THE COLLEGE St. John's College Annapolis, Maryland Santa Fe, New Mexico

October 1973 THE COLLEGE

Vol. XXV October, 1973 No.3

IN THE OCTOBER ISSUE:

The Liberal Arts Movement: From

Ideas to Practice, by Amy Apfel Kass

Report of the President, 1972-73 ...... 9

News on the Campuses ...... 27

Alumni Activities ...... 3 0

Editor: Beate Ruhm von Oppen Managing Editor: Thomas Parran, Jr. Editorial Advisory Board: William B. Dunham, Michael W. Ham, Paul D. Newland, Barbara Brunner Oosterhout '55, E. Malcolm Wyatt, Robert S. Zelenka.

THE COLLEGE is published by the Development Office of St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. Richard D. Weigle, President, Paul D. Newland, Provost.

Published four times a year, in January, April, July and October. Second class postage paid at Annapolis, Maryland, and at other mailing places. THE LIBERAL ARTS MOVEMENT: FROM IDEAS TO PRACTICE

by Amy Apfel Kass

On the morning of November 19, 1929, the number of new buildings. We urge that the following editorial appeared in The Daily Maroon, the new administration take heed of its primary student newspaper of the University of : responsibility and its greatest opportunity­ Today amid scenes of academic grandeur, the progressive guidance of educational will be inaugu­ policies. ratedas the fifth president of the University The students got their wish, with interest. of Chicago. It is an occasion of vast moment Hutchins' ideas rapidly became common knowledge in the history of the University and we as and the entire campus became a place of debate and undergraduates are inspired with its signifi­ conflict, sometimes verging on open· warfare. cance. We are confident of the progressive Mortimer Adler's cryptic note to Hutchins on the eve ~pirit and the sympathetic understanding of of his inauguration had been more knowingly the new administration. We are further prophetic: "I trust that the University's funds are convinced that the program of educational securely invested. Otherwise they may have to pawn emancipation which has distinguished the the crown jewels before your inauguration. But you University in American college circles will will probably wear the crown lightly in either not be neglected. ·circumstance.. '' In a consideration of the occasion's whole significance one aspect appears to us most The Department of Philosophical StudieS distasteful. The functions and duties of a college administrator have changed radically As soon as Hutchins was appointed President of in the course of recent years. He is no longer the , he invited Mortimer Adler an educator, but a salesman and extortioner to join him as his philosophical guide. Although Adler ne plus ultra. The planning and execution of did not move to Chicago until the Fall of 1930, by the Spring of 1930,;the end of Hutchins' first year at educational policies is no longer his prime consideration. He must secure donations and the University, a scheme had been hatched by Adler endowments; he must acquire funds for the to institutionalize work he had begun at the People's University's physical expansion. The Institute in New York with and importance of this mercenary and unsavory Richard McKeon. function of the administrator is particularly Adler proposed that Hutchins create a new depart­ evident here where the grey towers continue ment in the University, a Department of Philosoph­ to rise on a Gargantuan scale. ical Studies. Adler thought that such a department would provide by example a way to integrate learning It is to be hoped that the pressure of this within the University. The proposed Department of work will not require the whole devotion of PhilosophiCal Studies would be independent of but President Hutchins. We feel that he, like related· to all existing departments in the University. former President , possesses "It would have no more or less to do with the regular educational ideals which if given Department of Philosophy," Adler said, "than it opportunity for development, will place the would have to do with the Law School, Medical University of Chicago in far greater School, or the Departments of or Fine Arts." prominence than the addition of any The members of the Department would be "student-

1 The College professors," "a third class of professors along side of McKeon. the already recognized classes of teaching-professors Though the "student-professors" were to be and research-professors." Their work would be to vagabonds within the University, they were to be analyze and evaluate the principles and methods of appointed to a separate official department in order the various subject matters and to relate these to each to· make it possible to get an endowment and thus other. insure their financial independence from other "First of all," Adler suggested, the student­ departments. Adler innocently thought that if his professors department had its own budget it would require minimal co-operation from other departments, and would study a subject-matter maturely therefore, that his plan would not be viewed as a and critically. Secondly, they would threat or a challenge. actively participate in the work of the department, in class and out. And lastly, The "Chicago Fight" and Its Consequences after they had trained themselves and educated themselves sufficiently, and if Many faculty members were, however, they had achieved a critical re-organiza­ immediately wary of the plan and became increas­ tion or approach to the subject matter, ingly suspicious of its proponents. Members of the they might give others the benefits of this Philosophy Department were especially alarmed, insight by giving a course which might be seeing in the plan the seeds of a revolution against equally profitable to undergraduates, their kind of philosophizing. Others saw the plan as a graduate students, and professors of the "power conspiracy on the part of the administration, other two varieties. which was pictured as a 'baby president,' aided by Savonarola and Richelieu" (Buchanan, Poetry and In practice, the student-professors would go from Mathematics, page 23). They regarded Hutchins as a one department of the University to another, staying radical upstart against the revered "Chicago School,'' in one place only as long as they_ found it useful to as a man in search of a new religion. Still others saw themselves. (Adler assumed that when they ceased to Hutchins as dangerously conservative, as a man learn from a given department, they would no longer seeking to resurrect beliefs and practices of less be useful to that department.) As the student­ enlightened ages. professors passed from one department to another, United by a common enemy, these various groups they would create "new lines of inquiry into border­ joined forces and prepared themselves for a long and line areas and promote integration by offering inter­ bitter crusade. Their battle cries became "Facts vs. disciplinary courses. For example, as students of Ideas," " vs. Speculation," "Science vs. philosophy they could bring philosophy to the Law Dogma." The "Chicago Fight" was quickly over­ School; after immersing themselves in the study of shadowing the "Chicago School." One can better law they would offer a course in the philosophical understand the severity of the faculty reaction if one foundations of law. They ·could then bring appreciates the long-standing and pervasive influence philosophy and law to the next department in which of the "Chicago School." they decided to study, and so on. In addition, The "Chicago School" was originally identified because they were continuing their own education in with the names of , George Herbert different fields, these student-professors would be Mead, James R. Angell, and James H. Tufts. In a unusually well-suited to offer courses in the great review of some of the early philosophical papers by books, an additional means of promoting the "integra­ these men, William James wrote, shortly after 1900: tion of learning. Moreover, Adler thought that these courses would educate good undergraduates "in such The rest of the world has made merry a way that they might be recruited for the work of over the Chicago man's legendary saying the Department of Philosophical Studies." Thus, that 'Chicago hasn't had time to get round Adler's scheme provided for its own perpetuation as to culture yet, but when she does strike well as a congenial home for himself and his fellow her, she'll make her hum!' Already the "liberal artists," Buchanan and McKeon. For Adler prophecy is fulfilling itself in a dazzling insisted to Hutchins that the success of his and manner. Chicago has a School of Hutchins' plans for the University required the Thought!-a school of thought which, it is reunion of the "triune," Adler, Buchanan, and safe to predict, will figure in literature as

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the School of Chicago for twenty-five 1904. Dedicated to their separate disciplines, the · years to come. faculty correctly perceived Hutchins' animus against specialization, They made it impossible for Hutchins . to create the Department of Philosophical Studies by He concluded with the comment that the work of going through the normal academic channels. Also, it Dewey and his colleagues and disciples presented "a became exceedingly difficult for him to find a home view of the world, both theoretical and practical, for Mortimer Adler anywhere at the University which is so simple, massive, and positive that, in spite outside of the President's office. of the fact that many parts of it yet need to be Hutchins' negotiations with the Philosophy Depart­ worked out, it deserves the title of a new system of ment on Adler's behalf were doomed from the philosophy." beginning. Prior to coming to Chicago, Adler sub­ John ·Dewey had come to the University of mitted a list of the courses that he was interested in Chicago in 1894 as Professor of Philosophy. James ·offering, a list which included such diverse topics as Angell was appointed the same year as Assistant the logic of science, the logic of' induction, the Professor of Psychology and Director of the Psycho­ philosophy of law, and the history and analysis of logical Laboratory that had been started the previous psychological theory. His proposal was summarily year. Tufts and Mead had been at Chicago from its rejected. Writing on behalf of the Department of beginning in 1892. In 1894, Dewey, the oldest of the P\J.ilosophy, James H. Tufts stated their position as group, was thirty-five, Angell, the youngest, was follows: "It so happens that these identical courses twenty-five. They were all interested in psychology. have already been announced to be given in the They all collaborated in their early publications. Department for the next year (at least the copy has When Dewey left the University of Chicago in gone to the printer)." No attempt was made to 1904, the spirit that had come to characterize the ascertain whether the coincidence of titles also meant Philosophy Department lingered. In the meantime, it a coincidence of subject matter. Furthermore, a had spread to other parts of the University as well. perusal of the published announcement for that year The "Chicago School" came to be identified with a indicates overlap · on only two topics, the logic of certain attitude toward knowledge and the nature of science and the logic of induction. In their later the knowable and, hence, with a certain view of negotiations, Adler suggested changing the titles of education and the role of a university. The assump­ the courses he proposed to "Apologetics of Natural tions underlying this view could be found in the new Science" and "Theory of Probability." But the mechanistic biology, in behaviorism, in the new Department of Philosophy held to its original posi­ scientific sociology, as well as in writings and ven lures tion. By rejecting Adler's suggestions for possible in progressive education. The ideas of the Chicago courses, they made it quite clear that they were not School were related to a more general American interested in Adler and that they did not share the cultural revolt that began at the end of the nineteenth interdepartmental frame of mind that was so crucial century; Morton White has called it the revolt against to Hutchins' and Adler's plans for the University. In formalism. It was characterized by the conviction the years that followed, Adler's ever-precarious that traditional learning was inadequate to a proper faculty status at the University became the symptom understanding of society and incapable of assimilating if not the chief sign of Hutchins' own failure to effect and promoting social and cultural progress. Time­ fundamental change. honored theories were eagerly attacked. Beliefs in the Hutchins was forced to cancel the provisional existence of immutable truths were ridiculed. appointments he had offered to Scott Buchanan and Philosophers, physicists, chemists, and mathema­ Richard McKeon and to sh~lve the plan for a ticians, as well as social scientists and even humanists, Department of Philosophical Studies. In its place one vied with one another to break through barriers, to seminar in the reading and discussion of the great efface outlines, and to supersede current concepts. books was offered to undergraduates at the Undergraduate education became pre-professional University. This seminar was Adler's major teaching training. The devotion to "progress", scientific and assignment during his first year at Chicago. His social, required special training in facts, methods, and co-leader in the seminar was Hutchins. It was the first techniques. of several similar seminars that Hutchins and Adler Adler and Hutchins found this spirit as prevalent in taught during the next several years in various parts the Chicago of 1930 as it had been in the Chicago of of the University, in the College, at the High School

3 The College of the University, and in the Department of Educa­ thought, and that its own full develop­ tion. A more elaborate seminar was designed for the ment required many varied fields of appli­ Law SchooL Despite these signs of retreat, the fires cation. Modem science is an example of that had been kindled by the Adler-Hutchins proposal what happens when mathematical could not be extinguished. The old guard in the methods spread to other subject-matters, Department of Philosophy, the venerable George H. and mathematics itself gained much from Mead and two of his younger colleagues, resigned, as even this restricted application. But it was did other members of the faculty, .and many more still cramped by a rather arbitrary re­ remained but fumed. striction to numbers, quantities, etc. The Discouraged but not defeated, Hutchins and Adler special way he chose to exhibit the greater persisted in their efforts to bring the liberal arts to possible extent of its domain was the use Chicago. In 1934, McKeon, who had remained in of algebraic symbols to express non­ New York (teaching. at Columbia and at the quantitative terms. The method was not Muhlenberg Branch of the New York Public Library), understood in its original form. Mathe­ was once again invited to the University, this time as matical logicians founded their science as a Visiting Professor in the Department of History. By a kind of calculating machine and then first bringing McKeon to the University under the became so fascinated with the machinery auspices of a department other than the Philosophy that they forgot its original function and Department, Hutchins was eventually able to secure a misused its results. It is now difficult to permanent position for him. In 1935, McKeon was persuade any scientist that symbolic logic made Dean of the Division of the Humanities and has any relevance to their work, although Professor of Greek, and later, also Professor of it was for this that Boole did his work. Philosophy. McKeon continued as Dean for the next Mary Boole saw what was happening twelve years and in that capacity played a major role and came in to correct the mistake. She in restructuring general education in the College and had the insight, but fell for the tempta­ the graduate programs in the Humanities. tion to make immediate applications Unable to secure a position for Buchanan at before she had developed the skill and the Chicago, Hutchins arranged for Buchanan to meet improved machinery that was of course Mrs. Ethel S. Dummer, a social activist and philan­ necessary for success. This is the failure thropist whom he had met in connection with his that Mrs. Dummer mourns, and wants me fund-raising activities. Mrs. Dummer had read to recover. Buchanan's book, Poetry and Mathematics, and had concluded that Scott Buchanan could be of some assistance to her in her study of the writings of Buchanan was to go to England to look into the George Boole, the English logician and mathema­ work of the Booles and to try to reconstruct the tician, and his wife, Mary Boole. Buchanan was method that they had developed. This fitted in well attracted by the study because of its relation to his with a project he had started in New York (with own intellectual interests. George Boole, he explained Adler and McKcon)--an investigation of the relation in a memorandum to Hutchins, was between poetry and mathematics, between mathe­ matical and non-mathematical subject matters, that really a very interesting and important is, a study of the liberal arts. To Hutchins, Mrs. figure in modem logic and mathematics, Dummer's plan represented a way of keeping alive the and his importance extends far beyond idea for a Department of Philosophical Studies the somewhat restricted developments without further incurring the wrath of his faculty. He that chance and professional techniques therefore encouraged Buchanan to begin the project. have given his work. He was a real At the end of his year in England, Buchanan wrote mathematician and a real logician who a small book entitled Symbolic Distance, in which he realised what tremendous things could be developed the themes from his previous book Poetry accomplished if his methods were applied and Mathematics: " ...The bridge between the poetry to all sorts of subject-matters. He realised, of the trivium and the mathematics of the quadrivium for instance, that mathematics itself had was presented as a theory of measurement and suffered a serious degradation on account fiction." Reflecting on this later, he commented, "It of its isolation from other fields of seemed to me that it would be through some such

