ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY 1111111111111111wm1m~111~mll11~1m11111111 The st. J0 h n ,s 3 1696 01138 2023 REPO TER Volume 20, Issue 3 Annapolis, Maryland and Santa Fe, New Mexico March 1994

It's official! E stern classics M.A. gains final approval by Lesli Allison

The Graduate Program in Eastern According to James Carey, founder Classics has received a unanimous vote of the Eastern classics program, St. of approval from the St. John's College John's is in a unique and advantageous Board of Visitors and Governors. The position to study non-Western works. program had earlier been approved by a "The faculty has spent a lot of time wide margin in a vote by the faculty of trying to understand the roots of our both campuses. own tradition, and as far as I can tell, Focusing on the major texts of most Western expositors of the Eastern China, India and Japan, along with traditions have not done that," he said. language study in classical Chinese and "I think that only if someone has really Sanskrit, the program will begin this fall come to terms with the Western tradition, At a ceremony in December at the Baltimore World Trade Center, Finn M W. on the Santa Fe campus. The three-term as we do at St. John's, can he or she be Caspersen, chief executive officer of the Beneficial Corporation and chairman course of study will be conducted under on guard against placing Western of The Hodson Trust, right, announced a $358, 124 grant to the Annapolis the auspices of The Graduate Institute constructs on Eastern thought. In fact, campus, part of a total of $2.91 million awarded to four Maryland insmutions. and lead to the Master of Arts in Eastern in general, I've thought the person On hand to accept the gift were President Christopher Nelson, left, and Vice Classics. Class size will be limited to 21 wanting to begin a study of the Eastern President for Advancement Jeffrey Bishop. Besides the Annapolis campus, students and applications currently are classics could hardly do better than to other grant recipients are Washington College, Hood College, and The Johns being accepted. start by spending four years at St. John's Hopkins University. This year's grants bring the amount of money awarded to "The Eastern classics program has College studying the Western tradition, the four institutions to nearly $52.3 million since the trust was established been well planned and is highly appro­ and then going to Eastern studies. Many more than 70 years ago by the family of Col. Clarence Hodson, founder of the priate to the mission of the college," said Westerners want to study Eastern Beneficial Corporation. Santa Fe Dean Stephen Van Luchene. traditions without the foggiest idea of "But even more, the fact that we can what their own tradition really is all mount such an effort shows the enduring about. As a consequence, they are vitality of the college and its ability not influenced by the Western tradition Project Kaleidoscope cites SJC to stay mired in its own past. With the without fully realizing it." Eastern classics program we have an Those interested in finding out exciting new opportunity to see how the more about the Graduate Program in progratn as uexetnplary" fundamental principles of the college Eastern Classics should contact The can work in an important domain of Graduate Institute, St. John's College, St. John's College has been selected Project Kaleidoscope publications and thought that until now was virtually Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501-4599; by Project Kaleidoscope as one of the on its Internet link. closed to us." (505) 984-6083. most exemplary programs in the nation The college academic program was for its undergraduate science and one of four selected in the General mathematics studies. Program category on the basis of its Dallas Morning News Features College Project Kaleidoscope, a national requirement for all liberal arts students alliance formed to strengthen under­ to take four years of substantive classes St. John's College continues to attract media attention nationwide. In December graduate science and mathematics in mathematics and three years of the college was featured in the Dallas Morning News under the headline, "At St. John's programs, is supported by the National laboratory science. College Classes are always Classic." Science Foundation, The Fund for the Critical to St. John's selection were The article states, "Students say they come not to seek careers or fortunes but to Improvement of Post-secondary the following criteria met by the college: ponder life's unanswerable questions .... If is all sounds a bit irrelevant, St. John's Education, the Research Corporation, demonstration of the effectiveness of administrators have some down-to-earth answers." the Camille and Henry Dreyfus teaching and learning that is hands-on, One of those answers came from Santa Fe Dean Stephen Van Luchene. "At times, Foundation and the W: W. Keck "lab-rich, and collaborative"; making the school does seem purposely to turn its back on the present. All students are Foundation. connections between classroom and lab, required to take ancient Greek so they can read some of the authors in their original Since 1992, Project Kaleidoscope different areas of study, the undergrad­ language. has been searching for successful educa­ uate and other sectors of the educational "You can't buy a ticket anyplace in ancient Greece. We're not trying to tool them tional models to serve as catalysts for community, and the professional world; up for something that's immediately marketable." reform of undergraduate programs bringing faculty and students together "Instead," the article continues, "the school teaches the discipline of thinking across the nation. A secondary goal is to as partners in learning, with faculty and reasoning." improve public awareness of the critical equally committed to undergraduate Two weeks later the Dallas Morning News also ran an interview with President role of the undergraduate community in research and their own projects; building John Agresto. (see page 7) the national effort to build a stronger a community of learners with students scientific and educational infrastructure. of all backgrounds and career aspirations Project Kaleidoscope Programs That finding success in mathematics and Santa Fe Edition Work, which will feature St. John's, will science; and possessing the potential to be highlighted in a nationwide series of be adapted to other institutional settings INSIDE colloquia, symposia, workshops, in for larger institutional reform. page News/ Announcements 2 Letters to the Editor 3 The Campaign For Our Fourth Century 4 Goings On-Annapolis 8 Santa Fe Goings On-Santa Fe 10 Alumni Notes 12 Homecoming 1994 Alumni Association 15 See page 3 Obituaries 18 Art Gallery 20 page2 The Reporter March 1994

SJCS Fe offers Jennifer classic vacation Chenoweth named Summer Classics 1994 St. John's College in Santa Fe Week I - July 17 - 23: announces Summer Classics 1994. Now Death of Socrates director of entering its fourth year, the program is Plato's Apology, Crito, Phaedo scheduled for July 17 - August 6. Summer Classics is a one to three week Founding Documents Placement residential program for adults of all Declaration of Independence, U.S. ages and educational backgrounds. Constitution, Federalist (selected), in Santa Fe Participants come from around the Gettysburg Address country and as far away as Japan, Panama and Alaska to study the classics Shakespeare of literature, philosophy and opera St. As You Like Tt; Much Ado About Graduate student Jennifer Chenoweth has been appointed to replace Don John's style. Last year 92 people, including Nothing; Twelfth Night Parker in the Placement Office. Don Parker left in October for a position in teachers, retirees, lawyers, psycholo­ New York City. gists, businessmen and friends of the Week II - July 24 • 30: Originally from Oklahoma, Ms. Chenoweth earned her undergraduate college, participated in the program. Opera degree from the Kansas City Art Institute. She initially discovered St. John's Seminar classes meet for two hours Marriage of Figaro and The Abduction during her undergraduate years when considering a transfer to a liberal arts each morning and are led by members from the Seraglio college. She made the decision at the time to finish her degree at the art institute of the St. John's faculty and occasional and to attend St. John's College in Santa Fe at the graduate level. guest tutors. Optional excursions to Edith Wharton Now in her final semester of The Graduate Institute, Ms. Chenoweth will local sights of interest are offered in the Age of Innocence and Ethan Frame remain with the college as Placement director. afternoons. In the evenings participants "I'd like to provide consistent resources and opportunities for students to take advantage of the world renowned Arthurian Legends explore areas in which they are interested," Ms. Chenoweth said. Santa Fe Opera, fine dining and Santa Tristan and Isolde As interim director, Chenoweth created a first for the Santa Fe campus­ Fe's active summer night life. G overnmen t Service Career Day. Among the 18 organizations sending The tuition from $900/week Week III- July 31-August 6: representatives to the event were New Mexico's U.S. senators, branches of the includes accommodations and meals for Opera U.S. military, the FBI, Forest Service, Park Service, Department of Health and six nights and seven days, six seminar Tosca and The Barber of Seville the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, among others. sessions, excursions, receptions and Ms. Chenoweth also plans to create an annual workshop for students on extras. For additional information The Evolution Debate graduate school research and grant writing, and to develop further opportunities please contact: Summer Classics, St. Darwin's Origin of Species and other for students interested in teaching. According to Ms. Chenoweth, not only is it John's College, Santa Fe, NM 87501-4599 authors on evollltionary theory important to create opportunities for students, but it also is important that (505) 984-6104. those opportunities are scheduled consistently (i.e. a job fair scheduled for the Homer Odyssey same time each year) so students can begin to plan their futures. Ms. Chenoweth encourages alumni who know of employment or educational opportunities to contact theSantaFe Placement Office at (505) 984-6066. ·

anta Fe welcomes an T-wo SJC students to be interns artist-in-residence in Maryland Archives Two internships for SJC students in archival management. Interns gain the Maryland State Archives have been experience with the procedures made possible by a grant from the involved in collecting and preserving by Lesli Allison Abraham and Ruth Krieger Family valuable historical records and in using Foundation, according to a recent them for their own research projects. Marty Garhart, professor of art at Kenyon College in Gambier, announcement by President Christopher In addition to the two spots desig­ Ohio, will spend the spring semester on the Santa Fe campus as artist­ Nelson. nated for St. John's students, the in-residence. Mr. Garhart is no stranger to St. John's College. In 1991 The Krieger Foundation is funding Maryland State Archives has openings he was instrumental in the creation of the Artists/Teachers Series on one full position and the archives is for other Maryland college students and the Santa Fe campus. He also has taught drawing and painting in the matching the grant with a second position Maryland residents attending out-of­ St. John's Summer Classics program. designated for a St. John's student. state colleges or universities. Applicants As artist-in-residence, Mr. Garhart will provide students with an The nationally recognized, 10-week must demonstrate academic excellence summer internship program provides and an interest in archival science, history, opportunity to learn more about art. Students will be able to observe training in historical research and library science or related fields. Mr. Garhart in the process of creating his work and also to discuss their own projects, ideas or questions. A student group has been formed which will organize special weekly events with Mr. Garhart such as seminars, hands-on workshops and gallery walks. Project Politae reaches out to According to Mr. Garhart, there are three primary aspects to the residence program. "The first is completing my own work in order to provide the opportunity for the students to Annapolis com.m.unity view a working artist," he said. "The Nominated for his work in Project and writing. Part of his job is to bring second is to generate dialogue Politae on the Annapolis campus, Terry the tutoring opportunity to the attention about my work and about the Moore, A'95, was one of four finalists­ of at-risk students and their parents, kinds of considerations one two young businessmen and two college which he has done principally through makes regarding visual art. students-for the Annapolis Jaycees' title school contacts and newspaper articles. The third aspect is to deal "Outstanding Young Annapolitan," in Eleven other Johnnies are volunteer­ with the kinds of questions January. ing at the Anne Arundel Medical Center. students might have about Mr. Moore is a co-founder and On a recent weekend; 20 St. John's students art activities, ranging from coordinator of volunteers for Project signed up for a Habitat for Humanity their own work to general Politae, which recruits St. John's students project, to complete a house in Baltimore. questions, either pragmatic or to help meet needs in the Annapolis In the summer of 1992, Mr. Moore was selected for a week-long program philosophic, about art and the community. Terry is a work-study student in the Placement Office, where the project for undergraduates at Cornell University art world-not necessarily to was setup. called "Teaching in the 21st Century," provide answers but to have a At present, he is scheduling sessions which emphasized strategies for reaching dialogue." for about 25 Johnnies-usually Tuesday at-risk young people. "It was one of the Mr. Garhart has taught studio art at and Wednesday afternoons on the third best things I've ever done," he says. That Kenyon College for more than 20 years. floor of McDowell-to tutor youngsters fall, he helped plan and publicize the Among his former pupils is Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and aged 7 to 17 in "everything." Last program at Annapolis, which began to Hobbes. semester, he himself helped two place Johnnies with at-risk young people teenaged youths with math, reading in January, 1993. March 1994 The Reporter page3

N e-w Mexico high school teachers pick the "Prickly Rose GET READY FOR of Politics" HOMECOMING IN by Jennifer Chenoweth Mexico. "We do not often get the opportunity to learn together with SANTA FE! The New Mexico Endowment of teachers outside of our immediate the Humanities and the Graduate region," said Jennifer Chenoweth who July 15through17 Institute of St. John's College are working has been working on the project with together on a project to give secondary Nancy Buchenauer, the director of the The classes of '69, '74, '79 and '84 will celebrate their reunions this summer. school teachers in New Mexico a chance Graduate Institute. Part of the funding Plans are brewing and looking more and more lively as the future celebrants to study ethical problems of political for this project includes a travel confer. Mark your calendars now! and social life in seminars at the college. allowance for teachers traveling over 75 This year's Summer Alumni Program offerings will provide another The four-part seminar series is titled miles for the seminars. We have had opportunity for an intellectually stimulating and fun experience on the "The Prickly Rose of Politics: Readings terrific responses from the teachers from Western campus. The first program week (July 10-15) will focus on issues in in Human Responsibility." The readings distant parts of the state. Many have medical ethics (which will, of course, include readings in the liberal arts) and for these seminars are, respectively, expressed their thanks for an opportunity will be just as appealing for non-physicians as for those in the medical field. Plato's Apology and Crito, Machiavelli's they could not ordinarily afford. The Back by popular demand will be a second week (July 17-22) delving into the The Prince, Isak .------.., travel allowance study of the Eastern cultures, both contemporary literature and film, and the e Ration Dinesen' s "Sorrow eShiprock eChama lets us host teachers classics. More detailed information will follow, or contact the alumni office in Cimarron• Clayton9 that have a real Santa Fe at (505) 984-6109. Acre," and Shakes­ El Rito e Taos e peare's King Lear. •Navajo Espanola e hunger for intellec­ See you in Santa Fe! The readings eLosAlamos tual growth and for were chosen to e Crownpoint • Santa Fe e Las Vegas new ideas for their address timeless e Rio Rancho own classes." human issues in eZuni e Albuquerque Comments personal and pub- from the teachers let the Graduate lic politics and Magdalena e e Socorro responsibility. In Institute know that philosophical, 9 Roswell the seminars are political and liter­ Cloudcroft 9 filling a need. "This focused ary frameworks, LaMesa9 the texts speak to effort to give acade­ a wide range of mic considerations audiences. a time and space Students are Teachers from around New Mexico have to be is encourag­ entangled in sim- enrolled in The Prickly Rose of Politics. ing. Secondary ilar conflicts as teachers too often they develop into defer to the practical adult citizens at the threshold of civic at the expense of keeping the elevated responsibility. Since teachers are experience vital." addressing these issues in their class­ "I hope these continue, as the rooms and lives daily, the seminars intellectual stimulation helps carry the open a door to the discussion of these enthusiasm into the classroom." issues in a way not usually approached "I find it very interesting that so in high schools. The readings involve many educators (colleagues) are so people personally, compel them to deal highly attuned to the need for this kind with issues common to all human of dialogue. I am encouraged to continue beings, and excite students when they the course of action I have begun with my discover that these issues concern their middle-school students since previously own lives. there was a fear of 'over-intellectualizing' One of the most exciting aspects of my approach." these seminars for the Graduate The seminars are sponsored by the Institute is the ability to reach out to New Mexico Endowment for the teachers in schools all over the New Humanities and are free of charge.

