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Type The nature or genre of the resource text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Subject The topic of the resource Commencement (St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM) Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SF Commencement Program 1968-06-02 Commencement https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/04c9ce41ee86c2c7d5775fb3d0ffc33f.pdf 93dfb36b7268b4ffad67dd8680678872 PDF Text Text ST JOHN'S College SANTA ~E • ANNAPOLIS 2024 CLASS OF COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES Saturday | May Eighteenth Two Thousand and Twenty-four SANTA FE | NEW MEXICO �For the Fifty-Seventh Commencement of the Santa Fe Campus in the Three Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Year of St. John’s College. �PROGRAM Academic Procession String Quartet Welcome Mr. Mark Roosevelt President, St. John’s College Announcement of Awards and Prizes Ms. Sarah Davis Dean, St. John’s College Mr. Roosevelt St. John’s College Open Chorus Ave Verum Corpus William Byrd Address to the Graduating Class Mr. Mark Roosevelt President, St. John’s College Sicut Cervus Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina St. John’s College Open Chorus Conferring of Undergraduate Degrees Ms. Davis Mr. Roosevelt Conferring of Graduate Degrees Mr. Ned Walpin Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, St. John’s College Mr. Roosevelt Closing Remarks Mr. Roosevelt Academic Recession String Quartet Please stand for the academic procession and recession. Graduates will process along the Evans Science Laboratory pathway. Tutors and the platform party will process out of Weigle Hall. JOIN US FOR A LIGHT RECEPTION ON MEEM PLACITA AFTER THE CEREMONY. 1 �2024 BACHELOR OF ARTS Graciela Ann Alvarez Lehman “Fair for the chase!”: The Providence of Spirit in Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace Eleanor Jo Angelli-Neff Sappho’s Aphrodite San Diego, CA Santa Monica, CA Alexandra Claire Avina Good and Evil Within the Citified World in Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor Santa Margarita, CA Dihong Bai Chongqing, China Can We Go Beyond the City Walls? An Examination of Shakespeare’s Othello and How He Failed to Become a Venetian Olivia Anne Baze Revenge and Justice in Euripides’ Medea Houston, TX Antonia Elise Bonnaire Weinsberg, Germany A Calculus of Individual Impact, Doing Good by Choosing to Look, Examined in Scenes of War and Peace Emil Borg Virtue and Politics in Livy’s The Early History of Rome Los Altos, CA Minna Rose Brackett Brooklyn, NY “As You Desire You Do”: An Interpretation of The Book of Jonah Calvin Alexander Bright Sellersburg, IN That Knife, Liberty Under Law: An Examination of Freedom, Patriotism and Reclaiming Power in Livy’s Early History of Rome Michael Johannes Brönner On Existential Fanaticism in Hans Jonas’ The Imperative of Responsibility Mainstockheim, Germany Christopher John Campbell Tucson, AZ Sundering & Singularity, Concerning the Death of God & the Collapse of Time, a Mystical Inquiry into Simone Weil & Eternity Jacob Alan Chandler Windows to the Soul: On the Mechanism of Perception and the Requirements for Superlative Love in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice Annapolis, MD Kiva RedBear Chavez Santa Fe, NM Society’s Outlaws: A Mother and Daughter’s Tale of Liberation and Self-Discovery in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter Taran Sawyer Clammer Poulenc’s Cello Sonata, a Conversation in Music 2 Montpelier, VT �William Kurt Stocker Crombie Coos Bay, OR An Infinite Expectation of the Dawn, Nature, the Human Soul, and Their Convergence at Walden Pond Ian Dean Dapkewicz The Transcendental Conditions of Thought in Difference and Repetition, an Investigation of Gilles Deleuze’s Critique of the Image of Thought Santa Clarita, CA Lila Grace Dean Tragic Affinities – William Wordsworth’s Poetics of Loss in The Two-Part Prelude of 1799 Lakewood, OH Noah Michael Demko It’s the Evil That Men Do: St. Augustine’s Phenomenal Conception of Evil Houston, TX Lillian Leah Dumas Hold Him by the Hand: On Living within Contradiction and Reconciling Suffering with Hope in the Hidden Heart of Genesis Helper, UT Lucy Amelia Edelen Beauty at the Core of Thought: The Aesthetic Philosophy of Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Judgment Tucson, AZ Alexis Christine Finch Understanding the Tree of Life: Darwin’s Articulation of Nature in Process Denton, TX Edward Martin Fleming On the Symbol of A as Punishment, and on Transformation of that A as Salvation Carl Guttmann Number as Relation in Edmund Husserl’s On the Concept of Number: Psychological Analysis Newton, MA Freiburg, Germany Jesse Herb “Not What I Am”: An Analysis of Identity in Shakespeare’s Othello Diana Hidalgo Lessons of the Internal Self: Learning to Feel in William Wordsworth’s The Two-Part Prelude of 1799 Elena Ann Hochheiser Made in Whose Image? Man and God in Spinoza’s Ethics Maebh Hurley To All My Thoughts Their Forms They Blend: A Search for the Substance of Dance in Giselle Zane Kelly-Carmichael Species-Being in Marx and the Human-Environment Relationship 3 Salem, OR Oakley, CA Pittsburgh, PA Austin, TX Corrales, NM �Michal Grace Kennell Everything Ended and Everything Ends: Margarita and the Spring Ball in Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita Red Wassmuth Kingsbury The Passion of the Moment: Learning in Kierkegaard’s Philosophical Fragments Kara, Togo Evergreen, CO Ryan Andrew Kohl Tracing the Invisible Labyrinth: How Conflicting Perspectives Affect Interpretation in The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges Warrensburg, MO Barbara Jordan Joy Leppala Doubling, Prudence, and Daring in Sophocles’ Antigone Albuquerque, NM Conrad Larkin McConnell A Study of Relationships in Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities Eureka, CA August Michael Attlehed McKenzie Following the Thread: Pain, Pleasure, and Philosophy in the Phaedo Santa Fe, NM Tamblyn Claire Mitchell Kennett Square, PA “Did you suppose, my father, that I could tear myself away and leave you?”, An Exploration into the Role of Fatherhood in Virgil’s The Aeneid Deana Alayne Moss A Life Worth Living, An Exploration of Happiness and Virtue in Plato’s Symposium Portland, OR Zohar Aviv Naaman Santa Barbara, CA “Incomparably beyond and above you all”: An Exploration of Education, Fairytale and Romance in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights Nghia Duc Nguyen Plato’s Republic: What is the foundation of virtues? Hanoi, Vietnam Emily Carmichael Oliphant Action and Irresolution in Shakespeare’s Hamlet Washington, DC Eamon Miguel Padilla Cannibalistically Developed: Trophy-Taking and Parallel Development in Moby Dick Albuquerque, NM John Milliken Parker VI St. Thomas Aquinas on God’s Freedom New Orleans, LA Jonathan Zachary Pevow Cedar Park, TX The Development of Nosology and Death from the Mortuary: A Selective Autopsy of Michel Foucault’s Birth of the Clinic Tay Lara Rafferty Idealism’s Power in Narrow Circumstances 4 Dallas, TX �Elise JaNeal Rockwell The Accessibility of Philosophy: Aristophanes’ Critique within the Clouds Crystal Lake, IL Anäis Magdalena Romero-Heesacker The Education of Natural Consciousness in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit Athens, GA Samuel Lucien Roy Austin, TX Human Destinies: Parallelisms between Psychological Development and Human Cultural Evolution in Nietzsche’s Thought Theodora Ngaio Ruschell The Fleeting Search for Forgiveness in Milton’s Paradise Lost Alexandria, VA Khushi Salgia Death Is Only Behind a Sheer Curtain: The Denial of Our Own Mortality in The Picture of Dorian Gray Sacramento, CA Diego Francisco Salinas Observation and Imitation: Tracing the Development of Tragedy in Aristotle’s On Poetics Bayfield, CO Enzo L Scarpulla Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics of Individuality Woodacre, CA Sarah Josefa Schäfer Suffering for the suffering of the other: the original and ethical structure of subjectivity Virlet, France Aidan Carl Shannon On Land-Use in The Social Contract Shaw Island, WA Eugenia Bergeron Simon The Intellect’s Journey Toward Beatitude Austin, TX Catriona Elizabeth Sixbey How to Live a Life of Love and Happiness through Portraits of Characters in Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace Hampton, VA Gabriel W Slidders A Jewish Answer: Assimilation and Resistance in Karl Marx’s On the Jewish Question Brooklyn, NY Peter James Sloan Dwelling in Difference as Sameness: Understanding Essence and Technology in Martin Heidegger’s Bremen Lectures Ashland, OR Stephen A Sloniewsky What Is Sky: Living Poetically Through a Vision of the Divine in Tolstoy’s War and Peace Arlington, VA Luke Alexander Spencer Coppell, TX Curios and Spiral Staircases – Jorge Luis Borges’ Library of Babel 5 �Britton Paul Edward Sprouse Rising from the Barbaric Slough, Why the Dialectic of Aristotle’s Topics Is the Capstone of Education Montgomery, LA Amelia Quinn Stock Cummings “I saw him, I blushed”: Desire and Shame in Racine’s Phèdre Margot Elizabeth Tabakin Becoming Good and Sane: Attaining Reality through Fiction in Don Quixote Santa Rosa, CA South Orange, NJ Joanna Patricia Thornhill Chatsworth, CA Homo Amicus: On the Friend in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics Iris Thornton Gonzalez The Feminine Other and Ethical Subjectivity in Totality and Infinity Vy Van Vo Idleness as Technique and Freedom: On the Essays of Montaigne Albuquerque, NM Vũng Tàu, Vietnam Wyatt Jeffrey Matthews Vogelzang Love and War in Chaucer’s The Knight’s Tale Seattle, WA William Kipp Wharton The Sexual Politics of Ellison’s Invisible Man Atlanta, GA Samuel Gustav Tapuahi Wiek* A Strange Old Man: An Exploration of Santiago’s Strangeness in Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea Savusavu, Fiji Aidan Thomas Williams Half Moon Bay, CA Price as a Measure of Virtue: Understanding the Psychology of Revenue and Profit in Smith’s The Wealth of Nations Marc Andrew Wissman Tristan’s Transfiguration: Music and Yearning in Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde Hunter Michael Wright Extracting a Stripped Screw: Reconciling Reason and Consciousness in Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace * Upon satisfactory completion of degree requirements 6 Austin, TX Crested Butte, CO �2024 MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS SPRING 2024 AND DECEMBER 2023 James Besaw Redmond, WA Hannah Black Santa Fe, NM Anna Cain Tucson, AZ (Dec. 2023) Michael Foote Seward, AK Jason Gritman Santa Fe, NM Lorissa Jackson Anchorage, AK Kelly Kwon Seoul, South Korea Jackson Mauze Seattle, WA Emily Neifert Carlsbad, CA (Dec. 2023) Daniel Nichols Billings, MT (Dec. 2023) Joachim Rhaden Munich, Germany (Dec. 2023) Joseph Frederick Scibbe Macedoniaw, OH Matthew Smith Albuquerque, NM (Dec. 2023) Danielle Stone Santa Fe, NM Daniel Van Orden Prairie du Chien, WI Ryan Wechter El Paso, TX Sofya Yampolsky Chimayo, NM 2024 MASTER OF ARTS IN EASTERN CLASSICS Nicolae Federspiel-Otelea Grass Valley, CA Anina Medvinskaya New York, NY (Dec. 2023) David Metzger Norfolk, VA (Dec. 2023) Isla Prieto Santa Fe, NM Susan Sladek Santa Fe, NM MASTER’S ESSAY Kelly Kwon “The Moral Implications of Henri Bergson's Phenomenology of Time in Creative Evolution” Danielle Stone “Hierarchy and Disciplinary Power in Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison” 7 �AWARDS AND PRIZES To the members of the Senior Class who have written the best senior essays, the Richard D. Weigle Prize: The Feminine Other and Ethical Subjectivity in Class of 2024 Totality and Infinity Iris Thornton-Gonzalez Tristan’s Transfiguration: Music and Yearning in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde Class of 2024 Marc Andrew Wissman Honorable Mention: On Existential Fanaticism in Hans Jonas’ The Imperative of Responsibility Faculty Award for Sustained Academic Excellence Class of 2024 Michael Brönner Class of 2024 Antonia Bonnaire Michael Brönner Barbara Lepalla Sarah Schäfer For their Freshman annual essay To Comprehend the Sphere Itself: Divine Introspection in Plato’s Timaeus For her Sophomore enabling essay Worshipping Nature through Christian Pilgrimage Honorable Mention: Elihu’s Speech Illumines Maimonides’ Opinion on Providence For her Junior annual essay Construction of the Self in Wordsworth’s Two-Part Prelude of 1799 Class of 2026 Mia West Benjamin Johnson Class of 2025 Madeleine Taylor-Marks Honorable Mention: “Incomparably Greater”: Man and World in Leibniz’s A New System of Nature 8 Class of 2027 Nico Rasmussen Class of 2025 Sanyum Dalal �For her undergraduate seminar and preceptorial essay other than annual The Shape of Life Class of 2024 Antonia Bonnaire Honorable Mention: Why did Akhilleus Stop Being So Angry For her undergraduate tutorial essay The Interior of a Heart Honorable Mention: Mechanism Kills the Soul Class of 2027 Bruni Kushnir Class of 2024 Antonia Bonnaire Class of 2027 Jackson Calhoun For their solution to the Set Freshman-Sophomore Level Mathematical Problem For his Solution to the Set Junior-Senior Level Mathematical Problem Class of 2027 Nico Rasmussen Class of 2024 Marc Andrew Wissman For their original music compositions Piano Suite Death of Sisyphus Honorable Mention: Rain on Monte Sol Class of 2024 William Crombie For their best original poetry Odin Doubts Class of 2024 William Crombie Class of 2026 Clara Johnson GILA Kelly Kwon 9 �For her Greek translation, the William A. Darkey Translation Prize (Sappho “Fragment 1”) Class of 2026 Madeleine Finnegan Honorable Mention: Class of 2024 Eleanor Angelli-Neff Class of 2025 Emma Malinasky For their French translation, the William A. Darkey Translation Prize (Baudelaire “Le Vieux Saltimbanque”) Class of 2027 Nico Rasmussen To a student from the Freshman, Sophomore, or Junior class in recognition of originality of thought, the Philip Lecuyer Endowed Scholarship: Class of 2025 Antonio Fox To deserving students to help with the continuation of work at St. John’s College through the cultivation of the liberal arts of Thinking—that is, aiming for and acquiring knowledge; and of Friendship— that is, sharing inquiry and thought joyfully and for its own sake, the Robert Neidorf Memorial Scholarship Class of 2025 Cassi Maverick Class of 2026 Seohyeon Shin To members of the Freshman, Sophomore, or Junior classes in recognition of academic achievement and constructive service to the college community, the St. John’s Community Scholarship provided by faculty, staff and students Class of 2025 Bersa Debebe Class of 2026 Elliot Burchett Mary Claire Fagan Natalie Michaels 10 �To members of the Senior Class for excellence in public speaking, the Senator Millard E. Tydings Memorial Prize Class of 2024 Lila Dean The Don Cook Student Leadership Award Class of 