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ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY
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• The campus has a new press
that is more than a press. It represents the of the beginning of a new
venture - the St. John's
While the 385 was a meant that in order to work
The St. John
handle a special rush run of a hundred letters, that meant down" the press, which took 15 and then setting it up again with correct
figure, so on, which could reqmre as much as two hours.
IN A THEORETICAL 35-hour chan!le-overs resulted the
shut down an
(Continued P. 7)
_ tutor Thomas J. sumed duties in v ~··~~· _,
new school at Ke~nti1c11:y to be modeled after John's uaimm1uy known books program.
He will be on leave for two years to administer the which opens next fall on an basis.
Instead of the four year at St. John's campuses, ro-r~au .;~ nll')innintf't' a
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The second semester enrollment 420 students. semester launched its
in years - some is the biggest second
since St. John's of non-
studies in 1937. re
considers 375 optimum number.
attributed the enrollment figure decline in the attrition which has been cut in half in the past five years, and to the fact that, because of col-lege costs, a larger number stu-dents are to their education in four
(Continued on P. 6)
One
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The Santa Fe campus has received a land grant - 20
acres - from Fe resi-dents C.O. Molly Ward.
Located two miles south of the camuus. the property borders the Santa
limits on. the north and west and is accessible on the east the Old. Santa Fe Trail. one of the main access roads.
The 20 acres are tract
St. John's in 1972. college treasurer, has
the value of the two combined tracts at between and SS00.000. He noted that the new considerably the value of the 1972 proper-ty since the acreage was not accessible by from the east.
An ad-hoc committee of the Board of Visitors and Governors was am:,ointed the board's mine the best dispos:iticm which Mrs.
Members Harriet Hig_gins, Stephen
6)
Glenn assistant dean of the Santa Fe campus, is as dean while Dean Robert recovers from surgery.
Dean Neidorf underwent successful op. eration in at Johns ...... v'"'!'''~"A in Baltimore for the removal of a tumor. Now at his home at 433 Calle la Paz, expects to resume his duties in earlv summer.
Mr. Neidorf's medical him in the midst of the extended
(Continued on P. 7)
offers a St. its said an ..... ,.. ...... n .. ,.,.,
will drawn both from within present structure and from without.
The will rir>nri:><u•nt
ment John's curriculum. Instead of the four courses which St. John's students take each year, there will be three.
Mr. Slakev said there will be a seminar tutorial which work
science will
2 THE REPORTER APRIL 1983
BETSY BROWN and BECKY Deadline for the June is Mav 10.
1912 Michaelson, Sr., has been
chairman emeritus of the board of directors of Federal and Loan which he is a founder. He has on the most recently as chairman. since 1925.
1920
board of Annapolis Federal Savings and Loan will be nett Y. who also serves as chair-man of the Clark-Melvin which deal in investment securities, pension and profit-sharing services, and insurance brokerage. He has been on the
and loan board since 1961. 1951
is a in the financial firm Cromwell & Kyle.
Ad1diti.om1lly he is secretary of the Bucks County, historical society, and is active in the Episcopal Church, serving as the chairman of the national task force on animal rights and religion.
is listed in Who's Who in the East is a steward of the Welsh society ot'
Philadelphia. He has five children. The New York Times reports that
Warren, '52, and Barbara ('55) Winiarski are in litigation over the right to use Stag's Leap as the trade name for their successful wine cellars. The opposition is seeking to retain the name Stags' Leap Vineyard. No matter where you put the apostrophe, there's confusion in California, where the two firms are competing over the to use the Napa Valley place name.
"The Stag's Leap name was worth relatively little until it emerged suddenly in the spotlight on May 24, 1976, when a wine made by Mr. Winiarski, the
Wine Cellars cabernet sau-first in a bicentennial
at the Ho-tel in Paris. Jerry Robards writes in the Times wine column.
"Nine eminently qualified made the
collective favorite. " ... Critics of such tas·tm~~s
claim that are French wines are too California wines too
the
all their
the fact remains that Stag's Leap won, ... t-·h .. ..,•t·•..,...,. world-wide publicity at a time when wines were little known and little the bounda-ries of the State."
Involvement in wine began in 1964 for who is a former lecturer at the
nn>uorc;,>tu of Chicago, when he went to in the
he moved to
kovi _ _
was crop
recorded at the time it was the museum in 1955, according to The Washington Post, which ran two photos of Frank Greenwell in an article headed, "Tusk, Tusk! Fixing the Fenykovi." The elephant is the centerpiece there under the rotunda in the Museum of Natural History, and Frank is doing all the work in public.
Ronald C. a former council-man in Anne Arundel surprised to learn that the local Planning and intends to Greenway Road to Drive, hon-oring a request made by former constituents, who would like to express their thanks to the man who represented them for eight years. The news was broken at a breakfast party in his honor.
1961 A Washington Post story dealing with
issues facing women before the Maryland General Assembly features a two-column photograph of Annapolis attorney Martha Wyatt, chairwoman of the Maryland Commission on Women. The story quotes her on proposed legislation to shorten the separation period before a contested divorce is legal.
1964 Cecily Whitehill has successfully
transplated British bed-and-breakfast idea to Maryland. This year, she and her
B. J. intend to add boats their list of host The firm is
named Sham-Adams. Inc.. and can be reached at Md. 21401.