The Annapolis campus anticipates two entry-level positions in the Admissions Office. If you are interested, please send a letter and resume to Deborah Anawalt, Director of Personnel, Annapolis campus.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

To the Editor: his response was a deafen­ membership in the class of article about three years ago.) I was the last "prospective" inter­ ing silence. I asked what 1960. Now my eldest The Reporter piece on Tolbert viewed by Mr. Tolbert and the first was wrong. He said, ''You daughter is preparing to go mentions the friendship of Paul admitted by Mr. Hamm to the class of are still trying to do better, to college and is impressed Matsushita, a prominent international 1976. aren't you?" that I attended St. John's. lawyer, another good friend of mine In seeking admission to the college, I suppose I owed it Her college guides rank the from those days. I did what I thought was my best with to him. school highly. . This letter is a homecoming of sorts the essays. A few weeks later, Mr. It makes me glad to I join others who so for me. I was cast out of St. John's, Tolbert mailed my application back to read of the happy accom­ - eloquently captured the banned from its academic halls after my me. His stern but encouraging note said, plishments of the best of personality of Mr. Tolbert. two year exams .. .I felt quite at sea, "Try again. You can do better than this." our school. It makes me His charm, keen mind and bewildered, blindsided, excommunicated. Mr. Tolbert has my eternal gratitude happy to know what St. John's means paternal concern are correct impressions. I .. a painful episode in my life. for admitting me to a world of fine souls. for the students on whom it takes a recall vividly the few discussions we So it is with mixed emotions that In my junior year, I was in Mr. chance. enjoyed together. (A very attractive memories of those days are stirred. Tolbert's French class and his seminar. I William Watt Campbell, A'76 receptionist worked in his office in 1956 Despite the hurt, I loved St. John's. The recall that my junior essay received a whose presence caused me to make a years spent there, the friends made, the grade of "B-." During the summer after number of otherwise needless visits youthful experiences, always will be my junior year, I obtained early admis­ To the Editor: there.) close to my heart. I recall a cliche, "Once sion to law school. In the summer Reading about James Tolbert in The Memories of St. John's crop up a St. Johnnie, always a St. Johnnie." Part between being a St. John's junior and a Reporter this month prompts this former everywhere of late. I saw Tom Van Sant, of me will always be. Tulane freshman, I worked for Mr. St. Johnnie to write at last. A' 59, interviewed on a PBS science Jonathan M. Brickman, A'60 Brown. I also rewrote my junior essay. It's pushing four decades since Mr. documentary this month. (His work on When I called Mr. Tolbert and Tolbert interviewed me in a Boston making the first world map from satellite asked for an appointment to discuss it, hotel, starting me down the path of photos was the topic of a Newsweek page4 The Reporter March 1994

St Johri's College THE CAMPAIGN FOR OUR FOURTH CENTURY Annapolis, Maryland Santa Fe, New Mexico 1696 - 1996

$21 million and counting • • •

Gifts received 1 at $5,000,000 to date

2 at $2,500,000 "The Still Water Foundation trusts unreservedly that St. John's is concerned with the very best 5 at $1,000,000 - human beings are capable of. Moreover, the 7 at $500,000 college's conscientious and above all, thoughtful, 11 at $250,000 approach in the classroom allows these ideals to be refiected in every aspect of community life." 12 at $100,000 -Still Water Foundation 15 at $50,000

20 at $25 ,000 "St. John's is unique in this country in terms of

30 at $10,000 to offer the fine tradition of classical education." Many less -River Branch Foundation than $10 ,000 I I I (1 million) (1 million) (1 million) (1 million) (1 million) (1 million) CAMPAIGN UPDATE

St. John's College has good reason pledge by the Friends board along with for optimism but there still is a long way a commitment to help raise an additional to go. This was the message directed to $800,000 from the community for the new the St. John's College Board of Visitors library in the Hall of Records building. and Governors by capital campaign Additionally, Warren Spector, A'81, Chairman Ray Cave at its January meet­ has challenged alumni with a dollar for ing. Mr. Cave had just announced that dollar match up to $10,000 for a gift of Priority Needs the college has raised more than $21 $25,000 or more. million in pledges toward its $30 million Faculty pledges have topped a campaign goal. remarkable $2 million. While the news was received as The current focus of the campaign $16,800,000 (56%) encouraging, Mr. Cave also cautioned is in the alumni division. Chaired by Endowment that much of the hardest work on the Warren Winiarski, A'52, the Alumni • For Tutors and Academic Program 13,600,000 part of campaign volunteers is yet to Committee has assembled a force of • For Students: Financial Aid 2,200,000 come. Gifts at all levels are needed to approximately 100 alumni volunteers ensure the success of the campaign, who will serve as class leaders and • For Advancement of including major gifts at the top of the decade chairmen. Volunteer orientation Liberal Education 1,000,000 gift pyramid. meetings were held in Annapolis and Recent major gifts include a Santa Fe last October and November. $500,000 collective pledge from Alumni In a recent interview, Mr. Winiarski Association Board members. said he hopes alumni will realize their Association President Sharon support is vital to the future of the college. Physical Facilities $8,200,000 (27%) Bishop said, "We really wanted to set an "None of us can take for granted that St. example for other alumni to follow. John's will be able to live on... unless • Student Activities Center - Santa Fe And, we wanted to demonstrate a high we are willing to help ... in whatever • Hall of Records Building level of alumni giving to show to non­ way we can." 3,500,000 alumni potential donors that the alumni If you would like to find out more & Woodward Hall-Annapolis are, in fact, committed to the college." about The Campaign for Our Fourth Another major gift came from the Century, contact Jeffrey Morgan, Santa Friends of St. John's, Annapolis. Dr. Fe Vice-President for Advancement at Robert 0. Biern, prominent Annapolis (505) 984-6099 or Jeffrey Bishop, Operating Funds $5,000,000 (17%) cardiologist and president of the Friends Annapolis Vice-President for of St. John's, announced a $200,000 Advancement at (410) 626-2505. Campaign Total $30,000,000 Hotline Number 1-800-234-3691 March 1994 The Reporter pages

of 1994-1995, one of the provisions of the NEH endowment. On a Friday night Kalkavage in the spring of 1995, Mr. Kalkavage Santa Fe faculty to will deliver a public lecture on some • aspect of the philosopher's work, yet another provision of the grant. study modem times at ease 1n Additionally, occupants of the endowed chairs have two-thirds time off from teaching duties. At present a by Stephen Van Luchene, Dean, Santa Fe NEH chair second endowed chair on ancient, medieval and renaissance thought is by Nancy Osius held by tutor Elliott Zuckerman, who is The Santa Fe campus will soon begin a two-year study concluding his two-year study of project aimed at introducing the faculty to areas of thought It isn't entirely easy to picture Peter prosody, meter and verse. that have become important since the New Program was Kalkavage seated in his living room For Peter Kalkavage, the opportunity established in the late 1930s. with Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit in presented by the two endowed chairs is The Schmidt tutorship, which alternates between the his lap while in and out of the room, "exactly the right thing" for the college, campuses, will provide the core funding for this project. By pur~uing the active pleasures of the very and it comes for him at the right time. a series of accidents, the Schmidt tutorship has been in young, are Matthew, almost six, Sophia, Behind him at the college are the Annapolis for the last two years and will be in Santa Fe for four and a half, and Michael, almost years of finishing his dissertation even the next two. In the past, when in Santa Fe, the Schmidt three. as he worked through the program. tutorship has allowed one tutor to be released from one third of the normal teaching Behind him, too, are the assignment for a whole year to lead a faculty study group. Under this plan, four pleasurable years of tutors will be released from a third of the teaching assignment for one semester only leading Freshman during which they will lead a faculty study group and make reports to the faculty. Chorus and Small The four tutors will constitute a core group for the two-year project, serving as central Chorus, his years on the members of the study group when they are not leading it. Instruction Committee, This arrangement offers several advantages: In a time when funds for faculty devel­ and most recently his opment are scarce, more tutors will have the benefit of released time for study, membership on the reflection, and conversation with colleagues. The core concept means that the respon­ steering committee for sibility and focus can more easily become a common undertaking than when only one the accreditation process tutor leads. Finally there is a greater chance that a strong, ongoing faculty study the Annapolis campus group will take shape. completed last fall. If more money becomes available, this project is easily expandable to include Despite the more tutors with released time, formal panel discussions with the entire faculty, and demands in those busy extra-curricular work with students. The Schmidt tutorship by itself, however, provides years, there was time to sufficient money for a respectable, if modest, undertaking. study harpsichord with The Schmidt tutors and the specific topics will be chosen in the next few weeks. Tutor Emeritus At this point we are entertaining topics in art, literature, philosophy and anthropology as Douglas Allanbrook, well as some in economics and psychology (as specified in the Schmidt guidelines). and even the leisure to We are intentionally vague about the ultimate outcome. This project could lead to a sit down at the piano deep rethinking of the books and expectations of the senior year. On the other hand, it once in a while. will be of great value if it goes only as far as introducing many of us to some of the This year he comes more important developments of modern times, developments we ought to know full circle to those studies something about. that have interested him for the 20-some years since his under­ graduate days at Pennsylvania State University where he received his B. A. in philosophy in 1973, his Peter Kalkavage master's degree in 1976, Einstein/ f a tie and his doctorate in Somewhere in the background, 1983. His Ph.D. dissertation was not on keeping a lid on things, is Christine Hegel, however, but on Plato's Timaeus. by Lesli Allison a comparison of the Kalkavage, a scholar herself, who also Mr. Kalkavage sees a marked treatments of this tran­ manages to teach and read under siege connection between Plato and Hegel The relationship scendent law in Einstein conditions. and the tasks they set themselves. The between Albert Einstein and Kafka. "It leads par­ "I've never been able to work in a central theme of the Phenomenology is and Franz Kafka is the ticularly to the question library or an office," Peter remarks. "I philosophical education, which puts the subject of a recent paper of whether human activi­ like a bit of distraction and noise to work in direct relation to Plato's by Santa Fe tutor and ty should try to tran­ work against. I like the sense that I am Republic and Symposium. In Timaeus, he musician-in-residence scend what Einstein in the trenches somehow." notes, Socrates asks for a speech showing Peter Pesic. "Before the called the 'merely per­ "Of course, sometimes it is utterly the best city displaying its virtue in war, Law: Einstein and sonal' or whether daily impossible," he concedes. while "I see Hegel attempting to Kafka" will appear early life might hold some address the same thing through his the­ this year in Literature and essential secret." This is the first of two years that ory of history." Theology which is pub­ During the course of Peter Kalkavage, who joined the Mr. Kalkavage calls Phenomenology lished in England by his work Mr. Pesic said Annapolis faculty in 1977, has occupied a "philosophical novel"; Hegel calls it a Oxford University Press. he came across a novel which Kafka's the NEH-funded Chair of Modern "gallery of images"-"living characters "I began to write this essay more friend Max Brad wrote, ostensibly about Thought, and his project is the study of who come on the scene, articulate their than 20 years ago when I first became Kepler and Tycho Brahe but which also The Phenomenology of Spirit, by the vision of truth, and pass away," Mr. aware that Einstein and Kafka had both is a disguised portrait of Einstein. This German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Kalkavage explains. lived in Prague from 1910-1912," Mr. book sheds light on the way Kafka and Friedrich Hegel, a notably challenging The truth differs profoundly from Pesic said. "They had shared friends his friends might have thought about work St. John's students read and discuss type to type, and Hegel examines the and been in the same circles, but nothing Einstein and his extraordinary activities. for seven seminar meetings in their truths of these different claims-i.e. that much was known about their interaction." "The anguished darkness which senior year. the truth is what the senses tell you; or This information served as spring­ surrounds Kafka's Law stands in More specifically, Mr. Kalkavage that the truth is what conscience tells board for Mr. Pesic to explore what provocative contrast to Einstein's basic hopes that by "re-entering the work and you; or that the truth is what physical might be parallel or divergent in the optimism," Mr. Pesic said. "There is attempting finally to think it through as science tells you. These human types lives and works of the two men. also a fascinating counterpoint between a whole," he will come out with a better and their quests for truth "all fail neces­ "As I taught at St. John's College their views concerning identity. Einstein understanding of what the philosopher sarily," says Mr. Kalkavage, but they all over a number of years and worked insisted that each particle might have an means by "actual knowing," and the fail in an orderly fashion, and it is the with my students on Einstein in senior irreducible identity and a determinate implications of the philosopher's task of the philosopher to exhibit that mathematics, I became aware of the path according to the Law. He parted "audacious claim to have completed order. theme of The Law which he was seeking. ways with quantum theory, in which philosophy." Furthermore, the failures are all Einstein's Law has no graven images there is a pervasive and unavoidable "We make a valiant attempt at St. fruitful. "They have a specific result, but is known in the form of mathematical loss of identity which leads to indeter­ John's to read Hegel, but I think we need which is that when one stage falls, it equations and has an interesting parallel minacy. In contrast, Kafka's novels and help. His work is enormously important falls into the next stage and gives rise to with the Mosaic Law in the Book of parables are filled with strange blurrings for all four years of the curriculum," what Hegel means by absolute knowing." Exodus. This in turn leads back to Kafka and mergings of identity, from human says Mr. Kalkavage. He sees this help While the philosopher's claim to whose works circle obsessively around to animal and beyond. Kafka's conception coming in part from a faculty study have reached absolute knowing might a hidden and mysterious Law, sought of the Law moves beyond the boundaries group which will gather to read and seem audacious, says Mr. Kalkavage, in but never found." of individual identity to a new realm discuss Hegel's book in the fall semester (continued on page 19) According to Mr. Pesic, the paper is more akin in spirit to quantum theory." page6 The Reporter March 1994

