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Volume 1 Issue 3 Annapolis, Md. and Santa Fs, N.M. February 1 • ard id 1 tes ' vzsz.
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1943 plementation of the Executive Work Sta Martin Andrews is president of Long tion utilizing technology to incorporate Island Studios, USA, that represents a the graphics, and end-user activities," merger of his company with that of an an announcement from GTE Data Ser associate 's and becomes the largest pro vices states. ducer and distributor of films about Long 1970 Island. Their offerings include films that Edward M. Maderowski, A, is serving have won two Academy Award nomina as chairman of the Instruction Committee tions, three prizes for the Best American of the Roman Catholic Archdiocesan Travel Film of the Year, and a Grand Board of Education in Washington. Award for the Best Industrial Film of the 1972 Year. The University Press of America has Long Island Studios is located in North published a book by Theodore A. Young, Babylon, N.Y. Martin and his wife Jean SFGI'72 entitled Completing Berkeley's spend every weekend at their shoreside Project: Classical vs. Modern Philosophy. place in Southold, "a marvelous hideaway The book discusses Berkeley's defense of amidst a splendid setting as we both love the classical moral philosophy of virtue. beaches and water-watching. A Greek Ted is a professor of philosophy at Grand community has appeared some miles to Valley State College, Allendale, Mich. the east of us, and we think that Long Island Sound reminds them of the 1973 Aegean." Donnel O'Flynn, A, was awarded a 1948 master of divinity degree from Virginia. Cave has left his position as man Theological Seminary last summer. Fol aging editor of Time magazine to become lowing ordination as a deacon, he was corporate editor of Time, Inc., its second appointed curate of Christ Episcopal highest editorial post, a move seen as Church, New Haven, Conn. putting him first in line for editor-in-chief His wife, Janet Christhilf O'Flynn, '74, of all Time, Inc., magazines. Henry A. A, wrote last fall that Donnel anticipated Grunwald, who now holds that title, re being ordained to the priesthood. Before tires two years hence. moving to New Haven, Janet, an occupa "But Time, Inc., frequently moves top tional therapist, worked with children executives around lo give them experience with learning disabilities for Arlington in various roles, and it isn't assumed that (Va.) County schools. She is taking a year Mr. Cave eventually will be named to the off to stay home with a new daughter, s s top post," The Wall Street Journal wrote Kathleen Chase O'Flynn, born last July Harrison Sheppard, A '61, has found a Franks, Bob Davis, Aµgusta Goldstein, in considering possibilities. 13. The O'Flynns also have a three-year way of conveying beauty, order, and disci George Elias, Robert Di Silverio, and old son. "A Time spokesman said it is 'way too pline iQtO the lives of eight students at the Santa Fe's admission~ dir,e-c;tor,_ lyliu;sha early' to speculate who will get Mr. Grun 1975 Delaney Street Foundation, a San Drennon. · - wald's job, though he acknowledges 'of Brother Philip J. Valley OSB, SFGI Franciso rehabilitation program for ex The Delancy Street Foundation, which course ( Messers Cave and Jason Mc Man '75, received his doctorate in English edu drug addicts. He is teaching them Books I has had a remarkable success rak. w:as us, Time's new managing editor) are cation and humanities last June from New and U of Euclid's Elements. founded in 1971 by John Maher, an ex among the candidates." York University. Students became so excited after com convict and former junkie. There is a 1950 His dissertation title: "The Relation pleting Book l last semester that they are colony in Espagnola, N.M., and facilities .Jack Ladd Carr,'50. has been promoted ship Between Critical Flexibility and In tackling Book H whiie a second-class In in New York and Los Angeles. to the position of assistant director of the terdisciplinary Study of the Arts." Book I is underway. A self-help program designed fofocrease Brother Philip, who is headmaster of Division of Cultural Affairs in Mary Books were provided by John Van self-respect and a sense of:tesponsibility~ it . land's Department of Economic and Woodside Priory School in Portola Val Doren, A '47, chairman of the Alumni has a structured and disciplined ap Community Development. ley, Calif., was previously associate pro Association's Continuing Liberal Edu proach: Residents must put in eight hours Formerly the department's cultural ad fessor of humanities and director of the cation Committee, and by David of work, attend classes and group ministrator, Jack will bring increased re Liberal Studies Program based upon Dobreer, A '42, association president, on meetings, and dress for -dinner. Some sources to the continuing oversight of the great books at St. Anselm Colli:ge, Man behalf of the association itself. graduates remain as staff members, pro administrative affairs for the Maryland chester, N.H. Northern California Alumni Chapter viding examples to newer residents. State Arts CounCil, Historic St. Mary's A recent article of his, "Phaedrus and members not only passed a resolution .. Teaching has been an avocation ot City, Commission on Afro-American the Essence of Love," appeared in the commending Mr. Sheppard but offered mine for 20 years," Mr. Sheppard said. October. issue of Delta Epsilon Sigma History and Culture, the Commission on their help. They gave the foundation's "These experiences have provided many Indian Affairs, and the Maryland Ethnic Journal. It was based upon a preceptorial library an annotated set of the Elements as gratifying moments. None of them, how Heritage Commission. paper written at St. John's during the well as a copy of Tobias Danzig's book ever, has approached by any order of 1961 summer of 1975. Number. magnitude the satisfaction of working Harrison Sheppard, A, has just joined 1977 Contributing to these gifts were Grant with Delancy Street students." the Board of Trustees of the San Fran Marlene Strong Franksis the co-author cisco Suicide Prevention Center. In past of a book, Gender Justice, newly pub years, he has been a volunteer counselor lished by the University of Chicago Press. Alumni Italy-bound May 31 on the center's emergency telephone and Written with David L. Kirp and Mark has now moved into a trusteeship. G. Yudoff, the book argues that our During the 1986 Alumni Association Naples. ,- 1968 government is setting gender policies Tour, Johnnies will tread ground familiar For the next 10 days, the group will through policies not ostensibly concerned Linda Sampey, A, has been promoted to them through their readings in the great have an opportunity to viewsorne ofthe to senior systems engineer, GTE Data with gender, from tax codes to health books. A tour of Italy is scheduled for most tamous paintmgs, sculptures and Sewices, Inc., St. Petersburg, Fla. Linda benefits. Marlene is a policy analyst com May 31-June 16. buildings in the world. In ,fact, the itiner has been with GTEDS since 1980 ...In her pleting her doctorate at the University of After an overnight fl.ight to Rome, the ary reads like a "must see" list for Italy: new position, she will provide the expertise California at Berkeley. group will board a plane June l for Naples, ~Sorrento, Assisi, Florence; Ven in the continuing development and im- Russell Dahlburg, A, and his wife, Jill Palermo, according to Carolyn Banks ice, Siena, and, of course, Rome. Potkalitsky Dahlburg, A, '78, are pursu Leeuwenburgh, '55, tour coordinator. A in·g parallel careers in physics. Both re Three days are scheduled.JorJhe "Eter Rebecca Wilson, editor; Laurence five-day stay on the island of Sicily will ceived their Ph.D. degrees last May from nal City," with guided tours of the, Colos · ·Berns, Betsy Blume, Jon Lenkowski, include visits to ancient Doric temples and seum, St. Peter's Basilica, the S,i~tine , Howard Zeiderman, Eliott Zuckerman, the College of William and Mary, Wil Greek theaters. liams burg, Va. Both are employed as re Chapel, and museums in Vatican: City. advisory board. , Two nights will be spent in Syracuse, search physicists at the U.S. Naval Re The trip will conclude at aJeisurely pace The Reporter is published by the where Archimedes lived and Plato taught. search Laboratory's Laboratory for in the Italian Lake .District.,, .where. two ·Public Relations Office, St. John's While sightseeing in the Syracuse area, the Computational Physics in Washington. nights will be spent in the fash.ionable College, Annapolis, MD. 21404. Edwin tourists will visit the remains of Neapolis, "We'd enjoy hearing from any other St. resort of Stresa. J. Delettre, president. the Roman amphitheater, and the cave John's grads who live in our area," Jill "Published five times a year, In Feb called "Dionysius 's Ear." They will see the The tour is subject to cancellation if writes. Their address is Washing ruary, April, June, September and Nov 1202 S. Fountain of Arethusa on Ortygia Island, insufficient interest is expressed' by· Feb ember. Second-class postage paid at ton Street, #516, Alexandria, Va. 22314. celebrated in song by the poets Pindar and ruary 28. A brochure containing details Annapolis, Md. 1978 Virgil. and booking forms mav be obtained from USPS 018-750 Winfield A. lhlow, A, is in one of those The overnight trip to the mainland will Mrs. Leeuwen burgh, 294 Jefferson Road, (Continued on P. II) be aboard a steamer from Palermo to Princeton, N .J. 08540. I ~~ I
; " ~ November 1985 THE REPORTER Page 3 Mack heading 's deat s ann fund (Continued from P. 1) ding reception last May 31. _SJ ·ncomparably be r' John Duncan Mack, '48, of Ringoes, N.J., is serving as chairman of the St. Dean George Doskow, who had co-led The following remarks were delivered by Joe Sachs, fellow tutor and dose friend John's College Annual Fund, Charles E. a freshman seminar with Bill O'Grady in of William W. O'Grady, Jr., on January 8 at a memorial service for Mr. O'Grady. Dunn, vice-president of college announce 1970, spoke of his passion for learning and I will never have a better friend, and the college will never have a better tutor. ment, has announced. understanding. Everything important I know about bow to be a tutor I learned from Bill, and I think The 1985-86 campaign is conducted "To him, learning was notthe acquisi I am not alone. He knew, first of all, that the proper work of the human intellect is to tion of knowledge but the expansion of a affirm, and that of its otherwork of criticising, questioning, and negating is not'in the among.Board members, alumni, parerit~, soul, and he worked tirelessly .to try to service of affirmation, it is a waste of time. He knew, too, that everything worth make it happen," he said. studying is bigger than we are, so that the life of every good student is an almost daily "He had endless time to spend with battle with discouragement. That was why he never made demands on students, or students, one on one, whether they were in on anyone but himself. All he did was offer each of us all he had to give, all the time. his classes or not, and he would talk with He knew everything there was to know about giving. No man ever accumulated them not only about their books and fewer possessions in forty years. He just couldn't see the point in ha\.'.ing anything, studies but about them. He cared about except to give it away. He had a car for a little while when I first knew him, until he each and every student he knew, and he thought of someone he could give it to. And his was a marriage of true minds. Almost tried to gi:ve each student what that stu the first thing Joey did after· they were married was give away her car. She has a dent needed. He really listened when wisdom we older friends of Bill didn't have. She didn't try to change him by one iota. others spoke. But he changed us. To name some obvious ways: when Bill came to the college we "I remember his being able to recount did not read the Brothers Karamazov or the Philoctetes. We read The Divine what some student had said in a seminar Comedy in three seminars, and the sophomores had five classes to try, or pretend, to months before, so long before that I could prepare. The program is incomparably better because he was here and was such a scarcely remember what books we had fighter. I can tell you that he didn't like to fight. It cost him more misery to win a fight been reading, and to recount it in almost than to avoid it, but he couldn't help fighting when someone else had no other the .exact words the student had used. champion. He never compromised because he was never fighting for principles, just Partly, of course, that was a function of for people. his remarkable memory. Bill's first year in the college, the dean had the good sense to tell him that St_ John's "But it was even more a function of his wanted him to stay for the rest of his life, if he could find some livable way of being caring, of his always trying to understand here. I think we all know he never did. There was not a day for him when St. John's not only what was said, but, more import was not an agony of too many needs to answer. But his eyes were open, and this antly, what it meant to the person saying agony was an inseparable part of his happiness. He was here a long time before he it, and his way of putting the various decided finally to commit his life to St. John's_ He saw that choice with complete clarity the day Mr. Klein was buried, in the spot where he too now lies. What was JOHN DUNCAN MACK things a student had said over the course friends, foundations, corporations, and of time into a composite picture of that worthy of that good life was worthy also of Bill's. Bill loved Mr. Klein's insistence that Socrates meant just what he said in the the college community. student. Mr Mack has been president of Carter "And, unlike most of us, he did that Republic, that the love of wisdom and the love of learning are the same. There is truth. If we are learning, we are learning it, and that is our way of having it. Bill read Products Division of Carter-Wallace, Inc., over and over, year after year, sometimes since 1976. to a state near exhaustion." the same books over and over and over, with an intensity that never lessened. Just a week ago he told me that he now had the pretty well by heart. During the seventies he also served as Former Dean Curtis Wilson said that Iliad The best books never fail us, no matter how often we fail them. The twenty-second senior vice-president for marketing for the Mr. O'Grady's sense of the suffering of psalm begins: "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me." But it is followed by Milton Bradley Company, as president others was combined with a remarkable the twenty-third, .. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want." Bill knew that there for consumer products and vice-president acuity of discernment and intellectual was no way to the twenty-third except through the twenty-second. And he loved a for corporate marketing for Bowmar, force. Inc., and as president of Appliance Devel "The dominant quality was the concern little meditation of C.S. Lewis on the death of Charles Williams. Let me appropriate its last sentence. When the idea of Bill O'Grady and the idea of death had met, it was opment Corporation, and group vice with the wisdom of the heart, a wisdom the idea of death that had to change. president of the Gillette Company. that . he sought with moral intensity as With a master's degree in business ad much in everyday relations as in the study about these things with us. In Santa Fe, a memorial service was ministration earned with distinction at of Homer or Sophocles or Nietzsche .... "Because of this, we thought him fear held January 15 in which President De Harvard in 1950, he served from l 958- His presence was inevitably a demand, a less. His trust in us made us love him, and lattre read a resolution la.ter presented to 197 l with Clairol, Inc., beginning as adver kindly but insistent demand, that the hu we wanted more than anything else to the Board of Visitors and Governores. tising manager and concluding this asso man heart be taken· into account." match his gift of sincerity with a gift of our Speaking were tutors Phillip LeCuyer, ciation as executive vice-president. He, too, spoke ofthe time Mr. O'Grady own. So we tried very hard to be like him. Martin Cohen, Cary Stickney, Nancy Earlier he had served from 1952-58 in a gave to students. We, too, tried to speak from the heart. Buchenauer, and Robert Bart. Two fac series of capacities with Proctor and . "l remember how during his first and "We recognized his love for the books, ulty members, Peter Pesic and Timothy Gamble Company. He began his career in only sabbatical year he was to be seen, at and we, too, wanted to love the books. Miller, played two preludes from Bach's 1950 as a salesman with the Welch Grape the oddest hours, in the coffee shop, Attempts to pattern ourselves after this "Orgelbuchlein." Juice Company. paired in earnest conversation with one tutor led us to consider the books more senior after,another over senior essays." carefully than ever before and likewise to Former Dean Edward Sparrow -also give greater weight to our own infant spoke of Mr. O'Grady's awareness of the feelings and thoughts. We tried to love i.~ flJ tite &Jao~ depth and meaning of the human heart, him by loving the things he loved best; tutor Marilyn Higuera of his glimpses of and, as it should be, we ended up loving those things, the books, in and for them Writer questions 'head start' the possibilities of the heart. selves." Editor: modest fortifications in calculus, a few In remarks reflecting student opinion, I am encouraged by your September '85 undergraduate courses in a specific engin Sharon Garvey, a former tutor, quoted a Tributes also were paid by Mr. Sachs, by Frank Durgin, Belmont, Mass., sen- article on the new engineering exchange eering field, and a year or two of graduate student of Mr. O'Grady, Paula Rustan, · ior, and by tutor Michael Littleton. program: Every technical field would study (which most certainly would be SF '83, reading an excerpt from her benefit from more broadly educated peo more edifying than two years of under Mellon Foundation proposal: Another faculty member, Michael Oink, closed the service by reading an excerpt ple. It seems a little odd that more St. graduate engineering classes), a St. John's "I remember hearing this tutor speak from a favorite book of Mr. O'Grady's, John's students don't pursue science and student could come away with a master's for the very first time. I was standing with Diary of a Village Priest. engineering related studies, since, law degree. -~ a group of sophomores like myself. After yers,' politicians,' and philosopher-kings' The prerequisites for graduate study in a few moments, I realized as I looked claims notwithstanding, our world's engineering will vary from field to field. In upon the faces of my classmates that we GI tuition is going up prime movers are scientists and engineers. general. the requirements will depend on Tuition for the Graduate Institute will how much of the undergraduate course were all feeling the same thing; we were I question however, the .. head start" be i~creased on both campuses to $600 a work is approximated by Sl. John's math simply awestruck. which this exchange program purports to "At first we believed it was what he said; class or$ l ,800 for a full segment in 1986, a ematics and lab tutorials and on how offer St. John's students who want to every word seemed extraordinarily 19 per cent jump over present fees. hungry a school is for graduate students in pursue engineering. thoughtful, and his way of speaking was Room, at $340, and board, at $400, will a given field. very beautiful. It wasn't until mul '.1 later remain the same. The increase has been I am presently working through four I'd be happy to share my research into that I came to understand the true ca l'Se of approved by the Board of Visitors and semester··long upper division courses in the experience in "engineering after St. our astonishment that day. This tutor wa~ Governors in line with a policy to bring preparation for graduate study in c1v1I John's" with anyone who cares. moved by the most beautiful and the most . the contribution rate toward tuition for engineering at Berkeley. A master's degree Write me at 491 Staten Avenue #l l, sad things, anci above all, he was willing to St. John's undergraduate and graduate takes one or two years, depending on Oakland, Calif. 94610. share· his deepest thoughts and feelings programs into confRffPi~~"';'i~q each other. which ,i.(li,ti¥1sl one .is after.. Thu~ •.. with 1'1~.r~,M!~4l.sbrook, '83 Y~no 4 Search Key work s art next month draws 230
The Annapolis campus will begin its sation can be lost in the Conversation prop room, a costume shop, and a room. long awaited improvements to the Key Room's dead spots. for the storage of a piano, but these must persons Auditorium and Conversation Room in As a result, the present sloping floor await future funding. Work behind stage March. will be raised to the level of the lob by, and (Continued from P. l) also will include the construction of new With bids scheduled to be let this the ceiling will be lowered and made flat. steps linking the stage area directly with would be very fine presidents," he assured month, the $300,000 renovation project The room's centerpiece will be a mas the present dressing rooms located at a the heavily attended meeting. will represent the first phase of a compre sive new oval table built in four segments lower level. The lobby also is sched All told, St. John's has received 230 hensive renovation of the Key-Mellon - two squares and two semi-circles - uled for changes. application for the two presidencies, al complex that ultimately will include a new part of which can be recombined, if that is St. John's Advancement Office cur most all of them. Mr. Frame said, of a wing and art gallery. desirable, for a smaller formation. As a rently is conducting a campaign for funds serious nature. Primary emphasis in both the audito full table, it will seat 25. for the second phase of constructidn: · Of these 40 - then 26 - were selected rium and Conversation Room will be Emphasizing what Mrs. Allanbrook for. careful review. ·After ..agonizingly" · upon improving acoustics and in convert Scheduled for completion in June, the hopes will prove a more intimate and spring project will be financed by $150,000 decidirig on those with whom -they would ing the somewhat harshly designed room warmer character of the room, seating win wantto meet •. the committee selected 13. from the Pew Memorial Trust given the be reduced from the present J 60 seats to a college in April 1985 and by $150,000 in At this point, Mr. Frame said, two nomi figure approaching 120 with standing nees, both St. John's alumni, decided to Grant goes to Mellon . State money left from a 1977 bonding bill space for another 20to 30 persons around for other construction on campus. dfop out. leaving altogether 11 persons to the room's periphery. To make chairs as be_ invited for the two-hour interviews St. )ohn 's wil appl~ the $18,3~ 195 comfortable as possible, the present ones with the committee. it has received from Hie Beneficial will be replaced by upholstered chairs.
·Johnnies -< , Conversations began in November and H odson Trust in December tp Mel ~~ With the exteption •of those. around the , ',·G·kE·c' .. lon Hall. concluded January 4. AU were held .at the table, the chairs will have arms. Princeton Club in New York City. Of that sum,$ I 00,000wiU be used New heating, cooling, and electrical scores high. The decision on the final five, none of to set up a maintenance endowment systems wilJ be installed. whom are St. John's alumni, came Jan for the building. The remainder will Acoustics also will be improved in the St. John ·s College alumni cQntinpe to uary 5. Not all of them have designated be used for the second phase of the auditorium. To replace the noisy heating score substantially higher thiln the natjon the campus where they would like to serve remodeling of Mellon. and cooling systems, now hidden in the al average in their Grad'ua.te R,ecord but would accept either campus. ceiling, new systems wiB be removed to Exams and for the La·w School· Ad Among the sources from which candi into an inviting and pleasant place where the back stage and roof. missions Test. dates' names came, Mr. Frame said, were voices pitched at ordinary levels can be A major improvement in the auditor those in response to advertisements in The heard. · Marianne Braun, directpr of career ium will be the installation of a new hard counseling, said that for 'the threejear New York Times, The Chronicle of Higfl Plans prepared by the Annapolis archi wall back of the stage and the replacement period from 1983 through , 1985 afoQi;ni er Education, a letter sent to all alumni, tectural firm of Weller, Fishback and of the two curtains on the outer side of the n©minations from the board and alumni, Bohl cafl for the Conversation Room to scored 41.5 per cent higlier in the verbal stage also with haq:l walls to reflect sound section of the G REs. Their'-stotes '1av:.:, and from files of the consulting firm of the be completely gutted and redesigned. · from the stage. A gypsum board ceiling committee's executive search firm, Heid While the room will be used for other eraged 664 compared with the national will be added for the same purpose. average of 472. · · : ,. rick & Struggles, Inc., of Chicago. purposes, Wendy Allanbrook, chairman In addition, a hanging shell that will Interviews centered on the broad ques of the Faculty Planning Committee, track across the stage will be built. Mr. For the analytical section, scores' were tions posed in the advertisements: which has been advising on the renova-: Bohl said the shell will be adjusted to pro 634, or 32 per cent higher . than 'tqe The candidates' understanding of lib tion, said the committee decided early in vide for a variety of arrangements for national average of 505. Alumni averaged eral arts as taught at St. John's, fund rais the design stage to make changes that large and small musical performances. 