(Continued on P. 7)
J. Winfree
John's
AHnrnAv Denise Fort holds a state office. photo by Kitty leakin
CATHERINE BROWN On January 1 Toney Anaya, New Mexico's incoming governor,
a011>ointe!d Denise Fort, SF '72, to serve as secretary of the state's \0..,,.,, ... -1,....,..:..,t of Finance and Administration. One of four women appointed to
the cabinet, she is at 31 the youngest cabinet secretary in the state's history.
Ms. Fort received a law degree from Catholic University in 1975 and has been in public practice in a variety of capacities since then. The following is an excerpt from an interview with Ms. Fort.
CB: Tell me about your new What does the Department of Finance and Administration do?
DF: It is responsible for the finances of the state. Right now we're preparing the state's budget and trying to cope with the deficit situation in which we find ourselves. We also provide a variety of service functions for the entire state government .... We're proposing to the legislature that they reorganize the department, splitting off the financial functions from the service functions. That will enable me to concentrate more on the budget and on financial planning than I am now able to do.
CB: But your area is really financial planning?
Pla1nning isn't really the best word to use for it. decisions within the state are not made in a very •n11·0 ,... ...... 1t 0 r1
one of my goals would be to make the the governor's goals in other
m<!re~asea tourism and natural :resource All of the ori,or:itiE~s r:>rnar has identified in other areas should be tied into the nT>nfoof't<1
In that sense I will be
CB:Did you
CB: Do
of the state's revenues.
to enter as a career move?
want to in
stepping stones to get into this but cairnnaiEm because the issues he cares
his appened if I set out
get;tin.g this man elected.. had not but I was interested in
elected.
or a:re you interested in
September and DF: I haven't really ever been in private practice; I have worked for the state and for interest groups. It's conceivable that there would be a
'(Continued on.~P~
(Continued from P. 2) of practice I'd enjoy. I'm not thinking much at this stage about my next job might be; I'm enjoying this one a great deal. I suppose I
have realized that it's very hard to career moves, because I never . would have known how to plan for this one. I think I'll have a better idea in a couple of years what I might like to do next.
CB: Are there other St. John's graduates in this administration?
but we don't know each other. Sometimes it doesn't come up for not the identification I have with wouldn't
some John's ideology that attach any significance to state government. My class couldn't have been a more diverse group. A number of in my class went into law and a number of them stayed in this area. we really couldn't be more different from each other.
CB: Why did you decide to go to St. John's?
DF: There was a not orincipled reason, I suppose. I was not in school. I was finishing make it another year.
and I didn't was
got to my senior year of on early admissions; I
more serious reason onnosed to structured I chose St. John's was that
and I wanted at that time to get into a more at St. John's were ideal for what I needed.
situation.
I was looking for a place where the education was determined who knew better than I did what the education should consist of.
school was just too " '60's" for me. I moved to the other av1r ... ,,.,,...,, 0
ended being exactly what I was for. The reason I imuauy went there my thoughts about St. John's didn't bear much relation to one another, but those are the reasons. I needed to move to a place where education was important. like it was at St. John's. For all the cynicism that one can have about it later, the interest that have in their own education is really unequalled by what I have seen at other schools. The of an entire campus taking its studies seriously was unique to St. John's.
CB: Did know when you were at St. John's that you were interested in
DF: St. John's was a turning away from for me. I guess student existed in Annapolis; it's hard to believe it wasn't
satirical the way most of the things at St. John's were, but it wasn't. There was a polity and there were rules.
There was a famous case, in someone threw a lima bean at someone else in thP- dining hall and missed that person and hit an unintended victim. The so-called litigation dragged on for over a year. I believe that some of the people involved in that process were serious, but maybe it's
distorted recollection. They were worried about who was infringing on rights in food fights ..
I stayed as far away from student government as I could, but my interest in the program was much of a political sort. I wrote my
on Thomas and the idea of natural law, and I wrote on and Hobbes in my year.
CB: Did you to go to law school all the way a.1uuu~n
year I had a decision I went to Harvard summer school and took a course in law and one in urban social idea about what kind of career would come out of urban didn't have anything like it at St. and it seemed to be type of
I would be interested in if I was to go on to graduate school. Based in on that summer I decided to go to law school instead.
CB: How did you find St. John's as ureoaration for law school?
DF: It was a good in that one a lot of verbal skills. It's hard to generalize about what St. John's but I found it
place to become about many different subjects. I sort of person who would have ever taken a math or science or
.1.;:1.11~uaj;;!;t:: course had I gone to other school. gone to St. John's I I could deal with ,,,,l'"., 0 •"1°
inhorantly alien to me, deal with learn somc:1-um6 nron!ll"!ltinn for law where with areas that are
and may be very to understand. You one hones. convince someone else.
.,.,'""'"'"' been interested in social Did you find other .11.c:u;n.01u<:11:.1.~1\:a.11. about social issues?
DF: In in school it was a mixed in that way. is that much more true now than was in my I was there in 1968 and '69 ... St. John's was not the height of student activism, but there was a lot of consciousness about those issues. I wouldn't really describe it as student apathy; unlike some other schools, there wasn't a natural channel
that kind of activism. That's proably the result of its being such a small school, more than a lack of concern among the students and tutors.
