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COMMENCEMENT '97 Ray Cave and Eva Brann in Annapolis ...... 8 Nancy Buchenauer in Santa Fe ...... 9 ALUMNI AUTHORS A semi-sci-fi thriller, a war-time tale, and a handbook on Socratic practice-Johnny authors show their versatility...... 12 REAL WORK-REAL PLAY The big three spring events-Reality, prank, and croquet-break the year­ long great books tension and demand real-world skills ...... 14

DEPARTMENTS

From the Bell Towers: Eva Brann retires as dean; a unity resolution; report on the fire in Santa Fe; SJ C says no to rankings ...... 2

The Program: Report on the Dean's Statement of Educational Policy...... 26

Scholarship: A new translation of the Sophist ...... ·...... 7

Alumni Association: The North Carolina Chapter; a report from the Treasurer...... 18

Alumni Profiles: Fritz Hinrichs conducts a virtual seminar; a Graduate Institute alumna tells her story...... 10

Campus Life: Behind the scenes in Santa Fe with scholar-gardener Pat McCue and in Annapolis with the print shop ...... 24

Letters ...... 17

Class Notes ...... 20

Remington Kerper and Joseph Manheim are prepared for commencement: they've read the books, they've written the papers, and they've proven themselves on the croquet court. St. John's extracurriculars are not only a recreational release for academically frazzled students, they also demand real-world organizational and planning skills. See story on page 14. Photo by Keith Harvey. From the Bell Towers ...

DESCRIBING THE ORBITS OF RESOLUTION THE PLANET BRANN LINKS UNITY, Eva Brann's deanship is celebrated with a party and speeches. TRANSFER­ •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ABILITY BY BARBARA GOYETIE Board agrees on ean Eva Brann finished up knows what future path will be taken importance of her seven years (one for each by the planet Brann, chartable by D of the liberal arts) as aca­ neither the hypothesis of eccentricity ''one college" demic head of the college with a party nor the epicycles of her revolving at the President's house in early May. interests." thought we needed to reaffirm unity Hundreds of students, tutors, staff, Miss Brann's speech stressed her I as the star guiding all deliberations," alumni, and friends came to honor the thanks to faculty, staff, and students. says Warren Winiarski, A52. As a woman who has given so much of her She recounted a story about when she member of the Board of Visitors and intellect and energy to the college. came to St. John's as a prospective tutor Governors, Winiarski proposed a Board Organized by a committee headed by some 40 years ago. "I was put up in resolution that passed unanimously at tutor Sam Kuder, the event included Campbell and opened the dosed door the January 1997 meeting in Santa Fe. speeches by representatives from the to find a red-painted skeleton with the The text of the resolution is: students, staff, alumni, and faculty; Greek legend 'Gnothi Sauton,' 'Know RESOLVED: that the Board ofVisitors presents (binoculars for bird-watching, thyself.'" and Governors reaffirms that St. john's a teapot and cups for leisurely enter­ The departing dean thanked a list of College is dedicated to one and the same taining); songs by a student chorus people at the college, including the Program ofInstruction on both ofits and a faculty chorus; real food from a students. She told about her long "love campuses, that this is the Program real caterer; croquet; good conversa­ affair" with the college and then founded in 1937, and evolving as tion; spectacular broadened that published in the yearly catalogue ofthe views. appreciation to college, and that students may .freely Speaking for the include even more: transfer berween the campuses within the students, senior "It has been one of rules set by the Presidents, Deans and the Lynette Dowfy the delights of my Instruction Committee. talked about how life that this college Before proposing the resolution at Miss Brann had seems to be made the Board meeting, Winiarski had helped her to stay at by and for this submittted it to the Joint Instruction the college when she country, that it is at Committee and two Board commit­ thought she wanted the same time one tees-the Executive Committee and to leave-as an of a kind and yet an the Visiting Committee. All approved unhappy fresh­ expression of the it. "I thought it was important to have man-and three essence of America consensus," says Winiarski. "It's a years later helped as I see it. I am . faculty issue, a matter of instruction, so her to stay when thinking of the the Joint Instruction Committee, with she thought she companionable tutors, presidents, and deans from both would have to leave egalitarianism of campuses, needed to approve." for financial our seminars, of the Winiarski's commitment to the idea reasons. Dowty said un-resentful of the unity of the campuses stems not she didn't mean to republicanism only from his status as alumnus, and give a speech filled At the retirement party for Eva Brann, the dean reads with surprise al a galley (small 'r' of course) husband and father of alumni, but with personal copy of her newest book, The Past-Present, delivered by Mor Pamela Kraus of our Polity, and from his awareness of how the college anecdotes, but that of the fresh and designer Adrienne Rogers (below); entertainment was provided by a is perceive4 by others. , when she canvassed immediacy of our chorus of tutors (above). Photos by Keith Harvey. During The Campaign For Our her fellow students learning."• Fourth Century, Winiarski noticed that about what to say, said, she has the "fullest knowledge of alumni and Board members were all had similar stories about Miss the college, both historical and first­ expressing concerns about the unity of Brann's compassion, or her wit, or her hand." Second is that she has been the the program. It seemed to those not intellectual vigor. entirely familiar with the inner finest possible speaker for St. John's, a The Reporter (USPS 018-750) is published in "She is unwavering in her guardian­ workings of the college that the faculty derived from her "command of January and July by the Public Relations Office, ship of what she thinks is important every aspect of that rich word speech: St. John's College, Annapolis, MD, and in April program of instruction might be for the good of the students," said Leo the knowledge of what to say; the and October by the Alumni/Communications growing different enough between the Pickens, the college athle~ic director, instinct for how to say it to a particular Office, St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM. campuses that the ability of students to about his boss. Also speaking were group of people; the grace to put it Known office of publication: Public Relations transfer between them would be Sharon Bishop, president of the well; the pointedness of her words." Office, St. John's College, Box 2800, Annapolis, affected. Such issues as tuition and Alumni Association, who praised Miss Third is "the wealth of her interests and MD 21404-2800 tutor salary differentials, as well as the Brann's range of interests and her the intensity of her enthusiasms ... Some Annapolis: Barbara Goyette, editor; Sus3an differences in senior year language devotion to alumni across the land; of us know that there are certain Borden, writer; Roberta Gable, Eva Brann, John tutorials (in Santa Fe there is a fine art Chris Nelson, who spoke of how she interests in the world only because Eva Christensen, Pamela Kraus, Benjamin Milner, segment), signaled a warning note for has guided him in his presidency; and has had them." Zuckerman's fourth Brother Robert Smith, advisory board. some-"They didn't want the college tutor Pamela Kraus, who presented Santa Fe: Elizabeth Skewes, editor; John reason for Brannian excellence is her to start down the slippery slope that Miss Brann with a galley copy of her Schroeder, assistant editor; Lisa Donenfeld, art abilities with people. "[She] has been a would lead to an eventual effect on the newest book, The Past-Present, director. friend to all ages-as advisor, as ability of students to transfer between currently "under construction" at the Periodicals postage paid at Annapolis, MD, and sponsor, as admonisher, as family campuses," says Winiarski. Since St. John's Press. . at additional mailing offices. favorite, as godmother, and as guardian transferability can be seen as a kind of Tutor Elliott Zuckerman praised POSTMASTER: Send address changes to angel." He then likened the four evidence of unity of instruction, Miss Brann's excellence as dean in four Reporter, St. John's College, Box 2800, reasons to the four elements, and added Winiarski thinks that with the resolu­ ways-harkening back to her own Annapolis, MD 21404-2800 that the fifth element that enlivens the tion, the Board has strengthened its penchant for making lists. First, he other four is unpredictability: "Who commitment to a single college. •

I from the Howard Hughes Medical WINNING Institute. The award provides $4500 JOHNNIES for each fellow and placement in a research laboratory. This year's winners tudents on both cam~uses garnered are Hai Sun, Cindy Lurz, Melissa Sprestigious awards this year. Coleman, Olivia Morgan, Christine In Santa Fe, senior Kathleen Eamon Love, and Nathan Greenslit. e was awarded a Fulbright grant to study philosophy at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, Heather Deutsch, a junior in Annapolis, Eamon hopes to use her year in won a Truman Scholarship. CAVE TO HEAD Germany to help her pursue a university-level teaching career in ST. JOHN'S philosophy. The Fulbright grant will cal." She is a member of the college's provide for round-trip transportation, Search and Rescue Team, a layout BOARD language orientation study, tuition, editor for The Moon, and previously was he college has named Ray C. book and research allowances, room a lab assistant and GRE math tutor. T Cave, former editor of Time and board for one academic year. Heather Deutsch, who is currently a magazine and Editorial Director of Eamon's Fulbright project was entitled junior in Annapolis, has been awarded Time, Inc., as Chairman of the Board "Idealism: The Unification of Objects a Truman Scholarship. She was one of of Visitors and Governors. and Mind." 75 students nationwide chosen for the Cave, a graduate of the class of At St. John's, Eamon has been the award. Scholars are elected on the basis 1948 in Annapolis, began his journal­ leader of a German study group, a of leadership potential, intellectual ism career in Annapolis after gradua­ writing assistant, a resident advisor, and ability, and likelihood of "making a tion, working for the Southern Mary­ a writer and designer for the school difference." Each scholarship provides land Times. For eight years he was a newspaper, The Moon. She was up to $30,000-$3,000 for the senior reporter and assistant city editor for the previously honored with the 1996 UPS year and $27,000 for two or three years Baltimore Evening Sun. He was also a Scholarship and the 1995 National of graduate study. Recipients must be writer and editor for Sports Illustrated Endowment for the Humanities committed to careers in government, before assuming the editorship at Time Younger Scholars Grant. education, or the not-for-profit sector. in 1977. He retired from Time, Inc. in Elizabeth Trice, a Santa Fe junior, Deutsch would like to become a city 1989, and is at present an adjunct was awarded a Goldwater Scholarship planner; as part of her application she professor at Columbia's Graduate for study in the sciences. Trice was one wrote a public policy analysis that School of Journalism. of 282 Goldwater Scholars selected recommended restructuring the city On accepting the Board position, from a field of l, 164 undergraduates. codes that regulate growth in her Cave said: "St. John's, with its 'great The Goldwater Scholarship, which will hometown of Santa Maria, California, books' program, is in the forefront of provide Trice with $7,500 for her to ensure equity for all residents. the resurging interest in liberal ans senior year, was established to encour­ Deutsch is the volunteer coordinator education in America. It is dedicated to age outstanding students to pursue for Project Politae, the student volun­ the concept that, even in a technologi­ careers in the fields of mathematics, teer organization. She has been cal age, it is better to learn to think science, and engineering. Virtually all involved with study groups working on before you learn to do." of the winners intend to pursue a Heidegger, biology, and the German Cave has served on the St. John's Ph.D. Trice's Goldwater essay was language. Board of Visitors and Governors for 16 entitled "On the Development of the Rachel Davis, a graduating senior in years. He was chairman of The Scientific Mind." Annapolis, has been accepted into the Campaign For Our Fourth Century, Trice says her goal is to become a Peace Corps. She will be assigned to which raised more than $35 million for math teacher and "accelerate the work in western Africa next year. the college. As Chairman of the Board, progress of modern science by develop­ Five summer research internships he succeeds Stephen Feinberg, who ing in myself and others well-trained have been awarded to students in leaves the Board after 18 years of minds, equally creative and mathemari- Annapolis as part of a $1 million grant service and five years as Chairman. e

SHAKESPEARE UNDER THE STARS

hakespeare in Santa Fe, in association with St. John's, event included a talk about the Bard-his wit, wisdom, Swill again offer a summer of Shakespeare under the stars poetry, truth, and continued relevance in our lives today. on the Santa Fe campus. This year the theater group will be Shakespeare in Santa Fe's summer intern program for presenting one of the later works, The Winters Tale, a heroic high school students will also present a production of fairy tale filled with adventure, romance and spectacle, their "Children's Fairy Tale Hour" at 6 p.m. on Wednes­ encompassing magical sea voyages, castaway princesses, day; August 6 and 13. young love, and joyful miracles. Since its inception, Shakespeare in Santa Fe has The opening of Shakespeare in Santa Fe's eighth season presented the free productions of Shakespeare to more began with a preview performance on July 4. The summer than 120,000 patrons. In addition, the company has also season was officially kicked off, however, with a gala provided educational opportunities to more than 50,000 celebration on July 5. That evening included a cocktail children and teens through the Shakespeare in the Schools reception, the debut performance of The Winters Tale, and winter tour and workshop program, as well as the summer a champagne toast with members of the cast following the internship program. play. The Winters Tale is being performed every Friday; Also, as a preview to this year's performance, Shakes­ Saturday and Sunday night through August 18. General peare in Santa Fe and St. John's again presented an admission is free, and reserved seating is available for afternoon of tea and Shakespeare. The June 21 tea was donations of $15 and $25. For more information on any "officiated" by special guest Nagle Jackson, the director of of the Shakespeare events or to reserve seating, call this year's production. Held in the college coffee shop, the Shakespeare in Santa Fe at 505-982-2910. e -john Schroeder From the Bell Towers ...

£l/Jatt SEQ!JEL LETTER FROM THE ED RS

n looking back over past issues of The Reporter, we discovered I that it has been a long time since a statement of editorial policy explained the publication to its readers. So here is some back­ ground: The Reporter's mission is to inform alumni and other readers about news of the college, to describe and explore the relationship between the college and the world, and to stimulate and sustain interest in the St. John's curriculum. The Reporter is published by St. John's College four times a year: in October and April in Santa Fe and in January and June in Annapolis. Stories and news about both campuses appear in each issue. It is distributed free to alumni, parents, friends, faculty, and staff of the college. More than 70% of the readers are alumni, so alumni communication is the focus of our stories. The Reporter has two editors: Barbara Goyette in Annapolis and Elizabeth Skewes in Santa Fe. Barbara graduated from St. John's in Lost winter, the Friends of St. John's College staged a tercentenary social event that was 1974, studied philosophy at Catholic University in Washington, worthy of a 300-year history-the Lafayette Boll. Alumni and townspeople tumed out in D.C., and worked as a feature writer and editor at several magazines before returning to work at St. John's. In addition to producing The their finest to dance to the strains of Peter Duchin's Orchestra. This spring, a second Reporter, she is the college's public relations director (this involves Lofoyelte Boll, this time open to students, foculty, and staff, was held in Randoll. The trying to get stories about St. John's into local and national media invitations read 11 black tie or equivalent," which had, of course, a wide range of and lots of explaining about the program to reporters) and oversees interpretations among the student population. Hundreds came in their fondest, or mosf many of the other St. John's publications. Liz Skewes graduated from UCLA in 1979, has a master's from Ohio State University, fanciful, attire. Music was provided by Crabtowne Big Band. Waltzing and swing dancing in worked as a reporter for newspapers in West Virginia and Florida, Randoll can be a hazardous activity (remember those pillars) but no iniuries were reported. and edited the alumni magazine at Dickinson College before Photo by Colby Cowherd. becoming the director of alumni relations and communications in Santa Fe. We editors are ably helped by Sus3an Borden (A87), a freelance writer, in Annapolis, and John Schroeder (SGI96), the assistant to the communications director, and Lisa Donenfeld, the art director, in Santa Fe. There is a special two-page section in the middle of The Reporter FACULTY NOTES: called the Alumni Association Newsletter. These pages are funded by the St. John's Alumni Association and edited by Mark ANNAPOLIS AND SANTA FE Middlebrook, A82, a member of the Alumni Association Commu­ nications Committee. We don't need to wax poetic to remind alumni of the special Santa Fe tutor Lynda Myers (SF71) school year, he presented the complete bond they share. Freshman math with proposition 47, junior received her doctorate degree in solo piano works of Franz Schubert in seminars struggling through Kant, Reality, Coffee Shop rendezvous, philosophy, with distinction, from the 12 concerts at St. John's, including fall evenings on the quad after seminar-unlike alumni at other Catholic University of America in some of the four-hand works with schools, everyone who went to St. John's shares in the same set of February 1996. Her dissertation was pianist Maya Hoffman. This series experiences. Our lives have interpreted those experiences in myriad entitled Aristotle on the Role ofFriend­ coincided with rhe 200th anniversary ways, and looking at the interaction of our common intellectual ship in Choice. Myers earned her of Schubett's birth on Jan.31, when he background with the individual personalities we became is part of master's degree at the University of performed an all-Schubert concert at the mission of this publication. North Carolina in 1975. She became a the college. We always welcome news from alumni and other readers of The tutor at St. John's in 1977 and served as Reporter. Our phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and mailing the Director of the Graduate Institute Annapolis tutor Cordell Yee's book, addresses are printed below. Many of the stories you read in The from 1985 to 1988. The World According to James Joyce: Reporter were suggested to us by fellow alumni, so please keep the Reconstructing Representation, was ideas coming. During his last sabbatical, Santa Fe published by Bucknell University Press Speaking of ideas, we'd like a more formal way of finding out tutor Peter Pesic was able to locate two in March. what readers of The Reporter are thinking, so we will be mailing a long-lost manuscripts of Francois Viete survey to every 20th name on the Reporter mailing list a week after (1540-1603). These documents show . Departing dean Eva Brann has this issue is published. The responses we receive will help us plan the methods by which Viete solved decided to have the papers accumulated stories to write and topics to explore during the next year. If you many diplomatic ciphers for the French during her seven-year tenure in office don't receive a survey and would like to participate, please give us a King Henry IV "These methods show sealed until the year 2090. Important call and we'll send you a copy. why he should be considered not only documents and letters have been the founder of modern algebra, but xeroxed and filed, but the six cartons of Barbara Goyette Elizabeth Skewes also of modern crypt analysis," Pesic letters, lectures, memos, and notes will St. John's College St. John's College says. Pesic published an account of be put away until it's time to start Box 2800 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca these methods, with translations of the thinking about St. John's 400rh birth­ Annapolis, Maryland 21404 Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 manuscripts, in Cryptologia in January day. "Someone will undoubtedly want 410-626-2539 505-984-6105 1997. to write something for chat occasion, [email protected] [email protected] Pesic has been the Musician­ and if they find this stash, they might in-Residence for the Santa Fe campus be pleased to have a good starting point since 1984. During the 1996-1997 for their research," she says. RANKLED BY RANKINGS •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• The Presidents decide to "let the college speak for itself" rather than participate in ranking surveys where numbers dictate status.

