ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY

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Volume II, Issue 1 September 15, 1974 New budget College views moves up. 5 per cent Despite inflationary pressures, St. John's its facilities College's budget is expected to increas~ by only 5.55 per cent during the 1974-75 St. John's is facing questions about the academic year as college officials attempt to New Allanbrool~ future of three college facilities as the keep expenditures closely in line with those college begins its new year. for the last fiscal year. worl~ premiere One of them is the gymnasium, a building The Board of Visitors and Governors has which dates back to 1910. Another is adopted a tentative budget of $2,379,867 as concerned with the need to provide a larger against a budget of $2,254,555 for the set for Sept. 20 and more efficient dining hall. And the 1973-74 fiscal year which ended July 1. third centers around the renovation of the With the resumption of college, the With almost no music written for piano Paca-Carroll House, distinguished 19th figures will be readjusted, and the board and percussion, Douglas Allanbrook's new century building now serving as a men's work for this combination, to be premiered THE LIBERTY TREE bares a craigy silhouette against a winter sky as the dome of will adopt a final budget at its October dormitory. ' here on September 20, will come as an McDowell Hall looms not far away. (photo by Philip Rosenberg) meeting. A recent feasibility study made by the J. especially important event. "A Game for Next year's budget is up a sizeable 27 .38 Prentiss Browne, Inc., of Baltimore1 which per cent and more than half a million dollars Two" is a unique piece of chamber music suggests several alternatives, is under over what it was five years ago when written for one piano player and ·one review by the Campus Development Com­ expenditures stood at $1,868,282, James E. percussion player. mittee. The committee's recommendation SJ tree to supply Grant, business manager, reported . While Bartok has written a Sonata for Two will be forwarded to the Board of Visitors In 10 years it has increased by 94 .9 per Pianos and Timpani, almost no other music and Governors for action either at its cent. In 1964-65 it stood at $1,221,060 or a has appeared for these two instruments in October or December meeting. ·difference of well over a million dollars. recent years . seedlings for '76 GRANT SAID PAYROLL increases, many The composer, who is a member of the St. THE FIRM HAS proposed three alterna­ of them built into salary schedules, will Joh n' s College faculty, will perform his tive schemes, the first two of which would push the total payroll from $1,167,358 to work with one of the nation's most highly cost an estimated $2,500,000. The third $1 ,210,910. Some savings have come with acclaimed percussionists, Fred Begun, plan, favored by the firm, would be less and Later this fall, as soon as the moment for The Liberty Tree may have been singled the administration' s decision to close the principal timpanist for the National cost $2,200,000. harvest is right, St. John's College's out and admired by both George Washing­ provost' s office while reconsidering the Symphony Orchestra. The plans exclude renovation of the Caritas Society plans to send students ton and General Lafayette on trips here. For need for the position in connection with the THE PROGRAM, scheduled for 8:15 p.m. Paca-Carroll House, which would be scaling the tops of the college' s venerable the past several decades commencement quinquennial review of the college polity. in the Key Auditorium and open to the budgeted as a separate operation . Liberty Tree, and the picking will begin . exercises have been held under its Fuel costs will jump dramatically, from the public, will be followed by a reception . Scheme I, which Prentiss Browne In a symbolic gesture, the society will branches. Historic Annapolis has used it for $34,000 budgeted in 1973-74 -- the college During the evening Mr. Begun also will proposes , would provide for remodeling gather sufficient seeds for a thousand plaques it places at historic buildings. actually paid $51,000 -- to $70,000 for the perform an Etude for Three Timpani he and constructing an addition on the present poplar tulips to be raised and sold for DANT. HELGERMAN, tree surgeon with ci,.irrent year. recently composed and which is included in gym, Iglehart Hall, ;emodeling the kitchen scholarship purposes by the time 1976 and Bartlett Tree Experts, who has had the College supplies, which already are his newly published collection, "Twenty­ and adding an addition to Randall Hall for the American bi-centennial comes around . principal responsibility for the poplar's reflecting major jumps affecting the market One Etudes for Timpani." In addition, Mr. dining space . It would change the existing "If the tree of liberty must be constantly good health in recent times, believes that during the past several months, will cost Allanbrook will perform two smaller pieces dining hall in Randall into a lounge. cultivated, we thought it would be fitting to the Liberty Tree, which was not expected to more. for the piano, "Bagatelle," which he wrote Scheme 11 would duplicate Scheme I plans see that the Liberty Tree gives continuous survive at one time back in the 1920' s, will " If they are paper, oil, wood or chemical ten years ago, and " Venice Music," for the gym, call for the building of a new life through its seedlings," Mrs. Bert be thriving for some time to come, possibly related, they are going up," Grant said . completed this year, along with two Haydn kitchen and dining hall, the remodeling of Thoms, first vice-president, who is in even into the year 2000 . " The cost of our trash can liner, which are a sonatas -- those · in B Minor (1776) and C the existing kitchen into office space, and charge of the project for the women's "It' s still growing," he said, "and it's in spin-off from the oil industry, are up 20 per Major (1791) . transforming the existing dining hall into a organiztion, said . good shape except for the fact it is hollow. It cent. " Mr. Allanbrook, who has studied with lounge. Cooperating is the . tytaryland Forestry is still healing over the cavity scar at its Higher postage rates which went into Walter Piston and Nadia Boulanger, is a The fin al Scheme 111 advocates the Service. Terrance Clark, project forester, is base . The root system is good, too." effect this year will push the sum from the composer whose works have been perform­ construction of a new gymnasium on the checking similar poplars in this area to Periodically the tree, which is disease free, $8,000 budgeted for this year (the college ed both in this country and abroad. He has other side of the heating plant on the ascertain when the seed pods will be ripe is pumped with insecticide to keep the spent $10,000) to $11,500 for next year. written two operas, a number of concertos, southwest part of the campus . enough for picking, and the seeds carpenter ants down, and its branches " Last year we budgeted $4,900 for office four symphonies, four string quartets, and IT WOULD MOVE the kitchen and dining themselves will be taken to a Forest Service thinned as a protection against wind supplies," Grant said . "This year we will this summer furthered work on his fifth hal I to Iglehart Hall and place service type nursery at Harmons where they will be breakage. The tree has been filled with budget $10,000. Janitorial supplies also will symphony. offices in the basement of Randall Hall. planted and grown for the bi-centennial. concrete from the ground up about 15 or 18 cost the coll ego more." A major work for the