2024 Lillian Dumas To members of the Senior Class who have excelled in service to the college, the Dean’s Award for College Service Class of 2024 Elena Hochheiser August McKenzie Diego Salinas To the students who have most contributed to the academic support of their peers, the Assistant Dean’s Award Class of 2024 Carl Guttmann Class of 2025 Avery Lin Class of 2026 Indira Nadasen-Gladstone To a member of the Senior Class who has demonstrated achievement in the Arts and Literature, the Walter S. Baird Prize: For her short story “Leah Stoval, 2005” Class of 2024 Reese Matthews 11 �STUDENT ENGAGEMENT AWARDS To the senior who, by her consistent modeling of exemplary leadership, spirit, and integrity, has made an outstanding contribution to the St. John’s community, an award offered by the Office of Residential Life: Class of 2024 Tamblyn Mitchell To the senior who, by his leadership, dedication, hard work, and good will, has made an outstanding contribution to the St. John’s campus community, an award offered by the Student Engagement Team: Class of 2024 Aidan Shannon STUDENT ACTIVITY AWARDS To the senior who, by her leadership, enthusiasm, and devotion to the development of the St. John’s Community has made an outstanding contribution to the St. John’s College Intramural Program, an award offered by the Student Activities Organization: Class of 2024 Deana Moss To the seniors who, by their leadership, enthusiasm, and devotion to the development of the St. John’s Community have made outstanding contributions to the St. John’s College Outdoor Program, an award offered by the Student Activities Organization: Class of 2024 Barbara Leppala Marc Andrew Wissman 12 ��STJOHN'S College SA.NU Fli •ANNA.POLIS The seal of St. John’s College shows seven open books representing the seven traditional liberal arts— the trivium of grammar, rhetoric, and logic; and the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. The balance, or scale, in the center represents modern science. Encircling the symbols is a Latin inscription, which means: “I make free adults out of children by means of books and a balance.” � 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 Santa Fe Commencement Programs and Addresses Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Meem Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper Page numeration Number of pages in the original item. 16 pages 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 Santa Fe Commencement Program, Spring 2024 Description An account of the resource Program for the fifty-seventh commencement of the Santa Fe campus in the three hundred and twenty-eighth year of St. John's College. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource St. John's College Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Santa Fe, NM Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2024-05-18 Type The nature or genre of the resource text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Subject The topic of the resource Commencement (St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM) Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SF Commencement Program 2024-05-18 Commencement https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/f07960a824b0e1de73afed65df16be19.pdf 3d8971d2b035e89edb27ba622beaf2c0 PDF Text Text ST JOHN'S College SANTA ~E • ANNAPOLIS 2023 CLASS OF COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES Saturday | May Twentieth Two Thousand and Twenty-three SANTA FE | NEW MEXICO �For the Fifty-Sixth Commencement of the Santa Fe Campus in the Three Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Year of St. John’s College. �PROGRAM Academic Procession String Quartet Welcome Mr. Mark Roosevelt President, St. John’s College Announcement of Awards and Prizes Mr. J. Walter Sterling Dean, St. John’s College Mr. Roosevelt St. John’s College Small Chorus Chì mi na mòrbheanna John Cameron Address to the Graduating Class Ms. Sarah Davis Tutor and Dean-Elect, St. John’s College, Santa Fe Sicut Cervus Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina St. John’s College Small Chorus Conferring of Undergraduate Degrees Mr. Sterling Mr. Roosevelt Conferring of Graduate Degrees Mr. Ned Walpin Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, St. John’s College Mr. Roosevelt Closing Remarks Mr. Roosevelt Academic Recession String Quartet Please stand for the academic procession and recession. Graduates will process along the Evans Science Laboratory pathway. Tutors and the platform party will process out of Weigle Hall. JOIN US FOR A LIGHT RECEPTION ON MEEM PLACITA AFTER THE CEREMONY. 1 �2023 BACHELOR OF ARTS Krobi Akua Ababio-Gyebi * Ofankor, Ghana Nicholas Budwine A Morphology of the Human Spirit in Goethe’s Metamorphosis of Plants Shijie Chen Seeking in Absurdity—Camus’ Philosophy of life in La Peste Tucson, AZ Zhumadian, China Cecil Elliot Connelly On the Road to Find Out: Embracing Life in the Realm of the Dead Through Dante’s Purgatorio Ferndale, MI Maia Tyler Cummings Colorado Springs, CO Diverging Estates: The Displacement of the Aristocratic Roots of Wealth in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice Daniel Adam Davis Augustine’s Development as a Reader Throughout the Confessions Lexington, TN Anh Hoang Van Do Thanh Hoa, Vietnam In the Glimmering Amber of Time Past Lies Our Paradise: The Gradual Coming of the Self in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, Book 1: Swann’s Way, Part 1: Combray Henry Bradford Fitzmorris “Removing the Wrappings” an Exploration of Meaning in Anna Karenina West Hills, CA Thomas Wilson Flanigan Herman Melville’s Moby Dick: Ahab as the Technological Man Sara Maria Fors The Voice of the Dead: A Legacy of Death in the Iliad Bryn Aria Frye-Mason Infinite Mirrors: An Exploration of Self in Leibniz’s Monadology William Tiberius Furnish Art, Corruption, and the Fateful Consequence of Creation in The Picture of Dorian Gray 2 Santa Fe, NM Karlskoga, Sweden Albuquerque, NM Wichita, KS �Julia Dannel Hapke Mothers of Morals: The Mind of the Past and the Political Rebirth of Athens in Aeschylus’ The Oresteia Astrid Heinz Existing as a Red-Haired Owl: An Inquiry into the Relationship Between Man and Abstraction in Albert Camus’s The Plague Portland, OR Upper Black Eddy, PA Anne Culver Hodgman “Hurrah for Karamazov!”: An Exploration of Love and Brotherhood Thomas Daniel Hutcherson* Washington DC Elizabethtown, KY Chinazor Ozichi Ike-Njoku The New Order: Recognizing Machiavelli’s Prince as Mankind’s Political Redeemer Abuja, Nigeria Phoebe Katherine Jackson “Whatever walked there, walked alone”: A Study of Absolute Reality as the Ghost Within Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House Santa Fe, NM Elsie YeaLim Jang Paul Feyerabend’s Against Method: For the Proliferation of Scientific Thought in the Marketplace of Ideas Shanghai, China Elizabeth Beatrice Jurich Absurdity in Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus Lincoln, NE Benjamin Blackwell Keyse A View of the Words: Learning to See Faithfully in Flannery O’Connor’s "A View of the Woods" Denver, CO Kashvi Khanna Gurgaon, India A Manual for Those of Us Who Are Not Children of the Sunshine: The Place of Free Will in William James’ Psychology Isabelle Rose Kirschbaum West Hartford, CT Toward Perfection and Decrepitude: Naissance and Perfectibility in Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin of Inequality MacKenzie Callaghan Krider Satan’s Process of Self-Recognition in Milton’s Paradise Lost Michael Douglas Langer* Reston, VA Ventura, CA 3 �Jun Lee How Can We Reach the True Definition of Something? Essence, Definition, and Teleology in Aristotle’s Metaphysics Changwon, South Korea Bridget Adele Lynch Being Human by Becoming Human: The Perfection of Nature in Jean-Jacque Rousseau’s The Social Contract San Antonio, TX Jane Caroline Maberry Finding Meaning in the Mundane: Discovering Tarrou’s Role in Camus’ La Peste Bakersfield, CA Leah Adair March From Truth to Beauty and Back Again: An Exploration of Einstein’s Imagination in the Theory of Relativity Boise, ID William Isaac MacGillivray Mason If on a winter’s night a traveler: Readers, Writers, and the Infinite Possibilities of Literature Santa Fe, NM Peter Wilcox Brown Mathews Becoming the Person You Are: The Conflict and Concert of the Conscious and Unconscious Minds in Nietzsche’s The Gay Science Richmond, VA John Richard McCombs Nietzsche’s Philosophical Poetry in The Joyful Science Molly Quinn McGrath On a field, sable, the letter A, gules: Beauty and the Puritanical Aesthetic in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter Santa Fe, NM Denver, CO Connor Alexander Aodhán McWeeney Hobbes and the Word Asbury Park, NJ Joseph Donald Megill The Wonderful Creativity of Incomplete Truth: The Story of How Kurt Gödel Proved Logic Beautifully Flawed Rio Rancho, NM Shaheer Naveed Islamabad, Pakistan The Mirror of Our Beloved: Exploring the Self’s Highest Ideal Through Islam in Iqbal’s The Secret of the Self Spencer Oresman The Stakes of God in Man: A Jungian Examination Jonathan Ryan Rascon Tolstoy’s War and Peace: On the Development of Character in Society 4 Los Lunas, NM Albuquerque, NM �Alejandro Diaz Ross Why don’t we tell the Truth? Lies and Justification in Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War Menlo Park, CA Joseph Robert Scholhamer Will and Necessity: An Exploration of the Life and Death of Andrei Balkonsky Pleasanton, CA Kabita Sen Kathmandu, Nepal The Sailboat, Butterfly, and Dream: Women in Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil and The Gay Science Allison Lynn Sharkey Nature in Flux: An Exploration of the Natural in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings Galesville, MD Alexandra Cydney Shenson-Collins Mendeleev’s New System: How the Periodic Table Shows Causality Portland, OR Parker Stahl On the Importance of Fighting Against Corrupted Colossi in the Modern Age New Paltz, NY Tim Steinebach Chemnitz, Germany Broken Promises: The Limits and Possibilities of Identity Thinking in Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics Taylor Robert Aidan Strongheart The Art of Madness in Shakespeare’s Hamlet San Francisco, CA Noah Tamas-Parris Journeying to Infinity and Beyond in Galileo’s Two New Sciences Emma Louise Theis A Portrait of Midge: When Art Offends Fantasy in Hitchcock’s Vertigo Brandon Alexander Turner The Nature of Philosophy in Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil S. Aurora Wayne Glimpses of Consciousness: On the Ascension and Regression of the Self in Kierkegaard’s The Sickness unto Death Sydney Mischel Whitten On the Economics of Marriage in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice 5 Shelburne, VT Denver, CO Las Vegas, NV El Paso, TX Noblesville, IN �John Mason Williams Vision and Ritual in Virgil’s Aeneid Sedgwick, KS Anders Nicolas Wondrick Ought One to Treat Life as an Absurdity: The Consequences of Camus’ Philosophy on the Appraisal of Life’s Worth Twin Falls, ID Jasmine Marie Wright Gilgamesh and Women’s Civilizing Charms Sally Yijia Yang Seeing the Sky: A Reading on Chekhov’s Gusev Victor Zatorski The Concept of the Vorstellungsrepräsentanz in Freud’s “Repression” * Upon satisfactory completion of degree requirements 6 Harrisburg, PA Xi’an, China Hartville, MO �2023 MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS SPRING 2023 AND DECEMBER 2022 Julia Buys Espanola, NM (Dec. 2022) Jeremey Paul Freestone Everett, WA (Dec. 2022) Mike Sumner Frost Crestone, CO Ruben Juarez Albuquerque, NM Elena Mary Petersen Laguna Beach, CA John Petroff Parker, TX Bryan Anthony Phillips Las Vegas, NV Joseph Francis Shortsleeve New Haven, CT 2023 MASTER OF ARTS IN EASTERN CLASSICS Laura Alexandra Cleveland Nevada City, CA (Dec. 2022) Eli Samuel Sneider Palo Alto, CA Rebekah Morgan Sturgill Wichita, KS MASTER’S ESSAY Elena Mary Petersen Manifesto for the Second Subject: The Image of Thought in Gilles Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition Bryan Anthony Phillips "Big Time Sensuality" On the Origin of Sin and Human Nature as Law 7 �AWARDS AND PRIZES To the member of the Senior Class who has written the best senior essay, the Richard D. Weigle Prize: Nietzsche’s Philosophical Poetry in The Joyful Science Class of 2023 John McCombs Honorable Mentions: A View of the Words: Learning to See Faithfully in Class of 2023 Flannery O’Connor’s "A View of the Woods" Benjamin Keyse A Manual for Those of Us who are not Children of Sunshine: The Place of Free Will in William James’ Psychology Faculty Award for Sustained Academic Excellence For her Freshman annual essay What are the erotic things Socrates Understands?: The Relationship Between Eros (love) and philosophy Honorable Mention: Lucretius and Life-Stirring Venus: The Purpose of the Poetic in The Nature of Things For her Sophomore enabling essay Reason, the Common Good, and Man’s Last End In Aquinas’ Treatise on Law For her Junior annual essay Drawing the Ways to Cognition Honorable Mention: Identity and its Ambiguities in Rousseau’s Social Contract For their undergraduate essays other than annual Is the Reader Guilty of Voyeurism? Class of 2023 Kashvi Khanna Class of 2023 Elsie Jang John McCombs Class of 2026 Yoomin Hong Class of 2026 Romany Stover Class of 2025 Emma Mughal Class of 2024 Antonia Bonnaire Class of 2023 Elsie Jang Class of 2024 Antonia Bonnaire Class of 2024 Michael Brӧnner What is Conserved? 