capital campaign. Having guided fellow the difference between the general and in opening the Alumni Association to 40s ·alumni towards an ·ambitious $2 the particular. NYU taught them to do nationwide participation on its board," million campaign goal, Mr. Hoffman particular things in a particular way, but Mrs. Blume says. "His drive and is a primary figure in seeking the if I understood the policy, it was easy to vision have been indispensable." money earmarked to convert the Hall understand what action should be taken "The old alumni association, founded of Records into a new college library. in a particular situation." by Francis Scott Key, did its job well," He and decade.:mates hope to have Once back at St. John's in 1973, Mr. Mr. Hoffman explains. "But events the library named for the founders of Hoffman quickly made his presence and changed; We developed a western campus the New Program, Stringfellow Barr experience felt, especially in its alumni and our alumni became national in and Scott Buchanan. association. scope." At the time Mr. Hoffman Mr. Barr, who was Mr. Betsy Blume, Director of Alumni became involved, interest in the Alumni Hoffman's freshman seminar leader Activities, points to Allan Hoffman as a Association had been waning, and dis­ in 1945, had retired near Princeton, prime influence for improving college­ enchanted alumni considered forming New Jersey. When contacted by Mr. alumni relations. "He was instrumental regional groups. (continued on page 19) Hoffman in 1973, he remembered him immediately. "I was delighted," his former student recalls. "Winky and I were good friends till his death." "You would have to know Barr and talk to him to understand his influence;" Mr. Hoffman says. "St. Over There John's College meant a great deal to him, far beyond an institution. It was what it stood for; what it was trying to Ensign Alexander W. Ellermann, USN Boffin.an do." "Back in the 40s, St. John's was not provides accredited and had no endowment. The (The article below is reprinted with permission of the editors of the United States drop-out rate was horrendous; 50% (of Naval Academy Alumni Association magazine "Shipmate," where it appeared in the students) didn't know what St. September, 1993.) dedicated John's was about. The school was vibrant because of the spirits of Barr and Early last November, I sat on a bench in the hallway outside the office of leadership Buchanan and others like them," he Chris Nelson, the president of St. John's College. It was a working day and I says. "The money we had was spent on was in my Service Dress Blues. I had an appointment to see him at 0900 to discuss learning. The tutors put their hearts and some administrative matters. At around 0910, a rather matronly looking By Donna Boetig souls into it, and the students responded." woman walked past me as she fished for her keys in her purse, did a double It was more than nostalgia that take, and said, "What are you doing here?" It was Eva Brann, dean of the college. When Allan Hoffman, JV 49, graduated brought Mr. Hoffman back to his alma I rose to my feet and replied, "I go here. I'm in my second semester at the from St. John's College, he admits to mater. "It was a recognition that St. Graduate Institute." having felt indifferent towards it. "I had John's had always been an active influence "Really?" she said. "How delightful! I had no idea one of you had a new life to lead," he says. in my life," he says. He felt its importance escaped over the wall. Imagine that- a traitor!" Consequently for the next 25 years, this at every step in his career: from the time Just another day at St. John's College. recipient of the Alumni Award of Merit that he was awarded "best trainee" in My association with the school began during my Youngster Year, when I in 1985 was, in his words, "a casual the executive training class at B. Gertz fell in love with a freshman there after crashing a party one Saturday night. I alumnus." It wasn't till Jake Brooks, Inc. department store in Long Island; to spent most of my free time around Johnnies for the next three years. I liked A'49, req_uested his help in 1973 in plan­ his being named at 27 the youngest them because they were so different fromthe·people I lived and worked wlth; .. ning a 25th reunion to coincide with a merchandise manager of Allied Stores' I felt as if I were visiting another world just by crossing the street. When I had birthday celebration for Stringfellow Barr, 26 main stores; to his rise to vice president the idea to pursue graduate studies there at night while working at the co-founder of the New Program, that Mr. of Associated Merchandising Academy and awaiting my flight school date, I thought that most of the objections Hoffman "found out what it means to Corporation and Amiee Wholesale I would encounter would come from people at the Academy. Maybe I expected love St. John's." Corporation; and finally, to his position my fellows to start looking for peace medallions under my uniform or Jimi Today, this fifth-term member of as president of Handy Andy Specialty Hendrix tapes in my car. I don't know. As it turns out, when people hear what the Board of Visitors and Governors, 13- Corporation, a decorative bathroom I'm doing they usually say something along the lines of, "That's great," ask a year chairman of the Alumni Relations accessories manufacturing corporation. couple of questions about the program, and move the conversation along to Committee, and former president of the Recalling his early executive train­ other subjects. New York Alumni Association chapter, ing: "I had an advantage over the NYU At St. John's, on the other hand, I frequently find myself stereotyped by is chairing the Decade of the 40s for the graduates because St. John's taught me my profession. Every now and then, someone'll whistle the Old Spice jingle as I walk past. I smile and wink. Johnnies I meet on campus often say, "Oh, you're the traitor," or "So you're the Navy guy I heard about," and then go on about how amazed they are that the Navy would let me study there. I just say, "Hey, the cold war's over." John Hollander, poet Once, my Academy training even got me into a little hot water with one of my tutors (That's what they call profs there.). I remember the day she took me aside after class: and critic, is visiting "Mister Ellermann," she said, "you need to change the way you express yourself in class. You shouldn't sound so decisive. It may be discouraging some of the others from exploring new ideas out loud." scholar in April I thought, "I've spent four years learning how to sound decisive!" I said, "O.K. I'll work on it." John Hollander, poet, critic, distin­ Mr. Hollander is the author of more We got along fine after that. guished teacher (he is the Bartlett than a dozen volumes of poetry and Of course, sometimes it's fun to be an alien. I watched my first march­ many works of criticism, including Giamatti Professor of English at Yale over from the outside this past football season. I stood with the johnnies, right University), and editor of the much­ Vision and Resonance: Two Senses of next to a young gentleman who stood about six-two in his heavy leather boots, praised two-volume anthology of Poetic Form, Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to clad in black from head to toe. Though he looked forbidding, he was friendly American poetry published last year, English Verse, and Melodious Guile: enough. We chatted about Annapolis, the weather, and St. John's. Either he will be the guest lecturer at the Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language. He is didn't notice my Plebe issue sweatshirt or he just didn't bother to mention it. Annapolis campus on Friday, April 8, co-editor of The Oxford Anthology of under the Andrew Steiner Visiting English Literature. He started looking at me strangely when, among a crowd of people shouting Scholar Program. In 1990, Mr. Hollander was awarded "Go Army!" and other unspeakables, he found himself next to the one guy He will speak on ekphrasis, or the one of the prestigious MacArthur hollering "Go Navy!" It probably didn't help that I also returned the waves or imaging of works of art in poetry, at his Fellowships granted by the John D. and shouts of the Mids in the ranks who recognized me among the group. 8:15 p.m. lecture in the FSK auditorium. Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. When it was all over and 36th Company receded into the distance, some "By seemingly universal consent," The visiting scholar program was of the johnnies who knew me asked what it was like to be on the other side. At wrote poet and critic David Lehman in established by the family and friends of that point, the young gentleman asked my wife Vanessa (that very same girl the December 26, 1993, Washington Post Andrew Steiner, A'63, who died in 1991 from the party) how I knew all those Mids. "Oh, he used to be one," she told Book World, "John Hollander was the in an automobile accident. More than him. "He just graduated last year." perfect choice to edit the Library of $150,000 has been contributed to the "And he's going here?" America's two-volume anthology of 19th memorial, set up to bring to the "Yeah." century American poetry, which has Annapolis campus distinguished visitors He stared at me, dumbfounded. As we walked away, he just stood there, become one of this season's highbrow in disparate disciplines. muttering something, apparently trying to process the information. "He's a literary hits." Mr. Hollander's "ardor for In 1992-93, guests were an Oxford freshman," my wife explained. the art is matched only by his intimidating classicist and a Biblical scholar. Last fall Maybe the cold war isn't over quite yet. erudition," wrote the critic, noting that a internationally known Harvard mathe­ matician Barry Mazur and his artist­ few months ago Mr. Hollander also (Editor's Note: Dean Brann declares that she NEVER arrives as late as published his latest collection of poems, writer wife Gretchen Mazur were guests Ensign Ellermann reports above.) Tesserae, "a triumph of lyric mastery and under the program. formal virtuosity." March 1994 The Reporter page7

Sunday, December 12, 1993 THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS An interview with President Agresto The liberal arts are in trouble, A: Most people will not only change according a new organization of scholars. jobs, but maybe even change careers Since last spring, the American somewhere between seven and nine Academy for Liberal Education has times. All colleges are now doing is been working to establish an accrediting preparing students for their first job. We board for traditional liberal arts schools. want to prepare students for their last The qualifications would be tough, with job, for all their jobs. And we want to do only about 100 of the country's 3,500 that by giving students the skills of colleges and universities qualifying for analyzing, of thinking, of reasoning the group's seal of approval. The something through. Skills of conversation. University of Dallas is one of many We think that if they know something colleges that have expressed interest in about human life and about human the credential. nature and about science and mathe­ The group's chairman, Dr. John matics, then they will do better in this Agresto, is president of St. John's world. College in Santa Fe, N.M, where all undergraduates spend four years study­ Q: Why have the liberal arts focused ing the western classics in a "Great on Western culture? Books" program. Dr. Agresto, acting chairman of the A: I think that in America anyone who National Endowment for the doesn't know about the founding of this Humanities during the Reagan adminis­ country and the Declaration of lndepen­ tration, has taken the lead in defending d en ce and the Constitution and the traditional liberal arts. His views American history, and anyone who stand in contrast to the move toward can't tell the difference between diverse - so called politically correct­ Madonna, who's Christ's mother, and studies on many campuses. Madonna, who's Sean Penn's ex-wife, Dr. Agresto recently spoke with isn't very bright. Or let's say isn't very Dallas Morning News education writer well-educated. Larry Bleiberg about the role of the liberal Western civilization is what formed arts. The following are excerpts: us, where we live, what made us what we are. So yes, anybody who doesn't Q: Some have suggested that your know something intelligent about organization is a backlash to the move democracy and liberty and equality, toward diversity on campuses. Is that doesn't know something intelligent Scott Capeheart, SF'93, and Graduate Institute student Yvonne Woods perform A correct? about the Reformation or the Winter's Tale for Chaparral Elementary School. Renaissance, is really missing out on A: In some-ways yes and in some ways no. intelligence. I'm not sure what it means to say That's not to say, absolutely not to that we will not accredit a school unless say, that once you know Western civiliza­ students graduate with at least an inter­ tion you know everything you need to Students bring mediate-level knowledge of a foreign know. That's not true. language. How is that a reactionary thing to say? Q: That's the foundation to build from? Or, we will not accredit a school Shakespeare to children unless it offers to all students a serious A: It should be. And it could be because introduction to mathematics and the of the incredible intelligence that has natural sciences. You simply can't go gone into this civilization, both in science by Lesli Allison and just take poetry courses and say and mathematics and then also philos­ you're liberally educated. You have to ophy and literature. When St. John's College offered members of the seven-person cast. have the natural sciences and mathe­ summer performance space to a The school program is being funded matics as part of your education. I'm not Q: Isn't it also important to learn about local Shakespeare theater company, it by local. businesses and foundations. sure how that's reactionary. other groups, other cultures? signaled the beginning of a partnership Performances are scheduled for local destined to bring Shakespeare to thou­ Pueblos, elementary, junior high and Q: Who needs the liberal arts? A: It's certainly important. But those sands. The first Shakespeare in Santa Fe high schools, and the New Mexico other groups that make up part of this production at the college in the summer Military Academy in Roswell, New A: On one level, nobody needs the liberal country are, by and large, also the of 1991, Twelfth Night, drew almost 7,000 Mexico, among others. arts-if what you're talking about is shapers and the contributors of Western people to campus. After a year's hiatus Shakespeare in Santa Fe director making a living. On another level, civilization. to re-negotiate and re-group, Rachel Kelly said the idea for the school everybody needs the liberal arts because Shakespeare in Santa Fe returned to the program came about in response to what the liberal arts really are are sort of Q:Howso? St. John's campus in 1993, attracting children who attended summer perfor­ opening your eyes to the world and to more than 8,000 people for the produc­ mances. human nature and to the history of your A: Someone asked me yesterday: Is it tion of Romeo and Juliet. "We were amazed at how excited country and other countries. I think the important to know something about Two St. John's students were the children were," she said. "One kid liberal arts don't make you a good prac­ African culture? I said I don't think you among the cast, including Scott said 'Hey, this is better than TV!' During titioner of any field. I think other things know as much about African-Americans Capehart, SF'93, as Mercutio. With elab­ performances of Mid-Summer Night's do that very well. I think they make you in this country by studying African culture orate sets, hand made costumes, live Dream, their eyes would get bigger and smarter about things that really matter. as you do by studying the history of musicians and dedicated actors, the bigger and, without realizing it, they African-Americans in this country. company is growing in leaps and would start creeping up onto the stage." Q: Like? And the funny part is, if you look at bounds, both in terms of size and quality. Kelly, who formerly taught theater American history, it is by and large the In 1994 Shakespeare in Santa Fe will to children, saw a natural relationship A Like what's this country all about. history of African-Americans and feature The Tempest, headed by New between children and the Bard. She also Why do we act this way and not a whites. It's not the history of Italians. York director Jay Raphael. envisioned an opportunity to help different way? And then even more It's not the history of Jews. It's not the In addition, Shakespeare in Santa young actors and directors build skills philosophical, literary questions that history of Norwegians. If you want to Fe has reached out to local school children and gain experience. always intrigue students. What do I owe know something about blacks, a distinct with "Shakespeare in the Schools." Now "That's one reason I chose to work myself? What do I owe my country? and important part of this culture, in its second year, the program is in with Erika," Kelly said. "I approached What do I owe my parents? What's American history is far more important. such high demand that the company has her and she was very excited about the love? What's tragedy? What's happiness With the history of slavery, with the had to turn down requests from some idea. Erika and I spent some time trying all about? What should I hate? What do Dred Scott case, with the civil war, with schools. to decide how to adapt the play to a 30 I owe my friends? What do my friends all the Supreme Court cases that have to This year's "Shakespeare in the or 40-minute performance for children owe me? Those are the kind of questions do with equality-it's through under­ Schools" production of A Winter's Tale is with seven actors playing twelve roles. you really can't get out of a course in standing the black contribution to being directed by St. John's student Erika did a beautiful job with the editing." heating and air conditioning repair. America that we understand something Erika Hildebrand, SF'95. Another Kelly said she selected A Winter's about liberty, equality and democracy Johnnie, Richard Saja, SF'93, is the set Tale because it is reminiscent, in her Q: But what about getting a job? and American history, not by studying designer. Scott Capehart and Graduate view, of a classic fairy tale. West Africa. Institute student Yvonne Woods, are (continued on page 19) page8 The Reporter March 1994

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Nationally-syndicated columnist Colman McCarthy spoke before a capacity crowd in the Conversation Room on the Annapolis campus in January, while a concert scheduled for January 21 by Eugene istomin, one of the world's great living pianists, was iced out by the brutal winter storm that paralyzed the eastern U.S. for a week. Mr. lstomin was unwilling to perform without the use of his own piano, which could not be transported from New York to Annapolis by concert time. His piano recital, which is free and open to the public, has been rescheduled for the FSK auditorium at 3 p.m. March 27. This concert season is the golden anniversary season for a pianist who Mr. McCarthy beguiles listeners debuted with the Philadelphia and New York Philharmonic orchestras at the age of 17, and who has, in the years since, collaborated in performance with the world's greatest conductors. Mr. McCarthy, a guest of the student-run Political Forum, exhorted students and visitors packed into the Conversation Room to redouble their efforts for peace. The founder and director of the Center for Teaching Peace and a committed vegetarian, Mr. McCarthy is a man whO also makes time to teach classes on nonvio- · lence in secondary school A harpsichord concert by Tutor Emeritus Douglas Allanbrook, composer and classrooms. performer, is scheduled for 3 p.m. Sunday, April 24, in the Great Hall at Before. the Annapolis Annapolis. Shown here with his son John, 16, with whom he presented a con­ ·.audience, he was both cert for harpsichord and French horn in January, Mr. Allanbrook was also entertaining and movingly scheduled to play a Bach series at Grace Church in Georgetown in February. sincere, his talk ranging Keith Harvey photo from nonviolence to animal rights to the efficacy of prayer, at every point inviting his audience to reassess unquestioned beliefs. Rather than ask our children what they want to be when they grow up, he said, ask them instead, "How are you going to serve society?"

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vice president honored Members of Tutor David Townsend's Graduate Institute preceptorial on "Chaos and Fractals" in Annapolis gather with him around a Mandelbrot Set cake baked for their final class last semester by class member Marilyn Roper. William 8. Dunham, vice president at the Annapolis campus from 1973 to From left are Aaron Rutherford, Jason Goscha, G.A. Donovan, Mr. Townsend, 1978 after a career in the State Department, was recently honored in New Ms. Roper, Mitchell Prothero, Laura Glass, and Janice Muscio. York City by Chamber Music America. More than 400 people-performers, managers, publishers and critics-were on hand to see him presented with the Distinguished Service Award for his contributions to the organization for professional chamber music players, a group he has served for the past 15 years. In 1979, when he first became interested in the national organization for chamber music players, he found the group's board of directors "in serious trouble," he says. He assisted them in reorganization, and was largely responsible for the corporate and foundation funding which took the group's budget_ from CROQUET ALERT $10,000 to over $1 million today. The malletmen and women are out there practicing these days in readiness for The son and grandson of pianists, he is married to musician and teacher the 12th-yes, TWELFTH-croquet match between the Johnnies and the Charlotte Dunham and is the father of four children, two of whom are professional Middies under the Liberty Tree. musicians. The tentative date is Saturday, April 23. Time: one p.m. Rain date: Sunday. Before coming to St. John's in 1973 at the invitation of the late President To verify, call 410-626-2539. Richard D. Weigle, Mr. Dunham had several careers. He served in the To date-Johnnies, 7; Middies, 4. Department of State from 1943 to 1963, where he was senior desk officer for Bundle up your lawn chairs, pack the watercress sandwiches in your picnic Spain and Portugal, and worked closely with former Secretary of State Dean basket, clap a straw hat on your head, and c'mon out. Acheson. He served as vice president at Carleton College, his alma mater, beginning in 1963. March 1994 The Reporter page9

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Left - These three Caritas Society members bring a bit of spring to a fierce Annapolis winter as they prepare for the third annual Flower and Garden Show, a bene­ fit for SJC student emergencies. The flower arrange­ ment is a hands-on operation for Casey Pingle, left, assistant chairman of the show, Marjorie Rigg, the creator, center, and Flower and Garden Show chair­ man Maryanne Spencer. The floral extravaganza has expanded from one day to two-Saturday and Sunday, March 12 and 13-and spilled over into an outside pavilion for exhibitors in addition to the FSK lobby and adjacent rooms and corridors. Included in the festivities are a Friday night gala preview party and silent auction and a Saturday "Bloomin' Breakfast," with Washington Post Ornamental Gardener columnist Charles Fenyvesi as speaker. General admission, $5; sponsors (including preview, breakfast and admission), $50; patrons (preview, admission), $35; and breakfast and admission, $15. For information, call 410-626-2539. Keith Harvey photo

Gallery members find satire timeless

The French satirist's sometimes savage and often comic rendering of his times drew an appreciative crowd to the January Mitchell Gallery members' opening of "The Artist as Social Commentator: Prints by Honore Daumier." The 46 lithographs, shown for the first time as a group, date from 1849-1860, the time of the Second Republic and the first half of the Second Empire. Daumier's satiric drawings reproduced in the il\ustrated journals of his time were accessible even to the illiterate. They made him a powerful friend or enemy, often pitting him against individuals, government and the church.

