CAM Newsletter

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Annual CAM meeting at the Campus Center, University of Minnesota, Saturday, November 1st, 2003

The annual meeting of the Classical Association of Minnesota will take place at the Campus Center of the University of Minnesota.Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.See directions on last page.Our keynote speakers are Richard Thomas of Harvard University and Greg Daugherty of Randolph -Macon College.

Program

8:30-9:00: Registration & continental breakfast�� (coffee, OJ, muffins) CAM Annual Dues: $10 for regular members, $5 for emeriti and students. Meeting registration fee:$15 (includes coffee, rolls, lunch and reception) or $5.00 without lunch.Please update your addresses.

****To assist the University in preparing the proper lunch, we ask that you indicate via email to Stephen Smith whether or not you will be taking lunch, and any dietary restrictions: smith504@umn.edu

Please RSVP by October 29th.

9:00: Call to Order

9:00-10:00:Reports (each school represented has 2-3 minutes to describe the state of Latin/Greek/Classics there and to announce any special upcoming events)

10:00-10:15:Presentation of CAM Latin Teacher of the Year award

10:15-11:15:Guest lecture by Prof. Richard Thomas, Harvard University (�Translating the Odes of Horace�)

 

 

11:15-12:00:Discussion I: Electronic resources for teaching Latin, Greek, Classical civilization (with presentation by Robert Neslund, Shattuck-St. Mary's School)

12:00-1:00:Lunch (box lunches, sodas, water)

1:00-1:15:Business Meeting (election of new officers for 2003-05)

1:15-2:15:Guest lecture by Prof. Gregory Daugherty, Randolph-Macon College (�Her Infinite Variety: Cleopatra in American Popular Culture�)

2:15-3:00:Discussion II: Latin teacher shortages, licensure issues (see update below), careers for Classicists

3:00:Adjournment

 

ABOUT THE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

 

Richard Thomas, Professor of Greek and Latin, was educated at the University of Auckland (B.A. 1972; M.A. 1973), and at the University of Michigan (Ph.D. 1977). He taught at Harvard as Assistant and Associate Professor, 1977-84; as Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati, 1984-6; as Professor at Cornell University, 1986-7; and has been Professor of Greek and Latin at Harvard since 1987; he was visiting Professor of Latin, University of Venice (Spring, 1991). He is currently Chair of the Department of the Classics, and has served as Director of Graduate Studies and of Undergraduate Studies, is Chair of the Graduate Placement Committee, and Co-chair of the Seminar on "The Civilizations of Greece and Rome", in Harvard's Humanities Center. He has served as Director of the American Philological Association and as Trustee of the Vergilian Society, of which he is currently a director.He has published a monograph, Lands and Peoples in Roman Poetry: The Ethnographical Tradition (Cambridge 1982), a two-volume text and commentary on Virgil's Georgics (Cambridge 1988), a collection of his articles on the subject of Virgilian intertextuality, Reading Virgil and his Texts (Michigan 1999), and most recently a study of the ideological reception from its beginnings through the twentieth century, Virgil and the Augustan Reception (Cambridge 2001). He is currently working on a commentary on Horace, Odes 4 (Cambridge). He co-edited and contributed to Widener Library: Voices from the Stacks, a special issue of Harvard Library Bulletin (1996). He has published articles, notes and reviews on Menander, on Hellenistic Greek poetry, on Roman poetry, particularly of the Republican and Augustan periods.

In his teaching and research he is interested in a variety of critical approaches (chiefly philological, intertextual, narratological), and in literary history, metrics and prose stylistics, genre studies, translation theory and practice, and the reception of Classical literature and culture, particularly as it relates to Virgil.

 

 

Gregory N. Daugherty, a native of Dallas, Texas, earned his bachelor's degree in Latin from the University of Richmond in 1970, and, after spending a year at the Collegio Ghislieri of the University of Pavia in Italy on a Fulbright Scholarship, he received his M.A. (1975) and Ph.D. (1977) in Classical Studies from Vanderbilt University. He came to Randolph-Macon College in the Fall of 1976, and currently Chairs the Department of Classics. Although he has primarily taught classes on ancient Greek language and literature, his research interests have recently been centered on public safety in the ancient city, with particular reference to the Imperial Roman fire brigades, the Cohortes Vigilum, especially their role in the Great Fire at the time of Nero. Dr. Daugherty has served on numerous committees, but he counts as his proudest achievements his role in helping to establish the Honors Program (and in serving as the first Director of the Program), and the success of the Saturday Seminars for Latin Teachers which the Department of Classics has run for the past fourteen years. He also helped to create and run the Summer School, and chaired the committee which developed the current Code of Academic Integrity. He twice received the Thomas Branch Award for Excellence in Teaching.�� Most recently he won the APA's Award for Excellence in the Teaching of the Classics (2002).He has also been very active in regional and national organizations devoted to the field of Classics:he has served as Executive Secretary of the National Committee for Latin and Greek and edited their Newsletter, Prospects; he has been Secretary of the Richmond Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and President of the Foreign Language Association of Virginia; he is the current Secretary-Treasurer of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South and a member of the American Philological Association's Education Committee.

 

Our thanks to the outgoing Executive Committee - 2001-2003!