t. John's has decided to withdraw faculty resources, financial resources, than the ability to eton Review. from all collegiate ranking etc.) indicated by the data are count." Furthermore, The "Best Ssurveys, including the US. News weighted; i.e., reputation counts for the kinds of data Colleges" issue of & World Report rankings published in 25%, selectivity for 15%, and so on. used to rank schools US. News & World early fall. The decision not to partici­ The school with the highest "score" is in the U.S. News Report is among its top pate reflects the conviction of the number one, or 100%, in its category. survey are not sellers every year, and presidents and the admissions directors The rest of the scores are converted to a indications of educa­ the public seems that the rankings do a disservice to percentage of that top score and tional excellence. Some results high­ anxious to invest the students and their parents who are ranked. light competitiveness, particularly in rankings with meaning. "The guide searching for the best college. It's not In a letter to Mel Elfin, editor of admissions. Others are indications of purports to tell parents and students that St. John's doesn't fate well-we've US. News' "America's Best Colleges" fiscal status. The reputation rankings something that will help them make been ranked by US. News everywhere issue, presidents Christopher Nelson are also misleading because while they this important, expensive decision," from the third tier to the second tier to and John Agresto said, "We are may point out a good college, they do says Christensen. "It holds out a kind the top 25. But, since St. John's hasn't concerned that the distinctiveness of not tell students for whom that school of hope, but it doesn't in fact deliver." changed its mission or its program in each individual college and the is a good choice and why. While some schools have altered 60 years, the college should speak for diversity among them tend to be lost in Admissions directors Larry policies to boost their place in the itself rather than be a part of a fluctuat­ a scale of 'best-good-worst.' We know Clendenin in Santa Fe and John rankings, college officials at other ing outside analysis. there are some colleges in the lower Christensen in Annapolis agree that schools have begun to question the Every year US. News & World tiers that are exactly right for some there will be minimal impact on value of the rankings. Reed College Report sends out a questionnaire to students-their missions, their modes admissions as a result of not participat­ pulled out of the survey in 1995, and more than 1400 colleges and universi­ of teaching, their concentrations, their ing in the rankings. "The kind of this year Stanford University is setting ties. The answers provided by the location, their moral or religious student who is interested in St. John's is up a web site to present data directly to schools form the basis for the rankings. nature, might make them far superior looking beyond these kinds of conven­ students and their parents-the A second questionnaire is mailed to to colleges in 'higher tiers' or in the 'top tional listings," says Christensen. ''As numbers without the interpretive about 4000 college presidents, deans, 25.' Yet all the student sees is that his far as we know, no prospective student rankings promulgated by US. News. and admissions directors to assess_ prospective college is 'ranked lower.'" has ever come to us because of our St. John's has asked not to be "reputation"; they are asked to rate Rankings assume that the value of place in any ranking.'' included in the rankings and has not schools in their own category (for an education can be quantified, said The college will continue to provided data this year, but in the past, example, national liberal arts colleges the presidents' letter, "but measuring participate in surveys for guidebooks US. News has sought alternative or regional universities). The various quality requires the exercise of judg­ that do not rank colleges-such as the sources of information about colleges attributes (reputation, selectivity, ment, a considerably higher function Fiske Guide to Colleges and the Prine- that refused to return their survey. e -by Barbara Goyette

IN HONOR OF "THE RIGHT THING" •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• A committee ofalumni is working on a way to honor both the college's decision to desegregate and the man who broke the color barrier.

en Martin Dyer first heard commitment to right thing" in a way to honor both the college for its his high school vocational desegregation and 1947. That was action and Dyer for his perseverance W ounselor describe St. Dyer as the first when the students and courage in coming to the college as John's College, his reaction was typical · to take advantage and faculty insisted the first African American student. of many alumni: he was excited by the of that decision. St. John's admit "The books are the lifeline of the idea of the college and decided to The Martin Dyer black students and college, and we felt this fund would be apply. Here's what was unusual about Book Fund will the Board relented. a most fitting tribute to Martin and the his experience: Marrin Dyer first heard provide money for "Not only did the college," says Wilson. "[President] about St. John's in 1948; he was a high St. John's students college decide to Chris Nelson and I worked on the idea school student in an impo~erished east who are not able admit these for it together, and Martin himself is Baltimore community; and he was to afford to buy students," says behind it 100 percent." black. By the- following fall, he was program books. Wilson, "it went Today's St. John's students need to enrolled at the college, the first African ''At first, this out to recruit spend about $800 per year on books, a American student at the first private was a committee them-something figure many cannot afford. Rather than college south of the Mason-Dixon line of one," says no other school purchasing the Plato, Shakespeare, to decide to break its unwritten rule of Wilson, who last had even thought Kant, Einstein and other "great books" segregation. year returned to of." Indeed, the volumes for use in class, many students Dyer graduated in 1952, received St. John's for his vocational must borrow them from the library. his law degree from the University of 40th reunion and Martin Dyer: "St. John's counselor at Dyer's Still others buy the books but then sell Maryland in 1959, and has had a began talking believes, as I do, that school had been them at the end of the year to help distinguished career in the federal with other African visited by several purchase the next year's books. The government. Now several people, American alumni books are an important St. John's students committee hopes to establish a fund including Everett Wilson (A56) and about how to part ofour lives. " in their effort to that will provide money for students to former tutor Harvey Poe, are forming a thank the college find black appli­ buy program books and keep them. • committee with the aim of starting a for its commit­ cants. For information on the fond, call fund that will honor the college's ment to "do the Wilson wanted Joan Ruch at 410-626-2534. From the Bell Towers ...

inhalation and released. when students return for classes in ADMINISTRATM MATTRESS The fire broke out about 5:30 a.m. August. on April 29 and was caused by a As word of the fire reached alumni, SHIFTS IN SF FIRE burning mattress, says Bryan Valentine, there was support and concern for the the college's treasurer, who is working students involved and even some une 1 saw three administrative with the insurance companies on the tangible help toward the work to come. changes on the Santa Fe campus. INJURES investigation. He said that one of the In the wake of the fire, George lavid Levine, who has been acting students living in Jones noticed the Graham, SF73, donated $500 to the assistant dean, took over as director of STUDENT mattress fire and tried to extinguish it. college to help pay for the repairs and the Graduate Institute from Cary The student thought he had success­ renovations to the building. Graham Stickney. Stickney, who has been ••••••••••••••••••• fully put out the small fire, so he says he wants to encourage his class­ director since 1994, is now on sabbati­ propped the mattress on its end, mates and other alumni to consider cal in Italy with his wife, tutor Susan BY ELIZABETH SKEWES opened a window to air out the room, making or increasing their gifts to the Stickney. Basia Miller will replace and left. . college this year to help with the Levine as assistant dean. A n early morning fire in Jones The mattress reignited, however, renovations. e In addition, Elizabeth Skewes, fl.Dormitory on April 29 injured and Blakesley, who roomed with the director of alumni and parent relations, one Santa Fe student and sent another student, was burned as he tried to get has taken on the additional role of to a local hospital for smoke inhalation. out of the room and the building. GI E-MAIL being director of communications for The fire also damaged one room in Blakesley's shouts woke up Mike he Graduate Institute in Santa Fe the college, following the departure of Jones and smoke damaged the other Rozak, a rising sophomore who lived T has a new e-mail address so that Lesli Allison, SGI94. Skewes will now rooms in the building. next door. Rozak then started knocking students and alumni can more easily oversee both offices. She came to the Jacob Blakesley, the freshman who on doors to wake up the other students stay in touch. David Levine, the new college in 1995 from Dickinson was injured in the fire, was taken to the in Jones and make sure that they got director of the Graduate Institute, says College in Pennsylvania, where sh_e University of New Mexico Health out safely. that he also hopes alumni will use the worked in the alumni and public Sciences Center in Albuquerque, where The remaining nine students living e-mail address-or call or write a relations offices. e he was treated for burns. He was in the in Jones were not injured, although all letter-to provide him with suggestions hospital for several weeks, but is now had to be relocated to other dorm about how to improve the program and recovering at his home in Seattle and rooms for the remainder of the school how to increase the involvement of plans to return to St. John's in the fall year. graduate students in the life of the for his sophomore year. The college still is receiving college. Chris Reichman, a rising senior, was estimates on the cost of repairing Jones The new e-mail address for the taken to St. Vincent Hospital in Santa Dormitory, but Valentine said that the Graduate Institute is: Fe, where he was treated for smoke building will be ready for.occupancy [email protected]. e

ANNAPOLIS HOMECOMING '97: BooKS, Music, Acr10N ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• BY ROBERTA GABLE

eptember in Annapolis: the American culture and its musical summer humidity is gone, classes nature. are back in session, there's a hint Also on Saturday afternoon the of ~utumn on the campus, and golden throats of yesteryear will reunions are in the air. harmonize once more at "Freshman Homecoming will be held this year Chorus Revisited" under the expert the weekend of September 26-28. It direction of Elliott Zuckerman. And will open Friday evening with the Class the bookstore will be holding a major of'94 Homecoming Lecture: John autograph party with many of our Lindsay Opie, A47, an internationally alumni authors: Charles Nelson, A45; known scholar of sacred art, will travel Thomas Simpson, A50; Mark Fabi, to Annapolis from Rome to present A76; Eva Brann, A89, and Emily "The Icon of the Holy Trinity by Murphy, A9 5, will all sign their books. Andrej Rublev" (and to celebrate his Following the late afternoon 50th reunion!). After lecture, talkers cocktail party, the gala Homecoming can repair to the Chase-Stone Com­ Dinner will feature Alumni Association mon Room for a wine and cheese Awards of Merit presented to Roland reception, and dancers can head over to Bailey, A35; George Van Sant, A47; the Great Hall for a waltz party. Martin Dyer, A52; and William Tilles, A59. After dinner there's a rockin' On Saturday morning the Alumni Homecoming in Annapolis features a number of special programs, but it's also a time to boathouse party (d.j.'ed by the Association w~ll have a special meeting, catch up with old friends, revive intellectual interests, and remember the glory days. during which Annapolis tutor Ben­ inimitable Robert George, ASS), and jamin Milner will be made an Honor­ Cafe Liberal Arts, an espresso and ary Alumnus. At 11 :00 a.m., the Camp~s to celebrate their 20th), diversions awaits. First, "St. John's dessert affair in the coffee shop. dedication ceremony for the Barr­ seminar will be held at 2:00 {tutors Forever," a special show about the pre­ First thing Sunday morning, Taylor Buchanan Center will be held on the include Jim Beall, Eva Brann, Michael Barr/Buchanan days of the college; Waters, AGI96, will lead a 5k fun run; steps of Woodward Hall, the former Comenetz, Nick Maistrellis, Tom May, then, "Three Centuries in Sixty then at 11 :30 President Chris Nelson library; tours of the Barr-Buchanan and Thomas Simpson). Then at 4:00, Minutes," a slide show history of St. invites all Homecoming participants to Center and the new Greenfield Library the Soccer Classic will pit alumni John's by Emily Murphy, A95. Finally, his house for a champagne brunch. will be conducted throughout the against current students, in back Harold Anderson, A72 (celebrating his Homecoming brochures will be in afternoon. campus's second most famous annual 25th reunion), will present "Misterioso: the mail in July. If you have questions After lunch (reunion classes will spectacle. Thelonious Monk, Dialectic, and the about any aspect of the event, please have special luncheons: '77, for For chose not pursuing seminar or Blues," a performance/lecture introduc­ contact the alumni office at 410-626- example, strolls down to the Little soccer on Saturday, a variety of tion to the dialectical side of African 2531 or [email protected]. e Scholarship ...

TRANSLATING THE SOPHIST: A. REVIEW •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• BY OWEN GOLDIN, SF79

Eva Brann, Peter Kalkavage, and Eric Salem, Salem render this as "But the man is in this regard falls prey to Heideggerian Plato's Sophist or "The Professor of Wisdom'': wondrous in his very being and utterly excess. difficult to keep in our sights, since The edition has an admirable Translation, Introduction, and Glossary. even now he's fled, in very good and introduction, primarily written for the Newburyport, Mass.: Focus Philosophical clever fashion, down into a form that able undergraduate and general reader. Library, 1996. Pp. 93. $6.95. leaves no passage for our tracking." The focus of the introduction is the Compare Benardete: "But in his being, teaching of the dialogue on the the man's amazing and very difficult to distinction between the human be caught sight of, since even now he activities of sophistry and philosophy, has very skillfully and elegantly fled and how the way of inquiry taken by into a species that affords no way for a the Stranger bears on this issue. The translators, squarely in the definite tracking" and White: "He's A word should be said on how camp of those paying close attention to really an amazing man-very hard to Brann, Kalkavage, and Salem deal with the dialogue as drama, have striven for make out. He's still escaped neatly into one of the most difficult issues they as accurate, literal and translation as an impossibly confusing type to search face. The phrases 'tO' ov can refer to possible. Care is taken to render one through." Benardete's translation is either a particular thing that is, or to Greek word (or root) by one in literal, but the rendering of ei'dos as that feature that all things that are have English. (Of course this has not always or many years, the standard English "species" is questionable, on account of in common. The translator must avoid been possible in an accurate and translation of Plato's Sophist was the technical use to which Aristotle Cornford's mistake of switching the F intelligible translation, but in the that of F. M. Cornford, printed, with puts it, and the sentence is wooden to translation of the phrase midway present translation deviations from the running commentary, in P/,ato's Theory the point of being painful to read. through the argument. In accordance principle are remedied by an excellent ofKnowledge. Though Cornford's White's breezy translation has a with most of the current interpretations glossary which gives both Greek and commentary greatly advanced the pleasant conversational tone, but loses of Parmenides' poem (to which the the various English alternatives, and understanding of the dialogue, the the metaphor of the downward pursuit Stranger refers), recent translations of explains the etymological and semantic translation was deeply flawed in a that has been prominent throughout the Sophist usually have opted for the relations that hold among clusters of number of respects, most notably in the Stranger's divisions. Brann, translation "that which is" or the like. important words.) Particles are the shift in the translation of ov from Kalkavage, and Salem preserve the best On the other hand, this poses problems "being" to "real." This made it difficult translated or reflected stylistically. Care of both approaches. when translating the passage discussing is taken in giving exact renderings of for the reader ro follow the line of the Unlike the freer translations of the five great Forms, when the phrase even the slightest of Theaetetus' replies. argument. Cornford and White, the language primarily refers to something in which Thus the reader, instead of the Recent years have seen three worthy sometimes seems odd, but this is only a thing participates. Thus, Brann, translator, can be the judge of the successors to Cornford, in translations when there are good reasons for Kalkavage, and Salem, alone among significance of the details of drama and of the Sophist by Seth Benardete, W S. believing that something can be learned recent translators into English, opt for expression. Cobb, and N .P. White. Cobb and, to from preservingthe way in which the "Being." Consistency then demands Literal translations, especially of an even greater degree, Benardete, interlocutors actually express th~m­ that 'to' µ11' o"v be rendered as literary works like the the dialogues of strive for a highly literal translation, selves. Non-Being. But the questions that the Plato, often strike the reader as unduly with consistent rendering of Greek As the translators tell us, "the Stranger raises concerning 'to' µ11' ov difficult and stiff, rife with odd terms, and attention to the details of translation of the most frequent and are not in regard to a Form of locutions. This is certainly a problem expression. Proponents of readings of weighty words should be as unre­ Nonbeing, in which things participate; faced by the translations of Benardete the dialogues as dramas have argued strained and nontechnical as possible, they concern the possibility of a thing and Cobb. In contrast, the translation that such translations are necessary if preserving the still fresh root meaning which is not anything at all. This is of Brann, Kalkavage, and Salem reads the translation is not to erase the and suggestive connotations of a Greek one case in which there is no wholly naturally and gracefully, preserving the suggestive details that Plato inserted in vocabulary just on the point of satisfactory option. freshness and clarity of the Greek. On his writing as indications for the careful becoming fixed and philosophical in This translation of the Sophist excels almost every page, the reader is struck reader, and if readers are not to be the technical sense." Thus µE0'oyo~ is in lucidity, accuracy and style. This is by particularly felicitous renderings. misled by a translator's facile interpreta­ rendered "way," 'iliea as "look," OpXrl the best English Sophist for both I must be content to give only one tion of Plato's difficult views. as "beginning," dmt.'cx. as "beinghood," student and scholar, and promises to be example Consider 236dl-3: 'dA,'A,' We now have an outstanding new a11µa{vn v as "point to" and so forth. the standard for many years to come. • translation by St. John's tutors Eva o\rtro~ 0cx:uµacr't0~ 'cxv'rp Km' Though perhaps inspired by Ka'ttbEl. V 'rnEt Kat VW Brann, Peter Kalkavage, and Eric nayx'a.Af:no~, Heidegger's insistence that the vocabu­ Owen Goldin teaches at Marquette Salem, which has virtues of its own, µ'ex.A.a EU Kat KOµ'lfc:O~ Et~ cirtopov lary of Greek thought must be uncov­ University. This review appeared bt.Eprnvtj::mcr0m Ka'ta­ and in most respects easily rivals the Ewo~ ered from the later theoretical accre­ originally in a somewhat longer version n'gprnyEv. Brann, Kalkavage, and other translations. tions, the present translation nowhere in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review.

COMPUTERS AT SJC: AN IDEA

n the summer after pre-planning and just plain hard computer-aided learning has no place. equation­ I my freshman year, work on the part of the instruc­ The essence is human interaction, with grinding hard math. 1968, I got a job as a tors. But it seemed to me that it fellow students, with tutors, and with It seems to me that, technical aide at the Naval was also very successful. At the start of the authors. But there might be a use at least in mathematics, where repeti­ Academy, working as a coder in my sophomore year I had a brief for computer-aided learning in the tion in problem-solving is the essence computer-aided instruction. I coded conversation with Mr. Kuder, in front math and lab programs. of fluency, computer-aided learning courses in stoichiometry, Russian, naval of the Pinkneys, about computer aided After I graduated from St. John's could have an extra-curricular place for operations, and game theory. The instruction. His comment was that it and moved to Seattle, I enrolled in a those students who were serious about technique that the Naval Academy just wouldn't work at St. John's. Ph.D. physics program. The theory was their math. It will never replace used, which I have not seen repeated After close to 30 years in the no problem. What I couldn't do was tutorials, seminars, and the lab, but it successfully, was programmed instruc­ computer racket, I agree-to a degree. the math. I had forgotten so much could augment them for interested tion. It probably hasn't been repeated For the core of the St. John's program since high school, and at St. John's we students.• because it requires considerable (and what else does SJC teach?) just don't do the number-crunching, -Thomas Day, A74 ~-~ ~~-~ ~-~~-~ ~! ••:. 9. 7. ••. • ••. • •. • •.. • •.. • ~ ••• .. •• .. •••,I In Annapolis, Ray Cave and Eva Brann talk about stories, happiness.