8 �Honorable Mentions: How can a Legal Document Assure a Fictitious Character Class of 2024 of his Reality? The relationship between life and Antonia Bonnaire story for Cervantes’ Don Quixote Class of 2023 Joseph Megill Can Nature Possibly be as Absurd as Atomic Interpretation? For her Graduate Institute Liberal Arts preceptorial essay Trouble in Paradise For his Graduate Institute Liberal Arts Tutorial essay Who is the Great Sailor? GILA Rachel Brown GILA Mike Darmiento For his solution to the set freshman-sophomore level mathematical problem Honorable Mention: Class of 2026 Ben Freedman For his solution to the set junior-senior level mathematical problem Class of 2023 Jun Lee Honorable Mention: Class of 2024 Michael Brӧnner For his original mathematical proof Calculating the Distance Between Earth and Outer Planets in a Simplified Heliocentric Model Class of 2025 Theo McCormick For her original fiction Artifact of the Ursatz’ “Archive of the Ancestral Home, Long Gone” Class of 2024 Reese Matthews For their French translations, the William A. Darkey Translation Prize (Selection from Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way) Class of 2023 Anh Do Class of 2024 Michael Brӧnner Honorable Mention: Class of 2024 Marc Wissman 9 �To a student from the Freshman, Sophomore, or Junior class in recognition of originality of thought, the Philip Lecuyer Endowed Scholarship: Class of 2024 Antonia Bonnaire To deserving students to help with the continuation of work at St. John’s College through the cultivation of the liberal arts of Thinking—that is, aiming for and acquiring knowledge; and of Friendship— that is, sharing inquiry and thought joyfully and for its own sake, the Robert Neidorf Memorial Scholarship Class of 2024 Alex Finch Sarah Schäfer To members of the Freshman, Sophomore, or Junior classes in recognition of academic achievement and constructive service to the college community, the St. John’s Community Scholarship provided by faculty, staff and students Class of 2024 Lila Dean Elena Hochheiser Tamblyn Mitchell Diego Salinas To members of the Senior Class for excellence in public speaking, the Senator Millard E. Tydings Memorial Prize Class of 2023 Thomas Flanigan Leah March Alejandro Ross The Don Cook Student Leadership Award Class of 2023 Molly McGrath To members of the Senior Class who have excelled in service to the college, the Dean’s Award for College Service Class of 2023 Elizabeth Jurich Jun Lee Joseph Megill Taylor Strongheart 10 �To the students who have most contributed to the academic support of their peers, the Assistant Dean’s Award Class of 2024 Lillian Dumas August McKenzie Class of 2025 Sanyum Dalal Tobias Smit In recognition for her Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award to teach English in the Czech Republic. Class of 2023 Leah March To a member of the Senior Class who has demonstrated achievement in the Arts and Literature, the Walter S. Baird Prize: For her short story “Breaking” Class of 2023 Chinazor Ike-Njoku To a member of the Senior Class who has demonstrated achievement in Mathematics and Science, the Walter S. Baird Prize: For his essay “How is Gravitating Mass Related to Class of 2023 Inertial Mass?” Jonathon Rascon STUDENT ENGAGEMENT AWARDS To the senior who, by her consistent modeling of exemplary leadership, spirit, and integrity, has made an outstanding contribution to the St. John’s community, an award offered by the Office of Residential Life: Class of 2023 Bridget Lynch To the senior who, by his leadership, dedication, hard work, and good will, has made an outstanding contribution to the St. John’s campus community, an award offered by the Student Engagement Team: Class of 2023 Cecil Connelly 11 �STUDENT ACTIVITY AWARDS To the senior who, by his leadership, enthusiasm, and devotion to the development of the St. John’s Community has made an outstanding contribution to the St. John’s College Bike Program, an award offered by the Student Activities Organization: Class of 2023 Jonathon Rascon To the senior who, by her leadership, enthusiasm, and devotion to the development of the St. John’s Community has made an outstanding contribution to the St. John’s College Outdoor Program, an award offered by the Student Activities Organization: Class of 2023 Allison Sharkey ��STJOHN'S College SA.NU Fli •ANNA.POLIS The seal of St. John’s College shows seven open books representing the seven traditional liberal arts— the trivium of grammar, rhetoric, and logic; and the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. The balance, or scale, in the center represents modern science. Encircling the symbols is a Latin inscription, which means: “I make free adults out of children by means of books and a balance.” � 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 Santa Fe Commencement Programs and Addresses Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Meem Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper Page numeration Number of pages in the original item. 16 pages 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 Santa Fe Commencement Program, Spring 2023 Description An account of the resource Program for the fifty-sixth commencement of the Santa Fe campus in the three hundred and twenty-seventh year of St. John's College. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource St. John's College Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Santa Fe, NM Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023-05-20 Type The nature or genre of the resource text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Subject The topic of the resource Commencement (St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM) Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SF Commencement Program 2023-05-20 Commencement https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/920505d1b85fb4dc27afead813d7b8b4.pdf 51101f57c700a8ef0dd401b27bbc29ca PDF Text Text 2019 COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES Saturday | May Eighteenth Two Thousand and Nineteen SANTA FE | NEW MEXICO �For the Fifty-Second Commencement of the Santa Fe Campus in the Three Hundred and Twenty-Third Year of St. John’s College. �PROGRAM Academic Procession Caprice String Quartet Welcome Mr. Mark Roosevelt President, St. John’s College Announcement of Awards and Prizes Mr. J. Walter Sterling Dean, St. John’s College Mr. Roosevelt St. John’s College Chorus Sicut Cervus Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Address to the Graduating Class David Neidorf (SF80) president of alternative higher education institution Deep Springs College and current Johnnie parent. St. John’s College Chorus Sitivit Anima Mea Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Conferring of Undergraduate Degrees Mr. Sterling Mr. Roosevelt St. John’s College Chorus An Irish Blessing James E. Moore, Jr. Conferring of Graduate Degrees Mr. David McDonald Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, St. John’s College Mr. Roosevelt Closing Remarks Mr. Roosevelt Academic Recession Caprice String Quartet Please stand for the processional and closing procession Graduates will process along the Evans Science Laboratory pathway. Tutors and the platform party will process out of Weigle Hall. Join us for lunch in Peterson Student Center, first floor. 1 �BACHELOR OF ARTS Nicholas Elliot Adelman A Narrative Analysis of Characters and Events in War and Peace Anchorage, AK Pavitra Antony Tirunelvelli, Tamil Nadu, India Cheating Fancy: The Role of Imagination in Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale” Adna Arnaout Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina To Be and Not to Be – Heisenberg’s Third Possibility: On physics as an art and a language immersed in the strangeness of nature in the quantum world Agnieska Zofia Axer The Hollow Silence of Modernity: In Search of Transcendence in Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain Portland, OR Michael David Barnes Night in Day: Making Peace with the Inevitability of Striving in Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde Plano, TX Maxwell Teodor Barton Does Expression Preclude Being? Malte’s Struggle to “see” the Actual in The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke Parkton, MD Rasanjana Bhandari The American Veil: An Exploration of American Identity and Double–consciousness In James Baldwin’s essays and W.E.B. Dubois’s The Souls of Black Folk Derry, NH Ngonidzashe Bhejana Mutare, Manicaland, Zimbabwe The Secret to Progress: Mark Twain’s Challenge To Ordinary Men Zenith Bhurtel The Art of Living in a Society: Examining the Legitimacy of the Society Founded On The Social Contract in Light of Fallible Human Nature Rupandehi, Nepal Oona Bella Bjornstad Elizabeth Laughs: Unexpected Union in Pride and Prejudice 2 Sarasota, FL �Silas Casimir Blunk Fiction: Form and Content in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Inverness, CA Leah Danielle Brennan–Magidson Self-Revelation in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God Saint Paul, MN Matthew Gordon Bruggeman Sherborn, MA Technology as Symbol: Ernst Jünger and the Irruption of Technological Consciousness into Bourgeois Space Daniel O’Meara Carrell Within and Without: An Investigation of the Inner and the Outer in Kierkegaard’s Either/Or Madison, IN David Thomas Carroll On Letting Others Down: Embodiment and Responsibility across Inferno 1, Purgatorio 17/18, and Paradiso 33 San Antonio, TX Robert Levon Castle The Brokenness of Language in Flaubert’s Madame Bovary Moriarty, NM Liliana Ione Dallett Cooks, Prostitutes, and Mothers: Erotic Objects in Swann’s Way Brooklyn, NY Ashish Dhakal A Quiet Place: In Praise of Silence in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves Do Hai Anh Einstein’s theories of relativity: Unbinding ourselves from the free creations of our own intelligence Syangja, Nepal Vungtau City, Vietnam Sarah Lynn Elliott A Poet Amongst Poets: Human Consolation and Connectivity in Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling Kalysta Renee Fern Then What Have I to Do with Thee? Re-uniting the Blakeian Self Gianni Sante Garubo Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War: How Democratic Athens Consumed Itself Owen Christopher Gemmer Turning Towards Truth: On Being Open to Jesus’ Non–Rational Teachings in the Gospel According to John 3 Moriarty, NM Stevensvile, MT Ojai, CA Naples, FL �Rebekah Joy Gilman In The Image of God: An Examination of Human Nature Through the Story of Creation According to Genesis Santa Rosa, CA Seung Yeon Han Ulsan, South Korea Why Economics Cannot be Reduced to Mathematics: The Connection between Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations and Theory of Moral Sentiments Jared Gregory Harmon Don’t think, look! Wittgenstein’s Investigations: turning philosophy around on the axis of meaning Lehi, UT Paige Alyce Harrison Eros: Killing Within and Dying Without Covington, LA Joshua Burton Hirsch A Barrel Full of Ingredients: Understanding the Episodic Life of Huckleberry Finn Santa Teresa, NM Brian William Hoffman Becoming Who You Are: Nietzsche’s Project of Continual Self–Overcoming, or Zarathustra’s “Doctrine of Life.” Oceanside, NY Jack William Isenberg What Does the Just Man Know? The Relation of Knowledge and Justice in Book 1 of Plato’s Republic Tucson, AZ Su A Jang Gangwon-do, South Korea Human Nature, Loss, and Heroism in Homer’s Iliad Christian Thomas Kennedy Composing the Life of the Soul: The Hand of the Ultimate Artist in Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina Cecilia Elizabeth Kirkpatrick An Analysis of Two Kinds of Repentance in J.S. Bach’s St. Mathew Passion Juhan Lee Why is Gulliver So Restless? Lancaster, PA Newhall, CA Incheon, South Korea Meng Fei Lu Chengdu, Sichuan, China The Truth of Lies: on Discourse and Authenticity in Heidegger’s Being and Time Phoebe Rose Martel Individuality and Spirituality in Emerson’s “Self-Reliance” 4 Putney, VT �Hannah Cody Mattingly Walnut Creek, CA “For There She Was’: The Creative Power of Clarissa Dalloway Lauren Janelle Max Our Dance With Life: How Zarathustra Becomes more Alive Olivia Cooper McHugh The Eloquent Subconscious: Soul and Sense in Proust’s Swann’s Way Pittsburgh, PA Loren Carol Mudd The Land of Truth: The Epistemology of Objects in Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason Colorado Springs, CO Sonia Ellen Carmola Neidorf The Noble Beast: Freedom, Beauty, and Broadness in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov Salisbury, VT Joy Adirimchukwu Nwodo “A Person’s Conscience Ain’t Got No Sense”: An Examination of Goodness in Huckleberry Finn Adashi Margaret Odama Rousseau on Civil Society: Two Provocative and Troubling Accounts Enugu, Nigeria Masaka, Nasarawa State, Nigeria Flor Del Rocio Ortiz What is an “affective truth”? An Analysis of the Dynamic Between Style and Substance in Gustave Flaubert’s Un Coeur Simple Sophia Victoria Paffenroth Narrative Self and the Desire for Authenticity in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves Rio Rancho, NM Cornwall on Hudson, NY Bum Cheul Park A Novel about Novels: Lesser and False Psychological Novels, and the First and Second True Novels of The Brothers Karamazov Asher Thomas Parker* All Solar Love is Innocence, & We Must Learn to Love: On Life as Comedy and Coming to Know in Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Sarathustra John Arthur Kadow Peterson Active Love Between Dimitri and Katerina in The Brothers Karamazov 5 Littleton, CO Seoul, South Korea Dripping Springs, TX San Diego, CA �Louis Anthony Petrich IV The Motion of the Soul: Love and Rhetoric in Plato’s Phaedrus Severna Park, MD Flavia Tennessee Pupura-Pontoniere Through the Eyes of Others: Shame and Its Predicates in Homer’s Iliad Hayward, CA Cole Eugene Rehbein The Internally Determined Self: Spinoza’s Ethics as a remedy for postmodernity’s identity crisis Des Moines, IA Clara Elizabeth Rhoades An Exploration of the Fall of Man in Milton’s Paradise Lost Thomas George Samuels How the Funeral Oration of Pericles Works in Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War John Alexander Saulog Words About Words About Words: Nietzsche’s On the Utility and Liability of History for life. Hardy, AR New York, NY South Pasadena, CA Arthur Frederick Zachary Seltzer Great Barrington, MA With the Clarity of a Fog: An Exploration of Inner Truth and the Limits of Structure in The Hour of the Star Nicholas James Sherwood* Montrose, CO Sushmita Shrestha Kathmandu, Nepal The Dream of Freedom: An Exploration of the Eternal Struggle for Independence in Halldór Laxness’ Independent People Michael McKeon Simoniello An Ethic for Milk and Honey: Hunting Instinct and the Obligations of Sportsmanship in Aldo Leopold’s Sand County Almanac Dillon Parker Smith The Comedy of King Lear – An Insanity Andrew James Sparks Sincerity is a Lie: Unmasking Misanthropy in Molière The Misanthrope Rebecca Lynn Sprague The World Made Flesh: Painting as a Culmination of Knowledge and Action 6 Killingworth, CT McKinney, TX Dripping Springs, TX North Scituate, RI �Darian Alexander Stahl On Flaubert’s Camera Work, Félicité’s Smallness, and the Decision to Laugh or Cry John William Strauch* San Antonio, TX Red Lion, PA Michael Titus Tang Unjust Rhetoric and Its Origin in the Soul: An Analysis of Callicles in Plato’s Gorgias Graeme Charles Thistlewaite Lofty, Infinite Ego: The Incompatibility of Life and Andrei in War and Peace Shanghai, China Hilo, HI Ty Rex Wangsgaard Taylorsville, UT Gods, Brutes, and Bridegrooms: Othello and the Tragic Ideal Liam Simonos Warren Relational Thinking in Heidegger’s Lectures on “The Nature of Language” Noah Gabriel Watts-Fried Are we at War? A Comparison Between the Lives of Civilians and Soldiers in The Warriors, by Glenn Gray Lena Ann Wilder The Tragic Hero: Phèdre and the Consequences of Her Interiority in Jean Racine’s Phèdre Fei Xie Being the Knight of Faith: Self is Formed, Passion is Presented, The World Is (Re)Affirmed Jing Zhang Madness as Endurance: The Nature of Lear’s Madness in Shakespeare’s King Lear Staunton, VA Springfield, MO Thompson Falls, MT Guangzhou, China Beijing, China Stryder Logan-Kim Zug Puyallup, WA Does a character have control over their actions or end: An examination of free will in Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace *Upon satisfactory completion of degree requirements 7 �MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS WINTER GRADUATES Ryan Douglas Barrett Stone Mountain, GA Thomas Isaac Hirschboeck Saint Paul, MN Edward Casan Montgomery Kimball, NE Ryan Raymond-James Nicholson Americus, GA Matthew Dimas Pietrowski Madera, CA Kathryn Marianne Richards Livingston, MT Patrick Dixon Tull Palo Alto, CA SPRING GRADUATES Daniel M. Brooks Medway, MA William Howard Cathers Los Angeles, CA Erin Cherry Tesuque, NM Jeremy Daniel Fiume Bethlehem, PA Kelsey Ann Hesper Portland, OR Llana Amber Jordan Truchas, NM Badger Brown Koefoed Bethesda, MA David Benton McCormack Santa Fe, NM Darlena Michelle Oltman Denver, CO Kenneth Scott Resnick Santa Fe, NM Eric Benjamin Sanden Lewiston, ID Marianne Strickland San Diego, CA Sam Alan Wittmer Denver, CO *Upon satisfactory completion of degree requirements 8 �MASTER’S ESSAY Christian Buss “The Roots of Thought, the Genesis of the Eidos and the Basis for Historicism in Heidegger’s Introduction to Plato’s Sophist” William Cathers “The Objects of Understanding: How do Thomas Aquinas’ views on the sensible and intelligible influence his epistemology and theory of human nature?” 