VOLUME 39 JANUARY, 1965 NUMBER 2

The Eta Sigma Phi Scholarships MI •V Chapter advisers and officers are re­ •i quested to bring the Eta Sigma Phi in i-TVT-r—i- "..•.--'llf scholarships to the attention of grad­ «!.' uating seniors and alumni who have '-7-v . received their degree since January : 1960 and are now teaching or inter­ ii*C^ ested in teaching. There will be two scholarships again this year, one to the American Academy in Rome with a value of $450.00 and the other to the American School of Classical Stud­ ies at Athens with a value of $550.00, each of which is to be used to attend the summer sessions of 1965. Appli­ cations must be submitted to Professor William H. Willis, Chairman of the Committee on Scholarships, Depart­ ment of Classical Studies, Duke Uni­ versity, Durham, North Carolina 27706 by 31 January 1965. Application blanks have been supplied to each chapter and General view of the Roman Forum additional ones and further informa­ tion about the scholarships may be ob­ tained from the Executive Secretary. Reflections on Rome by ROBERT KARL BOHM The Eta Sigma Phi Eta Sigma Phi Scholar Contests American Academy in Rome, 1964 The Eta Sigma Phi Contests will be Visitors can readily sense the appro­ arises the magnificence of the Empire. given again this year as in the past. priateness of the epithet 'eternal' for Though the emperor desert the city for The subject for the Annual Essay Con­ the city of Rome, mother of western the East, a bishop suddenly stands test has not been announced as yet but civilization, mistress of scholars and quite adequately in his place and boldly it is expected to be circulated among artists, maid of honor to the Church. confronts the barbarians at the very the chapters in the very near future. Eternity, however, can be understood gates of the city. The ancient poets The Executive Secretary regrets his de­ in two different ways. In Plato's and thinkers die but are strangely res­ lay in making this announcement this thought eternity, whose moving image urrected in the ideas and phrases of year, especially since he is responsible is time, is a static and frozen condition century scattered generations. The for the lateness in this matter. In addi­ like the eternal life on Keats' Grecian bronze in the roof before the great tion to the Twentieth Annual Essay urn. Greece, in fact, with its timeless dome of the Pantheon is torn down Contest there will be the Fifth Annual ideals and durationlesS abstractions, en­ only to rise again beneath a new dome Greek Prose Composition Contest, Six­ joys this kind of eternity of timeless- and to flank the altar of the new di­ teenth Annual Greek Translation ness. Rome, with her stress on the vinity where, molded by Bernini's mus­ Contest, Fifteenth Annual Latin Trans­ practical rather than the transcendent, cular touch, it unifies in its spirals both lation Contest, and the Chapter Foreign lives in the other kind of eternity: time the vertical lines and the dome's sweep­ Language Census. Participation in the without end, limitless duration. ing curves at Saint Peter's in the contests has been smaller each year in There is some inner vitality in the Vatican. recent years, which is disappointing. city of seven hills that makes it im­ The whimsical visitor to the Colos­ All chapters are urged to take part in mortal. The Republic may die in war seum must grin when he sees that the contests this year. and blood shed, but from the ashes (Continued on page 12) 10 NUNTIUS

precise, methodical manner Thucydides Prize Winning Essay, described the plague, its symptoms, causes, course and demoralization so Nineteenth Annual that "it might be recognized if it should ever break out again." (2.47) Thucy­ Essay Contest •--, s dides seems to have looked on war as - ,AT some type of plague also; he felt that if war were ever to be controlled, it The Attitudes of must be rationally described in all its details, its causes and its effects. Thucydides and Livy It is in the individual character, deep Toward War in human nature, where the true cause of the Peloponnesian War, of any war, by lies, according to Thucydides. He real­ JOLIE SlEBOLD ized that prestige and power arouse man's innate desire for more; this in­ (Jolie Siebold of Brookfield, Wiscon­ a universal level. The meaning of each satiable hunger drives him blindly un­ sin, is a sophomore at Mount Mary event of the war, recounted with exact­ til he destroys himself. Thucydides College and a member of Beta Omicron ing precision, shows what war is, what applied this principle to Athens of the Chapter of Eta Sigma Phi. Her majors it does to man, and what it will con­ Fifth Century. After driving back the are