BY BARBARA GOYETTE

y Cave spoke about begin­ progress there are changes, and the First, she said, "We ought ings and endings and Eva acceleration of the rate of change is to want happiness." The Itrann spoke about St. John's as ominous." But after four years at St. Kantian duty with respect paradise as each addressed the 9 3 John's, he assured the graduates, "you to happiness, said Brann, seniors and 26 master's degree candi­ are well-prepared to deal with the lack is based on Aristotle's dates in Annapolis on May 18. of permanence." notion that happiness is in Cave likened the beginnings and Beginnings may be important, but fact the end of all human endings that the graduates will face Cave humorously used some of the first action. We have to choose with the beginnings and endings of sentences from program books to show happiness. "Everything in stories, which, as editor of Sports that an inauspicious beginning can lead this program is directed by to a more interesting fulfillment. the idea that it is possible Aristotle's Ethics and Kant's introduc­ to make some sense of life, tion to the Critique ofPure Reason are and that that sense is the "not so engaging" at the start as, for ground of a possibility for example, The Iliad or Don Quixote, he happiness," she said. said. Cave talked about how he re­ Second, we need to wrote the first sentence of his first piece realize that happiness and for Sports Illustrated many times, and even then hesitated to turn it in to his editor. His point: Don't be afraid to chuck what you've done and start again. "If beginnings promise us, endings teach us,'' Cave said. "So many hints of our future reside in our past." Heming­ way wrote 39 different endings to Farewell to Arms-an indication of the importance of crafting just the right ending, but also of the extent of possibilities. Cave ended his own speech with a wry anecdote. When he was in London at a dinner party with Dennis Healy, who would have been Prime Minister had his party mustered a majority, Cave was expounding on "something I didn't know much about, like the nuclear arms race." Healy asked him whether he knew the first law of holes: "When you're in a hole, stop digging." pleasure are truly different. "Happiness is the good feeling that runs deep and Paradise or Real World? steady and knows what it knows, always. Pleasures, which certainly Eva Brann, in her final commence­ should regularly punctuate every life, ment appearance as dean, talked about pass on with the waxings and wanings St. John's as a paradise, in contrast to of our desire." Third, happiness should the "real world" that students speak of be a "settled state" and as such requires as the world outside, the world they regular maintenance-we need to will be living in after their graduation. "learn what our own meaning is" and Illustrated and later of Time magazine, Brann elaborated the paradise meta­ keep it in view. Fourth, "all else comes the 1948 graduate of the college has phor when she called the campus "as and goes, but active devotion to a good built a career on analyzing. He cited dangerous a place as was Eden to our thing, from the raising of a child to the Newton's first law, that a body in ancestral couple" because of the service of your community, from the motion continues in motion unless "severities and intensities" of these four discovery of a truth to the worship of a compelled otherwise, and called it years- "here depression and sloth divinity, is a steady center of life." We wrong- "It's wrong because you are played tag with each other, a term of should always find ways to be "fully at bodies in motion, and you are going to exhilaration was followed by a semester work," as Aristotle says. Ray Cave addresses the graduates {fop change directions many times without of dust and ashes, the faces of friends Finally, Brann laid out an aspect of left); Juan Villasenor and his mom being compelled to do so," he told the became provocations and irritations ... happiness that is especially important graduates. Cave provided three rules for Here your souls were continuously to her: imagination. "Your imagina­ remember an earlier graduation (bottom life's beginnings and endings: First, confounded and kept off-base by a tions have been well stocked by our left); President Christopher Nelson and begin every enterprise with zest; program that subjected your studies to books, books of truth-seeking theory Dean Eva Brann look out over the sea of second, if what you have begun proves near-total prescription while inciting and books of likeness-making myth. mortarboards (top); graduate Judith Neeiy unrewarding, do not be afraid to begin your intellect to almost complete They have furnished your memories and her family enjoy the day-her father, again; and third, at each ending, freedom." with scenes of significance and of The Rev. Jerzeel Toliver, gave the Bacca­ reflect. Brann then offered five theses about splendor, scenes onto which to project laureate address (center); Graduate "Know that each beginning is an happiness, which she claims to have your lives." • Institute student Robert Gamble, age 86, opportunity," he said. "You live in an learned something about from the prepares to receive his master's degree books and the college community. unstable society. In the name of (bottom). Photos by Keith Harvey. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

In Santa Fe, Nancy Buchenauer celebrates beginnings and endings. BY ELIZABETH SKEWES

t was a day approached "with both miracle that is seen by anyone who has joy and sorrow, hope and regret," ever put a seed into the ground and I in the words of commencement waited for it to grow. It is our work to speaker and St. John's tutor Nancy foster such seeds in ourselves and to Buchenauer. And that mix of emotions sow them plentifully in one another, could be seen on the faces of each of since as the Phaedrus shows us, other the 87 seniors and 24 Graduate people are the best ground for writing. Institute students who collected their I wish you all strong hearts and minds, diplomas on May 18, surrounded by and this hard-won maturity of delight," friends, family and tutors who had seen she said in closing. e them through their St. John's years. It was also a day for warm memo­ Nancy Buchenauer and Charles Fasnaro ries, which is why they asked look on as Santa Fe's commencement Buchenauer to come back to Santa Fe ceremony gets underway (left); Zack from Annapolis to speak at commence­ Jemison double checks his diploma ment. And it was a day for warm following the ceremony. Photos by Alan laughter, which Buchenauer provided Taylor. with her words, which invoked many of the authors so familiar to the graduates. We make ourselves by what we do." "To find myself back in Santa Fe Part of that, she said, is accepting reminds me once again that there are the sorrow that comes with loss, which few one-way streets in life; motion, as is an essential element of being mortal. Ptolemy saw so dearly, is always in a "But some losses we bring upon circle," she said. "It is a truth, known ourselves, and others we allow because not only to the world's Offices of we have to go forth into the world to Alumni Affairs, that every deparJure is _.continue growing. We hope that these at once die beginning of a return. This losses are temporary, and that the firm is worth thinking about, especially by roots of friendship can withstand any of you who suppose that you are separation, holding onto the hope of about to make a clean getaway." return, the faith in the lastingness of Buchenauer said that it is "especially bonds. appropriate" that commencement "That life rises up again after ceremonies occur in the presence of disaster, after separation and sorrow, family and friends, "since the continu­ from the littlest beginning, is the ity of our relationships with them testifies to the fact that life is not really a linear progress, but a series of circles by which we return from the new to the old over and over again. AWARDS AND PRIZES "By these circles we expand to include that which makes us deeper ANNAPOLIS essay. Offered by the Alumni Association: mathematical construction. Offered by and wider, but we must always take To the members of the senior class Lewis S. Klatt, Eugenia S. Skarstrom. the class of 1986 in honor of Bryce these new acquisitions back home and who have written the best senior essays. Honorable Mention: Jill C. Nienhiser, Jacobson, of the class 1942: Christian test them against what we have known Offered in memory of Simon Kaplan: Paul W. Steitz. Michael Moser, Alan David Pichanick. and been previously before the process Lynette Rae Dowty. Offered in memory To a senior, for excellence in speaking, For the most elegant proof of a of change can be complete," she said. of Susan Irene Roberts (1966): Heidi the Millard E. Tydings award: Judith mathematical theorem. Offered in And just as she encouraged the Jacot, Lydia Frances Po/green. Honorable Toliver Neely. memory of Jam es R. McClintock of the graduates to risk being changed by Mentions: Jesse Roth Berney, Matthew To the student who submits the best class of 1965: Erin Wells Bonning. Alexander Braithwaite, Malinda]. their education and experience, she also English version of a Greek text, offered in To the student who carries out the Campbell. encouraged them to actively live their memory of John S. Kieffer: Markus best project related to astronomy and To the junior who has written the best Christoph Glodek, Alan David astronomical observations. Offered by lives. annual essay. Offered by Mrs. Leslie Clark Pichanick. Richard Tompkins: Anna-Clare Milazzo, "If life is not just to pass us by Stevens in memory of her daughter-in­ For the best English version of a fill C. Nienhiser. dreamily without our noti~ing, maybe law, Kathryn Mylorie Stevens: Collomia French poem. Offered by the Board of To the senior man and woman who we have to make ourselves into livers of Karen Charles. Honorable Mentions: Visitors and Governors: Ellwood Haller have contributed most to the College's it, as one becomes an athlete, by Nathan Paul Greens/it, Danielle Wiggins, Jr. Honorable Mention: Felix athletic program. Offered by the Alumni discovering the rules that govern cause Mercedes Tabela. Samuel Leslie. Association: john Matthew Freitas, and effect in human actiC?n," she said, To the sophomore who has written the For the best original English poem. Christopher john Stevens, Erin Leigh adding, "Integrity is just this-to have best annual essay. Offered in honor of Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory Monberg, Pia Zara Thadhani. found the courage to order ourselves Judge Walter I. Dawkins (1880): Samuel of his brother Henry: Alexandra Diana To a senior who has contributed into beings who act and are not merely Bryant Davidoff. Honorable Mentions: Elizabeth Boozer. Honorable Mention: outstanding service to the Greater acted upon." Derek Preston Alexander, Nathan Joseph Abigail Lisa Gibbs. Annapolis Community. Offered by the Zweig. These are lessons learned in some of For the best original musical composi­ Caritas Society: Richard Scott Schmechel. the first books read in the St. John's To the freshman who has written the tion. Offered in memory of Mary Joy To the senior who has demonstrated program. Buchenauer cited both best annual essay. Offered in memory of Belknap: Dominic King Crapuchettes. the greatest care for and service to the Jacob Klein and his wife Else: Alan Socrates and Aristotle as philosophers For the best essay on a piece of music. youth residing in Annapolis. Offered by Howard Rubenstein. Honorable who "stress the immense importance of Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap: the friends and family of Marvin B. Mention: Jessica Alice Brotman. Cooper (1969): Judith Toliver Neely. habit in human life, the curious field Maura Kathleen Tennor. To the Graduate Institute student who where plays out the battle between fate For the most elegant solution of a has written a distinguished preceptorial continued on page 10 and freedom for possession of the soul. To the senior who submits the best work of visual art to the Community Art Exhibition, the Charles Vernon Moran VIRTUAL SEMINAR Prize: Mary Jessica Duncan. Honorable ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Mention: Kevin Neal Gardner. To the senior who has demonstrated excellence in the arts, literature, or sciences, Fritz Hinrichs uses the Net to teach homeschooled kids the classics. the Walter S. Baird Prize: Rana Choi.

SANTA FE BY BARBARA GOYETTE Offered by the Board of Visitors and et's define a seminar as a homeschoolers in the Escondido area. readings," he says. In the formats Governors to a senior, the Medal for Academic Excellence: Taffeta Elliott. discussion with fewer than 20 Once he hit on the idea of using the Hinrichs uses, students can all input participants about an original Internet, Hinrichs could expand his audio in the classes. He uses a To the senior who has written the best L senior essay, the Richard D. Weigle Prize: text, wherein students and teachers services. He now has more than 45 "whiteboard" for math classes; a Peter Leaf, Patrick Nash. work together to try to discern the students in the great books tutorials student will e-mail hiin a proof, which To a deserving student to help with the meaning of the text. The paradigm for and others in math (pre-algebra, he will put up on the board for all the continuation of work at St. John's College St. John's alumni is the undergraduate algebra, Euclid), physics, and both students to see. There are no tests­ through the cultivation of the liberal art of seminar, but seminars have many koine and "St. John's" Greek. parents do that part-but he will thinking, the Robert NeidorfMemorial incarnations: Graduate Institute "I devised a reading list appropriate evaluate written papers for the stu- Scholarship: Jennifer Rogers, Class of seminars; dents. 1999. Touchstones A large To members of the Freshman, Sopho­ Discussion percentage of more and Junior classes in recognition of Project seminars parents who teach academic achievement and constructive for middle school their children at service to the college community, the St. or high school home do so John's College Community Scholarship students, seniors, because they feel provided by faculty, staff and students: or prisoners; that a Christian Matthew Johnston, Heather Maclean, class of1998; RaefHusseini, Jennifer alumni seminars perspective is Rogers, Tallie Taylor, Class of 1999. at chapters lacking in the To a member of the Senior class for around the schools. Hinrichs excellence in public speaking, the Senator country; seminars says that he does Millard E. Tydings Memorial Prize: . in high schools take a Christian Kathleen Eamon, Patrick Nash. led by teachers perspective; his To a student in recognition of academic who've graduated brochure says that achievement and of talent in writing of from St. John's. the tutorial "has poetry, the Henry M. Austin Poetry Fritz Hinrichs, been designed to Scholarship: Moira Russell. who graduated develop Christian To the Graduate Institute student who from the minds that will submitted a distinguished preceptorial essay Annapolis understand and in 1995-96. Offered by the St. John's campus in 1990, Fritz Hinrichs, A90, in his studio with homeschoolers, leads a great books seminar. Other discern the College Alumni Association: Kathryn has started students participate via the Internet. His web site address is www.gbt.org. influences that Brewer. another kind of have shaped our The Thorne Endowment Scholarship seminar: an Internet discussion for · for the ages I'm dealing with," he cultural history" When asked about for summer study in preparation for homeschooled high school students. explains. "The number of readings is the fundamentalist slant of many medicine: Arna Elezovic, Jacob Keller, Hinrichs' virtual seminar is a well­ smaller, and they are shorter. The homeschooling parents, Hinrichs notes Class of1998. orchestrated, highly organized affair. homeschooled students are really reacly that "somebody who's intersted in To a member of the senior class who has Fifteen students from all across the for a rigorous, challenging program. reading Marx and Kant doesn't fit the demostrated achievement in the arts, country can talk to each other and to profile of fundamentalist. But in the literature, or science, the Walter S. Baird Prize: Alison Bamert. him in the real time but unreal space of families who use my service, the the Internet. He holds conference calls parents are devout Chri..stians who are and has begun videoconferencing so "You just throw them in trying to bring a Biblical perspective to ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS that the students can see him as they the works." There's a contingent of OF EXCELLENCE­ work together through the books. The with all the difficult Johnnies who homeschool their SANTA FE Escondido Tutorial Service, which readings. Some sink but children, but Hinrichs is not aware of For her Junior essay: Margaret Ross Hinrichs started four years ago, leads any using his service. For his Sophomore essay: Michael homeschooled students beginning at some rise to new levels. Im An article in Homeschool PC 01Joyle the age of 12 in a seven-year course amazed at how many of magazine proclaims Hinrichs "the most Honorable Mention for his Sophomore centered on the great books. The wired teacher in America." He has two essay: Omar Rivera tutorial begins with Homer and them have taken to the computers for broadcasting both For her Freshman essay: Emily Johnston progresses through (among others) philosophy readings. " · RealAudio and CU-SeeMe audio. A mixing board, two speakerphones, one For her first semester Freshman essay: Thucydides, Plato, Anselm, condenser mike, and an announcer's Caroline Knapp Shakespeare, Dante, Machiavelli1 Luther, Bacon, Descartes, Milton, mike complete his studio/classroom. For his mathematics essay: John Michael MacDonald Kant, Swift, Twain, Lincoln, Freud, With all this technology, do the and C.S. Lewis. They don't have the distractions of students-of different ages, located in For her Graduate Institute in Eastern students in public or private junior states from California to Georgia- Classics seminar essay: Loana Hoy/man After St. John's, Hinrichs attended Westminster Seminary in Escondido, high schools and high schools. And in teract with each other like in a "real" For outstanding performance in California, to earn a master's in their parents are dedicated to helping seminar? "I do use the Socratic method athletics: Timothy Wolff, Class of1997 religion. "I had planned .to teach at the them. One mom is so interested, she to draw students out," says Hinrichs. For outstanding contributions to the college level," he says, "but most does all the readings too." Sometimes he sets up a debate, with a college community: Taffeta Elliott, Joshua Hinrichs teaches more than a St. topic for each side like whether Goldberg, Kira Heater, Kelly Stirman teaching situations were unstim­ ulating-j ust lecturing and publishing, John's tutor does-he wants to make Odysseus or Achilles would be a better Fehervary Fencing Award: Stephen with little interaction with students. sure the students are getting the hero for today's youths to emulate. But Maggitti, Class of 1997. And the students were mass produced, meaning of the readings. "You just he does admit to being "more aggres­ To the senior who, by his participation, cookie-cutter fashion." throw them in with all the difficult sive" than St. John's tutors. "After all," leadership and spommanship, has he says, "the students don't have much contributed most to the athletic program. Reasoning that he needed to start readings. Some sink but some rise to Offered by the Alumni Association of St. earlier and reach high school students, new levels. I'm amazed at how many of in their heads to start with. I am filling John's College: Jeff Higgins Hinrichs began working with them have taken to the philosophy them."• ,, "A JOURNEY TO THE MOON • • • How a Russian medieval history student found her way to the Graduate Institute in Annapolis •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

BY SUS3AN BORDEN

n August, 1995, Natalia Eugenia pass TOEFL (the test of English as a Kharitonova left St. Petersburg, foreign language), get accepted to St. I Russia, for Annapolis, Maryland John's, obtain a visa, and find a way to carrying two suitcases of clothes and finance her schooling. Another issue for three books: an English- Russian Kharitonova was her Christianity. She dictionary, a Russian-English dictio­ had converted in the fall of 1992, and nary, and a copy of the Bible in she wanted to make sure that any Russian. This July, she'll return to St. decisions she made about her future Petersburg with all she brought, plus were compatible with her religious several boxes of books, an electric beliefs. "I felt compelled to ask myself: blanket, a cowboy hat, a cap and gown, is this God's plan for me? I'd be doing and a master's degree in liberal arts this for myself, leaving my parents and from the Graduate Institute. my grandmother, and not spending as Kharitonova, (called Tasha for much time with the Bible," she says. short) first learned of St. John's College As time passed, she found herself in the summer of 1992, when Annapo­ less concerned with whether or not she lis tutor Jim Beall brought a group of would be able to study at St. John's. students to St. Petersburg for a summer She decided to let the decision make program to study astronomy and itself She was accepted into the absorb the newly accessible Russian program in May of 1995, but was told culture. Classes at the Pulkozskaja there would not be enough financial Observatory were arranged through a aid to enable her to attend the summer Russian colleague of Beall who was also semester. On August 4 (she remembers a friend of Kharitonova's family. When the dates very clearly), she received an the students needed an English­ e-mail from GI director Thomas May, speaking guide to show them around instructing her to be in Annapolis on St. Petersburg, Tasha was enlisted for August 22 for the start of the fall the job. semester. As she got to know the students, she "Everything happened magically," became intrigued with what they told she says. "I got my visa in one week, her about St. John's. "The program my ticket was ready for me immedi­ ately, I passed the TOEFL, everything Tosha Khorilonovo at commencement in Annapolis, a long way from her native St. went beautifully. As these doors started Petersburg. Photo by Keith Harvey. opening, I felt that maybe God wanted In the most naive me to go. I thought about what the his Ethics," she says. atmosphere of roses flying in the air," way, !just experience would give to me, how it In addition to her studies, Kharito­ she says, and then apologizes for her would be helpful. I would be able to nova sang with the small chorus, took English. wanted to know: hear people speaking about what's voice classes, played basketball, and Kharitonova currently has no firm important to them." participated in monthly play readings. plans for what she will do when she uWhy do people She was also eager to pursue the She traveled as much as she could, returns to Russia. She is considering work of the program. 'Tm in love with visiting Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, finishing the program in medieval think so philosophy and see a lot of beauty in New York, Niagara Falls, and Miami history she started at St. Petersburg the way people think," she says. "I (where she read Dostoevsky on the State University. Other than that, she differently?" wanted to come back to all the beach). says, 'Tm not dear about God's plan philosophy that I was introduced to Despite her enthusiastic travel for me. I was considering the ministry before I became a Christian and look at schedule, Kharitonova fell in love with before I came to St. John's. If I feel a sounded too good to be true," she says. it with new eyes. In the most naive way, Annapolis. When she compares the city calling, I will do it. If not, not." But when Beall suggested that she I just wanted to know: 'Why do people to St. Petersburg, she notes that they Reflecting on her experience at St. apply to the Graduate Institute, think so differently?' " are both beautiful, but the similarities John's, Kharitonova says, "It really Kharitonova, then 19 years old and a When asked what was the best part end there. "St. Petersburg is a city of changed my life. I learned a lot about student of English literature and of her time at St. John's, Kharitonova five million people. They are very busy myself and I am not the same person I medieval history, was convinced that answers, "it's like when you ask what is and remind me of New Yorkers. No one was. I'm grateful for it. I have this attending St. John's was far beyond her the best thing about your lover. You is smiling, and everybody is in a hurry." feeling that my life has been special, reach. "I didn't believe it was possible. want to say everything." When pressed "Absolutely shocking" was how she that I've lived a full and interesting life For a Russian girl just finishing her further, she says that her favorite describes the contrast of her native St. thanks to this experience, that I've had freshman year, it was like proposing a readings were Aristotle's Physics, Plato's Petersburg with Annapolis. "I don't something really incredible in my life." journey to the moon," she says. Despite Republic, and Homer. She cared less for think anybody can imagine chis city While she makes it clear that she lives her reservations, she applied to the Hobbes. She struggled to understand before he comes here, because it's out her life focussed on God, she says that college in May of 1993. Kant, William James, and the Supreme of a fairy tale-too dean and charming her experience in the Graduate Although Kharitonova was eager to Court readings, while Aristotle was the to be real. People are smiling on the Institute enables her to feel that, "if come to Annapolis, there were ob­ author whose thoughts were closest to streets and saying hello. This is possible there's anything worldly that's worthy of stacles blocking her way: she had to her own. "His Physics, that is. I hated only in Annapolis, where there's an experiencing, I have experienced it."• Alumni Authors ...

