DOCUMENT RESUME ED 384 394 JC 950 355 AUTHOR Seabrook, John H., Ed. TITLE Community College Humanities Review, 1994. INSTITUTION Community Coll. Humanities Association. PUB DATE Dec 94 NOTE 130p.; For the 1992 issue, see ED 355 994. AVAILABLE FROMCCHA, Community College of Philadelphia, 1700 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19130 ($5). PUB TYPE Collected Works Serials (022) JOURNAL CIT Community College Humanities Review; v15 Dec 1994 EDRS PRICE MF01/PC06 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Community Colleges; Curriculum Development; Environmental Education; Greek Literature; History; *Humanities; *Humanities Instruction; *Interdisciplinary Approach; Music Theory; Religion Studies; Two Year Colleges; Writing Strategies ABSTRACT Designed as a forum for the exchange of ideas on significant issues in the humanities, this annual journal presents articles written by two-year college faculty in the humanities disciplines. The 1994 issue includes the following articles: (1) "Notes to a Lecture on Euripides' Medea: Medean Apolis," by Daniel Canney; (2) "The Holocaust Experience: A Continuing Priority," by Richard Kalfus;(3) "Across Three Thousand Years: Zoroastrianism and Modern Mormonism," by Mary Kay Solomon; (4) "The Missing Title Page: Dvorak and the American National Song," by John C. Tibbetts; (5) "Work and the Environment: Toward Reconciliation," by Robert Sessions;(6) "The Face of Nature: The Reemergence of a Green Man," by Hank Galmish;(7) "Discovering the Green Man," by Tom Motley; and (8) "Teaching Humanities Courses on the Environment: Pedagogical Suggestions and an Annotated Bibliography " by Robert Sessions. 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BEST COPY AVAILABLE THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE HUMANITIES ASSOCIATION The Community College Humanities Association is a nonprofit national organization devoted to promoting the teaching and learning of the humanities in two-year colleges. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Members at Large: Division Presidents: David A. Berry, Chair Central Division Essex County College Rick Bailey Newark, New Jersey Henry Ford Community College Dearborn. Michigan Frederick Capshaw,(Ex Officio). President Community College of Philadelphia Eastern Division Philadelphia. Pennsylvania Noel P. Robinson County College of Morris Constance Carroll,President Randolph, New Jersey San Diego Mesa College San Diego, California Pacific-Western Division Jeffrey Clausen Stephen Mittelstet,President Green River Community College Richland College Auburn. Washington Dallas, Texas Southern Division Daniel Moriarty.President William Paquette Portland Community College Tidewater Community College Portland, Oregon Portsmouth, Virginia L. Steven Zwerling, Southwester n Division Deputy Director, Division of Nancy McCollum Educationand Culture Pikes Peak Community College Ford Foundation Colorado Springs, Colorado New York, New York C_:CHA Office: c/o Community College of Philadelphia 1700 Spring Garden Street Philadelphia, PA 19130 215-751-8860 Executive Director, David A. Berry Office Manager, Joeann Logan The Community College Manuscripts for the Community Humanities Review is published College Humanities Review are annually by the Community College welcome. Submissions should focus Humanities Association. Its purpose on issues consistent with the purposes is to offer a forum for scholarly workof the journal and should be submitted which will provide readers with to the Editor through the Community articles addressing issues of research,College Humanities Association office curriculum change. and at the Community College of developments within the humanities Philadelphia. Submissions should disciplines. By this means. the conform to the Review style. All will Review contributes to the growth be acknowledged, and authors will be and development of the community notified of the decision of the Editorial of humanities scholars nationally. Board. The Editor reserves the right to make changes not affecting the substance of a submission. Authors Editor: will receive three reprints of their articles. Additional copies may be John H. Seabrook, Ph.D obtained from the CCHA office upon Essex County College request: include a check payable to Newark. New Jersey 07102. CCHA for $5.00, to cover costs. Associate Editor: CCHA wishes to acknowledge the support of the Community College of Robert Sessions. Ph.D