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ume 12, Issue 5

The St. John's

Annapolis, Md. and Santa Fe, N.M. June 1986

radiates one smile as tutor Ben-Keith Harvey photo

College picks deans for t five s A · Carey, A~.u •.

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things but their inward significance." Aristotle

And art, notjust for art's sake, will gain more than inward significance July 18 when the Santa Fe campus and Southwest art dealers stage a gala benefit for scholar­ship funds in the Hilton Hotel's Mesa Ballroom.

With music by Metropolitan singer Maralin Santa Fe's art auction will begin with a viewing and a cocktail buff et at 6 p.m. and willprovide the first major occasion to introduce St. John's two new presidents - Michael Riccards and Wil­liam M. Dyal,Jr.-tofriendsandalumni gathered from throughout the country.

The art auction will feature de­accessioned paintings, Indian art, silver, and books that have been donated to the

auction P. 4)

or gift

I James Carey and Thomas J. Slakey are

the new deans of the Santa Fe and Anna­polis camouses.

to Santa

he received a from the

New School for Soc-ial Research in I 973. This spring he was briefly acting dean in

Santa Fe and has been serving as a senior resident for dormitories. A member of the Instruction Committee and former mem­ber of the Annapolis IC, he led a faculty study group on the work of Martin Hei­degger during the past academic year.

JC graduates reco ss St. John's College has received a $1-

million grant from the State of Maryland for the renovation of the Annapolis cam­pus's Mellon-Key complex.

In an act passed by the l 986 General Assembly and signed into law by Gover­nor Harry Hughes on May 13, the Mary­land Board of Public Works is authorized to set up the St. John's College Loan of 1986 through the sale of general obliga­tion bonds,

Mr. Carey said his central concerns will be instructional matters, the quality oflife for students, faculty development, and the development of a close working relation­ship with support offices reporting to the dean.

Johnsen wins· Silver Medal

Thirty-six seniors received their bache­lor's degrees and 14 Graduate Institute their master's degrees in Santa Fe's 18th commencement exercise May 18 in which N. David Mermin, professor of physics at Cornell University, gave the commence­ment address.

Senior Bruce Johnsen received the sil­ver medal offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors for the highest academic record. He also has received a Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellowship.

Other awards:' Marshall Miller, the Duane L. Peterson

Scholarship for academic achievement, constructive membership in the college community, and commitment to post­graduate study;

Jerry Cronin, Martin Lewallen, and Karen Delahunty, the St. John's Com­munity Scholarships:

Hampton O'Neill, the Senator Millard (See Santa Fe P. 9)

ln its first televised commencement, the Annapolis campus awarded 99 degrees -the largest number since the New Pro-

. gram was founded in l 937 - as mathe­matician Benoit Mandelbrot told students that society cannot prosper without ex'." perts with strong competencies. At the same time, he said they should not be boxed in isolation into their fields.

"The questions of doing, of knowing, of feeling by one's hands and eyes, of re­membering what has gone before us, are not separate enterprises," he said. "They are all part of one simple web."

On hand to make .commencement a centerpiece for its May 29 Nightline pro­gram was a crew from ABC television.

Climaxing a weekend that also included the President's Dinner, Class Day exer­cises and baccalaureate, the commence­ment saw Frank Durgin, of Belmont, Mass., win the silver medal awarded by the Board of Visitors and Governors for top academic honors. Clayton DeKorne, of Annapolis, received the prize for the best senior essay.

With Edwin J. Delattre conferring de­grees for the last time as president of St. John's, the exercises were concluded with

(See Seniors hear P. 9)

(See College to raise P. 3)

"Faculty development is a central con­cern of mine, and this involves continuing to make strong initial appointments and attending the needs and concerns of tu-

(See Carey P. 5)

New presidents get together St. John's two new presidents are get­

ting to know each other, preparing for their first appearances together next month on the Santa Fe campus, and plan­ning their moves to their presidential homes.

By last month they had met on at least three occasions. What's important is that the two men who will institute St. John's two-president system July I like each other.

"He's a very warm, down-to-earth, practical sort of guy," William M. Dyal, Jr., said of his Santa Fe counterpart fol­lowing their luncheon together May 6 at New York's Bibliotheque restaurant.

"Our conversations have been very fruitful," Michael Riccards said of Mr. Dyal. "The college is lucky to have him as one of the presidents, and I look forward

to a very amiable relationship." Mr. Riccards and his family, which

includes three young children, will move to the President's House in Santa Fe around June 23. With July l as his first working day, Mr. Riccards already is in the process of laying plans for a summer of work in fund raising.

Mr. Dyal has requested that his arrival be delayed in Annapolis to permit the completion of a global search for his suc­cessor, the new president of the American Field Service. He hopes the new president will be selected by August 19.

Mr. Dyal will put in his first appearance as president in Annapolis August 14when he both speaks and presides at the nine­yea!'old Graduate Institute commence­ment, the first St. John's president to do

(See New presidents P. 5)

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1928 Louis L. Snyder, A, received an

author's citation at the Nineteenth An­nual New Jersey Writers Conference in March.

Awarded by the Alumni Association of the New Jersey Institute of rechnology, the citation was in recognition of Mr. Snyder's book, Diploma(\' in Iron: 7he Life of Herhert van Bismark. Mr. Snyder, author of 60 books, is emeritus professor of history at the City University of New York. He is general editor of the 123-volume Anvil series of original paper­backs on history.

1945 George Cayley, A, is running for elec­

tion to the Pinellas County School Board in Florida. Primary elections will be held in September, with a general election November 4. Mr. Cayley's campaign lit­erature describes him as a "compassion­ate, progressive, responsible, conservative Republican," who has made his· home in Pinellas County since 1955. Mr. Cayley received a master's degree from the Grad­uate Institute at Santa Fe in 1978.

1949 Nine years ago, Allan Hoffman, A, and

a librarian at the Peninsula Public Lib­rary, Lawrenc~, J\J.X., orgai;iized a course, "Learning from ihe Past." It.covered all· the readings on the St. John's list.

After meeting every Tuesday for two hours over the years, 22 students finally will complete the course in June, accord­ing to the .\.outh Shore Record. President Delattre, who served as guest leader at one of the sessions, presented the students with certificates of achievement at "pre­mature" graduation exercises in March.

All of the students are over 40, and most are retired and past 60.

Asked whether he was ready to offer the course again, Mr. Hoffman is quoted as saying, "'I'm entitled to a rest." And after his rest? He wouldn't say."

·1966 Michael D. Weaver, A, writes from

Cincinnati that he has become active in the field of mental health and received a state-wide award for his work. Now mar­ried to the former Arlene Schmidt, he has been accepted at the University of Cincin­nati School of Social Work to obtain a master's degree in social work.

Mr. Weaver reports that Stephen John­son, A '65, is doing a study of folk masks and has been photographing folk masks at festivals all over the world. He also writes "that Robert Axtman. A '66. has died of pneumonia.

1972 Robin Kowakhuck Burk, A. has been

promoted to director of engineering at Proprietary Software Systems of Santa Monica. Cal.. a company which produces language tools for aerospace software development. ·

Rebecca Wilson, editor; Laurence Berns, Betsy Blume, Jon Lenkowski, Howard Zeiderman, Eliott Zuckerman, advisory board.

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"I am managing a staff of 25 engineers, a task for which my seminary training (MDiv, '83) is surprisingly relevant," she writes. I'm still interested in hermeneutics and psycholinguistics, but doctoral work is on hold for now." Mrs. Burk and her husband, Captain Roger C. Burk (See Alumni Notes, 1974) live in Culver City, Cal.

Seth Cropsey, SF, deputy undersecre­tary of the Navy for policy, was honored earlier this year at a "gala reception" in Albuquerque, according to the March issue of Sea Power. The event was part of a week-long celebration by the New Mex­ico council of the Navy League in obser­vance of the 210th birthday of the U.S. Navy. From Albuquerque mayor Harry C. Kinney, Mr. Cropsey received the key to the city and a commission as "admiral of the Rio Grande Navy."

Carol Shuh, A, completed her teaching appointment at the Universal American School in Kuwait in the spring. She has accepted an offer from the U.S. Depart­ment of State to begin training as. a consu­lar officer in September and is moving to Washington, D.C.

1974 Roger C. Burk, A, writes, '"I graduated

from the Air Force Institute of Technol­ogy in December with an M.S. in space ,operations. My, specialty was ,aperations research and astrodynamics; my thesis was 'l\1inimum Impulse Orbital Evasive Maneuvers.' I am still a captain and now am assigned as a staff officer at the Air Force Space Division, Los Angeles Air Force Station. "Captain Burk's wife, Rob­in, A '72, adds that Roger was awarded the two most prestigious prizes on gradua­tion from AFIT, "the first time both prizes were awarded to the same person!"

1975 Dr. James M. Jarvis, A, of St. Louis,

Mo., has been elected to fellowship in the American Academy of Pediatrics. The Academy is the Pan-American associa­tion of physicians certified in the care.of infanfs, children and young adults, with 29,000 members in the United States. Canada and Latin America. To <.J.Ualify as a fellow, a pediatrician must have certifi­cation as a fully-qualified specialist in the field, a process requiring a minimum of five years of post medical school exper­ience.

1981 Joshua Lee Rappaport, A, is a court­

house reporter for the Amarillo (Texas) Glvhe-News, a dailv with a circulation of 85,000. He received a master's degree in journalism from the University of Mis­souri School of Journalism in December 1984. "If you drive through (Amarillo), be sure to drop by and say hello," he writes.

1983 With his feet on the ground as a Wash­

ington actor, Andrew White played the part of Homer in this spring's well re­viewed satire. Persephone. staged by the Source Theater Company in the Jarry Theater near 14th and T Streets. The comedy. which Mr. White describes as a kind of senior prank, has Homer's blind­ness presented only as a bit of PR. In a second production expected to run well into June. he is playing the wounded cap­tain and the porter in the company's pro­duction of MacBeth.

1983 Joyce A. Howell. AG I. received the

degree of Juris Doctor from Rutgers Uni­versity School of Law in May, Are~ident

(Continued on P. I 0) '

S summer whirl is ad The Santa Fe campus will be brimming

with excitement this summer when the Summer Alumni Program takes place July 13-18.

Immediately following the first week will be the St. John's College Art Benefit on Friday evening, July 18, which kicks off homecoming weekend July 18-20. The second week of the Summer Alumni Pro­gram wiJI begin at the close of homecom­ing and continue through July 25.

Mary Sue Laurel, SF '79, coordinator of alumni activities at Santa Fe, explained that publicity efforts . for the Summer Alumni Program have been expanded by upgrading the program brochure, by tar­geting such groups as former participants for extra mailings, and by informing New Mexico alumni who can easily participate in one or more classes.

"Also, we've expanded the homecom­ing program to include official JO and 15 year reunions for the classes of 1976 and 197 J respectively, the alumni art show, and the college art benefit, and these should draw even more alumni to Santa Fe.

"I encourage anyone interested in regis­tering for the Summer Alumni Program and homecoming to do so as soon as pos­sible since space in classes and dormitories most likely will fill up early."

Three preceptorials and one seminar will be offered each week of the Summer Alumni Program. Preceptorials to be of­fered· the ·fi¥st week-win be: ·

Iphigenia in Taurus, Euripides and lphigenie, Goethe; "The War Requiem," Wilfred Owen" and "The War Requiem," Benjamin Britten; 7he Leopard, Guiseppe di Lampadusa. The seminar will be 7he Spoils of Poynton, Henry James.

Tutors for the program are: Dean Jim Carey, A '67, Stuart Boyd, Jack Lincoln. A '74, Cary Stickney, A '75, and Peter Pesic. Also planned that week are a three­hour visitto the Bandelier National Mon-

Davies takes new presidency ·Peter J. Davies, A '48, has a new position.