piano, "Twelve Pre­ The architectural and planning tirm MR. CLARK IS watching other poplar [cuntinuea on page 4J [continued on page 2] Lcontinued on page 2] trees because of a problem confronting both advocated a new gymnasium on the him and the Caritas Society: how to reach grounds that it would make use of land not the top of the Liberty Tree, until about 10 Historic weights and measures set, used by the college today and plac;e the years ago rated, because of its size, as the building adjacent to the athletic field. A national champion among tulip poplars. more efficient and practical gymnasium The society is considering several alterna­ would be constructed, the firm said, and tives, including finding the tallest ladder in gone 65 years, returned to campus possibly one which would result in less town or enlisting the aid of members of the square feet. St. Joh n's rock climbing club. Tunis J. Lyon, deputy director of the This summer a member of the Maryland Maryland Forest Service, indicated that Historical Society staff in Baltimore was approximately 200 seed pods will be cleaning out a room preparatory to storing College has necessary. books there when he stumbled upon an old "A good cone probably has 15 to 20 seeds wooden chest, its top cracked with age, capacity clustering toward the center of the stem," opened it and discovered something which he said. " The nursery will extract the seeds once belonged to St . John's College. as soon as they are picked and hand sew It was a set of standard weights and enrollment them on a four-foot-wide seed bed . Then measures issued by the Federal govern­ they will be rolled with a roller and covered ment to each of the then 24 states of the Against a grim national backdrop of with an inch of pine bark mulch. The seeds union as the result of the 1836 folding American colleges and dropping will remain in the bed and germinate during Congressional resolution . enrollments, St. John's opened this fall 1975 ." Urgently sought by the states, the set with an over-capacity enrollment of 379 and In 1976 Mr. Lyon said that a big blade the represented the first uniform system of a waiting list of students. width of the bed will undercut the measurement in the United States . It meant Top desirable enrollment is generally set seeqlings, severing the roots 10to12 inches the beginning of the end to widespread at 375 . At press time the college had an down and loosening the s 1il. The seedlings discrepancies which Louis Mclane, a entering class of 106 freshmen. Sopho­ will be hand pulled, counted, and sent to secretary of the treasurer, had decried as mores numbered 107, juniors 89, and the packing shed to be placed in bundles of " a serious evi I." seniors 77 . The admissions office said moss for shipment by the Caritas Society. The find was sufficiently important to attrition, which in the past has cut sharply Storm-hardy, the Liberty Tree, so-called excite Harold F. Wollin, chief of the Office into enrollments, was under what it was because during the Revolution the Sons o'f of Weights and Measures of the National more than a year ago . Liberty supposedly met under its shade, Bureau of Standards, who reported that The beginning was a particularly recently .has been the subject of some every now and then one of the original auspicious one in view of a report by the revisionist history. It formerly was believed standards turns up, the last set being one National Council of Independent Colleges to have served as a place where the early discovered not too long ago at the and Universities disclosing that since 1970 settlers and the Susquehannock tndians University of West Virginia. Individual at least 50 institutions have closed, most of signed a peace agreement, but that tree is states appear to nave varied in the manner them private or church related schools. In now thought to have been located across the in which they preserved them . ROY ARMSTRONG, left, administrative assistant for the physics laboratory, and addition, 16 schools have merged, and six previously private colleges have been taken Severn River at Providence, the original [continued on page 2] William B. Dunham examine the historic weights and measures set recently returned to settlement in this area. St . john's. over by states . PAGE2 THE REPORTER SEPTEMBER 15, 1974 Obituaries Four new tutors join Alvin Main dies at 56; was tutor here since 1960 faculty as year begins

Alvin N. Main, a St. John's tutor since intensity always had a very special meaning The appointment of four new St. John's from Johns Hopkins University, where he tions to Kenyon athletics." 1960, died June 20 of cancer of the lungs for me, and they always shall," Dean Curtis College faculty members has been also has served as a graduate assistant. Mr. Bolotin has served as both an and skeleton . Wilson said of him. "I was fond of him, and announced by Dean Curtis Wilson . Mr. Benjamin was awarded a cum laude assistant professor of political theory and. Death occurred at Alta Bates Hospital in always grateful for his intense honesty. His They are Alan H . Dorfman, who has been degree with honors in philosophy from government at Cornell University from Berkeley, Calif., where he had undergone loss has saddened everyone here; he ga.ve teaching at the college on a part-time basis Kenyon College in 1970. At Oxford he 1965-66 and as a lecturer in classics at Yale treatment for some 12 weeks . The cancer much to the College and will be much during the past academic year; Saul received highest degrees in sociological University from 1971-73. had been discovered when he underwent missed." Benjamin, a Kenyon College graduate who theory. In 1973 until early 1974, he was A 1966 GRADUATE in classics at Cornell, examination for what he thought was a, EARLIER THIS year in April, in answer to recently completed an honors degree in assistant to the board and then deputy he received a second bachelor's degree, minor back ailment. an inquiry as to whether he would be philosophy and politics at Brasenose director of the National Conference on this one in government, from the University Mr. Main, who was 56, was on leave of returning in September, Mr. Main wrote College, Oxford; David Bolotin, a classicist Citizenship, chaired by Justice Tom C. of Chicago in 1968. In 1966-67 he was absence. He had accompanied his wife, the the following to Mr. Wilson: with a doctorate from New York University, Clark, retired Supreme Court justice. awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and former Mary Louise Biggar, '64, to and Miss Deborah Schwartz, holder of two A poet and a violinist, he has written book in 1966-68 the University of Chicago California, where she had been appointed "Lest my silence produce unnecessary masters' degrees and, like Dorfman, a St. reviews and articles for The Nation, The Humanities Fellowship. assistant professor of psychology at the confusion, let me say that there is no John's graduate. New Republic, and The Christian Science His other prizes include the Lane Cooper University of California at Berkeley. prospect of my retUrning to St. John's next Mr. Dorman has been teaching at the Monitor. Scholarship, 1962-66. Mr. Main served in the U.S. Navy from year. Catonsville Community College in the Math Among his awards at Oxford have been A resident of Arlington, Miss Schwartz 1940 to 1952. With a bachelor's degree " This is not a matter of choice, but rather and Engineering Division since 1968 and in the Gibbs Prize Scholarship in 1971, the was graduated from St . John's in 1968. She earned in 1954 from the University of of ananke. I am being treated at the Alta the School of Pharmacy at the University of Hume Foundation Grant, 1971 -72, the received her master's degree in psychology California at Santa Barbara, he served as a Bates Hospital in Berkeley for cancer of the Maryland since 1970. Council on Humanities Grant, 1971-72, at with a concentration in psycholinguistics teaching assistant there in 1955-56 and then lungs and skeleton. My longevity may not A 1963 GRADUATE .of St. John's, he Wolfson College, Oxford, and the Brase­ from Johns Hopkins University in 1971. became an instructor at UCSB from be so bad considering the circumstances taught freshman math at St. John' s during nose Exemplary Distinction Book Prize in This year she completed an M.S. degree in 1957-60. but could hardly be expected to get me the past academic year. He received his 1971 . His awards at Kenyon included the French and linguistics at Georgetown In reporting his death to faculty members, through the year. master' s degree in mathematics in 1968 Silver Buckle for "outstanding contribu- University. President Weigle said Mr. Main "had ''As you know I rather wished to leave St. made particularly helpful contributions to John' s anyway, but since I told you so I our common learning in the laboratory and have become even more aware of what it the mathematics tutorial. As archon for means to me. I realize more and more how sophomore mathematics he worked out a much I learned there and how well I was State requested Humphreys revision of the math manual. His major treated despite good cause for spanking. contribution, however, was revising the But the greatest impression that I retain ... junior lab manual five years ago. We will all is that you constitute the only truly miss him greatly." honorable body of men that I have ever to house 1836 set on campus " His intelligence and his passionate known .'' [continued from page 1] additional room actually was prepared and "Whereas nothing is more agreeable to ALTHOUGH MORE sophisticated meas- included locations for the equipmen.t ., common justice and equity, nor for the good Dr. Bier, '19, headed medical urement equipment was issued two years and benefit of any people or Government, ago by the National Bureau of Standards, THE ROOM AT the rear of the laboratory who live in community and friendship approximately 10 states, which have not may have been in the basement of together, than that they have one equal and staff for US Selective Service qualified for the new standards, still use McDowell Hall for that is where the weights just weight and balance, one true and this historic set, Mr. Wollin said . One and measures eventually were placed. perfect standard and assize of measure Dr. Robert . Allan Bier, '19, prominent was graduated from the Georgetown requirement is that states provide a suitable There they remained until a fire in 1909 among them; for want whereof experience Montgomery County physician who served University Medical School in 1925 and laboratory facility and personnel to handle almost destroyed McDowell . shows that many frauds and deceits as chief medical officer at the national head­ earned an advanced degree in pediatrics the weights and measures . In Maryland this " They suffered some little damage from happen, which usually fall heavy upon the quarters of the Selective Service System from the Univ~rsity of Cincinnati in 1928. i"S done by the State Agricultural Depart- ~ tbe fire, falling ceilings and walls, etc.," a meanest and most indigent sort of people, from 1964 to 1970, died of a stroke August 2 After his training he established a practice ment at the University of Maryland. 1925 issue of the Maryland Historical who are least able to bear the same, and at his summer home in Plattsburgh, N. Y. in Washington and for many years was a Other states with new standards continue Magazine reported . may be accounted little better than He was 74. physician in Washington public schools . to use the one issued in 1836 in a secondary " Some men from Baltimore then took up oppression ... " A former president of the Montgomery During World War 11 he was called to capacity . Some of the old standards have the matter and after much trouble BUT IT WAS not until more than a century County Medical Society and of the active duty with the Army. He was a public simply disappeared or surfaced again , as succeeded in getting them placed in the afterwards that a national system was Montgomery County Pediatric Society, Dr. health officer in Belgium and Holland, both has the St. John's set. Health Department' s office where they established . In 1830 the Senate directed the Bier was a former reserve officer of the of which decorated him, and in Germany. were put in good condition and have secretary of the treasurer to examine the Army Medical Corps who retired in 1959 He remained in Europe at the conclusion of Discovered along with the weights and remained to this day. In cooperation with weights and measures used at the with the rank of colonel . the war and established pediatric clinics for measures was a companion group of the Health Department the Society has customhouses, and F. R. Hassler, who was, At the time of his death he was a member dependents in the U.S. Army of occupation . balances: a large capacity balance for 50 opened negotiations with the state and have assigned to cond.uct this survey, recom­ of the Maryland Bureau of Maternal and From 1947, when he returned to civilian pounds, · a medium capacity balance for great hopes that the interesting exhibit will mended fundamental units of length, mass Child Health, conducting clinics in outlying life, until his retirement from full time about 10 pounds, and a small capacity be placed here." or weight and capacity be adopted. counties in Maryland where there is a practice in 1964, Dr. Bier maintained offices balance for one pound . A handsome set executed in brass and The Treasury Department finally adopted shortage of physicians . in Silver Spring . Surviving him is his Informed of the discovery by the staff representing stunning craftsmanship, the them in 1832, and new standards, based on A 'native of Baltimore, Dr. Bier served widow, Martha, at 3303 Densmore Ct., member who was clearing out the room at weights represent those from an ounce to 50 these units, were constructed for the during World War I as a second lieutenant. Silver Spring, a daughter, two sons, and the time -- Walter J. Skayhan, 111, director pounds, and the measures include those for customhouses. Under the 1836 Resolution Following his graduation from St. John's he seven grandchildren. of pub I ic relations for the Maryland Historic such dry measure as half a bushel and those they eventually were distributed to each of Society -- William B. Dunham, St . John's for liquid capacity measures ranging from the 24 states then in existence. director of the Office of College Relations, half a pint to a gallon . A yard measure also McKelclin, for whom college went to Baltimore in July and brought the is included. chest back to St. John's in his car along with The need for a standardized system of the small balance. The two other balances weights and measures was so great that Tutor to give named planetarium, is dead will be returned later. both the Articles of the Confederation and Former Governor Theodore R. McKeldin, General Assembly appropriated $750,000 to FOR THE PRESENT they are being stored the Constitution mention it and George for whom St. John's planetarium was co mplete the college's auditorium-labora­ under lock and key in the physics laboratory Washington, in his first three messages to concert in NY office where they will be in the care of Roy Congress, urged adoption of a uniform named, died August 10 in Baltimore of tories-classrooms complex -- the Key [continued from page 