604 for the quantitative section, f4.1 per ing and administrative experience, colle would enhance the role for which the IN PLANNING for the auditorium, cent higher than the national mean of 538. giality, and their views of the responsibil roo·m originally was intended: as the place Mr. Bohl consulted the theatrical firm of A study of 73 St. John's graduates who ities of the St. John's presidents in the for the question periods which follow the Roger Morgan Studio, Inc., of New York took th.e Law School Admissions Test community, the state, and the nation. Friday lectures, a formal part' of the City. between September 1980a..nd August 1985 The procedure not to disclose the names curriculum. There are long-term plans for work reveals their average score total~d 37.1. of the finalists differs from the last pres Its uses as a meeting room or small behind stage, including the construction Marianne Braun said the figure is 22 per idential search at St. John's, when they theater-in-the-round were considered of a dance rehearsal room, a new set and cent above the 30.5 nati'onal averag~. were all made public by February I , 1980. only secondarily. Mr. Frame emphasized, however, the The conversation Room will be some need to protect the candidates, all of what reduced in size when eight feet are whom he said have "good, bona fide whittled off the lobby side for a new hall jobs." He said it also is a protection way. It will be linked at one end with the recommended by its consulting firm. present corridor extending by the build Dinners for them are being arranged ing's inner courtyard and will be marked the evening before interviewing. In Santa at the other by a new exterior door open Fe, Mara Robinson, a Search Committee ing onto the campus. member, is in charge. That entrance, in turn , will be con The new presidents will initiate a two nected to the upper campus by a new president system approved in January eight-foot-wide, diagonal walkway lead 1985 for St. John's, replacing the single, ing to the quad. Construction of the new di\'idcd presidency which has been in hallway will provide a buffer area between effecft since the Santa Fe campus was the Conversation Room and lobby. With founded in 1964. They will take office July a new traffic pattern established, it will I, replacing a single president, Edwin J. make it possible for the lobby to function Delattre. independently, almost as a room, for In another presidential search devel other simultaneous events. opment, the Alumni Association's board, CHARLES H. BOHL, the architect, also meeting in Santa Fe, agreed to re has worked with the acoustics firm of quest a change in the college Polity which Klepper, Marshall and King Associates, would permit one of rts board members to of White Plains, N. Y., in efforts to solve he' included in future search committees. sound problems so bad that much Conver- Group to plan reunion of '61 graduates
Plans for the 25th reunion of the Class Martha Goldstein Wyatt, Annapolis. The of 1961 will be laid by a newly formed committee plans to honor faculty mem steering committee the weekend of April bers who taught in Annapolis from 1957- 18'..19 in Annapolis. 61. Members include Harrison Sheppard, Other class members who would like to Tutor Phil Lecuyer makes a fist to locate Halley's Comet. Students, Michael Francisco; Ted Stinchecum, New assist will be welcome at the April Silitch and Denise Malone were among 150 persons who joined in ttte search Victor Schwartz. one cold winter's night on Santa Fe's soccer field. photo by James O'Gara meeting. r:C!' b·~~-·_,,,,~··'!I"'~~~~~-'·•~.,..-~..._~--~ ... November 1985 THE REPORTER Page 5 7-fM(ledi!I~ . Is th re ? St. J n's wa • The following is a shortened version of a piece written by Laurence Berns at the Instruction Committee's request to begin a faculty meeting discussion. Do we, as "the Great Books College," study the books to learn what they contain? Are these subject matters to be learned or, on the :contrary, do we read the books simply to provide occasions for good conversation, for intellectural c6rhtnunion? . . . . ' . . ' Most of us adh~re to views 'sbinewhere between thesf3: ~~dr~r:nes. We believe . we ought to study the best bopksthat qm be read by underg;raduate students by the best authors -:-Jhe bEj3stt~~ch~rs. We pursue studies,:thatiraise the most fon~aMentc;i_l,a~q central,que?~ions 1 that most effectively libe11ate us from narrowne~s, "pettiness, and prejudice.yet intellectual independence is our goal, rt1,i}SOn our. ultimate authority . . :Th~re seteJl!.f?JJQ)be a tension between our tutelage to the great th.inkers and our strivings for intellectual independence, our awareness that na.one e,an ·"see" or. u~derst€1ndfonan;yone else.1 Do w~·resdlve the prohlems'wtl~n we thin~ the . ·t grei:ttesrthinkers' thoughts (if possible) "on our own"? w~ don't understand therp, at least, 'til 'we understand them on our own. (In ourdasses students teach Seniqrs 1Lisa ~ose, Sh~r'11an.Qaks, Calif., an.d Roger Lowe •. Natchitoches, l,.a., th~..tJJS~lyes as.th~y teach one another! But "our ownness," by itself, autonomy, follow t~e re~ding o~ ~~~ Repi.1,bpc. · ·· · Photo by,Gr~g Ferg~$on au~~!~~c!ty:(~elf-i~-~ess',, irf tp~\~eme~~ary meaning) is ;hardly distingui~h~ble . ' ·. from idiosyncrasy. The value of our own would seem to depend on what it is '' · ' Plato' .. _,· lit a single seating .· that we rp\1ke Qul~wn .. , . , · .. · · · : Follow'ingJhe argument, reason, ~'the only recognized authority," is not by PAUL ARGODALE, '88 As for .th~ p~rticipant,s: they ~enerally cherished primarily because we here like it, want to become .skillful at it, and aim When Sir Edmund Hillary was. asked echoed the views of the two organ~zers. to base otir community life tipotl it; we cherish it primarily 'as: an indispensable why any man would want to climb Mt. "I found it very enjoyable and very Everest, his famous reply was "because it's helpful," Dallas, Tex., sophomore Alex.- means·of attivihcfat truth. The primary meaning seems to be discursive reason l . ~ (fogical tonsistency based on intellectual intuition?); but we devote much effort there." ander Magocsi said, adding that "it gave understanding the differences and relations between discursive and On the Annapolis campus a summit of me a new perspective on the reading." to similar magnificence was conquered when It is difficul,t to ascertain exactly. why,a: · mathematical (and experimental) reason, and to the reasonable discussion of the a dozen students, each reading in turn continuous reading would have such a most ptominentaltemative to reason - revelation. without interruption, embarked on a 12- dramatic effect. Our goal requires a special kind of civility. At this "talking college,'' where · hour odyssey through .Plato's Republic. "Perhaps it is an unconscious apprecia- "the seminar is the h~art of the .program," we make special efforts to listen to one When asked why undertake such a mar- tion of the ratios, similar to what occurs in another and to have an atmosphere that makes it as comfortable as possible for athon reading, the two organizers, Joan music," ventured Mr. Goddard. everyone to articulate and share with others what we have in and on our minds. B.ogucki, Brooklyn Center, Minn.,junior, This is the second such reading of the Polemics (the most natural mode of much practical discourse), but not and Jim Goddard, Scituate, Mass., sen- Republic. Two years ago a reading was disagreement, are discouraged: ior, offer no match for Hillary's deadpan. conducted by former St. John's tutor Effective foquiry requires strenuous exercise of critical powers. In tutorials and ••1t has been argued that this was written John Bremer. now director of the Institute laboratories we try to find the right balance between the acquisition of to be read aloud," Mr. Goddard noted. of Philosophy at Myrtle Beach, S.C., a "This is a complete work," Miss Bo- reading which ended at 11 :45 p.m. It was competence and discussion. We favor discussion, but require whatever gucki added. "You would read it at one one that inspired Miss Bogucki and Mr. competence is needed to make discussion meaningful. sitting for the same reason you would G?ddard to repeat the reading. Similarly, Our clases thrive on the mutual criticism of one another's ideas. Is there a listen to Bach's St. Matthew's Passion at this one ended just short of midnight. tension between our efforts to promote a confidence-building comfortable one sitting." About 12 or 15 stalwarts stayed for the conversational atmosphere and the critical activity truth-seeking inquiry Plato's ,Republic is just one of 130 or so duration of the reading, with anywhere requires? Is there any danger, in the elevation of our special civility and great books that make up the core of the from 20 to 25 students dropping in at var community, with its very powerful charms, to an end in itself? Do we properly St. John's curriculum. When the Republic ~ous points in the day. "The energetic vis- prepare those whose habits we form for four years to cope with life outside St. is read in freshman seminar, it is broken itors who dropped in to read during the John's? We aim, I believe, at preparing them to improve that life. into five segments. For Mr. Goddard, this later books were well loved by the full At most institutions the study of Plato begins with the Apology and the Crito, poses some problems of continuity. timers," Mr. Goddard observed. "This work is a whole, and just how underlining the political context within which Socrates' inquiries take place. We Plato keeps this entirely one is best appre begin with the Meno. But devoted as we are to the freedom of inquiry which our ciated in one reading ... .I was so surprised Education board beginning with the Meno implies, does not St. John's rely on political conditions at how well this work hangs together, how that make such inquiry possible? it flows ... appoints Delattre There are, certainly, many political orders where our kind of freedom of inquiry would not be permitted. Robert Maynard Hutchins and Mortimer Adler President Edwin J. Delattre has been used to argue that a Great Books education is education for leadership. In a Leonard interim appointed to the 15-member board of the democracy all men are leaders. In our democracy, therefore, Great Books Fund for the Improvement of Post education is all for men. (Hobbes, on the other hand, suggests that democracy is treasurer in SF secondary Education. really .an aristocracy of orators). In practice neither Hutchins' University of He was named for a three-year term by · Chicago, nor St. John's have ceased to set standards for admission. In practice Anthony C. Leonard, Albuquerque man Secretary of Education William J. Ben nett. The fund exists within the Depart the question of capacities cannot be ignored. St. John's, however, has always agement consultant, has been named in ment of Education to distribute grants to made room for a rather wide variety of capacities in its students. terim treasurer at the Santa Fe campus. He succeeds Emery C. Jennings, who educational institutions on the basis of If the intellectual excellence we try to foster does not automatically or retired December 31. Appointment of a merit. Members include educators along universally promote practical, that is moral and civic, virtues as well, some treasurer on a permanent basis is expected with representatives of other professions. moderation in the pursuit of our primary goal is called for. The presence in our to await the selection of the new president curriculum of Aristophanes' Clouds, Plato's Apology, and other readings, not to for the Santa Fe campus. speak of the Bible, attests to our recognition of the problem. Mr. Leonard, who heads his own con If you. hove art work, The intellectual virtue most prominent in St. John's practice, I believe, is the sulting firm, has had 25 years of business virtue of exposing the humble and not-humble foundations underlying our most experience in general management, fin come and exhibit imposing scientific, philosophic, and literary edifices. We especially prize ance, marketing, and production and in The first annual alumni art show high level staff positions in planning, cor discourse that can translate complicated scientific, philosophic and literary will be held in July in conjunction porate development, and corporate com with the Santa Fe homecoming. The language into straightforward, clear, precise, down-to-earth terms, the terms, if munications. Santa Fe Alumni Office is accepting possible, of ordinary discourse. A graduate of the Phillips Academy, he slides for review. Interested persons We regard such translations not as mere popularizing but as contributions to earned his bachelor's degree from Har should send them to Mary Sue Lau depth of understanding. Our goals are ambitious; our successes are rarely vard in 1959 and received his master's rel, Alumni Office, St. John's Col unmixed with failures. The nobility of truth seeking \understanding, however, degree with distinction in 1966 at the Har lege, 1160 Camino de la Cruz unites and