CB: How do you feel about St• Jobn~s now? 'Do fOU think the program is still
The waltz party was small with champagne and hors d'oeuvres, more elegant than most in the Great Hall, but with two former dance archons on the committee it should have been. · In the first event of its former archons Cruse, and Ken together
Anne, '76, Meg, '76, and S70,"' and Lan.
organized for alumni during last month.
Mr. Kimball ....... ,nriir1.,,.r1
his personal coJHe~cu~on. ed a couple of
Simon and
from includ-
'' 11..... the Beatles. concentration of ac
co:mt>li~>he!d male dancers among the persons who attended.
The waltz party represents a new ,:a~ .............. " for the Annapolis Alumni
which soonsored it and
relevant?
Photo by Ken Kimball
which heretofore has concentrated .,,.f1u>t1 .. .., on monthly luncheons.
President Dela ttre and a former member of the St. of Visitors and Governors are the President's Commission House Fellowships.
Admiral James B. Stockdale is as chairman of the Robert Yarnall, of Philadelphia, a former
-St. John's trustee, as a member. Fourteen to nineteen fellows are chosen the commission to serve for a year as
assistants to the vice-president, members of the Cabinet, and on the President's staff. In addition to the work assignment, the include an educational program
and broadens the experience of working at a hiJ?h government level.
DF: I the program, and I think the approach to education is a good one. was a time in my life when I had time to think about things I thought about in school at great I'd like to go back there ... I very much feel I wasted my education in I didn't get everything out of it, although I know no one gets everything out of it because there's so much to the materials. I'm still interested in those sources of learning
However. I do have some with St. John's as an institu-tion .... The school does. after all, encourage people to be critical... The lack of racial, ethnic, and class integration strikes me as a great shortcoming. The permanent part of the has set the place in some directions with
I disagree. I have of the school at not. mistv.-QYed .:wa& :fun, to, be tb.er.e
On the question To the Editor:
I've just received the latest Reporter and feel compelled to set down a few thoughts on the idea of including fine art in the St. John's curriculum. I feel involved in this issue as I studied various aspects of the visual arts full time and part time for a number of years after
from St. John's and have 111Ti'11l'l.rina in related fields up to the
own in order to
mE~a111m of the renaissance? Or are the students to at some carrara to discover the If, on the one the nrn,nn~::i 1
of western art and criticism and we this then I think in order to
all the program in harmo-ny, we with the great books and get down to basics with Will and Ariel or whoever is writing surveys
•
To the Editor: I am extremely grateful for the under
graduate education I received at St. John's where I learned how to think
and logically. The academic j-.,.,,.,.,, ... .,,1 I received there has enabled me to do well professionally - as a graduate student, as a teacher, and a professor at the large Midwest University. However, my experiences since St. John's have raised significant questions about the St. John's curriculum.
This curriculum is based upon the Socratic maxim that the unexamined life is not worth living. In order to examine our collective heritage, students at St. John's study in some depth the intellectual underpinnings of western society -the great books and great ideas that helped produce twentieth century European and American civilization. The studies are devoted to classics - books that have withstood the tests of time. This criterion that all books read at St. John's must be classics has led to a disdain for contemporary works. Modern books aren't read because they have not withstood the test of time to see if they are in fact classics.
This is a shame. The results of this policy are that St. Johnnies do not study, or comprehend contemporary civilization at all.
I would like to suggest that St. John's devote part of its curriculum to examining contemporary problems, so that the graduates of St. John's have a realistic
An 1 ""'"'"w'1-"''''.!- q11est1on.
of western civilization these days. If we want to read the "great" art historians (starting possibly with Cennini and Va. sari), this still does not equal the "experience of listening to Don Giovanni"; reading a great color theorist like Jo. hannnes Itten is a far cry from singing Wachet Auf.
On the other hand, if the proposal for the study of art is to replicate the music nMO'Y''Hlr\ with direct involvement in the
the cost alone make a venture. But aside from cost,
In
studied art and Western architecture'
so derived from the Greeks it would be a to tie it the
involves so
additive nl'i'lln<11>'H<11"
distinct The contemporary and also could be introduced in this contest.
On another point: One essential criterion, little mentioned while we were stu-
in the selection of the great books is the brilliant exercise of the craft of writing, from Plato to Tolstoy, from Euclid to Newton. I am not at all sure the craft of the writing of art history and criticism is practiced so
contemporary society in an academically rigorous way that would maintain the high standards of critical reflective thought that constitute a St. John's education?
A new "course" could be introduced in the senior year. This course would be structured around topics such as equal rights for women, the nuclear arms race, affirmative action programs, school desegregation, decaying urban environments, rebuilding a declining industrial base, etc. Classes in this course could meet on a weekly basis and be attended by guest tutors who had some interest fn the topic under discussion. Two students in the class could lead class discussion. on the topic. This responsibility would include doing historical research on the prc>DIE~m. presenting a basic bibliography
1so others would know where to get more information on the topic, summarizing current positions on the topic, and raising pertinent questions for debate and discus. sion.
I can see several advantages to this proposal. In the first place, it would give seniors a chance to lead a classroom discussion.
