THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION

OF NEW ENGLAND

One Hundred-Tenth Annual Bulletin

2015

2015-2016 OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES

CANE Executive Committee President: Sean Smith, 14 Allen Street, Amherst, MA 413-549-1261; [email protected] Immediate Past President: Elizabeth Keitel, Department of Classics, 524 Herter Hall, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, 413- 772-0795 [email protected] President Elect : Anne Mahoney, 6 Hathon Square, Charlestown, MA 02129, [email protected] Executive Secretary: Rosemary Zurawel, 16 Northam Drive Dover, NH 03820 (H) 603-749-9213 [email protected] Treasurer: Ruth Breindel, 617 Hope Street, Providence, RI 02906 (H) 401-521-3204 (W) 401-831-7350 [email protected] Curator of the Funds: Donna Lyons, 36 Cooper Hill Rd., Granby, CT 06035 (H) 860-658-1676 [email protected] Editor, New England Classical Journal: Deborah Rae Davies, 123 Argilla Road, Andover, MA 01810, 978-749-9446 [email protected] Coordinator of Educational Programs: Dr. Edward Zarrow, World Languages Department, Westwood High School, Westwood, MA 02090; 781-326-7500 x3372; [email protected]. Editor, CANE Instructional Materials (CANE Press) : Lydia Haile Fassett, 9 Morgan St. #3 South Hadley, MA 01075, [email protected] Classics-in-Curricula Coordinator: Scott Smith, University of New Hampshire, Department of Classics, Humanities and Italian Studies, 301 Murkland Hall, Durham, NH 03824 603.862.2388 ; [email protected] Director, 2015 CANE Summer Institute: Emil Peñarubia Boston College High School, 150 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02125 (W) 617-474-5157; [email protected] At-Large Members: Timothy Joseph, Box 144A, College of the Holy Cross, 1 College Street, Worcester, MA 01610; 617-308-2076; [email protected] Nell Wright, PO Box 2, Montague, MA 01351; 413-665-9676; [email protected] Kevin Ballestrini, 21 Oakwood Dr., Storrs, CT 06268, [email protected]

State Representatives: Connecticut: Katy Ganino Reddick, 50 Cherry Lane, Durham, CT 06422 860 349-1768 [email protected] Maine: Heidi Paulding, [email protected] Massachusetts: Emil Penarubia Boston College High School 150 Morrissey Boulevard Boston MA 02125 (H) 617-524-4752 (W) 617-474-5157 [email protected] New Hampshire: Paul B. Langford 59 Sheafe Street Portsmouth NH 03801 (H) 603-431-3635 (W) 603-777-3303 [email protected] Rhode Island: Anne Wadlow Drogula, The Wheeler School, Providence, RI; 15 French St., Rehoboth, MA 02769 401-215-5904; [email protected] Vermont: Leanne Morton, c/o Champlain Valley Union High School, 369 CVU Road, Hinesburg, VT 05461 802-482-7100 Ext 8959 [email protected]

Committee on Scholarships Chair: Amy White, 8 Green Hill Street, Manchester, CT, 06040, 860-647-0559, [email protected]. Barbara Weiden Boyd Department of Classics Bowdoin College Brunswick ME 04011 (H) 207-725-7594 (W) 207-725-3501 [email protected] Stephany Pascetta, 60 Wagon Road, Glastonbury, CT 06033; [email protected]

CANE Web Manager Ben Revkin, East Greenwich High School, 300 Avenger Drive, East Greenwich, RI 02818 401-381-2288 [email protected]

Finance Committee Chair: Donna Lyons 36 Cooper Hill Rd., Granby, CT 06035 (H) 860-658-1676 [email protected] Jeremiah Mead, 20 Dalton Rd., Chelmsford, MA 01824 978-256-2110; [email protected] Charles Bradshaw,54 Potwine Ln., Amherst, MA 01002; 413-253-2055; [email protected]

Membership Committee Chair: Ruth Breindel 617 Hope Street Providence, RI 02906 (H) 401-521-3204 (W) 401-831-7350 [email protected] Katy Ganino Reddick, 50 Cherry Lane, Durham, CT 06422 860 349-1768 [email protected] Emil Penarubia Boston College High School 150 Morrissey Boulevard Boston MA02125 (H) 617-524-4752 (W) 617-474-5157 [email protected] Paul B. Langford 59 Sheafe Street Portsmouth NH 03801 (H) 603-431-3635 (W) 603-777-3303 [email protected] Leanne Morton, c/o Champlain Valley Union High School, 369 CVU Road, Hinesburg, VT 05461 802-482-7100 Ext 8959 [email protected] Heidi Paulding, [email protected]

Other Committees as Established by the By-Laws

Nominating Committee Elizabeth Keitel, [email protected] Drive, Amherst, MA 01003, 413-772-0795 Susan Zoller, 10 Sewall Falls Rd.,. Concord, NH 03301, [email protected] Jane D. Chaplin, Department of Classics, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753 [email protected]

Barlow-Beach Distinguished Service Award Chair: Sean Smith, 14 Allen Street, Amherst, MA 413-549-1261; [email protected] David George, Professor of Classics, St. Anselm College, 100 Saint Anselm Drive, Manchester, NH 03102; (603) 641-7000 [email protected] Jacqueline Carlon, 5 Morning Glory Circle, Chelmsford, MA 01838, [email protected]

Committee on Discretionary Funds Kevin Ballestrini, 21 Oakwood Dr., Storrs, CT 06268, [email protected] Nell Wright, PO Box 2, Montague, MA 01351; 413-665-9676; [email protected] Timothy Joseph, Box 144A, College of the Holy Cross, 1 College Street, Worcester, MA 01610; 617-308-2076; [email protected] Elizabeth Keitel, [email protected] Drive, Amherst, MA 01003, 413-772-0795

Local Arrangements Coordinator Scott Bradbury, Smith College, Northampton, MA

Program Committee 2016 Annual Meeting Sean Smith, 14Allen Street, Amherst, MA 413-549-1261; [email protected]

Auditors Shirley S. Lowe, 2 Laurie Lane, Natick, MA 01760; 508-6655-8701; [email protected] Paula Chabot, 7 Woodsedge Lane, Westbrook, CT 06498; 860-399-5414; [email protected] Resolutions Committee Jacques Bailly, UVM, 481 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05401 802-859-9253 [email protected] Richard E. Clairmont, Murkland Hall University of New Hampshire, Durham NH 03824 (H) 603-886-1319 (W) 603-862-3130 [email protected]

CANE Summer Institute Director, Steering Committee: Emil Peñarubia Boston College High School 150 Morrissey Boulevard Boston MA 02125 (W) 617-474-5157 [email protected] CSI Steering Committee: John M. Higgins Box 351 Monterey MA 01245 (H) 413-528-6691 (W) 860-379-8521 [email protected] Timothy Joseph, College of the Holy Cross, 1 College Street, Worcester, MA 01610 [email protected] Amanda Drew Loud, PO Box 724, Holderness, NH 03245; 603-968-9427; [email protected] Caitlin McGee, Bishop Stang High School, 500 Slocum Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747 [email protected] Elizabeth Baer, 32 Hubbard St., Lenox, MA 01240, 413-637-0669, LIZYB@att,net Jeri DeBrohun, c/o Brown University, 205 MacFarlane House, Box 1856, Providence RI 02912 [email protected] (Brown University liason) Betsy Matthews, 107 Henry St., Amherst, MA 01002, [email protected]

Other Officers Writing Contest President-Elect (Chair), Executive Committee State Representatives

Student Paper Award Immediate Past President (Chair)

Wiencke Prize Chair: Timothy Joseph, Box 144A, College of the Holy Cross, 1 College Street, Worcester, MA 01610; 617-308-2076; [email protected] Nell Wright, PO Box 2, Montague, MA 01351; 413-665-9676; [email protected] Kevin Ballestrini, 21 Oakwood Dr., Storrs, CT 06268, [email protected]

CANE Certification Scholarship See CANE Scholarship Committee above

Emporium Romanum Mary Donna Lyons 11 Carver Circle Simsbury CT 06070 (H) 860-658-1676 [email protected] CANEns (http://caneweb.net/canens/) T.J. Howell, Sherley Blood Thom, Gabe Bakale, Ben Revkin

Representatives to Sister Organizations: Council of the American Classical League: Paul Properzio 15 Ballardvale Road Andover MA 01810 (H) 508-474-0195 (W) 617-635-9957 [email protected] Alternate to above: Deborah Rae Davies 123 Argilla Rd Andover MA 01810 (H) 978-749-9446 (W) 978-725-6230 [email protected] National Committee for Latin and Greek: Deborah Rae Davies 123 Argilla Rd Andover MA 01810 (H) 978-749-9446 (W) 978-725-6230 [email protected] American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages: Mark R. Pearsall 59 Taylor Bridge Road Lebanon CT 06249 (H) 860-887-4709 (W) 860-652-7259 [email protected] National Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages: Madelyn Gonnerman-Torchin 10 Fox Lane Newton Centre MA 02459 (H) 617-964-6141 (W) 617-713-5085 [email protected].

Memorial Notices

John Ambrose (Offered by Allison Harvey) John William Ambrose, Jr., Professor Emeritus of Classical languages at Bowdoin College and long-time CANE member died in Topsham, Maine on November 7, 2014. He was born in Grafton, Massachusetts in 1931. He earned his A.B., M.A., and doctorate degrees in classics from Brown University. John’s teaching career began at Roxbury Latin School in 1956, followed by assignments at Phillips Andover Academy and the Taft School. For 34 years he served as instructor and Dean of Students at St. George’s Summer School in Rhode Island. In 1966 John began his 34-year career at Bowdoin College where, in 1977, he was named Joseph E. Merrill Professor of Greek. Among his publications are two of Preparatory Latin, The Ironic Meaning of the Lolius Ode, Greek Attitudes, and two Bryn Mawr commentaries.

John served CANE in numerous capacities, most notably as on-site coordinator for the 1981 Annual Meeting at Bowdoin College and as CANE president in 1995. Of special significance to many high school Latin teachers were the NEH grants that John secured in 1986 and ’87 for the Greek Summer Institute at Bowdoin, considered to this day by many participants to be the crown jewel of their professional experiences.

John concluded a convocation address to Bowdoin’s class of 2002, by saying, “I am a professor, and I cannot imagine enjoying any form of work as much as teaching bright young men and women.” Indeed, John was first and foremost a teacher, one who practiced his art with remarkable élan. His wisdom and contagious passion for his subject, and his uncanny ability to ease apprehension while preserving rigor inspired in his students confidence, scholarly discipline, and a lifelong love of classical literature.

John showed consummate respect for every student, and many have expressed profound gratitude for his generous presence in their lives. John will be fondly remembered by his wife, Frances “Petey” Ambrose” and sons, and John, and many friends, colleagues, and students as a devoted pater familias; an avid tennis player, a gentleman without pretension, full of charm, playful wit, convivial spirit, and unflagging optimism; a man of deep faith and good will.

Requiescat in pace.

Elaine Dates (Offered by Ken Rothwell) Elaine Dates, 1972-2014

Elaine Dates, or “Lainie,” as many knew her, died on Nov. 18, 2014, aged 72, in Shelburne, Vermont. She graduated from the University of Vermont in 1964, went on to receive a Masters from Wayne State University, and taught at Burlington High School from 1972 until 1998. She taught Latin to a generation of students in Burlington, and did so with learning, sanity, imagination, and irreverence. Her classroom was filled with art and even Latin graffiti; as one former student put it, she was not afraid of the chaos of discovery. She was the colleague who could be counted on to take students to Italy, teach Advanced Placement as an overload, or help build a catapult.

She was active in the Vermont Classical Language Association, Vermont Council on the Humanities, Vermont Foreign Languages Association, Northeast Conference of Foreign Languages, the American Classical League, and served CANE in many capacities. She received the University of Vermont's Outstanding Teacher Award, the American Association of University Women's Vermont Teacher of the Year Award, and a Rockefeller Fellowship to study Etruscan Art in Italy. For many years, she and her husband Steve took groups of students to Italy—something she was comfortable doing, because along the way she had earned a master’s degree in Italian from Middlebury and spent a year at the University of Florence.

In fact her interests and abilities were extraordinarily broad. One should note the fact that she and her partner were the nationally top- seeded debate team at the National Debate Tournament in 1964, and she was a successful debate coach at Burlington High for many years. But as stimulating as teaching was, she would not be limited by it. After thirty-four years in the classroom, she was one of a number of teachers who took sleeping bags to camp out at the school administration building in order to take advantage of an early retirement package. This meant, for her, being able to embark on a new set of interests. Four years of training led her to become a National Garden Club Accredited Judge. She served on the boards of trustees of various libraries in Vermont. And she continued to attend CANE and travel to Italy. All of this activity surely explains her success as a teacher: it is the ability to tap into what’s outside of the classroom that makes it interesting.

Marcia Jones (Offered by Liz Baer) Long-time Latin teacher Marcia Jones of Pittsfield, MA, passed away on December 11, 2014 after a long illness. Marcia was an educator at Berkshire Country Day School for 37 years, teaching math, history, and most of all Latin. Marcia was such a dear to all of those who knew her, and because of her warmth and humor, she very often would be assigned the youngest Latin learners at BCD. With the 6th and 7th grade students she was uniquely able to engage these squirmy middle school children and make them excited about Latin and about learning. Her success in many ways was due to her empathy and support for everyone with whom she worked, whether student, faculty, parent, or anyone else she knew. Quietly she would find a way to help those in desperate need or someone who was just having a tough time in class. She possessed such a sharp mind that while many of us were still using pen and paper, she learned computer programming and designed software to help students learn the forms of Latin grammar. She was very much ahead of her time, and unwilling to shut herself and her students off from new ways of teaching and learning. In addition to her time at BCD, Marcia taught at Miss Hall’s School and briefly held the position of Dean of Students there; she ran the Visitors’ Center at Tanglewood for many, many years – equally engaging with the volunteer corps as she was with her young charges in the classroom; and she was a Lay Eucharistic Minister in the Episcopal Church. I am fortunate to count myself among those who were able to enjoy Marcia as a colleague and learn from her mastery as a teacher, and as those of us pass along what we learned from her, she will endure through generations of students.

Eileen Hickey- (Offered by Sister Mary Faith Dargan)- Elaine Mary Hickey of Hartford, Connecticut passed away peacefully on December 25, 2014 at the Notre Dame du Lac Nursing Facility in Worcester, Massachusetts. Eileen was a devoted and loving mother to her son, Peter Hickey and to her daughter, Ann Hickey. Eileen graduated magna cum laude from Albertus Magnus College with a major in English and a minor in both mathematics and Latin. She continued her studies in English literature at Trinity College, in Hartford. Eileen began her career in education as an English teacher at Sheridan Junior High School an later at Hillhouse High School. Eileen’s warmth, intelligence, and kind spirit will be missed by family and friends.

Christine Sleeper- (Offered by Elizabeth Keitel) Christine Sleeper passed away on February 16 of this year at the age of 98. A native of the Granite State, she attended UNH and Radcliffe and began her career as a teacher of French in Derry, where she taught the future astronaut Alan Shepard. “He didn’t use it much up in space”, she admitted to a reporter. She obtained a private pilot’s license in 1941 and worked for a time as an air traffic controller at Logan, then volunteered for the Red Cross in France during the war. A wife and mother of six, she taught Latin for many years in Herndon, VA, retiring at the age of 84 because she wanted to travel more. Her first stop: Antarctica.

Chris was one of founders of the National Latin Exam in 1976 and served on the Writing Committee into her 90’s. She also endowed a scholarship given annually by the NLE to a teacher for educational travel abroad . Chris won the APA award for Excellence in Teaching at the pre-collegiate level in 1999 and served as Vice-President of ACL (1988-1992). About Latin, she wrote: “Mine has been a lifelong love affair with Latin… If you’ve had Latin, you’re a better writer, a better speaker and a better person”.

A moment of silence was observed in memory of our departed colleagues.

2015 Barlow Beach Citation Presented on behalf of CANE to Jeremiah Mead

JEREMIAH P. MEAD BARLOW-BEACH AWARD CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW ENGLAND MMDCCLXVIII A.U.C. - A. D. 2015

Citation:

PRIMUS EGO IN PATRIAM MECUM , MODO VITA SUPERSIT, AONIO REDIENS DEDUCAM VERTICE MUSAS (VERGIL GEORGICON III. 10-12)

2015 CANE Writing Contest Winners

Topic: “After Adversity: Survival, Recovery and Renewal in the Ancient World”

New England Winner: Alex Frank (Portland High School, Michelle Tucci)

Winning Paper:

Mount Olympus Police Department Police Reports/Arrest Record: Demeter, Goddess of the Harvest, a/k/a Ceres Submitted by Ares, ally of civil order and stern governor of the rebellious ante diem iv Nonas Septembres Today, Demeter, goddess of the harvest, filed a missing persons report for her only daughter, Persephone. She described Persephone as a beautiful young girl who loved to play with her cousins, Artemis and Athena. Demeter reported that Persephone had been picking flowers in a meadow when Demeter heard her scream. Demeter rushed to the meadow but couldn’t find her daughter. I wondered if Persephone had staged the screaming and run away. Demeter assured me that Persephone was completely obedient and would never run away. Before she left, Demeter vowed that she would travel the world day and night, never eating or sleeping, until she found her daughter. Pridie Nonas Octobres Demeter was arrested today on a charge of transformation. She had been searching for her daughter when she stopped by a spring for a drink. A man named Ascaelabus started laughing at the sound of her gulping, and Demeter became angry at his rudeness and turned him into a lizard. Demeter defended herself by saying that goddesses were permitted to be cruel to anyone who failed to honor them properly. I agreed that this was a proper defense for a goddess, and I released her. Nonae Novembres Demeter came in with a solid lead on her daughter’s whereabouts. On her journey, Demeter met Hecate, goddess of the crossroads, who suggested that she speak to Helio, goddess of the sun. Hecate thought that since Helios had been riding her chariot through the sky that day, she must have seen what had happened to Persephone. Demeter tracked down Helios who told her that as Persephone picked a flower, the earth opened, and Hades reached up from the underworld and snatched Persephone. Hades dragged her back to his kingdom where she became Hades’ wife and Queen of the Underworld. Helios also said that Zeus, Persephone’s father, had agreed to the marriage and had given Hades permission to kidnap Persephone. I told Demeter that since Zeus gave permission to Hades to snatch and marry Persephone, I could not charge Hades with kidnapping. Demeter left extremely unhappy that I couldn’t do anything. ante diem iii Nonas Decembres Demeter was arrested again on a charge of child abuse. After learning that Zeus had agreed to Persephone’s marriage to Hades, Demeter became extremely depressed. She left Mount Olympus, stopped performing her divine duties, and returned to Eleusis. Disguised as an old woman, Demeter took a job as a nursemaid to Demophoon, the infant son of the city’s ruler. Missing her own child, Demeter became very attached to Demophoon and decided to make him immortal. Unfortunately, Demophoon’s mother came into the room as Demeter was holding the child’s feet to the fire so that he could become immortal. Believing that Demeter was going to kill Demophoon, she wants Demeter to be charged with child abuse. I told Demophoon’s mother what had happened to Ascaelabus, and everyone agreed that the charge would be dropped and a temple would be built in Demeter’s honor. Nonis Februariis Demeter was brought in again on a charge of unusual cruelty to mortals. She retreated to her temple, depressed and grieving for her lost daughter. The mortals cannot produce a harvest, and the winter is unending. Zeus sent his messengers to the station to apologize and to encourage Demeter to return to her duties. Despite the powerful forces that were against her, Demeter was adamant that she would not return until Persephone was rescued. Not wanting to be turned into a lizard, I released Demeter. Kalendis Aprilibus Demeter and Persephone came into the station. Zeus saw the misery that mortals were facing and sent Hermes to command Hades to release Persephone. Unfortunately before Persephone was rescued, she ate some pomegranate seeds offered to her by Hades. Persephone will now have to return to the underworld for four months each year. Although happy that her daughter is back, Demeter wants Hades charged with distributing pomegranate seeds with the intent of holding Demeter captive. I will need to look into this charge.

