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Volume 22, Issue 3 Annapolis, Maryland • Santa Fe, New Mexico Summer 1996 ST JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY ~ 11I Ill Ill II Ill IWll~fml\l\f11\(~[ll ~I II Ill II II II II 31696 01138 2189 St. John's College ANNAPOLIS EDITION SPECIAL SECTION CAMPAIGN SUCCESS The Campaign for Our Fourth Century concludes, providing a 300th birthday present for the college ............................ 12 Campaign conclusion keynote address: St. John's at 300 by Eva T. H. Brann .......................... 13 THE GREENFIELD LIBRARY Annapolis dedicates a new library .......................... 11 Architecture as dialogue: The building's symbols ........ 14 COMMENCEMENT '96 In Santa Fe, Philip Lader stresses responsibility .............. 9 In Annapolis, William F. Buckley recognizes the power of the classics .............................. 8 DEPARTMENTS From the Bell Towers: 300th events in Santa Fe, observing the final frontier, new vice president Harvey Morse, lacrosse makes a comeback ................................ 2 Scholarship: James Carey is appointed dean in Santa Fe .. 7 Alumni Association: The new register, alumni book reviews .. 15 Alumni Profiles: Two young alumni in the performing arts, down John Lynch and actress/ playwright Leah Ankeny .................. 17, 19 Campus Life: Job fair in Santa Fe, croquet highlights in Annapolis, the St. John's postal card ............................ 22 The Arts: Regional works in Santa Fe, classic photos in Annapolis ............................ 24 Stewart Greenfield, A53, accompanied by one of the ubiquitous newspaper reporters, leads the parade of book movers. Most of the library's collection of 90,000 volumes was hand-carried across campus from Woodward Hall to the new library. See story on page 2. Photo by John Bi/doh/. From the Bell Towers EXEUNT LIBRI A n old borrower's card became a the original books in the King when he was a student. He .i-lbadge of honor. Worn on a William's School library, which were remembered carrying can string about the neck, it symbolized donated to the colony of Maryland vas bags," he says. While participation in the great book move. by the Rev. Thomas Bray in 1697. Woodward Hall was being A humble can"."as bag emblazoned They formed the first free public renovated, books were with a "St. John's at 300" logo library in North America.) stored in Mellon. In 1968 became the low-tech means to an T devision crews and newspaper they were moved back end - 1000 of the bags, carried by reporters mingled with the lines of home. Assistant librarian about 400 members of the SJ C com people waiting to load books into Vicki Cone, who also par munity during the course of some bags in Woodward Hall. Bob Marley ticipated in that move, 4000 trips, brought more than tunes wafted through the King remembered tape on the 80,000 of the college's 90,000 books William Room. Everyone was in a bags. From canvas bags from Woodward Hall to their new good mood, and the typical Johnnie and pieces of tape sprang home in the Greenfield Library on inventiveness showed itself: Chris an elaborate plan. The day In Woodward Hall, library student aides May 6. It was a moment in history. Simpson, a junior, loaded eight bags of the move, library aides load books into bags. And it was really fun. onto a pole to carry fore and aft; assis loaded books into canvas "The most surprising thing was tant dean Abe Schoener (A82) bags in the old library. how many people participated," says whizzed by on his mountain bike Each section of shelving was marked areas, so that we would be able to librarian Kitty Kinzer. "We didn't with a bunch of bags hanging from with a number. That number was put leave room where we projected really know how long it would take, the handlebars; Gjergji Bojaxhi, a on a piece of tape on the bag. In the growth would occur," says Plourde. but based on the numbers from the junior, used a wheelbarrow from his new library, the shelves had been (It's no surprise, but the philosophy last book move in 1968 when they and literature sections add books the moved 42,000 books in two days fastest.) The computer spit out a plan with fewer people and over a longer showing how much space the books, distance, we thought it might take plus projected growth, would take up about that long." Instead, the job was in the new library. That's how Plourde done in about eight hours. Dean Eva decided where to put each section. "It Brann had plans for bringing out the was almost like a freshman math prob troops. She cancelled classes and lem - very straightforward," he says. made sure that tutors stressed the The Greenfield Library appeared importance of participating in the far