4 October 1973 understanding that the modern liberal arts and Doren, Scott Buchanan, and Stringfellow Barr. sciences could bring the modern literatures and Before too long, these afternoon sessions garnered sciences into intelligible and teaching order." some fame. People from all parts of the University Since Hutchins was still unable to convince the came in droves to observe classes. Famous visitors remaining members of the Philosophy Department to included Katherine Cornell, Orson Wells, Westbrook hire Buchanan, Buchanan returned to the University Pegler, Lillian Gish, and Gertrude Stein. According to of Virginia after his year in England. Shortly there­ numerous reports, the class always provided "a good after, he was invited to join a committee at the show." whose assignment was to find The Seminar generated more than "better subject matter and discipline" for Honors entertainment. The enthusiasm of its students spread Students. Stringfellow Barr, Buchanan's friend and like a contagion throughout the University. They former colleague at Oxford University, was then brought an eagerness for learning, for exchanging teaching history at the University of Virginia and ideas, and for discussing philosophical matters to the editing the Virginia Quarterly Review; he too was whole campus. One observer remarked that the asked to join the committee. The group sat regularly pursuit of knowledge had become the major extracur­ from September, 1934, until March, 1935. They ricular activity. John P. Barden, a student in the reported their findings in what came to be known as original Great Books class, became editor of the the "Virginia Plan," the background and contents of student newspaper, The Maroon (1933-34). Under his which shall be discussed in more detail below. editorship, The Maroon became a forum for spirited discussions of the purposes and means of education, Early Great Books Courses and in its pages students and faculty engaged with at the University of Chicago each other in a variety of alliances and oppositions. Despite its apparent success with the students, The first great books* course to be offered at the most of the faculty remained hostile to the great University of Chicago was unceremoniously books course and to the idea behind it. Mortimer announced in the 1930 Autumn Quarter Time Adler remained persona non grata. In another effort Schedule. The course was called General Honors II 0 to make Adler acceptable and to institute some of and described as follows: "By invitation and limited their ideas, Hutchins organized an honors course in to twenty students ... the one two-hour class session the Law School for 1933-34. Adler was put in charge a week, of a two year course, will be taught by Adler, of the course and given a temporary appoin !men t as Hutchins." Associate Professor of Philosophy of Law in the Law Twenty students, chosen randomly by the Dean of School. The course followed the same format that the College from among the top entering freshmen, Hu !chins and Adler had used in their original course were enrolled in the course. The course and its in the College: lectures on and reading of the great reading list were modeled on 's General books, combined with a discussion seminar that met Honours course, begun at Columbia ten years earlier once a week. (a course which Adler had taken as an undergraduate, The following year (1934-35) a much enlarged and in which he, McKeon, and Mark Van Doren had version of the course was offered and an enlarged taught in the middle 1920's). Students were staff was gathered to teach it. Malcolm Sharp, then a examined orally at the end of each year by a group of Visiting Professor at the Law School, agreed to be outside examiners: Richard McKeon, Mark Van Adler's co-leader. Sharp had been an enthusiastic

*The origin of the phrase "the great books" is obscure. Adler he called the "one hundred best books" in a pamphlet One and Buchanan consistently used1 it. John Erskine, Adler's Hundred Books.{The number one hundred was used to convey teacher in the General Honours Course, referred to the books the fact that there were very few best books, not that there as the "classics" or "masterpieces." It seems likely that the were only one hundred.) In 1902, the Grolier Club of the City phrase was coined by Adler or Buchanan. More is known of New York republished Lubbock's list and asked George about the origin of the list of books signified by this phrase Woodberry to write an introduction to it. At this time John and by such phrases as "the masterpieces," "the best books," Erskine was a graduate student at Columbia University "very important books," or "the classics." According to studying with Woodberry. Shortly after World War I, John Buchanan, Sir John Lubbock (an English writer and banker Erskine introduced the General Honours Course at Columbia interested in the education of working men) was the originator University, an undergraduate course in which "masterpieces of of the modern list. In 1895, Lubbock published a list of what the Western world" were read.

5 The College teacher in 's Experimental was never implemented. College at the University of Wisconsin, one of the Seminar readings were chosen largely from social first programs to emphasize the study of the great studies, because the course was designed for pre-law books. Hutchins was delighted to leam of Sharp's students. The reading and discussion of these works interest in the course and of the Law School's was supplemented with presentations of factual independent interest in luring Sharp onto its faculty. material useful for understanding important social Both the course and Adler, Hutchins hoped, would problems. Efforts were made to show the relevance of profit from Sharp's participation. the liberal arts and the scientific method for under­ William Gorman was brought to the University by standing and "solving" social problems. special invitation from Hutchins and was made an The methods of instruction varied for different assistant in the course. After receiving his bachelor's parts of the curriculum. The first part of the course degree at the University of Michigan, Gorman had was taught by means of one or two lectures a week become the editor of Hound and Horn, a journal of and tutorials devoted to exercises, analyses of texts, literary criticism. He had lived in New York City and other forms of wlitten and oral work. In the where he continued to associate with his Michigan second part, the classics were discussed in infonnal friends, many of whom were then studying with seminars which met once a week; further supplemen­ Richard McKeon at Columbia. Discussions with these tary discussions were often carried over to the friends had led him to write an article on the new tutorial sessions. Discussion of basic social problems mode of literary criticism expounded by I.A. was carried on in special seminars called for that Richards and C.K. Ogden. The article, entitled purpose. In addition, students were urged to attend "Nostalgia for the Trivium," censured the so-called those lectures given elsewhere in the University that new criticism for its claim of novelty and for its were considered relevant to the work being done in ignorance of the tradition of grammar, rhetoric, and the course. Students and faculty together determined logic, and it praised instead the efforts of people like what was relevant. Scott Buchanan and Richard McKeon to restore the Law 201 was the first institutionalized attempt to Trivium. Hutchins read the article and, though balance literary and scientific concems and to apply knowing nothing else about him, sent Gorman the the themes and disciplines of the liberal arts to the following letter: "I read your piece on 'Nostalgia for great books. Like its predecessor, the Adler-Hutchins the Trivium.' Come to the University of Chicago." Great Books Seminar, Law 20 I was extremely popular with the students and extremely unpopular The other course assistants were Arthur Rubin, a with the faculty. Faculty criticism continued to close friend and associate of Hutchins and Adler, and mount; both Hutchins' mode of appointing tutors James S. Martin, who had been a student in the and the character of the curriculum were under Adler-Hutchins Great Books Seminar. (Gorman and constant attack. In the end, the course did not Martin were later to join Barr and Buchanan in their accomplish either of its political goals: it did not gain first years at St. John's). any further faculty respect for Adler nor any more The enlarged course was considered equivalent to faculty support for Hutchins' ideas about education. eight regular courses. It was offered to twenty college The course was repeated in an attenuated form-all seniors headed for the Law School and constituted the scientific work, including the mathematics and their total curriculum. (The current President of the the reading of the scientific classics, was abandoned­ University of Chicago, Edward H. Levi, was one of for three more years before it was permanently the twenty.) discontinued. The course, entitled "Law 201," was organized Scott Buchanan, in the meantime, had been into two major parts which were integrally related. working out a similar course of study at the One part consisted of lectures and tutorials in University of Virginia as a member of the Virginia grammar, logic, and rhetoric, and mathematics. The Committee on Honors. The "liberal artists" at the second part consisted of reading and seminar dis­ two universities kept in close communication through cussion of a small number of great works of history, correspondence and frequent visits to give lectures. science, philosophy, and belles lettres. In connection Although the objectives of the respective plans were with the reading of scientific classics, students were the same at both universities, the Virginia Plan, as the supposed to participate in laboratory research in Report of the Virginia Committee on Honors came to order better to appreciate the methods and tech­ be called, was more rigorous and comprehensive, niques of science. However, this third aspect of the especially in its scientific aspects, than Law 20 I.

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Plutarch instead of something somebody had written about ancient Greece," BaiT later recalled, "and I The Virginia Plan noticed that Scott was right-that if you had discus­ sions on the basis of Plutarch or Herodotus or In September, 1934, the President of the Thucydides, something happened to the discussion University of Virginia, Edwin A. Alderman, that I had never seen happen before. These authors appointed a committee consisting of six faculty got under their hides." As a result of this expetience, members and the Dean of the College to consider the BaiT supported Buchanan's proposal. subject of Honors Courses in the University. The Rather than propose specific changes in the already President thought that the University ought to do existing cuiTiculum, the report recommended that the more than it was doing for its better college students. University found a small college within the college The committee members agreed at the outset to that would be devoted to . Two make a broad interpretation of their assignment. The years of required common study would be followed problem of Honors Students and Honors Courses at the University. they thought, could not be separated by two years of special honors work. The two from the problem of students and courses in general. two-year sequences were designed as an integral Faculty members devoted most of their energies to whole, calculated, as the committee reported, "on the research, indulging their special interests which were one hand to lay sound foundations for a developed often far removed from the interests and under­ understanding of our intellectual traditions, and on standing of their undergraduate students. As on the other to permit the student to follow in his nearly all other campuses, the cuiTiculum was entirely maturer years his special bent." elective and specialized, all efforts having been During the last two years students were to be freed abandoned to design coherent programs for under­ from routine courses, quizzes, and term graduates. Many students turned to the University's examinations, and allowed to master a subject under sideshows, athletics and other activities, partly out of the general supervision of a tutor. The report boredom, partly to secure the discipline which they emphasized, however, that the work done during found lacking in the classroom. Some students these years was not to be regarded as a "species of undertook serious reading, sometimes with a group of premature graduate work." Tutors were to bear in their fellow students, sometimes under the guidance mind the objective in view, namely, liberal education. of a professor. Nearly all looked on the strictly These provisions for the second two years were not curricular exercises of the University as inteiTuptions very unusual. Several colleges, for example that must be borne patiently. For these reasons, the Swarthmore, were already requiring concentration on committee decided to address itself to the question of particular subjcts or problems during the junior and what an undergraduate college as a whole should be senior years in order to make undergraduate educa­ teaching and learning. l t proceeded on the assump­ tion more coherent. The provisions for the first two tion that all students were capable of and DLrght to years were far more radical and comprised the main receive a liberal education. The committee members body of the report. hoped that the recommendations they would make As in Law 201, the first two years of common for Honors Students would eventually be considered study were to be devoted to the study of the liberal for the whole college. arts and to the application of these arts to the reading The committee met weekly for six months and of the great books. The reading list of the Virginia then issued its report, drafted by Scott Buchanan, Plan, however, was much longer-many more Stringfellow BaiT, and R. K. Gooch. Although several mathematical and scientific classics were added-and alternate proposals had been considered at the the requirements were much more stringent. Students committee meetings, the plan finally adopted and were expected to demonstrate a reading knowledge presented in the report was the one suggested by and competence in the grammar of two languages, Buchanan. In the early discussions, BaiT had been a one ancient and one modern, at the end of the first severe critic of Buchanan's proposal. BaiT viewed his year. In addition, they were required to become emphasis on great books as a kind of patent medicine. proficient in mathematics, through calculus, by the However, after a great deal of teasing from Buchanan, end of their second year. he began using some of the classics in his history Instruction was to include seminars (modeled after courses. "For instance, if they were doing under­ the Columbia Honours Course), formal lectures, graduate ancient history, I would let them read tutorials, and laboratories. The lectJJres, to be given at

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tutorials, and laboratories. The lectures, to be given at Storrs lectures at Y aJe which were published as a least once a week, were to be expositions of the book entil:lccl The lligher Learning in America. 'fhe nature and history of the several liberal arts, with book attracted several wealthy admirers sympat!1etic special attention to the ways in which these arts were to his ideas about education. With funds donated by practiced by the authors of the great books. Tutorials some of these people, Hutchins set up a committee were intended to serve for formal drill and supervised called the Committee on the Liberal Arts to reco'1- practice during the difficult stages of the learning of sidcr the cmTicula of the College and tile Division 0f languages and mathematics, for detailed criticism and the H11manities. He made the Committee directly discussion of student papers, and for more extensive responsible to che Dean of the Humanities, then discussion of the r..eminar rcr.\d.ings. The laboratory Richard McKeon. The Dean, in turn, was to be the would enable the students to perfonn the "crucial Committee's spokesman to the Unive;-sity faculty. experiments" in the history of science. Hutchins assumed that the financial independence of There was to be a full time staff of instruction, the Committee (it was to receive an annual allotment distributed in their training and major interests to of $22,000) would insure its independence of the cover cJl the subject matters in the course of study. various dep,rrtments and divisions in the University. Students were to be selected by the instructors in the Scott Buchanan was invited to join the Committee, program from those applying to the larger college. and on Buchanan's suggestion invitations were also "General intelligence," "'ability as shown by previous issued to Stringfellow Barr and to two of Buchanan's records" in secondary schools, and the instructors' graduate students, Catesby Taliaferro and Charles judgment regarding the variety of complementary Wallis. In addition to the Virginia contingent (as they abilities and interests needed to make an efficient called themselves), Hutchins invited McKeon, Adler, working group were the main critelia mentioned for Arthur Rubin, R.S. Crane, Norman Maclean, Clarence selection. The students in the pmljram would be Faust and Prescott from the University of Chicago housed together and would dine together, and they and three of McKeon's graduate students !rom were to be given special rooms for their studies and Columbia Univero;ity, Paul Goodman, Plochman, and laboratory work. Barrett, to join the Committee. William Gorman and When the report was submitted, it received a rather James Martin were invited to attend Committee unenthusiastic reception. President Aldennan who meetings though they were not made members. originally appointed the committee had died and the The announcement ot the plan lor thrs Committee acting President, John L. Newcomb, was unwilling to reactivated the "Chicago Fight". The fact that several undertake such a radical departure from the elective of the proposed members of the Committee had system. Other administrators were also hesitant. They faculty appointments at the University made it foresaw difficulties in raising extra money for a new difficult to shelter the Committee as an independent college within the old and anticipated much trouble body. Its financial independence made little differ­ persuading the various departments to compromise ence. The faculty resented what they regarded as their interests in students or in subject matter. nepotism in the choice of members. There were Finally, they agreed to accept the last two years of independent insunections in the Humanities Division the plan-providing tutodal work for the better and in the College. McKeon was defeated in a students-and to shelve the general education plan for Humanities Division meeting in which a motion was the first two years. passed to ask the University Senate to instruct the The plan for the first two years nevertheless President that henceforth he would have to consul.! survived, though it was ignored at Virginia. In a more with a whole division, not only a department or a fully worked out fonn, it eventually became the core department chairman, if he wanted to appoint of the "New Program" at St. John's College. The plan anybody in that division. The College faculty passed a migrated to Annapolis along with Scott Buchanan similar resolution. Adler wrote to Buchanan, "They and Stlingfellow Barr by way of the University of see that what Bob is up to is a trick of getting men he Chicago's Committee on the Liberal Arts. wants appointed by hook or crook, and so by hook or crook they are going to stop him." Nevertheless, encouraged by Hutchins to believe The Committee on the Liberal Arts that the Committee would be organized regardless of the opposition, the Virginia contmgent came to Chicago in the Fall of 1936. Scott Buchanan resigned In the Spring of 1936, Hutchins delivered the from the University of Virginia; Stringfellow Barr, a