Second, seniors leading these classes could do contemporary research which would give them skills they don't normally acquire at St. John's. This type of research would expose them to J""·'"""J." that discuss contemporary problems in a reflective way.
introduce seniors to b:v '.academ"·
THE TRUE QUESTION here seems to be why teach art at St. John's? St. John's cannot be perfect in the sense of being all inclusive. Choices must be made. We weren't taught how to write either - a major handicap for any new graduate of the school. The oral and rational powers developed at St. John's, however, find their way into the written word of the older alumni/ae. There is an "intuitive" process that takes over, the four years of rational speech and the
Art was a life before St. have made "art" related
resource John's. The St.
fine the
White and Mr. Jacobsen! What of the Mellons to see that their """'h·1 t"' tions to St. John's would a collec-tion eaualed (in de2ree not in
of their other the institution of the National Art! The editorial prowess at
KPnortP.r is another testament to of St. John's communi-
Vivian T. R. Barry '65 Washington, D.C.
ic disciplines such as education, sociology, urban affairs, psychology, etc. Since many St. Johnnies encounter these methodologies in graduate school, a small taste in the senior year might better equip them to make decisions about academic careers.
Fourth, it would allow tutors to discuss .. ~.1temporary issues that interest them. Many people who teach at St. John's have previous experience with government agencies, with other universities, corporations, and graduate schools where they have thought considerably about certain social oroblems.
Finally, the greatest advantage of this course would be to allow each senior to become familiar with the different tions about important issues he or she may contemplate, become active in, and/ or vote on. Many supporters of the St. John's curriculum argue that it is good training for participation in a democratic society. However, St. Jvhn's graduates cannot provide informed opinions on contemporary issues until they overcome their ignorance of them. This course would enable them to return to society with some understanding of key problems and issues that influence all of our lives. Knowing about this world they would be better prepared to become active, informed citizens in the society we all inhabit.
Ian M. Harris, '66
Associate Professor of Community Education
Iii
To The Editor:
To the Editor:
I would appreciate your printing a correction in the next issue of The Reporter. On page 7 of the February, 1983, issue ("What Makes a Good Seminar?"), I am quoted as saying, "We're not here to find out what the truth is. We can hire someone to tell us that.".
I appreciate the difficulty of trying to take notes on a rapidly moving conversation, but I know for a definite fact that I did not say that. Perhaps someone else did (though I do not remember hearing it) and the reporter thought it was'me.
But I know there is not the slightest chance that I said it, for the following reasons: it is contrary to what I think; it
an outrageous formulation that has never occurred to me; such a statement would come only from an incorrigible philistine; and, finally, I don't even understand what the statement means. Please correct the record.
Sincerely, Robert A. Gold win, '50
Resident Scholar and Director of Constitutional Studies
American Enterprise Institute
Editor's Note: Sorry, Mr. Goldwin. At the risk of appearing both philistine and frivolous, we rather relished the irony of this tongue-in-cheek comment. If the rightful comes we'll be
I St. Mary's College, Moraga, Calif., will
honor Brother Robert Smith for the part he played in helping found its Integral Curriculum during a two-day silver anniversary symposium April 15-16.
Brother Robert has been on leave from his Christian Brothers order to serve on the St. John's Annapolis faculty since 1972. He became the director of the St. Mary's program in 1956, a year after it was established under a different form.
Brother Brendan Kneale, the present said Brother Robert will receive
an award for distinguished service at· dinner on 16. Brother Robert also will on St. Mary's Great Books
at that time. iuv•cn::.n::u after the St. John's program,
curriculum has to influential St.
Fe the program.
lecturer will be
It re. four of
Fe tutor, who will address auestion of the in two talks:
there a of the liberal arts and is rela-
one which would significantly diminish the destructive social effects of
LEO RADITSA
The Friends of St. John's and the King William Players, under the direction of Robert Sacks, Santa Fe tutor who is a visiting member of the Annapolis faculty this year, presented a remarkable production of Macbeth in January.
With the noise:~ of the heating fans turned off on Saturday night, almost every word the actors spoke could be understood without difficulty. Their clarity had the confidence of modesty: they almost never sought to impress. Their refusal to be hurried gave the audience time to understand the words and taught an lesson in seriousness. I had
dread of the ranting that mars productions of Shakespeare and one despair of witnessing a per
formance equal to the vividness of silent reading.
Sacks's first and most important for it made possible all the
seriously with the The witches and the ghost
........ U'l~•v were real spirits, not fancies or that an easy psychological explanation could dispel. They pointed to a world greater and stronger than the words and understanding of any individual.
Sack's readiness to deal with the supernatural made it clear from the beginning that Macbeth, played by St. John's tutor Robert Williamson, had real strength, which his reliance on the supernatural weakened and kept beyond his reach. It made clear that Macbeth was greater than his own measure of himself and that MacBeth's incapacity to take his own measure made it impossible for him to
to his rational dread of undertaking murder of the
Because Sacks on its own
E R
the sciences in their practical applica. tion?"
Thomas K. Slakey, now on leave from the Annapolis campus to organize a St. John's type program at Kentucky State University, Frankfurt, and at one time vice-president for academic affairs at St. Mary's, will be among those attending.
