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THE COLLEGE

ON THE COVER: The King George Street side of the campus in Annapolis, showing the gate by Chase-Stone House (the old SAE­Phi Sig House of the '30's, and even earlier the President's House).

Editor: Beate Ruhm von Oppen

Managing Editor: Thomas Farran, Jr.

Editorial Advisory Board: William B. Dunham, Barbara Brunner Oosterhout '55, E. Malcolm Wyatt, Elliott Zucker­man.

THE COLLEGE is published by the Office of College Relations, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland 21404, Richard D. Weigle, President, William B. Dunham, Vice President.

Published four times a year, in January, April, July, and October. Second class postage paid at Annapolis, Maryland, and at other mailing places.

Picture credits: Cover, pages 2 and 7: Dick Linfield; page 4, Betty Lilienthal; page 9, Christopher Sparrow.

Vol. XXVII October, 1975

IN THE OCTOBER ISSUE

The Report of the President.

Alumni Class Notes

Number 3

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Report of the President

1974-1975

This, my twenty-sixth annual report to the Board of Visitors and Governors, is submitted at a time when the future of independent colleges and universities hangs in the balance. The smaller institutions appear to be in the more precarious situation as inflation forces salaries and other expenditures up, and rising fees cause a larger pro­portion of students to choose public institutions. Prescott College, the only southwestern college without ties to church or state, closed its doors last December. New Col­lege, in Florida, was absorbed by the State and opens this fall as a branch of the University of South Florida. Shimer College, in Illinois, has continued to function despite a 1973 board decision to close. The new president has re­financed the college's debts, and the future depends upon his success in finding necessary funds.

Against this background of financial stringency and fore­closure, St. John's College was remarkably blessed to com­plete the past year without a deficit on either campus. This minor miracle resulted in part from budgetary savings and increased endowment income. The greatest single factor, however, was the extraordinary generosity of the individual members of the Board, both past and present, the development grant to the Santa Fe campus from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the in­creased annual giving by alumni, parents, and friends. All of us at the College recognize the considerable debt of

gratitude which we owe to each donor for helping to make possible another year of education for St. John's students and tutors.

The Annapolis Dean's Report

In the area of instruction, Dean Curtis Wilson reported an excellent year. Because of time pressures, he regretted that relatively little had been accomplished in pursuing Howard Fisher's report of last year on the laboratory pro­gram. A small faculty committee did decide to reduce and lighten the freshman work in measurement. It seems desirable, too, to incorporate some biological studies into the freshman laboratory sequence. 'T'his would give stu­dents some background for their encounter with the great philosopher of biology, Aristotle. There was much dis­cussion, still inconclusive, of the arrangement of materials for the sophomore biology laboratory. For the coming year, the Instruction Committee decided to return to the status quo ante, a topical arrangement in which readings are correlated first with the dissection of a vertebrate animal and later with observations on embryological devel­opment and experiments in genetics, the first topics of the year being phylogeny and evolution.

A faculty study group has been set up under the chair­manship of Robert Spaeth for the coming fall semester to explore perception, especially visual perception. The spe-

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cific aim will be to produce a written document describ­ing a series of experiments and listing appropriate readings to accompany the experiments. These may be incorpo­rated into the laboratory program as its subsequent revi­sion is decided upon. Study of such "higher functions" of organisms as perception seems a desirable accompaniment to the major concern with epistemological questions prompted by the seminar readings. . . .

Another part of the program needmg Improvement IS the first semester of the senior laboratory. The manual appears somewhat too complicated. The primary aim of the laboratorv seems right-to seek a certain understanding of Maxwell's' equations, of how they emerged and of how they lead to a wave equation. A paper assignment ~um­marizing the student's learning in the field has conflicted with preceptorial papers, so a different approach with a different manual appears called for. .

The new Greek text, developed by Alfred Molhn and Robert B. Williamson on a grant from the National En· dowment for the Humanities, has now had a two-year trial. The sections dealing with grammatical theory have prompted excellent tutorial discussions on the nature of language. Critics claim that there IS no substitute for rote learning of paradigms and that the text errs m startmg with a study of language in general and in moving then to the particular language, Greek. The Instruction Com­mittee, while recommending certain revisions to the authors, concluded that the text should be used for two more years. A proposal for an "enabling examination" on Greek morphology was shelved in favor of a set of stand­ard quizzes on Greek forms to be used by freshman lan­guage tutors. The aim here will be to make clear to tutors and students alike that the College expects a certain mini­mum level of mastery of forms. The Dean notes that a manual of logic written by David Starr, summarizing the formalities of Aristotle's syllogistic logic, was used with success in the sophomore language tutorial. For the junior language tutorial, a new French grammar was decided upon. The Instruction Committee also agreed to follow the lead of Santa Fe in using selections from de Tocque­ville's Democratic en Amerique as the basis for the French reading knowledge examinations.

The Student Committee on Instruction met with the Annapolis Instruction Committee twice during the year to transmit concerns, questions, and proposals of students. These sessions were found to be instructive and helpful, so four meetings are planned for the coming year. Among the matters discussed were the proposal for a Greek gram­mar examination, Hegel seminar assignments, and the "junior conference." The conference was instituted suc­cessfully in lieu of don rags for juniors. Instead of listening to successive reports on his work by his tutors, the student is invited to speak first and give an evaluation of his work. The ensuing conversation uses the second person form of address instead of the impersonal third person. The Stu­dent Instruction Committee is so well impressed with the

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conference approach that it has suggested instituting it in the sophomore year as well. The Instruction Committee felt that such extension was premature.

For the first time, an enlarged winter freshman class of 29 instead of 20 was admitted in January. This meant two seminars and two laboratory sections instead of one. The Dean's strong impression is that the difference in numbers made for a significant difference in quality and in esprit. The need for more teaching stations during the second semester may have a beneficial educational effect in that four or five tutors might have released time to participate in a faculty study group during the first semester. One criticism leveled at the winter-summer freshman program has been the horrendous pace of the assigned work, thirty­one weeks of work compressed into twenty-five weeks. Mr. Mollin undertook a review of all assignments and recommended certain modifications. These were adopted by the Instruction Committee. They should have a salu­tary effect upon the class entering in January 1976.

The Santa Fe Dean's Report

Dean Robert Neidorf states that the academic year just completed was one of conservative building toward an

experienced faculty nucleus and toward a less transient student body than in earlier years. He cited the develop­ment grant from the National Endowment for the Hu­manities as being of inestimable value in the strengthening of the College. The greatest impact of the grant on the life of the college has been the power it has provided the Dean to place certain tutors on reduced teaching loads, something which accrediting agencies and the Faculty itself have long felt to be highly desirable. During the past year, three more senior tutors were on partial teaching assignments so that they could devote energies to faculty recruitment and to the supervision of various parts of the instructional program as directors of tutors' groups. At the same time, thanks to the grant, five new tutors were able to spend the initial year of their appointments teaching only two classes and auditing a third. The two new tutors appointed for 1975-76 will enjoy the same benefit.

The other main enterprise flowing from the develop­ment grant is the Committee on the Liberal Arts, referred to as a task force in my report of last year. The chairman of the Committee is William A. Darkey, former Dean on the western campus, who has had well over thirty years of experience at St. John's College, both as student and as tutor. He was joined by David C. Jones and Thomas K. Simpson in the initial exploratory year. The Committee met weekly, wrote several informal papers, and presented one extended discussion of the liberal arts to the commu­n;ty as a whole on a Friday evening. For the coming year, Dean R. Haggard and John S. Steadman will be added to the Committee. A much more highly structured program is envisioned, with several presentations to the Faculty and to the students on Wednesday afternoons and Friday evenings. There are tentative plans for organizing a pub­lishable document to cap the two-year labors of this Committee.

A major innovation this past year was the presence on campus of five recent graduates of the Yale University School of Music as Musicians-in-Residence. They were David Gordon (bassoon), David Irwin (clarinet), Manuel Maramba (keyboard), Mary Posses (flute), and Richard Weinhaus (bass and guitar). The group conducted the fresl:m1an music program, assisted in the sophomore music tutorials for the first semester, gave both formal and in­formal concerts, held open rehearsals, coached musical groups, and attended and participated regularly in under­graduate seminars. The five musicians also gave many con~ certs in schools and churches throughout northern New Mexico, representing both St. John's and Yale with dis­tinction. The Dean states that this experimental program was widely regarded as successful and desirable. The pres­ence of three of the participants as dormitory residents contributed to the stability and enrichment of campus life. For the coming year, Manuel Maramba has been re­appointed in a somewhat more modest program. He will be joined by Scott Hankins, a violinist, and Frank Lynch, an oboist, both of whom received their master's degrees

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in music from Yale this past June. The Dean reports that short-term attrition among the

twenty freshmen entering the College in January remains somewhat higher than among freshmen generally. He questions the morale of the group, particularly during the summer when they are first isolated on an empty campus, and then surrounded and perhaps overwhelmed by the older students of the Graduate Institute in Liberal Edu­cation. The Dean recommends ways to alleviate this situa­tion another summer, for he finds the January freshman program valuable for three reasons: It enables many stu­dents to begin their studies at St. John's without waiting for a year or a half-year; it compensates for students who leave during the semester, thus evening out the total college population throughout the year; and finally, it tends to attract students who have attended college else­where, a group which experiences less long-term attrition than St. John's students as a whole.

As to the academic order, the Dean wrote that he "must report centrally, and with pleasure, that learning is going on." Apart from regular classroom exercises, the practice of holding all-college seminars on Friday evenings was continued with considerable success. Books read for the two seminars last year were Plato's Laches and Pica della Mirandola's Oration on the Dignity of Man. Occasional faculty seminars were held on Tuesday or Wednesday afternoons, classes having been cancelled for the day. Tutors chose from optional seminars on such works as T. S. Eliot's Little Gidding, Faulkner's The Bear, Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Kant's Perpetual Peace, and Arnheim on Picasso's Guernica.

The joint Instruction Committee meetings were held on the Santa Fe campus in March to consider such mat­ters as the Graduate Institute, the summer alumni pro­gram, senior essays, don rags, and economy measures. The Committee approved for submission to the Faculty a pro­posal for altering the senior year curriculum on the Santa Fe campus.