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9 REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT

TO THE BOARD OF VISITORS AND GOVERNORS

The close of the academic year 1972-1973 Diego for personal reasons. Mr. Wilson's return to the brought a change of instructional leadership on both College is enthusiastically welcomed by all. It assures thf campuses of St. John's College. William A. wise and firm academic leadership for the years Darkey completed his term of five years as Dean at ahead. Santa Fe and now embarks upon a well deserved At Santa Fe, Robert A. Neidorf succeeded Mr. sabbatical leave. Robert A. Goldwin resigned the Darkey in the Dean's office on August l, 1973. He deanship in Annapolis as of March 31st to accept a relinquished the directorship of the Graduate post as Special Advisor to the Institute in Liberal Education in order to do so. Mr. Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Neidorf's graduate work was in Philosophy at the Organization in Brussels. Each Dean contributed University of Chicago and at . He significantly in his own way to the ongoing holds a Master's degree from the former and a intellectual life of the College, and I should like to doctorate from the latter. Mr. Neidorf taught for two record my deep gratitude to both for their periods of years on the Annapolis campus, then left in 1964 for tireless, thoughtful, and imaginative service. a professorship at the State University of New York Two ·Tutors filled the interregnum of three in Binghamton. After three years, he returned to St. months on the Annapolis campus. Elliott Zuckerman John's and has been teaching at Santa Fe since 1967. became Acting Dean on April 1st but suffered a Both Tutors and students share my confidence in his severe illness in May. At this time, J. Winfree Smith ability to discharge his new responsibilities with assumed the position until the end of June. Paul distinction. It is clear that both campuses will be in Newland, the Provost at Annapolis, commended both good hands as the new academic year begins this fall. men for their performance, which he characterized as "far above and beyond the call of duty." The Provost Instruction also expressed gratification at the willingness of Mr. Smith, Acting Dean, reports several members of the Instruction Committee to take on interesting dev~lopments at Annapolis. Two Tutors, additional responsibilities during this interim Alfred Mollin and Robert Williamson, .iwere three-month period. The President also records authorized to prepare a. new text of Greek grammar thanks to Mr. Darkey for continuing as Acting Dean to supplant the present text. The intent is to discover through the month of July so that the new Dean in a better way to learn the Greek language than Santa Fe might have a brief period of respite before through the memorizing and brute rehearsing of undertaking the responsibilities and duties of his paradigms. From a knowledge of personal endings office. and of the rules of euphony, the students will be Curtis A. Wilson became Dean of St. John's enabled to construct for themselves most verb forms. College in Annapolis on July l, 1973, the first choice Parts of the new text have already been put into use of the selection committee of Tutors. Mr. Wilson with marked success. A new anthology of readings is holds the Master's and Doctor's degrees from being prepared to accompany the grammar text and Columbia University in the History of Science. He to provide a vocabulary for the reading of Plato's joined the St. John's Faculty in 1948 and held the Me no. deanship from 1958 to 1962. In 1964 he was part of A new manual for the biology laboratory was the initial cadre of Tutors who staffed the new Santa prepared during the year by Nicholas Maistrellis and Fe campus. After two years, he accepted a was subsequently approved by the Instruction professorship at the University of in San Committee for me this coming year. A general review

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and rethinking of the principles governing the concepts emerging from these analyses of laboratory program seems called for, so Howard data from the numerous disciplines, and Fisher will be relieved of part of his teaching which will develop a pattern for use by assignment to devote time to this reexamination. others desirous of forming such a Fin ally, the Instruction Committee recognized synthesizing program. problems in the junior mathematics tutorial arising out of the fact that some students had already When the full report on the preceptorial is completed, studied the calculus. Samuel Kutler was asked to it will be. reviewed by the Instruction Committee to undertake the writing of a calculus text which would determine whether the program should be continued seek to resolve this problem. in 1974. ·

Graduate Preceptorial Liberal Arts Task Force On the Santa Fe campus, an innovation in Funding has been made available by the instruction was the· trial graduate preceptorial National Endowment for the Humanities for a conducted by Charles Bell. Three other Tutors were promising new instructional venture on the Santa Fe granted· released time each semester to join a small campus. A task force in the liberal arts will be group of graduate students in the intensive work of established during the coming year similar lO that at the preceptolial. Study focused on two periods of the University of Chicago in 1936-3·7. The overall historical transformation: 'hat of the late Medieval purpose will be to examine intensively, but without into the Renaissance, and that· which generated the immediate practical pressure. the role and nature of revolutionary and romantic ferment around 1800. liberal education, from the perspective of 35 years. The preceptorial replaced specialized research with Not a "self-study" in the ordinary sense of the · broadly based reading of original lexts, coupled with word, the project will aim at the intellectual an effort to synthesize them both philosophically and improvement of the College. The re-examination will historically. be a systematic free speculation about premises, The Director reports that an adequate room was methods, and materials. Emphasis will be on the "liberated" in Evans Science Laboratory and unity of liberal .studies. Present investigative trends promptly dubbed "The Culture Lab;" Here, a general within the Faculty suggest that the focus might be on humanities reading room was created by drawing on the relation of poetry and the language arts to those the College Library and the personal libraries of the of the laboratory and mathematics. It seems that the Director and other Tutors. There were available over College has been more successful in assimilating to 5,000 color slides, all recorded music from the one another philosophy, mathematics, and natural pre-Bach period, texts in the original languages, and science than at including works of the poetic translations of both primary and secondary works imagination in the unity. essential to the study of Western thought and the William Darkey has happily agreed to direct the arts. task force. He will devote two months to travel and Participants found the J'receptorial both exciting planning during his sabbatical year so that the and fruitful. In a special report, four graduate principal work of the study can be undertaken during students urged that the initial experimental year be the academic year 1974-75. Working with Mr. Darkey .expanded into a full-fledged graduate program. They will be Tutors from both campuses who have wrote: professional competence in at least one discipline and who have experienced, at St. John's teaching in As we participating graduate students know several of them. Visiting scholars will be included in from experience, there will long remain the endeavor. They will be. chosen for their general available a sufficient number of graduate awareness of the essential undertaking and their institutes dedicated to the training of ability to contribute some specialized knowledge. specialists within the various Each will be able to articulate the eleme·nts of his disciplines-specialists devoted to the own discipline and to relate it to a unified study of analysis of the increasing data within those the liberal arts. The College has high hopes for the disciplines. What is absent at a time when it success of this venture. For many years only a dream, is increasingly needed is a graduate program the project now becomes a reality, thanks to the that will perform the synthesis of the grant from the Nationa! Endowment.

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P. McGrath, Robert L. Spaeth, and Deborah M. The Tutors Traynor will be on sabbatical leave. Three other Tutors will be on leave-of-absence: Alvin N. Main, The intellectual life of the College depends in Robert A. Goldwin, and David H. Stephenson. The large measure upon the calibre of the Tutors. The teaching appointments of Cecil H. Fox and Edwin E. Annapolis Faculty has a larger number of faculty Hopkins are completed. For the academic year members with long years of teaching in the St. John's commencing in September, the Annapolis Faculty Program. Three-fifths of them hold tenure will again number 53, including six part-time Tutors appointments. By contrast, less than half of the and the seven Tutors on leave. Tutors on the Santa Fe campus are tenured. Experience has shown that usually only one out of The Santa Fe Faculty experienced a large every three or four new appointees finally achieves turnover at the end of June. Harvey L. Mead, lll, tenure at the College. This would seem to reflect Michael K. Mechau, and George N. Stanciu were not adversely on the sele~tion process for new granted tenure and left the College. Four other appointments. Yet the Instruction Committee on Tutors completed their appointments and left as well: both campuses devotes long hours to interviewing John S. Chamberlin, Edward H. Porcella, Genevieve candidates, to examining credentials, and to arriving Townsend, and Lenke Vietorisz. Finally, Mrs. at the best possible decisions. The answer apparently Caroline Richards resigned in order to accompany her lies elsewhere. husband on an assignment in Chile. For the coming It has become clear that ways and means must year, Charles Bell and Roger Peterson will be on be found to orient new Tutors more effectively at sabbatical leave, while Dean R. Haggard and Richard Santa Fe. With a view to accomplishing this, the B. Stark have been granted leave-of-absence. Mr. College included, as part of its application to the Stark received grants from the National Endowment National Endowment for the Humanities, several for the Humanities, the International Folk Art proposals. Approval of the grant now means that all Foundation, and the Spanish Government for a year of them can be given effect over the next five years. of scholarly study and research in Spain. First, money will be available so that ail new Tutors It is good to report certain strong, mitigating can be assigned only a two-thirds teaching load. This factors whi\'h will work against any serious will enable these men and women to audit classes and instabilities resulting from this turnover of faculty. to assimilate themselves more rapidly to the St. Two senior Tutors return from sabbatical leave, John's Program. Second, f4nds will be sufficient to Michael Ossorgin and John S. Steadman. Don B. provide released time for three of the most senior Cook, who resigned a year ago to accept a position in Tutors on the western campus to serve as archons for the Santa Fe Preparatory School, returns to the the newer Tutors in different subject matter areas. Faculty. Thomas K. Simpson is transferring from the Third, it will be possible to •finance, through the eastern campus to the western campus. Moreover, grant, an exchange of Tutors each year between the three of the new appointees are St. John's graduates two campuses. A more experienced Tutor from who are thoroughly familiar with the College. These Annapolis may change places with a more junior are: William H. Donahue, who has just completed his Tutor from Santa Fe. Finally, to provide for the work for the Ph.D. degree in the Histoty of Science at continuing intellectual growth of the Tutors, funds King's College, Cambridge; James R. Mensch, who will be made available for establishing faculty study comes with the M.S.L. degree from the Pontifical groups. These will provide a welcome measure of Institute of Medieval Studies in Toronto; and Howard stimulation and, at the same time, will enable Tutors Zeidennan, who holds the Master's degree from to explore areas that might subsequently be included in Philosophy. Another new in the curriculum. appointee, Bruce E. Venable, is a graduate of St. For the coming year, two new Tutors were Mary's College, where he followed a curriculum quite appointed on the Annapolis campus: Leo Raditsa, similar to that of St. John's; who holds the Ph.D. degree from Columbia The other new Tutors are: Lorna Green, who University in History, and C. Reed Woodhouse a has the Ph.D. degree from Rockefeller University in Kenyon College graduate who studied at Keble Biology and is working toward a second Ph.D. in College, Oxford. Robert S. Bart, John Sarkissian, Philosophy at the University of Toronto; Richard L. David H. Stephenson, and James M. Tolbert return Michaud, with a Ph.D. degree from the University of following sabbatical leave, while Louis N. Kurs, Hugh Vermont in Biology and teaching experience at

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Webster College; Stephen R. Van Luchene, who has Whiting, Indiana, and Jan L. Huttner of Livingston, just received the Ph.D. degree from Notre Dame New Jersey, at Annapolis. University in English; and Mrs. Lynne M. Hamilton, Duane L. Peterson Scholarships, awarded to a who holds the Ph.D, degree in English from the junior on each campus for academic achievement, University of California, Santa Barbara, and. has had constructive membership in the college community, teaching experience there. Finally, Paul D. Mannick, and commitment to postgraduate study, went this who has completed three years as a Teaching Intern, year to Nelson Lund, of Annapolis, Maryland, and to has now been given a regular, first-year appointment Alejandro Medina, of Gardena, California. It is to the Faculty. Patrick Hanson, a Teaching Intern last noteworthy as well that Anne C. Ray, of Montclair, year, continues for a second and final year, teaching New Jersey, received a special award from the one class and supervising equipment and supplies in National Conference of Christians and Jews in New the physics laboratories. Mexico for her outstanding work as director of the Mention should be made of an amendment to Outreach program under a Title I federal grant. the College Polity whereby prospective Tutors may apply for and be granted a special first-year Enrollment reached a record figure of 37 5 on appointment and subsequent reappointments on a the eastern campus this spring, while the western part-time basis. This legalizes a practice which the campus began the year with 260 students and ended College has followed in a number of cases over recent it with 246 enrolled. A January class was admitted on years. Should such a Tutor desire to be considered for each campus, the first such class for Santa Fe. Dean a regular appointment, he will be permitted to make Darkey has expressed some reservations about the application to the Instruction Committee, and plan, largely because of fatigue arising out of part-time service already rendered to the College will intensive work from January through the summer and be considered on a fractional basis toward eligibility into the fall of the sophomore year. He also believes for tenure and sabbatical leave. Note should also be that the group is too isolated, especially during the taken of the increase in the scale of compensation for summer semester when very few undergraduates are retired Tutors. Five such Tutors emeriti are now on on either campus. Finally, he notes the pedagogical the College's rolls: Ford K. Brown, Wiley Crawford, disadvantage that there is no time available for Simon Kaplan, Jacob Klein, and William K. Smith. corrective work should such be needed between the John S. Kieffer embarks this year upon his fifth and freshman and sophomore year. These observations final post-tenure appointment as a Tutor. will be considered by the Instruction Committee to determine whether there should be a change in policy. The Students The following chart shows enrollment on each campus at the opening of the College in the fall and At the two Commencements in May, the College again at the end of the second semester in the spring. awarded its first two degrees summa cum laude to Mark D. Jordan, of Denton, Texas, and to David K.