rallies us, tutors and students, in a fellowship that thusfar l"i ...... Page 6 THE REPORTER November 11 b 'r ar ' • e i (Continued from P. 1) . ' funds for the restudy ot the laboratory Oceanography next year. Here are some of the In a report prepared for the Board of Visitors and Governors, Mr. Doskow said is her field the present difficulty does not lie in deter documents read here With a doctorate in atmospheric scien mining what subject matter is to be cov Representing landmarks in the development of science, these documents are ces from Oregon State University earned ered. among those read at SLJohn's either in their entirety or in part: in 1984, Mary L. Batteen, '73, is teaching ··we have a consensus, and a reason On the Revolutions of the Heaven~1· Spheres, in which Nicolaus Copernicus in the Department of Oceanography at able one, on that, though there are things (1473-1543) puts forth his heliocentric theory of the planets the Naval Postgraduate School in Monte we would like to do more fully," he said. Epitome of Copernican Astronomy by Johann Kepler (1571-1630), first astron rey, Calif. Rather, he believes, the major difficulty omer to introduce physics into the skies "I work with and teach former Nava] lies in finding the most effective means of On the Motion of the Heart and Blood (1578-1657) by William Harvey, English presenting material in a way which will be physician who discovered the circulation of the blood accessible to students, many of whom Le Monde by Rene Descartes ( 1596-1650), described as the first modern mathe would not be taking advanced mathe matician who initiated the modern attempt to account for natural phenomena in matics or science were they students else terms of matter in motion and laws of nature where. Principia of Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), in which his principle of universal ··in addition, they must be teachable by gravitation provided an explanation both of falling bodies and of the motion of our faculty, few of whom have advanced planets, comets, and other heavenly bodies training in these areas," Mr. Doskow said. Elements of Chemistry by Lavoisier ( J 742- J794), who developed to a large extent These are not difficulties new to the the modem concept of element col1ege, Mr. Doskow pointed out, and Origin of .';pecies by Charl~s Darwin (1809-1882), in which he describes .natural there have been real improvements over selection as a result of the struggle for existence the last few years. Experiments on Plant Hyhridization by Gregor Mendel ( 1822-J 884), who discov .. lhe lab program is significantly ered that units of heredity are transmitted unaltered to offspring and their transmis stronger, and we have a clear sense of . sion obeys simple statistical Jaws what needs to be done next" Cathode Rays by J.J. Thomson (1856-1940), in which he showed in 1897 that the At St. John's, he said, students read electrical charge conveyed in cathode rays is associated with mass and that ratio of primary texts and examine phenomena charge to mass is constant MARY BATTEEN conscientiously and well. Jhe Eleuron by Robert Andrews Millikan (1868-1953), who established the idea Academy graduates," she writes. "They .. WE TRY TO GET at the often un that electric charge comes in discrete units are most amazed to hear that I wentto St. stated assumptions underlying these mate Jhe .\·cauering of Alpha and Bera Particles hy Matter and the Slructure of the John's and am in the science fielO." rials and examine the implications that Atom by Ernest Rutherford ( 1871-1937), which argues that the mass iri an atom must M's. Batteen came to St. John's because follow from them. As a colleague once be concentrated in a tiny nucleus of her interest in oceanography. half-facetiously put it to me, 'We do On rhe Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies and A Heuristic Viewpoint Concern "When I saw that St.' John's offered metaphysics in every class.'" ing the Production and Conversion of Light by Albert Einstein (J 879-1955), in which four years of science and math, l thought Mr. Doskow described the content of he introduces the principles of the special theory of relativity and accounts for the at the time that it would be a great prepa the three year program. quantitative studies of the photoelectric effect · ration for a graduate career in ocean Our freshman lab in Annapolis falls Experimental Research in Electricity by Michael Faraday (1791-1867), a collec ography. I also was interested in every into three parts: Biology (anatomy, ani tion of experiments showing, among many other results, that a given element has a thing else (from creative writing to clas mal behavior, and embryology), physics fixed amount of electricity associated with it sics) so the St. John's· program really (consideration of such basic concepts as On the Spectrum of Hydrogen by Niels Bohr ( 1885-1962), in which he accounts for appealed to me." measure, weight, density, pressure, and the discrete spectral lines of light emitted by excited atoms Originally, in high school, she had been temperature), and chemistry (the devel Wave Mechanics by Erwin Schroedinger ( 1887-1961 ), in which he arrives at an interested in becoming a biological ocean opment of atomic theory with a concen equation that implies there are "matter waves" ographer. During her senior year, when tration on Lavoisier)." The Physirnl Principles of the Quantum Jheory by Werner Heisenberg (1901- she discovered she had top grades in phys- The current freshman biology program 1976), which introduces the uncertainty principle (See Batteen on P. 10) came in 1976-77 when the college moved from four to three years of lab and has version of the first semester manual, The experiments, particularly in the junior logy. It is important to bring tutors into undergone a number of major revisions. work remains very difficult, particularly and senior years. Some manuals still have that part of the curriculu~ and the mate "We now have a series of readings we toward the end of the semester, perhaps to be worked on, and students have to be rial is of suffienct difficulty that I do not are, for the most part, happy with, and the too difficult, and we will have to see how given days to feel more secure at bench think it likely to be achieved by the usual demonstrations and experiments have the revision works." work. In addition, we should make a spe independent study and auditing. been much improved. We have some good Students now have better equipment cial effort to bring still more tutors into " .. .I would just conclude by reiterating new equipment which enables us to have with which to work, but there are difficul the labs, particularly the senior labs which what I suggested at the beginning. With its better experiments and demonstrations, ties. in attempting to meet them, Mr. are most alien to most of us. faults and with the recurrent problems we and the freshman lab is in good shape ... " Doskow said the college is working to have with the lab, it remains a remarkable A general outline of the first semester of make the manuals as accessible as possible "TO THIS END, I hope next year to achievement, well beyond, as far as l the junior lab includes kinematics, dy and to provide mathematical help as it is have an experienced tutor give a class for know, what any other liberal arts college namics, and optics. Major changes have needed. tutors in the material of the first semester requires of its students. We know it is a been a "significant' revision ofthe manual He added that assistance might come by senior lab with released time for a number long way from ideal, but we also know two years ago and development of several having the labs open for many hours dur of the participants. I would then hope to that what we have is fundamentally sound new experiments. The faculty is develo- ing the week so that students can come in follow that in the following year with a and able to be improved in systematic and ping better experiments for force. . at leisure to familiarize themselves with similar arrangement for the senior bio- seeabJe ways." Of the latter half of the junior year, he equipment, to redo some experiments, observed: and, in general to begin to feel more com "The second semester, electricity and petent in the laboratory. Holding on to the answers magnfaism works fairly well but could be "The second semester lab remains very "I want to undertand the world." difficult, some of the papers ·we use are better. The manual could use reworking, An ambitiously sweeping statement, perhaps, but that's what Gabrielle Fink, and we depend mostly on demonstrations, highly technical, and we do not yet have, Fairfax, Va., senior, remembers writing on her admissions application four years We need more experiments to give stu good experiments to go with all the read ago as one reason she chose for coming to St. John's. dents a better feel for what can easily ings," Mr. Doskow said. "Again, work is "Just studying at SL John's - philosophy, history, literature - has given me a being done at present to help, but it will become a very abstract study. Someone world view," she said. should be given released time in the near not be completed this year." Now heading for graduate work in paleontology - a field she also thinks of in future to work on these things." Mr. Doskow summed up his overview: terms of a "world science" - Miss Fink was wary of first attending a college where Mr. Doskow explained that the senior "In general, then, I can say that. the labs she would just learn the technical aspects of a science. She is appreciative of the lab falls into two distinct parts. are better in most ways than they were philosophical foundations of science she finds at St. John's. several years ago. "The first semester returns to some of The equipment is better, "I don't think I could just memorize," she said. "If I don't understand a subject the questions raised during the freshman the manuals are under annual review and conceptually, from all angles, it evaporates. I want to hold on to the answers." chemistry and takes a 20th century look at several have been revised, some experi Miss Fink, who is also co-editor of the student publication, Energeia, said she was the development of modern atomic and ments have been improved and some new awakened to the philosophical underpinnings in her freshman year through the quantum theory. ones devised, tutors who have never done study of biology_ "THE SECOND DEALS with ques the advanced labs before have moved into "l was impressed by biology, especially embryology, where we begin thinking tions raised by modern biology (Darwin, them, and the spirit is on the whole good. about life and the forces that are at work in it. Part ot what we do at St. John's is to genetic theory, and microbiology). This ••More needs to be done. We still need try to understand those forc.~s tf\'\t are alive in the world." year we are working with a newly revised significant work on improving and adding -·---- ·------·------~...... ______...... , ______...... ______..... ______~---~..-... November 1985 THE REPORTE Page 7 Science Ph.D. ati surprisingly h ·gh (Continued from P. 1) "A lot of undergraduate curricula do earn doctorates. St. John's ranks very are some the same things over and over again with high - fifth among 1,500 institutions of And here each successive year looking at the sub higher learning - in the percentage who ject in more detail," he said. "We don't complete doctorates in the humanities of the experiments repeat because we attempt to treat the and shortly under the top 47 institutions Here are some of the classical experiments St. John's students perform: subjects well the first time." for the percentage of the Ph.D.'s in the By using lead and tin, the re-enactment of the crown problem of Archimedes TRAINED AS AN astrophysicist, Mr. sciences. It placed 27th among the 1,500 (287-212 B.C.), in which he weighed metals in air and water to discover if gold and Beall believes the way the program starts schools for doctorates in all fields. silver had been adulterated with fundamentals and follows through The study is for Ph.D.'s only and, The detection of differences in the pressure of the atmosphere at different altitudes the sequential development of a scientific because of the period covered by the sur as first done by Blaise Pascal (1623-62), performed at St. John's in McDowell's Bell thought is compelling. vey, excludesthe 22-year-old Santa Fe Tower and at sea level on College Creek It is a sequence similar to that of the campus. It also did not take into account The 1662experiment of Robert Boyle demonstrating that pressure and volume of chronological development of the read Johnnies who complete medical degrees, gas are inversely proportional · ing list and involves. a process he com many of whom have told faculty members Sir Isaac Newton's experiment on the impact of the pendulum, verifying the pared to reading Aristotle first in order they wanted a degree in liberal arts before conservation of momentum and, for elastic bodies, the conservation of relative properly to understand Aquinas and St. entering