1] cancer. Auditorium and Mellon Hall. He left his Armstrong, the laboratory' s admini~trative system. It took decades, however, to A bronze plaque on the planetarium imprint on the state through hundreds of assistant, until St . John' s can decide how establish a uniform system primarily, ludes for All Seasons," now is being building cites his importance in the miles of roads , the State Office Building in the weights and measures along with the according to a history prepared by the published by Boosey and Hawkes. His development of the college as a man Baltimore, the red brick walls of the State balances can best be exhibited. National Bureau of Standards, because of Concerto for Harpsichord and Small " whose active interest and support House grounds, more than 20 buildings on The precise conditions under which St. the difficulty of resolving technical Orchestra will be performed April 20 at the contributed substantially to the growth of college campuses, and the wayside picnic John' s originally acquired the measure­ perplexities inherent in the problem . University of Maryland, Baltimore Campus, St. John's College." areas . ments, originally stored in the basement of IN MOST INSTANCES the colonies under the baton of Robert Gerle. Mr. McKeldin was governor when the the State House, are sti II somewhat hazy. adopted individual standards recognized in Later this month, on September 26, Mr. Allanbrook will give a benefit concerto at Supplies reflect But a report by Dr. Hector Humphreys, a England, adopting measurements "accord­ former president, to the 'Board of Visitors ing to the approved Winchester measures Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, together with Baltimore jumps in market and Governors dated February 8, 1849, allowed in England in the exchequer," David Del Tredici, composer on the faculty discloses that the college originally was " according to the stand of Her Majesty's of Boston University. There Mr. Allanbrook please notice! asked to take them . wi 11 play a major piano work, ''Forty (continued from page 1) exchequer, in the realm of England" and " The Governor of Maryland has inquired Changes." A new. date and meeting place have " according to the standards of London." Students will find total costs of attending if we have any room at St. John's suitable MR. BEGUN, WHO is a member of the been announced for Baltimore alumni St. John' s higher. Tuition now costs $3 000 for the standard weights and measures In an extensive report by Thomas Peabody Conservatory of Music faculty, luncheons this year. room $550, board $750, and a belonging to the state," he wrote the board. Jefferson, it was proposed that the inch be was graduated from the J uilliard School of They will be held at 12 :30 p .m . Tues­ cautio~ fe~ $50, or a total of $4,350. Tuition has been " For their accurate adjustment, preserva­ related to the length of a rod vibrating in Music in 1951, where he studied with Saul days in the Sun Life Cafeteria located on increased by $100 and board by $50. tion and use, it requires a room with a seconds at 45 degrees latitude. It was also Goodman . He has appeared under the the 12th floor, Sun Life Building, South TO HELP OFFSET the higher costs, the ground floor, faced with tiles or bricks ... and proposed that it " be established that an baton of Antal Dorati, Fritz Reiner, Igor Charles Street. college will increase endowed scholarship as free as possible from concussions . The ounce is the weight of a cube of rain-water, Stravinsky, Sir John Barbirolli, Bruno aid from $170,000 for the current year to room in the rear of the laboratory would of one tenth of a foot, or rather, that it is the Walter, and many others. The Reporter is published by the Office $190,780 for the coming year. answer this purpose very well. .. It would thousandth part of the weight of a cubic foot Mr. Begun, who has been with the of Coliege Relations, St. John 's College, No money has been set aside for major' cost $200 to put this room in a suitable of rain-water, weighed in the standard National Symphony since 1951, has had the Annapolis, Md., 21404, Richard 0 . remodeling or construction work on condition, and, perhaps the state would temperature." distinction of giving three world premiere Weigle, president, William B. Dunham, campus . Summer work, financed by both reimburse this outlay to the college, rather concert performances, including the Con­ director of College Relations. the present and coming budgets, was of a than incur a much greater expense to erect The National Bureau of Standards history certo for Five Timpani and Orchestra by Published five times a year, in routine nature with the cost of painting a separate building." said the serious approach to weights and Robert Morris written especia11y for him. February, April, June, September and alone cutting deeply into available funds . Papers of President Humphreys uncover­ measures legislation, even in the very early He has appeared under the baton of Antal November. Second class postage paid at ''The cost of painting has chewed up a lot ed by Mrs. Kathryn Kinzer of the library colonial days, is indicated by these Dorati, Fritz Reiner, Igor Stravinsky, Sir Annapolis, Md., and at other mailing of summer maintenance money," Grant staff reveal that an architectural drawing of introductory phrases of a law enacted by John Barbirolli, Bruno Walter, and many places. said . what appears to be a separate building or one of the colonies in 1703 : others. -·-

SEPTEMBER 15, 1974 THE REPORTER PAGEJ Tutor due Kieffer, who led 'generations to peak to love of learning,' begins 4Sth year at Oxford was dissatisfied that the program had ' Miss Beate Ruhm von,Qppen, tutor and an Some people are like trees . In John S. become as rigid as it had, a formalizing historian in international and diplomatic Kieffer's case, it would be an oak process Mr. Kieffer felt had become studies, has accepted an invitation to take durable, strong, an esteemed tree of necessary for "otherwise the student's part in an international colloquium at distinguished wood and tested years that education would be in chaos. " Oxford University this month. one points to with a feeling of pride among Both Barr and Buchanan wanted to begin a It will be the Second International Collo­ a forest of others. new college . Paul Mellon made available $4 quium in Ecclesiastical History and is to be This year, in putting out new, green to $5-million to establish a new college at held September 22-29 at St. Catherine's growth, Mr. Kieffer enters his final and Stockbridge, Mass., but it failed to get College there. Sponsoring it will be the 45th year of teaching since first joining St. started because of legal technicalities. International Commission for the Compara­ Joh n's in 1929 as an instructor in classical Mr. Buchanan would have been keenly tive Study of Ecclesiastical History. languages. Retirement officially comes at disappointed at one turn the student body The colloquium will span two millennia ex­ the end of the academic year. took at St. John's. "Buchanan hated tending over the entire Christian era. As an Mr. Kieffer will teach Greek and a graduate schools," Mr. Kieffer said. "He historian who' has made a special study of preceptorial dealing in part with Plato' s thought the worst thing a student could do the Nazi period in Germany, Miss van Lysis, a schedule which has been was to go on to one.'' Oppen will speak on the modern literature abbreviated as Mr. Kieffer concentrates on Approximately two-thirds of St. John's growing out of the Nazi persecution of the regaining weight and recovering from a graduates enter graduate school . churches. serious operation he underwent last