ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY

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Volume 19, Issue 2 Annapolis, MD and Santa Fe, NM December 1992

Dorm funding approved in Santa Fe, construction to begin Design reflects studentwishes

By LESLI ALLISON Under the current fast-track plan, site work for the new Santa Fe student dorm may begin as early as this month. Completion of the student housing complex is scheduled for August IDll The project will be funded by a bond issue through the City of Santa Fe. McHugh, ~ Lloyd, Tryk is the architectural finn recently selected on a competitive basis by the Cam­ pus Planning Committee. A review of sche­ matics for the building is currently under way by students, faculty and staff. According to a report published in The Moon by Campus Planning Committee Chairman Hans von Breisen, much of the desiderata for the building complex has been workedoutinprioryears.Beginning in 1990 Ms. Lisa Carey, architectural consultant, along with Ms. Kathy Mizrahi, head resi­ dent, inquired among students as to what they wanted in new housing. This data was combined with information from a survey of current nationwide trends in campus hous­ ing. Last year the Campus Planning Com­ Architectural drawing of new Santa Fe dormitory mittee reviewed and added to it. Plans call for 60 beds in nine buildings, with each building containing a cluster of suites. Each suite will contain five single bedrooms with a shared living room and bathroom. Four clusters will house ten apart­ Board member, alumni, movers & shakers in election ments. Upper suites will have a semi private deck and lower suites will have a semi-pri­ vate patio. Buildings _'Nill also contain two Admiral Stockdale Mark Steitz, A'78 Bush speaks words classrooms and/or commons; a restricted ac­ former Board member makes DNC policy of R. George, A'85 cess kitchen; a variety of spaces for relax­ ation, study and conversation; and a laundry By NANCY OSIUS By DONNA BOETIG room with vending machines. A tenth build­ In the final stretch of a marathon cam­ Listening to President Bush address the ing will provide a general common area. paign effort 14 days before the national elec­ Republican National Convention this year, The dorms are primarily intended to tion, Mark Steitz, A'78, picks up the Robert George, A'85, was speechless. In his house undergraduates. Once they are com­ telephone in Little Rock for a call from statement to millions of Americans, Mr. pleted, students who want to live on campus Annapolis. "Your mother says 'hello,"' we Bush was expressing the sentiments of Mr. will now be able to exercise that option. In tell him. George. In fact, his exact words. past years, due to limited dorm space, per­ The family greeting is genuine, but relay­ "As our country now stands at cross centages of students in the sophomore, ju­ ing it is a transparent ruse-there isn'tmuch roads, there is widespread doubt about our nior and senior classes were forced to seek time for greetings or anything else in the public institutions and profound concern not housing off-campus. 18-hour days of the Communications and merely about the economy but about the In an editorial supporting city approval of Policy Director for the Democratic National overall general direction of this great coun­ the bond, the New Mexican newspaper said Committee. A veteran of presidential cam­ try of ours. As then, people now demand the new dorms would take some strain off paigns and a major player in this one, he says change and sweeping reform. The question competition for local rentals. The editorial that his current task-mounting a satellite we had to ask yesterday is the question we also suggested that approval for the bond response to the final presidential debate held have to ask today. What kind of change can would provide a demonstration of support (Continued on page 18) (Continued on page 18) and gratitude for St. John's overall contribu­ tion to the city. At this time the only delay in beginning construction of the dorms is the required approval of the plans by more than one dozen separate city agencies.

7 ·" Deborah Winans Anawalt, former Direc­ tor of Financial Aid at the college, assumed fu an effort to save money, two Annapolis ENERGEJA the duties of Director of Personnel in Octo­ campus publications will attempt to trim Energeia, the student-produced literary ber. Ms. Anawalt replaced Alison Pullins their mailing lists down to a genuine core of magazine of fiction, poetry, essays and art­ who has been named Human Resources readers, viz.: work by both St. John'sfaculty and students, Manager of the Johns Hopkins University included a coupon in last spring' s issue for School of Continuing Studies. THE REVIEW use by readers who wanted to continue to fu announcing Ms. Anawalt's new as­ At present The Review, a publication con­ receive the magazine. Berfore that, hun­ signment, college Treasurer Fred "Bud" taining scholarly articles, fiction and poetry dreds of alumni andformer faculty members Billups praised "the fine work she has ac­ provided by a variety of contributors, is sent automatically received each new issue. complished" in her previous post. As Finan­ to all alumni and 3,000 non-alumni. The "We wish to limit this number now to those cial Aid Director since January 1991, Ms. college now wishes to make sure that the who enjoy the magazine and wish to con­ Anawalt was responsible for allocating all magazine is sent only to those alumni who tinue to receive it," says Senior Editor Ra­ federal, state and institutional budgets. She want to receive it. Those who wish to re­ chel Blistein. Those who did not fill out a worked closely with the Admissions office, ceive The Review should fill in the prepaid coupon but want to receive Energeia must students, applicants and parents on eligibil­ Director of Personnel Deborah Anawalt postcard included in the current issue or indicate their interest and provide name and ity and financing issues, and computerized send a note to Jack Hunt, subscriptions, address to Rachel through campus mail or all phases of the office. The Review, St. John's College, Box 2800, by writing to her immediately at the college As Director of Personnel, Ms. Anawalt Before coming to St. John's, Ms. Anawalt Annapolis, MD. 21404. address above. will be in charge of administering salary was a system administrator for the Balti­ systems, benefits and policies. "My goal is more futernational Culinary College from to be service oriented, to work with the best 1988 to 1990. From 1989 to 1990 she was Yee article appears in Asian Art issue interest of the employee at heart," she says. Director of Financial Planning at the school. Caroline Christensen resumed her duties as Ms. Anawalt earned a bachelor's degree fu the quincentennial year of Christopher His article raises questions both about the Director of Financial Aid after taking a two­ in business administration and personnel Columbus' arrival in the New World, an enormous attention given to Columbus' year leave of absence to care for her new son. from Towson State University. article by Annapolis tutor Cordell Yee helps voyages and about the values embodied in to set the matter in perspective. "A Cartog­ early cartography, particularly Chinese, raphy of futrospection: Chinese Maps as with its political, economic and humanistic Other Than European," appears in the Fall, implications. The article also suggests that Alumni named to resident positions 1992, issue of Asian Art, a quarterly publi­ the westernization of non-European map­ cation of the Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian making practices, while an advance in cer­ Three St. John's alumni were recently Arts Center. fustitution. tain respects, was achieved at some cost. named to positions as resident assistants on On campus, however, other events are "After all," writes Mr. Yee in an article Mr. Yee's article serves as a preview of the Annapolis campus, where each now under way. A graduate Student Speakers lavishly illustrated with reproductions of del­ his work on the Chinese section of The His­ lives. These are Susan Borden, A'88, Direc­ Forum will bring graduate students from icately painted early maps, "more than eighty tory of Cartography, a vast survey of map­ tor of Residence, Jennifer Hoheisel, AGI other universities (as well as St. John's) to years before Columbus' voyages, Admiral making which is unfolding at the University '89, resident assistant for Student Activities, speak to students on relevant subjects. And as Zheng He began leading expeditions of ships of Wisconsin. and Steven Wedin, A'85, seniorresidentfor chairman of the Student Life Committee­ from China through the fudian Ocean to as Mr. Yee accepted a job as translator of Humphreys. composed of tutors, staff, and students­ far as the eastern coast of Africa-this at a classical Chinese for the project in 1988, a Susan is responsible for on-campus hous­ Jennifer coordinates Student Life dinners, time when European ships had yet to round role that expanded when his observations ing; as such she is in charge of freshman which brings campus community members the sou them tip of that continent." The long­ and theories raised questions about the work room assignment, end of the year room to ~he table in many configurations, on and est of this explorer's voyages was more than of the mainland Chinese scholars hired to do drawings, and any "roommate problems." off campus. Scheduled for February 13 is a 9,600 kilometers each way, about one and the job. His theories prevailed and have been She is also the one chiefly charged with big event, a campus-wide Swing Party with one-half times the length of Columbus' trips hailed as "a major beginning in Chinese enforcing the campus alcohol policy-a a band. across the Atlantic. cartographic historiography." policy which accords with the state law pro­ Jennifer's life is full, and, with a baby hibiting drinking for students under age 21. expected next spring, it will be fuller. She is She drops in on most campus parties sched­ in her second year as a teaching assistant at uled for common rooms to check on the Georgetown and last summer developed her general ambiance, she says. own bio-ethics course for adult women Susan lives in the 300-year-old Reverdy (aged 28-55) which she taught weekly at Johnson house near Campbell Hall, which Trinity College in Washington. Taking up gives her "a tough commute" to work, she many issues important to women's lives, she says. Tough, in truth, is the fact that her used the "St. John's seminar model," she radiator heat goes on and off with heat on says, and "the women loved it." campus, which means that during vaca­ A graduate of the College of William and tion-yes, you guessed it. Mary, she worked as financial aid assistant Her digs and duties are perfect for her at Hampden-Sydney College and at a suc­ other life as a freelance writer, she says. She cession of admissions posts at Wittenberg has published articles of general interest in University before coming to St. John's the The Annapolitan, The Sunday Sun, and First first time. Before returning this year, shew as for Women. She is presently doing contract Residence Hall Director at Trinity as she business writing for a marketing consultant, began her doctoral work. and for herself, lyrics for guitar maker Paul fu addition to his college duties, Steven Reed Smith. Werlin is working on his doctoral disserta­ Since age 10, she has spelled her name tion on the Pros logion by Anselm under the Sus3an, but she let The Reporter off the aegis of Loyola University of Chicago. hook on this one. While he was in Annapolis (he is now at Jennifer Hoheisel, who was an assistant Santa Fe), Tutor James Carey drew Steven's in the financial aid office at Annapolis in attention to the Pros logion before he read it 1988-89 while she was a Graduate Institute as a sophomore in the St. John's program. student, has returned in a new role as Resi­ From the beginning, Steven was fascinated dent Assistant for Student Activities. At the by the work, but chose not to write his same time she is a teaching assistant in the undergraduate essays on the subject. philosophy department of Georgetown Uni­ A Proslogion is a speech to another, in versity and continuing her course work on a this case, to God-as distinct from a solilo­ Ph.D. in philosophy. Along with her hus­ quy, a speech to oneself. fu this short Latin band Eric, a graduate student commuting to work, the medieval churchman attempts to the Eastern Baptist Seminary in Philadel­ understand what he thinks he knows about phia, she is living in a Harrison Health Cen­ God. ter apartment while she orchestrates student After St. John's, Steven spent a year on activities. a Fulbright Fellowship studying philosophy These are chiefly off-campus activities, at the Technical University at she says, and students have already had the Braunschweig, Germany, another year read­ Adam Higuera, son of Annapolis tutors Henry and Marilyn Higuera is the chance to see performances in the Shakes­ ing on his own in Annapolis, and two years buccaneer In this game, while his small admirer Ma)I(, 2, is the son of tutor Adam peare Theater and the Arena Stage in Wash­ working for the Touchstones project in 34 Schulman and his wife Beth. Keith Harvey photo ington, as well as the Wolf Trap Performing rural high schools in Alabama. Winfree Smith contributed an .n.1-•v'-'...... _,,. on Vieta' s Introduction to the Art, a work fundamental to so1mc>m<)re year; Tutor Chaninah Maschler former tutor Nathan was instrumental in peirsuadJlng scr10Hrrsrup," says Dean MIT press to the

Brann. The book first hardback Dean Brann "'"'-1-"A'-"H'"' the MIT Press. the book as twofold: of the great Platonic forms like as a em1gr,atlcm from Ue1rm2111v: kind of number, a collection pulDWmea in two fascicules of and the of Studien zur Geschichte der Mathematik,

German journal on the of science. lection to a symbolic abstraction." Once he became dean at the college, says Elements of the book's thesis governed Dean Jasha Klein had "a gut feeling the organization of the St. John's mathe­ against publication," so Miss Brann was matics curriculum, she says, "especially Chester Burke Keith Harvey photo Emott Zuckerman Keith Harvey photo obliged to undertake the labor of translation the later sophomore and the beginning ju­ in secret. Presented with the translation, nior year, which is intended to focus on the however, "he became quite amenable," she revolution of mathematical thought under­ remembers. lying modernity." Others in the St. John's community con­ The book is on sale in the bookstores of ' tributed significantly to the U.S. publication: both colleges at $9.95. By NANCY osrus on Leibniz will reinforce other tutors' inter­ Annapolis tutors Chester Burke, A'74, ests, and thus will find a way into other and Elliott Zuckerman are the new occu­ classrooms. Four tutors-Stewart Um­ pants of the endowed chairs on Modern phrey, Kathleen Blits, Jon Lenkowski, and Thought and Ancient, Medieval and Renais­ Tom May-have leave time for the study An eight-week tutorial providing an in­ and poetry by the end of the course. Properly sance Thought, established in 1989 with a group and 19 others are sitting in on their tensive introduction to Ancient Greek will documented, the tutorial may be acceptable $500,000 National Endowment for the Hu­ own time. be offered next summer through the Office to some departments as equivalent to one manities grant matched with other monies. An accomplished flutist, after gradua­ of Continuing Education on the Annapolis year's work in ancient Greek. Now in his second year as holder of the tion Mr. Burke studied privately first in campus. Mrs. Kalk:avage received her master's Chair on Modern Thought, succeeding Paris and then at the Conservatoire de Scheduled for June 21 to August 13, the degree from the Pennsylvania State Univer­ Howard Fisher, Mr. Burke is "deeply grate­ Caen where he received the Premier Prix. course will meet Monday through Friday sity and her PhD from the Johns Hopkins ful " for the opportunity He toured southern from 9 a.m. to one p.m. University, both in classics. She has taught which has given him two France as part of a flute To be taught by Christine Kalkavage for Latin and Greek at the Johns Hopkins Uni­ years of reduced teaching and guitar duo before re­ the second summer, the tutorial is designed vesity, the University of Maryland, and the time to study force, mass turning to the U.S. where for those with little or no previous back­ University of Rochester. To apply for the and energy in the work of he studied at the Univer­ ground in the Greek language who are "se­ tutorial, address letters of application to the 17th century "universal sity of Michigan, earning riously interested in learning Attic Greek ChristineKalkavage, c/o the Graduate Insti­ thinker" -scientist, math­ I:~!!~:~:!:ys a master's degree in per­ and are able to commit themselves to an tute, 107 Mellon Hall, St. John's College, ematician, linguist and formance in 1979. More accelerated pace." It will be limited to 14 Annapolis, MD 21404. metaphysician Gottfried community recitals abroad followed as students. Four to six hours of homework will Tuition for the tutorial is $800, with a Wilhelm Leibniz. of learning, well as a teaching semes­ be expected for each classroom period, and deposit of $150 due by April 1. For further Mr. Burke's original ter at the University of students will be prepared to read Attic prose information, call 410-626-2541. plan was to study the work Colorado. In 1983, Mr. of Galileo, Descartes, and Burke returned to St. Newton-as well as \:::s:da:u: John's as director of labo­ Leibniz-the principal fig­ ratories, and in 1985, he New book of Mrs. Klein's sketches students, and joined the regular faculty. ures in the first semester of As a student living in Else Klein's house Mr. Wedin has now translated the re­ His performance life Junior Lab, a famous during his undergraduate days at St. John's, maining sketches into a small volume to be challenge to tutors and stu­ tutors learning continues. With his wife Steven Werlin,A'85, was delighted with her called The Furniture, a book which will be dents alike along the route Susan Sauerwind, a harp­ with and from prose sketches in German, chiefly about published in the Annapolis print shop and to a new Program degree. ist, he performs with the pieces of furniture in her house and the made available through the college book­ The greatest difficulty for Waverly Woodwinds. The one another." memories associated with them. store in time for the holidays. Tutor Beate both students and tutors "is couple also is part of the Mrs. Klein was the widow of Dean J asha Ruhm von Oppen, herself a translator from simply being able to read 35-member Baltimore Klein, and was, along with him, at the center the German of Letters to Freya, has edited the very texts at the heart of the unit," he Chamber Orchestra with which they present of college social and intellectual life for the work. (Mr. Werlin, now a Resident As­ says. One of his goals, then, was to find 10-15 concerts a year. many years. She died last March. At her sistant on the Annapolis campus, spent the corollary essays or short writings to help Mr. Zuckerman's occupancy of the memorial service in May, Mr. Wedin read year 1985-86 on a Fulbright Fellowship in illuminate these thinkers' work. chair of Ancient Thought began this fall. his translation of one of her sketches, "The Germany. For more about him, see page 2.) His teaching release time will allow him After a month or so he found himself Dinner Table," to those gathered in the Great Proceeds of the book, which will be sold talking to more students about Leibniz than to pursue a lifelong interest in prosody, Hall. The small essay brought back vividly at nominal cost, are earmarked for the Car­ ever before, and he concluded that "it was meter, and verse. This interest includes the era of rioh conversation and bountiful itas Society, an organization of which Dodo Leibniz I wanted to concentrate on." His questions about pitch, stress, accent and food that characterized Dodo Klein's hospi­ Klein was an active member for many years. enthusiasm and interest were highly conta­ rhythm in the work of poets in different tality in the unforgettable evenings at 101 The group provides money for student emer­ gious; not coincidentally, several students languages and eras. Market St. gencies. chose to write junior essays on Leibniz and "We are usually unaware of certain prin­ one student selected him for her senior ciples that govern spoken English," says Mr. essay. Zuckerman, such as the intonations of ques­ Much on Mr. Burke's mind these days is tions. This, along with emphasis, intonation, a sense of a genuine community oflearning, and juncture in written prose "is also pros­ To the task he has set himself, he brings For a number of years, his virtuoso talks tutors learning with and from students, and ody in a wider sense." rare preparation. As a student at Columbia "with musical illustrations at the piano" learning with and from one another. He sees "My study will be verse-not poetry," he and Cambridge Universities, he studied drew audiences to the college for Sunday the study groups as a chance for tutors to says. He is interested in the rhythm of lan­ English literature with such critics as Lio­ Supper with Chopin, an annual Caritas So­ share what comes out of their classes and to guage-"not that elusive thing that tells you nel Trilling and F.R. Leavis. In the years ciety fundraiser for student emergencies. He examine together "some of the problems whether it is poetry rather than rhyme." since, he has brought these insights to bear has lectured on a variety of musical subjects that come from the life of the community." His study group next year will focus on in preceptorials on the plays and poems of before scores of other audiences as well. He Leading a study group in his field of Greek metrics, particularly the hexameter of Shakesperare and in language tutorials is the author of a book on Wagner's Tristan interest is one requirement of chairholders. Homer and the trimeter of tragic dialogue, with close examination of the prose ele­ and of various articles on the musical Two years ago Mr. Burke took part in the with additional attention to the tragic cho­ ments in such writers as Hobbes, Austen thought of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. study group on Aristotle led by tutor Joe rus. Another project will be to compile a and Darwin. The holder of two bachelors' and two Sachs, the first occupant of the Chair on handbook for use in all four years of the Although Mr. Zuckerman is a man of masters' degrees from Columbia and Cam­ Ancient Thought. It was a "great bit ofluck" language tutorial, one providing an intro­ broad accomplishment-he is a painter, bridge Universities, he received his Ph.D. for Mr. Burke, he says. Not only does duction to the metrical aspects of verse stud­ poet, editor, and crossword puzzle master­ from Columbia in modem European cultural Leibniz draw heavily on Aristotle, but also ied in foreign languages, including ancient he is perhaps best known as an immensely and intellectiual history. He taught history at there was a ready-made group of tutors for Greek and the French alexandrine. He also knowledgable musician, a skilled pianist Columbia and lectured in music at the New discussion of ideas. These events lead Mr. plans to study some aspects of the relations who also lectures on musical subjects from School for Social Research before coming to Burke to suppose that his own study group between verse and music. Chopin and Wagner to Gilbert and Sullivan. St. John's. PAGE4 THE REPORTER DECEMBER 1992