medicine. motion, as reported in his Principia of 1687 Augustine. He believes that students can (See Laboratory P. JO) Withouta careful study, there is no way The calibration of a thermometer in the manner of Fahrenheit, introduced in 17 I 2 oftelling whether students who eventually The experiments on sound waves first performed in 17 I 5 by Brook Taylor receiv~ their doctorates in science already The law of Joseph Louis Gay-Lusac (1778-1850) showing that when gases com Math brought were scientifically motivated when they bine chemically their volumes have to one another small, whole number ratios came here b.r whether something in their The Law of Definite Proportion of Joseph Louis Proust, who showed in J806 that St. John's.education spurred them on. materials combine chemically in definite proportion by weight student back The 1819 experiment of the Danish scientist, Hans Christian Oersted, to show the It was St. John's mathematics program What is known· is that there are students magnetic field. of an electric current . that impelled Gillian Nassau, A '85, to like Nancy Townsend, Mystic, Conn., Andrew-Marie Ampere's 1822 experiment on the attraction and repulsion of return to the college after she left midway senior, or H.elen Conlon Colston, '82, who electrical currents through her junior year. selected St. John's because they wanted a A demonstration to determine the shape of the field and the influence of one "I can't begin to express how much the. liberal educaticmthat does include mathe magnetic field on another as performed by Michael Faraday (1791-1867) math program has helped me· and con matics and science. The program founders Faraday's 1831 experiment on the magnetic induction of a current tinues to," she writes from the University would approve. As St. John's tutor Sam The determination of the ratio of the electromagnetic and the electrostatic unit of of FJorida, where she has a teaching K.utler points out, the belief that science charge, which proves to be equal to the speed of light, first determined by Weber and assistantship in philosophy. can be taught in a liberal way runs deep Kohlrausch in I 856 and crucial to Maxwell's theory that Jight is an electro-magnetic "It is a great tool for philosophy (in my here. disturbance opinion a necessary tool!) .. .I have just MISS TOWNSEND thought it was im- Heinrich Rudolf Hertz's production of electro-magnetic waves reported in 1887 completed a paper on mathematics in the portant should she enter a field such as J.J. Thomson's determination in 1897 of the charge to mass ratio of an electron Kantian system and found myself recon economics. Mrs. Colston, now Admis The oil drop experiment of Robert Millikan ( 1868-1953) determining the charge of sidering the Lobachevski and Einstein I sions Office alumni liaison and a new the electron learned last year. This coming semester l mother, has long term plans for advanced Ernst Rutherford's experiment of 191 l on alpha particles showing that the major will be teaching logic. Though I have little. work in mathematics. ity of the atom's weight is concentrated in an extremely small volume called a nucleus formal training in logic (just what I re But for a college centered in great Neils Borh 's explanation of 1913 of the spectrum of hydrogen ceived my sophomore year), my four years books, which prospective students repeat The development of the sea urchin from fertilization through the pluteus larva of undergraduate math convinced the edly say during the admissions process stage as first studied by Hans Dries ch (l 867-1941) head of the department to allow me to they want to attend because they like to Classical bacterial recombination experiments and enzyme induction experiments teach it. read, the proportion of Ph.D.'s in science similar to those done in 195<}:..60 by Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod "I had never liked math before college says something about the laboratory pro and resented having to take it for three gram - the part of the program most the reading of landmark papers represent Burks, SF '76, who obtained his doctorate years in high school. (I went to subject to change - that is both surpris ing revolutionary concepts in physics, in_molecular biophysics and biochemistry Stuyvesant, a special math high school in ing and positive: biology, and chemisty. from Yale, translated his transcript into a New York City). I was poor at math, Under St. John's non-elective pro Jim Beall, a newcomer to the faculty math major with minor in physics.) having no memory for operations and gram, no student escapes mathematics or not too long removed from his own under "It depends on how you count," Mr. rules and was eager to get it behind me. laboratory. St. John's since 1937 has graduate studies and a tutor whose inter Beall said. 'The study of Euclid and But once immersed in mathematical always required four years of mathemat est in teaching at St. John's was piqued by Ptolemy really in some sense falls into theory at St. John's, l fell in love with ics and, since l 976-77, three, rather than the laboratory program, argues that St. science. The senior math tutorial deals math (mind's most productivce child). I four, years of the laboratory sciences. John's offers, if you include the mathe with Eins~ein 's theory of special relativity. have always felt that l could never have Much of the science comes in the re matics, a four-year major in the sciences. You really do get four years of sciences if gotten the mathematical trainihng I re enactment of classical experiments or in (A St. John's alumnus, Christian- · you _count the math." ceived from St. John's anywhere else." hat it was like to be getting a Ph. D. 1n science• Christian Burks, SF '76, who in 1982 molecules. and passed the master's level exams about analytical skills, willingness to devote began a three-year stint as a post-doctoral A laboratory assistant for three years at six months after the other members of my time to the project, and luck much more fellow with the Theoretical Biology and St. John's and chief of the lab assistants class and then began working on my than it depends on previous education." Biophysics Group at Los Alamos his last year, Mr. Burks went on to get his Ph.D. project with my advisor. MR. BURKS BELIEVES molecular National Laboratory, has been named to doctorate at Yale University. What were "My thesis, entitled 'Structuraland enzy biology is one of the most, if not the most, a permanent staff member position there. his problems in entering without an under mological studies on cholesteryl ester exciting and important areas of science "My work here centers on support of graduate major in molecular biology? He phases: implications for atherosclerosis,' today, with broad practical value to and GenBank, the national DNA sequence describes his experience: used X-ray and neutron diffraction as well implications for society as well as database," Mr. Burks reports. "I graduated from St. John's in 1976 and enzymological assays to address the parochial value to biologists. "We have a contract with the National and that same year entered the Ph. D. question of whether the structure and "In this light, I view it as unfortunate Institutes of Health to expand and main program at Yale University in the Depart state of cholesteryl esters had a bearing on that St. John's reduced the biology seg tain its computer data base. I also do ment of Molecular Biophysics and Bio their role in the development of heart ment of the lab program to one-half year." research in the area of applying pattern chemistry. diseases." He notes that the GenBank database recognition algorithms to the task of "My first year I was directed to take Mr. Burks graduated five years later. project has employed four of St. John's searching the DNA database for patterns only undergraduate level courses in an Only one student who had entered the alumni. that may correlate with the functions of effort to cram an undergraduate major in program at the same time graduated '.'Two have gone on to graduate school the sequences." molecular biology into one year. before him so, although he was quite far in the biological sciences (at Berkeley and The work at LANL has involved a THIS WAS AN extremely unpleasant behind his classmates initially, he had in Cornell), one, gone now, is planning on major shift from the kind of work he did experience because they were all very effect caught up by the end. entering medical school next year, and as a graduate student at Los Alamos, difficult courses and further were struc "This is due in large part to the fact that one is still with us. , where he was an experimentalist special tured on the 'sit in the. lecture, take notes, most of the effort in getting a Ph.D. is .. In addition, Gerry Myers (St. John's izsing in the structure of lipid molecules. cram for exams' style of learning, which l spent on becoming expert in a very nar tutor) has worked as a consultant with our His present work makes him a computer had little or no experience with or row subfield and doing (successfully) experi group for several years. A number of programmer and database manager fo inclination for. ments pertinent to the subfield," he said. other St. John's alumni have worked at cusing on th~ structure of nucleic acid .y'-'/!UPl~X:C\J~. I s~rvive_d!h'!~year. Itook "This depends on one's general bent and LANL in groups other than mine." 11..1'4'.'.lll""ft 8 THE REPORTER Nn\vAmnAr 1 @I ' (Continued from P. 1) his work with students, with the board Raditsa commented. "I've never seen him tutional change and progress do not occur and alumni, and with many of his col without learning something of import without some roiling of the waters," Mr. leagues. He is disappointed that he was ance." Robson said. "That, too, was present. able to teach in the St. John's program DEAN GEORGE DOSKOW spoke of "And in our media-sensitive age, style only during one year, the year he resided the many important contributions to the frequently overcomes substance - at in Santa Fe, when he .w,as one of a three ongoing well-being of St. John's. least in short-term assessments. But in the member tutors' seminar team. "He. was instrumental in preserving and long term, substance is what counts, and Of those things he has learned a.t St. furthering the financial stability of the col the college i's i substantially better off John's, Mr. Delattre.noted several thc;tt he lege, and, as importantly, he always did so today, in a host of ways, than it was when would like to take w1t'h him in his future with a.n eye to academjc e~cellence and the Ed Delattre assumed office. He· deserves ' work. - . ' · well-being of stud~nts, staff, and f{lculty. the· college communit.y's gratitude and &"" \ "As you know~ Id~ not think St: John's "He ~never lost sighJ of whaHhe 'college . admiration for a job very well done." · \ is unique:·;heo~serye~. "Itseems to s~and exists for;and never'.put .financial ahd fis- · JOHN H; DENDAHL, of Santa Fe, J. DELATTRE for many of the ideals good teachers every cal concerns over intelJectual ones. He board .chairman; points to another area:· admissions and financial aid programs where stand for. That the faculty have thought it particularly important 1: that that of the more fully involved board. insure that students from all economic the authority for the educational program staff be treated well .and worked ·hard to . In past decades, he said, the involve- backgrounds will have every opportunity is a decidedly important matter because establi~h consistent and reasanable1 prac-.. ment of members was limited almost at St. John's." the faculty can .work as a: whole.· r would tices.; , : ( ,:1·, "·· .y : exclusively to the college's financial On education leadership, Mr. Delattre; like to see other colleges and universities "tte opened up th ..... Fees going on · bluegrass music ~ As career counselor for the Santa Fe state, and regularly does a solo gospel per campus, Ron Hale should know. He takes formance at the New Mexico State Pen to $13,020 ~4/,~ his work as guitarist for a prize-winning itentiary. bluegrass band seriously, but he doesn't Mr. Hale performs with the Lonesome Moonlight Ramblers, whose members St. John's will increase costs of tuition, Competition Number Six is for room, and board to $13.020 in the 1986-87 live in an area spread over 130 miles, mak the title and opening sentences (in ing it a long distance to come to play or academic year. . English translation) of a Platonic The figure, which was approved by the rehearse. dialogue that was never handed down Other members are Roy McAdams, Board of Visitors and Governors at its to us. No more than ten lines, please, Jan. I 8 meeting in Santa Fe, represents mandolin; Tosh McGilivray, stand-up but of course, they must be of subtly bass, and Tom Siebel, fiddle. Various a 9.9 per cent jump. mimetic significance. Board members approved the higher people play banjo depending on where the Since there were no entries for Ramblers perform. costs upon the recommendation of Competition Number Five, gener Charles A. Nelson, of Croton-on-Hudson, Mr. Hale started playing with the' ous book credits await the winners Ramblers, when' they were house band at N. Y., chairman of. the board's Finance of Number Six. Deadline: March 1. Committee. "a real rough bar," the Golden Inn in Golden, N.M., which eventually burned . Earlier~ students and parents had been £441# advised that the increas.e was likely by · down. After they literally were fired from President Edwin J,. Delattre. In a letter to there, members won the prestigious Santa them, he said that during the past three ACT council elects Fe banjo and pickers contest. years, over-all .annual increases have been Although he had been exposed to coun Drennon secretary try music as a child, Mr. Hale began listen-· made. at slightly' more than 7 per cent, Ron Hale performs with his band. "and we win continue this cou·rse as fully ing seriously to bluegrass when he heard Marsha Drennon, direc•or of ~mis recommend it for a ~areer. as resources.permit.