spring. Earlier this year, in February, a book It was an operation which failed to deter A quiet sort of man known for his long containing a chapter Miss van Oppen has him from taking an active part in the dinner silences, Mr. Kieffer knows how to use written was published by the Wayne State honoring President Weigle's 25th year, an words tellingly when the moment is ripe. University Press . occasion which marked his first appearance St. John's tutor Laurence Berns' favorite The book is ''The German Church on campus in weeks . If the dinner was for story about Mr. Kieffer centers around the Struggle and the Holocaust," edited by Mr. Weigle, the moments before it quite time during the 1960' s when a group ,of Franklin H. Littell and Herbert G. Locke. rightly belonged to Mr. Kieffer. Black Panthers were visiting the college, Her chapter is entitled "Revisionism and In order to save steps, the car which coming to the coffee shop to argue with Counter-Revisionism in the Historiography brought Mr. Kieffer was parked behind JOHNS. KIEFFER students . On one such visit they settled (Photo by John Wilson) of the Church Struggle." During the Randall Hall instead of in a parking lot. Mr. down in Mr. Kieffer's office for a discussion Kieffer took the measure of the steps summer months she continued further as the college' s sixth dean since St. John's visited in New England, who advised that of the ills of America, heatedly blaming leading up to the pavillion outside the research in Germany. adopted its New Program. His presidency Mr. Dyer' s admission be handled as a them on exploitation arising from the dining hall and figured if he could make the Born in Switzerland, Miss van Oppen was occupied a shorter stretch of time, from routine procedure without fanfare or capital is tic system. steps at home, these didn's look so much educated in Germany, Holland and 1947-49, but historically his term provided a publicity. more demanding that he couldn't make England. She did research for the British significant moment in St. Joh n's develop­ "Everything went on to be all right, " Mr. Then, in the silence which followed their them, too. Foreign Off ice during and after the war and ment. Kieffer summed up the period which remarks, they waited for Mr. Kieffer's later for the Royal Institute for International It was under Mr. Kieffer that the college followed, adding that at one point he was agreement. With his usual, deliberate, Affairs and at Nuffield College, Oxford, at SLOWLY HE STARTED climbing, count­ admitted its first black student. able to write Board Member Otis Jones, probing manner, Mr. Kieffer mildly first on Germany, later broadening out into ing the rises only to have his counting In recalling the way integration took place, anxious to find out how things had gone, replied, " I don't think that's really the international and comparative politics. She interrupted by scores of outstretched hands Mr. Kieffer pointed out that the college that " nothing dire had occurred." cause." also has worked on captured German from students and faculty members, their never had a rule excluding Negroes from Mr. Dyer went on to graduate in 1952, What then? What's to blame? the documents at Alexandria, Va . faces lighting up with pleasure, a crowd admission, and, as far back as Mr. Barr's earn a law degree, become an attorney with Panthers demanded. Her publications include "Documents on which encircled him, greeting him with presidency, their admission had been the Social Security Administration in Balti­ " Original sin," Mr. Kieffer told them. Germany Under Occupation 1945-54," "Welcome back, Mr. Kieffer, " " Welcome considered. But when one did apply from more, and is now serving as a member of A I ittle stunned, the Panthers withdrew published by Oxford University Press in back, John," " How are you Mr. Kieffer?" the Midwest, Mr. Barr took the position the Alumni Association board . shortly afterwards. Thereafter Mr. Kieffer 1955 and "Religion and Resistance to and pressing back to make a path for him to· that, since black students would be WHEN PRESIDENT Weigle was nomina­ was left alone. Nazism," published by Princeton Univer­ progress . excluded from movies, restaurants and ted to head St. John ' s, he insisted, before Besides serving as tutor, dean and sity in 1971 . For Mr. Kieffer, a stately figur towering other community facilities, these exclusions a p.ting the presidency, that the president, Mr. Kieffer: served briefly as Before rejoining St. John's in 1971 -- she among most of those present, the warmth of would be too hard psychologically on their integration policy be continued. Since then assistant dean from August 1 through previously taught here from 1960-63 --she the welcome was fully worth the physical lea rning process to warrant their admis­ St. John' s has had a number of black December of 1946 and as director of adult taught in the history departments of Smith effort of the return . sion. students . education from 1951 to 1957 . In that College and the University of Massachu­ With the first recuperative months behind " He regretfully turned the application Mr. Kieffer was part of another historic capacity he conducted two seminars in setts and was a member of the Institute for him, Mr. Kieffer returns to the campus with down," Mr. Kieffer said. " But when I time, the institution of the New Program in Europe, one in 1953 and the other in 1955 . Advanced Study and the Center of the reopening of school to continue a career became president there was a great deal of 1937, eight years after he first arrived at St. His membership on the Board of Visitors International Studies at Princeton. which has been devoted to St. John's. renewed pressure from the faculty and John 's. He was delighted with its coming, and Governors extended over a period from In addition to his teaching duties, he will student body and a great deal of discussion . in part because it stressed the classics, in 1943 to 1951 as well as during his be working upon a history of the beginning The faculty and students passed resolutions which he already was at home. The faculty presidency and deanship. of the New Program, a project originated by urging the admission of Negroes . The board began a crash program of preparation. Mr. A NATIVE OF Hagerstown, Mr. Kieffer is Full-time its first president, Stringfellow Barr, but considered the resolutions and discussed Kieffer taught special classes in Creek for the son of the late John B. Kieffer and Alice which Mr. Barr, under the pressure of other them very carefully." tutors planning to teach this language Hays Kieffer. His grandfather, Joseph counselor affairs, asked Mr. Kieffer to write instead. It responded by reaffirming Mr. Barr' s tutorial; and he, in turn, attended special Spangler Kieffer, was pastor of the Zion " No one in the long history of St . John's position but adding that each applicant classes in mathematics taught by George Reformed Church there. joins staff has served the Co llege in so many different should be considered on his own merit. Mr. Bingley, the mathematician on the faculty. He graduated from Boys High School in capacities : tutor, assistant dean, acting Kieffer then reported to the student body at The days were excitil'l,i. By contrast Mr. Washington County and then entered St . John's College is acquiring a full-time president, president, member of the Board a college meeting tbat applicants were to be Kieffer feels that now faculty members Harvard College, where he received his counselor, senior resident head, and of Visitors and Governors, director of adult considered on their own merits, and learn the program in almost a routine way, bachelor's degree cum laude in 1927 and placement