Upper left - Board of Visitors and Governors member Anna E. Greenberg and husband, Capt. Edwin G. Greenberg (USN-Ret.), left, chat with Marylou Symonds, Director of the Annual Fund, and Naval Academy professor Craig Symonds, right.

Lower right - From left, Mitchell Gallery founding member Bennett Shaver, Capt. Frederick W. Zimmerman (USN-Ret.), Fred Lewis and wife Nancy Lewis, the college registrar discuss the exhibit.

Upper right - Mitchell Gallery Committee chairman John Moore, left, has a word with gallery director Hydee Schaller and potter Rick Malmgren.

Lower left - Dr. Don Garren and his wife, Lorraine Garren, a member of the gaJlery committee, admire a caricature. Keith Harvey photos page 10 The Reporter March 1994

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Above - St. John's College at Santa Fe hosted a holiday party for 200 community children· December 4, 1993, which included this gallery exhibit of art by local school children. Other activities in the Great Hall were ornament making, storytelling and holiday films.

Above: Members of the St. John's community and local residents are enjoying the rare opportunity to hear the complete Beethoven piano sonatas. Over the course of two years, Musician-in-Residence Peter Pesic is performing all 32 sonatas in two different cycles. One cycle is being performed once each month throughout the academic year. The second cycle is being performed on a weekly basis during the summer. Performances are being conducted in the format of informal lunch-time concerts that include discussion of the works by Mr. Pesic. "It's an unusual occurrence to hear all 32 sonatas," Mr. Pesic said. He added that the performances are arranged in chrono­ logical order to give people a sense of the complete unfolding of Beethoven's works.

Below - Warren Winiarski, A '52, delights guests with tips on the fine art of wine-mak­ ing. Founder and owner of the renowned Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, Mr. Winiarski con­ ducted a wine-tasting on January 23 in Santa Fe to raise funds for the St. John's College Southwest Scholarship Fund. The fund provides financial assistance for stu­ dents from the southwest to attend St. John's. The benefit was hosted by a local hotel, the Inn of the Anasazi. Participants tasted a variety of red and white wines, among Above - Santa Claus (David Finley, SF '93) has a helper at the children's holiday them the award winning 1973 SL V Cabernet Sauvignon, famous for taking first place party. over distinguished California Cabemets and First Growth Bordeaux at the Paris Tasting in 1975. Below - Marvin Slaves, a new member of the St. John's College Board of Visnors and Governors, wins the raffle for a bottle of the distinguished 1973 SL V Cabernet Sauvignon. March 1994 The Reporter page 11

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Dinish D'Souza, author of Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex The Dean's Winter FilITI Series on Campus was on campus February 22 for the first President's Annual Tt-i~ §IL~~T ~12A President's Day Lecture. Mr. D'Souza addressed the topic of ''The Challenge of Diversity and Political Correctness." • Intolerance Formerly a senior White House policy analyst and editor of Pot;cy Review, Mr. •Diary Of A Lost Girl D'Souza currently is a research feffow at • Cops/Balloonatics the American Enterprise Institute. Excerpts from his talk will folfow in the •College next issue of The Reporter. • An Italian Straw Hat • Thomas Graal's Best Film • Hot Water/Safety Last

• The Freshman • The Nibelungen •Sunrise

This year's Dean's Winter Film Series featured classic films from the silent era. The series is sponsored by the dean and is free to members of St. John's College and the Santa Fe community.

Santa Fe City Manager David Sena (above) and City Councilor Ouida Mac Gregor (below) address a small gathering at the February 2 dedication of a new public trail. St. John's has been working in collaboration with the City of Santa Fe and local resi­ dents to expand public access to the nearby national forest. As part of the effort, St. John's granted easement rights in the arroyo where the city will build and maintain the public trail. The issue of public access has become increasingly heated in the Santa Fe area as widespread development impedes access to outlying national forest areas. The agreement between the college and the city may eventually be used as a model in negotiations with private property owners.

The award-winning Lark String Quartet performed in Santa Fe on February 12 as part of the St. John's College Concert Series. Musicians-in-residence at Dartmouth College, the quartet won the Gold Medal in the 1991 Shostakovich lnternaUonal String Quartet Competition in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the coveted Naumburg Chamber Music Award in 1990. In addition to Jive concerts in the Great Hall, St. John's is recording performances and broadcasting the programs on public radio stations throughout New Mexico. page 12 The Reporter March 1994

Alumni Notes II II

1936 Minnesota and Fargo, ND. They plan to Extensive structural changes to the 1971 Ralph M. Schley (A) is retired and return to Annapolis next October for 137-year-old St. Paul's Episcopal Church Dr. Jim Cockey (A), his wife Cathy, does volunteer work at the Senior Rita's 50th high school reunion and his in Baltimore were the subject of a sister of Arthur Luse (A'70), and their Citizens Center and at the Navy and 45th at SJC. "Maybe some who missed Baltimore Sun article September 23, 1993, three children live in Salisbury, on Marine Corps relief office. "I'm looking the 40th will make plans?" he suggests. which traced the venerable church's Maryland's Eastern Shore. Dr. Cockey forward to our class's 60th reunion at history, reconstruction, and the reality practices internal medicine "and walks the same time as the college's 300th 1951 of holding weddings under the scaffold­ humbly with his God." birthday." John F. Horne, Jr., wants to know if ing. Rector of the church is the Rev. anyone from the class of '51 other than William N. McKeachie (A) who is quoted Barry N. Sher (A) writes from NYC 1937 himself is now retired near sunny Tempe, as saying to the Sun reporter, "I th.at he spent the last year "designing "My news for The Reporter is: Why AZ2 wouldn't exactly call it a blessing in prayer books." don't we hear from anyone else in the disguise, but we'll be better off when class of 1937?" writes Leon Boro (A) After he retired from the Metro­ this work is complete." 1973 from Fresno, CA "I will be 78 years old Da de Police Department in August, John T. Ferrier (A), who was chair­ this month. Surely there must be others 1993, William T. Roberts II (A) toured 1967 person of the Michigan State Bar's who are still living. LET US HEAR Europe by car for five weeks, driving Inese Muzikants Franzke (A) Family Law Section in 1993, writes ebul­ FROM YOU WHILE YOU ARE STILL 6,000 miles through Germany, Austria, writes "I realize it is still very early, but liently that he "capped off a great BREATHING." Italy, France, N. Spain, the Lowlands, if there is any information available on year-20 years out-with a seminar on and Denmark. "Too expensive, no park­ the tricentennial, would appreciate Much Ado About Nothing, led by the Writes Cdr. Bernard G. Fold (A) ing available in cities, too many tourists. receiving it-dates, etc." legendary Miss Barbara Leonard. Spear from Rockville, MD: "What about the But fun! Spent the rest of October and I will aim even higher for our 25th. '37 reunion?" watching leaves change, an event we 1968 KILL YOUR TELEVISION!" don't have in south Florida." Donald Booth (A) is director of Dr. Robert Lewis (A), who was design at Zuhair Fayez & Associates 1974 director of the graduate school and acting George Wend (A) writes that his architectural and engineering consul­ Maj. Roger C. Burk, USAF (A) is dean of humanities at the University of retirement in June, 1993, from an tants in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. now an assistant professor of operations Puerto Rico, has been named professor engineering job at Westinghouse research at the Air Force Institute of emeritus. Electric began with a trip to China. Peter S. Roth (SGI} writes that he Technology at Wright-Patterson Air has resumed work as an investment Force Base in Ohio. "I spend the winters in Naples, 1954 advisor after making a partial recovery FL," writes John Owens (A), "where I Sydney W. Porter (A) has been from a severe injury. Marguerite Judson (A), writes lose money on the golf course and am elected president of the American "My new job started this summer at writing a book about Owens Yacht Co. Association of Radon Scientists. Dr. Charles Watson (A) writes that Consumer Action in San Francisco and as an entrepreneurial story." "absence does not make me disinterested." focuses on community organizing and 1955 He is "pursuing minor goals at legislative work to improve access to 1938 Paul A. Lowdenslager (A) reports Bridgeport [CT] Hospital," he writes, banking and credit services for low Dr. Francis J. Townsend, Jr. (A) that his sabbatical from Western State where he heads the department of anes­ income consumers. It combines six reports that all goes well after a total College in Gunnison, CO was spent in thesiology, while his wife Marsha is on years of community organizing replacement of his left knee and an Spain at the University of Granada the school board, his oldest son a freshman experience (in the East Bay for alcohol orthoscopic examination of his right College of Law-" exciting," he says, as at Brown, his second son in high school, recovery services) with a preceding five knee in February, 1993. was the Alhambra. "And the time spent and his 10-year-old busy with ballet, years of banking experience. I find in Strasbourg teaching for Syracuse piano, violin, gymnastics, and such. myself surprised to be returning to my 1943 University enabled me to enjoy lots of high school love of the political process While he has been ill for the past wines and conversations with the 1969 and fulfilling the original Great Books six-seven years, Dr. Douglas Buchanan French. The best wines I had came from Prof. Catherine J. Allen (A), currently program goal of preparing community (A) reports that he is now better and is Rioja, Spain." on sabbatical from George Washington leaders. teaching Shakespeare using Mark Van University, is writing a book on Andean "I enjoy living in a flat in Noe Valley Doren as a "mentor." He is interested in 1959 aesthetics on a fellowship at Dunbarton with Brenda Barnette, my partner of music, he writes, in the politics of the Dr. Hugh M. Curtler (A) recently Oaks. Her first book, The Hold Life Has: two years. We met on the Board of The left, and he has been fortunate enough completed a "Socratic" textbook that Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Parsonage, an Episcopal ministry advo­ to meet a lady he is "very interested in." encourages critical thinking in ethics­ Community (Smithsonian Press, 1988) cating justice for gays and lesbians, and E thical Argument, published by Paragon has done well, she reports. She is mar­ witnessing to the godliness of lesbian 1945 House. ried to a Hungarian writer, Andras and gay love. Who'd have thought my As a Santa Fe Graduate Institute Sandor, and has a six-year-old daughter, MTS (1977) from Virginia Seminary degree holder in the class of '78 as well 1960 Andrea. would prepare me for this? Though as a member of the class of '45, George Col. John J. Lane (A) has resigned four years of board service ends this Cayley (A) is one of that very small his position as executive vice president From Oxford, OH, Andrew winter, I'll continue to produce the band of students who have taken part in at Shearson Lehman in NYC to accept Garrison (A) reports that he is teaching monthly radio show-reading drama both the undergradt,rnte and graduate the position of associate executive direc­ an undergraduate course on political and literature by and about lesbians and programs at St. John's College. The new tor of the Securities and Exchange philosophy and the rise of National bisexual women, on KPFA which I Register includes only the 1978 listing. Commission in Washington, DC. Socialism in Weimar. started for The Parsonage in 1993. Mr. Cayley wants '45 classmates to "Time is even more crunched by the know that he is indeed still one of their 1963 1970 current search for a middle school for number. Miriam Golub Duhan (A), who John Dean (A) writes that "things our 11-year-old son and high school for was married last year to Terrill Tory, was go well here in the City of Light (Paris) our 13-year-old daughter. It is a business I Lawrence L. Levin (A) reports that to move to Paris with her husband Dec. 1. and the capital of Europe (Strasbourg). cherish because the death of my daughter he is "into a third career at 70. I counsel Professionally, I've just published Ereina Christin Smith in 1987 seemed to the guests at the soup kitchen at the 1964 another book (on the history of ideas end parenting in my life. Plus there are Church of the Holy Apostles in Susan Cliver Purinton (A) reports and American popular culture) and three cats and one small dog who live Manhattan and cook in the soup kitchen that her daughter and her husband, directed our national convention of with us. Life is amazingly strong and as well." both music graduates of Bennington American Studies specialists. Otherwise resilient; am profoundly content." College, are the owners and brewers of Europe is in a period of creative chaos, 1948 McNeill's Brewery in Brattleboro, VT, as ever; deeply divided about the war in 1975 Dr. L. Wheaton Smith (A) retired while their son is a junior at Harvard Yugoslavia, what to do about Sarajevo, Laura Bridgman (A) writes that she from IBM Corp. last year. He is doing University. "We are celebrating our its own chronic social problems and is a naturopathic medical student at some consulting, a lot of work for various empty nest in El Salvador, courtesy of how the weather will affect next year's Bastyr College in Seattle who plans to non-profit organizations, and some the Foreign Service." wine." complete the four-year program in 1995. travelling, he writes. She studies with "great-spirited, caring 1966 Steven Hanft (A) writes: "I am an people and we're learning Good 1949 Robert G. Fenley (A) received the extremely lucky man. After 15 years, I Medicine. I hike in these forests and The Rev. Frederick P. Davis (A) A ward of Distinction in Medical Science still love my wife and she loves me. We mountains and play folk music on the writes from Rancho Mirage, CA that Writing from the American Association have a wonderful son who's no dummy hammered dulcimer with friends in my 1993 has been a year of attending class of Medical Colleges. and doesn't suffer from obvious genetic spare time." reunions with his wife Rita: his 50th defects. We own our home and can high school reunion in Minneapolis in In July, Barry Fisher (A) joined the afford the mortgage payments. Malcolm Handte (A) is now working June, his 40th at the Episcopal Seminary full-time faculty of the University of Sometimes we go out to dinner." lower Manhattan "for more or less the in Alexandria, VA, in October, as well Nevada School of Medicine as associate same company, Zurich Reinsurance as their first three churches in northwest professor of surgery. Centre as senior v.p.," while Janis March 1994 The Reporter page 13