John Spangler Kieffer

St. John's College suffered grievous loss this spring in the death of John Spangler Kieffer, teacher extraordinary, careful scholar, respected colleague, and warm friend. Mr. Kieffer would have retired in June, having attained his seventieth year, forty-six of which he had devoted to this College-as tutor, assistant dean, dean, president, and member of the Board of Visitors and Governors. At the time of his death, he had taken over from Stringfellow Barr the project of writing the story of the transition to the present curriculum in 1937. He was eminently suited for such a project, for he had been a major factor in effecting the change. A crowded memorial service a•t St. Anne's Church and one on the Santa Fe campus bore witness to the place of honor and love which he held in the St.John's community.

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The Tutors

I take pleasure in recording tenure appointments grant­ed to Harvey Flaumenhaft and Brother S. Robert, F.S.C., of the Annapolis Faculty. That campus will welcome back from sabbatical leave Geoffrey Comber, George Doskow, Howard J. Fisher, and Benjamin C. Milner, Jr. It will miss the teaching of Thomas A. McDonald and Edward Sparrow, both on sabbaticals. Eva Brann will be on partial sabbatical. I am sorry to report that Deborah Traynor, who had been on leave-of-absence in Ireland, has submitted her resignation. This has been accepted with sincere regret, for she had proven herself a good St. John's tutor. Robert A. Goldwin, '50, continues on ]eave to serve as Special Assistant to President Ford in Wash­ington. C. Reed Woodhouse will be on leave to study theology on a Luce fellowship. Two new appointments have been made for the coming year: Joseph Sachs, '68, who hold the M.A. degree in philosophy from Pennsyl­vania State College; and Michael Comenetz, who received the B.A. degree from the Johns Hopkins University and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from Bran­deis University.

This coming year, for the first time, a tutor exchange will be undertaken as part of the program underwritten by the development grant of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Lynne M. Hamilton will spend the year at Annapolis; Robert S. Bart teaches on the Santa Fe campus during the first semester and Douglas and Wye Jamison Allan brook spend the second semester there. The Santa Fe Faculty will be greatly strengthened by the return of six tenured tutors, Samuel E. Brown, Elliott T. Skinner, and Ralph Swentzell from sabbatical leave and Charles G. Bell, Dean R. Haggard, and Michael Ossorgin from other leave. Two other Tutors resume full-time teaching, C. Donald Knight, who had study-leave during the first semester, and Lorna Green, who was away for the second to complete a dissertation. Three Tutors will not return this fall, Frank K. Flinn, who resigned in the middle of the year, Mary I. Robinson, whose appointment was completed, and Ida Doraiswamy, who resigned to undertake further graduate work at the University of Oklahoma.

During the coming academic year, Stuart Boyd, Don B.

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Cook, and E. Roy Davis, Jr., '62, have been granted sab­batical leave, while James R. Mensch, '66, has been given other leave for the first semester. The two new appoint­ments went to Elizabeth S. Engel, a Pomona graduate who holds the M. Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in Philosophy from Yale University and who has taught at Shimer Col­lege and at the California State University at Humboldt; and John J. Verdi, who graduated with the B.S. degree from Fordham University and then earned the A.M. degree from the University of Southern California.

The Associates

During the year, the fifth quinquennial review of the Polity was accomplished. Commendation is due the Fac­ulty Polity Review Committee, under the able chairman­ship of Edward G. Sparrow, and the Board's Organization Committee, effectively headed by Charles A. Nelson, '45. The principal modification in the Polity, as recommended by the Faculty and approved by the Board at its April meeting, was the elimination of the office of Provost on the Annapolis campus and the creation of a vice-presidency in its place. This change establishes parallel administra­tive structures on the two campuses. On each campus the Dean is vested with responsibility for instruction and for the welfare of the students. He also serves as Acting President as necessary during the President's absence. The Vice-President is responsible for matters involving admin­istration, finance, development, and public relations. The Treasurer of the College reports to him.

To fill the newly created position at Annapolis, a search committee was constituted in accordance with the provi­sions of the Polity. After appropriate consultation, the choice fell upon William B. Dunham, who had been serving as Director of College Relations. Mr. Dunham's appointment was approved by the Board at its July meet­ing in Santa Fe. Mr. Dunham spent twenty years in the Foreign Service and then was Secretary and Vice-President of Carleton College before joining the St. John's Faculty as an Associate. I anticipate that he will function as ably in this new position as J. Burchenal Ault has on the Santa Fe campus.

Change occurred in the Annapolis admissions office. On

August 31, 1974, Michael W. Ham, '61, resigned the direc­torship to accept a position with the American College Testing Service. For three years, he had served the College well, notably in revising the publications used for pros­pective students. To fill the vacancy, Joanne Rowbottom, '73, Assistant Director, was appointed Co-Director, along with Robert L. Spaeth of the Faculty. Excellent perform­ance justified my recommendation, approved by the Board, that full responsibility for the directorship pass on July I, 1975, to Joanne Rowbottom, who resumed her maiden name of Joanne Aitken. Mary Jane Young, '73, was appointed Assistant Director of Admissions in June.

Another Polity amendment separated the functions of financial aid and placement counselling. Brenda Robert­son was named Director of Placement in August and worked closely with seniors seeking admission to graduate school or opportunities in the business world. At Santa Fe, both financial aid and placement counselling were the responsibility of Sue L. Boyter during the year, but she resigned this summer to further her education and her career. During the two years of her incumbency, she ex­panded the College's eligibility for federal scholarship subsidies and enhanced the efficiency and economy of the student aid program. Alberta Rivera has been appointed Director of Financial Aid. She formerly held the position of Assistant Director of Financial Aid at the University of Albuquerque. Sally Dunn, '71, will be the new Director of Placement. Ms. Dunn has an M.A. degree in philoso­phy from the University of Notre Dame and is now pur­suing a Ph.D. in American studies at the University of New Mexico. She will serve as Head Resident as well. Alfreda Verratti Goodrich, '66, who has been both a sym­pathetic and able Assistant Dean and Head Resident for three years, relinquished both positions because of impend­ing motherhood. She will teach part-time this year.

The Students

The recruitment and retention of students is a peren­nial problem. It is instructive, but perhaps somewhat mis­leading, to study the enrollments on the two campuses for the past five academic years, together with the pro­jection for 1975-76:

Annapolis

1970-711971-721972-73 1973-74 1974-75 1975-76 ·---

Freshmen 117 125 128 105 107 105 January

Class 23 21 22 20 29 30 Sopho-

mores 110 98 105 110 103 118 Juniors 51 85 69 85 83 76 Seniors 54 45 70 70 77 71

Totals 355 374 394 390 399 400

Freshmen 106 January

Class Sopho-

mores 78 Juniors 55 Seniors 30

Totals 269

107

81 47 27

262

Santa Fe

108

14

71 45 36

274

92

22

99 32 33

278

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97

20

89 63 26

295

85

20

86 71 47

309

It does seem possible to conclude that the January fresh­man class has been helpful in replacing freshman drop­outs and that the total enrollment has shown a steady in­crease at the same time that freshman enrollees have been reduced in number. The following chart gives fall and spring enrollment statistics for the year just ended. Re­admissions and the January class more than compensated for the 28 students who withdrew at Annapolis during the year. In Santa Fe, there was a net loss of thirteen from the first to the second semester.

Annapolis First Semester Men Women Total

Freshmen 63 January Class Sophomores 51 Juniors 41 Seniors 45

Totals ZOO

Santa Fe

Freshmen 58 January Class Sophomores 44 Juniors 39 Seniors 15

Totals 156

44 107

52 103 42 83 32 77

170 370

39 97

45 89 24 63 II 26

119 275

Second Semester Men Women Total

54 43 97 17 12 29 46 51 97 40 43 83 44 31 75

201 180 381

48 12 34 34 15

143

37 8

41 21 12

119

85 20 75 55 27

262

Fall enrollment is expected to equal the 1974 figure at Annapolis and to exceed it at Santa Fe by a small number.

At Commencement in Santa Fe on May 18, 1975, 27 seniors received their baccalaureate degrees, one of them summa cum laude, one magna cum laude, and four cum laude. Boyd Cooke Pratt, of Honolulu, Hawaii, was award­ed the Board's silver medal for the highest standing, and Matthew Gale Krane, '76, of Los Angeles, California, received the Duane L. Peterson Scholarship for academic achievement, constructive membership in the college community, and commitment to post-graduate study.

In Annapolis on May 25, 1975, a total of 69 seniors were granted the B.A. degree, six of them magna cum laude and twelve cum laude. The Board's medal went to Michael Gerard Dink, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Joseph

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Michael DiGeorge, '76, was awarded the Peterson Schol­arship for his senior year. Matthew 0. DeBacker, of Jonesville, Michigan, received a Thomas J. Watson Foun­dation Fellowship. High scholarship awards in memory of C. Markland Kelly, Jr., were made to Vicky Louise Cass, '78, of New Milford, Connecticut, to David Evan Clement, '77, of Charlottesville, Virginia, and to Terry Clifton Schuld, '78, of Glen Head, New York. The first Joan Yvonne Ronay Memorial Scholarship was awarded to Julia Perkins, '78, of Barre, Massachusetts.

In commenting on the year, Dean Ncidorf writes: uit is impossible to provide hard data in support of this con­tention, but I believe that morale and esprit among the students at the Santa Fe campus is noticeably better than in previous years." He attributed this in some measure to changing national patterns, but also largely to the skill and care of the student personnel staff. At Annapolis, Dean Wilson felt that improved student morale resulted from a new plan to diversify more widely the membership of tutorials and laboratories. Under the former scheme, students for a given tutorial or laboratory were drawn from one seminar, or at most two. The result was that a student normally shared classes with twenty students, or perhaps as many as thirty in any one year. The new plan increases this figure to forty. The Dean writes that the impetus for adopting this new method of assignment "was provided by oblique comments overheard during some two and a half decades, suggesting that students can become weary of one another's pet views, and fall-with shock be it spoken-into the sin of uncharitableness."

