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VOLUME 23, ISSUE 2 ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND e SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO WINTER 1997 ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY 11111111111111111~nm11imr11m1111111111111111 31696 01138 2197 St. John's College ANNAPOLIS EDITION the changes wrought by the eiecrr·orntc revolution impact funda­ way studen ts read, and discuss? Alumni and tutors examine the issue ................ 10 IN Graduates who enter medicine say their background in the classics has made them better doctors ............... 9 HOMECOMING NAPOLIS At a special 300th anniversary homecoming, ground was broken for the Barr-Buchanan Center and rain fell on afternoon picnics ................ 14 DEPARTMENTS Bell Towers: A new alumni director in Annapolis, the mystery of the missing Aphrodite, Santa Fe's Library & Fine Arts Guild, Annapolis stages a Lafayette Ball. ..... 2 ...,...,,, ....... A.a. ... .,,Jl ... Jlll-"· Tutor David Levine to lead conference, "Does the Past Have a , review of Scott Buchanan, A Centennial Appreciation .............. 8 UiS4JCtarnon: The Santa Fe h., ...... r,,.,... a new home for the Johnny ............................................ 16 Lee David Zlotoff on Mortimer on the combination of child and prison psychiatry...... 13, 24 Forget the Internet, e-mail, faxes, interadive computer software, television. At St. John's, students still learn the old-fashioned The Program: The St. john's Review way-by reading books. But will technology change the way they understand what they read? Alumni and faculty look at the -not a typical academic journal; question, beginning on page 10. The student here is Rebecca Christie, a freshman in Annapolis. For her work-study iob, she's the most popular senior essay topics .... 23 college webmaster. Photo by Michelle Baker, SF90. From the Bell Towers ... NEW ALUMNI DIRECTOR FORANNAPOLIS The definitive woman-about-campus, Roberta Rusch Gable, brings legendary wit to her new appointment. •••••••••••••••••••••••••• •••••••••••••• :uuica.v\.1H.'.). Temple Iglehart, Leo Pickens, the current college athletic Pinkney Hall, the Randall dining director, "Book Chat is one of the most room, Carroll Barrister House, the wonderful publications we've ever had bookstore. In Santa Fe: the Graduate here." Institute office. All these St. John's Now, upon finding out about places have the good fortune to have Gable's new responsibilities, tutors have been transformed in some way, for been heard to grumble that she can't be some brief time, by the presence of spared from the bookstore, where she is Roberta Rusch Gable, A78. Gable has the fount of all wisdom regarding been named the new director of alumni translations and editions of the great activities for the Annapolis campus, books. But the quintessential Johnny following the resignation of Betsy counters that she is looking forward to Blume, A76. Gable most recently served her new role in college life: "The as bookstore manager, but she's also left alumni office is more intrinsic to the Roberta Gable and Dennis Quinn, new denizens of the her mark on the college as a student existence of the institution because it desired a PhD," admits Gable. "I Alumni Office, get to know some of their constituents. (where she worked in the alumni office supports one of the most important concentrated in social psychology and Photo by Michelle Baker. with director Tom Parran, A42), an active relationships-people's lifetime group behavior. I felt that field was alumna, co-director of athletics (from relationship with their alma mater. For unaddressed by my background here, 1986 to 1987), and assistant to the a lot of alumni, St. John's is one of the and I wanted something worldly." Even manager. ''I'd like to write a column for registrar ofthe GI in Santa Fe (the summer defining experiences of our lives. I hope in grad school, Gable used her St. John's the Gadfly (the student newspaper) to between her junior and senior years). to be the link to the college for alumni." experience as background. One term increase student awareness and knowl­ Gable's wit and verve are legendary. The alumni office also serves the paper was a comparison of the Annapolis edge about alumni. I want to keep up Alumni and current students alike Alumni Association. It provides tech and Santa Fe campuses, a study of how my contact with the students. I don't remember her song parodies at collegia support for chapter activities, like lining physical structures affect social structures. want anyone to graduate from this and pranks-for example, the "Look for up tutors for chapter seminars, printing "It was purely a speculative paper," says school without my knowing who they the St. John's Label" parody of the "Look and mailing newsletters, and contribut­ Gable. "Even though the campuses are are," she says. That way, theywill feel for the Union Label" jingle during