officer. education, and dean, " a scroll presented to students thereupon went out scouting for a without the fervor of the first, innovative his master' s degree in classics in 1929 just The appointment comes with the resigna­ him in 1969 at the conclusion of his seven suitable black, returning from Baltimore days. before joining St. John's. Earlier his first tion of Miss Charlotte King, student coun­ years deanship noted. with a young man with a straight-A average teaching position was at the Litchfield " Mr. Barr was as different from Scott selor and senior resident, who recently and the strong recommendation of two School for Young Boys in Litchfield, Conn ., "AS DEAN, OVER the past seven years , purchased a house off campus. teachers, who accompanied him here for an Buchanan, who was dean, as he could be, " 1927-2 8. he has held the program steady on its A 1959 graduate of the college and a interview. He was Martin A . Dyer. Mr. Kieffer said . He completed his doctorate in philosophy trained psychiatric social worker, Miss course . As scholar he is erudite and precise. " Mr. Buchanan, as the seminar leader, in 1962 at Johns Hopkins University, and "WHEN HIS APPLICATION came, it was King is a supervisor of social workers in the As Socratic teacher, he has led ten used to leave us gasping with the the Johns Hopkins Press subsequently presented to the board, " Mr. Kieffer said. Annapolis office of the Maryland State generations of students to love learning. connections he would make. We often published his dissertation in book form, " The board instructed me to write Mr. Dyer Department of Social Service. She also is This man of calm dignity has always been couldn' t see what he was driving at, and " Galen' s Introduction to Logic," a book and say that he could not be admitted. Then associated with a private counseling passionate in his love of the Greeks, of the I' m not sure he always knew. His idea about which deals with ancient logic. For a brief everyone went on vacation, and somehow service, the Annapolis Counseling Service, Good, and of St . Johr.'s College." dialectic discussion was that you never while, from March through June, 1961, he on a part time basis . She became resident " It is hard to realize that th.is is the last the letter didn't get written." stopped . A student would give an opinion, served as a visiting lecturer in philosophy at head of Campbell Hall in 1970. year of active teaching for John Kieffer, " Meanwhile a group formally known as the and Buchanan thought it could lead to Johns Hopkins . Miss Brenda Mariene Robertson will suc­ President Weigle said of him. College Committee had been organized to something else. There was never a pre­ Mr. Kieffer is a member of the Classical replace the executive committee of the ceed her as resident head, but also will " He has been one of the ablest and most determined answer. Association of the Atlantic States, the become a full-time student counselor and respected tutors at St. Joh n's College. His board. It consisted of the officers of the " Mr. Barr was an historian, who was American Philological Association, and a board plus one or twQ other board members placement officer as well. In the latter competence and his versatility were first concerned with facts and their interpreta­ Baltimore club known by its address, capacity, she will advise students of well demonstrated by his willingness to in addition to the officers of the co llege. tion and believed that you could get some Fourteen West Hamilton Street Club, and By then Mr. Kieffer had made up his graduate possibilities, both for advanced study new areas when the present program definite things said during the course of a he is a former member of the University mind. " It is the right thing to do, and I have degrees and for careers, and she will assist was brought in 1937. Then in 1947 he discussion." Club of Baltimore. He served as a member in the transfer of St. John's students to willingly shouldered the responsibilities of to do it," he told his associates . The first year the entire New Program of the Anne Arundel Community Chest He contacted the late Richard Cleveland, other schools when it appears desireable. · the presidency of the College . That faculty met weekly in Mr. Buchanan' s Board from 1950-56 . For the past year she has been a administrative experience equipped him for many years board chairman, who was office . The second year Mr. Buchanan rehabilitation counselor with the Virginia superbly to undertake the deanship of the then vacationing in New Hampshire, and selected a group which formed the first Lihrary receives Department of Vocational Rehabilitation in Annapolis campus during the period when I Mr. Cleveland agreed to go along with a Instruction Committee, the important Arlington, providing individual and group was frequently absent to launch the western recommendation for admission . After faculty group which acts on all instruction Federal grant counseiing to persons 16 years of age and campus at Santa Fe, N. M . returning Mr. Cleveland called a meeting of matters and which eventually was to be older who have mental, emotional, be­ ·· 1 have valued most highly John Kieffer's the committee. Although there was no elected by the faculty. As a member of the The St . John's College library has received havioral and physical handicaps. friendship and support over the years . I rancor, it became a badly divided affair. original Instruction Committee, Mr. Kieffer a $4 ,235 Federal grant under terms of the She also has served as a rehabilitation have felt particularly pleased that it was he " With the exception of Mr. Cleveland, all helped develop the New Program. Higher Education Act of 1965. counselor with the Virginia Department of who awarded me my academic medallion on the board members were against it, and all "BUCHANAN WAS always concerned Known as a Title 11 Grant of the College Vocational Rehabilitation in Fairfax, Va ., the occasion of the silver anniversary of my the faculty were for it," Mr. Kieffer" with building the program and ready to try Library Resources Program, the funds will and as a special education teacher in Prince presidency. It is my hope that the Kieffers recalled . all sorts of new things," Mr. Kieffer said . be used for library acquisition purposes. William, Va., county schools. will continue to be members of the St . But by a majority vote for admission by the " He was very much interested in the Miss Charlotte Fletcher, librarian, said the A graduate in English from the College of John's community over many years ahead, Co llege Committee, the board accepted the laboratory sciences and always coming up money would be used to purchase books in William and Mary, Miss Robertson holds a and I am confident that the Board of decision, and Mr. Dyer was admitted. It with new ideas and discarding others. " law, career education, including graduate master's degree in rehabilitation counsel­ Visitors and Governors will enthusiastically was done quietly. In acting in this manner When Mr. Buchanan left, Mr. Kieffer said school handbooks, political science, envi­ ing with the Virginia Commonwealth Uni­ designate John Kieffer as tutor emeritus." Mr. Kieffer was following the advice of he · left because he was worn out, both ronmental and ecological education, ethnic versity at Richmond, Va. MR. KIEFFER served from 1~62 to 1969 Mark Van Doren, whom the Kieffers had physically and mentally, and because he studies in the humanities, and fine arts. PAGE4 SEPTEMBER 15, 1974 THE REPORTER Nonprofit Org. THE REPORTER Published by U.S. POSTAGE College Relations Office St. John's College PAID Annapolis, Md. Permit No. 120 let us know 21404 ANNAPOLIS, MD. Alumni full of ideas, if you moue

