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Eva Brann at the St. John's College Commencement, May 1997
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Eva Brann at the St. John's College Commencement, May 1997
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2023
COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES
Sunday | May 14
Two Thousand and Twenty-Three
Annapolis | Maryland
�PROGRAM
For the Two Hundred Thirty-First
Commencement in the
Three Hundred Twenty-Seventh Year
of the College
Prelude
Carrollton Brass Quintet
Academic Procession
The National Anthem
Carrollton Brass Quintet
Francis Scott Key, Alumnus, Class of 1796
Welcome
Nora Demleitner
President of the College
Announcement of Prizes and Awards
President Demleitner
Joseph Macfarland
Dean of the College
Address to the Graduating Class
Nathan Dugan
Tutor
Conferring of Undergraduate Degrees of the Class of 2023
President Demleitner
Dean Macfarland
Conferring of Graduate Degrees
President Demleitner
Emily H. Brooker Langston
Associate Dean for the Graduate Program
Recognition of the Class of 2020
Academic Recession
President Demleitner
Dean Macfarland
Emily H. Brooker Langston
Carrollton Brass Quintet
�B A C H E LO R O F A R T S
Kasparas Adomaitis
Vilnius, Lithuania
Huckleberry Finn: the Conscience of Mark Twain’s America
Jack Alford
Vienna, Virginia
The Doomed Romantic: Failure and Fate in Lord Jim
Rhett Anderson
Thetford, Vermont
Wild Apes & Savage Beavers: Examining Identity Post-Colonization in Aime
Cesaire’s Discourse on Colonialism, James Joyce’s Dubliners, and
Dr. Frederick Wiseman’s Dawnland: An Autohistory of the Abenaki Nation
Max Anthon
Haworth, New Jersey
Terminal Philosophy A Closer Look at the End of Socrates
Ella Rose Barron
Denver, Colorado
Voltaire’s Zadig ou la Destinée: A World Not Directed by Wisdom
Joseph Bennett
Amherst, New Hampshire
A Linguistic Christ Figure in Phenomenology of Spirit
Ben Berghammer
Evanston, Illinois
The Torments of a Deep Conscience: What it Means for Ivan Fyodorovich’s
Heart to be Overcome by God in The Brothers Karamazov
James Lawrence Bieneman
West Bloomfield, Michigan
What differentiates Newton and Leibniz in development and understanding
of their calculus?
Malaika Biwott
Fairfax, Virginia
The Demise of the Laborer
Emory Richmond Boll
New York, New York
Magical Mystery Tour Searching for Soul, Self, and Solace in Jung’s Red
Book
Dashiel Donald Buyske-Friedberg
God and Lucifer through Dante’s the Divine Comedy
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
�Meagan Callahan
Sunderland, Maryland
What You Will: Desire and Happiness in Twelfth Night
Stephen Dela Cruz Cariño
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
Fiction and Reality: The Imaginations of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer
Gabriela Carroll
Austin, Texas
The Fruit of Unconscious Activity in Tolstoy’s War and Peace
Sihwan Cha
Busan, South Korea
A Touch of Intellect, the Flesh of Man
Bibhusan Chapagain*
Hyeokjae Choi
Kathmandu, Nepal
Seoul, South Korea
Wrestling with the Shade of Plato: The Meno and Lucian’s Hermotimus
Joseph Cunningham
Ambleside, United Kingdom
Out from the Dark Wood: The Importance of Dante’s Awakening and First
Steps into Hell
Sam Detwiler
Jenkintown, Pennsylvania
No More. The Text is Foolish: Understanding Shakespeare’s Props in King
Lear
Jonah Donis
South Hamilton, Massachusetts
To See with Eyes Unclouded: A Look at the Myth of Er in Plato’s Republic
Elizabeth SuAnn Dowdy
Fort Worth, Texas
Sisters by Chance or Sisters by Choice? An Examination of Sisterhood in
Sophocles’ Antigone
Samantha Duckworth
On Book X of Euclid’s Elements
Mira Dunan Emmart
Holland, Pennsylvania
Baltimore, Maryland
Locke on Labor For the Right or For the Good?
Isabel Emond
Ocean City, Maryland
Spellbound: The Risks of Learning in Plato’s Protagoras
Mathew Fisher
Weathersfield, Vermont
Unnumbered Strands Exploration of Separation in Dream of the Red
Chamber
Vienna, Austria
On Speech, or the Same and the Other
Cristopher Barrett Ford
Ardmore, Pennsylvania
Stamping Ground, Kentucky
A Cry for the Recognition of Living Poetry: Exploring Unreason in Don
Quixote
Alexander Ray Fodor
Of Whales and Men
Amanda Jayne Clemens
Eleanor Carroll Elliott
Reston, Virginia
Freeing Minds: A Treatment for Ignorance
Agnes Sands Galvin
Millerton, New York
To Be Mistress of Pemberley
Kreider Chesterfield Grasse
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“The Summit of the Organic Scale” Is Man’s Superciliousness Justified by
Darwin’s View Of the Progression of Man?
Emerson Rieman Graves
Charlotte, North Carolina
“All Myth, The One Reality” of Helen in Egypt
Noah Hale
Seaford, Delaware
The Paradoxical Hero and the Progress of Loss in Job
Allegra Danger Hall
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Absence Makes the Heart: The Present Christ in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion
Ella Naomi Harel Kirschner
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Phaedra the Philosopher Queen: Passionate Thought, Speech, and Deed in
Euripides’ Hippolytus
�Jonathan Harris
Silver Spring, Maryland
Returning Power to the People: An Analysis of Civil Responsibility in the
Commonwealth, as Established in Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan
Matthew James Hogan
Ava Marie Elisabeth Lehrman
The Curiosity and Conviction of a Humble Man: On Faraday’s
Electromagnetic Phenomena through Inductive Reasoning
St. Helena, California
Lakeland, Florida
Paradox in Paradise
Matthew Jungheim
Highland Park, Illinois
From Aeneas to Zion: An Account of the Essence of Two Nations
John Frederick Kelly
Annapolis, Maryland
Evanston, Illinois
Shaped by Absence: Negation in Jane Austen’s Persuasion
Eyes Wide Open: An Inquiry into the Second and Third Chapters of the Book
of Genesis
Zixiong Lin
Wenling, People’s Republic of China
Daryl Jeffrey Locke
Upper Marlboro, Maryland
Lucie Carroll McCarthy
Baltimore, Maryland
Delay and the Bounded Self in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Jenny Kim
Chungju, South Korea
Involuntary Memory in Swann’s Way
New Freedom, Pennsylvania
Baudelaire’s Search for the Red Ideal in Shakespeare’s Macbeth
Cincinnati, Ohio
Corruption and the Art of Philosophy Education and Friendship in Plato’s
Phaedrus
Chicago, Illinois
God, Moses, and the Golden Rule: Does Hillel’s Famous Statement Hold
True When Reading Exodus?
The Ubiquitous Experience of Exile in Baudelaire’s Swan
Las Vegas, Nevada
Outcast Child Monarch of the Clouds
Isabella Martin Kiedrowski
Hyojeong Lee
Cedar Park, Texas
“The Laws and Loss of Nature” Reinterpreting Tocqueville’s Observations on
the Principle of Equality For the Modern Day
Passion Nailed Down in America: An Inquiry on the Sovereignty of People
The Quest for Political and Spiritual Moderation
Rivka Koppel
Nothing Beside Remains: The Breakdown of Morality in Heart of Darkness
Sarah Janice Fairchild Lieberman
Chelsea Johnson
Craig Koch
Ellicott City, Maryland
Joshua Levins
The “Dark, Sweet Stench” of Loam in Toni Morrison’s Sula.
Mia Kobylski
Needham, Massachusetts
Law, Principle, Rule: What If Darwin’s Laws Are Taken as Laws of Physics?
Burke, Virginia
Ella Hougie
Jake Lees
Incheon, South Korea
Isabel Lucille McDonald
Gambier, Ohio
The Social Outsider: Society, Adventure, and Freedom in Mark Twain’s
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Sylvie McKnight-Milles
Ellicott City, Maryland
In Search of Physical Reality: A Journey through Schrödinger’s
Mathematical Derivation of the Quantum Wave Function
Elizabeth Lynn Meade
Pewaukee, Wisconsin
“You Must Not Be Here:”: Alienation through Law in War and Peace
Ezra Melchor
Catonsville, Maryland
On Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals: The Doubt of Faith and the Will to Truth
Megli Micek
Las Vegas, Nevada
Love, the Inevitable End of Everything in Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina
�Jozef Miklasz
Crownsville, Maryland
The Five Rings Freedom through the Way of the Warrior
Grace Frances Miller
Trinity, North Carolina
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Louisville, Kentucky
The Life of Isaac McCaslin From Faulkiner’s Go Down, Moses
Giovanni Morgan
Stuart, Florida
The I That is We: How Community Sets Us Free in Hegel’s Phenomenology
of Spirit
Elizabeth “Birdi” Mueller
Ridgway, Colorado
Saving Orlando: Marriage and Mannage in Shakespeare’s As You Like It
Brooke Anna Murphy-Petri
Darien, Connecticut
To Love One’s Neighhhbor a Voyage into Gulliver’s Travels
Lillian Pearl Lemmert Naill
Baltimore, Maryland
Old Westbury, New York
The Torment and Ecstacy of Spleen and the Ideal
Tom Ni
Pfäffikon, Switzerland
Virtue or Virtù: The Case of Scipio
Matthew Nugent*
Joseph Padgett
Keene, New Hampshire
Memphis, Tennessee
Die Müh Ist Aus or Finding Rest in Bach’s Passion
Lysithia Page
Do We Get What We Want? An Essay on Plato’s Symposium
Gorham, Maine
Francis Proctor
Annapolis, Maryland
A Consideration of Inheritance, Rights, and Liberty
Alayna Kay Louise Raymond
Spanaway, Washington
Finding Her Epos: An Investigation into Dorothea Brooke’s Potential for Epic
Life in George Eliot’s Middlemarch
Elli Megan Rees
Llanelli, Wales
Seduction: A means of Destruction or Reconciliation?
Jennifer Reid
Atlanta, Georgia
Movement in Passivity: A Phenomenological Approach to the Development
of Passivity in the Girl in Simone De Beauvoir’s The Second Sex
Caroline Grace Ritter
Arlington, Virginia
On Personal Freedom and Historical Inevitability in Tolstoy’s War and Peace
The Four Elements in the Epic of Gilgamesh: An Exploration of Duality within
Nature
Noah Negri
Silas Nathanael Pillsbury
On Attention and Identity: A Study of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse
Passion and Gospel: Bach’s Double Scoring of Matthew
Caroline Kohl Moeller
Chicago, Illinois
The Dialectic of Violence: Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth
Economy, Passion, Love Exploring What It Means to Marry Well in Jane
Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Ruby Mariah Miller
Angel Pantoja Jr.
Garrick Buchanan Rodman
The Identity and Ideals of a Man Betrayed
Jacob Richard Rowley
Bend, Oregon
A Platform of Stability: Eternal Moment in To The Lighthouse
Kostiantyn Rymar
Kyiv, Ukraine
Sin, Death, Suffering, and Baudelaire: How Evil Penetrates l’esprit and
l’corps to Create the Deplorable Nature of the Human Condition
Apurva Sharma
Kathmandu, Nepal
“A Shadow Here and a Light There”: An Exploration of the Self and the Other
in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse
Lirian Selene Spolaore
Burlingame, California
Glennville, Pennsylvania
Washington, District of Columbia
A Journey through Memory: Experiencing Time with Marcel Proust
�Sachin Cyril Stanislaus
Templeton, California
On Legitimate Authority in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s On the Social Contract:
An Inquiry into the Possibility of Justified Social Relations
Honor Dubarry Stanton
Toronto, Canada
The Degradation of Soul and Regime in Plato’s Republic
Wyatt Sweeney
Cleveland, Ohio
Bona Fide: The Anatomy and Apotheosis of Identity through Montaigne’s
Essays
Nathaniel Talbutt
Providence, Rhode Island
Colossus! Interpreting Real and Symbolic Power in Shakespeare’s Tragedy
of Julius Caesar
Nicolas Turner
Arlington, Virginia
What Wants to Be Told: Self-knowledge through the Fables of Aesop and
Jean de La Fontaine
Nya Uberman-Gillon
Olympia, Washington
The Human Frequency: A Marriage of Opposites and Acceptable Paradox
James “Cooper” Ussery
Naples, Florida
A Standpoint Beyond: On The German Ideology
Paul William Vosteen Jr.