1942 went to work for Covington & Burung in J. W. Cameron Gray (Joe)(A) started at Washington where she has been ever since. St. John's as "Rat" Joe Gray and served in the Her practice is mainly intellectual property Eighth Air Force as a bombardier. For 37 years law, "with the narrow sideline of trying to get he was with the C and P Telephone Co. of .911umni 'East & West Lloyd's of London insurers to pay environ­ Maryland. The father of two children, he mental claims," she writes. "I married a retired moved to his present address at Carolina Beach spy in 1977; our daughter Sophia will be 12 in after the death of his wife of 45 years. my most thrilling intellectual experiences in 1957 August. We are all in the process of tearing Paul T. Beisser writes that he is now retired recent years," he writes, "was participating in Jack A. Nadol has been named Acting apart an old house in Rockville and hope to live in the Missouri Ozarks on Table Rock Lake an alumni seminar on The Clouds led by J. Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance, a long enough to get it put back together." with his wife of 47 years, after service in the Winfree Smith in Boston in 1990." component of the Department of Justice's Of­ Hope Zoss Schladen (A), mother of Pacific in WWII, 40 years in the produce busi'­ Shortly after getting out of the army in late fice of Justice Programs. Mr. Nadol, who re­ Sarah Schladen (A'95), lives in Dover, DE ness, and raising a family of three boys and ceived his law degree from the Universituy of 1953, George Udel (A) met his wife of 37 with her husband, a communications coor­ three girls. years, Joan Erbe, at a Marx Brothers double Baltimore in 1964, has served in the federal dinator for DuPont, and eighth grader Walton Boswell Childs (A) reports that he feature at St. John's. He has been manager and government since 1966. As Acting Director, he is fully retired after a career in the intellectual agent ever since for her very successful career will be part of a special assessment effort to Ezekiel. She has been director of the Dela­ property field (patents, trademarks and copy­ as an artist, the part of his own career that has identify efficiency and quality enhancements ware Agricultural Museum and Village right law), most of which was in the Office of given him "most satisfaction," he writes. Their in grant-making and grant-monitoring. since 1986. Naval Research. He is busy now with garden­ mode of meeting was significant: he was 1964 1969 ing and reading, principally such periodicals as founder and for 22 years the director for the David Randolph Jordan (A) has been Andy Garrison (A) currently has two half­ and the Scientific American New York Review Baltimore International Film Festival, and for named director of the Gennadius Library of the careers: a psychotherapy practice and part­ ofBooks. Three sons and four grandchildren in 25 years has been programming and booking American School of Classical Studies in Ath­ tim e teaching at the Miami School of the area "provide a lot of company." He also films for the Baltimore Film Forum, the Balti­ ens. He writes, "The library is not only a trea­ Interdisciplinary Studies, a residential four­ enjoys fishing and spending time maintaining more Museum of Art and the Walters Art Gal­ sure-house of Greek incunables but a unique year liberal arts college. "My St. John's degree a 40' fishing boat built in 1936 with a home lery. In addition he has made, written, directed, source for the study of Greek culture in all leads them to think that I can teach anything, port of Spa Creek. "Fishing, anyone?" produced and distributed films, as well as re­ periods. We would be pleased to have visitors and I have taught (with varying success) Lee M. Mace (A) retired in 1977 from the viewing them. from St. John's." The address: 61 Souidias courses on the Jurassic extinction, the rise of National Environmental Satellite Service of Warren Winiarski (A) is celebrating the Street, GR 10676 Athens. National Socialism in Weimar Germany, sci­ the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Ad­ 20th anniversary of the Stag's Leap Wine ence fiction writing, and an upper-level semi­ ministration, where he was chief of a branch Cellar's first harvest and crush of grapes. In 1967 nar on the Republic. Maybe I can teach Judith Penelope Stephenson (A)-aka Ju­ developing techniques for the interpretation of 1976, the winery made history for the Califor­ anything." He continues: "St. John's is still the dith Donahue-writes from Santa Fe that she meteorological satellite data and its application to nia wine industry when its 1973 Cabernet most important educational experience of my specializes in issues of abuse and trauma in her weather analysis and forecasting. He was in­ Sauvignon was rated higher than some first life, especially inasmuch as such an education private practice, while her husband Ray is an volved with the space program from the earliest growth Bordeaux at a Paris Tasting. Warren is essentially incomplete and interminable. I attorney for the Children's Court. Her two days of the Meteorological Satellite Program. and Barbara's (Dvorak, A'55) daughters regret to say I don't find many students today older children, Alexis Donahue, 25, and Julia and Kasia are SJC graduates, Julia, SF interested in interminable education, but I'm 1946 Arwen Donahue, 23, are adventuring this sum­ As co-president of IALANA (International '92, and Kasia, who is associated with the mostly enjoying the teaching I do." mer in the Bay Area and Budapest, while her Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear winery management, A'86. A member of the Board of Visitors and Governors since 1989, youngest, Jonah, 7, is loving summer 1972 Arms), Peter Weiss (A) is leading an effort to camp. From New Zealand, Harold Anderson obtain an advisory opinion from the Interna­ Warren had some nice things happen to him at Judith Brownstone Sapp (A) graduated sends his address and says he would like to hear tional Court of Justice in The Hague on the the October Homecoming festivities. Read from the Duke law school in 1984, and after from classmates: 29 Mount Royal Avenue, legality of the use and threat of use of nuclear about them in this Reporter issue. clerking for Judge Gee on the Fifth Circuit, she Auckland 1003 New Zealand 64-9-846-9345. weapons under international law. 1952 Jae Holzman, who lives in Pacific Pali­ sades, is currently Chief Technologist at Time WILLIAM WADE DOUGLAS, '68- Warner, and on the side, "back to my old '70/LINDA KAY DOUGLAS, '81-'83. love-music and records. Over the past two William and Linda are both teachers in Vir­ decades I have taken a 7-year mid-life sabbat­ ginia, and also run a conference center. ical in Hawaii, returning to the mainland in They are involved with Audubon summer 1981." Soon after, he became chairman of BEVERLY ANGEL, summers '85-'89. ELAINE COLEMAN (Formerly Pinker- camps and recently toured England and Panavision until the unit was sold by Time Beverly is a high school science teacher in ton), '84-'88. Elaine was married in August of Scotland. They have a son, John-David, Warner. He is at present unmarried and the Austin, Texas. 1991 and is currently a writer at Los Alamos who was born in Santa Fe in 1982. father of three children: "Adam is a jazz musi­ cian of some renown, having spent four years MARY BANWART attended St. John's National Laboratory. Shehasdonesometrek- SUSAN MARTIN DRESSEL, '71-'73. with Miles Davis and subsequently with for one year and now teaches philosophy, king in Nepal; bicycled the entire Santa Fe Susan received her Ph.D. after leaving the Michel Petrucciani, Kenny Garrett, and Chaka having received her Ph.D. from Claremont Trail; and has taught at the Santa Fe Indian GI, and works at Los Alamos Laboratory in Kahn. My daughter Jaclyn is a production as­ Graduate School. School. After leaving the GI she went on to New Mexico. sistant in television and my youngest son, MARIA BOLIN (Formerly Marion receiveaB.S.andanM.A.(Englishliterature) MARK.DULWORTH, '89-'91.Married Marin, 21, is getting his bachelor's degree in Jones). Maria was the owner of a janitorial from the University of Virginia. to Carole Lynn Spiering, Mark lives in English and theater." business in her past life, but decided to go JOE T. COXWELL, '84-'87. Married to Texas and is a fundraising consultant for In 1988, David E. Napper retired after 31 into counseling and has nine hours to go for Patricia B. Coxwell, a current GI student, non-profit organizations. He is a past presi- years with IBM and has been working as a her Master's. Joe teaches high school chemistry, physics, dent of the Houston Food Bank. consultant since-his latest assignments with the FDIC in Houston "working on document DOT BARTWELL, '86-'88. Dot has and biology, at Eutaw High School in CHARLES DUNN, '86-'89.Charlesisa production in the Milken case." He lives in gone back to teaching high school speech Eutaw, Alabama. After leaving the GI he teacher in Colorado. Rowayton, CT, and spends his leisure time and English, which she was doing before went on to receive an M.A.T. in Secondary REGINALD E. DUNSTAN, '83-'85. playing tennis in the summer and platform she came to the GI. Science Education from Livingston Univer- Reginald is a retired journalist living in tennis in the winter, with his tennis partner STEVEN T. BRENNER, '81-'83. Cur- sity in 1990. Among other things, Joe has Santa Fe. making it to the consolation finals in the Na­ rently a self-employed, freelance court re- been involved in a DNA Literacy Program, JESSICA LYN ELKINS, '84-'88. Jes- tional Senior Platform Tennis Championships porter, Steven enjoys being a part-time a Marine Science workshop at Dauphin Is- sica is the Human Resource Manager for an last year. surrogate father to a nine year-old He likes to land Sea Lab, and is a guest astronomy auto dealer group. She says that after sixteen Harry Neumann (A) published Liberalism play the classical guitar, look at the night sky, lecturer in the Livingston area. years of living in Albuquerque, she has (Durham, Carolina Academic Press, 1991) in the series Studies in Statesrrumship, edited by and go for long hikes on the railroad tracks. MARY CORNISH, '75-'79. Mary subse- made a move within the city which has Harry V. Jaffa. GEORGE CAYLEY, '74-'78. George is quentlyreceivedher Ed.S. from the University resulted in an expansion of cultural aware- Adam A. Pinsker (A) is director of Dance currently in real estate and doing some act- of New Mexico in Educational Adminis-tra- ness and appreciation of the diversity of St. Louis, one of the largest dance presenters ing on the side. He says that if St. John's had tion, and is now a high school principal. New Mexico living. in the country. He has been married for 26 offered a doctoral program he would have WILLIAM B. CRAWFORD, '85-'89. ANYA DOZIER ENOS, '85-'87. Anya years to Judy, who is a writer with one book pursued further education. William has been a scuba diver, a coordina- is currently working on her PhD in educa- published by Bantam and five Emmys; they SARA CHARLES, '84-'85. Sara lives in tor in Special Education, an Assistant Prin- tion at the University of Illinois at Cham- have a 14-year-old son Joel. Last winter Adam Albuquerque, New Mexico, and is a retired cipal, and is currently still in education. He paign/Urbana. She is a teacher in the Gifted had dinner with Ted Otteson (A) and his wife in Kansas. Ted teaches English at the Univer­ teacher. has spent the past two summers in Mexico and Talented Program at the Santa Fe Indian sity of Missouri-Kansas City. MARGO CHAVEZ-CHARLES, '85- learning Spanish. School. She is part of Tewa Women United, Walter Schatzberg (A) has been at Clark '87. Margo is currently an education consul- LARRY S. DAVIS, '84-' 8 9. Larry a Native women's group committed to revi- University since 1966, chairing the Depart­ tant with the New Mexico Department of writes that he is nearing completion of his talizing positive traditions in the Tewa ment of Foreign Languages for 10 years, and Education (modern and classical lan- Master's in philosophy at the University of Pueblos. at present, is a professor of German and Film guages). She spent six months in Italy on a Texas at Austin. Last summer he partici- LAURIE EVANS, '88-'90. In her job as Studies there. For the past several years, he has Fulbright grant and also traveled to the for- pated in an NEH seminar at Harvard on an archaeologist, Laurie has seen many in- been director of the European Studies Center mer USSR a month before the coup (with Aristotle/Science. teresting places in her travels around New in Luxembourg, sponsor of study abroad pro­ the "Forum for US/Soviet Dialogue''). PAULETTE DOLLINGER, SGI '89-. Mexico. grams and international conferences. "One of SANCY NASON CHILDS, to 1980. "I've changed addresses (Brooklyn- SHEILA FLEMMING, SGI '91-. Sheila Sancy lives in Australia and is married with Queens) and jobs (teacher to counselor). I teaches English and philosophy at Waltrip The Reporter is published in June and December by the ~;~sac~1:~~~.m9~~n2~6'6~eA~~~~~~nM"o 1 ~1~~P~~Ci ~~ two daughters. She is currently a Christian still haven't adopted a Texas accent, I High School in Houston. September and March by the Public Relations Office, St Science practitioner (spiritual healing). She haven't abandoned the Mets, and I'm still a JOHN FORTIN, '77-'79. John went on John's College, Santa Fe, NM 87501. In Annapolis, editor, Nancy Osius, assistant editor, Donna Boetig, design, Tina also raises angora goats and beef cattle, and crazy, sick New Yorker. I'm also glad that from St. John's to receive his Master's and Davidson. In Santa Fe, editor, Lesli Allison, assistant editor, Barbara Lewis, design, Patrick Daugherty. Advisory board in has set up farm holidays in her cottage. She Kant and I never have to cross paths again." Ph.D. from the Medieval Institute, Univer- ~g~:i~~!i:n, ~Xnia~\~a M~~~r~ ~ro~h~~s~o~~~~~it;, ~~~ says she has even organized some St. MARY-CHARLOTTE DOMANDI, sity of Notre Dame, and is currently an Elliott Zuckerman, and ex-officio member, Thomas Geyer. John's-type discussion groups in the valley '89-'91. Since leaving the GI, Mary- Assistant Professor of Philosophy at St. An- USPS018-750 ~!~~ where she lives. Charlotte has taken courses in art. selm College. DECEMBER 1992 THE REPORTER PAGES

"Even if you know where you want to go, books, and living peaceably," and expecting to the path there will not be straight," late tutor Al come to the 20th reunion. He now makes his Main told Janet Nelson (A) in her living at a computer services company explain­ ...... , .. """'"as an SJC 1973. Fifteen ing to Navy people "how to organize them­ she reports, after three years as a selves better." Carol Sbuh (A) bought a house he11lt.1Jt department sru11ta1nan, two years getting and Roger (A'74) and Robin as a banker, three (A) recently came to town ashlngto1n, DC, so that Robin could attend a conference for starting small businesses, a process she to with her new MBA. his wife Houston, Grant heads a education c011sultrn1g 01~ga111z2tt101tI, The