The search for students to fill each entering class is a difficult one. Figures for the last three years show a steady number of applications at Annapolis and a slight decline at Santa Fe:

Annapolis

1973 1974 1975

205 207 207 Applications 170 178 190 Approved 24 !6 !3 Rejected 65 71 74 Withdrawn

10 5 107 !07 Deposits Received 105 !07 107 Enrolled

2,348 3,731 4,659 Catalogues Sent 604 Portfolios Sent

Santa Fe

1973 1974 1975

167 169 !56 !36 145 145

23 17 6 55 55 62 89 97 88 90 97 85

4,443 4,904 3,195

232 245 288 Campus Visitors !51 149 143

It should be noted that a different procedure is followed on each campus. At Santa Fe, requests are received for the catalogue as a result of a mailer sent to 43,888 secondary school seniors whose names have been provided by the College Board Student Search and by the Educational Opportunity Service of the American College Testing Ser­vice. At Annapolis, a different initial mailer was sent to 61,500 students east of the Mississippi whose names were similarly obtained. A return postcard then results in mail-

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ing a booklet which provides practically all the informa­tion necessary to apply. Only when a second card is re­turned is the final kit or portfolio mailed. Hence, the fig­ures above for 1975 show that 604 portfolios were mailed following 4,659 booklets, rather than catalogues. Although the Annapolis publications are expensive, the experience of the Admissions Office this year indicated that they were quite effective. Santa Fe used a small but appealing little brochure to follow up on prospects after the catalogue was sent.

The two major difficulties which the two Directors of Admission face are the nationwide stress on career-oriented higher education and the relatively high price of a St. John's education, as compared with public institutions. With the job market so tight, there seems to be a greater awareness of the degree of economic advantage which various curricula may provide the student. The task of St. John's College is to persuade the prospective student of the value of a liberal arts education with the resultant versatility and other benefits which it provides. The prob­lem of meeting the financial need of incoming students is almost insuperable. More than half of the students apply­ing on each campus required some aid in order to come. In general, the College offers a package of a student aide job, a grant, and a loan, the latter usually the student's responsibility with a home bank. It is clear that the finan­cial aid offers on both campuses often fall short of what the student and his parents believe to be the minimum they require, so there were a considerable number of withdrawals for financial reasons. This problem is likely to worsen in the years ahead. Increased scholarship funds and the federal programs in aid of individual students may alleviate the situation somewhat.

The Staff

The Annapolis campus lost the services of James Grant in November, when he resigned from the business ma,n~ agership to accept a position in the Budget Office of the City of Baltimore. For eleven years Mr. Grant had con­tributed helpfully and effectively to the smooth function­ing of the Business Office. The person finally appointed Business Manager was Joseph Jackins, Jr., a graduate of the University of Maryland with business experience in com­puters and insurance. Mrs. Margaret Anne Geddes held appointment for the year as artist-in-residence, and Mrs. Karen Holland assumed the position of music librarian in September. Mrs. Nancy Blackburn resigned as secre­tary to the Dean in July. She was replaced by Mrs. Carolyn Logan, former secretary to the Provost. Mrs. Christiana White resigned as secretary to the Registrar at the end of August; that position was filled by Miss Caryle Rohde. In the Office of College Relations, Mrs. Elizabeth Parsons became secretary April 1st, succeeding Mrs. Kay Omstead, who resigned; Mrs. Thyrrice Marx transferred from that office to the Placement Office in September. Finally, there were a number of changes in the personnel of the Admis-

sions Office, Mary Blanton sncceeding Mrs. Jeanne Moor­ing, '73, in August and then herself being replaced by Mrs. Patricia Sager in February. Miss Susan Seidenstricker, '77, was added to the staff for most of the year but left at the end of May.

In his first year as Treasurer at Santa Fe, Emery Jennings more than lived up to expectations in handling the finan­cial and business affairs of the College. Mr. Jennings reor­ganized the office and introduced computerization of most accounting records, in addition to the payrolls. Mrs. Mary Lou Nee! continued as bookkeeper, but with greater responsibility for accounting entries. Mrs. Joyce Jimenez became secretary to the Treasurer, with responsibility for payrolls and attendant reports. Mrs. Nicki Gonzales suc­ceeded Mrs. Alice Roybal as cashier, combining with that position her previous duties as Development Office secre­tary. These changes all made for an efficient business office.

David Sherman, '74, served as an assistant in the Admis­sions Office for the first half of the year, traveling and interviewing prospective students. Charles Vossler proved himself a capable technician in the laboratory. Other per­sonnel appointments included Mrs. Marsha Drennon as secretary to the Assistant Deans, succeeding Mrs. Dana Anderson; Miss Lucinda Zizka as secretary to the Librarian, succeeding Miss Mary Lee Wright; Mrs. Pat Van Amberg as secretary in the Admissions Office; Mrs. Vera Stack as duplicating and supply clerk; and Perry Plummer, '71,

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succeeding Miss Marilyn Wolff as typist in the Library. I am sorry to report the resignation of Mrs. Rebecca Lang as manager of the Book Store at the end of the year. Miss Hannah Hibbs, assistant manager, will assume the chief position. She will be assisted next year by Mrs. Claudia Porter.

Within the buildings and grounds staff, Carlos Vigil, an employee of the College since 1964, was made Assistant Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds. Delegated to him was responsibility for supervising the custodial per­sonnel, so that the Snperintendent, Stanley Nordstrom, could concentrate on the maintenance and operation of the physical plant, most of which is now eleven years old. Mrs. Toni Catanach, who had served faithfully as a house­keeper since the opening of the campus in 1964, retired in May. Finally, it should be noted that greater fringe benefits were extended to the buildings-and-grounds staff during the year. A revised staff handbook is being pre­pared by the two Treasurers, covering both administrative and buildings-and-grounds personnel.

The Libraries

For the second year, the Library on the Santa Fe campus benefited from the development grant awarded the Col­lege by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Mrs. Alice Whelan, the Librarian, reports that 6,139 books were catalogued and added to the collection over the two-year period. A significant part of these accessions were general reference works, 534 volumes under 147 titles. The College's library collection now numbers 37,016 books and 5,395 phonodiscs and phototapes, holdings quite ample for the needs of the St. John's program. The reference collection comes to the impressive total of 909 separate series aggregating 3,280 volumes. The general collection is strongest in American and European litera­ture, with 5,135 titles. Next in number of titles are science (2,406), music (1,640), philosophy (1,554), history (I ,505), classical languages and literature (1,089), reli­gion (916), and fine arts (807).

Miss Charlotte Fletcher, Librarian on the Annapolis campus, expresses concern at the rising cost of books and hopes that the library endowment can be increased by $25,000 to assure an annual book-purchase fund of $9,000. During the year just ended, I, 739 volumes were added to the collection, and 324 books were discarded. A major gift of over a hundred books, principally in philosophy, was received from Mrs. Walter A. Louchheim of Wash­ington. These were part of her late husband's library. With Title VI funds the Library purchased a projector and screen and began a new collection with 670 slides of works of art and of outstanding examples of architecture. Another major project was the duplicate taping of some eighty lectures by the late Leo Strauss, Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at the College until his death in 1974.

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The Physical Plants

Most of the maintenance on the Annapolis campus during the year was of a routine nature. It included instal­lation of heating valves in radiators in several buildings, lighting for the parking lots, tree maintenance, and re­surfacing of the tennis courts. A biology laboratory in Mellon Hall was converted into a small but attractive art gallery, which proved popular with the college community and with townspeople. James T. Wollon, A.I.A., of Havre de Grace, was retained to do the preliminary architectural study for the renovation of liS-year-old Paca-Carroll House, together with a modest addition. Michael and Michael, of Alexandria, were similarly commissioned to do studies on possible additions to Iglehart Hall (the gym­nasium) and Randall Hall (the dining hall and dormi­tory). The studies will be submitted to the Board with Faculty recommendations this fall.

During the year, Universal Associates, Inc., a local engi­neering firm, was employed to study the use of energy on campus. The survey was directed to the power plant and fuel-oil consumption, to total electricity use, and to mechanical problems in the library. The report has been submitted and is currently being reviewed before recom­mendations can be made. Meanwhile, conservation efforts have proven helpful in meeting the escalating utility rates. Fuel-oil consumption dropped from 236,566 gallons in 1972-73 to 199,916 gallons in 1973-74 and then to 191,583 gallons in the year under review. But during the three-year period the cost of the oil used rose from $27,387 to $61,554, and expenditures for gas and electricity rose from $31,836 to $45,000. This meant that one-third of the increase in tuition fees was absorbed by the higher prices for oil, gas, and electricity.

At Santa Fe, a serious maintenance problem was en­countered last summer when leakage of natural gas was discovered underneath the concrete steps and walkways of the plaza. The original mechanical contractor was con­sulted, and a decision was reached to lay new lines from a connection west of the Peterson Student Center around the Sternberger-Weis Building with new connections to Weigle Hall and Santa Fe Hall. The L. E. Meyer Com­pany earned the gratitude of the College for accomplish­ing this work promptly and at no cost to the College. Natural gas is used to heat the individual buildings in Santa Fe. Here, too, the College experienced drastically increased costs. Over a three-year period expenditures for gas rose from $13,200 to $27,621, while electricity and water almost doubled, rising from $22,800 to $41,267.

As the College commences its twelfth year on the west­ern campus, I am pleased to report that the buildings seem to be holding up well. This seems to demonstrate the wisdom of the Board's policy of insisting on quality con­struction and on structures which would require :minimal maintenance and repair. In the light of current building costs, it may be interesting to summarize here the actual

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amount expended on construction at Santa Fe since the New Mexico campus was conceived:

Date Square Total Cost Per Completed Building Feet Cost Square Ft.

1964 Santa Fe Hall 12,572 $ 366,186 $29 (classrooms)

Evans Laboratory 37,656 1,095,210 29 Building

Peterson Student 45,639 1,327,528 29 Center

Dormitories 49,177 1,056,903 21 1969 Dormitories 39,288 869,988 22

Infirmary 2,305 51,024 22 1971 Weigle Hall 19,140 565,251 29

(administration) 1973 Sternberger-Weis 10,304 401,863 39

Music & Fine Arts

Totals 216,081 $5,733,953 $26.5

I would point out that the entire campus cost less than a single building does at many colleges and universities.