9 �AWARDS AND PRIZES To the members of the Senior Class who have written the best senior essay, the Richard D. Weigle Prize: Fiction: Form and Content in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Class of 2019 Silas Casimir Blunk How the Funeral Oration of Pericles Works in Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War Class of 2019 Thomas George Samuels Faculty Award for Sustained Academic Excellence Class of 2018 Ambrym Sarah Ragan Smith For his January Freshman first semester essay Iokaste’s Answer to Event in Oidipous Tyrannous Class of 2021 Karl Evan von der Luft For her Sophomore enabling essay Purple Threads: The Question of True Individuality Class of 2021 Portia Louise Abbott Honorable Mention An Aesthetic Amendment Class of 2021 Tang Li For their Undergraduate Essays Other than Annual Biting the Head Off Eternity Class of 2019 Kalysta Renee Fern Class of 2021 Karl von der Luft Two Definitions and a Proof For their Graduate Institute Liberal Arts fall 2018 preceptorial essay: Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra GILA Philippa Scott For his Graduate Institute Liberal Arts summer 2018 preceptorial essay Honorable Mention: On George Eliot’s Middlemarch GILA Jacob Culberson 10 �For his original music composition: “Enten/Eller: An Ecstatic Lecture in e minor” Class of 2022 George Bernard Stengren “Threnody 313” Class of 2022 Christopher Young For her solution to the set freshman-sophomore level mathematical problem: Honorable mention: Class of 2021 Seungyoon Bang For their original fiction Honorable Mention Class Reunion GIEC Eric Wifall Honorable Mention The Wolf Boy GIEC For his original poetry High Flight Class of 2019 John Alexander Saulog For his Greek translations, the William A. Darkey Translation Prize: (Xenophon, Memorabilia, 1.6.11-14) Honorable mention: Class of 2021 Karl von der Luft Honorable mention: Class of 2021 Karl von der Luft For his French translation, the William A. Darkey Translation Prize: (“Une étoile tire de l’arc “ by Jules Supervielle)) 11 Class of 2020 Cleo Ulatowski �To a deserving student to help with the continuation of work at St. John’s College through the cultivation of the liberal arts of Thinking – that is, aiming for and acquiring knowledge; and of Friendship – that is, sharing inquiry and thought joyfully and for its own sake, the Robert Neidorf Memorial Scholarship: Class of 2020 Niko Angell-Gargiulo William Hunter Winkel Thompson To members of the Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior classes in recognition of academic achievement and constructive service to the college community, the St. John’s Community Scholarship provided by faculty, staff and students: Rising Senior Class of 2019 Owen Christopher Gemmer Rising Juniors Class of 2020 Nani Ordofa Detti Abdullah Hussain Mirza To members of the Senior Class for excellence in public speaking, the Senator Millard E. Tydings Memorial Prize: Class of 2018 Kahlieh Bernstein Bryanna Destinee-Alexis Briley Maxfield Abraham Lindig Hubych To a member of the Senior Class who has been an outstanding leader in his class, the Don Cook Student Leadership Award: Class of 2018 Patrick Vivian Gentry To members of the Senior Class who have excelled in service to the college, the Dean’s Award for College Service: Class of 2018 Natasha Esme Farmer Jinxue Chen To the student who has most contributed to the academic support of their peers, the Assistant Dean’s Award: Class of 2018 Xuanqi Zhao 12 �To a member of the Senior Class who has demonstrated achievement in the Arts and Literature, the Walter S. Baird Prize: For her Voice Recital Class of 2018 Hayriye Büşra Solak STUDENT ACTIVITY AWARDS To the seniors who, by his/her leadership, professionalism, hard work, and good will, has made an outstanding contribution to the St. John’s Activities Center, an award offered by the Student Activities Organization: Class of 2019 Ngonidzashe Bhejana Oona Bjornstad Joshua Hirsch 13 �IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR COMMENCEMENT GUESTS For your comfort and enjoyment of today’s commencement activities, please note: • Mark Parenti AGI92, president-elect of the Alumni Association, will be present at Commencement to welcome the graduating students into the Alumni Association. • Water stations are located to the left of the front doors of Weigle Hall, and at the entrance to Santa Fe Hall, under the breezeway connecting Evans Science Laboratory and Santa Fe Hall. • Shaded seating for our elders is available on the breezeway connecting Evans Science Laboratory and Santa Fe Hall, under the Weigle Hall breezeway, and the Weigle portal. • The closest restrooms are located in Weigle Hall and Santa Fe Hall, at the rear of the two main seating areas. Handicap-accessible restrooms are in Weigle Hall. • Please respect the recessional line by allowing the graduates to recess completely. After the recessional, please meet your graduate at the Pond Placita area. • Join us for lunch in Peterson Student Center, 1st floor, following the ceremony. Dining areas are also available outdoors. 14 �The seal of St. John’s College shows seven open books representing the seven traditional liberal arts— the trivium of grammar, rhetoric, and logic; and the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. The balance, or scale, in the center represents modern science. Encircling the symbols is a Latin inscription, which means: “I make free [adults] out of children by means of books and a balance.” 15 �16 ��� 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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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource St. John's College Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Santa Fe, NM Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-05-18 Type The nature or genre of the resource text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Subject The topic of the resource Commencement (St. John's College, Santa Fe) Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SF Commencement Program 2019-05-18 Commencement https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/36547087c1f0fb7bfb2ad8649a73f822.pdf ebb8ed2d001bcc11b163b901f2440801 PDF Text Text 2022 CLASS OF COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES Saturday | May Twenty-first Two Thousand and Twenty-two SANTA FE | NEW MEXICO �For the Fifty-Fifth Commencement of the Santa Fe Campus in the Three Hundred and Twenty-Sixth Year of St. John’s College. 2 �PROGRAM Academic Procession String Duo Welcome Mr. Mark Roosevelt President, St. John’s College Announcement of Awards and Prizes Mr. J. Walter Sterling Dean, St. John’s College Mr. Roosevelt St. John’s College Small Chorus Ecce Gratum Carl Orff Address to the Graduating Class Ms. Nora Demleitner President, St. John’s College, Annapolis St. John’s College Small Chorus Sicut Cervus Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Conferring of Undergraduate Degrees Conferring of Graduate Degrees Mr. Sterling Mr. Roosevelt Mr. Ned Walpin Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, St. John’s College Mr. Roosevelt Welcoming Back Class of 2020 Mr. Sterling Mr. Walpin Mr. Roosevelt Closing Remarks Mr. Roosevelt 3 �2022 BACHELOR OF ARTS Portia Louise Abbott A Humanly Good Thing: Courage, Transformation, and the Abyss in Thus Spoke Zarathustra Albany, CA David Ogoh Adah-Ogoh Makurdi Nigeria Allow Me a Minute, the Native Problem is Here to Kill Me: On Racialized Ignorance, Deracialized Justice, and Two Dying Sons in Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country Madeline Charlotte Adams Dearest Partners of Greatness: An Exploration of the Codependent Relationship Between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth Birmingham, MI Shweta Agarwal Sikkim Gangtok India The Fur(e)y of Memory: The Art of Memory in James Joyce’s short story “The Dead” Sidney Ellen Ammons YES/NO: Molly Bloom the Usurper Reston, VA Asa Edward Anderson Natural Spirituality in Emily Dickinson and Its Relationship to Christianity Lincoln Hayes Anthony The Hazards of Innocence: Love and Obsession in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Idiot Santa Fe, NM Dallas, TX Jackson Ballinger Pleasanton, CA * Seungyoon Bang Seoul South, Korea Possibilities of Human Happiness in Rousseau’s Reveries of the Solitary Walker Leila Io BenSlama-McKinley Mrs. Ramsay, Guiding Light: The Little Things Mean a Lot Santa Fe, NM Karl Friedrich Berner Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus: The Morality of the Application of Knowledge & Frankenstein As a Retelling of Paradise Lost Snohomish, WA Onysha Enkaye Boak King Lear and the Unaccommodated Man Puchong, Malaysia Zoë Jane Brady The Artist and the Warrior: Two Masks of Dionysian Genius in Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols 4 Glenside, PA �Peter Thompson Carrell Don Quixote: Image, Truth, History, Fiction Madison, IN Alexandre C Cate Leander, TX * Samuel Patrick Cavnar-Johnson Handbook for Immortals: Plotinus, Beauty, and Life in the Sensible World Houston, TX Aviral Chawla Gurugram, India The Moral Education of the Wealth of Nations: Smith’s moral argument for public education in a free market society Jared Robert Conahan Collaborative Education: A Limited Commentary on Socratic Learning Understood Through the Characters of Book I and the Allegory of the Cave in Plato’s Republic Salomon Moises Miqueas Cordova Visions of Eternity: A Feminist Reading of Job as Revealed by William Blake Taos, NM Cedar Crest, NM Charles John Dight Karamazov Force Mesa, AZ Kai Soo Young Englisch The Puzzle of Self-Trust: Reclaiming Trust is an Unknowable Self in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance Ashton, MD Rowan Ryan David Foxley Expectation versus Reality in James Joyce’s Dubliners Self-Determined Fantasy and the Worlds We Build Arlington, WA Skye Joaquin Franklin Pity That Fools May Not Speak Wisely Santa Fe, NM Tiantong Fu Qinhuangdao, China Sisyphus’ Choice: Rock ‘n’ Roll in the Face of the Absurd Jannah Dorsey Fuller Self-Realization: Exploring the Complexities of Mixed-Race Heritage in a Racialized World Isabella Guarnieri Studio City, CA Saratoga Springs, NY * Sidney Elizabeth Gubernick The Fall of God: The Collision of Earthly and Divine in Rilke’s Stories of God David Zachary Gumberg Los Angeles, CA Valley Village, CA * Han Pham Loc Ha If He Ever Lived: What is Home to Odysseus? Cameron Eugenia MacEntyre Hines Middlemarch on Small Things Hanoi, Vietnam Aspen, CO 5 �Samuel Albert Housley On Defining and Ruling in Plato’s Meno Annapolis, MD Austin James Hutchinson A Song, Snow, and the Golden Mean: Finding Meaning Through Music in Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain Gainesville, GA Rory Quinn Vitus Johnson The Foundress of Nothing: Womanhood in George Eliot’s Middlemarch Baltimore, MD Noah River Eziechiel Justice Peirce’s Propensitism and the Reality of Possibilities Cleveland, OH Cole Thomas Robert Krueger The Psychological Experience of Time in Mrs. Dalloway Bend, OR Zhansaya Kuatzhan Bolatbekkyzy Uralsk, Kazakhstan Our Own Nothingness Beyond Our Own Circle: Anne Elliot’s Personal Odyssey in Jane Austen’s Persuasion Hexuan Li Eros and Logos in Plato’s Symposium Shenzhen, China Danping Long The Death of An Ordinary Lackey: An Examination of Smerdyakov in The Brothers Karamazov Beijing China Elena Clark Loomis Reconciling Captivation and Prudence in Pride and Prejudice Santa Fe, NM David Campbell Lozuaway-McComsey The Measure of Man: The Role of Sport in Ancient Greece New Castle, NH Yuxuan Ma Why is Nietzsche’s Will to Power a Reflection but Not a Solution—on Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals Nanjing China Kristian Lydia Marker Fluency Beyond the Text: A Study of Reading and Rereading in Pride and Prejudice Miselo Matipa The Young Man Who Did Not Know How to Live: Learning to Live Outside the Cave in Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace Lusaka, Zambia Roslyn Claire McKean The Individual and the Family in Tolstoy’s War and Peace Portland, OR Margaret Wilson Merritt The Collapse of Order: Lessons about Transgression and Knowledge of Self and Others in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night Dylan Kathryn Newmeyer Michael Eärendil’s Star: How Choices and Unity Allow Tolkien’s Fellowship to Become the Light in Dark Places 6 Denver, CO Hallowell, ME San Francisco, CA �David Ahlm Michalove Issaquah, WA Freedom and Death Beyond Modernity: On Medieval Deconstruction as Letting Be, Unground, and Nothingness in Meister Eckhart’s On Detachment and J82 Micalah Rae Miller Make it Make Sense: The Voyage for Meaning in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick Philadelphia, PA Sandrina Mislitchi Correspon-Dance: Remaining Faithful to Oneself in Becoming, Auto-Affection and Mimesis in Luce Irigaray, The Way of Love Chisinau, Moldova Kate Ann Morrison Windsor-Essex, Ontario, Canada True Poverty in Knowing Nothing: An Exploration of Meister Eckhart’s Poverty of Spirit and Knowing Nothing in Sermon Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit and Treatise On Detachment Jaxson Ray Matthew Oakley Most Ignorant of What We’re Most Assured: The Struggle With Ambiguity and Image in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure Philomena Zelie Eleanor Palmer-Kamprath The Development of the Independent Self-Consciousness in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit Yi Pan Making the Presumptuous Leap: Why does Jonathan Swift want Gulliver to mislead us in Gulliver’s Travels? Grove, OK Coeur D’Alene, ID Jiashan, China Sion Park Seoul, South Korea The Essence in Humanity