By NANCY OSIUS tutor, has been summoned away to an emer and several times to last month's assignment to these members of an Executive Seminar: gency. in which Sophocles' Antigone pitted the in "Have you ever wondered what you are It is 8 a.m. on a Tuesday in November. In One student admits with exasperation, "I dividual against the state. There will be doing around this table? Why are we here?" Room 22 McDowell on the Annapolis cam expected this to be the greatest book I had those putting forth the notion that the city Self-fulfillment, says one-"Getting be pus, 15 men and women seated about the ever opened. But it's very difficult to get to exists essentially for the protection of the yond the daily concerns." seminar table are considering that funda what he's driving at." There is sympathetic individual. There is a moment of suspended Another ventures, smiling, "We'll be mental social partnership, the household laughter. assent when one participant says, "The city hoping that the good of all is a part of the ("Aman, a woman, and an ox for plowing") purpose of our being here." and its relation to the larger partnership of Presently this group of adults, who in the city. Copies of Aristotle's Politics lie clude a sailmaker, an engineer, a banker, a open around the table as the participants take EXECUTIVE SEMINARS public relations executive, and several busi up the topic they will toss about for much of ness men and women among their numbers, the next hour and a half: Does a city primar Professionals savor food/or thought close their books, and after a few more pleas ily exist for the collective good of the inhab antries, file out of the room to head back to itants or for the good of the individual? their Tuesday lives. exists for the sake of living well." Today the seminar leader is President With swoops and pauses to define terms, As the alloted 90 minutes draw to a close, Christopher Nelson, sitting in for Nicholas the discussion will move from Thomas Jef Bill Henderson, who runs an engineering ferson to taxation to NAFT A to monopolies, President Nelson asks a surprising question Capozzoli, who, a neurologist as well as a (Continued on page 13)
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LESLI ALLISON program is to explore the Eastern tradition Following several years of study, includ with the same kind of approach the college ing a one-year pilot program in 1992-93, St. takes to the Western tradition. "In undertak John's College in Santa Fe is about to create ing a serious and systematic study of the a new graduate program in Eastern classics. philosophical traditions and great books of successful completion of the three the East, we are seeking genuine term course of study, students will receive a merely exposure to diversity," he said "In Master of Arts degree in Eastern classics, the our interest is neither the under the auspices of the Graduate Western mind nor the Eastern mind, but the Institute. human mind." The program was approved by a wide The program is scheduled to in the in a vote by the faculty of both fall of 1994, with enrollment limited to 21 campuses on November 15. The progran1, students. Tuition will be the same per credit which needs final approval by the Board of hour as the Graduate Institute at $387 /credit Visitors and Governors, will be voted upon hour (estimated for 1994-95). Completion at the Board's January meeting. of the program will require 34 credit hours "This new project is something that will for a total tuition of approximately $13,200. be noticed nationwide," said President John Carey, who directed the pilot phase of the lots of inquiries and lots of people are going Limited financial aid will be available. Agresto. "It pushes out further the bound program, the vote indicated solid support to be very happy that we have done this." Literature on the graduate program in aries of liberal education and finds another from both the Annapolis and Santa Fe cam The program will focus on classic texts Eastern classics will be available shortly. way of testing and sharpening the principles puses. "I'm glad it passed by so large a of India, China and Japan. All students in the Due to the limited enrollment, anyone inter of our own civilization, and shows again margin because it indicates a lot of collegial program will be required to study either ested should contact the college as soon as how, by taking other cultures seriously, not allegiance andrespectforwhat we're trying Classical Chinese or Sanskrit. The three possible. All inquiries should be directed to patronizingly or politically, we can learn to do," he said. "We look forward to doing terms required to complete the program will The Graduate Institute, St. John's College, from them on their own terms." something in the program that's worthy of span the fall, spring, and summer semesters. Santa Fe, NM 87501-4599; (505) 988-4361 According to Santa Fe Tutor James St. John's College. There have been lots and According to Mr. Carey, the intent of the or (505) 984-6082. Peter Davies, A' 48, provided food for the hungry SJC NANCYOSIUS played a signal role in advocating for and "You are from New York City?" said good for African Not too long ago he was moving between eliciting the generous help Americans have Gandhi, adding somewhat surprisingly, such countries as Somalia and Ethiopia and traditionally shown to the needy around the "You can grow leafy salads in window Americans, says Zimbabwe, bringing to places of great world. boxes there." (Thirty years later, Peter human hardship the expert knowledge Today he is back in Annapolis for his Davies' son Kenneth was heading "Opera guide gained over long years of service to under 45th reunion, one of many who are looking tion Green Thumb" in New York, teaching developed nations. When the subject was into old classrooms and greeting old friends. people to grow leafy vegetables on vacant At a time when the "politically famine or drought, Peter Davies was likely He is back for a singular reason as well: at land. Continuing to follow in his father's correct" trend in colleges and universities to be offe1ing testimony at Congressional the Homcoming Banquet last footsteps, Kenneth is cunently appears to be toward diversifying hearings or speaking to the media. As pres night, the Alumni Association in Swaziland working for the studies, the liberal arts education of ident of InterAction, a coalition of intcrna presented him with its highest UN World Food Program.) fered at St. John's has been included ti onal relief, development, refugee, honor, the Award of Merit. Mr. Davies himself came in The JOOBestCollegesforAfrican environmental and population groups, he Peter Davies has justretiredfrom away from the fateful meeting American Students, by Erlene B. InterAction, which he helped fom1 with Gandhi withafirmcommit Wilson (Penguin). in 1984. His post as president and ment. After completing his AB. "Traditionally, this kind of ANNAPOLIS EDITION chief executive officer was the cul degree at St. John's he received thought-provoking education has -INSIDE mination of a career in intemational a master's degree in agricultural eluded African-Americans as they Statement of Educational Policy development and assistance that economics from the Harvard struggle with issues of basic survival Pages 16 & 17 took him around and around the Graduate School of Public Ad- and the distractions of family life and Search and Rescue . 4 globe. ministration (now the Kennedy community responsibility," Ms. Wilson Parents' weekends . 6,7 He likes to say that it all Peter Davies, A'48 School). As a conscientious ob- writes. "Ironically, it is perhaps this Alumni Notes ... 8,9 began in 1946, when as a mer jector, he was initially blocked in kind of education that can most benefit Homecoming . . . 10, 11 chant seaman who had landed in Bombay, his chosen career in public service by McCar African-American students as they Alumni Association 14, 15 he sought out and met Mahatma Gandhi at thy era security strictures, but after President are challenged to deal with an in Letters to Editor 18 a prayer meeting. The wise man asked him Kennedy was elected, Mr. Davies was named creasingly tense society." Obituaries . . . . . 19 where he had come from. (Continued on page 12) PAGE2 THE REPORTER DECEMBER 1993
New telephone $100,000 grant teachers from system at Annapolis President Christopher B. stones discussions. man, has proven successful for students of S Fe campus Nelson recently announced that the Emily Rice High School is a Catholic school the entire range of abilities and interests, Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation operated by the Order of Irish Christian from those at-risk to the highly gifted. In October, St. John's College in Santa has awarded the Annapolis campus a Brothers. It was recommended for the proj When notified of the grant, Brother John Fe installed a new telephone system, $100,000 grant for an outreach program. ect on the basis of its key position in both Walderman, vice-principal of Rice High MYTEL 20001 FIBEROPTIC. According The Kornfeld Foundation is located inNew the New York Archdiocese and the world School, said, "Touchstones discussion to switchboard supervisor Chris Burke, York. wide Christian Brothers school systems. The classes produce essential skills not found "The buildings on campus are now con The four-year program will enable three Order of the Clnistian Brothers is noted for anywhere else in schools. Our students will nected by fiberoptic cable. The new system teachers from Rice High School, located in the quality of its schools serving students of learn how to become collaborators in their is state of the art and is an excellent platform Harlem, to obtain masters' degrees from all backgrounds. Rice High School has a own education." He also praised the Grad on which to build all our telecommunication the St. John's Graduate Institute. These diverse racial, ethnic, and religious popula uate Institute, noting that the Kornfeld Fel needs for the future. teachers and many of their colleagues at tion. lows, as they will be known, will learn new "One of the main advantages to the col Rice will also be trained in the methods of The Touchstones Project model of coop approaches to teaching and learning in lege is that people can now dial directly into the Touchstones Discussion Project, a pro erative learning has been incorporated into which the primary role of faculty is to en the departments from outside, bypassing the gram for grades 4-12 based on the St. the curriculum of schools in more than 25 courage inquiry by asking and clarifying switchboard," Chris said. "We also cut down John's seminar method. By the end of the states and four foreign countries. The proj questions instead of lecturing as authority. enormously on the number of lines that the four-year grant period, all students at Rice ect, developed by tutors Geoffrey Comber, The program will begin in November. college was using previously. We had sepa will be participating in weekly T 1mch- Nicholas Maistrellis, and Howard Zeitler- rate lines for almost everything: modems, faxes and pay phones; and now we've incor porated all these under one 'umbrella' which will save significantly in telephone science and respect for the law. when I got here at the end of the freshman charges." "The thing that I really focused on in the year, but I wasn't cast in any of the shows According to Chris the college had out play was the relationship between aware that I auditioned for. Then, 'Reality' was so grown the old system which could not ac ness and free will, and I think that that's one dismal in my sophomore year that I thought commodate increasing demands, nor could of the broadest themes of the play and it would be uplifting for our 'Reality' as it be expanded. This problem became criti perhaps not the most obvious," Scott said. sophomores to have a huge production. I cal with the addition of new dormitories. "It seems like the play subtly suggests really started Grex as a group in order to The new phone system now offers a number that through our awareness we create our launch a production of A Midsummer of time-saving features, including the soon By MARY JO MOORE own ability to be volitional and Antigone Nights Dream. Antigone was our second to-be installed voice mail. "It basically acts embodies that, while Creon, through his production." as an answering machine for all staff offices St. John's College and the Grex student lack of awareness, is more controlled by Her role as Chairman of Grex in Anti and executives, increasing our ability to ex theatre group presented Sophocles' Anti 'fate'." gone was advisory. "I helped with logistical change information and cut down on gone with four show dates in November. According to Erika Hildebrandt, chair things." She said, "I also played the chorus paperwork," Chris said. "With the voicemail Director Scott Capehart, a recent gradu man of Grex, "Grex is St. John's commu leader in the play. The chorus involved feature we will be able to access messages ate of St. John's, wrote the musical score. nity theater and consists of graduate choreography and singing as well as the from anywhere." Richard Saja, who designed A Midsummer students as well as cunent students." Erika, line work and appeared during five major New key telephone numbers ar¢ as fol Night's Dream in May was artistic director whose mother was a director at a small odes as well as within the scenes. We share lows: for set and costumes. The cast included college in Pennsylvania, grew up with the the role, and serve as advisor to Creon." Yvonne Woods as Antigone, Tyler Hart theater around her. "Every summer since I Erika said, "In the original Greek they all Main Number: New switchboard number ford as Creon and Ann Laurino as Ismene. was 15 I have been an actress at the Penn would speak as one voice." is 984-6000 although lhe old number 982- sylvania Renaissance Fair, so I learned a lot The cast also included Nicolas Gray as 3691 will remain valid for at least a year. The chorus was Erika Hildebrandt, Melissa pe~iod Haemon, Casey Joseph as the sentry, Chad For direct dial use (505) 984 +extension Bisagni, and Gillian Tan. of improvisational and Shakespear Admissions: 6060 According to Director Scott Capehart, ian theater there. Rackowitz, Tiresias and Ben Haller, the Advancement 6099 his decision to produce the Greek tragedy "At St.John's there was theater going on messenger. Alumni: 6103 was prompted by "the particular resources Bookstore: 6056 and knowledge available at the college.'' Conferences & Symposia: 6024 "The play has always interested me," he Dean's Office: 6070 said. "I think of all the Greek tragedies we Graduate Institute: 6082 read (at St. John's), the relationships Library: 6042 among the characters seem the most real Parent Program: 6082 and dramatic .... It was a very stark and sim President's Office: 6098 ple production. We made an effort not to Public Relations: 6104 try to associate the play with any particular Fax # :984-6003 time period." Crediting early teachers in Winchester, Virginia with nurturing his interest in act on Adler's ing, Scott said, "My first directing experi Colleges ence was at Annapolis in my freshman year. The play was William Saroyan's To hear Mortimer Adler tell it, St. Hello Out There. I definitely learned from John's is one of only three first-rate under the process." graduate colleges in the country, accord The ensemble for the play consisted of ing to an article published in the August two flutes, an oboe, three strings and per 13, 1993, edition of the Pittsburgh Post cussion. "The music, like the design, was Gazette. Thomas Aquinas College in stark", Scott said. "It was definitely influ Santa Paula, Calif., and the University of enced by modern dissonant music. Notre Dame in Indiana are the two others Shostakovich has been the biggest influ that offer a classical approach to teaching. ence on me. It's exciting that I've given While it is fashionable for academics to myself an opportunity to write within a deride the classics in favor of feminist or structure rather than trying to just sit down multicultural writings, Mr. Adler remains and write." a supporter of writers such as Plutarch, Antigone tells the story of a young girl John Locke, and John Stuart Mill. "I make who goes to her death defending her most no apology for being in favor of dead, deeply held beliefs. Creon, the king, refuses white European males," he said, referring to grant burial to Antigone's brother be to favorite authors such as Plato and Aris cause of his attempt to conquer the city. totle. "The truth is always the same ... Cul Antigone, believing that Creon's action vi tural diversity is all right with respect to olates the fundamental laws of the gods, dance, dress, and cuisine." buries the body, consciously defying Creon's decree. He sends Antigone to her death, intent on maintaining the integrity of The Reporteris published in June and Decerrber by the News and Information Office, St. John's College, Box the laws and upholding his authority as 2800 Annapolis, MD 21404, and in Septerrber and March by the Public Relations Office, St. John's College, king. The gods punish him for his stubborn Box 4599, Santa Fe, NM 87501. Annapolis; Nancy Osius, editor; Donna Boetig, assis and irreverent actions. tant editor; Wye Allanbrook, Betsy Blume, Eva Brann, John Christensen.,Benjamin Milner, Brother Robert While it addresses the question of recon Smith, and Elliott Luckerman, advisory_ board; Marcia Student production of Antigone on Santa Fe Campus Baldwin. design; Ex-offico member: Thomas Geyer. ciling earthly and eternal laws and the rela Santa Fe: Lesli Allison, editor; Patrick Daugherty, design. tionship of the individual to the state, the USPS 018-750 focus of this production is on the broader conflict between the individual's con- DECEMBER 1993 THE REPORTER PAGE3
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The first of 11 projected volumes in the ists, Mr. Flaumenhaftremarkedrecently that series Masterworks of Discovery, Guided the Masterworks of Discovery series "is for Studies Texts in Science, a project intelligent persons who want to read these first conceived and subsequently organized texts for themselves, and are willing to do and edited by Annapolis tutor Harvey some work if given appropriate help." Flaumenhaft, has been published by Rutgers In his preface to the first volume, Mr. University Press. Flaumenhaft wrote, "To be thoughtful The volume is Gregor Mendel's Experi human beings-to be thoughtful about what ments on Plant Hybrids by Alain F. Corcos it is that makes us human-we need to read and Floyd V. Monaghan. the record of the thinking that has shaped the Mr. Flaumenhafthas been working on the world around us, and still shapes our minds project since 1985, when he came up with a as well." Scientific thinking is fundamental suggestion for the National Endowment for to this record, he continued. Liberal eeti the Humanities panel he was sitting on: Ed To be published in the series this winter ucated people, who would read writings of is Newton's Optical Writings by Dennis By LESLI ALLISON the AALE made national headlines with Shakespeare or Rousseau but not those by Sepper of the University of Dallas. After that Members of the American Academy of the announcement of its formation in great thinkers in natural science and mathe will come Maxwell's Papers on the Electro Liberal Education (AALE) convened Oc March, 1993. The board of directors, matics, might benefit from short "guide magnetic Field by Mr. Simpson; Newton's tober 29 and 30 at St. John's College in chaired by Santa Fe President John books" to help make the thought of these Principia, by Ms. Densmore; and Aristotle's Santa Fe to discuss future accreditation Agresto, includes: Jacques Barzun; Ed thinkers accessible, he said. Physics by Mr. Sachs. standai·ds for liberal arts colleges. The ward 0. Wilson, Harvard University sci The NEH was receptive to the idea and Mr. Simpson's manuscript is now being keynote speaker for the event was Jacques ence professor and Pulitzer Prize winner; a warded Mr. Flaumenhaft a grant to set a used in a preceptorial by tutor Marilyn Barzun, author, former provost and pro former Colorado Governor Richard D. series in motion and to begin writing his own Higuera on the Annapolis campus. fessor emeritus at Columbia University. Lamm; Chester E. Finn, Jr., former assis volumes for it. The NEH also made grants Currently supported by the Bradley Dr. Bai·zun spoke on the social repercus tant secretary of education and founding for the writing of some other volumes in the Foundation, Mr. Flaumenhaft himself is sions of declining education standards. partn~r of Chris Whittle's Edison Project; series. writing two volumes for later publication in Discussion panelists included, among Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, professor and Mr. Flaumenhaft has been joined in the the series: Apollonius and Descartes on Ge others: Dr. Paul Gross, director of the former director of women's studies at project by other tutors from both St. John's ometry and Ptolemy and Copernicus on As Center for Advanced Studies, University Emory University; and Shelby Steele, En campuses: Annapolis Tutor Emeritus tronomy. of Virginia; Dr. Ralph Lerner, Committee glish professor at San Jose University, Thomas K. Simpson, Annapolis tutor Joe Other books in the series will be on Social Thought, University of Chi among others. Jeffery D. Wallin is the Sachs, Santa Fe tutor Dana Densmore, and Aristotle's Parts of Animals by Jam cs cago; Dr. Thomas E. Dillon, president of executive director. former Santa Fe Tutor William Donohue. Lennox, and Kepler's Account ofthe Plane ls St. Thomas Aquinas College; Dr. Ralph In a New York press conference last Noting that most books presenting the by Mr. Donahue. Under negotiation are A. Rossum, Fletcher Jones professor of spring, members of the academy said their great scientists are either popularizations books on Lavoisier's Chemistry and American Politics, University of Red intent is to provide support and guidelines that merely talk about their work or else