Carla Schick, a 1977 graduate of the Annapolis campus, is now a member of the St. Mary's faculty.
of the duplicity of the oracles at the end recalled the loss of illusion of the kings of Herodotus, but Macbeth's disillusionment is different from theirs. For unlike Herodotus's kings, Macbeth experienced the fullness of his strength even though that experience comes too late for anything but his own warrior's death which, like the death of Catiline in Sallust, lent Macbeth some honor and allowed the audience to experience the dread of wasted greatness.
Macbeth's blind search for his strength and his discovery of it contrasted powerfully with the weakness that overwhelmed Lady Macbeth, portrayed by Wendy Feintech, Beverly Hills, Calif., senior. Her appearance washing her hands in her sleep taught the difference between madness and the supernatural because of its brittle woodenness that recalled the vulnerability of a young girl. She walked as if she were almost already dead, a fading from life underlined by the two observers, the English doctor, played by David Amirthanayagm, and a gentlewoman, played by Alexandra Mullen, who must speak of her in the third person because she is impervious to address.
In contrast to this senselessness, Macbeth's extravagantly credulous praise of medicine gave the first hint of his strength for it bore unabashed witness to his love of Lady Macbeth, a love that soon showed its limits in its refusal to yield to sorrow.
At the banquet after the murder of Banquo, Lady Macbeth showed a wondrous formality that managed for an instant to turn Macbeth's vision of Banquo's ghost into a nervous tic and to dispel the Scottish nobleman's intimations of the untoward. Its insistence, however, showed the innocence she boldly mustered actually amounted to ·a
desperate yearning for all this
assistant dean
•
1,
a cornpttter Com
been active on Admissions Commit.
' plain goodwill of by tutor Hugh McGrath, looked like weak-ness of mind and paralysis, a paralysis not entirely unlike Lady Macbeth's bold formality. He would see nothing. In the face of his own murderers, his own murder was inconceivable to him. There was something about that suggested the unwittingly willing victim. This is not innocence. He could imagine nothing; Macbeth, almost anything.
The unknowingness of the Porter, which Mr. Sacks played, in contrast to the almost willed ignorance of Duncan, provided the relief of familiar prosaicness exulting in itself in drink. Mr. Sacks set his words to his slow progress through a stage which appeared by its darkness as boundless as the inside of a cave where the only light came from him. The darkness made the light of the next scene, in which the court discovers the murder of the king, harsh, sharp, and unremitting.
The various postures of the members of the court and their distance from Mac-
all directed with something of the stiffness of a tableau, put Macbeth at the center of the scene - and of their minds - suggesting to them his guilt. This undercurrent of unbearable knowledge was enough to make Macbeth's speeches of horror at the murder echo in hollowness. It made palpable the hyprocrisy that from then on would not yield its cruel hold on him despite his unsparing words to himself.
Our contemporary audiences will not shriek or scream or even gasp. But they will laugh with a harshness, even a brutality that is precious, because unexpected. They laughed at MacBeth's uncharacteristically brief blunt remark upon hearing the catalogue of the prodigies that it indeed had a "rough night." (Shakespeare's capacity to take this untowarti: but{
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' . tutors music The music of Annapolis tutor
Douglas Allanbrook was performed by the Chicago Brass Quintet and the New Philharmonia of Glen Ellyn, Ill., in March. Harold Bauer, '55, conducted.
In a concert at the College of DuPage, Mr. AUanbrook's Symphony for Brass Quintet and Orchestra, originally commissioned by the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra and performed with the Annapolis Brass "'1eu.uu.o;:;g,, was played.
It is scheduled to be .,.,,. ... f,.,, .. 1"11"1,,.t'l
the Dublin Philha:rm 1984 season and was .... ,,,..f,,...,......, years ago by the Orchestra.
laughter at public executions in Villon, , distinguishes his tragedy from ancient tragedy. Such laughter would undo an
' cient tragedy. That is why Aristophanes' laughter deepens ancient tragedy).
This production's capacity to convey the greatness of Macbeth, his nobility at the same time that showed his weakness, was its greatest accomplishment. It showed how he became evil or small, but because he could not cope with his greatness. The word "tyrant" at the_ end rings with its full meaning, something that rarely happens in reading Macbeth.
At the end the play.goer understood that Macbeth, despite his virtues, has turned into a mere tyrant and that tyrants end this way in countries that have the stuff not to allow the tragedy of a man to turn into the tragedy of a .nation. At the end Caithness's (Christopher Junker) distinction between rulers who cannot and rulers who should be obeyed had the force of self-evidence. It allowed sorrow to dispel . the aroma of blood that had penetrated much of the performance .
In this production Macbeth looked like some hoary antique, full of richness and meaning, like the crowns of golden laurel recently discovered in Macedonia or the two fifth century statues that scuba ·divers found a few vears ago off the beach in southern Colabria. It seemed perfectly intact and at the same newborn, as if arisen from the sea of time with a glistening intelligence and depth of feeling that made your eyes and ears wince and smart. It seemed fresher than anything we can imagine, which is a measure, I think, of how much we are adrift in our own times and lost in our incomprehension of them - and in our loneliness that will not stand greatness and therefore. snends: itself~ in
four volunteers raised more than
000 in for the Santa Fe fund.