With postage up, we' re no longer 'intriguing' answers counting pennies . We're counting dollars. The Office of College Relations needs your cooperation in keeping our DATE DUE Answers to questionnaires mailed to 3,500 mailing lists up-to-date. If you receive alumni this summer continue to come into the monthly calendar of events or other Two to direct mail and if you are moving or no longer the Carroll-Barrister House, where replies are being compiled. interested in receiving such material, please let us know. Mailers of this type SJ admissions are not always returned automatically if The alumni office sent its questions out to they are addressed incorrectly. For any bring alumni records up to date while the office in .,74-75 change of address provided by the Post admissions office sought career and graduate school information. l Office, we customarily pay 10 cents. With the resignation of Michael Ham as Please notify the Office of College " We are not onl)$ finding out what people director, the Admissions Office will be Relations of any change. are doing, but we are· getting very guided by two assor.iate directors until a interesting answers," Thomas Parran, Jr., permanent director i_, found, probably by In the same money-saving vein, look for next May. more third class, bulk rate mail from the director of alumni activities, reported . " In Briefs many cases the answers are provocative college; a letter to all alumni, for They will be Mrs. Joanne Rowbottom, a and intriguing, and I mean that literally." example, can be sent for about $63 in member of the admissions office staff postage compared with $350 first class . Summer program success As a result of replies arriving in the during the past year, who will have central The only trick is for us to allow more time admissions office, Mrs. Joanne Rowbottom, responsibility, and Robert Spaeth, who will Former St.John's students representing a and they worked extremely well together in to reach you, and for you not to treat associate admissions director, said the be relieved of a third of his teaching· duties span of 30 years took part in last summer's the seminar. Nobody dominated. And you third class as "junk" mail, please college hopes to prepare separate leaflets to serve as a consultant and share some experimental program for alumni on the co uld see that some of them were very for St. John's students detailing schools functions of the office . Santa Fe campus, the first of its kind. tarved for conversation .'' which they can expect to attend in such The response was enthusiastic. "A great Alumni were pleased with child care areas as law, medicine and architecture, Mr. Ham, director since 1971 , began work success," Samuel Kutler, one of the four se rvices already set up for the Graduate September 1 as associate director of the and incorporating advice from alumni on tutors from Annapolis, who participated, Institute. A number of elder children of American College Testing Program, Inc., in Barr to lead the best way to plan ahead for careers in said . alumni also attended. these fields. Iowa City, la. He had served as coordinator The program drew 17 persons the first " There were six Oosterhouts (Barbara and of data processing from 1967-69. week and 21 the second week, including one John, '55)," Mr. Kutler reported . " It was class of '49 " People have gone out of their way to give alumnus of the Graduate Institute, with wonderful to see Ooterhouts everywhere Mr. Spaeth also will serve as the eastern us a lot of information," Mrs. Rowbottom some participants there for both weeks . you looked." representative for the St. John's Graduate seminar said . " It went over beautfiully," Mr. Kutler, A lumni indicated an interest in having Institute. He is returning to the campus this who led a seminar with Winfree Smith, programs. at both Annapolis and Santa Fe year after serving as a fellow at the Institute The final major event honoring President A number of interesting suggestions have aid . " The alumni came all eager to work, next su mmer. for Ecumencial and Cultural Research at St. and Mrs. Weigle's silver anniversary year arrived in answer to a question from the John's University, Collegeville, Minn. with the college will take place during alumni office as to how it best might help On matching roommates homecoming. students. The admissions office was marked by the departure earlier this summer of Mrs. The admissions office has been working ences over how to nurture an ailing Alumni will hold a dinner in their honor at Jeanne Mooring, assistant to the director, over the summer to avoid some of the mis­ begonia. 7:30 p.m . Saturday, Nov. 2, at the Hilton GERALD K. MILHOLLAN, of Modesto, who moved to Harper's Ferry, where her matches in roommates which inevitably Assuming it works out, however, Mrs. Hotel. A cocktail party for alumni and their Calif., who attended St. John ' s from husband is employed as a surveyor. New occur as students settle down for the Rowbottom predicted that ,,·their room is guests will precede it beginning at 6 p.m . 1954-56, and who is now a school staff members are Mrs. Mary Blanton, a opening of a new school year. going to look like a jungle." psychologist and director of a regional 1972 graduate of Wake Forest University, When prospective freshmen were mailed One freshman wrote he liked his room very Homecoming will be highlighted by a diagnostic center, suggested that another and Miss Susan Siedenstricker, of Port registration papers earlier this year, they cold with the windows open . Another guest of special importance, Stringfellow questionnaire might be directed to the Washington, Wisc., who will be a part-time were asked to indicate whether they prefer reported not being able to sleep with the Barr, who, as president, helped launch the subject of the " good life." How do St. student. a roommate who smokes or one who does windows open . They won't be placed New Program in 1937 . He has been invited John 's students us e their leisure time? not, whether they like a quiet roommate as together. by the Class of 1949 . Because of limitation against one who m ight play music loudly, Mrs. Rowbottom said the vast majority of of space, the seminar which he will lead will Other suggestions: issue a list of new and and whether they are a night owl or a day students report they are non-smokers while be restricted to members of that class. recent books on topics of interest to St. person. the division between day and night people Johnnies; keep alumni posted on curricu­ Lathrop gets As a result, Joanne Rowbottom, associate breaks about even . Views on noise The weekend will get underway Friday, lum changes; set up a special fellowship admissions director, who is assigning toleration varies considerably along with Nov. 1, when graduates attend a lecture by fund for an alumnus to finance graduate rooms, is putting two girls, who both have the students' own appraisal of themselves St. Joh n's tutor Samuel Kutler, ' 54 , who study; serve as a clearing house for job Landon award indicated they intend to bring lots of plants with regard to how studious, how sloppy, will speak on "Generalization." An opportunities; provide reports from faculty with them, together in the same room, a how tol erant they are. Many of the and administration in areas of expansion, informal get-together will follow. Edward F. Lathrop, a 1938 graduate of St. ituation which could lead to rapturous freshmen expressed their thanks that the relationship with other institutions and John 's College, is the first recipient of a ex hanges over plant growth or, on the admissions office is concerned with this placement, and make more fully