are Darwin's Origin of Species. lands; and Stephen Balch, president of the for traditional liberal education. The commentaries on their writings for special- National Association of Scholars. group, which aims to acquire accrediting The first of three pai:el discussions fo status, has proposed 17 standards for pro cused on past, present and future accred viding a liberal education. These include Pesic writes on "Hyperspace" iting standards for liberal education; the the central importance of teaching over second on the role of science in liberal other activities, including research; hav Idea for paper originated in undergraduate days education; and the third on freedom of ing senior faculty members teach intro speech on campus. ductory and other lower-level courses, The purpose of the panel discussions and graduation requirements insuring that By LESLI ALLISON physical significance. Gradually I came to was to discuss guidelines and policies of at least a third of a student's course work "Euclidean Hyperspace and its Physical think that it was physically significant and the AALE which plans to become an ac be devoted to general liberal arts courses Significance," an article by Santa Fe tutor have tried to show in this paper what that crediting agency for liberal arts colleges. such as history, literature, languages, Peter Pesic, was published in the November significance is. Comprised of some of the nation's mathematics and science. issue of 11 Nuovo Cimento, the physics jour "The heart of my idea is that the Euclid leading scholars and college presidents, nal of the Italian Society of Physics (Societa ean space introduced by Schwinger and oth Italiana di Fisica). The publication is one of ers, which I call "hyperspace," gives a the standard international journals of phys deeper insight into what underlies the quan ics. tum theory of fields and the emerging quan r olan, S 92 According to Mr. Pesic, the. idea for the tum theory of gravity, even though this article originated 25 years ago in a discus hyperspace is not directly observable, but is George Dolan, SF'92, has been awarded and artists opportunities for personal devel sion he had as a student witl1 a Harvard knowable as one probes the underpinnings a Fulbright Scholarship for overseas study. opment and international experience. The professor, Julian Schwinger, who won the of those theories. In the space-time which The award will allow :Mr. Dolan to teach prnl='"1Il1 includes university course work, Nobel Prize in physics in 1965 for his work Minkowski and Einstein introduced, space English in a South Korean middle school for indf;"J endent library or field research, classes on quantum electrodynamics. and time are, to some extent, kept distinct one to two years. in~ Jsic conservatory or art school, special "Ihad been asking him how to understand and separate in character, even though they Mr. Dolan already has arrived on the is projects, or a combination of these. It is the some of the central ideas of modern quan are unified together into a four-dimensional land of Cheju-Do where he will reside part policy of the Fulbright Scholarship Board tum field theory, especially the TCP theo manifold. By contrast, in Euclidean time with a Korean family and part-time in that grants be awarded to the best qualified rem, which shows the necessity of particles hyperspace, space and time are completely an apartment. students regardless of degree level. and anti-particles of the same mass and interchangeable and thus a perfect symme According to his mother, Barbara Dolan, Anyone wishing to write Mr. Dolan can charge," Mr. Pesic said. "He mentioned to try between space and time can be intro he will have a two-month winter holiday contact him at the following address: me work of his that connected this theorem duced into physics at this fundamental, which will enable him to travel. After com George Dolan, Cheju Chung-Ang with the idea of a four-dimensional Euclid theoretical level, even though observation pleting the school year, he may opt for a Middle School, 323-14 Yeon-Dong, Cheju ian space attached to the four-dimensional will only show distinguishable space and second year's assignment in the same or Shi, Cheju-Do 690-170, Korea space-time used since Einstein and tin1e. In essence, Minkowski's dream of the different locale. Minkowski." unification of space and time has here found The Fulbright will provide Mr. Dolan Mr. Pesic noted that during the past 20 surprising realization. with a $1000/month stipend in addition to all years, Euclidean techniques have become "It is musing to think that Euclid re expenses and travel. widely used, particularly in the search for an emerges into contemporaiy physics after it Created in 1964 by the U.S. Congress, the adequate theory of quantum gravity. had seemed that he was completely super Fulbright Grant's mission is to foster mutual Since his dis.cussion with Professor seded by non-Euclidean geometries." understanding among nations through edu Schwinger, Mr. Pesic said he has remained Mr. Pesic, who is musician-in-residence cational and cultural exchanges. Each year, intrigued by the idea for many years. "I tried at Santa Fe, holds a Ph.D. in theoretical approximately 5,000 grants are awarded to to Ulink about whether it nlight be only a physics from Stanford and formerly did re American students, teachers and scholars to mathematical trick as most physicists seem search on elementaiy particles at the Stan study, teach and conduct research around the to think, or whether it might have some real ford Linear Accelerator Center. world, and to foreign nationals engaged in similar activities in the United States. The U.S. student progran1 is designed to give recent BS/BA graduates, master's and doctoral candidates, young professionals George Dolan, SF '92 PAGE4 THE REPORTER DECEMBER 1993 Profile of a mission: Search team rescues plane crash survivors
By LESLI ALLISON always a feeling of disbelief.. .I'm not hear ing anything .. .it must be one of our own 0 n August 28 two persons-Luiz and team members yelling back," Troy said. Nancy Natalicio, from El Paso, Texas "But within minutes, Brian, Gene and my were fl,ying a Cessna 172 in the vicinity of self were talking to the Natalicios." Terrero, New Mexico approximately 40 "I fell to my knees and sobbed, Nancy miles northeastofSantaFe. Turning up into said. I couldn't believe they were there." Bear Creek Canyon, Luiz realized he could For the next two hours, while waiting for not gain enough altitude to clear Elk Moun the arrival of CH-60 Blackhawk helicopter tain at the east end of the canyon and would from Kirkland Air Force Base, the teams have to crash. Rather than panic, he reduced helped warm the Natalicios with hot drinks, speed, searched for the best site and, ap clothing and sleeping bags and attended to proximately ten feet above treeline, deliber their injmies. ately stalled the plane. The Natalicios When the helicopter arrived, the survived the crash. This mission profile is an Natalicios were bundled, one at a time, into account of the events leading to the crash litters and hoisted 75-100 feet up into the and the ensuing rescue by the St. John's helicopter. College Search and Rescue Team. "It was quite an experience having the While in Santa Fe to attend a workshop chopper so close," Troy said. "The turbu on flying in mountainous areas, Luiz and lence was so strong we were holding on to Nancy N atalicio decided to make a quick trees and vines. Two packs were almost said. "Part of the terrain danger was that we plane and had taken a small piece of carpet flight over Terrero where Nancy had spent blown down the mountain. But we were all had to go across these fields of wet, lichen and two large maps of the region.Nancy had summers during her childhood. They had in good spirits because we knew we would covered rock, carrying packs." carried with her a purse and camera. taken some photos and were heading back be out in three or four hours." As the night turned to daylight and the "That camera case was really helpful," when Luiz realized he had turned into Bear Once the helicopter left, Teams 1 and 2 rain continued, team morale began to drop. Luiz said "We used the strap to immobilize Creek Canyon and had lost altitude. Facing combined and different members of the "We were all kind of nervous and apprehen her arm." Elk Mountain, and with canyon walls on teams elected to depart by different routes. sive because with plane crashes you never Initially, the Natalicios had not expected either side, he saw there was no alternative Some climbed the steep canyon wall that know what you'll find, especially since it to spend the night, particularly when the but to crash. they had descended the night before. Others was a small plane," he said. "After about helicopter appeared that evening over the A neurologist who works with physiolog chose to hike down Bear Creek to the Bear four hours of searching-it was about 6:30 crash site. However, when the weather ical trauma victims, Luiz said he has spent Creek campground. a.m.-we all sat out on some rocks in a began to worsen and the helicopter departed, considerable time reflecting on the way he "I vividly remember being told it would clearing. I think that was the low point for they knew they were in for a long night. himself responded at the time he realized the be an' easy, four-mile hike downhill,"' Troy all of us since we had been searching all "At about six o'clock the helicopter took dilemma. said, "a stroll, if you will, something we night and we hadn't found them. We'd all off down the canyon, right in front of our "All systems that were detracting shut were all looking forward to." been up 24 hours by that time and we were eyes," Luiz said. "When Nancy asked for a down," he said. "I was focused only on They set out downstream at 3 p.m., only fading in and out of sleep." cigarette, I knew things were bad because finding the right place to put it down." to encounter numerous creek crossings at Although the wreckage had been spotted she hasn't smoked in ten years. By the way, When he finally did stall the plane, it was mid-thigh to mid-knee, dense growth, and from the air, the two ground teams had dif I also knew the forecast. We knew it would over a younger stand of timber. According fields of slippe1y, lichen-covered rocks. ficulty locating the site due to terrain, poor rain." to the FAA inspector, the plane knocked "I think I bonded more intensely with the visibility and inaccurate coordinates. The N atalicios used the small piece of over one tree and then spun 360 degrees on members of the team that were on the last At approximately 9:40 a.m., as the carpet, the maps, and Nancy's large purse to impact with a second tree. The plane slid part of the hike than I ever have before in weather began to clear, the State Police he keep their upper torsos dry that evening. down the second tree and came to rest at the previous searches," Troy said. "I think the licopter arrived to help guide the teams to "We just let the rest of us get wet," Luiz said. base. endurance requirement or necessity that we the crash site. They spent the night against a tree on the "!remember seeing the green trees going were subjected to, coupled with our fatigue, "We all ran to where the chopper was steep slope of the canyon just above the cliff. by out the side of the plane," Nancy said. "I made for a situation where we either were hovering," Troy said. "To have a sprint like would not look ahead. The next thing I re considerate or compassionate toward each member is looking up to see Luiz washing other or our team integiity would have been blood off his face with gasoline dripping "/ never thought I would consider suicide as an compromised." from the wing." When Nancy pointed out to "I remember at one point Rick (Gaudet, Luiz that it was gasoline, not water, he said, option," Nancy told the team later. "[But] after SF'92), asked me how I was doing, and I "No wonder it bums!" replied, 'I'm cold, wet and miserable,' and Despite multiple injuries, the N atalicios seeing the helicopter leave, I wasn't very hopeful." he kind of chuckled and said, 'Oh, then decided the best course would be to leave you're fine,' and kind of smiled. And we the plane and walk down-stream in order to both really laughed because that put things find their way out. that was very demanding. I got to the site The next morning, their hope was rekin in perspective for me. I realized that we 're right after Brian did. He and I dropped our dled by the appearance of the State Police all friends here, it had for all of us to be At 2 p.m. on August 28, the plane's packs and approached the aircraft, still an helicopter. where we are now, but we're still a team." emergency signal was detected by Scott Air ticipating the worst. And to our surprise, it "It came really close an<;l pointed right at Force Base, and the New Mexico State Po was completely empty. There was a trail of us," Luiz said. "I just knew he was looking At 9 p.m. the team decided to stop for lice was notified. A mission was initiated blood-soaked kleenexes leading away from right at me. We waved our maps and our the night. Short on food and minus one with participating teams including: Civil Air the plane." arms. The helicopter kept moving very sleeping bag which had been sent with the Patrol, the Los Alamos Fire Brigade, CDl, The two tean1s made a decision to initiate slowly, all armmd us and pointing right at us N atalicios, the team combined resources to the 542ndfromKirkland Air Force Base and a search immediately. "We were worried but then it started to move away, over the make it through the night. St. John's College Search and Rescue. about the condition of the pilot and we were ridge, until we couldn't hear it anymore." "We consolidated what we had and At approximately 4 p.m. a Civil Air Pa still unsure if there was a passenger," Troy TheNatalicioscouldnothaveknown that worked together as a team tomakedo,"Troy trol plane located the crash about two to said. "We began searching downstream, ag the helicopter, rather than looking for survi said. "It was very unifying. Once you're in three miles northwest of Elk Mountain, at gressively calling for the subject." vors, was directing ground teams to the the field like that, your deficiencies are an elevation of 10, 100 feet. The State Police It was not long before they heard a re crash site. eve1yone 's deficiencies." helicopter reached the site a short time later; sponse to their calls. "I never thought I would consider suicide The next morning the team left the canyon hovering about 200 feet over the wreckage, as an option," Nancy told the team later. bottom and climbed to the top of the ridge where the helicopter personnel saw no signs of life. heard the faintest 'hello'," said "After seeing the helicopter leave, I wasn't they located a trail. After several more hours they St. John's Search and Rescue was mobi Luiz. "When the team found us it was a very hopeful. I knew they call off searches reached the campground. lized at 8: 15 p.m. Two field tean1s and a base critical moment." after a certain amount of time. Luiz sug "We came upon Gene Tyson (rescue vol camp team left St.John's College for Rescue The Natalicios, after leaving the plane, gested getting back to the plane but I wasn't unteer), lying in the back of his pick-up Base near Elk Mountain. had bushwhacked down the canyon until sure we could make it or even find the plane trnck, reading a book, with a big vat of hot St. John's Search and Rescue volunteer they came to what for them was an impass again. There was a bluff right in front of us cocoa going," Troy said. Troy Lewis, SF'94, was a member of Team able cliff. In the effort to get around the cliff, and rather than do it slowly and painfully, I 1. According to Troy, the weather was a they had climbed part way up the canyon thought we could throw ourselves over and A1most two months later, the major factor throughout the course of the until they realized they could not continue. get it over with. I was just waiting for the Natalicios returned to Santa Fe to meet and mission. Visibility was less than the range Due to injuries which included a fractured right moment to suggest this to Luiz." thank the team that rescued them. of the flashlights and the terrain was ex clavicle, a dislocated shoulder and a frac "You are on our minds constantly, Luiz tremely rugged and with dense tree cover. tured humerus, Nancy could only use one According to team members, theNatalicios, said. And we can only dimly appreciate the "Those were some of the worst condi arm to pull herself up steep slopes or to standing above them, at first sight looked like kind of effort it takes to keep a program like tions for a search I've ever been in," Troy balance in precarious places. raggedly dressed homeless people. this going." Luiz, at one point, had gone back to the "Just like on previous searches, there's DECEMBER 1993 THE REPORTER PAGES
Sandra Schubert Brock of Annapolis, president of the Hunterdon Central High an expert in international trade and gov School Foundation. ernment relations and wife of former He has served as national fundraising United State Senator William E. chairman of St. John's College, and is a John Duncan Mack of Ringoes, New Jer former trustee of the New York City sey, a farmer corporate president and vice and the Dr. Franklin Perkins pn~s1c1en.t; and Marvin Sloves of North School for Exceptional Children in Lan New and Santa chair- caster, Massachusetts. man and chief executive officer of an Mr. Mack received the Silver Star in international advertising agency, have World War II while serving in the Infan been to the St. John's College try. He is married with four children. Board of Visitors and Governors. The 56- member board makes and oversees Marvin Sloves is chairman and chief administration of the college. executive officer of Sandra Brock began her government Slaves, Inc. The advertising agency, with working on the Republi- worldwide billings, was identified as "one can subsequently ofthemostcreativeagenciesin the United she was to a senior position States," by the French Strate within the administration. gies. In 1978 Mr. Sloves began his ca- a highly-regarded transportation firm rep reer as a researcher for the Marlboro ac resenting the interests of domestic and count at Leo Burnett in Chicago. In 1964 international air carriers. When the firm he joined Papert, Koenig, Lois as vice was merged with a large Washington law president and account supervisor of firm in 1984, Mrs. Brock became its inter Xerox Corporation. In 1967, he co national aviation trade specialist. founded Scali, McCabe, Sloves, Inc. her numerous honors is the Among his numerous honors was distinction of being elected in 1983 as the being named one of the Top 10 Men in first woman president of the AERO Club, Advertising (New York) by McCall's the oldest aviation and aerospace organi Magazine in 1992. zation in the country. That same year, she Mr. Sloves is on the Board of Directors was recognized by the national aviation for The Chamber Music Society of Lin club as one of the 10 most outstanding coln The Santa Fe Opera, The woman in aviation. In President Santa Fe Chamber Music New amJ01nted her to the President's York Council for the Humanities and The Com.mission on Privatization ...... '"'"'"'"uuv.u, Burden Center for the Aging. Mrs. Brock sits on the boards of the Pedi- He is an alumnus and fellow of Bran 1-1niirnr1<>rinn· the U.S. Holocaust deis University. He did n-r<>,rln<:itP Chinese at the
served as president of Carter Products Di vision from 197 6 to 1991 where he was responsible for product lines such as Pearl Drops, and First Response. Mr. Mack began his career as a sales man, working his way up to manager of Duncan Hines Enterprises. He thenjoined Clairol as advertising manager, and later directed a 400-person regular Clairol sales force and founded the electric hair setter business. As executive vice presi dent of the company, he made several major acquisitions. In addition to serving as director of the Board of Appliance Science Corporation, Mr. Mack is a town committeeman and planning board committeeman in East Amwell, New Jersey; trustee of the Com- Foundation of New Jersey; and
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By KATHY DULISSE Umelenting rains did little to dampen the enthusiasm of same subject. the record number of parents and family members who President Christopher Nelson welcomed parents to attended Parents' Weekend on the Annapolis campus. The campus at a special parents' session where he talked briefly 282 participants-parents, grandparents and siblings about the Middle States Reaccreditation Review the Col joined 148 students for a weekend of special activities lege had recently gone through. Dean Eva Brann, and which included seminars, a meeting with college adminis Assistant Deans Jonathan Tuck and Wendy Allanbrook trators, social events, and a student organized Halloween answered questions from parents that focused mainly on Waltz Party. the college's academic program. On Friday, parents were invited to audit their student's Saturday evening was free time for parents and students, classes, and for many it was their first opportunity to see and many took advantage of the fine restaurants in down the St. John's teaching method in action. "My mother was town Annapolis, then danced the night away at the students very impressed," said Stacie Slotnick whose mother Joyce Halloween Waltz Party in McDowell Hall. Slotnick attended her senior math class. "I can't believe we The Weekend concluded with a Sunday brunch hosted talked about skewed lines at dinner that night." The next by President Nelson. day both parents and students were eager participants in Perhaps the success of the weekend can be summed up seminars on Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. Freshman Larry in the words of Freshman Rebecca Michael, "My mom and McNeely enjoyed hearing his father voice the same con I had such a special time together; we enjoyed ourselves clusions that he had reached in an earlier seminar on the so much. I really hated to see her go."