State Winners:

Connecticut

First Place: Yanelis Torres (Classical Magnet School, James Pezzulo) Second Place: Konjit Richards-Johnson (Classical Magnet School) Third Place: Arielle Schwartz (Classical Magnet School, James Pezzulo)

Maine

First Place: Alex Frank (Portland High School, Michelle Tucci) Second Place: Jada Choate (Winthrop High School, Meg Cook) Third Place: Andrew Nadeau (Thornton Academy, Mrs. Cody)

Massachusetts

First Place: Elizabeth Do (Boston Latin Academy, Ms. Henrich) Second Place: Tyler Wiik (St. Sebastian's School, Mr. Ferguson) Third Place: Isabella Griffin (Belchertown High School, Mr. Howell)

New Hampshire

First Place: Jenna Butt (Dover High School, Jennifer Connelly) Second Place: Sara Tridenti (Pinkerton Academy, Matthew Olkovikas) Third Place: Mikaela Hamilton (Pinkerton Academy, Matthew Olkovikas)

Rhode Island

First Place: Harrison Timperley (East Greenwich High School, Ben Revkin) Second Place: Margaret Rodrigue (East Greenwich High School, Ben Revkin) Third Place: Rowan Van Lare (Moses Brown School, Ruth Breindel)

Vermont

First Place: Louisa Ulrich-Verderber (Bellows Free Academy St. Albans, Lydia Batten) Second Place: Simone Edgar-Holmes (Champlain Valley UHS, Leanne Morton) Third Place: Alexa Widschwenter (Harwood)

2015 Annual Meeting Abstracts

Paul Properzio Boston Latin Academy

Opera may have developed from ancient Greek drama. The characters in early operas were taken from classical mythology and had the same plots as ancient Greek tragedies. But the underlying reasons for portraying the stories were different, with operas drawing parallels between a ruler and mythological gods or heroes. Singing, dancing, and some spoken dialogue are the main features of opera. This paper will explore the ways in which opera may have originated from ancient Greek drama. (A handout will be provided.

3. Jeremiah Mead

Concord-Carlisle High School (emeritus)

Book III: Gaston Cleric

In Book III of Willa Cather's My Ántonia, Ántonia herself never appears. This Book is named for Lena Lingard, an attractive acquaintance of Jim Burden's from Black Hawk who has arrived in Lincoln, unbeknownst to Jim, and manages to distract him from his studies at the University. Before Lena reenters, Jim was able to focus on his Latin, under the care of his professor and intellectual guide, Gaston Cleric. With Lena around, Jim lets himself drift, away from lectures and texts toward dinners and shows. At the end of Book III, though, he wrenches himself from Lena's soft influence and follows Cleric east to New England, and eventually to the safety of a loveless marriage and a career in law. This paper examines the presentation of Gaston Cleric, a rare incorporeal presence among the fully-fleshed characters of the novel; no match, you would expect, for the sensual appeal of Lena Lingard, and yet he is the winner in their battle over Jim.

4. Asia Del Bonis Univ. of Arizona

Allusion and Ambiguity: Animals as Subjects in the Lod mosaic

Since the discovery of the Lod mosaic in 1996, scholarly attention has been directed at its marine vessels, and an analysis of the profusion of animals has yet to surface. This paper examines the use of the creatures featured in the pseudo-emblema and their associated symbolism. I argue that the dominus made a deliberate choice to use animals as his subject, one that conveys the dichotomy of the role of animals in Roman society, yet is purposefully ambiguous, as to appeal to the multifarious tastes of pagans, Jews, and Christians who populated the city of Lydda. This decision reflects the dominus’ awareness of not only the complex role of animals in the human sphere, but also an acknowledgement of the diverse religious landscape and the desire for his home to appear both inoffensive and timeless in a volatile period of socio-political change in the late 3rd and early 4th century C.E.

The pseudo-emblema, featuring a bull, a tiger, an elephant, a rhinoceros, a giraffe, two lions and a ketos, brings to mind the role animals would play in gladiatorial fighting as well as their part in menageries and animal parks. The animals could also serve as potent symbols in their own right. A dominus could desire to imply sympathy but also to empower them as the centerpiece. Ambiguity also lies in what kinds of religious and mythological associations these animals could suggest. The dominus’s career, intellect, worldliness and community would all influence his choice of mosaic subject, thereby the floor is a kind of microcosm of the socio-political landscape in Roman Israel at the time. Befitting the burgeoning discipline of Human-Animal Studies today, the mosaic provides evidence for animals as dichotomous artistic subjects, and the repertoire of the Lod mosaic highlights this complex relationship between Romans, art, and nature.

5. Andrew Carroll, Regis Jesuit High School, Denver CO Field programs not only train students in field excavation methods and theoretical theorems, but also expose students to the unique situation of a working in the field. However, these programs are often limited to college students. Due to the constraints of time and money students experience, few find the opportunity during a college career to work on one of these programs unless they are already specializing in archaeology. Archaeology and Classical programs should instead be looking to share those types of experiences with a broader, younger audience who are still in the midst of finding their own paths through life. Offering high school students a curriculum in which they can attend an archaeological field program gives them a chance to grow, and experience a field of study often not available to them. Field schools give high school students the chance to learn more about the blending of science and humanities through archaeology. This is important because the options most often provided by high school guidance counselors steer students away from a liberal arts education, a trend which is having detrimental ramifications on the field as a whole. To accomplish this, however, the format in which students participate in a field school will have to be altered to accommodate the unique challenges of traveling and working with young students. From my own experience as both a high school teacher and a field archaeologist at Poggio Civitate, I have designed and implemented a pilot program in which high school students can be exposed to the theoretical and practical aspects of field archaeology. This paper will look at the benefits and challenges involved in adding a high school curriculum to a pre-existing college program and the possibility of the growth for these types of programs in the field of Classical Archaeology.

13. Michael Wheeler, Boston University Dodging the Beam: Invective Markers in Catullus 4

In Catullus’ poem 4, the phaselus poem, the speaker describes a swift ship’s self-reported and uninterrupted journey from the Black Sea to its eventual retirement at a placid lake. The poem is written in iambic trimeters, the same meter Catullus uses in poems 29 and 52. The three form a natural metrical group, but poems 29 and 52 are harsh political invectives. This is to be expected: personal poetry in iambic meters was traditionally linked with the genre iambos, whose defining feature was abusive content. Poem 4 is a surprising anomaly in this group not only because it lacks invective content, but because it allows no substitutions of spondees for iambs; the pure iambs reflect the rapid motion of the ship, a correlation noticed by many commentators. Catullus subverts the generic expectation that iambic poetry have invective content by driving that content beneath the surface in the phaselus poem, instead bringing speed to the fore. Catullus nonetheless acknowledges and plays with the association of iambos with abusive content by describing the series of obstacles which the ship bypasses with words or phrases used elsewhere in the corpus and in Latin literature generally in the context of invective attack. The phaselus avoids obstacles representative of iambos’ dominant feature by employing an underappreciated, if not completely unnoticed, characteristic of the iambic meter: rapidity. Invective is not wholly absent from poem 4, but is reduced to lexical undertones, and iambic speed wins out over the ἰαµβικὴ ἰδέα.

16. Emily Anhalt, Sarah Lawrence College “The Tragic Io: Defining Identity in a Democratic Age”

As the first generations of Athenians in the late 6th century BCE and throughout the 5th were learning to wield democratic government, Athenian tragic playwrights revised and reinterpreted archaic stories for their own new political moment. Their plays cultivated the audience’s capacity for critical moral judgment by challenging certainties both old and new. Aeschylus’ Suppliants (c. 463 BCE) and Prometheus Bound (c. 456 BCE) both refashion archaic tales in dramatic form. The ancient myth of Io permeates both of these plays, and both present her as the victim of Zeus’ lust, a girl turned into a cow and goaded from Greece to Egypt by a maddening fly. The Suppliants depicts Io primarily as a marker of blood kinship and a passive victim, while the Prometheus Bound emphasizes her subjective experience and her active pursuit of knowledge. In the Suppliants, as justification for the Danaids’ claim to kinship with Argos, Io creates political conflict and promotes war between Argos and Egypt. In the Prometheus Bound, as a sentient victim of divine cruelty, Io exemplifies the connection between experience and knowledge and foreshadows a resolution of violent conflict. As a source of conflict in the first play and a constructive role model in the second, the tragic portrait of Io exposes reverence for heredity and group identity as a potential source of violence, experience as a potential source of knowledge, and individual choice and behavior as a potential source of understanding and conflict resolution. The tragic portrait of Io undermines a traditional, aristocratic, exclusive admiration for identity defined by kinship ties and cultivates a democratic and egalitarian appreciation for the value of individual experience and conduct.

17. Anne Mahoney, Tufts University Caesar’s Coousin Cassivellaunus in Geoffrey of Monmouth

The medieval British historian Geoffrey of Monmouth (1100-1155) tells of Caesar's second expedition to Britain (in 54; BG 5.11-20) as a way to show off the courage, military prowess, and rhetorical skill of the Britons. I will show how, in Geoffrey's text, Caesar underestimates the enemy and is punished as a result. As Caesar tells it, the British put up a good fight, but the Romans ultimately win. Yet Caesar leaves Britain, and this gives the British author an opening: in his text, Caesar doesn't leave on his own, but is defeated and pushed back to Gaul.

Book 4 of Geoffrey's "Historia Regum Britanniae" tells how Caesar comes to Britain and meets Cassivellaunus; the narrative is from a British point of view, unlike Caesar's Roman version. Geoffrey's book is a history of Britain from the legendary beginnings down to the Saxon conquest in the 7th century. He popularizes the story, already old by his day, that the British are descended from Brutus, great-grandson of Aeneas, and that the name "Britain" comes from "Brutus." Brutus becomes the first king of Britain.

Brutus also has a part to play in the Caesar section in book 4. When Caesar first meets the Britons and asks who they are, he quickly figures out that they are, like him, descended from Aeneas, but he assumes they are a degenerate branch of the family (4.1). Cassivellaunus, who in this text is king of all Britain, not just leader of one tribe, quickly gets the better of Caesar both rhetorically and militarily, and Geoffrey exults "Oh wonderful British race, who twice put to flight a man whom no other nation could resist!" (4.8)

Within Geoffrey's narrative, Caesar's expedition is an opportunity to display the Britons as the equals of the Romans or, by extension, of anyone else. Their lineage is as ancient and venerable and their education, bravery, and skill can match up with anyone's. (318 words)

19. Michael Roberts, Villanova University (grad. student) Hostis Romae: Literary Depictions of Roman Enemies in the Late Republic

Dangerous men have left an indelible imprint on the consciousness of the societies that they have threatened in word and deed throughout history. Marcus Tullius Cicero and his contemporaries recognized the great threat posed to their own way of life by enemies often within the very heart of Roman society. In this paper, I will compare the portrayals of one such man, Lucius Sergius Catilina, in the First Catilinarian Oration of Cicero and in the Bellum Catilinae of Sallust. I will then show how a common vocabulary and a common representation of enemies of the Roman state, involving imagery of dangers commonly feared in the ancient world, including fire, disease, and improper religious observance, were employed by writers of the Late Republic to express the danger that such men posed. Furthermore, Cicero’s depiction of Mark Antony in the Second Philippic provides an excellent example of a domestic foe to Rome while Livy’s description of Hannibal in Book 21 of the Ab Urbe Condita furnishes a case study for a foreign enemy to the Roman state. Both of these Roman antagonists are described with the same imagery as Catiline, revealing the pervasiveness of the language of fear and danger in the literature of the Late Republic.

20. Theodore Szadzinski, UVM, grad.student Too Little Too Late? An Analysis of the Events at Leuctra and Mantinea (362 BC) and the Spartan Response

The battles of Leuctra (371) and Mantineia (362) were two of the most important pitched land battles in Classical Greek history; their outcomes fundamentally changed the landscape both politically and militarily for all of Greece. Epaminondas' innovations in phalanx deployment during these battles were truly revolutionary and took classical phalanx strategy to an entirely new level. Granted, the Thebans had been employing a deeper phalanx since the Battle of Delium in 424 (Thuc. 4.93). Epaminondas took this convention, however, and refined it to devastating effect against his enemies (Sparta and its allies). It stands to reason that such an impressive and significant strategic change would have prompted either an adaptation to or an incorporation of such tactics by other city-states like Sparta. Why wasn’t Sparta able to adapt to this new way of phalanx warfare? How was Epaminondas able to achieve a seemingly identical military victory on the left flank without any adaptation on the part of Sparta? This paper seeks to answer these two questions by focusing almost exclusively on the deployment of the infantry of these two battles. A brief look at the social contexts surrounding Sparta’s first defeat at Leuctra should also serve to help answer these questions. How the identical Theban strategy was so effective in battles nine years apart is less than definitive. Certainly the precedent set by the Thebans prior to both Leuctra and Mantineia would suggest that most Greek commanders knew what they were facing when squaring off against them. But rather than considering these defeats as failures on the part of Sparta to adapt, one should instead credit them as near perfect stratagems employed by Epaminondas: it is abundantly clear that without the innovations and prowess of Epaminondas the outcomes of Leuctra and Mantineia could have been dramatically different.

21. Gregory Stringer, Burlington High School Caesar and Labienus: A re-evaluation of Caesar’s Most Important Relationship in de Bello Gallico

Titus Labienus served with distinction under Julius Caesar for the entirety of the future dictator’s governorship of Gaul. However, for reasons that can no longer be fully uncovered or understood, when civil war broke out between Caesar and Pompey in 49 BC, Labienus sided with the latter against his former commander. While scholars for more than a century have focused primarily on attempting to solve the intriguing dilemma of his changing loyalties, Labienus can also serve as an interesting case study for approaching various literary questions about the work of literature that is, ultimately, our best source for knowledge of the man—Julius Caesar’s De Bello Gallico. Largely ignoring questions of Labienus’ previous or subsequent political allegiance and other external ancient sources, a close analysis of the vocabulary and phrasing used by Caesar when describing the actions of his subordinate Labienus, as well as an exploration of what Caesar included about Labienus in his text, and what he left out, reveals a relationship between the imperator and his chief lieutenant that is more complex and variable than heretofore believed and suggests many interesting avenues for further research on questions of genre and composition of the De Bello Gallico. Keywords: Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico, Titus Labienus

22. Laura Sampanaro, NYU (master teacher) Reason, Rhetoric, and Revelation in Plato and al-Ghazali

How does globalizing the Classics affect student reception of foundational ancient texts like Plato’s Republic? Among the benefits of teaching a globalized core is demonstrating to students how cultural comparison challenges their pre-existing beliefs and assumptions about the ‘Western’ self. By comparing Plato’s line analogy and attack on sophistic rhetoric in the Republic to al-Ghazali’s theory of knowledge and faith in Deliverance from Error, this presentation shows how seeming opposites–reason, passion, and faith–are inextricably linked in these traditions. Can one connect and reconcile the truths of reason and revelation, and is it desirable to do so? Is rhetoric constitutive of reality or merely descriptive, and what is its relationship with morality? Why does Plato’s Socrates divide wisdom and eloquence, the ‘mind’ and the ‘tongue,’ and how does this schism, which plagues the Western canon, parallel the rejection of rhetoric found within sacred texts ranging from the Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions to Daoist thought? This presentation shows how students in the global classroom analyze diverse texts in order to learn to think critically and to debate ideas such as the preeminent place assigned to reason within the canon and within their own socio-political structures.

23. Nicholas Newman The Death of a Pilot

The description of the inhabitants of the whale as without any weapons persuades Lucian to meet them in battle, during which Lucian’s pilot is killed. In this paper I explore the place of his death in the larger intertextual agenda of Lucian’s True Histories, especially in the context of the interplay between Lucian and Odysseus. The death of the pilot stands out from the rest of the battle scene for two reasons. 1. The pilot is one of only four men in the crew who die during the voyage. 2. Despite sailing to the underworld shortly after his death, the pilot is nowhere to be found. The only others to die in the course of the voyage are those captured by the Cowheads in Book II. Much of this scene is reminiscent of the Island of Helios which spelled the doom of Odysseus’ men, and since this is the only other scene in which members of the crew die, it suggests that the death of the pilot should be interpreted in light of the Odyssey as well. To what scene of the Odyssey does Lucian make an intertextual connection here, however? The answer to this may lie in the position of the scene within the text, just before the journey into the underworld. In the Odyssey too, a crewman dies before the journey into the underworld, Elpenor, who falls to his death off Circe’s roof. The death of the pilot can be interpreted as an ironic reversal of the death of Elpenor. Instead of the most junior member of the crew, it is the most vital member; instead of a reunion in the underworld, the pilot is never heard from again; instead of falling from a roof, the pilot dies heroically in battle; instead of returning to properly bury the fallen, there is no mention of any burial. Through this ironic allusion to the death of Elpenor, Lucian emphasizes his competency as a captian, losing only one mariner by the beginning of the second book, to the failure of Odysseus, who arrives home having lost his entire fleet.

25. Teresa Ramsby, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst Celebrity and Consumption in the Ars Amatoria

The Ars amatoria is widely agreed to be the poem that pushed Augustus to exile Ovid. In this paper, I will investigate the idea that Ovid attempted something much more daring in the Ars than discussing sexual opportunities in an atmosphere of new illegalities. When Ovid set aside his role as the amator (as seen in the Amores) and sought to wear the cap of magister or praeceptor amoris, he transformed Roman love elegy from a literature narrowly confined by personal experience to a prescriptive text that was designed for consumption by a wide swath of Roman society. When Ovid encouraged his readers to enter the narrative as amatores-in-training, he potentially created a Rome filled with lesser versions of himself. By this daring act of self-reproduction Ovid transformed Amor from an unpredictable, divine force (at the same time both seductive and coercive) to a commodity, an object (amor): a thing to be merely learned and practiced. Furthermore, Ovid counted very much upon his fame to convey his message, thereby placing him in a position very close to that of the emperor, dictating the terms by which Romans can and should behave. Jean Baudrillard, the postmodern critic of industrial society, speaks of commodification in the post-industrialist age whereby all things are objectified, reproduced, and consumed, and a person becomes merely a consumer rather than an intellect or a creator (an artist). Furthermore, the “celebrity” becomes the arbiter of what is to be consumed, making the consumer an even more limited agent in the process of choosing what to consume. I will show how Ovid’s celebrity and his encouragements to “consume” amor combine to make his Ars a dangerous text in the age of Augustan revision and restoration.

26. Gina Santiago, Binghamton University (grad student) The Homeric Self and Homeric Agency

My overall aim in this paper is to defend the view that the Homeric characters do, in fact, exhibit agency- albeit a sense of it that is weaker than the meaning we normally attribute to it. I characterize Homeric agency as 1) the ability to conceive of alternative state of affairs (through the act of deliberation) and 2) as the potential to alter the state of affairs (but not necessarily, the actualization of doing so). Homeric agency is deliberative in nature. What allows us to ascribe agency to the Homeric figures, in the first place, and underpins their ability to deliberate is self-awareness (or a sense of self). This brings me to my subordinate aim, which will be taken up first: defend a conception of self that is attributable to the figures in the Homeric poems. I argue that the account of agency that we can develop from the text of the Iliad is ultimately derived from the self-awareness that the Homeric figures show in particular instances. My analysis of a small number of select passages from the Iliad and Odyssey is interspersed with my survey and critique of the secondary literature. The passages have the three, salient features: 1) the character is engaged in some deliberation about the courses of action available to them, surmising the outcomes 2) the passage shows the character reflecting on and responding to some aspect of the Heroic Code and 3) the figure is responding an action undertaken by one of the gods.

30. Daniel Libatique, Boston University (grad. Student) Cremutius and the Loss of Agency: Tacitus Annals 4.34-45 The speech of Cremutius Cordus at Tacitus, Annals 4.34-35 has been analyzed variously for its careful placement in the narrative and analogical similarities to Tacitus’ contemporary environment. Situated carefully after a proemio al mezzo (4.32-33) wherein Tacitus espouses the utility, if not pleasure, of recounting and memorializing current events, the passage puts on display an exemplum of resistance to tyrannical power that resonates not only among Cremutius’ contemporaries but also among Tacitus and his. The content of the speech, however, belies the damage already done to proper expression of resistance, defined here as an active subversion of the strictures of (unjust) power.