from complete on the day of the book move. She offered prizes for the move. Book carriers stepped over most books carried and the most trips buckets of spackling and the main made. There was lots of lemonade stairway was impassible with pieces of and free lunch and dinner for those steel railing. But the shelves were fill wearing the status-y borrower's-card ing rapidly. Kitty Kinzer was actually on-a-string. smiling by afternoon. By day's end, Stewart Greenfield, class of 1953, tired bookmovers bore witness to the and his wife Constance led the parade truth of a quip from Miss Brann: of book movers. The new building "We make pretty worn out adults out bears the name "Greenfield Library" of lusry- youths by means of books in honor of their support for the and a bag." B library construction project. Toting - by Barbara Goyette the canvas bags filled with volumes from the Thomas Bray collection, Hundreds of students, facully, and friends moved the books Mr. Greenfield strode across campus, - great and small - across campus to the new library. at the front of a seemingly endless line of students, faculty, alumni, and community members. "We love St. student aide gardening job. (Senior numbered with a corre..,. John's and we love books and there's Mark Whipple won for most bags sponding system, so that no place I'd rather have my name," carried - more than 126 - and in whatever order the Mr. Greenfield told the Baltimore junior Becky Lange won for most bags arrived, they could Sun. (The Bray collection contains trips - she made 35, sprinting back be placed near the and forth across cam shelves where they pus in blue running belonged. tights and a tee-shirt.) "We mapped what we There were at least had in the old library by four semi-nervous inches," explains people overseeing the Plourde. Then he and event: the library staff library assistant Brian of Kitty Kinzer, Vicki Graney wrote a "primi Cone (A68), Wally tive application" in Plourde (A89), and Paradox that compared Brian Graney (SF93). the map of the old They had been work library shelves with that ing on the logistics of of the new library. "I the move for months. took into account how Mastermind for the much space each call organization was number classification Wally Plourde. "It all should have. I looked started with Chris back over the past ten Nelson remembering years and compared Keeper of the collection, librarian Kitty Kinzer. Senior Peter Rispin takes a breather. the last library move, growth in the various Photos by John Bi/doh/. 2 SANTA FE TO CELEBRATE 300 WITH A WEEKEND OF EVENTS by John Schroeder anta Fe will celebrate the 300th sheet music and special collections. invited are Eliseo and Paula the books to be covered are Melville's Sanniversary of St. John's with a Prices range from 25 cents for sheet Rodriguez, Felix Lopez, Ramon Jose Billy Budd, Sailor, Plato's Phaedrus, gala weekend on September 27, 28, music to $2 for hardcover books, and Lopez, T omasita Gonzales, Charles Rousseau's Discourse on the Sciences and 29. The weekend will open with a all proceeds from the sale will benefit Carrillo, and Monica Halford. These and Arts, Nietzsche's Twilight ofthe concert by Yehuda Hanani on cello the library. artists are considered to be among Idols and selections from and tutor and musician-in-residence In conjunction with the book sale, today's finest working in the Spanish Dostoevsky's Notes from the Peter Pesic on piano. The two will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the Meem colonial arts. Several have exhibited Underground In addition, tutor playing pieces by Bach, who was 11 Courtyard, the Fine Arts Guild will or have permanent pieces in the Samuel Johnson will be conducting a years old when St. John's was founded. be featuring the second annual Smithsonian Institution in seminar in sign language for the deaf Saturday will begin with the annu Spanish Colonial Arts Exhibit and Washington, D.C., and several have members of the local community al library book sale from 10 a.m. to 5 Market. Coming off of the success of won the Governor's Award, and the who would like to participate and for p.m. in Meem Library. Special refer last year's show, this year promises to Grand Prize and First Prize award at teachers from the New Mexico ence, out-of-print, and art books will be even better. the Traditional Spanish Market held School for the Deaf. be available, as well as music scores, Among the artists who have been every year on the Plaza in Santa Fe. The seminars will be followed at 4 Following June and July's show of p.m. with a cookout and reception on ancient santos in the gallery, this will the upper and lower placitas for be an excellent opportunity to see everyone in the community.