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The driving force behind the team, team, Kincey holds the rank of captain in Originally from North Carolina, Kincey Kincey assists during rescue missions, both the Civil Air Patrol and in 1990 was was driving through New Mexico in 1969 in the radio room and the field. He also awarded the CAP national Exceptional when he decided to visit Santa Fe. From trains students and community members in Service Award. In 1991 he was made an that moment on, he made Santa Fe his wilderness survival, rock-climbing, techni honorary member of the St. John's College home. cal rescue, navigational skills, radio-use Alumni Association. An Outward Bound instructor at the and first aid, among other things. For many See rescue story, page 4. time, Kincey soon became involved in out door and wilderness activities in New Mex ico, founding the St. John's Search and Rescue Team in 1971. With 18 original members, the goal of the team was to teach wilderness survival skills and to offer their Lett to right-Team member rescue expertise to the public in the event Patrick French, SF'95, Herb Kincey and team of emergencies. President Elizabeth Today the team, which is headquartered Rohrback, SF'86. at the college, consists of approximately 90 volunteers, half of whom are St. John's students and the other half, members of the local community .. PAGES THE REPORTER DECEMBER 1993 1919 This January he launched "Wolff Associates," cages, he had good luck with practice swings, 1990 John W. Wood Jr. (A) was the subject of a planning, urban design, environmental as but no luck with the real 10 pitches. With the Alexandra Edelglass (A) is a medical stu a recent feature in The Annapolis Capital elab sessment, and landscape architectural firm. excitement, he even missed seeing his name on dent at SUNY at Stony Brook. orating on the active life of this World War I the scoreboard. Andy Ghiz (A) married Christi Zehringer veteran. Mr. Wood, who attended both the St. 1975 Joy Kaplan (SF) writes that after two years in Richmond, VA., on September 28. Present "Great-spirited, caring people and we're John's Preparatory School and the U.S. Naval of working with international theatre groups were Susan Haines (A), groomsmen Charlie learning good medicine," writes Laura T. Academy, went on to win wrestling champion and teaching English in Alexandria, Egypt, she Schlueter (A) and Ken Paradis (A). The cou Bridgman (A), a naturopathic medical student ships in his 20s, and last fall at the age of 93, moved to Istanbul to continue her work. She's ple will be moving to Pittsburgh in November. at Bastyr College in Seattle. She plans to com won a croquet championship at his retirement also making documentary films with her hus Andy is a branch manager for Ghiz Inc., an plete the four-year program in 1995, and in the community. When not swimming his daily 10 band, AhmedHamouda, whom she married in industrial sales and engineering firm. meantime hikes the forests and mountains, and laps in the pool, he is an outstanding member May. She would like to hear from anyone Chris Newman (A) and Paola Newman plays folk music on hammered dulcimer with of the volunteer discharge team at Anne involved in international theatre, especially in have returned from a two year stint teaching friends. Arundel Medical Center-helping escort 16 North Africa, Europe, or the former Soviet English in Japan. They brought back lots of Marsha Donna Hayden (SFGI), who now patients from their rooms to their waiting cars Republics. "Istanbul is a great town. Contact souvenirs, a little Japanese language, and a wishes to be known as just Donna, is currently on a typical weekday. Mr. Wood worked in the me if you'd like to visit," she says. child,. their first. "Lucus," according to Mom metallurgy division of the former Navy Exper teaching English and is department chair at and Dad, is adjusting well to America after imental Station, with an interlude at Westing Associacao Escola Graduada de Sao Paulo in 1989 spending his first month in Japan. They're house and the Annapolis Metropolitan Sewage Brazil. One of her English department col Linda Hamm (A) and Don Schwimmer living in family housing at the University of Commission. leagues is another St. John's alumnus-Peter (SF'79)) moved to Seattle three years ago. She Michigan, where Paola is pursuing a degree in Born (A'83). is a legal assistant and he works for Microsoft. architecture and Chris is working for a law 1940 Lisa Kallman Hopkins (SF) and her husband firm. They'd love to hear from any classmates William A. Carter (A) was appointed in 1979 Phil Hopkins (SGl'92) became parents of or friends who are passing through. Their ad May to the Delaware Higher Education Com Marjorie Hutter (A) and husband, Russell daughter, Rebecca Leyna Hopkins, on Sept. 2, dress is: 1634 Mcintyre, Ann Arbor, MI. mission, and in June received an honorary Frank, recently became parents of Simone 1993. 48105, or phone (313) 764-6188. degree from Deiaware Technical and Commu Claire .. The couple lives in Amherst, Mass., where Frank practices law, and Marjorie re nity College. In 1965, Mr. Carter, a business (Continued on page nine) man, headed a state committee that decided a cently became assistant director of Founda community college system was feasible. He tions and Corporate Support in the Alumni was president of the trustees from 1973 to Affairs and Development Office of Amherst 1983. When asked what was the most signifi College. Their address is 251 Middle St. Am Liberal Education on an Alaskan Island cant contribution of the college to Delaware, herst, Mass. 01002. Alumni Profile: Dorik Mechau, A'56 Bill said, "It made, for the first time, two years Michael J. Sloper (SF) was recently ap of higher education available to every citizen pointed director of the central office of the By LESLI ALLISON "We combine talents from outside Esperanto League of North America. He in of Delaware, regardless of their socio-eco It may be fairly said that where John the community with talents of the com- nomic background." After graduating from St. vites inquiries and conversation about world language problems and their possible solu nies go, dialogue follows, even to the . munity," Mechau said. "Sitka is on an John's, Bill entered the U.S. Naval Academy more remote regions of the globe. The island. It's got a regular daily jet service. for Reserve Naval Officer training. Shortly tions. He especially welcomes contact from case certainly seems to be true for Dorik We're a large community relative to after World War II began, Bill commanded a teachers of language (and other forms of ratio U.S. Naval gun crew on a Merchant Ship Iron nality). Write him at Box 1129 El Cerrito, CA. Mechau. other area island communities. Those clad and participated in the celebrated convoy 94530. Michael reports that his theatre work On Sitka, a small Alaskan island, other communities have very little op "PQ 17 ."For his heroic efforts, he was awarded "has been on the upswing lately," having Mechau is now the Associate Director of portunity to do the kind of thing we 're both the Silver Star and the Russian decoration, played in Brigadoon, this summer, and Mac The Island Institute. Formerly director of doing, so we try to work with them and "Order of Fatherland Wars, 1st Class." Upon Beth, this fall, and recently singing chorus in the Alaska Humanities Forum, Mechau share these opportunities." the Revels, a semi-pagan holy-day dramatic return to civilian life, Bill became superinten became involved with the Institute when The Visiting Writer Series is a pro ritual. dent of the Houston-White Company basket he married its founder and director, Caro gram initiated by the Institute in coop manufacturing plant. In the 1970s he helped 1981 lyn Servid. eration with English departments at the develop a shopping center in Millsboro, Dela Emi Sarah Geiger (A) married Boaz "Together, we are engaged in the fur University of Alaska Anchorage and ware. Leslau in 1992 and gave birth to a son, Regi ther development and nurture of [the Fairbanks campuses that brings writers 1943 nald Gilead, in February, 1993. "We are enjoy Island Institute] through a number of to Sitka for readings and discussion. ing our tranquil, happy lives in Jerusalem," she Paul Ehrlich (A) regrets having missed the interrelated programs, projects and ac Finally, the Community Forum Se 50th anniversary homecoming having been en writes. "We have a garden with hundreds of flowers, hummingbirds, woodpeckers, and tivities, whose object might be charac ries provides panel discussions and route from Singapore to Hong Kong. He sends terized as deinsitutionalized liberal seminars for local residents on issues regards to all and would especially like to hear one small poisonous snake. Oh well." education," Mechau said. ranging from "The Purpose of Educa from Douglas Buchanan. Christopher Mark (A), who recently moved 15 miles from the country to the "big A small, non-profit organization, tion" to "Community Conflict." 1966 city" of Erie, PA., is anxious to hear from The Island Institute is now in its elev "We're very interested in trying to Kay Randolph-Back (A) was named pro Johnnies in the area. Christopher, who tutors enth year. The Institute offers four pri further the democratic process in our gram associate in the health area by W. K. in math, reports business is brisk. Friends can mary programs designed to generate community and to get people to think Kellogg Foundation. In addition to providing reach him at 157 Sheridan Ave. #3, Erie, PA. dialogue about issues central to human about what kinds of demands a demo program support in health matters, Kay con 16502. tributes to the advancement of the mission and experience. cratic government makes on people," goals of the foundation. She assists program - 1984 The Sitka Symposium on Human Mechau said. "If I were to simplify our directors with project analysis, development, Alexandra E. Mullen (A) recently joined Values and the Written Word is an an purpose I would say that our interest is and implementation. Previously, she served as the faculty of Providence College in Rhode nual conference which explores rela in engaging the imagination and intel Island, where she teaches Victorian literature. director of public policy for the Hunger Action tionships between writing and questions lect and spirit of people in this commu Last January she married Roger Kimball, a Coalition of Southeastern Michigan. Kay of social and ethical importance, be nity and those who attend from other earned a master's degree from the University New York City writer and critic. Donna K. Wilson (A) married Michael tween ideas and the responsibilities of places, to engage them in an active way of Pennsylvania, and herjuris doctorate from our work and our lives. According to a so that they're thinking about these is Georgetown University Law Center. She is a Vales and the couple has a son, Andrew. brochure on the program, "Because so sues themselves and not relying on ex member of the State Bar of Michigan, the Donna's address is 133 Del Oaks Road, National Health Lawyers Association, and the Madisonville, LA. 70447. much about our human lives is recorded pert to tell them what the truth is. American Public Health Association. 1985 and preserved through language, we "Finally, I might say that we have a Martin Marklin (A) and his wife, Chris frame each symposium with a guest fac very strong interest in including Alas 1971 ulty of writers and thinkers whose work kan Native people in our program. Al Perry Braunstein (A) is living with his tine, proudly announce the birth of their first wife and two children at his in-laws' fruit farm child, a son, Matthias Kolbe, born August 15. lends insight to questions posed by a though they now represent a small in Germany. The 1603 farmhouse is "quite Matthias weighed 8 lbs., 7 oz., and was 21 selected theme." percentage of the population here, they quaint and cozy," hereports ... "we've got a still inches long. The symposium theme for 1994 will are very important in our thinking. For which we use for making 'Schnaps,' 1986 focus on the theme of work in terms of instance, relative to the subject of work, kirschwasser, and the like with the fruit we Kristen Ann Baumgardner (SF) married its implications for people's lives, it's very clear that the traditional subsis pick." Perry earned his master's degree in clas David Charles Caven on August 1, 1993, in a human values and its impact on the qual tence way of life is very different from sics from N.Y.U., then taught at the Ecole mountain meadow in Boulder, Colorado. Jen ity of government and society. Held in work in a wage economy where you are d'Humanite'in Switzerland. Next he studied in nifer Flynn Israel (A) and Michael Ryan June each year, the symposium working for someone else. Many Native Germany and took state exams. Since then he's (SF) were both there for the event. welcomes participants from around the people are working through this transi been teaching, and has organized several stu dent exchange programs hoping to overcome 1987 country for a modest tuition ($185/week tion and burning issues include things Justin Burke (A) participated in a Fantasy the historical prejudices between German and in 1993). like whether they will have a right to Day Event at Fenway Park in Boston. The French students. He'd enjoy hearing from St. The Island Institute' s Residency pro hunt and fish in the old ways or whether sponsorship campaign was supported by more Johnnies, especially those living in Europe and gram brings writers, artists, and human they will have to bend to the require Israel. than 30 friends, family members and business ities scholars to the island of Sitka for ments of state and federal agencies." contacts who contributed more than $3,000 for month-long stints three times a year. Anyone wishing to know more about 1973 the Jimmy Fund for Children's Cancer Re Jan Lisa Huttner (A) extends her regrets search, which benefits from the event. Justin Participants are provided with room and the Island Institute can contact Dori1c at being unable to attend her 20th reunion but got to try to hit a home run at the Green board and afforded the opportunity to Mechau at: "swears by the memory of Harold Stone's Monster, the left field fence that's 38 feet high. pursue their own work. In turn, once The Island Institute vampire cape that I WILL attend our 25th." He and friends started out in the 600 Club, a each week, residents engage in some Box 2420 From Chicago she sends regards to all. glass-enclosed hospitality section above and form of dialogue or conversation with Sitka, Alaska, 99835 1974 behind home plate. Justin got a Red Sox jersey the community. (907) 747-3794. Theodore G. Wolff (A) was married on and cap and was escorted to the visitor's locker July 19, 1991. His wife, Peggy, is an architect. room to change. Naturally, while in the batting DECEMBER 1993 THE REPORTER PAGE9 ALUMNI OPPORTUNITIES A writer at the wheel from the Placement Office Alumni Profile: Joyce Turner Reyes, A'87 The Oregon State University Center By DONNA BOETIG shores of North Carolina to write her novel. the truck driving school, they earned their for the Humanities invites invitations "Possibility of snow," the National With the book unfinished, she enrolled at commercial drivers license permitting for faculty research fellowships for Weather Service announced over the air Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South them to operate trucks up to 80,000 pounds, 1994-95. The Center for the Humanities will waves, breaking the easy talk show banter Carolina, and organized a philosophy club, and received endorsements for tanker, dou appoint up to four external faculty fellows of the mid-morning. Of course, it's winter ble, and triple trucks, and trucks carrying with annual stipends up to $27,000. Appli in Wyoming, whatwouldyou expect? Joyce hazardous materials. cants are encournged to submit proposals Turner Reyes, A'87, thought as she maneu In April 1991, the pair began driving as which address the research theme, "The Idea vered the 75,000 pound tanker loaded with a team and so far have covered 44 states. of Order in the Arts and Sciences." Appli dry goods over the curvy hills. Her body Their most popular route is Interstate 80 cants must have a Ph.D. and at least one ached. She had been driving for nearly 10 from the mid-west to California. Says year's teaching experience. Contact: Peter J. hours. Joyce, "The road rises from a little above Copek, Director, The Center for the Human The snow began falling as she glimpsed sea level to nearly 8,000 feet with lots of ities, Oregon State University, 811 S.W. her husband, Luis Reyes, also a long-haul blowing snow in the winter. There are de Jefferson, Corvallis, OR trucker, asleep on the soft mattress in the serted areas, and it's not unusual to see Deadline: rear of the blue tractor. The two took turns herds of roaming antelope." 1994. at 4 a.m., breaking for cof With power steering, brakes, and mir- the rors, the actual of a 65-foot rig is The National Research Council easy, or so she says. "It's harder to to award chive a car because you can't see as far ahead." Yet on occasion when she drove among and scholai-s double she concedes "there's a in the humanities For more ~~~,,.u~•AVLA, into spaces-you National Re- ~~•AAA~.u, 2101 Constitution Ave a year, up to 11 weeks .,.._,,u.,.,.,r.'•'n ... , D.C. 20418. Deadline: This had been going well until sud- straight, can her to drink bottom denly the wind from the the less cups of coffee, pop caffeine pills, listen snow like a fan with confetti, and minutes then with degrees in both biol to financial reports, talk shows, and all The Robert L. Gale Fund for the later the road before her disappeared under ogy and philosophy. "While at college I types of music on the AM stations. "You of supports basic and a sheet of white. 0 h my, God, Joyce thought realized I wanted military discipline and play tapes at your own risk because the applied research projects aimed at improv as the snow rendered her windshield wipers adventure," she says. truck's vibrations tangles them," she says. ing understanding of governing boards useless. White out! Enlisting as a seaman apprentice in the An air bag on the bottom of the driver's seat and trustee characteristics, responsibili "How are the roads up ahead?" Joyce Coast Guard-she would be promoted to absorbs shock, and she has learned to reg ties, and performance, as well as presiden asked, turning on the CB radio. third-class boatswain's mate within three ulate how much she drinks because, as she tial roles and practices as they relate to "The highway's closed from Rock years, and remain on inactive status puts it, you can't always find a rest room in board responsibilities. Grants ranging Springs to Little America (Wyoming)," a today-she earned $240, plus benefits, for isolated territory. After adding 5 pounds the from $5,000 to $15,000 may be awarded stem voice replied. a weekend of rescuing boaters. "Most of first year to her 5'-2" frame, she managed to individuals or institutions, and propos Another driver interrupted, "Can any work was fairly routine, very little of dra to lose 10 pounds scaling back on snacks. als are invited from academic researchers, one see me?" matic stuff," she says. Still she enjoyed the Among the joys of her job are the friends independent scholars, nonprofit practi "Yes, you 're off the road. You 're in a diversion, and as fate would have it on she has made: an older woman customs tioners, and doctoral candidates. The ditch," someone replied. summer duty at Harbor Beach, Michigan, broker in Canada, a retired widow in Ne deadline for proposals is January 31, "It's one mile to a truck stop," a voice she fell in love with Luis, a warm hearted vada. Says she, "The most important thing 1994. Contact: Barbara Taylor, (202)296- instructed Joyce. damage controlman from Puerto Rico with I learned about talking with people is to ask 8400. Can I make it safely? she thought. a son and daughter. As the Gulf crisis in questions of older ones ... They're the best Out of the comer of her eye she spotted tensified, Joyce wondered whether it would sources of information about the history, PSI Services, Inc. is seeking candidates faint gray tracks in the pavement. Are they affect her. Sure enough, she got called for customs, and economic bases of an area." for the position of Psychologist, to con on or off the road? she wondered, horrified. duty on her wedding day. But she sought Most intriguing to Joyce are the percep duct evaluations and interprets tests and Taking a deep breath, she mustered her and received a reprieve. tions strangers have of her. "Women break observation results using DSM IDR. In confidence and slowed the rig to a crawl. Happily married, Joyce still suffered their necks to stare up at me," she says. addition, candidate will provide consulta Then following the barely visible tracks, wanderlust when she spotted a television "Because I'm driving a truck some think tion to PSI treatment programs, and con she inched her way inside the white cloud, commercial for a tractor trailer driving I'm trashy. They don't realize I'm edu duct individual and group therapy every tum of the wheels knotting her school. "We could do that together," she cated, and have manners ... " sessions. Qualifications: M.A. or Ph.D. in nerves. With intense concentration, she called out to her husband, who was already Trucking has inspired Joyce's writing, Psychology, demonstrated clinical testing banished her nightmares. Finally, reaching enrolled in a similar program. and she has published two short stories and writing skills, experience in evalua the truck stop, she turned off the engine, "I knew someday I'd want graduate about her experiences. Currently she's tion and treatment planning for develop allowing her body to sink deep into her seat. school and maybe a career in environmen writing an adult book about her travels, and mentally disabled, infants, or young Then she smiled a broad proud grin. tal science," Joyce says, "but for now I plans a column for a South Carolina news children. To apply send resume to: Mr. Joyce left St. John's after two years wanted travel, to learn about this country, paper. But for now, Joyce is tlnilled to be able William Howard, PSI Services, Inc., "too many coffee shop parties, and too little meet its people, write, and be with Luis." to earn her living experiencing adventure eveiy Commercenter West, Building A, Suite studying," she says-then headed for the After two months of full-tin1e study at day. 220, 1777 Reisterstown Road, Baltimore, MD 21208, (410)486-4757. 