Classics and English. She is on the tinue to do unless man changes. His Persians, Athens had turned the Delian staff of the QUARTERLY, a literary HISTORY is actually a treatise on the League into the Athenian Empire, de­ publication, and secretary of the Soph­ causes and effects of war. manding tribute and unwavering alle­ omore Class. It is her plan to do grad­ giance from her subjects. Athens had uate work in Latin and then become a If Thucydides' interpretations are power and was compelled to risk all teacher.) accepts, his credentials as a war his­ to obtain more. As Thucydides wrote: torian must be valid also. One might "It was the growth of power of Athens Thucydides, a fifth century Athen­ think a writer of his immense talents and the alarm which this inspired in ian, lived during the apex of Athens' would not have had first-hand war ex­ Lacedaemon which made war inevita­ success and power. He saw the estab­ perience. Far from being an "armchair ble." (1.23.6) lishment and extension of her imperial general," however, Thucydides was a democracy. Although he had the same commander of an Athenian fleet. After After defining the cause of the war, ideals as other empire builders, he was years of faithful service he was exiled Thucydides graphically depicted its too young to have them instinctively. for failing to repulse Brasidas. from ravaging effects on Athens and her in­ He was a thoughtful man, an inde­ Amphipolis, a near-impossible task. He dividual citizens. He believed that war pendent thinker. The shiny baubles of was then free to extract himself from disintegrates the moral fiber of the peo­ Athenian material prosperity did not the Athens-Sparta struggle, watch it ple involved; the awful descent of a blind him to the oppression and rest­ from an impartial vantage point, study highly civilized nation into the depths lessness of the Athenian empire; even it objectively, and record it while it was of cruelty is a major theme of his HIS­ the presence of great thinkers and ar­ happening. TORY. He wrote of Athens, once the tists such as Socrates, Anaxagoras and Thucydides' viewpoint was a purely champion of democracy, sending a force Phidias did not turn his thoughts from to slaughter the men and enslave the Sparta's jealousy. Thucydides felt the scientific and intelligent one. He saw the Peloponnesian War as a problem women and children of Mytilene after tension growing higher and higher that island revolted. In debate an toward inevitable war. Little did for the intellect to solve and considered it his duty to state the facts rationally Athenian leader warned his country­ Thucydides know, however, how fast men not to be misled by piety, discus­ and hard Athens would fall, aborting without judging them. Explanations due to the supernatural, divine wrath, sion and fair dealing, just recently her chance to dominate a civilization touchstones of Athenian democracy. again. and standards of right and wrong are not found in his HISTORY. Rather Perhaps the most damning indict­ Even before the Peloponnesian War he discovered the historical necessity of ment of war is to be found in the broke out Thucydides suspected it the crisis to which the development oi Melian dialogue. Thucydides depicted would be the greatest war ever waged. Greece had led. Inspired by this politi­ the discussion between the Melians, He decided then to write a history of cal and scientific attitude, Thucydides neutral for seven centuries and intent that momentous civil war so that man transferred history, until then the in­ on remaining so, and the Athenian might profit from knowing the causes vestigation of an unchanging object, to delegates, expounding their theory of and effects of the struggle. Realizing politics, giving a deeper meaning to the "might makes right" and equally intent that human nature never changes, he search for truth. With Thucydides, on Melos' submission. The Athenians wrote his HISTORY as a warning. then, political thinking became histor­ emphasized their theory that the strong Thucydides wrote not for the moment, ical. He was the first critical historian, must rule and the weak obey, that ex­ but for all time. He meant his volume replacing tradition with original ideas pedience and prudence override justice to be a lasting possession, not for per­ about power and war. and honor. The Melians represented sonal fame, but for the permanent the lost cause of traditional ideals while value of its lessons. Thucydides attacked the situation like a true scientist. In his second book the Athenians stood for the drunken Thucydides' HISTORY has signifi­ he recounted the plague that ravaged power of a tyrant intolerable of even cance today because he was able, from Athens during the second year of the a tiny island neutral in her midst. a paucity of facts, to raise the particular war, when almost all of Attic Greece Thucydides brought out the irreconcil­ events of the Peloponnesian War to was crowded within her walls. In a ability of the two philosophies. He felt NUNTIUS 11