He is president and chief executive officer of the American Council for Voluntary International Action: InterAction, with headquarters in New York.

Inter Action is a coalition of more than IOO private voluntary organizations,;

Before accepting his present position in October 1984, Mr. Davies was president of the Meals for Millions/ Freedom from Hunger Foundation.

He previously worked on a fertilizer program in India, was director of the Rural Development Program in Thai­land, and was director of the Food for Peace Program in Brazil. For four years. he was program' director of the Interna­tional Planned Parenthood Federation, Western Hemisphere Region, traveling throughout Latin America and the Carib-bean. .

Following graduation from St. John's, Mr. Davies received a master's degree from Harvard University's Graduate School of Public Administration, now known as the Kennedy School of Gov­ernment.

Mr. Davies and his wife Phyllis, who is counsel to the Tax Commission of the City of New York. have two sons. He reJp:orts that he is an avid sailor and races hi:s 1boat on his few free weekends.

ument and a performance by the Santa Fe Opera. ,

The second week's -Prcceptorials will be: '"Areopagitica" and other political writ­

ings of John Milton;. Ajax and Philoc­tetes; Sophocles; the lliad, Homer. The seminar will be Geneology of Morals; Nietzsche.

Tutors for the progra~ will be: Charles Bell, S '83H, Cary Stickney, A '75, Michael Oink, A '75, Nancy Buchenauer, and Martin Cohen. Extra.curricular activ­ities will include a field trip to the Puye Cliff Dwellings, a chamber music perfor­mance and a performance by the British American Theater.

Room, board and full tuition for one. week is $200. Full tuition (without room and board) is $75.

The alumni art show which begins June 28 will be open throughout the two weeks of alumni activities in July through July ·25. Alumni from around the country will be exhibiting their work in a variety of mediums: paintings, sculpture and tap­estry.

Additional homecoming events will in­clude the Friday Night Party in the coffee shop on July 18 at 10 p.m. hosted by the Class of '76. Class members, Michael Gross and Judy Kistler, are the organizers of the rock and roll party ..

On Saturday afternoon, July 19, there will be the traditional. homecoming sem­inar. George .. Bernard Shaw's. ••Major Barbara" wiU,be t.he s·ubject··of the sem­inar. The Class of '76 will hold a special seminar on Plato's Meno led by tutor Glen Freitas. Following the seminars there will be a softball game with partici­pants from the entire college community playing with alumni.

Evening events will include the popular cocktail party in the art gallery and the banquet featuring Mexican specialties. David Dobreer, A '44, president of the Alumni Association, will be master of ceremonies, Chris Nelson, SF '70, will be the speaker, and Barbara (Skaug) Lauer, SF '76, will be toastmaster. At least IOO alumni from around the country are ex­pected to attend. The closing event for the weekend will be the champagne brunch on Sunday.

For further information, please contact the Santa Fe or Annapolis alumni offices.

Homecoming

hotel rooms The Annapolis Alumni Office has

reserved blocs of rooms for home­coming September 26-28 in the fol­lowing hotels:

The nearby Annapolis Hotel on West Street, $85 single, $95 double, (301) 263-7777; the Historic Inns of Annapolis (Maryland Inn, Robert Johnson House), prices to be quoted, (301) 263-2641; the Anna­polis Hilton, $59-$230, reserve only through the Alumni. Office, (301) 263-2371, and the Ramada Inn, about five miles from the campus, $79, (30 I) 266-313 I. '

To reserve rooms, please inform the hotel that you will attend the St. John's homecoming. For informa­tion on other hotels or bed and breakfast accommodations, please call Joan Iverson in the Alumni Office.

JUNE 1986

Pre-payment plan to go into effect

Adopting a procedure being put into practice at other American institutions of higher learning, St. John's College will institute a prepaid tuition plan this fall which will permit families to pay two, three, or four years of tuition in a lump sum at the current tuition rate.

An incoming student would pay $38,880 in August for the four years of education. The plan does not cover fees for room and board.

Proposed by Caroline Christensen, dir­ector of financial aid on the Annapolis campus, the plan was approved for both campuses at a meeting of the Board of Visitors and Governors at its April meet­ing in Annapolis.

Charles A. Nelson, A '45, chairman of the board's Finance Committee, urged that the prepayment system be adopted on a trial basis with the program to be reviewed at the end of a year.

Should a student discontinue education at St. John's, Mr. Nelson said the tuition would be reimbursed. Those dropping out for several years would re-enter the col­lege at the new tuition rate.

In announcing deta.ils for the plan, Mrs. Christensen said there would be a number of benefits to parents. Among them:

•Tuition would be frozen at the current ~·rate: 1 exerirpt1ln7g'' rtie' fnmHy from future

increases. • If the prepayment is financed, the

interest payments are tax deductible. •The lump sum payment increases the

parents' cash flow in future years. • It lessens a students's concern about

finances to have the tuition paid through the senior year.

While the plan will be offered at both campuses, there will be an added attrac­tion for parents of students attending the Annapolis campus. In the East they may participate in the Maryland Supplemental Loan Authority, and payment can be financed by cash or through that auth­ority.

··we have had a much smaller demand than anticipated for Supplemental Loans, leaving us with $561,400 in funding which may only be used through August, 1987," she said.

Because the . Maryland Supplemental Loan funds will be only available for use in 1986-87' sh.¢ said this would be an ideal time to see if a St. John's Tuition Stabil­ization Plan is a project worth developing on both campus~s.

"We have art 'opportunity to test this program for a xear at virtually no cost to. the college," Mrs. Christensen pointed out. "It also represents an effort by the college to help parents who are not served by traditional need-based financial aid programs." ·

To qualify for the Tuition Stabilization Plan, the full tuition payment must be received by August 29. If the.prepayment is financed through the Maryland Edu­cation Loan program, the loan must be ready for disbursement by August 29.

Cost for each }'ear of tuition is $9, 720. Prepayment amounts for 1986-87 will be: Class of 1990, entering freshm~n. $38, 880: Class of 1989, sophomores in 1986-87, $29, 160, and Class of 1988, juniors in 1986-87, $19,440.

College officials emphasized that it is impossible to determine how many fami­.lies t,1NillJ<tl~~ ~d¥,qnt~ge .of th.e pJan.

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College views investment policy St. John's will decide in July what its of South African investments has drawn

next step will be in the formation of a relatively small response from members of policy with regard to investments by com- the St. John's community during the year panies doing business with South Africa. it has been under discussion. It has been

'There is a fair chance the board may the subject of discussion by New York have a rec~mmendation in July, but that alumni. depends on whether the Finance Commit- "An appeal posted on both campuses tee can reach a conclusion," Charles A. that the faculty and students submit to the Nelson, A '45, the board's Finance Corn- chairman of the Finance Committee mittee chairman, said. either individually or in concert their

The committee will have in hand a opinions did not result in a single reply," recommended Statement of Investment Mr. Nelson said. Policy which the Alumni Association's. IN JANUARY, Mr. Nelson received Board approved at its April meeting in two petitions, one signed by 11 students Annapolis. It proposes that trustees .. may . and the other by 20, with some overlap consider issues pertinent to the college's among the names, asking, in effect, to be general purposes in all of its financial informed of what St. John's investment dealings." policy is and whether it is in accord with

. The statement was approved at a Sat- the ideals of the college. urday afternoon meeting of the Alumni Christopher Nelson, SF '70, chairman Board and then immediately hand-carried of the Alumni Association's Investment to Mr. Nelson for a seminar-style discus- Committee, said he felt its proposed pol-sion by a small group that included repre- · icy statement, which he believes is a sentatives of the student body, faculty, ••broad, workable plan," represents "a· Alumni Association, and college board. huge step forward, .. permitting members No formal action was taken. of the college community to act collec-

Outside the Finance Committee, which tively or individually in making recorn-initiated action on the question, the issue mendations to the board.

C '/l { · In the Alumni Association's own fri-O ege 0 razse dayafternoonworkshop,Mr.Nelsonout-

another m1·111·on lined some of the questio11:s that surfaced among Investment Committee members.

(Continued from P. I) The act calls for the $I-million to be

matched by St. John's by June I, 1988. According to Vice President Charles E.

Dunn, St. John's now has about half of the total amount needed for ·the· Mellon­Key project. In all, it will entail $2Vi­million in new renovations and a class­room addition and another half-million for a new Mellon-Key maintenance en­dowment.

The first phase of the renovation, to begin in April, calls for the remodeling of the Key Auditorium'sConversation Room and some work in the auditorium, primar­ily to improve acoustics.

Cost of this work is set at $300,000, of which $150,000 has been contributed from the Pew Memorial Trust. Another $150,000 was provided in state money. left from a 1977 bonding bill involving other construction on campus;.

In setting up an ~ndbwment for the maintenance of Mellon and Key, the col­lege has applied $100,000 of a $183,000 gift from the Beneficial-Hodson Trust. Jeri Rhodes, Treasurer, says it will apply the remainder toward the renovation and new addition.

Mrs. Rhodes hopes that the college will begin design and construction for a class­room addition and general renovation next year. The Faculty Planning Commit­tee has developed a program of all the things-that need to be. changed, but she said as yet there has been no detailed architectural planning.

Mellon houses laboratorv and music classrooms, the music library, and tutors' offices as well as the St. John's Art Gallery. Plans call for a new gallery to be built as part of the classroom wing.

Dutch educator to visit :";t .. Johns

Peter De Rooij. member of the faculty of the University of Limburg at Maas­tricht, Holland, will be on the Annapolis campus June 16.

Should the college have a policy to guide its finances and should it incorpor­ate social, political~ or moral concerns? Should the policy be restricted to con­cerns doing business with South Africa?

fs,~t the college's duty to maximize the returns of its investments or, when it is repugnant to the morals of an institution, is it inconsistent to consider issues over and above the return? If you had such a policy, would you exclude South African companies already taking affirmative action?

The precise number of St. John's asso­ciated firms doing business with South Africa, estimated at more than 300, changes almost on a daily basis as the college's money management firms re­direct investments.

.. THE: AMOUNT of time, energy, and money needed to monitor the investments at every point would be a major job," Mr. Nelson said, adding that to keep up with the daily disposition of the two campuses' combined endowment of $28-million could be, "prohibitive."

The Alumni Association's proposed

Statement of Investment Policy makes· these five points:

I. The college is an institution of higher education, the purposes of which are the instruction, i.rnprovernent and education of its students and other members of the college community, and the provision of the proper conditions to enable such per­sons to fulfill their freely chosen tasks.

2. The college receives such gifts as it shall judge are consistent with these pur­poses and with its program of in~tru( ti on. .

3. The primary tiduc.:iary responsibility of the college's trustPes in investing and managing the college endowment securi­ties is to maximize the financial return of those resources, taking into account the amount of risk appropriate for college investment policy.

4. The trustees may consider issues per­tinent to the college, general purposes in all of its financial dealing, including, but not fimited to, their acceptance of gifts, their investment activities, and their vot­ing of proxies.

THEY MAY NOT, however, deliber­ately sacrifice a significant financial ad­vantage unless they find, pursuant to due deliberation under procedures established herein, that the activity involved is wholly inconsistent with such purposes or that a similar advantage may be obtained through available ~lterna.~ive gifts, investments, or voting of proxies'. . . . .

5. An endowment security should not be selected or retained. for the primary purpose of thereby encouraging or ex­pressing approval of a company's activi­ties, or, alternatively, for the primary pur­pose of placing the college in a position to contest a company's activities.

The alumni board asked that the college board set procedures for considering the issues it deems appropriate, but that the procedures allow for the input of the col­lege community "to the greatest feasible extent." In event a committee is focmed to make recommendations to the college board, the alumni board asked that it be represented.