I'm live in Geneseo in ten to New York state their two small was 23! What's ...,u...... , Justin and Ian (who was un~ex-i::iect- the class of 1972!" born at home last January, ··r1f•.11v·P.rf'•r1 Steve DeLuca me and Sgt WhiteofGeneseo'sfinest!").Con- Mayne of Santa became parents of a sulting in Maine last spring, Grant spoke with daughter Sophia RoseMayne-DeLucaonAug. 1. classmate Dave Gilmore (A). "I can't make For the past three years, Matthew Mallory the reunion, but I do have a tape of 'Trial by (A) has been in Brussels at the U.S. Embassy Johnny' which I will play!" he concludes. at NATO as the U.S. Representative to the 1975 NATO budget committee. "It has been a thrill­ Cleveland lawyer Wendy Wills (SF), a ing experience to watch and be part of the member of the Lithuanian-American Bar As­ of Technology and has since settled in Ames, In 1989, while looking for recycled paper for development of the New Europe," he writes. sociation, was one of 50 U.S. lawyers to visit The decreasing budget has been a major force Iowa, where he works at the I.S.U. counseling the Center's newsletter, it occurred to him that Lithuania recently as advisers to the country's service as well as conducting a private practice it would make sense to try to make recycled in changing the NATO mission, but "battling parliament in Vilnius. The parliament's task the Byzantine NATO bureaucracy is tough" in psychotherapy. He, his fiancee Sue, and her products more available, so he started Atlantic has been to write a new constitution describing daughter Allyson are living in a country home Recycled Paper Company, which markets a with every decision, including every comma the small Baltic-formerly Soviet-con­ change, to be agreed upon by all 16 nations. and enjoying the area "immensely." wide variety ofpaper products, including copy, trolled-country as an independent demo­ Early on, Daniel Jerrems (A), who had computer, fax paper, paper towels, facial and "Lots of use of my Johnnie seminar skills." He cratic state, a task they hope to complete by the hopes to be in Brussels at least two more years, trained as a physician's assistant, became a toilet tissues. Since 1989, he has been chair­ end of the year. Ms. Wills served on a judicial peace and environmental activist in his spare man of the Baltimore Recycling Coalition and wants to see Johnnies, giving "a standing advisory committee, and spent a week travel­ offer of a Brussels dinner to any and all." time, joining the Chesapeake Energy Alliance (BRC) which has been instrumental in getting ling the countryside. Her Lithuanian grandpar­ USM/ILD, PSC 81 Box 63, APO 09724. and helping to start the Baltimore Chapter of Baltimore to institute a city-wide curbside col­ AE ents came to the U.S. at the turn of the century, Work 242-5280. Physicians for Social Responsibility, founding lection program, and which recently got the and Wendy herself has kept strong ties to her and chairing for five years the Maryland Cam­ City Council and mayor to sign a five-year Dana (A) earned his doctorate ancestral homeland. in London in 1986 in church history, and set­ paign for a Nuclear Weapons Freeze. After" an moratorium on building new trash incinera­ tled in the Washington, DC, area, where he 1977 unsuccessful but very educational" run for the tors, in order to give the recycling program a remarried in 1990. He and his wife Robin are Glass (A) received his doctorate in state legislature in 1986, he joined and soon chance. He was chairman of the first Board of "saving towards buying a home, cataloging our psychology from the Florida Institute chaired the Baltimore Environmental Center. Directors of the Maryland Recycler's Coali­ tion, made up of recycling coordinators, gov­ ernment and recycling industries from around the state. GENEVAM. ?""''"""'t1"' traveled to Cabo mors of the geriatric set). He is a Professor BGS neva San Lucas, and India. Emeritus (medicine) at the University of LAURIE SUTTON LA~'L ·~· Southern California. He stays with Laurie attended the UnIVe:rs11tv ongoing research projects. cisco and was Catholic school ELI LEVI.N", '90-'92. Eli is an artist and ,_, .. , ...... ,,!-'~ .. for 4 1/2 years in Houston. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. THORUNN LONSDALE, '86-'88. Thorunn is a Ph.D. can1Clldlate Night's Dream. is a continual source of of AJV'U'-'-'VU? delight and warmth for her dad and me." Former and present city editor at the 100,000), is married to Susan Seeger, and is now retired and lives Luis went on to receive a Ph.D. court for a news- in Las Nevada. in Literature from the of "Other than his MIRIAM KALIS. Miriam now has a New Mexico. He has retired from r.n111n1·P.n \L"'-""''... v"'"'' 3, and Oliver, seven writes, "Alan's true pride is Master's in Science and has at­ the Public School system, but filled with old fashioned tended the American Academy of Dramatic continues to teach in General roses and flowers. He had a Arts. She is living in Pasadena, California. Honors at UNM. roosternamed Singer (after theDodgerpitcher, IDELL KESSELMAN, '73, '75, '76. LAURA MCCLURE, '82-'83. Since Bill) who slept perched on the back of a chair ""T~L>r•M"' a docent at Hirshhorn Museum Idell gained a second Master's degree from leaving St. John's, Laura has received both in his bedroom, and some hens and a collie, but Garden in Washington, D.C. ASU in counseling, and presently is Direc­ her M.A. and Ph.D. in Classics from the he's temporarily given them up." P. GOODMAN, '74-'76. tor of Counseling on the humanities faculty University of Chicago. She currently is As­ After graduation, Rick Smith (A) earned a After leaving St. John's, Phyllis was an at Prescott College in Arizona. She also sistant Professor of Classics at the Univer­ PhD. in physics at U-MD and was married to Associate in Rhetoric at the University of writes for the Prescott Courier and says that sity of Wisconsin-Madison. his wife Susan in 1981. A first post-doctoral fellowship at Livermore, CA, was followed by Illinois (Champaign- Urbana). She is a re­ she is very involved with the community in JOHN MCLAUGHLIN, '88. John is a a second one at Los Alamos National Labora­ tired high school assistant principal and cur­ her role as a columnist. freelance illustrator whose interest is climb­ tory. He is now in a staff position in the Theo­ rently a part-time adjunct professor of DIANA W. KINSEY, '71-'73. Since ing. He tells us that he climbed in the An­ retical Division at Los Alamos where he English. A recent highlight was having stu­ graduating Diana has been involved in var­ napurna Range in Nepal last fall, in studies ocean dynamics and climate modeling dents dedicate a yearbook to her. ious NEH Summer Institutes and study pro­ preparation for the "1993 American Cho Oyo and has fun "playing on the world's largest ALFRED GRANT. After graduating in grams, and has traveled quite a bit. She is West Ridge Expedition." His subsequent massively parallel supercomputers." He has 1983, Alfred went on to receive a Master of currently a humanities and drama teacher, "formal" education has been frostbitten feet! also been an avid rock climber. For the past five Lit from Edinburgh University, Scotland, and and is a Denver Master Gardener. RICHARD MALMGREN, '91. With years, he has lived in the Santa Fe area with his is now busy writing a book about English CLARK LEMONS, '89, '91. Clark is past occupations including pathologist, wife and son Nathan, 7, "who is rutIXious to start reading Great Books." "If you're in the area, newspapers during the Revolutionary War teaching English at Oxford College of sailor, and weaver, Richard is now retired look me up at 1 Mariposa Rd. in El Dorado, (1774-81). He is a retired textile converter. Emory University. For some reason, Clark and lives in Annapolis. Santa Fe. Telephone: 989-7351. GRETCHEN R. GRAY, '88-'90. believes in studying at the GI every other KEITH MARTINDALE, Summer "I'm trying to balance my work life (doing Gretchen lists past occupations as mother, year. He'll be back in '93. '83SF, Summer '84A, Spring/Summer research for federal and state governments at a wife, student, teacher, and, in fact, currently DONS. LEMONS, '81-82; Summers of '86SF. Keith is a Business Records Consul­ public policy research/consulting firm) with teaches English and word/vocabulary classes. '88, '89, '91. Don is a physics professor tant and lives in Whittier, California. pursuit of a second master's degree, this one in BETTY ANN GUNTHER, '69-'71. living in Massachusetts. PAUL K. MINOGUE, '81-'82. In his clinical psychology," writes Marlene F. Betty is currently working on a BS in Com­ ALICE LESNICK, '85-'87. Alice says that past life Paul was a beer truck driver, on a Strong. She hopes to figure out a way to blend puter Science from the University of New after leaving St. John's she spent a year in baseball grounds crew, a junior high math work as a therapist and researcher some day, Mexico, Los Alamos, while employed as a Seattle working in an anarchist collection teacher, a night watchman in a funeral but now the two parts of her life seem dis­ jointed, she comments. She keeps up with computer technician at Los Alamos Na­ bookstore, and that part of her 'subsequent home, and a bartender. He is currently em­ Northern California chapter events and would tional Laboratory. Before Los Alamos, she "formal" education' was 'a great love affair.' ployed as Director of Administration and be happy to hear from classmates who come to was an English teacher for thirteen years at She is the chair of the English Department at Finance with the New Mexico Department Berkeley: "I'm in the phone book." Santa Fe High School. The Baldwin School in Philadelphia. of Health in Santa Fe. He says his continu­ Frances Goodwin Vazquez (A) lives in CHRISTIAN HATFIELD, '90-'91. NORMAN LEVAN, '71-'74. Norman ing "formal" education has been 'routine Edgewood, PA near Pittsburgh, and is the Christian has gone on to law school at retired from academia at age sixty- five in and continuing instructions from my father mother of children 3, 2, and five months. Golden Gate University in San Francisco. 1981, but still practices medicine a couple and my son.' When he has time, he enjoys rugby and of days a week (largely limited to skin tu- (Continued on page 17) (Continued on page 16) The Meem on the Santa Fe mainder of funds for the project. All but Library's Development Bureau, and the pro­ and faculty the ability to search out and campus has been awarded a grant of $9,000 of this will be reallocated from the posal was reviewed and endorsed by the obtain information and materials that are $67,438 by the U.S. Department of Edu­ existing library budget. college's administrative officers and the otherwise essentially unattainable. Students cation. The grant will provide 60% of the According to Head Librarian Inga dean's Academic Computing Committee. and faculty often look for related program funds necessary for the library to become Waite, the grant came after extensive "We are thankful for all the support that readings to enrich and expand their intellec­ a compatible and contributing member in planning and research by library person­ we got from the college and the state during tual experience here. Since we have a small state and national library networking ac­ nel and the college advancement team. the proposal writing process; it was really a collection, we can't always help them. Now tivities. The college will provide the re- Experts were consulted at the State team effort," Waite said "The grant officer they will have access to the collections of an in Washington told me that out of 146 pro­ international network of over 10,000 librar­ posals, only 16 were funded." ies. It's amazing." The library will link-up with the national The Meem library's collection of some OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) 56,000 volumes is especially rich in ancient bibliographic network through the regional . and modern classics of European literature, network AMIGOS, the New Mexico educa­ philosophy, science, and mathematics, both tion network NEDCOMM (New Mexico in the original language and in translation. Network for Educational Communications), St. John's has the most comprehensive col­ and will join in the sharing of serial holdings lection of philosophy in the state and is the through the state CDROM (Compact Disk only library in New Mexico that provides Read Only Memory) project. full access to Greek and Latin texts and In joining the state and national library translation tools. Over one thousand new networks, the Meem Library will both have volumes are acquired by the library each access and contribute to information and year. materials throughout the United States. The Meem Library is open to the Since the Annapolis campus is a participat­ 85.5 hours per week during the academic ing OCLC member, the two libraries will be year, and 40 hours per week when the col­ able to share collection information elec­ lege is not in session. The library is staffed tronically. with four full-time librarians and twenty-six "Our overall aim is to participate in co­ quarter-time student assistants. operative library resource sharing for the "We are delighted to receive a grant of benefit of the St. John's community and for this kind which will benefit not only St. the benefit of those institutions that do not John's College but also the state of New have access to our unique materials," Waite Mexico and the national library network," said "Network access will give our students said President Agresto.

By DONNA BOETIG every and all issues is a leading principle of With additional reporting by: our lives ... The relation between morality director of CLAUDIA SMITH-PORTER, SF '82 and legality is always a central issue of Six explorers are lost in a cave. They're debate." Student tivities cold, hungry, and scared: With each passing Agreed on the theme, the two lawyers had hour they face more clearly the prospect of little difficulty recruiting discussion leaders death. Suddenly one offers an alternative to from the many alumni in the legal field. approaching starvation; he proposes they en­ Santa Fe tutor James Carey led a preceptor­ October 24, 1992 was proclaimed Istvan gage in cannibalism. This, he explains, would ial on Cicero and Stoic natural law. "We Fehervary Day by the City of Santa Fe. buy precious time for all to be rescued-ex­ discussed the difference between moral and Mayor Sam Pick bestowed this honor on Mr. cept the one who draws the short straw. political theories that took natural law-as Fehervary in recognition of his outstanding But is this legal? And, considering the opposed to prudence-to be the highest enthusiasm and dedication to the art of fenc­ circumstances, what latitude, if any, are they standard," he said. "We also talked about the ing. Istvan Fehervary began his fencing ca­ allowed in interpreting the law? Does mercy implications of this difference for various reer in Budapest in 1935 at the age of 10. As play a part, too? theories of foreign policy." a young man Mr. Fehervary was a member With furrowed brows and precise phrases, Santa Fe tutor Basia Miller, who recently of Hungary's modern pentathlon team. In 22 participants pondered this hypothetical translated Spirit ofthe Laws, led a preceptor­ 1969, Istvan brought his fencing knowledge situation presented by Barbara Skaug Lauer, ial on Montesquieu. Her students questioned and skill to the Santa Fe campus where he SF '76. Ms. Lauer, a special assistant to the what type of collective personality, or remained as Director of Student Activities Wyoming Public Defender and an adjunct "spirit," people possess who are ruled by dif­ until his retirement in professor of law at the University of Wyo­ ferent types of government That problem be­ 1990. This award recog­ ming, was addressing the first discussion came more difficult when discussing how a nizes only one of Mr. session of the Summer Alumni Program, people change their collective spirit when they Fehervary's many con­ "Law and the Liberal Arts," held July 12-17. change their ideas about good government. tributions to the Santa Fe The second of such topic-oriented pro­ Dennis J. Hutchinson, professor of law at community and envi­ grams-the first being "Computers and the The University of Chicago, delivered the rons. Mr. Fehervary, in ·Liberal Arts" held last year-offered lawyer­ Homecoming lecture, "On Law and the Liberal addition to introducing alumni the opportunity to reflect upon and Arts." Other speakers throughout the week in­ hundreds of students to discuss fundamental issues of the law which cluded discussion leaders Robert A. Goldwin, the art of fencing, has rarely get developed in daily practice. For A '50, a resident scholar in constitutional stud­ formed fencing clubs in others it helped integrate the college program ies at the American Enterprise Institute and Los Alamos, Albuquer­ with the so-called real world. former dean of the Annapolis campus; Peter que, Roswell and Las Although no conclusions were drawn, Weiss, A'46, ofWeiss DawidFrossZelnick & Cruces. He has essen­ "The Case of the Spelunking Explorers" Lehrman, and Christopher B. Nelson, SF'70, tially brought fencing to evoked rich conversations on how one may president of the Annapolis campus. New Mexico. Even after liberally interpret the law yet remain within The week featured an afternoon at the Ban­ Mr. Fehervary's retire­ its spirit. It then provided a framework for delier National Monument, hiking by the wa­ ment he continued to in­ the week's preceptorials, seminars, and dis­ terfalls to the Rio Grande, cliff explorations, struct fencing to cussions. The case was referred to often to and an evening performance of Strauss' Die students and members of clarify other legal points and to apply phil­ Fledermaus at the Santa Fe Opera the Santa Fe community osophical concepts, those centering on rela­ At week's end, it was obvious that the in the St. John's Fencing tions between the state and individuals, non-lawyers relished the experience as Club. Mr. Fehervary re­ obligations of each to the other, and how the much as their legal counterparts. One of cently announced that constitution delineates those rights. these, Victor Austin, SF'78, for instance, while he is retiring from The idea for "Law and the Liberal Arts" claimed a deeper understanding of distinc­ the St. John's Fencing began with a phone call from Annapolis tions between the types of law and the ways Club, he will still remain tutor Joseph Cohen, A '56, to Santa Fe tutor in which laws touch our lives. Besides moral active in fencing, and Grant Franks, A'77. Speaking later of this law, sovereign law and natural law, "one will continue to join club conversation, Mr. Cohen commented, "The could see a law regulating self-discipline as members on occasion nature and scope of law and how it touches well," he said. during practice. Four centuries its adobe walls stand terior wood-work. naked and crumbling. The cracked mud, like Student outreach coordinator deeply carved wrinkles, serve as testimony Macki! is one of the students helping to to its age. The bell was long ago removed rebuild the Santa Cruz church in Ojo from the tower. Inside the long, rectangular Caliente this year. A transfer from the An­ structure pale light falls through small win­ napolis campus, her involvement in the By LESLI ALLISON dows onto a dusty floor. churches program began when she saw a Approximately an hour's drive north of small general store carries a little of every­ Like older churches in many communi­ sign last year asking for volunteers. • the St. John's campus in Santa Fe is the tiny thing. Trucks with giant tires roar down the ties throughout New Mexico, this one re­ "I've always been interested in that kind community of Ojo Caliente (named for its narrow, winding highway. veals decades of neglect. Due to changes in of volunteer activity-building and restor­ mineral hot springs). Like many small vil­ But perhaps the most striking indication economic and social conditions, decreasing ing-there's just a real satisfaction in that lages in Northern New Mexico, it is inhab­ of the passage of time is the presence of two populations and a variety of other factors, kind of work," she said. "You get to go out ited largely by descendants of early Spanish churches, standing aside one another. To the the churches which once formed the center and do this work, to see the progress. You settlers and Pueblo Indians. right is the newer church, its walls straight, of life for so many villages stand largely in see the smiles on peoples' faces in the small Through the cen~uries, the residents have the stucco intact, the roof sound. It plays an ruin. communities, and the hugs and thanks you eked a living by f aiming and raising sheep. active role in this predominantly Catholic Recognizing the importance and symbol­ get. . .it's a wonderful feeling of accomplish­ In recent times, the presence of the hot community. ism of these churches for small rural com­ ment." springs has attracted an increasing number To the left, facing the new church at a m unities, the Northern New Mexico Student volunteers also gain significant of tourists who come for hot baths, mud perpendicular angle, is the original church. Community Foundation, in 1985 initiated a personal and historical insights into the re­ baths and massage at a local resort program called gion. A drive down the center of town reveals "Churches: Symbols of "It's a learning process," Mackil said. at once the collision of past and present Old Community." The "Obviously we learn about building and res­ adobe structures and ruins are interspersed foundation raises funds toration, but we also learn about the history with modem trailers and frame houses. and recruits volunteers of these buildings. We've been working on Horses race through riverside pastures. A to help community res­ a building that's over 400 years old. In the idents rebuild their process we learn about the people who came churches. here. We also meet people in these commu­ Last year, at the ini­ nities we might not otherwise meet. They've tiative of senior Taeko lived in a small town their whole lives and Onishi (SF'92), St. they're very concerned with the life of the John's students got in­ community and interested in keeping the volved in the effort. community together." This year as many as Macki! pointed out that when communi-· fifteen students volun­ ties such as Oja Caliente are flourishing, the teer on alternate Satur­ church often forms the center of life. Aside days helping from religious worship, churches are oft~n community residents used for town meetings and social gather­ install drainage sys­ ings such as weddings. tems, making ado be "We're restoring these things that have bricks, mud plastering, just fallen apart through neglect or just plain installing roofs, demol­ old age," she said. "But a very sad thfog for ishing walls, construct­ them, just from my experience, is they see ing new ones, and that as the center of their community begin­ repairing floors and in- ning to crumble. It's really important to them, and it's the kind of thing you can only experience in a small town. I would venture to say that most of our students don't have an experience like that." In addition to offering new experiences, volunteer projects such as this one allow students to get away from the books for a day, Macki! said. "It's a way of continuing to live your life outside of St. John's. But there are certainly applications. We talk about human nature, about religion and I find myself thinking Above right, Faith Echele helps remove the old about those things when I'm working. It's a roof of the Santa Cruz Church. Muuv•=i. MackU and Christina Deidler repair a window sort of real life application of things we talk and at right, Francis Noon and Faith Echele about here. And it's also sort of fun to use assist in replacing the roof. the tools that we talk about, we learn the Lesli Allison photos theories behind these tools in lab. It's really exciting."