~'• ' 1 Bill Monroe in concert at Swarthmore sions and financial aid in Santa has, "N1,1sic is really a hard way to make a ML· Nelson presented a series of tuition · fe. College. He makes a distinction between been elected to. )~~rve as secretary ~f the living," he sajd, .. You have to love it. It's figutes' for· the cune.nt year for the so country music and bluegrass. New Mexico American Co Hege T ~sting rough," "Bluegrass is basically unamplified called SJoan group of select private col Council fQr 1985-.86. · · To him bluegrass is a hobby. He has leges into which Si John's falls, many of country music, and it's more folksy." The council includes post secondary served as president ofthe Southwest Pick He finds the bluegrass "electrifying, .. which already charge more than nine and institutions, groups, and agencies withi.n ers, an organization which promotes ten thousand d<>Hats .for tuition as op He also appreciates, it because its big the stat_e was well as secondary schools. bluegrass and folk music throughout the posed to St. John's present $8,850; names belong to people whom he finds completely unselfconscious and unpreten In ~espo,n~~.tf) <;i~~s,tioning, Jeri Rhodes, tious, stars like Bill Monroe, Ricky Annapolis ::tt~suter, said St. John's charges students for board what its food Uncle Remus comes to Santa Fe Skaggs, and Doug Dillard. service, '.iSaga •.,charges the college, and In addition to his Southwest Pickers presidencey, Mr. Hale serves as judge of must pass' oh·· ~nt ''Saga increases to the Santa Fe banjo and pickers contest, stud,ents. That fee w~U go up by $100. Charles Bell thought Uncle Remus' and he and his family are college residents. 4' r~fffri~gi, to. the, $200 increase for example was good enough. ' 1 The Ramblers have given several per ro:o.m...sb.~fstr~~~~_f).,tl;l~,need to keep abreast "UncJe Remus never had· a chair so I '11 formances .at the college in which Steve of 'dOrmitQry upkeep rather than paying just stand up," the' Sanfa· Fe 'tutor said as Houser, a tutor, has joined them on guitar substantial costs at a future date. Board he began a new story hour on the western although he is not a regular member. The Cl)a~u1ian. John H. Dendahl, of Santa Fe, campus. group likes to play at St. John's because noted that there' alr~ady is a backlog of Coordinated by Jan Eldridge, the pro their music is well received .. defer'recr'doqnitory work on both cam gram is presenting readings by tutors, a "I find bluegrass an interesting contrast puse,s. · ,. : . . . · • Santa Fe author, and local story tellers. to the intellectual pressure at St. John's," "While the proposed increases are large, "We've decided to offer a new type of Mr. Hale said. "The students probably it is important ,to note that we have been event to Santa Fe because we think it's like us for that reason. Either that or able' to limit ou'r price (tuition and fees) to important for children to participate in because we all have so much fun." about 60 per cent ofthe cost of education the pleasure of story telling and to exper - tb,e amount we spend per student," Mr. ience its enjoyment," M's Eldridge said. Delat1tre said. · " · "Since reading is an important part of College takes part "The national average for price at lib the St. John's curriculum, it is appropriate era,l fldS coliegesjsjri ~xcess of 70 per cent. · to carry on our traditiion with children. in Play of Daniel Significant ir}C:reases in endowment, bot~ Also, this gives the community a good Students, alumni, tutors, and friends by ne.W, gifts and by .m~rket appreciation, opportunity to spend time with family and Timothy Wanzer, Concord, Mass., jun gave two performances of the Play of have enabled us to sustain this lower level friends at the college." ior, came to story hour as a pirate. Daniel at the Museum of Fine Arts in of price." .. ' ' . . ' ' Mr. Bell's reading brought parents as had only an hour, condensed the story and Santa Fe in December. Originally com Tuiti.on .at St. :.J:ohn 's will go from its well as children and a number of John filled in details from memory. Afterwards, posed by medieval monks, the play has present $8,K50 tq $9, 720, a 9. 8 per cent nies, including two dressed as clowns. refreshments were served that included been performed by the Vienna Opera increase; room from $1,300 to $1,500, a Mr. Bell prefaced his readiing with an marlin spike punch, hard tack cookies, Company and the New York Pro Musica 15.4 per cent increase, and board from explanation of why he chose stories from and a bit of Ben Gunn 's beloved cheese. Society. $! 17qg t,6 $'~.:~o~,_ a_ ,5.9 per cent increase. Uncle Remus despite their having been A professional story teller, Linda Levy It relates the life of the prophet Daniel Figures are ~qeqt1P,ajj for both campuses. condemned as racist during the 1960s. finished the fall semester series with .. Win under two kings, Belshazzer and Darius, MCPelaJir.e,,elllP,hasized the need to "People are leery of any piece from this ter Tales," stories representing more than of Babylon, and includes the tale of the co~tiri4~ ~t,:,Jo.hn~s ~mall class sizes and to period," he said. "This is a pity. If we deny 2,000 years of oral tradition. lion's den. Peter Pe sic, musician-in improve faculty and staff compensation. t.he value of these folk tales from Georgia, A story from Ireland described why it is residence, served as the director of the He, al~o.said the in~rease in the dormitory Africa, and other places, we may as well important to have a story tucked away in chorus, and Mary Neidorf directed the ch~rge fefleet~. t~~~c.ollege 's "commitment stop singing the blues or work songs. We one's mind for those times when it's play. Mrs. Neidorf's children's choir to'Crlharice the. mai.ntenance and furnish can't deny there was a time when people needed. A 2,000-year-old gypsy legend set served- as the queen's procession. ing( of rh~~e facilities." had slaves." in Egypt explained how the robin got its Costumes and scenery were used only, Tutor Stuart Boyd claimed to be Jim . red breast, the nightingale its song, and to the extent that it accented the setting . Class of '76 sets Hawkins, the narrator of Treasure Island, why the fir tree is evergreen. The play was performed in Latin. · ·Sar1tci 1Fe reunion · in the second story hour in which he was A I ,000-year-old story from Norway assisted by students and a live parrot. Mr. explained how the sea became salt, and Berns in program S~qta f~;~ Class! of 1976 will hold its Boyd's feet and chest were bare, a bright the story from Appalachia was a group I 0:-',i~ar~ -~eti'~·i~·n a(homecoming in Santa red scar ran along his cheek, and a gold participation story set in a winter swamp. St. John's College tutor Laurence Berns'' was a participant in a January 9 program Fe July 1s-20. · ! , ,,·,: earring gleamed like the short scimitar at "Not only is story telling a way of pass lfyou'are'part ofthat class and have not his feet. ing on human traditions," Mrs. Levy said, dealing with the U.S. Constitution and rece.ived a ,qiaili9g regarding this event, Students dressed as pirates punctuated "but story telling is also a way to pass on held at the College of Liberal Arts, Roch- ' ester Institute of Technology, Rochester; ple~/ie. iI;lf9!IV, ~cir~ Sue Laurel at the Mr. Boyd's reading with "Arr, Cap'n human values and develop empathy and Santa Fe alumm office. 1 Boyd" and by grave assents at the word other human qualities in childre.n." N.Y. Reunion C:ommittee members are "rum." At the· mention of Captain Flint, This month Mary Neidorf will. read He took part in a discussion, "The Barbara'."Liifrer·•. Richard Light burn, Long John Silver's parrot,. Mr. Boyd from A.A. Milne's "Winnie the Pooh," Goetz Affair: Lawful Defense and the Pabfo Cq!Jih,~~. aI1d Glenda Holliday would nod at Big Red, a macaw loaned by and in April Santa Fe author Aileen Paul · Constitution," which also featured former Eoy~n,g.J'.or Sl)ggestions and comments, Pete's Pet Shop. will read "Cooking Without a Stove" and attorney general Ramsey Clark and pleas~ reach'ihem or the Santa Fe alumni Reading with a touch of the brogue of conduet a copking workshop for children George Anastaplo, professor of law at office. ·' and, !! seminar program. And while classes em and tutorials if we didn't have science to to study physics, it could only be Miss ..... body the history of science , the program help teach us how to approach problems. (Eva) Brann's junior math class. The lab certainly gave me a humility and a true (Continued from P. 7) also poses questions which can be of It certainly helps you think clearly." appreciate the development in a way not paramount interest in the readings of St. NOT SURPRISINGLY ,St. John's appreciation of the difficulties of physics, possible in a conventional program. John's great books. turns out a fair share of alumni who go on but only in the math class, both junior and "That's why we turn out such good "A lot of philosophical questions raised for doctorates in the history of science senior math, do you get to see the true formal beauty of physics. people, especially in physics, with a pretty in the 17th century are intertwined with - alumni like David Allison, A '73, of good success rate," he said. the emergence of modern science," Mr. Alexandria, Va., now a Naval historian, "OF COURSE, this statement must be Mr. Beall noted that Johnnies who go Wilson said. who found the reading of classical trea seen in the light of my choice of fields. I on to graduate school report having to "THESE QUESTIONS are interesting tises from an historic perspective "ex am a theoretical and not an experimental work hard. to students because they involve them in a tremely enjoyable." His interest led to a physicist. So the lab program does give a "But that's true of students who grad conflict of ideas; for instance, between the 1980 doctorate from .Princeton. good sense of the guesswork in all good uate from other places," he said. "If a ideas of Aristotle and those of Descartes. Going on for a doctorate in science after research, and a feel for how science university's graduate program is worth its "In the junior year, Descartes, Pascal, St. John's frequently means taking addi moves. This, in turn, provides a much salt, you have to work hard." Hobbes and Kant were all men who com tional undergraduate classes. healthier attitude than that engendered by He believes that St. John's classroom mented on the scientific revolution and Dr. JoAnn Murray, A '70, a physicist the assimilation of the polished results of procedures prepare one better for grad for whom the revolution was a major part from the Metallurgy Division, National many hundreds of years of intensive uate education than most places. "In of their philosophical background. The Bureau of Standards, who delivered the study." many ways the program at St. John's is laboratory work is very relevant." Coc.hrane Memorial Lecture last fall, Mr. Ingham feels that the St. John's reminiscent of graduate education at the Assistant Dean Malcolm Wyatt believes took a full year of science, beginning with program in no way prepares for the mathe level of dissertation: a lot of interaction that the same thoughtfulness that has some junior level classes, and delayed her matical complexities of graduate study in among students and faculty, a lot of gone into the rest of the curriculum goes qualifying examination a year before physics. discussion." into the laboratory program. beginning her Ph.D. "Going from St. John's to Hopkins, Nicholas Maistrellis, a tutor closely "The part I know best represents a very In some ways, she believes the labora perhaps I alone could understand the identified with the laboratory since com considerable improvement in the coher tory classes at St. John's are superior to plight of the foreign student newly arrived ing here in 1967, believes it is possible that ence of the work_and a vast improvement more conventional classes elsewhere be in America. Like them, I was suddenly students might get excited here in the way in the organization of experiments that cause the experiments, designed "from immersed in a language of which I had the they would not at another institution. makes them important and