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Popowicz Handte (A'77) works at 1982 1992. She is pursuing a Ph.D. in art history Sallie Fine (A) received her master's Columbia Presbyterian Medical, and Adam Farquhar (SF), writes "Last at Northwestern University, "which degree in education in May, 1992, and pursues an M.P.H. Their big news is the May, I received my Ph.D. in computer prevents me seeing as. much as I'd like has since been teaching 9th, 10th, and birth of Winston Felix Handte on sciences from the University of Texas at of Sarah [Powers Knight] (A'85) and 11th grade English at a small public February 22, 1993. Austin. Two weeks afterwards, I moved Dan Knight (A'84) and their two children high school in a suburb of Akron. In with my wife Angelea and our son Matthew, three, and Helen, six months." addition to full-time teaching, she has Marsha Donne Hayden (SGI), who Sebastian to Palo Alto, California. I am co-founded a small company called Fine now wishes to go by just Donne, is currently a post-doctoral researcher at Steven Vitto (A) is currently working Fish Productions. She and her business currently teaching English and is Stanford University. On October 12th of at the United States Holocaust Memorial partner have completed the first book in Department Chair at Associacao Escola 1993, Angelea gave birth to our second Museum while he completes a master's a series highlighting Cleveland subcul­ Graduada de Sao Paulo in Brazil. One of son, Gregory Robert Farquhar, at degree at George Washington ture-The Hole Story, a guide book to her English Department colleagues is Stewfare Hospital." University. He has a five-year-old donut shops. A portion of the proceeds another St. John's alumnus - Peter daughter Donna Randall-Vitto. will benefit the transitional housing Born (A'83). Trudy Koch (AGI) will travel for program for homeless and jobless fami­ the third time to Izmir, Turkey, and 1986 lies where Sallie worked last summer. 1976 points north to the Baltic Sea to visit Dr. Elisabeth Long Anderson (A) is "The irony is that neither my co-author Timothy Born (A) and Juliet Seckin Ergin (AGI '81), her friend from working as head of binding operations nor I eat donuts, so we had to have a Goslee Born (A) are still in the Graduate Instit.ute program. "The at the Regenstein Library at the donut tasting party in order to complete Mozambique, a richly-endowed country, heights of Pergamum and the cliffs of University of Chicago, while husband our research." Another aspect of Fine but one "considered the poorest in the Pammukale are sights to remember!" Paul Anderson (A'87) has finished a Fish is a line of jewelry. The partners are world, due to the legacies of 15 years of she writes. translation from the German of making beaded pins and bracelets and socialist policies and two decades of Epigenesis, which will be published in are currently showing in several civil war." The two "help manage and 1984 the fall of 1994 by Stanford University Cleveland and Akron area galleries. monitor your U.S. taxpayer support Lenore S. Parens (A) and Joshua Press. "My head is spinning, but I'm having a during the still-dicey U.N.-supervised Parens (A'83) are parents of a son, great time!" peace process." Sons Christopher (12) Raphael, born in July in Israel. Joshua Kristen Ann Baumgardner (SF), and Levin (9) "remain the most wonderful has a postdoctoral position in political was married on August 1, 1993, to Christopher Howell (A) is married creatures on earth-even African wild science at the Moshe Dayan Center at David Charles Caven, in a mountain to Sabrina Wald Howell (A'BB). They dogs, rhinoceroses and cheetahs don't Tel Aviv University, while Lenore meadow in Boulder, Colorado. Jennifer are living in Santa Rosa, CA, where come dose." continues her work as a freelance college Flynn Israel (A) and Michael Ryan (SF) Chris is a sales rep/manager for a high math textbook editor. "Our phone number were both there for the event. tech art printing co. Sabrina is completing 1977 in Israel is (3) 5497475: Johnnies should a B.S. in computer programming at Mary Brandon (A) recently moved call and visit." Curran G. Engel (SF) is currently Sonoma State University. to Virginia and wants friends to know producing a 20-min. short film entitled her new address: 13605 Turkey Foot C. Allen Speight (A) has been "You Not Chinese." "We will finish Joyce Turner Reyes (A) and husband Court, Chantilly, VA, 22021-2413. named assistant professor of philosophy production in Feb. '94," he writes, "and Luis have just purchased a 1994 Peterbilt at Boston University's College of Liberal hope to exhibit it in next year's Mill truck and are now owner-operators, Dr. David S. Brody (A) writes that Arts. A specialist in German Idealist Valley and San Francisco Film Festivals. hauling freight across the U.S. and into he plans to move to. St. Johnsbury, VT, philosophy and Greek philosophy, he I would. like to encourage all members Canada. with his new wife, and would be interested has been on the faculty at St. Xavier of the extended SJC community to contact in hearing from any alumni in the area. University and the University of me at the following address and numbers: 1988 Chicago, where he was a lecturer at the 4214 Montgomery St., Oakland, CA Irene Laporte (A), who received an Miriam Hock (AGO graduated Center for Continuing studies and chair­ 94611. (510) 406-9254." M.B.A. from the CT-Michigan in May, from the Michigan State University man of the Basic Program of Liberal 1992, is currently working as a market College of Nursing with honors last Education for Adults. Prof. Speight Jeremy Lauer (A) finished a master's research consultant in the Seattle area. May. She is now employed at the V.A. received a Fulbright Grant for study in degree in applied economics/ economics She will marry Thomas Plenefisch, Medical Center in Battle Creek, MI, as Germany and the University of at the CT-Wisconsin at Madison in 1991. whom she met at the U of M, in May. "I staff nurse. Chicago's special Humanities He is currently working as a medical would love to hear from friends with Fellowship and Richard M. Weaver writer at The Johns Hopkins School of whom, regrettably, I have lost touch at 1979 Fellowship. Medicine and is finishing a book on the 206-486-6386." Jeff McElroy (SF) has closed his history and philosophy of economics on private law practice and is writing a 1985 his own time. Cat Mantione-Holmes (A) reports book about AIDS in New Mexico and a Beth Anderson {A) has begun a that she and husband Mike became the freelance travel book. He is enrolled in dermatology practice in Camp Hill, PA, After Ben Monaghan (A) and wife parents of "a very beautiful little girl, the UCLA Writer's Program. He is also while David Stahl (A) is working in Anna moved to Germany with their Chloe Elizabeth, on June 3 this year." working with his life partner Enrique in Carlisle, PA, for Stoner Associates writing newborn daughter Alina, he worked as Cat is publisher I editor of Flagpole, the the architectural lighting business with software for the Gas and Water Utilities a teacher. In the next two years daughters alternative weekly paper in Athens, GA offices in Hollywood, Caracas, and industries. Theresa and Marieke were born. "After and welcomes correspondence at 95 Santo Domingo. Anna finished her studies (she gave Springdale, Athens, GA 3-0605; (706) Nelson Denman (SF), writes "Last birth to Marieke in the morning and 613-5312. 1981 month I was an invited speaker at the then rushed to attend her graduation Robert Kozlowski (SF) writes that, first International Healthy Cities and ceremonies that evening), we decided to Ted Merz (A) writes that his wife contrary to the Register entry, and to his Communities Conference, held in San move back to Maine and make a go of Diana Palmer Martinez (SF'87) is in her friends' expressed surprise "at the Francisco. I spoke on my green work in it." He has not yet found the desired fourth year at Cornell Medical School. apparent fact that I never graduated/' he Santa Fe over the past 5 plus years, from teaching post, but works days at the He is working as a reporter for a did indeed do so in 1981. He is an attorney writing Verde Santa Fe, A Green City YMCA, "which I enjoy," while Anna newswire service in NYC and an environmental consultant in Program and working with Santa Fe works evenings at L.L. Bean. "It is all Chicago. He can be reached at 2610 W. City Planning Department developing perfectly absurd, but we're hanging in." 1989 Montrose, Chicago, IL 60618-1543; (312) ecological guidelines for future growth Richard DiBianca (AGI) recently 463-5983. and development to helping start the Keith Glenn Rosen (AGO writes left a principalship in Pennsylvania to Santa Fe Green Party, now the New that he has worked as an assistant begin a Ph.D. program at the University Carla Meeske (SF) writes that she is Mexico Green Party and starting The professor of history and political science of Chicago. "taking a pause in life to make a docu­ Green Pages in the Santa Fe Reporter." at Brevard Community College in mentary on the commercial mushroom Melbourne, FL. Tristan Forgus (A), who received a harvest in the forests of the Pacific Writes Bert Porter (A): "I am married, master's degree from the University of Northwest." She would love to discuss practicing yoga and meditation, and Capt. Henry B. Williamson, USMC Chicago, is teaching physics and math this and related environmental matters teaching algebra by a Socratic method to (A) writes that he is now flying the T-45 at the Cathedral High School in with anyone interested. elementary children in low-income "Goshawk" jet trainer as a flight instructor Chicago. neighborhoods of the San Francisco Bay at the Navy's flight school in Kingsville, Rosamond Rice (AGI) is now area." TX. John Freeman (A) teaches in an assistant librarian at Baltimore's inner-city Montessori elementary class­ International Culinary College library Julie Spencer (SF) writes from 1987 room for the Hartford (CT) public after spending two years doing library Angel Fire, NM, that she has a full-time Tracy Fox Carpenter (A) has moved schools. He is considering the shape of work in Saipan. massage therapy practice. "My son Joe is to Lawrenceville, NJ. She would like to _education and solicits ideas, suggested five and is learning how to ski this winter." see anyone from the class of '87 who readings or dialogue from fellow alumni Nancy Schauber (A), who received lives in the area. Anyone who wants to and the St. John's community. Contact her Ph.D. from Yale, now teaches philos­ Margo Hobbs Thompson (A) visit should contact area code 609 directory John at 330 Laurel St. Apt. 403, ophy at the University of Richmond. married Court Thompson in September, and ask for the H. and T. Carpenter listing. Hartford, CT 06105. page 14 The Reporter March 1994

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Mark Shiffman (A) who is studying Thornton Lockwood (AGI) is a in the Committee on Social Thought at PhD. candidate at Boston University the University of Chicago, will marry ("exp. grad. c. 1998") who welcomes all ALUMNI OPPORTUNITIES Cristina Bernardi on September 4. correspondence and/ or visitors: 28 Quint Avenue, Apt. #31, Allston, MA George Turner (A) is mid-way 02134. Front The Placentent Office through the University of California law school (Boalt Hall) program. Nancy Marcus (A) graduated in May from James Madison College at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, is seeking applications and nominations Selah Anne Wolbarsht (A) is cur­ Michigan State University with a degree for the position of Dean of Students. The Dean of Students has primary rently working as a licensed massage in political theory and constitutional responsibility for a broad range of of student and support services. Candidate therapist in Greenville, NC, and attending democracy. She will attend law school in should possess an appreciation and understanding of Hampshire's distinctive East Carolina University in preparation September "at whichever of the 11 program of interdisciplinary, individualized learning, and an ability to work for entrance, she hopes, into a physical schools I applied to offers me the most in a multicultural environment and promote nice and cultural diversity. therapy program. money." She is working as an intern for Qualifications include ten years' experience in an academic institution with State Senator Debbie Stabenow who is significant.and progressively responsible administrative positions within student . 1990 running for governor. .. "future first affairs or related area and an ability to work collaboratively with~ students, David Marquez (SF) is currently female guv of Michigan!" faculty, and staff. Relevant academic credentials required. Position ~vailable working as the banquet managerat the July l, 1994.Send nominations, detailed application letter and resume; and the Inn of the Anasazi. "I am happy to say Laura Melbin (SF) is working in a names addresses and telephone numbers of three references that can be called that I throw parties for a living. I still group h.ome in the city for adolescent immediately to Nancy Kelly, Chair, Dean of Students Search Committee, c/ o read books." girls who have committed minor crimes, Personnel Office, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 01002. Review of applications like assault and battery. "It's very exciting, will begin January 15, 1994, and continue until the position is filled. Lisa Rallman Hopkins (SF) and intense and difficult." her husband Phil Hopkins (SGI'92) had Trinity College, Hartford, CT, invites applications and nominations for a gorgeous baby girl, Rebecca Leyna Panayiotis Pappas (A) is agraduate the position of Dean of the Faculty. The dean is responsible for assuring the Hopkins, on Sept. 2, 1993. student at Ohio State University. integrity of the college's curriculum, overseeing academic personnel decisions, fostering research and excellence in teaching, and constructing the academic Deborah Quirion Reinke (AGI) budget. The college seeks a dean of scholarly distinction who is an accom­ writes that she married Daniel Reinke plished teacher committed to the values of undergraduate education in liberal (AGI '89), whom she met at the arts. Administrative experience and an ability to represent the college are Graduate Institute in Annapolis, on required. Applications (including a letter, curriculum vitae, and four references), August 15, 1992. In 1993, she completed inquiries, or nominations may be directed to Professor Howard DeLong, a master of music degree at Temple From Chair of the Search Comrnitt~e, Tririity College, 300 Summitt Street, Hartford, University while Daniel received his CT, 06106. Review of applications will begin January 1, 1994, and continue up medical degree from Dartmouth to time of selection. The position begins on or before July 1, 1994. College. In June, the couple moved to Tennis to Spokane, Washington. The Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, offers the equivalent of M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in.intemationalrelations. The institute is "a teaching Jeffrey Wright (AGI) writes that the Times and research establishment devoted to the scientific study of contemporary after two summers in Annapolis and international relations. As such, it subscribes to no preconceived doctrine and one at the Santa Fe Graduate Institute, By Donna Boetig abstains from all propaganda: it aims to contribute to the advancement of he will finish at Santa Fe in 1994. international solidarity through impartial observation and objective analysis If you're going to call Paul of ideas and events." Because the program is small and selective, the institute 1991 Fishleder, A'75, at work, make it on a is able to offer support (fellowships and assistantships) to several students, as Patrick Cho (A) is working as a Monday. By the end of the week, Mr. well as subsidizing students' research and travel to international conferences. teaching assistant in the post-baccalaureate Fishleder, the editor of the new City For more information write or call lnstitut Univeritaire De Hautes Etudes program at Goucher College in Towson, Section of The New York Times, a weekly lnternationales, The Graduate Institute of International Studies, 132, Rue de MD. news magazine section with a circulation Lausanne, Case Postale 36, CH 1211 Geneve 21, telephone number (022)731 17 30. in Manhattan and the boroughs in Joan Ross Crist (A) received the excess of 600,000, feels pressured. The Institute of World Politics offers graduate-level courses in Jacob K Javitz Fellowship for Graduate Although he no longer faces the daily International Affairs and National Security with transferable academic credit Study in the Humanities, and is presently deadlines he once confronted as assistant granted by Boston University. The mission of the institute is "to provide a engaged in studies and projects concerning metropolitan editor, he admits with a sound understanding of international realities, methods of statecraft, and the the United Nations in NYC. laugh to "obsessing'' over his paper. historic principles of American political philosophy in order to protect and Last summer, Mr. Fishleder was advance American vital interests." Courses include the following: "Ideas and Andy Schuchart (AGI) is teaching given carte blanche to create a publication Values in International Politics: Political Culture and Public Diplomacy," political science at the University of that "would help New Yorkers navigate "Political Foundations of National Security Policy" and "The Post-Soviet Northern Iowa, specializing in political through life." Since then, he's had "lots Successor States." For more information call or write: The Institute of World theory. of fun" developing-with a staff of four Politics, 1420 16th St., NW, Washington, DC 20036, (202)462-2101. assistant editors, six staff writers and a 1992 slew of other literary types-stories that Adelphi University, Garden City, Long Island, requests volunteer tutorial From Ipswich, MA, Alice Holliday instruct readers to make the city work support for helping students with writing, reading and mathematics. If you Mangum (SGI) sends "best wishes to all for them. "It's been great to be involved live in the area and have a few hours each week to assist this program, please my fellow Gis ('91-'94, especially)." in something the paper cares a lot call Harvey S. Wiener, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, (516)877-3160. about," he says. "Of course, we hope for Moira Russell (SF) married more circulation, but this isn't the Timothy Chase March 31, 1993. She is (economic) climate for that." working on a master's degree in creative Cover stories have run the gamut for The Columbia Daily Tribune in bridge collapse in upstate New York in writing at the University of New Mexico from a survey of specialty books stores Missouri, he switched to the Kansas City which six people lost their lives, resulting and has just had her first short story in New York, to how kids cope with Star. Seven months later, when The New in a national alert on the need for high­ accepted ("and paid money for!") by The school violence, to a profile of a Queens York Daily News began publishing an way maintenance. Atlantean Press Review. Her semi-perma­ community organizer. Each issue afternoon edition as a last ditch effort to On weekends, he and his wife, Lisa nent address is c/ o 2944 Plaza Blanca, includes a report on eight neighbor­ survive, Mr. Fishleder was hired as copy Gubernick, a senior editor at Forbes and Santa Fe, NM 87501. hoods. 'We cover the city from the bottom editor. When the edition failed, he an author, retreat to upstate New York up," he says, "by a conglomeration of moved on in September 1981 to copy and their ca. 1850 farmhouse that they 1993 little stories highlighting social, economic, editor on the metro desk of The New share with their collie mix "Ottis." Allison Hamilton (SF) is working or immigration problems that taken York Times. A couple of years later he Occasionally he picks up a tennis racquet. on a film at Cornell, and expects to together make bigger sense of the city." became deputy night editor of the metro Recalling his years on the graduate there in 1994. 312 Elmwood After graduating from St. John's, desk-:--Second in charge of the news cov­ Annapolis campus, Mr. Fishleder says Ave., Ithaca, NY 14850. Mr. Fishleder's first job-for pure ered in the Big Apple after sunset. learning to think, analyze, and synthesize survival-was selling tennis balls at a From there, he became weekend helped prepare him for his career. Christopher Leydon (A) writes: Manhattan sports store. Three years editor, and spent the mid-1980s assign­ "Curiosity also stands you in good stead "Christopher Leydon, now living in sin later, he began work on a master's ing such stories as the Howard Beach here," he says. with Santa Fe senior Heather Malcolm, degree in journalism at the University racial incident in which a young black recently signed over the entirety of his of Missouri, and upon earning his man ventured into the predominantly first paycheck since graduation to this degree began mounting the journalistic job white section of Queens only to be year's SJC Annual Fund." ladder. chased onto a highway and killed by an After a few months as copy editor oncoming car. He also covered the March 1994 The Reporter page 15