the tragedy of war; instead of joining and the desire to emulate Rome's an­ for Rome. Believing that the virtues in strength, opposing forces were driven cestors. Livy was a romanticist at of his ancestors had cemented the to destroy each other. heart and looked back nostalgically at foundation of a mighty civilization, Thucydides tacitly expressed his feel­ the simple, hardy virtue of the Roman Livy never hesitated to bring out ex­ ings toward war; he let incidents speak people that caused the dynamic rise of amples of strength in war to glorify for themselves. The Melian dialogue their civilization. He wished to show Rome. his readers this rise and the degeneracy showed Athens at the summit of power One of his greatest heroes was a which weakened it. He followed the and glory intolerant of the rights of military man, the brilliant Roman gen­ example of Thucydides in his preface, others. It was a prelude to the inci­ eral Scipio. Livy saw Scipio as Vergil inviting his readers to note the moral dent that proved Athens the weakest had seen Aeneas. Destined to be the lessons of the past and their relevancy and forecast her doom, the invasion of nemesis of Hannibal and to lead Rome for the present. He said in his preface Syracuse, a fiasco which makes our Bay to the unquestioned rule of the Medi­ that he had written his history so that of Pigs invasion look praiseworthy. terranean, Scipio shone in character, "the student might choose models for One hundred and ten ships had set out especially in war. Livy said that be­ his own imitation and that of his coun­ gloriously from Athens amid libations cause of Scipio's energy and hard work, try, and be warned against things ill and prayers to overcome Syracuse once his powers of leadership and his han­ begun which had likewise ended ill." and for all; a pitifully few Athenian dling of men, he should be remembered survivors crawled back. Total Athen­ All the lessons brought out by Livy more for his excellence in war than in ian defeat was now inevitable, for the in his HISTORY were harnessed for peace. brutal savagery of Greek against Greek the glory of Rome. Its seven centuries Always emphasizing human quali­ had continued until, in the words of covered two sections: the first handles the historian, "the very meaning of ties, Livy felt that men who followed the growth of .Rome from its humble reason and virtue, like the early Ro­ words changed, to be honest and frank beginnings; the other was of her strug­ was to be a simpleton and fool; to be mans, were in harmony with the uni­ gle with Mediterranean rivals as a verse. His entire history, based on the moderate and level-headed . . . was to foundation for her empire. Her secret be a traitor and coward . . ." (3.82) Stoic viewpoint of determinism, pic­ of success lay in the soundness of her tured the growth of Rome as inevitable Athens did not have a chance to win, institutions and the purity in the mo­ for her moral fiber had disintegrated. and predetermined. He pointed to war rality of her people. Rome herself was as a magnificent means to Rome's pre­ Thucydides showed us that war, Livy's hero; he might be called the determined end of majesty and power. germinated from the seed of greed, pro­ propagandist of the Golden Age. He Livy's judgment was always based duced suffering, unrest, political vio­ does in prose for Rome what Vergil on this national prejudice; he never di­ lence and a leadership which twisted did for her in verse. Livy simply wished rectly condemned Rome's activities in the state for its own selfish needs. He to glorify the past of the Rome he war. He cited her atrocious treatment made it clear that war is evil and will loved. of Capua as "altogether laudable." Al­ always plague man, for its potential is though Hannibal had a perfidy "more within human nature itself. Man will His whole attitude toward war can than Punic," Livy condoned Rome for always act to preserve himself and his be seen to reflect his purpose in this similar actions. He saw Rome climb to own freedom; he will always dominate glorification. As the propagandist for its position through war and painted others. The message of Thucydides Roman ideals and Rome herself, Livy war as a means to world domination. is timeless. His lesson of war, "the felt that every war was just and pious teacher who educates