Monterey, Virginia
The Frenzied Pied Piper of Idolatry
Libby Watson
Houston, Texas
Thinking of Thinking: Why the Phenomenology of Spirit is a Story
Leonard Wells
Washington, District of Columbia
The Odyssey of L’russe Besuhof in Tolstoy’s War and Peace
Tessa Wild
St. Louis, Missouri
“Unnatural Troubles”: An Exploration of Madness in Macbeth
Tong “Cynthia” Wu
Suzhou, People’s Republic of China
Man as a Beautiful Animal: The Evolution of Human Civilization through
Beauty in Charles Darwin’s The Descent of Man
Jingyi Zhang
Fuzhou, People’s Republic of China
Mal of Les Fleurs du Mal
Rose Meien Zhang
Beijing, People’s Republic of China
Something New Under the Sun in Kepler’s Astronomia Nova
Yingxin Zhang
Wenling, People’s Republic of China
How One Should Live a Life: Moderation in Plato’s Republic
�MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS
Mark Acebo
Perth, Australia
Sarah Pendleton Alexander
Annapolis, Maryland
§
Alexander Phillip Andreosatos
Quincy, Massachusetts
Jeffrey Robert Boatwright†
Los Angeles, California
§
Adam Burkhart
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
§
David Somerset Christian
Cypress, California
Jesse Clagett
Dahlonega, Georgia
Ari Spencer Coleman†
South Jordan, Utah
Benjamin Crocker
Sydney, Australia
Folke Egerstrom
Santa Ana, Costa Rica
§
Matthew Ely
Des Moines, Iowa
Derek Foret
Washington, District of Columbia
§
Fort Washington, Maryland
†
Madison, Wisconsin
Tanya Malita Fuller
Jay Alexander Gold
Ansley Starr Green
Steven Hayes§
Alachua, Florida
Lawrenceville, New Jersey
Jordan Loch Hill
Perth, Australia
†
Joshua C Laperche
§
Connor Morrison
Benjamin Stewart Pershall†
Siobhán Autumn Petersen
†
David R. Pierce
§
Ethan Pyle
Exeter, Rhode Island
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Severna Park, Maryland
Shady Side, Maryland
Santa Teresa, New Mexico
Hartland, Wisconsin
Walker Beau Rogalsky
Winnipeg, Canada
Kasey M Siciliano
Cincinnati, Ohio
Abdullah Wadood
Bethesda, Maryland
§
Chase Waller
Judith Jankowski Wrenn§
*
Upon completion of requirements
†
Degree conferred January 18, 2023
§
Degree conferred October 26, 2022
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Fountain Inn, South Carolina
�Welcoming back our Class of 2020
B A C H E LO R O F A R T S
Tbel Abuseridze
Batumi, Georgia
On Voyaging
Zainab Noor Ahmad
Lucknow, India
With Feminine Love & Beauty – A Close Look at Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
Angelika Nora Alberstadt
New York, New York
Who Painted the Lion? An Analysis of the Wife of Bath in Chaucer’s
Canterbury Tales
Alexander Thompson Albert
Towson, Maryland
The Influence of War and Peace on Individuals in War and Peace
Emmet Allen
Lexington, Kentucky
Discovery and Concealment – An Examination of Meaning and
Sedimentation in Husserl’s Crisis of European Sciences
August Baganz
Annapolis, Maryland
And Repudiating Immolation: The Motion Towards Understanding in
Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses
Thomas Balding
Long Island, New York
Free Will and the Individual in War and Peace – An Investigation of Man’s
Ability to Act in a Historical World
Morgan Robert Edward Ballard-Wheeler
Tucson, Arizona
Love’s Language in Tristan und Isolde – An Exploration of Musical Meaning
Darcy Marie Bohlin
Santa Fe, New Mexico
On the Amorality of Forgiveness
Anne Lindsay Brong
The Cumulative Action of Creation – A Calculus Under Darwin
Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania
�Martha Campbell
Annapolis, Maryland
The Perfect Words in The Perfect Order – The Power of the Poetic in Soren
Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling and Whether it Succeeds in Saying The
Unspeakable
Charles John Carpenter
Farmington, Connecticut
The Natural Social Man – Finding Morality Free of Prejudice in Rousseau’s
Emile
Cole Caudle
Sulphur, Oklahoma
Dynamic Language – An essay concerning how our conception of language
shapes how we engage with the world
Yu Chieh Chang
Taichung, Taiwan
Between Love and Suffering – Confessional Language in Dostoevsky’s Crime
and Punishment
Parker James Chlovechok
Cambridge, Ohio
Hindsight is Twenty-Twenty - An Analysis of the Different Forms of Memory
and their Applications to Life and the Creative Process
Raeann Clement
Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago
A Pursuit of Virtue
Adelaide, Australia
Time, Nature, & Empathy: A Portrait of Humanity in Goethe’s Faust
Los Angeles, California
Kathmandu, Nepal
Zarathustra’s Solitude – A Path to Self-Overcoming
Collin Doherty
Richmond, Virginia
A Moral Bath- Pierre’s Pursuit of Happiness in War and Peace
“…And the Battlefield is the Heart of Man”: An Inquiry into Love, Judgement,
and Suffering in The Brothers Karamazov
Sierra Engdahl
Estero, Florida
How to Build a Good European: Nietzsche’s Pursuit of a Reformed Science
Noah Estes
Mosier, Oregon
On Storytelling: The Art of Experience, Perception, and Symbolism in Mark
Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Sadie Bromberg Funk
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Inseparably Interconnected Infinitesimal Elements: An Exploration of
Tolstoy’s Science of History and its Mathematical Possibilities
Tianqi (Simon) Gao
Beijing, People’s Republic of China
The Idea of “Conflicts” in Federalist Papers and Its Misuse in American
Politics
Pasadena, Maryland
Pain: The Price for Greatness
Carlsbad, California
Death for Philosophers –A Guide to Dispelling the Fear of Death Through
Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things
Beebs Hartzell
Houston, Texas
Maddie Nell Fortier Jane
Charlottesville, Virginia
What Giants? An Exploration of Laughter in Cervantes’ Don Quixote
Annapolis, Maryland
On the Isolation Present in the Modern Poetry of Charles Baudelaire
Kesi Emily Dremel
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Antigone: Oedipus’s Complex Daughter
Gorgias: The Rhetoric of Shame
Mary Dray
Ryan Andrew Eberlein
Mitchell Harris
How Ghosts and Art Catch Consciences
Nishan Dhungel
Washington, District of Columbia
Marx, Engels, Ricardo, & Smith- Social labor: Marx’s Critique of Vulgar
Economy
Jodi-Ann Griffin
Jack McGregor Condie
Sam Cooper
Samuel Dreyer
Annapolis, Maryland
Kaila Nicole Johnson
Hagerstown, Maryland
On Violence and Virtue: Hamlet and the Nature of Satisfaction in Revenge
Stories
�Anton Olegovich Kalmysh
Yekaterinburg, Russia
The Limitations of Prospero’s Project and Power
Sila Karabiber
Sakarya, Turkey
Why Two Geometries: The Story of Parallel Lines
Beimnet Kebede
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Irregularity: The Pseudo-Perfect Garden- A Deliberation of Perfection and
its Place Within God’s Creative Process
Alexander Kocinsky
Trumbull, Connecticut
Cairo, Egypt
Alone on the Island of Man’s Knowledge – An Examination of the Social and
Asocial in Hayy ibn Yaqzan
Jameson DeWeese Marshall
Fairfax, Virginia
Loving others, by loving ourselves – An exploration of happiness in
Rousseau’s Emile
Tyler Michael Mazur
Cambridge, Ohio
The Fruits That We Bear – An exploration of character and action in
Aristotle’s On Poetics and what the art of fiction tells us about our
perception of reality
Scott Stanaway McCrae
Silver Spring, Maryland
The Tension Within the Leaf: How Conflicting Ends Manifest in the Growing
Plant
Portland, Oregon
A Quantum of Causality – Kantian Metaphysics and Quantum Mechanics
Joined
Vienna, Virginia
Achilles’ Wager – On Fate in the Iliad
West Chester, Pennsylvania
Fear of Change: A Look at Time in the Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal
Mackenzie Richard–Daffner
Williamstown, Massachusetts
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun – I Am the Walrus – The
Beatles
Erica Rochelle Root
Ludington, Michigan
Redemption and Damnation of Humanity: A Story Portrayed by the Lovers of
Gounod’s Faust
James Edward Rubidge
Westport, Connecticut
well maybe I’ve been wrong, maybe my intentions are irrelevant, but
honestly, it’s not just for me. An Analysis of Maturity Through Henry IV Part I
Sterling, Virginia
Change We Can Believe In – Knowledge, Necessity, and History in
Philosophical Fragments
Hanover, Pennsylvania
Finding Satisfaction in a Material World - An Analysis of Lucretius’ On the
Nature of Things
Family and Leadership in Shakepeare’s The Tempest
Elinatan Nelson
Zachary Radford
Kassem Ayad Mansour
John Schuyler Monday
To Whom Do I Owe This Alienation? An Inquiry into Words and Meaning in
Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
John Pell
Sacramento, California
Hegel’s Critique of Pure Morality – The Use and Abuse of Conscience in
Hegel’s Elements of the Philosophy of Right
Sean Miller
Stockholm, Sweden
Edan Moses Otto
“Man Errs as Long as he Will Strive”
Zachary Leveroni
Elisabeth Morell
Thousand Oaks, California
Gabriela Sanchez
Wellington, Florida
Miraculous Artworks – On Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition
Anna Seban
Davis, California
Swann in Search of Love and Art: The Role of Art, Aesthetics, and
Appreciation in Swann’s Way
Eireamhán Mitha Semple
Dublin, Ireland & Islamabad, Pakistan
The Generalisation of Economic Thought – An essay on The General Theory
by John Maynard Keynes
�Aishwarya Sharma
Kathmandu, Nepal
MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS
Who Is Antigone? Living a Life Opposed to Life
Glen “Quinn” LeRoy Shivel V
Kennebunkport, Maine
What Sort of Things Are we? Understanding our behavior through the
teachings of Epictetus.
Jakob Stief
St. Louis, Missouri
The Leap of Faith: Resolving the Dialectic between the Esthetic and the
Ethical in Kierkegaard’s Either/Or
Zuowen Tang
How Kant Saved Me from the Void
Mary Elizabeth Turner
Cedar City, Utah
Descartes’ Approach
Muntinlúpa City, Philippines
The Traveler’s Mind, from Both Sides of Jonathan Swift’s Fourth Wall
Grace Villmow
Brookings, South Dakota
Judged, Sentenced, And Condemned - An Exploration of the Truth Behind
Misogyny in Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies
Logan Jefferey Zimmerman
Andrew Dorchester
Washington, District of Columbia
Gregory LaMontagne
Jordan Timothy Poyner
Jordana Leah Stern Rozenman
Quang Ngai, Vietnam
Eloping in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Alberto Clemente Antonio Valenzuela III
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Jaime Marquez
Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China
Hung “Jay” Tram
Lee David Cranberg
Wray, Colorado
Confronting the Mask. An Investigation of the Prelude to a Philosophy of the
Future.
Ryan Shinkel
Annapolis, Maryland
Arlington, Virginia
Winona Lake, Indiana
Washington, District of Columbia
Annapolis, Maryland
�PRIZES AND AWARDS
To the Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished preceptorial
essay in the year 2022.
Offered by the Alumni Association
How Might a Machine Intend?
To the member of the Senior Class who has written the best senior essay.
Siobhán Petersen, Co-Winner
Offered in memory of Susan Irene Roberts, of the Class of 1966
In Search of Physical Reality: A Journey Through Schrödinger’s Mathematical
Derivation of the Quantum Wave Function
The Three Peaks of Aristotle’s Ethics:
A Critique of Magnanimity through Friendship and Wisdom
Sylvie McKnight-Milles
Quinn Rifkin, Co-Winner
Honorable Mention
On Personal Freedom and Historical Inevitability in Tolstoy’s War and Peace
Caroline Ritter
To the member of the Junior Class who has written the best annual essay.
Offered by Mrs. Leslie Clark Stevens in memory of her daughter-in-law, Kathryn Mylroie
Stevens
To a member of the Senior Class, for excellence in speaking.
Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland
Isabel Emond
To the student who submits the best English version of a Greek text.
Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus
Stephen Carino
Dorothea Brooke’s Death and Resurrection through Art
Dolan Polglaze
Honorable Mention
Yucen Han
To the member of the Sophomore Class who has written the best annual essay.
Offered under the will of the late Judge Walter I. Dawkins, of the Class of 1880
To the student who submits the best English version of a French poem.
Let Him Who Has Ears Listen – Parable, Christian Privacy,
and the Mechanics of Transformation
Finn Yepkle
To the member of the Freshman Class who has written the best annual essay.
Saving Glaucon’s Soul – An Examination of Socrates’ Answer
in the Republic in Relation to Glaucon’s Character
Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors
LE CORBEAU ET LE RENARD FABLE
Ava Lehrman
To the student who submits a fine original English poem.
Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry
Untitled
Lucie McCarthy
Victoria Horsman
Honorable Mention
A Noble Risk and a Noble Lie: The Doubt and Deception of Socrates
Kaleth Cushman
Honorable Mention
When Rajani poured her love
Bibhusan Chapagain
Honorable Mention
Character in Nicomachean Ethics: Who is to Blame?
Honorable Mention
A Reservation
Michael Engstrom
Chelsea Simons
To the Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished tutorial essay in the
2021-2022 academic year.
Offered in Memory of Laurence Berns by a donation from Joe Coelho
Neither Evening nor Dawn: A Comparison of Μεγαλοψυχία and Σοφία in the
‘Nicomachean Ethics’
Jules Spiese
To the student who submits a fine original musical composition.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Caritas Society 1987-1991
Alma redemptoris mater
Tarik Mahmud
�To the student who submits a fine essay on a piece of music.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Caritas Society 1987-1991
Elli Rees
To the student who submits the most elegant solution of a synthetic problem.
Offered by the Class of 1986 in memory of Bryce Jacobsen, of the Class of 1942, Tutor and
Director of Athletics Emeritus
Paolo Medelius
To the student who submits the most elegant solution of an analytical problem.
Offered in memory of James R. McClintock, of the Class of 1965
Paolo Medelius
To the student who carries out a fine laboratory project.
Offered in memory of Curtis Wilson by the Class of 1963
Not awarded
To the members of the Senior class, through participation, leadership, and
sportsmanship, have contributed most to the SJC athletic program, a special blazer.
Jacob Lees
Ava Lehrman
To the member of the Senior Class who has contributed outstanding service to the
Greater Annapolis Community.
Offered by the Caritas Society of St. John’s College
Ezra Melchor
To the member of the Senior Class who has demonstrated the greatest care for and
service to youth who reside in the City of Annapolis.
Offered by the friends and family of Marvin B. Cooper, of the Class of 1969
Alayna Raymond
To the member of the Senior Class who submits the best work of visual art to the
Community Art Exhibition, the Charles Vernon Moran Prize.
Daryl Locke
To the Senior who has demonstrated excellence in the arts, literature, or sciences,
the Walter S. Baird prize.
World within Hjelmslev Disk
Rose Zhang
�CONGRATULATIONS, ALUMNI.
Stay in touch. Get involved. Give back.
sjc.edu
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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
���
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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.”
�
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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. 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.”