March 1994 ST.JOHN'S COLLEGE

Glenn Ballard, editor - Thomas Geyer A'68 communications committee chair

Institutional Relations. The allocated for special projects submit Alumni Institutional Relations Committee, requests to this committee. Annual chaired by Vice President Allan budgets and quarterly treasurer reports Alumni in the News Hoffman, '49A, probably has the most are reviewed and approved by the full Dear Readers, Association extensive agenda of all the Board Board. committees. Committee members plan Please send me news items 1993 Annual Homecomings and the two-week alumni * regarding alumni for publication summer program in Santa Fe, oversee or mention in this space. the development and publication of the The Association and the Report Alumni Register, and identify portraits Association Board of Directors would Glenn Ballard and memorials appropriate for not function without the generous support Alumni Association The table (1993 Budget Report) Association support. This committee of the College, provided principally by Newsletter Editor shows how we spent your dues in 1993. also has oversight of the senior dinners the alumni relations directors on each 4536 Fieldbrook Road Here's how the Alumni Association sponsored by the Board. Anything related campus: Betsy Blume, '75A, in Oakland, California 94619 Board of Directors spent its time. to the College and not covered by Annapolis and Cindy Jokela (a Yale (51 0) 530-8656 another committee belongs to this one. alumna) in Santa Fe. We owe both of Fax: (510) 530-2048 BOARD COMPOSITION them a round of applause for their work Chapters. Chaired by Glenda with us over the past year. E-Mail: The Association Board has about Eoyang, '76SF, President of the [email protected] 45 members, depending on the number Minneapolis/St. Paul chapter, this We welcome your comments, of Chapter presidents and appointed committee is responsible for supporting ideas, support, and suggestions. If you members. There are now 14 chartered chartered chapters and developing new want to help further the goals of the chapters, of which 13 have elected pres­ chapters. The Association sponsors a Association and the College, if you are idents. In addition to the four officers of workshop for chapter presidents every interested in student recruitment, career E-Mail the Association, 15 at-large directors are two years at the July meeting in Santa counseling/placement, communications, elected each year for staggered three Fe. Small stipends are provided to or continuing liberal education, or if you Correction year terms. Three at-large slots are chapters to help offset travel expenses think we should be doing something we reserved for Graduate Institute alumni. and enable attendance. The workshop aren't, PLEASE LET US KNOW. We Despite an MV where an MU The President of the Association may focuses on sharing information and want to hear from you, and we would be was meant in a December 1993 appoint a total of 8 directors, including 2 ideas among the chapters and between delighted to have your help. Please feel Reporter invitation to St. John's a\umn\ members _o1 the Go\\ege's Board the chapters and the Board. tree to contact officers or oomr:nittee community members interested of Visitors and Governors, 2 alumni chairs. Addresses and phone numbers in the possibility of an Electronic tutors, 2 undergraduate students and 2 Career Counseling/Placement. are in the 1992 Alumni Register. Mail mailing list, Owen Goldin Graduate Institute students. The two Chairman Bill Tilles, '59A, directs this (SF'79) reports that he had "a immediate past presidents of the committee's efforts to help St. John's handful of enthusiastic responses Association and the alumni relations students and alumni with careers, grad­ Sharon Bishop from Johnnies who managed to officers of each campus are ex officio uate study, and employment. The '65A figure out my correct address," members of the Board. committee meets regularly with the President so it looks as if the St. John's College placement officers on each conversation over E-mail could BOARD MEETINGS ARE OPEN TO campus to discuss the kinds. of services Allan Hoffman get off the ground. ALL ALUMNI available to students and alumni and '49A The correct address follows: what can be done to help. Vice President [email protected] The Association Board meets quarter1y, U.EDU alternating between the two campuses. Communications. The Communi­ George Bingham "Unlike the U.S. Post Office, Meetings are held in conjunction with cations Committee, chaired by Tom '66SF which is run by human beings Homecomings on each campus (Santa Geyer, '68A, is responsible for commu­ Secretary with some real nous, who can Fe in July and Annapolis in October). nications with alumni, and specifically usually get a letter with an The January and April meetings coincide for publication of this Association Rick Lightburn incorrect address through to its with meetings of the Board of Visitors newsletter in The Reporter. Glenn '76SF real destination, even a minor and Governors, typically on the third Ballard, '68SF, serves as newsletter editor. Treasurer error in an E-Mail address will weekend of January and April. An annual Glenn and the committee are responsible result in the message not getting meeting of the Association membership for the changes made in the newsletter through at all," Owen notes. is held at Homecoming, alternating this year and will continue to work on 1993 BUDGET between the campuses each year, with making it more interesting to readers. a "special" meeting on the other campus. REPORT Musical Evening Continuing Liberal Education. Association Board members donate Jason Walsh, '85A, chairs this committee, for Annapolis their time and pay their own expenses to which is responsible for supporting .INCOME $30,000 attend Board meetings. Your dues provide continuing liberal education among the Chapter less than $1,000 per year to support alumni and the outreach of alumni to Dues $28,000 Board meetings. current students and to the communities Members and guests of the Interest/Other $ 2,000 in which alumni live. In 1993, this Annapolis Chapter of the Alumni COMMITTEES committee sponsored an alumni-led Association will gather for a special seminar with current students on gender musical evening Friday, March 4. A festive The work of the Association Board differences using a text from Virginia EXPENSES $30,000 dinner and speaker in the Great Hall will ·is conducted largely through Board Woolf. The committee is also developing be followed by an Annapolis Symphony committees. Committee chairmen are reading lists for special interest seminar Chapter support $ 2,000 Orchestra concert at Maryland Hall. appointed by the President. readings (e.g., medical, legal, educa­ Final payment: 1992 1,000 Eric Stoltzfus, music librarian on the tional) which can be used for alumni-led Alumni Register Annapolis campus and cellist with the Nominating. The Nominating seminars with non-alumni groups. Communications 8,000 ASO, will talk to dinner guests about the Committee is chaired by Barbara Senior dinners 3,000 program to come: Irving Fine's Diversions Budget and Finance. Chaired by for Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky's Leonard, '55A (honorary). This committee Homecomings 8,500 nominates Association officers, Board Barbara Lauer, '76SF, the Budget and Petroushka Suite and Rachaminoff's Portraits/memorials 500 directors, and alumni representatives to Finance Committee oversees the Piano Concerto No. 3 with Tzimon Barto Prizes and blazers 800 the Board of Visitors and Governors. planned and actual expenditures of the as soloist. The committee also nominates alumni Association. With the assistance of Rick Alumni-student seminars 200 Sixty-four tickets at $29.50 each will recipients for the Award of Merit and Lightburn, '76SF, Treasurer of the Administrative costs 1,000 be sold to guests for cocktails at 5:30, individuals to be made honorary alumni. Association, the committee develops an Additions to reserves 5,000 dinner at 6, and the concert at 8 p.m. All nominations require approval of the annual budget for the Association and (1996 Alumni Register) Mr. Stoltzfus will speak at 7, concluding full Board. monitors income and expenditures. in ample time for the concert. For infor­ Other committees that want funds mation, call 410-626-2531. page 16 The Reporter March 1994

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NEWS

connected to the Internet. met. The availability of fresher data ALUMNI ON-LINE: THE The Internet is everywhere because would be a great boon to newer alumni, it's practically ubiquitous in graduate 1 many of whom move several times dur­ schools and government and becoming ing the four or five years between ST. JOHN S CONVERSATION so in business. Thus many alumni Alumni Registers. already have Internet accounts or can GOES ELECTRONIC get them easily. In addition, most THE INTERNET AND ON-LINE commercial on-line services (CompuSeNe SERVICES and its ilk) offer at least limited access to "Is moral framework adopted by have a different "topology" than face-to­ a the internet through a "gateway" where by example from our social relationships or face ones. From an initial question, an These are some of the ideas for their subscribers can exchange e-mail is it a set of natural laws we discover electronic discussion can branch in electronic communications among alumni; with denizens of the Internet. Other on- through our experiments in living?" multiple directions as different partici­ how do we envision achieving them? 1in e services (e.g., Delphi) offer full Thus did Alex Poulsen (SF'74) pants reply to different parts of different We investigated three kinds of electronic Internet access. Alumni who don't launch an alumni discussion on January messages at different times. One might "meeting places": a private bulletin subscribe to one of the on-line services 19th. The question apparently merited argue that something similar happens in board system (BBS), one of the com­ can purchase Internet accounts from so rumination, for the first replies, from Bob a traditional seminar when someone mercial on-line services (such as called "service providers". DiSilverio (SF'79) and Mark Middlebrook harkens back to a previous point, but CompuServe, America On-line, or The amorphous structure of the (AN'83), were a day in coming. Mr. Internet is advantageous because it DiSilverio, refusing to be gored, grabbed allows alumni to begin communicating the dilemma squarely by the horns and electronically without the Alumni answered in the affirmative to both possi­ Association or College first having to set bilities. Four days later came two more up a computer on which to store mes­ replies, from Sheri Anderson (SF'78) sages. Alumni can simply send e-mail and Owen Goldin (SF'79). Mr. Goldin back and forth. Seminar-sized conversa­ took Mr. DiSilverio to task for conflating tions are possible through various a moral framework with a moral precept, mechanisms that "broadcast" e-mail and offered up Thoreau's cautionary messages to multiple recipients. Of advice against trusting the advice (moral course e-mail has its limits, and some of or otherwise) of one's elders. The next the possibilities being considered day, Mr. Poulsen rejoined the discussion require an Alumni Association or with a refusal to let Mr. DiSilverio have it College "presence" on the Internet that both ways and a determination to continue we don't yet have. Nonetheless, we can looking for a "fixed star" lest his "moral get started without that presence. compass (continue) spinning wildly." Another four days later, Mr. Middlebrook REQUEST FOR FEEDBACK weighed in on Mr. DiSilverio's side and complained that the aesthetic dimension of moral judgments was getting short shrift. question is whether alumni will find No, this is not a demented attempt computers and modems a compelling to carry on the world's slowest conver­ means of talking to one another. We'd sation; our intention (besides the Search like to hear your thoughts and suggestions. for Truth, of course) is to test the notion Would you be inclined to participate in of an "on-line" electronic alumni seminar. on-line alumni seminars or be part of an The participants are scattered across electronic alumni network? What other the country and carry on their ends of kinds of electronic communications the conversation by sending messages among alumni interest you? What on-line from computers connected via modems, seNices (if any) do you use now? What phone lines, and a variety of on-line access (if any) do you have to the "information services". Internet? Should we be approaching Electronic communications among electronic communications differently or alumni have been an ongoing subject of should we drop the idea entirely? discussion in the Alumni Association Board's meetings during the past year. Send your comments via e-mail or We're exploring how such communications U.S.Mail to one of the Alumni Board might support our other efforts, including nonetheless, most seminar discussions Delphi), and the Internet. It quickly members listed below. alumni gatherings, an "alumni network", approximate a more-or-less well-defined became apparent that the Internet would and maintaining alumni data. In January (if meandering) line. In any event, it will work best for our purposes, in part America On-line: the Alumni Board's Communications be intriguing to see how the medium of because it's both everywhere and Tom Geyer: simplicio and Placement committees met together electronic communications influences nowhere. I'll attempt to explain this to discuss these matters in detail. The our conversations. koan-like characterization. CompuServe: remainder of this article presents some The Internet is nowhere because Mark Middlebrook: 73030, 1604 of our ideas and ends with an invitation ALUMNI NETWORK it's not a specific computer or network of for your thoughts and suggestions. computers; it doesn't reside in a place. Delphi: 11 A less lofty, but no less important, Instead, it's a "network of networks : a Glenda Eoyang: eoyang ON-LINE SEMINARS goal is fostering an alumni network- in huge but loose confederation of computer this case a human "network" rather than networks in government, academe, and The Internet: As the opening paragraphs suggest, electronic one. The Alumni Association private industry. These networks are Mark Middlebrook: electronic communications might serve Board is working on establishing a network connected with one another in a [email protected] as an alternative to chapter or home­ of alumni that students and other alumni labyrinthine fashion and agree to coming seminars for those alumni who can use to find job and graduate school exchange data using particular protocols. U.S. Mail: 11 11 want to continue the "St. John's conver­ opportunities, information about a new As a result, an electronic mail { e-mail ) Mark Middlebrook sation" but who find it difficult to attend geographical location, or simply a message sent from one computer 435 Clifton Street the face-to-face meetings. On-line dis­ sympathetic compatriot with whom to connected to the Internet wends its way Oakland, CA 94618 cussions remove the pesky requirement discuss ideas and aspirations. through other computers until it reaches of space-time contiguity that afflicts Electronic avenues of communication its destination, much the way a letter Note: If you'd like to participate in the traditional alumni meetings. Alumni can can supplement the telephone and travels through the postal network. In current alumni on-line discussions, send participate from the places and at the postal service for students and alumni addition to e-mail, there are various a note to Owen Goldin at his Internet times of their choosing, which is especially who want to take advantage of this ways of posting a public message on address: beneficial for alumni who live far from an network. the Internet. This message eventually [email protected]. active chapter. There are other potential uses for infiltrates all other parts of the lnt€rnet I hasten to add that it's unclear electronic communications among alumni, so that, at least in principle, it's available whether on-line seminars will live up to including maintaining up-to-date alumni to anyone who cares to read it. In a similar by Mark Middlebrook, the quality and intensity of the around­ data of the sort that the College and the way, computer files such as databases, Alumni Board member the table variety. Certainly something is Alumni Association publish in the software programs, or senior essays lost by stretching a conversation out Alumni Register. Perhaps some of this can be made available for downloading over days, rather than concentrating it data could be available on-line to alum­ (i.e., transferring to one's own computer) into two hours. Also, on-line conversations ni, assuming privacy concerns were by placing them on a computer that's March 1994 The Reporter page 17

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NEWS Chapte,r Contacts Please call those listed below for information about alumni activities in each area.