1991 to a village. were married in Dallas on July 17. The wed The Department of History at Appa James Abram McShane ("Shum") (A), Gigi Escalante (A) sends greetings from ding was attended by more than 20 Johnnies, lachian State University offers to a qual writing from Africa says that he is teaching New York City. and was a mini-reunion for the class of '93. ified graduate student, a Master of Arts math and "finds the Peace Corps challenging Tim Hanes (A) expected to leave Los An James Lank (A) is attending Haivard Law degree in History and the opportunity to and real. As brother Michael, A'88, has said, geles in October heading for Costa Rica for School 'Mail in your mailbox is psychological cur "fun and excitement" and learning Spanish. He "Truly paradise on earth," is the way Bill learn about scholarly publishing by work rency wherever you are."' Shum also writes planned to be in language school in Antigua, McMabon (A) describes his teaching assign ing as an editorial assistant for Albion, a "Teeth! Tongue! Lips! An entire goat mouth! Guatemala, five hours a day, five times a week, ment on the Island of Palau, in Micronesia. As journal of British studies. Qualifications Served in a succulent, yet subtly peppy red and expected to spend Christmas with his fam a member of the Jesuit International Volunteer for internship: conscientious and accurate sauce yesterday to me! At breakfast! for a free ily there. Tim has enlisted for a four year stint Corps, he is teaching for geometry, chemistry, work habits, good language skills, a com sample and a copy of Mortimer Adler and Mike in the Army's Signals Intelligence/Electronic and computer skills two years in a government mitment to learning, ability to use word Pfister's co-authored classic Truly Appalling Warfare Operations Field (linguist), and is set high school. processing and database applications, and Walter ~t,•r111no Jr. recipient of a African Breakfasts/or Everyman. Shum's ad to leave for basic training at Fort Leonard know ledge of the humanities, social sci dress: Corps de la Paix Americaine, BP 35, J avits Fellowship and teaching assistant in phi Wood, Missouri, Jan. 20, 1994. After basic ences, and history. Internship carries a Save, Republic of Benin, Afrique. The number training, he will attend the Defense Language losophy at Emory University in Atlanta, writes: stipend of $7,000 per year, and consider for his family in Nebraska: (402)-488-0262. Institute in Monterey, California. " ... When I first thought about philosophy and ation to receive an out-of-state tuition 1992 Pamela Stark (A) works at the Center for graduate school, I was very uncertain as to Literacy as a VISTA volunteer in charge of what, in fact, those words applied. One of the waiver. Apply to: The Cratis D. Williams Block (SF) will be spending two curriculum and resource development. "My first things I heard a tutor say on the subject Graduate School, Appalachian State Uni years with the Peace Corp in Kaduna, Nigeria, job is very interesting," she writes. "I love it." was that we at SJC speak our own peculiar versity, Boone, NC 28608 and submit sep beginning December, volunteering in the dialect, while the rest of academia speaks Health Extension program, Guinea Worm arately a letter explaining why the 1993 theirs, and some translation is in order. This Eradication-Sanitation. The first year she will and her internship is desired and what your quali sounded right to me, and I think it was useful teach young girls how to prevent the spread of fication are to Dr. Michael J. Moore, De husband, Ben, announce the birth of their to hear, because it was at least a provisional a worm that breeds in running water by using daughter, Amelia Jane, born Oct. 1993, who partment of History, Appalachian State 9, way to understand the gap that I knew I had to alternative water methods. The second year, weighed six pounds, twelve ounces. cross. In the end, however, I think the transla University, Boone, NC 28608, (704)262- she '11 direct the construction of wells and water Sara Ard (A) and Tedd Naff (A'92), who tion was relatively minor in comparison to how 6004. Applications will be reviewed be filtration systems in the villages. Elyette spent were married July 17, 1993, in Marion, Iowa, are much my St. John's education had taught me ginning March 1, 1994. four days in November training in North Car living in the Bronx, New Ymk, where Ted is attend what I need to know to get started in the aca olina and will receive another three months of ing Fordham University's philosophy program. demic world of philosophy .... " in-country training in Nigeria before being sent Justin Cetas (SF) and Diana Rempe (SF) PAGE10 THE REPORTER DECEMBER 1993 j{omecoming 1993 "One Man's Meter'' witty, nostalgic By NANCY OSIUS he didn't have time to "ring all the changes of what happens when we leave off various measures of the Annapolis Tutor Elliott Zuckerman began his original quatrain"-an exercise he would likely have Homecoming lecture "One Man's Meter" October 1 enjoyed in a reminiscent vein. He moved then to the identification and effect of Evoking the Brooklyn of his childhood was the stress patterns in lines of great poetry. Presenting a first of many strategies in the speaker's entertaining nameless critic's assertion that many iambic pentam journey towards his thesis that understanding meter eter lines have only four enunciated stresses, he is essential for understanding poetry. fu this child passed along that critic's example-"the most fa hood Brooklyn, Ebbets Field was visible from the mous speech in Shakespeare"-for analysis, roof of his apartment house, the Brooklyn Museum Hamlet's "to be or not to be" soliloquy. He agreed provided a first introduction to the great names in that in the first lines of the passage there were four, intellectual history, and the Botanic Garden with its not five, stresses grouped into pairs on either side of "metrically" arranged Japanese cherry trees was the a central unstressed preposition-the stressed sylla setting for his earliest reading of poetry. bles in the first line are be, not, that and question. But Alumni Association Honorees Peter Davies, left, and Edward Sparrow. In a witty and densely allusive lecture, Mr. his own effective rendering of the line supported his Zuckerman, a painter and musician himself, used assertion that these lines contain a fifth and central, visual and musical parallels to verse; a poet and but unheard, stress. "Most English verse is not purely editor, he performed metrical and lexical sleight of accentual, but what is called accentual-syllabic," he hand to demonstrate noted, and misreadings Edward Sparrow, Peter Davie the richness of great result in placing the four verse and the thinness "The chief reason for attending to the stresses equidistant in honored at Homecoming of lesser versifying. these irregular lines. B• Mr. Zuckerman, details of meter is not peiformance but In Macbeth's solilo who has been a mem plain knowing"-Elliott Zuckerman quywhere the king begins ber of the Annapolis "to contemplate the pa Two distinguished men were honored at the Home sity, Mr. Sparrow "escapee faculty since 1961, is rade of his magnificent coming Banquet Saturday, October 2, the recipients sive education by joining · in his second and final despair," the line "To of the highest honors the Alumni Association has to said Michael Blume, A'78. -year as occupant of the chair on ancient, medieval morrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" invites artic- bestow. Recalling the hospitalil and renaissance thought, partially funded by the Na ulation of all five stresses of the pentameter, Mr. The first of these, Edward Sparrow, tutor at the hold, the "homey contentn tional Endowment for the Arts. This year he has led Zuckerman said, including the two ands. "The little college since 1957 and dean from 1977-1982, was cider" in preparation for tl a faculty study group on prosody, meter and verse, as word and can be the most wearying of common made an honorary member of the St. John's College the vigorous discussions a provision of the grant. words," he said "It can also connect worlds of hope Alumni Association. Mr. Sparrow retired about all mai A. E. Housman's familiar poem, "Loveliest of lessness, as it does, for example at the dead center of from the faculty at the end offall semester, trips with stt trees"-"not a good poem," said the speaker, who Tristan and Isolde." 1992. monastery in 1 thereafter pitilessly subverted it for his own pur Turning to the comparison of metrics in prose and The second honoree was Peter Davies, Blume said poses-was his chief example in the lecture. fuitially poetry, he suggested that poetry can be viewed as A'48, who recently retired from a career touched "an u the poem was useful for examination of its regulari "representing a selection and stylization of the more in international relief and development. to an unusual ties and irregularities and a combination of distinc complex elements of ordinary language." His expres He was given the Alumni Association "particularly tion and banality. It also allowed Mr. Zuckerman to sive reading of the first lines of the Declaration of A ward of Merit. made into an. draw from his own etymological storehouse about Independence ("five and a half lines of rather good The honorary alumni membership was Peter Davi such matters as the names of numbers. iambic pentameter") supported his assertion that presented to Mr. Sparrow "in virtue of his tions to inter: fu the meantime, those in the audience who had reading prose aloud benefits from the many years of devoted service to the col- relief efforts, forgotten their iambs, trochees and dactyls were get- of speech "and where are." Similarly, is lege" and with "gratitude for the friendship he has C'.t~.lvU.J.U.U '-' and rer>rQC:l.U(;tJ an entertaining short course, as the speaker laid small wonder that the attention to poetic elements extended to generations of students and colleagues, "leadership in bus:me~ss, out the metrical expectations set up by a poem and should improve one's performance of verse." helping to foster a greater sense of community on the thropy," were noted in t the force of controverting such expectations. But effective performance in either medium was Annapolis campus," according to the citation. A ward of Merit. those who remembered their metrics met up not the goal of the study of prosody, he made clear. An alumnus of Harvard College, class of with some new words: a stressed be "The chief reason for attending to the details of meter with a law degree from Harvard Law school and an tween two unstressed syllables, or isochronous.. equi is not performance but plain knowing," he concluded. M.A. from the Teacher's College, Columbia Univer- distant in He defended the effort to force a phrase into a metri Mr. Zuckerman gave more respectful attention to cal pattern set up by the poem: it is "bound to be Andrew Marvell's poem "To His Coy Mistress" revealing," he said. "I have yet where he found first amusement and then power in to find a poem or piece of the use of stresses in two lines: vegetable music that doesn't survive such love should grow I Vaster than Empires, and more fitting with a new noticeable slow ... " Marvell's second line here provided a valu richness." able parallel to line one of Housman's poem, where Mr. Zuckerman's complete a similar metrical reversal, "Loveliest of Trees, the address may be published in a cherry now" is, in Mr. Zuckerman's words, "so ar future issue of The St. John's resting that it carries the rest of the poem-carries it Review. right into the anthologies." In a display of often amusing virtuosity, Mr. Zuckerman now scattered enough new syllables into the Housman poem to stretch the four foot lines into five feet-iambic pentameter-and to evoke both Keats and Alexander Pope along the way. "It is because of such desecrations that I chose a mediocre poem [Housman's] to work on," he commented, add ing, however, that tampering even with the tunes of great artists-Mozart and Bach-is useful in under standing how they work. Elizabeth, 4, and Dr. Daniel At brunch are Mark Micidl1eb1·001k A passing glance at other quatrains-ballad meter bounty at Sunday brunch. wife of classmate, Jim. as used in Wordsworth's poignant poem "Lucy," a second poem by Housman, and the limerick brought Mr. Zuckerman to the rueful admission that DECEMBER 1993 THE REPORTER PAGE11 Freshman chorus revisited, with tutor Michael Littleton at the piano. Allan Hoffman photo President Chris Nelson addresses fellow Reunion sights and sounds alumni. Beginning in July, 1992, chief organizer Lyn Cronin were the planners. other Johnnies as Doug Buchanan, A'43, David Rea, began to prod friends from the class of '83-by the fall A "Hospitality Suite"inMcDowell 22 awaited the s, A'48, A'49, Peter Weiss, A'46, Jerry Cantor, A'47, and of 1993, planners were linked regularly by confer returning member of the class of '73, where they Harris Wofford, HA'87, the participants did farm ence calls initiated in her Norwood, Massachusetts, were greeted by steering committee members Jane work by day, and sat up half the night to debate the office. Classmates came in droves, although ironi Spear, Maria Coughlin, Ted Hendricks, Jessica nquet merits of the kibbutz idea-" a kind of travelling sem cally Lyn, ailing, couldn't come. Big events for the Weissman, and Dan Pearl. inar." class were the Rock Party on Friday night with deejay Nothing was nicer at the class of 1968's 25th "Of all those in the group, Peter was not only the professors Richard Miller and Darrel Moellendorf reunion than lunch on Dorcey Wend Rose's sunlit best real worker-he also really knew sometlring and providing the patter, and the first ever Homecoming deck overlooking Lake Hillsmere, followed by a l both the bar and progres really cared about farming and life on the land," said Waltz party, orchestrated by Jim Bailey. Other plan seminar on "Don Quixote" led by Brother Robert the faculty of St. John's," Mr. Bergen. While Peter Davies didn't become a ners were Sue Maguire Shock, Kathy Bergren Smith, Smith. Besides Darcey, reunion planners were Vicki y of the Sparrow house- farmer himself, "he did go on to devote his life to William Hill, Cindy Walton Mccawley, and Mark Cone, Deborah Schwartz Renaut, Gilbert Renaut, Middlebrook. 1ent of baking and sipping efforts to alleviate world hunger and poverty, espe and Joe Sachs. ,e annual Christmas party, cially in rural areas." Children gambolled and parents chatted at the Gathering for their 40th reunion, headed up by Mr. Sparrow engaged in In reply, Peter Davies turned first to his memories Saturday picnic under the trees, and then the class of Frank Atwell, many of the class of 1953 lunched '78 decamped to McDowell to discuss New Program mer of tlrings, the many of those "wonderful formative years at St. John's," together Saturday noon in the Private Dining Room dents to the Benedictine with a short nostalgic journey through recollections founder Scott Buchanan's essay "The Liberal Arts." and then whiled away the afternoon reminiscing. of respected classmates, venerated tutors, late dances David Woolwine, Fred Bomer, and Larry Ostrovsky apper New York state, Mr. (Continued on page 12) that Mr. Sparrow had and long arguments. nusual number of students With the rueful hindsight of maturity, he said that degree"; it was, therefore, as a student he failed to appreciate the abilities of his appropriate that [he] be tutors, especially their patience in "letting us roam and honorary alumnus." then pulling us back on track with a well chosen es' "outstanding contribu question." He did not realize at the time how import national development and ant St. John's was to be in his life. ~uticularly in the areas of But the "skills gained at St. John's" have been .Ve as well as his valuable throughout his career, he said-such skills and philan as those he used as a recent participant in a session on hls encomium for the ethical and legal issues in humanitarian assistance in conflict situations-"to think for myself, to be artic ulate, to press one's own view, to see the larger picture and to develop and express ethical principles." Many details of his distinguished career in public service are included in an interview on page one. Richard Weigle in his vigorous stewardship- meeting at Homecoming in Annapolis October 2 proper and exuberant by turns, the good-humored was the Tribute to Richard D. Weigle, who died observer of student shenanigans, a visionary, an December 14, 1992. It was the first opportunity for activist-these were the memories drawn forth from Annapolis alumni to praise the man to whom the three alumni who were students during his tenure as 1993 Homecoming celebration was dedicated. president of the college from 1949 to 1980. A fourth Mary Weigle, his companion for over 50 years Stella Gold, 11, and her father trip the light tan1tas1Uc. alumnus read a resolution passed by the Alumni of marriage, listened attentively to the speakers. while their campanion Kari Jenson, A'78, not shown, Association board "which conveys at least some of Harvey Goldstein, A'59, fmmer Alumni Associa nursed a sore foot. the sadness and sense of loss which we feel at [his] tion president, remembered being summoned into the passing." presidential office by an amused President Weigle in The climax of the special Alumni Association (Continued on page 12) PAGE12 THE REPORTER DECEMBER 1993 More Reunion Sights (Continued from page 11) Annapolis: J{omecomin , 1993 A letter and invitation from Peter Kel logg-Smith, filled with light-hearted memories, summoned the class of 1943 last fall to its SOth reunion. They remembered, they came, and on Sunday morning, they gave Peter a standing ovation for his efforts. Some of Peter's memo ries: numerous "SW1day mornings"; Bob Story constructing a still in his dorm room closet; Nicholas Nabokov conducting the St John's Symphony Orchestra, made up of three Johnnies and 32 townies and Navy bandsmen; a.ndrecol lections of cheerful Miss Ebaugh on the switch board, "surrogate mother" Kitty Lathrop in the bookstore, and boatbuilder Franz Plunder. These men came back to the "big five-o": besides Peter, Ralph Bal!zell, Monte Bourjaily, Douglas Buchanan, Alan Eckhart, Bill Hart, Claude LeffeL Richard Mallon, Francis Mason, Alexander Slaflcosky, Willard Stem, Ollie Thompson, andJrunes \Varanch. Above - Classmates revisit 1983 uA~•rh 1... n1.r with Assistant Dean Jonathan Tuck. Harvey and Harvey mentprograms served, andincreasedsevenfoldthefoundati.on' s budget Peter Davies (Continued from page one) After he helped form InterActi.on, presiding over a merger of two Special Assistant to the Special Assistant to the President intemationaldevelopmentagencyumhellaorganizations,heis credited Tutor Emeritus Edward Sparrow visits with Tutor Joe for trade policy, promoting the Trade Expansion Act at the with doubling its membersillp (there are now 152 international private Cohen at Class of '68 reumon. Stephanie Harvey photo White House. voluntary member organizations such as CARE, Save the Children, The years following found him worlcing International Rescue Committee and Oxfam). InterAction' s members as deputy managing director of a $68 accoW1t for over $15 billion of private funding and $600 million of