Volume XXVIII Issue II

VERITAS ET SCIENTIA The State Publ icat ion of the Indiana Junior Classical League

The Indiana Junior Classical League kicked off the 2003-04 school year with the 26th annual President’s Day Sept. 27 at Crown Point High School. IJCL President Andy Schrum and the Crown Point JCL were hosts for the event. After registration, Schrum met each delegation and group pic-tures were taken in the courtyard. This was followed by tours of the new building. Delegates then went to the gymnasium for Romani Ludi. Crown Point was the overall winner, with Brownsburg, second; and Indiana Academy/Muncie Burris, third. Category winners were: Dirty Diapers: Crown Point, first; Brownsburg, second; and Indiana Academy/Muncie Burris, third. Aelous Race: Crown Point, first; Brownsburg , second; and Hamilton Southeastern, third. Hula Hoop: Lawrence North and Crown Point, first; Brownsburg, second; and Hamilton Southeastern and Mount Vernon, third. Life savers: Indiana Academy/Muncie Burris,

first; Brownsburg, second; and Crown Point, third. Upside down waiter: Mount Vernon, first; Homestead, second; and Crown Point, third. Mummy wrap: Warren Central, first; Crown Point, sec-ond; and Mount Vernon third. Packing peanuts: Elwood, first, and Indiana Academy/Muncie Burris, second. Roman numerals: Indiana Academy/Muncie Burris, first, and Elwood, second. Chariot race: Crown Point, first, and Ham-ilton Southeastern, second. During the first general assembly, Dr. Robin Rhodes, professor of classi-cal art and architecture at the Uni-versity of Notre Dame, spoke and showed slides. Several workshops were held for delegates who had never been to a state convention and impromptu art and essay con-tests were held. Impromptu art win-ners were Allison Cosbey of Fort Wayne Homestead, first; Sarah Jameson of Mount Vernon, second; and Patrick Sadtler of Browns-burg, third. During the final general

assembly, a slide show featured ac-tivities during the 2002-03 school year and an expla-nation of up-coming events. There were 138 pre-sent. Schools represented were Bell-mont, Brownsburg, Crown Point, Elwood, Fort Wayne Homestead, Hamilton Southeast-ern, Indiana Academy/Muncie Burris, Indianapolis Lawrence North, Indianapolis Warren Central and Mount Vernon..

President’s Day Kicks off year 03-04

January 2004

Dr. Robin Rhodes of the University of Notre Dame was the speaker at Presi-dent’s Day at Crown Point High School

What’s Inside:

State Officers Elections Information on page 2

Pictures from president’s Day & Nationals on page 5

State Convention Agenda on page 6

Calendar on page 8 Andrew Schrum, IJCL presi-dent, presided at the general assemblies at President’s Day.

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A delegate spirit award will be given the delegation at state convention with the most spirit. A spirited roll call will be a part of the convention. Groups will have one minute to present an entertaining skit or song, which will be judged on originality, delivery, creativity and over-all entertainment.

However, somewhere in the skit each school must give the number of dele-gates and adults from their school pre-sent at the convention.

All JCL delegates may participate in roll

All chapters have the opportunity to par-ticipate in IJCL’s year-round contests.

Any chapter that wishes to compete in the Helen Wampler Spirit Contest should fill out the form found in the conven-tion packet and sub-mit it to Daniel Burke, IJCL treas-urer, at state conven-tion.

Chapters interested in the publicity contest should send newspa-per clippings, radio and television infor-mation and creative publicity to Dennis Bartlow, IJCL co-chair, by Feb. 15.

The Sharon Gibson Community Service Award will go to the school with the top community service project. The applica-tion form in the state convention packet must be returned by Feb. 15.

calls, except those running for state of-fices. Adults and SCL members may not participate.

Delegates must wear Roman costumes to General Assembly II, and should wear club or school shorts to General Assembly IV.

The school with the most spirit will be awarded a traveling megaphone at the end of convention.

Delegate Spirit at State Convention

Voting delegates at the 2004 state convention will elect seven new officers for the 2003-04 school year, including one new of-fice. Delegates will elect a second vice president, instead of a treasurer..

Other officers to be elected are: President, first vice president, recording secretary, corresponding secre-tary, parliamentarian and historian. Any stu-

IJCL’s Year-round Activities

dent interested in run-ning for those IJCL offices should contact HAri Vasu , IJCL par-liamentarian, for an application. Applica-tions can also be found in the IJCL chapter handbook and in the state convention packet sent to all schools.. Applications must be returned byFeb. 13. Any student inter-ested in the appointed positions of editor or webmaster should con-tact Dennis Bartlow,

IJCL co-chair, by Feb. 13. All successful can-didates must be able to attend the state planning meeting Aug, 28-29 at Indiana University. At that meeting, the board will plan the 2004-05 IJCL events.