The amount, pledged by former students living west of the Mississippi (and in Illinois), from Chicago to San Diego, represents a third of the 1983 campaign goal of
wr. •• -:-- the telethon, first of its kind Fe, more than half of those
reached agreed to pledge, and number of new donors was and
e:ratifvine:." Sam al. said.
SF
and Mrs. J. Burchenal Ault in as did Marsha Drennon,
and director of financial aid. A week earlier the volunteers had had
dinner in the common room as of the Janet Fedor of the
!uuumain Bell Telephooe Company , on how best to use the for
The response was enthusiastic. said he to call all
alumni next "The tele-the "best be
to~:eu11er living voices and the college
and recognizes its alumni.
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Continued from P. 8)
wanted to find a location within Annapolis' Historic District. "I belong here," he said. for the idea came from St. John's and musician Douglas Allan-brook, and that led to his arran~:em:ent with the \..V.1..UOjO,'-·
A native Texas, Mr. Holmes four years as a motion cameraman in the U.S. Air Force and then became master and first mate of the Western which sailed a charter route and the Caribbean. Later he became first mate of the research vessel .,,,., .. _1:.w"" off the East Coast.
the himself.
LEAVING the vn•.r>uious boat u1.u1uu1i:;
the
Mr. Holmes has made instruments from at the Smithsonian Insti-tution Washington, including a 17th
virginal and an English spinet. He also has built clavichords, a hammer dulcimer, Celtic knee haros. and
Continued from P. l)
IF THE LAND is President De-lattre said the college use the · ceeds to help eradicate the deficit in western unrestricted fund used to operate college. The operating deficit is now about $943,000, a sum~ cumulative over a six-year period.
"The income which will be realized from this property will contribute to the
well-being of the Santa Fe campus and therefore of St. John's Col
" Mr. Delattre believes.
Wards as comJJanions, said.
(Continued from P. l) will rather Greek and English, as is done at St. John's the first two years. If there is sufficient Greek will be offered as an elective.
Like St. classes will be and learning will be
discussion. Plans call for
sop1h01n01~e year, to have of continuin_g -study for the bachelor of arts
enrolled in the or of to another of the
.division is headed
old former Rhodes scholar and attorney ~",., .. ., .. ,,l'I Burse_. higher education
has been desegregated in the KSU, like heretofore black i:)\;!Jlvu103,
has found of Ke1ritmr!ky's black high school stu11ents to enroll in predominantly tions. ~
KSU have established the College of Studies in an effort to· attract some of the better students.
" A PLACE LIKE Centre in
adopted in
the Ivy schools or any well-known schools have
academic of
dean of educational serv-
must have a liberal education to ...,..,,. ........ ,,. them for that
now. will be semester of the
when. a recommendation to its permanency.
The new also is an outllrowth a mandated for calls for the 1111iul"Niitv
have a distinctive role in education program. arts program was n"l'l'•nn·~"'n
KSU consultant Tom gens, a retired Centre College -rn'4'l•c:u11Pnt
and former member of Kentucky's State Council on Higher who held early discussions with D. president emeritus of St.
Recently Dr. IQ.n"l'!l<Yo•"'"'
Although the Wards have travelled extensively, the land which they have given the has been their home-base for more 10 years. Mrs. Ward moved to Santa Fe in 1936 after receiving her medical degree from the University of Chicago in 1935. During World War II she was the only anaesthetist in Santa Fe and assisted in many operations.
MRS. WARD'S first Bill Mar. died in 1950. A Swiss born American
Mr. Martin became a detective and solved hundreds of federal cases in New Mexico his career. Mrs. Ward's Bill Anwru~an. diesc:rib~es several of his
_ to " she esti
Rad:
Dean Samuel l\utler and the Instruction Committee.
ADMISSION IS exp1ect1ea selective with students
Hunter a campus .r1 ... , ... ,,.,;;1-"''"
remodeled
The new
originally in omm1lg a single, non-elective <'ur·rirnlum in the liberal· a·rts. St. also has served as a model for Thomas .n.y:UJW1.•'"'"'
in Calabas, Hecuora, N.H., as well as mo11v1nma1
.. ..,"',..,.""'"""'at Mary's College in Mora. Dame University, and
(Continued f:rom P. 1)
rather than many have
Mrs. that
leave for one she said 13 have
said the att:rjH.n.n at 3.29 per cent as 6.12 per cent in January 79 academic year.
out as
While the number of ... ..,1-1'.._.,._ .. ,, .. vi .. .,,
to St. John's to ae<~n11te attrition also to
after to admissions
He attributed the lower rate in brochures which the
1972 which .w1::.Lµ<cd inform pros.
of what
CATHERINE BROWN
Santa Fe's Graduate Institute can be of its winter's tale for the 1982-83
academic year.
With 51 students enrolled last fall and 54 for the spring semester, it is evident that the year round graduate at Santa Fe is yet another in a of St. John's "great ideas."
students enrolled in the Graduate Institute's first fall semester in 1978. At the end of the a showed that and were pleased with class schedules and the classes,'' and the mended that the m:>!)"l'_1"f\11Ylf'I
continued for the program creased ~&.,, .......... , .... ,.0,
each year.