million fertilizer pr9ject in India and as government funds. director of the Accelerated Rural De St John's provided him with ''the language to build ronsensus, '' velopment Program in Thailand. Then he says. "St. John's taught me to see the larger world picture and to it was the Food for Peace AID program work to help others to realiz.e that they have the innate ability to gain in Brazil, where he directed agricul self-reliance and respect The college has always been an important tural, health, nutrition and population part of my life." programs; next, four years of travel While he speaks with pleasure of retirement and more time with through Latin America and the Carib his wife Phyllis, a lawyer with New Y orlc City, also now retired, and bean as program director for the Inter hisfamily(asecondsonisaveterinarianandaPhD.inimmunogenet national Planned Parenthood ics doing research on cattle disease), Peter Davies of course has new Federation. projects afoot He expects to wmk with Saferworld, a British group For eightyears he was president of Meals dedicated to curbing the arms trade. He also expects to consult for Save for Millions/Freedom fromHW1ger Founda the Children, UNICEF and Oxfam, and other" short term assignments." tion, commuting to Davis, CA He added to The more things change, the more things remain the same. the number of rountries and rural develop- Weigle Memorial (Co11tin11edfro111page 11) inside after removing the locks, and rigging the horn to sound the 1950s. He and several fellow when we closed the car at 5 a.m." students were building a com- An Annapolis resident, who served several terms on the Annapolis puter for their senior lab project, City Council, Mr. Davidson sought advice from his mentor, but Dr. and were displaying the acronym Weigle never offered any unless asked Mr. Davidson had special words Deborah Papier, A'72 waltzes with Peter Fairbanks, A'73 in the Great Hall. for the Boolean Algebra Tabulat- ofpraise for Dr. Weigle' s role as afoundcr and early president of.Historic Keith Harvey photo ing and Reasoning Device every Annapolis. He helped "preserve ... Annapolis for the ages," said Mr. where possible-a French word Davidson. thought not fit for the eyes of Presi The Alumni Association resolution read by George Bingham, dent Eisenhower, who was about to visit the campus for a SF'66, said, in part: "Dr. Weigle's leadership and vision guided St dedication. John'sCollegeduringhismorethan30yearsasitspresidentHedevoted Mr. Gold.steinrecfilled as anew graduate in the 1%0s being summoned his seemingly boundless energies to the well-being of the college and into the president's office by an excited Dr. Weigle to see the maps and of the St. John's program and brought to it the vigor and vitality which plans and blueprints of the SantaFecrunpus. the college enjoys today. He touched and enhanced the lives of two Sharon Bishop, A'65, remembered Dr. Weigle as tl1e college's in loco generations of alumni and all who succeed them are in his debt" paren!is, "somewhat remote, morally stric~ even stem at times." When she It was Dr. Weigle's vision of the college that Annapolis president was a student in the 1960s and dorrnilmy gender segregation was the rule, Christopher Nelson pledged to cany foIWard in the remarks he made at she remembered one occasion when she and her friends were in a nUxed the opening of the morning meeting. social situation in a men's residence and suddenly Dr. Weigle was at the He brought good news to his listeners about the college financial door. ''Fear was in my heart,'' she said However, the president surveyed tlle situation. After thanking them for their participation in annual fund giving, scene, and kindly gave them pennission to continue. SupJXJrt of the capital campaign launched in April and in other ways, he By the 1970s, as amemberoftheBuardofVisitors and Governors, reviewed the acquisition of the former stateHallofRecords, and its planned she had begW1 to understru1d and fully to appreciate Dr. Weigle's transfonnation into the new college hbrary beginning in 1996. contribution to tl1e college. "Dick was a man ofvision--is there another In addition, a recent accumulated operating deficit had been erased, he small liberal arts college with two campuses with tl1e same program annoW1ced 1he rollege is on schedule in its steps to reduce annual reliance 2,CXXl miles apmt? he was a mm1 of action ... he was also sometlung of a onendowmentfundsfrom9.6%to5%overafouryearperiod Threeyears magician-he rescued the college from the brink of finm1cial disaster ofbudgetcuts-throughreducedstaff,salaryfreeze.s,reduceddiscretionary too many times to even count" funds, and reduced instructional dollars-have set the stage for this. Dr. Weigle was "irnpressive--so proper and correc~" said Brad In her mmual academic report to the alumni,DeanEvaBrann explained David.son, A'77, speaking for the students of tl1e 70s. His generation tl1e Instruction Committee rationale for the 19CJ3-94 budget-cutting expe called him ''Uncle Wiggley, ''and peipetrated an infamous senior prank dient of using one ratl1er tllan two tutors for senior seminars: "the principle on him, to wluch he was apparently equal-"parking [Dr. Weigle's] of variability." In order to set no budgetary precedents, "we never do the Jeff Wall, A'83, plays with small companions at the purple college car on the Quad, removing tl1e tires, locking two pigs same thing for two years" to cut costs, she said '83 picnic. Stephanie Harvey photo DECEMBER 1993 THE REPORTER PAGE13 Executive Semiars (Continued from page one) Zeiderman, and Brother Robert Smith came consulting fom and was a thoughtful and in later, replacing Mr. Zuckerman, who had NSA funds new Annapolis telescope; confident contributor to today's discussion, other commitments. The three tutors orga Russian student exchange continues stays behind for a few minutes to help with nize and administer the program and spell that final question. each other in travelling to New York for 30 This is a man who has built power and Sunday afternoon meetings a year. Mr. By DONNA BOETIG by taking data and recording measure de-salinization plants, and has found much Brody's group committed itself to the very ment for scientific observation so they satisfaction in such work. "I like a challeng ambitious goal of covering the undergradu Soon St. John's students in Annapolis can get a better understanding of natural ing problem that a customer needs help on," ate seminar readings, and laid out a five year may be searching for new supernovae in phenomena and their relation to physical he explains. He adds, "There's more to life program to do so-150 two-hour seminars. nearby galaxies, monitoring variable theories." than two plus two. I thought this seminar In 1992, Mi·. Brody was elected to the St. stars, and reporting information to profes The new telescope will complement might be a way to expand myself." John's Board of Visitors and Governors; sional astronomers. They may gaze at the current students exchange agreement Other members of the group are in their early this year he gave up that seat when he new comets, track planets, and watch for between St. John's and thePulkhovo Ob first year of Executive Seminars; he is in his moved to Washington to become president unusual phenomena on the surface of the servatory in St. Petersburg, Russia, which second, having chosen this theme, "Man and of the Export-hnport Bank. Mr. Brody had moon. They will, in a very real sense, began with five students in the summer of Citizen," and its readings, over an alternative. met Bill Clinton in the spring of 1992 advance their understanding of. science 1992. In August, 1993, Mr. Beall flew to In fact, several members of today's class are through their mutual involvement in the by making their own observations St. Petersburg to join the second group of here because, in one way or another, he re Democratic Leadership Council; later he be thanks to a new telescope that makes it Johnnies in the exchange, Kirk Duncan cruited them. came the candidate's leading New York possible to detect and record observations (A'96), Matt Miller (A'96), and Richard "I have often found the readings very fundraiser. During the general election, he even in the daylight. Schwidt (A'96). The three students were difficult," he says. "They have stretched me a helped line up political endorsements from The college has recently received there for a three-week period to study little bit. It has taken some getting used to. the corporate world. $16,000 in matching funds from tl1e U.S. observational astronomy and astrophys Sometimes last year I wasn't sure I had read Although its founder is gone, the Brody National Science Foundation to fund this ics at the Pulkhovo Observatory. While the same book as. the others." group continues its Sunday afternoon dis telescope. Construction will begin soon there, Mr. Beall lectured on "The Role of But he has a sense that he is "filling in a cussions. The New York group "is a serious on the mini-observatory at the top of the Relativistic Jets in The Broad Line Re part of something that is missing.;, educational enterprise, one committed to pendulum pit in Mellon Hall, a site in gions of Active Galactic Nuclei" at the reading and discussing very difficult tended to be used for an observatory by Observatory; the students picked up a Executive Seminars seem to be an idea books," Mr. Maistrellis comments. "The the building's architect in the 1950s. little Russian; shared meals with the whose time has come. Professionals outside quality of discussion is very high-often as The new 14-inch Cassegrain telescope scientists' families, and were treated to a the college purview have shown themselves high as any I have ever been in." Perhaps uses a charge-coupled device, or CCD. guided tour of the historic city by Dr. eager to gather for thoughtful discussions on predictably, once in Washington Mr. Brody This CCD is. a computer chip, sensitive to Grigorii Kaganov, an expert on the role timeless books gathered a new light, that subtracts the background ef of St. Petersburg in Russian culture. or timely topics. group of 14 con fects of the sky and enlarges the resulting Three Russian students are planning to Ninety-two "There is a lot of disagree genial spirits images. apply to the St. Johri's Graduate Institute such students around him. He Currently students use an eight-inch in part to explore the intellectual origins bankers, physi ment as such. But conflict, collected this telescope, without a CCD camera. The of The American Republic. cians, lawyers, group, Mr. new 14-inch telescope alone increases In June, Maryland signed a sister state business people, no, except one time when Maistrellis says, threefold the number of stars students see relationship with the Leningrad Oblast journalists, in order to "finish with the telescope. With the CCD, the and a collaboration agreement with the highly placed a participant brought up the fifth year of number of stars that can be seen increases City of St. Petersburg, beginning what government fig the Vietnam war." the program he by a fraction of several hundred. may be an ongoing relationship through ures (past and had begun" in "The purpose of the telescope," said exchanges in business, education, cul present), and -Tutor Ben Milner New Yark. Like astrophysicist and Annapolis tutor Jim ture, technology, sports, port develop others-are the New York Beall, "is to get students more involved ment, and other areas of mutual interest. presently en- group, the Wash rolled in five separate seminars meeting in ington group is presently reading 19th and Washington, New York, and Annapolis. 20th century works, just now completing Croatian native Leo Raditsa writes on Bosnia There is likely no more enthusiastic sup Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling and porter of these outreach efforts than Presi Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil. A letter to the editor in the October 10 one-third under Serbian control, would dent Nelson himself-"a continuing So we have seminar number two. issue of The Washington Times expresses soon follow. By backing Bosnia, Croatia presence," in the words of one tutor, as co Also in Washington is seminar number the conclusions Annapolis tutor Leo would reassure its own minorities, many of leader of several of the seminars. three, called the "Thaler group," which, Raditsa reached as an observer in Croatia them Serbian, Mr. Raditsa said, conclud "These government and business leaders named after Washington lawyer Martin last August. ing, "As things stand, if I were a Serb in are concerned with issues that are shaping Thaler, beganin the fall of 1992, and is now Mr. Raditsa was born in Geneva, Swit Croatia, I would be afraid." our society, and their perspectives are ex into the third set of six-week seminars. Mr. zerland, where his father, Bogdan Raditsa, A "Letter from Zagreb," also drawn from tremely interesting," Mr. Nelson said re Thaler, the initiating spirit along with Tutor was with the Yugoslav delegation at the Mr. Raditsa's observations last summer, will cently. "I'm excited that the people who Emeritus Tom Simpson, died after the proj League of Nations. He came to the U.S. in be published in January in The American make such a difference in our society are ect got under way, but the seminars con 1940 when his father was assigned to the Spectator. active students of the books we are reading tinue, meeting at the Metropolitan Club, Yugoslav embassy. "On the Past," an essay he wrote on the in our pro gram." usually co-led by President Nelson and In Croatia he found widespread denial of central importance of history, appeared in Beginning in 1988, the Great Issues se Donna Schueler, AGI'89. the secret agreement made between Cro the winter, 1992, issue of The Gallatin Re ries, a program spearheaded by Vice Presi Back in Annapolis, each with its own atian President Franjo Tudjman and Serb view of New York University. dent for Advancement Jeff Bishop and Bill distinguished rosters, are the two groups ian president Slobodan Milosevic in March "The Relevance of Thucydides Today," Brill, president of the Friends of St. John's, actually called Executive Seminars. As var 1991 to partition Bosnia-Herzegovina, drawn from a series of lectures Mr. Raditsa began to offer the satisfactions of seminar iegated as the other groups, with a former "Mr. Tudjman's readiness to deal with gave in South Africa in 1991, uses U.S. Senator, a soon-to-be anlbassador, doc discussions to groups beyond the devoted Mr. Milosevic behind his people's Thucydides' insistence on the "inter cadre of community and· alumni seminar tors, businessmen and others among its back. .. betrays ambivalence about indepen connectedness of apparently discrete members-to people barely acquainted with members, the first Executive Seminar was dence, and worse still, a readiness to make events" to gain perspective on more recent the college and its program. Hundreds of formed two years ago when 15 men and his countrymen complicit with the Serbs events, especially those of this century. The women responded to a college invitation to suchnewcomers crowded on campus to hear destroying the Bosnians." article appeared in 1993 in The American speakers like Elliot Richardson, Robert take part. Decrying plans to partition Bosnia, Mr. Review, which is published by the Rand Bork, and Arthur Ashe address the subject "Man and Citizen" was the seminar Raditsa called on Croatia to back Bosnian Afrikaans University, where he lectured of ethics in different areas of public life-law, theme, and the readings which began with independence and to oppose partition two years ago. medicine, athletics and the like. After these Plato's Crito, Sophocles' Antigone, and suggesting that partititon of Croatia, now major speeches, attendees divided into small Aristotle's Politics (Book I) ex tended through 10 sessions to conclude with group seminars, co-led by tutors, to discuss tions seemed to lead them naturally into others, under the rubric, "Leadership and Thoreau's Civil Disobedience.' assigned readings. The Great Issues series comfortable conversation." Authority." continues-last winter David Gergen took Tutor Ben Milner, a member of the col It is not that they all agree, he hastens to Seminar number five, described at the up the topic "Whose Government is it, any lege faculty since 1965, has been its leader add. "There's a lot of disagreement as such." beginning of this article, is the second Exec way?" ever since. He still enjoys it, he says. But conflict, no, except one time when a utive Seminar in Annapolis, which began the Other formats for seminars have permit "As a group, they bring into discussions participant brought up the Vietnam war, he "Man and Citizen" readings in September. ted participants to meet much more fre all the wisdom, insight and understanding says. This seminar and the next are co-led quently-weekly, monthly, or that comes with maturity," he comments. by Mr. Nelson whenever he is in town. "All the seminars are helping to make bi-monthly-often over an entire year. They "talk to the books and ideas," he says, Last year's seminar readings, based on substantial contacts for the college," Presi The first of these was begun in 1989 by and don't approach topics from their own the theme "Justice," included plays by dent Nelson remarked recently. "All are in Kenneth Brody, then a partner in Goldman private perspectives as businessmen or law Aeschylus, and selections from Thucydides, troducing many people to the college who Sachs, the New York investment banking yers or the like to make a point. Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Machiavelli, care more about it as a consequence." house. He approached Dean Thomas Slakey He warms to the subject. "For a group of Locke, Rousseau and Tocqueville. Now in He paused reflectively before continuing. seeking a tutor to lead a group of bankers, people just assembled around an idea, you'd their third year, a core group of original The seminars extend the arm of college to the doctors, and lawyers wanting to read and expect more abrasion, more conflict. You participants plus some new members is world outside for"good educational purposes," talk about worthwhile books. Responding to wouldn't expect people to fall automatically reading from Homer, Herodotus, Plutarch, he said, "and then they bring the world back to that invitation were tutors Nicholas into the habits and way of conducting them Shakespeare, Swift, Abraham Lincoln and the college to help suppmt the program." Maistrellis and Elliott Zuckerman. Howard selves in a class like that. But their expecta- PAGE14 THE REPORTER DECEMBER 1993 Descartes in Queens "St. John's should set its sights very high and strive from the beginning to produce a program that is distinctive and superio, ... " So wrote Robert Gold win to Dick Weigle in 1966 regarding the creation of the Graduate Institute, originally called the Teacher Institute. After its initial Summer '67 offering on Politics and Society, the Institute continued its orientation to teachers. The following is from a 1968 Bulletin: "The Institute offers to members of the teaching profes sion-and others who are qualified-an opportunity to pursue a demanding and comprehensive course in the liberal arts .. " What impact has the GI had on American education? How has it changed its student-teachers? With this issue, we conclude a series of articles written GI graduates, all career educators. Our thanks to our contributors: Martin Drew '74SGI, Principal, Unden JHS, St. Albans, Dr. Paul Bitting '74SGI, Ass't Prof., North Carolina State U., Beverly Angel '89SG!, math/science teacher, St. Michael's Academy, Austin, TX. How has my education at St. John's affected my teaching? I wish I could say that I have initiated major curriculum changes or been moved to begin a "Great Books Seminar for Students" because the connection between St. John's and those sorts of Teachers in the Graduate Institute program on activities is direct and therefore easy to explain. For scientific/mathematical facts, theories and pro faculty room. We have some marvelous discussions me, as a science and math teacher, the impact has cesses, I now pepper my lectures with historic and and occasionally the topic even veers towards a been far more subtle, though, I believe, just as literary allusions and I so frequently stress the ne math/science field! Very often it seems that we talk radical. The greatest changes have been in how I cessity of clearly communicating one's ideas that my about how insights or methods in one field can help treat non-math/science topics in the classroom, in students complain that I should have been an En to illuminate other areas and all of us are, I believe, the type of role model I believe I present to my glish teacher. I allow more class discussion and experiencing a greater sense of collegiality. students and in how I relate to my colleagues in require more reading, more