New Staff members named at Santa Fe

Patrick Emerson joined the library staff on October 1 as In September Christine (Tina) Garcia joined the the cataloger/Systems Librarian. He will also supervise daily Treasurer's Office as an accountant. She is a native of Santa operations of the Student Computer Center. He and his wife Fe and attended the College of Santa Fe where she met her came to Santa Fe from Iowa. husband Herman. They have two children, Gabriel and Vic­ toria. Ms. Garcia worked with the Office of Cultural Affairs for nine years. Suzanne Kauffman joined the college as an assistant to the director of Placement in October. She does not consider herself a native of anywhere, since she grew up in various places around the world. In 1989, she received her BA in classical languages from U.C. Berkeley and is currently on leave of absence from the Ph.D. program in philosophy at The Santa Fe campus Student 0 Tuba Brown University. She taught and worked at Santa Fe Com­ Musical Instrument Fund munity College for the past year and says that being at St. seeks donations of/ for musical 0 Trumpet John's is like coming home. instruments for student use. 0 Cello The college welcomed Victoria Mora as a new member If you have an instrument of the faculty in August. This semester she is co-leading in you would like to donate a freshman seminar with Mr. Pesic; she will begin full time 0 Violin in January. Ms. Mora is a native of New Mexico and recently contact Claire Darling, completed a Ph.D. in philosophy at Yale. She has a senior, Santa Fe. 0 Bassoon bachelor's degree from the University of New Mexico. 0 Lisa Vigil joined both the Personnel and Computer Services French staff in August She is a native of Santa Fe and previously Horn worked for the state government for 10 years. She and her husband Leonard have two children, Teresa and Brian. Over 175 parents and grandparents vis­ ited their students on October 14-18 for the third annual Parents' Weekend on the Santa Fe campus. Most arrived in time to visit classes on Thursday and Friday, sitting si­ lently as they observed their sons and daugh­ ters in action. The weekend opened formally with Pres­ ident Agresto's welcome, followed by a St. John's College invites parents and their question and answer reception with college friends to enjoy a winter weekend in administrators on Friday afternoon. Parents Santa were invited to sample a college dinner that evening and to attend Tutor Peter Pesic' s Visit your student, ski, shop, eat and lecture I concert entitled "Children of Or­ gallery-hop. pheus: Dialogue between Ancient and Mod­ There is plenty for non-skiers to do too. ern Music," which included musical demonstrations by several students. Schedule Friday, February 19, Reception On Saturday morning, the President's Saturday, February 20, Santa Fe Ski Basin. Brunch with the faculty filled the Great Hall Sunday, February 21, Taos Ski Valley to capacity. The traditional Parent-Child P.S New Mexico offers some of the finest Look-Alike Contest winners, the father­ skiing in the country! daughter team of Dr. Henry Mulder and Katherine Mulder, won the prize of a gift If you would like to join us call: certificate to the bookstore. Susan Friedman, Parents Program Coordinator After the brunch parents and students St. John's College ventured to the Meem Library for a giant 505/982-3691ext.226 Parents' Weekend booksale. Parents, stu­ dents, faculty members and area residents swarmed over mounds ofbooks and records, often carrying away cartloads of treasures. On Saturday night the dining hall was practically empty as parents took their stu­ dents and friends out to dinner, many return­ ing to fill the floor of the Waltz Party later that evening. Decorations and refreshments were provided by the students-sparkling lights from a mirrored ball spinning over­ head creating just the right mood to accom­ pany the Santa Fe Little Big Band and to make the Viennese Waltzers even dizzier. College staff and tutors commented on how much they enjoyed meeting so many parents, and parents wrote afterward, 'Thank you for doing the weekend and making us feel so The Parents' look-Alike Contest caused a lot of merriment. President John welcome! I enjoyed seeing my child filled with The Parents' Weekend Book Sale sets of finalists. And what about those false noses? excitement and enthusiasm." drew many browsers.

cation to the point at which painting would become obsolete. sexuality and violence. EX "I'd like to destroy the means so only the ends remain," "The show is called 'Constructed Figures' and a lot of that figures" explores Meadows said "It's almost as though there wouldn't be a has to do with how we create a thing (the creative process need to speak because there would be understood relation­ has to do with destroying and reorganizing)," he said. "We understanding ships between people." create a thing and then we interact with it. Somehow that Meadows claims that this end will only be achieved when adds to our constitution. It's strange that we are so much By LESLI ALLISON human beings better understand themselves. This under­ spiritually, emotionally, intellectually and physically a com­ For Mark Meadows, painting is one means among many standing arises through communication. posite of things our predecessors have created. in the ongoing human endeavor to communicate. In fact, "Communication is what it all boils down to," he said. "This show deals a lot with sentiments, a lot of angry Meadows suggests his ultimate obligation as a painter would A senior on the Santa Fe campus, Meadows will exhibit young man sentiments. I don't know if I'd call myself an be to destroy painting altogether by accelerating communi- 19 recent works in the college art gallery this December in a angry young man, but there are sentiments of frustration, show entitled "Constructed Figures." loneliness and disgust, as well as love, joy and exhilaration. An opening reception will be held It might be like an exhilarated despair. Nietzsche mentions from 5-7 p.m. on Friday, December 4. that." The works included in the exhibit Nevertheless, Meadows does not view his works as prod­ are mixed media, primarily oils and ucts of self-expression. Rather, these sentiments arise in the acrylics on canvas with incorporations process of painting, not as the focus of the work. "I am simply of graphite, enamel, gauche, ink, sand a conductor," he said. "It's like a faucet hooked up to a big and bleach. plumbing system." The works are generally figurative Underlying Meadows' approach to painting is his desire yet include some elements of abstrac­ to make a positive contribution to humanity in whatever form tion. "St John's is definitely in these seems most appropriate. At present, painting has offered one paintings," Meadows said. "I have immediate possibility for achieving this goal. Nevertheless, tried to approach them from a classical Meadows, who hopes to earn a living by painting yet prefers basis but I still want some levels of not to refer to himself as an contends that any human abstraction to be in there just because endeavor, if done with love and consideration for other I think that abstraction aids the com­ people, is as valid and worthwhile as any other. munication. I hope that none of these "Dialogues go on and those dialogues will take place in paintings will be ends in themselves." such things as fine arts, mathematics and politics, carpentry, The paintings are primarily square cooking, waste disposal, they all seem like levels of commu­ in format and black and white. Mead­ nication," Meadows said. ows said the square format is challeng­ Born in Biloxi, Mississippi, Meadows has lived in a num­ ing in terms of composition. The ber of places throughout the United States.He first enrolled predominance of black and white re­ at St. John's in 1988. He also studied at the San Francisco veals what he described as a fear of Art Institute for a semester as well as the Bemis Art School color, yet it also has proven educa­ in Colorado. He recently was nominated for a Watson Fel­ tional in the use of contrast. The blacks lowship to study Australian Aboriginal painting. Meadows' themselves are actually composites of works have been exhibited at the San Francisco Ari Institute black and other colors such as red. Gallery, in a private exhibition in San Francisco, at St. In terms of content, the works John's College and the Pat Abbott Gallery in Colorado address a variety of concerns rang­ Springs. His paintings are included in private collections in "Female Figure" In acrylic, oil and chalk by Mark Meadows, SF'93. ing from technology and religion to the United States and Europe. DECEMBER 1992 THE REPORTER PAGE9 Scene from all

The meeting for the College of Visitors Governors was as a retreat at the Tidewater Easton, on the weekend of October 23-25, with the officers of both campuses and 30 Board members Besides board meetings a presentation on college resources and needs, members were Santa Fe President John .un1ra~1rn treated to a outing on the Chesapeake Bay and the and Alumni Association ...... '"''"''ri'·"·"? Sharon Bls:hoP. attractions of the Maryland Eastern Shore. pause 11-'T'<>•""""'TU Christopher Nelson was unable to attend. van Der an AFS student living Nelson unexpectedly Wednesday,,._,..., ...... ,..,"" .. from what was later described as car­ diac arhythmia caused by Board member Hugo's

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Weekend in Friends of the Mitchell Gallery came in large numbers to the opening reception and festivities for 'The Coming of Age of American Sculpture: The First Decades of the Sculptors Guild, 1930s - 1950s" in September. A record crowd of more than 270 parents attended Parents' Weekend festivities at Oct. 30 - Nov. 1. A was tutor-led seminars and children in McDowell Hall

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Edwin G. Gr1~en1be1m is stationed Anita Weschler's "Time to Speak." 0

Hofstra. Bernard Jacob

rh''""'"''"r" and examina- tion accounts, he argues, is the goal of the art. The usual view of Aristotle as a professorial prom- 1 of finished doctrines in contrast to the open­ minded Plato and Socrates is strongly, and in my view correctly, rejected by Jacob. Why Aristotle may have allowed, even encouraged, this view of himself and his work to develop was not explored. At any rate, Jacob's Aristotle along with his teacher Plato is and son Samuel a Socratic. He approves Larry Amhart's (Aristotle on Political Reasoning: a Commentary on the "Rhetoric") observation that in speaking of rhetoric as the antistrophe of dialectic Aristotle suggests that "rhetoric reflects dialectic while moving in the opposite direction." Rhetoric, essentially oriented toward action, seeks that NANCYOSIUS plausibility and conviction required to move men and The Homecoming Weeken1 women to action: its highest goal cognitively is true 3,4 was one of many images: opinion. Dialectic, on the other hand, actuated by the The face of wisdom-Mrs.: distinction between knowledge and opinion, tests any audience leaning in to share eac and all principles as opinions with a view to knowing of the journey from St. Peten what one does not know, with a view to knowing what Europe, a journey that at lengtlJ one's true situation with respect to the fundamental Kaplan to St. John's College. questions is. The soaring voices of the A Jacob argues that Aristotle, like Socrates of the the Great Hall into the summeIJ Theaetetus, agrees that our experience and awareness members of the Freshman Cb of error points to the possibility of access to errorless the athletic baton of Elliott Zm understanding. For Aristotle, technically speaking, this the remembered music. means true and perspicuous principles or premisses As their elders picked at m enjoyed through the activity of intellectual intuition, pagne at the President's house S nous, which can open us up to the natures of things in President Christopher Nelson and his mother Anne, HSF'90, have a word with Jessica children sweeping across the 1 themselves. To the extent that we know anything nous Lennon Seides, A'67, who came from Dublin to Homecoming. distant laggard, a year-old stag1 is somehow operative, but is it ever fully and perfectly Coming home. Those who d operative? Socratic and Aristotelian dialectic, while mates and onetime tutors, wivt not dogmatically sceptical (Kant) about the possibility friends, some new wives and husbands, a flock of ch of genuine intellection into things in themselves, calls honor venerated teachers, the chance to re-engage info into question the certainty of any alleged particular the chance to hang around. instance of genuine insight. Exposing our fundamental Among those who returned were Gessne insufficiencies, the grounds of true humility, it at the representing the class of '27 in their 65th reunion. Be same time points to what true sufficiency might be: more than two dozen classmates together for 50th rem1 awareness of insufficient wisdom would appear to be served as Alumni Association presidents. a necessary condition for the love and serious pursuit Other classes gathering for reunions were 1952, 19 of wisdom called philosophy. Classmates lunched together around seminar tablei In a lively question it was contended that with linen and graced by fall chrysanthemums in McD Aristotle presents a of his fundamental posi- restored and classrooms, or, elbows on spr tions as truths verifiable by careful observation newspapers, feasted on crabs tennis courts; Ii reaLS011m.g, e.g., the differences between continence locked wits with long-ago anatagonists and 2 and moderation of Book VII of the Nicomachean Ethics, seminars on Shaw, and Whitman. the and act underlying his In the late afternoon the mood shifted, as alumni fro1 whole account of the nature Jacob did justice both to the seriousness of the questions and his own Freshman Chorus came from 25th year reunion stated position by replying that he did not doubt that Howard A'67, and Peggy Aristotle that these, among his most reliable around, and 50 or 60 alumni and college n: and tested opinions, were true and more came to sing Bach's Wachet Auf! and music by Mozart am reliable than all the alternatives but like all under the direction of Mr. Zuckerman. For many, the hour opinions were open to and invited further inquiry. was the highlight of the weekend. Three great friends of the college were honored at the coming Banquet in Randall Hall Saturday vete and Governors member Jerome LaPides was made while Honorary Alumna Charlotte Fletcher and alu A'52, received Awards of Merit. Good-humored badinage about old rivalries let Ra friend Jerry LaPides, a Naval Academic graduate, be his service to the college. As Dance Committee ch · John's in the 1940's, Mr. Cave scheduled dances for curfew hour, in order, so he claimed, for Johnn midshipmen's dates. Citing Mr. LaPides'efforts on behalf of St. John's, Mr. Cave noted that Mr. LaPides had served on the B since 1972, had served as Board secretary-treasurer carefully overseen the construction of the new library and on time." He exercised, said Mr. Cave, "tough an on the matter of faculty raises in 1989. The citation, which named him an honorary membe expressed gratitude for his "devotion, integrity, and fri~ They were both trailblazers at the formerly all-male c in the spring of 1951, Charlotte Fletcher already installe~ and Barbara Leonard on campus to be interviewed fo assistant dean needed to serve the women studentsexpe Sixty-five years later, two classmates, Elmer Jack­ The smallest guests hasten across the President's lawn on Sunday. son and Bunny Gessner, salute their Alma Mater. 1

Ten years of Alumni Association service for A'75. Mrs. Simon Kaplan and Ste!PhEm W. Bergen, A'45, display the photographic of her husband.

For banquet guests, Miss Leonard retraced the ca­ the day of atonement, and also "a day of remem­ reer of Miss Fletcher, who trained at the Enoch Pratt brance," he continued. To remember Simon Kaplan Library, earned a B.S. degree in library science in 1941 was to remember "how very rooted he was in his from Columbia University, and later spent two years community of faith." studying law. By NANCY osrus Mr. Bergen reviewed the Kaplans 'long journey from 1 d in Annapolis October Made librarian in 1946, Miss Fletcher oversaw the At the Alumni Association Meeting Saturday mornillg, their youth in Russia, across a Europe torn by war, and '1 renovation and rededication of the library and the three members of the college community spoke with finally to the U.S., where "through their long :friendship K.aplan at nearly 99, her doubling of its book collection in her years on the job. eloquence of two legendary St. John's College tutors who with Jacob Klein, [they] were led to St John's." :h remembered segment After her retirement in 1980, she researched and pub­ left a powerful moral legacy to the institution. An engaging and challenging seminar leader, Mr. '~burg across strife-tom lished five articles on the origin of the King William Enlarged photographic portraits of the men were Kaplan made time, too, "to listen to us in our person, to brought her and Simon School, precursor to the college, and on the early presented to the college on behalf of the Association by listen for the deeper question behind our opening ques­ college itself. In 1990-91, all five articles were brought its president Sharon Bishop, and will hang in room 22, tion, whether in class or out," said his onetime student. ve Verum spilling from together in The St. John's Review. McDowell Hall. Mr. Bergen drew from Mr. Kaplan's memorial r afternoon, as long-ago But the high point of Charlotte Fletcher's distin­ Returning alumni filled the Conversation Room as service in 1979 what he called "illuminating words" orus, once more under guished career, Miss Leonard insisted, was her famous Tutor Emeritus Curtis Wilson rose to speak of his col­ to flesh out the picture of a man of learning whose :;kerrnan, gave voice to performance with tutors Winfree Smith and Hugh league Richard Scofield, who died at 72 in 1969. Then capacity for friendship, gentleness, and "civilized McGraw in "Fragment of a Greek Tragedy," a merry I Washington lawyer Stephen Bergen, A'45, and Simon humaneness" so profoundly affected the college elon and drank cham- one-act parody of atrocities perpetrated by translators Kaplan's widow, community. lunday morning, young and a favorite college production for many years. Fanny Kaplan, each One of Mr. awn-in their wake, a Miss Fletcher's Award of Merit citation called at­ spoke of Mr. Kaplan, Farover20 minutes, Kaplan's students de­ ~erer. tention to her "diligent leadership" in the library and who died at age 85 in scribed her teacher at id this found old class­ her "contributions to historical scholarship." 1979. withoutf4/terln9 and without notes, that time: "The repu­ ~s and husbands of old He arrived at the college 44 years ago along with "No man have I tation that survives iidren, the occasion to Warren Winiarski, and now Tom Carnes, fellow mem­ known have I held Mrs. Mplan retraced event;s such a man can only :ceful discussion-and ber of the Board of Visitors and Governors, traced his more in honor," Said ofthe long be pale compared to classmate's rise to distinction in the winemaking busi­ Mr. Wilson of Mr. the impression he and Elmer Jackson, ness. Mr. Winiarski was first an academic at the Uni­ Scofield, "and words seem thin indeed for recapturing made personally. When he sat at the table, his chin swell Childs gathered versity of Chicago, and, after settling on a career in a presence that meant so much." The framed photo­ in his hands, his whole body intent-it seemed to me ion. All three men had winemaking, came to produce at Stag's Leap Wine graph "calls him forth from the shades, as if he were I had never seen anyone with so much concentration, Cellars what critics have hailed as premier Napa Val­ once more present, luminously alert, ready to con­ so much vitality. The power of his thought gave him 7, 1972, and 1982. ley wines. The picnic and seminar held yearly at the verse." another power, not merely to communicate, but to spread winery is a highlight of the N orthem Describing a vital, swiftly striding man, Mr. Wilson inspire, not merely to make us wonder, but to make owell's California alumni chapter calendar, and said Mr. Scofield "could make Matthew Arnold's us love." ad-out often draws alumni from other parts of phrase 'sweetness and seem not Victorian and A perfect silence filled with awed respect awaited the the country. out-of-date but vigorously admonitory." final speaker, Mrs. Kaplan, soon to be 99 years old, as she Mr. Carnes noted also such· Board A passionate defender of the rights of others, Mr. seated herself at the head of the great conference table. acc~on1p11snmenrs as the co1mp,re11en:sl\i'e Scofield challenged double standards based on For over 20 minutes, in a soft voice inflected by her Mr. Winiarski under­ gender. On occasion he was the ironic pragmatist, who native Russian tongue, without faltering and without possible uses for the nrr>U1f1Prl "sharp when it came to prac­ notes, as the audience strained forward to hear the col- tical decisions. He was a wit, who, at the time a salary Mrs. Kaplan retraced events of the long-ago some years ago. scale based solely on age and years of service was grimage that brought her with her husband at last to Mr. Winiarski' s Award of Merit cita­ brought before the faculty, asked, "What is left for old Annapolis, where, she said, "found not a new tion noted his "exemplary achievements men but avarice and gluttony?" upheaval but a new program." A transcription of Mrs. of song as a vintner and connoisseur," as well as Devoted to the college, Mr. Scofield supported what Kaplan's remarks is on page 14. his "calm intelligence, balanced temper- was central to it-"inculcating the habit of reading Earlier, President Christopher Nelson welcomed re­ Home- ament and personal warmth." Mr. good books, the habit of literature; the attempt to im­ turning alumni to the annual meeting. In the report on ran Board of Visitors Winiarski's moving reply is reprinted on page 14. prove one's mind." academic matters, Dean Eva Brann declared that in her At the end of the evening, the tables were turned This is the 50th year, began Mr. "since view "much news" is a sign of "waning life"-at least when Betsy A'75, Director of Alumni Activi­ Simon and Fanny Kaplan came to be members of our intellectually. Therefore, she said, prefacing her cata­ ties at Annapolis, was presented with a certificate of college." Moreover, the dedication day fell close to logue of minor changes in program and personnel, "A ' Cave, twit his recognition for her 10 years of exemplary service in Y om Kippur, the most holy day of the Jewish calendar, lot is happening but little is new." 'ore honoring him for her role. Citing Betsy's leadership, diligence, and rman for all-male St. sound judgement, Sharon Bishop, Alumni Association 1 p.m., the Academy president, ushered in an enormous commemorative es to scoop up the cake alight with candles to be set out. Betsy's husband, Michael Blume, A '78, to whom she gave special is newest alma mater, thanks, joined her at the podium. )ard most of the time or 14 years, and had t Santa Fe "on budget decisive leadership" Three Honorees: : of the class of 1991, New alumnus mdship." Jerome HA'91, ollege when they met left, and l in the college library Awards of Merit to · the position of new Charlotte Fletcher, HA'69, :;ted in a few months. and Waren Winiarski, A'52. 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December 6: Tutor Nancy Buchenauer will lead a seminar on "Sorrow Acre" by Isaac Dinesen at 2:00 BlllBllllR IBlllJll p.m. Call Michael David (505) 344-7875 or Diane Bent­ ley 296-6048 to contribute ideas or suggestions. December 12: Holiday potluck lunch and conver­ December 11: Delegate John Astle, Maryland sation at Dale Mortimer's home, 1:00 p.m. General Assembly. For further details call Dale Mortimer at (503) January 8: Alumni luncheon with guest speaker 224-4363 (Portland or (206) 737-7587. Lucille Maurer, Maryland State Treasurer. 12: Alumni luncheon. 27: Saturday seminar on tutor Mt:1t:1ru1n~ to discuss the program readings are 1mt:i.nh•.:1tt'<=> new book, The Effective Republic­ scheduled monthly, and follow the undergraduate Administration and Constitution in the Thought of Inquiries are most we.rcOJne Alexander Hamilton. Ludlow (916) 362-5131 or Helen Alumni luncheons are held on Fridays in the 452-1082. Private Room, 12:00 noon. Telephone Betsy Blume at the Office (410) 263-23 71 for more information about any of the events. su_1'JaE1st1;:::;:::::::;: :::.:,::::: ••• ,, .. ,, members. Contact Paul Martin (512) :':::::::: :::''.::::::::;::::::: :·:·: ·:::::·: duction to Aesthetics, hosted ~11· .··. schedule and details. 'I ;: 10: Seminar on ...... r1;..,, ...... ::: ·... :::• <· .·.·.:-:: -·.· ·. t< :::: On the Genealogy ·.· .. ·.·. ::;::::':;::,::: :::: ::: .:•:· ····,:·.':::·:::;: ;.: :::: :::::: :,:,: ·::: January: Seminar being planned. Mark Middlebrook. :: •::::: ::·::;;,;: For information about this emerging chapter, call Seminars meet at 2:30 and will continue on :~ . <· ·: .,.:, .. ;:·:: Kim Kern at the Alumni Office (410)263-2371. the second of month. The :::>c1,enc~e. i' .. <<· :::::: and Music is finishing Zuckerkandl's :: :;: :::···· Meetings are held at the home of Alvin Aronson 'The Sense of Music" and there are plans to ;:::: other musical call Mark Middlebrook at (510) ·.·. who can be contacted at (617) 566-6657 for infor­ :: mation. 547-0602 for details. Call Toni Wilkinson (415) 585- ~ :·: 4255 for further information and to contribute to the I I local newsletter. February 13: Seminar on "Book of Job" and gath­ ering at Bob and Anne McDonough's home, Roch­ December: Holiday event being planned. ester, 3 p.m.: (716) 436-7393. Telephone John Pollack (505) 983-2144 or This chapter welcomes the participation of all Alumni Director Cindy Jokela at 982-3691 for future 1 ) alumni in its wide-ranging locale. Call Cinda Graham :: seminar/social meeting times and places. <: ·::: J.:]' (716) 442-6823 for details and suggestions. ·:: .. A Music Study Group is proposing the study ofJ.S. Bach's "The Musical Offering" this winter. Tutorials December 12: Annual holiday party at Rick will meet on the campus beginning in December, on Lightburn's home. Wednesday evenings for 6 or 7 weeks. There are Future events are in the planning stages and plans to attend a performance of the work in Febru­ Any member wishing to join, and/or anyone with ideas is invited to call with suggestions. ary. Musical talent and fluency are not required. Call a group of alumni oriented toward Contact President Paul Frank at (312) 235-0614 or Mary Schruben 473-7898 for information. bisexual please contact 464-2573 (wk}, or Program Director Erin Milnes at A'78, Sociology Department, Upsala '-'""'"""~""· 271-1039 for additional information. 1 1 Call John Ross at (206) 545-7900 about upcom­ Orange, NJ 07019, 924-4161. The nr nr,.::in ing events that are in the works. purpose of the group is the of This chapter meets about 1O times a year for ences. This group is open to all rcor1~rr·m::::1~~c: Saturday seminars. For locations and other sexual orientation. details, call Suzanne Doremus at (817) 496-8571 or Jonathan Hustis at (214) 340-8442.