Members of the Investment Committee besides Christopher Nels.on, included the association's executive vice-president, Jean Fitzsimon, A '73, Martha Dabney, SF '78, Jules Pagano, A '48. Mary Bittner Wiseman. A '58, John Van Doren, A '47, Harvey Goldstein, A '59, and Santa Fe student representative Michael David.

Dean George Doskow said his univer­sity is an innovative institution, working . without departments and through a pro­gram of problem solving. Mr. De Rooij is interested in learning more about 1St. John's as a college wi.thout departments.

Edwin J. Delattre, center, who is leaving St, John's after six years in the presidency, chats with tutors Elliott Zuckerman, right, and Brother Robert 'Smith at a party given for him in the Dol!sey Gardens. As a going away gift, tt-e college presented him with a <;lock, la'3Zl!IU!'.cA'• • :: c~eniog:£afliMlp'1ito.

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7~ What Bryce Will Do with Al I ·That Ti me

by BRYCE JACOBSEN Retiring Director of Athletics

It has been a rewarding 32 years that I have spent at St. John's, four as a student and 28 as tutor and director of athletics. There is not space enough or time enough to reminisce about all those years. Rather, I will address the years ahead, my retirement.

People keep asking me, "What will you do with all the free hours at your dispo­sal?" I shall try to answer this question.

Fourteen years ago I built a large, two-story addition to our house, the upper story becoming a new, commodious kitchen, and the lower one a new, commodious garage. Over the last two yea~ I have converted most of the garage to a wood­working shop. I have been building simple pieces of furniture and smaller items such as wooden lamps and birdhouses. I derive much pleasure from turning rough lumber into something that is attractive and useful.

So I will be spending a good deal of time in my shop, making things. It is probable that I may want to sell some of these items in the future. We shall see.

When I was a mere lad, I got heavily into the collecting of postage stamps, following my father's footsteps. Eventually I inherited his large collection and have added greatly to it. In recent years I have been buying old U.S. collections. My idea is to accumulate a working inventory of stamps so that I can start to sell them. If I do this, it will all be done from the happy confines of my study, by mail. I won't be opening a store.

It takes much time to identify and organize the stamps from an old collection. I have beeri doing this already, in my spare time. I will expand this whole enterprise. I derive much satisfaction from doing this sort of thing.

I hope to have time enough to read many more books than I have been able to in my working years. Last summer, as a sort of pre-retirement project, I read all tbe works of Herman Melville. No matter what your religious or political leanings, it is hard to simply ignore a book like Billy Budd. I hope to find time to engage in other such readings.

I am tempted to write a book on the sorry, scandalous state of high school and collegiate athletics. There certainly exists a wealth of material to use in such a book. Many good writers are already engaged in this enterprise. Their once lonely and lowly voices have become a veritable crescendo of justifiable outrage. It hardly seems necessary to add to this outpouring of righteous indignation. So I am tempted but probably won't do this.

After graduating from St. John's, I spent 16 years as a farmer and a carpenter before returning to work for the college. My wife Phebe recently has inherited a farm that has been passed down through her family. The thought of "returning to the land" has great ai:>peal to me. At present this is not feasible. However, I find myself more and more drawn to this. I am increasingly involved in the general planning and operation of the farm. I will probably find time to assist now and then with the farm work and the maintenance of the buildings. To take what is very good farm land and to make it better is something that really appeals to me.

In recent years Phebe has been growing roses, more and more each year. This spring we seem to have roses everywhere. Naturally, I have been involved to a certain extent in all this. There are some disappointments in growing roses, but these are counterbalanced by some spectacular successes. So add roses to the list of things that I will be spending more time on. One could do worse.

I hope 1o have more time to exercise. It is not so easy to accomplish this, when you are constantly importuned in the gym to do this, fix that, discuss this, plan that, ·referee this, umpire that, etc. Oftentimes exercise is the last thing that I get to do in the gym. Consequently it is frequently not done at all.

I hope to be ab]e to again play certain sports, and not have to officiate. That would be nice, for a change. According to the rules that I devised, I will become a lifetime member of the Guardian team. Maybe they will let me play B-team volleyball or

·right field in softball. When I was in high school, I used to spend several hours a day in taking long

walks, primarily with the purpose of observing birds. My parents sometimes gently hinted that I should walk less and study more. They were probably right. But still, all . those hours of "solitude'' in the company of nature taught me important lessons about myself and about my relationship to other creatures and the natural world. In my retirement, I hope to walk, and observe, a little more than I have been able to since leaving high school.

When I was a student at SJC. I spent a weekend hiking the Appalachian Trail with a friend. Since then, in my busy life, I have never set foot on it. I would like to do so again, this time with some leisure ... perhaps starting in New England, as the' leaves tum in the fall, following their turning southward, day by day, ending in Georgia many, many weeks later. I'd like that Trouble is, I may not have time to do it!

Finally. there is the problem of an outside water faucet on our house. It has a slow leak. 1 have been me~ning to fix it for years. I am going to work on this problem, early in my retirement... It is high up on my list of things to do.

Gala art auction set for SF (Continued from P. l)

college over the last 21 years, according to Mara Robinson, SFGI '83, who is serving with John H. Dendahl, chairman of the Board of Visitors and Governors, as co­chairman.

Art to be auctioned will include prints

MARALIN NISKA ..... Benefit Singer

by Gustave Baumann, photographs of Laura Gilpin, limited edition· books by Carl Sandburg, a pair of Spanish colonial doors, art books from the Emil Bisttram collection, Acoma and Zuni pots, and six bottles of I 975 Chateau Mouton Roth­schild.

Mrs. Robinson said no works of art will be sold that have been given with donor restrictions. · · ·

Honorary chairman of the event is Mrs. Faith Meem, SF '85H, who, like Mrs. Robinson, is a member of the board.

ITEMS RANGING from $25 to $15,000 will be sold either through an audible auction, which will be conducted by Rupert Fennell, West Coast director of Sotheby's, Beverly Hills, or through a silent auction, in which bidders write their bid on a sheet of paper with the winner being the last one to write his or her bid within a specified time.

The silent auction will be held from 6 to

9 p.m. and the main auction from 8 to JO p.m.

At 7:30 p.m. Maralin Niska will sing a group .of songs and arias accompanied by Marilyn Beebe, pianist. Miss Niska has sung in Europe, Israel, Japan, Mexico, and in South America as well as in this country, including numerous performan­ces in the New York City and Santa Fe Operas.

Mrs. Robinson said proceeds from the two auctions will be designated for scho­larship endowment with the income earn­ed directed to students in need of financial aid. Proceeds from ticket sales will be used for financial aid for the 1986-87 school year.

Among the many individuals who are donating art work, services, volunteer time, and resources are:

St. John's tutor Stuart Boyd and his wife, Nancy Boyd; Irwin Hoffman, A '85H and his wife, Maya Hoffman; Jon H. Hunner, SF '74 (Art Handlers, Santa Fe); Linda Jemison, SFGI '83 (Dick Jemison Art Studio, Santa Fe); Harold Morgan, SF '68; Warren P. Winiarski, A '55, and Barbara Winiarski, A '55 (Stag's Leap Vineyards); and Santa Fe art galleries that include Dewey Galleries, Linda Durham Gallery, Vic Hansen Gallery, and Munson Gallery.

TWO PRICES have been established: $50 for board members and friends, of which $30 is tax-deductible, and $20 for alumni, students, faculty, staff, and asso­ciates, which is not tax-deductible.

Theme for thE' eveni'rig' wiit'be"' i.A:rt' Words from the Wise." Mrs. Robinson had some of her own on the importance of the fund raiser as a way of raising scholar­ship money.

"As an alumna and member of the Board of Visitors .and Governors, I know the importance of increasing our scholarship funds to help students deal with rising tuition expenses. As a former fund drive chairman, I also know how difficult it is to raise funds for college expenses.

"I urge everyone to reserve July J 8 for this important event."

SJC has first Mellon fellow For the first time, St. John's College has

a winner of the prestigious Mellon Fel­lowship in the Humanities.

Awarded to students with outstanding promise as college and university teach­ers, the fellowship has been given to Bruce Johnsen, a 1986 Santa Fe graduate from Temple, Pa.

Mr. Johnson was among 1,566 candi­dates nominated by faculties of the insti­tutions they attended. In all, 123 finalists were named from 67 colleges and univer­sities.

Established four years ago by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the fel­lowship is renewable for two years of study. In addition, the award covers cost of dissertation fees and further summer study at another institution if that is required.

Under the selection procedure, each applicant submits a plan of study which is evaluated together with the student's aca­demic record and a personal interview. The most important factor is demonstra­tion by the student of outstanding future promise as a teacher.

Mr. Johnsen will ,pursue a combined program in philosophy. mathematics, and. physics. His special emphasis will be upon epistemology and cognitive theory and metaphysics and the development of sys-

BRUCE JOHNSEN tematic knowledge in mathematics and physics.

After two to three years of academic study, Mr. Johnsen will teach college level courses and complete his doctorate. He anticipates his program of study will re­quire six years.

Mr. Johnson also was a finalist in the Rhodes Scholarship competition. He is the son of Richard and Annette Johnsen, of Temple, Pa.

JUNE 1986

New, presidents are on.the way

(Continued from P. l) so, according to Geoffrey Comber, direc­tor of the master's program.

Mr. Dyal will return September 2-4 for the first faculty, meeting of the 1986-87 academic year and for the freshman con­vocation, in which the president tradi­tionally addres~es the entering class.

Then he will fly to China for his final trip for AFS, He has been the prime mover for AFS' teacher exchange pro­gram and China's Ministry of Education has requested him for talks there on how the program may best be continued. His residency in Annapolis will begin with homecoming September 26. ·

Meanwhile, both will attend their first meeting of the Board of Visitors and Gov­ernors in Santa Fe July 18-19 when the time and manner of their installations are expected to be discussed.

As a team, they will appear at the art benefit the Santa Fe campus is planning July 18.

The two presidents met for the first time in April at a session with board Chairman John H. Dendahl and Charles A. Nelson, chairman of the board's Finance Commit­tee. Held just prior to the April board meeting in Annapolis, this meeting was devoted to the budgets for the two cam­puses.

In early May they established rapport at their luncheon meeting. Mr. Dyal said their conversation centered in part on the importance of their first year under St. John's two-president system. It replaces the single divided presidency in effect since the Santa Fe campus was founded in 1964.

"We discussed the importance of pre­serving harmony and working together with the two deans in keeping the college on a major, single track," Mr. Dyal said.

Later, on May 15, the two met for a working session with the vice-presidents for advancement: Charles E. Dunn, from Annapolis, and Dale Levy, from Santa Fe.

One interesting aspect of Mr. Dyal's presidency is that he and his wife, Edith, plan a commuting marriage. A pianist with two master's degrees from Columbia, she has accepted a part-time position as adjunct professor of music in the School of Fine Arts at the College of Charleston. She will be in Annapolis for major oc­casions.

After marking their 36th wedding anni­versary, Mr. Dyal commented that he thought his marriage could bear this ar­rangement. The Dyals will represent part of an increasingly new pattern in aca­demic life. At :least six couples on the Annapolis campus will maintain two resi­dences next fall in order for both spouses to pursue separate careers.

Wilson to give paper~in Germany

Annapolis tutor Curtis Wilson will de­liver a paper in Germany at the sym­posium, '"Reviewing the Cosmos: 1540 to 1680," that wiU be sponsored by the Her­zog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbuttal June 30-July 2.' ·

An historian of science, Mr. Wilson will speak on "Origi'ns and Consequences of the Lunar Theory of Jeremiah Ho frocks." From Germany, Mr. Wilson will fly to Cambridge University to consult with edi­tors of The General History of Astron­omy, for which he is editing the second volume.

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Carey, Slakey to be new deans Doskos and Neidorf leaving deanship

(Continued from P. l} tors," Mr. Carey said. ••1t also involves welcoming back into the life of the college

THOMAS SlAKEY tutors who, for one reason or another, have drifted to the periphery."