Anyone interested in running for a National Junior Classical League office at the 2004 NJCL convention should con-tact Bartlow by Feb. 13. In the event of two or more certified candi-

dates for national office from Indiana, voting delegates a the state convention will select a national candidate from Indiana.

State Officer Election Information

Jan. 15 is the deadline to pay dues to be a chapter in good standing. Those not paying dues will receive no future mail-ings.

Chapters needing membership forms should contact Dennis Bartlow, IJCL co-chair.

Dues Deadline Latin Week

Indiana Latin Week will be Jan. 25-31.

Chapters are strongly encouraged to plan special activities. State officers are ask-ing you to consider the following: Mon-day, Salve Day; Tuesday, Latin T-shirt day; Wednesday, toga day; Thursday, laurel wreath day; and Friday, purple and gold day.

Get online at

www.ijcl.org

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Winners named at Hoosier Certamen Invitational Fort Wayne Homestead and Crown Point took top honors at the 23rd annual Hoosier Certamen Invitational Nov. 22 at Homestead High School in Fort Wayne. A record 59 teams were registered for the event. Homestead won the novice division with Crwon Point, second; Indianapolis Cathedral, third; another Crown Point team, fourth; Jay County, fifth; Brownsburg, sixth; additional teams from Brownsburg and Cathedral, tied for seventh; Indiaanpolis North Central, eighth and ninth; and amother Cathedral team, 10th. Homestead won the lower division with Crown Point, second; another Homestead team, third; an-other Crown Point team, fourth; North Central, fifth; Fort Wayne Canterbury, sixth; Brownsburg, seventh; Indianapolis Lawrence North, eighth; Hamilton Southeastern, ninth; and Jay County, 10th.Crwown Point took the first two placings in the upper division, with Brownsburg , third; another Crown Point team, fourth; Cathedral, fifth; Elwood, sixth; Homestead and North Central, tied for seventh; Jay County, eighth; another North Central team, ninth; and Indianapolis Warren Central, 10th. The 16th annual Indiana Certamen Invi-tational will be Feb. 14 at South Vigo High School at Terre Haute. Pre-registration is required by Jan. 31. The cost is $8 per team. For registration information, contact Dennis Bartlow, co-chair.

Scrapbook items Needed

Contributions are needed for the state scrapbook this year. This book is be-ing compiled throughout the year by Tanya Van Skyock, IJCL historian, and will use state and local chapter activities as its subject material. All items should be sent to Abdul-Kareem. Please include information about each photograph submitted.

State Convention The Indiana Junior Classical League will hold its 50th annual state convention on Friday, March 12, and Saturday, March 13, at Indi-ana University at Bloomington. The state officers and other mem-bers of the executive board have finalized plans for activities which will be headquartered in the Indiana Memorial Union. All activities will be in that building, including housing, except for academic tests, which will be in Woodburn Hall. The JCL Coffee House started last year will continue this year on Friday night. The cost for the convention will be $90, the same as last year.. The fee includes all convention activities, testing, pizza party, overnight lodging and a Roman banquet. Schools should have received state convention packets in mid-December. The deadline to register for state conven-tion is Jan. 23.

National Convention

Scholarships If you are a first-place winner at state conven-tion, whether it be academic, creative arts, graphic arts or certamen, IJCL wants you to compete at the national convention. The money earned from the Rent-A-Roman at state convention will go toward the registra-tion fee for those first-place winners at na-tional convention. Sponsors will receive the necessary forms to apply at state convention.

National 2004 in Texas The 51sh annual National Junior Classical League Convention will be July 26-31 on the University of Richmond campus in Richmond, Va, This will be the third convention in Virginia. The 1972 convention was at Virginia Tech and the 1984 convention was at the Univeristy of Richmond. The cost of the convention cost will be approxiimately $350=$360, which must be paid before receiving a conventionp packet. The Indiana bus trip will leave July 22 and will include two days in Washington, D.C., including a four-hour tour of the city, touring the Smithsonian Institution, Arlington National Cemetery and Mount Vernon. The group will unwind the day before convention at King’s Dominion Amusement Park. After covnention the group will go to Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, and then head home. The cost is $300 for the bus, although it will be reduced to $290 if the full amount is paid by March 1. All sponsors should have trip inrrmation or contact Dennis Bartlow, IJCL co-chair.