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ST JOHN'S
College
ANNA POLIS• SANTA FE
2020
COM MEN CEM ENT
EXER CISE S
Sunday I May 10
Two Thous and and Twenty
Annapolis I Maryland
�PROGRAM
For the Two Hundred Twenty-Eighth
Commencement in the
Three Hundred Twenty-Fourth Year
of the College
Panayiotis Kanelos
Welcome
President of the College
Announcement of Prizes and Awards
President Kanelos
Joseph Macfarland, A87
Dean of the College
Address to the Graduating Class
Margaret Kirby
Tutor
Conferring of Undergraduate Degrees
Conferring of Graduate Degrees
Welcome
Dean Macfarland
Emily H. Brooker Langston
Associate Dean for the Graduate Program
Alumni Association Board
�BACHELOR OF ARTS
Jawaid Beg
Dublin, California
The Problem of Piety in Sophocles' Antigone
Tbel Abuseridze
Batu mi, Georgia
On Voyaging
Kapil Adhikari
Kathmandu, Nepal
Violence, Ethics, and Freedom in Simone de Beauvoir's Ethics of Ambiguity
Zainab Noor Ahmad
Lucknow, India
With Fem inine Love & Beauty: A Close Look at Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
Angelika Nora Alberstadt
Who Painted the Lion? An Analysis of the Wife of Bath in Chaucer's Canterbury
Tales
Towson, Maryland
The Influence of War and Peace on Individuals in War and Peace
Emmet Henry Allen
Discovery and Concealment: An Examination of Meaning and Sedimentation in
Husserl's Crisis of European Sciences
Edgewater, Maryland
And Repudiating Immolation: The Motion Towards Understanding in Faulkner's Go
Down, Moses
Thomas Clare Balding
Shirley, New York
Free Will and the Ind ividual in War and Peace: An Investigation of Man's Ability to
Act in a Historical World
Morgan Robert Edward Ballard-Wheeler
Tucson, Arizona
Love's Language in Tristan und Isolde: An Exploration of Musical Meaning
Sanju Baral
Mechi, Nepal
East Williston, New York
Fellow Feeling: A Study of Reform in George Eliot's Middlemarch
Subodh Bhandari
Kathmandu, Nepal
Diving into Faith: An Investigation on How One Can Acquire Faith
Lisle, Illinois
Dead Cats: An Exploration of Morbid Curiosity through Nietzsche's The Birth of
Tragedy
Darcy Marie Bohlin
Santa Fe, New Mexico
On the Amorality of Forgiveness
Westminster, Maryland
Faith, Torn Apart: An Examination of Self-Transformatio n in Kierkegaard's Fear and
Trembling
Annie Lindsey Brong
Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania
The Cumulative Act ion of Creation: A Calcu lus under Darwin
Martha Elaine Campbell
Annapolis, Maryland
The Perfect Words in the Perfect Order: The Power of the Poetic in S0ren
Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling and Whether it Succeeds in Saying the
Unspeakable
Charles John Carpenter
Farmington, Connecticut
The Natural Social Man: Finding Morality Free of Prejudice in Rousseau's Emile
Kailin Ann Carter
The Certainty of Uncertainty: (Planck's constant (h) and the knowledge of
probability)
Jared John Bassmann
From Throat to Belly: The Body and the Self in Walt Whitman's
"Song of Myself"
Elaina Terrell Bowman
Venice, Florida
August Salladin Baganz
Buda, Texas
Robert D. Blankshain Jr.
New York, New York
Alexander Thompson Albert
Athena Gabrielle Callistra Berreles-Luna
Beaverton, Oregon
Truth in the House of Lies: The Greatness of Shakespeare's King Henry V
James Patrick Casey
Fairfield, Connecticut
A New Great Man: On Historiography and First Principles in War and Peace
�I
Cole Dillon Caudle
Sulphur, Oklahoma
Dynamic Language: An Essay Concerning How Our Conception of Language Shapes
How We Engage with the World
Yu-chieh Chang
Taichung, Taiwan
Between Love and Suffering: Confessional Language in Dostoevsky's Crime and
Punishment
Parker James Chlovechok
Cambridge, Ohio
Hindsight is Twenty-Twenty: An Analysis of the Different Forms of Memory and
their Applications to Life and the Creative Process
Yoon Kyoung Choh
Seoul, South Korea
The Origin of Morality: Focusing on the Meaning of Death in Hamlet
Raeann Alyah Clement
Dabadie, Trinidad
Paso Robles, California
Hell is Empty and All the Devils Are Here: Justice, Faith, and Love in The Brothers
Karamazov
North Adelaide, Australia
Time, Nature, & Empathy: A Portrait of Humanity in Goethe's Faust
Luis Francisco Contreras Moran
Puebla, Mexico
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
Zarathustra's Solitude: A Path to Self-Overcoming
Dorothy Rose Diaz-Sullivan
Hyannis, Massachusetts
Love and Anguish in Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Collin Gray Doherty
Richmond, Virginia
Gorgias: The Rhetoric of Shame
I
Annapolis, Maryland
On the Isolation Present in the Modern Poetry of Charles Baudelaire
Clarksville, Tennessee
A Moral Bath: Pierre's Pursuit of Happiness in War and Peace
Samuel Alexander Dreyer
Washington, District of Columbia
Marx, Engels, Ricardo, & Smith
Social Labor: Marx's Critique of Vulgar Economy
Charlotte, North Carolina
"... And the battlefield is the heart of man.": An Inquiry into Love, Judgement, and
Suffering in The Brothers Karamazov
Sierra Irene Engdahl
Estero, Florida
Noah Kai Estes
Moiser, Oregon
On Storytelling: The Art of Experience, Perception, and Symbolism in Mark Twain's
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Ennui in Baudelaire's Le Voyage
Evanston, Illinois
Divine Nature: Language and Knowledge in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
Mackenzie Ann Richard Daffner
Kathmandu, Nepal
How to Build a Good European: Nietzsche's Pursuit of a Reformed Science
How Ghosts and Art Catch Consciences
Benjamin Clarke Crispell
Nishan Dhungel
Ryan Andrew Eberlein
Till Death Do Us Part: On Love and Marriage in Rousseau's Emile
Samuel Austin Cooper
God's Love, Finitudes' Rage: Which Shall Conquer You? A Detailed Analysis of
the Intricacies Involved in a Person's Journey to Faith in Kierkegaard's Fear and
Trembling
Kesi Emily Dremel
Jessica Michelle Cole
Julia Morgan Cooper
Kathmandu, Nepal
Mary Margaret Dray
A Pursuit of Virtue
Jack McGregor Condie
Aashish Dhakal
Williamstown, Massachusetts
Sitting in an English Garden Waiting for the Sun-"I am the Walrus," The Beatles
Zachary Stuart Flaugher*
Lafayette, New Jersey
�Anne Isabel Freeman
Cary, North Carolina
Let Us Pretend That Life Makes Sense: An Essay on Language and Reality in The
Waves
Sadie Bromberg Funk
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Inseparably Interconnected Infinitesimal Elements: An Exploration of Tolstoy's
Science of History and its Mathematical Possibilities
Tianqi Gao
Beijing, People's Republic of China
The Idea of "Conflicts" in Federalist Papers and its Misuse in American Politics
Jodi-Ann Andrene Griffin
Millersville, Maryland
William Joseph Harrington
Irving, Texas
"By means of signs, including the tempo": An Investigation of Sign and Tempo in
Nietzsche's Ecce Homo
Mitchell Lewis Harris
Carlsbad, California
Death for Philosophers: A Guide to Dispelling the Fear of Death Through Lucretius'
The Nature of Things
Elizabeth Olivia Hartzell
Houston, Texas
Antigone: Oedipus's Complex Daughter
Andrew Rowe Hastings
Brunswick, Maine
Across the Great Divide: Thinking About Mechanics, Pre and Post Quantum
Rocky Hill, Connecticut
The Moth, Lovers, and Dying Man: A Portrait of Beauty in Les Fleurs du Mal
Chance Prehn Hogan
Leesburg, Virginia
Anti-Matter for the Master Plan: Euripides's Bacchae as a Self-Conscious Tragedy
Isaac Allen Hoke
Robinson, Illinois
The Artist and the Child: An Exploration of Perspective in Marcel Proust's In Search
of Lost Time
Maddie Nell Fortier Jane
Hagerstown, Maryland
On Violence and Virtue: Hamlet and the Nature of Satisfaction in Revenge Stories
Samuel Emerson Jones
Alna, Maine
Faith and Happiness: An Exploration of Fear and Trembling as the Path to
Happiness
Peter Cornelis Kaemingk
Zeist, Netherlands
Give Me Imagination or Give Me Death! On the Ideological Foundations of
Democracy in the United States via Tocqueville and Pascal
Anton Olegovich Kalmysh
Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation
The Limitations of Prospero's Project and Power
Pain: The Price for Greatness
Nancy Renee Hilton
Kaila Nicole Johnson
Charlottesville, Virginia
What Giants? An Exploration of Laughter in Cervantes' Don Quixote
Sila Karabiber*
Sakarya, Turkey
Why Two Geometries: The Story of Parallel Lines
Su Karagoz
Istanbul, Turkey
Dionysus Unleashed: Piety In The Bacchae
Beimnet Negash Kebede
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Augustine's Prayer: A Sinner's Guide to Salvation
The Exploration of How a Sinful Creature Can Interact with God that is Outside of
Sin
Kidus Yonas Kebede
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Irregularity, the Pseudo-Perfect Garden: A Deliberation of Perfection and its Place
Within God's Creative Process
Alexander David Kocinsky
Trumbull, Connecticut
"Man errs as long as he will strive"
Axel P. Krieger
New York. New York
Hubris the Tyrant? On the Making of a Tyrant in Oedipus Tyrannus
Damon Theodore Kutzin
Genolier, Switzerland
Moving the World: The Role of God in Philosophical Beginnings
Esther Jee-Hae Lee
Timonium, Maryland
Crim e and Punishment: Redemption-The Murderer and the Harlot
�Jeong Ho Lee
Seongnam, South Korea
Put Thy Trust in God: Alyosha's Dynam ic Faith in The Brothers Karamazov
Zachary Michael Leveroni
Elk Grove, California
Hegel's Critique of Pure Morality: The Use and Abuse of Conscience in Hegel's
Elements of the Philosophy of Right
Yixing Li
Shenyang, People's Republic of China
Motion through the Lens of Quantum Mechanics
Yuqing Liao
Beijing, People's Republic of China
A Path Open to All: An Analysis on Critique of Pure Reason
Timon Luo
Brooklyn, New York
The Way to Nirvana: Purpose of the Pilgrimage in The Journey to the West
Louis Nathan Mainwaring Foster
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Cairo, Egypt
Alone on the Island of Man's Knowledge: An Examination of the Social and Asocial
in Hayy ibn Yaqzan
Jameson Deweese Marshall
Fairfax, Vi rginia
Loving Others by Loving Ourselves: An Exploration of Happiness in Rousseau's
Emile
ZawMaw
Yangon, Myanmar
Wisdom of Self-Experience in Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha
Cambridge, Ohio
The Fruits That We Bear: An Exploration of Character and Action in Aristotle's On
Poetics and What the Art of Fiction Tells Us About Our Perception of Reality
Sterling, Virginia
Change We Can Believe In: Knowledge, Necessity, and History in Philosophical
Fragments
Zihan Mei
Dionysos's Presence in Th e Bacchae
Finding Satisfaction in a Material World: An Analysis of Lucretius' On the Nature of
Things
Atanas Zdravkov Minev
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Faith: Bringing a Thought- Project to Life, An Essay on S0ren Kierkegaard's
Philosophical Fragments
John Schuyler Monday
Thousand Oaks, California
Family and Leadership in Shakespeare's The Tempest
Elisabeth Marie Morell
Hangzhou, People's Re public of China
Stockholm, Sweden
To Whom Do I Owe This Alienation? An Inquiry into Words and Meaning in Hegel's
Phenomenology of Spirit
Maplewood, New Jersey
Faraday and Maxwell's Theory of the Whole
Thomas Christopher Mountain
Kassem Ayad Mansour
Scott Stanaway Mccrae
Hanover, Pennsylvania
Reuben Irving Morris
Capital Alive: What Could it Mean?
Tyler Michael Mazur
Sean Alexander Miller
Baltimore, Maryland
Christianity 101: An Examination of Kierkegaard's Established System in
Philosophical Fragments and its Applicabi lity to the Gospel of John
Elinatan Israel Nelson
Silver Spring, Maryland
The Tension Within the Leaf: How Conflicting Ends Manifest in the Growing Plant
Raymond Elijah O'Donnell
Severna Park, Maryland
Epictetus' Principles: An Investigation via Kantian Experience
Luke Timothy Olson
Annapolis, Maryland
How Should We Learn? How Class and Folly Influence Education in Aristophanes'
Clouds
Connor Patrick O'Malley*
Annapolis, Maryland
Edan Moses Otto
Portland, Oregon
A Quantum of Causality: Kant ian Metaphysics and Quantum Mechanics Joined
Yunju Park
Changwon, South Korea
Creators of Society: Mark Twain's Th e Adventures of Huckleberry Fin n
I
�Rose Susan Pelham*
Decatur, Georgia
John Francesco Pell
Vienna, Virginia
West Chester, Pennsylvania
Arlington, Virginia
Brendan Myles Reicherter
Development of Character Through Music in James Joyce's Ulysses
Goyang, Republic of Korea
Ludington, Michigan
Redemption and Damnation of Hu manity: A Story Portrayed by the Lovers of
Gounod's Faust
Greenbrier, Tennessee
Westport, Connecticut
I
Beijing, People's Republic of China
Hegelian Dialectics in The Phenomenology of Spirit
Gabriela Maria Sanchez
Wellington, Florida
Miraculous Artworks: On Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition
Lillian Rose Scanlan
Honolulu, Hawaii
Orphaned Souls in Moby-Dick
Saint Louis, Missouri
The Leap of Faith: Resolving the Dialectic between the Esthetic and the Ethical in
Kierkegaard's Either/Or
Swann in Search of Love and Art: The Role of Art, Aesthetics, and Appreciation in
Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
How Kant Saved Me from the Void
Thomas Jacob Tatum
Louisvi lle, Kentucky
On the Meno: Can Knowledge be Shared?