known that Saturday' s activities will begin with regis­ major teaching award presented at the other hand, conceivable to hea ted differ- problem . " St . John's is not a Catholic basketball tration at 9 a.m . followed by alumni Landon School, Bethesda. school .' ' seminars, student career discussions, and It is named in honor of the founder, Paul luncheon in the dining hall with students. Landon Banfield, a St. John's graduate of Turner writes book ' ·Alumni are almost unanimously for a Th e annual meeting of the Alumni 1923, who with his wife established the new alumni directory," Mr. Parran said . Or. Thomas B. Turner, member and tormer dean of the medical school, Dr. Association is scheduled for 1 :30 p .m . with school. former chairman of the Board of Visitors Turner traces the development of the school President B. F . Gessner presiding . Mrs. Rowbottom said a spot check of and Governors, is the author of a history of ver a 32-year-period in a history The Athletics on the back camp~s are expected questionnaires in the admissions office said The presentation was made at commence­ the Johns Hopkins Medical In stitutions Baltimore Sun describes as "completely to feature an alumni-student soccer classic. that alumni, in being asked what changes ment and upon the occasion of the ntitled " Heritage of Excellence. " A fascinating ." they would make in the program, focused departure of Mr. Lathrop, who for the past Because of the number of events criticism most heavily on the junior and year has been commuting to Landon and Miss Strange feted increasingly taking place in Annapolis over se nior laboratories, suggesting that there who has accepted a position at Wroxeter­ the King William Room of the library. the weekend, Mr. Parran sa id it is urgent be a change in the form of presentation . on-Severn School closer to his home at Miss Miriam Strange, St. John's archivist, ' Tm quite overwhelmed, " Miss Strange for alumni to make hotel reservations early Providence. As he has done at Landon, Mr. was prese nted a "staff from the staff" at a said . " I'm most grateful to all of you . It's if they are to be assured of a place to stay . Some of the questionnaires came through Lathrop will continue to teach 7th and 8th mid-summer surprise birthday luncheon. been a wonderful privilege to have been with refreshing originality . Sara Hobart grade mathematics. The new cane was presented her by Miss here all these years and to know so many Homeyer, ' 64 , rece ntly moved to St. The award, provided by an anonymous Ingrid Miller, who presided at the event in awfully nice people." Louis, Mo., after her husband, Charles, donor, is the "Mary Lee and Paul L. Ban­ was graduated from an Episcopal seminary. Berns' article field Award" presented to the " classroom She is now the mother of two children, teacher who has made a significant Storm-worthy tree still . Peter, born in 1968, and Martha Jean, born contribution to the life of the school, an in fall review in 1971 . strong and disease free exemplification of the qualities of mind and [continued from page 1] spirit most valued by the founders." Her position/ occupation : "servant-lead­ Mr. Lathrop also was honored by students, feet, and the large cavities at the top have four and a half feet above the ground, Laurence Berns, St. John ' s tutor, is the er." Principal business: " growing up." who dedicated their 1974 yearbook to him in been capped over with concrete. height, and branch spread . The loss of a author of an article appearing in the fall Activities : " getting us organized." How recogniation of his teaching and coaching of The poplar is certain to be one listed major branch ca used the Liberty Tree to i sue of The Review of Metaphysics ca n the Alumni Association be of help? the lacrosse team . among trees 200 years and older in Anne lose its national championship, now held, D scribing the article as " a very little note " Encourage me by tales of St . Johnnie Arundel County as part of a special Mr. Yingling said , by a tree in Virginia. on a very big subject ," Mr. Berns said the housewives who are whole individuals. As an alumnus known to both Old and New bi-centennial project. But its actual age has It rates second in the sate with the article is entitled ·'On Socratic and Non­ Show respect for people who are not Program graduates at St . John's, Mr. been disputed with estimates running from discovery of a tulip poplar at Gunpowder ocratic Philosophy: A Note on Xenophon's academaniacs." Lathrop is a former tutor, director of a little under 400 to as much as 675 to 700 State Park in Baltimore City "Memorabilia.' " athletics and alumni secretary of the years . The St. John ' s tree measures 26 feet, co llege. Earl L. Yingling, roadside tree supervisor seven inches in circumferance, its height is A member of the St. John ' s faculty since From an Old Program alumnus comes an for the Maryland Forestry Service , 96 feet, and its total spread is 76 feet. 19b0, Mr. Berns holds both his bachelor' s indication that St. John' s remains impor­ At St. John's he was active in football and estimates that the Liberty Tree is between Figures for the rival tree are 25 feet, two degree and doctorate from the University of tant for some graduates almost half a lacrosse and upon his graduation remained 400 and 440 years old . He noted that a New inches in circumference, 136 feet in height Chicago, where he was a lecturer in liberal century later. Matthew O' Neil, Jr., of East as a coach in both these sports and as a York University professor, in Annapolis for and 105 feet in spread . art for th e Basic Program of Liberal Educa­ Orange, N. J ., who went here from 1926-28, mathematics teacher. Following a year as a visit some years ago, questioned the " The Liberty Tree has lived long beyond tion for Adults . During a leave of absence in and who is now retired from the Mihopul tutor in 1938-39 he became tutor and 600-year age claimed on a plaque placed on its natural age," Mr. Yingling said . " It is 1966-67 he served as an associate professor Division, United States Filter Corporation, athletic director, leaving that position in its trunk in 1907 by the Daughters of the well ca red for. Everything that could have of philosophy at Rosary College and during wrote: 1941 to be on active duty with the Navy American Revolution . been done for it has been done for it. And hi sabbatical in 1971-72 as an associate during World War 11, where he served in HE WROTE MR. Yingling asking for an trees are almost like a person . You can be in with Clare Hall , Cambridge University. " It is always of interest to me to know submarines. He served again as tutor and increment boring and on the basis of that perfect health today and gone tomorrow. what is going on in both campuses and athletic director from 1945 to 1948 when he boring estimated the tree at what would You can't predict how long it will live as far This summer Mr. Berns gave a week-long thanks to the various college publications I became a tutor and alumni secretary, a now be 395 years . as its physical health is concerned . But as co urse entitled " Nietzsche and the Twilight am constantly reminded of the growth of position he held until he re-entered the Mr. Yingling said championship status long as a hurricane doesn ' t twist it to of the Idylls" at the Clearing, a retreat for these fine institutions and also proud to Navy in 1950. He remained with the Navy among trees is figured on the basis of a pieces , tne Liberty Tree should be all study and enjoyment of nature in Door have been a part of the group, even so until December 1965, retiring with the rank combination of figures: the circumferance right." County, Wisc. briefly." of captain.