434-7624 or Erin at the Alumni Office information and to con-

December 13: Seminar

the class events. Keith Harvey photo roc-nn'"'"''° to Mr. John E. Siemens's 1992) to Mr. (March 1 to Mr. Bolotin's thesis his article "In Defense of the Great Books" that a "lasting and truth" underlies all philosophy and Biblical religion. The first part of Mr. Siemens's letter in defense of Mr. Bolotin's claim for such truth seems to be an attempt to demonstrate, through a priori that the existence of the word or concept truth questions about it necessitate the existence of truth itself, apparently of the lasting and comprehensive variety. One of the problems with this sort of discus­ By MARK NIEDERMIER, A'84 crashing ocean waves, singing songs. Instead, what sion is that Mr. Siemens never says what he means The difficulty in telling the story of my teaching in comes to mind is a very non-radiant child. Jaquon by the word truth and, in fact, seems to give it Harlem is deciding which story to tell. There is the went through the summer displaying no visible sign different meanings in different contexts. If the state­ story that reinforces the negative reputation of one of emotion. Nothing joyous, nothing sad. I once took ments "all men are mortal" or ''two plus two equals of the most famous inner city neighborhoods in the Jaquon and a few other boys on an overnight camp­ four" are what Mr. Siemens or Mr. Bolotin mean by world as a dangerous and threatening environment. ing trip. Ghost stories and marshmallows at night, truth, I don't think I or Mr. Goldstein would have the There is the story that portrays warm a,nd caring scrambled eggs over the coals of a smoldering energy to disagree. But these are truisms more than people persevering under the most extreme of cir­ campfire in the morning. No response. That fall at truth (tautologies, really), and I really don't think cumstances. Both stories would be true. Given that school, however, Jaquon was a changed person, they're the kinds of fish Mr. Siemens, Mr. Bolotin et I was once asked in all seriousness whether it was alive, energetic and involved. His mother told me al. are trying to fry. However, Mr. Siemens doesn't true that teachers in Harlem taught from within metal how one morning Jaquon happily announced he say what he means by lasting and comprehensive truth cages for self-protection, I will not tell the first story was going to make her breakfast, went to the kitchen or give any examples. "Abortion is murder," perhaps? - it serves no one to reinforce a negative stereo- and for the first time in his life produced scrambled "America is the greatest country in the history of the But the second story is not quite the one to tell eggs. Something had happened at camp. As school world"? "God exists and is white and male"? Mr. Though true it is also too incomplete, too founder Ned O'Gorman wrote, "Teaching is an act of Siemens is a tease. All my life I've been searching rosy. In spite of the daily instances of strength and faith in the infinite possibilities inherent in each child." for certainty and he comes along and assures me courage, a singular truth remains: far too many lives As a teacher, the influence of your actions is not im­ that it exists, but then leaves me hanging are steeped with tragedy and wasted. I will do my mediately observable and often no,,,c,,,.,.,,. me what it is. I'm waiting best to tell a true that does not unduly sacrifice working in the dark and for the best After finishing with truth, Mr. Siemens takes on that completeness. A final One reason that I was hired at the cursed decade "the sixties." Mr. Siemens I arrived at the Children's Storefront School in the Children's Storefront was that the headmaster was doesn't like the sixties, he doesn't fall of 1986. The school at that time had 80 impressed with the St. John's program. More spe­ clear which of it he hates the most: the sixth students .;:)l,.l•Uo<;:;.c;,.oy,u cifically, in addition to my as the white supremacy and the school's science an illegal war that teach er, I wou Id in 1964 and 1968 but is an act of in also be available for the for northeastern comer possibilities inherent in each child." Greek. first year of to express tne,ms13lve~s of Harlem. The ele­ me too busy for doesn't mention any of these instead cari- vated Metro-North -Ned O/Corman/ Storefront School but beginning caturing the entire period with dyspeptic (and tracks are at one in the fall of 1987 I lengthy) fulminations about media hype and end of the block and a corner frequented by drug began meeting weekly with three students who had music and the touchy-feely aspects that no doubt dealers at the other, exactly the stark urban land­ raised their hands when asked if they would like to existed at the time. The real content of the sixties was scape that has come to be associated with places learn ancient Greek. They loved it. From the first that they were a reawakening from the comatosity and like Harlem and the South Bronx. A tuition-free class spent transliterating their names to eventually fear of the post-war Eisenhower and McCarthy period private school founded by poet Ned O'Gorman in translating simple sentences about men bringing in which a woman's place was in the home, a 1966, the Children's Storefront is an oasis. gifts to the gods, they were clearly engaged, taking progressive's place was on the blacklist, the CIA's As with any beginning teacher in any school, class­ great pride in learning something renowned for its place was overthrowing popularly elected govern­ room management was a challenge. It quickly became difficulty. ments in Iran, Guatemala, and Brazil, a Negro knew evident that my position as teacher granted me no Where are these three Greek scholars today? his place, and female students had eleven p.m. cur­ authority. The teacher-student relationship was not One is finishing his senior year at an Upper East fews and males didn't. recognized as such by my pupils. What was respected Side prep school on full scholarship, busy applying Now of course Mr. Siemens can characterize the was a person to person relationship. Mark-Jerry, Mark­ to colleges. Another is getting by at a local Catholic sixties rebellion against the post-World War Two era Regina, but not teacher-student. It was as though high school. The third boy died three years ago with as "intellectual servitude" if he wishes, and the era itself something like Martin Buber's I-Thou was the only a broken pistol in his hand, shot to death. The life as a time of flowering of the "liberally educated mind," recognized way to interact with integrity, nothing lesser he chose to live, or had thrust upon him, defied but is that really where St. John's wants to be as an worthy of consideration. It was not an inherent I-Thou, rational understanding in terms of any long-term institution? I'm asking this as a serious yu1:::-=>uv1 but one that had to be earned. After I learned the goals yet has an immediate logic and satisfaction Throughout history, at least since the children's names, their parents' and grandparents' that made it all too irresistible for him and for too educated mind" has very often coexisted names, had enough one-on-one conversations that many other children as well. Selling drugs, holding with and been supported by, ~~·~~~•...i .... knew I understood them as individuals, then we a gun in one's hand, the thrill of easy money and supremacy, colonialism, religious persecution, segre­ get down to business in the classroom. new clothes - for a thirteen year-old boy these gation, lynching, union-busting, antisemitism, and cen­ The at this could go in the direction of things proved more attractive than studying books sorship. Look at the college itself. It didn't allow blacks developing a classroom culture, how it is impossible in a classroom. in until some time in the fifties. When I was there in to conceive of a curriculum independent of one's Five school years and six summers in Harlem the mid-sixties there were two both male. students and how the education that takes place in could yield a book more easily than be fit into this Where was the liberally educated mind then? Whafs a classroom is a two-way street with both the adult essay. Still, the general story is the same. There the point of learning how to think if all you think about and the children teaching and learning from one were tragedies, but the hope and courage are what is how to hold on to what got and beat down another. Instead, I'll jump to summer vacation. remain vibrant for me. I reflect that in my own life I others who have less, if instead of leading the way to For most kids, the summer is a time for family might have a bad day, a bad week, even a bad year. a civilization that really takes seriously the it vacations and trips to camp, maybe a part-time job. This is tolerable because I know things will improve. supposedly stands for you have to be But for children in places like Harlem, summer va­ But what would it be like to have had five or ten or and screaming, into performing the most cation is not an idyllic taste of freedom. Too often twenty bad years and no expectation that things will amenities, such as allowing women and their own survival is all the more threatened. This is get better? The individuals I met and worked with in color (not even to mention their literary other the Children's Storefront ran its own summer Harlem inspire me with their courage. Everyday I ideological expressions) into your august halls-and camp. Located 110 miles north of NYC in Lyme, came into contact with people who conducted their then justify your resistance and your and Connecticut as part of a farm on a large pasture lives with a dignity that most of us lack: the ability screaming by characterizing them as of adjacent to Nehantic State Forest, it was six weeks and right to say with any certainty that under those "lasting and comprehensive truth"? of freedom and paradise for 25 children each sum­ circumstances we could do the same. Sorry. If that's the posture the school wants to mer. It was a primitive setting offering traditional adopt, then, in the words of a great thinker named camp activities guided by a commitment to teaching Yogi Berra, white and male but (I'm happy to say) non-violent conflict resolution skills. Mark Niedermier (A '84) is presently head of not yet dead-"lnclude me out.u It would be easy to go on for pages with descrip­ Friends School of Minnesota, a K-sixth grade tions of radiant children, catching fish, running into Quaker elementary school in Minneapolis. Jonathan Aurthur, A '68 14