Nicholas Donaldson Thorp
Sanford, Florida
Do I Believe in Red Roses? An Exp loration of Belief in Thomas Reid's An I nquiry
into the Mind and a Response to the Melancholy of Rad ical Skepticism
Quang Ngai, Vietnam
Eloping in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Claire Antonia Tucker
Davis, California
Bend, Oregon
Descartes' Geometrie: A Study of Form and Imagination
Hung Khanh Tram
Portland, Oregon
The Will to Choose: Ethics and Esthetics in Kierkegaard's Either/Or
Swann's Way
What Sort of Th ing Are We? Understanding our Behavior Through the Teachings of
Epictetus
Zuowen Tang
"Well maybe I've been wrong/ maybe my intentions are irrelevant/ but honestly,
it's not just for me": An Analysis of Maturity Th rough Henry IV Part I
Anna Joelle Carole Se ban
Kennebunkport, Maine
Abigail Elizabeth Stuart
Catechism of the Two Co mmandments
Qingyang San
Glen Leroy Shivel
Jakob Ethan Stief
Erica Rochelle Root
James Edward Rubidge
Kathmandu, Nepal
Emma Lilia Stewart
Inevitability of Going Beyond the Socratic
Lucy Cabell Ross
Aishwarya Sharma
Who Is Ant igone? Living a Life Opposed to Life
Fear of Change: A Look at Time in Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal
Han Kyul Rhee
Dublin, Ireland & Islamabad, Pakistan
The Generalisation of Economic Thought: An Essay on The General Theory by John
Maynard Keynes
Achilles' Wager: On Fate in the Iliad
Zachary Augustine Radford
Eireamhan Mitha Semple
Annapo li s, Maryland
The Filial Bonds of Sympathy: Observations of the Commun ion between Man and
Nature
�Cedar City, Utah
Mary Elizabeth Turner
Descartes' Approach
Alberto Clemente Antonio Valenzuela III
Naveed Ahsan •
Manila, Philippines
The Traveler's Mind: From Both Sides of Jonathan Swift's Fourth Wall
Grace Maren Villmow
Glen Ellyn, Illinois
in Christine de Pizan's the Book of the City of Ladies
Johnstown, Colorado
Home is Where the Heart Leads: Using Resourcefulness and Self-Reliance to Go on
Living
Xiaotian Wang
Annapolis, Maryland
Meanings of Language: An Analysis of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
Mark Everett Wittmer
Centennial, Colorado
Distant Music: Art, Language, and Mediation in James Joyce's "The Dead"
Xin Ye
Hangzhou, People's Republic of China
The Man of Faith
Julian Paul Zeidler
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
Confronting the Mask: An Investigation of the Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
Aidan Thomas Zito
Arlington , Virginia
Purcellville, Virginia
Hudson, Ohio
New York, New York
Patrick Burke Corry •
Seattle, Washington
Thomas Farrell Cox •
Falls Church, Virginia
Lee Cranberg •
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Jacob Jabulani Luseini Davenport •
Syracuse, New York
Liam M. Dempsey
Annapolis, Maryland
Andrew David Dorchester •
Madeleine Nicole Emholtz
Carson James Fall
Washington, District of Columbia
Gulf Breeze, Florida
Washington, District of Columbia
Zachary Nathaniel Greene
Indianapolis, Indiana
Samuel Philip Sexe Hage
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Jaime Marquez •
Thomas Matthew McGuire
Glen Burnie, Maryland
Jacksonville, Florida
Gabrielle Cristine Bruestle •
Gregory LaMontagne •
The Ecstasy of Heroism: On the Line Between Delusion and Insanity
Logan Jefferey Zimmerman
Shane Thomas Ayers •
Nicholas John Bartulovic
Judged, Sentenced, And Condemned: An Exploration of the Truth Behind Misogyny
Katharine Wall
MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS
Joyce Olin •
Margaret Vrooman Post •
Jordan Poyner
Annapolis, Maryland
Arlington, Virginia
Georgetown, Delaware
Annapolis, Maryland
Palm City, Florida
Winona Lake, Indiana
To Win Sorrow Beyond What Is Given: Arrogance and Retribution in Homer's
Adam Reed
Odyssey
Jordana Rozenman
Washington, District of Columbia
Kelly Ann Warner •
Indianapolis, Indiana
* Upon completion of requirements
Brandon Matthew Wasicsko
t Degree conferred January 15, 2020
Olney, Maryland
Plantation, Florida
�To the Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished tutorial essay in the
2019-2020 academic year.
Offered in Memory of Laurence Berns
PRIZES AND AWARDS
The Soul with Good Sense Guides Correctly
To the member of the Senior Class who has written the best senior essay.
Samuel Philip Sexe Hage
Offered in memory of Susan Irene Roberts, of the Class of 1966
The Man of Faith
Xin Ye
To a member of the Senior Class, for excellence in speaking.
Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland
Jared John Bassmann
Honorable Mention
The Cumulative Action of Creation- A Calculus Under Darwin
Annie Lindsey Brong
To the student who submits the best English version of a Greek text.
Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus
Abigail Elizabeth Stuart
Ivan Nicholas Zembrusky
To the member of the Junior Class who has written the best annual essay.
Offered by Mrs. Leslie Clark Stevens in memory of her daughter-in-law,
Kathryn Mylroie Stevens
Not Awarded
To the member of the Sophomore Class who has written the best annual essay.
Offered under the will of the late Judge Walter I. Dawkins, of the Class of 1880
The Role of Time of Augustine's Confession
Brandon Chon Garcia
Naked and Afraid
Olivia Star Pittard
To the member of the Freshman Class who has written the best annual essay.
Limits of the Noble: the Human and the Div ine in Prince H ector
Allayah Drake Mason-Koehler
To the Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished preceptorial
essay in the year 2019.
Offered by the Alumni Association
To the student who submits the best English version of a French poem.
Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors
Not Awarded
Honorable Mention
Morgan Robert Edward Ballard-Wheeler
To the student who submits a fine original English poem.
Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry
"Anagram"
Nortaute Elena-Ruta Grintalis
Honorable Mention
"Your Eyes were Violets"
Samuel J. Berrettini
To the student who submits a tine original musical composition.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Caritas Society 1987-1991
"Lament for Viola"
Love and Suffering in Joyce's Ulysses
Christine Marie Mooradian
Morgan Robert Edward Ballard-Wheeler
To the student who submits a fine essay on a piece of music.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Caritas Society 1987-1991
Morgan Robert Edward Ballard-Wheeler
�To the student who submits the most elegant solution of a synthetic problem.
Offered by the Class of 1986 in memory of Bryce Jacobsen, of the Class of 1942, Tutor
and Director of Athletics Emeritus
Lkhagvabadrakh Sereeter
To the student who submits the most elegant solution of an analytical problem.
Offered in memory of James R. McClintock, of the Class of 1965
Not Awarded
To the student who carries out a fine laboratory project.
Offered in memory of Curtis Wilson by the Class of 1963
Morgan Robert Edward Ballard-Wheeler
To the members of the Senior class, through participation, leadership, and
sportsmanship, have contributed most to the SJC athletic program, a special blazer.
Jared John Bassmann
Raeann Alyah Clement
Mitchell Lewis Harris
Elizabeth Olivia Hartzell
To the member of the Senior Class who has contributed outstanding service to the
Greater Annapolis Community.
Offered by the Caritas Society of St. John's College
Kesi Emily Dremel
To the member of the Senior Class who has demonstrated the greatest care for and
service to youth who reside in the City of Annapolis.
Offered by the friends and family of Marvin B. Cooper, of the Class of 1969
Reuben Irving Morris
To the member of the Senior Class who submits the best work of visual art to the
Community Art Exhibition, the Charles Vernon Moran Prize.
Portrait of the Artist Missing Croquet (and needing to Shave), oil on canvas
Nicholas Donaldson Thorp
Honorable Men tion
Angel Wings, conte crayon on wood
Julia Morgan Cooper
To the Senior who has demonstrated excellence in the arts, literature, or sciences,
the Walter S. Baird prize.
From the Bottom of the Well, painting
Annie Lindsey Brong
�
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SJC
St.John's
College
2019
COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES
Sunday I May 12
Two Thousand and Nineteen
Annapolis I Maryland
�PROGRAM
For the Two Hundred Twenty-Seventh
Commencement in the
Three Hundred Twenty-Third Year
of the College
Carrollton Brass Quintet
Prelude
Academic Procession
Carrollton Brass Quintet
The National Anthem
Francis Scott Key, Alumnus, Class of 1796
Panayiotis Kanelos
Welcome
President of the College
Announcement of Prizes and Awards
President Kanelos
Joseph Macfarland, A87
Dean of the College
Robert Abbott, A04
Address to the Graduating Class
Tutor
Conferring of Undergraduate Degrees
Conferring of Graduate Degrees
President Kanelos
Dean Macfarland
President Kanelos
Emily H. Brooker Langston
Associate Dean for the Graduate Program
Academic Recession
Carrollton Brass Quintet
�Cameron Milford Byerly
BACHELOR OF ARTS
Cordelia Grace Marie Achen
Otis Orchards, Washington
Outer Spaces Inner Intuitions: How Proofs Shape Our Relation to Mathematics in
Euclid and Lobachevsky
Layton Aho
Rindge, New Hampshire
Invisible Evil: Language, Deception and Authorial Intent in Paradise Lost
Awss Al-Janabi
Babel, Republic of Iraq
Crownsville, Maryland
Marlette, Michigan
Alexandria, Virginia
Millions of Facts of Distributed Light Vision in the Iliad's Deathless Prosopopoeia
Dorothea Sihler Bowerfind
Alexandria, Virginia
A Contemplation of Creation in Genesis: The Dangers of Harmony to Human Life
Zachary Bowman
Arnold, Maryland
Memory, Emotion, Intimacy: How Memory Acts Through Emotion in Proust's Swann's
Way
Dylan Francis Briceno-Hawkins
Silver Spring, Maryland
Columbia, South Carolina
Words, Words, Words to Tell My Story: On the Power of Narrative in Shakespeare's
Hamlet
Matteo Scapini Burrell
Social Problems in Language: A Wittgensteinian Perspective
Meaning: Universal, Contextual, Ethical
Zachary Alexander Cohen
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Erin Britany Compton
Kelsey Eileen Cumiskey
Bellevue, Washington
Chesapeake City, Maryland
The Legacy of the Barricade: Finding Light in the Darkness in Victor Hugo's Les
Miserables
Upper Marlboro, Maryland
Waterbury, Vermont
The Gadfly and the Cicadas: Countryside Madness in Plato's Phaedrus
Rhys Edward Davis
Arlington, Virginia
Communism as Naturalism and Naturalism as Humanism: Karl Marx on Human
Nature
Alex Gregory Dicken
Baltimore, Maryland
Rethinking Alienation: A Life Beyond Hegel's Absolute Spirit
Madeline Alyse Edwards
Spartanburg, South Carolina
The Middle Brother: Struggle and Redemption in Ivan Karamazov
Aisha Evita El-Khatib
Love, Mythos, and Pat Metheny
Jacob Samuel Burger
Guiyang, People's Republic of China
John Davis
On Suffering in John of the Cross's Dark Night of the Soul
Neal Bhattacharya
Weiouqing Chen
Order and Human Nature in Vitruvius· Ten Books on Architecture
Living in the Kingdom: An Exploration into the Self in Genesis and the Gospel of Luke
Henry William Bartholomew
Boundless the Deep: Why Evil is Possible, and Permitted, in Perfect Beings: John
Milton's Paradise Lost
Machiavelli's Man: On the Difference Between Men in The Prince
Fade-In: The Cinematography of Marcel Proust in Swann's Way
Samuel Grenfell Aston
Hillsborough, North Carolina
Gaithersburg, Maryland
The Poetic Relativity of Falling in Love
Graham Stuart Ferguson
Annapolis, Maryland
Deceit in Othello and Iago's True Self
Sagar Gaire
Madhyabindu, Nepal
Value, Labour and Alienation: On the Impact of the Dual Character of Commodities
and Labour on the Capitalist Mode of Production
�Rachel Marie Goad
Seth Elijah Kates
Woodbridge, Virginia
Desire's Lawful Bounds: Sexual Permission in Song of Solomon
Christian Douglas Gordon*
Sophia Kiang
Franktown, Virginia
Benjamin Nathaniel Haas
Dahye Kim
Karlena Anna Haase
Suwon-si, Republic of Korea
On The Characteristics of Humankind: A Linguistic Approach to Genesis 1-3
La Jolla, California
The Two Sides of Natasha Rostov
Carson Joanna King
Patrick David Hamann
Samuel Michael Harder
Prabesh Koirala
Alexander Brock Kwilinski
Vividness and ''I": An Investigation of the Notion of Self in David Hume's Treatise of
Human Nature
Rachael Elizabeth Brooker Langston
Creating Another Nature: The Inner Motions of the Artist At Work
Seung Eun Lee
Two is Strong Where One is Feeble: An Exploration of Love, Commitment and
Community in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.
Luque, Paraguay
The Other Woman: The Mastery of Self-Deception in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
Meredith Jane Lehan
Waldorf, Maryland
Smith Island, Maryland
An Eve-olution: An Investigation of Eve's Character Progression in Paradise Lost
Blessed are the Meek: An Exploration of Self in War and Peace and Hegel's
Phenomenology of Spirit
Tianxiang Li
Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China
Necessity, Contingency, and Freedom: An Analysis of Leibniz's World Through the
Lens of Computer Science
Burke, Virginia
The Illness Attending Ambition: On Cruelty and Weakness in Shakespeare's Macbeth
Yuan Liu
Yongin-si, Republic of Korea
Hangzhou, People's Republic of China
The Unhappy Consciousness' Path Towards Happiness: Why is the Confessions Not a
Journey of Self-hatred?
An Ordinary Miracle: The Still Life of Language in Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse
Desiree Lydia Jones
Annapolis, Maryland
"The Church!": Recognition and Recollection in Marcel Proust's Swann's Way
Annapolis, Maryland
Sarah Lynn Irving
Downers Grove, Illinois
Fear and Trembling as a Dialectical Lyric
East Greenwich, Rhode Island
Anna Margaret Hubbell
Pokhara, Nepal
Hiding Madness and Expressing Grief
Norwood, Massachusetts
Elizabeth Grace Holt
Bedminster, New Jersey
We Are in The Soup Together: Albert Camus' House of Mirrors
Bend, Oregon
The Birth of Tragicomedy: How Shakespeare Merges Opposites in A Midsummer
Night's Dream
Jaeyon Jo
Atlanta, Georgia
Nostalgia: The Sickness for the Return in Labyrinthine Time, Forward and Back are No
Different
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Man of Stone: How to Live According to Tolstoy
Zoe Hinman
Marquette, Michigan
The Nature of Revelation: The Expression of Art in Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse
Grant William Lorello
Queens, New York
Inside Out An Attempt to Find the Location of Phedre's Feelings
Gambrills, Maryland
Probabilistic Causality: On the Completeness and Elegance of Quantum Mechanics
I
�Katherine Mary Mahaney
Sacramento, California
Decoding the Language of Laughter: An Analysis of Comedy through Cervantes' Don
Quixote
Christopher Lee McGowen
Annapolis, Maryland
Chengdu, Sichuan, People's Republic of China
What Does It Mean for Us to be Human?: As Illustrated by the Descriptions of Oran,
Tarrou, and Rieux
Russell Thomas Mendez
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Middlemarch: The Study of a Mediocre Life: It's Everything You Thought It Would Be
and More
Thaddia Angelica Mantione
Clifton, Virginia
Taking on the Dimension of Immortality: In Pursuit of a Lasting Beauty in Baudelaire's
Les Fleurs du Mal
Falon Muire
Sycamore, Illinois
"Voi che sapete che cosa e amor, vedete s'io /'ho nel car": An Exploration of Love in
Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro
Patrick Sean Mullins
Arlington, Virginia
The Myth of Self: An Essay on the Reflexions au Sentences et Maxims Morales of
Francois, Due de La Rochefoucauld
Alexander Vago Muradian
Washington, District of Columbia
Don Quixote's Journey for Dulcinea in Master Pedro's Puppet Show
Hyun Jai Oh
Seoul, Republic of Korea
Washington, District of Columbia
Teaching and Philosophy in Plato's Theaetetus
Ethan Pellegrin
Understanding Sin and Satan in Paradise Lost
The Old Man and The Sea: An Argument Against the Hierarchy of Humanity and
Animals Explained in On the Soul
Tressie Sydney Rhoades
Hardy, Arkansas
Cyrus Albert Schiller
Potomac, Maryland
The Role of Art in Nietzsche's Moral Philosophy
Aisha Khanam Shahbaz
Rehoboth, Namibia
The Possibility of Human Progress in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace
Aidan William Shaw
Haddonfield, New Jersey
Shades of Morality in Hamlet
Christian Andrew Sheppard*
Morehead City, North Carolina
Ivan Romanovich Syritsyn
Omsk, Russian Federation
On Matters Pertaining to the Maintenance and Dissolution of the State: Or, Is It
Possible to Create a Perpetual Republic?