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La Bell’ Italia - a teacher’s perspective Planning the 2003 IJCL Italy trip was a labor of love. Every month I received updates on the travelers from the com-pany. I read over the names of our student travelers and wondered what they were like, who would make friends with whom and how they would react when they saw in person the size of the Colosseum or the beauty of the Pan-theon. I looked forward to the fourteen days when we would become a “family” of thirty-seven making our way over ancient paths. Even though I have been on several Italy trips, each trip , each “family”, is unique.

Mrs. Judy Hunt, Fort Wayne New Haven teacher, and her friend Anna Black counted all of our steps! On an average day we walked 15,000 steps with our highest number--23,000 and ourlow of 10,000 (total of 180,000)!

During the trip Candace Walton of Crown Point and Merrilee Garner of Elwood celebrated birthdays! Joe Fihe from Elwood found out what happens when a letter opener is discovered in your hand luggage. If you don’t want to ask Joe, you can hear the story from Mr. Walker—if he is willing to talk about it. We were serenaded at the Café Visconti in Rome and at Mt. Ippolyte (literally on a mountain) in Tivoli.

Our tour guides, Wally and Annamieke, were wonderful, supportive and full of information. Annamieke arranged a boat to take us all around the island of Capri. Everyone was excited when we spotted the goats of Capri (from which the name of the island is taken) on one of the cliffs. We stopped at a little cove where we could dive off the boat and swim in the azure sea. But our swimmers soon discovered what happens to goats who are careless climbers!

Our greatest accomplishment was a very basic one: surviving the hottest summer Italy has had in 200 years! Every day was in the high 90’s or in triple digits.

The 2005 IJCL Italy trip is already in the planning stages. I hope you will join our next traveling “family”!

Scholarships Available High school seniors are invited to apply for three Indiana Junior Classical League scholarships.

Two $600 scholarships, the Eileen Johnson and the Elizabeth Love memorial scholarships, recognize the service of IJCL members.

The third scholarship for $600 is the Augusta Lavengood Future Latin Teacher Scholarship for a student planning to become a Latin teacher.

Applications for all three scholar-ships are available from Tod Wright, IJCL scholarship chair.

Completed forms must be re-turned to him by Feb . 1.

National Certamen Students who are interested in being on one of Indiana’s certamen teams at the na-tional convention this summer in Kentucky must try out at the May 15 board meeting at Brownsburg High School unless they are a member of a first-place team at state convention.

As at state convention, there will be three divisions: Novice for Latin I students, Lower for Latin I and II; and upper for any level with emphasis on Latin III and IV.

Pre-registration is required.

The first practice for members of the state teams will follow that session.

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President’s Day As you can see there were a lot of fun activities go-ing on at Presi-dents Day. With many workshops to the many games club members played.

National Pictures

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Club News Homestead-Homestead JCL hosted the statewide certamen meet in November and made care packages to send to former JCL students who are now in college. Co-consul Shelley Gupta hosted a Saturnalia party at her house on December 9th, where students learned about Saturnalia and played holiday games. A Bowlathon is being planned for January, as well as a mythological play presentation.

Bloomington North Central-Bloomington North's Latin Club has gotten off to a wonderful start with after school meetings at "the Trojan Horse" here in Bloomington, and plans to meet at "the Olive Garden" for our Holiday meeting. The students also painted a (temporary) mural on the hall-way window to brighten up the renovation currently taking place in our school.

Mt. Vernon-Our club sponsored a fundraiser at the local restaurant Tequila's. Alex got the coupon ready. Both students and other adult support-ers presented those. With over fifty, we made 20% of our total tickets. They presented a donation of $100.00. Also, one of our first year Latin students carved her Halloween pumpkin with JCL. We had planned to attend the Odyssey production of the drama troupe "Tales and Scales"; however, due to his illness in their troupe, this has been postponed until second semester. We also sponsored a Mythological Monsters Quiz during the lunch periods on Friday, October 31, 2003. All participants received bubble gum. Winners received posters of Russell Crowe as the Gladiator.

TH South-South Latin Club held our Saturnalia party with initiation (journey through the Underworld), and decorated a Christmas tree for the A-V room. We held weekly bake sales. We have three juniors in cadet teaching Latin in two elementary schools so far. Ann Chi our president was a national Siemens science winner. These Latin scholars were named semifinalists in the 49th National Merit Scholarship Program. Ann Chi, Kristen Clark, and Chastity Williams.

Elwood– Our club has had our annual fall party, which everyone had a good time. We went to the certamen meet at Homestead which went well. We also did our Christmas families this year. We help two families out that live in our town during the Christmas holidays. Also we had our caroling party which went over very well. So far our year has been going very well, and we plan on doing more fun activities.