through vio­ and that all of Rome's enemies were But Livy saw war from a different lence," can teach us today that, in a base and treacherous. The bases of his slant also. He introduced the tragedy world vexed by atomic submarines and one hundred and forty-two books, of war, as in the invasion of the Gauls nuclear warheads instead of biremes which were forty years in the writing, or the Second Punic War. In either and hoplites, democracy without dis­ were mainly stories of war. In them he one the tragic rise and decline of a cipline can and does fail. brought to the fore Rome's unequalled great nation like Gaul or a great leader prowess in battle. In his preface he like Hannibal evoked pity and fear. War can be seen from a viewpoint boasts that "it is the Romans whose Livy also wrote of massacres, betrayals, other than Thucydides' scientific one; fame in war is such that, when they mass suicides and defeat which, even Livy saw it through the eyes of an choose to put forward Mars as their temporarily, overshadowed war's mag­ artist. sire and the sire of their founder, the nificence. Even though he had no per­ The doors of the Temple of Janus nations of the world accept their claim sonal war experience, Livy did not fail were closed for the first time in two as calmly as they accept our authority." to describe the horror of war vividly. centuries to herald the arrival of Au­ Even in his early books Livy proved As in the Roman defeat at Lake Trasi- gustus' Pax Romana. Rome, ripped by Rome's right to her claims, spotlighting mene, he did not spare any gory details civil war and dissent, needed someone the moral strength of individual war­ as he portrayed the ghastly carnage. to obliterate the period of revolution riors. These bold adventures had a Livy shrunk instinctively from violence and to connect the new regime to the poetic tang. He recounted Horatius' and drew back in horror at its atroc­ old tradition. Livy appeared on the holding of the bridge (1.24) and Cur- ities. scene at a most fortunate time; Rome tius' daring leap over the chasm of the As a sensitive artist painting the was craving for what he had to offer. Forum on horseback (2.10). In a later majesty of Rome, Livy wrote with in­ Not striving to cast more critical book a consul plunged his standards tellectual integrity based on an insight light on the events of Rome's history, into the enemy's blockade to spur his into the permanent qualities of hu­ Livy set out to retell the glorious story men on to follow it to victory (4.29). man nature. His attitude toward war of the Republic more impressively and In each Livy brought out the spirit and throughout his HISTORY is two-faced: vividly than his precursors had, in a pluck of his Roman forebearers who he saw its horror and brutality, yet he way that would rekindle patriotic spirit were willing to risk anything in war always exalted Rome's military glory. 12 NUNTIUS

Letter from NUNTIUS Gatewood Folger VOL. 39 JANUARY, 1965 No. 2 On September 12, 1964, Gatewood Folger, our Eta Sigma Phi Scholar to Published four times during the academic year: November 15, January 15, March 15, and May 15. Sent without charge to all active members of Eta Sigma Phi, for each year in which Athens in 1963, sent the following in­ dues are paid. Price to others: $1.00 per year. All communications regarding publication or teresting letter to the Executive Secre­ business should be addressed to The Editor: H. R. Butts, Birmingham-Southern College, Bir­tary which he thinks is of great interest mingham, Alabama 35204. to all of our members: Official Publication of Eta Sigma Phi, National Honorary Classical Fraternity, Founded in Dear Professor Butts: 1914, Nationalized in 1924, Incorporated under the laws of the State of Illinois, June 20, 1927. As recipient of the Eta Sigma Phi Published By Vulcan Printing & Lithographing, Birmingham, Alabama Scholarship Award for the Summer Ses­ sion of 1963 at the American School of OFFICERS Classical Studies in Athens, I began my PAUL R. BANNES—St. Louis University National President sixteen months of study in Greece. GREGORY M. GAGNE—University of Missouri National Vice-president After my wonderful experiences as a BARBARA PAYTON-WRIGHT—Birmingham-Southern College National Secretary member of the Summer Session, I spent SARAH UZZELL—Agnes Scott College National Treasurer a full year as a regular member of the American School. This past spring I BOARD OF TRUSTEES assisted Professor Homer Thompson, Professor Oscar E. Nybakken (1967) State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, CHAIRMAN Miss Virginia Grace, and a Greek Professor Grace L. Beede (1967) architect in the Stoa of Attalos in the