Yaxuan Tang
Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
When the Light Streams In: An Exploration of Raskolnikov's Character in Crime and
Punishment
Camille Rebecca Testa
Arlington, Virginia
Marxian Free Will and the Abstraction of the Objective World
Criticize the Critic: How Moliere Satirizes Self-Superiority in The Misanthrope
Val R. Pehrson
Mar Lin, Pennsylvania
Hide Your Demons: An Exploration of the Quality of Silence in Kierkegaard's Fear and
Trembling
Myopia and Justice in Aeschylus' Oresteia
Yiyang Mei
Dane Stephen Petchulis
Ayushma Thapa
Lalitpur, Nepal
Transcendence of Andrey Bolkonsky
Himanshu Thapa
Damauli, Nepal
What is a Karamazov Soul? Exploration of the Karamazovian Nature through
Suffering and Redemption in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
Milford, Delaware
Prasanna Jung Thapa
A Search for Certainty in Newton's Principia
Kathmandu, Nepal
�Kathryn Irene Trojanowski
Farmington. Michigan
Guilt & Redemption & Crime & Punishment
Thomas Anthony Troop
Lancaster. Pennsylvania
Sacrifice and Love in Othello and Much Ado About Nothing
Sophia Alicia Underwood
Nyack, New York
Everyone Has Gone Mad: An Investigation into Madness in The Tragedy of Hamlet
Willem Owen van Engen
Reston. Virginia
This English Monster: An Investigation of Richard of Gloucester in Shakespeare's
Richard Ill
Stacy Villibord
Washington. District of Columbia
Maximillian von Keudell
Kamuela. Hawaii
The Significance of the Other: An Analysis and Commentary on Hegel's Lord and
Bondsman Dialectic
Colin Kilpatrick Walker
Birmingham. Alabama
Substantial Being: Finding Ourselves through Materialism
Santa Cruz, California
Thinking about How Our Thoughts (and Will) Connect to Motion
Pasadena. Maryland
" ... I Put Away Childish Things": An Investigation into the Meaning and Merit of
Maturity in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Shatoujiao, People's Republic of China
Is Protagoras' Measure Doctrine Really Self-Refuting?
Abraham Liu Zhao
Washington, District of Columbia
Images of Ourselves
Yuejia Zhu
Number, Perception, and Continuity
* Upon completion of requirements
Greenbelt. Maryland
Joseph Richard Coelho
Annapolis, Maryland
Alejandro Ehrenberg
Mexico City, Mexico
Aakarsh Gottumukkala
Joseph Robert Hiles
Sherry Josephine Hinton
Teresa Anne Krone
Christina M. Lambert
Christine Marie Mooradian
Samuel John Peregrin
Ty Weiser-Podlech
Yingzi Zhang
Katherine Marion Badders
Anna E. Kaminski
The Portrayal of Eve in Paradise Lost
Cara Jane Wiley
MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS
Sammamish. Washington
Atlanta, Georgia
Glen Burnie, Maryland
Washington, District of Columbia
Chicago, Illinois
Charlton, Massachusetts
Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania
Edmond, Oklahoma
James Allan Phillips
Annapolis, Maryland
Tahseen Rasheed
Annapolis. Maryland
Nolan W. Reisen*
Dubuque, Iowa
Philip Janney Richmond
Annapolis, Maryland
Ryan Shinkel*
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Robera Tasissa*
Geoffrey Furste Young
Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
* Upon completion of requirements
Silver Spring, Maryland
Annapolis, Maryland
�PRIZES AND AWARDS
To a member of the Senior Class, for excellence in speaking.
Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland
Matteo Scapini Burrell
To the member of the Senior Class who has written the best senior essay.
Offered in memory of Susan Irene Roberts. of the Class of 1966
To the student who submits the best English version of a Greek text.
Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus
Desire's Lawful Bounds: Sexual Permission in Song of Solomon
Text: Plato,
Rachel Marie Goad
To the member of the Junior Class who has written the best annual essay.
Offered by Mrs. Leslie Clark Stevens in memory of her daughter-in-law,
Kathryn Mylroie Stevens
Samuel Michael Harder
To the student who submits the best English version of a French text.
Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors
Text: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Les Confessions (excerpt)
Damon Theodore Kutzin
Mapping the Island of Truth: An Investigation into the Possibility of Metaphysics
Damon Theodore Kutzin
To the member of the Sophomore Class who has written the best annual essay.
Offered under the will of the late Judge Walter I. Dawkins, of the Class of 1880
To the student who submits a fine original English poem.
Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry
"Moon-Ties"
Samuel Michael Harder
Poetry and Fame in the Divine Comedy
Samuel J. Berrettini
Repentance: The Song David Cannot Sing for Saul
To the student who submits a fine original musical composition.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Caritas Society 1987-1991
Untitled
Natalie Grace Walker
To the member of the Freshman Class who has written the best annual essay.
How to Hunt the Crocodile: An Investigation into the
Significance of Descriptive Information in Herodotus' History
Patrick David Hamann
To the student who submits a fine essay on a piece of music.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Caritas Society 1987-1991
A Line by Line Reading of Flood of Babylon
Jessie Ann Tagliani
Natalie Grace Walker
Honorable Mention
Honorable Mention
Tragedy and the Body: Fate in the Physical Form
Mi Tradi: A Contemplation of Donna Elvira's Conflict in Don Giovanni
Clio Simmons Jabine
To the Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished preceptorial
essay in the year 2018.
Offered by the Alumni Association
On Reason and Faith in Montaigne's Apology for Raymond Sebond
Leland Caswell Ellis Jr.
To the Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished tutorial essay in the
2018-2019 academic year.
Offered in Memory of Laurence Berns
Prudence and Virtue
Patrick Burke Corry
Morgan Robert Edward Ballard-Wheeler
To the student who submits the most elegant solution of a synthetic problem.
Offered by the Class of 1986 in memory of Bryce Jacobsen, of the Class of 1942, Tutor and
Director of Athletics
Not Awarded
To the student who submits the most elegant solution of an analytical problem.
Offered in memory of James R. McClintock, of the Class of 1965
Not Awarded
To the student who carries out a fine laboratory project.
Offered in memory of Curtis Wilson by the Class of 1963
Not Awarded
�To the members of the Senior class, through participation, leadership, and
sportsmanship, have contributed most to the SJC athletic program, a special blazer.
John Davis
Zoe Hinman
Thaddia Angelica Mantione
To the member of the Senior Class who has contributed outstanding service to the
Greater Annapolis Community.
Offered by the Caritas Society of St. John's College
Zoe Hinman
To the member of the Senior Class who has demonstrated the greatest care for and
service to youth who reside in the City of Annapolis.
Offered by the friends and family of Marvin B. Cooper, of the Class of 1969
Rachael Elizabeth Brooker Langston
To the member of the Senior Class who submits the best work of visual art to the
Community Art Exhibition, the Charles Vernon Moran Prize.
The Graduate, oil on canvas painting
Yuan Liu
Honorable Mention
Three embroidered works
Cordelia Grace Marie Achen
11
T hree colored pencil and watercolor works
Ai sha Evita El-Khatib
To the Senior who has demonstrated excellence in the arts, literature, or sciences,
the Walter S. Baird prize.
Poem, short film
Yaxuan Tang
�
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<li>1796</li>
<li>1835-1836</li>
<li>1842</li>
<li>1852</li>
<li>1856-1857</li>
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<li>1932</li>
<li>1936-1937</li>
<li>1939-1945</li>
<li>1947-present </li>
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ST JOHN'S
College
ANNAPOLIS• SANTA
2021
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COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES
Sunday 1 May 16
Two Thousand and Twenty-One
Annapolis Maryland
�PROGRAM
For the Two Hundred Twenty-Ninth
Commencement in the
Three Hundred Twenty-Fifth Year
of the College
Prelude
Academic Procession
The National Anthem
Francis Scott Key, Alumnus, Class of 1796
Panayiotis Kanelos
Welcome
President of the College
Announcement of Prizes and Awards
President Kanelos
Joseph Macfarland, A87
Dean of the College
Chester Burke
Address to the Graduating Class
Tutor
Conferring of Undergraduate Degrees
Conferring of Graduate Degrees
Academic Recession
Dean Macfarland
Emily H. Brooker Langston
Associate Dean for the Graduate Program
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BACHELOR OF ARTS
Henry Ince Anderson
Savannah Paige Dadds
Secret Life of Plants
Nashville, Tennessee
A Possession for All Time: Self-interest, Morality, and the Athenian Thesis in
Thucydides's War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians
Eric Julian Baker
New York, New York
Engaging with Life While in Isolation: Charles Baudelaire on the Art of Enjoying
a Crowd
Samuel Joseph Be rrettini
Rutherford, New Jersey
Homo Daemonicus: Socrates, Alcibiades, and the Love of the Impossible
Raz Besaleli
Sharon, Vermont
Evolution and Calculus: An Exploration of the Genesis of the Complex Analysis
in Cauchy's 1852 Memorandum
Alysiana Carter
Jupiter, Florida
The Dialectical Mirror: An Exploration of Artistic and Scientific Mediation in
Tarkovsky's Solaris
Juan Guillermo Cassanello Garcia
Asuncion, Paraguay
From Konigsberg to Copenhagen: A Thought on Metaphysics and Quantum
Mechanics
Nobonita Chowdhury
Dhaka, Bangladesh
The Legacy of Plutarch's Lawgivers: An Analysis of the Lives of Lycurgus and
Solon, and Their Impact on Modern Day Ideas of State, Equality, and Justice
Thomas R. Chrisman
Maplewood, New Jersey
Independence of Intellect
Amalie Ballman Christensen
New York, New York
Johnson, Vermont
Springtime: The Dismantling of Romanticism in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Sophia Cote
Virginia Birch Deaver
Berea, Kentucky
Humor: A Cognitive Prayer to Patterns of Time, Absurd ity, and Human Shame
Yanet Teklu Desta
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
When We Are in Love, What Do We Fall in Love With? An Examination of Love
through Middlemarch and Pride and Prejudice
Samuel Dietrich
Broad lands, Virginia
Things Just Happen: An Examination of Kant in the Everyday
Kristina Marie Dover
Lake Alfred, Florida
With Effort, with Agony, to Mankind: A Study of Trauma in Woolf's Mrs. Dal/away
Marshall Elizabeth Drake
Columbia, South Carolina
What Does Oppressive Government Look Like? A Theory Based in Hobbes's
Leviathan
Austin Alexander Dumas
Ridgely, Maryland
Quantum Mechanics
Carolina Elizondo Moya
Monterrey, Mexico
When Can the End Justify the Means? An Exploration of Justice in Niccolo
Machiavelli's Political Works, The Prince and the Discourses on Livy
Martin Amory Fischer
Chevy Chase, Maryland
Imagination and Intellect in Spinoza's Ethics
Szymon Piotr Galazka
Wroclaw, Poland
The Revelation of Ivan's Soul in The Brothers Karamazov
Illuminated Faith: An I nquiry of the Role of Testimony, and Its Relation to Belief
in the Gospel of John
Cora Clark
Ridgely, Maryland
New York, New York
The Death of Passion, the Birth of Individuality: Understanding the Self in La
Princesse de Cleves Through Passion, Desire, and the Rejection of Both
Rachel Cresap Gordon
Reisterstown, Maryland
In Search of Eternal Stability: Suffering and Unity in Hegel's Phenomenology of
Spirit
Ellie Grace Gott
York, Pennsylvania
Soren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling: The I mportance of Suffering in the
Faithful
Alexander Peterson Grand
On the Inertia of Mankind: A Look into How Societies Develop
Brooklyn, New York
�Nortaute Elena-Ruta Grintalis
Laurel, Maryland
The Embryonic Cradle of Spirit: Breeching the Liminality of the Self through Carl
G. Jung's Liber Novus
Andrew Graham Hill
Vancouver, Washington
Art and Wretchedness in Les Fleurs du ma/: An Examination of Baudelaire's
Horizontal and Vertical Depictions of Sea Voyage
Jasmine Alison Holder
Beach Lake, Pennsylvania
Alvar Yrjo Oskari Huhtanen
Espoo, Finland
Seeing Things with Clarissa Dalloway
Suzhou, People's Republic of China
Dao De Jing: The Meaning of Dao and the Notion of Inaction
Sera Emily Johnson
Middletown, Rhode Island
D MO<DPOIYNH: Marriage in James Joyce's Ulysses
Chicago, Illinois
The Isolation Paradox: An Investigation into Solitude and Social Identity in
Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Michael August Kraus
Memphis, Tennessee
Hyderabad, India
Special Relativity and the Art of Writing: An Investigation of Einstein's Rhetoric
in "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies"
Fiona Lau
Castro Valley, California
Nha Trang City, Vietnam
The Willing Surrender of Freedom: Justifying the Soul's Descent into Mortality in
Plotinus's The Enneads
Joshua David Lee
An Imitative Approach to Hamlet
From Maize to Dust
Houston, Texas
The Poet of the World: God as the Salvation of Creativity
Islamabad, Pakistan
Rubab Meraj
Woman as an Abused Asset: A Study of Mankind
Melrose, Massachusetts
Alexis Christina Morrill
Optic Research and Wonder: An Exploration of the Part versus Whole
Relationship in the Heart
Kirabo Pauline Nanyanzi
Kyaliwajjala-Namugongo, Uganda
The Unfolding of Character in George Eliot's Middlemarch
Huntington, West Virginia
Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears a Crown: A Study of the Tragedy of
Elsa Peter Ordahl
Irvington, New York
Carving Letters on Little Trees: The Permanence and Impermanence of Home in
Virgil's Eclogues
Amanda Rose Pauquette
Gainesville, Florida
The Ethics of Baruch de Spinoza: An Examination of the Belief of God in
Spinoza's Ethics, and the Tranquility of Spirit Which Follows from a Rational
Understanding of Nature's Laws
Jessica Peterson
Westwood, Kansas
What Must the King Do Now?: An Inquiry of Causation, Motivation, and Divine
The Condition of Man and His Labor
Bao Le
West Hartford, Connecticut
Liam James Marshall-Butler
King Henry IV
The Spleen and the Heart: A Study of the Modern Poet through the Works of
Charles Baudelaire and Vladimir Mayakovsky
Avi Kumar
Varieties of Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Anne Nilles
Grace Phan Jones