Allison, of Charlotte, North Carolina. This Men Women Total represented a change in the longstanding policy of the Annapolis August May August May August May Faculty that the highest honor was to receive the Freshmen 61 56 67 62 128 118 Bachelor's degree magna cum laude. It was felt that February Class II 9 20 the former policy might work to the disadvantage of Sophomores 56 55 49 50 105 105 Juniors 46 42 23 21 69 63 the ablest students in their competition for places and Seniors 38 38 32 31 70 69 stipends in graduate schools. The Faculty recalled the literal translation of the Latin words, "with highest Totals 201 202 171 173 373 375 praise," and affirmed the correctness of such an Santa Fe accolade for the two seniors this year. Freshmen 60 53 48 42 108 95 In all, 96 Bachelor's degrees were awarded, 63 in January Class 9 5 14 Annapolis and 33 in Santa Fe. Paul D. Mannick, of Sophomores 39 31 32 29 71 60 Juniors 25 21 20 20 45 41 Los Angeles, California, was awarded the degree of Seniors 24 24 12 12 36 36 Master of Arts. Three graduating seniors received Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellowships: Mark D. Totals 148 138 112 108 260 246 Jordan at Santa Fe; and Prudence E. Davis of

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Students and their parents continue to find high Delaware Montana I w.,h;ngton fees a real obstacle to a St. John's education. The Dist. of Col. 1 Nevada Wisconsin 2 Florida I New Hampshire 2 W. Virginia decision to hold fees steady in Santa Fe, while Georgia New Jersey 6 Afghanistan increasing those in Annapolis from $3,900 to $4,150, Illinois s 3 New Mexico 8 B. West Indies - did not result in any great flow of students from the Indiana Neyv York 13 England eastern to the western campus. It is significant that Iowa 3 North Dakota 2 Italy $226,207 in financial aid through grants and jobs was Kansas 2 Ohio 4 Scotland Maine Oklahom:o~ 2 Virgin Islands I provided at Annapolis while the even larger sum of Maryland 17 5 Oregon 2 2 $261,654 was expended for this purpose at Santa Fe. Approximately half of all students enrolled received some form of aid. A student employment bureau at The Staff Santa Fe turned up jobs worth $9,000 in the The Provost reports that the year has been most community, and developed summer jobs worth frustrating in many respects. The Annapolis campus $18,000. Elizabeth Goldwin, '74, will continue her suffered a grievous loss in the death of Margaret good work in running this agency. Lauck former secretary to the Dean, who had just been appointed' Registrar of the College. Mrs. Lauek' s Admissions place was then taken by Mrs. Christiana White, who had been serving as Assistant Director of Admissions applications for the fall of 1973 Development. This transfer, together with the followed the downward national trend. As a result, resignation of Mrs. Christine Constantine, '72, the freshman class in Annapolis numbers only 105 graduate intern, aborted the reorganization of the while that in Santa Fe totals 92. It is hoped that this Development Office. The denouement was the will prove to be a temporary phenomenon, since both resignation of Russell Leavenworth as Director of Directors of Admissions are convinced that there are Development in January. From that point on the at least 500 high school graduating seniors each year· Provost assumed personal direction of fund-raising who would be strongly attracted to the St. John's and public relations, completing the year successfully, Program. Greater effort will be made this year to enlist the help of alumni of the College and of the to his great credit For the corning year, the Development Office Graduate Institute in identifying and interesting able will be in the capable hands of William Dunham, candidates for the Class of 1978. Comparative figures for 1971-72 and 1972-73 follow: whose appointment became effective August !st. Mr. Dunham is a graduate of Carleton College, who subsequently earned a Master's degree at the Fletcher Annapolis Santa Fe School of Law and Diplomacy. He served in the 1971-72 1972-73 1971-72 1972-73 Foreign Service for two decades and then resigned to Applications 253 204 257 167 become Secretary of Carleton College, with Approved 140 169 175· 136 responsibility for its total development program. Rejected' . · 44 24 60 23 After nine years, he resigned to join a college Withdrawn 63 63 90 54 management and counseling firm in Washington, D.C. Deposits Received 123 106 107 89 Enrolled 123 105 108 90 Both the Provost and I have high expectations for the office under Mr. Dunham's leadership. Catalogues Mailed 3,117 2,241 5,118 4,443 In other personnel changes for the past year, the . Visitors 319 231 177 151 Provost reports the appointments of Miss Janet Nelson, '72, as curator of the laboratories, replacing Thomas Casey, '71; of Mrs. Carolyn Logan, as The geographical distribution of the Class of secretary to the Provost, replacing Mrs. Barbard Field; 1977 appears in the chart below. (In each case the of Randolph Campbell, '72, as manager of the Print first figure is for the Annapolis campus, the second for Santa Fe.) Shop; of Mrs. Lynne. Calhoun as switchboard operator, replacing Mrs.· lone Moore; and of Mr.s. Alabama Massachusetts 3 - Pennsylvania 9 Nancy Blackburn as secretary to the Registrar m Arizona 5 Michigan 2 ~ Rhode Island: I California 3 22 Minneso·ta 2 Tennessee 2 March, replacing Miss Susan Timmerman. For the Colorado 1 9 Mississippi . I Texas - 12 corning year the Provost has appointed Ray A. Connecticut 5 Missouri Virginia 12 Williamson as Assistant Dean, succeeding Geoffrey J.

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Comber, who returns to full-time teaching following a The Libraries helpful stint in administrative service. At the request of the administrative staff, the Approximately 2,300 books were added to each Staff Council was created, to keep members better library collection during the year under review. Miss informed on changing college policies and to Charlotte Fletcher, the Annapolis Librarian, reports constitute a voice to administrative officers on the accession of 997 new titles, while 446 volumes matters of common concern. The Provost and the were discarded from the collection. Miss Fletcher Treasurer state that the Council has fulfilled its expresses concern over the five-year increase of some purposes admirably. fifty percent in the price of books and urges a greater a!"iocation of funds for'book purchases in each annual At Santa Fe a number of new appointments budget. This becomes particularly crucial now that were made, severai of them incident to the change in the College is no longer receiving the $5,000 annual the deanship. David Jones succeeded Robert Neidorf grant under the Title II Prograin of the Federal as director of the Graduate Institute in Liberal Government. Education on June 1. Miss Ellen Gant, secretary to · At'.Santa Fe Mrs. Alice Whelan, the Librarian, Mr. Neidorf, moved with him to the dean's office arid reports a significant strengthening of the collection in simultaneously assumed new responsibilities as sec.ondary material related to program authors other Registrar, succeeding Mrs. Joyce Ricketts. Mrs. Sue than the classic Greek and Roman, upon which the Boyter, former secretary to the Dean, was promoted library concentrated last year. Work was begun on to the position of director of student aid, since Mrs. establishing conventional titles for literature, which Vivian Knight resigned from the College for will bring together. in one place for the user all maternity reasons. Mrs. Geneva Mantelli was editions, versions, and translations of a given work. appointed Executive Secretary to the President in Richard Stern, Santa.Fe author, continues to give October, following the resignation of Mrs. Geraldine notable leadership to the Library· Associates Foster. Committee. Through funds raised at the One of the most important appointments on the well-attended series of Book and Author Luncheons, western campus was that of Emery Jennings, who the Committee presented the Library with: La Bible became business manager on May 1, succeeding James de Jerusalem. the Cambridge Bible Commentary on Carr. Mr; Jennings came to the College with extensive the New English Bible, the Encyclopaedia Judaica, experience in college business management and selected correspondence of Michael Faraday, the financial matters, having served most recently as works of Edward Gibbon, the Oxford edition of the Treasurer and Acting President of Arapahoe works of Jane Austen, and the New York Edition of Community' College in Colorado. Ralph J. Quintana the works of Henry James. Dr. Rudolph Kieve gave a was na;,ed Assistant Dean for 1973-7 4, succeeding notable collection of Durer prints. And three fine Mr. Haggard, whci is to be commended for both his collections of books were received from J. Burchenal fairness and his firmness in dealing with students. Ault, Robert Kohler, and Dr.J oseph J. Jones. Other personnel changes for the new year included As this report is being written, the music the appointment of Mary Branham as Assistant to tlie collection is moving into its new quarters in the President and Director of Public Information; the Sternberger-Weis Music and Fine Arts Center. The reappointment of Miss Beverly Ross as secretary of music library. there will have ample space for the the Graduate Institute; the appointment of Mrs. Alice regular and special collections, as well as six listening Roybal as cashier, replacing Mrs. Leila Summers; and booths for phono-discs and phono-tapes. The the appointment of Mrs. Maria Lopez, replacing John Librarian reports that the Ellsworth Grumman Stroud in the machine room. Collection has been completely catalogued and work In the library, Mrs. Ruth Haggard resigned on the Amelia Elizabeth White Collection is well because of illness in April and. was succeeded as underway. Cataloguing of the Wilhelm Schmidt director of reader services by Miss Tracy Kimball. Collection will begin in the early fall. Mrs. Leona Wright was promoted to be secretary to the Librarian in April, and Mrs. Julie Gaines became The Graduate Institute typist to the Assistant Librarian in May. For the coming year, a second cataloguer, John Des On August 17, 1973, the seventh session of the Rouchers, has been appointed, thanks to the grant Graduate Institute in Liberal Education came to an from the National Endowment for the Humanities. end with the fifth commencement exercises. A record

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number of 36 Master's degrees were awarded, evidenced during the year. Perhaps this situation bringing to Ill the total number of Institute could be changed as the College explains its need for graduates. This year's Masters came principally from service from the alumni in both admissions and Albuquerque, Baltimore, Chicago, New York, Santa placement. Fe, and Washington, D.C., reflecting the success of At Homecoming in the fall, Bernard F. Gessner, the _generous Institute fellowship grants of the Astor '27, was elected President of the Association and Foun~ation, the Cafritz Foundation, the Hoffberger William W. Simmons, '48, Executive Vice President. Foundation, the Holzman Foundation, the Henry Alumni Awards of Merit were given to Miss Miriam Luce Foundation, and the Richardson Fund. Robert Strange, for many years Registrar and now College A. Neidorf and David C. Jones, outgoing and Archivist, to Paul L. Banfield, '23, founder of the incoming directors of the Institute, join me in Landon School, and to Myron Wolbarsht, '50, expressing the gratitude of the fellowship recipients Professor of Opthahrtology at Duke University and of the College to the trustees of each of these Medical Center. In alumni elections to the Board of foundations. Visitors and Governors, Julius Rosenberg, '38, was For the fourth and final year, a generous re-eleGted for a three-year term, while Thomas E. sustaining grant of $45,985 was received on a Stern, '68, was elected to his first term, succeeding matching basis .from the National Endowment for the Mr. Wolbarsht. This affords the Santa Fe campus its Humanities to support the Institute. This included first alumni representation on theBoard. modest funding for the second year of the high Again this year the Alumni Annual Giving was a school workshop, the Holzman Foundation providing part of the 275th Anniversary Fund, the College's a matching amount. In the coming year, new major fund-raising drive. Every annual gift counted underwriting of the Institute and the workshop wilL toward the overall objective of $5 million for the have to be discovered. Letters from both teachers. and Annapolis campus. In spite of some confusion on this students attest to the value of this annual summer score, the alumni on the Annapolis campus program for the participants. In expressing gratitude contributed almost exactly $100,000 during the fiscal to the College, one teacher wrote: "It has been a year. Of this total $37,500 was unrestricted money in privilege to attend St. John's and learn und'er many the annual giving campaign, $33,650 was for master teachers. I emulate as many of their endowment, $I 7 ,I 00 for plant additions, and the techniques as possible in the public schools." Another balance for other purposes. The College records its wrote: "I must say that I am very excited by what I thanks to eaclr of the I 47 King William Associates, to have seen here. The experience appears to be each of the 532 other donors, and to the many class changing the course of my life in a very subtle, a very captains, telephone volunteers, and committeemen. It beautiful way." was gratifying that the. annual giving exceeded the budgeted goal by several thousands of dollars.

The Alumni The Sternberger-Weis Music and F.'ine Arts Center Thomas Parran, Jr., Director of Alumni Activities, reports successful involvement of the Construe t.ion was completed in the early alumni in counselling seniors, both as to ·graduate summer oh this latest addition to the physical plant schools and as to job opportunities. This appears to in Santa Fe. Designed as a wing of the future library be one of the most significant ways .in which alumni building, the new structure completes all the can be of service to the College. A second area, .that classroom facilities needed by the College. Most of of-student recruitment, is also of vital importance. It the furnishings are either in place or on order, so the is hoped that more local chapters of the Alumni building will be in full use at the opening of the fall Associatkm can be established and that each of these term. The main donor of the center is J~c Holzman, will assume a measure of responsibility for interesting '52, a Visitor and Governor of the College, who gave guidance counsellors and able prospective students in $300,000 as a memorial to his grandparents, Estelle St. John's. With the exception of the New York M. Sternberger and Rabbi J. Max Weis. A grant of chapter, which conducted three seminars and $75,000 was helpfully provided by the Kresge published a monthly newsletter, and with the Foundation of Detroit, Michigan, while a bequest exception of the Annapolis chapter, which held a from the late Flora Conrad of Santa Fe, a monthly luncheon, little alumni chapter activity was contribution of $15,000 from Mrs. Minnette

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Holzman for furnishings, and several other gifts facility, and conversion of the present dining hall and completed the financing of the building at kitchen in Randall Hall into a two-story coffee shop. approximately $412,000. A dedication ceremony is State legislative leaders had expressed interest in scheduled for October 13, 1973, to coincide with the having the proposed St. John's Center designed in next meeting of the Board in the Southwest. such a way that it would not only meet the College's athletic needs, but could serve as the scene for several major state functions each year. I hope that this The Physical Plants project can be revived in the next year or so.