[Mr. Winiarski made these remarks at the The first of the three has to do with the [The following transcription of Mrs. education. And the feeling was of big im­ Homecoming Banquet on receipt of his practice and exercise of those basic and even Kaplan's remarks at the dedication of a portance of that, of mission, the feeling of Award ofMerit.] primordial arts or disciplines of the mind photographic portrait of her husband was kind of devotion to that. And the Program Members of the Alumni Association and which inform and organize the way we think made by her friends Joe and Sandy Cohen was by no means yet settled; it was in move­ friends, I want to thank you for the honor of about anything. We identified these arts; from a tape.] ment, everything. But excitement, involve­ this Award of Merit. Yet I wondered for a they were more or less lifted out of our You honor today Mr. Kaplan as a man, as ment was big. long time why it was to be given to me. Why experience and brought to light. They were a teacher, and as a friend, and I am deeply Now, the College was small. It was a hard was I chosen for an alumni merit award? reflected upon and they were practiced-the touched and very, very grateful. Thirteen time. It was not clear even about the existence I want to share with you now that, as a classic comparison is what a body or sports years ago after the death of Mr. Kaplan, in of the College. It bung in the air. And very student, many times I thought I should not trainer does when certain muscles are iden­ the memorial service, the friends and the soon after we came, most of the students left be at St John's, or should not continue to tified for special exercise and training in alumni spoke very kindly and very affec­ the campus. They were drafted. And I very stay. And yet, even in this turmoil, there order to do well in a particular sport. Those tionately about Mr. Kaplan, and that was a vividly remember this day when the faculty, continued to be some light, and this was exercises enable the body to do well what big source of consolation and support for the students, the staff, all gathered in Great helpful. For example, in my senior year, I the sport requires. The practice of liberal arts me, comfort for me, in my grief at the time. Hall in McDowell, to say goodbye to these didnotdo the mathematics very well. In fact, enables the mind to do well in its endeavor. Now you honor him again, a sign of giving parting students. It was moving, and very sad I did abysmally in mathematics in that year. The second need is to have some sense of and loving memory-great, big gift-and I day. And after that the campus was almost There was bewilderment and a feeling of where your question is with respect to other think I don't know anything better than empty. Few dozens of students, young, under letting go. I do not now remember very kinds of questions; the questioner needs to memory, living and loving memory, after the age of the draft And some tutors left to much of the senior year mathematics. I knew know more or less clearly, "where in the living this life. Well, I thank you very, very work with government. then that I was falling behind It was a whirl world he and his questions are." Without much and I want to say a few words about The College, as I say, was small. But very of formulae, integrals and differentials, some sense of the whole, of which he and his the life, our life, on this campus in the first alive, very, very involved Big excitement. surds and absurds. Assignments were aban­ questions are parts, there is bound to be only years of the campus. And the center of that excitement was-and doned Classes were not attended. I did not a dry and fragmented inquiry, seemingly un­ Fifty years ago, almost to the date, we all the old students remember-the center of see how I could keep up. I asked myself, "did nourished by anything beyond itself. It is like came to Annapolis into this college. The this excitement was the Dean, Mr. Bu­ no one see how hopeless it all is?" Could my a fallen leaf-a severed part, no longer a part year was 1942, half a century. The time was chanan. He was the eye of this intellectual tutor not see that I was not there, even when of a whole. The St. John's curriculum is difficult; the war, the hardship of the war, storm on the campus. He had a very big I was there? always attempting to speak about the whole­ the anxiety and the uncertainty about future. talent for provocative thinking. He inspired Someone, however, must have been mak­ ness and unity of all questioning and of all And we were new. The country was new to the students .. The students listened, in­ ing allowances for all those inadequacies. learning, attempting to bring that wholeness us, language new, customs, cultural life. volved. And all over the College were dis­ Someone must have been taking the measure into the beam of the eye. We had quite different background Mr. cussions-in classes, in bookstore, in the of something else in me, and overlooking the The third thing might be called the need Kaplan studied philosophy, and graduated coffee shop. And I do remember somehow palpable void of omissions. Someone must for a thread oflove. There is an ancient story from German university in Jena. I studied that, in discussions, when Mr. Buchanan have been saying, "Well, yes, but in spite of about a hero whose task it was to slay a law, and graduated from Russian university would speak, and the students would re­ that darkness there is some light." terrible. monster. He could only slay the in St. Petersburg. Our student time coincided spond, lively dialogue started And very On a strict accounting, that should not monster by penetrating a labyrinth of unbe­ with the time of first World War and of the soon the topic, the point of departure, would have been. The darkness should have been lievable complexity where the monster beginning of the Russian Revolution. It was be forgotten, and lost far, far away. And, counted at its full measure. At some point lived. Having found his way to the monster deep upheaval-political, social, cultural­ after certain time, Mr. Klein would tum to "order" requires that the balance be drawn and having slain it, his way out of the laby­ in our consciousness, almost cosmic. We some student and say, "You meant to say and that the deficiencies be given their due. rinth (now unguided by his former but now stayed a few years in the new regime, com­ that?" And the student eagerly agreed, but At most other schools, this might have been accomplished purpose) would be subject to munist regime in Russia, and left and started he didn't mean "that." He was in the dark. routine and appropriately just. Yet at St. a consuming and perhaps, the story sug­ our emigrants' life, for more than a decade. And Mr. Klein, with bis wonderful, clear, J obn' s, it seems to me, the balance is ac­ gests, an endless wandering in the labyrinth. We went to Germany, and Germany was and precise manner of speaking, would re­ counted in another way. There is something But he was spared that outcome. He had at the time new democracy-Weimar Re­ turn the discussion back on the right path. like "an intervention of alternative possibil­ been provided a wonderful thread by some­ public. And in short time, few years, Hitler, One could hear lively discussion on the ities" that breaks through the "iron" type of one who lOved him, so that he could lay the Nazis came to power. The terrifying seven liberal arts-the trivium and quadriv­ accounting. Like the Olympian gods who down the thread on his way into the laby­ upheaval in Germany, and we could not ium, or more vague talk on scholastic no­ seem to cast their weight against the cosmic rinth, and thus follow it to find his way out. stay. We left tions of first and second intentions; and gods' inevitability. I remember that this story was interpre­ We went to Czechoslovakia. At that time Plato's dialogues were the favorite topics. There is now my remembered indebted­ ted by Simon Kaplan, one of our beloved it was new democracy, like now. We stayed So here the first few years !remember as the ness for all this. Whoever it was who made teachers, to be like the experience St. John's there a short time, and thought about some years of excitement, very much intellectual the accounting come out for me, was acting students have when confronting the monster permanent home, permanent stay, and left involvement, with students feeling certain in accordance with something in the spirit of of ignorance and the labyrinth of questions for Paris. We did not find permanent place pride in the Program. They were, maybe the the school. The "on balance in favor" prin­ which students need to go into, and out of there. In some few years again, the second first time, injected by intellectual thoughts. ciple, and not the "on balance against" which we must come. We needed a thread. World War started Anew in France big And-I said before that we were new. But seems to be part of the living endowment of Part of the thread metaphor came about upheaval too. France was defeated, divided. it was not completely so. We have the books. St. John's College. Incidentally, while in because the St. John's program, more than We left Paris really on the eve of the German Some of the books, certainly, we knew­ these remarks I am certainly speaking about anything else in education that I know of, invasion. Germans came and occupied well. The learning was our way of life. Dis­ the new program in particular, the reflec­ focuses on providing the opportunity for the Paris. We were again travelling, to the un­ cussions-Russians love discussion. (My tions are also true about the old as well. This experience of illumination that comes from occupied part of France. And then started friends know that.) And so, pretty soon new is because of the strong overlap of outstand­ understanding. Without undergoing that ex­ journey through Spain, Fascist Spain of friends, and old friend, dear friend, Mr. ing faculty from one program to the next. perience, the student cannot himself, from Franco, through semi-Fascist country, Por­ Klein, would gather in our home Fridays, !remember thatnow, andreflect thatitmay bis own self-originating resources, sustain tugal. Crossed ocean and landed in New after the lecture, late, after 12 o'clock. And be because the curriculum itself is informed by the love of learning which such an experi­ York, and in short time, on this campus, in sitting around the table, with cup of tea, philosophic and not instrumental intentions. ence provides. That is perhaps the most im­ this College. would converse. And our old experience, and Philosophy requires, as much as possible, that portant element of love which is required. And found, not a new upheaval, but New our new experience, and the books, and one's eyes remain open. I later reflected that But there is another element which is pro­ Program, program of this College. Now, the events in the war, everything would be inter­ the root of the college's "accounting" of its vided by our living teachers, who are them­ Program was message and challenge. Mes­ woven in this conversation. And we started students is perhaps its own open eyes. This was selves in love with the quest for sage of, so to say, manifesto of celebration pretty soon to feel at home on this campus. later connected with the thought that what St. understanding, and who love that impulse in of liberal arts. And the challenge was how We found new spiritual home. And our wan­ John's provides is not so much learning, but their students, however well or ill-prepared to find the ways of rooting this program in dering stopped. Here, on this campus. the training to be able to learn. those students might be in a formal sense. And now, in re­ What we learned was more like a training The teachers labor also to provide the thread, m em b erin g Mr. in the habits of the soul which are needed for because they love their students not only for Kaplan and Mr. the learning which continues for a lifetime. what they are, but (to help them to be more Scofield-who were That training seems to center around how fully), for what they might become. very good friends, to raise a question and to look at what is I want to conclude these remarks by and I am very happy implied in the forming of a question. (And going back to their beginning. Some of you that it happens in the also, as we learned last night, in examining might remember my story as like your own same day that the the quality of the answers.) We were given experience at St. John's. You might also College honors both the training to respond, in a disciplined way, reflect, as I have, that without the unique St. of them-so, in some to the interconnections which every ques­ John's education, our lives would have been indirect way, you tion points towards: Questions lead to an­ vastly different, and vastly less. Remember, honor this College, swers, but answers also lead towards other then, to help this island of light in whatever this little campus, this questions. way you can, as it attempts to sustain itself New Program, your Not to be made mute, or not to be en­ financially. alma mater. And I am gulfed, baffled, and overcome by this inter­ Please join me now in saluting the true happy to be present connectedness appears to require at least recipients of this award-our teachers and today. And thank you three things; the St John's program makes their thread of love, our school, and its living very, very much. provision for all of these. endowment. Devin calls the "somewhat se­ •u"''F.-'-'""'' if you will, a small middle ,.,,,.,,,,..,,,,,, in "When a crisis oc- Atlantic college, with green lawns we made an ad hoc decision." Most stretching away from a gracious and often the casualty of scheduling difficulties commodious colonial mansion (topped with was the "core group"-3-6 students as­ a cupola), to a yew verge, and on the signed the same schedule for an academic concrete benches of the quadrangle behind year. (Besides its scheduling utility, the core this the disputatious young, deter­ group is a nice feature of college life, Devin mined forefingers holding places in thick says. "It is good to have several other people paper texts. Imagine, if you will, on this who know exactly what your situation is.") campus a faculty made up of the likes of Additionally, the management of multiple Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bil­ variables occasionally resulted in badly un­ lie Holliday. balanced schedules for some students. Ev­ "I was delighted to see that we were eryone remembers a lot of laughter as well running a conservatory," says Dean as cries of frustration during the seasonal Brann. scheduling tasks. No, no, no. We all know who the Great In any case, when Annapolis Tutor Dor­ Teachers are at St. John's College. othy Guyot walked into the Registrar's of­ In A Method of Scheduling, however, the fice 18 months ago and saw the scheduling manual used to assign September classes at chart with its columns of time and space Annapolis-otherwise a model of lucidity stretching off in two directions, she paused. and sober restraint-the names used Mrs. Guyot was "into logic," Devin ex­ in examples are a roster of 20th century jazz plains, and she saw the key elements here. sort out their "how musicians. Keith Harvey photo She may have said, "Hmmm," before sug­ Devin will have his little joke. gesting the A.M./P.M. method, which she It was Devin, A'93, a summer assistant in had seen in action at another institution. the office since his freshman Mrs. Lewis and her assistant were a recep­ year, who wrote out the new scl1ted.1llln1g tive audience. system for Annapolis Registrar Nancy "It was a point of pride for us to design a Lewis last winter. schedule that would be pedagogically the Elsewhere, computers, acting on pro­ best we could have and at the same time, to grams which can do the job unchanged for metaphors, and the process from a magic scheme of her keep in mind the tutors' special needs," says years, scatter students into classrooms laid out is designed to in­ own, scheduled every Mrs. Lewis. After more sessions among across vast campuses. For St. John's, with ject heart and brains and class. When she retired in Guyot, Lewis, and Rushing, the A.M./P.M. its one-size-fits-all curriculum, long meet­ judgment into the business 1987, Registrar Nancy split was agreed upon. In the fall of 1991, ings and short meetings, core groups, a fac­ of placing classroom, stu­ "a like Lewis inherited the sched­ the Registrar's office, with the help of hand­ ulty which teaches across the program, dents, and faculty in work­ uling task. Because Miss written notes and verbal instructions, began student laboratory assistants who must be able combinations. It a giant system Leonard's system was to use the system; it was also clear that the scheduled for jobs and classes, too, tutors shows not only how to based on a secret and flaw­ whole plan needed to be laid out in some who live in Washington and Baltimore and avoid scheduling multiple of simultaneous less filing system in her systematic way. When an unexpected don't want to teach Monday morning or classes simultaneously in equations.'' head, she naturally source of funds came to Nancy Lewis, she Thursday afternoon, tutors who have to the same place, but also couldn't explain it, and invited Devin to put these notes into man­ watch the kids for two hours on Wednesday how to avoid putting the Mrs. Lewis had to turn ageable order. He agreed to devote time to or be free for a Tuesday morning faculty same tutors and students elsewhere for guidance. At it over Christmas break, and he did so. In two study group on Leibniz-for such variables together too often and thus driving them into Santa Fe, theNeidorf System, namedforlate weeks, he wrote up the manual. as these, Devin and the registrar's office a frenzy (this, however, is unstated)-these beloved Dean Robert Neidorf, seemed to do Here is some of what is presented in the have designed "a giant system of simulta­ are a few of the issues. the job well for registrar Diane Trudell, and 43 pages and the eight-page appendix: A list neous equations." "Essentially we have to Called by Mrs. Lewis the "A.M./P.M." Mrs. Lewis began to use it. of definitions. (Sample: Classroom-period. find a solution to a problem with many, split, the system is based on laboratories in Painful modifications were necessary, Classroom-period is a scheduling unit con­ many variables feeding back into it," Devin the morning and tutorials in the afternoon or however. "Because of all the criteria on this sisting one classroom and one short period says. (Not surprisingly, this junior lab assis­ the reverse for the students in each half of campus, because of all the study groups, and [e.g. a sophomore music tutorial requires tant, a wizard with numbers-as well as a any given class. The manual tells how to do so forth, we had to reinvent the wheel every four classroom-periods per week]); 21 rules, prose stylist-looks ahead to a doctorate in it. It isn't easy. year," says Mrs. Lewis. the first 11 of which "are not violated." mathematics "with a view to teaching.") To go back a little way, for many years For several years they carried on, lament­ (Sample: "Each mathematics and language Right now the "equations" are simply Assistant Dean Barbara Leonard, working ing each compromise as they followed what class has three short meetings per week."); rules 12-21 which, in extremis, MAY be violated. (Sample: "Classes should not be scheduled Friday 2:20."); tools for the mas­ sive operation, including tutor slates (aha, the jazz musicians. Pat Metheny is paired with Bix Beiderbecke teaching sophomore seminar); sample cards for individual tutors (Dizzy Gillespie lists as first choice "Wed. free"); track sheets assigning to classes the core groups defined above; track pages, and the esoteria of Complementarity Charts for making sure lab and music assistants get to "How to move Mobs: the Orator at Rome" was the title any other classes at all-a variable that is of Jasper Griffin's talk in September at Annapolis. A explored without passion over most of the next nine pages until-whew !-we reach Fellow and Tutor at Balliol College, Oxford, Mr. Griffin Custom Scheduling, an extremity involving was the first visitor under provisions of the Andrew Steiner 14 hypothetical figures and a final conces­ Visiting Scholar Program, established to honor the 1963 sion: "If the task of finding a schedule for a certain assistant becomes too monstrous, alumnus who died last year in an automobile accident. then it may be possible to allow the assisted class to overlap with one of the assistant's." On the final pages, we find charts with Duke Ellington and Miles Davis and Art Tatum J'dl.UU\nc::. Mr. Griffin and Keith Jarrett in a perfect crescendo of shows to move mobs." scholarly activity. Tutor Walter A couple of years ago, during the year e::::ti:11irHnn a member after Devin had opted out of Florida's New of the Vic:itii1M1n College with its "overwhelming freedom," Scholar Committee and before he had stumbled on St John's in and An111a1>0111s the library (while putting together his own Dean Eva have a word with Great Books list), he spent a good bit of time the visitor. on his musical interests, taking private jazz At far guitar lessons. (Today he studies classical guitar.) chairman of Visiting Besides music, in that interim year there Scholar program. was pool, a deviant subculture that contin­ ues to fascinate Devin, its operation in Keith Harvey photos (Continued on page 18) THE

Ylfumni 'F-ast & West (Continued from page five) theory." At present she is working on a curric­ amination is his chief occupation" with ques­ ulum for 5th and 6th graders on "Diversity and tions from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. "Interesting to think 1978 Communication,"which will allow inner city that it's only 14 years until he may be at St. Marvin Matthews (SF) has put out a new and suburban schools, hearing and deaf stu­ John's."His baby sister is seven months old. gospel album with the "same great voice and dents to correspond via fax, email, and TDD "Leslie Smith (A) and Nathan Rosen boundless enthusiasm his friends remember," (telephone devices for the deaf). We even ask, got married in the Great Hall and writes Robert E. DiSilverio, "Can how does the telephone work, and uncover the ever after," says Leslie. Some someone get this great talent a Mr. electromagnetic principles behind it. Thank that life include two master's '"""'"'·"~,,...., Dear Alumni: Ertegun?" Address: Marvin Mathews Minis­ God lab." She has an eight-year-old (Nathan's in theater and Leslie's in Not long ago an alumnus, Dr. Dale tries, PO Box 210064, Bedford, TX 76095- education), several foreign (England, Mortimer, who has spent 17 remarkable 7064. Greece, Israel), countless two away from came to visit me. For news of Mark in the election in math, was houses, the School of had a talk, and before the birth of Francis Leslie heads, and the An- he said that he wouldn't have reports the recent husband Kenneth comJ>any Theatre, which Nathan to look in if I Jv11uu. .1."'" at the American son, and Thalia, 7, moved from drama and AP. En­ ...... ,.,._,..,,.. alumni to do Mozambique, Tim Born Annapolis campus in the Cincinnati seciondlary school. And just that. He said I repeat (A'76), and herself. area and would love to hear from any Johnnies. three children, 8, Al- invitationinTheReportereveryyear. Lucy was economic/commercial officer at the 454 Foote Ave., Bellevue, KY 41073. 5, "(See the Homecom- I'm doing just that: You will be warmly Embassy from 1990-92, and the Borns, still Rae (A) has a busy, active law practice roundup for some Rosen pictures. welcomed and your stories will be ea­ there, are with the Agency for International specializing in environmental/land-use law Stein (A) and Laura Trent gerly heard. Development. and general litigation. "The farm in Virginia is (A'81), who work for the Department of De­ thriving and teeming with cattle, sheep, horses, fense, live in Columbia, Maryland, with three­ Sincerely, 1979 After graduation, Jeff McEJroy, (SF), got dogs and Sicilian donkeys. The welcome mat y ear-old Solomon. David writes that Eva T. H. Brann, Annapolis Dean is always out to Johnnies." his law degree at UNM Law School and prac­ St. Solomon's best friends are Erick Heyssel, son ticed law in various capacities in New Mexico. After a few years as a graduate student in of Tisha McLaughlin Heyssel (A) and Jim applied mathematics at SUNY Stony Brook, He helped form the New Mexico AIDS Ser­ Heyssel (A'84), and Daniel Koolbeck, son of AIDS and The Reporter Fried decided "not to become a vices, and was its president for a time, and then Michael (A) Beth Lohe Koolbeck (A'84). David is a math­ mathematician but a farmer." He came to Israel To the Editor: served as Director of Development for the Los ematical statistician and Laura is a research in 1985, arriving finally in Kibbutz Revivim in This is in response to David Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Ser­ librarian working towards an MLS at U-MD. Woolwine's letter (The Reporter 6/92). vices Center. Currently, he lives with his part­ the Negev Desert. Although he wanted to pick "Laura reads from the Torah at our synagogue, As a bisexual man with many gay and ner of three years, Enrique Noguera, an fruit and plant trees, the "kibbutz really needed while I do the occasional Haftorah and sing in bisexual friends, the AIDS epidemic has architect, and has a solo law practice in Holly­ amath teacher; thus I became amath teacher." the choir. On the whole I am finding the unex­ certainly affected my life to a very large wood. The two have renovated four houses and Next year he will begin studies in the history amined life not only worth living, but a whole degree. However, having said that, I'm an office. They are also involved in Enrique's of mathematics at the University of Tel Aviv. lot of fun." not certain I agree with Mr. Woolwine's family business and spend a portion of each "I have a wonderful wife, Yifat, and a wonder­ Lori Lindsay Quievryn (A) moved with position vis-a-vis AIDS and The Re­ year in Caracas, Venezuela. Jeff is active in ful son Matan, 2." her husband to North Carolina in 1988. They porter. Though I must admit I can't re­ working towards gay and lesbian civil rights, "have since fallen into the happy pattern of call ever having seen AIDS discussed or working to bring the National Gay and Lesbian American life: house, jobs, children." Timmy mentioned in The Reporter, I feel that Task Force Creating Change Conference to is two, and the second child was due in late this is largely due to the nature of the Los Angeles in November. He, Enrique, and October. Lou is a CPA and Lori has a consult­ paper as a whole. Unless an alumnus was their "delightful dog Pecos" would like to hear ing business (PC programming and trouble­ hired in an AIDS-related position and from old classmates. 1320 Cherokee Avenue, shooting) that "gets me out and about." reported it to the Alumni Notes, or an Hollywood, CA 90028. alumnus had done AIDS research that was either newsworthy or of scientific 1980 interest to the St. John's Community, I'm of Honolulu was mar- not certain how the would be on August 31. The couple "Progress on dis- sented within The unless it was part of Co.mp.aralt1ve Philosophy is she writes. That is not to say that it shouldn't be. Michael son Matan. for three years as a vol- 1982 unteer for the Sacramento AIDS both as facilitator for