With regard to incoming President Michael Riccards, Mr. Carey said, "It should go without saying that the success of my deanship will depend largeiy on developing a collegial working relation­ship with Mr. Riccards. I look forward to this and also to cultivating good relations with the Board of Visitors and Gover­nors."

An experienced administrator, Mr. Slakey first joined St. John's Annapolis campus in 1959 but has been on leave ~rom the college on two separate occas-10ns.

The first was to serve as vice-president for academic affairs from 1971 to 1974 at

St. Mary's College, Moraga, Calif., his alma mater, where he also was an asso­ciate professor of philosophy from l 974 to 1976.

More recently, he took a two-year leave in 1983 to be dean and to develop a new program in liberal studies at Kentucky State University, Frankfurt, modeled after the St. John's curriculum.

The father of two St. John's graduates and of two others who are completing their degrees, Mr. Slakey has served on both St. John's Annapolis and Santa Fe campuses. When the western campus opened in 1964, he taught there prior to going to St. Mary's. In 1972 he rejoined the Annapolis faculty.

Born February 6, 1930, in Chico, Calif., Mr. Slakey grew up in Sacramento. He was graduated magna cum laude in 1952 from St. Mary's with a major in English literature. In 1953 he completed a master's degree in philosophy at the Universite Laval in Quebec.

From 1953-55,duringthe Korean War, he served in the Army.

Afterwards, from 1955 to 1959, he stu­died at the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University, working with Norman Malcolm, a pupil of Wittgenstein, and completing a critical analysis of Aris­totle's writings on sense perception and thinking. He received his doctorate in 1960.

Mr. Slakey has taught widely through­out the St. John's curriculum including in its great books seminars and in its lang­uage, mathematics, and laboratory clas­ses.

Dean for the past two years, Mr. Dos­kow has decided to relinquish the dean­ship in order to have weekends free to join his wife, Minna Doskow. In March M's

Doskow, formerly acting dean of the Yale Gordon College of Liberal Arts at the University of Baltimore, became dean of

JAMES CAREY arts and sciences at Glassboro (N.J .) State College. The Doskows will maintain two residences.

History Club picks

Archer Jones book Archer Jones, A '47, is a co-author of

Whv the South Lost the Civil War, recent­ly p-ublished by the University of Georgia Press.

Caritas awards $8,300 to JO

Mr. Archer and fell ow historians Rich­ard E. Beringer, Herman Hattaway and William N. Still, Jr., advance the theory that the South lacked the will to win, that weak Confederate nationalism and the strength of a peculiar brand of evangelical Protestantism sapped the South's ability to continue a war that was not yet lost on the field.

An illness or death in the family, a par­ent's sudden loss of employment, an acci­dent - such unforeseen catastrophies can make it impossible for a student to remain in college.

At St. John's College, the Caritas Soc­iety provides assistance for students fac­ing a financial crisis, enabling them to continue their education when funds from other sources are not available.

A total of $8,300 has been awarded to IO students this academic year from the Rosalie Blaul Scholarship Fund, named for a founding member of Caritas. With the total averaging $5,054 over the past lO years, this year's amount is the highest since the society was formed in 1969.

Although recipients remain anony­mous, a senior has given permission for his letter of thanks to be quoted:

"Instead of worrying about an expected shortfall in financing my St. John's educa­tion, I can contemplate the meanings of love and freedom in War and Peace. Some day I will have it in my power to help a student the way you have helped me. On that day I will think of you and say again, 'God bless you."'

Money for the grants comes from dues paid by the society;s, LOO members and from fund raisers such as the book and author luncheon held in March.

In addition to financial aid to students, Caritas' objectives are: to bring together ·the St. John's and Annapolis communi­ties in order to achieve a better mutual understanding and appreciation of the

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Caritas holds monthly luncheon meet­ings during the academic year. Officers were installed at the May 8 meeting in the Helen Avalynne Tawes Garden of the Maryland Department of Natural Re­sources. They include Mrs. Peter V. V. Hamill, who has been re-elected president.

Persons interested in joining Caritas may call Mrs. Eleanor Faithorn, member­ship chairman, at 263-7590.

The book has been chosen as a main selection of the History Book Club.

After attending St. John's from 1943 to 1946, Mr. Archer was a warded a bachelor of arts degree from Hampden-Sydney College in 1949. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia in 1958.

Now living in Virginia, Mr. Archer is professor emeritus of history and former dean at North Dakota State University.

Jones becomes Schmidt tutor Santa Fe tutor David Jones, A '59, is

the first faculty member to. hold the Adolph W. Schmidt Endowed Tutorship.

The gift establishing the endowed tu­torship was made last fall by an anon­ymous donor in honor of the Honorable Adolph W. Schmidt, who almost contin­uously since 1950 has been a member of the Board of Vistiors and Governors and now is a member emeritus. The endow­ment is part of St. John's Corporate Endowment.

The tutorship provides that a tutor be named on either campus to lead a faculty seminar on issues of importance to the program.

The weekly seminars to be led by Mr. Jones will center on fundamental political writings chiefly taken from the curricu-1 um.

.. Tutors rarely have the opportunity to talk among themselves regarding the sem-

inar readings in the program," Mr. Jones said. "This study group will allow them to acquaint themselves with the readings in a more systematic way."

Writings will include Aristotle's Pol­itics, Hobbes' Leviathan, Locke's Second Treatise of Government, Rousseau's Soc­ial Contract plus the Federalist Papers, Declaration of Independence, Constitu­tion, and Supreme Court cases. Mr. Jones also plans to read Montesquieu, not read for many years in the program.

Mr. Jones taught on the Annapolis campus in 1964-65 and joined the Santa Fe campus in 1965. He also served as director of the Graduate Institute, Santa Fe, from l 973-75 and from 1978-80. Mr. Jones received his undergraduate degree from St. John's in 1959, a master's at the UQivdsity of Melbourne in 1962, and.a doctorate from the University of Texas in 19~4.

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Bryce Jacobsen is bequeathing his fam­ous barber's chair to St. John's College as a "memento of office" - that of director of athletics - but, as he retires, he will be taking with him another piece of college furnishing.

"What is larger than a breadbox but smaller than a gym?" asked an anagram promising Mr. Jacobsen a present "to satisfy your whim." It was presented in lieu of the real thing at a garden party marking his 28 years with the college.

Mr. Jacobsen's whim turned out to be several tons of steel in the shape of a safe nearly seven feet tall that has occupied the registrar's office as long as college officials can remember.

When Nancy Lewis, college registrar, announced several years ago that she wanted to get rid of the safe, Mr. Jacobsen cast a covetous eye in its direction. It became his own at the party given by the faculty and staff. The party also honored George who is returning to teaching after two years as dean.

The safe now holds faculty and board minutes, which Mrs. Lewis said will be stored in smaller, fire-proof files. The pre-1937 grade sheets the safe contains will be transferred to St. John's archival corner at the Maryland Hall of Records.

One of the most loved facultv members at St. John's, Mr. Jacobsen "is retiring amid speeches of praise.

In expressing the appreciation of the faculty at Mr. Jacobsen's last faculty meeting, incoming Dean Thomas Slakey cited him for establishing "one of the most outstanding athletic programs" in the United States, a tribute which brought sustained applause.

In a toast at the party in the Dorsey Gardens, an old friend, John White, assis­tant athletic director for half a dozen years or so, spoke of Mr. Jacobsen's role in devising an athletic program that would help build a sense. of community at the college. Inter-collegiate athletics and fra­ternities had been dropped when St. John's adopted its present curriculum.

"To get rid of.. .. annoying remnants (of clique-ishness), we needed, of all things, an athletic program - but no one saw this very clearly at the time, except perhaps Bryce, who was both a New Program

• alumnus and an athlete. The devising of this new program also took a kind of intel­ligence and imagination.

"But our athletic program, despite any amount of ingenuity in its devising, would not have succeeded without another vir­tue: character, the force of Bryce's per­sonality and presence.

"He refereed games without anger (he once penalized a team 15 yards for 'j uven­ile frustration'), and he could not be in­timidated (something students often tried).

Referring to the athletic program as representing a "completion" of the New Program, Mr. White said he had heard students say, and he had said it himself as a student, "My classes have been going so badly that I would have withdrawn if it hadn't been for the athletic program."

Mr.. White said students get to see, close up, an adult - someone with the human virtue of "character."

"And that's what helps them through rough times," he remarked of Mr. Jacob­sen's leadership.

An Apollonius expert who has spent half his time as a tutor teaching ma'the­matics, Mr. Jacobsen's role as a tutor won him a gift of the senior class.

At the conclusion of the Peter Arnott puppet production during Reality Week­end, Daniel Schoos, Wayne, Pa., senior, went to the stage to announce that ::;eniors are establishing an endowment for the prize offered freshmen and sophomores in mathematics. It will be named for him. Altogether class members are seeking to raise $5,000.

The faculty party in the Dorsey Gar­dens also brought other gifts. They in­cluded a maroon blazer with pocket insig­nia like those awarded each year to the senior man and woman who have con­tributed most to the college's athletic pro­gram. There were tools and from Mat­thew White, John White's seven-year-old son, a tie rack to hold part of Mr. Jacobsen's considerable collection of atro­cious ties.

With former Dean Samuel Kutler pre­siding, the presentations were made by Mr. Jacobsen's successors, Michael Dink and Roberta Rusch.

Mr. Doskow was given an engraved tray, two glasses, and a bottle of Harvey's

Steve Holdberg, Jr., left, and John Richmond, Jr., are the student waiters at Santa Fe's Junior Prank Day. At left is John Sullivan.

Bristol Cream chosen in part to celebrate the additional time he will have with his wife, Dean Minna Doskow, of Glassboro (N .J.) State College.

Warm words for Mr. Doskow were offered in a toast by Malcolm Wyatt, assistant dean:

"George entered the dean's office in a time of troubles, when the college was torn by painful divisions. If now many of those divisions have healed, this has been due in major part to George's prudence and tact."

It is a tact that Mr. Wyatt said rests on other qualities: efficiency, command of detail, promptness in acting, sensitivity to and respect for students, and imagination.

"The result in him is fairness, justice toward the varied people and issues with which he has had to deal. George has been able to disagree - even reprove - with­out attacking anyone's self-respect. He

Bryce leaves SJC his own gifts

Mr. Jacobsen is not only receiving gifts but leaving two of his own for the college. A skilled carpenter, he fashioned a foot­high cone of white pine to illustrate four shapes in which Apollonius says a cone can be cut: a circle, an ellipse, a parabola, and a hyperbola.

Earlier, Mr. Jacobsen constructed an illustration of the Pythagorean Theorem. It is a four foot square inlaid with white pine, walnut, mahogany, and ebony. The work now hangs in the Dean's Office. The cone will be avaifable to tutors and stu­dents during the academic year in the Dean's Office and during the summer, in the bookstore.

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has a simplicity and equanimity that are as rare as they are admirable."

In receiving the promise of a future safe, Mr. Jacobsen told party-goers, "There will be a lot of things I'll want to put into it."

Mrs. Lewis has it all thought out. "He can put his stamps in here," she said one day this week in opening it up to display the way it was built. "Some of his precious tools can go here and his ties in this drawer. It has space for all the things he is interested in."

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needs uipment

The Photography Club is seeking to expand its equipment as it pre­pares to give lessons next year which will stress composition, exposure, development, and the printing of individual negatives.

"We feel that this is best accomp­lished when a·student c~n begin with one visual concept and then follow it through," Jerry Abrams, a club member, said.

"Large format cameras ( 4" by 5''), with their capacity for image con­trol and their use of individual nega­tives, are ideal for our purposes. We therefore are asking for help in assembling this equipment.