REVERGE ANSELMO: THE CADILLAC OF SIX-BY'S

he latest figures from the admissions office show that 77% of students start St. the color and authority of one who has been T John's fresh from high school. In 1984, when Reverge Anselmo enrolled, he there." was fresh from a very different experience, having served three years in the U.S. Anselmo worked on the book for eight years, Marine Corps and survived the expedition sent to Lebanon. rewriting it six times. But writing is not his sole In the years since Anselmo left St. John's, he has pursued a world of interests, passion. Since he left St. John's, he's taken a path including living in Paris, doing business in Latin America, writing two screenplays, that has led him through much of Europe and and building monasteries with an order of Carthusian monks and nuns. It is South America in the company of pilgrims, monks, nuns, satellite experts, and perhaps only now, thirteen years later, that he has come to terms with the impact of telecommunications specialists. his experience in Beirut, an experience After spending three years at St. John's-with time in both Annapolis and Santa he has transformed into a novel, The Fe-Anselmo left the college. During his subsequent travels, he experienced a Cadillac ofSix-By's, published this conversion. "All of a sudden, with the eyes of my soul, I saw the mother of God, spring by Harper Collins. and so I wanted to go to Lourdes as thanksgiving and penance. "The Cadillac ofSix-By's, "says "Then I moved to Paris for five years, which was accidental. I didn't mean to Anselmo, ''is a love story set in a fallen move to Paris. I was in Lourdes, got drunk, got on a train, and wound up in Paris," city. " The flap copy describes he says. He stayed in Paris for five years, writing his book and short stories, and Anselmo's lively cast of characters: working for his father's company, Panamsat, the first private global communications "Cazetti, a young Intelligence man satellite company. with a bad record ... Hitman Hitchins, a "The next thing I know, I'm slamming myself away in monasteries," he says. loose agent with a lurking in his heart; "Now, I'm a monastery builder, working with French Carthusian monks and nuns." Sardine, a treacherous vamp; His work with this order has taken him to countries throughout Eastern Europe and Philomena, a direct, endearing nun Latin America. determined to save Cazetti's soul; After working in Panamsat's European operations, Anselmo moved to the Latin Cercio, a playboy lieutenant; and American market, and then wound up in Miami, where he currently lives. He Minovich and Davey, hanging on since continues to travel with the order, having just recently returned from a trip to Peru, Vietnam to do it all again." Chile, and Argentina. "It's a young order and they build," he explains. "They have Obligation drove Anselmo to write places to go and things to see and do." the book. "The song of that time had Through his involvement with the order, Anselmo regularly calls on his St. John's never been sung," he says. In 1982, education. "I use those years all the time with the monks and the nuns. I still use President Reagan sent U.S. Marines to Greek and my Latin is pretty good. I look at the histories a lot. Herodotus and war-torn Lebanon as part of a multi- Tacitus are on my mind a great deal, especially now, because this country's doing a national force. They tried to keep order lot that Tacitus writes about: everybody's heroes are the criminals, and the more in Beirut and the surrounding area, but were constantly under attack. In October, fantastically beastlike the personalities are, the higher they are exalted. I study with a 1983, a suicide bomber drove into the headquarters of one of the Marine Battal­ monk named Agapetos, who tutors me in Aquinas. I use that stuff daily, not just the ions, killing 242 people. "It was the fifth bloodiest Marine Corps expedition in Aquinas, but also writers like Shakespeare, as nourishment and a sort of flavor history and I survived it," says Anselmo. "I was working for Intelligence and we guide." were the people who provided the disinformation about the fighting, so that As an ex-Marine trying to leave Beirut behind, Anselmo could never have nobody had any realistic notion about what was going on with the Marines in guessed that life's road would take him to Europe, Latin America, and Miami, and Beirut. Even though I was part of the crew that made sure that happened, it into monasteries, corporate offices, and publishing houses. As a freshman at St. irritated me when I came home and found a distorted profile of those events." John's, Anselmo had chosen a college free from vocational training. While his commitment to the topic was personal, his book has garnered praise in And yet, sitting in his Miami office the day of his book's release, Anselmo is able its journey to the public eye. James Webb, former Secretary of the Navy and author to say of his college years, "When I look back, I see I didn't know it at the time, but of Fields ofFire, calls it "a moving, beautifully written book that will pierce your that was exactly what I needed. It had a tremendous impact on me. It was the most soul with an uncomplaining, lilting honesty." Peggy Noonan says it is "told with all useful thing I ever did, and if I wasn't too old and too busy, I'd go ha.ck." • -by Sus3an Borden

MICHAEL STRONG: THE HABIT OF THOUGHT

"\VJhile you won't find Michael methods in the U.S. than ever before," meaning from texts and developing a schools." W Strong's new book, The Habit of he says. Already there are a number of healthy social environment for His book Thought: From Socratic Seminars to programs-at all educational levels­ intellectual conversation."An important both Socratic Practice, on the shelves at that are using Socratic inquiry to teach: component of the method is that illustrates Waldenbooks or Barnes & Noble, it the St. John's program, Paideia, students are "responsible for under­ the philoso­ may well be worth the phone call that Touchstones and the Junior Great standing and group process." Socratic phy of it takes to order a copy. Strong, who Books programs. practice is based on educational Socratic graduated from Santa Fe in 1985, In his book, Strong writes that techniques that Strong and some of his practice and wrote the book for teachers, but he says Socratic practice "is both easiest to colleagues, who also are St. John's gives that it's also for parents or anyone else implement and most effective in College alumni, developed during their recommendations and encouragement who might benefit from learning about achieving its own goals in schools work in Alaskan public schools­ for others wishing to employ these Socratic practice and the value of where thinking and independence are through the Alaska Paideia Project­ methods. independent thinking. In fact, Strong valued across the curriculum." How­ from 1990 to 1994. They drew on The book has earned the praise of dedicates his book "To Independent ever, he also says that the nature of their experiences in seminar, but even many, including Eva Brann, a tutor and Thinkers Everywhere." Socratic practice is such that "there is more on St. John's tutorials. former dean in Annapolis. Brann is The time is right for a book on no reason that Socratic practice could He also explains that "Socratic quoted on the back of the book: "I am Socratic practice, says Strong. "My not be applied to any academic study practice offers a means of addressing impressed .. .I like the common-sense sense is that in the next 20 years we whatsoever." He defines the method as issues of intellect, culture, and identity practicality combined with very high will see more new schools using these "the daily group work of constructing that are not currently addressed in our pedagogical ideals." MARK FABI: WYRM

Medical College in Philadelphia, a handle manuscripts written by already­ psychoanalyst in training, and a published writers. husband and father of three. Over-the-transom success isn't "Like psychoanalysis," he says, entirely unheard of, but Fabi eventually "writing reinforces your belief in the received enough "Dear Author" letters power of the unconscious." Partly in in response to convince him to seek order to slay the procrastination other avenues. He consulted with a dragon, he started out writing the novel colleague at Jefferson, who had before doing any of the extensive published several medical thrillers (not research that WYRM, with a story that to speak of screenplays for the old Dr. ranges from chess tournaments to on­ Kildare television show), who coun­ line role-playing games, would seled him to query agents. Good eventually require. It took a while for advice, as it turned out: in October '95 him to trust the process, but soon he sent out queries, and the fourth enough characters started to do things response he received was from he didn't expect them to, and, he says, Lucienne Diver at the Spectrum he was "amazed at how stuff popped Literary Agency. Diver loved the book, out of my mind." and once Fabi had made some revisions tatistically speaking, you're more And just as he hopes in his work as she pitched the book to publishers, likely to be drafted by the NFL S both a psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst receiving in March '96 not one but two than to have a first novel published by to dispel the dichotomy between offers. Bantam got the nod (and we like a mainstream American publisher; but analysis and psychopharmacology, in to imagine the other publisher now Mark Fabi, A76, has foiled the odds. WYRM he vexes dichotomies right and gnashing teeth), and the rest is history. His first novel, WYRM, was published left: games/reality, thinking/doing, and WYRM looks kind of like science this May by Bantam Books, who (God help us) mind/machine. But how fiction, but genre-loathers will be glad contracted with Fabi as part of the deal to end up on the right side of the old to hear that the characters are human to publish his second novel, as yet hapless scribbler/published author (very human!) and the tale is not about merely a gleam in his eye. chasm? Having done a "fair amount of "other" but about ourselves. Through­ Whence this success? "Writing was a research" into the matter, Fabi con­ out the story there are deft in-jokes, long-time ambition held in abeyance cluded that unsolicited submission of hilarious red herrings, a charming love­ by procrastination," says Fabi. "Then I his manuscript was the way to go, interest sub-plot, and a serious threat of got a great idea for a novel with a finding recursive apocalypse-which is to say that it is a millennial twist, difficulties with tremendous page-turner and a delight. which gave me a the agent issue: It is (if a certain campus grammarian built-in deadline." publishers wanted will forgive me) the classic "good read." What followed was to read manu­ Fabi is as proud as a new parent, a patient and scripts submitted with good reason. And he enjoys not dedicated burning by agents, but only the success but the irony: "It took of the midnight agents wanted to me a tremendous amount of effort at oil: he wrote a little St. John's stretching my annual essay every night, being out to ten pages. Then I wrote a novel busy by day as a that in manuscript form ran to seven practicing psychia­ Mark Fabi, A76, hundred pages." Frustrated authors, trist at Jefferson with sons take note. • -by Roberta Gable

Although Strong has not formally Strong and his prominent role studied education, he got a lot of on­ family will soon already, Strong the-job training through positions with move to Miami. says that the Alaskan Paideia Project and as a While his homeschooling, or co-founder of the Atheneum Middle children, Homer, "making learning a School in Anchorage. He. is also a 9' and Jemima, part of daily life," member of the National Paideia 5, will probably is very natural. • Faculty. attend the -by Amber Currently he is the director of the Winston Boydstun, SF 99 Center for Socratic Practice at the Academy when Judson Montessori School in San they reach Antonio, Texas, where he has been middle school, The Habit of working to develop a model program. . Strong and his Thought: From He also serves as a consultant to public · wife, Mally, Socratic Seminars schools in Socratic practice. SF84, are to Socratic Practice Just last month, however, Strong considering can be ordered accepted the headmaster's position at a homeschooling through the new private middle school for gifted until then. publisher, New students opening in Miami, the "Learning should View Publications Winston Academy, where the humani­ be completely {800-441-3604), ties portion of the program will be natural," he says, and in a family where or write to P.O. Box 3021, Chapel Hill, entirely Socratic practice. conversation and thinking play such a NC 27515. REAL WORI( •REAL PLAY 1V:IH YHOAJ. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••1V3ll AV1d If Reality didn't exist, would St. John's have to invent it?

at is Reality? That which is, Sein or Dasein? The other-world ip side of St. John's, the world into which seniors must venture? W!A big excuse for a drinking party? A release from the burdens of eight months of daily confrontations with "the great questions of the Western tradition"? A St. John's ritual dating back to the early 1950s, featuring quirky games based on themes from program readings? One more possibility: a career counselor's bonanza, wherein college students demonstrate real work skills like leadership, problem-solving ability, creativity, organizational skills, teamwork, presentation skills, analytical skills, negotiation skills, global awareness, and interpersonal skills. Real play is real work. While Reality is the ur-event of a St. John's spring, there are two corollary activities that show the same work-is-play-is-work characteristics: prank (like Reality, staged on both campuses) and croquet (in Annapolis). Many years Reality is no more than a revel, and recently prank has lost the luster of imaginative parody (argue some tutors). Croquet is so frivolous a sport that it is not even included in the college athletic program. But all three events are completely student-run, and some years-on either or both campuses-th~y are examples of how future real-world denizens will cope with all those demands of working life. Probably Realiey's.Alcohol Archon won't put that particular position on his or her resume, but he or she will remember the negotiation and leadership necessary to get beer to 150 or so legal-age fellow students for a weekend. And the author of a successful prank show can rest on his or her laurels for years to come, as alumni fondly remember its cunning inventiveness and imaginative spirit. Here, then, is our salute to the big three of spring-Reality, prank, and croquet-with reports from the front lines.

GLUTTONY, LUST, had been prepared. Water guns were · AND SLOTH used to calm unwieldy Johnnies. After the masses had been subdued and PLAY KEY ROLES IN several students (plus alumnus Mark PRANK Whipple) had been sacrificed to the crowds, seniors directed everyone to the BY ABIGAIL GIBBS, A99 prank show in the auditorium. The show opened with a committee n the April 15 Gadfly (the Annapolis meeting in which members chose the I student paper), Mr. Verdi submitted theme for prank. The committee, after a letter condemning the senior prank as much deliberation-The Nature and "a pointless and harmful practice." He Essence of the Universe? God, Free­ claimed that, in recent years, prank has dom, and Immortality?-decided on neither been remarkable-like the "Seven Deadly Sins." The curtains notorious disappearance of every chair dosed and the lights came up on Josh on campus-nor worth the sacrifice of Murbarger at a podium giving the first a seminar, especially for seniors. He of seven soliloquies. "Look at your­ claimed that many tutors agreed that selves, St. John's," he ranted. "Hot sin the prankish atmosphere stemming . and cold sin alike. This is your soul..." from the anticipation of prank was What lay within St. John's soul was harmful even to the seminars that revealed in seven skits, each devoted to weren't disrupted. But in the face of a different sin: such opposition, the seniors struck Malinda Campbell and Kate Glassman as responsible citizens-picking up *A fashion show included artful once again on the last Thursday in trash at the prank picnic. Photo by Abigail Gibbs. commentary on the day-to-day apparel April. of four freshmen and tutor Carl Page. Seniors carrying coolers across the as terrorists. One group acted out class before "marrying" the two tutors. Mr. Page was, of course, wearing linen quad. Piano music in the Great Hall at "Philoctetes" on the seminar table. Another class was serenaded by .a and toting his usual stylish umbrella. 9:15 p.m. A black-out at 9:35 p.m. Another group had prepared a series of masked accordion player. Students' * In a meeting of the college tenure committee, a Spanish-accented Mr. Senior prank had come. Groups of love letters between Mr. Datchev and hands were bound and they were seniors interrupted seminars disguised Ms. Kronsberg, which they read to the herded to back campus where bonfires Datchev was denied tenure after he