In this paper, I focus closely on the careful syntax with which Cremutius Cordus' defense is introduced and expressed, namely the verbs. The attribution of agency, whether the verb itself is active, impersonal, or passive, rests mainly in entities other than Cremutius: his accusers; such authors as Livy and Messala Corvinus; the writings, speeches, and harangues of Asinius Pollio, Cicero, Caesar, Antony, Brutus, Furius Bibaculus, and Catullus. The sole instances of declarative speech-acts with Cremutius as subject are equivocation (haud facile dixerim, 4.34), praeteritio (non attingo Graecos, 4.35), or a leading question with a negative answer (num … populum per contiones incendo? 4.35). The syntax of the speech reveals that in the general milieu of the imperious princeps who exercises his immense power over literature and the elite, agency has already been irrevocably wrested even from such a lauded exemplum of resistance as Cremutius, at least in verbal speech. As such, agency must be transferred into literature and records of the past, the monuments that can carry the author’s power into posterity: quo magis socordiam eorum inridere libet qui praesenti potentia credunt extingui posse etiam sequentis aevi memoriam (4.35).

32. Mark Hogan,

Recent scholarship has shown that Sallust makes use of metaphors in his work, the Bellum Catilinae. While Sallust takes the traditional view of Catiline as a nefarious deviant, he constructs a sustained metaphor throughout the work to bolster his opinion of Catiline, likening him to a raging fire. This paper aims to outline this metaphor as it develops during the course of the work. Focusing primarily on the Bellum Catilinae, it shows that this metaphor is unique to the work, even within the Sallustian corpus. It also puts forth a historical event to demonstrate why this metaphor is suitable for a Roman audience, particularly one of Sallust’s generation.

35. Lydia Fassett

Every beginning Latin textbook teaches different vocabulary words in a different order. This paper presents information on the number of the most common words that show up in each textbook and what percentage of the vocabulary in the textbooks is among the most common words in Latin. Teachers will be able to choose to edit the vocabulary presented to focus on more common words, help students transition from one book to another, and know which words will need to be taught or reinforced in different books. 36. Donald Sprague, Kennedy-King College

Frustrated that your students so frequently forget the vocabulary they need to know and supposedly “learned”?

This webinar will present the documented success of eyeVocab, an innovative second-language acquisition software program, in stimulating Latin vocabulary learning and retention. eyeVocab maximizes state-of-the-art technology and revolutionizes second language vocabulary acquisition. Far more than an electronic flashcard, eyeVocab uses “distinctive affective images in isolation” in combination with audio recitation and keyboard input so that students hardwire the new vocabulary in their memory. Classes using eyeVocab, designed for the language lab as well as for individual use at home, experience dramatically significant improvement in vocabulary retention

37. Stephanie Lindeborg, Boston University Why Open Access to Manuscripts Should Matter to More than Palaeographers

The last few years have seen a flood of manuscripts, papyri, and other digital primary resources, many of which are available under Creative Commons licenses. Open access to these resources marks not just a change in the fields of paleography and medieval studies but also a change in the larger field of Classics and in education. Scholars are able to embrace the computer sciences in unprecedented ways. Representing texts digitally allows scholars to embrace new ways of looking at the textual tradition and working with the digital photography enables scholars to redefine the standards for scholarly prose.

Open access has also brought about a change in the scholarly conversation and reorganized long entrenched hierarchies. Conservators once held the curatorial responsibility to limit those who had access to manuscripts and papyri. This practice restricted the audience of these sources to a select few established academics. Now that these sources are being made available to anyone with an Internet connection, graduate and undergraduate students are able to conduct research and enrich the scholarly conversation on unprecedented levels.

I propose that this movement ought not stop with the inclusion of graduate and undergraduates but should stretch to involve anyone learning ancient languages. Bringing these digital resources into the classroom at the early levels not only increases student engagement but also promotes digital literacy. If students in university introductory Greek and Latin courses can work with manuscripts, why shouldn’t students in middle and high school courses? Students need to see that the study of Latin and Greek does not end with reading literature but can embrace advancing technology and lead the charge in digital humanities.

38. Barbara Saylor Rodgers, University of Vermont Mood Music for Archias

It has long been recognized that the argumentum extra causam is an essential part of Cicero's defense of Archias, whether or not there was a political motive behind the prosecution. Many, too, point to §28 and Cicero's expectation of being the subject of a poetic composition. Yet much earlier in this defense there is evidence not so much of what Cicero hoped to gain as of what he and his listeners had already lost.

Cicero dropped nearly a dozen names when he described Archias' arrival in Rome and reception by an interesting and influential group of people (Arch. 5-6); D. H. Berry ("Literature and Persuasion in Cicero's Pro Archia," in Cicero the Advocate edd. J. Powell and J. Paterson (Oxford 2004) 300) and T. P. Wiseman ("Pete nobiles amicos: Poets and Patrons in Late Republican Rome," in Literary and Artistic Patronage in Ancient Rome ed. B. K. Gold (Austin 1982) 28–49), among others, have noted the affirmation of Archias, and of literary pursuits in general, afforded by this company of distinguished Romans. But there is more behind Cicero's roll call, an echo of a world about to be changed forever. Examination of the history of each man in the list demonstrates that the cumulative effect is one of loss, and to hear them named, one after another, is like hearing a dirge, or, in modern terms, background music meant to elicit an appropriate emotion. Although the Pro Archia is not the only oration in which Cicero employs this technique, (E.g., Pro Roscio Amerino 33-34, Pro Fonteio 42-43) it offers the most readily accessible example.

40. Stephanie Neville, The College of the Holy Cross

We can achieve a more comprehensive view of the scribal tradition through the creation of a diplomatic edition of a work. Such is the case with different manuscripts of Jerome’s Chronicle, a history of the world from the time of Abraham to the emperor Theodosius, which Jerome translated into Latin from Eusebius’ Greek edition. The scribal tradition cannot adequately be captured in a comparative, or critical, edition, which omits all content diverging from Jerome’s original words. Rather, the variations unique to each scribe are better captured in a diplomatic edition that represents the malleable genre of the chronicle, as seen from Jerome’s own expansion of Eusebius. Therefore, the entire tradition of scribal contribution deserves to be studied and preserved, as we believe that the variations stem from the scribes’ conscious choices, allowing them to become scholars in a far-reaching historiographical conversation.

We are creating the first complete diplomatic edition of three manuscripts of Jerome: Geneva Library 49; St. Gallen, Vadianische Sammlung 298; and Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 219. So far, we have begun extensive diplomatic editions of both the Geneva and St. Gallen manuscripts and are preparing to create one for the Bern 219. After comparing some differences in the text between the Geneva and St. Gallen manuscripts, we found that both scribes used the word aliter (“differently”) to note divergences from other sources. Additionally, while the scribe of the Geneva 49 claims that Romulus ruled for thirty-seven years and there was a year without a ruler, the scribe of the St. Gallen manuscript claims that Romulus ruled for thirty-eight years, conversely overlooking his death five days before the full year ended. These are just a few of the clear choices in the representation of material, rather than mistakes in transcription, that demonstrate the need for diplomatic editions.

41. Aaron Seider, The College of the Holy Cross The Gender of Grief: Private Loss and Public Commemoration in Cicero’s Letters.

Cicero’s daughter Tullia died in February 45 BCE, and Cicero’s letters to his friend Atticus depict his reaction to this loss. In a series of epistles from March of that year, Cicero describes his attempts to process his grief. In my paper, I consider these attempts against the backdrop of late Republican expectations for elite masculine behavior. Specifically, I argue that Cicero inverts traditional gender norms by characterizing his grief as a private emotion that overwhelms his public interactions, even as he plans to commemorate his daughter through a highly visible shrine.

My paper first contextualizes Cicero’s reaction to Tullia’s death within the gender expectations of Republican Rome. The idea of performance, which imagines gender as a constructed identity, helps to analyze the stress placed in Rome on proper public conduct. In the case of grief, the expectation was that its impact would be minimal and that men would push aside their emotions to focus on the business of the republic.

Cicero’s literary performances challenge these expectations, as his letters set the debilitating impact of his private grief alongside his need to commemorate his daughter publicly. Having retreated from Rome to his villa in Astura, he tells Atticus he is overwhelmed by weeping and desires only solitude (Att. 12.14, 15, 16, 18, 23). Concerned with his ability to hide his grief from others, he wishes to avoid the Forum (Att. 12.14, 17, 20, 21, 23, 28). Yet even as Cicero shuns this most public location, he seeks a prominent site to construct a shrine for his daughter (Att. 12.12, 18, 19, 25, 27, 29, 30, 31). In my conclusion, I briefly consider the implications of Cicero’s reversal of typical gender expectations, with a focus on how his commemorative strategies blur the boundaries between public and private behavior.

42.Akira Yatsuhashi, SUNY Oneonta Reimagining Hrodotean Binaries in Lykophron’s Alexandra

Stephanie West has likened Lykophron’s Alexandra to the modern novel stating that they share the same kind of “unstoppable imperialism… with its tendency to absorb imaginative literature of every sort” (West 2000: 166). In fact, Lykophron’s work appears to fold the world into its 1500 lines, condensing both the heroic and historical world of the Greeks and their respective conflicts with the Trojans and Persians into a grand single narrative of epic scale. One of the centerpieces of this poem is its “Herodotean” narrative, which runs from lines 1291 to 1460. It is “Herodotean” in as much as it appears to play upon and expand Herodotus’s construction of conflict between Asia and Europe, both in terms of its length and temporal scope, albeit in a highly compressed manner.

Recently, several scholars have helped further our understanding of the critical role Herodotus plays in the organization of the Alexandra (Priestley 2014, West 2009, Pouzadoux and Prioux (2009), focusing on literary elements of the works, such as allusion and narrative structure. Building on the work of these scholars, this paper will complement their readings by examining sociopolitical aspects of the poem. In short, I will argue that Lykophron’s Alexandra functioned as a text that disseminated, defined, and negotiated identities in the early Hellenistic era, specifically that this work constructed a sense of shared identity for the “dominant ethno-class” which had just supplanted the Persians (Briant 1988).

Through an examination of the Herodotean section of the poem and its prologue, I will demonstrate how the poem intertwines both the Greek/European and Trojan/Asian pasts, transforming what had seen before as separate into a shared and hybrid tradition. In the ultimate imperial gesture, the poem reconciles all the players by subsuming them to the grand narrative of reconciliation between East and West under the figure of Alexander the Great and his successors.

43. David West, Boston University (grad student) The Significance of Ino’s Veil for the Reunion of Odysseus with Penelope in Homer’s Odyssey

In Odyssey 5, Odysseus, following the advice of the goddess Ino/Leukothea, removes the “immortal clothing” (ἄµβροτα εἵµατα) given him by Kalypso and ties Leukothea’s gift of an “immortal veil” (κρήδεµνον ἄµβροτον) around his chest. Aided by Leukothea’s gift, Odysseus not only escapes death by swimming safely to shore on Skheria, but also ultimately regains his marriage with Penelope. Block (1985) and Murnaghan (1987) have shown that clothing is a significant motif in the Odyssey, but neither scholar focuses in particular on the κρήδεµνον. Kardulias (2001), on the other hand, discusses the Leukothea incident in particular, interpreting Odysseus’ rescue through the κρήδεµνον as an instance of ritual transvestism which symbolizes his reintegration into the human community. In this paper, however, I propose a new interpretation which has the advantage of being verifiable on the grounds of the text itself. Building on Nagler’s (1974) understanding of the veil as a potential signifier of both chastity and allurement, I argue that the wearing of the κρήδεµνον, an action which Homer associates elsewhere with marriage (Andromache at Iliad 22.460-72) and wifely seductive charm (Hera at Iliad 14.184-85), identifies Odysseus with Penelope, who is frequently shown guarding her chastity by appearing before the suitors in her veil (e.g. Odyssey 1.334; 18.210). This interpretation is confirmed by the striking verbal similarities often noted (Podlecki 1971; Moulton 1977; Russo et al. 1992) between two key passages: the description of the “welcome” sight of land to the shipwrecked Odysseus at Odyssey 5.394-99 and the famous “reverse simile” (Foley 1978/2009) at Odyssey 23.231-40 in which the sight of her husband is as “welcome” to Penelope as the sight of land is to a shipwrecked sailor. The κρήδεµνον, therefore, functions as a motif which symbolizes the pair’s mutual fidelity and anticipates their ultimate reunion as a married couple.

44. Virginia Closs, University of Massachusetts Amherst Caesar’s Grammatical Gestalt: Latinity as Leadership Tool

This paper focuses on Caesar’s use of collective nouns and the verbs and pronouns associated with them, which shift between singular and plural. In De Analogia Frag. 1.2 (= Gellius, NA 19.8.7), Caesar states that quadrigae (in the plural), even of a single chariot, is the only correct use, and argues conversely that the plural form harenae (“sand”) is incorrect, since its singular already evokes multiple grains. Moreover, in a number of sentences in the Commentaries, Caesar employs constructiones ad sensum that both activate and depend upon the audience’s memory and visualization (e.g. the relationship of the collective image of servili tumultu and the plural pronoun quos in his speech at Bellum Gallicum 1.40.5) to fill a grammatical gap. These “shorthand” moments effectively mimic the urgency of emergent situations in which syntax might be reduced to bare essentials, often signaling the introduction of a thematic motif or plot element to which special attention must be paid. In a related phenomenon, in the case of Caesar’s “missing subjects” (which especially stirred debate among editors at the turn of the last century), there is also distinct pattern to the contexts in which this type of omission occurs. They tend to appear at moments of crisis, e.g. as besieged groups rushs to save themselves (the messengers from Quintus Cicero to Caesar at BG 5.40.1, the citizens of Alesia at the end of BG 7.79.3). Caesar thus lays out a set of demands for his audience: to picture specific images in order to follow syntactic threads, to imagine locations and structures in fine detail, and to retain the memory of these images forward into the narrative. Such instances thus may not be the result of textual corruption (as 19th century editors tended to assume), but actually contribute meaning to the text. 45. Jordan Johansen, University of Vermont (grad student) King Nikokles of Paphos and his Alexander Silver Tetradrachm Legend

Twenty-five Alexander silver tetradrachms have been ascribed to the reign of King Nikokles of Paphos, which lasted from c. 325-309 BCE. This coinage type, originally created by Alexander the Great to be used throughout his empire, was the international currency during the period of Nikokles’ reign. Nikokles’ issues, however, can be distinguished by a hidden legend, or identifying inscription, on the obverse, which bears Nikokles’ name in Greek letters. This legend is a unique feature of Nikokles’ coinage, distinguishing these twenty-five coins from the tens of thousands of nearly identical Alexander silver tetradrachms. Nikokles’ legend can only be explained by understanding the political and military contexts of the Paphian king’s reign, as well as the economic milieu of Alexander the Great’s reign and the period shortly after his death. While the numismatic evidence has been explored in depth for the legend (see Newell, May, Michaelidou-Nicolaou, etc), this paper looks at the evidence through an in-depth analysis of the textual evidence for Nikokles’ reign during the period immediately following Alexander the Great’s death, namely the Vatican Palimpsest of Arrian’s lost work Τα µετὰ Αλέξανδρον. This document adds a piece of Cypriot history to the First Diadochoi War as Perdikkas prepares for his doomed Egyptian campaign. This paper argues that understanding this confluence of local Cypriot and diadochoi politics may help to elucidate Nikokles’ legend.

46. Rebecca Sinos, Amherst College Honors for Archilochos on Paros

The "Archilochos Relief" in the Paros Archaeological Museum is controversial for the identity of its hero. Another problem for its interpretation is the identity of the missing element once located above the bowl that stands on the right side of the relief. I propose to offer additional support for the identity of the hero as Archilochos, offering new evidence, from a depiction of the Theoxenia, that the weapon hanging on the wall behind the reclining hero is, as Clay argues, a spear, not a sword. I will also argue that the missing element behind the dinos is not the lyre suggested (with some misgivings) by Kondoleon, but can be supplied with reference to the reason why the Parians honored the poet with this relief -- his association with Dionysos.

47. Ann Higgins, Westfield State University Maestissimus Hector (Aen. 2.270)-Was this Man Really the Hope of Troy?

This paper’s thesis is that Virgil argues in The Aeneid that Aeneas, not Hector, is the true Trojan hero of Homer’s Iliad. This argument is especially evident In Book 2, as Aeneas begins the story of the fall of Troy. When Hector awakens Aeneas and warns him to gather his people and flee the doomed city, his very appearance reminds us of his final disastrous decision to wait for Achilles outside the walls of Troy. In Iliad 22, as Hector waits for Achilles, Homer compares him to a snake lying hidden as some unwary man approaches its lair. Given the outcome of Hector’s confrontation with Achilles, that image seems misplaced; however, Virgil’s comparison of Aeneas and his men to a serpent as they ambush Androgeos refocuses Homer’s image, reminding us that, by lingering in Troy despite Hector’s ghostly warning, Aeneas imperils the Trojan people no less than did Hector in Iliad 22. After Aeneas is recalled to his true responsibilities by Priam’s death and his goddess-mother’s reproach, he returns to his home and his family. Aeneid 2.634-86 is a subtle reworking of Iliad 6, as Creusa pleads with Aeneas to stay with his family and defend his home, rather than rushing out to face the Greeks in a glorious but ultimately useless show of defiance. Her words recall Andromache’s to Hector as they stand above the Scaean Gate; however, unlike Hector, Aeneas listens to his wife and follows her advice. As in Iliad 6, the hero’s son is with his parents in this scene, but Virgil transfers the flashing helmet that frightened Astyanax (and prefigured his fate) from father to son. It becomes the flame that signals that, unlike Hector’s son, Ascanius will survive and escape with his father and his people to find a new home in Italy.

48. Timothy Joseph, The College of The Holy Cross, organizer Tacitus Now: The Historian of Rome Speaks to the 21st Century

Fox Presents: Tacitus and Pliny, The Best Defense (15 min.) Jacqueline Carlon, University of Massachusetts – Boston

In the Senate during Domitian’s despotic years, Tacitus and Pliny were no mere bystanders to the violence inflicted upon their peers but had, in fact, front row seats and so were open to accusations of complicity in the prosecutions and executions that characterized the emperor’s later years. In the Agricola, Tacitus at least acknowledges his own and his colleagues’ paralysis and failure to oppose Domitian and would, perhaps, have done even more to demonstrate his remorse had he ever written his promised but deferred history of his own time. Pliny never even hints at any personal failing, presenting instead a portrait of himself as courting the emperor’s wrath by supporting those under threat. To modern sensibilities, Tacitus seems the more honest of the two authors, yet the difference in their reactions is caused more by genre than by forthrightness. Indeed, both authors undertake to defend their apparent political apathy through the condemnation of senators who sought the political spotlight. One need only look at Pliny’s overwhelmingly negative portrait of Marcus Aquilius Regulus (Ep. 2.20 and 4.2) and Tacitus’ subtle but damning description of C. Calpurnius Piso (Ann. 5.48) to find evidence of their pressing need to justify their own choices. This paper examines the rhetoric of indirect offense as deployed by Pliny and Tacitus in these two examples, with particular attention to their use of the language both of praise and invective, as they condemn each man for his lack of self-control and restraint, which begins in his personal interactions and then comes to pervade his political behavior, threatening the very survival of the state. Tacitus’ and Pliny’s rhetorical ploys parallel – and can inform us and our students about – the rhetorical strategies that are prevalent in today’s political discourse.

Why did Tacitus Write History? A Re-examination of the Programmatic Passages in the Annals (15 min.) George Baroud, New York University

In his essay “Tacitus Now,” Lionel Trilling describes Tacitus as “one of the few great writers who are utterly without hope” – a standard characterization of our historian, who is generally considered to have been pessimistic or even nihilistic. Although the texture of Tacitus’ voice makes such claims understandable, they are especially puzzling in the context of classical historiography, which viewed historical texts as having a utilitarian purpose: Thucydides aimed to articulate a pattern of human behavior to help us recognize dangerous repetitions, while Livy offered paradigms for us to imitate or avoid. This prefatory topos is one Tacitus eschews in his Annals. While it is true that his polemical attachment of fear and adulation to previous historians implies that his work is an unbiased corrective, he offers no explicit indication of what purpose his history serves – or indeed whether it serves any at all. By identifying and analyzing passages in which Tacitus explicitly discusses the function or purpose of history, I will seek to offer an interpretation that harmonizes these apparently conflicting assertions from throughout the Annals. I will also aim to establish whether Tacitus really articulates a pessimistic view – at least for history – and, if so, to discover what other purpose or value he viewed his historical enterprise as possessing. The implications of this analysis will not be restricted solely to Tacitus or classical historiography, but will allow us to think more broadly about the utility and purpose of historical writing in general.