"If you have any lights, light meters, or large format equipment you would be willing either to donate or to sell at a reasonable price, please contact me this sum­mer in Annapolis. Financial contri­butions, of course, also are wel­come, and all contributions either of equipment or money are currently tax deductions." ·

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ANDREW KRIVAK Andrew Krivak, A '86, has received the

Walter S. Baird prize for achievement in the arts, literature, or the sciences.

The Dallas, Pa., alumnus received a $500 prize for his poetry. The award, named for a 1930 graduate, is given an­nually by the Walter S. Baird Endow­ment.

Mr. Krivak has been writing poetry since his freshman year at St. John's and has been published in the student maga­zine, Energeia. He plans to continue to write and possibly enroll in a graduate writing program in the future.

To the Editor:

ques11on

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In the April issue of The Reporter, the problem was raised concerning the mascu­line "i" in the word "alumni." Excuse me for raising an additional problem, but should we perhaps alternate a seminar with an ovinar?

Sincerely, Keith Martindale SFGI '86

Writer is glad it isn't rn To the Editor:

Since Mr. Douglas Buchanan has seen a need to complain publicly about the col­lege's "unadventurous" decision not to hire George McGovern as president, I must say that it is good to be spared such an embarrassment. Apart from the ques­tion of Mr. McGovern's qualifications for the job, which are none too evident from his public record, I am confident that many alumni would be pained by a forced association with the bizarre view of liber­alism that he represents.

Nelson Lund, A '74 Dallas, Tex.

We warmly welcome letters to 1he Reporter, which should include your name, home address, and tele­phone number. Because of space constraints, we reserve the right to shorten all submissions. Thev mav be addressed to Jhe Reporter, St. John's College, PO -Box 1671, Annapolis, MD 21404.

THE REPORTER

cost o ls the price of tuition at St. John's Col­

lege too high? Not by comparison with a select group

of 33 institutions known as the Sloan col­leges, a group of exceptionally qualified institutions chosen by the Sloan Founda­tion of which St. John's is one.

The cost of providing St. John's educa­tion in actuality is much higher, Charles A. Nelson, A '45, chairman of the Board of Visitors and Governors Finance Com­mittee, informed a board workshop dur­ing the April meeting.

At the same time St. John's tuition next year will fall under the 1985-86 median by more than $1,000.

During the year just ended, Annapolis spent $14,947 and Santa Fe $16,856 for educational and general expenditures for each full time student. Next year the col­lege expects to spend $15,972 in Annapo­lis and $17,008 in Santa Fe. This com­pares with the last available median figure of $10,974 that for 1984.

Ranked by instructional expenditures alone for each student, Annapolis spent $5,223 in 1985-86 and will spend $5,499 next year. In Santa Fe, the figure this year was $5, 144; for l 986-87 it will be $5,386.

"By comparison, in 1984, the median was $3,873," Mr. Nelson said.

"Our instructional costs are substan­tially higher for choice institutions and way higher than those for the average col­lege. We pay less but cost more. The basic reason is our ratio of 8Y2 students for one tutor. The average good college has a ratio of 12 students to one faculty member, the ordinary college of l 6 to I."

Among 33 colleges in the Sloan group, Annapolis and Santa Fe tied at 29th place this year with $8,500 for tuition as com­pared with Bucknell University's median of $9,865.

Mr. Nelson emphasized that St. John's considers it extremely important to main­tain the ratio of tutors and students. To do so, he said it will be necessary to increase the college's major sources of revenue: tui­tion, endowment, and annual gift~.

In twin productions, the King William Players successfully presented Midsummer Night's Dream and Shaw's Don Juan in Hell this spring. Cast as the mechanicals are, left to right, Peter Kalkavage, Flute; John White, Snout; Jon

Bottom; Hugh McGrath, Quince, and Malcolm Wyatt, Starveling. In Don Juan, staged at the planetarium, are, from left, Anna Webb as Donna Ana, Simon McNabb as the devil, and John Shaughnessy as the commandant.

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Colston joins college staff Kenneth Colston, a former teac·her of

English and French, is St. John's College's new resident life coordinator, Dean George Doskow has announced.

Working in association with the assis­tant deans' office, Mr. Colston has student responsibilities in connection with dor­mitory placements and food services and also with some counseling. His part-time duties will be expanded to full time later in the summer.

Mr. Colston and his wife, Helen, A '82, the college's alumni liaison, with their daughter, Thalia, will reside in the col­lege's Chancellor Johnson House. The 18th century house currently is being used as a small dormitory.

Mr. Colston has had dormitory resp?n-

sibilities at the Lysee Francois Premiere at Le Havre, a secondary boarding school, and at the Thomas Jefferson School at St. Louis, Mo., where he taught English and French and lived on campus for four years.

In 1985 he taught English during the fall semester at Anne Arundel Community College. A 1978 graduate of Northern Kentucky University, he earned a master's degree in English and comparative litera­ture at Columbia University in 1981. He completed a second master's in writing in 1985 at Johns Hopkins, where he also taught.

Mr.. Colston is in the midst of readying his first novel, 1he Liherty Renaissance, for publication. ·

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St. John's i keteers triumph for third time by DOROTHY KINSMAN

"Hey, hey, arete! "Hey, hey, Mr. J!" Johnnies cheered for virtue and athletic

director Bryce Jacobsen April 20 as he swung his mallet in the final play of the 1986 St. John's-Naval Academy croquet tournament. The plunk of Mr. .J's ball against the post proclaimed a 2-to- i vic­tory for the college. ·

Last year the Mids defeated the John­nies for the first and only time in the four years the tournament has been played on the front campus. ·

As the official opener of the event, Bar­bara Leonard, assistant dean, knocked a ball through the first two wickets.

St. John's took the first game while the second was still in progress on another court. The final game was well u·nderway on the first court when First Classman Harry Hughes, of Richfield, Conn., Lord God and King Wicket, led his team to victory in Game No. 2.

For the first two games, teams consisted of three players each. The tie-breaker was streamlined by cutting the number to two each. According to St. John's Imperial Wicket Katie Kelley, Mr. Jacobsen's part­ner in Game 3, the objective was to save time.

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William (Brad) Fisher, sophomore, douses First Classman Harry Hughes, center, lord God and Wicket of the Naval Academy croquet team. Johnnies and Mids pose together after the tournament.

Even so, the tournament lasted almost four hours. For both the Academy and St. John's, croquet is more a game of strategy than of skill.

ALMOST EVERY STROKE was pro­ceeded by an intense discussion: Should the player try for the next wicket, come to the aid of a teammate, or slam an oppo­nent's ball out of the court?

Once a decision was reached, the play­ers took their time in sighting along mallets. Next year's Imperial Wicket, sophbmore Robert de Majistre, of West­chester, Pa., frequently stretched out full length on the grass to calculate the angle of a shot.

Players seemed unperturbed by an oc­casional frisbee skimming across the court, or a dog wandering over to sniff a ball. Dan Schoos, Wayne (Pa.) senior, added a touch of class as he glided around serving champagne from a silver tray.

Despite the chilly wind, most of the St. John's players wore splashily colored shorts. The Mids were turned out nattily in black pants, black bow ties and white shirts.

The crisp blues of the Brigade rooters also contrasted sharply with the individ­ualistic garb of the St. John's cheering section. The boisterous "'Self-Appointed

Boosters Club" claimed credit for hanging on the library wall a banner proclaiming, "The best weapon is an education."

Miss Kelley, a senior from Mechanics­ville, Md., had her own cheering section -her mother, a brother, two sisters and a six-month-old nephew. "The only reason Daniel (another brother) isn't here is that he had to work," commented James Kel­ley. Except for the baby, they all play croquet.

On the other hand, Imperial Wicket Elect de Majistre had never played the game until IO days before the tourna­ment.

Asked about next year's teams, he re­plied, ''I'll just go out a week or so before the tournament and see who wants to join me."

As the afternoon wore on, students from the college and the Academy could be heard comparing notes on how mathe­matics and science are taught at their respective schools. Obviously the tour­nam~.nt is fulfilling its purpose: to pro­mote a better relationship between the two institutions.

IN ADDITION TO Midshipman Hughes, the Navy teams consisted of First Classmen Glen Stafford, Cherry Hill, N.J.; Kirt Kranker, Louisville, Colo.-

T~9mbs up for St. John's and the Naval Academy! Having a good tii;ne at.the Croquet Tournament was what it was all about as these three demonsirate. Fro~ ,left ~re Anthony Nyberg, East Lansing, Mich., freshman; Gerald McNabb, Cohasset, Mass., sophomore, and Third Classman Donnie Van Gilder.

, 1• , " _, , Marilyn Mylander pho~o,

Paul Costello, Millbrae, Calif.; Brian Skimmons, Surf City, N.J.; Mike Walls, Bowie; and Tom Smith, Topeka, Kans.; and Second Classman Bill Weber, De­catur, Ga. Commander J.D, Buttinger is sponsor.

For St. John's the players were Ken Shen, Ann Arbor, Mich.; David Lowther, Glen Ellyn, Ill.; and Miss Kelley, seniors;

Michael Morris photo

Lyndsey Wyman, Annapolis, and Mark Manry, Bay Minette, Ala.; juniors; Brad Fisher, New Haven, Conn.; and Mr. de Majistre; sophomores; and Mr. Jacobsen.

Former Imperial Wicket John Ertle of Cleveland, A '84, and Kate O'Malley, A '83, were referees. The event was heavily covered by the Washingt()_nL 13-<!ltirrnn~.~ and Annapolis press. · · · · · · · · · · ·

Navy lends hand to SJ prank In case you haven't heard about it, there

was a group of St. John's students at the Naval Academy-Johns Hopkins lacrosse game banded together as "Johnnies for Middies" and cheering Navy on to vic­tory.

They are part ofa new St. John's-Naval Academy Friendship Committee, accord­ing to Annapolis freshman Brigham Bechtel.

A former Navy man himself, born in Room 9 of the academy's old hospital, Mr. Bechtel helped conduct the 3 a.m. foray in which the Johnnies covered the academy's famed statue of Tecumseh with water soluble orange and black colors.

That happened the day Navy and St. John's held their fourth a.nnual croquet tournament with, as it turns out, Navy's full permission.

"In these post-Libyan days, we thought it best to see that no extreme security mea­sures were taken," the 24-year-old Johnny said, in advising such:precautions.

the Johnnies arranged an appointment with Captain Al Korietzni, deputy com­mandant of midshipmen, who not only said in effect, "Be our guests," but invited the group for Friday lunch with the mid-shipmen. 1 '

Besides Mr. Bechsel~ the students who called upon him included Brad Fischer, Simon McNabb, Antl:wny Nyberg, James Mattingly, and Alfonso Kalinauskas.

''I KNEW WHEN we saw he had sub­marine dolphins 'on: his uniform that we were going to be fine," Mr. Bechtel said. "All commanding officers of submarines have great senses of ~minor. He was the perfect man to talk to. He really deserves something special for inviting us over for lu9s:J:t ap~ talking tq us. He made the

whole event (the croquet tournament) a little nicer."

In early morning, wearing khaki clot.hes with their faces blackened, the students paddled over in two canoes from the St. John's boat house carrying rollers and paint in the school colors. Altogether, they were seen by about six Middies. One of them questioned Mr. McNabb, who claimed to be a Middie but got into diffi­culties when the Mid demanded his "alpha number." Mr. McNabb's trademark pig­tail also might have been a problem.

Two of the Mids cheered them .on. "They loved it," Mr. Bechtel said. "TQey thought it was great and told us, 'It's about time you guys did something."' ·. ,

Left behind at St. John's in their has.te was an orange T-shirt with the college seal on front that said "They did it" on the back. It was intended for Tecumse9 1

Later, at the tournament, students pre~­ented it to Midshipman First Class Haq:.y Hughes, who captained the Navy team~. Those in the prank wore identical T-shifts with "l did it" on the back. . ,

The son of a retired senior chief mach­inist mate, Mr. Bechtel said that an aqa.., demy graduate, William Gravell, his com­manding officer in a remote Turkish sta­tion, was enthusiastic about the classics and "inspired me to come to St. John's."