writing, and, I hope, other teaching fields. more thinking. Because I Before I began teaching at this school, Larry 11 feel comfortable doing so, I Davis (SGI '87), who also teaches here, was instru To explain, let me begin Graduate appealed to me now take time to discuss mental in getting a group ot the together in a by saying that I had been on a personal level because I a the political, social and eth St. John's style seminar on a Theology/Philosophy teaching in private, col growing sense ical impact of science and related text. We still meet once a month and I think lege-prep high schools for technol us indi these discussions are affecting the faculty, making eight years (with a reason narrowness of my LULIL-•ctU•.J• rectly answering my ques- them more open to new ideas, more willing to take able degree of success) tions about why they have intellectual risks, and more committed to education before I ever heard of St. to study math and science. as a life-long process. For example, a few weeks John's. The Graduate Institute appealed to me on a Interestingly, quite often students will respond to ago one of the math teachers became ill and an purely personal level because I felt a growing sense such discussions with "We talked about that in History English teacher, Mrs. Maher, was called upon to of dissatisfaction with the narrowness of my educa (or English, or Theology, etc.) just yesterday and have "babysit" his pre-calculus class. The students had tion. I wanted to learn more about the ideas I some you ever heard about Aristotle? (or Kant? or Hobbes? been left an assignment to complete but ran into times overheard the liberal arts teachers talking etc.)" When my students express surprise that I, a difficulty and asked her for help. One of my liberal about in the faculty room. Simply put, the other math/science teacher, should know anything of the arts type students gleefully reported to me that Mrs. math/science teachers never seemed to have the "liberal arts," I have learned to respond with "Well, Maher had no idea how to work the problem but "she same off-periods that I had and I didn't like feeling that's part of what it means to be educated." I hope, in made us all pull our chairs up in a circle and talk left out of the conversations. I never considered or this way, that I'm also giving my math/science type about the problem and she kept asking us questions expected that St. John's would affect my sci students answers to the questions with which they and making us explain things to her and we figured ence/math classroom. plague their liberal arts teachers. it out. Pretty good for an English teacher, huh?" "Well," I was glad to answer, "that's part of what it At that time I did not realize that one of the biggest In any case, my relationships with my colleagues means to be educated." problems we face in education is the "departmental have also chang·ed. As I had hoped, I'm no longer ization of knowledge." By high school, students have left out of the conversation whenever anything Beverly Angel, '89 SGI begun to classify themselves as math/science types deeper than last night's TV show is discussed in the St. Michael's Academy, Austin, TX. and to shun, as far as they possibly can, any course that is not their type. And, because we as teachers are also typed, they inveigle us to be their allies. I can't count the number of times I have been con CHAPTER CONTACTS fronted by a some liberal arts type student with the Please call those listed below for information about alumni activities in each area. whine: "Why do we have to take this course? I asked ALBUQUERQUE: Harold M. Morgan, Jr. (505)266-5330. my English (or History, or Latin, etc.) teacher for help ANNAPOLIS: Joel D. Lehman (410)956-2814 on this Chemistry (or Algebra, or Physics, etc.) AUSTIN: Paul Martin (512)327-6854. assignment and he/she couldn't do it either, so why BOSTON: Alvin Aronson (617)566-6657. do I have to learn it? I hate math/science anyway BUFFALO/ROCHESTER/TORONTO: Annapolis Alumni Director Betsy Blume (410)626-2531. and I'm never going to use it!" I used to get furious CHICAGO: Rick Lightburn (312)552-1461 or (708)575-3956(W}, or Erin Milnes at (312)271-1039. with my colleagues (fortunately, mostly silently!) for DALLAS/FORT WORTH: Suzanne Doremus (817)496-8571 or Jonathan Hustis at (214)340-8442. providing my students with fuel for such complaints LOS ANGELES: Julia Takahashi (213)434-7624. and thus making my job more difficult. It never MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL: Glenda Eoyang (612)783-1405 or 379-3883(W). occurred to me that, when one of my star math/sci NEW YORK: Sylvia Hermanson (212)463-7392, or Peter Burdge or Jill Silberman at (212)677-i 145. ence types asked for "help" on a poetry interpreta PHILADELPHIA: Jim Schweidel (215)836-7632. tion theme paper, he or she might be gathering fuel PORTLAND: Dale Mortimer (206)737-7587. for a similar attack on the English teacher! When RICHMOND: Maya Hasegawa (804)355-5095. adolescents ask such a question about the utility of SACRAMENTO: Arianne Ludlow (916)362-5131 or Helen Feeley at 452-1082. a topic, there is no way to give them a simple, direct ST. LOUIS: Lorin Cuoco (314)935-5576 or 725-8972(W). and satisfactory answer. The answer must, I think, SAN FRANCISCO/NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: Toni Wilkinson (415)255-2255 or 550-1280(W). be "built in" to what we teach and modeled by who SANTA FE: John Pollak (505)983-2144 or Cindy Jokela at 982-3691. we are. SEATILE: Jim Doherty (206)937-8886. WASHINGTON, D.C.: Sam Stiles (301 }424-9119. In the classroom, where I used to stick strictly to DECEMBER 1993 THE REPORTER PAGE15 homes, on alternate months from the Princeton Club seminars. At each discussion, members decide col lectively on the time, place and reading selection for their next gathering. Most often, the group has set tled on more contemporary, and longer, works than those tackled at the seminars. Past readings have included, for instance, AIDS and Its Metaphors, by Susan Sontag; Lincoln at Gettysburg, by Garry Wills; and Beloved, by Toni Morrison. N.Y. Chapter members include all graduates and Editor former students of both the undergraduate and The New York Chapter's yearly schedule of years Tom Geyer (A'68) has hosted this event. His events follows a form familiar to most "St. John- hillside home near Morristown, New Jersey, over- nies"-reading and discussing. looking the forests where General Four times a year-twice in the fall and George Washington once wintered his twice in the winter/spring-alumni from in troops, provides a comfortable and pic- and around New York meet at Manhattan's turesque setting for an afternoon of eat- Princeton Club, in Midtown. There a guest ing and talking. tutor, most often from the Annapolis cam- In the fall of 1992, another reading- pus, leads a seminar on a preselected and-discussion group took shape when reading. Fall 1993 seminars featured the a handful of alumni met one evening to Nathaniel Hawthorne short story, "Peter informally discuss their reading of "The Graduate Institute programs, from both the Santa Goldthwaite's Treasure," led Timothy Tutor John Verdi Pagan Rabbi," a short story by Fe and the Annapolis campuses, who live within a Miller, and one of Montaigne's essays, "On Ozick. wide radius of New York City. All are invited to Experience," led by John Verdi. Since then, these meetings have continued, and attend chapter events. At all events guests are In June, area alumni, their families, children and taken on a life as the chapter's "Reading " welcome and encouraged to participate. guests meet for a picnic and seminar. In recent Participants take turns hosting the group in their own Me::.1rm~:anc~nn SF'80 Of the alumni who responded to 1 80 nrriuor,,on information about their VV\J\,Jl-J>O.LIVI 590 are in business-related 160 1 40 -~ 1 20 :;;: 1 00 0 80 I now Q) E 60 "the ::I z 40 20 "O Ql "' Ql ~ "O 1 c:; :;;: ;:::"' are involved in nro,_<:r-·n ""' 0: u "O remainder have administrative Ql _;: ~ (/) nurses, and six dentists .... .,r'"- 1 nrc• 0 ministers and 96 are counseling thc•r~ 1"\ 1 c·tc doing our part in the legal field As we see, 789 alumni are in occuptions other lawyers. than those discussed above. Other occupations Social Services Arts/Communication include being a student (180), retired (113), re search (110), government (99), engineering (58), homemaking (49), museums/libraries/galleries (48), and public affairs (42). Smaller numbers are in Law The Most Popular Jobs volved in skilled trades, conservation, construction, farming/ranching, transportation/travel, labor unions, oil/mining/energy resources, and lan Business/Finance Services guage/translating/interpreting. What do SJC Alumni do for a Do any of you readers know about occupational distributions for alumni of other colleges, or other When I was a student at St. John's, we believed possible comparisons such as total national popu that most alumni became teachers, doctors, or law lation? If you have data or know how to go about That may or may not have been true in the getting it, please let me know. but it certainly is not true today. The 1992 Alumni Register reveals that more of us are in I plan to do an ongoing series of articles about business than in education, and that more alumni alumni in various occupations. First on the list is are in arts/communications than are in either law or ALUMNI IN THE ARTS. What should be second on medicine. us toward worthy individuals Are you one of the 193 The professionals? Are to write an article for the series? Please me a call or write to: Computers 193 are Even so, altogether these amount to of all alumni. PAGE16 our students the acedia, the dispirited dis answer should be insinuated into the ques gust (a theological sub-vice of tristitia, de tion, and, more fundamentally, how much Statement of Educational 1993-1994 pression) that comes from doing too much knowledge is presupposed in a well-framed too perfunctorily; it is our perpetual prob question. Everyone will recognize here the By EVAT. H. BRANN college at all. Occasionally a student, draw lem. The tutors, however, get another Menonic "paradox of inquiry" that is the ing too abrupt a conclusion from our saying chance. Immediate repetition of tutorials ultimate problem of philosophy as distinct (The following are extracts from the that all students are co-responsible for the both for better classes and for the tutor's from metaphysics. (It is meticulously pur Dean's statement, prepared in accordance class, comes to complain about other stu intellectual satisfaction seems to me very sued in tutor Stewart Umphrey's book with the requirements of the Polity. Not re dents, beholding sternly the mote in a class healthy. I even think - though some col Zetetic Skepticism). printed are sections VIII. Rigor and Vigor; mate's eye but considering not the beam in leagues disagree - that doubling classes is Aboriginal as the problem is, it bears IX. Class Discipline; X. Tutors' Conduct; their own. All three deans in Annapolis try often profitable; the students in one class quite practically on the seminar. The way XI. Politics in Class; XII., _""",.."' to deal with this campus phenomenon, ~ave the immediate advantage of the expe tutors' mastery of a text enters into the fram- The Dean' sDuties. The which is recent that we had a nence the other and the tutor gains of a question (be it at the opening or in statement in its may be obtained meeting about it not ago) with time for the course of the determines to the Dean's office in nn!na,0011s.J whatever manifestation of aversion and The complementary necessity is for the of their seminar-leading. If a sympathy it r<>rt>Hr'~" learning new parts of the Program. Advanc clueless, the opening ,,""'"t' ""' Finally it is in order to talk about [ea.crum!! to the next stage often casts an illumina the conversation teaLcl1:in2 at St. John's College an ac- because we must, all of us, but tion even over classes that seem at first to may take off on its own. If a tutor is in in line with the standard of ticularly, our requirements to new have intellectually miscarried. possession of a cherished the stu instrnction or a forbidding Is tutors and to tutors up forreappointment. All 3. The well-springs of the college's intel dents will go on it articulable know ledge or intuitable art? Is newer tutors are in need of help with teach lectual life are our many and various funded discover student's cri it a demonstrably to be done or ing devices, some do not so much need as and unfunded study groups. There is no "What could he be "is not a hit-and-miss muddling-about? Is it a career desire to be told what a tutor is supposed to better restorative for tutors than these stud the least incentive to mental activity. I think or a vocation, an ancillary occupation or a and some require reiterated in- ies freely chosen and then discovered to be most colleagues have theories concerning calling? struction in anticipation of the hoped-for very pertinent to teaching, no better place to good seminar questions that lie in between moment when they take off on their own. gather material for the classroom, no better these extremes. They to find an opening Therefore I shall try my hand at articulat occasion for tutors to gain insight into their that, on the one hand, functions as a genuine among us has not been puzzled ing briefly, under a baker's dozen of rubrics, colleagues' intellects, no better chance to question for them (on the hypothesis that by these questions, leaning to cheerful or to what it means to teach in this college. Busy tum collegiality into friendship. The same they will learn with and from the students), dismal answers, as we are feeling exhila.., colleagues may pick and choose among the goes for our three annual faculty seminars. and, on the other, gives a direction that in rated or exhausted? headings that interest them. I would, how I should add that the weekly tutors' meet corporates some interpretation or discovery This moment seems a good time for me ever, be obliged, if they read Section VII on ings for each class, though obligatory and or observation (because as seminar "leader" to try my hand at delineating teaching at this the "Middle Way," since it is for me the crux largely concerned with schedules, peda they rightly feel obliged to do some leading). school. For three years now I have not been of the Statement. gogy, and problem-solving, often do go over I like those middle questions best because in a classroom except occasionally. At such into the more material mode of a study they show the of an a distance the messy perplexities of daily l1n1'\hhn1<'i~,,,. tutorial I. Tutors' Intellectual Life group. To newer tutors they ought to be practice are transmuted into neat precepts of indispensable. to stir up the students' intellects. universal wisdom - it is the common con 4. Although the academic phrase about Such question-asking seems to be an art, dition of those "that do not do the mean to talk here of the problems and "doing one's own work" is not part of our since it careful most do show." On the other hand, the more practicalities of our intellectual life, not of common diction, a personal, perhaps even both native invention and accumulated ex often I am obliged to our central its essence, which is beyond the scope of this secret, project calling for cumulative reflec perience. And like any art, it can be, to some probably any) institutional statement. the more it seems to me an im tion and finished formulation is invaluable effort: Co-leaders Our teaching is, as our title of "tutor" possibility, recalcitrant to words and un for the drain on a tutor's intellec prc)cicnm.s. a kind of we hold achievable in deed. tual substance and for collecting the ,,,,.,, ..,,..,,.,.t. it can a brief with respect to our A.re we so different from all other teach sion of imposed by the u.-''"'~n~ am:>roJJrialted from the ers? to my mind all teachers do students' learning. It is an but goes without that long-range years. Yet, al have some rock-bottom virtues in common. also an way. All and within the Pro- is without Faithful and fairness in evaluat- gram is our foremost common restorative. virtue as teachers, students are among these mc11s1Jer1sable are the 5. The sacred story which the sab- each other what and decencies of the tried-and-true lecture notes, the "h'"'"~'""' batical is named we are and how we do A number test and the TA-marked blue books, the trade. There is another set of virtues of rest. Most tutors "''"r.h ... 1h1" of us have, to be sure, lectured and vvritten often reflect on the that office hour, the of on the "What is tionable in like ours, that are not the didactic that time we are, Joe very sensible: the to take the word "rest" in the sense classroom free of and uiv•..W..LiUJ. mission (in my understanding, we read the that have cast loose from their masters and tainly satisfaction in a product of the mind Discipline") with our preference for intel great authors of the West and study the can outlive their time. We inconsistently that has material heft, a satisfaction particu lectual immediacy. I believe that this latter liberal arts) seems to me to be a subsphere insist on plumbing the mind of the author larly needful in so elusively productive a mode, which entails a kind of inquiry not, to of how we do it (in my view, we approach and on respecting the free-standing self-suf profession as we pursue. Yet it is possible to my knowledge, carried on institutionally the texts directly and learn liberal skills for ficiency of the textual logos. claim that the making of books and the elsewhere (except perhaps at Thomas the sake of conducting a shared inquiry). 3. Texts and Themes. We suppose that the conducting of inquiries are mutually exclu Aquinas and Shimer College), is primary Thus the how is much more expansive than surface particularities of textual presenta sive. Certainly our faculty has a fair contin and that our pedagogy is derivative. Conse the l'vhat and is applicable to all the world's tion are inextricably involved with the sub gent of intellects seen less and less often at quently teachers who take to our way of arts and books. The Graduate Institute seems stance of the work, and yet we are finally other schools - people who think all the inquiry- either from the beginning or in to be an opportune proving ground for this devoted to abstractable themes and peren time and say memorable things, but hardly time - find teaching exhilarating, while claim, and both the Eastern books and the nial questions. For us the submissive recep ever write. I think people should write books those who are ultimately out of sympathy visual arts may find fitting places there. tivity of textual study and the spontaneous only to keep from bursting. Lectures and miscarry. Meanwhile there is the fact, commonly activity of free inquiry, which are surely internal notes remain the formats most ger The secret seems to be in knowing how remarked, that in seminar, at least, we slight somehow at odds, are also somehow at one mane to us. to initiate and direct a searching discussion our literary texts - of which there are too in pedagogical practice. It seems obvious that a publication re that is pitched at just the right level to draw few anyhow - by allowing the students to 4. Meaning and Truth. Though we differ quirement would be irrelevant to our sort of in both adept and slow, both prepared and tum them into sets of philosophemes. If the from most other colleges in holding the teaching, but that most tutors should write, (even) unprepared students, a discussion too cause of this routine alchemy were a love of working hypothesis that meaning is estab for themselves and for the community. deep for brilliant display and too accessible wisdom, of delving beneath the surface, we lished so that truth might be judged, there for opting out. should be gratified, but it is too often simply are always works that seem to call for cap VI. Socratism The art seems to be in knowing how to an awkwardness in dealing with human va- turing the concept accurately while forego make use of the technical learning we re a lack of training in noticing - in ing the question of truth. In short, we do not say ofus that we use the Socratic quire of our students. There is general agree short, a blunt, unhoned, and uncultivated subject all texts, or any text often, to the method. We know better. The Socrates of ment that the right to speculate has to be sensibility. The result is the opposite of phi verity question. We minor the human con the Dialogues is a jigged figure, caught in continuously earned through close applica losophy - facile abstractness. On some oc dition in doing but rarely what we were the rigid web of the written text that he tion - through rote learning, translating, casions, we should make our students stay specifically meant to do. eloquently and paradoxically decries in the demonstrating, paper writing. But the way concrete, make them