_ _J admitted that he was indeed from Bulgaria. SANTA FE'S * Gadfly editor Nelson Hernandez DESERT BECOMES A revealed his quest for glory as he REAL TROPICAL planned out the next Gadfly, debating between a 16-page letter from the PARADISE editor and an entire issue devoted to himself. BY CAROLINE KNAPP, SFOO * Delegate Council Secretary Derek Alexander claimed to have murdered wo cyclists passing by campus one dean-to-be Flaumenhaft, married Mrs. T Saturday afternoon in May on Flaumenhaft, and taken over the entire their way to the Atalaya Trail stared in campus. astonishment. Unable to believe what * A dance sequence represented lust. he was seeing, one turned to the other *A "Jeopardy" episode hosted by and said, "I thought this was a school." Peter Kalkavage featured categories Technically, yes. But the Santa Fe such as "Who's Who on the Annapolis campus in the middle of Reality Campus," "Sc. John's Geography," ''Abe Weekend looked more like a tropical Schoener," and ''All About Beer." paradise gone sour and filled with a lot * A tour gt.1;ide led a group of of rather loony natives than it did its tourists through the campus, where normal staid self. The fish pond in Middies were chased by Johnnie front of Peterson Student Center croquet players. housed not only the usual koi, but Music and dancing followed the what seemed to be the remains of a jet prank show. On Friday, the festivities airplane. Shouts and music rang continued at the president's house in through the Placita. The tree near the west Annapolis. Some students arrived entrance to Weigle Hall had a "body" by foot and polity van; others were strung in it, and the entire campus was ferried co the party by boathouse dotted with bamboo torches, tropical stewards in St. John's College launch~s. birds and pig heads stuck on posts. Senior prank was a definite success, Under the leadership of sophomore especially because it was only the start Honor Moody, Reality Archon, and of a jam-packed weekend. The return committee chairs Britta Reilly and Liz of Coffee-House took place Friday Borshard, Lord ofthe Flies came to night in the Great Hall and Croquet "Chess on grass," as croquet is sometimes referred to at St. John's, calls for Santa Fe this Reality. It was, by all '97 was the next day. Though seminar thoughtful planning before each move, as illustrated by Jonathan Andrews (top). accounts, an extremely successful party; was interrupted, even Mr. Verdi Acrowd of recent alumni showed up for croquet (below). Photos by Keith Harvey. more relaxed than in past years, but couldn't have asked for a nicer week­ with more than a few moments of high end.• hilarity. members Andrews, Linton, and Wood Alabama should take football this On Friday afternoon, as the party going undefeated at the championship seriously." began, the natives were restless. The tournament held this year at Smith This year's croquet match adhered sophomores had spent nearly all of the College. to tradition on several counts: we won, previous night festooning the campus CROQ!JET What accounts for St. John's the weather was absolute perfection, and the dining hall with decorations VICTORY SWIFT extraordinary success at croquet? Some and the crowd was attired in its garden calculated to bring out the heart of AND SURE claim that hours spent with Ptolemy party best. Two notable additions darkness in even the tensest of stu­ and the music of the spheres give us an brightened the festivities: the dedica­ dents. Many sported animal skin attire BY SUS3AN BORDEN unparalleled understanding of the tion of the match to outgoing dean Eva to that night's dinner, catered by motion of the croquet ball. Some note Brann, and the inaugural appearance of Horseman's Haven. ive easy wins," was pretty much all that our study of Euclid, Newton, and the tent for young alumni. Not to be outdone, some seniors, Fjunior Aaron Pease would say when Einstein give us an understanding of The match was dedicated in a short using the time-honored white t-shirt asked about this year's croquet match. geometry and physics crucial to the ceremony where alumni paid tribute to and indelible marker method, cos­ When asked to elaborate, he added, game. And some say that, in a game Brann, their beloved cutor, with a tumed themselves as The Pirates, and "Jon Andrews and Kit Linton-won chat i~ usually won on the merit of a rousing rendition of "God Save the peppered the meal with presumably easily. Remmington Karper and Drew team's strategy, St. John's proves once Dean," written in honor of the piratical shouts of "Har-Har-Har!" Keenan-won easily. Anne Marie and for all that the study of the great occasion by alumni director Roberta Senior John Grant knew what was Catania and Todd Streigel, a slow but books (such as Herodotus and Gable. The tent for young alumni really scary though, and sported a shirt steady win. Hardison [Wood] and Josh Thucydides) is superior to four years of (those from 1987 on) served as a reading "The Pirates' Lawyer." Rogers-some late game tension-but textbook study in modern battlefield meeting spot for returning Johnnies, The schedule for the next day recovered well and won. Rich [Bravo] methods. Finally, there's our strong who are showing up at the annual featured traditional contests, including and I-we won easily." croquet ethic. Whenever weather croquet match in increasing numbers. epicycle races and the sophistry Now the series stands at twelve St. permits, Johnnies can be seen under They were treated to strawberries and competition, as well as a few new John's wins out of fifteen matches. In the Liberty Tree, practicing their shots cucumber sandwiches, as well as bottles additions. The most popular of these addition to dominating the Naval and sharpening their strategies. As one of Chateau Dean Brann, one of which Academy games, St. John's sailed Middie told Sports Illustrated, "They're sits proudly in the Brann's home at this continued on page 16 through the nationals, with team out practicing croquet every afternoon! very moment. • Those familiar with both Brann and Dean Brann gets a baking lesson from the Star Wars trilogy need only a John lynch, A94, at the Reality ledure. moment to figure out which role she played. Clues: Whos the wisest one ofall? Photo by Sandra Cohen. Who speaks with the cutest accent? While Brann was not a cast member of the Real Show (the Saturday night production) she was an important character, the plot of the play featuring a battle over her soul. The sophistry connection-Braun's personal exodus contest, which occurs during the Real from the deanship took place soon after Show's intermission, turned out not to Reality.) be a sophistry contest at all, but rather Brann took center stage (quite a haiku contest in which participants literally) in the Reality weekend lecture, were required to compose (on the spot) traditionally reserved for a performance and recite a haiku on the subject of of some kind. This year, '94 graduate deanship. The winner was sophomore John Lynch (now a Ringling Brothers Gary Temple, whose haiku, though down) was signed up to provide the inventive and amusing, is inappropriate entertainment. Lynch's show was part for publication in a forum as decorous . was indisputably mud wrestling, which However, in the novel the children are lecture, part skit, part audience as this. turned out to be less of a contest than a completely chastened by the end, and participation, and part Brann. The While Reality was heavy on free-for-all. Held in a pit dug in the at St. John's the spirit that motivated scene from his show that will probably Brannmania, the Exodus theme was center of the upper dorms, the Reality has only gone underground, linger longest in St. John's collective played out in many areas. The Real wrestling began as strictly one-on-one, licking its wounds until it can return memory was the pie-making act, in Olympics,included a Tower of Babel but quickly escalated into a full-scale next year. which he and Brann started out with competition, in which teams of battle between six slippery and barely pie shells, flour, and shaving cream, participants competed to build the identifiable students'. and ended up face-deep in pie as the highest possible human rower without Earlier in the day, tutor William audience roared with laughter. talking in any intelligible language. The Kerr won the sophistry contest by TRADITION Brann also took part in the Real decorations committee created refusing to speak about the assigned Play, later that evening. The Real Play, pyramids, a cardboard Tower of Babel, topics. Sophomore Ming Fu won the TRIUMPHS IN THE which takes place on the quad late, and a. golden cal£ epicycle races on a tricycle, which "REAL 11 WORLD usually meshes the plot from a well­ Reality's glorious past was honored comes as no surprise to anyone who has known script with St. John's characters in many ways, according to Leslie: seen him speeding on and off campus and allusions. Sometimes the script is "The Real Olympics were the things on his bicycle. BY SUS3AN BORDEN from the classical oeuvre (one year ir that we were trying to get going. The Rain on Sunday dampened both the was "The Bacchae"), sometimes the idea of assistant dean Abe Schoener picnic and Spartan Madball, but it did Annapolis juniors chose Exodus as source is more modern (as in the recent (A82) coming out and giving the not seem to deter any of the usual the theme for Reality '97 and set out to hit "Aqueduct Dogs"). This year, the re­ opening address, getting the faculty rowdiness or enthusiasm. No word yet bring back what entertainment archon released Star 'Wars provided the plot. reinvolved, putting up old ideas for as to who "won." Felix Leslie (A98) calls "the glorious Among the meshed elements in this games, having the dean give the speech In the novel Lord ofthe Flies, order past of Reality." But another, perhaps year's production were Umphrey-Wan, before Spartan Madball, all of these is restored to the island in the final unintentional, motif stood out during Midshipmen playing Imperial storm things going towards making this chapter. Likewise at St. John's, as the weekend's festivities: Dean Eva troopers, Matt SkyCarter, and the special, rather than just another classes resumed on Monday morning. Brann. (Then again, perhaps there is a triumph of philosophy over sophistry. party."• Letters ...

EXISTENCE UPDATE ments. Both justify gratuituous Cayley is referring to one of the two honest dialogue among contending denigration of other positions because recent BBC productions-was indeed parties and the dash of opposing points of the threat of some vague liberal well done. But no movie can capture of view. We hope that this will lead us ' Robert B. Pool, class of 1975 bogey-men (even though Mr. Agresto the subtleties and the many penetrating out of our prejudices and into the open I Santa Fe, am not dead. wryly admits their absence immediately insights of the novel. Though the air of truth-to the extent to which it Please correct the misinformation in after invoking the threat of their novel's dialogue provided the basis for can be known to us. It can be done the alumni register. I received a panicky presence). The tone of these comments the script, the latter was a faint echo of because there are features in certain telephone call from a classmate. I hardly bespeaks the rich environment Austen's own language. Unlike the books that "require" the epithet "great" reassured her that I am alive. of intellectual inquiry envisioned by movie, the novel incorporates the many and command our preference. That .. Now for an update. I dropped from ScottBuchanan. The central questions voices that exceptional authors, such as determination is difficult, to be sure, the Santa Fe campus in early 1973 due to which the St. John's program is Jane Austen, hear and are able to but it is not impossible. It must center, to illness. Later that year I enlisted in dedicated are not the exclusive property duplicate. It is built up oflayers of in the end, on the books themselves the Army; was graduated from both the of a band of idealogues. irony, suggestion, observation and after we have laid aside our axes to Defense Language Institute at biting humor that are some of the grind and exposed our hidden agendas. Monterey, California, and the USAF -Fred Bohrer, A78 marks of exceptional writing. It is a School of Applied Cryptology with mistake to suggest, as Cayley does, that -Hugh M. Curtler, A59 honors; parlayed that into a job with a Jane Austen's novel is little more that major electronics firm; used the G.I. he thesis of some of those who an eighteenth century version of a Bill to attend the University of Texas; T claim the curriculum needs Harlequin romance. eorge Cayley's letter in the and have just considered a job as more books by women is that the Speaking of which, Cayley should Gspring 1997 Reporter con­ announcer/archivist with KPAC-FM, insights to be had from the program hesitate to condemn the "romantic tained one of the most intellectually our local 24-hour classical music currently come from "outside" and, perspective of the universe" with one bankrupt comparisons that it has been station (Texas Public Radio in San more important, that they address only sweep of the sentence, because in doing my misfortune to read. Mr. Cayley Antonio). "half the story," the masculine half. so he will eliminate many of the books writes, "the thought of St. John's The house is paid for, the cars are The assumption is that there is a special in Buchanan's original list. One would becoming subject to the specter of paid for, and I keep pulling down the inside view that can only be conveyed have to include under the rubric of feminism is just as disturbing as the nests that the chipping sparrows by women. Great artists, however, can "romantic" most of Shakespeare, specter offascism, nazism [sic], (spizeUa passerina) build. transcend their own age, their era, their Goethe's Faust, most of communism, or McCarthyism." I'm rather lively for a dead person. ethnic group as well as their gender. 19th-century To paraphrase Katha Pollitt, Examples of this kind of power of the Continental ..... feminism is the radical -Robert B. Pool, SF75 imagination abound. philosophy, notion that a woman is Shakespeare crafted a brilliant and much that a human being. character study of Othello, a North is noteworthy Nazism, in contrast, African moor, and did so while never in postmodern promotes the idea that ALUMNI'S leaving England. Dostoevsky never thought. certain classes of people FAVORITE TOPIC: murdered anyone, but his account of To be sure, the are sub- or anti-human-­ the pangs of conscience suffered by a quarrel over what an idea that led to the WOMEN ON THE murderer is brilliant. The only source books should and should not be deaths of 10-12 million noncomba­ PROGRAM Mary Shelley had in creating Franken­ included in the St. John's list, as Cayley tants, the virtual elimination of pre-war stein was her imagination. The best suggests, should not be a matter of Jewish culture from central Europe, he letter of George Cayley in book on America was written by a ideology. Rather, it should rest on the and devastating world war. T the Spring Reporter is astonish­ French nobleman who was only here question of aesthetics-in the case of The comparison is not only ing. He fears "the spectre of feminism," for about a year and a half. One of the fiction-or the seminal importance of. ludicrous, it is irresponsible and which he lumps in with nazism, best books written on the race problem the ideas expressed in the case of partakes of the worst kind of McCarthyism, etc. This reactionary in America was authored by a Swede, non-fiction.The postmodern attack on anti-intellectualism. posture is far from that of Scott Gunner Myrdhal. Count Tolstoy never the canon of Western literature, which Buchanan, despite Mr. Cayley's claim gave birth to a child, but his account of is echoed in many of the letters recently -Rich Green, SF87 to act in Buchanan's name. Buchanan what a woman feels in doing so has in The Reporter, is based on the continued on page 23 envisioned St. John's as a vital, reso­ been validated by many mothers. rejection of values and the question of nant, continuing dialectic, committed At the level where the artistic the legitimacy of value judgments. All most of all to questioning. imagination recognizes no boundaries, value judgments, it is suggested, ar.e This letter offers but a cruder the level of transcultural ideas, the basically ideological: everyone has an version of the rhetorical strategy of historical contact, including the axe to grind. In this regard, the The Reporter welcomes letters John Agresto, which appears in the author's gender, don't matter much. argument for "representation" hinted at on issues of interest to readers. article "Great Minds Consider the Those who think that the context has in MaryTarail's letter in the same issue Letters may be edited for clarity Great Books of the 20th Century'' in overwhelming importance can find it rests on the assumption (seldom and/or length. Those under 500 the same issue. The article presents a in any of the better colleges and acknowledged and even less often words have a better chance of (pretty underwhelming) list. With universities in Western Civilization argued) that "greatness" is a bogus being printed in their entirety. virtually no living authors on it, it is 101, but not at St. John's. concept and invariably "privileges" Please address letters to either heavily weighted to the first half of the majority perspectives and campus: century. This list retreats from the -Robert Hazo, A53 "marginalizes" works by minorities. It is contemporary world into the (safer and said that white males (chiefly) will The Reporter more malleable) historical past. That invariably prefer works written by Public Relations Office may be inevitable to some extent. But authors of their own persuasion and St. John's College they are somehow incapable of judging what is most striking about this list is was struck by George Cayley's Box 2800 . works on their merits. It is even Mr. Agresto's introduction to it. He comment in the spring Reporter Annapolis, MD 21404 I suggested that merit is never deserved states with satisfaction that "not one that he had seen "the movies of Pride or e-mail: but always attributed (arbitrarily) by mention of Eurocentrism, phallo­ [and Prejudice] and Gone With the [email protected] white male critics who relegate works centrism, logocentrism or any other Wind so why read the books? What­ by minorities to the attic or the epithets of the modern intelligentsia ever they have to say was, I suggest, The Reporter basement. Thus our only option is to came in the mail." Even though said in the films." I assume (hope?) that Alumni/Public Relations Office select readings democratically, making prescribing an objective assessment of Mr. Cayley had his tongue in his cheek, St. John's College, sure that every point of view is past works, Mr. Agresto is actually but nonetheless his comment deserves 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca Santa "represented." most interested in using the list for a comment. I'll ignore Gone With the Fe, NM 87501 This may happen, in fact. But I highly partisan purpose. Wind, but Austen's masterpiece must be or e-mail: have never been persuaded that it must This sort of reactionary, right-wing defended. [email protected] happen in principle. It is possible to bullying is common to both state- The movie-by which I assume that avoid prejudice by means of open and The Alumni Association Newsletter is published in each issue of The Reporter. We welcome letters, capsule book reviews, and article ideas from alumni. Send submissions and suggestions to Mork Middlebrook at [email protected] (e-mail) or coll 510-547-0602.