Although the two schools have had seminars together and from time to time Middies attend St. John's lectures, movies, and dances, Mr. Bechtel is con­vinced the St. John's-Navy Friendship Committee can expand activities.

Besides attending their athletic events, he mentioned the possibility that students,

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JUNE 1986 THE REPORTER

Seniors hear Mandelbrot Visitors elect two to board (Continued from P. 1)

the commissioning into the Marine Corps of Henry Williamson, of Annapolis. Mr. Williamson's father, tutor Robert Will­iamson, served as marshal for the pro­cession of gowned faculty, seniors, and platform guests as they moved from -Mc­Dowell to the Liberty Tree.

Dr. Mandelbrot, whose I I-year-old rev-. olutiortary studies into the geometry of indefinite forms have made him interna­tionally known, was the senior class's choice for speaker.

In his address, he advised graduates that ideas can come cheaply, but the exploration of ideas - the ability to develop one organized body of thinking - is much harder. And in citing the need for a base in a single field of endeavor, he emphasized that that base must not be

· staked out too narrowly. The Harvard University professor des­

cribed the experiences of three scientists who used strengths in other fields to make it possible for them to accomplish their goals. One of them was D'Arcy Thomp­son, biologist, physicist, and classicist, whose life, he said, represented "one very unified entity."

Another was a personal friend, D. Carleton Gajudusek, the 1976 Nobel prize winner, whose investigation of slow vir­uses in the highlands of New Guinea was conducted, he said, with stamina and great curiosity, in an uncertain job situa­tion and under hostile conditions.

Gajudusek's work, Dr. Mandelbrot said, represented a combination of dar­ingness and carefulness.

"To be daring is not enough, .. he point­ed out. ''Many people gamble because it is amusing. The difficulty is in implement­ing, in tying things together."

Important ideas also are very few, he observed. What is difficult to explore are consequences, to move from one idea to a well organized endeavor. "One cannot just innovate. That doesn't happen. One must put together ideas into an organized whole."

Of his own geometry, he said the prob­lems it posed had been fleetingly glimpsed by people in the past. What had made his work possible is the use ofthe computer to draw abstract, mathematical, quick repre­sentations of the world around us - of mountains, clouds, and trees'.

Prizes, in addition to the silver medal and for the best senior essay, were award­ed the following:

Rebecca Ann Schug, the Duane L. Peterson prize of $1,250 to a junior for high academic achievement; Rhonda Dat­cher, Alexandra Edelgalass, Daniel Touey, $1,000 awards of the Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr., Memorial Founda­tion for scholarship; Daniel Stamper Caldwell, James Goddard, Robert Ing­ham, and Catherine Irvine, $1,250 Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation schol­arships;

Fawn Trigg, the Joan Yvonne Ronay $1,000 scholarship; Edith Updike, the

Johnnies for mids

(Continued from P. 8) interested in setting up a radio station at St. John's, could learn from the academy's own broadcasting experience, and that a number of Johnnies would be interested in amending the Navy's seminars and lec­tures o~ modern physics and engineering.

.. We can do a lot of things together,•• he summed up possibilities.

$100 Senator Millard E. Tydings scholar­ship for excellence in speaking; Renee Bergland and Lawrence Seidl, II, honor­able mention for senior essays; Patrick Touey, best sophomore essay, with Eric Lavoie, Arexander Magocski, and Fawn Trigg, honorable mention; Christopher Sturr, best freshman essay, with Laurie Cooper, honorable mention; Claudia Probst, best original English poem; Paul Stevens, best essay on a piece of music; Bradley Stuart, Problem I division, most elegant solution to a mathematical prob­lem, and Garfield Goodrum, Jr., and Ty Yancey, best laboratory projects.

Alejandra Farias, John Newell, and Nancy Townsend received blazers offered by the Alumni Association for their par­ticipation, leadership, and sportsmanship in the athletic program.

This year no prize was offered for a junior essay, for Greek and French trans­lations, or for a musical composition.

Canon A. Pierce Middleton delivered the invocation and benediction.

Class Day exercises included speeches by tutors and students as well as musical offerings.

In a talk turning on the question of how to speak to people who have not attended St. John's, Howard Zeiderman spoke of the need for generosity in speaking to each person in his own language. Douglas Allan brook, in a talk dedicated to the late tutor, William O'Grady, expressed the belief that poets and philosophers are the best help in a world in which technology and human baseness has posed mankind on the brink of universal destruction.

In speaking on memories, Edward Ing­ham, of Charlottesville, Va., pointed out that he did not want St. John's to be the decisive event in his life and suggested it. was time for the seniors to leave: "Let's book."

Teresa Pausic, McKeesport, Pa., spoke on the transition from a college where students are accustomed to learn from one another to a world in which students will be meeting individual challenges alone.

John Newell, Pittsburgh, Pa., and Dan­iel Schoos, Wayne, Pa., presented a hum­orous sketch featuring the selection of books for a re-established St. John's after the "first nuclear jello factory melt­down."

Music was provided by David Lowther, guitarist and vocalist, and by the Jazz Workshop, which performed a composi­tion by David Vermette, of Norwell, Mass., dedicated to his late father. Per­formers included Roger Burton, Annapo­lis; Ed Weiss, St. Petersburg, Pa.; Paul Stevens, Adelphi, Md., and Ted Ingham, Charlottesville, Va.

This year's senior prank was based upon an Exod.us theme with Mr. Lowther and Katie Kelley, of Mechanicsville, Md., in charge. Seminars were interrupted by Israelites and Egyptians. Skits followed.

Walking inf ootsteps of 10,000 Greeks

Frank Williams, who has spent pre­vious summers at the Graduate Institute in Santa Fe and Annapolis, will go about his classical studies the hard way this summer.

Using Xenophon's Anahasisas a guide, he plans to spend June through December following the route of the I0,000 Greeks who went on foot through Turkey, Ana­tolia. and Armenia. His travels will pace his own Anahasis.

Two Annapolitans, Anna Greenberg and William Simmons, have been elected to the Board of Visitors and Governors.

Active in St. John's support groups, Mrs. Greenberg served as chairman of the Friends of St. John's Campaign in Anna­polis in 1983-84 and as president of the college's Caritas Society in 1978-79.

Currently she is vice-president of the Annapolis Sm phony Orchestra, a director of the Brandeis University National Women's Commission, and a member of the 21st Century Club. She has served as an officer in Hadassah and the American Association of University Women.

Mr. Simmons previously served on the St. John's board from 1974 to 1980. A former president of the Alumni Assoc­iation, he is an Annapolis businessman who, until it was sold recently, was vice­president and co-owner of Fawcett Boat Supplies, Inc. He will continue his assoc­iation with Fawcett's for another year.

Mr. Simmons has been a director for the past eight years of Farmers National Bank and chairman of its Audit Com-mittee.

Another Navy SJC marriage

Erica Chaney King, A '74, has an addendum to the April story on St. John's-Naval Academy marriages. The wedding count should be four, not three as reported then. She writes:

"I am a graduate of St. John's, Annapo­lis, Class of '74. My husband, Gregory King, is a graduate of the Naval Academy, Class of 1974. We met during our school days and were married on 27 November 1976."

Now serving as the disbursing officer of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, Calif., Major Chaney and her husband will be moving next month to Quantico, Va., where she will enter the Marine Corps' Command and Staff College in August.

Mr. King, a Marine officer until last summer, is simultaneously a farrier and a graduate student at the University of Southern California's systems manage­ment program.

Sadi Koylan dies Sadi Koylan, '48, poet, writer, transla­

tor and broadcaster for the Voice of America, died of lung cancer February 14 at his home in East Hampton, New York. He was 67.

Born in Istanbul, Mr. Koylan came to America at the age of 17 with his uncle, Munir Ertegun, Turkish ambassador to the United States and father of Ahmet Ertegun, '44. Mr. Koylan had attended schools in France, Switzerland and Eng­land. In addition to St. John's, he attend­ed the Catholic University in Washington.

From 1949 to 1972, Mr. Koylan broad­cast news of the world to Turkey over the Voice of America. As a poet and play­wright, he often gave dramatic readings of his own and others' works. He translated into Turkish many poems, including works ofT.S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats, and Arthur Rimbaud.

Quoted in the East Hampton Star, his close friend, William Goldsmith, '48, praised Mr. Koylan for his ••unique quali­ties of warmth and understanding .. and .. the brilliant wit and irony that he brought to his life and his poetry."

Mr. Koylan is survived by his wife and a daughter.

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Santa Fe lists prize winners

(Continued from P~ I) E. Tydings Memorial Prize for excellence in public speaking;

Joy Kaplan and Melissa King, the Thorne Endowment Scholarships for sum­mer study in preparation for medicine;

Michael Mason, the Henry M. Austin Scholarship in recognition of academic achievement and for talent in writing poetry;

Michael David and Lisa Woods, the Exxon Foundation and Henry Luce Foundation Scholarships for summer study in preparation for engineering.

Essay awards were granted to the fol­lowing:

Senior Harold Neth, "Forward to Death;" senior Sean Greenwood, "In the Shadow of the Negative Self (honorable mention);"junior John Sullivan, "Ground­ing the 'Ought': The Moral Philosophy of Kant, Hume, and Aristotle;"sophomores, Bryan Frost, "Of the Troubles of Becom­ing a God," and L. Jeffrey Smith, .. The Voice of Christ Heard; the Affirmation of a Savior's Cry;"freshmen, Benjamin Gali­son, "To Hell and Back: Travelling in the OdysseyofHomer,"and Theodoros Theo­doropoulos, "An Analysis of the Figure of Nicias in the Peloponnesian War."

Additional awards were given for trans­lations of Greek and Spanish texts into English and for an original sonnet as fol-1 ows: sophomores, David Johnson, Michael Mason and Marlene Stutzman for their translations, and junior Robin Davis for her sonnet, "Begging For Silence," (The Henry M. Austin Poetry Prize).

The Alumni Award, given to two sen­iors who, by their participation, leader­ship and sportsmanship, have contributed most to the athletic program at the col­lege, is offered by the Alumni Association. Jamie Hayden and Michael Ryan each received college blazers in recognition of their accomplishments.

The awards of plaques for athletics and other student activities were made as follows:

Senior Will Fischer and sophomore Eran Williams were recognized for out­standing performance in athletics; for outstanding contributions in all student activities, seniors Curran Engel and Tho­mas O'Dowd and junior Nancy Solzman; and the athletes of the year were freshman Pamela Lee Jeffcoat and senior Daniel Gartner.

Leslie Medford wins award

E. Leslie Medford, Jr., A '39, dean of admissions at the University of the Pacif­ic, has been named as recipient of the Exemplar Award given annually by the Western Region of the College Board.

The award acknowledges "outstanding professional achievement" and is pre­sented annually to an individual "who has made exemplary contributions which en­hance the aims and professional activities of concern to the College Board."

The College Board is an. organization of high school and college administrators concerned with financial aid, advance placement, and curriculum design to bet-' ter prepare high school students for col'.". lege. •

Mr. Medford joined the University of the Pacific admission office staff in 1962 and was named dean of admissions in 1974.

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DiNucci gets

NEH award Writer considers SJ's social policy

Celeste M. Di Nucci, Annapolis junior, is one of 100 high school and college stu­dents nationwide to receive a 1986 Young­er Scholars Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The award will enable Miss Di Nucci to work full time for nine weeks this summer on a project entitled, "Parallels in Linguis­tic and Political Necessities in Hobbes' Leviathan." Of the $2,200 award, $400 is alloted for hrr project advisor, tutor Cha­ninah Maschler.