The Graduate Institute

On August 15, 1975, the ninth session of the Graduate Institute in Liberal Education came to a close with the awarding of master's degrees to 25 men and women. The graduates came from fifteen states, from California to New Hampshire, from Alabama to Illinois. The profound impact of this summer graduate program can best be conveyed by quoting from a letter one teacher wrote to me to express gratitude for the experience:

These past three summers may be likened to a love affair. They have been intense, personal, agonizing, and yet-or therefore-rewarding. Ed- ., ucation will never again be for me a mere train­ing, a mere establishment of proficiency in some subject matter; I have seen that it demands every­thing and promises everything; it does no·t tolerate sham or pretense; it destroys to build anew.

I have been obliged to abandon many pet theories and preconceptions. I have been con­fronted with and stung by my ignorance so that I might see as if for the first time.

David Jones has directed the Graduate Institute for three summers with imagination, with tact, and with a great sense of fairness. He has resigned to return to teach­ing and other responsibilities on the Faculty. I should like to thank him for a job well done. His successor is Robert L. Spaeth, of the Annapolis Faculty, who will assume his new duties on or about October !st. The Committee for the Graduate Institute has been constituted on the Annap-

olis campus. The Institute office in Santa Fe loses the capable services of Mrs. Cynthia Schlaer as Registrar; for­tunately Mrs. Beverly Ross Smith, Mrs. Schlaer's prede­cessor, has returned to the position.

The Alumni

I am pleased to report an expanding number of seminars for alumni. At Homecoming, the Class of 1949 invited Stringfellow Barr to be their special guest and to lead them in a seminar. The New York alumni held four seminars between December and March, two each led by Tutors Robert Bart and Samuel Kutler. There were 27 alumni and spouses participating in the first summer seminars in Annapolis in June, and there were 32 partici­pants during the fortnight of alumni seminars in Santa Fe in August. All seemed to agree that the seminars are stimulating and that they constitute an important contri­bution which the College can make to its alumni. I should like to express appreciation to the many tutors who served as co-leaders without any monetary recompense.

At Homecoming, the Alumni Association and the Class of 1949 both graciously recognized Mrs. Weigle and me for our 25 years at the College. Mr. Barr and I became classmates when the 1949ers elected us to honorary mem­bership. Alumni awards of merit went this year to John D. Alexander, '20, Benjamin Michaelson, '12, and Ernst 0. von Schwerdtner, '17. Bernard F. Gessner, '27, and William W. Simmons, '48, were re-elected president and executive vice-president of <the Association, respeotively. Edward F. Lathrop, '38, was named secretary, and Carol P. Tilles, '59, treasurer. In the election of alumni to terms on the Board of Visitors and Governors the successful nominees were James H. Frame, '50, of Los Altos Hills, California, and William W. Simmons, '48, of Linstead, Maryland.

Giving to the Alumni Fund increased markedly over the preceding year. A total of $38,195 was received from 806 donors, as compared to $33,044 from 724 individuals in 1973-74. This represented a 26.6% response as com­pared to 24% a year ago. The average size of the gift in­creased to $47. Two new categories of donors were created, members of the President's Council, those who contrib­uted $1,000 or more; and St. John's Sponsors, those who contributed $500 or more. In this first year, there were five who qualified for the President's Council, ten became St. John's Sponsors and 153 King William Associates. To all alumni who contributed this year I express the Col­lege's thanks. The future of the College depends, in fact, upon the willingness of the alumni on both campuses to accept this responsibility for ongoing financial support. I hope the day is not too distant when the goal of $100,000 will be achieved in Annapolis and of $25,000 on the much younger Santa Fe campus. To this end the Santa Fe alumni are now well organized in a class agent-secretary plan for the first time.

October, 1975

The College and the Outside World

It is a frustrating and never-ending task to present the College and its distinctive educational program to its many publics-to prospective students, their parents, and teachers through the catalogue and admissions materials, to alumni and friends through Tl1e College, and to the public at large through newspaper and magazine articles. This spring, noteworthy stories appeared in the New York Times and in the Potomac Magazine of the Wash-· ington Post, the latter under the dubious title, "St. John's College and Civilization: College as Paradise." Robert Goldwin's appointment to President Ford's staff prompted a flurry of references to St. John's. The Chronicle of Edu­cation carried a boxed list of the books read at the Col­lege, provoking the usual caustic criticisms from some who misunderstand the role of the books in the Program. Then, too, I should note that Arthur Levine and J olm Weingart in their new book, Reform of Undergraduate Education, state that St. John's College has succeeded in establishing the best functioning one among "general education programs," the other two being the Directed Studies Program at Yale and the discontinued Experi­mental College Program on the Berkeley campus of the University of California. In a book entitled To Be or Not to Be, Duncan Williams found groundless the fears once expressed that graduate schools would shun those who had received the general degree of Bachelor of Arts at St.

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The College

John's College. He writes: "St. John's graduates are now sought after because of their breadth of vision and ger;­eral culture. What the curriculum does offer, and m tlus it differs markedly from hybrids such as the usual 'inter­disciplinary studies,' is a genuine demand o? the intellect, and it is thus above and beyond the seemmgly mtermm­able wrangle over the shallowness versus narrowness." .

In the area of public relations the College has contm­ued to believe that it has both an opportunity and a responsibility to share its cultural programs and its facili­ties with the Annapolis and Santa Fe commumtJes. The Annapolis Opera presented three operas this season in the Key Memorial Auditorium, and the Annapolis Ballet per­formed at Christmastime. The new art gallery attracted many townspeople, as did the regular concerts and lec­tures. At Santa Fe, the Book and Author Luncheons continued to be popular, as did the concerts, the art gallery shows, and the Indian Table, now merged with the program of the Southwest Association of Indian Arts. Special mention should be made of the concert by soprano Jan de Gaetani in November. Saturday mght films were well attended on both campuses. In the spring there was a noteworthy benefit conducted by the seniors to raise money toward the cost of a gymnasium. Gregory Peck graciously appeared in person, and two of his films were shown, The Gunfighter and To Kill a Mockingbird. The most exciting use of the campus occurred in June when the biennial conference of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics was held on the Santa Fe campus. About 200 persons attended the week-long ses­sions. The subject was high energy physics and nuclear structure. Arrangements were in the hands of scientists from the nearby Los Alamos Laboratory, under the per­ceptive and capable direction of Dr. Louis Rosen, Direc­tor of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Pi-Meson Facility.

Finances

Both campuses operated within their respective budgets during the year. At Annapolis, revenues amounted to $2,476,430 against total expenditures of $2,455,545, thus adding $20,875 to the reserve fund for the future. At Santa Fe, there was a favorable margin of only $510, as expenditures of $2,343,444 were just covered by income of $2,343,954. Gifts and grants played a most important part in achieving these favorable outcomes. The following chart analyzes the monies received as to source and purpose:

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Donors

Board SJC Community Alumni Parents Friends

Annapolis

$ 9,840 13,117

156,986 6,555

25,832

Santa Fe

$ 690,570 13,132 4,119 2,904

103,287

Foundations Corporations Government Bequest

Totals

Purposes

Unrestricted Scholarships Library Other Restricted Graduate Institute Endowment Plant

Totals

119,900 46,307 50,522

$429,059

$354,360 14,900

45 3,320

40,566 15,868

$429,059

140,495 25,432

213,952 863,503

$2,057,394

$ 706,375 63,034 6,450

188,473 90,005

897,996 105,061

$2,057,394

I should like to single out for special acknowledgment a major gift of $100,000 from an alumnus and a grant of $85,000 from the Hodson Trust, both for general purposes at Annapohs. ~t Santa Fe, let me note that the second annual sustaining campaign among local Citizens ratsed $32,000, a third more than the year before. The two largest amounts received on the western campus were $200,000 from a former board member and his wife and $185,473 from the National Endowment for the Humani­ties, representing the second installment of the develop­ment grant. Gifts in kind included a splendid collectiOn of Indian rugs from Mr. and Mrs. Edwin J. Bienecke, Jr., of New York City, four excellent pieces of Indian pottery from Mrs. Richard Modrall, of Albuquerque: New Mexico, and a large number of books from many mdiVJ· dual donors. For all the contributions, whether of one dollar or of hundreds of thousands of dollars, the Faculty, the students, the staff, and I are tremendously grateful.

The first major bequest for the Santa Fe endowment was received during 1975 under the will of the late Nonpa Fiske Day, of Santa Fe. In the major distribution of the estate, St. John's College has received $863,503. A later accounting may increase this figure to $900,000. In accord­ance with the expressed wishes of Mrs. Day, permanent funds have been established, the annual income from which will be used for a tutor's salary in music, for the library, and for student scholarships. All of these funds now bear Mrs. Day's name as a memorial to her.

During the year under review, the Finance Committee of the Board decided to retain new investment counsel. The Annapolis endowment portfolio was divided, two­thirds going to Endowment Management and Research, Inc., of Boston, Massachusetts, and one-third, together with the Santa Fe endowment, going to Fayez Sarofim & Company, of Houston, Texas. The transfer of securities was practically completed by June 30th. It is hoped that at least a six percent annual return can be provided by the two counsellors. Mercantile Safe Deposit and Trust Company of Baltimore continues as custodian for the

Annapolis endowment managed by Endowment Manage­ment and Research, while the balance, plus the Santa Fe endowment, will be in the custodianship of the First National Bank of Santa Fe.

One of the increasingly difficult problems confronting the College on both of its campuses is the mounting need for scholarships and other student financial aid. At Annap­olis, a total of $265,666 was made available, as detailed in the chart below. This represented nearly one-ninth of the College's budget. At Santa Fe, the need was considerably greater, for $334,005 was provided, slightly more than one-seventh of the overall budget.