State University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota Agora and then spent the summer Professor Gertrude Ewing (1966) Indiana State College, Terre Haute, Indiana working for Professor Oscar Broneer Professor Paul R. Murphy (1965) in Ancient Corinth. Ohio University, Athens, Ohio Tomorrow I leave for the University Professor Norman T. Pratt, Jr. (1965) of Missouri, where I will enter the De­ Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana partment of Art History and Archaeol­ HONORARY PRESIDENT ogy for graduate study under Professor Professor Gertrude Smith Saul Weinberg, who was one of my University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois professors last year in Athens. Although EXECUTIVE SECRETARY I will be concentrating in archaeology, Professor H. R. Butts I do intend to continue both Greek and Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, Alabama 352 04 Latin with the aim of teaching on a college level eventually. In Athens I met the recipient of this Reflections on Rome the center of the square, flanked by summer's award to the American (Continued from page 9) museums housing other treasures of the School, Patrick Hardy, and know that classical period. Next to the square his experiences there were as valuable despite the intervening centuries the stands a witness to the medieval period, and memorable as my own. cats still prowl there, only shrunken the Church of Ara Coeli. With its col­ I would like to express my sincere now to proud and indifferent alley cats. umns pilfered from ancient temples and appreciation to you and to Eta Sigma The theology student interested in its later, Baroque flourishes this edi­ Phi Fraternity for giving me the priv­ Bultmann's call for demythologizing fice unifies within its confines the var­ ilege of representing you at the 1963 can penetrate to the real, lasting mean­ ious periods. The square itself, designed Summer Session. My time spent in Greece was truly rewarding in every ing of the Romulus myth by sitting at by Michelangelo, with its esthetic in­ aspect of classics and archaeology. the Fountain of Trevi. Here he will nuendoes as subtle as those of the notice the roving, appreciative eyes and Most sincerely, Parthenon, exemplifies the genius of Gatewood Folger the flirtatious comments the Roman the Renaissance. Finally, the glisten­ men direct at their women and he will ing, gaudy, mountainous monument to The Endowment Fund know that the wolf is still in their Victor Emmanuel, lacking any domi­ Several contributions have been re­ blood. From the most common places— nating, cohesive principle except an a mailbox, a policeman's badge, a bus, ceived recently for the Endowment urge to express, testifies for the modern Fund. The Fund is still far short of a fire hydrant—still flashes forth the period. standard of the eternal tetragramma- our new goal of $15,000.00. The Exec­ ton: SPQR. And throughout the city utive Secretary asks the officers of each To visit Rome is to walk through chapter to give consideration to mak­ handsome fountains pour forth a va­ the ages and share the dwelling of the ing a contribution to the Fund. It is riety of spears, plumes, and veils of wa­ illustrious figures of its past, to drink our present aim to make it possible to ter in a ceaseless stream, symbol of the the delights of the fountainhead of civ­ pay the stipends for the annual schol­ sparkling, overflowing, unending life ilization, and to breathe the spirit of arships from the interest from the En­ that pulsates beneath Rome's surface. eternity. dowment Fund, which is not possible with our present total. We consider Climb the Capitoline Hill. Here the Rogus mortis, vitae templum, the Endowment Fund of supreme im­ dynamism of Rome through all its ages Orbis unica urbs rogatur, portance to the Fraternity and request is vividly expressed. First is encoun­ Mundi centrum, coeli exemplum: your cooperation in attaining our new tered the statue of Marcus Aurelius in Apte Roma appellatur. goal. NUNTIUS 13

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since 1819. Among the famous alumni of these early years are President James Buchanan and Chief Justice Taney of the U. S. Supreme Court. Dickinson was one of the schools hardest hit by the Civil War. She had always had a large Southern element in her student body, and the picture of roommates marching off to different sides in the war is more than a romantic fiction here. The campus actually marks the farthest penetration of the Confederate troops into Northern territory, during the week of the Battle of Gettysburg, just to the south. Among the leaders of the invasion were some of her own alumni.