Tacitus on the Secondary School Level (15 min.) Katy Ganino Reddick, Frank Ward Strong Middle School

Educators at the secondary level can introduce Tacitus to their students in a variety of ways. As a companion to the Cambridge Latin Course or Justin Schwamm’s Cogito project, Tacitus’ Agricola, his biography of Gnaeus Julius Agricola, the conqueror of Britain under Domitian, can deepen students’ perspective of the time period. When the Agricola is read in conjunction with Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars, students can compare two different depictions of Britain, while considering the differences between primary and secondary sources. Speeches from the Agricola also serve as engaging primary source texts for Common Core literacy skills and questions. This paper will encourage creative thinking about Tacitus in the secondary school curriculum.

Tomorrow’s Tacitus: Under Construction (15 min.) Cynthia Damon, University of Pennsylvania

The vibrancy of Tacitus’ tomorrow depends in part on future generations having access to and an understanding of editions that speak to their research questions and working methods. This paper presents two editorial projects I have done with my students at Penn. In the first, which was part of a graduate seminar on Tacitus, we designed a digital critical edition of the Annals and populated the model with enough material to see its strengths and weaknesses. A subsequent project, which defined the edition’s desiderata differently, involved undergraduates and post- baccalaureate students in building a digital text. Neither model is perfect, but working closely with print editions and manuscripts and thinking about their digital future taught the students (and me!) a great deal about a fundamental tool of our trade, the text.

Response (10 min.) Elizabeth Keitel, University of Massachusetts – Amherst

49. Eleanor Winsor Leach, Indiana University

Familial Items in Pliny Book 4

That Pliny wanted his letters read in sequence - make no mistake. One might think he wanted to avoid the fate of Cicero’s ad Familiares which editorial intervention had grouped by correspondent; by contrast some of Pliny’s most frequent correspondents travel the nine books. But beyond this, what is the point of sequential reading in relationship to the division of books? Has the book itself any significance as a unit? Quite recently Ilaria Marchese (2008) discerned in Book one a structure of intertextual Vergilian allusions resembling structures of poetry books, but this artfulness is overriden by the pervading tone of political liberation in the book which Witton (2014) has termed the Book of Restoration. Book three is the inaugural book as keynoted by its indirect treatments of Trajan’s panegyric but also, as Henderson (2002) has pointed out, by epistolary self-consciousness: through a selection of portraits of other literary personae the writer introduces himself. In the intermediary Book Two Witton finds no pronounced theme but rather a narrative arc linking one and three. These books, as Sherwin White (1966) indicated, go together and they articulate the transitional years from Nerva to Trajan. But what happens afterward when the excitement plays out and the collection settles into the new society? Book four, as I wish to demonstrate, foregrounds family matters beginning with Pliny’s own negotiations in his new role of grand-son-in-law to Calpurnius Fabatus of Como, including his meeting with fathers and sons that inspired his patronage of a school in Como and caricaturing the heavy-handed excesses with which his unloved competitor Regulus mourns his son. My discussion will highlight these and seven other letters concerning familial relationships among family and friends. Thematics in Pliny’s books sit lightly but create a sense of unity. These are not poetry books but ways of portraying a society in relationship to self.

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50. Nell Wright Homer’s Magic

By “magic”, I mean extraordinary features of a fictional world not found in our real one, impossible things. In today’s fantasy, a writer creates a world with imagined magic gadgets and powers. Readers accept the daimons, mirrors of the future, and transforming spells, as long as the author is consistent about the limits of their use. Homer’s fantasy world works the same way, but instead of magic, his audience accepts the Olympic gods and the concept of divinity as he describes it. Gods can fly about, disguise themselves and others, even re-locate people and things, but they are limited in ways that affect the plot (they can be wounded and can’t heal themselves).

Next I consider the automatons of Hephaistos’s steam punk workshop (the serving girl-bots, the voice-activated bellows, Alcinoos’s mechanical guard-dogs). Are they magic, or divine within the limits of Homer’s concept of divinity? The figures on Achilles’s shield, I claim, depend on Hephaistos’s divinity. They illustrate his fantastical imagination and his superhuman talent. A modern author might leave it out, since the magic of the shield doesn’t affect the story. Achilles carries a marvelous shield into battle, but no one marvels that he’s wielding a museum- quality piece to deflect spears which Athena turns away anyway. A simple Gorgon’s head would probably be more terrifying to the enemy.

I’m left wondering about the talking horses of Achilles, which don’t seem to fit into Homer’s world. Though the divine, can I accept weeping horses that make prophecies that the whole story turns around?

51. Brian Walsh, University of Vermont

Thucydides’ Mycalessus: a Very Short Case-study of Collaborative Harming

The unexpected and singularly brutal events that befell the small Boeotian polis of Mycalessus in Thucydides’ Book 7.27-30 have been read by various scholars either in close relation to the grand Sicilian Expedition and the concomitant financial strains of an unhealthy state (D. Kagan and L. Kallet), or as analogues to other well known ‘atrocity narratives’ (W.R. Connor and T.J. Quinn), such as Plataea, Melos and Corcyra. Many readers have sought to assign agency and moral responsibility to Athens or its commander Dieitrephes. The present discussion explores the episode within the broader framework of Thucydides’ thinking about shifting lines between culture and barbarism, from its initial articulation in the archaeology of Book 1 and the early war and plague narratives of Books 1-4 to the later parts of the war.

In the Mycalessus narrative the barbarous Thracians, whose mercenary force had been solicited to aid the many Athenians in bringing harm to great Syracuse, find themselves moving in a reverse and homeward direction – north eastward to Thrace instead of south westward to Sicily - as they aid a single Athenian commander in inflicting harm upon the smallest of Boeotian poleis. The episode is one of many manifestations of the unevenly evolving, but steadily increasing, Greek-barbarian interface, here for cooperation with one side of the Hellenes for the destruction of a very small portion of the other side. The Greeks gradually yield to the ways of their mercenaries, as the dividing-line proves hard to find.

A number of other salient features are also examined, including the compact rapidity and efficient brutality of the silent and deadly Thracians (a sharp counterpoint to the previous noisy and speechifying Athenians in their preparations for Sicily) and the grinding and sluggish pace of the ongoing Decelean War; the topos of grand events having their genesis in small and chance beginnings present throughout. The attack on Mycalessus, it is ultimately suggested, serves a plague-like function in the fortunes of this otherwise peripheral polis.

Significant comparisons are made to Thucydides (Brasidas’ rapid northward march, Demosthenes’ disastrous Aetolian encounter, Alcibiades’ moral calculus about helping and harming, Hellenes and autochthonous Sicilian peoples) and other ancient (Herodotus, Xenophon) while a few modern narratives are adduced as appropriate. (376 words)

35. Lydia Fassett Common Latin Vocabulary in Beginning Textbooks

Every beginning Latin textbook teaches different vocabulary words in a different order. This paper presents information on the number of the most common words that show up in each textbook and what percentage of the vocabulary in the textbooks is among the most common words in Latin. Teachers will be able to choose to edit the vocabulary presented to focus on more common words, help students transition from one book to another, and know which words will need to be taught or reinforced in different books.

2015 CANE Annual Business Meeting Minutes

CANE 2015 Annual Business Meeting Agenda

I. Call to Order- President Elizabeth Keitel called the Annual Business Meeting to order at 11: 50 AM II. Approval of Minutes of previous Annual Business Meeting- There being no changes, a motion was made to approve the minutes, SEC/ UNAN III. Memorial Notices-

John Ambrose (Offered by Allison Harvey) John William Ambrose, Jr., Professor Emeritus of Classical languages at Bowdoin College and long-time CANE member died in Topsham, Maine on November 7, 2014. He was born in Grafton, Massachusetts in 1931. He earned his A.B., M.A., and doctorate degrees in classics from Brown University. John’s teaching career began at Roxbury Latin School in 1956, followed by assignments at Phillips Andover Academy and the Taft School. For 34 years he served as instructor and Dean of Students at St. George’s Summer School in Rhode Island. In 1966 John began his 34-year career at Bowdoin College where, in 1977, he was named Joseph E. Merrill Professor of Greek. Among his publications are two of Preparatory Latin, The Ironic Meaning of the Lolius Ode, Greek Attitudes, and two Bryn Mawr commentaries.

John served CANE in numerous capacities, most notably as on-site coordinator for the 1981 Annual Meeting at Bowdoin College and as CANE president in 1995. Of special significance to many high school Latin teachers were the NEH grants that John secured in 1986 and ’87 for the Greek Summer Institute at Bowdoin, considered to this day by many participants to be the crown jewel of their professional experiences.

John concluded a convocation address to Bowdoin’s class of 2002, by saying, “I am a professor, and I cannot imagine enjoying any form of work as much as teaching bright young men and women.” Indeed, John was first and foremost a teacher, one who practiced his art with remarkable élan. His wisdom and contagious passion for his subject, and his uncanny ability to ease apprehension while preserving rigor inspired in his students confidence, scholarly discipline, and a lifelong love of classical literature.

John showed consummate respect for every student, and many have expressed profound gratitude for his generous presence in their lives. John will be fondly remembered by his wife, Frances “Petey” Ambrose” and sons, and John, and many friends, colleagues, and students as a devoted pater familias; an avid tennis player, a gentleman without pretension, full of charm, playful wit, convivial spirit, and unflagging optimism; a man of deep faith and good will.

Requiescat in pace.

Elaine Dates (Offered by Ken Rothwell) Elaine Dates, 1972-2014

Elaine Dates, or “Lainie,” as many knew her, died on Nov. 18, 2014, aged 72, in Shelburne, Vermont. She graduated from the University of Vermont in 1964, went on to receive a Masters from Wayne State University, and taught at Burlington High School from 1972 until 1998. She taught Latin to a generation of students in Burlington, and did so with learning, sanity, imagination, and irreverence. Her classroom was filled with art and even Latin graffiti; as one former student put it, she was not afraid of the chaos of discovery. She was the colleague who could be counted on to take students to Italy, teach Advanced Placement as an overload, or help build a catapult.

She was active in the Vermont Classical Language Association, Vermont Council on the Humanities, Vermont Foreign Languages Association, Northeast Conference of Foreign Languages, the American Classical League, and served CANE in many capacities. She received the University of Vermont's Outstanding Teacher Award, the American Association of University Women's Vermont Teacher of the Year Award, and a Rockefeller Fellowship to study Etruscan Art in Italy. For many years, she and her husband Steve took groups of students to Italy— something she was comfortable doing, because along the way she had earned a master’s degree in Italian from Middlebury and spent a year at the University of Florence.

In fact her interests and abilities were extraordinarily broad. One should note the fact that she and her partner were the nationally top-seeded debate team at the National Debate Tournament in 1964, and she was a successful debate coach at Burlington High for many years. But as stimulating as teaching was, she would not be limited by it. After thirty-four years in the classroom, she was one of a number of teachers who took sleeping bags to camp out at the school administration building in order to take advantage of an early retirement package. This meant, for her, being able to embark on a new set of interests. Four years of training led her to become a National Garden Club Accredited Judge. She served on the boards of trustees of various libraries in Vermont. And she continued to attend CANE and travel to Italy. All of this activity surely explains her success as a teacher: it is the ability to tap into what’s outside of the classroom that makes it interesting.

Marcia Jones (Offered by Liz Baer) Long-time Latin teacher Marcia Jones of Pittsfield, MA, passed away on December 11, 2014 after a long illness. Marcia was an educator at Berkshire Country Day School for 37 years, teaching math, history, and most of all Latin. Marcia was such a dear to all of those who knew her, and because of her warmth and humor, she very often would be assigned the youngest Latin learners at BCD. With the 6th and 7th grade students she was uniquely able to engage these squirmy middle school children and make them excited about Latin and about learning. Her success in many ways was due to her empathy and support for everyone with whom she worked, whether student, faculty, parent, or anyone else she knew. Quietly she would find a way to help those in desperate need or someone who was just having a tough time in class. She possessed such a sharp mind that while many of us were still using pen and paper, she learned computer programming and designed software to help students learn the forms of Latin grammar. She was very much ahead of her time, and unwilling to shut herself and her students off from new ways of teaching and learning. In addition to her time at BCD, Marcia taught at Miss Hall’s School and briefly held the position of Dean of Students there; she ran the Visitors’ Center at Tanglewood for many, many years – equally engaging with the volunteer corps as she was with her young charges in the classroom; and she was a Lay Eucharistic Minister in the Episcopal Church. I am fortunate to count myself among those who were able to enjoy Marcia as a colleague and learn from her mastery as a teacher, and as those of us pass along what we learned from her, she will endure through generations of students.

Eileen Hickey- (Offered by Sister Mary Faith Dargan)- Elaine Mary Hickey of Hartford, Connecticut passed away peacefully on December 25, 2014 at the Notre Dame du Lac Nursing Facility in Worcester, Massachusetts. Eileen was a devoted and loving mother to her son, Peter Hickey and to her daughter, Ann Hickey. Eileen graduated magna cum laude from Albertus Magnus College with a major in English and a minor in both mathematics and Latin. She continued her studies in English literature at Trinity College, in Hartford. Eileen began her career in education as an English teacher at Sheridan Junior High School an later at Hillhouse High School. Eileen’s warmth, intelligence, and kind spirit will be missed by family and friends.

Christine Sleeper- (Offered by Elizabeth Keitel) Christine Sleeper passed away on February 16 of this year at the age of 98. A native of the Granite State, she attended UNH and Radcliffe and began her career as a teacher of French in Derry, where she taught the future astronaut Alan Shepard. “He didn’t use it much up in space”, she admitted to a reporter. She obtained a private pilot’s license in 1941 and worked for a time as an air traffic controller at Logan, then volunteered for the Red Cross in France during the war. A wife and mother of six, she taught Latin for many years in Herndon, VA, retiring at the age of 84 because she wanted to travel more. Her first stop: Antarctica.

Chris was one of founders of the National Latin Exam in 1976 and served on the Writing Committee into her 90’s. She also endowed a scholarship given annually by the NLE to a teacher for educational travel abroad . Chris won the APA award for Excellence in Teaching at the pre-collegiate level in 1999 and served as Vice-President of ACL (1988-1992). About Latin, she wrote: “Mine has been a lifelong love affair with Latin… If you’ve had Latin, you’re a better writer, a better speaker and a better person”.

A moment of silence was observed in memory of our departed colleagues.

Report of the Auditors- Presented by Shirley Lowe and Paula Chabot who found that the reports accurately reflect the status of our funds, and thanked Ruth Breindel, Treasurer, and Donna Lyons, Curator, for their care and precision with our funds. Report of the Curator of the Funds- Donna Lyons expressed thanks to the Finance Committee members, the auditors, and to Faith Parker, the investment advisor for our accounts at Morgan Stanley. Special thanks to Z. Philip Ambrose, the mentor and prior Curator of Funds. Report of Committee on Scholarships- Miss Laura DeMarse was the winner of the Thomas and Eleanor Means Fund award. Laura attends Bellows Free Academy in Vermont. Her Latin teacher, Mrs. Lydia Batten, organized a trip to Italy in late February. The group visited Milan, Venice, Florence, Assisi, Rome, Pompeii and Capri. Laura will send us a report with pictures from her trip; this will be posted on the CANE website. The winner of the Cornelia Catlin Coulter Scholarship was Mr. John (Jake) Spearman. In 2006 Jake left a corporate career to become a Latin teacher, and he is currently teaching at Avon Old Farms School in Connecticut. He teaches all levels of Latin, including AP, as well as a popular history course called “Greece and Rome.” He will use the funds to attend the Summer Session of the School of Classical Studies at the American Academy in Rome. This year’s Endowment Scholarship winner was Ms. Susan Zoller. Susan is a Latin teacher at Spaulding High School in Rochester, New Hampshire. She will be spending the summer at the Villa Vergiliana doing two study tours: Caesar and Vergil in Italy, and Naples Bay as Melting Pot, Always at a Boil. IV. Announcement of Presidential Appointments-

Barlow-Beach Committee to replace Paul Properzio- Jacqui Carlon Nominating Committee to replace Amanda Loud - Susan Zoller

CSI Steering Committee: Teresa Ramsby - 3yrs Amanda Loud - 2yrs John Higgins - 2 yrs Caitlin McGee- 3 yrs Betsy Mathews -2 yrs Tim Joseph as Exec. Comm Rep. 1 yr. V. Report on the Executive Committee Meeting- We gathered last night in fellowship to discuss this upcoming meeting, to praise the beautiful facilities and to make certain that the last minute changes to the program were printed and ready to distribute.

VI. Report of the Committee on Discretionary Funds – Michael Deschenes reported that grant number one was to assist Marilyn Archibald to assist her students on their trip to Italy with transportation to Logan Airport. Matt Bokulus (???) to purchase a stereo viewer for his classroom.

VII. Report of the Executive Secretary - Executive Secretary, Rosemary Zurawel reported that the Annual Bulletin in its full version is available on CANEweb, or in hard copy form by request to her. The version mailed each year includes the members’ names, addresses, phone numbers, and email. Any member wishing to have part of the information removed or corrected should contact the Executive Secretary directly. Additionally, it is the responsibility of the Executive Secretary to announce the following policy of "a Life Membership Fee of $500 minus $1 for each year of membership in CANE". MOV to Accept all of the Reports. /SEC/UNAN VIII. Report of the Nominating Committee and election of new officers Auditors Paula Chabot Shirley Lowe

Classics in Curricula Coordinator Scott Smith (UNH)

President Elect Anne Mahoney (Tufts)

Member At Large Kevin Ballestrini (Norwich Free Academy, CT)

MOV To ask the Exec. Sec. to cast a single ballot for the Slate of Officers UNAN

I. Invitation for following year's Annual Meeting- the 110th March 18 and 19, 2016 at Smith College II. Old Business: CSI 2015- 13-18 July at Brown University.- Emil Peñarubia Please fill out the feedback form in the folder Reminder to visit the Silent Auction

III. New business IV. Announcements Silent Auction, CANE Press, CSI, Banquet- Maps are available at Registration table.

CANE Summer Institute- programs are available at the Emporium, and are in the mail. Members are encouraged to take extra copies to entice friends.

CANEns is online and is refreshed twice weekly with new articles, events, and tips for teaching.

V. With a motion seconded to adjourn, President Elizabeth Keitel declared the Annual Business Meeting adjourned at 12:27.

Respectfully Submitted,

Rosemary A. Zurawel, Executive Secretary

2015 Resolution

Media hieme aggeribus circumdati niveis somniati sumus adventum huius diei, nam diu sciebamus fore ut sic animi nostri — Deo volente! — reficerentur hoc conventu multisque universitatibus, collegiis et scholis quae ei summo sunt decori. Nunc animis nostris, avidis scientiae et intellectus exercitandi, refectis et ad futura subeunda praeparatis, gaudeamus gratiasque agamus maximas: primo Scholae quae vocatur Noble et Greenough, cuius discipulos et discipulas hoc praeceptum Vergilianum gubernat: Spes sibi quisque; tum Georgio Blake, qui bono eventui huius conventus et nobis omnibus summo cum studio curavit; postea tribus feminis, quarum pietasque fidesque semper praestat — Donnae Lyons, Ruth Breindel, et Rosae Mariae Zurawel; deinde Elizabethae Keitel, Praesidi illustrissimae Societatis Classicae Novae Angliae, quae multimodis nobis iamdiu provisit, nam nos huic Praesidi semper cordi fuimus; quibus recte dictis speremus Deum omnipotentem effecturum esse ut haec concelebratio iucundissima atque clarissima modo simili proximo anno iteretur! scripsit Richard E. Clairmont University of New Hampshire 2015 CANE Annual Meeting 2014-2015 CANE Executive Committee Minutes

Classical Association of New England Executive Committee Meeting Saturday, 18 October 2014 9:30 AM St. Sebastian’s School, Needham, MA

In attendance: Elizabeth Keitel, Michael Deschenes, Deborah Davies, Ruth Breindel, Nell Wright, Jacqui Carlon, Anne Wadlow Drogula, Ben Revkin, Emil Peñarubia, TJ Howell, Sean Smith, Timothy Joseph, Gabriel Bakale, Rosemary A. Zurawel

Agenda:

1. Announcements by the President, Elizabeth Keitel: Called the meeting to order at 9:30 AM • Introduction of new members • Welcome from the President • Thanks from Adam Blistein, for the CANE donation to APA

• Confirmation of dates for 2014-2015: Saturday, 18 October 2014 @ St. Sebastian’s School, Saturday, 31 January 2015 (Snow Date: 7 February 2014), @ UMass, Amherst, 12-14 March at Noble & Greenough School, Saturday, 25 April @ UMass/Amherst. All meetings begin at 9:30 AM. (PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE FOR THE FINAL MEETING VENUE )

2. Announcement by the Executive Secretary, Rosemary A. Zurawel: • Confirmation of info on Officers and Committees list • Confirmation of length of terms

3. Acceptance of Minutes from April Meeting (See below): MOV/SEC/UNAN 4. Reports: • Treasurer- Ruth Breindel distributed her report, noting that memberships came in slowly, and will continue to come in. Many PayPal renewals of memberships. Some points for discussion include advice from our accountant to spend more money. John Lawless may not be interested in continuing the Book Sale at the Annual Meeting. Ruth recommended that someone contact John Munsey to see if he might be interested. CANEPress- Extra calendars are up for free.

paypal/savings total In account 7/01/14 33,738.36 not dep Income

CANE dues checks 8,027.40 7,665.00 paypal -362.40 762.40

Subscriptions 5,230.00 Classical World 770.00 Classical Journal 1,175.00 Classical Outlook 2,805.00 Classical Philology 480.00 Funds 967.00 Barlow Beach 52.00 Coulter 150.00 Endowment 400.00 Alison Barker 250.00 CSI 115.00 Misc.