Types of Financial Aid Annapolis Santa Fe

Campus Jobs $ 52,757 $ 85,760 Grants-in-Aid 121,458 126,604 Maryland Scholarships 12,600 St. John's Scholarships 5,650 21,722

(Faculty & Staff Children) Other Scholarships 52,293 35,330 Federal Programs . 8,108 29,824 National Direct Student Loans 12,800 34,765

Totals $265,666 $334,005

The College bases its financial aid offers to students on an analysis of the parents' confidential statement, following the outline prepared for families of all college students by the College Entrance Examination Board. In a number of cases the student's need exceeds the College's capabil­ity, and an alternative choice of college must be made, or the student must drop out for a year or so to earn a part of his fees. Since federal funds are for the most part available to lower-income students, the whole situation constitutes a genuine dilemma. Middle-income families are more and more hard pressed at just the time when the least financial assistance is available to them.

The future of many independent colleges and univer­sities is uncertain at best. Thus far, St. John's College has been remarkably fortunate in managing to avoid annual deficits and accumulated debt. Whether fees, endowment income, and gifts and grants can keep pace with soaring energy costs and necessary salary increases remains to be seen. To provide at least a tentative conclusion as to the future, I have asked the Treasurers and Vice-Presidents on both campuses to prepare five-year budget projections to 1980. I am convinced in my own mind that there is no alternative but to move forward.

I shall propose to the Board at its next meeting the launching of the Fund for 1980, a broadly based effort to carry the two campuses through the relative instability of the next five years to a time when the whole economic climate of the country may have bettered itself and a new spirit of confidence may prevail. A Fund for 1980 would aim first to underwrite the operating budgets of both campuses for the coming fiscal year and for the four sue-

October, 1975

ceeding ones. It would include an index of major projects to be funded; such as the renovation of Paca-Carroll House and provision of more adequate dining and gymnasium facilities at Annapolis, and a modest physical education building, a library, and an auditorium at Santa Fe. Finally, it would seek sizeable accretions to the College's endow­ment through bequests and deferred giving.

For such an effort, we will seek new sources of help from foundations and individuals. But we will need the continued devoted giving of every Board member. And we must look, as never before, to a far greater measure of support from each alumnus and each friend of the College. I shall do my best to assure the College's con­tinued existence, both at Annapolis and at Santa Fe. I can only hope that each person who reads this report will understand the gravity of the College's situation and will be sufficiently committed to its principles and program to share responsibility for safeguarding St. John's future.

Santa Fe, New Mexico August 28, 1975

Richard D. Weigle President

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CURRENT FUNDS

Unrestricted Cash .................... . Accounts Receivable, Net ...... , ............. . Due from Other Funds ........................ . Inventory Bookstore at Cost ................... . Investments, at Cost ............. , ............ . Prepaid Expenses ........................... .

Restricted Cash .......•.................................. Due from Other Funds ........................ . Investments, at Cost .......................... .

Total Current Funds

LOAN FUNDS

Cash ............•................................ Student Loans Receivable ........................ . National Direct Student Loans .................. . United Student Aid Deposit ..... .

Total Loan Funds .............. .

LIFE ESTATE FUNDS

Due from Current Unrestricted Funds ...... . Due from Plant Funds .......... .

Total Life Estate Funds ...

ENDOWMENT FUNDS Cash ............................................ . Receivables ..................................... . Pledges Receivable ................................ . Investment Cash Account ......................... . Investments, at Cost . . . . . . . . ......... , . , , ..

Total Endowment Funds ....... .

PLANT FUNDS Land and Improvements .......................... . Buildings •..... , ................................. . Equipment, Furnishings, Library Books ............ . Land and Improvements California ............... .

Unexpended Plant Funds ................... . Bond Sinking Fund Investments ..... .

Total Plant Funds

Total Funds .......................... .

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$

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Annapolis

74,959 7,300

50,157 28,641

4,650 7,193 --

172,900

110,433 6,000

282,906 ---399,339 ---572,239

11,105 601

171,756

183,462

.... ......

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$ 27,488 1,196,268

670 627,002

6,280,489

s 8,131,917

' 375,677 5,675,141

394,221 584,000 ---

$ 7,029,039 $ 8,368 $ ...... $ 7,037,407

$}5,925,025

BALANCE SHEETS June 30, 1975

LIABILITIES AND FUND BALANCES

Santa Fe CURRENT FUNDS Unrestricted

' 38,001 81,250

Accounts Payable ...................... . Due to Other Funds .......................... . Student Advance Deposits ................. .

40,040 Deferred Income ............................. . 10,699 61.918 Reserve for Future Operations. . . . . . ..........•.

$ 231,908 Restricted

$ 100,709 28,546 Fund Balance 34,990

Total Current Funds $ 164,245

$ 396,153

LOAN FUNDS

$ 12,318 Due to Current ...................................

25,902 AdvanCes from Federal Government for

183,946 National Direct Student Loans .................

1,000 Fund Balance .. ................................ -- Total Loan Funds ................... $ 223,166

LIFE ESTATE FUNDS

' 16,069 Liability under Life Estate Agreements .........

177,361 Total Life Estate Funds ..... , , .................

$ 193,430

ENDOWMENT FUNDS

' 3,000 Fund Balance .................... . Unexpended Income .............................. .

863,503 Due to Other Funds ......................... .

367,959 Total Endowment Funds .... .

$1,234,462

PLANT FUNDS $ 533,245

5,906,741 655,327

Due to Other Funds ....................... . Notes Payable--Other ........................... . Loans Payable to Annapolis Campus .............. . Donnitory Bonds Payable ........................ . Net Invested in Plant ............................ .

$7,095,313 $ 7,422 $ 247,883 Unexpended Plant Funds .......................... .

Bond Sinking Fund .............................. . $7,350,618

Total Plant Funds $9,397,829

Total Funds .......................... .

Annapolis

' 20,445 6,000

62,211 37,886

' 126,542 $ 46,358

' 172,900

' 399,339

• 572,239

$ ..... 170,726 12,736

$ 183,462

$ .. .... $ .. ....

$ 8,086,885 12,651 32,381

$ 8,131,917

$ 16,398

7,012,641

$ 7,029,039 $ 8,368 $

$ 7,037,4(17

$15,925,025

Santa Fe

' 11,722 45,865 50,800 61,399

$ 169,786

' 62,122

$ 231,908

$ 164,245

$ 396,153

' 300

193,909 28,957

$ 223,166

$ 193,430

$ 193,430

$1,234,462

$1,234,462

$ 177,361 26,083

1,048,594 1,575,000 4,268,275

$7,095,313 $ 7,422 $ 247,883

$7,350,618

$9,397,829

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CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF REVENUE AND EXPENDITURES

Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1975

REVENUE

Educational & General Tuition Fees ................................ . Endowment ..............• , , , ..... , ........ , .. Gifts and Grants . , .. , .... , , ................. . Government Programs and Grants ..........•.. Graduate Institute , .... , ..................... . Miscellaneous ................................ .

Student Financial Aid Auxiliary Entel"Prises

Bookstore ...............••....••............. Dining Hall , .............................. . Dormitories ...............•...................

Total Revenues ....................... .

Net Income , .................... , , . , .. .

EXPENDITURES

Educational & General Administrative ...... , , ......... , . , .......... . General , ..•.................................. Instruction, Undergraduate ...............•.... Instruction, Graduate & Other .........•...... Student Activities ........................... . Federal Programs .........•.. , .......•....... Plant Operations & Maintenance. . ........ .

Student Financial Aid ........................... . Auxiliary Enterprises

Bookstore ................................. ·. · Dining Hall ..................•............... Dormitories .................................. .

Total Expenditures .................. .

Annapolis

$1,135,578 394,575 304,365

69,962

61,965 --

$1,966,445

99,301

$ 61,196 197,100 154,931

$ 413,227

$2,478,973

$ 20,887

$ 296,686 178,579

1,020,818 2,206

24,084 20,449

455,772

$1,998,594

$ 197,662

$ 71,331 190,499

$ 261,830

$2,458,086

Santa Fe

$ 753,484 45,820

718,553 191.542 174,113

36,528

$1,920,040

$ 86,142

' 52,177 154,377 131,218

$ 337,772

$2,343,!)54

$ 510

s 221,564 162,766 862,718 189,051

35,485 46,806

303,405

$1.821,795

$ 213,480

$ 51,915 157,999

98,255 --

$ 308,169

$2,343,444

ANNAPOLIS ENDOWMENT FUNDS

June 30, 1975

TUTORSHIP ENDOWMENTS:

Richard Hammond Elliott, 1917 ..............•.. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grants .......... . Addison E. Mullikin, 1895 .................•..... Arthur de Talma Valk, 1906 ...•.....•.••........

SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENTS:

Gift of Donor

$ 313,432

1,989,954 150,216

A. W.MeUon Foundation

Matchhtg Gift

$ 2,679,845

500,000 150,000

Total Fund

Principal

$ 313,432 2,679,845 2,489,954

300,216

$2,453,602 $3,329,845 $5,783,447

Annapolis Self Help ............ ,................ $ 15,000 25,000

7,500 3,070 8,672

87,933 7,000

13,705

$ 15,000 $ 30,000 50,000

7,500 6,140 8,672

87,933 7,000

13,705

George M. Austin, 1908 ........................ . Walter S. Baird, 1930 ......................•.... Chicago Regional ....................•......... Class of 1897 ...••..•........................... Class of 1898 ...............................•..• Richard Cleveland .....•........ , .............. . Dr. Charles C. Cook .........................•.. Corp. George E. Cunniff, III .•.................. Mary E. Dodd ................................. . Clarence Dickinson, 1911 ....................... . Faculty .............•...... · .• · .. - .•... · . · · ... . John T. and Gertrude L. Harrison, 1907 ........ . Richard H. Hodgson, 1906 ...... , ..........•. , .. . Alfred and Ruth Houston, 1906 ................. . Houston Regional .........................•.... Jesse H. Jones and Mary Gibbs Jones ........... . Robert E._ and Margaret Larsh Jones, 1909 ..... . Arthur E. and Hilda Combs Landers, 1930 ...... . Massachusetts Regional ....................... . Philip A. Myers, II, 1938 ..... , .....•............ Oklahoma Regional ........................... . Thomas Parran Memorial, 1911 •.. , ..•.• ,.,, .... . Pittsburgh Regional ........................... . Readers Digest Foundation •..• , .•.....•..•..... Clifton C. Roehle ............................. . Murray Joel Rosenberg Memorial. ...•..•.. , .. , .. Flora Duvall Sayles ........................... . Hazel Norris and J. Graham Shannahan, 1908 .. . Clarence W. Stryker ........................... . Frederick J. von Schwerdtner .......•.....•.• , .. Richard D. Weigle ............................. .