in Comparison to the Sainthood in Albert Camus’ The Plague Yookyung Park The Awakening: A Childlike Maturity Burlington, MA Sid Vergilius Pasquino “This Place is Not a Place of Honor…”: An Investigation into Lovecraftian Horror as a Commentary on Science Tessel Kate Peterson A Drama of Flesh and Spirit: Failures of Self in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex Madeleine Joy Pugsley “No One is Someone”: Writing as Immortal Selfhood in Three Stories by Borges Denver, CO Antwerp, Belgium Valley Village, CA Alana Caroline Ross Greenbrier, TN Living is An Art to Be Good At: Mrs. Ramsay As the Wise Fool, the Wise Fool As the Hero In Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse 7 �Eliot Rugh Santa Monica, CA The Tyranny and the Freedom of The General Will: On the intricacies of the general will in Jean Jacques Rousseau’s On the Social Contract Anthony G Schuster III Spectatorship in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing Saint Louis, MO Misgana Worku Sharew Addis Ababa, Ethiopia You Took the Best So Why Not Take The Rest: Self-alienation in James Baldwin’s Another Country Julia Siminitus Life and Opposition in Albert Camus’ The Plague; A Case for Poor and Terrible Love Starksboro, VT Caedmon Miles Sixbey The Meaning of Reality Hampton, VA George Bernard Stengren James Joyce’s Ulysses: Stephen Dedalus’ Transformation Towards a Parable of the Plums Santa Fe, NM Katherine Swift Gender Matters Tucson, AZ Timothy Scott Sykes A Decorous Man, a Sickly Modern: Rehabilitating Life in Tolstoy’s Death of Ivan Ilych Stevensville, MD Aayush Thapa Kathmandu, Nepal Is Man the Measure of All Things? Protagoras’ Relativism in Plato’s Theaetetus Simran Thapa From Citizens to Jurors: An Exploration of Hegelian Dialectics in Aeschylus’ Orestia Kathmandu, Nepal Yerel Tornez Los Angeles, CA What is the Meaning of Windows? An Exploration into the meaning behind windows as a symbol used for showing the seeking of purpose in life while failing to do so in Albert Camus’ The Plague Heliotrope K Vaughn Escaping Society’s Cage in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening Dallas, TX Vincent Versace Making Capon of Church and State: The Collapse of Traditional Honor in William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part I Santa Fe, NM Daniel Isaiah Vigil Calculating Ascension: An Exploration of the Rise of King Henry the Fifth as Portrayed in Shakespeare’s Henriad Las Vegas, NM 8 �Natalie Grace Walker (ENTER RICHARD ALONE) Garner, NC Meiying Wang Rieux and Tarrou: The Philosophers of Two Different Kinds of Plague in Camus’ The Plague Beijing, China Dezso Raphael Kish Wyner Auburndale, MA The Use and Advantage of Unhistory in Life: Or, How I Learned to Stop Remembering and Love the Illusion of Boundaries Christopher Young Jr. The Beginning of the Human Era As Told in the Hebrew Creation Accounts: A Linguistic and Conceptual Analysis of Genesis Chapters One and Two Esmatullah Zeerak “Hurrah for Karamazov!”: A Genealogy of Active Love Santa Fe, NM Kabul, Afghanistan *Upon satisfactory completion of degree requirements Requirements Completed – joining Class of 2022 Joseph F. De León Flores (Class of 2013) On the concept of Imaginary Number in Descartes’s The Geometry: A short study of the structural development of Descartes’s Concept of Imaginary Number from Antiquity to The Geometry El Paso, TX Remy Maelen New York, NY (Class of 2009) Meaning in Motion: An Embodied Reading of Nietzsche’s Gay Science 9 �2022 MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS SPRING 2022 AND DECEMBER 2021 Isabel Susanna Ballan Bronx, NY Constance Marie Martin Seattle, WA (Dec 2021) Brittany Jene Hagar Minot, ND Samuel McGee Salem, OR Cameron Michael Mulvey Louisville, KY James Douglas Ray Hinton, OK James Reis Pacific Grove, CA Amanda Dannáe Romero Santa Fe, NM Justin David Spain Hopkins, MN Richard Gregory Stone Juneau, AK William James Tierney II Tucson, AZ Andrew Paul Ward Denton, TX (Dec 2021) William Peregrine Yate Sea Cliff, NY (unable to attend) Catherine Ann Zakoian Boulder, CO 2022 MASTER OF ARTS IN EASTERN CLASSICS Patrick Jordan Anderson Chester, NJ (unable to attend) Robert Lasker Sobel Santa Fe, NM MASTER’S ESSAY Samuel McGee The Limit of Logos: On Speech, Silence, and Mysticism in Augustine’s Confessions James Reis The Gods in Plato’s Republic Cameron M Mulvey Stability of the Poetic Sign in David Jones’s Anathemata 10 �WELCOMING BACK OUR CLASS OF 2020 MEMBERS Claire Sophia Motsinger BACHELOR OF ARTS Patrick Alexander Murray Hewan Adamu Admasu Lyla Makale’a Rosen Shannon James Lynch Albritton Douglas John-Roland Spurlock Massimiliano Caruso John Henry Stuart Niko Angell-Gargiulo Gregory Alexander Syssoyev Emily Marie Axelberg Rachel Janine Taylor Matthew Jordan Beck William Hunter Winkel Thompson Leah Houschka Caminite Cleo Ulatowski Isabella Robin Copeland Noah Miller Waldron Nani Ordofa Detti Emily Jean Wieser Billie Fabrikant Bridget Young Wu Israel Gallegos Huayanni Yang Elizabeth Joy Grayson Brandon Alexander Young Nikolas Kane Hopson Chifunda Kakusa MASTER OF ARTS Thato Sesana Kgalema Nicole Olivia Corbo William Redpath Kupets Kelsey Jean Hennegen Hyukhee Kwon James Charles William Jennings Hao Luo Devin Martin Ketch Sadie Hope Macdonald Luis Fernando Melgar Arias 11 �AWARDS AND PRIZES To the members of the Senior Class who have written the best senior essay, the Richard D. Weigle Prize: Is Man the Measure of All Things? Protagoras’ Relativism Class of 2022 In Plato’s Theaetetus Aayush Thapa (ENTER RICHARD ALONE) Natalie Grace Walker Faculty Awards for Sustained Academic Excellence Class of 2022 Portia Louise Abbott Madeleine Joy Pugsley Aayush Thapa Natalie Grace Walker For his Freshman annual essay Ajax: Man Before Fire Class of 2025 Paul Randolph Darnall For his first semester January Freshman essay The Meaning of Violence in the Odyssey For his Sophomore enabling essay Grieving in Augustine’s Confessions Honorable Mention: Flour and Faeries in the Wife of Bath’s Tale For his Junior annual essay How to Love the Dread of Nature Honorable Mention: The Grounds for Pure Mathematics in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason For their undergraduate essay other than annual Children at Play: Good-Natured Seriousness in Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling On Knowledge and Cause in the Natural Science: Claude Bernard’s Conception of Knowledge 12 Class of 2025 Balaram Das Briant Class of 2024 Vy V. Vo Class of 2024 Tatum Megarity Class of 2023 Noah Francis Mihelic Class of 2023 Elsie Jang Class of 2022 Portia Louise Abbott Class of 2025 Avery Peter Lin � Honorable Mention: The Weaving of Humanism in Cervantes’ Don Quixote Class of 2023 Anh Hoang Van Do Becoming Heroic: Analysis of the Main Theme in the First Movement of Beethoven’s Eroica Class of 2024 Marc Andrew Wissman For her Graduate Institute Liberal Arts fall 2022 preceptorial essay To Articulate the Inarticulable: An Exploration of the Magnitude of Music in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man GILA Amanda Dannáe Romero For his solution to the set freshman-sophomore level mathematical problem Class of 2024 Marc Andrew Wissman For his solution to the set junior-senior level mathematical problem Class of 2022 Aviral Chawla For his original math proof Honorable Mention: An Alternate Proof of Newton’s Expression of Centripetal Class of 2022 Force for the Ellipse Aayush Thapa For her original fiction Friend Request Class of 2023 Chinazor Ozichi Ike-Njoku For their Greek translations, the William A. Darkey Translation Prize (Sophocles, Electra, lines 86-120) Class of 2023 John Richard McCombs Class of 2022 Aayush Thapa For her French translation, the William A. Darkey Translation Prize (“La Rameur” by Paul Valéry) Class of 2022 Seungyoon Bang To a student from the Freshman, Sophomore, or Junior class in recognition of originality of thought, the Philip Lecuyer Endowed Scholarship: Class of 2024 Samuel Lucien Roy 13 �To deserving students to help with the continuation of work at St. John’s College through the cultivation of the liberal arts of Thinking—that is, aiming for and acquiring knowledge; and of Friendship— that is, sharing inquiry and thought joyfully and for its own sake, the Robert Neidorf Memorial Scholarship Class of 2024 Isabella Maria Lopez-Powers Michael Johannes Brönner To members of the Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior classes in recognition of academic achievement and constructive service to the college community, the St. John’s Community Scholarship provided by faculty, staff and students Class of 2025 Sanyum Dalal Class of 2024 Lillian Leah Dumas Class of 2023 Elsie Jang To members of the Senior Class for excellence in public speaking, the Senator Millard E. Tydings Memorial Prize Class of 2022 David Campbell Lozuaway-McComsey Miselo Matipa To a member of the Senior Class who has been an outstanding leader in a class, the Don Cook Student Leadership Award Class of 2022 Simran Thapa To members of the Senior Class who have excelled in service to the college, the Dean’s Award for College Service Class of 2022 Aviral Chawla Elena Clark Loomis Roslyn Claire McKean Misgana Worku Sharew To the students who have most contributed to the academic support of their peers, the Assistant Dean’s Award Class of 2023 Joseph Donald Megill Taylor Robert Aidan Strongheart Class of 2022 Madeleine Joy Pugsley 14 �To a member of the Senior Class who has demonstrated achievement in the Arts and Literature, the Walter S. Baird Prize: For her series of art works: Reflex, Sky, Self Class of 2022 Zoë Jane Brady To a member of the Senior Class who has demonstrated achievement in Mathematics and Science, the Walter S. Baird Prize: For her project: Isolation and Study of a Mutant Strain of E. Coli-B Class of 2022 Dylan Kathryn Newmeyer Michael Recipients of the Projects for Peace Grant Award, from the Davis United World College Scholars Program and the Davis Foundation, for their proposals: The Youth Peace Collective: Building Bridges from the U.S. to Israel-Palestine Class of 2024 Elena Ann Hochheiser Securing Peace in Bardiya, Nepal: Freeing Women for Civic Engagement (Awarded in 2021) Class of 2023 Bryn Frye-Mason Class of 2022 Simran Thapa STUDENT LIFE AWARDS To the senior who, by her consistent modeling of exemplary leadership, spirit, and integrity, has made an outstanding contribution to the St. John’s community, an award offered by the Office of Student Life: Class of 2022 Kate Ann Morrison To the senior who, by his leadership, dedication, hard work, and good will, has made an outstanding contribution to the St. John’s campus community, an award offered by the Student Events Team: Class of 2022 Alexandre C. Cate STUDENT ACTIVITY AWARDS To the seniors who, by their leadership, enthusiasm, and devotion to the development of the St. John’s Community have made an outstanding contribution to the St. John’s College Intramural Program, an award offered by the Student Activities Organization: Class of 2022 Samuel Albert Housley David Campbell Lozuaway-McComsey 15 �The seal of St. John’s College shows seven open books representing the seven traditional liberal arts— the trivium of grammar, rhetoric, and logic; and the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. The balance, or scale, in the center represents modern science. Encircling the symbols is a Latin inscription, which means: “I make free adults out of children by means of books and a balance.” � 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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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource St. John's College Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Santa Fe, NM Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021-05-22 Type The nature or genre of the resource text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Subject The topic of the resource Commencement (St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM) Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SF Commencement Program 2021-05-22 Commencement https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/0303156805691fb45d162e3add868613.pdf 735d30c2ccb664721939d6cf614fd14e PDF Text Text 2020 CLASS OF COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES Hewan Adamu Admasu Saturday | May Twenty-third Two Thousand and Twenty SANTA FE | NEW MEXICO �For the Fifty-Third Commencement of the Santa Fe Campus in the Three Hundred and Twenty-Fourth Year of St. John’s College. 2 �PROGRAM Welcome Mr. Mark Roosevelt President, St. John’s College Announcement of Awards and Prizes Mr. J. Walter Sterling Dean, St. John’s College Address to the Graduating Class U.S. Senator Tom Udall St. John’s College Virtual Chorus Sicut Cervus Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Conferring of Undergraduate Degrees Conferring of Graduate Degrees Mr. Sterling Mr. Roosevelt Mr. David McDonald Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, St. John’s College Mr. Roosevelt Welcome—Alumni Association Board Mark G. Parenti (AGI92), President, St. John’s College Alumni Association and the Association’s directors and officers welcome the Class of 2020 to the St. John’s College Alumni Association Closing Remarks Mr. Roosevelt Champagne Toast to the Class of 2020 Mr. Sterling Mr. McDonald 3 �BACHELOR OF ARTS Hewan Adamu Admasu Addis Ababa, Ethiopa To Free, or not to Free? That is the Question: An Examination of Huck’s Dilemma in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Shannon James Lynch Albritton A Prince’s Most Vital Resource: The Significance of Self-Knowledge in Machiavelli’s The Prince East Meredith, NY Kemo Joaquin Alvarez Describing Fiction: An Analysis of Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast Spokane, WA Niko Angell-Gargiulo It Does Not Satisfy the Appetite: An Approach to Mis-fitting in Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” Hannah Ann “Here is one room; there another”: An Inquiry into the Love of Life in Mrs. Dalloway Seattle, WA Suwon, South Korea Kwadwo Dwomo Asiedu Mampong Ashanti, Ghana Greatness as a Signpost on the Road to Immortality: A Study of Plutarch’s Life of Julius Caesar Emily Marie Axelberg “All the world’s a stage…” Acting Well as Living Well in Shakespeare’s Hamlet South Bend, IN Zachary Thomas Baier New Orleans, LA Eros and its Hopes: On Socrates’ Speech in Plato’s Symposium Matthew Jordan Beck Virginia Beach, VA On the Aesthetic Experience in Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace Lauren Isabelle Bouchereau The Construction of Race and the Dignity of White Trash: The Artifice of the Nigger Tarzana, CA Leah Houschka Caminite Weingarten, Germany Evidence and Respect: Shakespeare’s Terms of a Merry War Kyle Matthew Canterbury Twin Genealogies: Pindar’s “Nemean 6” 4 Flint, MI �Alexandra Asimina Cartharis On The