notice detail, make Teaching at St. John's requires juggling, Phaedrus, and his maker makes us think that of inquiry demands that tutors should not them treat characters as souls rather than as more or less consciously, the requirements his character is in control of the conversation hang fire for too long and should not subject emblems. It will be uphill work, for volumes of these incongruent ways. up to its purposed end; we, on the other hand, the class to excessively prolonged stretches cannot convey the neglect the sensibility are alive and rarely in control. Socrates has of mere technicality any more than they suffers in the age of "sensitivity." Part of the V. Lectures and Publishing leisure for long talks and moments of rapt should tolerate a lot of facile big talk. (It does responsibility in making tutors better at insight; we live scheduled lives and gain our seem that we should now and then break guiding students to an exercise of their sen We do not ask our tutors to publish, earthbound understanding through extended through our customary benign pretense that sibility rests with those members of the fac either for appointment or reappointment. In study. Socrates says: "I was never anyone's everyone is at least trying to talk sense; plain ulty who consider themselves to have a this we differ radically from most other in teacher" (Apology 33 a); it is undeniable that speaking is sometimes bracing to a long-suf propensity for literary reading and infmmed stitutions of higher education, where one our profession is teaching, though we are not fering class.) seeing. (It is an open secret that they are most substantial refereed publication a year is a professional teachers. Socrates never took Framing the questions of the middle effective if they make their case ex parte minimal requirement for staying on. The an obol; we get paid, though not well. realm, where the heaven of speculation philosophiae .) reasons are plain: Since we do not teach the Moreover, we know, for we are close to meets the earth of specificity, calls forth all We have had, and are having, happy accepted university specialties it is not prac the texts, that the Platonic Socrates has no a tutor's thoughtful ingenuity. It requires study groups in French poetry (some of us tically relevant to the task of our tutors that "method" in the Cartesian sense, no univer seeing for oneself, and inducing students to will recall that in the ancient debate preced they contribute to their former fields. Again, sal analytic approach, but that, though all the see for themselves, the large pathos in a ing the choice of French over Gern1an, since we do not teach in the mode of schol dialogues are set works of art, each conver small nuance of language (as exemplified in French poetry was proposed as the training arship, that is, through the most recent sec sation is a unique way into its subject. Joe Sachs's lecture on the Antigone, pub ground of the sensibility), in prosody, and in ondary literature, it does not promote our And yet somehow this Socrates is our lished in the St. John's Review, 1989-90, aesthetics. For students, we have had suc teaching to do advanced reseai·ch. guardian saint or inciting demon, as the case which abounds with such observations, ger cessful preceptorials in the visual arts, and In universities research is done not only may be-for two reasons, as it seems to me. minated in the sophomore language tuto lectures by tutors who are not only enthusi for the advancement of science and learning One is that through failure and perplexity he rial). It requires recognizing a mathematical asts but also questioners of art (lately, for but also for the intellectual invigoration of keeps his faith in the deed of inquiry. The world pushed past its limits in a mere oper example, Nina Haigney's "Socratic Mime the professor. What do our tutors do instead? other is that he asks questions, leading ques ation (as in Apollonius's subtraction of sis and Vermeer's Head of a Girl"). We have been telling ourselves that stu tions to be sure, and listens to the answers, greater from smaller areas). It requires ap These activities do a three-fold good. dents should do more writing. Tutors also out of concern for his fellow-citizens and prehending a grand physical theory in one They cultivate a complementary aesthetic should and do write, but in a different mode. fondness for the young. I think most of us diagram (as in the analysis of Newton's learning, they provide a recreation of the The students' writing, except perhaps for the wish to be that way. Proposition I). It requires discerning a con spirit, and they go some way toward nullify senior essay, is a continuing exercise. Tutors I think furthermore that we have room for ceptional gigantomachy in a formalism (as ing Pascal's dismal division. tend, rightly, to write at certain epochs in both modes: the free conversation in which in Leibnitz's and Newton's rival notations their lives - when they are about to reach we engage with students as with partners for the differential calculus). some closure or conclusion, however tem knowing only marginally less, and the ped This kind of tutorial teaching, pitched in porary, in their thinking. The form they most agogical game in which we lead them to a middle range where naive philosophizing It would be uncandid to claim that we do often choose is the lecture. The college gets realize what we are already aware of. takes place on the basis of some first-hand not have an institutional mode of reading, a the good of a careful stretch of thought, The latter mode contains an enticingly acquaintance with a particular matter, does latitudinaiian yet delineable mode, with coming from one of its own (and tutorial dangerous possibility: guruism. I think there seem to permit us to carry on as we want which every tutor will want at some point to lectures still tend to make for the best ques is nothing very wrong with the gathering by disciplined conversation - and also with come to grips. Here a difficulty comes, so to tion periods), and the tutor gets to be heard attraction worked by strong spirits. It is good whom we want - with students of very speak, to our aid: Our way of reading is not -and having hearers for one's words is like for students to experience the shared reful diverse gifts and interests. to be found as a category in books on her supplying water to those compressed little gences of intellectual adoration and good for meneutics or literary theory. It is all our own, Japanese paper flowers; both expand and them to know the pain of disentanglement. Conclusion and it is richly self-contradictory. Our books bloom. There seems to me no doubt that in In fact, as a convinced Madisonian, I would ai·e of a stature to support such oppositions. view of our endlessly conversational lives, rather see six such sectarian heros than one teaching as it is done at St. John's of While my list of characteristic features will the eventual fixing of thought in writing is on the faculty, especially among young tu value to the world's human economy? There be new to few of us, my advocacy of it might almost necessary, and that an expansive mo tors. But in the long run it is probably better is an ignorant saying that those who can, do, be totally agreeable to even fewer. We might ment of public presentation should follow. for the tutors themselves to return to the less and those who can't, teach. I would like to put a discussion of our mode of reading on the For these reasons we do not require but prodigal severities of studious learning. see those doers get unscathed through a agenda of a not-too-distant faculty meeting. I only invite newer tutors to lecture. (If they Here is a good reason why a faculty of all month of the kind of teaching our tutors will sketch out my understanding biiefly and offer to lecture the lecture committee tries to ages is desirable. carry on staunchly for decades - teaching only insofar as bears on our teaching. accommodate them as soon as possible.) that is doing, a packed round of daily activ 1. Directness and Tangency. We ask our There are pitfalls here. Lectures and ques VII. Our Middle Way ity, activity intensified, moreover, by the selves and our students to focus on the texts tion periods are very revealing of the state fact that it cannot be done (as is much of the in the first instance, to go at them directly, of a tutor's intellectual store. Probably a How should we characterize our way of world's business) on automatic pilot. We without mediating introductions, back newer tutor would be wise to talk the offer teaching in classes other than the seminar, cannot discharge our many scheduled obli ground lectures or commentary. Nonethe ing over with friends on the faculty. especially in the tutorials, which are specif gations except as an extension of our reflec less we permit seminars to go off on Eventually a tutor might conceive the ically named after us? I am persuaded that it tive life, since our students' learning is, we tangents, to bring in peripheral considera duty of working on or even writing a man is both a middle term between various ped think, quite immediately (if somewhat inde tions, and to enter personal experience if it ual. This thankless and absolutely essential agogical extremes and an intersection of terminately) dependent on the good faith of furthers the conversation. We demand con teaching task is caught between the Scylla human necessity with intellectual choice - our questions. I hope and believe that the versation that is textually focused and per of solitary, personal production not quite both a mean and a crux. teaching done at this college is, so to speak, mit conversation that is humanly roving. geared to the practical needs of a college and It is a mean between minimalist guidance a deed in progress that happens to be pro 2. Authors and Self-Sufficiency. We talk the Charybdis of consultative compromise and authoritative lecturing, mere solicitation ductive (albeit unquantifiably so) of real as though we thought that books had authors not quite satisfying to anyone. Tutors who and leading interrogation, untethered spec human good The proof I would offer is of and that it is the author's thinking that is to do it should insist on clear mandates and ulation and severe technicality. the kind logicians call ostensive: a showing be discovered and understood, while claim respectful reception. It is also a crossing of the needs of our of the lives that our alumni, students, and ing that the books are self-sufficient wholes Should we write books? There is cer- humanly diverse students (see under "Class faculty try to live. DECEMBER 1993 THE REPORTER PAGE18 To the Editor: waited, registered at their local draft board The September Reporter announced the records and monuments of those insti and waitedsomemore. Studying was hard. I wiite with concern about the letter the formation of the Tocqueville Society, tutions. Barr and Buchanan, the President and published in the September 1993 issue of organized to recognize alumni, friends, You don't have to be a arch- Dean, challenged the student body to put The Reporter, from Sally Bell. Has the and parents who choose to benefit St. or king to help St. John's College in the war and themselves in proper perspec Board of Trustees indeed John's College through their estates or this way, however. In fact, everyone can tive. As the nation stepped voted not to adopt an through charitable trusts, life insurance, take advantage of generous incentives of up its preparation, so did amendment banning dis and charitable gift annuities. fered by the Internal Revenue Service for the college. There were ciimination against ho When the Board of Visitors and Gover these types of gifts. Others have. courses in radio and auto mosexuals, and if so, is nors decided to embark on the Campaign Here is one of their stoiies: maintenance, and on the there anything that for Our Fourth Century, it recognized that Before her Iola widow back campus, military makes that vote any the primary objective must be to increase of tutor Richard Scofield, established a life drills began. more or less than it the endowments of both campuses. The income trust in which she named St. Within a year from seems-a basic disre Board determined that a minimum of John's College the beneficiary, after a life Pearl Harbor, two-thirds gard for civil rights? $16.8 million in additional endowment time income was paid to two close rela of the class of '44 was in Please reassure me I funds would be required to preserve the tives. service, scattered from the will not have to follow undergraduate liberal arts program and to Standing as a symbol of the Scofields' Aleutians to North Africa, Ms. Bell in withdrawing make it accessible to students of all eco love and concern for the continuing life of Texas to Pacific atolls. my support from the nomic backgrounds. the college, this bequest, which under Fom did not return. Ed College. Over the years, 90% of all endowment wrote a student loan fund, already has Bligh, Ed Freeburger, Francis funds have come to the college through enabled scores of students to attend the Stephen Fineberg, A'64 "Tallahassee" Lowry, and Bill Price were bequests or planned gifts. Such funds have college and will enable hundreds more to Professor of Classics, killed in service. historic consequences beyond the daily pass through its doors in the years ahead. Knox College The college continued, despite a life of a college. They are permanent, often For information about the Tocqueville shrunken enrollment and persistent pres To the Editor: outliving buildings-i.e. endowments es Society and about gifts through estates or sure from the Navy to take over the cam tablished by piinces, archdukes and kings in trust, call Vice President for Advance A fiftieth reunion in 1994? It may be a pus. Seven of the original freshmen for Charles University in Prague, Heidel ment Jeffrey Bishop at the Annapolis cam quiet one. They went innocently enough graduated in 1944. The college graduated berg in Germany, the Sorbonne in Paris, pus (410-626-2502) or Vice President for on that September day in 1940 to sign the five seniors in 1945 and four in 1946, and Oxford and Cambridge Universities in Advancement Jeffrey Morgan at the Santa college register and later to shoot the can including Irwin Tucker, first of the class of the 13th and 14th centuiies still survive in Fe campus (505-984-6101). non in the old tradition. There was a war '44 to return from service. in Europe, but that was far away and few With peace, others of the class returned, of the class of '44 thought much about it. as did those of the other war classes, older now, more mature, with wives, children, ~:Z~I~~:!.!~~k~!!:T~o?L£~~!~w!nia~~a~~ Ninety-one freshmen were listed. Tolbert's service October 2.) Jimmy Olds came later. Paul Mellon and responsibilities. Some lived off cam stayed long enough to get the feel of the pus, many filled the temporary housing James Tolbert was sui generis. The had shrunk, the freshman enrollment fall "New Program" and has supported it ever erected on the back campus. Their chil qualities that went together in him seemed ing to 34in 1952. By 1955 the number had since. It was a motley crew. Some were on dren, evident everywhere, were destined to be made for each other, as though they been brought up to 67. Jim in his frrst year scholarships from the Maryland counties, to become the Baby Boomers. couldn't ever have been apart. There was took it to 88, and in the following year to young and eager, more knowledgeable Ten of the class graduated in 1947, six the Georgian gentility; the unflagging gal 111, and it never fell below 100 again, and about com and tobacco than Plato or Eu more in 1948. Altogether, twenty-four had lantry with the ladies; the love of teasing, most commonly during the sixties hovered clid Some had attended other colleges and made it through. A question arose in the in a gentle mode; the probing, sceptical around 120 or 130. began again at St. John's, attracted by the years that followed: were they the class of questions, often unanswerable; the enjoy The Santa Fe college opened in 1964; growing publicity for the Great Books pro '44 or of '47 or '48? Someone even sug ment of people, places, and stories; his market analysis would hardly have justi gram. They were properly awed by a little gested they should be '44 as of'47, but that way of making pronouncements, with a fied that venture. During the rest of the Scotsman in charge of buildings and was too stuffy. Now they are simply the little wag of the head. He was committed, decade the Director of Admissions here grounds, who spouted the Meno to them in class of '44. deeply so, to the cause of justice, for black had to assist the Director of Admissions Greek. They had a lot of spiiit when they people and for all people. He was commit there, while the two of them competed for They became involved, produced a began. Seventeen graduates are still alive, ted to the cause of good writing and good available students. At the beginning of the winning football team, rejuvenated the and forty-nine others, who left early. But speaking, and his dislike of superfluity in following decade it was decided to add a Collegian, became singers and actors, fifty years for them is less likely to mark either was intense. An upperclassman was February freshman class. All this time the boxers and scholars. Some found the col their graduation than their wedding, or the once overheard advising a freshman not to pressure on the Director of Admissions, lege was not what they expected. Sixty birth of a child, or a beach named Omaha. be put off by Mr. Talbert's witheiing from the board, from the president, from returned in 1941 to begin their sophomore Perhaps the three classes that were so shat scorn, for, he said, it did not go very deep. the hopes and fears of the whole college year. And on a Sunday in December their tered should heed the words of John Well, it was amalgamated with good man community, was enormous. The un future was changed forever with the bomb Lennon, and Come Together for a joint ners and an equable temperament, and a charted future of the college hung in the ing of Pearl Harbor. return, in 1995, for instance. settled policy of stepping aside, in situa balance. Some scrambled to enlist, some Jake Smedley, A'44 tions where altercations would be fruit Jim shouldered the job with that lanky, searched around for deferments. Most less. loose-limbed Georgian grace of his, the One of Jim Talbert's commitments was acerbic wit and courtly manners that peo to this college and its program. He came ple who knew him will always remember. E-Mail here as a Ford Foundation Fellow in 1953, If his fiiends didn't worry about him, it All alumni and other members of the St. John's community with electronic mail addresses after earning a Ph.D. in English from the was because he wouldn't have allowed it. are invited to contact Owen Goldin (SF'79) at [email protected] to University of Texas, and serving as chair In the final annual report that he wrote express interest in continuing the St. John's conversation over E-Mail. He is considering man of the English Department at the Uni while Director of Admissions there was a establishing either a mailing list or a bulletin board for Johnnies with E-Mail addresses. versity of Alabama at Florence. In Texas section with the title: Miscellaneous Ac Perhaps even an electronic seminar may be attempted. he had met the woman he mariied; not too tivities, Largely Fruitless. He was flooded long ago they celebrated their 50th wed with suggestions and commands about ding anniversary. His love for his wife and what he ought to be doing. One of the daughters and his commitment to this col suggestions, he acknowledged in that re lege were at the stable core of his life. The port, had paid off: it consisted in writing Vincent Dude (A'97) spent last February volunteering at Casa Guatemala, a Guatemalan concern for justice and for good writing to students who had visited the college but orphanage for malnouiished, abandoned, and orphaned children that receives no aid from were more quixotic constituents of his not applied. He wrote to the 60 such who the government, and is run entirely on volunteer efforts and donations. Recently Vincent character, but still unwaveringly charac had visited in the previous year, and some received a letter from its director describing a flood crisis. "I am counting on this community teristic. 21 responded with applications: appar to pool its resources and make a difference," Vincent writes. He is seeking financial support, I want to pause over all those years he ently a gentle nudge was what it took to clothing, and medical supplies, and invites all to go to Guatemala during Christmas, spring, spent in the Admissions Office. In July, start them writing those essays that the ap or summer break to help. "There is no comparison to the feeling you get in providing some 1955 he received a one-year appointment plicationrequired and which for prospective of the love these children need so much," he writes. For more information, contact Vincent as Director of Admissions. He remained students were always such a hurdle. at extension 302. i..