Apologizes to the BJCL members your news could not be printed due to computer difficulties.

Tentative state convention agenda FRIDAY, MARCH 12

3-5 p.m.--Registration.

4:30-5:15 p.m.--Executive Board meeting.

5:30-6:30 p.m.--General Assembly I.

6-6:30 p.m.--Chaperones Meeting.

6:45-7:45 p.m.--Academic testing I.

6:45-7:45 p.m.--Sponsors meeting.

7:45-8:45 p.m.--Sponosors and chaperones social

8-8:45 p.m.--Nominations Committee

8-10 p.m.--JCL Coffee House

8:15-8:45 p.m.--Auditions for That’s Entertainment

8:50.-10 p.m.--Costume Contest, Latin Oratory and English Oratory

9-10 p.m.--Social for Seniors

9-10 p.m.--Certamen Round I

10-10:45 p.m.--Candidates speeches

10:45-11:10 p.m.--Rent-A-Roman and pizza party.

11:10-11:40 p.m.--Pizza Party

11:45 p.m.-12:15 a.m.--Chapter fellowships

12:30 a.m.--Curfew.

SATURDAY, MARCH 13

6:30-7:45 a.m.--Sight Latin Reading

6:45-7:45 a.m.--Dramatic Interpretation

7:45-8:30 a.m.--Certamen Round II

8:30-9:15 a.m.--Certamen Round III

8:45-10:20 a.m.--Project viewing

9:30-10:30 a.m.--Testing session II

10:45-11:45 a.m.--General Assembly II and SCL meeting

11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.--Roman banquet.

12:30-1 p.m.--Hotel check-out.

1:15-2:30 p.m.--General Assembly III.

2:30- 4 p.m.-- Project viewing.