Through the Younger Scholars Awards, the NEH commemorates the 200th anni­versary of the U.S. Constitution. The objective, according to the Endowment, is "to encourage renewed scholarly interest in and public reflection on the history, principles, and foundations of constitu­tional government. ..

Before enrolling at St. John's, Miss DiNucci, 24, attended Wellesley College and took classes at colleges in Portland.

She plans to make a "detailed and com­prehensive study of Hobbes' theories of language and meaning as set forth in Le\1ia1lwn in order to better understand his political theories in the same treatise, especially his ideas.of .the gene.ration and

· preservation of the commonwealth ... The St. John's program, she writes,

"has become. for me, an extended and extensive exploration of my responsibili­ties as a user of language.

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1totu

by WILLIAM MICHAEL GOLDSMITH, '48 Emeritus Associate Professor

of American Studies, Brandeis University Students on both campuses recently

drew up petitions raising the questions of whether St. John ·s investment policies are in accord with the college's ••ideals" and educational ''purposes.·· These petitions led to a meeting of alumni in New York City attended by the president and chair­man of the Finance Committee of the Board of Visitors and Governors.

I thought as l listened to the report of the Finance Committee chairman that if Scott Buchanan were alive today. he would jump into the fray immediately. The issue of investing institutional funds in corpor­ations with extensive holdings in coun­tries which violate basic human rights cer­tainly has been a significant issue on every leading campus in the country.

l think Scott would have challenged St. John's as to why it took so long even to consider this question. Is it simply a mat­ter of indifference to the board as to how and where the college's capital resources are invested as long as such investments show a reasonable return of income? Do students have any right to inquire into such policies? Does the same question also apply to alumni?

Student concern with college policies beyond the campus is not a new problem at St. John's. It is not clear whether Fran­cis Scott Key had anxieties of this nature in the 18th century, but as students in the early 1940s. we were faced with several major social and political problems which we attempted to thrash out responsibly as would-be liberal artists. During my fresh­man year, the news of Pearl Harbor came to us as we gathered for one of Catesby Taliaferro's extra seminars on the Meno.

IN THE WEEKS that followed, in long discussions we attempted to explore what obligation as citizens we had to our coun­try, considering that we were privileged to be experiencing such a unique and valu­able education. Did we owe it to the survi-

(Continued from P. 2) val of freedom to continue in school as • • • 1 . •• • long as we could? Many of our teachers

ol M.u lton, N.J., Ms. Howell wi ites, supported this position. Others argued, "You may rememb~r that I started law for the same reasons, that we should be school two weeks. alter I gr~duated fro!11 the first to go. th_e Graduate Institute! I be~1_n a clerkship Ultimately, we made our individual with the_ H_o_n. L. Anthony Gibso~. Ch<.111- decisions based upon our best under­cery ~1v1~ion. Nev:'. Jersey Supertor standing and the options available to us. Court. 111 September. Some enlisted immediately; others joined

1984 delayed programs that would train us as Damon Ellingston. A, has been ac- officers. and some declared themselves as

cepted by the Astronomy Department of conscientious objectors. What is impor-,, Connecticut Wesleyan University. where wnt is that we rook the prohlem seriously.

he will begin work this fall on a master's We rried to think it through as we imag­degree. "In the meantime." he writes. "I've inedfree men would decide such (tn issue. bought a new motorcycle and hope to ride The great books were not an escape this summer to Santa Fe and points west. from reality but rather a forceful reminder

"L 1 1 ti d d th of a dimension of reality and, I should ast y, recen y atten e e mar- . · 1· Th" K 1 d 8 H 11 add. morality that most of us had never

nagc o 1a eppe an arry e man, before encountered b h '84s" · ot · . . . We were faced with another problem as

From Adnan Trevisan, A, comes this students. In the 1940s, Annapolis was a news· . .

.. · . . Jim Crow town. every bit as segregated as . About two weeks atter gra_duation 1 Biloxi, Miss. Until our time, no blacks

d1slocated>my shoulder and ~his delayed had ever attended the regular Annapolis my entry mto the Army until 7 October . . . . . 1985. I did basic trainin r lnfantr AIT 1 own ~eetmg. wluch was held m our

· · . . g. . Y gymnasium. One of the proudest mom-anq,Airb_orne ~~hool. at Ft. Bennmg,_Ga.,. ents in my life was the evening we led a but a m.mor 111.iury prevented 111 ~ trom group of black citizens into the meeting completing the. Ranger lndoc~nna~ion and desegregated it 12 years before the Program and going to my battalion. Brown decisions of 1954.

'Tm now a paratrooper with the 82nd As s_tu~ent~ from outside Maryland, we Airborne Division at Ft. Bragg, N.C.. were lm~1ted .m what we coul? do to end Should anyone want to send me a birth- segregation m our community .. but _we day card. my address is: Pfc. Adrian Trev- constantly pre~sured the admma~tr~tlon isan,iA'to:· 1/508 Ahn. Inf.. Ft. Bragg. - ·Hl:t.ak~ more vigorous steps to ehm1nate J~LG. 28307•510(}." · · ' · , th1~ bhgllt on our campus. We succeetled

in desegregating the St. John's student body by recruiting a qualified bfack stu­dent who applied and was enrolled. We initiated a seminar for black members of the community and. opened up our ath­letic facilities on weekends for young blacks who didn't have any other place to play softball. We even tried to desegregate the local chapter of the American Vete­rans Committee. What is important for me about these experiences is that we cared very deeply about these issues, and we tried our damndest, even as students. to do something about the problems we all faced.

What concerns me about this question of the college's investment policy is not only that it took so long to surface hut what that implies ahout the general envir,.. onment of the community. Has St. John's become the kind of ivory tower where such problems are so far from its con­sciousness that they are really never in focus?

IS IT A MATTER of indifference where the college invests its growing capi­tal resources and of no concern whether or not its profits are derived from slave labor in Africa or even California? And should it be overlooked that it has never voted its proxies in any of the corporations in which it owns stock and consequently has absolutely no influence in determining their policies?

Last year many of us were disturbed at the proposal to appoint two presidents.

I raise the question of governance, of the decision-making structure of our community. because it goes to the heart of the even larger issue which is implicit in the problem of the. college's investment policy. When Scott Buchanan left St. John's in the late 1940s, he devoted the next two decades to ,exploring critical problems of law and politics he consid­ered vital to the sur,vival of a civilized society: Much of his thinking and writing was concerned withr the evolution of the corporation and the many complex prob­lems it had spawned in our times.

HE BEGAN TO reflect whether indeed there was an adequate body of law which took into consideration the far flung in­fluence of the corporation. Since colonial days, when Massachusetts Bay and Virgin­ia were founded by two British corpora­tions, much that happened in this country and beyond it had been fostered by the growth of corporations.

These colony corporations were fol­lowed by other corporate entities created to advance education, religion, com­merce, charity, the affairs of municipal­ities and. more recently, the performance of public service on~an' inter-municipality and interstate basis. There is little in our developing society that has not been af­fected· by the corporate structure, in­cluding the arts, the sciences, technology, and now even the exploration of space.

We cannot brush our teeth, read the papers, travel, communicate by letter or phone, tum on a light switch. even pay our. taxes, without touching the corporation at some crtitical point': What perplexed Buchanan is that he saw in the all­pervasiveness of the corporation in our everyday lives the source of the "withering of consent" in the society at large. For him. the corporation had pre-empted the freedom of the individual, or at least recast that freedom, in a new and unchar­tered realm.

J J) tflhe'i''withering of consent" gradually has distorted the vision.of the enlighteneli

Republic of free men created by the Founding Fathers. The society they envi­sioned was one in which free men would govern, uninhibited by intervening insti­tutions, whic\1 would compromise their franchise. But it hasn't worked out that way.

IF I AM RIGHT, Scott Buchanan's vision ofthe Republic of free men was one in which a new body of law prescribed the complex rights and obligations of the many contrasting types of corporations in American society and also the rights and obligations of their very different levels of members, whether they are administra­tors, stockholders. production line work­ers or even faculty and alumni of an edu­cational institution.

No one in this new Republic would be entirely disenfranchised, but there ob­viously would be varied and perhaps quite

. complex levels of participation. When individuals lose control of their lives, or the potential for such control, their inter­est declines, their values and attitudes regress, and society (despite the existence of government) reverts to a Hobbesian state of nature where life is "nasty, brutish and short." Buchanan thought that he could restore our noble Republic only by making the invisible power of the corpor­ations responsible to a framework of law.

lsn 't it ironic that the college that Scott Buchanan transformed into a new and exciting m?del "i~f ·~~IJ~9r;~Nt,1Jt_~~ fd~c~­tlon could ignore for so 1ong his s1gmf1-cant thinking on the corporation. ·

The college is a chartered corporation which is experiencing something of its own .. withering of consent, .. if my eyes and ears don't deceive me. I~ al.so is struggling to discover its proper rol~ in a universe of corporations for which there are no pre­scribed rules of conduct or law. But the great books should be the best guide under such circumstances.

When Scott came back to Annapolis in 1948 to address my commencement, he proposed that law and politics ought to become the central focus of the curricu­lum. He did not mean by this, as some later have misread his suggestion, that the great books ought to be replaced by a new list devoted exclusively to law and p,0lit­ics. This is not what he had in mind.

THE IMAGINATIVE and philosoph­ical range of his intelkct would certainly preclude such a change. But he was drn­cerned that St. John's was drifting toward a kind of aimless classicism which he and other founding fathers (Adler, Barr, Hut­chins, and Van Doren) abhorred, anC:l1 he thought this drift could be arrested 1by giving the New ·Program a clearer focus and direction. I I

Clearly Buchanan's proposal was not heeded. Some of our publications suggest that we have become a graduate Depart­ment of Classics. I hope not. There is need for such specialization and advanced study. but there is a greater need fot a college whose objective is to make free men from books and balances. ·

Free men ought to be aware of what is necessary to protect their liberty in a world which at times seems determined to obliterate it. Perhaps the college can begin to consider Scott Buchanan's proposal by examining the problems involved in its investment policies and its Polity in the broadest possible framework. If it can get over those fairly low hurdles. it may begin to rediscover its soul. Freedom tends to be a contagious ide<l.

Stephanie Rico warms up for aerobics.

Aerobics at SJC

THE REPORTER

Keith Harvey photo

Former [!_resident s

Douglas Huntly Gordon, Jr., president of St. John's from 1931 to 1934, died of heart failure March 24at his home in Bal­timore. He was 83.

Mr. Gordon was "an aristocratic art and book collector and Harvard-educated lawyer who almost single-handedly suc­ceeded in preserving Mount Vernon Place as the architectural heart of Balitmore," according to the Baltimore 5)un.

He was chosen unanimously as presi­dent of St. John's when he was not yet 30 years old.

In a tribute to Mr. Gordon, President Emeritus Richard D. Weigle said, "It was my privilege to know him as a friend for more than three decades."

Rico receives Fulbright

Having read recently the minutes ofthe Board of Visitors and Governors for the Gordon presidency, Mr. Weigle pointed out that Mr. Gordon faced two problems. The first had to do with money. Con­fronted with the need to pay off a large mortgage and notes to banks, Mr. Gor­don reduced the mortgage and paid off one note by using $ l 00,000 from the endowment fund. The sum was replaced by putting in the fund mortgages on the Hammond-Harwood House and Brice House, both of which. the coq~ge owned.

Stephanie Rico can do some remark­able things: fold herselfup like a book, for instance, head down against her ankles, upper body in touch paralleling lower

. body, her waist, a limber hinge. , For the disbelieving, she has demon­

strated this three days a week in the aero­bics class she initiated two years ago at St. John's College.