The Alumni Association Board No Longer in Dispute: gathered in April in Annapolis. Front row: Peter Huidekoper, the New Triangle Circle in Rick Lightburn, Barbara Leonard, Steve Bergen; second North Carolina row: Bev Angel, Sam Stiles, Steve Sedlis, Allan Hoffman; ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• third row: Glenda Eoyang, Tom Geyer, Paul Martin, Pedro BY SUSAN EVERSOLE, SF79 Martinez-Fraga, Homayoon Sepasi; fourth row: Barbara nee upon a time, there may official status contingent on the Lauer, Liz Skewes, Harvey have been an alumni chapter selection of a president/represen­ Goldstein, Mary Goldstein, in North Carolina. Or there may tative. Jason Walsh, Dave Krimins; not have been. This question is The group succumbed to the back row: Sharon Bishop, Jim under dispute, and has not been formality, but in the voting frenzy, Schweidef, Roberta Gable, resolved. Not many people can also elected a vice-president and Mark Middlebrook, Bill Tilles. claim that they are native to North chapter representatives for the Carolina's Research Triangle Park. Annapolis and Santa Fe Alumni This Triangle is formed by three Board meetings. We.also major universities: Duke in re-named our chapter after a Durham, UNC in Chapel Hill, and suggestion by Amy Clark (A78). NC State in Raleigh. Chapel Hill is The new name for the chapter is known for bleeding heart liberal­ the Triangle Circle of St. John's This group is in the formative ism, Raleigh is the state capital and College Alumni. Dean Carey's stage. If you are local to the area, home of Jesse Helms (need I say The Triangle Circle has held 3 please give a call/e-mail to one of Statement of more?), and Durham is plagued seminars in the past 6 months, with the chapter representatives. e with an inner-city and all the a tiny group of new alumni faces Educational Policy problems thereof, while it is appearing at each event. Our first President: blessed with a world-class medical seminar, on Plato's Meno, was led Susan Eversole (SF79) Available to center and university. by Annapolis tutor Grant Franks at 104 Silver Cedar Lane Drawn to the area by the the National Humanities Center. Alumni Chapel Hill, NC 27514 schools, technology firms have set The second seminar, on Friend­ [email protected] up shop, and the EPA has head­ ship-Chapters 8 and 9 of ach year the dean who is 919-968-4856 (h) quartered air research in the Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, serving as chair of the Instruc­ 919-549-1179 (w) E vicinity. Magazines that make it was led by Annapolis tutor Sam tion Committee of the College is their business to rate such things Kutler. The day before the seminar, charged by the Polity'with writing a Vice-president have rated the Triangle a great several alumni met with Sam at the statemenf of educational policy Barbara M. Smalley (A84) place to retire, so a large number Fearington Market for brunch. The and program. Santa Fe Dean 103 St. Paul Street of people have planted roots in this most recent seminar, on a poem by James Carey wrote this year's Durham, NC 27704 Faulknerian Southern clime (bars Sappho and a sonnet by statement and in it addressed [email protected] in Chapel Hill claim Faulkner Shakespeare, was held in a used whether the college should take 919-383-8773 (w) Ladyslipper regularly staggered out their bookstore-four gatherings, four seriously the Polity's charge "to Music doors). The Triangle has also locations. develop the moral and intellectual 919-220-7781 (h) attracted a large number of St. For our next seminar, on The powers" of its students (emphasis John's College alumni. Prince, September 7th, we will added). Annapolis Representative As diverse as the three areas return to the wonderful, eclectic, Carey's Statement of Educa­ Gene Thornton (A45) composing the Triangle, so are the and well-stocked used bookstore tional Policy and Program is 100 Cherrywood Circle professions of the members of the called the Readery in the available to alumni on the Chapel Hill, NC 27514 new alumni group. So far, no two downtown Durham World-Wide Web or by mail. You not~so-lovely 919-967-8949 individuals within the group seem area. The owners are truly accom­ can view and print the statement at to be in the same profession modating and the price is unbeat­ the Unofficial Alumni Web site: despite overlapping interests or able-free. Our current schedule Editor's note: This article is part http://www.charm.net/-bfant/ avocations. Additionally, the group calls for a seminar every other of on ongoing series profiling local johnny/johnnyl .html (or http:// draws on the entire Piedmont for month, with tutor visits in the fall, alumni chapters. By my account­ www.charm.net/-bfont/johnny/ membership with Jim Scott (A84) winter, and spring. Social events, ing, we've covered almost all of the sepcarey.html to go directly to the driving all the way from South outings, and business meetings are officially chartered chapters. If you Statement). Alternatively, you can Carolina to attend seminars. in the planning. Despite the participate in an informal alumni receive a copy by mail by calling Out of respect for the diversity ambiance, a bookstore is a group (of whatever sort), please Santa Fe Alumni Director Elizabeth of the group, it seemed logical to dangerous place for Johnnies to contact me. In a future issue, I Skewes at 505-984-6103. keep organization at a minimum, gather; we may have to move hope to report on the kinds of See the article about different and simply get a chapter started. again if we find it too expensive (I alumni activities that arise sponta­ points of view on the Statement on Upon applying for a charter, the walked out with three books last neously, outside of the formal page 26 of this issue of The nascent alumni group was granted time). chapter structure. Reporter. e mizes the realistic technique of the How We Spent Your Money: conventional novel. Given the limitation that the techniques do Treasurer's Report for 1996 more to conceal the author than • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • reveal him. This means that Capsule Reviews by concern with the moment must be the characters' concern with the BY RICHARD UGHTBURN, SF76, been made available to all alumni 1 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION TREASURER without charge. Alumni of Favorite Books moment. And all this is fitting, if the Another $7 ,000 was spent to subject is a period of U.S. history n 1996, the Association re­ support communications with the Send your one-paragraph reviews when perhaps the moment had a to the editor of this Newsletter. relatively great importance com­ ceived nearly $35,000 rn dues alumni, including printing, mailing1 Ifrom its members. In addition and newsletter production. pared to some more far reaching we earned about $1,000 in The Association has for many U.S.A., by John Dos Passos destiny. This analysis seems interest on our bank balances. years supported memorials and First published in 1930, 1932, anyway relevant to why I enjoyed What did we do with the $36,000? archives of the college. In 1996, and 1936, Signet Classic, approx. the novel. 1,650 pages. First of all 1 we supported Alumni we spent about $2,500 in this activities. We spent about $ l l 1000 function, most of it going to our Submitted by Peter A. Melka, to subsidize the homecomings on project to produce archival quality SF87. Spanish with Ease, by J. Anton both campuses, and the summer photos of the tenured faculty. These and John Smellie This trilogy is most striking 1987, Assimil, Chennevieres sur alumni weeks in Santa Fe. We also pictures 1 done by several talented stylistically for the innovative Marnes, France (1-800-ASSIMIL in spent $3 ,500 to welcome new photographers/alumni 1 have done members of the Association a wonderful job of capturing the segments. Three types of shorter the U.S.), 47 4 pages. through the Senior dinners and special character of the tutors. segment appear grouped together Submitted by Mark Middle­ Graduate Institute graduate gifts. We made a special contribution at intervals. In between these is a brook, A83. We reserved another $3,000 for of $2,000 to the endowment of the conventional novel, or at least as the alumni chapter workshop College: Several years ago the conventional as a novel can be What do you call someone who scheduled for the summer of Association set up a Scholarship with many protagonists. The theme speaks three languages? "Trilin­ 1 997, which will provide an Fund for the benefit of the children of the title holds together both gual." What do you call someone opportunity for leaders of the of alumni, and this fund has not innovative segments and conven­ who speaks two languages? various alumni chapters to share grown as much as the cost of what tional novel. But it seems fair to "Bilingual." What do you call ideas and to enhance the local we want to fund. ask what the stylistic rationale someone who speaks one lan­ programs they present to alumni. In addition, the Association had might be. The types of innovative guage? "An American." The Association split the cost of some $ l 1000 in administrative segment are very different from Years of grade school Spanish the recently published Alumni expenses-mostly for meeting one another, almost polar oppo­ and the French tutorials at St. sites, but generally they seem John's did little to make me any Directory with the College1 and in expenses and for the awards the 1996, we added about $6,000 to Association gives. concerned with the moment. On less the butt of this quip. But thanks our reserve for this. Because of the That is how the Association the other hand, like Heraclitus's to a tip from language-loving concern with the stream, concern alumna Christine".Robedson~.A9·0;.1. Association's support1 this directory spent your dues. e has several useful indices that it with the moment perhaps epito- now can aspire afleast to being 1.Slingual. Assirnil·· wouldn't otherwise have1 and it has publishes book/tape (or CD) language packages for . French, German;· Spanish, Italian, :.: Dutch, and Ara- ·· · · CHAPTER CONTACTS bic-all with the title [Language] with Ease. I've been Please call the alumni listed below for information about chapter activities in each area. working through the Spanish with Ease book/tape set, which is well thought-out and inviting, without descending into the simplistic ALBUQUERQUE: Harold M. Morgan, Jr. 505- NEW YORK: Steven Sedlis 212-289-1662 phrase-book pap that character­ 899- l 33 l izes many language learning tools. PHILADELPHIA: Jim Schweidel 610-941- The Assimil method is conversa­ ANNAPOLIS: Thomas Wilson 410-263-2121 0555 tional, but they aren't afraid to teach you grammar along the way. The lessons introduce idioms early AUSTIN: Homayoon Sepasi 512-416-1764 PORTLAND: Elizabeth Skewes 505-984-6103 on, the later lessons have you reading real poems, and there's a BUFFALO/ROCHESTER/TORONTO: SACRAMENTO: Adrianne Laidlaw 916-362- pretty good grammatical appendix Hank Constantine 716-586-5393 5131 or Helen Hobart 916-452-1082 of verbs. An added bonus is that the book, though compact and SAN FRANCISCO/NORTHERN CHICAGO: Amanda Fuller 708-705-1143 or lightweight has a sewn binding CALIFORNIA: Toni Wilkinson 415-550- 1 Rick Lightburn 312-34 7-7099 and a sturdy cover-unlike most 1280 or Mark Middlebrook 510-547-0602 modern paperbacks, it should hold DALLAS/FORT WORTH: Suzanne Doremus 817- up to repeated use and the rigors 496-8571 or Jonathan Hustis 214-340-8442 SANTA FE: John Pollak 505-983-2144 or of the rucksack. (Note to travelers: Elizabeth Skewes 505-984-6103 The speakers on the tapes use a LOS ANGELES: Meg Sheehan 310-379-5320 Castillion accent of the sort you'll SEATILE: Jim Doherty 206-937-8886 encounter in most of Spain, but not MINNEAPOLIS/ST.PAUL: Vicki Wilson 612-535- in Latin America.) 0055 or Glenda Eoyang 612-783-7206 or WASHINGTON, D.C.: Sam Stiles 301-424- 612-379-3883 (W) 0884 or Bill Ross 301-230-4594 Alumni Notes and Profiles ...

ton, focusing on assessing and treating 1921 1951 1963 behavioral and anxiety disorders in children and adolescents. Dr. Thomas Turner celebrated his Stewart A. Washburn was elected a Mary McCutchan is a historian 95th birthday in January. He was fellow of the Institute of Management working for the National Register of awarded a Governor's Citation in Consultants. Washburn, a management Historic Places in Washington, D.C. recognition of his "exemplary record of consultant with offices in Lakeville, She married Don Singer, an archivist at 1977 outstanding service as a distinguished Massachusetts, serves on the Board of the National Archives in College Park, Michael Levine St. James (A) scholar of medicine" and "the lifelong Visitors and Governors of St. John's Maryland, last June. Between them writes: "I am one of the few happy dedication, support and commitment" College. they have four children: Selina, a Latin attorneys I know. Last month, I was he has demonstrated on behalf of Johns teacher; Matthew, an architect; named chair of the executive commit­ Hopkins University Dr. Turner served Amanda, an editor with Associated tee of Rosenblum, Parish & Isaacs, as dean of the Johns Hopkins Medical 1955 Press; and Valerie, a graduate student in where I practice bankruptcy law. My School from 1957 to 1968; he still anthropology at Syracuse. business bankruptcy practice lets me Peter S. McGhee has received a spends four days a week in his office, work with a wide variety of busi­ 1997 Columbia Journalism Alumni writing memoirs and answering the nesses-this year, I concluded my most Award, given for "outstanding journal­ many requests he receives for informa­ unusual case: a successful reorganiza­ istic achievement or a distinguished 1970 tion on Hopkins history. Dr. Turner is tion of San Francisco's largest chain of career in journalism or journalism Susheila Horwitz (SF) is still a staff also a Visitor Emeritus on the St. John's adult theaters! The current spring education." McGhee, vice president at member of Madonna House and is Board of Visitors and Governors. soccer season consumes all our WGBH in Boston, was executive editor now assigned to that organization's Saturdays, with my 13-year-old of the public affairs series The Advo­ house in Washington, D.C. She would daughter Sara, 9-year-old Liza, and cates, which won Emmy and Peabody love to see any alumni who are in the 6-year-old Noah all avid players. My 1950 awards. He was executive producer of area. Madonna House is located at 200 eldest was mortally embarrassed when I Tylden W. Streett recently the documentary series Arabs and C Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002. concluded a presentation on Ancient completed an eight-foot bronze Israelis, which won an Alfred I. John Dean (A) has been kicked Greek for her language class by memorial figure for firefighters who duPont-Columbia Award. upstairs from his post at the Universite chanting the first part of the Iliad. I'm have lost their lives in the line of duty. Strasbourg II to Universite de Versailles looking forward to seeing classmates at This stands across from Baltimore City Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. His field of the·reunion this September. If anyone Hall. He also just completed, for the study remains History of Ideas, 1959 from the class of '77 comes to San Jewish Historical Society of Maryland, American Studies, with a strong bias Hugh M. Curtler (A) has recently Francisco, give me a ca11 at 415- a 40" x 50" bronze bas-relief of Zanryl toward what has come to be called completed his book, Rediscovering 477-9422, or e-mail me at Krieger, who, says Streett, "has given Cultural Studies. He has just published Values: Coming to Terms with [email protected]." over $100 million to various institu­ European Readings ofAmerican Popular Postmodernism. It will be published tions to start great changes and. perhaps Culture (Greenwood Press). Over the next month by M.E. Sharp, Inc. of transform society." last few sum1;llers he's been working in Armonk, N.Y. the graduate school at the University of 1978 Colorado, Boulder. He writes that "any Karen Gasser (SGI) received her Johnnies coming through Paris from Ph.D. in English from the University my own Annapolis alumni time-zone of Denver in August 1996. are welcome to make contact." E-mail: It has come to the attention of [email protected] or (Paris David Woolwine (A) that two works tel.#) 01.43.336.36.16. by Eric H. Wefald (A) have been IN VINO VERITAS? brought out posthumusly. Eric matriculated with the class of 1978 and 1972 was at St. John's for one year. The books are Truth and Knowledge: On Dana Nether ton (A) married Some Themes in Tractarian and Robin Goldman in 1990. They have Russe/Lian Philosophy ofLanguage, Larry Turley is famous in the wine world two children: Graham, born in 1993, • published by the University Press of for his zinfandels and petit syrahs, but few and Roger, born in 1996. He is a America in 1996, and~an earlier work, people know that, until 1996, when he principal with American Management Do the Right Thing: Studies in Limited struck it big in the wine biz, he was a Systems in Fairfax, Virginia. His Rationality (Stuart Russell, co-author), full-time emergency room doctor, specialty is "Reliability-Centered published in 1991 by MIT Press. producing beer and wine as a sideline. Maintenance," about which he has David has looked at chem and says that St. John's is proud to claim him as an written several papers. His e-mail they are technical works in philosophy alumnus; although he only spent two address is dana_netherton and may be of interest to alumni and years with the great books (and the @mail.amsinc.com. faculty of St. John's. Eric was consid­ Santa Fe class of '69), he managed to ered one of the most promising get into medical school without a philosophers of his generation. He died bachelor's degree. It was during med 1975 in 1989 in a car accident and an school that he started making beer Thomas J. Myers (SF) and Moors obituary was printed in The Reporter. ("You can always make much better C. Myers (SF) report that they now David also notes that he himself is the than you can buy," he says.) Turley have five children: Toby, 21; Emma, author of a short essay entitled started Frogs Leap Winery in 1981, 16; Paul, 12; Peter, 11; and Tamsin, 6 "Reading Science as Text" which was sold the label in 1994, and then started his own months. published in 1991 in a book titled label, Turley Winecellars. His wines ha~e received top ratings from Dr. Dale Mortimer (A) writes that Vocabularies ofPublic Life. It is on the connoisseur Robert M. Parker in The Wine Advocate. "after serving nearly a seven-year, part­ use of deconstructionist notions in the Meanwhile, Turley's sister Helen (A67) is achieving phenomenal time 'sentence,' " he has left his job as study of science. David believes that it success as perhaps the top wine consultant in the country. In the main consulting psychiatrist for the is of no interest to anyone. addition, she and husband John Wetlaufer (A67) are bottling their Oregon Department of Corrections. own label, "Marcassin." The "Wall Street journal reported that "more He served as the psychiatrist for than 4000 people are on the waiting list for Marcassin, hoping to Oregon State Penitentiary (the 1981 pay about $100 for each bottle." In vino veritas? Larry Turley says maximum security prison in Salem) Major Michael A. Cross (A) is yes. But among wine cognescenti, the word is beginning to spread: and its psychiatric unit housed there. now a major serving as an Infantry In familia vinum. e He is now gearing up for full-time Brigade Operations Officer in the U.S. -by Sus3an Borden private practice in Vancouver, Washing- Army's 10th Mountain Division. Soldiers from his brigade are currently serving in peacekeeping operations in Lisa N urcombe Walling (A) and both the Sinai and Bosnia. He recently Karl Walling (A) and their children, graduated from the Army's Command Alexandra, age 7, and Ian, age 4, will and General Staff College and prior to be moving to Ohio this summer, where that completed an MPA at Harvard's Karl will continue as a professor JFK School of Government. political science for a small liberal arts college. Barry Hellman (A) and Cynthia 1982 Keppel Hellman (A) moved to Married and a mother of three Norfolk, Virginia in 1994, after Barry children (ages 4, 7 and 8), Sara. E. completed his residency training in Van Wassenaer-Matson (SF) works anatomic pathology at Stanford part-time at the Fine Arts Academy in University Hospital and Thia finished New York City. She says she is "paint­ her PhD in Physics at Stanford Linear ing and sculpting and being 'mom' and Accelerator Center. Barry is a staff 'wife' to a top-notch management pathologist and director of the consultant and living in a big, beautiful immunodiagnosis lab at Sentara house in Amsterdam with our golden Norfolk General Hospital, and director retriever." of the Eastern Virginia Medical School pathology residency program. His main areas of work are hematopathology, 1984 gynecologic pathology and breast pathology. Thia is currently an assistant Lori Maness (SF) writes, "I will professor with Hampton University marry my friend, Ron Morris, August and a staff scientist at the Thomas 16 at a small lodge in Wyoming's Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Medicine Bow National Forest. I would (formerly CEBAF). Her area of focus is really love to see the friends I have lost quark structure. She has landed an touch with and for them to take part in NSF career development grant and has this celebration. The beauty and an approved experiment pending at the simplicity ofthe setting allows for the accelerator.Their children, Barry III addition of guests, even on short notice and Joel are currently 10 and 3 years of It would be a great thing to bless this age. , union with reunion. Please contact me Barry rep6rts that "the best friend at P.O. Box 4171Casper,WY82601 or anyone could ever have, Joel call 307-577-0919." Bennington (A), has taken a position Joie Goodwin Munda (A) writes, as assistant professor in biology at St. "I am single Mom to four-year-old Bonaventure University in Olean, NY. Sara, who is a budding artist and tennis He is leading the life of the benign player, and am blessed to work for an eccentric and therefore finds himself employer that allows me to work from very much in demand (my interpreta­ home. As a researcher/writer for "Ttie tion, not his) in those wild climes. He 700 Club," I have the great privilege of has a better music collection than most interviewing people about the trans­ colleges and drives faster than most forming power of the risen Christ in undergraduates." their lives. Of the two or three testimo­ nies that air daily on the Family Channel show, I have o&en had 1985 something to do with one of them. God is good!" You may reach Joie via e­ Maggie Kinser Saiki (A) sends a mail at [email protected] or beautiful card announcing that ''At by writing to her at 1689 Dylan Drive, precisely 5 a.m. on the first day of Virginia Beach, VA, 23464. September 1996 Molly Grace Saiki Dana Darby Johnson (A) and her slipped from darkness into light. She husband Robin write: "We send the was welcomed by her parents Hiromu rather belated news that we became and Maggie and her siblings Hannah parents a year and a half ago. Our and Tom." Kinser lives in Japan and daughter, Rhiannon, was born at writes for Graphis, a quarterly pub­ home, and we have been completely lished in New York and covering design besotted ever since. Meanwhile, Robin around the world. is teaching and writing about the Tai Guy Thmister (A) and his wife Chi Internal Arts at The Center for Lara live in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Classic Tai Chi Chuan in Santa Fe. where they both work as computer Dana is writing a dictionary for a analysts. British publisher, taking a leave of On December 29, 1996, Lisa F. absence from the environmental illness O'Brien (A) married Adrianis B. Olde field. The alumni office has our phone/ Daalhuis in Potomac, Maryland. Lisa address/ email." and her husband now reside in Lisa Ross Thedens (A) and her Edinburgh, Scotland, where she teaches husband John had a son, Peter John grade school and he is a professor of Thedens, on April 1, 1996. Lisa mathematics at the University of continues to pastor her church in Edinburgh. Her address is: Lisa F. Coggin, Iowa. O'Brien/ 10 Balderston Gardens/ Leslie DeSimone (A) married Ken Edinburgh, Scotland EH16-STF. Descoteaux on October 5, 1996. They are living in Stow, Massachusetts and would be glad to hear from any continued on page 22 Johnnies in the area. Alumni Notes and Profiles ...