Generous Spirituality of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” Zakynthos, Greece Isabella Robin Copeland Teiresias’ Perplexing Prophecy: An Exploration of the Planting of the Oar in Homer’s Odyssey Nani Ordofa Detti Brotherhood in Nikolai Gogol’s The Overcoat Julian, CA Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Billie Fabrikant But the Past was not Dead; a Search for Moral Blossoms in the Literature and Legacy of Nathaniel Hawthorne New York, NY Celia Violet Fearon Finding a “never-failing principle of joy” in Wordsworth’s “Two-Part Prelude of 1799” Palm Springs, CA Cameron Flores Alienation, Society, and The Self in The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin New York, NY Georgia Rose Foster-Cooper Achieving the Unattainable: Elizabeth’s Journey to Happiness and Love through Humility and Respect in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice Santa Fe, NM Emmett Logan Freeman Baltimore, MD Written in the Hearts of Men: On Fundamental Law and Rights in Joseph de Maistre’s “Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions” Israel Gallegos On the Origin of American Government: Why did the Founding Fathers Decide on a Republican Government? Santa Fe, NM Natalie Louise Gammill The Bible’s Solution to the Human Problem: An Examination of Paul’s Letter to the Romans Regarding How the Biblical Teachings of Law, Faith, and the Person of Jesus Address the Problems of Sin and Death Tempe, AZ Elizabeth Joy Grayson A Word, A Cape, A Promise: The Metaphysics of Socrates’ Death Denver, CO Grace Teresa Griffin Shaky Ground: on Richard II and Identity 5 Wheaton, IL �William Douglas Harmon What We Owe One Another: an Exploration of Money and Society in Crime and Punishment Sanibel, FL Nikolas Kane Hopson Spring Valley Lake, CA Eased with Being Nothing: An Inquiry into the Decentralization of Unity within William Shakespeare’s King Richard the Second, and Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations Abraham Mason Barnes Hudak Prince Andre and Pierre: An Examination of Idealism and the Life Force in War and Peace Sebastian Fernando Huerta The Price of Freedom in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tucson, AZ Pembroke Pines, FL Kaitlyn Marie Josephson The Misunderstood Women of Winesburg: An Examination of Thoughtful Books and Lives in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio Salix, PA Chifunda Kakusa Chingola, Zambia Virtue and Prudence in Machiavelli’s The Prince: A Portrait of the Successful Man Thato Sesana Kgalema Johannesburg, South Africa If Not a Womb Then What Are We? An Analysis of the Rehabilitation of the Sin of Eve, Seen Through the Development of Women in Genesis Bobin Kim As You Like It: What Is Love and Marriage? Daegu, South Korea William Redpath Kupets The Individual’s Invasion of Reality: The Externalization of Self and Modification of the World in “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” By Jorge Luis Borges Hyukhee Kwon Imitation of the Sun: Legitimacy in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1 James Robert Law The Timeline and Significance of Wordsworth’s Development as a Poet in the First-Part of the “Two-Part Prelude of 1799” 6 Wilmette, IL Seoul, South Korea Liverpool, United Kingdom �Xiaoxin Liu Freedom in Friendship, and Friendship in Freedom: A Comparison of Theory to Theater in Plato’s Lysis Hao Luo Above the Stoia: A Discussion about the Religiosity of Stoicism in the Discourses of Epictetus Zhengzhou, China Kunming Yunnan, China Sadie Hope Macdonald Space And Time in Minkowski’s Mathematics: “The Far-Reaching Consequences of The Metamorphoses of Our Concept of Nature.” Luis Fernando Melgar Arias Erosophy: The Doctrines of Love and Wisdom in Dante’s Commedia Baltimore, MD Guatemala City, Guatemala Abdullah Hussain Mirza Emotional Tears in the Fabric of Rationality: On the Interconnectedness of Thumos and Logos in Aristotle’s Art of Rhetoric South Bend, IN William Perkins Mombello King Love Newburyport, MA Mario Alberto Moreno Stockton, CA Most Human and Most Our Own: The Embodiment of Language in Montaigne’s “Of Experience” Claire Sophia Motsinger Proof that it’s Impossible to Live: The Unstable Soul in Franz Kafka’s “Description of a Struggle” Crestone, Colorado Patrick Alexander Murray Grammar and The New Philosopher in Beyond Good and Evil New York, NY Adrian Nez The Inward Turn: Why Subjectivity is the Foundation of the Objective Sciences Flagstaff, AZ Daniel Thanh Nguyen The Opening to the Asolute: an Analysis of the Introduction of Hegel’s The Phenomenology of Spirit Portland, OR John Jay Pritzker Is Ontology Real?: On Schopenhauer’s The World as Will and Representation Kentfield, CA 7 �Jesse Joe Reeves Mapleton, OR Reading the Book of Nature with Goethe: Or How to Fall in Love With a Plant Lyla Makale’a Rosen A Mortally Intolerable Truth: Living with the Infinite in Melville’s Moby Dick Kailua, HI Cristian Sanz-Laria Real Funny: Jane Austen’s Philosophy of Irony in Pride & Prejudice Katy, TX Emma Boke Marwa Seba Nairobi, Kenya A Language of Nature: The Relationship between Nature and Mathematics in Newton’s Principia Benjamin Walker Sharp “The Gift of Ilúvatar”: A Study of Freedom and Bondage in Tolkein’s The Silmarillion Oak Point, TX Cody Lee Snyder Virginia Beach, VA Transcendent Narratives: An Odyssey of Brothers and Betrayal Douglas John-Roland Spurlock Self-discovery in Adolescence, Themes of Identity in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland New River, AZ John Henry Stuart Radiant Strangers: Grace and Necessity in The Iliad Grass Valley, CA James Hugh Svoboda* Philadelphia, PA Gregory Alexander Syssoyev Who Speaks in this Passion’s Praises? Aesthetic Inquiry in Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling Carolina Itzel Tavarez Hinojos The Sanctity and Power of Words in Euripides’ Medea St. George, UT Santa Fe, NM Rachel Janine Taylor Albuquerque, NM The Nature of Knowledge: An Exploration into Enlightenment and Isolation in Frankenstein Bikash Thakur The Meaning of Knowing a Person in Melville’s Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street Minn Thant Life and Death: Di Lampedusa’s Ode to Lost Sicily in The Leopard 8 Janakpur, Nepal Yangon, Myanmar �William Hunter Winkel Thompson Group Waves: Understanding the Indeterminacy of Identity in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves Denver, CO Thobias Oscar Joachim Tinnerholm Copenhagen, Denmark The Paragon of Animals: Wordcraft and Apprehension in Shakespeare’s Hamlet Giorgi Ukleba Madness of Greatness in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet Cleo Ulatowski Share this Space with Me: Virginia Woolf’s Vision of Relational and Environmental Belonging Tbilisi, Georgia Santa Fe, NM Noah Miller Waldron Greenbelt, MD The Narration of a Life: Identity and Time in Oedipus Tyrannus Sarah Kaitlynn Ward On Articulation and Affection in Shakespeare’s As You Like It Emily Jean Wieser From Fossils to Finches: An Exploration of Darwin’s Education in The Voyage of the Beagle Austin, TX Durango, CO Samuel Manire Willard Sussex County, DE ~νιν: The Wrath and the Glory of Achilles in Homer’s Iliad μη Bridget Young Wu Receiving Poetry Back from Exile: Poetry as a Friend to Philosophy in Book X of Plato’s Republic Qianyuan Xu Faust, A Tragedy: What Kind of Life is Faust’s? Shanghai, China Qingdao, China Huayanni Yang Chongqing, China Showing vs. Telling: Plato’s Double Framing of the Theatetus Brandon Alexander Young San Antonio, TX If we Must Live Together, then How? An Examination on the Power of Philosophy in Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Origin of Inequality Zhengping Zhang Reason’s Self-knowledge: What Kind of Knowledge is Transcendental Philosophy in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason? *Upon satisfactory completion of degree requirements 9 Jinan, China �MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS Christopher James Allison American Fork, UT Patrick Jordan Anderson Chester, NJ Joshua Allyn Baker Enterprise, AL Patrick James Burley Chester, VA Janet Susan Cedar Santa Fe, NM Nicole Olivia Corbo Bourne, MA Samiya Haque Dhaka, Bangladesh Sarah Jessica Jackson Portales, NM James Charles William Jennings Broadway, England Shahrane Karim Dallas, TX Devin Martin Ketch Torrance, CA Philippa Alice Scott Timaru, New Zealand Jacob G.A.P. Turnbull Tularosa, NM Kelsey Jean Hennegen Huntington Beach, CA MASTER OF ARTS IN EASTERN CLASSICS Vivian Lizbeth Garcia Los Angeles, CA David Ryan Conway Corning, NY 10 �MASTER’S ESSAY Kelsey Jean Hennegen The Sickness unto Life: Learning the Convalescent’s Life-Affirmation in Nietzsche’s The Gay Science Huntington Beach, CA David Ryan Conway Corning, NY Dicing With Dharma: Yudhisthira as Gambler in The Mahabharata 11 �AWARDS AND PRIZES To the members of the Senior Class who have written the best senior essays, the Richard D. Weigle Prize: Receiving Poetry Back from Exile: Poetry as a Friend to Philosphy In Book X of Plato’s Republic Class of 2020 Bridget Young Wu Honorable Mention: Proof that It’s Impossible to Live: The Unstable Soul in Franz Kafka’s “Description of a Struggle” Class of 2020 Claire Sophia Motsinger Faculty Awards for Sustained Academic Excellence For his Freshman annual essay Honorable Mention On the Nature and Practice of Divine Virtue as Presented in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics Class of 2020 Claire Sophia Motsinger Bridget Young Wu Class of 2023 Noah Francis Mihelic For his Sophomore enabling essay Providence, Overflow and the Limits of Speculative Reason Class of 2022 Aayush Thapa For his Junior annual essay Kant’s Theory of Experience Class of 2021 Karl von der Luft Honorable Mention: On the Possibility of Freedom as More than Mere Presupposition in Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals Class of 2021 Harry A. Choee For her Undergraduate essay other than annual Shame in the Profound and Wearing Masks in Beyond Good and Evil 12 Class of 2020 Emily Jean Wieser �For his Graduate Institute Liberal Arts fall 2019 preceptorial essay: Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Depth GILA Justin David Spain For his Graduate Institute Liberal Arts spring 2020 tutorial essay Some Reflections on Reading Book I of Euclid GILA Patrick Jordan Anderson For his original music composition: Twilight Concerto for piano and string orchestra Class of 2022 Christopher Young Honorable Mention: I Made My Song a Coat to Wear GILA Hannah Sara Loomis For their solutions to the set freshman-sophomore level mathematical problem: Honorable mentions: Class of 2022 JungSun Kim Class of 2023 Minjun Lee For her original fiction The Tie Class of 2023 Chinazor Ozichi Ike-Njoku For his Greek translation, the William A. Darkey Translation Prize (Sophocles, Antigone, lines 332-375) Class of 2021 Karl von der Luft Honorable Mention: Class of 2022 Aayush Thapa For their French translations, the William A. Darkey Translation Prize: (“Les Cloches” and “Automne Malade” by Apollinaire) Honorable mentions: Class of 2020 Hao Luo Class of 2021 Anjelo Luis Reyes 13 �To a deserving student to help with the continuation of work at St. John’s College through the cultivation of the liberal arts of Thinking – that is, aiming for and acquiring knowledge; and of Friendship – that is, sharing inquiry and thought joyfully and for its own sake, the Robert Neidorf Memorial Scholarship: Class of 2021 Cameron MacEntyre Hines Class of 2022 Elena Clark Loomis To members of the Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior classes in recognition of academic achievement and constructive service to the college community, the St. John’s Community Scholarship provided by faculty, staff and students: Rising Senior Class of 2021 Aviral Chawla Rising Juniors Class of 2022 Onysha Enkaye Boak Christopher Campbell To members of the Senior Class for excellence in public speaking, the Senator Millard E. Tydings Memorial Prize: Class of 2020 Emily Marie Axelberg Thato Sesana Kgalema William Perkins Mombello To a member of the Senior Class who has been an outstanding leader in his class, the Don Cook Student Leadership Award: Class of 2020 Mario Alberto Moreno To members of the Senior Class who have excelled in service to the college, the Dean’s Award for College Service: Class of 2020 William Hunter Winkel Thompson Shannon James Lynch Albritton To the student who has most contributed to the academic support of their peers, the Assistant Dean’s Award: Class of 2020 Lauren Isabelle Bouchereau Niko Angell-Gargiulo 14 �To a member of the Senior Class who has demonstrated achievement in the Arts and Literature, the Walter S. Baird Prize: For her personal narrative “Almost an Island” Class of 2020 Bridget Young Wu STUDENT ACTIVITY AWARDS To the senior who, by his leadership, professionalism, hard work, and good will, has made an outstanding contribution to the St. John’s Activities Center, an award offered by the Student Activities Organization: Class of 2020 Luis Fernando Melgar Arias To the senior who, by her leadership, enthusiasm, and devotion to the development of the St. John’s Community has made an outstanding contribution to the St. John’s College Outdoor Program, an award offered by the Student Activities Organization: Class of 2020 Emily Jean Wieser STUDENT LIFE AWARDS To the senior who, by his consistent modeling of exemplary leadership, spirit, and integrity, has made an outstanding contribution to the St. John’s community, an award offered by the Office of Student Life: Class of 2020 Abdullah Hussain Mirza To the senior who, by her consistent modeling of exemplary leadership, spirit, and integrity, has made an outstanding contribution to the St. John’s community, an award offered by the Office of Student Life: Class of 2020 Lauren Isabelle Bouchereau 15 �The seal of St. John’s College shows seven open books representing the seven traditional liberal arts— the trivium of grammar, rhetoric, and logic; and the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. 