STUDENT LOAN FUND ENDOWMENTS:

135 115

1,000 44,077 30,025

150,250 42,787

500 36,000 49,759 10,000 22,685 30,262 26,000

6,265 560

12,500 7,056 4,106 2,000 3,664 3,768 1,552

10,853

25,000

3,070

135

2,359 20,025

150,250 2,500

500 36,000

22,685 9,000

26,000

560

3,413

7,367

270 115

1,000 46,436 50,050

300,500 45,287

1,000 72,000 40,759 10,000 45,370 39,262 52,000

6,265 1,120

12,500 7,056 4,106 2,000 3,664 7,181 1,552

18,220

$ 654,799 $ 323,864 $ 978,663

George Friedland ............................. , $ 20,144 $ 20,000 $ 40,144 John David Pyle, 1962, Memorial................ 6,372 1,470 7,842

$ 26,516 $ 21,470 $ 47,986

ALUMNI MEMORIAL ENDOWMENTS:

Granville Q. Adams, 1929 ........... , . , . . . . . • . . . . $ Charles Edwards Athey, 1931. .................. . Judge L. C. Bailey, 1911. ...................... . William F. Baxter, 1923 ....................... . Drew H. Beatty, 1903 ........................... . Dr. William Brewer, 1823 ...................... . Frederick W. Brune, 1874 ...................... . Benjamin Duvall Chambers, 1905 ............... . Henry M. Cooper, Jr., 1934 ..................... . Walter I. Dawkins, 1880 .......•. , •. ,,, ••.••.•• , Robert F. Duer, Jr., 1921. .................... .. Dr. Phillip H. Edwards, 1898 .................... . Joseph W. Fastner, Jr., 1960 •.. ,,.,,.,, .• ,.,,.,. Allen Lester Fowler, 1915 ...................... . Edna G. and Roscoe E. Grove, 1910 ....•..•......

1.100 7,025

100 25

600 125 855

2,638 1,000

58,683 3,590 1,135 2,000

500 16,556

$

200 125 507

1,000

335 985

500

$ 1,100 7.025

100 25

800 250

1,362 2,638 2,000

58,683 3,925 2,120 2,000 1,000

16,556

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Charles W. Hass, 1927 .......................... . John M. J. Hodges, 1904.,.,,, .. , .. , •• ,.,.,,., •• Dr. Amos F. Hutchins, 1906 .................... . Clarence T. Johnson, 1909 .. , .. , .............. ,,. Clifford L. Johnson, 1911. ..................... . Helen B. Jones and Robert 0. Jones, 1916 ...... . Jonathan D. Korshin, 1966, Library Fund ....... . Oliver M. Korshin, 1963, Library Fund ......... . Dr. W. Oscar LaMotte, 1902.,,,,,, •. ,, ....... , •. John H. E. Legg, 1921. ........••.••.•.•••.•••• William Lentz, 1912 ..........•.........•...... Leola B. and Thomas W. Ligon, 1916 ........... . Col. Harrison McAlpine, 1909 ................... . James R. McClintock, 1965, Prize Fund ........ . Vincent W. McKay, 1946 ....................... . H. Boyns MacMannis, 1924 ...... , .. , .....• ,.,,,. Robert E. Maddox, 1876 ........................ . William P. Maddox, 1921. ...............•.. ,.,. Charles Gomber Mantz, 1875, Library Fund ..... . William L. Mayo, 1899 ....•.. , . , . , .... , .. , ..... . Ridgely P. Melvin, 1899 .......................•. Wm. S. Morsell, 1923, Athletic Fund ........... . John Mullan, 1847 ............................ . Walter C. My lander, Jr., 1932 ....... , .......... . M. Keith Neville, 1905 ............• ,, ........... . Dr. John 0. Neustadt, 1939 .................... . Blanchard Randall, 1874 ................. , ..... . Susan Irene Roberts, 1966 ...................... . Leroy T. Rohrer, 1903 ............... , ...•.. , .. . Elliott A. Rosenberg, 1963 ..................... . Harrison Sasscer, 1944 ............•.••••••• , ••. Charles H. Schoff, 1889 ........................ . Henry F. Sturdy, 1906 ......................... . Rev. Enoch M. Thompson, 1895., .•. , ........... . Col. Guy D. Thompson, 1916 .............•..•.•.. John T. Tucker, 1914 ................... , ...... . Dr. Robert S. G. Welch, 1913 .................. .. Dr. Willis H. White, 1922 .............. ,.,., •••. Amos W. W. Woodcock, 1903... . .......... .

OTHER ENDOWMENTS:

Hertha S. and Jesse L. Adams Concert Fund ... . Alumni Memorial Book Fund .................. . Charles Edward Stuart Barton Memorial

Library Fund .............................. . Philo Sherman Bennett Prize Fund ............. . Benwood Foundation Library Fund ............. . George A. Bingley Memorial Fund .......... , .. . Scott Buchanan Memorial Fund ................. . Helen C. and George Davidson, Jr., 1916 ....... . The Dunning Memorial Fund .................... . Fund for Tomorrow Lectureship ................ . Floyd Hayden Prize Fund ...................... . Joseph H. Hazen Foundation Lectureship Fund .. . Mary Safford Hoogewerff Memorial Library Fund Maid Compensation Fund .................... . Margaret Lauck Memorial Library Fund. Library Fund ................................. . Monterey Mackey Memorial Fund ............... . Emily Boyce Mackubin Fund ................ , .. . Ellen C. Murphy M-emorial Library Fund ....... . Kate Moore Myers Landscaping Fund ..... . Henry H. and Cora Dodson Sa;;scer

Newspaper Fund ......................... , . Adolph W. Schmidt Fund ....................... . Richard Scofield Memorial Fund ................ . Mrs. Blair T. Scott Memorial Prize Fund ....... . Kathryn Mylroie Stevens Memorial Prize Fund .. . Clare Eddy and Eugene V. Thaw, 1947

Lectureship Fund ........................... . Elma R. and Charles D. Todd Memorial

Library Fund ............................... . Millard Tydings Prize Fund ................... . Clara B. Weigle Memorial Library Fund ........ .

Gift of Donor

A. W.Mellon Foundation

Matching Gift

40 1,000

658 100 100

18,357 200 200

5,140 23,223 1,020 5,000

325 466

21,806 4,500 1,650 2,000 1,000

12,219 100

5,000 10,000

6,333 1,000 1.109

851 702 100

1,920 4,550

500 28,633

3,000 700

633

7,563

1,020

325

100 5,000

10,000

1,000

330

100

500

3,000

2,500 ..... . 125 125 625 625

2,000 1,000

$ 264,684 $ 34,973

$ 60,000 355

500 308

25,000 20,250

5,770 21,625 10,000

3,000 78

1,000 31,683 10,000

789 560 900

75,192 1,500

124,349

1,500 15,628 1,568

518 1,250

20,900

19,500 1,000 1,196

$ 60,000

25,000

3,000 25

400

1,500

19,500

Total Fund

Principal

40 1.000 1,291

100 100

25,920 200 200

5,140 23,223 2,040 5,000

650 466

21,806 4,500 1,650 2,000 1,000

12,219 200

10,000 20,000

6,333 2,000 1,109 1,181

702 200

1,920 4,550 1,000

28,633 6,000

700 2,500

250 1,250 3,000

$ 299,657

$ 120,000 355

500 308

50,000 20,250

5,770 21,625 10,000

6,000 103

1.000 31,683 10,000

789 960 900

75,192 3,000

124,349

1,500 15,628 1,568

518 1,250

20,900

39,000 1,000 1,196

Gift of Donor

A. W.Mellon Foundation

Matching Gift

Total Fund

Principal

Daniel E. Weigle and Jessie N. Weigle Memorial Fund ......•..... , ................ .

The Jack Wilen Foundation Library Fund in Memory of Murray Joel Rosenberg ........ .

Victor Zuckerkandl Memorial Fund .......•.. ,,,, Alumni Endowment ................. , , ........ .

2,500

1,000 19,325

210,800

2,500

186,309 General Endowment ........................... . 526,154 ..... .

1,000 19,325

397,109 526,154

$1,215,698 $ 295,734 $1,511,432

Loss on Sale of Securities ...................... ($ 534,300) $ ($ 534,300)

Total Endowment .......... , . . $4,080,999 $4,005,886 $8,086,885

SANTA FE ENDOWMENT FUNDS June 30, 1975

TUTORSHIP ENDOWMENT: Norma Fiske Day Fund ................. .

SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENTS: Helen and Everett Jones Fund .....• , .•.• , .......................•..•• Norma Fiske Day Fund .. , •.................. , •.. ,.,, ............... . Readers Digest Foundation Fund .................................... . Nina Otero Warren Memorial Fund ..................... ,., •..... , .. . Gen-eral Scholarship Fund ....................... , ................... . Evelyn Mitchell Memorial Fund ..•..• , .• , ......................•.. , .. Graduate Institute • , .. , ............................. , . , .. , ........ , .

LIBRARY ENDOWMENTS: Emlen Davies Fund.,,., ...................... , ..................... . Norma Fiske Day Fund ........ ,.,,.,,., .............. , •. ,., .. , ..... . Angeline Eaton Memorial Fund ................ , .................... . Nina S. Garson Memorial Fund ... , • , .... , ................. , , ........ . Duane L. Peterson Memorial Fund ...........•......................• Victor Zuckerkandl Memorial Fund .........................•..•..••.. Memorial, Honor and Life Membership Funds ......• , ..... , .......... .