continued from page 21 teach in their Core Humanities associate producer at CNN in Los kids are a year older," he adds. Program: "Great Books for the masses," Angeles, Richard Mar.ks (SF) is now the director of the program calls it, the story editor for the new feature film since it is a required course for all first division of National Geographic. He year students. Kim's first book, The says he hates news, loves film, and is· 1994 Story ofJesus according to L, will be out now "facing the desire to make David Brooks (SF) has been 1986 this September from Sheffield Aca­ movies." awarded a three-year scholarship to demic Press. Kim and Marlis' son, Susan Read (SGI ) writes: "I have a pursue his doctoral degree in existential Charles, is now three and they are wonderful baby boy, Harrison Webster, psychology at Duquesne University in expecting another child soon. who was born on May 12, 1995. He 1992 Pittsburgh. He plans to do research in loves to garden, ride bikes and eat. I'm J. Elizabeth Hubert (SF) has been gender identification. After graduation still .teaching at Santa Fe Indian School accepted to the University of Nebraska from St. John's, David worked at the and enjoying southwest life." 1989 College of Medicine and will begin Philadelphia Hospital for two years as a Kristen Caven (SF) and her Molly Porter's (A) artwork is being there as a medical student in August. pharmacy technician. He is finishing husband, Dave, recently had a baby displayed at the Delta Blues Museum She also is engaged to Dr. Alex Osawa his master's degree in psychology at boy. Kristen writes: "On May 14, in Clarksdale, Miss., this summer. The · of Nigeria. She says, "I would love to Duquesne this summer. David lives at 1997, Donald Max Caven entered the exhibit shows oils, watercolors and hear from any Johnnies trapped in 426 N. Taylor Ave. #2, Pittsburgh, PA world at 4:01 am PST with onlookers pastels that she completed during a Omaha." She c~n be reached at 328 S. 15212. Grandma Louise and Papa Dave and recent stay in the Mississippi Delta. 37th St., #2, Omaha, NE 68131. Her the Goddess of Fertility Mama Kristen Her work has been described as "full of phone number is 402-341-7115. in tow. He weighed 7 pounds, 2 light and maelstroms of color and 1995 ounces, and was 20 inches long. His subject and subtle rhythms." first words, though not confirmed, 1992 Bruce Grigsby (SGI) was one of 16 were 'How are the Cubs doing this teachers in Colorado who was recog­ year?'" 1990 Stacy Vennema (A) reports that she nized recently by the governor's office Charles F. Beckman (A) is an should complete her M.A. in history at and the Colorado Endowment for the undergraduate student in engineering Gerard Sparaco (A) finished his the University of Oregon in June. Humanities. He says that "a primary physics at Oregon State University. He academic requirements at the reason for being nominated by my says: "I participated on a city league Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary and will principal for the recognition has been basketball team in Santa Fe during the begin an internship at St. Paul's 1993 my inclusion of St. John's style Socratic Evangelical Lutheran Church in Orion, seminars in my teaching. So the 1983-1984 school year, we did not do Julia Beth Graham (SF) .is com­ Illinois in September. This will lead to outreaching effect of what we do at St. nearly so well as last year's team (which pleting her master's degree in compara­ ordination in the Evangelical Lutheran John's continues, and I am continually won the city league championship). I tive religions at the University of Church in America. · grateful for having been able to be a believe we won three games, at least Colorado at Boulder. Alexandra Kincannon (A) is part of the GI program." one by forfeit. Jamie Hayden (SF) was Owen A. Kelley (A) writes: "In working toward a Ph.D. in cognitive KeUyn Vandenburg (SF), who our captain and I drove the team to January, 1997, I earned a master's psychology at che University of spent three years at St. John's, is now games and played shooting guard of degree in applied physics from George Virginia. completing her degree at the University sorts." Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. I Jonathan G. Ying (A) received his of New Mexico. now work at the NASA Goddard Space master's degree in theological studies, Flight Center on the Tropical Rainfall with a focus on Confucian thought and Measurement Mission. I have played 1987 modern Chinese literature, in 1994 folk music on my cello as part of the At 9:03 pm on Thursday, March 27, from Harvard University. He is now a Hauntingly Beautiful Trio, which 1997, Melissa Johnson (SF) and CJ lecturer in the department of sociology performed several times in Annapolis." Dallett (SF88) welcomed their and an assistant dean of students at the Kevin Johnson (A) is living in daughter, Liliana Ione Dallett, into the University of Illinois at Boston and studying counseling world, "more specifically into the world Urbana-Champaign. He says his psychology at Lesley College, which is of Espanola, New Mexico." CJ, Melissa assignments "include teaching and The Reporter wants to hear your news! feminist and multicultural in its and Liliana can be reached at P.O. Box developing an Asian American studies orientation. He is living with a Contact us any way, by phone, mail, 203, Ojo Caliente, NM, 87549. Their curriculum and working with the composer/poet/psychic. He would love e-mail, whatever-here are our e-mail address is reddlines 3,800 Asian American students." He to hear from alumni or current @roadrunner.com. would love to hear from friends, and addresses: students. His phone number is 617- Melissa White (SF) and Ron may be reached at 110 Turner SSB, 524-2669. His address is Apt. 3/16 Strauch (SF85) welcomed their third MC-306, 610 East John Street, Spalding Street/Jamaica Plain, MA In Annapolis­ child, Asher White Strauch, into the University of Illinois at 02130. The Reporter world on Jan. 23, 1997. Melissa writes: Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL In May, Laura Anne Stuart (A) "He was impatient and barely waited 61820. His e-mail address is Public Relations Office received the degree of master of public for the midwife. He was born into air, [email protected]. His phone numbers St. John's College health from the University of Michi­ unlike his sister, Talaya, 8, and brother, are 217-333-0050 at work and gan. She is now working as an analyst Box 2800 Colin, 6, who were water babies." 217-356-7941 at home. at Abt Associates Inc., a research and Annapolis, MD 21404 Melissa is a production manager at Joshua Kerievsky (SF) and Tracy consulting firm in Cambridge. Her Indian Artist Magazine in Santa Fe and Reppert (SF91) were married on May phone:410-626-2539 phone number is 617- 629-2470. Her Ron's business, Milagro Compost, has 25, 1997, in Boca Raton, Fla. e-mail: [email protected] address is 402 Highland Avenue, Apt. leased five acres at the Santa Fe Downs. Thomas Luparello (SF) is now F. 21/Somerville, MA 02144. Melissa and Ron invite friends who are the vice president of Wood River James Lank (A) graduated from In Santa Fe­ in the LaCienega area to visit. Melissa's Technologies. His address is P 0. Box Harvard Law School where he was e-mail address is 105616.1666 6639, Kerchum, ID 83340. The Reporter editor-in-chief of the Harvard Journal @compuserve.com, or Ron and Melissa Alumni /Public Relations Office He has passed can be reached at 505-473-5398. ofLaw & Public Policy. the Texas Bar and now practices cor­ St. John's College 1991 porate and securities law with the firm 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca In 1993, Jonathan Skinner (SF) of Liddell, Sapp, Zivley, Hill & Santa Fe, NM 87501 1988 LaBoon in Houston, Texas. His e-mail received a master's degree in English phone:SOS-982-6103 Kim Paffenroth (A) and Marlis literature from Oxford. He also earned address is [email protected]. (A86) report that they will finally be a master's degree from the University of Matt Wright (A) reports that he e-mail: [email protected] leaving South Bend, Indiana. Kim was London in comparative literature in the and his family have moved to Philadel­ just awarded a three-year teaching fall of 1996. phia, where he has a new position as fellowship at Villanova University to After working for three years as an the head baker for Fresh Fields. "Both 0 bituaries ...

NOTED ... EDWARD CORNELL He is survived by his wife, Mary Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe Preparatory Gilman Clark; four children, Sarah School and Sama Fe Chamber Music Alan Eckhart, A43, died on January CLARK Clark Davis, Susan Louise Clark, Festival. She graduated from Amarillo 13, 1997. William Gilman Clark, and Daniel High School in Texas in 1930 and FORMER TUTOR Howard Clark; and a sister, Jeannette married Robert McKinney, who later Toni Karen Nelson, SF70, died in Edward Cornell Clark died on May Gibson. became the owner of The New Mexican, April 1997. 21 in Los Cerrillos, N.M. He was a in 1943. She and McKinney had a tutor at the Santa Fe campus from July daughter in 1954 and later divorced. Gregory Scott Burbey, A86 1974 through June 1977. Trigg served on the boards of St. David F. Crowley, Jr., A28 He came to St. John's from the LOUISE TRIGG John's College, Santa Fe Preparatory University of Texas at El Paso, where he School, and the Santa Fe Chamber taught Western Civilization for five Music Festival. She also served on the William Jack Ely, A82 years. Prior to that, he was at Princeton FRIEND OF THE SANTA New Mexico Arts Commission under Jerome Lansner, A50 University, where he earned his Ph.D. FE CAMPUS Gov. Bruce King and was a member of in 1969. He had an undergraduate Louise Trigg, who, along with her the National Endowment for the Arts. Richard B. Sellman, A36 degree from Massachusetts Institute of former husband Robert McKinney, was She is survived by her daughter, Technology and worked for several instrumental in bringing St. John's Robin; son-in-law Meade Martin; a Henry R. Weeks, A35 · years as a geophysicist in Montana, College to Santa Fe, died on June 2 in brother, Steve, and his wife, Ann; two Wyoming, Turkey, and Spain before Santa Fe. She was 84. grandchildren; and numerous nieces, going to Princeton. She was a founding member of the nephews, and cousins.

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continued from page 17 lady fond of Miss Austen, but to certainly provide a contrast worth suggest that "there is a whole host of Mr. George Cayley's last name was discussing. authors in her class," to equate her with misspelled in the letters section of the Have you ever seen a sunset that Margaret Mitchell, is to display with spring edition of The Reporter. We reminded you of a patient etherized t is a truth universally acknowl­ pride an appalling lack of education apologize for the mistake. upon a table? Neither have I. However, edged that there are more Great I and a corresponding lack of objectivity. T.S. Eliot did write a substantial essay Books than can be fit on the Program; I would offer that the educational on what makes a masterpiece and how the "argument on what books" intention to which we all aspire, and to all former masterpieces become comprise our list is a constant reality. which Mr. Cayley makes ungrammati­ re-interpreted in the light of a new Mr. Cayley believes that "if [Buchanan] 20TH CENTURY cal reference, is not well represented by masterpiece. I can't dredge up the felt that ...Jane Austen, etc., belongd in one who feels he "saw the movies ... so GREAT BOOKS name of the essay but it sheds light on the program, would he not have why read the books?" not just the art of poetry or writing but included them?" and feels that "the -Barbara Hahn, A88 In reference to the story in the on all of the arts and could provide a Buchanan list is obviously under seige." Spring issue about the great books of framework on which to hang a However, suggestions are made to the 20th century, here are some considerable discussion on the state change our list regularly, and such a thoughts: and meaning of contemporary art. suggestion quite properly receives a CORRECTIONS Drop Freud. His theory of the Poincare. YES! YES! YES! This is thoughtful, practical response like mind is based on the workings of the the book that SJC needs as a frame­ Dean Brann's. our obituary on tutor Ralph reducing steam turbine (the technologi­ work for its lab program. The lab, as it Though the recent suggestion in YHarper (Fall 1996 issue) states cal wonder of his day). Currently, the existed in 1967-1972, was just a series these pages to include the works of that he was at St. John's from 1943-45. theory of the mind is increasingly based of "great discoveries," which we more women authors was reasonable in However, he was there in 1945-46. on the computer (the technological duplicated, without any rationale as to tone and rational in argument, its That was my sophomore year. My wonder of our day). Both are attempts how they came about. This book will authors seem not to understand that no seminar leaders were Richard Scofield, to make something subjective and non­ help the student understand that circumstance of an author's being is Simon Kaplan, and Ralph Harper. My quantifiable seem more "scientific." science is very much a human endeavor worth consideration in the decisions of Latin tutor was Ralph Harper. In Jan­ With an increased understanding of and that discoveries do not occur in a the Program Committee. Several books uary 1946, Mr. Harper invited his how the brain really works, chemistry is vacuum. by women are worthy of inclusion, students to his house and told us Dean replacing psychology. If you must Solzhenitsyn is important histori­ without recognition of the sex of the Scott Buchanan had informed him that include something about psychology cally, especially since if we don't learn author, but worthiness apparently is he was making an "intuitive judgment" uy Jung (though he has his flakey from history we may repeat it. Students not the only standard by which the that Ralph was "simply not a teacher." moments). could only read snippets of this "mega" Program Committee must judge. Some of us, recalling that years later Watson and Crick is certainly a true work. Most of it is mind-numbing in Middlemarch is a greater. book than 1-Vtir (Vernon Derr said I might use his account of how modern scientific its detail. Might there not be some and Peace, but the later has long been a name), think that on that occasion research takes place but not of much other, more readable work that captures standard for the educated person; Scott Buchanan was wrong. While I interest beyond that. Replace it with the "great" ideas presented in this besides, the seminar does better with a was teaching at Olivet College in the "Silent Spring." DNA technology will book? novel that's got huge chunks of 1970s, I organized an annual film be very important, but environmental­ Are there any books that I would philosophy in it. festival. Harper gave excellent lectures ism will have an even greater impact. propose? I would recommend Hawk­ The list is steeped in philosophy, on Bergman and Antonioni. I'd prefer "Makland Field Force" by ing, A BriefHistory ofTime. Nothing whose analytic method routinely and On another subject: I am sorry that Churchill, though that may be a few there that any Johnny shouldn't be able notoriously butchers literature, as well the seminar readings of the various years too early for the 20th century. It to handle and it may suggest a few as music and visual art. As a result, alumni chapters are not listed in The conveys as few other books can the interesting experiments for Lab. On a contempt for literature is endemic Reporter. In view of the current concept of death before dishonor and similar note, I'd suggest Fladands. This among my fellow Johnnies. It is controversy on women authors on the the ideal that a good name was to be is a short work, I don't remember the demonstrated by Mr. Cayley's charac­ reading li~t, I should think alumni valued above anything else in this author's name, that will get you terization of a flower of English prose chapters might discuss some of the world. Not by preaching about it but thinking "outside the lines." as a" 'romantic' perspective on the books proposed and report opinions. by describing, from the inside out as it universe"; moreover, it is convincingly were, a life lived according to these -Thomas Day, A74 cloaked in his letter as comtempt for -Bill Buchanan, A48 precepts. In our cynical age, it would the works of women. I am not particu- Campus Life ...

BEHIND THE SCENES SANTA FE

PAT, THE GARDENER •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Pat McCue, the Greek scholar and landscaper, believes in cooperating with nature.

BY CAROLYN KNAPP, SFOO

n the surface, Patrick techniques of native plant use, water McCue's story seems conven­ conservation, and soil development 0 tional-at least by St. John's that became his trademark in landscap­ standards. Disenchanted with his ing. When the mother/son team of Ben course of philosophy at the University Haggard, SF79, and Gail Haggard was of Minnesota, McCue came to Santa selected to design and create the Fe, discovered St. John's, enrolled in the landscaping for the campus's suites and Graduate Institute, and maintains an apartments in 1992, McCue was active relationship with the college chosen as the foreman for the project. community. While working on that project, he The difference is that McCue also met John Agresto, also a committed maintains an active relationship with gardener, and president of the Santa Fe the college's buffalo grass, its aspen campus in his spare time. The college trees, and its daffodils. McCue is not had just lost its chief gardener, and, as only a graduate of the master's program Agesto says, "out of heaven came Pat and a current student in the Eastern McCue." Classics program, but the head The landscaping that McCue landscaper for the Santa Fe campus. designs and maintains for the Santa Fe McCue never intended to end up in campus reflects his belief that in this rather unusual position. When he gardening, as in Heraclitus, all is one. arrived in Santa Fe in 1980, he had a He works to conserve water by Pat McCue takes a breather from his work as Santa Fe's landscape and grounds background in philosophy and had ensuring that rainwater from the roofs supervisor. His theories of gardening stem from his scholarly pursuits in philosophy. done work on his own garden in waters the plants, and not concrete. He Minnesota. He heard about St. John's collects scraps from the kitchens, been reduced by a third, partly because well. Though he will not comment, because he was interested in ancient manure from horse ranches, and of his choice of native plants like campus rumor has it that his scholar­ Greek. Assuming that it was a Catholic clippings and chips from Buildings and buffalo grass, and partly because of ship in ancient Greek equals that of school, McCue came by to check out Grounds to make a rich compost used carefully planned watering. His much of the faculty. Not content with the collection of Greek texts and all over campus. Agresto says, "He's campaign of soil development is one dead language, he spent this past realized that opportunity had knocked. brought a kind of wholeness to this helping to reduce the effects of years of year learning Sanskrit as part of the While completing his first master's place that I never dreamed of... he can stripped, dead soil. The campus blooms Eastern Classics program, and plans to degree, McCue met Gail Haggard, take the garbage from the kitchens, the with his bulbs and flowering trees, and continue with the program this fall. SF71, who owns Plants of the South­ things that kids throw away, and turn it every summer the vegetable gardens The last word is perhaps best left to west, a local landscaping firm. into black gold compost, and then turn spill over with his carefully nurtured Agresto: "Pat loves hard work, and Haggard's philosophy of "co-operation that into beautiful green vegetables and produce. there doesn't seem to be anything he with nature, learning its principles" plants." The massive effort of supervising can't do. He has a sensitivity to land­ intrigued McCue. While working for Under McCue's watchful eye, 263 acres of land has not prevented scaping, and to ideas, and to how all Plants of the Southwest, he learned the campus water for landscaping use has McCue from doing academic work as things flow together to make a whole." •

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CHRIS, THE PRINTMEISTER ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• The print shop, under the helm ofChris Colby, feeds the campus need for paper and ink in many forms.