In the fall of 1982 the institute offer its pr,.,,.,. .. ., .... que. This serrtester and week to the
the 18 the pni1osc,pny-u1eoi.ogy
of the-program.
the the
that exJJected to con
diverse stu-
of the Graduate have three visiting mem
bers, including an Annapolis neurologist, when it begins its eight weeks summer .....,,.,,.,.. ... .,.m June 20.
nh1irc::ir•ii:in is Dr. Nicholas ca1pozzoli, who his master's degree in 1981 from the Graduate Institute after ~ ... rn11r·1vH1 a medical degree in 1968 from
l1
Continued from P. 2)
1969-Sa.nta Fe James Morrow Hall and his wife,
Melinda. gave birth on December 3 to a named James Joshua Hall. He
nounds. three ounces, and "This is our first
<i.rnmu~n I haven't yet beirnn to
1972 From J amelia and Dennis
who have moved from Vermont comes word that
their born 4, 1981, with every other word whose bered with last
1915 t;a111tai1n 1922 Lee Goldsborou!!h 1931 James H. Shreve 1933 The Hon. J. nn.r11,, • ..,,
1933 Stefan F. Muzio 1934 Austin W. Winston
THE REPORTER Page 7
nding · hop
met at Ft. Huachuca, Ariz., where she was a student at the U.S. Intelligence Center and School. Currently she is undergoing language training at the Presidio at Monterey, Calif. They to be married at Ft. Bragg in July, where she hopes to get stationed.
Scott's new address is HHC IB USAIMA, Ft. Bragg, N.C. 28307.
"Hi folks! This is Michael David to announce his marriairn director of alumni
ties. been since I ......... ..:i .. "• and it's about I let her
honest man of me. The t\."00 whom I
and decencv · mother Since
(Continued from P. 1)
With the new A.B. Dick 375, the printshop is taking a big jump forward.
It is a small, sophisticated, virtually care-free offset press with an image area of 17 13 inches, which can out 9,000 an hour. Mr.
of its safety tors.
exnands tremendously the µu:s:irnm-
ductions.
ooerations:" Presi-
_ the color repro-
~ That is due ness on his
. . down to this a.ecmon, it is added them to the that I am among the of voila! It can handle color
men,_ for she is among.the best. women. most expensive presses. In She is not only my wife; she is best worth $20,000, as friend and has been for a long - $5 ooo purchase price. Marriage is a climax to a relationship :,A COLLEGE DOESN'T have to have beyond. expectatio~,' nearly hope. a $3-million press for it to do the job," Best w1s?es to alll .,, . Mr. Colby said.
Francis Goodwm recently received his Along- the way. he acquired an 18-foot-Il!-aster's. in. a!chftecture from the Univer- long collator-sti,tcher-folding rnac~i~e to s1ty of V1rgm1a. make all those operations more efficient.
1979 Buel« is an ensign in the United
stationed at the Panama Canal. She writes: " .. .In the middle of war exercises so can't say much ... Say hello to anyone who remem- ·
. bers me. South America is very interesting ... " She asked us to publish her address for her friends. Her mailing address is: PSC Box 256, FPO Miami, 34061. Her real address is: U.S. Naval Station, Panama Canal (that's on the West Bank of the Pacific side< of the Canal).
Blake Kline was recentli: married to Janet May, a student ·at George Mason University.
Tom G. Palmer, a policy' analyst with the Council for a Competitive Economy, which has an office in Washington, has his name on the cover of Inquiry, a Libertarian Review as the author of its lead article, "The Infrastructure Scam." In an attack on the Surface rrr~1n'l·nnr·hl.
tion Assistance Act of 1982. his article ,.1. ... ..,..,...,. that "the entire
1980 Sims has been a rennrfoi" JarlH.., ..
on The Winchester Star in since · 1982. She ar.,..:i ......
ed with a .............. " ,..,. ..... ia Commonwealth ·tJniviPr..:ihr pre-vious December.
1981 Melissa Walker was married June 12 to rMnry Allen Michalek. Melissa is em-
at St. Luke's in Milwau-the oncolo!Zv
"Nur:setindlers " She from Alverno College, where
in and biology. This she was selected as "Outstand.
Woman of the Year" at
Mr. Colby, who possesses high managerial skills along with. both practical and imaginative foresight, became manager of the printshop in March, 1979.
Since then he has transformed a little print in the cellar of Carroll Barrister House; which the college from time to time had threatened to close into a hard working center .turning out ~ stream of· college publications: admissions material, ·student magazines and student .weekly, classroom manuals, lectures, and development material. If he can add a third man to bis staff -manpower now become a problem -Mr. Colby hopes to start printing the college magazine, The St. John's.Review.,
This year, by the end . of June, Mr. Colby estimates he will have done $120,-000 in "charge back" figures for college offices, about half th(} cost if the printing had been done commercially.
Two years ago, in 1981, when Randall was remodeled to contain a suite of business offices in the basement, the n-rint~hnn moved to larger quarters there.
business pouring in, that room has posed logistics problems, "'"""'°'"'··1 ft-1
••
for ,
As Mr. Colby envisages it, it will be aimed at a narrow market. Plans call for it to start small, with about three titles the first year, and then expand to 12 titles in three years. Copies for each edition. will run to about 2,500.