Annual Meeting 2015 Emporium 596.56 596.56

Book Sale - Annual Meeting CANEPress 176.00 4,006.64 4,182.64 Refund CSI 2014 5,841.68 20,476.24 54,214.60

Expenses Subscriptions 5,285.00 NECJ 11,498.30 Ex. Comm. Meetings 492.00 Delegates 200.00 Postage, Supplies 556.20 Discretionary Funds Educational Programs CSI 2014 11,738.50

CANEPress 1,459.65 Other Dues Membership 258.29 Website/JStor Funds Emporium 127.61

Annual Bulletin 1,133.38 Accountant 5,093.25 Poggioli Annual Meeting 2015 storage Finnegan-Plante Insurance Misc 37,842.18 16,372.42 Savings acct from last yr 15374.04 Savings account this year 17902.45

• Curator- Donna Lyons was unavailable

• Connecticut- Delivered by Katy Reddick, in absentia:

ClassConn Connecticut State Report

Upcoming Events:

October 25 ClassConn Annual Meeting, Hopkins School, New Haven October 27 CT COLT Annual Fall Meeting, Waterbury November 3 CT Greek Day, UConn

Ongoing: August 22- February 4 Yale University Art Gallery- Roman in the Provinces: Art on the Periphery of the Empire

Brief notes: If you have not yet seen the reinstallation of the ancient art galleries at Yale, they are worth a visit and there is no better time than right now with the special exhibit. The permanent exhibit boasts a full Mithraeum and the special exhibit includes some ancient tunics from Egypt.

ACL is coming to UConn this June! There was discussion at the last ClassConn executive meeting about whether ClassConn should sponsor some sort of Best of Connecticut workshop. Discussion is ongoing, but ClassConn definitely wants to have some sort of presence at the meeting.

CANE Writing Contest: At the executive meeting there was discussion about whether there is a disadvantage for students who write more scholarly pieces as they have a larger burden with citations than students who write poetry or fictional pieces. Is there any feedback from former judges?

(Discussion at the Exec. Com. Table ensued. Jacqui Carlon suggested that we could alternate genres. Sean Smith noted that excellent essays are acceptable. Others mentioned that creative pieces are more interesting to read for the judges, and often are well-crafted. The project can appear a bit intimidating by their adherence to the guidelines. Teachers need to manage the information in order to get students to submit pieces. It can be a part of the regular curriculum. A workshop topic at the Annual Meeting, and an article in CANEns would be terrific. )

(A Lego building of aqueducts is in the Student Center at UConn. Also, Elizabeth Keitel talked about a YouTube performance that would be great entertainment for the Annual Banquet.)

• Maine-Maine Classical Association Report for Classical Association of New England

Officers: President, Erin Taylor at Freeport High School Vice President, Sarah Moore at Cony High School Treasurer, Meg Cook at Winthrop High School CLAMOR editor, Seth Knowles at Greely High School Secretary, Heidi Paulding at Fryeburg Academy CANE representative, (pro-tempore) Heidi Paulding FLAME representative, Mary Oches at Erskine Academy Website (www.maineclassics.org), Benjamin Johnson at Hampden Academy

Financial: We have both a checking and savings account and make every effort to keep the balance around $6,000. In the past few years we have had trouble, especially for the prices of meals at our meetings and for insurance fees to use meeting rooms at colleges. We have raised our dues from $5.00 per year to $10.00 per year as well as raising the meeting fee from $10.00 to $15.00. We have also been awarding The MCA award at the MEJCL Spring Convention, (2) $100.00 awards to graduating MEJCL Seniors. The awards are partly funded through donations to MCA specifically for that award, but we are currently lower in revenue than expenditures for The MCA Award.

Membership: We have almost 100 names on our mailing list, both active and non-active. We usually host 40 people at our fall meeting, on a college campus with a focus on academic papers and 20 at our spring meeting, at a high school with a focus on pedagogy.

Fall Meeting: We are very proud to offer our Maine Classical Association fall meeting at Colby College on Saturday, October 18, 2014. Please see the program below:

Maine Classical Association Fall Conference Colby College, Millett House Saturday, October 18th, 2014

8:30 Registration and breakfast 9:00 Welcome Erin Taylor, President, Maine Classical Association 9:15 "What DOES the Fox Say? Animal Sounds and Significance in Greco-Roman Culture" Susan Curry, Ph.D. University of New Hampshire 10:00 Break 10:15 “The Grammar of Life, and Digging up Our Verbal Roots” Lois Hinckley, Professor Emerita of Classics at USM 11:00 "Visualizing the Homeric Hymns." Kate Sanborn, Ph.D. Candidate at Trinity College in Dublin 11:45 MCA Award, Sally Cody 12:00 Lunch 1:00 MCA Business Meeting0.6 CEUs available from the University of Maine ($10.00).

Concerns and Issues: We have a small core of energetic and excellent people who work together beautifully. We have no representation on our Executive Board from any of the colleges in Maine. It seems difficult to find speakers for our fall meetings, does CANE have a directory of classicists who are willing and excited to inspire colleagues?

Respectfully submitted, Heidi Paulding, MCA Secretary, pro tempore CANE representative from Maine, Latin Teacher, World Language Department Chair, Fryeburg Academy

(The Exec. Com. might also generate a directory of speakers as a means of addressing Heidi Paulding’s statement on not knowing where to turn for speakers.) • Massachusetts- MA State Representative Report

CAM News The Classical Association of Massachusetts will meet in conjunction with the MaFLA annual meeting in Sturbridge, MA, October 24-25. Workshops and talks include:

• Let’s Speak Latin: How to Get Students Talking (Jacqui Carlon, UMass Boston)

• Teaching Reading to Latin Students Without Translating (Jacqui Carlon, UMass Boston)

• Ex Galliaque et Hispania ad Romam Redii: Exploring the Monuments and Identities of Roman Spain & France (Ted Zarrow, Westwood High School)

• Interactive Learning in a Diverse Latin Classroom (Brianna Reyes, UMass Boston and Skye Shirley, Newton Country Day School)

• Using Adapted Readings for Intermediate Latin Students (Teresa Ramsby, UMass Amherst)

• Roman Cultural Projects for the Latin Classroom (Christopher Buczek, Cathedral Preparatory School • Activate the Latin Fandom! (Abbi Holt, Arlington Public Schools) • Using Harrius Potter in the Classroom (TJ Howell, Belchertown High School) • At the fall meeting of the CAM membership, Greg Stringer of Burlington High School will deliver a talk detailing his activities as the recipient of the 2014 Batting Award. The CAM Excellence in Teaching Award will also be awarded. (At this time, the identity of the recipient remains confidential.)

• Massachusetts JCL News Congratulations to the MA state delegation whose Advanced-Level Certaminists took the first place trophy at the JCL National Convention in Atlanta. Amol Punjabi of the Advanced Math and Science Academy was named the new editor of The Torch, and Janet Fillion of Boston Latin Academy earned a silver bowl for attending her 20th NJCL convention.

• Respectfully submitted,

C. Emil Peñarubia

(ACL and NJCL have moved from Miami University. UConn will host ACL this year, and CANE will be a presence there, including the Emporium.)

• New Hampshire- Delivered by Paul Langford, in absentia:

Classics Lecture at University of N.H. – Fall 2014* (603.862.3522 for further info.)

15 October, 2014 “The Psychology of Greed: Ancient & Modern Reflections”, Ryan Balot, Dept. of Political Science, Univ. of Toronto 7:30pm – Richards Auditorium, 115 Murkland Hall, Univ. of NH, Durham, NH *Sponsored by the J. C. Rouman Lecture Series NHCA Annual Classics Day for Students was held on Friday, May 11, 2014 at the Dana Center, St. Anselm’s College; 9:00am – 1:00pm Program R. Scott Smith, “A Panorama of the Mythology of Thebes” Theater KAPOW, “The Burial at Thebes” NHCA Certamen

N.H. State Latin and Mythology Exams were held and awards made, Spring 2014

NHCA Annual Classics Day for Teachers was held on Friday, Sept. 26, 2014 Location: Southern N.H. University Program David George, St. Anselm College, “Recent Archaeological Discoveries from the St. Anselm Excavations in Orvieto” Kenneth Rothwell, UMass-Boston, “There Was an App for That: Technology in Greece & Rome” Business Meeting Lunch Afternoon Session NH JCL: Nick Unger, current head of the NH JCL, made a pitch for establishing more chapters in NH and, in particular, organizing a state convention in spring 2015. The result was a plan to hold a state convention in April or May 2015 at Phillips Exeter Academy.

Granite State Certamen 2014 Open to students in N.H. and MASS. Saturday, December 6th, 9:30 am – 2:30pm, Dover High School, Dover, N.H. Deadline for registration of teams: November 14, 2014 Contact: Mrs. Jennifer Connelly, Dover High School, 25 Alumni Drive, Dover, NH 03820 [email protected]

• Rhode Island- Anne Drogula offered the following: In May 2014, an event at RISD and Brown where the Classics Department hosted a meeting. The Reading Group continues monthly; currently the colleagues are working on Caesar. The Brown carols will be the first Monday of December.

• Vermont- No news

• Scholarships- Amy White will send reports

• Educational Programs- Ted Zarrow said that he plans to increase the level of dialogue between the State Representatives and colleges. He is working on putting together updated lists and emails for Latin teachers. The graduate students at UMass/Boston pulled together list of all teachers in Massachusetts.

• CANE Press- (Lydia Haile Fassett had twins girls this summer), 105 items in 3rd Quarter. Single items are now for sale through Amazon, but classrooms sets through our website. Amazon, in apology for a destroyed book, has given CANEPress a credit of $1000. Downloads are working well, and save trips and expenses for postage. CANEPress is still paying royalties.

• CANEns- TJ Howell announced that Lydia Haile Fassett and Emily Lewis {who now is in Virginia} no are members of CANEns. Therefore, Gabe Bakale and Shirley Blood Thom are now their replacements. It has been a bit of a rocky transition over the summer, but all has been settled. The CANEns group is looking for more contributors. The focus is more pedagogical than scholarly. Announcements are posted on Sundays, while Tuesdays have a feature post, and Thursdays five to seven links to articles and websites. It is possible to post PowerPoint slides, and there is a restriction to file size (no videos). The biggest concern about CANEns is that it may not be well-read. Is Twitter helpful in tracing traffic to the website? The answer is affirmative.

• Classics in Curricula – Jacqui Carlon has not had any contact from people who are reporting openings for jobs, or the ending of Classics programs. She did report that eight graduate students had found placements by mid-June. A last-minute opening the week prior to September was filled in Massachusetts. Notice about job openings will be part of the President’s Letter in NECJ. Please send Jacqui the names of Latin teachers looking for positions. School Spring (on-line) is a commonly used service; a free service to applicants and schools. Carney-Sandoe is particular about the kinds of people their service to private schools support.

• CANE Summer Institute 2014- Jeri DeBrohun sent reports to the Exec. Committee: • CLIENT Classics Assoc. of New England (CANE)

EVENT NAME CANE Summer Institute

DATE July 15th, 2013 - July 20th, 2013

PRIMARY CONTACT Jeri Debrohun

ADDRESS Box 1856, Brown University

PHONE 401-863-2977

EMAIL [email protected]

Category Description Location # ppl/ rooms Cost Per Item/Person Actual Cost Notes

(Entire Event)

Space Rental Lecture Hall Rental Charge (Waived) Smith-Buonanno Rooms 1 $500.00 $0.00 2013-AAENCM Classrooms Rental Charge (Waived) Smith-Buonanno Rooms 5 $200.00 $0.00 2013-AAENCM 2 medium breakouts Rental Charge (Waived) Smith-Buonanno Rooms 2 $500.00 $0.00 2013-AAENCM 1 Large Banquet Room Rental Charge (Waived) Pembroke 305 1 $1,200.00 $0.00 2013-AAENCM $0.00 Housing Lock Out per lockout Vartan Gregorian Quad (VGQ) 1 $25.00 $0.00 no lockouts Keys Lost Keys Vartan Gregorian Quad (VGQ) 2 $85.00 $0.00 no lost keys $0.00 Facilities Equipment Rental 60" Round Banquet Tables Pembroke 305 10 $10.75 $107.50 P007891 Equipment Rental 8' tables for food prep Pembroke 305 2 $10.75 $0.00 P007891 Equipment Rental Trash/Recycle Bins Pembroke 305 4 $7.00 $14.00 P007891 Equipment Rental Pipe and Drape Pembroke 305 6 $5.75 $0.00 P007891 Labor (Hourly) Set-up/Break-down/Cleaning Pembroke 305 6 $48.00 $240.00 P007891 Labor (Hourly) Cleaning (AM/PM) Smith-Buonanno Rooms 10 $48.00 $0.00 P007891 $361.50 Audio Visual Equipment Rental Projector/Screen/Audio Smith-Buonanno Rooms 1 $0.00 $0.00 REQ-5954-5961, 5965 Labor (Hourly) A/V Support Smith-Buonanno Rooms 0 $50.00 $0.00 REQ-5954-5961, 5965 $0.00 Catering Banquet (Sit-down) July 19th, 2013 Pembroke 305 70 $2,672.50 F#51372

$2,672.50 Dining Hall Meals Lunch July 16, 17, 18, 19 Dining Hall 243 $12.25 $2,976.75 Dinner July 15, 16, 17, 18 Dining Hall 243 $13.95 $3,389.85 $6,366.60 Miscellaneous Parking per day University Lot 234 $15.00 $3,510.00 P007891 Registration staff staffing per hour waived 1 $30.00 $0.00 waived Nametags per tag 75 $2.50 $187.50 P007891 $3,697.50 SUBTOTAL $13,098.10 Planning + Logistics 10% of overall cost (excluding dorms) $1,309.81 Dorm Room Nights 75 rooms/5 nights each Vartan Gregorian Quad (VGQ) 282 $50.00 $14,100.00 Total Brown University Conference Services Charges $28,507.91 Miscellaneous Expenses Incurred by Brown University Department of Classics in Support of Institute Copy Center Charges Printing of Posters for Advertisement Metcalf Copy Center $38.92 6-38158 Copy Center Charges Printing of Flyers for Mailing Metcalf Copy Center $908.00 6-38158 Dining Dollars For Instructors/Lecturers Dining Services $45.00 2-11270 Food for Sat Breakfast Muffins Dining Services $39.00 6-38158

Postage Mailing of Flyers Classics $295.82 6-38158 Student Services DeFabio Recepton Assistance Smith-Buonanno 107 $75.33 2-11270 Supplies Paticipant Folders Brown Bookstore $96.00 2-11270 Supplies Food, Beverage, Paper Goods Receptions/Sat. Breakfast $212.65 6-38158 Total Expenses Incurred by Brown University Department of Classics $1,710.72 TOTAL REIMBURSEMENT DUE TO BROWN UNIVERSITY BY CANE $30,218.63 Expenses for Director, Instructors, and Lecturers Paid Directly by CANE Honoraria $11,300.00 Travel $750.90 Total Honoraria and Travel Expenses for Director, Instructors, and Lecturers $12,050.90 TOTAL EXPENSES FOR CANE SUMMER INSTITUTE 2013 THROUGH 9/25/13 $42,269.53 Miscellaneous Expenses Covered by Hospitality Collection Alcohol For Receptions Smith-Buonanno 107 $131.87 Hospitality Fund Food for Sat Breakfast Bagels and Cream Cheese Bagel Gourmet $44.00 Hospitality Fund Food for Sat Breakfast Coffee, Fruit, Juice, Yogurt, etc. Vartan Gregorian Quad (VGQ) $54.12 Hospitality Fund Supplies Ice Receptions $11.94 Hospitality Fund Total Expenses Covered by the Hospitality Fund $241.93 Total Hospitality Funds Collected $400.13 Hospitality Funds to be Returned to CANE $158.20 Total registration funds collected (minus CANE memberships paid with reg.) $45, 338.27 $500 from anonymous donor plus $658.20 unused collected Hospitality Funds Total funds collected toward CSI 2013 $45, 996.47 Total Cost (includingHospFundcharges) $42,511.46 Variance ("surplus") $3,485.01 If substract payments/refunds suggested minus $314.99 $3,170.02

Emil Peñarubia will be the CSI Director, and announced the theme for CSI 2015 July 13-18 2015, at Brown University. “ Ex egi monumentum: Creating the Everlasting in the Ancient World”. Flyers will be out in the new year (by December vacation). Jeri DeBrohun will be our Brown University liaison. Will Brown offer graduate credit for participants? Jeri was persuing that, and Elizabeth will ask her to stay the course.

Discussion of how to spend our funds, and how to use those to underwrite CSI to lower everyone’s cost, will continue under New Business. Acceptance of reports: MOV/SEC/UNAN

5. New edition of the Manual needed- Michael Deschenes reported that the Manual edition of 26 April 2014 has now been posted on the website. He will undertake any changes.

6. Website news- Ben Revkin- The members of the Exec. Com. Praised the new look and ease of use.

7. NECJ- Deb Davies reported that the graphics editor has held up the production by taking too long to turn around the issues (e.g., five weeks are too long.). She and Ruth will monitor more closely the next issue.

Old Business: 1. Status of Middle School Writing Contest?- We have it, but no one has used it. The teacher would run it in his/her school, but give out a certificate. If we want to do it, we ought to promote it through CANEns. A template certificate can be made ready. Ruth will add a paragraph in the announcement “jazzed up” for Middle School students. We should not discourage students by allowing their teachers to think that their students are in competition with high school students. An age-appropriate gift

2. Institutional Membership discussion.- Talk about this at the budget meeting. We were thinking of charging $100.00 per College Department.

3. Listing of Open Positions to place on CANEns- Job postings can be placed on CANEns; the editors were looking for guidance from the Exec. Com. Members. How long might they be posted? Alternatively, a link to School Spring and ACL can be headlined as, “Looking for a Latin job? Here are some links…” Ben offered to make a static page on caneweb.org with jobs that we have heard about. Clearinghouse information including local Universities can be placed on this page. Ben will add a page under the Resources tab on the website.

4. Membership Committee needs- Membership is about 540-550, and stable. We need to get more young teachers in. UMass graduates often renew memberships that had been paid for by Classics Departments. A person does need to be a member to give a paper and attend the Annual Meeting. Jacqui will contact graduate program directors in the Boston area and Elizabeth will contact the ones in western Massachusetts. JSTOR has been an incredible draw for new members.

5. Student Memberships: pdf availability of NECJ ? The six State Writing Contest winners would each become members and receive a pdf of the journal. Student memberships can stay at an affordable $15.00 Ruth can now send out message to student members asking them if they wish a hard copy or a pdf? Next year’s cycle would only be available as a pdf document to students. The New England winner will receive the Amazon gift card and an annual membership.