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Congratulations, graduates. You have completed one of the toughest, most rigorous academic programs out there. Freshman Greek almost slayed me. Newton gave me some very long nights at the chalkboard. And don’t even get me started on Lobachevsky. Congratulations, Graduate Institute graduates, who have grappled with some of our most timeless questions. Congratulations, parents. You did it! You should be bursting with pride that your kids made it through this intellectual gauntlet. And I am here to tell you: they will find jobs, despite the seeming impracticality of their education. Trust me: the world needs free people, made from books and a balance, more than ever. And a special thanks to my father, John Polgreen, who joined one of the earliest classes here at St. John’s Santa Fe. While he ended up transferring before completing his degree, his love of St. John’s was so profound he persuaded not one but two of his children to attend the college. Thanks, Dad, for making the trip out to be here today. It’s extraordinarily humbling to be standing here before you all. It was 22 years ago that I was in a cap and gown, under the Liberty Tree in Annapolis – as the kids say: RIP Liberty Tree – accepting my Bachelor of Arts from this marvelous, singular institution. My head was stuffed with ideas. I wrote my senior essay on Marx and Hegel – lofty stuff indeed. But I had no idea what to do with my life. Freud said there are only two things that matter in life. Work and love. I lucked out in the love department, meeting my wonderful wife, Candace, at St. John’s. We started dating in my senior year, and have been together ever since. I’m so glad she’s here with me today. Her love and support have been the bedrock of a happy life. And I was pretty lucky in the work department too: after a dull, interminable year working at a law office, a chanced into an unpaid internship at a magazine in Washington. I had student loans and rent to pay, so I worked for free doing journalism all day, and waited tables at a Malaysian restaurant at night. I loved the work so much. I knew I had found my purpose. It was tough, but nothing worth doing is easy. �Though, looking back, I can see that I was always meant to be a journalist. Breaking news has been a big part of my life from an early age. I witnessed my first big news event when I was six: a violent attempted coup in Kenya. The second was in my high school years, in Ghana, where I had a front row seat to the transition from military rule to democracy. Jerry Rawlings, the military dictator who had ruled Ghana since the late ’70s, took off his uniform and ran for office in a genuinely free and fair election. To a young teenager, these were momentous, historic events. They shaped how I viewed the world, the nature of citizenship, my sense of what is possible and how individuals can change the world. These early act of witness formed a huge part of my desire to be a journalist, to watch events unfold, to try to understand them and make them understandable to others. As a kid, and I know you will all relate to this, having read all the books of the program, I was constantly asking: why? Why did people have to pay bribes to get an apartment in a government-owned building? Why couldn’t our Kenyan and Ghanaian neighbors come to the United States as easily as we could visit their countries? I always wanted to know what was really going on. I wanted to explore and investigate the world around me. Journalism was the obvious, perhaps only, way to satisfy this passion. As a kid abroad and later as a foreign correspondent, I saw too many societies that didn’t have the benefits of a robust and free press—that didn’t have that rigorous scrutiny. Power was concentrated in too few hands. People didn’t trust institutions, private or public. Facts were ordered and prioritized by the powerful, and there was fundamentally no truth, except what the leader said was true. Sound familiar? I could always feel how fragile those places were. Things here, in America, feel fragile now too. Whatever your political persuasion, I think we can all agree that when anything can be derided as Fake News, where do we find that great common ground that makes citizenship and democracy possible? You have spent hours around seminar tables having passionate debates about �Leibnitz, the Bible, Kant and Aristotle. Imagine if you didn’t have those books, the words themselves, the fact of text, to guide those discussions. Yet that is the world in which we now live. You are all entering the working world at a precarious but exciting moment. During the 2016 election cycle I was pretty depressed about the power of institutions to safeguard our democracy and hold power to account. My chosen profession, journalism, seemed to have lost its power to change the world. Story after story exposing the fundamental unfitness for office of the nominee of the Republican party seemed to make no dent at all. Exposés of his shady business practices rolled right off him. A recording of him talking about sexually assaulting women, along with a collection of highly credible allegations - almost all of them on the record - from women who had been on the receiving end of his unwanted sexual attention - they all seemed to have no impact at all. I wasn’t just journalism that lost the trust of so many Americans. Lord knows people didn’t trust politicians. But they also lost trust in banks and corporations. In institutions of higher learning. In the courts and government agencies. In educators and in doctors. In churches and religious leaders. And whatever profession you choose, you will face this fundamental erosion of trust in institutions. Whether your choose the law, medicine, teaching, engineering, business or the clergy, to name just a handful of career paths, you will confront a world that has grown deeply illiberal, resistant to the reasoned discourse you have spent the last four years celebrating. Make no mistake, we are confronting a crisis of illiberalism. And illiberalism is borne out of mistrust, of a failure of people to see one another as fully human. For liberty and trust are two sides of the same coin. Liberty without trust is a Hobbesian nightmare. We cannot have one without the other. I think about my own line of work. When Trump won, there was a lot of handwringing. Did some of my colleagues in the news media treat Trump’s candidacy like entertainment, rather than interrogating him as a serious candidate? (Spoiler: the answer to that question is yes.) �Did the roiling, angry white middle and working classes get enough coverage? Was elite media too wrapped up in its coastal bubbles? Did we miss the big story? It seemed like a moment of perhaps paralyzing self-reflection. But then something happened. Journalism got its mojo back. In the past year we’ve had some of the finest accountability journalism I’ve seen in my career. Two incredibly resourceful beat reporters at Politico caught the health secretary redhanded taking very expensive private jets on the government dime. Their exposé ended his tenure. We’ve had breathtaking reporting on the investigation into election meddling by Russia and possible collusion with the Trump administration from a wide range of newsrooms. The earth-shaking work of the New York Times and the New Yorker, exposing the sexual predations of Harvey Weinstein, and breaking the dam of silence about the pervasiveness of sexual harassment and abuse in the workplace. Digital newsrooms, like BuzzFeed, The Daily Beast and the one I lead, HuffPost, broke major stories too. Powerful politicians, business leaders and entertainers from the right and left were felled by relentless investigative reporting. The whole news ecosystem is firing on all cylinders, and it’s marvelous to see. But even as our institutions bounce back, the moral damage to our citizenry will not be easily undone. We’re living in a moment where basic questions about our identity as a nation, about our values, are being asked in sometimes scary ways. Many of us were was raised to believe that we are a nation of immigrants, people like my mother, who was born in Ethiopia, and my father’s forebears, who came from Cornwall and Sweden. But things feel very different now. Not long ago, a Republican congressman, Steve King, tweeted that “Diversity is not our strength,” a chilling echo of a white nationalist rallying cry by a supposedly mainstream political figure. John Kelly, President Trump’s chief of staff, told NPR recently that immigrants from Latin America are “not people that would easily assimilate into the United States into our �modern society. They don't speak English. They don't integrate well, they don't have skills.” What was he describing if not his own Irish and Italian forebears, who came to this country with nothing in an earlier time, and built lives that would allow their descendant, John Kelly, to occupy one of the most powerful jobs in the land? We’re witnessing a newly permissive attitude toward hate speech and hate crimes that has led to increased attacks on Jews, Muslims and all kinds of marginalized people. People who came to America as young children, who have committed no crimes, face being exiled to nations they have never known. As the daughter of an African immigrant, as a woman, as a person of color, as a queer person, as a citizen of this great country, I am watching these conversations unfold with particular alarm. I know a lot of you here, who look like me, grew up like me, live lives like mine, are feeling the same way. So what do we, as people trained in the art of liberal discourse, do? I am a journalist, so the answer might seem simple: do more and better journalism. Use the full force of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. But the great thing about our founding documents is that the first amendment says nothing about journalism or journalists. The right to free speech lies with each of us, as citizens, and is not the purview of any professional class or faction. It lies with We, the People. Our first duty as citizens is to hold institutions of power to account. That includes President Trump and his government, as well as the Republican-controlled House and Senate. But it very much includes the Democratic party, and Democratic officials around the country, as well as the infrastructure of government and the institutions of corporate power. As a journalist, it is my job to make sure they feel the full brunt of our relentless investigative reporting and our analytical and intellectual probing. �But we have another duty as citizens, perhaps just as important: to safeguard our liberty we must listen, and learn to see one another as fully human. Last fall, HuffPost went on a bus tour, visiting 26 cities across the nation. Our goal was to listen to America in this extraordinary moment. We avoided the coasts and the major urban centers, stopping in smaller cities like Birmingham, Alabama; Livingston, Montana; and Fort Wayne, Indiana. We had hoped to interview about 500 people over seven weeks. We weren’t sure anyone was going to show up when our bus rolled into town. We need not have worried. It turns out, Americans have a lot to say, and want to be heard. We spoke to nearly 2,000 people. And what they told us was remarkable. Almost no one talked about Donald Trump, either to praise or damn him. People had much more pressing, local issues on their minds. At the 16th Street Baptist church in Birmingham, where four little black girls were killed in a Klan bombing in 1963, we held a forum on local crime. That night a largely black audience told their entirely black city leadership that something needed to be done about the plague of violent crime in the city. It was an important reminder in the age of Black Lives Matter, when we seek to hold police departments to account for overzealous enforcement policies and outright violence on communities of color, many such communities also suffer from the serious problem of law enforcement neglect. The complexity and nuance of our communities gets lost in shouty headlines and cable news chatter. In Iowa, we heard from people intensely proud of their community’s welcoming of refugee and immigrant communities. In New Orleans, we worked with a local news organization to expose how Airbnb is altering the fabric of the city’s historic neighborhoods, hollowing them of local residents and replacing them with tourists. Mostly we heard stories about communities that are facing struggles, but also coming together to solve them. Talking, debating, arguing, finding imperfect solutions. Sounds familiar, right? It’s what we spend our years at this great college doing. �So if I may presume to offer one piece of advice to you all today, it is this: don’t be seduced by peddlers of seductive, zero sum false narratives of grievance or triumph. Hold fast to what you’ve learned here: how to think, argue, listen, change your mind. It is vital to our democracy - to our future and our survival. I can’t wait to see what you all do. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Polgreen, 2018-05-19 Alumni Commencement https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/4c6b4700bdfcb01b9c128af11eff66a1.pdf 843c48752c3e7983d9f46de59cee3c7d PDF Text Text 8.3.17 SJC talk 1 I. I’m really glad to share this day with you, to be back at my alma mater – literally, “nourishing mother.” As David said, it was right here that I matriculated – another term derived from the Latin for mother. As you can see, I appreciate how these terms gesture towards the ways in which you and I have been nourished and formed by our education here. I feel this deeply walking around again the last few days, seeing the familiar tables and chairs, the pinons, juniper, and sagebrush; I have such gratitude for my time in this beautiful place. I’m particularly glad to be speaking to those of you who have been exploring what we call the Eastern Classics, together with graduates of a program in Western Classics. That these traditions are taught here together and on equal footing is not to be taken for granted. Some years ago I taught Western philosophy to Tibetan monks at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics. This is an ecumenical institute, started by the Dalai Lama and located in his compound in Dharamsala, in the foothills of the Himalaya. It is essentially a Great Books program; it’s a fourteen year curriculum in Buddhist thought structured around classic texts. And they spend a few hours debating every day. My students, almost all monks, were excited to integrate Western philosophy into their studies, and the administration was happy to have me teaching there for a few semesters. But I remember drinking tea once with an elderly monk who worked in the administrative office who told me he didn’t see the point in studying Western thought. Either some parts were true, in which case they were in agreement with Tibetan philosophy, and it would take a lot of work to figure out which parts were true; or it was false— in which case it may be interesting, but was probably harmful. In his view, Western thought was an object of curiosity; it was for him the way Hegel thought of Spanish poetry, chemistry, and music, interesting things to learn about but essentially a distraction. I think I laughed out loud, because what this monk said was so similar to a view I had heard from some Western philosophers, who believed that philosophy from India and Tibet, for example, should be taught in a religious studies department, or an area studies program. Somehow they believed both in the universality of reason, and also seemed to think that this universal reason only