At Santa Fe, noteworthy gifts enlarged the total area of the campus to 310 acres. Mr. and Mrs. John Future California Campus Gaw Meem gave twelve acres of land on the east side of Arroyo Chamisa, while Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Agnes, Andrew, and Herman Marks of Salinas, Manuel donated three acres to the north of Camino California, made a gift to the College this spring of de Cruz Blanca. An additional nine acres were their ranch, subject to life tenancy. This superb tract purchased from the Manuels, thanks to generous of rolling land, some 760 acres in area, lies in the hills donations for the purpose by Mrs. Sallie Wagner and west of Salinas about a quarter of the way to the Dr. and Mrs. Edwin Cook, all of Santa Fe. Monterey Peninsula. By terms of the deed, St. John's Acquisition of the Manuel land assures an College must use the land for construction of a unobstructed view to the north from the College. campus within a twenty-year period. The Marks have Finally, Captain and Mrs. C.O. Ward of Santa Fe gave agreed that part of the land could be leased to other an additional ten acres of land off Old Santa Fe Trail, educational institutions if not needed by St. John's. their third helpful gift of property to St. John's. The earlier Marks fam:ily gift of some 20 acres above Point Lobos has now been deec!_ed to the State of At Annapolis, a number of campus California by the College. It is an exciting prospect to improvements were made. The Junior Common think that a third St. John's campus may well Room in McDowell Hall was redesigned and new mail materialize on the west coast sometime in the next boxes were installed, thus greatly relieving the two decades. The necessary conditions would appear morning mail rush. The two music seminar rooms in to be the cemjlletion of the physical plant and the the Key Memorial were further insulated and given establishment of a substantial endowment at Santa wall-to-wall carpeting, with gratifying acoustical Fe. Once the Annapolis and Santa Fe campuses are results. Additional lampposts were installed in the securely underwritten for the future, the College will Woodward Hall-Chase-Stone House area, considerably welcome the appearance of a venturesome donor, or enhancing securitv on campus. The campus has never donors, to make the California campus a reality. looked better, thanks to the tireless labor of David W. Meanwhile, I should like to record the appreciation of Tucker, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, the College community to the Marks family for their and his staff. The Treasurer, Charles T. Elzey, far-sighted and generous philanthropy. expresses two concerns: one as to the costly effect of the Williams-Steiger Occupational and Health Act of 1970 if fully invoked, and the other as to the physical Finances condition of Paca-Carroll House, Randall Hall, and Iglehart Hall. All three will require extensive The Provost is gratified to report that gifts and renovation to restore them to first"class condition. grants of $255,090 for current purposes enabled the 'I must' express my disappointment that the Annapolis campus to complete the fiscal yearwith a Board decided not to undertake any major building modest favorable balance of $2,940. The College's program on the Annapolis campus at this time. While revenue rose from $I ,980,823 last year to recognizing the financial hazards in adding more $2,164,551 in the year under. review, At the same overhead costs to the annual budgets, I had thought time, actual expenditures were $2,161,611, well that the timing was opportune to take a first major within the budget figure of $2,192,508. For the step to implement the I. M. Pei plan for campus coming year, a tentative budget of $2,216,405 has development. This plan called for a new athletic been adapted. This will necessitate raising $231,)55 center in the western corner of the campus, in gifts and grants to achieve a balanced situation. reconstruction of the present gymnasium as a dining The Santa Fe campus was not so fortunate. In

17 The College spite of receiving the munificent sum of $715, 12!i in Endowment for the Humanities. The Foundation current gifts and grants, the College closed the year voted an outright grant of $388,150 and a with a substantial deficit of $77,963. It is noteworthy supplementary conditional grant of $300,000. The that the western campus actually expended latter will be paid over only if the Endowment $1,939,790, some $13,000 less than the budgeted receives gifts of half that sum by December 31, 1973. figure of $1,952,618. The loss incurred over the fiscal Needless to say, the Vice President and l will make year was charged off against a m.odest reserve fund every effort to qualify for the full amount of created by a major gift two and a half years ago. $688,150. The Endowment's grant will enable the Unfortunately, this leaves only $58,322 in reserve for Santa Fe campus to do a number of things which future operations. The tentative Santa Fe budget for limited budgets have never permitted: released time 1973-74 calls for expenditures of $2,074,639, as for new and older tutors to improve the quality of compared to anticipated normal revenues of instruction, a regular exchange of tutors between the $1, i 94,321. This leaves $880,318 to be raised in gifts two campuses, a more rapid rate of library and grants, approximately $100,000 of which will be acquisitions, and establishment of a task force in the covered by the new grant from · the National liberal arts. I should like to record the College's Endowment for the Humanities. gratitude to the Trustees of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Tutors and students alike 2'75th Anniversary Fund anticipate great benefits from the grant. They .also conside• it tangible recognition by the Endowment of As the second year of the 27 5th Anniversary the College's accomplishments to date, as well as Fund campaign ended, Victor Bloede, National confidence in its future. Chairman, reported that $2,054,871 had been raised The following charts summarize all gifts and toward the $5,000,000 goal for Annapolis and grants received on the two campuses during the $6,479,053 toward the $10,000,000 goal for Santa 1972-73 fiscal year, showing both their sources and Fe. The most disappointing feature of the drive thus their application. Gifts in kind of land, equipment, far has been the College's failure to attract more than books, and art objects are not included in these two major gifts for endowment. The situation is figures. They would add an impressive total. particularly urgent on the western campus where the endowment funds total only $253,556, as compared Annapolis Santa Fe with $8,699,979 at book value in Annapolis. It is Donors hoped that the third and final year of the drive will Board $ 9,526 1 693,302 result in substantial increments to the College's Faculty, Staff Students 3,464 15,6HO permanent funds on both campuses. National Committee 3,534 In this connection, J. Burchenal Ault, the Vice Alumni 99,458 1,483 Parents 4,140 5,357 President at Santa Fe, deserves special commendation Frie.nds 29,335 198,234 for his painstaking work in creating the St. John's Foundations 135,014 221.814 College Foundation Endowment Fund. This Corpora tio·ns 18,682 14,201 24,919 instrument, fully approved by the Internal Revenue Government ___,35',,695 $324,538 $1,189,300 Service, enables a private foundation to close itself out by gift to St. John's. The funds are then Purposes co-mingled for investment purposes with the College's Unrestricted $217,982 $' '543,205 Library 295 8,173 endowment. By verbal agreement with the donor Scholarships 8,750 38,575 foundation, its wishes as to the application of annual Graduate Institute 84,941 Special Projects 28,063 '35,785 income are given careful consideration for a specified Endowment 52,246 67,091 period of years. A tthe end of that period, the College Plant 17,202 318,530 receives the full income earned, as well as the corpus Debt Repayment 93,000 of the fund. The first such gift was received this year, $324,538 $1,189,300 $50,717 from the Los Alamos Ranch School Fund. In Memoriam Gifts and Grants It saddens me to record the deaths last The largest grant recorded during the year was December of two men who served with distinction the welcome five-year commitment from the National and devotion on the Board of Visitors and Governors.

18 October 1973

Mark Van Doren and Bromwell Ault. Mr. Van Doren, Arundel County, the Director of State Planning, the poet, critic, and teacher, was a regular lecturer at St. County Executive, the Mayor of Annapolis, the John's College. He was an Honorary Fellow of the Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy, College and also Honorary Co-Chairman of the 275th and three other appointed citizens. The Commission Anniversary Fund. Mr. Ault, businessman, is responsible for coordinating the plans for growth of churchman, and philanthropist, had been Chairman the State, County, and City Governments, as well as of the Board of Visitors and Governors and was an the Naval Academy. We are also charged with honorary member at the time of his death. It pleases preserving the distinctive character and atmosphere of me very much that his son, Burchenal Ault, Vice Annapolis as the State's capital city. My role keeps President of the College, has established the Bromwell me abreast of all developments which might affect St. Ault Scholarships on the Santa Fe campus in tribute John's College in any way. It also affords me to his father. The College has lost two great and loyal excellent working relationships with officials of all friends. They will be sorely missed. the government agencies at the State, County, and City levels. Finally, I wish once again to thank each Board member for giving so unselfishly of his time, his * * * energy, his counsel, and his substance in support of St. John's College. No college president has ever had a Let me conclude on a personal note. First, I am finer and more devoted Board to work with. I shall pleased to report that the Governor of the State has continue to sing your praises. seen fit to reappoint me for a second four-year term as Chairman of the Maryland Commission on the Richard D. Weigle Capital City. Members of the Commission include the President Lieutenant Governor, the President of the Senate, the Santa Fe, New Mexico Speaker of-the House, the State Senators from Anne August 31, 1973

19 ""0 ;l (')" St. John's College 0 Annapolis, Maryland Comparative Balance Sheet, "July 1, 1972- June 30, 1973' ii' .." ASSETS UABIUTIES AND FUND BALANCES

CURRENT FUNDS 1972 1973 CURRENT FUNDS 1972 1973

Unrestricted llnrestricted C~h 44,026 67,264 Accounts Payable $ 23,583 27,940 Investments- at Cost ' 157 ' 157 Due to Other Funds 230 ' 1,574 Accounts Receivable 5,094 8,747 Student Advance Deposits 56,279 60,133 Due from St. John's College Deferred Income 31,487 23,073 Santa Fe 16,769 16,339 Reserve for Future Operations 14,590 17,660 Other Receivables 14,152 8,760 Deferred Expenses 19,376 -- 126,169 $ 130,380 Bookstore Inventory 26,595 29,113 ' 126,169 130,380 Restricted ' Fund Balances 286,084 295,271 Restricted Due to Other Funds ' ' c~ 7,014 9,604 286,084 295,271 Loans Receivable ' 840 ' 840 ' ' Investments- at Cost 278,230 284,827 Total Cunent Funds s 412,253 $ 425,651 286,084 ' 295,271 425,651 Total Current Funds ' 412,253 ' LOAN FUNDS LOAN FUNDS Federal Adv.ances for NDS Leans 159,191 164,852 Fund Bal~ce ' 15,585 ' 14,164 c~h s 13,011 5,336 Total Loan Funds $ 174,776 !__ 179,016 Student Loans Receivable· 731 ' 601 National Direct Student Loans 161,034 173,079 ENDOWMENT FUNDS Total Loan Funds 174,776 s 179,016 ' Principal, Unrestricted as to Income $ 7,530,057 $ 7,559,780 ENDOWMENT FUNDS Principal, Restricted as to Income 972,207 996,2!8 ReseiVations of Profits- Sale of c~ $ 30,354 $ 45,914 199,885 Friedland Student Loans 6,288 5,863 Securities 143,981 Faculty Home Loans 159,117 162,938 Un~xpended Income 948 (211) Santa Fe Campus Note 1,265,594 1,]7:!,594 lnvestmen 1 Funds Held for Other 1,0!0 94,330 Santa Fe Campus -- 130,330 40,620 Investment Cash Account 79,354 Total Endowment Funds $ 8,703,097 $ 8,830,093 Investments- at Cost 7J6I,370 7..307,839

Total Endowment Funds $ 8,703,097 s 8,830,098 PLANT FUNDS Due to Other Funds -- 42,026 PLANT FUNDS Investment ln Plant ' 6,143,435 ' 6,828,026 Unexpended Plant Funds 79,483 994 c~ 325 75 lnvestmenta- at Cost ' 79,158 ' 919 Total Plant Funds $ 6,222,918 $ 6,871,046 Land and Campus lmpn;wement 375,677 375,677 Buildings 5,373,537 5,516,154 Total Funds $15,513,044 $!6,305,81] Equipment 394,221 394,221 Lap.d and Iinprovemen t - California Property -- 584,000 Total Plant Funds $ 6,222,918 $ 6,871,046

Total Funds $15,5!3,044 $16,305,811 St. John'sCollege Santa Fe, New Mexico LIABILITIES AND FUND BALANCES Comparative Balance Sheet. July 1. 19T2- June 30, 1973 CURRENT FUNDS I972 !973 ASSETS Unrestricted CURRENT FUNDS 1972 1973 Note Payable 10,000 Accounts Payable 15,984 18,962 Unrestricted Due to Annapolis Campus 16,769 16,339 Cash 38,480 65.773 Due to Other Funds ]9.63! 33,103 Investments- At Cost 16,340 56.262 DefeneU Income 75.987 98.032 Accounts Receivable 11.747 2.870 Reserv~ for Future Operations 897 _ _J8,32~ Prepaid Expenses 5!,072 78.159 139.268 $ 224,758 Bookstore Inventory 21,629 21.694 $ 139,268 $ 224,758 Restricted Fund Balances ----s 216.510 ~ Restricted $ 216.510 51,394 c~h 42.1:.2 234 Investments· At Cost 174,388 5 Ll60 Total Current Funds ~ ---~76,152 216.510 51.394 LOAN FUNDS Total Current Funds 355,77/1, 276.152 Federal Advances for NOS Loans $ 155,600 s 170,459 LOAN FUNDS College Loan Fund Balance 28,606 28,625 c,;, 12.740 19,978 ---- United Student Aid Deposit 1.000 !.GOO Total Loan Funds s !84,206 $ I99,084 National Direct Student Loans 144.064 149,701 Other Student Loans 26.402 27.232 LIFE ESTATE FUNDS Due from Current Fund U73 Liability under Agreements 5 207.125 $ 202,950 $ 199.084 Total Loan Funds s 184,206 ------Total Life Estate Funds $ 207,125 $ 202,950 LIFE EST ATE FUNDS Due from Other Funds s 207.125 ----$ 202.950 END0Wfi.1ENT FUNDS Total Life Estate Funds s 207J25 $ 202,950 ------Fund Balance $ 135,757 s 253,556 ENDOWMENT FUNDS Total Endowment Funds $ 135.757 c~ 9,881 1.428 $ 253,556 Investments- At Cost 125.876 252.128 PLANT FUNDS Total Endowment Funds $ !35,757 $ 253,556 Note Payable $ 2.154 2,154 Loan Payable to Annapolis Campus 1,265,594 1,172,594 PLANT FUNDS Dormitory Bonds -Series 1964 824,000 810,000 Cash 1,038 9,625 Series 1966 840,000 825,000 Investments 185,226 119,244 Due to Other Funds I87 .494 184,354 Bond Sinking Fund Investments !54,479 !87,25 I Net Investment in Plant 3,187,766 3,932,592 Land and Campus Improvements 314,024 504,777 Unexpended Plant Funds 154,479 !87,251 Buildings 5,403,448 5,842,7i6 Equipment and Furnishings 472,567 499,324 Total Plant Funds $6,647,751 $7,281,160 Library Books 116,969 118,163 Due from Current Funds 13,334 Total Funds S7,530,617 ----$8,212,902 Total Plant Funds $6,647,75! $7,28!,160 ?? s Total Funds $7,530,617 $8,212,90: r:r ~ .....<.0 ""..... "' The College

ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE Annapolis. Maryland Santa Fe, New Mexico

CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF REVENUE AND EXPENDITURES

Fiscal Years Ended June 30, 1972 and 1973

ANNAPOLIS SANTA FE

REVENUES 1971-1972* 1972-1973 1971-1972 1972-1973 Educational and General Tuition $ 902,135 $1,027,309 $ 640,126 $ 756,446 Endowment Income 414,987 419,357 5,122 7,166 Gifts and Grants 225,327 217,135 673,744 550,134 Graduate Institute Grants 90,584 112,682 State of Maryland Grants 23,500 22 ,500 Miscellaneous 25,099 43,733 34,890 45,206 Totals $1,591,D48 $1,730,034 $1.,444,464 $1,471,634

Student Financial Aid $ 89,079 $ 105,014 $ 45,324 $ 52,310

Auxiliary Enterprises Bookstore $ 48,486 $ 53,091 $ 36,147 $ 38,850 Dining Hall 166,031 168,486 137.163 154,059 Dormatories 128,773 147,380 120,816 144,974 Totals $ 343,290 $ 368,957 $ 294,126 $ 337,883

Total Revenues $2,023,417 $2,204,005 $1.783,916 $1,861,827

EXPENDITURES

Educational and General Administrative $ 289,207 $ 290,397 $ 213.148 $ 186,460 General 158,007 168,280 145,674 140,392 Instruction 829,179 900,038 566,277 651,528 Graduate Institute 151,110 164,681 Student Activities 19,194 20,261 27.160 27,450 Operation & Maintenance 343,618 375,469 186.022 186,235 Totals $1,639,205 $1,751,445 $1,289,391 $1,356,746

Auxiliary Enterprises Bookstore $ 49,550 $ 54,197 $ 33,975 $ 36,942 Dining Hall 148,950 149,407 89,889 105,857 Dormatories (Debt Service) 109,303 109,415 Totals $ 198,500 $ 203,604 $ 233,167 $ 252,214

Miscellaneous Student Financial Aid $ 196,748 $ 246,016 $ 189,348 $ 279,381 Federal Programs 16,369 9,894 Capital Appropriations 52,295 41,555 Totals $ 196,748 $ 246,016 $ 258,012 330,830

Total Expenditures $2,034,453 $2,201,065 $1,780,570 $1,939,790

Excess Revenue or (Expenditures) $ (II ,036) $ 2,940 $ 3,346 $ (77 ,963)

*These figures differ slightly from the printed figures ill ·last year's Report of the President. which omitted current restricted funds.