the ing ideas and contacts. "We'll be doing the same academically, they are quite right away that as alumni they belong to 1978 Senior Prank. Sometimes her fun is homecoming and other events through­ different socially. It's good and it's a larger group. In her goal of being the more extended, like the time shear­ out the year. There's a lot of work with healthy." great communicator, Gable plans to ranged a "New Jersey" dinner in Randall, the placement office in helping current Strengthening the relationship become an active e-mailer and letter inviting students and tutors from the students meet or talk with alumni who between the campuses and their alumni writer. She also hopes that visiting Garden State and giving out maps of the might be able to offer them some is one of Gable's goals as alumni director. alumni will stop by her office to chat New Jersey turnpike as party favors. In direction. And I'll be serving on the She's also got a number ofideas kicking when they are in town. the bookstore, Gable made the yearly sale board of advisors for The Reporter," says around in her mind for activities. For Changing relationships with the into a liberal arts shopping event, with Gable. Helping Gable in the alumni example, she'd like to invite former college is something Gable has experi­ blue light specials, homebaked cookies, office is Dennis Quinn, AGI96, who Febbies andJFs to the campus at the end enced herself, and she's seen it in some of and helium balloons. Rivaling the sales in took the assistant position formerly held of Febbie summer, so that this special her friends, as well. "Some alumni from the degree of anticipation it elicited on by Kim Kern, A89, when she moved to sub-group of the Johnny family can the 1960s and '70s left the college with campus was the monthly publication of Chicago. meet the newest crop. "They can pass a lot of anger. But I'd like to be a kind of "Book Chat," Gable's newsletter with Gable graduated in 1978. She along handshakes, secret decoder rings, liaison for them as well as for other info about new books, explanations of returned to work in the bookstore from whatever it is that Febbies do," she says. alumni who have good feelings for St. why books cost what they do, suggested 1984 to 1988, then went to the Uni­ Gable plans to work closely with John's. Your attitude and experience with summer reading for great-book-weary versity of Michigan to study communi­ current students, something she already the college can evolve over the years." e students, and contests. Says fellow '78er cations. "I was under the delusion that I has done a lot in her role as bookstore -by Barbara Goyette The Reporter {USPS 018-750} is published in Bradley Foundation, which also is a January and July by the Public Relations Office, AMEETING OF THE AGES generous supporter of the Graduate St. John's College, Annapolis, MD, and in April Institute and Eastern Classics programs. and October by the Alumni/Public Relations Learning for the future The keynote speaker will be David Office, St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM. from the lessons of the past Broder of the Washington Post. Known office of publication: Public Relations The conference will consider the title Office, St. John's College, Box 2800, Annapolis, question from four different perspec­ MD21404-2800 tives-education, politics, culture, and t. John's alumni and students know the question why we (especially as good Annapolis: Barbara Goyette, editori Sus3an science and technology. Among the Sthe value of the legacy left to us by Americans) value the traditional," Borden, writeri Roberta Gable, Eva Brann, John speakers will be Richard Bernstein, the past.Those not familiar with the St. Agresto says. "We mean to take this as Christensen, Pamela Kraus, Benjamin Milner, former education editor at the New York John's program, however, often ask a serious question because the deepest Brother Robert Smith, advisory board. whether and how the accomplishments criticism of traditional liberal education Times; Gary McDowell, director of the of the past are still relevant. is that it is really antiquarianism. Institute for United States Studies in Santa Fe: Elizabeth Skewes, editori John An idea for a conference on the Knowledge, we're told, doubles every London; Hugh Hewitt of the PBS series Schroeder, assistant editori Lisa Donenfeld, art Santa Fe campus, as part of the 300th five or seven years. Why, then, spend "Finding God in America''; and Ellen director. anniversary, arose out of a conversation time with what has been superseded?" Goldberg, president of the Santa Fe Second class postage paid at Annapolis, MD, and between President John Agresto and a On April 4 and 5,_ noted scholars, Institute. at additional mailing offices. board member who wondered why journalists, and public figures will "This is a question that touches all anyone should care that St.

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