Today Dickinson College has a stu­ dent body of about 1150 and is co­ Dickinson College educational. There are about sixty stu­ dents enrolled in the Department of Delta Theta Chapter of Eta Sigma Mr. Peter Frese, a senior Latin major Classical Languages and Literature. and President of the Club, was instru­ Phi was installed at Dickinson College, The College looks forward, in finances Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on April 22, mental in establishing the new chap­ and educational policy, toward her 1964. The installation ceremony was ter. He was a visitor at an earlier third century of service. conducted by Professor John G. Glenn convention of the Fraternity. and six members of Alpha Pi Chapter The photograph shows "Old West," Dickinson College is one of the small at Gettysburg College. Ten charter the Administration Building of Dickin­ group of American colleges with au­ members and three honorary members, son College, which is one hundred and thentic colonial beginnings. Founded Professor Stanley Nodder, Jr., Chair­ as a school in 1773, it became a college sixty years old. It is now a National man of the Department of Classics, ten years later. Its two campuses bear Historical Shrine under the U. S. De­ Professor Philip Lockhart of the De­ the names of its founders, John Dick­ partment of the Interior. It was de­ partment of Classics, and Dr. Herbert inson, "Penman of the Revolution," signed by Benjamin Latrobe, Architect Wing, were initiated at this time. As and Benjamin Rush, the brilliant and of the U. S. Capitol in Washington. a part of the ceremonies inaugurating fiery Philadelphia physician. Both the new chapter Professor Douglas D. The present officers of Delta Theta Charles Nisbett, Dickinson's first Presi­ Feaver of Lehigh University, Adviser Chapter are Prytanis Andy Hecker, dent, and James Ross, her first Profes­ of Alpha Epsilon Chapter, spoke on Hyparchos Pat Miller, Grammateus sor of Classical Languages, were among "Some Sour Notes From Antiquity," in Joyce Wise, and Chrysophylax Ann the finest of the great school of Scot­ which he discussed ancient musical Smith. Doris Detweiler is the publicity tish classicists of the late eighteenth theory and illustrated ancient instru­ chairman. Professors Stanley Nodder century. They began a Latin tradition ments with his own reproductions. and Philip Lockhart are Advisers of the for the college that almost any scholar new chapter. Delta Theta Chapter was organized today would find hard to live up to. from the Classics Club at Dickinson Although it was founded by Presby­ (Material concerning the history of College, which was founded in 1961 terians, Dickinson College has been the College was furnished by the and has a membership of twenty-seven. affiliated with the Methodist Church chapter.) 14 NUNTIUS

Awards in 1964 Contests The National spring. Reverend Francis J. Guentner, S. J., Adviser of the chapter, is also The following are the winners of Convention director of musical activities on the awards in the 1964 Eta Sigma Phi Con­ The Thirty - seventh Annual Con­ campus of Saint Louis University and tests. Twenty-one chapters participated vention will be held at the Richmond his Chorale sang over the CBS network in the contests, which was two more Hotel, Richmond, Virginia, this year, during the holiday season. than took part the previous year, but as voted by the last national meeting. this is too small participation for the. The tentative date for the convention BETA OMICRON Contests to be effective or have a real is April 2 and 3. This year the chap­ Mount Mary College meaning. The contest winners are listed ters in Virginia will be joint hosts. We below in order for each contest. look forward to the hospitality of Beta Omicron Chapter had a de­ Omega Chapter at the College of Wil­ lightful Christmas meeting before the Nineteenth Annual Essay Contest liam and Mary, Beta Theta Chapter holiday recess, as Sister Mary Doro­ (Seven entrants from six schools) : Jolie at Hampden-Sydney College, Beta Nu thea, Adviser of the Chapter, tells us. Siebold, Beta Omicron Chapter, Mount Chapter at Mary Washington College, There are about fifty students in Fresh­ Mary College; Sister Raymond Mary, and Delta Alpha Chapter at Randolph- man Latin at Mount Mary College this fall and the chapter plans to entertain C.S.J., Beta Xi Chapter, Rosary Col­ Macon Womans' College. Your na­ tional officers request you to begin them with the latest Pro Musica record, lege; Helen Frankel, Beta Xi Chapter, "The Play of Herod." The picture be­ Rosary College; David Berger, Gamma making plans at once to send delegates to this meeting. You will remember low was taken at last year's Classical Delta Chapter, Yeshiva College; Robert that a chapter is required to send rep­ Exhibit and shows Marbeth Maloney, M. Shreve, Beta Theta Chapter, Hamp- resentatives to a national meeting at Paulette Bredemann, and Jolie Siebold, den-Sydney College. least once in six years. Chapters which whose prize-winning essay