22 ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE ALUMNI MEMORIAL ENDOWMENTS' Granville Q. Adams, 1929 $ 1.100 $ ·- $ 1,100 Charles Edward Athey, 1931 6.425 - 6,425 Annapolis. Maryland William C. Baxter, 1923 25 25 Drew H. Beatty, 1903 600 200 800 PERMANENT ENDOWMENT FUNDS, June 30. 1973 Dr. William Brewer, 1823 125 125. 250 Frederick W. Brune, 1874 855 507 I ,362 Henry Duvall Chambers, !905 2.638 - 2.638 Henry M. Cooper, Jr., 1·934 1,000 1.000 2,000 Walter I. Dawkins, 1880 58.683 - 58.683 Robert r. Duer, Jr., 1921 3)515 335 3,850 In Honor of Dr. Philip Edwards, 1898 1.135 985 2,120 Joseph W. Fastner. Jr.. 1960 2.000 - 2.000 A.E. Mellon Allen Lester Fowler. 1915 500 500 1.000 Total Fund Gift Foundation Edna G. and Roscoe E. Grove. 1910 I6.556 - I6.556 Principal of Donor Matching-Gift Charles W. Hass, 1927 40 40 TUTORSHIP ENDOWMENTS' Dr. Amos F. Hutchins. 1906 658 633 I ,29I !00 -- 3I3.432 Clarence T. Johnson. 1909 !00 -- Richard Hammond Elliott, 1917 $ 3I3.432 $ 5 100 2,679,845 Clifford L. Juhnson, 191 I !00 - Andrew E. Mellon Foundation Grants - 2,679,845 Helen B. Jones & Robert 0. Jones. 1916 I8.357 7,563 25.920 2,489,953 Addison E. Mullikin, 1895 I ,989,953 500,000 200 - 200 300,216 Jonathan D. Korshin, 1966 Arthur de Talman Valk, 1906 I50,2I6 150.000 Oliver M. Korshin, 1963 200 - 200 Dr. W. Oscar LaMotte. 1902 5 .!40 5,140 $2.453,60I $3.329 .H45 55,783.446 - J. H. E. Leg:g, 1921 23,223 - 23,223 William Lentz, \912 I,020 I.020 2,040 Leola B. and Thomas W. Ligon.l916 5,000 - 5,000 SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENTS' CoL Harrison McAlpine. 1909 325 325 650 James McClintock.l965, Prize Fund 466 466 Annapolis Self Help $ I5,000 $ I5.000 5 30,000 Vincent W. McKay. 1946 20.800 - 20,800 George M. Austin, 1908, Memorial 25 .ooo 25,000 50.000 Robert F. Maddox, 187 6 650 650 WalterS. Baird, 1930 7,500 - 7,500 William L. Mayo. 1899 !2.2I9 - 12,2I9 Chicago Regional 3.070 3,070 6.I40 Ridgley P. Melvin,l899 !00 !00 200 Class of 1897 8,672 -- 8,672 Wm. S. Morsell, 1922. Athletic Fund 5.000 5,000 IO,OOO Class of 1898 87,933 -- 87.933 John Mullan. 1847 !0.000 IO.OOO 20,000 Dr. Charles Cook I3.705 - I3.705 Walter C. My lander. Jr .. 1932 5,533 5,533 Corp. George E. Cunniff,lll, 1930 135 I35 270 H. Keith Neville.l905 I,OOO I.OOO 2.000 Faculty 35.429 2.359 37,788 Dr. John Newstadt, 1939 I.I09 1,!09 John T. Harrison, 1907 25,025 20.025 45,050 Blanchard Randall. 1874 85I 330 I ,I81 Richard-H. Hodgson, 1906 I50,250 I50.250 300,500 Susa.n Irene Roberts. 1966 7(12 702 Alfred HouSton, 1906, Student Aid 42,787 2,500 45.287 Leroy T. Rohrer. 1903 IOO IOO 200 Houston Regional 500 500 I,OOO Harrison Sasscer, 1944 4.550 - 4.550 Jesse H. Jones and Mary Gibbs Jones 36,000 36.000 72.000 C. H. Schoff, 1889 500 500 I,OOO Robert E. and Margaret Larsh Jones, !909 36,648 --- 36.648 Henry 1-". Sturdy. 1906 28.633 28,633 Arthur E. and Hilda Combs Landers, 1930 6,445 - 6,445 Rev. Fnoch. H. Thompson.l895 3.000 3,000 6,000 Massachusetts Rl!gional 22,685 22.685 45.370 John T. Tu.:ker. 1914 2.500 2.500 Philip A. Myers, II, 1938 30,262 9,000 39,262 Dr. Robert S.G. Welsh. 1913 125 125 250 Oklahoma Regional 26,000 26,000 52.000 Dr. \Villis H. \Vhitc, 1922 625 625 I ,250 Thomas Parran. 1911, Memorial 6,265 - 6.265 Amos W. W. \Voodcoek, 190} 2,000 1,000 3,000 Pittsburgh Regional 560 560 I,I20 Readers Digest Foundation I2,500 - I2.500 $ 249.983 $ 34.973 $ 284,956 C).ifton A. Roehle 7,056 -- 7,056 Murray Joel Rosenberg Memorial 3,58I -- 3.58I Hazel Norris and 0. Gmham 0 3,664 ~ Shannahan, 1908 3,664 -- STUDENT LOAN rUND ENDOWMENTS' "0 Clarence Stryker 3,668 3,4I3 7 ,ORI o" Frederick J. Von Schwerdtner 1,552 -- I.552 George Friedland $ 23,660 $ 20,000 $ 43,660 "... Richard D. Weigle 9,743 7,367 I7 .I 10 John David Pyle, 1962, Memorial 5,589 1,470 7,059 >-' ...., N $ 62I ,635 $ 323,864 $ 945.499 $ 29.249 $ 21,470, $ 50,719 "' v.> "' !l: ;l OTHER ENDOWMENTS: "'C'1 Hertha S. and Jesse L. Adams Concert Fund $ 60,000 $ 60,000 $ 120,000 ~ Alumni Memorial Book Fund 355 - 355 SANTA FE ENDOWMENT FUNDS, JUNE 30, 1973 ~ Charles Edward Stuart Barton Memorial Library Fund 500 - 500 Philo Sherman Bennett Prize Fund 308 - 308 SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENTS Benwood Foundation Library Fund 25,000 25,000 50,000 George A. Bingley Memorial Fund 20,200 - 20,200 Helen and Everett Jones Fund $ 60,000 Scott Buchanan Memorial Fund 5,770 - 5,770 Readers Digest Foundation 10,000 Helen C. and George Davidson, Jr., 1916 21,025 - 21,025 Nina Otero Warren Memorial Fund 1,875 The Dunning Memorial Fund 10,000 - 10,000 General Scholarship Fund 4,537 Fund for Tomorro'w Lectureship 3,000 3,000 6,000 Floyd Hayden Prize Fund 78 25 103 $ 76,412 Joseph H. Hazen Foundation Lectureship Fund 1,000 1,000 - LIBRARY ENDOWMENTS. Mary Safford· Hoogewerff Memorial Library Fund 31,683 31,683 - Emlen Davies Fund I ,118 Margaret Lauck Memorial Library Fund 789 789 $ - Angeline Eaton Memorial Fund 1,150 Library Fund 560 400 960 Nina S. Garson Memorial Fund 2,000 Monterey Mackey Memorial Fund 600 - 600 -~ ...... Duane L. Peterson Memorial Fund 800 Emily Boyce Mackubin Fund . - ,..;._~·- - 75,192 Ellen C. Murphy Memcr.iai Library Fund 1,500 1,500 3,000 Victor Zuckerkandl Memorial Fund 1,000 Kate Moore Myers :.andscaping Fund 124,349 - 124,349 Memorial, Honor and Life Membership Funds 31,171 The Jack Wilen F< undation Library Fund in Memory of Murray Joel Rosenberg 1,000 - 1,000 $ 37,239 Henry H. and Cora Dodson Sasscer Newspaper Fund 1,500 - 1,500 Adolph W. Schmidt Fund 15,628 - 15,628 OTHER ENDOWMENT: Richard Scofield .lv.i.(;morial Fund I ,368 - 1,368 Mrs. Blair T. Scotts Memorial Prize Fund 518 - 518 Bromwell Ault, Sr., Memorial Fund $ I,037 Kathryn Mylroie Stevens Memorial Henry Austin Poetry Fund 5,500 Prize Fund 1,250 - 1,250 Fletcher Catron Memorial Fund 1,300 Charles Eddy & Eugene V. Thaw, I947 Margo Dawn Gerber Prize Fund I ,I41 Lectureship Fund 15,900 - 15,900 Elizabeth R. and Alvin C. Graves Memorial Fund 8,881 Elma R. and Charles D. Todd Memorial Margaret Milliken Hatch Fu!J.d 35,000 Library Fund 19,500 I9,500 39,000 Frank Patania Memorial Fund 3,341 Millard Tydings Prize Fund 1,000 - I,OOO Winfield Townley Scott Memorial Fund 2,535 Clara B. Weigle Memorial Library Fund I ,196 - l,I96 E. l. "Tommy" Thompson Memorial Fund I ,865 Daniel E. Weigle and Jessie N. Weigle Millard E. Tydings Prize Fund 1,000 Memorial Fund 2,500 -- 2,500 Clare B. Weigle Memorial Fund 4,7I3 Victor Zuckerdandl Memorial Fund 19,325 19,325 Jessie N. and Daniel E. Weigle Fund 2,500 - Other Funds Alumni Endowment 206,326 186,309 392,635 20,375 General Endowment 526,724 - 526,724 $ 89,I88 $I,I95,644 $ 295,734 $1,49I,378 FOUNDATION ENDOWMENT FUND: Total Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grants $4,005,886 Los Alamos Ranch School Fund $ 50,717 Reservation of Profits - Sale of Securities $ 143,981 $ - $ 143,981 Total Endowment Funds $253,556 Total Endowment Principal $4,694,093 $4,005,886 $8,699,979 October 1973 bit more cautious by nature and less enthusiastic maintained that his choice better exemplified subject about the project, took a year's leave of absence. matter and method in the application of the liberal The Committee convened in O~tober. It included arts. They voted to read the Poetics and the Physics Buchanan, Barr, their two graduate students, Adler, and to use the Oxford translations of these texts. Rubit•, McKeon, and McKeon's three students from Adler did not know Greek; McKeon and Buch&nan Columbia. Because Buchanan was less controversial, Jiad different degrees of competence. These differ­ having had little previous conn~Gtion with University ences provided fuel for the next conflagration. The affairs, and because he had agreed to become a next two meetings ended "not merely in explicit pennanent member of the Committee, he was made disagreement, but in passionate outrage, each at the the Director. He immediately encountered the per­ other's distortion of the text." The disintegration of sisting hostility first provoked when the Committee the group was progressive. After their first three was proposed, and each attempt on Buchanan's part meetings, they decided to arrange a tmce and to to clarify the status of the Committee only made disband the Committee. matters worse. As Buchanan complait1ed to Hutchins, Adler and McKeon met separately to discuss "The Committee must have an authorization of its A1istotle and Aquinas. They encountered the same status and function fitting to its single-minded end problems, and after two meetings, this endeavor was and aim. The possibility of a decision to stay depends abandoned. Adler then decided to read and discuss on this and this alone ... 1 don't think there is any the Physics with students at the University. McKeon, hope of getting the job done or even underway unless with his members of the Committee (Goodman, the Committee has orders from you that cannot be Banett, and Plochman) and with other people from ~ountermanded or shaved down, or diverted by other the Division of the Humanities, established a research academic powers and authorities." After the first few team. Barr, Buchanan, Rubin, Taliaferro, and Wallis meetings, however, it became clear that there were reconstituted themselves as a separate group but problems internal to the Committee which equalled retained the name of the Committee on the Liberal and in the end proved even more destructive than the Arts. At the insistence of Dean McKeon, and with the external oneso advice of the Divisional Committee on Policy, The Committee reunited the New York threesome. Buchanan's Committee was removed from the They had seen e<.\Ch other during the intervening six Humanities Division and made advisory to President years, and had sent each other manuscripts for Hu tchi.ns. The Committee met semi-weekly and comrnent and revision. Disagreement about the discnssed the texts on the Virginia list. Committee nature and interpretation of the arts had often arisen members wrote reports on the contributions of the during these interchanges, but they had found the various authors to the liberal arts. arguments fruitful and