sex raps on the streets, sources, encourage people to attend a tor of reference services at The Project has been extrerrielv Archives. For recreation, she has carnmug11ed title of No Pink suc;ce;ssf11Jl in almost city where novice and level horses in horse 11 years to- to lower HIV throughout the region, sailed ex- a union" ceremony con.s1d~~rably in both gay tensively, and has caught game fish from 12th anniversary. and bisexual communities, raising the "chilly Long Island Sound to the shallow flats is a doctoral student in consciousness of the participants and en­ of Belize." She begins study towards her MLS composition at Indiana University; the couraging active involvement in the fight next year, and she and her plan to music department sent one of her pieces to the against AIDS. As the epidemic veers to­ combine riding and fishing packing into Midwest Composers Symposium to be held in wards the heterosexual population, hope­ Yellowstone on horseback in pursuit of cut November at Oberlin. She and her husband fully Stop AIDS Projects will be developed throat trout in "pristine streams." Carlos Fernandez are the core of a Latin Amer­ to address this population as well. Jonathan (A) and Marion Betor Baum- ican music group which recently held a benefit A Stop AIDS meeting, (a one time (A) are the proud parents of Martha, 4, concert for a school project in Cuscatlan, El Louis and only commitment with no fee involved), and Peter, 1. Jon works as a computer/program­ Salvador. "It would be great to hear from some offers an opportunity to: 1) clarify your mer analyst for the U.S. Railroad Retirement of you!" 115 Tulip Tree House, Bloomington, 1983 thoughts and feelings about AIDS and Board. Marion is working part-time as a per­ IN 47406. Jeanne Connors Szebeni (A) is headed for the impact of the epidemic in your life, sonnel specialist for the U.S. Department of After six years of working for Open Door as Budapest with her husband Janos, who will be 2) learn how others have adapted to the Health and Human Services. All friends in the an outpatient chemical dependency counselor, doing research in hematology. Jeanne will be epidemic and share your experiences for area are invited to drop by 10 Lathrop Ave., Therissa Libby (A) decided to move to Santa teaching English when she is not tending her the benefit of others, 3) understand how River Forest, IL 60305; 708-771-2015. Fe, which she finds a beautiful, peaceful place. son Zoltan, eight months. AIDS is transmitted, 4) share your feel­ Scott Buchanan (A) is finishing a doctorate She is doing some counseling, training, writing ings and concerns about safe and unsafe in marriage and family therapy at Seton Hall professional materials, and preparing for grad­ 1984 sex, 5) examine lifestyle changes talcing University while his wife Kay is finishing a uate school. David Kidd (A) writes: "Adrian T:ravisan place-changes in sexual practices, al­ master's degree in the same field at LaSalle After graduation, Lucy Oppenheim (A) (A) married Anne Lester in a ceremony in the cohol and drug usage, relationships, and University where he has just begun teaching. travelled and worked in restaurants, until she Great Hall on August 8. The readings included all other areas of life, 6) inform yourself "Tracking family myths and meanings has landed at The Publick Enterprise in Annapolis excerpts from Plato's Symposium in true John­ about AIDS prevention activities and proven a challenging dialectic. I can't imagine where she got "a liberal arts education in news­ nie fashion. They are living in Milan, Italy, and opportunities and learn how you might a better preparation for this work than St. papering." Subsequently, freelance writing would love to hear from you. Please write or participate in them, 7) state your views John's," he writes. gradually evolved into freelence editing, which phone: via Cino da Pistoia #9, Milano 20162, about community AIDS prevention Chris Butler (A) is in the throes of writing she relies on "to market and bill for me." A ITALY; 011-39-2-6610-3664. needs, 8) commit yourself personally to his dissertation in clinical psychology at member of the peace and anti-nuclear group 1985 practicing safe sex and encouraging oth­ Wayne State University in Detroit. He is also SANE/Freeze, she is "urging the local chapter Linda Sullivan (SF) had an award-winning ers to do the same. working in an inner-city psychiatric hospital, to combat racism in ourselves and our commu­ year of scriptwriting, with her southwestern While I attended St. John's I was mainly with children born crack-addicted. He nity." Lucy and her longtime companion Jim thriller Borderlinewinning competitions spon­ happy to see that condoms were being is counting on Mark and Stephanie Moore Bradford are involved in the peer counseling sored by Writer's Digest, The Wisconsin distributed freely at the Health Center as Fuller to fill him in on reunion news. "Any program Re-evaluation Co-counseling, and Screenwriters Forum and the Freelance a means of assisting in promoting safer other Johnnies in the northern midwest?" he she is a member of the Women's National Screenwriters Forum; it also was a finalist in sex; however, that is only a beginning. asks.He is atthe Department of Psychology, 71 Book Association. the America's Best competition and was des­ Positive, healthy sexuality does not de­ W. Warren, Wayne State University, Detroit, How did the 10 years slip by so fast? asks ignated in the top seven percent of applicants velop in a vacuum, it needs both nurtur­ MI48202. Cathy Randall (A). Her first five years, she for the prestigious Nicholl Fellowship. The ing and validation, a lifetime quest. Liz Colmant (A) declares that despite an writes, were spent establishing a career in in­ screenplay is under consideration by several Dialogue must ensue, frank and explicit occasional suit and tie outing to corporate vestment banking, first at Legg Mason, and producers. An environmental video she wrote discussion must be encouraged, if we are headquarters, most days she dons jeans and then at Alex Brown, where, since 1991, she has for a corporate sponsor won a 1991 Bronze to spread the facts rather than the virus. digs through the dust in the warehouse of the been coordinator of the Philadelphia branch. Telly Award. Linda lives in Washington, DC, Sincerely, AT&T Archives. "The collection is great­ The second five years were spent maintaining with husband Peter Shea and dog Diva and she Tobias Maxwell A'88 Thomas Watson's notebook on the invention that career after marriage and two kids. "We do is currently writing a screenplay about a serial of the telephone, papers of Clinton J. Davisson, try to live the Examined Life, and I can see the original work that confinned the Big Bang satisfying results in my four-year-old boy. Ex- (Continued on page 17) DECEMBER 1992 THE REPORTER PAGE17