-1 that office, with one-year administra Jim prided himself on recruiting stu tive appointments, till he wrote his last dents who would benefit from the Pro annual report as Director of Admissions in gram; students with - to use his expression June 1971. Once, after he had become a - luminous minds. Taking time out for a year of study in Israel, Sharon Soper (A'95) writes: "It amazes full-time teaching member of the faculty, During most of those years, he also me how much beauty there is in this small country-things I never thought inlaginable. in a meeting of the new freshmen with taught freshman language. From 1971 on I've seen the beautiful colors, patterns, and shapes of fish and coral in the Red Sea [and] their tutors, Jim introduced himself as hav wards, now full-time tutor, he taught ju as I swam I was a fish myself. I've experienced the weightless feeling of the Dead Sea. ing been Director of Admissions for a nior and senior language, French as well I've hiked through the exotic Arava Desert. I've seen Arabs, very religious Jews, and hundred years. It was sixteen actually, but as Greek; also, at least once, freshman Muslims. I've been a part of the ancient city of Jerusalem as well as the thriving city of the job, always tough, was at its toughest mathematics, and of course seminars, too. Tel Aviv. I've begun to speak a new language, and I'm here during this time of peace. then. During the early fifties, the College He was granted one sabbatical leave, for Shalom." (Continued on page 19) DECEMBER 1993 THE REPORTER PAGE19 Friends remember James M. Tolbert grateful to Jim Tolbert for inspiring me to By NANCY OSIUS try to think clearly, express myself clearly, The warmth, wit and humanity of James and to prize honesty above all else." William Athey, A'32: former Board Member Tolbert, tutor at Annapolis from 1955 until Dr. David Krimins, A'63: "In the last his retirement in 1978, and Director of half dozen years or so, I came to know Jim William B. Athey, 83, A'32, a member ident of the Kappa Alpha fraternity. Admissions for 16 of those years, returned from another perspective-as my patient. of the college Board of Visitors and Gov During World War II, he served in the with rare intensity as his longtime col Interestingly, my impression did not ernors from 1954 to 1960 and the recipient Pacific theater with the Marine Corps and leagues, friends and students arose to change at all-except that when I was a of the Alumni Association A ward of Merit was awarded the Bronze medal. speak of him at his memorial service Oc student, he addressed me as :Mi-. Krimins, in 1971, died October 28 of a pulmonary Actively interested in the college over tober 2. and when I was his physician, he addressed embolism following surgery at the Greater many years, Mr. Athey was secretary of His good friend Curtis Wilson, former me as 'David'-which made it a lot easier Baltimore Medical Center in Towson, the St. John's College Alumni Association dean, was the first of eight listed speakers all around." MD. He was 83. and chairman of the alumni annual giving to evoke Jim Tolbert, who died of heart Patience Schenck, A'59: "When I ar A retired insurance broker, :Mi-. Athey campaign in 1968-69, in addition to his failure after a long illness on June 23 at age rived on campus as an 18-year-old in the was owner of the Hallmark Insurance Co. Board of Visitors and Governors service. 79. At President Christopher Nelson's in fall of 1955, I had never been away from in Baltimore at the time of his retirement A member of the Merchants Club, the vitation, others shared their own memories home before, never been to Annapolis, 18 years ago. He made his home in Round Center Club and the Mount Washington before the service concluded. never met any of my classmates or tutors. Bay, Severna Park, MD, and Fort Lauder Club in Baltimore, he was also a vestry dale, "James Tolbert was sui generis,"began I was walking around feeling kind of lost. FL. man at the Church of the Redeemer. His BorninBaltimore,:Mi-. Athey was grad interests included travel, gardening, birds Mr. Wilson. "The qualities All of a sudden, this voice said, uated from Baltimore Polytechnic Insti and wildlife. that went together in him 'Patience Garretson!' Here is tute before attending St. John's. Later he He is smvived by his wife of more than 50 seemed to be made for each this tall, slender man with his received a law degree from the University years, Margaret Elsa Stoffregen Athey, three other, as though they hand stretching towards me. couldn't ever have been I'd never seen him before, but of Maryland School of Law. daughters, Lois E. and Elizabeth L Athey of apart." he knew me. It was just a tre At St. John's he was a member of the Washington, D.C, and Susan E. Athey of Mr. Wilson's remarks mendously warm feeling to be basketball team and of the national cham Ruxton, a brother, Thomas B. Athey of Wash are reprinted in their en recognized when I didn't pionsrrp lacrosse team. He was also pres- ington, and five grandchildren tirety on page 18 and 19. know anybody." Tutor Laurence Berns: "I Dr. James Cockey, A'71: "I Dr. Maurice Klawans, A'22: remember more than once always found him in his chair, sitting with [Jim Tolbert] at reading a classic book; usually Dr. Maurice Klawans, A'22, a physi where he graduated as a pre-medical stu the big table in the coffee Jim Tolbert with a classic piece of music cian practicing in Annapolis for more than dent in 1922; he received his medical de shop, especially in the early playing; and always with his 50 years, died September 28 of cardiac gree from the University of Maryland months of the school year. Beginning pipe. He and Jane were always intensely arrest in Sarasota, FL. Medical School in 1927. freshmen walking by would see him and interested in me, and later in my family, He retired in 1987 from a practice he After an internship at Norfolk General stop: their eyes would light up and smile too. He delighted my children with his had begun in 1931 on Southgate Avenue Hospital, he completed a residency in psy like meeting an old friend. ':Mi-. Tolbert!' harmonica, his magic tricks, his southern in Annapolis, a practice that included ev chiatry at Baltimore City Hospital, and they'd say and come over to shake his charm, and of course, the aroma of his erything from the common cold to obstet also did residency training at the Baltimore hand. He would in a perfectly natural way pipe. He was a man who delighted in the rics and major surgery, with an occasional Eye, Nose and Throat Hospital. After sev light up in response. 'Why, how are you classics of Western culture, of Georgia bit of veterinary medicine thrown in. He eral years of practice in New York, he ... ?' always with a first name. When he culture, of marriage and home; and as he made house calls at any time of the day or returned to Annapolis to practice. asked how things were going they knew he smoked all those good things in his pipe, night, his daughter-in-law said recently, Dr. Klawans' wife Stella Goldman was truly interested. It was as ifhehad an he shared that delight with us." and routinely accepted farm produce in Klawans, whom he married in 1931, died unbounded reservoir of genuine parental Tutor Wendy Allanbrook: "[As a neo payment for service. in 1982. He moved to Florida in 1991. feeling and interest in students." phyte tutor] one place where I specially Dr. Klawans was born in Annapolis and Dr. Klawans is survived by a daughter, Eloise Collingwood, A'79: "[Mr. learned from Jim in those years was in don raised in Baltimore wher~ he was gradua Janice Gotch of Sarasota, FL, a son, War Tolbert] was exact, impatient with shoddy rags, where his quality of considered atten ted from City College in 1919. A basket ren Klawans of Annapolis, six grandchil thought, and occasionally merciless if he tion in speech was always apparent. I re ball scholarship brought him to St. John's, dren, and four great-grandchildren. felt you were unprepared and gassing member in particular one young woman away to cover up that sorry fact....I would who was very bright but painfully shy. He describe him as a joyful man, in part be told her among other things that she had a cause he was a man on a mission. His 'luminous rnind'-and she left the room mission was to persuade people to think obviously in an altered state, letting go for Frank Leonard, A'63, died September was a resident at the time of his death. clearly, and the only way you can think a moment of the dreary burden of self-con 9 of lung cancer during a trip to Pennsyl While his family was young, they took clearly is by expressing yourself clearly .. .! sciousness she was carrying around. vania to see his newborn grandchild. He part each year in Bread and Puppet, a will never meet his standard, but I am Things only grew better for her after that." had been ill for several months. festival in Vermont where the three chil "All of us who knew him will feel the dren learned clown lore and stilt-walking. Wilson on Mr. Tolbert (Continued from page 18) loss of one of the most enthusiastic carriers The study of Chinese calligraphy was an of the spirit of St. John's," said his long interest to which Mr. Leonard devoted for the year 1972-73. He retired in 1979. Jim Tolbert had standards, and a viola time friend Tom Harvey, A'65. "He was a much of his energy in recent years. He cared about students. They were not tion of good sense or taste would bring social catalyst, a raconteur, a man who numbers but souls. He remembered the from him a rebuke, often oblique, often He and his wife, Allena Dungan Leon drew people together. Lots of people cared students he had recruited, remembered ironic, usually gentle and teasing. He had ard, A'65, were married while they were about him." students at St. John's, and their first child, those who had been members of his a tact about teasing, and knew not to tease For many years, Mr. Leonard was a classes. To many of them he was a special those who wouldn't tease well. He was not Tambra, A'85, was born while her mother federal employee in Washington, DC, friend. They would come back years or stingy, either, with praise. He was gener was an undergraduate. working in disabilities program develop decades afterwards, to say hello and tell ous, outgoing, heart-warmingly friendly. :Mi-. Leonard is survived by his wife, ment, management and funding. Recently, where they were in their lives. Such is the A month or so before his death, when from whom he was separated, by his com he lived and worked as a management and panion Diana Bamford-Rees, by his three case with Paul Matsushita, who did the he had become a semi-invalid, almost con special events consultant in Columbia, children, Tambra, Ariel, and Corwin, and first two years of the program from 1957 fined to the chair in which he spent so MD, Philadelphia, and Chicago, where he one granddaughter, Helen Rae Leonard. to 1959, and later became a leading inter many hours reading, he and I had a tele national lawyer in Japan, and on his fre phone conversation about Wallace quent visits to this country always looked Stegner's Crossing to Safety. It is a novel up the Tolberts. He visited Jim a few days about the friendship of two college English before his death. Such is also the case with teachers and their wives. The stuffiness Robert Fields of the class of 1966, who and prejudice of the senior professors, and Deborah Traynor Botjer, a tutor at the every respect an original person. Many in with incredible brashness and ingenuity the chances of life, separate them, but the Annapolis campus from 1964 to 1975, the college learned most unexpected worked his way through a Ph.D. in micrn friendship, with its shared commitments died October 15 after an extended illness things from her, often in matters of math in Prattsburg, NY. She was 58 years old. chemistry at the University of Cambridge, and understandings, persists. Jim spoke of ematics, logic and science. She was very For several years, Miss Traynor as England, supported his family in a scien his sadness on finishing that book, on hav thoughtful about the program and never tific equipment business there for nigh ing to put it down. He felt as if he had lost sisted the college in its public relations in depended on secondary sources." addition to her teaching duties. She had onto two decades, then returned to this friends; Stegner's people were his kind of Miss Traynor received a B.A. degree in· country as a scientist at the Rockefeller people, he said. They were indeed. They received tenure by the time she left St. 1956 from Mount Holyoke College and an Institute. When visiting the college a few cared about students; they cared about John's in 1975 to live infreland. She began M.S. from the University of Chicago in years ago to apply, unsuccessfully as it each other. In the weeks since Jim breathed by working as a maid in a Dublin Hotel but 1958. Before joining the St.John's faculty, turned out, for a tutorship, he made a spe his last, I have thought often about how later settled on the Island of Aran. In recent she worked with the Chicago Educational cial point of looking up the Tolberts. I am wonderful it was thathe was here, all these years, she lived in the Finger Lake district Television Association for five years. sure there are others here today to whom years, a true gentleman and friend. Would of upper New York state. She is survived by her husband Ed the friendship and hospitality of the to God, to use a Jim Tolbert phrase, he She had many good friends on the St. Botjer. Memorial contributions may be Tolberts have beckoned across the conti were still here, so that one could phone him John's faculty and was in touch with some sent to Southern Tier Hospice, 244 West nents and the years. up for a chat about books, and people, and of them for the rest of her life. According Water St., Elmira, NY 14901. the passing scene. to tutor Elliott Zuckerman, "She was in "A Lifetime of Imaging: 1921-1991 " Margaret Lefranc, Her first major piece, a charcoal drawing accepted paintings when there was no an interview done at the age of fourteen in Berlin, was money for rent. "The gallery was a success By MARY JO MOORE included in the show, as were a number of ful experience," she said. "I got to be quite large oils done at ages 16 and 17. In a recent expert at arranging shows, and was very A retrospective of sixty representative interview at her studio, Margaret pointed to much liked by the press. Ashille Gorky had oil paintings, etchings, monotypes and a large oil, "This is the last self- portrait I his first one-man show in New York, at my drawings by New Mexico artist M~_rgaret did of myself. I wanted to show what hap gallery. We sold one of his drawings to the Lefranc opened November 7 at the St. pens when you get old; and it's not exactly collector Kathryn S. Dreier. She was quite John's College Gallery. The show centered what you'd call pleasant. Ifs a document," a lady and she paid me $7 5 for that drawing around key periods of a 70-year career she said of her painting. of which I got $25 and Gorkey got $50." which has included exposure to German The particular flavor of her experience is "I closed the gallery down, and in 1939 Expressionism in Berlin, cubism, surreal evident in the following statement about I went to see the country of my birth. I got ism and abstractionism in Paris, and which her career. "I have lived a long time and in into a dilapidated old car and I traveled culminated in a return to the United States many places. Between the ages of barely throughout the whole of the United and a definition of her own style. 14 to almost 17, I resided in Berlin. There I States-going from New York down Born in New York, Margaret knew she saw the works of Marc, Kollwitz, South, down into the Keys, into Louisiana would be an artist at age 5. She attended the Lehmbruck, Heckel, the Bruecke, Klee, and Texas; and from Texas I went to New Art Student's League in New York at age Kandinsky to name a few. The great old Mexico. The scope of my reaction to the 12. In her adolescent years she lived in masters in museums I adored, but it was the enormously vibrant land commanded me to Berlin, and later in Paris with her family. modernists who stimulated me profoundly. use all of my know ledge at hand. I let She was offered a scholarship to Bryn "From 17 to 25 years of age, I lived in emotion flow through pen and brush with Mawr and had the choice of going there or Paris observing the growth of art away from out the sieve of intellectual analysis and to Europe with her parents. Since she naturalism and impressionism. Every con considered self-criticism. wanted to be an artist anyway, she decided ceivable experimentation in the creative "When I got to Santa Fe, I knew in to join her parents in Paris. arts was taking place, from cubism, expres stantly that I was going to live here. I knew sionism, surrealism to abstraction, and then it. I felt comfortable. I finally said to myself some. I studied with the brilliantly gifted that I would move here as soon as I had Russian refugees from Bolshevism, and, of $1000 dollars of my own money, and that's course, with the original yet supremely log precisely what I did," Margaret said. ical French, in particular, Andre L'Hote. Margaret moved to New Mexico in 1945 So much went on with studying, arguing, with a friend who got a Rockefeller grant to and drinking of cafe au lait in bistros! But I work in San Ildefonso Pueblo near Santa lived for the excitement of drawing and· Fe. That was the late author, Alice Marriott. painting, as all of us artists did. "Alice said to me, don't we team up "Then the ominous shadow of Nazism do the illustrations book?'" forced me to leave the successful oe;:~mrung l1r::iw11na.;: were featured in five books of my career as an artist in Paris. I returned ~·i~~AA~ .., two of which won the to the the country One Hundred Best On her return to the United States from Paris in 1924 she the Guild Art sold my sketches," she said. "I had three exhibitions at the Fine which whom she later became friends. which then had Mrs. Rockefeller owned the and an open door "I a lot." ' For centuries there have been artists p.m. in the Conversation Room. whose work has run contrary to the grain And on Tuesday, February 8, at 5:30 of popular thought and, in some cases, the p.m. in the Conversation Room, Jane content of their work has placed them at Haslem, owner and director of the Jane odds with the government, the church, or Haslem Gallery in Washington,D.C., will other segments of society. In response, the discuss the development of political car best of these socially conscious artists toons from Daumier to the present. have captured essential elements and In the span of four decades, Daumier emotions in their work, giving it timeless produced more than 4,000 prints of social appeal. Included among these is Honore and political satire that reached thousands Victorin Daumier (1808-1879), the of people, many illiterate, though the French painter, sculptor, and lithogra illustrated journals, La Caricature and Le pher, who raised the political and social Charivari, and several lithographic al awareness of the citizens of France in the bums produced for commercial sale. mid-nineteenth century, and whose work The range in the collection is signifi is exhibited in The Artist as Social Com cant. The 12 prints from 1849 to 1851 mentator: Prints by Honore Daumier, on were produced under the republic of Louis display at the Mitchell Gallery from Jan Napoleon during a period of relative free uary 4- February 27, 1994. dom of the press. Through them viewers The exhibition presents 46 lithographs, experience Daumier's direct commentary shown for the first time as a group, dating on French political figures and policies of from 1849-1860, the time of the Second the period The remaining 34 prints were Republic and the first half of the Second produced after the reimplementation of Empire. The exhibit is organized by The censorship laws; although many of them Art Gallery of the University of New deal with political events, they relate to Hampshire. France's foreign interests rather than An opening reception will be held Sun events at home. The majority of day, January 9, from 3:30- 5 p.m. at the Daumier's prints from the 1850s have not Gallery. been given much attention by scholars A lecture by David Ross Smith, profes and are seldom reproduced. The exhibit, sor of Art History at the University of therefore, provides the viewer an oppor New Hampshire and Samuel H. Kress, tunity to become familiar with a little senior fellow at the National Gallery, will kn own period within the artist's be held Wednesday, January 19, at 7:30 lithographic oeuvre. "Self-portrait, 1929," by Margaret Lefranc