Beijing, People's Republic of China
Kamrin Lynn Martin
Dao de Jing, Book I: I Wish to Be a Sage with Feeling
Xiaotong Jin
Qingqing Le i
Houston, Texas
Right in Shakespeare's Richard II
Amy Elisabeth Porter
Shady Side, Maryland
Self-revelation and Sincerity: Panache and the Beauty of the Pure Soul in
Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac
Mary Elizabeth Quinn
Louisville, Kentucky
Death Doesn't Bite: An Examination of the Body and Soul in Plato's Phaedo
�Wilson Trueman Redfield
Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts
The Riddle of History
Michael Riggins
Mineral Wells, Texas
Inconstancy's Constant Habit: Experiential Christianity in John Donne's
Holy Sonnets
Arpan Sapkota
Kathmandu, Nepal
Los Angeles, California
Fairfax Station, Virginia
Ph iladelphia, Pennsylvania
Exploitation of the Worker in Marx's Capital
Lkhagvabadrakh Sereeter
Murun, Mongolia
On Self-Consciousness in Lordship and Bondage, The Phenomenology of Spirit
as translated by A.V. Miller
Bryan David Shaw
Azle, Texas
Houston, Texas
The Wanderer: A Hegelian Analysis of "White Nights"
Eli Samuel Sneider
Palo Alto, California
Thucydides: Passion at the Root of the Peloponnesian War
Jaeri Suh
Seoul, South Korea
Life on Earth
Hope Allegra Taglich
New York, New York
A Quiet Revolution: On Chastity and Self-Ownership in The Princess of Cleves
Ciel Torres
Being Also Beholding: Alternatively, A Situation in Five Scenes
Burke, Virginia
Matthew Alexander Tyska
Tie Siding, Wyoming
Luisa Anne Wayman
Annapolis, Maryland
Erik West
Mountain River, Australia
The Baffled King Composing Hallelujah, or, Where David Was Forgiven Where
Saul Was Not, and What This Says about the Nature of God
Ives Williams
Annapolis, Maryland
Ragged Figures: A Journey Through Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood and the
Path to Salvation
Shane C. Williams
In Defense of Universal Uniformity
Anna Simmons
Liam Ethan Twomey
On the Conflation of Morality and Virtue in the Summa Theologica and its
Consequences for the Secularization of Popular Morality
Fear and Rebellion
Nicholas Joseph Scott
One for All, All for One: An Investigation of Community in Hobbes's Leviathan
and Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah
Lucretian Imagery and Thought in Virgil's Aeneid
Just a Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Medicine Go Down: The Wormwood and
Honey of Baudelaire's Poems
Adam Joseph Schulman
Izmir, Turkey
Inspiration, Imitation, and Interpretation: Three Accounts of Art
Machiavellian Prince: A Product of Human Nature
Petra Schaaf-Grisham
Ece Nur Tuglu
Los Angeles, California
Lubbock, Texas
Between the Angel and the Deep Blue Sea: Analyzing the Nature of Captain Vere
in Herman Melville's Billy Budd
Luke Chapin Wilson
Peterborough, New Hampshire
I am Now Alone on Earth: How Our Identity is Shaped by Solitude
Rediet Worku
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
The Memories of Discernment: Andrey's Moment of Freedom
Maxwell Clark Wright
Wyncote, Pennsylvania
Soft Despotism and the Most Existential Fear of Democracy
Xi Xue
The Genesis of 1
Chongqing, People's Republic of China
�MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS
Carly Nicole Berndtt
Justin Edward Bradyt
Lisa Christian
Marley Annika Crank
Kelly Duvall Custer
Bexley, Ohio
Baltimore, Maryland
Washington , District of Columbia
Annapolis, Maryland
Washington, District of Columbia
Leith Genghis Daghistanit
Fai rfax, Virginia
William Winston Elliott, III§
Houston, Texas
NehaGaddam
Annapolis, Maryland
Alexander Michael Habighorst
Picayune, Mississippi
Melvin Aaron Hanson
William John Harvardt
Mustafa Kamalt
Dimple Kault
Akaylaquriveria Tierra Lewis
Joseph Elias Malfitanot
Manhattan, Illinois
Elverson, Pennsylvania
Makkah, Saudi Arabia
Ghaziabad, India
Franklin, Louisiana
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Albert Joseph Matricciani Jr.
Baltimore, Maryland
Michael Gideon Marta
Kansas City, Missouri
Colin James Morrisseyt
Newark, New Jersey
Ian August Mosleyt
Clifford Geroge Mumm
Nichella Floraine Nalt
Hayley River Smitht
Hollister, Missouri
Sperryville, Virginia
Colorado Spri ngs, Colorado
Annapolis, Maryland
John Townsend Stemmlet
Cheverly, Maryland
Jonathan David Stewartt
Richmond , Virginia
Paul Christopher Tsavoussist
Courtney Michele White
† Degree conferred January 27, 2021
§ Degree to be conferred May 22, 2021 in Santa Fe
Dunedin, Florida
Los Angeles, Californ ia
�To the Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished tutorial essay in the
2020-2021 academic year.
Offered in Memory of Laurence Berns
PRIZES AND AWARDS
How Do We Learn? Is Anything Teachable?
To the member of the Senior Class who has written the best senior essay.
Offered in memory of Susan Irene Roberts, of the Class of 1966
Andrew Graney
The Isolation Paradox: An Investigation into Solitude and
Social Identity in Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Grace Phan Jones
To a member of the Senior Class, for excellence in speaking.
Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland
Alvar Yrjo Oskari Huhtanen
To the student who submits the best English version of a Greek text.
Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus
To the member of the Junior Class who has written the best annual essay.
Offered by Mrs. Leslie Clark Stevens in memory of her daughter-in-law,
Stephen Carino
Kathryn Mylroie Stevens
Honorable Mention
How to Snuff Out a Candle: An Examination of 'Light'
and Authentic Companionship in Middlemarch
Sofia Martin
Half Abashed: A Study of Sex Before-and After-the Fall of Man
Ivan Zembrusky
To the student who submits the best English version of a French poem.
Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors
Jessie Tagliani
Olivia Pittard
Honorable Mention
To the member of the Sophomore Class who has written the best annual essay.
Offered under the will of the late Judge Walter I. Dawkins, of the Class of 1880
Cato in Purgatory
Ezra Melchor
Honorable Mention
Divina Musicale: The Music Between Heaven and Earth
Ruby Miller
To the member of the Freshman Class who has written the best annual essay.
Not Awarded
To the Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished preceptorial
essay in the year 2020.
Offered by the Alumni Association
Liam Twomey
To the student who submits a fine original English poem.
Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry
"A Ballade of Paradise Lost, or Lines 1-6 Reimagined"
Brandon Garcia
Honorable Mention
"Mercury"
Allayah Mason-Koehler
To the student who submits a fine original musical composition.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Caritas Society 1987-1991
" ~tiiiJ" ("North River")
Xi Xue
An Essay on Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Anthony Mette
To the student who submits a fine essay on a piece of music.
Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap, President of the Caritas Society 1987-1991
An Evolution of Tension: How Bach Portrays
The Emotional and Theological Aspects of Grieving
Sofia Martin
J
�To the student who submits the most elegant solution of a synthetic problem.
Offered by the Class of 1986 in memory of Bryce Jacobsen, of the Class of 1942, Tutor
and Director of Athletics Emeritus
Not Awarded
To the student who submits the most elegant solution of an analytical problem.
Offered in memory of James R. Mcclintock, of the Class of 1965
Liam Ethan Twomey
To the student who carries out a fine laboratory project.
Offered in memory of Curtis Wilson by the Class of 1963
Not Awarded
Honorable Mention
Stephan Mason
To the members of the Senior class, through participation, leadership, and
sportsmanship, have contributed most to the SJC athletic program, a special blazer.
Sera Emily Johnson
Shane C. Williams
To the member of the Senior Class who has contributed outstanding service to the
Greater Annapolis Community.
Offered by the Caritas Society of St. John's College
Rachel Cresap Gordon
To the member of the Senior Class who has demonstrated the greatest care for and
service to youth who reside in the City of Annapolis.
Offered by the friends and family of Marvin B. Cooper, of the Class of 196 9
Amy Elisabeth Porter
To the member of the Senior Class who submits the best work of visual art to the
Community Art Exhibition, the Charles Vernon Moran Prize.
Tea Set with Copper Wire and Found Wood, ceramic
Sophia Cote
To the Senior who has demonstrated excellence in the arts, literature, or sciences,
the Walter S. Baird prize.
Tea Set with Copper Wire and Found Wood, ceramic
Sophia Cote
�CONGRATULATIONS, ALUMNI.
Stay in touch. Get involved. Give back.
sjc.edu
410-626-2531
�
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Addresses given at commencement and programs of events related to, and including, the annual commencement ceremonies at St. John's College. Includes both the undergraduate and Graduate Institute commencements. <br /><br />The College Archives holds programs and/or addresses for the following years:<br />
<ul>
<li>1796</li>
<li>1835-1836</li>
<li>1842</li>
<li>1852</li>
<li>1856-1857</li>
<li>1870</li>
<li>1878</li>
<li>1880</li>
<li>1890</li>
<li>1893</li>
<li>1895</li>
<li>1897</li>
<li>1907</li>
<li>1910-1918</li>
<li>1920-1924</li>
<li>1928-1929</li>
<li>1932</li>
<li>1936-1937</li>
<li>1939-1945</li>
<li>1947-present </li>
</ul>
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Commencement Address
St. John’s College, Annapolis
given
William Pastille
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At every moment, Life demands that we choose between Love and Strife, between the
powers that bind and those that loose. If we do not hear the urgency of this demand, it is because
we do not live fully in the present moment. Most of our attention streams away toward the
remembered past or imagined future, relaxing our bond with the vivid Here and Now until we drift
too far off to hear the voice of Life above a whisper. But today, with music, ceremony, and
speeches, we try to dam the flood of inattention, to focus on the Now, on this single moment,
which is both ending and beginning for all qf you who are about to receive degrees. If you search
your feelings in this moment, you will find two commingled emotions: melancholy — for all that is
past and gone, for a way of Efe that can never be relived - and expectancy — for all that is yet to
come, for a way of life that you are hoping to create. Please remember this composite feeling,
because it is the feeling that lives in the heart of every Now. When we are not experiencing this
twofold emotion, we are not really in touch with the present, but have allowed our habits of
inattention to separate us from the Now. In this state of habitual inattention, we nevertheless carry
on the daily work of Efe: people are fed, cities and empires built, careers made and unmade, children
reared, and academies of higher learning established for the purpose of passing knowledge and
tradition from generation to generation.
At this ceremony, and at thousands of others Eke it to be held across the nation today and
in the coming weeks, those of us who serve and support the academy will confer upon you and
upon your counterparts at other institutions the outward signs that we have discharged our duty,
and that you, by completing rigorous courses of study, have increased in knowledge and learning.
In thousands of speeches we will extol your virtues; we will praise you for your fortitude,
perseverance, and intelligence; we will encourage you to develop your talents further, and to fulfil
your promise; we will impress upon you the solemn obligation that you pass the baton of learning
to the next generation; and we will express our pride in your achievements, for we honor the
devotion, the toil, and the sacrifice that nourished your success. It is altogether fitting and proper
for us to do this.
But even on such a congratulatory occasion, a decent regard for truth and for honest
self-criticism compels me to speak of failure as well as success — my failure, the failure of my
generation, and of all who consider themselves teachers, mentors, and leaders in all walks of Efe.
For the truth is that we have failed you. We have failed you because, being human, the better
�angels of our nature are often bested by the worse; and because, being consequently inconstant, we
preach ideals that we foil to honor in deeds; and because, being consequently hypocritical, we are
forced to hide painful truths from ourselves; and because, being consequently ignorant, we hand
down to you truth and falsehood mixed indiscriminately in unknown proportions.
Among the falsehoods which we have given you to believe far too easily is this: that
knowledge is an unqualified good. It is no such thing. For insofar as knowledge is power, it
corrupts as power corrupts; and insofar as it is taken to be an unqualified good, it corrupts
surreptitiously. Knowledge can ally itself with the slightest weakness of character and with any
unexamined prejudice, transmuting unjust, intolerant, or self-centered attitudes into the figures of
intelligence and ignorance: a latent racism, sexism, or class prejudice can manifest itself as an
empirical observation that this or that individual is just not as intelligent as we. Egotism, above all,
joins readily with knowledge, leading to the eihpirical observation that no one is quite as intelligent
as we, and to the logical conclusion that everyone needs to be inoculated with ample doses of our
own personal wisdom.
You have witnessed something of this here, in the microcosm of the classroom, whenever I
or one of my colleagues have used our familiarity with the books on the program or our knowledge
of other sources as unfair advantages to attain a position of power in discussion, or to maintain a
tenor of authority, or to sustain our own sense of intellectual superiority, perhaps going so far as to
be dismissive, even rude, to students or to other tutors whom we regard as less knowledgeable, less
experienced, or less sagacious than ourselves. Such behavior clearly creates estrangement and
disaffection, scattering seeds of Strife about the world; it can only be the work of our worse angels.