meaningful," scratch;" have more of the real flavor of most meager knowledge. When I received "The wav we do lab makes it look as if it he said. what science is like than the "more a homework assignment, I would often is something not so different from other .. In the past, the experiments were fre canned" experiments most undergradu have to go two or three texts back from activities we require that involve the imag quently ambitious and lacked the equip ates experience. our course text in order to understand ination," he said. "And we don't make the ment and design to achieve very much. Christian Burks, SF '76, now with the the questions, to say nothing of produc humanities/science distinction. We don't Now they not only do not discourage stu Los Alamos National Laboratory, also ing their solutions. divide our people into scientific and non dents but are a source of satisfaction." spent a year cramming to put an under 'This isn't really a criticism, since there scientific types and that makes it possible Mr. Wyatt believes a major improve graduate major in molecular biology into is no way for the program to rectify this for them to reassess what their interests ment came in I 983 with .the appointment one year before beginning his doctorate at and retain its identity. Rather, it is a warn really are." of a director of laboratories, a position Yale, ing to others following my path: either At a high school level, students tend to originally held by Chester Burke, '74, now "Did St. John's lab program prepare take a year or two off and prepare or divide very early, to select a major when a full-time tutor, and this year by Mark me for graduate work in molecular biol prepare to spend the most horrible year or they are very young. he said, adding that Daly. For the first time, he said, the col ogy?" he asked. two you can imagine. Exhilarating, yes, it's hard for them to explore other alterna lege has someone to think about the "In a technical sense, not at all, In a but in the way a ride on a most terrific tives or to discover they may have powers design and appropriate equipment for conceptual sense, I would say that molec . roller coaster is, which is not to everyone's relating to science they did not know they experiments, to train laboratory assist ular biology was less foreign to me than it taste. possessed. ants, and to help clarify problems for would have been otherwise; but there was ••Atso, and this might be rectifiable, St. tutors. still a wide conceptual gap I had to bridge· John's provides no experience a subject ALSO THE FACT that our classes are in The part of the program Mr. Wyatt once I got into graduate school. which is the reason for being of many structured to confront and overcome their principally teaches is the second semester "In the sense of developing and honing science courses in other schools, namely fears of math and science helps," he said. of the junior year and the first part of the analytical skills and the ability to read problem solving. We don't really have to Mr. Maistrellis is convinced that taking senior - the work in electricity and mag well, I would say the lab program was a take a formalism, geometry, mechanics, the usual college course is not very much netism leading to early quantum theory - big help, but no more so than all the other calculus ... and use it to produce answers. like doing scientific work. a program he .finds covers a ·"very intelli courses at St. John's." This takes a bag of tricks which can only "When you take a course, you are gent and excititng" sequence that follows Although she was interested in basic be filled by much practice, This was one of responsible for a body of material re la ting a historical pattern. biology before coming to St. John's F. the worst drawbacks I had coming here. to a known discipline whereas when you While he said St. John's gets a lot Kay Huebner, A '64, now with the Wister For in most beginning graduate courses, work in science, you don't really need to of admissions applications that say "I love Institute of Anatomy a.nd Biology in Phi the real learning is .in the .weekly home knowthe whole body. You need to know to read" and fail to mention physics, Mr. ladelphia, said the exact field in which she work assignments and at first I simply had how certain elements relate to the work Wyatt suspects that there niay have been a ended up, molecular genetics, was chosen no .idea of how to approach the concrete you are doing. What students learn at St. lot of students who have discovered' the partially because of her laboratory exper problems we were given." John's is a collection of very general and excitement of the sciences here. iments at St. John's. fundamental things. These things are learn Chester Burke, '74, who believes the She remembers '"very fondly" her fruit Oink to get his doctorate ed in laboratory and in math tutorials, laboratory program is being better done fly genetics experiment but what was most Annapolis tutor Michael Dink, A '75, · and they're the things that require the least than when he was a student, like Assistant decisive was the laboratory course in technical ability to understand and also will receive his doctorate in philos~phy in Dean Barbara Leonard and several oth which students read and discussed all the May from Catholic University. - are the things that make it possible for ers, regrets the dropping of the fourth year Scientific American articles on the solving them to talk about science." In December he passed his final exami of science in 1976-77, a decision made to of the genetic code. She was impressed by nation on his thesis, "A Commentary on Disconcerting for some students are th.e ease the curriculum load for sophomores. the beauty and simplicity of the system. Plato's Sophist," an almost line-by..line conclusions reached in one experiment "I would never be against thinking of a In a way, she .said she was pushed into commentary which attempts to clarifythe that may be displaced by those in another. meaningful or significant way of reinsti- science because of St. John's and because meaning of the text. In 1978 he received •'The material presented in the labora tuting the missing year," he said. . she wanted to escape all the uncertainties his master's from Catholic University with tory program - classic papers and texts St. John's students don't get a lot of which "we all discover during our St. a thesis on Plato's Phaedo. While pursu as well as experiments - can lead to wide technical details, he pointed out. Instead, John's education." ing his doctoral studies, he was a univer ranging discussion as to principles, they are exposed to a large number of "St. John's, which was one of the major sity teaching assistant from 1978-80. He methods, and possible implications," Cur different things in one class which may formative influences in my life, taught me joined the Santa Fe faculty in 1980 and the tis Wilson, a faculty member believes. tease their curiosity. what we do not and perhaps cannot know, Annapolis faculty in 1984. .. Students become aware of the conflict The Program content falls into piace and I think it taught me that basic scien ing ideas that, at different times, have this way: tific exploration and experiments, in phys Batteen (Continued from P. 6) guided scientific research; for instance, Freshman year, observational biology ics, chemistry, astronomy, and biology, is the wholism of Driesch and the mecha and studies of matter and measurement, an endeavor in which we can begin to ics and math, she decided, at the sugges nism of Roux in embryology. the Newton leading to the atomic theory of chemistry; approach truth and knowledge, or the tion of a friend, that she apply as a gradu ian-style action-at-a-distance of Ampere Junior year. topics in physics - mechan closest approach that man is capable of. ate student in physical oceanography. and the field theory of Faraday in electro ics, optics, heat, electricity, magnetism; Also, the work is very exciting and a lot of ··1 ended up going to Old· Dominion magnetism. senior year, quantum physics, genetics, fun - like the fruit fly experiments.•• University in 1974 and obtaining a mas "Science, too, they may learn, involves evolution, molecular biology. Jim Ingham, a silver medalist in the ter's degree in ·physical oceanography in traditions that at certain critical junctures Annapolis Class of 1982, who is working 1976. I then worked as a research assistant may have to be transformed, as in the In the junior and senior years, great on his ·doctorate in physics, at Johns in the School ofOceanography at Oregon coming to be of Einstein's relativity theory books seminar discussions reflect the Hopkins, also advises a year or two of State University and went on cruises to and the quantum.theory of Bohr, Hei science and mathematical program. undergraduate work, writes of his ex Peru and Panama." senberg, and Schroedinger." Miss Townsend spoke about the rela perience: Then, becoming int~rested in the ocean's In a way. St. John's laboratory pro tionship of the lab to the rest of the "The lab program certainly piqued my role in climate, Ms. Baueen obtained her gram poses questions which have their program. curiosity about physics. However, if any doctorate in atmospheric scien~es ~t Ore parallels in the ''big questions .. of the "I think it would be terrible in seminars class contributed directly to my decision gon State. November 1985 THE REPORTE Page 11 Tom Larsen, SF '75, learned his blues via recordings from the best of them. Then he went on to develop an original rock (Continued from P. 2) June. She is now Pattie Ann Swift and is blues style that is uniquely his own. rare positions of "having a great time living in Jarosa, Colo. His Torn Larsen Band "Generates 1982 doing exactly what I want to." And what enough raw energy to light up the whole Bonnie Linder is studying consumer he wants to do sounds all very worthwhile. East Coast, which is where they spend protection at the Jerusalem branch of the He writes: most of their time," according to a review Empire State College and hopes to com "I received my master's of arts degree in of the band's first album, "All the Way plete her law degree at Hebrew University. mathematics from Indiana University in live," in Guitar Player. an internationally Because of the high inflation rate and May, 1985. I concentrated my studies in distributed trade publication. what she sees as a general lack of con real and complex analysis and in topol The band is actually a trio. It consists of sciousness in Israel in the area of individ ogy. I spent the spring and summer look a bass player, a drummer and Torn - ual rights, she reports there is much to be ing for teaching positions, and I was hired guitarist, vocalist, harpist, mouth orga done in that country before its consumers TOM LARSEN by the Office of Special Programs at the nist, business manager and booking agent. "get what they deserve for their money." SUNY College at Oswego, N.Y. Although performing primarilY' in Mary Bonnie enjoys showing visitors around Resident coordinator "I am teaching classes for academically land, Virginia and the District of Colum Hebron and invites all visiting St. John disadvantaged students and working with bia, the group-, which "shoots for" 15 to 20 job is available nies to be in touch with her. Her address is a wonderfully dedicated staff of teachers gigs a month, also plays in Pennsylvania, Since the announcement for an opening Kiryat Arbeh, Hebron, 90100, Israel. and counselors. This past fall I made a New Jersey, New York and Massachu for a resident life and facilities co She sends news of Jeff Friedman, '70, presentation to the S UNY Brockport Con setts. ordinator for the Annapolis campus ap who is residing in Samaria on the West ference on the topic of 'Non-traditional Tom grew up on the Eastern Shore of peared in The Reporter, the college has Bank, is married, and has four children. Students and Mathematics' with Dr. Joe Maryland. "When everyone else was into decided to divide the job. He· works as computer programmer for Garafalo, of SUNY Buffalo. All in all, I rock and roll and psychedelic, I was into It now seeks a year-round resident life the Israeli government and heads the am having a great time doing exactly what folk," he recalled in an interview for the coordinator, who will be responsible for Noah Institute, an educational project l want to." magazine Guitar World. "And in all the dormitory occupancy and for the board concerned with providing the non-Jewish Frederick H. SF, is teachingjun- folk movements, there were older black program. The job will involve such mat ior and senior high math and science at a world with information a.bout the univer (blues) guys .... " ters as room assignments and inspection, sal values of Judaism. He also welcomes Christian school in Grand Junction, Colo. Teaching himself to play the guitar and room changes and furniture moving, and Johnnies visiting Israel. His address is: classmate and friend, Dean harmonica, he was influenced by Lead working with the Delegate Council. Re from Seattle to New York Yehoshua Friedman, Kochav Hashacher, sponsibilities