. There's anuther side of her. She also is a highly intelligent student, capable of writ­ing a major senior paper on Nietzsche and quantum theory and capable also of win­ning a Fulbright Full Grant which will take her to Tubingen University in West Germany the first of September. · There she will study the philosophy of

the German education system, focusing on the question of why children there are educated in as rigorous a way as they are.

I'm interested in education," this 22-year-old Cupertino, Calif., graduating senior said. "My mother, a professor at San Jose University, sparked this interest, as well as my experience in the public school system. I don't understand why the American system is so bad."

Miss Rico hopes to gain a fuller insight into why German students are as moti­vated as they are and more willing to study than their American counterparts. And .she hopes to look at the country's testing , program and the <balance between aca-demic demands and extra-curricular act­ivities as well as to find out why Germany has not adopted a community college sys­tem with its second chance, academic opportunities.

Although she attended Monta Vista High School in San Jose in what.is consi­

. dered one of the best public school dis­tricts in California, Miss Rico said that, like most of her classmates, she disliked it.

. She found her junior year as an exchange student in Germany, in which she spent plany more hours doing homework, more

. satisfying. It was a year she compared ·favorably with St. John's, one in which . ~he also became more fluent in German. · " But even as she prepares for serious

study, Miss Rico is counting on sqving time to join a women's soccer league in Germany. Soccer was a game which she played a great deal of this year at St. John's, a luxury considering her aerobics teaching program.

Aerobics have formed a new and im­portant aspect of St. John's extra­curricular program, not only for students

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but for the handful of faculty members, who have been willing to perspire to her taped rock music as they kick, stretch, straddle, hop, bend, and groan their way through an hour-long, dance-style exer­cise program.

"When I was 17, I couldn't reach more than this," she encouraged students, hands dangling at the lower part of her calves.

It's not only muscles Miss Rico has learned to stretch; she has learned to stretch time as well.

With all the blood and oxygen coursing around in her veins, she has reduced the number of hours of sleep she needs to six. As a student at St. John's, she retired at I a.m. and arose at 7 - refreshed ..

"Aerobics helps my concentration im­mensely," Miss Rico said of her own exper­ience ... As a student you sit a lot. You sit to study, to go to classes, to eat, to talk. Aerobics gives me a physically energetic outlook. It relaxes me, calms me down, and enables me to read. I get tired but not fidgety."

Classes, held earlier behind stage, more . recently in the boat house, have drawn a goodly sprinkling. of men among the women as well as faculty members, who range up· to 65 years of age.

For the latter, there's been some hug­ging of the back lines to be less conspic­uous, but in actual fact, no one really has time to watch anyone else. They're all too busy lifting their knees and keeping up with the Cars' "Shake It Up" or the Pre­tenders' "Back on the Chain Gang." "That's a little like .you feel," according to tutor Tom May, describing for some, what may be the more masochistic mom­ents of the class.

If there is any difference, Miss Rico believes most of the men have more stam­ina than women. As the result of the way their bodies are engineered, the women may be better cqordinated and more flex­ible in stretching and kicking.

During the 1984-85 college year Miss Rico taught aerobics five days a week. Wanting to take part in the St. John's sports program, h9wever, she deci'ded to reduce her schedule this year.

With her successor in place - Estela Roustan, rising Chicago, Ill., sophomore - Miss Rico leaves her own particular legacy to the college; strong hearts, better muscles, and a new addition to the;;aJthletic program.

"Mr. Gordon succeeded in operating the affairs of the college with a budget close to being balanced," Mr. Weigle said.

The second problem was related to the Hammond-Harwood House. Disagree­ment arose as to whether the curator for the house and its furniture, on loan from Yale University, should report to the Board of Visitors and Governors or to Mr. Gordon. When the issue was resolved in Mr. Gordon's favor, the curator re­signed.

''I do not know the factors that led the board to terminate Mr. Gordon's tenure in February of 1934," Mr. Weigle con­tinued. "He had supporters and oppo­nents within the faculty, the staff and the board. I do know that the final vote to let him go was eight to four and that at least two members of the board resigned as a result of that decision.

"Time has a way of healing old wounds. It was therefore possible for me to re­enlist Mr. Gordon's interest in St. John's ... I succeeded in having him elected as an honorary member of the Board of Visitors and Governors.

"He became a respected participant in official St. John's functions, and much was done to restore the reputation of this talented man for the period that he served St. John's College."

Mr. Gordon served two terms in the House of Delegates, taking a stand against civil marriage ceremonies and legalized lotteries .

In 1957, the French government award­ed him the Palmes Academiques in recog­nition of distinguished service in the field of scholarship. In 1959, the French am­bassador to the United States gave him the Legion of Honor for his promotion of French culture.

Mr. Gordon's sister, Elizabeth Gordon Bingley, is the widow of George A. Bing­ley, who was on the faculty of St. John's for more than 30 years. Mr. Gordon's other survivors include his wife, Winifred Claude Gordon, another sister and several nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grand-

' nephews.

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Douglas Gordon may be remembered best for one fall evening in 1932 when he placed himself bodily between the guns of a six-member police force and students and emerged a hero.

"I think he may have saved a lot of lives because they were not fooling," James Leslie, '34, told the Annapolis Home Chapter at a luncheon meeting in April. "It was a very brave act."

Events climaxed a rowdy evening cent­ered around the annual Johns Hopkins­St. John's football game. Johnnies had gone to Baltimore to paint its red brick buildings with "SJC" in orange and black. The Hopkins men came down to retaliate.

"We were truly ready, waiting for them a mile up the Old Annapolis Boulevard," Mr. Leslie recalled.

"After a nice masculine time beating each other up at the comer of College Avenue and St. John's Street, we won the battle, and they left."

While he said about a hundred John­nies were "socializing••, afterwa~rds, tlie city fire department arrived and started hosing the students down. The students became "somewhat angered." Besides taking con­trol of the fire engine and causing the firemen to flee up the street to State Cir­cle, they also used the firemen's axes to cut up the hoses. ~

"The students were col& and wet and shivering and were going back to their rooms when the police arrived in a large touring car," Mr. Leslie went on. "The police chief read the riot act to us while the five deputies pointed their shotguns at us."

Arriving on the scene, as the police arrived, was Douglas Gordon.

"Douglas do rd on was six feet, six inches tall and the most.Harvardish look­ing man you ever saw. He was 30 and the youngest president of a college in the Uni­ted States at the time. He stepped in front of the student body, and told the police, 'You are on private property. If you shoot,

, you will be guilty of murder. and I will so charge you.'

"He was a lawyer and a very good law­yer. You could hear the click of the hammers going back into the guns as the police dropped their guns into the touring car. The police chief wrapped up the act. and told the driver to get out."

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collections in London, Paris, Dresden, Vienna, Turin, Madrid, and Toledo.

IN ADDITION, he hopes to gain un­derstanding in the fine points of swords­manship through Britain's medieval com­bat societies and fencing masters. In To­ledo, he will observe the techniques of swordsmithing.

Dating his interest from childhood, Mr. Fischer has practiced the art of war gam­ing with a medieval emphasis for seven years and studied fencing for .six years, four.at St. John's. ·

He also is concerned with the history of the Roman empire ~nd its effec;:ts upon 'western civilization.

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Yi-xian He. who teaches in a normal school in Sichuan Province. said she learned about .the Graduate Institute in l 982 from an unidentified American. She said she was much impressed."

"Since then I been dreaming of participating in your program, studying actively, extensively. and efficiently under the guidance of your good tutors," she wrote Geoffrey Comber. director. in her letter or application.

Ouring the eight-week summer pro­gram. she will reside on campus. Mrs. He. who calls herself "Grace," is being spon­sored by a Washingtonian who met her parents during World War I I.

Altogether approximately 90 students are scheduled to do work this summer in the master's program modeled after St. John's undergraduate curriculum.

Beginning in September, for the first time, classes will continue throughout the academic year:. .

"Instead of being packed in eight weeks, as classes are during the summer, they will be stretched over a 16-week period," Mr.

. Comber said. · Classes will meet on Mondays and

Thursdays. The fall session will be devoted to the

Politics and Society Segment and the spring to the Literature Segment. Tutor­ials are scheduled tentatively to begin at 5 p.m. with seminars and preceptorials to be held from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. This schedule will allow about an hour and quarter for dinner.

By attending summer sessions. Mr. Comber said the year-round program will enable a student to complete a master's degree within a 15-month period.

He said that the fall segment will be kept small. No more than 20 students will be accepted. Classes will be held in the library.

The Graduate Institute also will be marked by another first in Annapolis. This summer all four program segments will be offered. the first time this has been done.

Four St. Johns College students - two from each campus ·· are the 70 chosen nationally to be Thomas Wat-son Fellows during the coming year.

Each will receive $10,000 to post-graduate year of their own nr-\11<:1no

overseas. In Annapolis, the winners will both go

to the Orient. Arseny Besher, of San Francisco. will seek to learn more about the attitudes that underlie Japanese for­eign policy and more of that nation's his­tory, society, and economy, particularly in relationship to this country and Russia.

Roger Burton, of Annapolis, will go to China to study T'ai Chi, which he des­cribes as "perhaps the most accessible route for the investigation into ... ancient Chinese way of thinking available to the non-native Chinese."

The Santa Fe winners are two Californ­ians. Will Fisher, of Mill Valley, will study the evolution of the Roman short sword, and Laureen Sutton, of Bodega, who already has studied childbirth, will gain first hand knowledge of the traditional childbirth techniques in Indonesia.

"Chuk" Asher, who spent his first two years on the Santa Fe campus, stands at the center of three cultures. He is a Japan­ese citizen born of Russian parents who spoke only rudimentary English in 1976 when he moved to the United States.

ESPECIALLY concerned with the re­lationship of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan, he is planning a career in international relations, an ambition so strong he describes it as "having taken on the nature of a calling."

His plans call for him to cross the Japan Sea and to ride the Trans-Siberian railway to Moscow for a three-month stay in Rus- · sia. Because of his Japanese citizenship, he believes he may gain greater access to Russian institutions than might otherwise be possible. His agenda calls for him to visit the Universities of Moscow and Len­ingrad and the Pushkin Institute.

CHUK BESHER "It is idealistic and perhaps impossible,

but I would like to seek ways for these nations to cooperate for the benefit, not only to themselves, but also to the world community," he said.

Mr. Burton, who already has studied Chinese at Middlebury, hopes eventually to enter into the field of Sino-American relations as a political and financial nego­tiator. Primarily, he is concerned with the philosophical history of T'ai Chi, which he describes as the most widely practiced sport in the world.

"I am committed to the question, 'What is the way?' and to T'ai Chi as a vehicle for asking and coming to some possible un­derstanding of it for myself," he wrote in his Watson proposal.

" ... I am interested in creating or discov­ering a context in which I can study and come to understand Chinese traditional thought and its relationship to a growing and changing modern China."

HIS ITINERARY calls for him to begin in Taipei, the capitol of Taiwan, to proceed to Hong Kong, and then to travel to Beijing, the capitol of the People's Republic of China, to leamthe state syn-

ROBERT BURTON thesized form of T'ai Chi.

According to Miss Sutton, many hospi­tals in Indonesia are in transition between modern techniques and traditional ones . ln rural areas midwifery is still the most common practice. Village women called "Dukuns" as~ist women during their pregnancy and childbirth. Labor and birth itself is attended by many women as a festive affair with the only male present the father-to-be.

Miss Sutton has studied child birth, including the Lamaze birth methods, talked to doctors and midwives, and coached during childbirth.

With a background in massage tech­niques, she said that in Indonesia massage is used during seven months to make the woman's body supple in preparation for giving birth and to establish the proper positioning of the fetus in the womb.

Upon her return, she hopes to become an obstetrician or study nursing and nurse-midwifery.

Mr. Fischer will attempt to locate and study swords from the fourth through the twelfth centuries in national and private

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