BY TRAVIS DUNN, A98

he St. John's print shop, tucked th.rough a small window in the away in an obscure corner of basement. By the late 1970s, Schmidt the Annapolis back campus, had left, and Colby was churning out doesn't call much attention to itself. admissions materials in addition to Likewise for Chris Colby, its manager campus work. When space became of almost 20 years. The print shop, tight, the print shop moved to the housed in the brick heating plant basement of Randall, and finally to an behind Mellon, is stark and featureless, annex of the heating plant (in place of seemingly void of light and joy. The a giant pyramid of broken seminar small sign next to the loading dock chairs) in 1987. Now there's a camera door is the only indication of what lies and developing room, a plate-making inside the brown metal door. room, two presses (both aging and Inside, however, the print shop crotchety), computers for typesetting, a belies its somber facade; it hums with super-speed xerox machine, and lots of xerox machines and printing presses. miscellaneous binding equipment. The telephone rings constantly. The print shop still handles the Student aides punch holes in soon-to­ student paper, now called the Gadfly, as be lab manuals. The walls are adorned well as countless other campus projects. with "Far Side" cartoons; various kites, A "benevolent business" that doesn't including one bearing the image of seek a profit, the print shop under Mighty Mouse, dance near the ceiling. Colby's stewardship is on-call for Print shop manager Chris Colby checks admissions material printed on one of the "olmost­ Appearances are likewise deceiving with student projects like theater programs respect to Chris Colby, whose impish antique" presses. Photo by Keith Harvey. as well as the more sophisticated wit betrays his melancholic demeanor. publications put out by the admissions To hear his almost-plaintive Minnesota Schmidt called Colby, a childhood says. He and his wife Mary, who now and advancement offices. Tutors rely on accent, you would be surprised to friend from Minnesota, about becom­ works in the Annapolis admissions the print shop for xeroxing (St. John's discover that this is the same man who ing his assistant. office, packed their suitcases, got on a goes through two million sheets of once masterminded a prank to kidnap Two things about the job intrigued bus, and-with just a few hundred xerox paper a year) and for the publi­ and ransom the pendulum in the Colby: the college-he had applied and dollars-set out to find a new life in cation of manuals. Then there's the Mellon pendulum pit. been accepted but couldn't come up Annapolis. commencement programs, stationery Chris has been with the print shop with the tuition-and the idea of Schmidt and Colby established the and envelopes, the St. john's Review, since its inception in 1975. That's learning the printing business. "I had print shop in the basement of the and even books like the newest St. when the college bought a small been a designer and done commercial Carroll-Barrister House in a room John's College Press book on printing press so that the Collegian­ art work. I'd also worked on student about 10 by 15 feet. In addition to the Stringfellow Barr. the student newspaper-could be publications as an undergrad at the Collegian, they printed handouts and Inside that brown metal door, the printed on campus. Robert Schmidt, University of Minnesota. But I was program manuals. Shipments of xerox print shop hums with life--on a campus A72, was hired to oversee the printing. intrigued by the printing business," he paper were brought into the shop where books and paper are the lifeblood. e

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July brings another exhibit of oil The Guild has also reinstituted the in the art gallery and the speakers for paintings, this time by local artist Peter "Speaking Volumes" lecture series, the "Speaking Volumes" series, the Ruta, who will be exhibiting a retro­ which features authors talking about Guild donated a new mace to be used spective of landscapes of Santa Fe and their work. In June, Chris Wilson, a at college functions, such as graduation the surrounding area that he has cultural historian and professor at the and convocation. The mace, unveiled created during the past 15 years, University of New Mexico, spoke about at this year's commencement ceremony, providing a time capsule history of his newest book, The Myth ofSanta Fe: was designed and carved in Spanish Santa Fe's growth in that time. Ruta's Tourism, Ethnic Identity, and the Colonial style by renowned local san­ exhibit continues through July 27. Creation ofa Modern Regional Tradi­ tero Ramon Jose Lopez. Made of ebony Two more local artists will exhibit in tion. The book recounts how Santa Fe and silver, the new mace is three feet August. Kathleen Schallock combines reinvented itself-turning this town in tall with silver bands and an orb at its her landscapes with the photography of the middle of nowhere into a fantasy at top; it replaces an older pine mace. e Sylvia Aronson in a show tentatively the heart of international tourism. titled "Synthesis." Their exhibit will Charles Montgomery from the Uni­ open with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. versity of Florida will talk in July about on Friday, August 8, in the Fireside the creation of Spanish heritage on the Santa Fe ceremonies will have a new Lounge, and will continue through upper Rio Grande. element--a mace designed August 28. In addition to selecting the exhibits by Ramon Jose Lopez. The Program ...

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o some, James Carey's "State­ son: "I recently saw something from by being more candid, "especially in be respectful, intelligent, and honest. ment of Educational Policy and the University of New Mexico that conversations outside of class, about "These are very powerful moral rules T Program," written in March, is noted that they were celebrating the their own ethical convictions. The because it means you have to treat an indictment of a student body that fact that in the last five years they've students look to the tutors for guid­ others as human beings and listen to has grown increasingly unruly and only had one murder," he says. "We're ance. This doesn't conflict with their what they say," Brann says. apathetic. That's not, however, the different. Our kids will take chairs out role in the classroom." Alexander agrees about the role of message the Santa Fe dean intended in of the lounge, but usually they'll return Boydstun says that may not be die program in developing a moral his statement. Instead, he said, the them. On the other hand, we do have especially effective because one reason foundation for students. There's a statement is a challenge to tutors and many of the problems that come with students come to St. John's is that they connection between the academic administrators to reconsider student life alcohol and we have some of the want to learn for themselves. And process and moral development, he outside the classroom and the role that problems that American society has because St. John's asks students to read thinks, because at St. John's, students they should play in that aspect of with self-indulgence and hedonism." a broad variety of religious and ethical are "accustomed to seeing mistakes get campus life. In a community as small as St. texts, "It's not right at all, no matter made in the classroom. We all have our ''A lot of people seem to think that John's, he says, students regularly have what a student is doing, to say, 'That's wind eggs, and realizing the possibility because I am convinced we could to think about the needs of others wrong.' At St. John's, a tutor would of failure is part of the academic become a better institution, I have before they think about their own only have the option of saying, 'Are you excellence of the college. There's a failed to appreciate how good we wants. And sometimes, he says, that sure you want to be doing what you're parallel with the moral realm in that it's already are," Carey says. "I think St. doesn't happen. "If we could translate doing,' and to have a discussion about impossible not to make mistakes. But John's offers the best undergraduate the kind of respect they have for each it. With each year, it's becoming more we have to learn to think about these education in the country, but that leads other in the classroom into their private and more appropriate and crucial to situations." me to think also that we could be a lives, we'll have done a great thing," ask that, however," Boydstun says. Boydstun says that while students better institution than we are in terms Agresto adds. Agresto disagrees. "It's hard to speak do seem to be suffering from a lack of of non-academic life. It's the discrep­ For Annapolis President Chris with passion about the intellectual respect for each other at the moment, ancy between the academic and non­ Nelson, that is really the crux of the virtues and feign indifference in public it's up to the students to take responsi­ academic life that is the problem." problem. The students, he says, to the moral virtues," he sa.ys. bility for resolving the problem. "l That discrepancy, he says, includes a constantly examine moral issues in the Nelson notes that the faculty would like to see higher academic classroom civility that is not carried classroom and through the books. But members are aware of the roles they expectations on the part of the faculty. into the dorms. Instead of adequate outside the classroom, these studies can play in the non-academic lives of That might require a greater maturity respect for others, he says, dorm life is meet up with "youthful zest. The students. "There are some fine models on the part of the students," Boydstun often characterized by, for example, question is whether we are serving our of what Jim is talking about among the says, which would benefit the students students who assert an assumed right to students well, and I'd say we're doing faculty, but each does it in his or her in their non-academic life as well. play music loudly over someone else's better than most. But in the classroom own way. Some do it in an intellectual Nelson also says the solution lies in right to study. Santa Fe campus life, he we are exposing moral opinions to way, some by example and some by a dear set of expectations for student says, also has been marred in recent intellectual scrutiny, which seems to being more like a parent," he says. behavior and rules that are enforced. years by vandalism and coarse behavior, open us to the charge that we don't care "The students will seek out the advice That's required, he says, for living in most often instigated by excessive about moral virtue," Nelson says. of those faculty members who resonate any kind of community and especially drinking. Amber Boydstun, a junior in Santa with them." in one as small and dose-knit as St. The failure, Carey says, may be in Fe, says that even if students do take John's. "Sure there are going to be some the college's unwillingness to inject the texts seriously when they read elson says it's also important to problems and sometimes they are going itself into the moral develolpment of them, because the works are ap­ N realize that while each campus to be more stark and severe, but we the students. "The college has a dearly proached primarily from an intellectual has occasional problems, which tend to have rules and they're.pretty good defined and well understood intellec­ perspective, the readings are not come in cycles, often the biggest ones," he says. "They were thoughtfully tual center," Carey wrote in his integrated as quickly into students' behavior problems are among the arrived at and they are enforceable in statement, "but if the college has a daily lives. But the classroom discus­ freshmen, who are frequently away ways that are understandable to the moral center it is neither clearly defined sions would suffer, she says, if the from home for the first time and have community. It takes courage, some­ nor well understood." . students took a personal approach to not been exposed to much of the times, to enforce them, bur the rules He argues that in the absence of a the texts and tried to read them as program yet. "When I look at the define the mean for a good community religious foundation, which he lessons to be learned, rather than ideas behavior and responsibility and civility life." indicated in his statement would be to be examined. 'Tm sure I'm develop­ among the upperclassmen, I'm The real success of the dean's inappropriate for St. John's, it may be ing my moral system as a result of St. impressed by their growth over four statement, everyone seems to agree, is difficult for any college .to teach John's, but I'll need some perspective to years," he says. "Ifl saw it the other that it has fostered a much-needed morality. But it is not impossible, he see that," she says. way around, I'd be a lot more con­ examination of the non-academic side says, and the challenge still remains the Derek Alexander, an Annapolis cerned." of St. John's and resulted in discussions same-for students to have a life sophomore active in the Delegate Eva Brann, an Annapolis tutor and that few other schools would be willing outside the classroom that more closely Council and also head of the Political outgoing dean, says that while some of to undertake. mirrors what they encounter in the Forum, thinks that a real moral Carey's concerns are valid, "I don't "Jim has raised all the questions in a classroom in terms of civility and education occurs less often when there quite believe that the situation is so powerful way and it's been an interest­ mutual respect. is a lot of effort ac "building character, terrible on either campus. Things are ing discussion on both campuses," And while others would agree with like at the Naval Academy. You are cyclical. They come and they go, and Nelson adds.• Carey that some parties do get out of given less of a chance to think about it's usually because some bad folks get hand and some students do get drunk, what morality might mean because you in positions of leadership in the student Ifyou would Like a copy ofDean Carey's they say the college exposes students to are focused on rules. A moral education body. But the students do a lot of very "Statement ofEducational Policy" please moral thinking through the books that is more than what rules should not be effective self-monitoring." contact the Alumni Office at St. John's in they read, which Carey acknowledged forgotten, broken, or ignored. It needs She says she understands Carey's Santa Fe. You may call 505-984-6103, in his statement. More importantly, the to be more about 'why,' which St. assertion in his statement that without send an e-mail message to college exists in the real world, where John's provides the opportunity to a religious foundation, it's difficult for a [email protected] edu or send a note people sometimes do behave badly. Yet discuss," he says. college to have much moral influence to the Alumni Office, St. John's College, bad, says Santa Fe President John Carey argues that tutors could play a on its students. But at St. John's, she 1160 Camino Cruz Bl.anca, Santa Fe, Agresto, involves degrees of compari- larger role in that moral development says, the program requires students to NM87501. The Arts ...

CLASSICS IN CLAY IN ANNAPOLIS St. john's claims the talents oftwo MITCHELL Annapolis potters GALLERY FALL •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• EXHIBITS

abandoned it to devote herself University, Rick studied at the Penland, NANCY GRAVES: EXCAVATIONS entirely to hand-building. N.C., School of Crafts, which Ebby IN PRINT, 1972-1992 They even prefer different also attended, and received his master August 28 - November 1 products: "Rick likes to make of fine arts in 1977 from the Colum­ Archaeology, astronomy, botany, pitchers. I like to make bowls," bia, Md., Visual Arts Center, then cartography, paleontology, and zoology says Ebby. Her pieces in associated with Antioch University. In served as just a few of the sources of stoneware and porcelain are addition to St. John's, this former inspiration for contemporary artist one-of-a kind, favor earth tones, president of the Potters' Guild of _ Nancy Graves (1940-1995). This is the and frequently borrow a motif Annapolis teaches classes in three levels first comprehensive exhibition of from nature. Recently she has of ceramics along with drawing and Graves's printmaking. Each of the begun incorporating stained design at Anne Arundel Community prints in this exhibit has a relationship glass into her high-fire pieces .. College. The St. John's studio art to the entire body of her work; Graves Rick's dean-lined, functional classes, open to both students and local often recycled images from her older pieces are influenced by Asian community residents, are taught at prints, translating them into a new pottery, and the graceful, almost several levels. "Rick has a deep form. BY REBECCA WILSON lyrically fluid lines of his vases suggest appreciation for what St. John's is as a the Greeks. He has a heart-felt love of college," says Thomas May, a tutor and SOUTH SEA IMPRESSIONS: en Rick Malmgren was Scandinavian modern shapes, not TWO ARTISTS' VIEWS OF en years old, he used to altogether unexpected in someone WORLD WAR II W orne home from school whose parents are of Norwegian and November 7 - December 12 and watch, mesmerized, as his mother, Swedish ancestry. The quality ofclay In 1944, artist Jason Schoener, a newly Ebby, shaped pottery. That was the . The quality of day lies in its infinite commissioned Naval Officer, found beginning. Later, after considering capacity to be whatever the maker himself stationed on Eniwetok Atoll, a several professions-medicine, like his wants it to become, Ebby points out, lies in its infinite small island in the South Pacific. A father, and the ministry-he became, adding, "I get a lot of ideas from Rick." keen observer, Schoener captured the . like his mother, a potter, turning out The son, a great admirer of his mother, capacity to be dramatic colors and shapes of the elegant, tall vases of classic design with says, 'Tm so amazed by my mom's island, producing over a hundred walls so finely formed that blind­ work, which continues to change and whatever the maker watercolor paintings and countless folded, a student of his said, you could grow in different areas and to connect sketches in his eighteen-month stay. tell which ones on a shelf were but all the while with no disjuncture of wants it to become. The following year brought Donald Malmgren's just by feeling them. expression. She's gone so far. I would McBride, also a Naval Officer, to the Today St. John's can claim both hope when I am as old as my mother I South Pacific, where he painted scenes Rick and Ebby. Rick has been a pottery would have as many ideas and be able depicting the island of Peleliu as it instructor in St. John's recovered from battle. During his time studio art program the director of the fine arts program. on Peleliu, McBride also developed since 1990 and this "He's really wonderful about introduc­ Lively the Lizard, an allegorical year was named as an ing students who have never done any children's story depicting the rise and advisor with the art work to pottery and encouraging fall of the Japanese Empire. college's continuing them to continue until their work This exhibition, guest curated by education/fine arts becomes sophisticated and advanced." James W Cheevers, Senior Curator at program. Ebby is a Rick is a mainstay of the fine arts the United States Naval Academy member of the program, says May. He's always there to Museum, 'and on loan from Donald Mitchell Gallery make sure everything in the studio is in McBride and the United States Naval Committee, particu­ order and has been responsible for Academy, provides an insider's view of larly concerned with improving the facilities, which always the beauty and tumult of the South its education and face tight budgetary constraints. The Pacific during World War II. public relations gifts he has secured have included more programs. During the Rick Malmgren (top) and his mother Ebby (above). Both powerful electric wheels so that using the kick wheels becomes a matter of St. John's Community are potters and both contribute to the arts scene at the FROM EARTH & SOUL: Art Show this spring, choice. With the assistance of experi­ college. Rick teaches pottery in the fine arts program THE EVANS COLLECTION OF surrounded by enced students, he has kept the studio and Ebby volunteers for the Mitchell Gallery. ASIAN CERAMICS spectators, she open during the summer months for January 7 - February 25, 1998 expertly demonstrated any student who might want to paint Organized by the University Art hand-building with day. She also to bring them to light." It's the or pot. Rick also has helped lead Gallery at the California State Univer­ volunteers one morning a week in the particular nature of day-its al­ college-sponsored trips to Washington sity, San Bernardino, this collection of library's book bindery. chemy-that excites Ebby. "I like the and Baltimore museums. ceramics from China, Korea, Vietnam, Both Ebby and her husband, Dick, feel of day, the responsiveness, the fact Even in coming up with ideas for St. and Thailand spans the millennium hold degrees from the Graduate that day is not precious. Working by John's students, Rick and his mother from 3500-2500 B.C. The ceramic­ Institute, hers earned in 1988 and Dr. hand as I do, I can re-wedge a piece if share a desire to help out. He designed making traditions of different time Malmgren's earned in 1991. "I read something doesn't work." a master class series that has brought periods and regions will be comrasted. faster than Dick," she quips. Both exhibit regularly in the St. distinguished ceramicists to the college. Each carefully crafted day vessel reflects Although day is the medium Rick John's annual community shows and in Ebby volunteers with the Mitchell the unique Asian appreciation and high and Ebby share, they do altogether juried and contractural shows at the Gallery's education efforts. Together, regard for ceramics. These pieces are different things, their pottery differing, Maryland Federation of Art's Gallery they are making arrangements for more than functional pots and jars; Ebby notes, as do their signatures on the Circle. Although they pot Malcolm Wright, a Vermont potter Asian potters concerned themselves although both use the same alphabet. independently, they Jointly own a day trained as a traditional Japanese with the color, proportion, and shape Rick produces his pieces on the wheel; mixer housed in the studio at the home apprentice, to come in February in of their work. after deciding she could never use the of Rick and his wife, Judy Burke. connection with a Mitchell Gallery wheel to her own satisfaction, Ebby A 1972 graduate of Cornell exhibit of Asian ceramics. e ""O·;;; ST. JOHN'S FOREVER 0.. ~ Pix from the Past £ I -;;;Vl u :tj ·c0 ~ "I don't know of any human being in the world with such a memory," said Jacob Klein of Miriam Strange. Miss Strange, who worked at the college for 52 years as secretary, registrar, and archivist, retiring in 1980 at the age of 79, was legendary for remembering the names of alumni whom she hadn't seen in years. Tutor Sam Kutler I I

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he first years out of college, when T you don't have much except dreams and some ambition if you're lucky, are sometimes called the salad days. For some, those days are crunchier, greener, and have more radicchio and arugula than iceberg. Consider John Castro, A93. By day he's The crew at Sedentary Produdions: Jenn Larson a graphic designer for the credit union (not a Johnny), Sara Hamilton, Jack Daniel, John at the World Bank and the Interna­ Castro, Jean Holman, and Christian Parr. tional Monetary Fund in Washington, D. C. By evening, though, he's a director of theater, with his own little actors, and Jean Holman (A95) and company-Sedentary Productions­ Sara Hamilton (A94), who've worked full oflots of fellow Johnnies. At behind the scenes. All have day jobs to present, he's working on doing a little support their theater habit. ("I mean there are not many seats") "Oleanna'' is about a professor at a show. The play is "Oleanna'' by David small university who is falsely accused Mamet, and it will be performed July of sexual harassment by a student, 10-12 and 17-19 at the District of according to Castro. When the Columbia Arts Center (2438 18th St. professor begins to negotiate with her, NW). he ends up actually going down the "I've been doing theater for about path that he was accused of taking. five years now," says Castro. "Our first · 'Tm reading it as a tragedy," says performance was 'Equus' in Annapolis Castro. "But the tragedy doesn't just in 1992; since then we've done 12 apply to his character. Both of them productions in cities from Annapolis to knowingly or unknowingly assign Richmond to D.C." Other St. John's themselves to social worlds and are thus friends involved in Castro's company unable to communicate with one are John Daniel (AGI93), Christian another. It's about communication, and Parr (A95), John DeShazo (A94), and about how we are all placed in cultural Kathy Stoltzenbach (A95), who've been boxes."•