6. Nominating Committee procedures- All information may be found in the Manual.

New Business: 1. 2015 Annual Meeting –News and updates- Elizabeth Keitel and Michael Deschenes will visit on 30 October. Bolchazy-Carducci has offered to pay for wine or a pre-dinner drink. 2. 2016 Annual Meeting- Sean Smith. 3. 2017 Annual Meeting location? Roger Williams University? St. George’s School? Exeter? Andover? Milton? Tabor? Rivers? (Elizabeth will investigate.) 4. Discretionary Grant Request (Marilyn Archibald) – The committee discussed during the lunch, and approved the request to assist with transportation to and from the airport. 5. Spending funds – Our accountant recommends that we spend more funds. • Ruth offered that we should spend the funds that will have the largest impact. She recommends spending more money on, 1) Supporting the cost of the NECJournal, 2) Dropping the price to attend the Annual Meeting, and 3) CSI support. • ACTFL delegate support- Increase to $1k?- Delegates, according to Ruth, do not benefit the organization. ACTFL gives us very little in return. Also, the requirement to report out to the membership is essential for all delegates. • Sean Smith said that supporting our mission is the most important place to put our funds. If a return is 4-5%, then we should have that money to spend. He thought that cutting costs to attendees at CSI and at the Annual Meeting are important. • Jacqui Carlon suggested that moving the NECJ to a pdf will save us quite a lot of money. She supports a lower price for both the Annual Meeting and CSI. More people might apply for assistance when the prices are lower. • Another discussion included not charging the presenters at the Annual Meeting for their attendance on the day of their presentation, or assisting with hotel coverage. • A finite dollar amount will be part of our discussion in detail at the budget meeting. • We have approved the $10k for CSI, but Emil can drop the cost of CSI 2015 to $200 or $300 from $400. While we talked about adding to the honoraria paid to lecturers and instructors, it was more widely supported to support the attendees. Emil may decide to include CANE membership in his pricing structure. He would also have access to some scholarships again. • Jacqui Carlon suggested that CANE pay the overhead for the Annual Meeting while charging attendees for the actual costs . That would allow us to charge this year: $50.00 for two days and $25.00 for each day. Non-members could be charged $85.00, including the membership fee. MOV/SEC/UNAN

6. Other New Business:

Adjournment: President Elizabeth Keitel declared the meeting adjourned at 12:40 PM. Respectfully submitted, Rosemary A. Zurawel, Executive Secretary

Classical Association of New England Executive Committee Meeting 31 January 2015 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 9:30 AM In Attendance: Elizabeth Keitel, Nell Wright, Michael Deschenes, Leanne Morton, Ted Zarrow, Amy White, TJ Howell, Donna Lyons (via Skype), Lydia Haile Fassett (via Skype), Rosemary A. Zurawel, Ruth Breindel, Anne Drogula, Ben Revkin

Agenda: 1. Announcements by the President: The meeting was called to order by Elizabeth Keitel at 9:51 A. M. 2. Announcements by the Executive Secretary: Cell phone numbers for members were requested in order to facilitate contact during the Annual Meeting* 3. Acceptance of the Minutes of 18 October 2014- MOV to accept. SEC/UNAN 4. Reports: • State Representatives – MAINE: The MCA Planning Meeting was held on 1/17/2015 at Winthrop High School from 10:15- 12:01.

The Member Present were: Erin Taylor, President, Sarah Moore, Vice President and CANE representative, Meg Cook, Treasurer, Heidi Paulding Secretary and CANE rep pro tempore, Seth Knowles, CLAMOR Editor, Ben Johnson, Technology, and Mary Oches, FLAME representative.

Officer Reports: CANE rep: Send in discretionary grant requests! The CANE is Annual meeting March 13-14. Treasurer: The checking account balance is $404.06 and Savings is $4,641.47. Technology: The website broken between fall meeting and JCL meeting. Updated and more secure, with a basic format.

FLAME rep: FLAME conference March 5 and 6, 2015 in Portland, Me at Holiday Inn by the Bay. FLAME CANE summer institute scholarship has not been used, FLAME board agreed to change the usage of the funds, but what for? Possibilities include; Cambridge Latin Course in Dallas, AP Training, ACL Institute, CANE Meeting, JCL National Convention, seed money to help start a local JCL CLAMOR Editor: on website, and mailed. A winter edition will be ready for The FLAME Conference. Secretary: I Read and sent along to the CANE Essays to The Regional Essay Judge in Amherst CANE Annual Meeting: Heidi will try to attend March 12,13,14 Spring Meeting May 2, 2015 Plans include: Jay Ketner from DOE possible topic for Spring Meeting Freeport High School or Winthrop Erin Taylor workshop Facilitate a standards roundtable Ben Johnson workshop Mastery Based Latin or Scanning Fall meeting preliminary plans include: 2016 Bowdoin, 2017 Bates, 2018 Colby, or mansion in Augusta 2015. October 3, 17, 24, or 31 of 2015 Officers' Slate for 2015-2017

President: Sarah Moore Vice President/CANE rep: Searching for excellent candidate Treasurer: Meg Cook Secretary: Heidi Paulding Technology: Ben Johnson CLAMOR Editor: Seth Knowles FLAME rep: Mary Oches

VERMONT: The VCLA Annual Meeting was held at Burlington HS on Thursday, 16 October 2014. There was a business meeting and discussion of the 39th Annual Latin Day events. The presenter this year was Jordan Johansen from UVM who spoke on “Exploring the Mural Crown: Near East, Greece and Rome.”

The following officers were elected for the 2014-2015 year: President, Noralee Cartier (Burlington, VT), Vice-President, Leanne Morton (Champlain Valley UHS), Treasurer, Norm McClure, CANE Representative, Leanne Morton.

The 39th annual Vermont Latin Day will take place on 10 April 2015 at UVM, Burlington. The theme is “Mutatis Mutandis.”

In Vermont news, A current Riverside student, Angela Kubicke, is working with state senator Joe Benning to help Vermont adopt a Latin motto, “stella decima quarta fulgeat.” The motto is from a 17thcentury coin inscription.

Philip Ambrose has reported that successful actions have saved two Latin programs in crisis.

A Vermont JCL is in the planning stages, with hope that there will be a representative group in Texas at the National JCL Convention.

A Latin program in a high school has been saved thanks to the assistance of a number of CANE members who are alumni and who spoke at a major meeting. Classics in the state have been a little bumpy, and busy, for Leanne Morton, who remains nervous about the well-being of the programs. When “spunky” teachers retire, it seems that programs have a tendency to die out. School deficits are driving program. A large rally at the State House in February 11th may help Latin in the state.

NH: Nothing this time

MA: Nothing official at this time, but Ted Zarrow reported that over 70 Latin teachers signed up to attend MAFLA; with many graduate students in attendance. Mount Greylock and Pioneer Valley had successful programs for Latin students. McMullen Museum at BC will host a program in February. May meeting will be on 9 May at Westwood High School. Mass Legislature has a bill before to offer a seal if biliteracy on a diploma upon high school graduation. MA foreign language teacher of the year is Ted Zarrow.

RI: Reading group continues CT: ClassConn Connecticut State Report submitted by Katy Reddick New officers: Karen Zook (UConn) - President Allen Ward (UConn) - Vice President Eoin Patterson (Avon Public Schools) - Past President Paul Giblin (Bolton High School) - Treasurer Jan Frazier (Waterford High School) - Secretary ClassConn Annual Meeting October 25, the Hopkins School presentation by Nina Barclay on her travels in North Africa 2014 Distinguished Service Award went to Stephany Pascetta Upcoming Events: Friday, May 3 2015 Connecticut State Latin Day June 25-28, 2014 ACL Institute, Storrs August 22- February 4 Yale University Art Gallery- Roman in the Provinces: Art on the Periphery of the Empire Stephanie Pascetta received the distinguished service award. • Educational Programs –Ted Zarrow reported that there have been no dispersements to date, but he continues to focus upon using as many authentic materials as possible. He has contacted the BPL’s rare book curator to see if there can be some more use made of materials in Latin. Ruth suggested putting in a voucher in the folders of attendees at the Annual Meeting to use in the Emporium. There was a strong sense of consensus at the table to do this with funds still available in the month of March. • CANE Press- Amazon has as much of the material as possible, and the books are selling in greater numbers. Still looking for ways to publicize inexpensive downloads. CANE Press and the Emporium will provide a booklet to hand out at ACL. Leanne asked if State Representatives could hand out lists of materials at state meetings. CANEPress.org • Classics in Curricula – Some discussion above in the State Reports. Jacqui Carlon was unable to attend. • Web and CANEns- Website seems to be working well. New pictures every season. One long term project was cleaning up tags that will ease the searching of the website. CANEns has resumed its regular schedule, with good materials being posted. In the case of an emergency, there are wonderful teaching materials developed by Ruth and Lydia that they can use in case a post is delayed. There is about a month’s cushion. TJ Howell asked for blog entries. PowerPoint presentations would be great to have from workshop presentations at the Annual Meeting. It could be an annotated linkography. We could have people sending live tweets from the meeting! TJ Howell announced that many out of use email addresses bounce back. A new list of email addresses will be sent to Exec. Sec and to TJ Howell. • Scholarship report- Amy White reported that no applications were made for the Barker, one for the Means, one for the Coulter and four for the Endowment. Forms for applications have been updated and on the website. • CSI 2015 – In the absence of Emil Peñarubia, a preliminary budget was distributed. Fliers must be in the packets at the Annual Meeting. Ideally, a brochure would be out in December, or in the February issue of NECJ. Even an enticing advertisement would be useful with costs. TJ Howell will contact Emil to write a blog post. The $10k was set aside from the Endowment will go towards CSI 2015. Miriam Bundy gave CANE a $10k donation which has not yet been used. o CSI 2014 31 registrants x $400 = $12,400 “Full” registration cost (includes basic program price + room/board + banquet + parking) = $930 CSI 2015 “Full” registration cost (includes basic program price + room/board + banquet + parking) = $730 30 “full” registrants (with room/board + banquet + parking) = $21,900 ● 40 “full” registrants (with room/board + banquet + parking) = $29,200 ● 50 full registrants (with room/board + banquet + parking) = $36,500

• Treasurer – Ruth Breindel announced a total of $20k was transferred to the Treasurer’s account. Insurance will be coming due, as will the storage. A reminder to the Exec. Com. That the new renewal form will include a box to check to indicate an electronic version of the NECJ. If 100-250 people opted for a pdf file, the costs would go down for the organization. • Curator- Annual Reports submitted to the auditors. The Endowment last year did quite well, and there was a discussion of how to use some surplus Endowment Fund money for the benefit of CANE members and in the support of Classics in New England. $1.1M was our balance in the Endowment Fund in late summer. As per the CANE Exec. Committee vote a number of years ago approving 1:2 CANE matching funds for the Alison Barker Fund, the Curator moves money annually from the Endowment Fund to the Alison Barker account. One dollar from the Endowment Fund matching every $2 of outside contribution is transferred in July. This $1-for- $2 matching contribution will continue until the total CANE donation reaches $10,000. The Phinney Fund depletes annually.

• Sean Smith- New Middle School Principal wanted to get rid of Latin 1A, 1B and replace with an exploratory in 7th grade. A compromise has been reached. Students will choose a language in 7th, and it is better thanks to community rallying around. Classics in Curricula can help, and Jacqui Carlon is a wonderful resource.

MOV/SEC/UNAN to accept the reports. 5. Old Business: • Annual Meeting information- 13 and 14 March. A very nice site visit was recently completed. No need to go out of doors, and all meetings will be on the same level. Luncheons will require that people pass by the vendors, as well as creating foot traffic by the vendors en route to workshops. We will need presiders from amongst the Executive Committee, so a sign-up sheet was sent around. A hope that a commitment to the 2017 Annual Meeting is awaiting. Memorials: Eileen Hinckley, John Ambrose, Elaine Dates, and one other teacher from western Massachusetts. Materials registration packet was unanimously well-received by the members at this table. The Materials exchange was a huge success last year. TJ Howell will preside. Digital (pdf files) copies are preferred, in addition to hard copies, so that there can be a link to the resources. Finnegan-Plante funds are now under the aegis of the Scholarship Chair.

6. New Business: • Budget, 2015-2016-

Classical Association of New England 2015-2016 Proposed Budget

Projected Revenues $66,379

Endowed Funds (Curator of Funds) $29,704 Barlow-Beach Fund [EAI: $30x80%=$24] $24 Actual: +$30 C. C. Coulter Fund [EAI: $8,922 x 80%=$7,138] $6,030 Actual: +$41,641 Endowment Fund [EAI: $29,562 x 80%=$23,650] $23,650 Actual: +$153,400 General Account (Treasurer) $36,675

Dues: 500 x $35 $17,500 CANE Press $5,000 2014-15: $12,500 Emporium Romanum $2,000 2014-15: $3,000 2016 Annual Meeting Revenues $2,500 2016 Annual Used Book Sale $1,175 2014-15: $1,250 Finnegan-Plante Sponsorship $500 Estimated Cash on Hand from FY 2014-15 $8,000

Projected Expenditures $66,379

Endowed Funds (Curator of Funds) $13,905 Barlow-Beach Fund $100 Engraving/Bowl $100 C. C. Coulter Fund $6,030 2016 Rome Scholarship $6,000 Telephone, postage, engraving $30 Endowment Fund $7,775 2016 Certification Scholarship $1,000 2016 Endowment Scholarship $5,100 2016 Alison Barker Travel Scholarship $750 2016 T & E Means Fund Scholarship $500 2016 Phyllis B. Katz Student Prize $325 --Award $200 --Hotel Costs $125 2016 Wiencke Teaching Award Costs $100 General Account (Treasurer) $52,474 2016 Annual Meeting Expenses $500 2014-5: $2,000 2016 Annual Used Book Sale $100 Archive Storage @$92/month $1,104 2014-15: $960

CANE Press $2,500 2014-15: $10,000 Classics in Curricula $200 CSI 2016: CANE Support $2,000 CPA Audit Fees $5,500 Discretionary Grants - 4 @ $400 $1,600 Educational Programs $1,000 Emporium Romanum $3,000 2014-15: $2,000 Executive Board Meetings $1,525 2014-15: $1,518 On-site Costs (4 @ 200) $800 Travel Reimbursements (4 meetings) $725 2014-15: $718 Executive Secretary $1,600 Annual Bulletin $1,600 Postage and Telephone $0 Finnegan-Plante Scholarships 2016 (4 @ $150) $600 Insurance Policies $2,400 2014-15: $1,896 Businessowner's Policy $1,200 Directors and Officers Liability $700 Workers Compensation Policy $500 Internet Expenses $680 www.caneweb.org Licensing Fee $180 JStor Annual Fee $500 Membership Committee $250 New England Classical Journal $25,400 4 Issues @ $5100 $20,400 Editor's Stipend/Budget $5,000 Postage and Envelopes $0 Office Supplies, Postage, and Copying $500 Organizational Memberships and Expenses $1,475 2014-15$1,875 ACTFL Membership Dues $100 NCLG Membership Dues $650 NECTFL Membership Dues $125 2015-2016 Delegate Expenses $600 2014-15: $1,000

--ACL $200 Storrs=$0 Delegate Expenses --ACTFL $200 2014-15: $500 --NECTFL $200 2014-15: $300 Writing Contest $540 NASSP Fee $165 New England Winner - Prize Gift Certificate $100 New England Winner - Hotel $125 State Winners $150

Income $66,379 2014-15: $74,124 Expenditures $66,379 2014-15: $74,124

Budget Balance $0

To accept this budget: MOV/SEC/UNAN • Writing Contest Certificates- Donna Lyons will send an electronic file to Sean Smith • Katz Prize- Donna Lyons will send an electronic file for the certificate to Michael DesChenes. • The wonderful printer is planning to retire, and that may limit the kinds of things we can expect to be produced at the price break CANE has enjoyed. • Phinney status- This will be the final year of the Fellowship. This has been in place for 20 years now. • Weather issues- Can we do the Budget in the fall, and get rid of the winter meeting? October (for budget), March, and April/May. This will effectively eliminate one Executive Committee in the next year. MOV/SEC/UNAN • Emporium Plans for ACL @ UConn- We will have prints, maps, posters, rulers, calendars, Ferimus Agamus, etc. • Other – How shall we spend our surplus? o Loeb Classical Library online- Buy-in price is $5750.00, followed by an annual fee of $400.00. Free trial membership. We will permit attendees at the Annual Meeting to test drive it. o Can we waive the fee for Paper Presenters and Workshop Presenters this year’s Annual Meeting? Sean Smith moved to waive. SEC. 3 opposed, 8 in favour. o Publicity initiatives? o Can State Classical Associations place a CANE membership opportunity on the state renewal? The Executive Committee members eagerly supported this move. Leanne Morton will draught this form and will send it to state representatives. • Adjourned: MOV/SEC/UNAN 2:10 PM. ------Respectfully submitted, Rosemary A. Zurawel, Executive Secretary

Classical Association of New England Executive Committee Meeting 12 March 2015 Noble and Greenough School, Dedham, MA 6:30 PM

In attendance: E. Keitel, B. Revken, E. Peñarubia, A. Drogula, M. Deschenes, T. Zarrow, P. Langford, TJ Howell, N. Wright, R. Breindel, D. Lyons, D. Davies, H. Paulding, A. White, T. Joseph, J. Carlon, S. Smith, R.A. Zurawel Agenda: Announcements by the President: Welcome to Noble and Greenough. All preparations for the Annual Meeting are going well. 50 proposals were sent in this year. This is a very full program. A site visit to Smith College was made by Elizabeth Keitel and Sean Smith. Three people have bowed out of presentations, and there is a sheet of corrigenda. No workshops will be changed. Announcements by the Executive Secretary: None. Reports: 1. State Representatives: • Connecticut: • Maine: Major concern that our last public University has lost its Latin program. Any students wanting to study Latin will need to go to Colby, Bates, or Bowdoin Colleges in Maine to study Latin. • Massachusetts: BC hosted the Mass. Classics teachers, making it a great meeting of the collection. JCL will happen in April. CAM meeting is early May. • New Hampshire: REPORT OF N.H. STATE REPRESENTATIVE – MARCH12, 2015 (Submitted by: Paul Langford) The Granite State Certamen was held on Dec. 6, 2014 at Dover H.S. Over 300 attended. NH JCL (redivivus) State Forum at Phillips Exeter on Saturday, April 11th, 11am – 5pm. NEW HAMPSHIRE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION

Request from CANE to include membership offer in NHCA renewal The board agreed to the suggestion of including in its email about membership renewal a separate attachment that would be provided by CANE. The state email would include a note encouraging the recipient to join CANE by mailing the CANE membership form with payment separately to CANE.

NHCA Annual Classics Day for Students – Friday, May 15, 2015 Location & Time: Dana Center, St. Anselm’s College; 9:00am – 12:30pm Program: A Glimpse at the Homeric Tradition, Prof. Steven Trzaskoma, UNH Performance: Odds Bodkin, Storyteller, Iliad I Certamen Classical Art Competition Warren Held NH State Latin and Mythology Exams will be administered in May. NHCA Annual Classics Day for Teachers will be held at Southern NH University on Friday, Sept. 25, 2015 **New NHCA website: www.nhclassical.org NHCA Current Board (through Sept. 2015) President: Matthew Olkovikas, Pinkerton Academy, NH President Elect: Susan Zoller Secretary: Jennifer Connelly, Dover High School, NH Treasurer: Flora Sapsin, Londonderry High School • Rhode Island: • Vermont:

2. Annual Meeting updates and Announcements: The total of attendees was 158 a few days ago. 3. Final Budget copy: The budget that was emailed is the one that was corrected and emailed. 4. CSI 2015- Emil has made sure that flyers are in the registration packets. There will be 40 rooms reserved at the dorms, five reserved for professors. People have already begun to enroll. Please “talk it up” at this meeting. If every person at the table brought one person, there would be a full enrollment. It would be terrific if large enrollment necessitated reserving extra rooms. We think a mailing should go out ASAP. It does not matter if the brochure is glossy. Ruth will send Emil the mailing list. 5. Nominating Committee slate of Officers: (Michael Deschenes, Amanda Loud, and John Lawless Auditors-Paula Chabot, Shirley Lowe Classics in Curricula Coordinator- Scott Smith (UNH) President Elect- Anne Mahoney (Tufts) Member At Large- Kevin Ballestrini (Norwich Free Academy, CT)

6. Presidential Appointments: Jacqueline Carlon – Barlow-Beach Committee CSI Steering Committee- Teresa Ramsby - 3yrs Amanda Loud - 2yrs John Higgins - 2 yrs Caitlin McGee- 3 yrs Betsy Mathews -2 yrs Tim Joseph as Executive Committee Representative for 1 yr. Nominating Committee- Need a person

Old business: 1. Review of status of the last vote to waive registration fees for presenters at the 2015 Annual Meeting: Unintended consequences created tremendous confusion and extraordinary work for Donna Lyons and Ruth Breindel. Some presenters were not members, so they have been asked to pay the non-member registration fees. All people have been really gracious. The accountant advised that all need to pay their registration fees before receiving their cheques of $25.00 for the day to cover the daily fee. Before we make any new financial moves, we should have a breath of a meeting between a vote to spend money to see how to manage it. Some people have not paid their membership, and this required letters mailed to former members to request their dues. Some folks were very nice about the requests. For the future, a member of the board must be available to check on the membership document. Smith requires that all registration be completed online. PayPal this year was six months late. MOV: Ann Drogula will be the Board liaison to Smith to discern those who are and are not members during the registration period. SEC. Discussion: Sean Smith wants to investigate moving everything online. Ben Revken is not certain if he can do this for free. UNAN. MOV: Before we spend any significant amount of funds (i.e., anything that would impact our IRS filing), we should allow the idea to rest for an entire meeting period before voting on it. SEC. UNAN 2. Publicity initiatives: Review of the decision to include CANE dues payment possible. 3. Scholarship issue of 2013, potentially resolved, and we await documentation. The interest on the funds must come to CANE, as a donation, to be returned to the Endowment Fund. MOV: If a scholarship recipient cannot use the money for that time it is given, the money must be returned to CANE in full. SEC. Ruth Breindel withdrew the motion. This issue had been resolved last March. (Refer to Minutes of 6 March 2014). As a side note, the Means Scholarship will be $500.00. The Certification is $1000. The Finnegan-Plante is $150.00 for a first-time attendee at the Annual Meeting (There are two recipients this year.) A $10.00 voucher is included this year for the first 50 people to spend at the CANE Emporium, CANE Press, or the Used Book Sale for High School and Middle School attendees. 4. Other?