Philadelphia; Essex County College. Kirkwood Community College Newark, N.J; and Richland College, Cedar Rapids. Iowa 54206 Dallas. Texas. Editorial Board: Myrna Goldenberg. Ph.D. Montgomery College Rockville, Maryland 20850 Pamela Benson Tarrant County Junior College. NE Hurst. Texas 76054 Robert Sessions, Ph.D Kirkwood Community College Cedar Rapids. Iowa 54206 Publisher: Colby McGowan Publishing Company Elizabeth. New Jersey ©Copyright 1994 Community College 1 iumanit ies Association t) COMMUNITY COLLEGE HUMANITIES REVIEW Volume Fifteen December, 1994 TABLE OF CONTENTS Notes to a Lecture on Euripides' Medea:Medean Apolis 1 Daniel Canney The Holocaust Experience: A ContinuingPriority 17 Richard Kalfus Across Three Thousand Years: Zoroastrianismand Modem Mormonism 26 Mary Kay Solomon The Missing Title Page: Dvorak and theAmerican National Song 43 -)hn C. Tibbetts Work and the Environment: TowardReconciliation 61 Robert Sessions The Face of Nature: The Reemergenceof a Green Man 80 Hank Galmish Discovering the Green Man 93 Tom Motley Teaching Humanities Courses on theEnvironment 102 Robert Sessions 0 NOTES FROM THE EDITOR This issue of the CCHAHumanist,like those before it, displays the wide variety of interests and concerns of CCHA members and communitycollege faculty around the nation. From Daniel Canney'sNotes to a Lecture on Euripides' Medea,developed for a CCHA/NEH Summer Institute, to John Tibbet's article on Dvorak, from his presentation at a CCHA regional conference (andan enticement to read his bookDvorak in America),this issue offers articlesto stimulate almost any reader's interest. Sped::: thanks go to Associate Editor Robert Sessions for his workhere. Bob both zdited the two articles on "The Green Man" andwrote his own very fine pieces in response to a request for articleson the Humanities and the environment. Readers will probably want to copy the lengthy bibliographyBob has developed, and those who might wish to explore the topics heraises should feel free to contact him at Kirkwood Community College. John Seabrook CONTRIBUTORS Daniel Canney is a member of the Language Arts Division of Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, California, where he teaches writing,literature, and humanities. Hank Galmish is a member of the English Divisionat Green River Community College, Washington. Richard Kalfus isChair of the Humanities Department and Coordinator of Foreign Languages at St. Louis Community College, St. Louis,Missouri. Tom Motley is a member of the Humanities Division at RichlandCollege, Dallas, Texas. Robert Sessions is a member of the Humanities facultyat Kirkwood Commuity College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.and of the CCHA Review editorial board. Mary Kay Solomon is an instructor in humanities. literature, Russian.and English at Colorado Northwestern Community College, Craig. Colorado. John Tibbetsis anAssociate Professor of Theater and Film at the University of Kansas and a member of the faculty at Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas. rJ 1 NOTES TO A LECTURE ON EURIPIDES' MEDEA: Medea Apolis Daniel Canney "And what a life should I lead, at my age, wandering from city to city, ever changing my place of exile, and always being driven out!" Socrates, The Apology "I am alone, I have no city." Medea, 225. To a fourth-century B.C. Athenian like Socrates. exile from his city was as untenable as the death penalty itself.Tobe without a polls meant much more than to be simply citiless. As Wickersham and Pozzi point out in the introduction to Myth and The Polls, "The polls is a stateof mind, and that mind expresses itself in myth. The polls has its physical structure, its buildings and artifacts, and its natural features, but this body has a soul, and it is the myths that animate it" (2). For this reason, my thesis will be that Euripides' Medea, in relation to her need for polis, yearns not so much for a locale as for a concept: her need is for some place of permanence for a woman in fifth-century Hellenic culture. Before we get into the play in question, there are two key Greek terms to clarify-kyrios and oikos.I must quote Roger Just, Women in Athenian Law and Life, at length here: A girl's kyrios was in the first instance her father. If her father was dead, her homopatric brother or paternal grandfather acted as her kyrios. When she was married her husband became her kyrios. If she was widowed or divorced she returned to the charge