for board include working D.N., Beker, Jericho, 90967. Work belly, Bill Broonzy, Mississippi John Hurt, across Europe to Bethlehem in a peace Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker. with the food service, coordinating work phone, 698425; home, 941965. · pilgrimage and recently has been in the "Their music," he said, "made the rest of study students in the dining hall, and Helen Conlon Colston, A, and her wri Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in an folk sound limp." handling complaints. ter husband, Kenneth Colston, are the effort to talk of peace." "A lot of white guys would sit down and A St. John's degree is preferred. With a parents of a daughter, Thalia, born Nov McConnell, AGI'84, has an learn the old stuff," Larsen told Donna range of $11,650 to $16,300. salary will ember 6 and weighing in at seven pounds, nounced the marriage of her daughter, Morgan, a reporter for State News. "l depend upon qualifications and experi five ounces. Thalia is named for one of the Amy, A '78, to Dr. Robert Remington never had the patience to do that. I'd say, ence. To apply, write Norrie Loomis, three graces in Greek mythology and one Franklin. The wedding took place at the Well, that's a great tune, but I'd do it this director of personnel at St. John's. of the nine muses - the muse of comedy. First Presbyterian Church in Taos, N.M. way. So I'd use other people's stuff as a After her maternity leave, Helen last David, SF 78, and Suzanne, SF '79, basis and add my own ideas ... My music is month returned to the Annaplis campus Doremus announce the birth of their still real bluesy, but we try to keep things Tutors at U. of Dallas , , second child, Helen Louise Doremus, on where she is the Admissions Office's alumni liaison. danceable and put on a good show." Two faculty members recently visited August 8. "More than a natural musician, Larsen 1983 the University of Dallas in connection The Santa Fe Alumni Office has heard is a natural showman," Ms. Morgan CORRECTION: We're sorry for errors with a review of its core curriculum spon from Ross Robertson, SF '78. He is a writes. "During a performance, wearing in the last issue made in the alumni note sored by t.he National Endowment of the credit analyst in Fort Worth, Tex., and his all-black trade-mark threads - leather for Malissa Kullberg. Her first name and Humanities. was recently married. pants belted with a silver chain, boots and the language institute where she studies Thomas J. Slakey gave two talks, one to From Porn and Rita Collins comes shirt - Larsen strides through clubs play -Dante Alighieri - were misspelled. students and one to faculty, as well as word that Porn is a. second year family ing to individuals, venturing outside to Miriam Huaco, A, was married Dec participated in several small meetings. practice resident in Portland, Ore., with amaze passersby, generating an uproar ember 21 to Michael Komoromy. He is Students there read many of the St. John's one more year to go and Rita last summer with his antics." described as a "wonderful molecular bio authors but in courses organized depart began her master's-program in deaf educa His band performs primarily on college logist" who has just finished two years of mentally. Mr. Slakey urged that faculty tion. She will be ready to begin teaching campuses and in community halls. post-doctoral work at the University of members experiment by teaching across by fall. While attending St. John's, Tom played California at Los Angeles. He will be departmental lines, a proposal which he .. Portland has worked out well for both in Santa Fe and Prescott, Ariz. He received working with a genetic engineering com said evoked "some, though by no means of us," she writes. "There are good medi-. a degree in music from Salisbury State pany in San Francisco while she continues unanimous, interest." cal training facilities for Porn and two College in 1978 and has been supporting her first year of medical school at UCSF. In January Eva Brann led a series of residential schools nearby for my student himself through his music ever since. 1984 faculty seminars considering the intellec teaching this year. l think more than any His address is Larsen Productions, Second Lt. Frederick B. Wynn, Jr., A, tual connections found in works either thing else since my St. John's days work Route I, Box 312, Princess Anne, Mary has received a parachutist badge after read or proposed for the university's core ing with tlw deaf kids has made me appre land 21853. courses. ciate langµage and communication. I still completing a three-week airborne course h:iveri 't figured out the answers, but I'm at the U.S. Army Infantry School at Fort very hopeful."' · Benning, Ga. His second week there Fred . . . .;· . .1980 received practical training by jumping Ctmck.~euben, SF, known to many as from 34-foot to 250-foot towers. The final "the Printer's Oevil,"is now a journeyman week, he made five static-line jumps, in . , printer: :R.ecently :he was elected into the cluding one night jump . · lriternational Typographical Union which Kristen Hoffman Stowers, SF '84, is dalms fo be "the oldest and most demo working as a consultant with Parson's cratic labor o~ganization in the world." Engineering firm in Santa Fe. She was He is working-if{ the composing room of married last August to Santa Fean The Albuquerque Journal. Charles Stowers. ··.··;Paul Martin~ SF '80, had an exhibition Chapter Chairmen - 1 oLpaintings and collages at the Latin American,Workshop in New York City Peter Kellogg-Smith, president of the last,October. He does art in his spare time. alurnni's Annapolis Home Chapter, has -- Paul works at Merrill Lynch as a financial announced names of a number of com consuJt.anL mittee chairmen. They are: '1981 Planning and feasibility, Frank Atwell; ·Betsy ·Mills; SF '81, was married in bed and breakfast, Cecily Sharp Whitehill; January·to Stephen Acciani, SF '82. speakers, Gil Crandall; home chapter vol Fauneil J. Rinn, SGI '81, is the new unteers, Bernard Gessner; war monu editoi: of San Jose Studies, San Jose.state ments, Henry Robert; Tom Parran, Jun ,University's journal of general and scho ior and Senior~ Memorial. Frank Atwell: -larly interest covering the humanities, Chesapeake Bay boating, Ned Lathrop; Emery Jennings, right, chats with John Martin, assistant director of adm1s arts, sciences and business. social, Betsy Blume; telephone, Frank .sions, at a retirement party honoring Mr. Jennings and Mary Lou Neel, accoun Pattie. Ann Pratt, A, was married last Wilson. tant, both of the Santa Fe campus. )= e i:l" i) iJ cn t St. John's College is among approxi mately 20 liberal arts colleges that have been selected to participate in a new pro gram of the lJ n iversity of Chicago's Grad- Sc hool of Business. Under the program, St. John's series poss1b!e under what prom- and nominate two students for summer St. following their junior year to take two or to be a program of in-service study is bringing a new academic dimen __ D by degger three courses and a management seminar. our providing opportumt1es during the sion to the college this year. tutors who Tuition is covered. If the student decides regular school year for tutors to work Sacks, Jack Stead1man. on graduate studies, admission to Chica The program comes as the result of new together on books and ideas of import endowment funds esrJec11all Roger Peterson, and go's School of Business is guaranteed. ance, or potential importance, to the pro Its members are deu.-.tm~ Students are advised to apply early to for such study as recommended by gram Mr. Delattre said. President Edwin J. Delattre and approved intimate connection George Doskow or Marianne "This is the means by which the exper and in opposition to the_philosophy director of career counseling, to the Board of Visitors and Governors in 1984. tise and wisdom of senior tutors can be ti on with which St: John's is most fa1uma1 permit St. John's to meet an April 15 accessible to their newer colleagues and by - that of Plato, Aristotle, deadline for its nominations. program calls for tutors to be which new tutors can become qualified to released from a portion of their teaching cartes, Kant, Hegel, and others. teach parts of the program that are other n.ir~L•',J-'l,,,l'..JU FROM A third of their responsibilities to participate in study wise new to them. groups, audit classes, visit other colleges teaching duties in Annapolis "Of course, we normally also support with strengths that might be of use to St. pate in the Newton study group were · these studies with annual funds, such as a Michael Dink, Robert Druecker, Ben John's, and to review curricular ques recent contribution from the Alfred Sloan tions. jamin Milner, David and Jon A University of Texas professor and a Foundation, from the of St. Tuck. Washington journalist have been elected Since it was approved, funds have come John's, but it is imperative to have endow This core group has been joined by to the Board of Visitors and Governors of from a number of sources. ment restricted to this purpose so that the other interested faculty members. Dealing St. John's College. The Beneficial-Hodson Trust has con activity will continue even in years when with the background of Newton's Princi They are Elspeth Davies Rostow, of tributed $332,094 for the Annapolis cam no operating funds are available for it." pia, it includes a study of documents New Austin, Tex., and Michael Andrew Scully, pus, the board has restricted $335,000 of Current faculty study groups represent ton either read or wrote between I 664 and of Washington. the Santa Fe endowment realized from the first use of the new endowments. 1684 when he began work on the Prin Former dean of the Lyndon Baines the Zeckendorf condominium project for In Santa Fe, two year-long study groups cipia. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the faculty study, and the new $500,000 are underway. Ralph Swentzsell, a tutor In Santa Fe, only the leaders are given University of Texas at Austin, Mrs. Ros Adolph W. Schmidt Tutorship, which who has had extensive experience in the released time. tow is currently professor of government frees its holder from one-third teaching to laboratory program, is leading a study In addition to those financially sup there. She has taught at Cambridge, lead a study group has been added. group entitled "Exploring the Implica ported study groups, the Annapolis cam Georgetown, and American Universities Mr. Delattre said the Hewlett and Mel tions of Quantum Mechanics Theories," pus continues a ·Wednesday afternoon and at the Massachusetts Institute of lon Foundations have made challenge and James· Carey a study group based faculty study group which has been co Technology. grants to both campuses ··~ $60,000 to upon Martin Heidegger's Being and Time. ordinated by Howard Zeiderman. Organ In addition, she has served on numer Santa Fe, $90,000 to Annapolis - for In Annapolis, Curtis Wilson, St. John's ized five years ago on an informal basis, it ous government commissions as well as presidential discretionary endowments tutor and a recognized authority on New initially was devoted to the of Hus the board of trustees of Sarah Lawrence which may be used to support faculty ton, was released last fall from a third of serl, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein and and Barnard Colleges, the Overseas Edu study. his teachinir time to lead a semester-long, more recently has been devoted to shorter, cation Fund, and the College Board. These endowments are to be matched on Newton. widely ranging topics including a number Mr. Scully is the founding editor of with $180,000 and $270,000 respectively of paintings. /his World magazine, a tri-4uarterly jour from contributors. Altogether, when all group are Hans von Briesen, Jr., director nal of religion and public affairs. the challenge money has been raised, these of laboratories, and Peter D. Pesic, tutor author of a quarterly column for endowments total $I, 767,000. · and musician-in residence. n IS .Vationu/ Nevie1i·, he served as assistant At its meetings this group is If the program continues to mature, managing editor and editor of lhe Puhlic aimed toward understanding the issues Mr. Delattre said St. John's will be able to Santa Fe tutor David lnreres1 from 1977-81. raised Einstein against the complete leave this semester teachinl! support a faculty than otherwise A former legislative assistant to Con-· ness of quantum mechanics (the Einstein sity of Chicago. He is possible and to reduce the student-faculty a course m necticut's Senator Lowell Weicker, he Podolsky-Rosen paper), leading to "Bell's Thucydides during the ratio by making a new tutorial appoint quarter and theorem." Some of the interpretation as one in Plato's Phaedo also has written for Harper:~. Fortune. ment possible for every three tutors re the spring formulated by the primary founders, such !he Wall .\freer Journal. and The Wash leased from a third of their teaching quarter at the university's M. Olin ington Posr. duties. as Born, Bohr, Heisenberg, DeBroghe, Center and the Committee Social Bohn and Schroedin!!er are being ex- Thought.