L.A. Alumni Shake, Rattle and ... Read ALBUQUERQUE: Harold M. Morgan, Jr. by Amy Jo Cooper (505) 256-0294

The Los Angeles alumni is a very Machiavelli, On War by Van Clausewitz, things that endear the city of Los ANNAPOLIS: Joel Lehman active group with a small core of devoted Thomas Middleton's The Changeling Angeles to its inhabitants-we have D. (410) 956-2814 regulars. and selections from the letters of planned a three-day retreat to the The major focus of our activities is Abelard and Heloise. picturesque town of Ojai for the week­ AUSTIN: the monthly, well, almost monthly, seminar. For a change of pace and a chance end of April 29th. Dean Haggard will join Paul Martin This year we've organized our readings to escape from the smog, crime, plastic us to lead a joint seminar with the faculty (512~327-6854 around the theme of negotiation-the surgery ads in the newspaper (my and students of St. Thomas Aquinas gentle, and sometimes, not so gentle, favorite is the penile enlargement ad College. Our reading will be The BOSTON: art of persuasion. Readings include which, in bold letters, states, For Men Journey to the West, or as it is also AMnArons<;>n selections from Aristotle's On Rhetoric, Only. Is this not self-evident?), and the known, Monkey. (617). 566~6657 The Art of War, The Discourses by occasional 6.6 earthquake-all the little (continued on page 19) BUFFALO/ROCHESTER/ ·.····¥oRONTO: Election of Alumni Representatives to the St. John's College Hartk Constatltine Board of Visitors & Governors (716) 586.. 5393 In accordance with Article VIII, Section II For his second term: 90; Host, Washington D.C. area CHICAGO: of the By-Laws of the St. John's College Stewart A. Washburn '53(A) prospective student receptions, 1985-, Rick Lightburn Alumni Association, notice is hereby Lakeville, MA President St. John's College Alumni (312) 667-0068 or given that the following alumni have Certified Manage­ Assoc., 1992-. been nominated by the Alumni ment Consultant and Amanda ftuller (312) 337-4105 Association Board of Directors for elec­ internationally recog­ For Vice President: tion to the St. John's College Board of nized authority on the Allan Hoffman, 49 (A) DALLAS/FORT WORTH: Visitors and Governors. management of sales Lawrence, NY Suzanne Doremus and marketing functions; Retired CEO, (817) 496-8571 o~ For his second three-year term: founding member of Handy-Andy Specialty Vernon E. Derr '44(A) the Institute of Management Co.; Member, St. Jonathan Hustis Boulder, CO Consultants, Director 1978-, President, John's College Board (214) 340-8442 Ph.D., Physics and New England Chapter, 1984-87; of Visitors and Mathematics, The Johns founder, and Associate Editor, "Journal Governors, 1979- and LOS ANGELES: Hopkins University, of Management Consulting," Board Chair of BVG's Alumni Relations and Julia Takahashi 1958; Captain, U.S. Member, Entrepreneur's Forum of Career Counseling Committee; St. (310) 434-7624 Army, 1942-46: Senior Southeastern Massachusetts. John's College AlumnjAssociation StrHmUstt · National· ,~::,?":f ,;":1:,0< Board of Directors, 1981- , Vice Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN THAT President 1992- ; President, New York Glenda Eoyang · Environmental Research Laboratories, NOMINATIONS MAY BE MADE BY Chapter, St. John's College Alumni (612) 783-1405 or (612) 379-3883 (W) 1967-; Deputy Director, 1980-83; PETITION. Association, 1981-84; Seminar leader, Director, 1983-88; Principal Scientist, The rules governing submission of Peninsula (Lawrence) Public Library Martin Marietta Corp. 1959-67; Adjunct nominations by petition are as follows: "Learning from the Past" seminars, Professor, Electrical Engineering Dept., 1978-88; Greater New York Fund Merit U. of Colorado, 1968-; Two Scientist of 1. Petitions must be signed by at least Award for outstanding community service, the Year Awards, Martin Marietta Corp.; 50 members of the Alumni Association 1965; Alumni Association Award of Merit, Distinguished Executive Presidential in good standing. 1985. Rank Award, 1987; Exceptional Achievement Award in the Senior 2. Nominations must be accompanied For Secretary: Executive Service, Senior Executive by a biographical sketch of the nominee. George Bingham, 66 (S) PORTLAND: Association, 1988; St. John's College Santa Fe, NM Dale Mortimer Alumni Association Award of Merit, 3. The consent of all persons nominated United States Army, (206). 737-7587 1987; St. John's College Board of must be obtained. 1964-65; J.D., U. of New Visitors and Governors, 1992-. Mexico Law School; RfeHMONO: 4. The petition must reach the Director Equal Employment M~ya Hasegawa (804) 355.. 5095 For his second three-year term: of Alumni Activities NO LATER THAN Opportunity Commission, William Tilles '58(A) DECEMBER 1, 1994; c/o St. John's Washington, D.C., 1972- SACRAMENTO: Rockville, MD College, P.O. Box 2800, Annapolis, MD 75; Securities Investor Protection Arianne Laidlaw Retired from IBM 21404. Corporation, 197586; Director and (916) 362-~131 or in 1992 after more than shareholder, Gallegos Law Firm (business, 30 years in various If nominations by petition are received, commercial and art transaction), 1987- Helen Feeley management and pro­ there will be an election conducted by 1991; member, Federal Bar Association; (916) 452-1082 f essi o na I capacities; mail ballot. If there are no such nomina­ Director, St. John's College Alumni most recent assign­ tions, the nominees listed above will be Association, 1988-, Secretary, 1992-. ST. LOUIS: ments were in IBM's considered elected'. Terms will begin Lorin Cuoco national marketing organization special­ July, 1995. For Treasurer: (314) 935-5576 or izing in State and Local government Richard Lightburn, 76 (S) (314) 725-8972 (W) products and services. Since leaving ELECTION NOTICE: Election of Chicago, IL IBM, he has been consulting principally Officers of the St. John's College Alumni M.A., 1978, Mathe- ' SAN FRANCISCO/NORTHERN in the area of information technology for Association. matics, U. of Colorado; CALIFORNIA ' Toni Wilkinson management. Among his clients are the M.B.A., 1981, Graduate (415) 255-2255 or two campuses of St. John's College For President: School of Business, U. (415) 550-1280-,(W) where he has been donating his time to Sharon Bishop, 65(A) of Chicago; Marketing Washington, D.C. Decision Systems assisting the campuses in the evaluation, SANTA FE: selection and implementation of their M.S.S., 1970, Bryn Department, DDS John Pollak information systems. Bill is currently in Mawr College Graduate Needham Worldwide (5Q5) 983-2144 or his first term on the Board of Visitors School of Social Work Advertising, 1983-92, Associate and Governors (since 1992) where he and Social Research; Director, 1986-92; Group Project Cindy Jokela serves as Chair of the Visiting Vice-President and Manager, Strategic Analysis, {505) 982-3691 Committee, and is a member of the founding partner, Caliber McDonald's Corporation, 1992-; Alumni Relations, Long Range Planning Associates, Inc., Fairfax, VA, providing Member, American Statistical SEATTLE: and Annapolis Plant Evaluation research, evaluation and management Association, Mathematical Assoc. of Jim. Doherty Committee. He also serves as a Director consulting services for government America; Chicago Chapter, St. John's (206) 937-~886 of the St. John's Alumni Association and social programs; Principal, Booz, Allen College Alumni Association - President, is Co-Chair of. its Placement and and Hamilton, Inc., 1972-83; St. John's 1985-1992, Program Director, 1988-; WASHINGTON, O.C.: Chapters Committee as well as serving College Board of Visitors and Director, St. John's College Alumni Sam Stiles on its Nominating Committee. Governors, 1976-82, 1985-90; Director, Association, 1989-, Treasurer, 1991-. J~01 )424-~119 St. John's College Alumni Assoc., 1988- page 18 The Reporter March 1994

II OBITUARIES II

Richard F.. Bumpass: Baptist minister The Rev. Bruce Hathorne, A'76: pastor

The Rev. Richard Franklin an example of how to live." He learned The Rev. Bruce Hathorne, A'76, Methodist Church. He served churches Bumpass, 60, a beloved figure on the the names of great numbers of students pastor of Asbury United Methodist in Potomac, Galesville; and Damascus, Annapolis campus to a generation of and staff, she said, addressing them Church in Arnold, MD, died in October MD, before accepting his present position students who knew him through the with characteristic warmth whenever he at the Washington Hospital Center after five years ago. Baptist student union or through his saw them, sometimes after months and a long illness. An accomplished musician, com­ Bible study classes, died at his years. Born in Quincy, MA, and raised in poser, and photographer, he used these Annapolis home in December after a Born in Eastland, TX, Mr. Bumpass Bethesda, MD, Mr. Hathorne attended talents in working with young people at heart attack. received a B.S. degree from Texas A&M St, John's in Annapolis before graduation his various churches, beginning a success­ Many hundreds of friends and stu­ University, where he played football for from the College of William and Mary. ful monthly coffee house at the Arnold dents attended his memorial service Coach "Bear" Bryant. He received his master of divinity church. He was also instrumental in December 13 in the Naval Academy He received his master of divinity degree from Wesley Seminary in building a new educational wing and chapel. He had been director of the degree from Southwestern Baptist Washington and was working on a office complex at the church. Baptist Student Union at the Academy Theological Seminary in 1960, earned a doctorate at Asbury Seminary in He is survived by his wife, Debra since 1969, while at the same time, he master's degree from Texas Christian Wilmore, KY, when he was taken ill. Mauller Hathorne, and one brother, the worked with student unions at St. John's University in 1971, and received a doctor­ In 1980 he was ordained a deacon Rev. Mark Hathorne of Pensnett, and the Anne Arundel Community ate in ministry from the Theological and in 1982 an elder of the United Brierly, England. College. He was also the interim pastor Seminary in Richmond, VA, in 1987. at many Southern Baptist churches in An active member of the Broadneck Maryland. Baptist Church, he was co-founder of Philip Peterson III A'84: N .. J. lawyer At St. John's, Mr. Bumpass counseled the Association of Southern Baptist students, as well as leading Bible discus­ Campus Ministers. He wrote extensively H. Philip Peterson, III, A'84, died man of immense intellect and creativity. sion groups during some years, armed, on his faith and ministry. December 7 from injuries sustained in Phil loved and respected the law. Work said his former student and friend Roberta He is survived by his wife, Nancy an automobile accident in Far Hills, NJ. was never a bore, never a chore, never Rusch, A'78, "only with the Greek." A. Bumpass; three sons, Nick Bumpass An attorney with the law firm of drudgery. He constantly challenged "He was just an incredibly generous, of Garland, TX, Kelly Bumpass of Hoagland, Longo, Moran, Dunst and himself to reach new limits." sweet and decent man," she said, whose College Station, TX, and Robert Garder Ducas in New Brunswick, NJ, he was 31 At. St. John's, Mr. Peterson served kindness and support made him a father of Annapolis; two daughters, Tiffin years old. as president of the study polity. He also figure for many students. The friend­ Bumpass of Annapolis and Lori Born in Boston, Mr. Peterson lived nurtured an enduring interest in ships continued long past student days. Sultemeier of Fort Worth, TX; his mother in Somerville, NJ. After graduating from Buddhism and provided many of his "It was a privilege for us to get to Anna Grace Bumpass, and sister, Betty St. John's, he joined the U.S. Navy, serving classmates with their first exposure to know him," said Sarita Cargas, A'89. Williams, both of Fort Worth, and three as a lieutenant on· board the USS Eastern thought. His other interests "He was a bigger than life human being, grandchildren. Kittyhawk and the USS LaSalle in areas ranged from video games and "B" that included the Persian Gulf, the movies to opera and ethnic cooking. Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan. He Surviving are his parents, Dr. Wiley W. Crawford: tutor emeritus . graduated with honors in international Jacqueline Garabedian of Waltham, MA, law from Rutgers University School of and H. Philip Peterson, Jr., of Woburn, The oldest tutor emeritus of the St. and his doctorate from the University of Law in Camden, NJ. MA; his sister, Victoria I. Peterson of John's College faculty, died on Nov. Minnesota. Before coming to St. John's, Remembered by friends and col­ Garfield, MA; his brother, Eric of 25th at his home in Santa Fe. New he taught biology at schools in the leagues as a man who could be rigorously Pinckney, MI; his grandfather, John N. Mexico. He was 93. Midwest, including four years at analytical and unabashedly silly, often Garabedian of Woburn; an aunt and Dr. Crawford taught at St. John's Wabash College in Crawfordsville, in the same breath, Mr. Peterson was two uncles. from 1950 until his retirement in 1968. Indiana, and twelve years at Blackburn described by longtime friend Robert Gifts in Mr. Peterson's name may He was honored by the college as the College in Carlinville, Illinois. Sacco, A'84, as "the only person I know be made to The Campaign for Our first Arthur de Talma Valk Tutor. On During Dr. Crawford's tenure in who no one didn't like." Fourth Century, St. John's College, Box the Annapolis campus his particular Annapolis, his wife, Helen Hayes Friend and colleague Francine 2800, Annapolis, MD. 21404. responsibility was the course work in Crawford, was a social worker for the Chillemi recalled Mr. Peterson as "a biology. When a second St. John's campus state with responsibility for adoptions. was founded in Santa Fe, in 1965, Dr. In 1971 the couple left Annapolis for Crawford supervised the planning and Santa Fe, where Dr. Crawford spent Phoebe Schock, AGl'82: cooking teacher installation of the biology laboratory. much of his time in gardening and pho­ Phoebe Ann Bender Scho'ck, she taught gourmet cooking at her Dr. Crawford was born on a large tography. Mrs. Crawford died in 1986, a ranch near Visalia, California. He month before their 62nd wedding anniver­ AGI'82, a noted Annapolis cooking home and in her retail kitchenware teacher and chef, died in October, 1993, shop in West Annapolis for some years. received his bachelor's and master's sary. Their son, Curtis Crawford, lives in at her home in Nantucket, MA, after a She also served as a chef in Annapolis degrees from the University of Missouri Charlottesville, Virginia. long illness. She was 59. as well as on Nantucket Island. Born in Okmulgee, OK., Ms. Schock Formerly married to retired Naval Arnold C. Gay: friend of St. John's attended Vassar College and was graduat­ Academy professor Robert Bender of ed from Stanford University. She Annapolis, she is survived by one son, Arnold C. Gay, a champion racing yachts that took him to victory in received her Graduate Institute degree Frank Bender, of Washington, DC, one yachtsman, a community leader, and a Chesapeake Bay and offshore races. in 1982. daughter Susan Russell of Baltimore, generous supporter of the college sailing He became interested in St. John's Active in the Junior League of and two grandchildren. A son, David program in Annapolis, died January 26 College in recent years, expressing this Annapolis and the Children's Theatre, Bender, predeceased her. at the Anne Arundel Medical Center interest through his support of the sailing after a lengthy illness. He was 74 years old. program and his membership on the A former commodore of the board of the Friends of St. John's. He ·Eric Dennard: SJC artist-in-residence Annapolis Yacht Club, and for many was responsible for a number of donations years the owner of the Arnold C. Gay to the college of small boats, some of Eric Dennard, admired Maryland sketches into blueprints; a second fab­ yacht yard, Mr. Gay was instrumental in which were resold to help fund painter and sculptor, and artist-in-resi­ ricated the pieces of wood that made up building up the city as a recreational boathouse programs. dence on the Annapolis campus in 1968- the sculpture. Mr. Dennard then com­ yachting center after World War II. In 1991, 1992, and 1993, Mr. Gay 69, died of liver cancer at his home on pleted the pieces in his studio with sealers He was also a community activist was chairman of the annual Sail Picnic, the. Maryland Eastern Shore November and paint. who was a former president of the which drew more than 100 students a 21. He was 51. Born in Marshall, TX, where he Annapolis Chamber of Commerce, the year for an afternoon's outing on the Family and friends gathered received his early education, he studied former president of the American Boat Bay as guests on the sailboats of local December 19 for an exhibit celebration at Tufts University and the Boston Builders and Repairers Association, and yachtsmen. of his life and work at the Massoni­ Museum School. According to a close the first president and charter member "Arnie was a man of immense good Sommer Gallery in Chestertown, MD, friend, "He really received his art edu­ of the Navy League. An advisor to a will, a personal friend of the college, on what would have been the opening cation in the galleries and jazz clubs of succession of Annapolis mayors, he and a quiet advisor and counselor," said of his latest show. New York, Boston, Washington and supported city restoration and beautifica­ Vice President for Advancement Jeff Best known in recent years for his Barcelona" (The Baltimore Sun, tion measures and served on the city Bishop, who worked closely with Mr. large, colorful three-dimensional wooden November 23, 1993). Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. He Gay. "His presence in the life of the college wall sculpture, Mr. Dennard was assisted From 1969 to 1978, he was chair­ also served on the board of the Key and in our lives will be missed." in continuing his work by artist friends man of the art department at the Key School. Mr. Gay is survived by his wife after his illness was diagnosed. Two School in Annapolis. He moved to the A legendary racing skipper, Mr. Julia, his daughter, Nan Gay of friends collaborated with him to make Eastern Shore in 1985 while he was Gay made the Newport to Bermuda race Annapolis, two stepdaughter's, Lyn the last year of his life an amazingly employed as an art therapist for several many times, winning in 1978 at the helm Grady of Wilkes-Barre, PA, Karen productive one: one artist translated his state sponsored alcohol and drug reha- of Babe, one of a number of racing Grady Joslin of Philadelphia, and two grandchildren. March 1994 The Reporter page 19