OTHER ENDOWMENTS: Bromwell Ault, Sr., Memorial Fund .............•. , •..• , .. , ......... . Henry Austin Poetry Fund ....................................•...... Margaret Bridwell Bowdle Fund ................... ,,, ..... , ......... . Fletcher Catron Memorial Fund ......•.. , ................•..• , •. ,., .• Margo Dawn Gerber Prize Fund ....•..•............... , .. , ......... . Elizabeth R. and Alvin C. Graves Memorial Fund,, .................. . Margaret Milliken Hatch Fund ........• ,., .................•.. , .... . Frank Patania Memorial Fund .... , ...•. , ................ ,, ... , ..... . Winfield Townley Scott Memorial Fund .......... , ................... . E. I. "Tommy" Thompson Memorial Fund, .... , ............... ,,.,.,. Millard E. Tydings Prize Fund ........•.. , ............ , . , .• , ........ . Clare B. Weigle Memorial Fund .............•.• , ....................• Jessie N. and Daniel E. Weigle Fund .. ,, .................. ,.,., .. ,, .. Other Funds ................. , .•.. , ................ , , .. , .... , , •••.. ,

FOUNDATION ENDOWMENT FUNDS: Los Alamos Ranch School Fund ........................ ,,,, •........ Other Foundation ........................• , ........................ .

Gain (Loss) on Sale of Securities ................................... ..

Total Endowment .......................... .

Gift of Donor $ 500,000

$ 120,000 200,000

12,500 1,875

13,157 25,000

457

$ 372,989

$ 1,118 163,503

1,150 2,000

800 1,000

35,711

$ 205,282

$ 1,037 7,500

40,000 1,300 1,141 8,881

35,000 3,341 2,535 1.865 1,000 4,713 2,500 1,251

$ 112,064

$ 46,541 3,600

$ 50,141

($ 6,014)

$1,234,462

~ §:. .~ -'-0 ..._, V>

October, 1975

CLASS NOTES 1928

During the 1975 summer session, Louis L. Snyder was Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Cologne, 'Vest Germany.

1931 Circuit Court Judge Matthew S. Evans has

been appointed administrative judge for Mary­land's Fifth Judicial Circuit, which includes Anne Arundel, Howard, and Carroll Counties. Judge Evans has been on the court bench since 1956.

1937 Col. Harold L. Brooks writes that after 15

years of private dental practice in Arlington, Va., and some 20 years of Air Force dentistry, he retired in 1973. He is now professor of oral medicine at the University of F1orida Co1lege of Dentistry in Gainesville. Harold also has a son who is a practicing dentist in Vero Beach, Fla.

1940 Hall E. Timanus heads trial work for the

Houston law firm of Andrews, Kurth, Campbell & Jones. In 1972 Hall was appointed a mem­ber of the Democratic National Committee from Texas, and was named to the Democratic Charter Commission by Terry Sanford.

1947 On July Ist Theodore Ernst became dean

and professor in the School of Social \Velfare at the University of Kansas.

1948 George R. Trimble, Jr., is president of his

own independent computer consulting com­pany, T-Logic, Inc., in Princeton, N.J.

1952 11Ie value of the Alumni Communicard is

still being proved. T11e latest is from David E. Napper, who uses it to bring us up to date on his doings. lie joined the Air Force in 1952, became a weather officer, joined IBM in 1957 as a systems engineer, and is now located at the company's Data Processing Division head· quarters in "White Plains, N.Y. l-Ie manages Independent Study Program development, cre­ating multi-media self-study courses on various aspects of computing. Dave and his wife Jean have a daughter Janet, 18, and a son, Keith, who is 13.

1953 Ed Bauer writes that he attended a most

interesting Gestalt 11Ierapy workshop in La Jo1la, Cal., in August, for his own personal growth and for the counseling degree toward which he is working, but also finds the experi­ence most helpful in his teaching of German language and literature courses.

1957 Blake Kline, son of Comelia (HoHman)

Burdette and \Villiam E. Kline '59 is a fresh­man in Annapolis this year. Cornelia is living and teaching in Baltimore city. Bill is with a law firm in Tehran, Iran.

1959 Peter M. Rice, a mathematics professor at

the University of Georgia since 1963, this sum. mer \Vas awarded his second Humboldt Fel­lowship to carry out research projects in the Federal Republic of Gcnnany. Peter is study­ing the application of mathematical models to political science, work for which he is already internationally recognized.

1960 The new head of the Appellate Division,

Office of the District Attorney of Suffolk (Boston) County, Mass., is Mary Gallagher.

1961 Michael \XI. Ham writes that Man' Lou

(Ryce) has completed the first summef of an accelerated law school program at the Univer­sity of Imva. She hopes to receive her J.D. degree in August 1977. Mike is now Director, General Systems, at American College Testing.

1l1e June issue of The Atlantic Monthly contained an article on the popular subject of sugar by John Pekkanen.

Amanda (Mayer) Stiucl1ecum tells us that she is a candidate for the Ph.D. degree in Japanese and comparath·e literature as Colulll­hia University.

1962 Allen Reid, who visited Annapolis this past

year, is operating a camera repair shop in Plainfield, Vt. Allen and his wife Liisa have two children.

1963

Among those who attended the Annapolis Alumni Seminar Program this past June was Daniel AI. Sherman. Dan has an M.A. degree from the University of Toronto in philosophy, taught for three ye.cm at York Uni\'ersity,

Toronto, and is cunently teaching high school. He is still single, and lives on a farm outside Toronto.

1964 Eric Lutker holds the Ph.D. degree from

Colorado State University, is employed as Coordinating Director, Commack Consultation Center, Commack, N.Y., and is senior psychol­ogist at the Suffolk (N.Y.) Rehabilitation Cen­ter for the physically handicapped.

A note from Arlene (Andrew) Banh says that she lacks only a thesis to receive her degree as a Y\'[aster of Urban Planning. Husband Bill will be at Johns Hopkins during the fall semes­ter, doing research in perception. The Banks's son Joshua is now four years old, and is, to quote his mother, "a very jolly sort of person."

1965 Linda (Bender) Erickson has just received

her M.A. degree in librarianship from San Jose (Cal.) State University, and is employed by Lockheed Information Systems, working with DIALOG, Lockheed's computerized informa­tion retrieval system.

1966 During the current academic year, Richard

Fielding has an appointment as Visiting Assist­ant Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina. Dick will be teaching contracts, ne­gotiable instruments, and a seminar on dis­crimination.

Carol (Picardo) Kelley writes that living in Paris, delightful place though it is, takes some getting used to. She and Loren '67 see Robert_,; K. Thomas '63 frequently, and with the 11wmases had lunch with tutor Geoffrey Comber, his wife and son, when the Combers were in Paris last spring.

John Trotter writes that he is a candidate (doctoral, we assume) in philosophy in the department of biological structure at the Uni­\'ersity of Washington. I-I is resemch concerns the deYclopmental biology of striated muscle in vitro.

1968 Bettina A. Briggs (SF), a Boston area attor­

ney, is a member of the Board of Trustees at Southeastern Massachusetts University.

2nd Lt. Lois J. HoHman, USAF, informs us that she is stationed at Seymour Johnson AFB in North Carolina, as a registered nurse in the 4th Tactical Fighter Hospital. She hopes to attend East Carolina University to complete her B.S. degree in nursing.

George WI. Partlow is working in the Alaska

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The College

State Library as an acquisition clerk. George says he has been doing "all sorts of stuff, in­cluding some Russian translation," and enjoyed meeting Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn when the lat­ter visited Alaska. George has heard from Clmrles Watson and Kerry Nemovicl1er; the former is stationed at the Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, Va., while the latter is still in Israel.

Ann Arbor, Mich., will be home for the coming year for Antigone (Phalares) Moore (SF) while her husband works on his master's degree in public health.

Joe Sachs, a tutor in Annapolis since last winter, in May received his M.A. degree in philosophy from The Pennsylvania State Uni­versity.

Deborah Schwartz and Gilbert Renaut were married on August 18th in Nantucket, Mass. Douglas Allanbrook, Annapolis tutor, was best man. Deborah is returning as a tutor on the Annapolis campus this year, while Gibby will work as an attorney with the Employee Bene­fits Division of the Office of the Solicitor of Labor of the United States.

Steven Shore (SF) recently accepted a posi· tion with Avis as a financial analyst.

Julia (von Edla) Gregg (SF) and her hus­band Tosh have been married six years, and own and live on their own farm, where they raise a lot of their own food. The Greggs have two daughters, Alison Rachel, three years old, and Sally Belie, three months.

1969 Lee Fischler (SF) is a teaching associate in

EngliSh at the University of Arizona, and started work on his doctoral dissertation in September.

Maya Hasegawa in the past year made a 5Yz month trip from Nova Scotia to Vancou­ver Island and then down the West Coast and back, taking photographs, hiking and camping. She is now employed as Training Coordinator for the Commonwealth of Virginia Equal Em­ployment Opportunity Program. Her sister, Kimi '73, graduated from Marlboro College in May, and spent the summer at the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado.

Let us quote directly the fo1Jowing from Captain Carlton S. Severance: "Regan Mensch (SF '71 ) and I were married in I 969 and lived in California until I graduated from the School of Veterinary Medicine at U.C./Davis in 1973. Since then I have been the base veterinarian at Wurtsmith AFB, Oscoda, Mich. Son Alexander \vas born in May 1974. Am nearly paraly7,ed with ennui. Please write. Address: 8028-D, So. Alaska, \Vurtsmith AFB, MI 48753."

Just after press time for the July issue we received a fine long letter from Catherine (Allen) Wagner, written from Cuzco, Peru. Kitty is working on her dissertation under a grant from the Doherty Foundation of Prince­ton University, specifically on the iconography of ritual drinking vessels from the Incaic and Colonial periods in Peru. She and her husband are living at an elevation of 12,000 feet, in a

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ATTENTION ALL ALUMNI:

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS In the spring of 1976 two openings will be created for Alumni Repre­

sentatives on the Board of Visitors and Governors, as Julius Rosenberg '38 and Thomas E. Stern SF68 reach the end of their current three-year terms. Both alumni arc eligible for reelection. The directors of the Alumni Association, as required by the Association By-Laws and the Polity of the College, have been requested to nominate at least one candidate for each forthcoming vacancy. In addition, nominations may be made by written petition of at least 30 members of the Association, submitted io me at the Alumni Office in Annapolis.