New Business: 1. How to manage registrations when former members claim to be current members: • Oversight responsibilities- See discussion above • Public announcement of dues responsibilities- Elizabeth Keitel will say something at the Annual Business Meeting on Friday. 2. Other New Business • Standards (email from Kathy Elifrits)- Jacqui Carlon recommended that TJ Howell be our representative. MOV: To fund TJ Howell to be our CANE Representative. SEC. 17 in favour, one abstention.

To Accept the Minutes of 31 January 2014: MOV/ SEC/ UNAN

To Adjourn: MOV/SEC/UNAN at 8:06 PM

Respectfully submitted,

Rosemary A. Zurawel, Executive Secretary Classical Association of New England Executive Board Meeting 25 April 2015 Room 917, Campus Center University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA In Attendance: Ann Wadlow, Ruth Breindel, Michael DesChenes, Timothy Joseph, Elizabeth Keitel, Nell Young, Deb Davies, Ted Zarrow, Sean Smith, Rosemary A. Zurawel, Lydia Haile Fassett

Agenda: President Elizabeth Keitel called the meeting to order at 10:05 AM, when quorum was reached.

1. Announcements by the President: Recap of the Annual Meeting: among the most well attended meetings (229 in total) $6270 (which included vendor tables + silent auction but not the book sale / Emporium / Cane press) profit from the CANE meeting 20% of presenters asked for their $25 rebates – Cheapest ever registration, consensus to keep the cost low, gracious hosts from

Comments were overwhelmingly positive; minor issues with parking & coffee; Loeb comments were positive; several individuals ready to serve CANE (4 volunteers) ...

Announcements from Sean Smith –

Smith update, one lecture hall (can hold over 200); 2 smaller venues that hold 105 each or maybe use a classroom that holds 60 for concurrent events / workshops; possible Rare Book event held at the Rare book room; opportunities for museum attendance; held in 3 different buildings close to each other; banquet in Campus center – different in terms of logistics but an excellent facility. Suggested that we use CAMWS as a model for online registration; mailing a postcard in January; use the Smith website for registration: General discussion – concerns for those who don’t have internet access; individuals can request a hard copy by contacting the Smith classics dept.; consensus not to use reg.online – we do not have a contract with them (reg.online), there are issues with their disorganization; build credit card fees into the cost of the registration; we need to explore the options for registration with Smith College.

2. Announcements by the Executive Secretary: Offered apologies for the late arrival.

3. Approval of Minutes from 12 March 2015 (Sent via email earlier) The single change being to add that Susan Zoller has accepted the appointment to serve on the Nominating Committee. MOV/SEC/UNAN 4. Reports, when available: • Vermont Governor Shumlin signed the Latin Motto into law on April 11th at the 39th Annual Latin Day at UVM. • Massachusetts- looking forward to Spring Meeting in Westwood HS, with focus on pedagogy. Also, looking forward to working with CANE and asking for some support (for example, $500.00 . Mass JCL on 2 May in Sturbridge, MA • Scholarship: Report of the 2014-15 CANE Scholarship Committee As chair of the 2015 CANE Scholarship Committee, it is my pleasure to announce the winners of this year’s CANE Scholarships. Miss Laura DeMarse was the winner of the Thomas and Eleanor Means Fund award. Laura attends Bellows Free Academy in Vermont. Her Latin teacher, Mrs. Lydia Batten, organized a trip to Italy in late February. The group visited Milan, Venice, Florence, Assisi, Rome, Pompeii and Capri. Laura will send us a report with pictures from her trip; this will be posted on the CANE website. The winner of the Cornelia Catlin Coulter Scholarship was Mr. John (Jake) Spearman. In 2006 Jake left a corporate career to become a Latin teacher, and he is currently teaching at Avon Old Farms School in Connecticut. He teaches all levels of Latin, including AP, as well as a popular history course called “Greece and Rome.” He will use the funds to attend the Summer Session of the School of Classical Studies at the American Academy in Rome. This year’s Endowment Scholarship winner was Ms. Susan Zoller. Susan is a Latin teacher at Spaulding High School in Rochester, New Hampshire. She will be spending the summer at the Villa Vergiliana doing two study tours: Caesar and Vergil in Italy, and Naples Bay as Melting Pot, Always at a Boil. At the annual meeting, which was after the scholarship deadlines, a new Latin teacher approached and asked if it was too late to apply for the Certification Scholarship (she had learned of it at the meeting). Since we had no other applications, we decided to accept the application which was received on April 20th. The committee still has to decide whether or not to award it but will do so ASAP. We had no applications for the Barker Scholarship. Special thanks to the other members of this year’s Scholarship Committee, Stephany Pascetta and Barbara Weiden Boyd, for their time and effort in determining this year’s winners, and to my predecessor, Katy Ganino Reddick, for all of her guidance. Respectfully submitted by Amy White, Chair • Curator Report: REPORTS FOR April 25, 2015 CANE Executive Board Meeting

Curator's Report, submitted by Donna Lyons, Curator of Funds

Status of the Accounts 3.31.2015

Endowment Funds: $1,160.255.95 Coulter Funds: $333,022.60 Phinney Fund: $4,946.35 Barlow-Beach Account: $6,345.84: $1,088.53 (checking), $5,257.31 (CD) Alison Barker Account: $11,637.36: $3,623.98 (checking), $8,013.38 (CD)

Final Phinney Fellowship: Rosalba Ciampi at Cape Cod Academy is the final Phinney Fellow. Much of the stipends and materials reimbursement for the 2014-15 year have been paid. Rosalba has requested and been granted permission to attend the American School at Athens this summer. Her initial deposit of $200 and the balance of the tuition, $4800, have been paid. The Phinney Fellowship Committee has also approved reimbursement for her airlines ticket and a stipend for lunches while at the Academy. We estimate that after all disbursements have been made, there will be approximately $1500 left from the original $200,000 bequest from the estate of Edward Phinney. All of the funds have been dispersed, according to the terms of the 1996 bequest, as fellowship awards to teachers of Greek and their schools in New England. On June 30, 2015, the balance of the funds, as per the terms of the bequest agreement, will be handed over to the Classical Association of the Mid-West and South.

Two donations have come to the Curator this year and should be mentioned in this report: Jessica Londa donated $100 in honor of the tutelage she receives throughout the year from Martha Wiencke. Janet Emhoff donated $50 in memory of John Ambrose. The Londa donation was designated for deposit in the Endowment account and the Emhoff donation in the Alison Barker account, as per requests. Personal notes were written to Martha Wiencke and Mrs. Ambrose.

There is still a question about the resolution of the 2013 Endowment Scholarship, the documentation of requested information, and the return of interest earned by the recipient on the scholarship money kept by the recipient for an additional year. Our understanding is that the documentation will be forthcoming to the Treasurer and the Curator, and that the interest earned by the recipient, and verified by bank statements, will be returned to CANE.

Emporium Report, submitted by Donna Lyons, Emporium Coordinator

This year CANE's Emporium display and sales at our Annual Meeting were very successful.

Our 2015 Annual Meeting Emporium Inventory included: 2014-15 Calendars - limited copies 2015-16 Calendars 4 different sets of Ancient Maps 4 different sets of Art/Archaeology Prints Set of Caesar's Campaigns Prints with Teachers' Notes (R. Breindel) 23 New/Individual Prints Ferias Agamus Booklets Stationery and Notes (5 styles) Other miscellaneous items (jewelry, tote bags, etc.)

Revenues: $3790 total from Emporium/CANEPress/Used Book Sale Cash and checks - $1114 Vouchers - $500 (split 50/450) PayPal - $1516 - extremely successful again, will have credit card access available at ACL Book Sale - $660

Total for Emporium and CANEPress: $3130 Total for Used Book Sale: $660

A number of Emporium items were donated to the Silent Auction. It should be noted also that using the available money ($500) from the Educational Funds as teacher vouchers was immensely successful. Ten-dollar vouchers were included in each registration packet; 50 vouchers were "redeemed" on a first-come-first-served basis by secondary/middle school Latin teachers.

Special thanks to CANE members who generously donated their beautiful photographs of the ancient world to the Emporium's projects this year, including the new calendar and the additional prints in the CANE Print collection: Paul Langford, Jenny Dean, Amy White, Elizabeth Keitel, Emil Peñarubia, John Lawless, Katy Reddick. Several people commented on the high quality of the photographs included in our prints and calendars. Two CANE members approached the Emporium to express their admiration for the photographic images that CANE makes available through the Emporium; each offered to contribute their photographic work to our projects.

The Emporium would also like to add to the minutes of today's meeting a special thank-you and compliment to George Blake at the Noble and Greenough School. George was extremely helpful and accommodating in all of the advance work to prepare for and set up CANE's Emporium. This year's site preparations for our displays and sales (space, location, technology support) were some of the best we have enjoyed at hosting schools.

Comments: Although sales of this year's calendar were less brisk than last year’s, we realize that the very positive response to our new prints balances the inventory vs. sales results at the Annual Meeting. The total sales at the Emporium were overwhelming this year. Use of credit card/PayPal payments increased sales tremendously.

It is very difficult to gauge inventory numbers for CANE's one-time/year Emporium sales at the Annual Meeting. However, in anticipation of the Emporium's presence at the ACL Institute this June, we have produced sufficient inventory to provide a full and high-quality display for teachers at ACL.

Additional Emporium materials to be introduced to teachers at ACL include a new classical ruler, motto pencils, and notepads featuring classical images. Shirley Lowe and Selina Kell have been working for several weeks as part of the committee for these Emporium projects. The new rulers feature more than 75 scripta or sententiae. The purchase of a ruler will include a guide highlighting various translations of each of the sententiae, notes about sources, teaching points, and derivatives. Our plan is to provide this guide on-line to those visiting the CANE site. We believe that the response from new teachers about the Emporium [and CANEPress] at the Annual Meeting was very encouraging. With ACL "in our backyard", we have a great opportunity to share our inventory and support the classics by providing fresh scholarly, inspiring, and useful materials at affordable prices. We know that when teachers from around the country have a good in-person look at our amazing array of publications and teaching resources, they will not only leave with great materials for their students...they will also take away a very positive sense of CANE and our work in promoting and supporting the classics.

ACL in June

Emporium [and CANEPress] will be among vendors; gratis registration includes one table; CANE is reserving a total of 5 additional tables, possibly 6; cost is $40 per additional table. CANE Sponsorship at ACL: ACL has inquired about CANE's interest in contributing to sponsoring a break or reception; ACL can work with CANE on that sponsorship if interested.

Comments on the CANE Classical Calendar

--has been produced for two years --academic calendar includes 12 color photographs of the ancient Mediterranean world, Roman dates; important historical and religious dates and celebrations; Latin month/day names; Roman numerals for dates --cost to produce: $10+; sale price: $12 --last year, 250 calendars; approximately 30 left over after post-Annual Meeting sales --last year Bolchazy-Carducci bought 40 calendars to sell at various calendars; some calendars sold on Amazon; some individual sales after Annual Meeting --this year produced 200 calendars; approximately 100 calendars ready for ACL sales in June --this year's calendar included notes and descriptions of all 12 photographs and all classical clipart illustrations

Anecdotal responses from individuals, teachers, Emporium clients, and other business acquaintances about our calendar:

--stunning photographs of ancient art/architecture --high quality of paper/printing --non-classicists definitely enjoyed recognizing images from Pompeii, so be sure to include these every year --teachers commented that the photographs are of good use later for classroom displays, student study --there is a nice balance of photographs: art and architecture, Rome and Greece --there is interest in Roman system of dating (workshop at Annual Meeting for teachers) --academic year format not appealing: many teachers do not need new calendar in September; already using a January-December calendar in class --non-teachers find very little use for academic-year calendar; format was confusing, especially since the calendar opens with the enigmatic "Sextilis" page --request to include more information about each of the photographs for non-classicists (addressed in current calendar) Because of the response from teachers and non-classicists, we will be reviewing aspects of the calendar's format and will make changes for next year's edition. The new calendar, available at the 2016 Annual Meeting, will be a 2017 January-December edition. The Emporium would like to offer a copy of the 2015-16 Classical Calendar to each of the 18 state winners of this year's writing contest. If the State Representatives would contact me with the names and mailing information for their three state winners, I would be happy to mail students the calendars before the end of the school year. There is always a small amount of money budgeted each year for the writing contest expenses, and this money largely goes unused. It could easily cover the cost of calendars and postage for this past year's winners.

The Use of Endowment Funds to Benefit CANE Members: [because of technical difficulty, Donna Lyons was unable to offer the following comments for committee discussion. She will open this discussion at the fall meeting.]

The Executive Committee has been generous and thoughtful in its proposals to spend Endowment Fund money in alignment with the organization's mission of supporting of classics in New England. This year we have put the following initiatives in place and used Endowment money to support these initiatives: Provide significantly reduced Annual Meeting registration costs to CANE members Provide honoraria to presenters at the Annual Meeting Provide significant financial support ($10,000) for 2015 CSI

As thoughtful as we thought these initiatives were, unanticipated problems occurred with the registrations for the Annual Meeting for a number of reasons. A significant number of non-CANE members registered as "members" and thus paid the significantly reduced registration fee without paying the required "conference fee". These individuals were either non-members or lapsed members of CANE. None of them paid the required "conference fee". A significant number of non-CANE presenters also registered as "members", thus making the situation difficult for the President who needed to write to the presenters and ask them to become members. In addition, very few presenters requested their honoraria at the Annual Meeting. I have written checks for all presenters, but only about 15 presenters have asked for their honoraria. 3. Neither the Treasurer nor the Curator was aware of the on-line registration process involving a third-party registration service. The Treasurer received vague instructions from RegOnLine as well as curt demands to provide a credit card number to a company with whom she had no previous communication or contact. No contract was in place, as far as we know, that indicated our participation in the on-line registration process. Yet, by that time, nearly 100 people had used the service to register for the conference. Since the proposed reduction in members' registration fees was to be covered by money from the Endowment Fund, it fell to the Curator, working with the Treasurer, to oversee the review of compliance with the required registration fees for both presenters and for registrants this past year. It was necessary to contact the many non-member registrants who had not paid the correct fee and ask them to pay the additional conference fee or pay this year's dues. Although it was a terrific amount of work for the Treasurer and Curator to contact those who still owed registration/dues fees to CANE, we regained paid-up membership dues totaling more than $1500. Everyone who was contacted was most gracious, and nearly everyone expressed total surprise at their "non-member" standing. Most everyone immediately agreed to renew their membership. The work was well worth the effort. Only one person, declined to become a CANE member and preferred not to pay this year's dues or the required conference fee, stating status as a "spouse of a CANE member" as reason for declining to pay the required fee. This individual did say that the reason for not becoming a member was to avoid having two sets of journals at home. Both the Treasurer and the Curator strongly advise those who are arranging the strata for the 2016 Annual Meeting to address the following: 1. Clearly state that all presenters must be current CANE members, regardless of their marital situations. 2. Clearly state and require that all registrants be CANE members, become CANE members, or pay the additional $35 conference fee equivalent to CANE membership dues. 3. Ensure that CANE does not engage the service of any on-line registration company without a thorough understanding of the contract negotiation and of CANE's obligation to this contract. 4. Ensure that those handling the CSI registrations be diligent in requiring CANE membership for all CSI participants and presenters. Registration and membership review (thank you, Anne D! and Ben!) will be in place for the 2016 Annual Meeting, and this will be a great membership benefit to CANE as well as an important financial step for CANE. The Curator and Treasurer are both willing to help with this process. In speaking to a number of those whose membership had lapsed but who had neglected to understand the registration strata, we received a number of helpful comments and suggestions. --Some members asked that we provide a link on our website where members could check to see if their memberships are paid up or have lapsed. --Some members remarked that since they received the late summer/August NECJ and correspondence from CANE, they (reasonably) assumed that their membership was paid in full. --Some members asked that they receive at least one "renew now" email; others asked that there be a hi-lighted note on the mailing sticker in May (on NECJ envelope) reminding of their membership obligations...N.B. this already happens, but apparently it is ignored! --Ruth and I spoke recently and both agree that an easy solution is to print a generic message on the envelopes for the May journal mailing that clearly indicates June 30th as the renewal date for all members. --Ruth feels that all lapsed members should continue to receive the August issue of the journal. We both, however, feel strongly that the password for JStor and the new/proposed Loeb access be carefully restricted each year and provided only to current CANE members. This will require a bit of work and oversight, but it is imperative that when we use Endowment money to offer benefits to CANE members, only CANE members receive those benefits. Thinking about how the Emporium projects might help with membership, a member has made two suggestions that involve the Classical Calendar. She suggested a membership "incentive"...and the calendar was proposed as an incentive gift. She proposed that all members whose dues are paid in full by November 1, 2016, would receive a 2017 Classical Calendar. Any left-over calendars would be available for purchase for holiday giving. This would also make sense as we move to digital access for NECJ, thus cutting our printing costs substantially. If a copy of the calendar is to become a "paid by November 1" membership incentive, it makes sense to produce a calendar that runs from January through December. Another plan is to send any calendars left-over from ACL/UConn in June to willing CANE State Reps., the CIC Coordinator/Jackie Carlon, and anyone else interested in personally reaching out to a school/district whose teachers SHOULD be CANE members but somehow are not. The back of the calendar’s front cover provides a detailed description of CANE membership benefits. A short visit to such a school, maybe even during dept. mtg., with (gratis) calendar resource on display thereafter, could bring back some new CANE members as well as the "too busy" or otherwise lapsed ones.

These are all possible options and will be further discussed with the Emporium Committee, the Treasurer and Curator, and proposals will be offered at the fall meeting.

Emporium: The $10.00 vouchers distributed in folders at the Annual Meeting worked perfectly. She recommends it happen again next year. Special thanks to CANE members who donated photographs for Emporium projects. Onsite sales of this year’s calendar were down, but those should pick up at ACL in June. • CANE Press sold 59 items in the last quarter, 26 Amazon sales. Looking to move towards more download publications. Continuing to pay royalties to various authors. Sold really well at the annual meeting, and she has a box of books to sell at ACL. Expenses cover the royalty cheques and printing costs. NECJ could run an article right after the Ratio et Res section. Lydia is preparing handouts with QR codes for distributing at ACL. • Treasurer: Starting in August, all student members will have an electronic copy of the NECJ issue. On the next dues cycle, other members can opt in for electronic delivery. Her hope is to arrive at 50% of members receiving electronic copies with the rest in hard copy form. This will reduce printing costs.