OBITUARIES II II bilitation programs. Louis Snyder: A'28, expert on Nazism His drawings, paintings, and sculp­ ture have been displayed widely and Louis Snyder, A'28, an authority on Warfare Branch of the War Department. Hitlerism, the Iron Fist in Germany in hang in such museums as the Barcelona Nazi Germany who was the author of Later he served as an air force officer in 1932, a year before the Nazis came to Museum of Fine Arts, the Washington more than 60 books, died November 25 World War II. power. His most recent book~ Hitler's Gallery of Modern Art, and the in Princeton, NJ, of a bile duct infection. At the time of his death he was Elite (1989), dealt with such high-rank­ Baltimore Museum of Art. Hewas86. professor emeritus of the City College ing Nazis as Field Marshal Hermann A lover of the outdoors, it was Mr. An Annapolis native, Mr. Snyder of New York, where he had begun his Goering and SS leader Heinrich Dennard's wish that his ashes be spread at studied at the University of Frankfort-am­ teaching career in 1933, had been Himmler. He also wrote Encyclopedia the Black Water National Wildlife Refuge. Main in Germany as a German­ appointed professor in 1953, and had of the Third Reich: Varieties of German He is survived by three former American Exchange Fellow and . retired in 1977. Nationalism (1976), Roots of German wives, a daughter Nicole Dennard of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation He was awarded a Ford Nationalism (1978) and Diplomacy in Los Angeles, a sister, Kay Fryer of Fellow, appointed by the government of Foundation Faculty Fellowship in 1952 Iron (1985). Austin, TX, and his mother Virginia the Weimar Republic. He received his and a Rockefeller Foundation grant for He is survived by his wife of 57 Lynch of Little Compton, RI. doctorate there in 1931. In 1931-32, he study in Amsterdam and London in years, Ida Mae Brown Snyder, three held the Schiff Fellowship in political 1965. He also served as a Fulbright sisters, Irene Walder and Faye science at Columbia University. Visiting Professor at the University of Lieberman, both of Annapolis, and During World War II, he acted as Cologne. Rosalie Leace of Baltimore, and a brother consultant for the Psychological He published his first book, Harold Snyder of Baltimore.

Interview Peter Kalkavage Los Angeles Chapter Alumni continued from page 7 continued from page 5 continued from page 17 Q: Don't we need to know what other another sense it is very modest, because people are thinking, people who don't Hegel's conclusions are not labeled as This year, in addition to the seminars, we have offered a music preceptorial share our culture and values? his own private insights. "He sees him­ centered around three performances by the Winthrop Fleet, a chamber ensemble self as simply articulating the wisdom that plays baroque and classical music on period instruments. The first A: I'm against this sort of: "Gee, I'm history has produced. He felt the book concert, held last October, featured the music of J.S. Bach and his sons. really well educated. I took a course in was making public what the world was Participants met beforehand and discussed the structure and development of Eastern Thought." That's kind of silly ready for." the trio sonata. We listened to two recordings, one on harpsichord and one on and usually kind of patronizing. You' re Published in 1807, when Hegel was piano, of one of the dances from J.S. Bach's French Suite, a piece we later not well-educated in other cultures by 37-not so young an age two centuries heard performed. After a delightful concert, we all went out to dinner where I having taken a little bite of this or a little ago-Phenomenology nevertheless has all found myself discussing Anselm's Ontological argument, much against my will. taste of that. the markings of a youthful work, with a You try to be polite and to respond accordingly, but really, some things just go I don't think even in our own culture quality of enthusiasm and confidence, too 'ar. \ plan next time to sit at the other end of the table. They were dis­ you're well educated if you say: "Yeah, says Mr. Kalkavage. A supporter of cussing dairy products, from what I could overhear. I'm liberally educated because I took a Napoleon, Hegel expected a new world, The next program entitled, Europa! Europa ! presents the music of semester in group psychology." Or "I a world of peace and stability to follow Couperin, Handel, Schaffrath, Zelenka and Roman. We will discuss the trio took a course on 'Was Melville a homo­ the bloodshed and terror of the French sonata as it developed in Europe and the gallant style that marked the Rococo sexual?'" You're not well-educated with Revolution. This theory of history is period. The last concert is scheduled for May 8th and features baroque music stuff like that because you haven't put utterly crucial to The Phenomenology, from the Italian school. If anyone in the L.A. area is interested in joining us, together a coherent course of study. says Mr. Kalkavage, and is an idea he is please contact Amy Cooper at (213) 855-0174. Following on the success of the particularly interested in. music preceptorial, an architecture preceptorial is in the works. Q: Is that how the liberal arts are Besides being conceptually rigorous, And what would L.A. be without movies? It is an industry town after all. taught? the book is resonant with allusions to all The St. John's L.A. alumni chapter does its part to keep the dream continuing sorts of aspects of human culture, and with our regular movie outings. Each month, a movie Csar is appointed whose A: Most colleges do think that liberal Mr. Kalkavage has drawn up a reading sole responsibility is to pick what film we are going to see. A weighty office, to education means not coherent, but list of works within the culture that be sure. Because, believe me, if you pick something that nobody else likes, incoherent. Liberal education means Hegel responds to. Because the book lies you never hear the end of it. The last Saturday of every month is designated take a little bit of this, take a little bit of in the tradition of novels about education, movie night, although, this changes sometimes. (Listen, the world's in flux. that. Try this, try that. And the more Rousseau's Emile is on the list. Hegel What do you want me to do about it?) disparate, the less connected they are, was very much influenced by French as For those of you in the L.A. area who have been meaning to, but haven't the better. The view of liberal education well as German writers and Diderot's yet participated in any of the chapter's activities, please contact our wonderful on most college campuses is simply Rameau 's Nephew and Schiller's The and very dedicated leader, Julia Takahashi at (310) 434-7624. chaos. Robbers are on the list. "It helps me to put Hegel in context," Q: With the result being chaotic? Mr. Kalkavage remarks. Allan Hoffman growth in good will and financial support. A: With the result being that students Nowadays, in his living room chair continued from page 6 Back home, Mr. Hoffman in the have a smattering of knowledge here at the vortex of family life, Mr. mid-1970s led weekly seminars in his and there on disparate and disconnected Kalkavage finds "an odd kind of privacy" As chairman of the Alumni local library, based on the St. John's subjects, and think they've gotten a as he continues his dialogue with the Relations Committee of the Board of readings. Participants discussed books liberal education, but they haven't. thinker who has challenged him all his Visitors and Governors, Mr. Hoffman from Homer to Einstein, and more. The adult life. appealed to alumni members to adopt a program was so successful that all of its Q: Will the liberal arts, as we're dis­ "It is good to get back to our own series of amendments to the by-laws. 18 participants remained for 10 years, cussing them, be around in 100 years7 studies," he says. These included provisions for meetings save a few separated by death. The sem­ to be held weekends and at alternate inar was featured in The New York Times A: I have no doubt that it will be campuses; a revised committee structure twice, and Newsday. around. Whether we'll see more profes­ The Reporter making it easier to obtain a quorum; He also began a pilot for the "The sional colleges and universities, I don't and steps to foster closer relationships Santa Fe Edition Honors Seminars Program," a SJC alum­ know. My great hope at one time was The Reporter is published in between the Alumni Association, the ni-led program in literature for high that high schools would do far more of June and December by the News college, and the college board. school juniors and seniors that spread the teaching of the liberal arts than they and Information Office, St. John's "Hundreds of ballots were turned the word of the college and its program. do. And that indeed all colleges and College, Box 2800, Annapolis, MD in, and the amendments passed," Mr. "St. John's makes you a good teacher," universities could be more technical or 21404 and in September and March Hoffman recalls. "It was an internal revolu­ he says. narrower. But high schools seem to have by the Public Relations Office, St. tion that succeeded peacefully and legally." Rewards for his indefatigable abandoned the liberal arts in even John's College, 1160 Camino Cruz Mr. Hoffman is quick to praise others efforts? "Friendships," he says, remem­ greater numbers than colleges have, Blanca, Santa Fe, NM 87501-4599. Annapolis - Nancy Osius, editor, for their efforts in resurrecting the bering last· summer's fishing expedition which means that liberal arts in the Donna Boetig, assistant editor, Wye group. "The Alumni Association colleges and liberal arts colleges are at Montauk with fellow alumni. He Allanbrook, Betsy Blume, John wouldn't be where it is today without treasures especially "those made back in even more necessary than ever before. the insight of [former president] Ed Christensen, Benjamin Milner, the 40s, 50s, and 60s that are still going Brother Robert Smith, and Elliott DeLattre, and all of the efforts of Betsy strong." Reprinted with permission of The Dallas Zuckerman, advisory board. Blume and many others," he says. Morning News. Santa Fe - Lesli Allison, editor, Since then, interest in the association Patrick Daugherty, design. has increased, evidenced by dramatic page 20 The Reporter March 1994

Dutaud Nagle. Lachaise's The two married in 1917 and lived in New York City. With his wife as his Sculptures muse and model, he developed a mature style in which the heroic female nude became the predominant theme. and He sought to emphasize certain aspects of the female form in drawings and sculptures with a succession of stylistic Drawings variations. Even when he works on small-scale figures, the impression is Exhibited one of monumentality. These figures transcend the physical, becoming symbols of the artist's vision. at Mitchell Lachaise participated in the historic New York Armory Exhibition of 1913, Gallery the first exhibition of modern art in the United States. From 1918-1935, he pre­ sented several one-man shows at many galleries and museums. He received An exhibition of 45 numerous public and private commis­ sculptures and 20 drawings sions and from 1931-1934 executed by Gaston Lachaise, con­ reliefs for the RCA and International sidered one of the most Buildings at Rockefeller Center and the significant sculptors to Chicago World's Fair. Gaston Lachaise's "Head of A Woman," (Egyptian have worked in the United He also- created portraits of such Head), a 1923 bronze sculpture, 13 and-a-half inches States during the early part notable persons as John Marin, high, is one of 45 sculptures and 20 drawings on dis­ of this century, is on display Marianne Moore, e.e. cummings, and play at the Mitchell Gallery from March 18-April 24. at the Mitchell Gallery from Edgar Varese. Several of these are Lachaise, celebrated among the first generation of March 18-April 24. included in the exhibition. modern American sculptors, is best known for his inter­ Lachaise is best known Lachaise died in 1935 at the age of pretations in bronze of the female form as a symbol of for his interpretations in 53, only three months after the opening womanhood. bronze of the female figure of his Retrospective Exhibition at the as a symbol of womanhood; Museum of Modern Art in New York. his drawings of female figures offer an director of several American art museums, His work is included in collections such interesting contrast to the sculpture. also served as dean of faculty for the as the Nels on A. Rockefeller Collection; On April 12, Gerald Nordland, a Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; the 20th century art expert, a Guggenheim Artist Gaston Lachaise was born in Museum of Modern Art; the National Fellow, and a widely published author, Paris in 1882. He studied at the Ecole Gallery; the Franklin D. Murphy will speak on the current exhibition. The Bernard Palissy and at the Academie Gardens, Washington; and the San lecture will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris. He Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Conversation Room. had just won the coveted Prix de Rome The exhibition was organized by Mr. Nordland, who is a former when he met a visiting American, Isabel The Lachaise Foundation of Boston.

Santa Fe Photographic Workshop ANNAPOLIS Lecture: Gerald Nordland, an independent specialist in 20th century art Exhibit Opens Spring Season and author of Gaston Lachaise: The Man and His Work, will speak on the current exhibit on Tuesday, April 12, at 7:30 p.m. in the Conversation Room. Mr. Nordland is a former director of several American art museums, a Guggenheim Fellow, an educator, curator, lecturer and widely published by Mary Moore author.

A group show of twelve artists paintings of artist Dennis Fiedler will be Discussion: David Moreland, artist, educator, and practicing painter from the Santa Fe Photographic featured in the gallery. and sculptor, will lead discussion on the exhibit on Wednesday, April 20, at 4 Workshop, taught by National Following a lifelong commitment to p.m. in the Gallery. Geographic photographer Sam Abell, painting and drawing, Nita Schwartz opened Sunday, February 6, at the Santa began sculpting in clay in 1987 with a Fe campus Art Gallery and continues family of potters from Zuni Pueblo who through the 28th. invited her to work alongside them for a The show was arranged by photogra­ day, hand building pots at the School of pher Bill Wright of Abilene, Texas. Two American Research in Santa Fe. prints in black and white, color, Sculpting in clay felt natural from cibachrome, or chromagenic were sub­ the beginning, Nita said. She learned mitted by each artist. that her parental great grandmother Sam Abell, an active member of the had been a village potter in Italy. A Santa Fe Workshop's Board of Advisors, spring 1993 art studies program with selected advanced photographers for his the University of Gear~ in Cortona, workshop, "The Next Step." Italy, and yearly ceramic workshop Abell learned photography from experience with Tony Hepburn, his father, Thad Abell. He worked for Christine Federighi and Judy Moonelis newspapers and taught school until he at Anderson Ranch Center and Larry took an internship with picture editors Bell at Santa Fe Institute of Fine Art at National Geographic. Several years have contributed to the growth of her later, in 1969 he began working as a work. contract photographer for National Ceramic pieces built over the past Geographic, a relationship which has three years range from 29 inches to 57 lasted 20 years and has taken him from inches and are abstract in form. She uses Canada to Japan, Russia, Australia, both low and high fire clay bodies with Switzerland, and London. He has covered slip, terrasigillata and oxide finishes. a variety of editorial assignments ranging Ms. Schwartz' work has been from the wilderness to cultural events. shown at College of Santa Fe, Munson Photograph by Bobbie Crosby His quiet yet powerful images have Gallery, Santa Fe, in the Wilderness been used to illustrate many books. He Society Art Exhibition at Peyton-Wright and New Mexico. He has shown his O'Keefe) in Santa Fe. Dennis credits has lectured widely and exhibited his Gallery, Santa Fe, and New Mexico work at the Blaffer Gallery, University twenty years of yoga practice and medita­ photographs throughout the world. Community Foundation show at of Houston, College of Santa Fe, Center tion for the development of his work. In June the Santa Fe gallery will Santuario De Guadalupe. for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe and The show opens Friday, June 3 with feature a two-person show. Dennis Fiedler was born in at the New Mexico State University in a reception and continues through the "Figure, Form and Symbol, works Houston, Texas and received his BFA Las Cruces, New Mexico. He was artist­ 27th. in clay" by Santa Fe artist Nita Schwartz from the University of Houston. He has in-residence from 1987 to 1988 at Sol y will be exhibited in the Placita Area and lived and worked in Texas, California Sombra Foundation (of Georgia