3-4 p.m.--Certamen finals

4-4:30 p.m.--Project check-out

4:30-6:30 p.m.--General Assembly IV

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Indiana Junior Classical League officers for 2003-04: President: Andrew Schrum (Crown Point), 501 Cardinal Drive, Crown Point, IN 46307 (Telephone 219-663-2492 or e-mail schrummy159@hotmail.com or president@ijcl.org) Vice President: Michael Gentry (Brownsburg), 28 Carnaby Court, Brownsburg, IN 46112 (Telephone 317-852-9487 or e-mail mikeyg1206@hotmail.com or vp@ijcl.org) Recording secretary: Natalie Holtzinger (Crown Point), 7309 Constitution Ave., Cedar Lake, IN 46303 (Telephone 219-374-7449 or e-mail rue21_1985@yahoo.com or rsecretary@ojcl.org) Corresponding secretary: Janice Lin (Indianapolis Lawrence North), 9001 Sargent Creek Drive, Indianapolis, IN 46256 (Telephone 317-596-1038 or 317 -523-3993 or e-mail doodle9001@hotmail.com or csecretary@ijcl.org) Treasurer: Daniel Burke (Crown Point), 10413 Jennings Place, Crown Point, IN 46307 (Telepehone 219-661-1692 or e-mail certamenator@hotmail.com or treasurer@ijcl.org). Parliamentarian: Hari Vasu (Fort Wayne Homestead), 10510 Indian Ridge Drive, Fort Wayne, IN 46814 (Telephjone 260-625-3924 or e-mail vhari785@msn.com or parliamentarian@ijcl.org) Historian: Tanya Van Skyock (Indianapolis Warren Central), 9040 E. Troy Ave., Indianapolis, IN 46239 (Telepehone 317-862-7496 or e-mail Animorphette9586@aol.com or historian@ijcl.org) Webmaster: Julianne Martin (Brownsburg), 641 Country Walk Drive, Brownsburg, IN 46112 (Telephone 317-858-7046 or e-mail julieannmartin@msn.com or webmaster@ijcl.org) Editor: Megan Ann Majors (Elwood), 1516 N. E St., Elwood, IN 46036 (Telepehone 765-552-6019 or e-mail 04mama-jors@elwood.k12.in.us or editor@ijcl.org Indiana Senior Classical League officers for 2003-04: President: Chris Olry (Indiana University), 6921 Bittersweet Dells Court., Fort Wayne, IN 46814 (Telephone 260-672-9524 or e-mail clolry@Indiana.edu) or (school), 2206 Fritz Drive, Bloomington, IN 47408 (Telephone 812-320-9145) Vice President: Allison Ket (DePauw University), 10 Irownwood Court, Brownsburg, IN 46112 (Telephone 317-852-9138 or e-mail aket@depauw.edu) or (school) U.B. Box 5506, 408 S.Locust St., Greencastle, IN 46135. Secretary: Grace Lin (Indiana University), 9001 Sargent Creek Creek, Indianapolis, IN 46256 (Telephone 317-596-1038 or e-mail grlin@indiana.edu) or (school) Forest 218A-West, 1725 E. Third St., Bloomington, IN 47406. Treasurer: Jason Kline (Purdue University), P.O. Box 298, Brownsburg, IN 46112 (Telephone 317-852-6918 or e-mail JRKline@purdue.edu) or (school) 204 Shreve Hall, West Lafayette, IN 47906 Parliamentarian: James Rademaker (Purdue University), 5128 Larekit Lane, Fort Wayne, IN 46804 (Telephone 260-436-3510 or e-mail cogitus12@aol.com) or (school) Hillenbrand Hall A 424, West Lafayette, IN 47906. (Telephone 765-495-8211) Historian: Stacy Jovanoski (Indiana University), 421 W. Summit St., Crown Point, IN 46307 (Telephone 2180662-1929 or e-mail sjovanoske@hotmail.com)or (school) 419 E. 7th St., Apt. 4, Bloomington, IN 47408 (Telephone 812-323-0793) State committee: Co-chair: Dennis M. Bartlow, 25 Shorewood Drive North, Danville, IL 61832-1310 (Telephone 217-446-3561 or e-mail syca-more@cooketech.net or chair1@ijcl.org) Co-chair: Jeremy Walker, 209 Maple St., Crown Point, IN 46307 (Telephone 219-661-9154 or e-mail jmwalker@pla-net.net or chair2@ijcl.org) SCL advisor: Tony Martin, 1617 North Kessler Blvd., Indianapolis, IN 46222 (Telephone 317-630-1617 or e-mail tmar-tin@indy.rr.com or scl@ijcl.org) Scholarship chair: Tod Wright, 5209 Eicher Drive, Fort Wayne, IN 46835 (Telephone 260-486-1189 or e-mail twbstc@aol.com or scholarship@ijcl.org) Certamen chair: Sharon Gibson, 1324 Brownswood Drive, Brownsburg, IN 46112 (Telephone 317-852-7198 or e-mail denand-shar@netzero.net or certamen@ijcl.org) Constitution chair: Kathy Adair, 11236 Rolling Pine Run, Fort Wayne, IN 46814 (Telephone 260-672-9155 or e-mail ka-dair@sacs.k12.in.us or constitution@ijcl.org) Other board members: Diana Garner, 9652 W. 1050 North, Elwood, IN 46036 (Telephone 764-552-3527 or e-mail drgarner@netusa1.net or gar-ner@ijcl.org) Donna Wright, 1239 Raquetball Club North Drive, Indianapolis, IN 46260 (Telephone 317-844-3028 or e-mail wrightjd3@comcast.net or wright@ijcl.org Lisanne Marshall, 10660 N. Kitchen Road, Mooresville, IN 46158 (Telephone 317-831-9982 or e-mail jlmarshall@mw.net or marshall@ijcl.org)

IJCL Calendar of Events, 2003-2004 Jan. 15--Deadline for paying dues to be a chapter in good standing.

Jan. 23--State convention registration deadline.

Jan. 24--Executive board meeting, 10 a.m., Brownsburg High School, Brownsburg.

Jan. 25-31--Indiana Latin Week.

Feb. 1--Deadline for submitting scholarship applications to Tod Wright, scholarship chair.

Feb. 13--Deadline for submitting amendments to the constitution and filing for candidacies for state office.

Feb. 14--16th annual Indiana Certamen Invitational, 9:30 a.m., South Vigo High School, Terre Haute.

Feb. 20-21--Indiana Classical Conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette.

March 12-13--50th annual Indiana Junior Classical League state convention, Indiana University, Bloomington

April 1--Deadline for submitting items for the third issue of the Veritas et Scientia.

April 18-24--National Latin Week.

May 1--Third issue of Veritas et Scientia mailed out.

May 1--Deadline for registering for the 2004 national convention.

May 15--Executive board meeting, 9:30 a.m., Brownsburg High School, Brownsburg; tryouts for state certamen teams, 1 p.m., Brownsburg High School, Brownsburg.

July 10--Picnic for the 2004 delegates to the NJCL convention.

July 26-31--51th annual National Junior Classical League Convention, University of Richmond, Richmond,Va. (Indiana bus trip is July 22-31)

VERITAS ET SCIENTIA

Megan Majors, IJCL Editor 1516 North E St. Elwood, IN 46036