And yet I fear that some of you admire the ability to wield knowledge as a form of power, and are
planning to master the skill through fbrther schooling. I earnestly hope that my fear is misplaced; I
hope all of you understand that having and using such a skill is not worth the risk of planting a
single seed of Strife in a single human soul.
If the temptation to brandish knowledge as a weapon can infiltrate even here, where we
have an official rhetoric that cautions us against the danger, how much harm is it doing out there, in
classrooms and boardrooms, in factories and chambers of government where no such caution
exists? - where knowledge is valued precisely and only for its fearsome aspect of power? In the
world in which we live, knowledge consorts with Strife; and the belief that knowledge is an
unqualified good has precluded your seeking out the one force able to Uberate knowledge from the
dominion of Strife: Only Love can conquer Strife.
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�Only Love can render knowledge harmless. Only Love can transform thought and
sensibility into wisdom and compassion. Only Love can bind the separate moments of existence
into a whole, meaningful life. But we have become such children of Strife that we no longer
understand the universal application of Love. Because Love always involves submission to deep
and overpowering feeling, we scrutinize it fearfully from within the protective cage of our current
conception of rationality, which is, on the whole, a heartless, soulless intellectualism. Love requires
the courage to hazard sentimentality; for the harm done by sentimentality - which can, after all, be
educated, broadened, and elevated — is very light compared to the harm done by fear of
sentimentality — which, like all fear, is an implacable agent of Strife. Love requires us to feel deeply»
and to be carried away by feeling.
Fortunately, there is always nearby one thing — the present moment — with which we can
practice our ability to love. If we can learn to love the Now, which is to live fully in the present
that is always with us, then the unifying force of Love will always be close at hand to shield us from
the divisive force of Strife. And we are already prepared halfway, because we know the heart of the
Now, we know the twofold feeling of melancholy and expectancy. To make a beginning, we must
carry the memory of that feeling with us at all times; we must cultivate that feeling until the
poignancy and fragility of the moment swells in our hearts, catches in our throats, brings tears to
our eyes. Then comes the hard part — we must give ourselves over completely to the feeling welling
up from within and to the moment embracing us from without, until we seem almost to forget our
own existence. Because this is the essence of Love: sublation of self in the enveloping presence of
the beloved.
If you can love the moment this intensely — as Penelope loved Odysseus, as Dante loved
Beatrice, as you loved when you first fell madly in love — then your knowledge will work no injury,
nor will the seeds of Strife take root in your soul; and the failings of your teachers, mentors, and
leaders will be redeemed. For Love makes all hurt as thou^ it had not been.
At every moment. Life demands that we choose between Love and Strife. For the sake of
the world in which you were raised, for your own sakes, and for the sake of the world to come,
which you will help to fashion: please, please, please - choose Love,
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Robert C. Abbott Jr.
Commencement Address
May 12, 2019
St. John’s College, Annapolis
Graduating students of the College and the Graduate Institute; family and friends; faculty
and guests: it is my honor to speak to you this morning.
As some of you know, I am partial to concise works—among them, the fragmentary remains
of Sappho’s poetry, Anselm’s minimalist proof for the existence of God, and of course the
slightly lengthier six hundred pages of Herodotus’ Histories. This morning, I would like to
mull over just one sentence from a Platonic dialogue, in which Socrates tells the young
Theaetetus a story. I say “young” because from the outset of the dialogue that bears his
name, we know this conversation takes place when he was just starting out in life. Perhaps
Socrates had a weather eye on his young friend’s future when he told him this story.
It is said that while gazing up at the stars, Thales—one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece—
fell into a well; a witty Thracian serving woman, upon observing this, remarked, “How is it,
Thales, that being so wise in the affairs of heaven, you should fail to see what was before
your very feet?”
So who is Thales? Herodotus tells us that he was one of the first to predict the time of a
solar eclipse, so it is no surprise we should find him star-gazing. In the tradition, he is
considered the first philosopher, and Aristotle specifies that he was the first seeker after the
wisdom of nature. So in a way, he is the progenitor of our tribe, someone who, like
Socrates, delved into the things under the earth and peered at those in the sky. Thales
posited that, “All is water,” which might be a way of saying that beings change their form as
water does, but their underlying material remains what it is. He had many accomplishments
to his name, not least of which was an ingenious way to cross a river. Right now you might
be in agreement with the Thracian serving woman that Thales was rather foolish to fall into
his own first principle, so I will tell you this other story to establish his credentials as a
genuine thinker.1 And I tell it because you too might be concerned with how to get from
Here to There.
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I owe this particular formulation of Thales’ fall to Joe Sachs.
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Commencement Address
May 12, 2019
St. John’s College, Annapolis
The army of the Lydian king needed to cross the River Halys and Thales was given the task.
Instead of moving the army over the river by conventional means—boat or bridge, Thales
changed the ground it stood on. He realized that the river was already moving, and instead of
transporting the army over the river, he diverted the river around the army, leaving it on an
island between two new channels. Because the whole was divided, both channels could be
crossed. That is a clever solution, and perhaps one which only someone who had spent
some time thinking about the nature of water would devise.
Now to return to our image from the Theaetetus. Thales is a natural philosopher investigating
the mysterious motions of the stars, and cannot be blamed for tracing the paths of the gods
even as he walks those more terrestrial ones. The Thracian serving woman on the other
hand is down to earth. She has a practical occupation, useful to herself and others. Her
witty question reveals theory to be both useless and dangerous. Stay grounded, she laughs.
You too have noticed, perhaps, that too much time in the hot air balloon above the Socratic
Thinkery can make you light-headed.
But the more I think about Thales falling into the well, the less it seems to warn against the
conflict between theory and practice, and the more it seems to describe an utterly typical
event in a thoughtful life. One minute you have your head in the clouds, inventing likely
hypotheses and following premises to their as-yet undiscovered conclusions, and the next,
the ground has disappeared. What you perceived or understood or believed is no longer
there for you as the immoveable ground it was moments before. What is it about a
thoughtful life that with some regularity the ground you stand on will vanish and leave you
spinning in mid-air?
Let me give you an example of what I mean. You are demonstrating at the chalkboard a
geometrical proposition from that infinitely patient book, Euclid’s Elements. You complete
the diagram by drawing the long final line between points A and B. But as you carry out the
proof, you realize something is wrong. Your ratios are jumbled, the triangles you remember
are not the triangles on the board, and none of the assistance you receive from friendly
classmates makes any sense. Your foot has come down on nothing.
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Commencement Address
May 12, 2019
St. John’s College, Annapolis
You will no doubt recognize this condition—fluttering in your stomach, disorientation and
embarrassment, confusion. This is the straightforward way to fall into a well—to make a
mistake. Perhaps that line wasn’t supposed to go to B, but rather to C. Or maybe one of
your given conditions was wrong. Or you didn’t understand compound ratio as well as you
thought you did. Standing there at the board, exposed and off-balance, you can now
recognize your kinship with that first thinker, Thales, patron saint of bewilderment.
Because most of you are young and intellectually limber, losing your footing can still be
agreeable. Like one of Darwin’s tumbler pigeons, you can perform a Backwards-TripleLutz-Somersault more gracefully than those of us who have been land animals for a longer
time. The Graduate Institute students are by and large older and more experienced, and
deserve special praise for choosing to have the ground pulled out from under them with
some regularity—ground that often was hard won. It is a daunting thing to fall into a well
when you are supposed to know better.
Lest we ever think too highly of our acrobatics, there is the Thracian serving woman with
her ready wit, waiting to point out how ridiculous we thinkers can be at any age. She is
integral to this philosophical image because she reminds us of the perils of losing one’s
intellectual footing in public. What are those perils? There are three.
The first is embarrassment. When you lose your footing, your cheeks burn and you tiptoe
away from what you’ve done. Your self-mocking laughter separates you from yourself. “I
couldn’t have done that,” you think. If the mistake is serious enough and you deny it too
angrily, you separate your present from your past; though as Freud would say, that denial
also means you cannot get over what you’ve done. And just as shame can alienate you from
yourself, it can also exclude from the conversation others who have made mistakes. But if
you have experience at making a mistake in public, you will learn to own what you’ve done,
and alienate neither your own past self nor other thinkers.
The second peril is that you will be distracted from what you were trying to do. When you
fall down a well, the world disappears. It is very difficult to maintain continuity with your
past endeavors. You must reach back in memory and find the thread that led you to the
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Commencement Address
May 12, 2019
St. John’s College, Annapolis
present, however circuitously. But if you have practice at weaving these strands together,
you live a more intricate, coherent life, one in which the activity of your mind persists in
spite of both failure and success, and time holds, an unbroken braid.
The third peril is that you break faith with your fellows. As we all know, there are more
unsettling ways for the ground to disappear than losing the thread of a Euclidean
proposition. You may find yourself doubting what the right thing to do is, or if there is a
right or wrong at all. You may find you’ve harmed a friend and couldn’t say why. Being
confused about your place in the world can render you useless for its present needs. I will
name this peril incivility, with the understanding that I do not mean mere impoliteness but
the failure to fulfill the responsibility you have to your community because you did not have
firm ground to stand on. But in this failing, you can learn to see what your community is
and requires. You can learn to ask for forgiveness from it, and not allow your own failings
to excuse you from your responsibility.
Herodotus tells us that Thales was also a statesman of sorts. He recommended to a number
of neighboring cities that they choose a single meeting place to hear disputes and decide
matters in common, as if each polis were a district of a larger political whole. I wonder if
Thales had this commitment to a common political life because he occasionally fell into a
well and found himself fractured by embarrassment, distraction, and incivility. Thales’
meeting place is the solid ground on which to work at being undivided. It should remind
you of our own classroom: one table, many voices.
There are other ways the ground disappears that have nothing to do with making a mistake.
How often have you talked your way somewhere in seminar and like Elizabeth Bennet found
that you had “wandered about until you were beyond your own knowledge?” You reach for
a familiar world and find it upended and whirling. Time varies with velocity, matter is energy
by another name, God is love: after a particularly good conversation you might well, as
Pentheus did, see two suns in the sky. Aristotle tells us wonder is the source of wisdom, and
perhaps it is by having the ground fall away from beneath us that we are prepared to behold
the world with new eyes.
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�Robert C. Abbott Jr.
Commencement Address
May 12, 2019
St. John’s College, Annapolis
Since you are heading out into the world, I feel bound to tell you something particularly true
of it in this present age: most people are terrible at falling down wells. This is not surprising.
They have little to no practice at making mistakes in public and they believe that the purpose
of education is to learn how to become a certified non-mistake-maker, that is, an expert. At
most, they acknowledge that failure is important, but only as a ditch one leaps out of,
something to laugh at from a more comfortable vantage point. Many commencement
speakers are probably telling graduates right now to accept failure as a necessary evil on their
predestined path to success. I think Thales and the Thracian woman would have a few
choice words for them.
I hope it is clear by now that I am not giving you advice. I am praising you for what you
have been doing here all along. You have not learned how to land on your feet every time
you fall down a well. That would be sophistry—the skill to say something plausible no
matter the circumstances. But you have learned to welcome a fall when it comes. Falls come
in varying heights—from incorrectly drawing a geometrical diagram to realizing that your
whole account for your place in the world didn’t make adequate sense. In the period of your
course in these halls you have practiced disorientation: having your ground—perceptual,
intellectual, moral—fall out from beneath you. You have learned to be more committed to
the conversation than your own embarrassment, distraction, or incivility. You have learned
to remain at the table.
The sun is not yet at its zenith, but this is well past the midpoint of my address and I would
like to tell you a story about my own encounter with a well. Many years ago my family
visited the house where my grandmother was born, in Greene County, Virginia. It had long
since been in other hands, but she wanted to see it again, and she wanted me to see it for the
first time. My grandmother, parents, and I drove down one summer day, warmer than this
one, and turned from the highway onto country roads, until we came to the old home place.
The property was overgrown, and I was the only one who ventured into the abandoned
house. Young trees grew through the floor of the living room and stood like motionless
hosts. Only leaves breathed the quiet air of the house. When I returned to the car, I found
my grandmother upset by the dilapidation of the present and this rough return to the past.
But even in consternation she asked me, “Did you find the well?”
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Commencement Address
May 12, 2019
St. John’s College, Annapolis
The well was an underlying figure in the landscape of her childhood. She was a rare and
powerful storyteller; her memories of that childhood live on in those who heard her stories.
I have a vivid image of her drawing water to cool that morning’s milk as if I had been there
to hold the pail. When I take a drink after a long row here on the Severn I sometimes
remember how she quenched her thirst at the well after a long walk home from school. And
I did find this same well. She told me to watch out for it before I left the road and went into
the woods. The well was deep, and its wooden cover was surely rotted away. But I
discovered it in time, near the back porch stairs—a dark opening in the earth.
This memory gives me cause to rethink my telling of the Thales story. I have praised what
you undertook here at the College. But like Socrates in the Phaedrus, perhaps I have not yet
done justice to the end of that enterprise. I have considered one aspect of the thoughtful
life—when the ground disappears, but I have yet to address another—falling into a well.
Allow me to begin my encomium again, giving due praise not to the fall, but Depth.
You fall, yes, but into what? Thales fell into his own first principle—water, which he took to
be the underlying material beneath everything else. In other words, he fell into the source of
the world. The word for source in Greek is arche, a word that has many resonances with us
here at the College. An arche is a beginning, a cause, a source for the way things are, a spring
that pours forth much. The sources of the world are deep. You cannot always climb down
but must trust the fall. I am reminded of what the German poet Hölderlin wrote, “Wo aber
Gefahr ist, wächst / Das Rettende auch.” “Where danger is, there salvation also grows.” It is no
accident that we find water in the deep places of the world. There is a secret bond between
the high and the deep. When we set our gaze on the ageless dance of the stars we also find
ourselves falling to the very heart of the world. But I want to describe more specifically
what we fall into when the ground gives way.
When I was in high school, trying to persuade my parents to let me attend the College, we
were invited to an event for prospective students at an alumna’s house. My mother was not
at all sure that this strange school would be worth the risk. I think my father was happy
enough that I was interested in crew to sign off on the whole dubious project. Wouldn’t it
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Commencement Address
May 12, 2019
St. John’s College, Annapolis
be better to go somewhere with more options, somewhere more conservative, more
affordable, somewhere with a study abroad program? We met a tutor at the event, Nancy
Buchenauer, and my mother asked her a challenging question: what is the worldview of St.
John’s College? Ms. Buchenauer paused, but did not shy away from an answer. “We believe
there are certain questions that must be asked.” My parents were convinced.