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RONALIE A. MOSS, '89-'91. Ronalie is MARY TRACY SIGMAN, '85-'87 currently a teacher living in Los Alamos, (Summers). Mary is a teacher living in Ar­ New Mexico. lington Heights, Illinois. TOM MURPHY, '84-'87. Tom is a Car­ LOUIS SISNEROS, graduated in 1988. melite brother and teaches English at Joliet After 10 years teaching English at Colomb­ Catholic Academy. ine High School (in a suburb of Denver), MARY J.NAVRATIL, '67, '68, '70-'71. Louis will be transferring to a high school in Mary is doing research in the field of math­ Evergreen, Colorado. He will continue to ematics and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. teach journalism, composition, American CORREEN M. NAJJAR, '68-'70. Lit, etc. In the summer of '90, he studied Correen is a retired teacher and has also been Dante's Commedia in an NEH Summer a medical technician. She lives in Santa Fe. Seminar for Teachers at University of Ver­ MARLENE NORDSTROM, '83-'86. mont. In the summer of '91 he acquired a Marlene has been a photographer/journalist child - his 9-year-old hyperactive(!) but is now aMelaleucaMarketing Executive nephew. living in Phoenix. MICHAEL C. SLOTA, '84-'86. Mi­ LOUIS PAULS, '85-'86. Louis was liv­ chael has been an officer in the U.S. Air ing in Austin, Texas and working in the film Force and does volunteer work for civic industry, but recently moved to Mexico. organizations, a credit union, and New JOSEPH S. PLUCHINOTTA, '71-'74. Mexico Endowment for the Humanities. After leaving St. John's, Joseph went on He is currently an officer for an elec­ to earn a Ph.D. in Education Administra­ tric/gas/water utility. tion from the University of New Mexico. CLAUDIA SMITH-PORTER, SGI '82. He is now Director of Education and Mar­ Still lives in Santa Fe and is working as a keting with an organization in Virginia, technical writer documenting software. Her providing technical assistance and train­ education is continued on a daily basis by ing to American Indian tribes throughout her 9-year-old daughter. the country. JOHN M. SOMMER, Summer of '87; PAT PREIB, '83-'84. Pat is a teacher in Calendar year '89. John has retired from the Santa Fe. insurance business and is the founder of Vail GREGORY H. RHOADES, Summer Valley Institute in Vail, Colorado. '88, Spring/Summer '89. Gregory is cur­ LINDA STABLER-TALTY/PETER J. rently a literature instructor at Comish TALTY, '74-'76 +preceptorials; '76- '82 + College of the Arts in Seattle, and is also preceptorials - Linda and Peter are living in an active member of that city's alumni New York City. Linda has subsequently re­ chapter. ceived her Master's in Environmental De­ MARA ROBINSON, '82-'83. At one sign from Yale, and Peter has his in time Mara had a small career as an opera Architecture from the University of Vir­ singer and as an opera producer. She now ginia. They went for one summer to Sicily spends most of her time shuttling between to work on an archeological dig and the Venice and Santa Fe. summer extended into a year. Alexandra SANDRA N. ROBINSON, '71, '73, and was born in 1988. '74. After St. John's, Sandra went on to GAIL DONOHUE STOREY, '79-'82. J21fumni 'East & 'West receive an M.S. in Library Science from 1990 Gail received. an M.A. in English/Creative (Continued from page 16) Catholic University of America in 1977, and Writing from the University of Houston in Kevin Michael Graham and Deirdre is now a Library Media Specialist with the killer who stalks fledgling lawyers. Anais Routt (A'91) married August 15 in 1982, where she currently lives. She is a Trenton, Ohio. Kevin is doing graduate work D.C. public schools. She is a Past President writer and her novel, The Lord's Motel, will 1986 in the Department of Philosophy at the Univer­ of the D.C. Association of School Librarians. be published in the fall by Persea Books. Ronald Landor (SGl'85) writes to correct sity of Toronto. KATHY RUFFALO, '85, '86, '87, '90. DAVID R. TRUOG, Summer of '86A, the editor's use of the word "graduate" to de­ George Turner is a first-year law student Kathy has attended the University of Illinois Summer/Fall of '89SF, Spring '90 SF. scribe his eight family members. Three of his at Boalt Hall of the University of California. and Loyola University for courses in Curric­ David tells us that he is currently living in family are graduates, while eight of his family 1991 ulum and Administration/Supervision. She Paris, France, where he is a consultant and are alumni, including himself, or "in the case James Maliszewski (A) reports himself is currently a teacher. software developer, and is thinking about of my daughter Amiel, a returning senior" to alive and well and attending graduate school at MARGARETINEZSANSOM, '71, '72, going back to school. Santa Fe this year. the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies at Larry O'Flavahavan (A) was one of 28 '74. After leaving St. John's, Margaret went MARION MEGAN TYNDALL, '72, the University of Toronto. "I am very much on to receive an NEH grant at Columbia to '74, '75. Megan spent a month touring successful applicants-out of more than 500-­ interested in getting back in touch with my study racial and ethnic history of the U.S; England with an Irish cousin whom she to be selected for the directors' school of the classmates. "His address: Pontificalinstituteof American Film Institute recently. Mediaeval Studies (PlMS), 59 Queen's Park took self-esteem training with Jack Can­ found to be quite mad! She is a part-time Crescent East, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C4, field; had eight weeks of watercolor, oil college English teacher and lives in An­ 1987 CANADA. painting, drawing, sculpture, and ceramics napolis. Julia Mobayed-Dray (A) and her husband at Southern Oregon State, Ashland, last 1992 DEBBIE M. VAN RYN, '87-'88, Sept.­ Paul, who live in Arnold, MD announce the summer. Margaret received a "Who's Who May; '88-'89. Debbie is a teacher in Paw­ Mark Parenti (AGI) is organizer and ex­ birth of a son Robert Lewis on August 10. in Business Education" award from the State tucket, Rhode Island, and says that the most On August 15, Brother Christopher Han­ ecutive director of the school reform group of California in 1991. son (SF) made his Solemn Profession as he Maryland Save Our Schools. In September the challenging class has been 10th grade geom­ joined the monastic community of the Abbey Annapolis-based group launched a statewide WILLIAM C. SCHAAB, '84-'86. Dur­ etry - trying to teach it true to Euclid while of Saint Mary and Saint Louis. campaign for elected school boards. Almost ing the years from 1968-70 William was a still meeting school requirements! half of the counties in Maryland elect their own special Blue Lake attorney for Taos Pueblo. JIM VON RIESEMANN, '89-'90. Jim is 1988 school boards and nationwide the number is Since 1970 he has been general counsel. He currently a graduate student in the MBA Greg Ferguson (A) writes from London 93%, according to Mr. Parenti. His group also lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. program at Emory University. He says he is that he is working on his master's degree at plans to lobby the state legislature for public MARY E. SCHRUBEN, '83-'88 (vari­ a "perma- student." school choice, a proposal that would allow King's College there. ously). In the past Mary has been in concert JOHN WATKINS, '76-'77, '81-'82. parents to send their children to any public management and textile restoration. She is school in the county. A graduate of UMBC, John is a Ph.D. candidate and also a pilot and 1989 currently a Systems Analyst for New Mex­ farmer. He lives in Arkansas. Campaign literature for Raymond Diaz Mr. Parenti sees his graduate study at St. John's ico Human Services Department. TONI WILKINSON, '83-'87. Toni Aragon (SF), a Republican candidate for Con­ as preparation for the grassroots organization gress in Colorado District One-presently held he has launched that has him speaking to ser­ COLIN SHEPPARD, '86 (Summer-An­ moved from Santa Fe to San Francisco and by Rep. Patricia Schroeder-announces that vice clubs, PT A groups and community asso­ napolis/Fall-Santa Fe); '87 (Spring & Sum­ works as an Administrator at the University he will "contradict the Money Myth" by re­ ciations. His St. John's reading has given him mer-Santa Fe). Colin has taught at a of California. straining both campaign receipts and expendi­ an idea of the problems and advantages of community college, worked in a bookstore, ANN M. YECK, '71-'73, '75, '76. Ann democracy he says. And, he says, he has ture "well below" $5,000. and been a research assistant at Oak Ridge went on a trip to China in 1983, and in 1990 learned to "talk and listen." Brett Heavner (A) was graduated from National Laboratory. Colin is engaged to be she went to Phoenix to see olympic ice Duke University law school in May with a J.D. John Povejsil (A) is living in Minneapolis with his wife Sue Campbell where he is a law married and is currently a graduate student. skaters, including Brian Boitano. She has and an L.L.M. in international law. He recently He has taken graduate courses at the U niver­ taken classes for teachers at UNM. began work as an associate with the Washing­ student at Hamline University and she "has a sity of Michigan, the University of Virginia, MARTHA W. YOUNG, '82-'84. Mar­ ton, DC firm of Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan. real life" working for the St. Paul Pioneer and the University of Florida. First Lt. Jeff Kojac (A) is currently offi­ Press. tha earned a Ph.D. even before she came cer-in-charge of a Marine detachment in Korea Joan Becker (AGI) and Thomas Knocke JOHNW. SHOMAKER, '81-'84. John to St. John's. She was an NEH scholar in after serving as a Squadron Operations officer became parents of a beautiful baby girl, Cath­ received an M.Sc. in Hydrogeology in Ancient Greek at the University of Texas, on Okinawa. He reports having visited Edith erine Ann, at 6:07 a.m. October 23. Joan writes 1985 from the University of Birmingham Austin in 1986, and is now an Associate Updike (A'86) and James Kennelly (A '89) in that she remembers "with great fondness this (England), and is currently enrolled in the Professor/ English and ESL Education at summer in Annapolis, spent with so many kind Tokyo. "They are both doing outstandingly," Ph.D. program there. He is a consulting UNLV.D and fun-loving people." D he writes. hydro geologist. is msuv1::ralble over 3," says Mr. Hired as Research Director the Dem- ocratic National Committee in 1988, he two years up files and data in a massive research de- for the remarkable manual, but for the stu­ to DNC Chairman Ron resomrcetulirress, his election of a Demo­ and cratic Two years ago, Mr. Steitz uui.u.uuv. Devin is made uneasy wasnamedDNCCommunicationsDirector. such reflectively at his As such, "I.signed on for Clinton the minute book with its cast of star-studded music­ he became the nominee." makers, he notes that there is a whole body During the season of primaries, DNC ef­ 1U11~n'!:IA•f'llCll" of Historic Inns of of applied mathematics, operations research forts went into high gear. Mr. Steitz was a Asso1cia1te Director of Career & life and linear programming, that could be ad­ frequent spokesman as the party platform Anna1oolis tutor Abe Schoener. dressed to such scheduling problems as St. neared completion, commenting on one oc­ John's. This knowledge lies several years casion that Democrats have "transcended ahead of him, however. At some future date, the old left-right divisions with a new syn­ campus break/ast, no doubt, the present manual with its thesis" blending in the platform common business meets whimiscal charm will be transformed into sense from both sides of the political spec­ columns of numbers. trum (New York Times, June 26, 1992). In academia at Boathouse the design and structure of the Democratic (Continued from page one) Convention, he provided high tech coordi­ By DONNA BOETIG George nation of images and themes-"what gets On a warm Monday in September, 16 busi­ the Republican party offer the American shown on video on the walls, for example, ness leaders from the Annapolis area put aside people.... " what the convention should say to people." their concerns about dwindling profits and a Putting words in the mouth of one the At the convention's close, jubilant Demo­ lackluster economy and came to St. John's most powerful men in the world is nothing crats seemed to think their time was at hand. College for the First Annual Small Busi­ new to this member of the Republican Na­ Next came the Republican convention in ness/Higher Education Breakfast. Repre­ Guest speaker Leonard Blackshear. tional Committee. In this case, Mr. Bush Houston, and Mr. Steitz, along with a team sentatives from nearly a dozen Maryland picked up the passages that Mr. George had of 20 Democratic campaign workers, was colleges-from Towson State to St. written for a reception at the Reagan Library there "to help present [the Democratic] Mary's College--conversed with leaders last July. On other occasions, the President case." The Washington Post ("Democrats in of businesses from high technology to has repeated Mr. George's writings on other Enemy Territory," August 21, 1992) called housecleaning. topics. Still, Mr. George admits to "floating them "wise-cracking dissidents who have What ensued over breakfast at the Boat around the Astro-Dome" for a couple days been dispatched here by the Democrats to House was the promise of a lasting, mutually after the President's speech. dispute and deflect nearly every assertion or beneficial relationship between the two Since 1988, this Johnnie has been super­ charge issued from the GOP podium." The groups: opportunities for college students to vising communications between the Repub­ team goal was immediate response, says Mr. network and explore careers through intern­ lic ans and a very special group of Steitz, and the blizzard of faxes was so ships, co-ops, and part-time work, and for constituents, the Eagles. These supporters, timely that when they had advance texts of businesses to have access to potential full­ of whom there are several thousand, have speeches, according to Mr. Steitz, "we time employees whose skills and compe­ Barbara Altman, Placement Director. contributed $15,000 or more to the cam­ sometimes got our response out before a tence they know. paign and understandably need to be kept speech was delivered." The seminar, highlighting the mutually ability to call a college one day and have a informed. It is Mr. George's job, through Citing "the level of intolerance and advantageous relationship between colleges competent worker the next," she said. newsletters, brochures and solicitation let­ fearmongering," in Houston, Mr. Steitz and the small businesses, was the brainchild Leonard Blackshear, guest speaker and ters, to convince these local leaders of their found the GOP convention frightening, he of St. John's Placement Director Barbara President and Founder of Associated Enter­ importance to the party. He even oversees says. The quick-response strategy was de­ Altman. Ms. Altman believed that St. John's prises, an Annapolis-based telecommunica­ such minutia as ensuring that banquet guests signed to help viewers assess what he calls graduates-articulate, independent thinkers tions and business consulting firm, receive photos of themselves hobnobbing "an extremist position." with analytic skills-were "a comfortable fit compared a small business to a work of art, with senators, cabinet members, and other Sounding much like his candidate-or with small businesses. Our students are ca­ and the canvas on which the business artist top-ranking Republicans. maybe the candidate sounds like Mr. pable of assuming a wide variety of respon­ works is the economy. "While traditional With three weeks left to Election Day­ Steitz-he says he is "encouraged by the sibilities, such as they'd have working in a artists seek applause and critical acclaim to and the President down 10 points in the notion that people are ready to move .~or­ small business." And since the majority of tell how well they're doing, the entrepreneur polls-the tempo at the Republican Na­ ward, and are ready to tum a new page. job openings are in this sector, she believed artist keeps score by seeing how much rev­ tional Committee quickened. For Mr. Before joining the DNC, he was at sepa­ the two should get acquainted. enue his business generates. George there was always one more letter to rate times an issues advisor to both Gary Dean Eva T.H. Brann agreed: "There is a "While control of creativity limits the write. "We're feeling the pressure to get the Hart and Jesse Jackson, travelling with each natural alliance between small businesses ability of the traditional artist to contribute point across (to the Eagles) as frequently and on the campaign trail. At age 31, he was in and small colleges," she told the group. to our society, excess regulation of business pointedly as possible that we 're depending the inner circle of Jackson advisors, identi­ "You need people who can do many things limits that artist from making a contribution on them to get the information out into the fied as the one who persuaded Jackson to and meet all contingencies. We try to teach to our society which we normally know as communities across the country," he says. reduce his planned 25% cut in defense our students to be ready to learn and do jobs, contributions to local community ac­ "We're riding a wave of emotion. One day spending to a more reasonable 10%, and the anything ... You rely on personal resourceful­ tivities, and taxes." things look bleak; then the next morning one who helped move the candidate towards ness and inventiveness. We have tried to Robert A. Nicholls, an official from the someone comes in and says, 'Didn't our congressionally acceptable revenue-raising give our students opportunity to use their federal Small Business Association, said his candidate look good last night?' Obviously strategies (Time, April 11, 1988). Earlier imagination and their ingenuity." clients often don't have time for breaking in we'd rather be ahead than behind, but still still, armed with a master's degree in eco­ Even in a college like St. John's where new employees. Small entrepreneurs are Truman came from behind and squeezed out nomics from Yale, he worked at the Con­ learning takes precedence over career-train­ balancing on a see-saw, he explained. Then a one-two point victory, and Ford almost gressional Budget Office, where at age 25 ing, "the recession has created an underlying someone else wants to climb on board. pulled it off." he received the Director's Award for Out­ anxiety among some students," Ms. Altman Given this stress, business owners want A self-described "political junkie," Mr. standing Service. said. "Graduate school is becoming more to hire employees who will fit in quickly. George admits to having been a Democrat competitive and funding has tightened." Getting acquainted beforehand serves both until he began questioning their policies Seeing the number of small businesses inter­ parties well. in the 1980s. Sensing his dissatisfaction, a Volunteers for Perot ested in hiring college students boosts their Interested in computers, St. John's fellow Annapolitan invited him to New morale. sophomore Chad Cranfill, found the morn­ Orleans to attend the Republican conven­ Joan Vinson Stallings, AGI'81, a mem­ Johnnies have participated in numerous in­ ing informative and was impressed by the tion. "At that time certain things were ber of the Board of the Friends of St. John's, ternships, including ones in the state legisla­ account of a Johnnie who began as a file disagreeable to me with the Republican led the effort in Maryland to put Ross Perot's ture, and in both the state Democratic and clerk and worked himself up to manager. party, but I felt the Republicans offered name on the presidential ballot in November Republican parties. Ms. Altman sees more Future lawyer, sophomore Sebastian Gan­ more room and intellectual freedom to and was later state chairman of the Volun­ opportunities generated by the business break­ son, appreciated the seminar because "it's work in." Although Mr. George has re­ teers for Perot. Mrs. Stallings first met Mr. fast; it's a matter of spreading the word "Em­ important to know what it is like in the solved any doubts he's had with the party, Perot in 1969 when he was organizing mis­ ployers give us good feedback," she said business world today. These men and his close friends remain staunch Demo­ sions to Vietnam to look for missing Ameri­ "They tell us, 'We love your students.' women showed me that you have the ability crats. "It makes for some pretty lively cans, including her missing husband, Col. "The bottom line for businesses is the to succeed if you try hard enough." discussions," says he. Bobby Vinson, later declared dead. On October 7, Allan Bloom died in Chicago, where he was a Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He wrote on Plato, Rousseau, Shakespeare, Swift and others, and his 1968 translation of the Republic is still popular at St. John's. marketing manager Bloom never taught here, but he had a personal relationship with the College stretching back many years. He was a student and devoted friend of Leo Strauss, who was here as a Chauncey Brooks, Jr., A '37, retired marketing manager with TRACOR Inc., an electronics Scholar-in-Residence for the two years before his death in 1973. Strauss in turn was an old and communications research and development firm, died of heart ailments at the Johns and close friend of Jocob Klein, a central figure in the life of the College for many years. Hopkins medical center in March. Bloom lectured here several times in the sixties, and several current and former Tutors Born in Baltimore, Mr. Brooks attended St. John's College and received his degree from were students or friends of his. the University of Georgia. He was always very much interested in St. John's, because he himself was a fervent During World War II, he was awarded the Purple Heart and a residential Unit Citation. exponent of placing great works of philosophy, history and literature at the center of a After the war, Mr. Brooks was in business in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Kentucky, before liberal education. (He also had great respect for our reading of great works in the settling in Washington in 1955 to work for Reed Research and the National Small Mathematics Tutorials and Laboratories.) Furthermore, with his 1987 Closing of the Businessmen's Association. American Mind he became very widely known, and very controversial, for his critique He joined TRACOR in Florida in 1963, and was transferred to the company's Washington of American higher education and his advocacy of great books. This work influenced the office in 1966. He retired in 197 6. Since the mid-80' s, he has lived in Queenstown, Maryland. subsequent national debate over both educational standards and "The Canon." It gave Survivors include his wife Kathleen Vinup Brooks, three children, Frederick V. Brooks of support to writers and educators across the country who wanted to lessen the impact of Chicago, Belle Brooks O'Brien of Washington, DC, Chauncey Brooks ill of Annapolis, and popular culture and political pressures on American universities and to maintain the seven grandchildren. importance of books considered great by the western tradition. In his book Bloom did not set out either to describe or defend St. John's. Still, for better and for worse, he helped spark an interest among many people in what St. John's tries to accomplish A. M. Cox: antiques restorer, expert and influenced, to some degree, how people view the College. In view of these connections, perhaps some few words in memoriam will not be Anthony Macy Cox, 40, A'79, an antiques restorer, died October 1 of an electrical accident inappropriate or without interest, even if they are entirely personal. I did graduate work which occurred while he was doing restoration work on a guest cottage at a French estate in with him at the University of Toronto in the '70s, and I only wish I could convey how Argentan, France. very, very great a teacher he was. Lacking that ability, I will try at least to describe why He had lived in France for the past 10 years, studying restoration techniques under a master I think he was the best proponent of great books and of liberal education that I have ever met. craftsman. He had become an expert in gold leafing as well as restorer of antiques and Listening to Bloom lecture on Plato, or Tocqueville, or Machiavelli, was an unforget­ paintings, a woodworker, and a gardener. table experience. He could show how seriously The Prince, for example, had to be taken, Born in Washington, DC, he attended the Sidwell Friends School before coming to St. because he could show the power of its attack on our most cherished beliefs. Listening to John's. him one realized that "people just aren't like that," or "That's just not the way things are," He is survived by his mother, Joya Bovingdon Cox of McLean, VA, his father Arthur were not adequate responses to someone as challenging as Machiavelli. Bloom made one Macy Cox of Washington, two brothers, and a sister. see, in a way which was both frightening and exhilarating, how much one had to learn about what the world is really like before one could refute Machiavelli. Bloom made one anxious and eager to know the world, because he showed so brilliantly how hard that was to do and how high the stakes were. Dr. Cozzolino: former Board member He could not have done this if he weren't such a gifted interpreter of texts. He could Dr. Eugene N. Cozzolino, 87, A'29, a retired general practitioner and a member of the St. demonstrate how extrordinarily intelligent an author really was, even if he disagreed with John's Board of Visitors and Governors from 1972-1975, died in April of heart failure in him, because he was so extraordinarily intelligent himself. He had a genius for clarity and Naples, Florida. a gift for argumentation which awed me time and again. After graduation from St. John's, Dr. Cozzolino attended Harvard Medical School, Still, he never called attention to his own intelligence or knowledge. It was always interning at the Grace/Yale New Haven Hospital. He practiced medicine in New Haven until Machiavelli, or Flaubert, or whoever, who was making this stupendous argument or his retirement in 1982. having this stunning insight. Bloom was merely their student. This was absolutely not a An avid golfer, be was a club champion in his earlier years. He was a member of state, pose: his humility in the face of the authors he interpreted was-well, it was positively county, and national medical associations, a Past President of Rotary International, and a inspiring. He was the very embodiment of our snappy slogan, "The following teachers member of the West Haven Elks. will be returning next year: Homer, Plato, Aristotle ... " Thanks to him, I saw the truth in A graduate under the Old Program, Dr. Cozzolino was a staunch supporter of the New this slogan before I'd ever heard of St. John's. Program and was active in college affairs, establishing the Richard D. Weigle Scholarship Finally, Bloom appreciated the crucial importance of education for happiness. I think fund. he believed in liberal education more deeply and passionately that anyone else I have ever He is survived by three sons, Gerard, Robert, A'63, and Peter; three sisters, a brother and met, and I think he did so because he loved both friends and students so deeply. Although four grandchildren. His wife Barbara died in 1986. there were things equally important to him, nothing in the world was more important to Memorial contributions may be made to the Richard D. Weigle Scholarship fund at him than the highest happiness of students. We who realized this loved him very dearly Annapolis. in return. Henry Higuera Tutor at Annapolis veterinarian, civic leader Dr. George C. Davis, 61, A'53, a prominent veterinarian and civic leader in Union City, Tennessee, died suddenly of a heart attack last December at his home. Ridgely former police commissioner Born in Montgomery, Alabama, he received his B.A. from St. John's College and took his Retired Army Lt. Gen. Ridgely Gaither, 89, A'24, Annapolis police commissioner from degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Au burn University in 1956. After a brief period 1966 to 1973, died in Annapolis October 26 after a brief illness. as a regulatory veterinarian for the state of Tennessee, he moved to Union City in 1957 and Born in Baltimore, he was graduated from St. John's as a military honor graduate and began a partnership in veterinary medicine which lasted to his death. commissioned in the Army in 1924. He was in China in 1937 when the Japanese invaded. In He was a past president of the Union City Rotary Club, president of the Chamber of 1939, he graduated from the Command and General Staff College. He also was a graduate of Commerce, and the Union City-Obion County Industrial Board, and was a member of many the National War College. other civic and professional organizations. In World War II, as a general staff officer in Washington he helped organize paratroop He is survived by his wife Alice, two sons, one of them a partner in his veterinary practice, units, and in 1943, he became commandant of the Parachute School at Fort Benning, GA. He a daughter, a brother, and four grandchildren. was in Germany with the 17th Airborne Division in 1945, and at the war's end, was assistant commander of the 86th infantry division in the Philippines. After the war, he was president of the War Crimes Court in Florence, Italy, and was the American representative to the boundary commission determining the Italian-Yugoslav border. In the Korean War, he commanded an infantry division in combat at the "Punchbowl" and Herbert Florestano, 79, A'34, died October 30, 1991, in Indianapolis after a brief illness. "Heartbreak Ridge" sectors in 1953. A native of Annapolis, Mr. Florestano attended Annapolis High School, received his Promoted to Lt. General in 1956, he was appointed Deputy Commander of the U.S. bachelor's degree from St. John's, and earned his master's and doctor's degrees in microbi­ Continental Army Command for Reserve Components, the Army National Guard and the ology from the University of Maryland. Reserve Units. In 1943, he joined the Dow Chemical Company in Indianapolis, where he directed Among his many medals and citations is the Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf chemotherapeutic research and development for the firm's Pittman-Moore division. Subse­ Cluster, the Legion of Merit, and the Italian Cross. quently, he was manager of the scientific services with Dow's research laboratories. He retired He survived two wives, the former Dorothy Bassford and the former Anne Harcourt, and in 1977. is survived by his third wife, the former Ada Ann Gregory, a daughter, and two grandchildren. During his career, he was a teaching fellow at the University of Maryland and a visiting lecturer at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Butler University School of Pharmacy and Marion College in Indianapolis. C. J. Stine: veteran, insurance agent The author or co-author of many articles, he held patents in the U.S., Great Britain, and Carroll J. Stine, A'23, died in June at the V.A. Medical Center in Martinsburg, West South Africa. He was a member of the American Society of Microbiology, the Society for Virginia. He had been a resident of Knoxville, MD, for many years. Experimental Biology and Medicine, and Sigma XI. He was a fellow of the American After graduation from St. John's, he worked for the Monumental Life Insurance Co. A Association for the Advancement of Science. veteran of World War II, he served in the U.S. Army in the European theater. He is survived by his wife, Myrtle Futch Florestano, a son, Dana J. Florestano, his mother, He is survived by two brothers, Millard F. Stine and Ralph E. Stine, one sister, Mildred Amelia Florestano, and two sisters, Theresa Newman and Lola Dawson, all of Annapolis. Stine, and several nieces and nephews. By LESLI ALLISON "What we're looking at is probably to On September 30, the Santa Fe City Coun­ complete this construction in the spring and cil approved an industrial revenue bond issue the earliest we could be into it is at the very of 3.3 million dollars for the St. John's Col­ end of spring semester," Valentine said lege project. The college had already located Renovation plans call for the removal of Sally Mae as a buyer for the bond Because a wall to create a large open space. Students the bond was issued through the city, it is can expect to see wider aisles and a better exempt from federal income tax. display of merchandise. Of the 3.3 million dollars, 2,850,000 will "Some of that was driven by code re­ be used in the construction of student hous­ quirements," Valentine said "We couldn't ing. The remainder of the funds are tagged build the bookstore where it is now if we for several projects. were starting over again. But while that may Included in these is the relocation and add to the cost, it will also make it look more renovation of the college bookstore. Cur­ attractive." rently located on the basement level of Students also can expect a change in Editor David Gergen Peterson Student Center, the store is far bookstore hours, at least initially. "We do removed from highly trafficked areas, diffi­ plan to try to expand the hours, including cult to locate and too small for the volume weekends," Valentine said. "We are com­ GREAT ISSUES: of merchandise. In its present location the mitted to trying that and it will depend on store is also unable to comply with current whether the store is used during those hours. David Gergen to speak accessibility standards. If people do not use it during the expanded Jan. 16 in Annapolis The new location for the bookstore will hours then we will have to adjust them." be on the first floor of the Peterson Student Another significant project will be the "Politics, Elections, the Presidency, and Center where the library was formerly lo­ purchase of a new phone system for the Promises" will be tile timely subject of Great cated. Architectural consultant Lisa Carey college. According to Valentine, the current Issues Forum speaker U.S. News and World has drafted a plan for the space. Davis and system is outdated and cannot be expanded. Report editor David R. Gergen January 16 at Associates was selected as the contractor for "The technology has changed quite a bit in the Annapolis campus. the work. phones," Valentine said "[Our phone system] The special Saturday morning event, According to Santa Fe Treasurer Bryan is no longer manufactured and it would be sponsored by the Friends of St. John's and Valentine, the college had initially hoped to expensive to expand the phone use that it could the Continuing Education office of the col­ Applications are now being accepted begin work on the renovation over Christ­ handle. Rather than put money into a dinosaur lege, will follow the format that has brought for the 1993 - 94 session of the Institute mas break. This schedule has been delayed we think we can get a much better phone many hundreds of people to the campus for for the Study of Eastern Classics in Santa Fe. due to considerations of handicapped access service which also would be expandable." programs on ethics since 1988. A question The institute offers a one-year, gradu­ for the whole Peterson building as well as a The remaining funds from the bond will be and answer session follows a kick-off ate level course of study in the classic question of potentially hazardous materials used to cover issuance costs, limited office speaker, with small-group discussions on preassigned corollary reading next, the pro­ texts and languages of India and China. in the original construction. renovations and first year interest on the funds. gram concluding in a luncheon for all partic­ As in the undergraduate and graduate ipants. The cost will be $25. For more programs of the college, classes take the secures $2 million bond information, call 263-2371, ext. 230. form of seminars, tutorials and preceptorials. The Great Issues forums have brought such Tuition: $1,500 I semester. Limited speakers to the college as former Attorney Gen­ financial aid may be available. eral Eliot Richardson, Judge Robert Bork and "Last summer about $200,000 was spent to -- For further information write to: -­ St.John's College in Annapolis has secured Arthur Ashe, addressing ethics and politics, a $2 million tax-exempt bond at 6.44 per­ make the building safer," Mr. Billups said. Institute for the Study of Eastern Classics journalism, medicine, business, law and athlet­ cent interest rate from the Student Loan "A sprinkler system was installed through­ ics. Future Great Issues programs will include St. John's College Marketing Association, or Sallie Mae. The out the building, and to do this we needed a Ethics and Religion and Ethics and Education. 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca college closed on the 20-year-bond on new water main all around the campus. An Editor at Large for U.S. News, Mr. Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501-4599 November 4. Smoke detectors were added to every room, Gergen also serves as a commentator on tele­ 505/988-4361, Fax 505/ 989-9269 According to Annapolis Treasurer Fred and emergency lighting. Fire doors were vision and radio. He teams up Fridays with "Bud" Billups, of the $2 million, $1.2 mil­ installed to seal off the stairways. Next sum­ columnist Mark Shields to analyze events of lion will be used to refinance the college mer, the building's electrical system will be the week for the "MacNeil/Lehrer News­ August Paideia cruise debt. The remaining funds are earmarked for improved so everyone can use a hair dryer hour," he makes frequent appearances on various campus projects and to pay for set­ at once," he said. Public Radio's"All Things Considered," and The Paideia Institute of Hyde Park invites ting up the bond. Also on the agenda is a new computer on a number of other shows. all memters of the St. John's community to The principal project is the $500,000 system for the college that will coordinate His journalistic efforts have in recent years join them on their journey to the inspirational improvements to Pickney Hall, an 1858 most of offices' data bases, allowing them won increasing recognition. A survey found homeland of the Paideia method of education. building with Italianate overtones that was easily to share information. Cost is esti­ him to be one of the 10 most quoted political Come along and discover the roots of Paideia! once fretted with turrets. Today the building mated at about $125,000. Mr. Billups ex­ analysts on American networks, and The Lon­ The trip is scheduled from August 5-13, houses both college offices and dormitories. pects it to be on-line by summer. don Observer called him "Washington's 1993. Included in the itinerary are: roundtrip Leading Insider-Journalist." Gergen-Shields transportation to/from Athens, 3 night stay in were named "the best television pundits" of Athens (at a first class hotel, along with break­ the 1988 presidential campaign by the 1988 fast daily, a welcome dinner, and a one day Political Almanac, and a 1990 survey named sightseeing tour of Athens, including the the two to a list of the 10 best commentators Acropolis); a4 night cruise to the Greek Islands on American culture and politics. and Turkey (including all meals on-board the Mr. Gergen worked under three presi­ ship, on board entertainment, and port taxes; dents, Nixon, Ford and Reagan, serving as full transfers throughout; all entrance fees, first communications director for the Reagan truces and baggage handling. White House before leaving government to The price per person is $2, 100 (based on enter journalism in the mid-1980s. double occupancy) and the first deposit is In January 1984, he became a fellow at the $300 per person due 12.23.92. For fur­ American Enterprise Institute in Washington ther information contact Bon Voyage Travel, and at the John F. Kennedy School at Har­ 9077 Courtland Avenue, Niles, Illinois - vard That year, he began to write for U.S. (708) 967-8772. News, and in 1985, he was named its editor by publisher Mortimer Zuckerman. the next three years, the made its

Issues series is pres1dient of the Friends of St. John's is William Brill.