arises, or is only accessible, in particular locations, or by particular people. The Graduate Institute is a welcome alternative to such parochialism. II. �8.3.17 SJC talk 2 To prepare today, I printed out the reading lists that constitute a map, of sorts, of your education. My comments largely reflect what arose for me as I was contemplating those lists. While much of what I am about to say will engage Western texts, you will see that I am framing my main point by drawing on Nāgārjuna, the third century Indian Buddhist thinker; I have heard that some of you are quite fond of his work. Looking at these lists of texts, I was thinking of how powerful they are. Some of these works exhibit the power of texts internally. Think of Augustine, in the garden, who hears the words that he should take up the book and read, and his reading radically transforms him. Or consider the Platform Sūtra, in which Huineng, the illiterate woodcutter who became the Sixth Zen Patriarch, overheard a recitation of the Diamond Sūtra in the market, and was awakened. While not quite as spectacular as the encounters with texts that led to Augustine’s conversion, or Huineng’s awakening, in my own life, these texts have, cumulatively, led to a kind of conversion. When I came to St. John’s, as a high school drop out—another reason I am grateful to St. John’s, that they accepted me—I had been living in Europe, and was very opinionated. I imagine my tutors can attest to that. Over time, reading all these texts, entering into these different, sometimes incompatible, and yet compelling worlds, loosened my grasp on my own opinions. And they unsettled the sometimes overwhelming force of the present as it appears in my own thinking. For me, this has been liberating. I will illustrate what I mean with the example of something I have been writing about recently, namely how we talk about happiness, and then come back to Nāgārjuna. In the industrialized West, we are in what some scholars have characterized as a “happiness turn.” This turn is evident in the work of positive psychologists, and their fellow-travelers in economics, epidemiology, and political science—what is sometimes called “the new science of happiness.” It’s evident in the more than 70,000 results that came up when I did a search for happiness under books on Amazon this past weekend. And it’s manifest in the ways that governments, corporations, and institutions are drawing on happiness research to inform their policies. �8.3.17 SJC talk 3 The vast majority of research in the new science of happiness uses two instruments to measure happiness: life satisfaction questionnaires, and, to a lesser extent, random experience sampling, which basically means smart phones that prompt research subjects to respond to questions at random times about how they are feeling. Thus, while headlines announcing the results of happiness research seem to have the precision, authority, and objective sound of statements of fact— for example, that keeping a gratitude journal will make you happier, or that joining a group that meets just once a month produces the same happiness gain as doubling your income— all this research depends on an implicit philosophical conception of happiness as being satisfied with one’s life or a conception of happiness as a positive hedonic state, as a good feeling measured by its duration and intensity. III. But, if you were in the history tutorial, you might remember Book I of Herodotus, when Solon, the wise man, visits Croesus, King of Lydia, the most powerful and wealthiest man in Greece, who therefore believes he’s the happiest. After Solon has been shown his great riches, to the king’s surprise, Solon doesn’t include him among the most happy. According to Solon, you can’t say you’re happy until your life is over because life is largely determined by luck and you never know what might happen to you. And, indeed, soon after Solon’s visit, the King’s son is killed in a freak accident, he misinterprets an oracle at Delphi, and is lured into a disastrous war and he and his family are taken prisoner while his kingdom is destroyed by the Persian armies. Or think of Oedipus, unknowingly killing his father in a moment of self-defense and marrying his mother, through no fault of his own, just bad luck. Here we see an understanding of happiness very different from our own. Happiness is understood not as a feeling or subjective state but a characteristic of life as a whole, determined by luck. There’s another, very different, view of happiness, familiar to all of you graduates, that appears in most classical philosophers in India and in Greece. For these thinkers, even the Epicureans who regard pleasure as the highest good, happiness is achieved by conforming to nature, reality, or the Divine through understanding, contemplation, and virtue. Thus, happiness, or human flourishing, may still be rare, but for the most part, it’s in our control; it’s no longer understood simply as the gift of the gods. To be happy is to be aligned with something larger than ourselves. We see this in Augustine as well, whose first book after his conversion was on the happy life, in which he argues that pleasures of the body or soul, wealth, honor, and knowledge �8.3.17 SJC talk 4 are insufficient; only wisdom of God, because it has its source in God, can fully satisfy us. Our contemporary views of happiness could hardly be more different from the views of these classical thinkers. In the 17th century, Hobbes, in the Leviathan, is representative of a change in how we think about happiness. For Hobbes, happiness is the satisfaction of desire. Thus, he argues, the more power we have, the more desires we can satisfy, and the happier we will be. It’s this idea—that happiness is the satisfaction of desires—that is fundamental to modern views of happiness. And this is why so many 18th century French and British thinkers were so optimistic: if happiness is the satisfaction of desires, because everyone has desires, everyone could be happy. And this should inform how we structure our societies. My interest here is not to present a systematic review of the intellectual history of happiness, though I find it fascinating. I imagine that doing so would require moving beyond the St. John’s curriculum to understand more about the formation of contemporary views of happiness, and how they are influenced by the rise of consumerism and the loss of transcendent meaning that has often left a desire for well-being triumphant over other values. Rather, I want to say that my own experience of engaging with the texts I have been referencing is that they help me see how contingent our contemporary thinking about happiness is and it could be otherwise. With Aristotle, we might ask, is being satisfied really a measure of a good life? To be happy, in this way, might suggest that one is not overburdened by the sufferings of others, that one is satisfied with the way things are. And with Sophocles or Herodotus, we might ask, are we really responsible for our own happiness? Can we simply choose to be happy, as we are often told, and if we are not happy enough is it really our own fault because we’re not living in the right way? If Oedipus spent more time with friends, or got more exercise, or more sleep, or was more optimistic or kept a gratitude journal, or went to a regular monthly meeting, would he have been happy? Or, is happiness, as Kant says, something that we may desire, but it’s hard to say exactly what we’re wishing for, �8.3.17 SJC talk 5 that even if we might feel positive affects and be satisfied with our lives, we still somehow desire the mysterious and indefinite state that is always elsewhere? What I am saying, I suppose, is that being receptive to such a wide variety of texts, subverts a kind of facile dogmatism about particular claims. When there is always another, deeply compelling way to think about things, it is hard to cling to our own opinions. IV. For those of you in the Eastern Classics program, when you hear me talking about not clinging to opinions you may hear echoes of Nāgārjuna, and the many traditions inspired by his texts. Nāgārjuna’s project is precisely to loosen our grasp, to stop clinging to ideas, views, and assertions. With compelling and persuasive reason, Nāgārjuna systematically argues against the idea that any thing—time; space; motion; even the basic doctrines of Buddhism: dependent origination, impermanence, suffering, liberation; and even the Buddha—that none of these exist inherently. Yes, we can talk about these things; but if we think that they refer to some ultimate reality that is accessible beyond convention, our awareness will be constrained. Nāgārjuna’s analyses, then, disclose a wondrous and astonishing and inexplicable world. As Sandy Huntington describes it, Nāgārjuna’s project is to invite us into an experience of intense wonder and openness. For Nāgārjuna, this wonder and openness is a kind of wisdom; holding our opinions too tightly, then, is an obstacle to wisdom. Indeed, clinging to our opinions, Nāgārjuna thinks, is an obstacle to compassion as well, as it entangles us in ourselves, making it harder for us to understand and appreciate the experience of others. For Nāgārjuna, doing philosophy is a transformative practice because it leads to an openness and attention to the wondrousness of our world. Thus, going back to the reading lists I was looking at this weekend, taken together, one can understand the study of all these different compelling texts, as a kind of transformative practice. It is what Pierre Hadot describes as a “spiritual exercise,” an aspect of what Foucault calls “care of the self.” It is to see the whole of humanistic education as Aristotle sees the study of ethics: not merely to acquire knowledge but to change who we are. �8.3.17 SJC talk 6 One of the aspects I love about the education you and I share is how this care of the self, is very much a social practice, with conversation at its core. What counts most, then, is not what information we have learned, or how many different authors we can cite at a party or in a commencement address-Though, as you can see, this can come in handy sometimes— but how we have cultivated a practice that reveals the world in all its inexplicability and wondrousness, a world which upon closer inspection always defies facile explanations. And, of course, this is not just a practice that takes place at St. John’s; it is, I think, at the core of humanities education anywhere that students are learning how to engage deeply with many texts, and especially, how to ask questions about what is generally taken for granted. V. There’s a lot of talk these days about the crisis of the humanities and humanistic education. When I was at St. John’s the big debates in the humanities were concerned with questions such as whether and in what ways the canon should reflect the voices of women and people of color? whether the canon was Eurocentric and if this was a bad thing? whether there should be a canon at all? And I vaguely understood other arguments about how to read literature, for example, whether we should draw on the resources of theory when interpreting novels and poems. I think these are really important questions. But the point I want to make is that everyone engaged in those debates agreed that the humanities made important contributions to our lives, our culture, and our political society. They were not debates about the value of the humanities, but about how best to pursue humanistic inquiry and education in a pluralistic society. The fights today are over the very value of reading literature or studying history and philosophy. The current administration has proposed a budget that eliminates the National Endowment for the Humanities. And, according to a recent poll, two thirds of the voters in his party believe colleges and universities have a negative impact on the United States. My intuition is that they are not thinking of business schools, or nursing schools, or programs in accounting or physics or computer science. But, as much as anything, it seems, in this political climate we need more people who practice the humanities, who cultivate a comfort weighing and engaging with a multiplicity of views, who think deeply but with openness to others. People who may have both Nāgārjuna’s openness and wonder about the world and his attention and care for the sufferings of others. �8.3.17 SJC talk 7 Sometimes we are tempted to use a rhetoric of exceptionalism about St. John’s, but I trust you will find these people, that the conversations you have had here can be continued with new friends. Some of these will be St. John’s alumni—I have encountered them regularly, in unexpected places; there was an alumnus studying at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics when I was there. Indeed, I find it remarkable what St. John’s alumni do. When I read the alumni news I am often a little jealous of the lives described there. Our alumni are doing such endlessly fascinating work: making movies, working for social justice, teaching in all kinds of contexts, farming, making art and writing novels and poetry, building institutions, falling in love with intriguing people and places. I look forward to reading what you are up to some day, how you continue to answer the question for yourself of what a good life is. One final comment: There are a number of my former tutors here, and some who are no longer with us. For me, these include Mr. Swentzell, Mr. Darkey, Mr. Cave, Mr. Bart, Mr. Venable, and Mr. Steadman; perhaps there are others I don’t know about. Preparing to come, and then being on campus, I have thinking about you all a lot. When I look back at all the seminars in which you allowed us to flail about, as we became more adept at reading and listening and asking questions, I have such immense respect for your patience and good will. Much more than my faculty in graduate school, you inspired and nourished my intellectual life. It’s been fifteen years since I was in Sante Fe and I’m not sure when I will get another opportunity, so, let me end by expressing my gratitude. Thank you. � 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 Santa Fe Commencement Programs and Addresses Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Meem Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Goldberg, Natalie Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Santa Fe, NM Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016-08-05 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Meem Library has been given permission to make this item available online. Type The nature or genre of the resource sound Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource mp3 Subject The topic of the resource Education, Humanistic Language A language of the resource English Commencement Graduate Institute