Treasurer's Report 7/1/14-4/22/15

In account 7/01/14 33,738.36 Income CANE dues checks 14,843.82 13,707.00 Paypal -1,136.82

Subscriptions 7,448.00 Classical World 1,155.00 Classical Journal 1,551.00 Classical Outlook 4,070.00

Classical Philology 672.00 Funds 2,357.00 Barlow Beach 202.00 Coulter 160.00 Endowment 1,560.00 Alison Barker 320.00 CSI 115.00 Misc. 30.00 transfer funds 20,000.00 3500-dues 6500 -CPr 10000 -End Annual Meeting 2015 6,924.65 Emporium 2,142.33 1434.17-Ann Meet 3576.5 Educationjal Program -500.00 Book Sale - Annual Meeting 660.00 340 - Ann CANEPress 531.00 Meet 1,684.64 Refund CSI 2014 5,868.73 59,168.71 92,907.07

Expenses Subscriptions 7,448.00 NECJ 23,660.18 Ex. Comm. Meetings 913.36 Delegates 1,227.86 Postage, Supplies 717.77 Discretionary Funds 400.00 Educational Programs 800.00 CSI 2014 29,800.36 CANEPress 2,630.89 Other Dues 250.00 Membership 258.29 Website/JStor 895.75 Funds Emporium 2,213.26 book sale 105.89 Annual Bulletin 1,133.38 Accountant 5,093.25

Poggioli Annual Meeting 2015 309.43 storage 490.20 Finnegan-Plante 450.00 Insurance 2,014.00 transfer -500.00 80,311.87 12,595.20 in savings 14,188.55

• NECJ- the May issue will be sent out in June. Rosemary will send Deb Davies information of dates that she usually sends in 1 June within the next ten days to get announcements into the hands of members. Also, the envelope holding NECJ will have a reminder printed on it saying that membership expires 6/15 and that dues form is included in the journal issue. A Google document with membership names will be shared with Smith College and a few members of the Exec. Com. It can be done this summer. • Educational Programs- Recirculating funds into the Annual Meeting was great. In September, some announcement will be prepared for CANEns. Ed Funds will prepare a pdf to download an application to make the funds apparent to • CSI Report, sent via email : CSI Director’s Report 25 April 2015 Registration & Enrollment At the time of this writing, there are 23 registrants (eight commuters and 15 boarders). All registrants have received a PDF receipt of their check. In addition, all registration forms and checks have been scanned and saved (for reference). Current projections from e-mails received indicate at least seven more participants will register before the deadline, which brings the total to (at least) 30. Several previous participants have mentioned the poor living conditions in the dormitory as their main reason for choosing to commute instead of boarding, and have even rented hotel rooms for the duration of the institute. Current registration numbers can be found here: http://goo.gl/0X6P0f Brown University Conference Services The contract with Brown has been signed but the classrooms which were originally reserved for CSI have been reassigned to the continuing education program. New classrooms have been reserved on the quad, however, accessibility for physically disabled participants is a concern. Brown University Conference Services will confirm accessibility before an updated contract is signed. The current contract reserves 40 rooms for CSI 2015 participants in the Vartan Gregorian Quad, but at this time there are 20 boarders (15 registrants and 5 faculty). Immediate Past Director Jeri DeBrohun remains confident that almost (if not all) 40 rooms will have occupants by the registration deadline of May 15. Promotion Holy Cross Graphic Arts Department has printed and mailed the new glossy flyer to the current membership. A promotional e-mail was sent to the current membership and to CSI 2014 participants and faculty as well. Tim Joseph has contacted a number of professional organizations, including the Society of Ancient Historians, SCS (formerly APA), and Holy Cross Classics alumni. Jeri DeBrohun continues to spread the word to Brown University Classics alumni. Entries have been posted on Twitter (@CSI2015), Facebook (http://goo.gl/U0RbwV), and on www.caneweb.org. More promotion would naturally be appreciated, especially from university faculty. A copy of the flyer can be found here: http://goo.gl/5SvJh8 Online Registration: An online registration site for CSI 2015 has been constructed at www.regonline.com, but the lack of a valid credit card number is preventing the site from going live and accepting registrations. Ruth Breindel has been in negotiations with the website support staff so that participants may register online ASAP. A sample online registration can be found here: http://goo.gl/4vlthf To accept the Reports: MOV/SEC/UNAN

5. Dates for 2015-2016: 17 October 2015-- Budget Mtg. @ UMass

17 Mar 2016-- Exec. Com. Mtg. prior to Annual Meeting @ Smith College

16 April 2016-- Final Mtg. @ UMass (I checked on Passover and Easter; we're clear.)

6. Annual Meeting 2015 debrief:

7. CSI: A glossy advertisement was mailed out this past Monday for the 2015 meeting. There were 22 signed up as of last week. We urge information to go out in January. The deadline is 15 May. We hope for 35 people to enroll. Rosemary will send out a reminder ASAP to all members reminding them that they only have two weeks left to sign up, and include a link to online enrollment. Ruth will take suggestions from the Exec. Com. Members to place a survey on the back of the membership renewal form so that we can begin to assess the viability of future CSIs. Elizabeth Keitel will contact ACL with a request to advertise upcoming events such as CSI.

8. Old Business: • Publicity review and suggestions- Katz, Weincke, Barlow-Beach, scholarship recipients. Jere Mead suggested placing the Barlow-Beach winner’s information in their local papers. We will ask Amy White to create a template for submitting to a local newspaper for other winners. Could we place the winners of the Weincke and Katz winners on the CANE website? Fixes of links to old Annual Bulletins needs to permit easy online searches. How to encourage membership? CAAS has an easy one-page description of the organization. CANE could do that, as well. Can the teachers of the NE states be contacted by the State Representatives? • Loeb Library Subscription- Ruth Breindel wrote and found out that CANE could have perpetual options of online access. First year: $5750, followed by $400 per year for all years afterward. Or, if we only needed to enroll one year, it would cost $1100 from year to year. Ben would need to talk with the organization about the set up for the online access. Ruth had a sample set up at the Annual Meeting, and the people who tested it were enthused. JSTOR is costing us $500 per year. Ruth believes that members would find this a value added aspect of membership. Loeb permits users to copy each page that is downloaded as a pdf. On the screen, the Latin is on one column, and the translation is on the right. Users can take a screen shot and print or may print each page without the columns of translation. Rosemary suggested using the good outcomes from investments this year by paying the large fee up front, and then if our fortunes changed, we would only be obligated for the $400 annual fee. Donna thinks it would be a good use of our money for the benefit of the membership. Ruth believes that everyone would benefit from this. Tim Joseph said that he originally thought that much of this would be available through Perseus or other sources. He added that you cannot search by line number. Still, he found himself using Loeb daily. A teacher could share his/her password with students. Ruth recommends taking a screen shot, and downloading it onto a personal device. MOV: We take the perpetual option this year./ SEC/ 10 in favour, 1 abstention • Passwords: In the past eight years we have not changed the password to JSTOR, and there are probably folks who are no longer members who are using the benefit still. Ruth suggests that by November, the password to JSTOR and a second to Loeb be sent to current members. Ruth will advertise this on the membership renewal form, and Elizabeth will mention this new benefit in her letter to members. The passwords will be changed annually so that members will need to renew if they wish to have benefit of the services. • Caesar prints have been enhanced by a guide written by Ruth Briendel that is approximately 20 pages. The guides can be password protected and placed online for no cost. Also, for the new rulers, Donna, Shirley, and Selena are writing a teaching guide that is available online. • Donna asked if NECJ could carry an advert for the Emporium at ACL. • The Emporium Committee would like to mail a copy of the calendar to the state winners of the Writing Contest (a total of 18). If any are left over, they will be sent to the State Representatives. • Needed from Katy Reddick is the documentation of the 2013 travel scholarship and the interest earned on the CD must be returned to CANE. We need these for the IRS, and Michael DesChenes will follow up. 9. New Business: • Sean Smith will appoint an ad hoc committee to work with him during the winter on the Annual Meeting with him as well as CSI. • Update the Manual- Michael DesChenes distributed recommended changes to the Manual, and to 41 changes. We applauded his efforts to provide us with an updated Manual. • ACL has asked if CANE would support a reception or give a small donation to the meeting. MOVED to empower Donna Lyons to work with ACL on an appropriate level up to $500.00. SEC/ 10 in favour, 1 opposed. • Future venues for the Annual Meeting: o 2016 Smith College o 2017 Exeter (?) o 2018 UNH (?) o Miss Porter’s School, Avon Old Farms, Roger Williams University, Weslyan, Holy Cross, Tufts, Brandeis, BC, Bowdoin may be other spots. The biggest draw is in the Boston area. o Develop a list of potential Presidents.

With thanks to the Executive Committee members, Elizabeth Keitel accepted a motion to adjourn at 1:42 PM. SEC/UNAN

Respectfully submitted, Rosemary A. Zurawel, Executive Secretary

2015 Curator’s Report Classical Association of New England Barlow-Beach Fund 2014 - 2015 Annual Report July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2015

Balance of Fund July 1, 2014 $6,264.20 Cash/Checking Account $1,031.53 Certificate of Deposit $5,232.67

Income 2014 - 2015 $90.25 2013-2014 Contributions [deposited 7/14] $57.00 Interest: Checking Account $0.00 Interest: Certificate of Deposit $33.25

Debits 2014 - 2015 ($150.00) Purchase of 2015 Bowl and Engraving [Check#109] ($150.00)

$6,204.45

Change in Fund 7/1/14 - 6/30/15 ($59.75)

Account Balances June 30, 2015 $6,204.45 Cash/Checking Account $938.53 Certificate of Deposit $5,265.92

Classical Association of New England Endowment Fund 2014 - 2015 Annual Report July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2015

Balance Corpus and Accumulated Earnings - July 1, 2014 $1,140,116.87

Accumulated Earnings 2014-2015 $35,162.40 **Interest and Dividends $29,581.45 Securities Transfer $3,875.85 Cash Contributions $1,705.10

CANE Expenditures 2014-2015 ($29,195.46) Transfer Alison Barker funds to separate account ($11,649.65) CANE Treasury - Request by Treasurer ($10,000.00) Scholarships and Awards ($6,800.00) Scholarships and Awards Expenses ($120.81) 2015 Annual Meeting Presenter Honoraria ($625.00)

**Net Change in Asset Values 2014-2015 $5,354.36 ** Change of Values: $34,935.81 includes $29,581.45 interest

Balance Corpus and Accumulated Earnings - June 30, 2015 $1,151,438.17

Change in Corpus and Accumulated Earnings 7/01/14 - 6/30/15 $11,321.30

Balance of Individual Asset Accounts - June 30, 2015 $1,151,438.17 Cash, Deposits, Money Market Fund $26,961.63 Stocks $789,391.50 ETFs & CEFs $42,829.50 Corp. Fixed Income $246,166.86 Mutual Funds $46,088.68

Estimated Yearly Income (as per 6/2015 statement) $30,186.00

CANE Scholarships and Awards 2014-2015 $6,921.01 2015 Endowment Scholarship - Susan E. Zoller $5,100.00 2015 Means Scholarship - Laura DeMarse $500.00 2015 Katz Student Prize - Reggie Kramer $200.00 2015 Certification Scholarship - Anne Salloom $1,000.00 Scholarship Expenses $121.01 Wiencke Prize Costs $0.00 Katz Student Prize Hotel Costs $110.58 Scholarship Postage $10.43 Securities Sold or Redeemed 2014-2015 $209,317.57 AUG - Sold CenturyLink, Inc @$26,905.72 AUG - Sold Weyerhaeuser Co@$15,507.02 AUG - Sold Home Properties of NY @$12,469.52 SEP - Sold General Mills Inc@$19,994.95 NOV - Sold Halyard Health, Inc@$18.97 NOV - Sold Ford Motor Co@$13,584.27 NOV - Sold Halyard Health, Inc@$1,340.46 NOV - Redeemed Verizon @$22,100.60 DEC - Redeemed GMAC Inc@$20,000 JAN - Sold KLX Inc@$3,949.29 MAR - Sold Time Warner Inc@$20,482.65 MAR - Sold Microsoft Corp@$16,879.12 MAR - Sold Dominion Res Inc@$13,942.73 MAR - Sold Qualcomm Inc@$13,883.42 MAR - Sold Freeport-McMoran, Inc@$8,258.85 Securities Purchased 2014-2015 $204,463.47 AUG - Purchased Medtronic Inc @$18,918.21 AUG - Purchased Time Warner, Inc @$18,670.04 AUG - Purchased Freeport-McMoran Inc @$16,651.45 SEP - Purchased Mondelez Intl., Inc@$18,063.55

NOV - Purchased Columbia Ppty Tr Inc@$10,280.41 NOV - Purchased Starwood Htls & Rsts@$15,957.40 NOV - Purchased Columbia Ppty Tr Inc@$10,328.78 DEC - Purchased Citigroup Inc@$24,977.46 MAR - Purchased Oracle Corp@$17,873.00 MAR - Purchased CBS Corp@$15,899.87 MAR - Purchased Quintiles Transnational Hldgs@$13,376.72 MAR - Purchased Wisdomtree Europe Hedged Equit@$13,348.80 MAR - Purchased Wisdomtree Europe Hedged Equit@$10,117.78 Dividend Reinvestments $4,236.24 DEC - Dividend Reinvestment Oppenheimer Intl Growth@$360.39 MAR - Security Transfer: Exxon Mobil Corp@$3,783.60 MAY - Security Transfer Exxon Mobil@$92.25

Endowment Funds: Special Accounts (as of 6/30/15)

Eleanor Means Trust Fund $2,000.00 Scholarship Established: Deposit - 3/15/2006 $4,000.00 2008 Scholarship - Reimbursed CANE Treasury ($300.00) 2009 Scholarship - Reimbursed CANE Treasury ($300.00) 2010 Scholarship - Kacie A. Stauch ($300.00) 2011 Scholarship - Paul Lozowicki ($300.00) 2012 Scholarship - No Award 2012 $0.00 2013 Scholarship - Erin O. Finn ($300.00) 2014 Scholarship - No Award 2014 $0.00 2015 Scholarship - Laura DeMarse ($500.00)

Classical Association of New England Edward Phinney Fellowship Fund 2014 - 2015 Annual Report July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2015

Balance of Corpus and Accumulated Earnings - July 1, 2015 $19,756.26

Accumulated Earnings 2014 - 2015 .69 Interest and Dividends $2.69 Cash Contributions $0.00

Fellowship Expenditures 2014-2015 ($17,918.79) Fellowship Stipend - Cape Cod Academy (Check#149) ($9,230.00) Boston MFA Field Trip Expenses (Check#149) ($582.50) ASCSA Tuition deposit for R. Ciampi (Check#147) ($200.00) ASCSA Tuition for R. Ciampi (Check#148) ($4,800.00) 2014-15 Class materials purchased by R. Ciampi (Check#150) ($2,356.29) ASCSA Lunch stipend for R. Ciampi (included in Check#150) ($750.00) Other Debits $0.00

Balance of Corpus and Accumulated Earnings - June 30, 2015 $1,840.16

Change in Corpus and Accumulated Earnings 7/01/14 - 6/30/15 ($17,916.10)

All holdings liquidated June 2013 to provide funding for final Phinney Fellowship Balance of account funds (1,840.16) transferred to CAMWS July 2015 as per Fellowship contract

Classical Association of New England C. C. Coulter Account 2014 - 2015 Annual Report July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2015

Balance Corpus and Accumulated Earnings - July 1, 2014 $330,564.84

Accumulated Earnings 2014-2015 $9,876.98 **Interest and Dividends $9,774.98 Cash Contributions $102.00

CANE Expenditures 2014 - 2015 ($6,024.00) Scholarships and Awards ($6,000.00) Scholarships and Awards Expenses ($24.00)

**Net Change in Asset Values 2014 - 2015 $1,044.46 **Change in Asset Values: $10,819.44 [Includes $9,774.98 Interest and Dividends]

Balance Corpus and Accumulated Earnings - June 30, 2015 $335,462.28

Change in Corpus and Accumulated Earnings 7/01/14 - 6/30/15

Balance of Individual Asset Accounts - June 30, 2015 $335,462.28 Money Market Fund $8,291.34 Stocks $217,421.52 Corp. Fixed Income $90,240.06 Mutual Funds $19,509.36

Estimated Yearly Income (as per 6/2015 statement) $10,098.00

Current yield: 3.01% CANE Expenditures 2014 - 2015 $6,024.00 CANE Scholarships and Awards 2015 C. C. Coulter Scholarship: John J. Spearman $6,000.00 Scholarship Expenses Coulter Engraving and Mailings $24.00 Securities Sold or Redeemed 2014 - 2015 $23,134.67 MAR - Sold Petroleo Bras. SA @$1,712.45 MAR - Sold Freeport-McMoran, Inc. @$6,422.22 MAY - Redeemed Donnelley & Sons @$15,000

Securities Purchased 2014 - 2015 $29,855.66 MAR - Purchased Schlumberger, Ltd. @$8,711.36 MAR - Purchased Cisco Sys., Inc. @$5,601.22 MAY - Purchased Nabors Industries @$15,543.08

Other Debits/Reinvestments $0.00

Classical Association of New England Alison Barker Fund 2014 - 2015 Annual Report July 14, 2014 - June 30, 2015

Balance of Fund July 14, 2014 $11,649.65 Cash/Checking Account: Account opened 7/14/14 $3,649.65 Certificate of Deposit $8,000.00

Income 2014 - 2015 $18.43 2013-14 contributions ($165.10 + $83) included in initial deposit Interest: Checking Account $0.00 Interest: Certificate of Deposit $18.43

Debits 2014 - 2015 ($25.67) 2015 Barker Travel Scholarship $0.00 Account checks ($25.67)

$11,642.41

Change in Fund 7/1/14 - 6/30/15 ($7.24)

Account Balances June 30, 2015 $11,642.41 Cash/Checking Account $3,623.98 Certificate of Deposit $8,018.43

Donations 2013-2014 $165.10 CANE Matching donations $83.00

CANE matches $1 for every $2 donation up to $10,000 - From Endowment Fund Total: $4384 CANE donation as of 6/30/15

2015 Treasurer’ Report

Treasurer's Report 7/1/14-6/30/15

In account 7/01/14 33,738.36 Income CANE dues checks 16,287.64 15,112.00 paypal 1,175.64

Subscriptions 7,585.00 Classical World 1,190.00 Classical Journal 1,598.00 Classical Outlook 4,125.00 Classical Philology 672.00 Funds 2,269.89 Barlow Beach 93.68 Coulter 160.00 Endowment 1,581.21 Alison Barker 320.00 CSI 115.00 Misc. 34.00 transfer funds 28,108.32 Annual Meeting 2015 6,924.65 Emporium 3,542.33 Educationjal Program -500.00 Book Sale - Annual Meeting 660.00 CANEPress 1,131.00 CSI 2014 5,868.73 CSI 2015 25,035.00 95,770.92 129,509.28

Expenses Subscriptions 7,585.00 NECJ 23,660.18 Ex. Comm. Meetings 1,238.30 Delegates 2,030.86 Postage, Supplies 937.77 Discretionary Funds 1,398.96 Educational Programs 1,000.00 CSI 2014 29,800.36 CSI 2015 536.01 CANEPress 2,630.89 Other Dues 250.00 Membership 258.29 Website/JStor 895.75 Funds 2,378.21 Emporium 6,317.45 book sale 105.89 Annual Bulletin 1,133.38 Accountant 5,093.25 Loeb Classical Library 5,750.00 Annual Meeting 2015 783.70 storage 986.10 Finnegan-Plante 450.00 Insurance 2,014.00 transfer -500.00 96,734.35 32,774.93 in savings 4,465.58

2015 Auditors’ Report

August 3, 2015

Rosemary Zurawel, CANE Executive Secretary 16 Northam Drive Dover, NH 03820

Dear Rosemary,

We have examined the following CANE financial accounts for July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015: Treasurerʼs Report; Endowment Fund; C.C. Coulter Scholarship Fund; Barlow-Beach Fund; Edward Phinney Fellowship Funds. We have found that each detailed report accurately reflects the current status of all accounts.

We thank Treasurer Ruth Breindel for providing us with the financial records of income and expenses in her custody. We also thank Donna Lyons, Curator of the Funds, for submitting to us clearly presented as well as meticulously recorded account statements and monthly reports for the Funds listed above. We commend both Ruth and Donna for the thorough and accurate records they keep. CANE is fortunate to have them as Treasurer and Curator of the Funds.

Sincerely yours,

Paula Chabot, Co-Auditor, 7 Woodsedge Lane, Westbrook, CT 06498 Shirley G. Lowe, Co-Auditor, 2 Laurie Lane, Natick, MA 01760