The more I ask opening questions at the beginning of seminar, the more time I live with the
great books that pose those certain questions with unyielding intensity, the more I believe
that a question is not a statement disguised by uncertainty, nor is it an indication of, or an
attempt to induce, confusion. A question is a well-spring sunk into the heart of the world.
A question demands that you must answer it now, in the present, and for yourself; no one
can do it for you. Who am I? What is nature? What ought I do here? What is fleeting,
undying, beautiful? These wells do not run dry however much we draw from them. They
are springs of living water, nourishing tree, city, and soul.
Our time is at its end and you are about to return to a source. I know the College sometimes
seems self-sufficient, but the great world to which you go is one of our sources, and we, its
tributary. Plato has given you many ways to picture life in the world. The darkest is in the
Republic. There it it is like living in a cave, chained by injustice, bound to see only images of
the truth. But in the Theaetetus, he gave you another way of picturing that place underlying all
others. Going back to the world is like falling into a well. Disorienting at first, but in it you
may discover the source of what is. I believe the well of Thales was a place for reunion and
betrothal, like a well in the book of Genesis; or like the pool of Bethesda, where an angel
troubled the waters and the lame came to walk again. Thales falling into the well is an image
of what happens to human beings after they have strained to see the undying beauty above
them, but lost their footing and found themselves in fathomless depth. Perhaps instead of
being forced down to earth as in the cave, they fall there, as Alyosha does, in praise and
wonder.
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<li>1796</li>
<li>1835-1836</li>
<li>1842</li>
<li>1852</li>
<li>1856-1857</li>
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<li>1939-1945</li>
<li>1947-present </li>
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<ul>
<li>1796</li>
<li>1835-1836</li>
<li>1842</li>
<li>1852</li>
<li>1856-1857</li>
<li>1870</li>
<li>1878</li>
<li>1880</li>
<li>1890</li>
<li>1893</li>
<li>1895</li>
<li>1897</li>
<li>1907</li>
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<li>1920-1924</li>
<li>1928-1929</li>
<li>1932</li>
<li>1936-1937</li>
<li>1939-1945</li>
<li>1947-present </li>
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Annapolis, MD
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2016-05-16
Rights
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A signed permission form has been received stating, "I hereby grant St. John's College permission to make an audio recording of my lecture, and retain copies for circulation and archival preservation at the St. John's College Greenfield Library and to make an audio recording of my lecture available online."
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sound
Format
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mp3
Relation
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<a href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/925" title="Typescript">Typescript</a>
Language
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English
Identifier
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Commencement Address, Spring 2016, May, Thomas 05-16-16
Commencement
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Commencement Programs and Addresses
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Annapolis, MD
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St. John's College Greenfield Library
Description
An account of the resource
Addresses given at commencement and programs of events related to, and including, the annual commencement ceremonies at St. John's College. Includes both the undergraduate and Graduate Institute commencements. <br /><br />The College Archives holds programs and/or addresses for the following years:<br />
<ul>
<li>1796</li>
<li>1835-1836</li>
<li>1842</li>
<li>1852</li>
<li>1856-1857</li>
<li>1870</li>
<li>1878</li>
<li>1880</li>
<li>1890</li>
<li>1893</li>
<li>1895</li>
<li>1897</li>
<li>1907</li>
<li>1910-1918</li>
<li>1920-1924</li>
<li>1928-1929</li>
<li>1932</li>
<li>1936-1937</li>
<li>1939-1945</li>
<li>1947-present </li>
</ul>
Click on <strong><a title="Commencement Programs and Addresses" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=18&sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CDate&sort_dir=d">Items in the Commencement Programs and Addresses Collection</a></strong> to view and sort all items in the collection.
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commencementprograms
Text
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paper
Page numeration
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7 pages
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Title
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Commencement Address 2015
Description
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Typescript of the commencement address give on May 10, 2015 by Jonathan Tuck.
Creator
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Tuck, Jonathan
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Annapolis, MD
Date
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2015-05-10
Rights
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St. John's College was given permission to make this item available online.
Type
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text
Format
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pdf
Relation
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<a href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/927" title="Commencement Program, 2015" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Commencement Program, 2015</a>
Commencement
Tutors
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Commencement Programs and Addresses
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Annapolis, MD
Contributor
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St. John's College Greenfield Library
Description
An account of the resource
Addresses given at commencement and programs of events related to, and including, the annual commencement ceremonies at St. John's College. Includes both the undergraduate and Graduate Institute commencements. <br /><br />The College Archives holds programs and/or addresses for the following years:<br />
<ul>
<li>1796</li>
<li>1835-1836</li>
<li>1842</li>
<li>1852</li>
<li>1856-1857</li>
<li>1870</li>
<li>1878</li>
<li>1880</li>
<li>1890</li>
<li>1893</li>
<li>1895</li>
<li>1897</li>
<li>1907</li>
<li>1910-1918</li>
<li>1920-1924</li>
<li>1928-1929</li>
<li>1932</li>
<li>1936-1937</li>
<li>1939-1945</li>
<li>1947-present </li>
</ul>
Click on <strong><a title="Commencement Programs and Addresses" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=18&sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CDate&sort_dir=d">Items in the Commencement Programs and Addresses Collection</a></strong> to view and sort all items in the collection.
Identifier
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commencementprograms
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
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paper
Page numeration
Number of pages in the original item.
7 pages
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Title
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Commencement Address, Graduate Institute, Summer 2016
Description
An account of the resource
Typescript of the commencement address for the Graduate Institute given by Peter Kalkavage at the end of the Summer 2016 semester in Annapolis, MD. Entitled "On the seriousness of play or the importance of not being Earnest".
Creator
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Kalkavage, Peter
Publisher
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St. John's College
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Annapolis, MD
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2016-08-05
Rights
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St. John's College has been given permission to make this item available online.
Type
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text
Format
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pdf
Language
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English
Identifier
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CommencementAddressGISummer2016
Commencement
Graduate Institute
Tutors
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Title
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Photographic Archive—Annapolis
Description
An account of the resource
<p>The Greenfield Library photographic archive houses over 5,000 photographs. The photographs in the collection document the history, academic, and community life of St. John’s College. The Library’s mission is to organize and preserve these unique visual materials, and to provide access to this collection. </p>
To learn more about our photographic use policy or to obtain high resolution images, please see the <strong><a title="Photographic Archive Use Policy" href="http://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/libraries/greenfield-library/policies/#photographicarchivepolicy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Library’s Photographic Archive Use Policy</a></strong>.<br /><br />Click on <strong><a title="Photographic Archives" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=7">Items in the Photographic Archive—Annapolis Collection</a></strong> to view and sort all items in the collection.
Publisher
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St. John's College
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
St. John's College Greenfield Library
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Annapolis, MD
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
photographicarchiveannapolis
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Physical Dimensions
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17.5 x 13 cm.
Original Format
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Photograph
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Identifier
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SJC-P-2358
Title
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Daniel Van Doren (A81) with Family at Commencement, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland
Description
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1 photographic print : b&w ;
Pictured left to right: Dorothy Van Doren, Adam Van Doren, Mira Van Doren, Daniel Van Doren, and Lydia Jedwabnik.
Date
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1981
Creator
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Parran, Thomas
Coverage
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Annapolis, MD
Type
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Still Image
Format
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jpeg
Rights
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St. John's College owns the rights to this photograph.
Alumni
Commencement
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Dublin Core
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Title
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Photographic Archive—Annapolis
Description
An account of the resource
<p>The Greenfield Library photographic archive houses over 5,000 photographs. The photographs in the collection document the history, academic, and community life of St. John’s College. The Library’s mission is to organize and preserve these unique visual materials, and to provide access to this collection. </p>
To learn more about our photographic use policy or to obtain high resolution images, please see the <strong><a title="Photographic Archive Use Policy" href="http://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/libraries/greenfield-library/policies/#photographicarchivepolicy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Library’s Photographic Archive Use Policy</a></strong>.<br /><br />Click on <strong><a title="Photographic Archives" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=7">Items in the Photographic Archive—Annapolis Collection</a></strong> to view and sort all items in the collection.
Publisher
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St. John's College
Contributor
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St. John's College Greenfield Library
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Annapolis, MD
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
photographicarchiveannapolis
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Physical Dimensions
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7.5 x 10 cm.
Original Format
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Photograph
Dublin Core
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Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
SJC-P-2284
Title
A name given to the resource
Chirstopher B. Nelson, in Academic Robe, Handing a Graduate His Diploma during Commencement underneath the Liberty Tree, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland
Description
An account of the resource
1 photographic print : color
Date
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1992-1997 [circa]
Creator
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Unknown
Subject
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Nelson, Christopher B., 1948-
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Annapolis, MD
Type
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Still Image
Format
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jpeg
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
St. John's College owns the rights to this photograph.
Commencement
Presidents
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Photographic Archive—Annapolis
Description
An account of the resource
<p>The Greenfield Library photographic archive houses over 5,000 photographs. The photographs in the collection document the history, academic, and community life of St. John’s College. The Library’s mission is to organize and preserve these unique visual materials, and to provide access to this collection. </p>
To learn more about our photographic use policy or to obtain high resolution images, please see the <strong><a title="Photographic Archive Use Policy" href="http://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/libraries/greenfield-library/policies/#photographicarchivepolicy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Library’s Photographic Archive Use Policy</a></strong>.<br /><br />Click on <strong><a title="Photographic Archives" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=7">Items in the Photographic Archive—Annapolis Collection</a></strong> to view and sort all items in the collection.
Publisher
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St. John's College
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
St. John's College Greenfield Library
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Annapolis, MD
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
photographicarchiveannapolis
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Physical Dimensions
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7.5 x 10 cm.
Original Format
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Photograph
Dublin Core
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Identifier
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SJC-P-2283
Title
A name given to the resource
Chirstopher B. Nelson, in Academic Robe, with two Students, Radoslav Datchev, Seated, and Eva T. H. Brann Speaking, at Commencement underneath the Liberty Tree, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland
Description
An account of the resource
1 photographic print : color
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1992-1997 [circa]
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Unknown
Subject
The topic of the resource
Datchev, Radoslav
Nelson, Christopher B., 1948-
Brann, Eva T. H.
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Annapolis, MD
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Still Image
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
jpeg
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
St. John's College owns the rights to this photograph.
Commencement
Presidents
Tutors
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Photographic Archive—Annapolis
Description
An account of the resource
<p>The Greenfield Library photographic archive houses over 5,000 photographs. The photographs in the collection document the history, academic, and community life of St. John’s College. The Library’s mission is to organize and preserve these unique visual materials, and to provide access to this collection. </p>
To learn more about our photographic use policy or to obtain high resolution images, please see the <strong><a title="Photographic Archive Use Policy" href="http://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/libraries/greenfield-library/policies/#photographicarchivepolicy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Library’s Photographic Archive Use Policy</a></strong>.<br /><br />Click on <strong><a title="Photographic Archives" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=7">Items in the Photographic Archive—Annapolis Collection</a></strong> to view and sort all items in the collection.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
St. John's College
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
St. John's College Greenfield Library
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Annapolis, MD
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
photographicarchiveannapolis
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Physical Dimensions
The actual physical size of the original image
7.5 x 10 cm.
Original Format
The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data
Photograph
Dublin Core
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Identifier
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SJC-P-2282
Title
A name given to the resource
Radoslav Datchev, in Academic Robe, Speaking with Chirstopher B. Nelson and Eva T. H. Brann Seated behind him, during Commencement underneath the Liberty Tree, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland
Description
An account of the resource
1 photographic print : color
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1992-1997 [circa]
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Unknown
Subject
The topic of the resource
Datchev, Radoslav
Nelson, Christopher B., 1948-
Brann, Eva T. H.
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Annapolis, MD
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Still Image
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
jpeg
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
St. John's College owns the rights to this photograph.
Commencement
Presidents
Tutors
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Photographic Archive—Annapolis
Description
An account of the resource
<p>The Greenfield Library photographic archive houses over 5,000 photographs. The photographs in the collection document the history, academic, and community life of St. John’s College. The Library’s mission is to organize and preserve these unique visual materials, and to provide access to this collection. </p>
To learn more about our photographic use policy or to obtain high resolution images, please see the <strong><a title="Photographic Archive Use Policy" href="http://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/libraries/greenfield-library/policies/#photographicarchivepolicy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Library’s Photographic Archive Use Policy</a></strong>.<br /><br />Click on <strong><a title="Photographic Archives" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=7">Items in the Photographic Archive—Annapolis Collection</a></strong> to view and sort all items in the collection.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
St. John's College
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
St. John's College Greenfield Library
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Annapolis, MD
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
photographicarchiveannapolis
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Physical Dimensions
The actual physical size of the original image
7.5 x 10 cm.
Original Format
The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data
Photograph
Dublin Core
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Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
SJC-P-2280
Title
A name given to the resource
Christopher B. Nelson, in Academic Robe, speaking to Graduates at Commencement, underneath the Liberty Tree, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, [ca. 1992-1997]
Description
An account of the resource
1 photographic print : color
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1992-1997 [circa]
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Unknown
Subject
The topic of the resource
Nelson, Christopher B., 1948-
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Annapolis, MD
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Still Image
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
jpeg
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
St. John's College owns the rights to this photograph.
Commencement
Presidents
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Photographic Archive—Annapolis
Description
An account of the resource
<p>The Greenfield Library photographic archive houses over 5,000 photographs. The photographs in the collection document the history, academic, and community life of St. John’s College. The Library’s mission is to organize and preserve these unique visual materials, and to provide access to this collection. </p>
To learn more about our photographic use policy or to obtain high resolution images, please see the <strong><a title="Photographic Archive Use Policy" href="http://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/libraries/greenfield-library/policies/#photographicarchivepolicy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Library’s Photographic Archive Use Policy</a></strong>.<br /><br />Click on <strong><a title="Photographic Archives" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=7">Items in the Photographic Archive—Annapolis Collection</a></strong> to view and sort all items in the collection.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
St. John's College
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
St. John's College Greenfield Library
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Annapolis, MD
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
photographicarchiveannapolis
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Physical Dimensions
The actual physical size of the original image
7.5 x 10 cm.
Original Format
The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data
Photograph
Dublin Core
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Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
SJC-P-2279
Title
A name given to the resource
Faculty Procession in Academic Robes, during Commencement, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, [ca. 1992-1997]
Description
An account of the resource
1 photographic print : color
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1992-1997 [circa]
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Unknown
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Annapolis, MD
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Still Image
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
jpeg
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
St. John's College owns the rights to this photograph.
Commencement
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