A committee will determine book choices and oversee Work-ing with the will be Fisher-gate with which the
has been associate~d several years and which will do
corrrnc>sition work and handle adverdistribution. St. John's wm be
resoo1rrniible for and bindini:?:. The latter will be done
Some of the . _ has in mind are ,,.,.,;,.,;..,n1
St. John's tutors their own commentaries: which are out of the
book in estimates. "It
and weeks of back-
po:ssesst!S "ISBN" numbers. occasional times
in the past, publications have emerged bearing the imprimatur, "St. John's Press." But there has never been a St. John's Press in the sense of something done on a systematic, on-going basis. As far as Mr. Colby is concerned, it can be done practically and with a degree of success.
"We should have done it 10 years ago," he said.
The new offset press promises to make it an a reallty.
"Although I am now the 375 press was one of the last products developed under my administration," Mr. Van Tassel, who formerly headed the A.B. Dick Company in Chicago, said.
"Consequently I was delighted to participate in making it available to St. John's. The college is fortunate indeed to have a man of Chris Colby's vision and dedication ... His enthusiasm is conta-
_ gious, and it's a pleasure to see this equipment coupled to his competence. With it his splendid contribution to the college will be enhanced.''
t;o111tnt1.u~~d from P. 1)
an ophthalmo1og1st, and parents of a student of
befriended
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has raised its total fees by for the 1983-84 academic
cent increase was ::invlrn111Pl'I
meeting of the of St. John's Santa Fe cam-
President Edwin J. Delattre said the increase is "as small as we can make it and for St. John's
PvPrvthinQ' we could to is the smallest
11uu t:a;)t:: we could see way to Tuition will raised
board $100 to $1,550. the same - $1,150. The
are identical for St. John's eastern and western campuses.
' With an invitation to Boston and Phila
alumni to join them, New York alumni are a second summer
June 18 the home of Allan Hoffman on Long Island.
The lunch with beer Mr. Hoffman's Lawrence. will be three semmars, one .. "".rl;.,,,. of Bertrand Russell's ··:sc~eouc:a1
will be led lattre. other seminars will be cles' "Philoctetes" and Hume's
on Natural n.e11g1:un. Luncheon cost will Other details
wm be on the Recent seminars at the Princeton have included one on Freud's Dream led Beate von
and another on led Wilson and Daniel '67.
Barbara Leonard will lead seminar on Ibsen's The Doll's House 18 at
Princeton The bv dinner
detail that does not represent fast lane."
She attributes much of her Plllllosopru. cal and historical approach to to the she received St. "I wouldn't able to reflect as well on my work without that " she was as in a recent article on her in the Kokomo Tribune. Her St. John's education has her to her work into nP1r~mlf'irtuvP
interested in beautiful no serious career mtEmtl.on,
she has studied seven years, some of that time with Dick Jackson, who specializes
and with Ir. artist and callig-
Since graduation from St. she has interned at the Smithsoni
an Institute. VERSED IN SIX alphabets, Mrs. Hat
field has been asked to do business and greeting invitations, let-terheads, posters, and teaching. The she does at the Grissom Air Force Base and at the Seiberling Mansion.
Mrs. Hatfield came to Kokomo from with her Steve, last
She finds the historical aspects of •'lnhu f'leon1n'lthur and tries to instill
among the
be because there's a it's a good
with its respect for ancient val-ues, to be the sort of crafts-
double 17th
person does a a religious or historical the histo-ry of would be advanta-geous ... If you know the of
YOU Cafl See it in 1n111nnl'l11•<1I
Mrs. ncuu1;;1u.
in June.
1'e>'i11hir·v bentside constructed in the manner of Thomas Hitchcock.
Mr. Holmes is a creator and restorer of oar·ocu1e 1n:i.vnn~1·r1 musical instruments.
......... ., ..... ,,..,... upJllolding the tradition these years,"
will be 23-25, in
Alumni director reserved at three the "St. John's
Blume advises that blocks of rooms have been where alumni should indicate want a room in group. She cautions that deadlines for reservations
are strict. Rooms are reserved at the uvuua_v
Hilton (301) 268-7555, call Sue 2800, call by August 30.
16; 224-
In will offer bed and breakfast accommodations.
Because the Naval Ac:utemy I-'""'"""'-" to reserve rooms at Inn. However
list in event some rooms become !rn!:!il'lhla
In Santa no rooms have been reserved. be made at the La Fonda, (505) 982-5511; La ..... , .......... the Governors, 983-4333; The Desert Inn, (505) 982-1851; Motel
( 505) 983-3391.
artist and a book binder to proauce a handmade book. "A children's book would be delightful,'' she thinks.
Since her Mrs. Hatfield also has been to St. Johnnies ..,,,,i,,,,.,,... to get in will find her
" ... We at St. John's have pos:iticm of guarding 1trPat.P.st philosophical traditions ... and
be with enthusiasm that we all welcome another of tradi-tion."
Mr. Holmes is plann:ing He will build a wood and as the we!:!fha'r imn'rl\UO<!
to get rid of the PLANS TO
de1>rel)Siillgly grey cinderblock a color he suggests will blend sawdust he mass nl"nnnt>o!.l
filtered floorward with which he
this one was Holmes to fit into - its
Corolla. Holmes had reached the
construction where the He likes to work
because of the wood's stalbili1ty shrink or swell
changes in the humidit·· a wood that out its advantages.
you want it to." In comin1! to St.