All nominations, whether by the directors or by petition, must be in my hands no later than December 1, 1975, in order that the names, biograph­ical sketches, and photographs of the nominees may be published in the January issue of this magazine.

tiny village a day's trip by potato truck and on foot from Cuzco. Kitty says her Greek studies at St. John's have helped as she learns Quechua, the local language. Although beans, potatoes, and local tubers are apparently dietary staples, the natives do raise some animals; Kitty says guinea pigs are quite tasty.

1970

In keeping with the now-established tradi­tion, John Dean has sent us his annual "exotic postcard," this time from Athens: "I'm tour­ing classical Greece and it's c1assical1y wonder­full" By now John has become editor of the largest student newspaper in Europe, Sennet, with a copy-run of 40,000. He is also finishing his Ph.D. thesis at the University of London.

1be morning mail on September 8th brought a fine letter from Jeffrey Friedman, who advises that he and Janet Kasten were married in August 1974 in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. St. John­nies present \vere Steve and Nancy (Goldwin) '67 Harvey {and baby Joshua), Harry Sinoff '74, and Marvin Cooper '69. Jeff and Janet are now back in Jerusalem, he studying at the Shapell (formerly Hartman) Center of Jewish Studies, she working for a computer typeset­ting concern. The Friedmans visited this sum­mer with Kerry Nemovicher, his \-vife Hadassah, and their daughter at their home in Hert7,lia.

A nice note from T. K. (Thomas) Nelson conveys year-old but nonetheless welcome news of the births on July 17 and 18, 1974, of twins Lars and Erik. The two dates came about when the big event spanned midnight. T. K and Chris have an older son, Tollof, who started kindergarten this year. Proud grandpa, of course, is Chuck Nelson '45.

Thomas Parran, Jr. Director of Alumni Activities

1971 Emily Butler (SF) and Nicholas Lyons (SF)

were married in June in Watsonville, Cal. Emily graduated Phi Beta Kappa in June 1974 from the University of California at Berkeley, and finished her master's degree in library science in August; she received a departmental av,'flrd as the outstanding student on the Italian department in 1974. Nick has been self-em­ployed as an artist (marquetry) and as a sculptor's apprentice.

Elizabeth Peterson writes that she is in law school at Catholic University, and finds that it is lots of fun and lots of work. She recom­mends that students (or alumni) interested in law school consider C.U.; she believes their St. John's background wiH help them gain admission.

Mary "Betsy" Sanders writes that after her year at St. John's she lived in PhoenLx, Ariz., with her then-husband Craig Sanchez. They moved to Toronto, where she studied political science and economics for two years. Having discovered that English is her field, she is now attending TI10mas Jefferson College near Grand Rapids, Mich., finishing up her undergraduate work. Her address is 1217 Bemis, Grand Rapids 49506, and she would love to hear from Cheryl Christie, Cliff Martin, Ron Mil­len, and Barbara, her roommate.

One of our busier medical students is V. Michael Victorofl: is a member of the Task Force on Ethics and Human Values of the American Medical Student Association; during the summer attended a high-level policy meet­ing on l)reventive Medicine at the National Institutes of Health; in November is scheduled to deliver an address to the Society for Health and Human Values at the Association of Amer-

ican Medical Colleges Convention in Wash­ington, D.C., the subject: "Who is DeHurnan. izing Whom in Medical Education?"

Shelley Depp (Greenwood) Bloomer, (SF) a graduate of Washburn Law School in To­peka, Kan., is in practice with her husband Robert and her father-in-law Cecil in Osborne, Kan. In June Shelley was appointed the first ·woman county attorney in the state of Kansas. The Bloomer's daughter Bethany Gat1 was one year old in August.

1972 Lt. Tlwmas Ascik of the Marines is now

stationed at Camp Lejeune, N.C. For the past two years David Carey studied

at the Gregorian University in Rome, where this past spring he was awarded the M.A. degree in theology. While overseas he was ordained a deacon and assisted the chaplain of an Air Force base in Germany for several months. Returning to this country, on July 19th David was ordained a priest in the Roman Catholic Church, and is now in his first full­time parish assignment in Butler, Pa., just north of his home, Pittsburgh.

David A. Klein (SF) and his wife are living in Hila, Hawaii, where David is employed as a journeyman diesel engine mechanic. He com­pleted two years at the Los Angeles Trade Technical School and two years of on-the-job training in the same city before moving west. David received his A.S. degree in truck and diesel repair from the Technical School, gradu­ating with top honors in his class.

Elizabeth Molnar is now Mrs. H. R. Hinton, and makes her home in Chicago.

Deborah Papier, who attended the Alumni Summer Seminar session in Annapolis, has been a recent contributor to the Washington (D.C.) Star. She has had at least one book review and a feature story on operas in the United States.

Grant Wiggins and his wife Joanne are teaching at Loomis-Chaffee School in Wind­sor, Conn. Grant is head of, and teaches in, the philosophy and religion department. Tod Donohue visited with the Wigginses mid-sum­mer on his way to a teaching job in Maine.

1973 Jeff Angus (SF) writes that he completed

his baccalaureate work at Antioch College, majoring in -anthropology/environmental plan­ning. He moved to Washington, D.C., where he drove a taxi for two months, and then start­ed work as a legislative researcher for Senator Gaylord Nelson. Jeff finds the work challeitg­ing, exciting, and very rewarding. His address is 1527 North 17th Street #102, Arlington, Va. 22209; he would appreciate hearing from any of the "old gang."

Since January 1974 Mary L. Batteen has been a graduate student in physical oceanogra­phy at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va. She is a research assistant in the Depart­ment of Physics and Geophysics, and was re· cently awarded a tuition grant by the director of the Institute of Oceanography.

Greg Chilenski has entered the Ph.D. pro­gram in social psychology at the State University of New York at Albany, the winner of a 1975 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow­ship. Greg is a member of Sigma Khi, The Sci­ence Research Society of North America.

Miss Barbara Leonard passed along to us some information about Peter Ellison and his wife Priscilla (Lindsay) '72. The Ellisons have completed their undergraduate studies at the University of Vermont, he in biology, she in anthropology. This year "Pippi" is at Brandeis University on a National Institutes of Mental Health Traineeship, while Peter is at Harvard with a University fe1lowship. Both the Ellisons were elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and received the awards as outstanding seniors in their respective departments at Vermont.

Another graduate student is Roger Greene, starting his second year of work toward an M.F.A. degree in film at Columbia University. Last year he also did free-lance editorial work, and spent most of the summer teaching film­making at a teen camp in the Catskills.

Rand Lee wrote last spring to say that he had graduated from Washington Bible College with a B.A. degree in religious education, and hoped to go to work for a Christian publisher in Chicago.

Melanie P. Morgan (SF) is currently the assistant manager (manager trainee) for Pier 1 Imports in Columbus, Ohio. She is scheduled for her own store in February, and hopes to be moving west.

Lee Perlman was recently appointed execu­tive director of Common Cause in Maryland. A former legislative assistant to Maryland State Delegate Don Rosenshine, Lee was selected from among I 90 applicants.

C. Brian Scott is now in his second year at the Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College. He joined the Jaw review, En­vironmental Law, in July, and is working with six other students on a project about federal agencies and environmental impact statements.

Jennifer Wicke (SF) and Harry Comelit1s (SF) were married on the second of August in Athens, Ohio. Jennifer completed her under­graduate work at the University of Chicago, and is now a graduate student in comparative English at the City University of New York. Harry finished at Bennington College, and is

October, 197 5

now a second-year philosophy student at Columbia University.

1974 R. Michael and Christine (McNesby) Ben.

ton were married in August 1974, and have been living and working in Chicago for the past year.

2nd Lt. Erica F. Chaney, USMCR, is a deputy disbursing officer at the Mar~~e Corps Air Station, El Toro, Cal. She VISited the Annapolis campus during the summer, and is obviously enjoying her .assignment.

On Saturday, June 28th, Janet Lee Christ­hill and Donnel O'Flynn '73 were married in Shadyside, Md.

Kelly Fike (SF) writes that he is up to his neck in his last semester of forestry at North­ern Arizona University in Flagstaff.

Gerard (we apologize for "Leonard" in the April issue) Kapolka and Daphne (Greene) '76 have returned from Poland for studies at the University of Chicago. Gerry will be in the Department of Slavic Literature and Languages, Daphne in the Department of History of Science and Medicine.

Maria Kayanan is a paralegal assistant in a legal aid office for migrant farm workers in Apopka, Fla.

Bonnie Shiprak completed her undergradu­ate work (B.A. in psychology) at Immaculata College near Philadelphia in May 1974. This past year she did some graduate work at Penn State University's Capitol Campus in Harris­burg while working as a reference librarian in the county library system. In August Bonnie started full-time graduate work in clinical psy­chology at Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, La., where she also has an assist­antship as an undergraduate counselor.

Karen Zimmer works at Cornell University as .the assistant curator of the L. H. Bailey Hortorium which specializes in cultivated plants. She also plans to continue her studies in botany.

1975 Gerry Ekman writes from the Navy Officer

Candidate School in Newport, R.I., where he started training in July. After commissioning in December he anticipates assignment to Surface Warfare Officer School until next June.

In Memoriam 1904-Rev. Daniel R. Magruder, Boston,

Mass., August 7, 1975. ~ 1922-John S. Austerlitz, Washington,

D.C. / 1923-RAdm. Thomas Burton Klakring, San Diego, Cal., July 25, 1975. •/ 1931-Paul S. Canfield, Wethersfield, Conn., March 12, 1975.

,../1936-G. Gordon Gaeng, Baltimore, Md., July 24, 1975. vf 939-Robert Lee Keyser, Jr., Baltimore,

Md., June 24, 1975. v1943-Henry C. Preston, Jr., Dallas,

Tex., January 28, 1975. '1961-Parnela (Parker) Pattie, El Cen­

tro, Cal, March 1975.

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