25 The College

Maritain has said in his Introduction to used their free time between sessions to become Philosophy, the revelation of truth to the reacquainted. It was dming one of these between­ natural intellect. McKeon and I would see sessions conversations that Miller told Buchanan in this the effect of the use of St. Thomas about St. John's College. Miller had recently been as a lens in the reading of the Oxford persuaded to join the College's Board of Visitors and translation. For McKeon, Aristotle is the Govemors by his friend and associate at the National father of the sciences, and as such, he Policy Committee, Richard Cleveland (son of Grover uncovered the categmies and formulated Cleveland). The College was in a deep tangle of the methods for each subject-matter and troubles, financial, intellectual, and moral. The crash discipline; there are different methods for of October, 1929 left the College with a debt under different subject-matters and there is only which it was still reeling. Three presidential adminis­ confusion in finding common methods trations followed each other rapidly and unhappily. and subject-matters. Adler and I see a Debts increased. The College had lost its certification. somewhat arbitrary postulation of the The student body had diminished considerably. first principles of a history of thought in Both Miller and Cleveland were of the opinion that this position, I am fascinated by the a new educational idea was the only thing that would dialectical processes by which Aiistotle save the College. They thought it would be wise to arrives at his extraordinary insights, but I define the educational policy of the College first and shall not be satisfied until! can master the make all later decisions in the light of that policy. dialectic and arrive at further insight that Buchanan told Miller about the Virginia Plan and will throw more light on the modem about what he and Barr had been doing on the problems, particularly in mathematics, Committee on the Liberal Arts. Miller was quickly that neither Adler nor McKeon thinks convinced that Buchanan might have the idea St. necessary. John's College needed. After a series of long conversa­ It is difficult at first to understand why these tions and consultations with the rest of the Board of differences in philosophical position became so Visitors, consultations in which Buchanan and Barr important and incapacitating. But, as Buchanan has and also Hutchins, Adler, and Rubin took an active pointed out, although "these philosophical posi­ part, Barr and Buchanan decided to move to tions ... are no more important than any other Annapolis and to try to rehabilitate St. John's College scholastic prejudices so familiar in the profession, ... in accordance with the general proposals of the in terms of the common task to find the intelligi­ Virginia Plan. In June of 193 7, the Board of Visitors bilities that would make good teaching possible they appointed Stringfellow Barr President of the College. all seem highly relevant and their incommensurability Scott Buchanan became the Dean and Head of rather tragic." Instruction. Catesby Taliaferro and Charles Wallis Although Adler, Buchanan and McKeon agreed on were given faculty appointments. Robert Hutchins the nature of the problem to be resolved and on the joined the Board of Visitors and Mortimer Adler" was necessity to restore the tradition of the liberal arts, appointed Visiting Lecturer in the Liberal Arts. At they disagreed about what to study, about how to last, the seeds of a College of the Liberal Arts and read, how to interpret, and how to teach the Great Books found fertile soil and rooted in tradition. Each had acquired through his own learning Annapolis. and teaching his own attitude toward learning and his own method of philosophizing. To pursue their This article was adapted for The College from the thrd common goals, they had to go their separate ways. chapter of Radical Conservatives for Liberal Education, an unpublished Ph.D. dissertation {The Johns Hopkins University, 1973). The dissertation traces the efforts of Mortimer Adler, The Road to Annapolis Scott Buchanan, Richard McKeon, Robert Hutchins, and Stringfellow Barr to reform ·higher education in America by Shortly after the Committee on the Liberal Arts reviving and reconstructing the traditional liberal arts. Earlier disbanded, Scott Buchanan attended a conference at chapters explore the beginnings of the Movement and its the Virginia Theological Seminary. Francis Miller, the principles and ideals. Later chapters discuss the Hutchins College at the University of Chicago, the Great Books program Executive Secretary of the National Policy Com­ for adult education, and the early years of the New Program at mittee, was also present. Buchanan and Miller had St. John's College. Amy Kass teaches in the Evening College at been Rhodes Scholars at Oxford together, and they Johns Hopkins University.

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NEWS ON THE CAMPUSES

LEO STRAUSS 1899-1973 Leo Strauss died in his sleep on October 18. The world of learning lost a seminal thinker in political philosophy and a great teacher; St. John's College lost an old friend and its first Scott Buchanan Dis­ tinguished ·Scholar in Residence. He had been with us in Annapolis since 1969. There will be more about his life and work in the next issue.

DUNHAM NAMED For five years prior to this EXHIBIT OF AMERICAN special assignment, Mr. Dunham DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR had been first secretary and chief of the political section of the DRAWINGS IN SANTA FE William B. Dunham, a retired American Embassy, The Hague, State Department .and Foreign Netherlands. An exhibit entitled "Twentieth Service officer, on August 1st He also served as chief of Century American Drawings" was assumed duties as director of Swiss-Benelux Affairs; assistant featured in the Peterson Student development in Annapolis. There chief of French-Iberian Affairs; and Center in Santa Fe from September he will oversee the program of senior desk officer for Spain and 9th through October 7th. development, fund raising, alumni Portugal, where he was responsible Organized by the University of activities, and fund raising. for all aspects of U.S. relations with Utah Museum of Fine Arts, the Mr. Dunham came to St. the two countries from 1947 to exhibit consisted of sixty-six John's from a position as senior 1953. drawings by several dozen artists. consultant and member of the For his outstanding work Mr. The works are from the collection. Washington, D.C. firm, Douglas Dunham received the Department of Mr. Edward Jacobson of Trout Associates, Inc., consultants of State's Meritorious Service Phoenix, Ariz. in higher education. Prior to joining Award and the Department of the Mr. Jacobson, a member of a that firm, he served for nine years Air Force's Excepti>mal Service prominent Phoenix law firm, has as vice president and secretary of Award. been collecting all his life, and is Carleton College, Northfield, Minn. A graduate of Carleton widely known as a discerning From 1943 to 1963, Mr. College, Mr. Dunham also attended collector and patron. Dunham served in the Department the Fletcher School of Law and Artists represented in the collec­ of State and the Foreign Se1vice. Diplomacy in Medford, Mass., tion include: Childe Hassam, His last tour of duty was at the where he was awarded the M.A. Alexander Calder, Walt Kuhn, Peter Pentagon in Washington, where he degree in 1943. Hurd, Hyman Bloom, Robert was on the staff of General Cmiis Mr. Dunham is married to a Henri, Peter Max, Gaston Lachaise, E. LeMay, chief of staff of the Air professional pianist and teacher, Fritz Scholder, Leonard Baskin, Force. This was a special and he and his wife have a Philip Pearlstein, Paolo Soleri, assignment under the first daughter, three sons, and two lsamu Noguchi, Larry Rivers, State/Defense exchange prqgram. grandchildren. Phillip Guston, and Paul Jenkins.

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English from Kenyon College. He has been studying under a fellow­ ship at Keble College, Oxford University, toward a second bach­ elor's degree. In other changes, David E. Wilkinson, recently retired from the U.S. Army, has been appointed assistant business manager. James E. Grant, business manager, will be on leave of absence this year to complete requirements for his degree in accounting at the Univer­ sity of Baltimore. Grant, a former student at Gettysburg College, has been attending night school for the past five years.

DANFORTH FELLOWSHIPS The Danforth Foundation recently announced the tenth annual competition for its Graduate The 1973 graduating class of the Graduate Institute in Liberal Education. Fellowships for Women. The objec­ Smaller representations carne tive of the program is to find and SUMMER INSTITUTE develop college and secondary GRADUATES FIFTH CLASS from Washington, D.C.: Mary Alice Brooks, Constance B. Liser, and school teachers among American The Graduate Institute in Thelma E. Robinson; from Illinois: women whose preparation for Liberal Education, in its seventh Norma Cotton, Raissa Landor, and teaching has been postponed or in­ summer session, had an enrollment Elizabeth R. Shaw; from New terrupted for a continuous period of 134, and awarded the degree of York: Yvonne M. Davis, Sylvia R. of at least three years. Master of Arts to 36 students from Green, and Mozell Morris; and from In general, the Fellowships are eight states, the District of Colum­ Virginia: Frazier L. O'Leary and intended for women who no longer bia, and Canada. George Schloss. qualify for more conventional Members of this year's gradua­ From Texas carne Joe B. fellowship programs or whose can­ ting class, the fifth since the Insti­ Brooks, from Colorado Diana W. didacy in such programs might be tute was started in 1967, included: Kinsey, and one graduate, Mary given low priority. , from New Mexico: Kenneth A. Jean Bell, carne from Canada. Thirty-five new Fellowships Betzen, David F. Gonzales, Lee may be awarded each year, and are Hirst, Mary E. Lane, Mary F. Mag­ FACULTY AND STAFF renewable annually provided cer­ nuson, Sue Martin, Jan Mecagni, CHANGES IN tain criteria are met. The appoint­ and Ann Y eck. ments are available to women who From Maryland: June B. ANNAPOLIS hold bachelor's degrees from Chapman, Dawn G. DeForrest, Two new tutors are teaching accredited colleges and universities Virginia Frommoethelydo, William in Annapolis this year, Leo F. in the United States. There are no J. Jenkins, Alice B. Morgan, Raditsa and C. Reed Woodhouse. upper or lower age limits. Recip­ Gwendolyn R. Morgan, and Paul N. The appointment of Mr. Raditsa, a ients are expected to undertake Smith. 1956 graduate of Harvard and hold­ full-time teaching upon completion From California: Ralph C. er of both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees of their degrees. Cox, Sister Sharon Cox, James from Columbia, was announced in Among the criteria for selec­ Farley, Dalton M. Fogle, Robert D. the April issue. tion are: (I) a strong undergraduate Graun, James A. Mahoney, and Mr. Woodhouse is a 1970 record; (2) evidence that the can­ Jack L. Nolen. summa cum laude graduate in didate's intellectual curiosity and

28 October 1973 vitality have smvived her years of separation from an academic en­ vironment; (3) an .indication of strong motivation for graduate work and for teaching. For more complete informa- tion write: Director Graduate Fellowships for Women Danforth Foundation 222 South Central Avenue St. Louis, Missouri 63105 LUCE SCHOLARS St. John's College is among sixty educational institutions chosen to participate in the new Luce Scholars Program, sponsored by the Henry Luce Foundation, Inc., to select a group of young Americans for a year of study, The Sternberger-Weis Music and Fine Arts Building was dedicated on October 13 at the quarterly work and travel in Asia. "The goal meeting of the Board of Visitors and Governors. Largely the gift of an alumnus and Board member, of the program is not to produce Jac Holzman '52, the building is named for his grandparents. Asian specialists," J. Burchenal Ault, St. John's Vice President, Martha Wallace, Vice President and leadership potential with a first­ emphasized in announcing the Col­ Executive Director of the Luce hand familiarity of Asia at a lege's participation, "but rather to Foundation, says. In the fall the flexible and formative time in their develop future citizen leaders who fifteen young men and women careers." will have an awareness and an named as Luce Scholars will leave The Henry Luce Foundation, understanding of Asia." to work in law offices, universities, Inc. was established in 1963 by the Scholars are to be selected hospitals, banks, and a variety of late Henry R. Luce as a tribute to from among nominations submitted other situations under the guidance his father who spent many years to the Luce Foundation by co­ of Asian mentors. The Foundation teaching at Christian colleges in the operating colleges and universities. believes that by getting to know Far East. Mr. Luce was co-founderi Independent applications will not their Asian contemporaries and and editor-in-chief of Time Inc., be accepted. Candidates must be colleagues in their own setting the which publishes TIME, FORTUNE, between the ages of 21 and 30, Scholars will gain an intuitive idea SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, and have earned at least a bachelor's of what it is like to live and MONEY. Since Mr. Luce's death in degree, and have given evidence of function outside the context of 1967, the Foundation has gran ted outstanding leadership ability. St. Western traditions. close to $12 million to specific John's will be allowed to submit a Henry Luce III, President of projects in the" fields of higher total of four candidates from the Foundation, stresses the education, theology and public among graduating seniors or recent uniqueness of the program in that it affairs. St. John's receives $60,000 graduates on both the Santa Fe and will exclude Asian specialists or annually for Collegiate Fellowships Annapolis campuses. Deadline for international affairs experts in favor in the Graduate Institute in Liberal nomination is the first of of young people whose leadership Education conducted in the December. potential is in other fields. The summers in Santa Fe. This year 12 Finalists will be called before purpose of sending Scholars to the teachers in predominantly black one of three regional screening East, Mr. Luce notes, is "to imbue a colleges are the recipients of Luce panels early in March of 1974, greater number of Americans of Collegiate Fellowships.

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ALUMNI BOARD one candidate for each of the two eludes an. unusual number of rela­ vacancies. Names, biographical tives of alumni or present students. REPRESENTATIVES data, and, where available, pictures Those related to present stu­ of the candidates will be published dents are Kenneth Demac (sister Philip I. Bowman '31 and W. in January. Donna '74), Eric Heylman (brother Bernard Fleischmann '50 will Alumni interested in starting Paul '74), and Steven Ross (sister complete two consecutive terms as petitions are reminded that, in the Debbie '74). Steven was also a Alumni Representatives on the wol'ds of the Polity: "Persons shall student of William Dunkum '64 Board of the College . next May. be eligible for membership on the (see Class Notes for more on Bifl). According to the Polity of the Board . . . who are concerned for The following are brothers or College, these alumni are not the maintenance, progress, and sisters of alumni: Janet Hellner eligible for re-election. vitality of the St. John's educa­ (sister Maureen '68), Susan Therefore, in accordance with tional program and who are willing Hollander (sister Maureen '69), and the By-Laws of the Alumni Associa­ and able to discharge the responsi­ Edward Nelson (sister Janet '72 and tion, I hereby notify all Alumni bilities of trusteeship with devotion brother Chris SF70); Ed has an that nominations · by petition are and energy." additional St. John's connection: invited for representatives to As a practical matter, Board his father Charles is a graduate in replace Messrs. Bowman and members must also have the time the class of 1945. Fleischmann. Signatures of at least and money to attend four meetings In addition, there are three 30 members of the Association are each year, usually in September, freshmen who have alumni parents: required for validation, and consent December, February, and May, Erica Lerner, daughter of Charles of persons nominated must be either in Annapolis or Santa Fe. Lerner '53; Michael O'Mahony, son obtained before a petition is sub­ of Thomas and Marcia (Del plain) mitted. All nominations by petition Thomas Parran, Jr. O'Mahony, both '57; and Robin must reach the Alumni Office in Director of Alumni Activities Streett, daughter of the Reverend Annapolis no IJJter than December David C. Streett '50. I st. ALUMNI KITH AND KIN Freshman Jody Nesheim's As also provided by the By­ relationship to the College is Laws, the Board of DirectorS of the The class of 1977, which en­ through her uncle, Wayne Brandow Association will nominate at least tered St. John's last month, in- of the class of 1965.