appears in are unable to send representatives are this issue of NUNTIUS. Fourth Annual Greek Prose Com­ required to notify the Megas Gramma- position Contest (Four entrants from teus of this fact and send her a report two schools): David Berger, Gamma of the chapter's activities for the year. Delta Chapter, Yeshiva College. Only one award was made in this contest, inasmuch as the other entries were not AMONG adjudged worthy of an award. THE Fifteenth Annual Greek Translation Contest (Eighteen entrants from eight CHAPTERS schools): Mary-Anita Jones, Omega Chapter, College of William and Mary; David Berger, Gamma Delta Chapter, PI Yeshiva College; William H. Marshner, Birmingham-Southern College Alpha Pi Chapter, Gettysburg College; Joseph Pater, Beta Tau Chapter, Pi Chapter has had two interesting Georgetown University. No fifth award meetings this year under the direction BETA KAPPA of Prytanis James Pace. Professor Vir­ was made. ginia Rembert of the Department of College of Notre Dame of Maryland Fourteenth Annual Latin Transla­ Art gave an illustrated lecture on the Parthenon at the first meeting. In De­ Grammateus Mary-Jane Brown of tion Contest (Forty-three entrants from cember the chapter had its annual Beta Kappa Chapter has sent the Na­ seventeen schools): Carmel La Belle, Christmas party and sang Christmas tional Office the schedule of activities Delta Gamma Chapter, Marywood Col­ carols in Latin and Greek and heard for her chapter for this year, and as lege; Mary-Anita Jones, Omega Chap­ the story from LUKE read in Greek, usual it is a very interesting and in­ ter, College of William and Mary; Latin, and English. Megas Gramma- structive one. During the month of Joseph F. Hoffmann, Gamma Iota teus Barbara Payton-Wright is an of­ October the chapter attended an ex­ Chapter, Wabash College; Frank Car­ ficer in her local chapter. hibit and lectures on Minoan and My­ ter Philips, Jr., Psi Chapter, Vanderbilt cenaean Civilization at the Walters Art University; Antoinette Brazouski, Beta BETA ZETA Gallery. The lecturers were Profes­ Xi Chapter, Rosary College. sor Walter Graham of the University Saint Louis University of Toronto, Professor John L. Caskey Chapter Foreign Language Census: Megas Prytanis Paul Bannes is also of the University of Cincinnati, Profes­ sor George E. Mylongas of Washing­ First place was awarded to Delta Delta Prytanis of Beta Zeta Chapter. There are twenty-five active members in the ton University and Professor Emmett Chapter, University of Alberta, on the chapter this year. For its fall movie Bennett of the University of Wiscon­ record of Julia Breeze. Second place: the film Black Orpheus, made in Bra­ sin. The chapter also participated in Alpha Pi Chapter, Gettysburg College, zil a few years ago, was shown for two the Maryland State Teachers' Conven­ on the record of Catherine M. Scozzaro; nights and was well received. The tion and heard Dean John F. Latimer third place: Omega Chapter, College of chapter is planning a panel discussion of George Washington University William and Mary, on the record of for its February meeting and is looking speak on "Classics and the Liberal Mary-Anita Jones. forward to its annual contests in the Arts." In November Jean Wilson gave NUNTIUS 15

a paper on "Mathematics in Antiquity" ing, Adviser of Gamma Alpha Chapter. leave last year. Ron Zagorske is Pry­ and Frances Sadlock spoke on the Professor Ralston of the Department of tanis of Gamma Omicron Chapter this "Character of Roman Education" at Greek was in Greece on his sabbatical year. the December meeting. Former Megas Hyparchos Sarel Fuchs is Prytanis of graph below are shown, from left to Beta Kappa Chapter this year. DELTA GAMMA Mary wood College right, Hyparchos Jane Ferrett, Conduc­ tor Teresa Sturcken, "Aeneas," "Dido," GAMMA OMICRON In May Delta Gamma Chapter en­ Prytanis Bette McAndrew, Gramma­ Monmouth College tertained the cast which presented Purcell's DIDO AND AENEAS at teus Carmel La Belle, and Anne Ran­ Susie Wiseman, Grammateus of Marywood Colege as part of the Lack­ som, a member of Delta Gamma Chap­ Gamma Omicron Chapter, sent out the awanna Arts Festival. In the photo­ ter and President of the Classics Forum. chapters' first newsletter of the year on December 10. She says: "We have had very informative meetings this term. In October Dr. George E. Mylonas of Washington University visited our campus. A dinner was held in his honor at the Student Center after which he presented a program of slides on his archaeological findings. We in­ vited the members of Clio Club and the majors from both the Art and Bible Departments to be our guests. We were also pleased to have about twenty guests from Knox College to join us for the program. In November we viewed the color presentation of 'Sophia Loren in Rome.' And, of course, this month we had our annual Saturnalia party. Professor Bernice Fox, Adviser of the Chapter, traveled in Italy during the summer with Professor Gertrude Ew-

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