace and Redemption in Michaelangelo's Last Judgment." (Continued from Page 1) $6,500,000 September 30, according to T. Rowe Price and Associates, of Baltimore, investment managers for the college. Endowment income for the last fiscal year amounted to $448,155 $39,000 in endowed ""t101!~r"h1n income or a total of President Richard D. has rP.r111rt:P.fl For the current fiscal year the college is projecting $379,552 in unrestricted endowment income, $5,620 in restricted endowment income and $33,000 in endowed scholarship income. This makes a total of $418,172 or a predicted loss in endowment income of $68,983. "The reason for this decline is. the present state of the market," Mr. Weigle said. "For the past several years we have been following the total yield concept, whereby we have drawn down 6 per cent of the average market value of the portfolio over the preceding three years. The drawal has been made up of dividends, interest and realized and unrealized capital gains. "Now, however, the present value of the endowment fund has dropped below the historic dollar value of the endowment fund; hence we are limited to the income which the fund earns in · dividends and interest. There can be no drawal from capital gains as long as the actual market value is less than the historic dollar value of the fund." on Leo F. Raditsa, member of the St. John's faculty, is the author of an appraisal of the work of Paul Goodman, noted New York author, which appears in the summer issue of The Iowa Review. A former New York resident himself, Mr. Raditsa was with the faculty of New York University before joining St. John's last year. (Continued from Page 1) sickened by the invasion of an otherwise peaceful campus. In a statement to its members, Dean Curtis Wilson said: "I should like to say a few words respecting a matter that has been on all our minds since October 6: the brutal assault on Gabrielle deSeife, and the problem of personal security on the campus. ''As many of you know, Gabrielle's survival and the extent to which she has recovered thus far are well-nigh miraculous. Her pluck and intelligence in -~oping with her experience are remarkable. There is a genuine chance that she will be able in a few weeks to return to her classes. The faculty and students will, I am sure, do everything they can to help her with the several problems and difficulties she will face on returning. ''We have ardently hoped that we could soon report that the author of the crime has been securely identified and apprehended. The case has been pursued with great energy by the police, and there is still hope that will succeed. It is important that members of the cornrr1un1ty who are asked to formation to the police ""'""'"'°r"'t as fullv as they know how. can be done to increase personal security on the campus? Acts of violence have occurred on many college campuses this year. We are facing a problem that has invaded the campuses from the cities. THE NOTION OF deputizing students to assist in the tasks of the security guards has been broached. From the legal standpoint this suggestion is simply not tenable: were any injury to result to a student deputy or any person such a deputy encountered, the College could be made financially liable to the full value of its endowment. "The use of a police dog has been proposed. Such a dog, we learn, is only useful for attack, as directed by its owner and trainer. To arrange to keep such a dog here would be extremely costly, and it is unclear that there would be occasions when it would be useful. "We believe we have an excellent security force, screened by the FBI, handpicked and trained. The head of the security force, Walter Rausch, is as conscientious and concerned in the carrying out of his tasks as anyone could imaginably be. These men deserve our support. On the other hand, we do not feel that a large increase in the security force-the turning of the campus in effect into an armed camp-is what we want. "Much, it seems to those of us in the administration who have been discussing this problem, must come down to alertness and intelligence on the part of the members of the community. (Continued from Page 1) precious days at St. John's forever." Jonathan Brooks, of Cleveland, who presided during the part of the dinner session devoted to the class, called upon David Rea, New York attorney, "the only magna cum laude graduate in the class," to present Mr. Barr with its gift: Volume I of the Journals of the Continental Congress dating from September 7, 1774 to the December the following a year: the volume which Mr. Rea said was the most important in the series. OF THE MORE THAN 65 in the class, 26 members returned ·for the reunion. Mr. Brooks called upon one of the three members of the clergy who graduated with the class to recognize "the ten who had been counted out in the process of involuntary selection.'' The Rev. John Lobell, an Episcopal priest engaged in counseling in Baltimore, jokingly commented that he had been told to ''keep it light.'' "How the hell can we be reminded of our own mortality and ke_ep it light?" he queried and then went on to add how grateful he had be€n to have know the deceased men. Quoting from the Twelfth Book of Second Samuel, he recalled what David had said to his son by Bathsheba, "I Shall go to him, but he shall not return to me." "Some day we'll have a great reunion to look forward to when we will see these guys again," he said. The Class of 1949 reunion, for which local arrangements were made Dr. Peter brought what Mr. Brooks was a reunion of a "scope never previously accomplished." He challenged the class of '50 to stage a bigger and better reunion for their 25th next year. "The gauntlet is down, gentlemen,'' he told them. t;o1mnuea from Page 1) The system was suggested by the conference method used at the Graduate Institute in Santa Fe. Annapolis tutors at the institute last summer reported found it to be particularly successful. Dean Curtis Wilson, who believes that the conference system varies so little that the original "don rag" name could have been retained, said it would be used on a trial basis in December and May, when such meetings are held. Its ef- fectiveness then will be reevaluated. "The tutors, just as before, will give their reports on the students' work,'' he said. "The hope is that this change of procedure will be more useful in the enabling the something from the student they would not otherwise have learned and for the student to learn more than he might have under a system in which he comments at the end of the meetings." Don rags will continue in their present form for freshmen and sophomores. Held once each semester, they are sessions in which all the student's tutors meet together and report to one of the seminar leaders on the progress of the work. Rather than reporting on grades, it is used for the purposes of diagnosis and prescription in which any difficulties facing the student may be aired. Students may ask advice. Seniors at St. John's Annapolis campus do not have don rags. They continue to be held at the end of the first semester for seniors enrolled in the Santa Fe campus. Strangers on campus must be reported. I confess this is something I would not myself tend to do, since I have nothing against strangers per se; I asswne others feel the same; but we must now do what the situation obviously demands. The campus is not public domain, and not everyone can be welcome. Every member of the community must abstain from solitary walking tours at night; and there are places in town that it would be best to avoid. Caution, thinking twice: these are necessary, and we must keep aware of their necessity. "WE THINK THE use of whistles by members of the community is a good idea. The bookstore will soon be offering whistles for sale at a wholesale price. Obviously, they must not be used frivolously, or for jokes, but kept in reserve for occasions when they may be needed. Whistles have been used effectively on other campuses and in certain cities. The blowing of a whistle is often enough to scare off a would-be attacker. "What more? We stand open to suggestions, and we remain concerned. This event has shaken us all. Complete security cannot be provided. Everything therefore depends on our con,tinued alertness." The Alumni Association has presented Awards of Merit to three alumni, all graduates of more than 50 years ago, at a meeting at which they re-elected Bernard F. Gessner, '27, for a second term as president. The recipients are Judge Benjamin Michaelson, Sr., '12, of Annapolis, John D. Alexander, Sr., '20, and Professor Ernest 0. von Schwerdtner, '17, both of Baltimore. At their annual meeting the association also voted to appropriate $500 to the college to provide adequate stage lighting for drama productions. � 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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