ALUMNI GIVING AGAIN SETS RECORDS are a few key statistics to compare 1972-73 with 1971-72: Once again, for the fifth consecutive year, the 1971-72 1972-73 Alumni Fund (Alumni Annual Giving) has exceeded its· goal of gifts for current operations. In Percent response 28.2% 25% the year which ended June 30th, alumni gave Alumni responding 835 779 $ :n, 4 !II toward a goal of $35,000; as one Average gift $39 $48 considers the escalating cost of living and general King William ASsociates 117 147 economic uncertainty of the times, this record is Classes giving $~00 or more 23 31 quite commendable. Classes giving $1 ,000 or more 3 10 Until a more detailed report is published, here Alu111ni giving $250 or more 13 24

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CLASS NOTES 1949 Nancy (Eagle} Lindley wrote during the late spring that she had almost com­ After 20 years in the Episcopal pleted her work for a master's degree in 1923 music from West Virginia University. ministry, six and one-half of them with 1 the Shoshones on Wyoming's Wind River Husband Mark 67 has assembled enough Fred C. Stecker writes that he has Reservation, Frederick P. Davis is now credits to continue in graduate school. heard from Jim McGraw, Bob Miller, TB. rector of a small parish in Mountain Barbara (Hager) Palmer has become Klakring, and Hobo Ridgely, and they are Home, Idaho. He is located some 45 miles director of the Community Child Devel­ all doing well. Fred says that raising beef southeast of Boise, between the Sawtooth opment Center in Denton, Md. Barbara cattle as a "retirement hobby" is proving Range and the Snake River valley. Fred, writes she is not certain that Greek very interesting. his wife Rita (sister of Gust Skordas '34) grammar will help, but believes that and son David, 14, are enjoying their new Voltaire's philosophy surely will, as she 1933 life. directs "a day-care facility with a cog­ nitive approach to pre-school learning." Charles H. Schauer, executive vice Attention, all you '49ers! Allan Hoffman and Jake Brooks are already president of Research Corporation, was 1961 awarded an honorary doctor of science planning your 25th reunion next fall. The 20th was so successful that we are degree from Southwestern University at Michael C Haley earlier in the Memphis. Mr. Schauer was honored for looking forward to '74; make your plans now. spring was designated a certified commer­ his life-long efforts to advance scientific cial-investment member of the National research and the practical application of 1950 Institute of Real Estate Brokers. Mike is new technology. Research Corporation is with the Albuquerque firm of Roger Cox a foundation for the advancement of & Associates. science. Tylden W. Streett informs us that he has resigned as dean of graduate "Healthfully recovered" from his 1934 studies at the Maryland Institute, College April, 1972, heart attack, David of Art, in Baltimore to devote more time Rosenfield writes that his carpentry Gust Skordas, assistant archivist of to his primary career as a sculptor. He is business prospers. He is very active in a the State of Maryland since 1941, was now busy with commissions for architec­ research project in interspecies com­ honored with a retirement dinner on July tural and portrait sculpture; any orders? munication, through the World Dolphin 30th, to celebrate the end of a 36-year Foundation. career at the Hall of Records. Gust plans 1952 Apparently the Federal Trade Com­ to visit with his son in the San Diego area, mission will not let Ha"ison J. Sheppard and hinted recently that he might even For the past three years George settle down. Last January he was trans­ decide to settle there. Udel has been running his own film­ ferred from the Seattle Regional Office to making company, G2 Creative Services, Washington, D.C., and at the end of July 1936 Inc., in Baltimore, turning out everything he went back across country to become from instructional films to social assistant director of the San Francisco W. Robert Miller, community infor­ commentary. Regional Office of the FTC. mation speciallst with the Baltimore Area Council on Alcoholism, in July assumed 1958 new duties as coordinator of the new BACA-Hopkins program to rehabilitate Jacques Cartier assumed new duties 1962 and retain problem drinkers on the job. as producing director of Baltimore's Bob was formerly a branch manager for Center Stage on July 16th, in a move After six years as an instructor- in Diebold, Inc. which the Board of Directors hopes will the philosophy department of the State lead the group to first rank among After 35 years of surgical practice, University of New York at Stony Brook, regional theaters in this country. Jacques David W. Benfield has accepted an Dr. Richard T. Williams is retiring aboard was founder, producer, and artistic his "Round The World" sloop, while appointment as an assistant professor of director of the Hartford (Conn.) Stage philosophy in the School of Humanities M.D. sons Robert and Randolph take Company between 1963 and 1968. over his work. Dick also writes that son at Montclair (N.J.) State College. David Richard is with IBM, Rodney with Another non-graduate alurrma who has received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Connecticut Mutual Life, and Roderick is completed her college work elsewhere is Brown University. attending the State University of New Marigene (Boyd) Hedges, who received Raymond C. Seitz writes to tell of York. her B.A. degree in mathematics in 1964 the Ph.D. degree he received from The from the University of Denver. Marigene, Johns Hopkins University last November, 1941 her husband, a high school teacher 'in and of his appointment as assistant Denver, their son, 14, and daughters 12 professor of physical Oceanography at the George L. McDowell is now re­ and 8, live in Littleton. Marigene is active State University Maritime College, Bronx, gional service manager for Allied-Kelite in the League of Women Voters, and cur­ N.Y. Ray also tells us that his former Products Division of the Richardson rently works as a part-time office wife. Gail (Evans) Seitz, and their son Chemical Company. He and Rocky have assistant for the Denver and Colorado Raymond are living on a farm in lived in Summit, N.J., since last winter. Leagues. Wisconsin.

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1963 Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Chris has started recorders. graduate work in business administration Mariam (Cunningham) Cohen wrote Marcia Herman-Giddens tells us at Union College, is teaching a computer in August that she was in the throes of that husband Scott '64 teaches computer programming course, and is writing filling out medical school applications; we science and does computer- oriented programs for study in mathematics. wish her luck. research in cardiology at Duke University. She helps run a small "free" school and Andrew Gamson spent the summer 1967 teaching in a teachers' workshop in she, Scott, and their three children plan Greenwich, Conn., the Open Education to move soon to a small farm near Chapel We wish the very best of good Workshop of the NAIS. He will be Hill. fortune to, and shall follow with more teaching at the Key School in Annapolis than ordinary interest, NBC's new Friday for at least another year. 1964 night television series "Needles and Pins." It happens to co-star our very own Mariel/e Mikah Hammett and In May, William W. Dunkum was Deirdre Lenihan, along with Louis Nye Kenneth L. Kronberg (SF68) were one of several teachers of mathematics and Norman Fell. Deirdre is fittingly cast married on June 30th in New York City. and science in the metropolitan Washing­ as a dress designer, having studied that Mark Mandel writes that he re­ ton, D.C., area honored by the Joint work at New York's Fashion Institute of ceived his B.A. degree in linguistics from Board on Science Education. Technology, and later worked in the the City College of the City University of costume department of the New York One of our new Communicards New York. He spent the late spring as Shakespeare Festival. Remember 9 p.m. coordinator of the Summer Latiil Course came back from Saigon, where James P. on Friday night, NBC-TV. Nach is second secretary of the American of the College's Institute for Medieval and Embassy, assigned to the political section. Renaissance Studies. After a sununer in Jim is in his fourth year in Saigon, and 1968 Europe, he and his wife, Rene, will move recently was assigned to Haiphong, North to Berkeley, where she will enter the Vietnam, helping supervise removal of the In July William R. and Rebecca Ph.D. program in English. mines from the harbor. He will complete (McClure) Albury and offspring moved to John H. Strange (SF) received the his Far East tour in February, 1974, and Australia, where Randy has taken a posi­ Master of Divinity degree in May from anticipates assignment to Washington. tion as lecturer in the history and Austin Presbyterian Theological philosophy of science at the University of Seminary, and was ordained in the First 1965 New South Wales, in Kensington. Presbyterian Church in Taft, Texas, on John Fanner writes that he is in his July 8th. John and his wife Camille are Scheherazade (Friestedt) Smith second year of medical school at the enjoying living in Taft, a rural suburb of writes that she is a graduate student at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Corpus Christi. the University of Arkansas. Medicine, is doing research on vitamin A, Another Santa Fe alumnus, Joseph Michael Woolsey this past June and is making an index for a neuro­ Tooley, is a graduate student in school received a Master of Arts in Teaching anatomy textbook. psychology at North Carolina State degree from the College of St. Thomas, Blaine Garson has just received M.S. University. He worked in a clinic for the but will probably continue his present degrees in speech pathology and audi­ blind last year, directed a summer pro­ employment as a computer progrannner ology-"at last," she says-and is working gram for deaf-blind children, and will until prospects for finding teaching on certification as a dance therapist. She work in a school for the deaf this year. positions brighten. has a "lovely 16 month old son Jonas," and loves "being educated all over again 1966 by him." 1970 Mark B. Bromberg has received a _Another degree recipient is Sarah (Braddbck) Westrick, who was awarded a We welcome new traditions, es­ Ph.D. degree in physiology and bio­ pecially those such as our annual John physics, although we do not know from B.A. degree in June from Ursinus, with a major in English literature and a minor in Deai1 letter, this time from Budapest, on what institution. His dissertation was en­ a side trip from a summer in Munich. titled "The Organization of PAD history. She is now considering graduate school in library science. Husband John visited at graduation time in Produced by Peripheral and Central Annapolis, so we knew he was headed for Inputs to the Cuneate Nucleus and A Da"el/, better known as Boris, is still with UNlV AC. two or three years at the University of Classification of Cutaneous Forelimb London, writing a Ph.D. dissertation on Receptors." 1969 Shakespeare. In May he received his M.A. One of our newer lawyer alunmi is degree in comparative literature with Richard F. Fielding. Dick received his Ia w James F. Bartram, Jr., last year distinction from the University of degree in June, from the University of received a B.A. degree in musical instru­ Massachusetts. Chicago, where he was Comment Editor ment making from the University We were greatly pleased to hear of the Law Review. Without Walls at Roger Williams College from Joseph D. Hines, a Graduate In­ Christopher Hodgkin is still (R.I.). He has been married almost two stitute alumnus, that he received his working as business manager of Oakwood years, and is in business for himself, Certificate in Advanced Study in Educa­ School, a Quaker secondary school in manufacturing Renaissance flutes and tion in May from The Johns Hopkins

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University. He is now qualified as a guidance counselor. Cole Kitchen is preparing for his comprehensive examinations this fall, enroute to an eventual Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics (operations research) at the Hopkins. His fellowship has been renewed for the 1973-74 academic year. T.K. (Thomas) Nelson (SF) writes that husband Chris (SF) is now with the Chicago law firm of Shiff-Hardin & Waite. T.K., Chris, Tollof, age three and one­ half, and Gunnar Matthew, born May 28th, make their home in Wilmette. Thomas Rie in May received an M.S. degree in elementary education from Morgan State College in Baltimore. He worked in a clothing factory for the past two and one-half years, while Jinna (MacLaurin) '68 taught elementary school. The RICs now live in a farmhouse August brought us a most interesting note from Jose Caminero, afomzer member of outside of Dunseith, N.D., where Tom the Class of 1914. Senor Caminero has been an engineer, a journalist, a writer, and will teach grades five and six; Jinna now ambassador of his native Cuba to Nicaragua, Colombia, and Peru. A resident of the awaits the birth of their first child in United States since 1959, this distinguished alumnus now makes his home in West New October. York, N.J. We thought you might enjoy the pictures which Senor Caminero so Another graduate school-bound graciously sent us; the photograph on the right was taken this year, the one on the left 60 years earlier. alumnus is Mark Sittler, who will start work toward an M.A. degree in German at the University of Arizona this fall. Mark has a graduate assistantship in the German Department. to begin studies in soCial work, while home in Maiori. Amethyst (age three) has been attending Christine (Ferrarini) Constantine Montessori school and "loving it." 'phoned in August to report a move to 1971 V. Michael Victoroffhas had a busy Newton, Mass., so that Hank '70 can summer. He spent some time early in the commence studies in political science at JohnS. Bellamy II is another of our summer doing an elective in drug abuse at Boston College. alumni who has completed his under­ the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic in San graduate education elsewhere, in this case Francisco. He and Joan Mooring '69 did Goddard College in Vermont. He and some rock climbing in Yosemite National Elizabeth Barrett, married in June, are Park, and then were off to Venezuela for IN MEMORIAM now in Charlottesville, Va., where John is a session of scuba diving. By now Mike working on an M.A. degree in history at should be back at Baylor College of the University. Medicine for his third year. 1912 - Frederick L. Baillere, Tulsa, Okla., July, 1973. We were happy to hear again from 1912 - Raymond E. Staley, Little Rock, Shire Chafkin, whom we had "lost" for 1972 Ark., June, 1973. more than a year. He has received an 1920- Earl R. Custis, Suffolk, Va., July M.B.A. degree from Harvard, and is Helen Anastaplo has completed her 14, 1973. marketing manager for Tri-Chem, Inc., first year at the University of Chicago 1922 - Harrison M. Baldwin, Baltimore, Belleville, N.J. Md. June 16, 1973. Law School, where Bart Lee '68 was her 1924 - Joseph E. Coe, Crofton, Md., Deborah (Jenkins) Dumeyer writing program tutor. April 1 5, 1973. graduated from Salisbury (Md.) State After a two and one-half year 1933 - Ralph C. Bayard, Jr., Dover, College in May, and is teaching first grade sojourn in Rome, David H. Carey was in Dela., January 7, 1973. in the Wicomico County schools this this country visiting friends and family 1934 - Gerald L. Kurtz, Paterson, N.J., year. March 26, 1973. this summer. He is now back in Rome at 1935 -Elmer A. Jones, Jr., North East, Stephen R. Deluca (SF) and family North American College in the Vatican Md., April 17, 1973. are now in Blacksburg, Va., where he is State, continuing preparation for Holy 1969 - James L. Pipes, Dayton, Tex., working toward a Ph.D. degree in clinical Orders; he anticipates ordination as a February 17, 1969 psychology at Virginia Polytechnic In­ deacon next May. David visited Tutor stitute. His wife, Twyla (Fort) (SF) plans RobertS. Bart '57 at the latter's summer

33 A series of eight concerts has been announced for the current year in Santa Fe. These will be part of the regular Friday night lecture/concert portion of the curriculum.

Sep. 28 The Yale Chamber Ensemble - 18th and !9th century music.

Nov. 16 The Baroque Trio of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis - 16th centmy music

Dec. 14 Gilliam McHugh, pianist works of Bach, Haydn, Chopin, and John Ireland

Jan.25 Richard Hudson - a lecture­ reading entitled "Browning­ Dramatic Monologues and Lyrics"

Feb. 15 Jack Glatzer, violinist - works of Bach and Paganini

Apr. 5 The Tokyo Quartet - classi­ cal chamber music

Apr. 26 The New Mexico Chamber Society Octet - woodwind music by Mozart and Photo credits: Cover, Robin Page West '77; page 29, Don Bandler. Beethoven

May 3 Jack Brimberg, painist - Bach's Goldberg Variations

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