 

Anne Groton � President, St. Olaf, groton@stolaf.edu

Dennis Rayl � Vice-President, Trinity School, drayl@attbi.com

Jon Bruss � Treasurer, St. Olaf, bruss@stolaf.edu

Nanette Scott Goldman � Secretary, Macalester, goldman@macalester.edu

Christopher Nappa � Member at Large, University of Minnesota, cnappa@umn.edu

Jeremiah Reedy � Past President, Macalester, reedy@macalester.edu

 

Welcome to the new Executive Committee:

 

Slate of officers - 2003-2005 (pending approval):

President - Eric Dugale (Gustavus)

Vice President - Steve Smith (U. of MN)

Secretary - Matt Panciera (Gustavus)

Treasurer - Ellen Sassenberg (Mayo H.S.)

 

Other members:

Member at Large - Amanda Wilcox (U. of MN)

Past President - Anne Groton (St. Olaf)

CAM Web Site Manager - Beth Severy-Hoven (Macalester)

Mercurius Editor - Chris Nappa (U. of MN)

 

 

 

Upcoming events

Additional lectures by CAM keynote speaker Richard Thomas

 

Gustavus Adolphus (Thur., Oct. 30):�� "Hellenistic and Roman Poetry.The Case Renewed"

info:507.933.8000 or wfreiert@gustavus.edu

 

U.of Minnesota (Fri., Oct. 31):�� "Horace's Apollos: The Bow, the Lyre and the Princeps"

info: 612-625-5353 or cnes@umn.edu

 

Student symposium on ancient sculpture - Minneapolis Institute of Arts

 

Sheila McNally (University of Minnesota) and Mireille Lee (St. Thomas and Macalester) will be organizing a student symposium on ancient sculpture to accompany the exhibition of the Miller Collection of Roman portraiture at the MIA in March, 2004.This is open to college and graduate students of all area institutions.For more information contact Professors McNally or Lee: mcnal001@maroon.tc.umn.edu, leem@macalester.edu.

 

2003-2004 MN-AIA Lecture Schedule

Minnesota Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (MN-AIA)

Anne Salisbury, President

All lectures are free and open to the public. Lectures at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) are held at 6:00 p.m. on a Thursday evening in the large auditorium of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts located at 2400 3rd Avenue South.They are followed by a question and answer period and also an opportunity to dine with the guest, usually at Christos Greek Restaurant at 2632 Nicollet Ave. This year one lecture (in May) will be held at the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul on the Thursday of Minnesota's Archaeology Week. Dinner with the speaker at a local St. Paul restaurant will precede the 7:30 lecture.

1. October 23, 2003, 6:00 p.m., Pillsbury Auditorium, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Speaker: Elizabeth Simpson
Topic:
"Celebrating Midas: Reconstructing the Burial of a Great Phrygian King"

 

 

2. November 6, 2003 6:00 p.m., Pillsbury Auditorium, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Speaker: Timothy McAndrews
Topic:
Sacred Symbols and Everyday Life in the Moche Civilization of the Peruvian
Andes

 

3. January 8, 2004 6:00 p.m., Pillsbury Auditorium, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Speaker: Will Lindesay
Topic:
"
Great Wall of China"
website http://www.friendsofgreatwall.org/

 

4. February 26, 2004 6:00 p.m., Pillsbury Auditorium, Minneapolis Institute of Art
Speaker
: Dr. Barbara A. Barletta, Professor of Art History, University of Florida
Topic
: "The Western Greeks and their Neighbors"

 

5. March 11, 2004 6:00 p.m., Pillsbury Auditorium, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Speaker: Dr. Andreas Konecny from the Austrian Institute of Archaeology, Vienna
Topic:
"Recent research in the living quarters of a Roman provincial capitol: Excavating Houses 1 and 2 at Carnuntum /
Pannonia"

 

6. April 1, 2004 6:00 p.m., Pillsbury Auditorium, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Speaker: Dr. Elizabeth Bartman
Topic:
Barbarian Portraits.

 

7. May 6, 2004 7:30 p.m., Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul on the Thursday of Minnesota's Archaeology Week
Speaker: Kevin L. Callahan, University of Minnesota Department of Anthropology M.A., Ph.D. candidate
Topic: "
The Rock Art of Minnesota"

 

This program is made possible with funding from the Minnesota Humanities Commission in cooperation with the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Minnesota State Legislature.

 

The findings, conclusions, etc. of the lecturers do not necessarily represent the views of the Minnesota Humanities Commission or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

 

For more information on the speakers and lecture outlines visit the Minnesota AIA web page at

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5579/mnaia.html

 

Summer Latin Class for Middle Schoolers

 

Pending funding, Teresa Roguski will conduct her second summer Latin class for middle school students in 2004.Last summer the class ran from July 7-18, weekday mornings at Fair School in Crystal.Details are not yet finalized for this summer, but stay tuned. Students will read stories in Latin, do lots of vocab and derivatives, learn about Roman life, play games, sing songs, create some art, and anything else to have fun with Latin.�� Not too much grammar, no grades � after all, it�s summer!But they�ll finish the class thinking they�ve learned a lot.And the class is free!

 

Other announcements

 

Mercurius

The third issue of Mercurius--CAM's newsletter for Minnesota Latin students--will soon be available.If you are not already on our mailing list, please contact Christopher Nappa (cnappa@umn.edu) to request it.Please note that we have begun to distribute a master copy only; this includes a separate answer sheet for games and puzzles.Teachers may make as many copies as they need and may distribute at will.

 

Latin Teacher of the Year

The Classical Association of Minnesota has chosen the Latin Teacher of the Year for 2003 and will reveal the award recipient�s identity and background at the annual meeting, November 1st.

 

Latin Teacher of the Year Award:The nominee should be a Latin teacher in an elementary, middle or high school and a member of CAM.He or she must demonstrate excellence in teaching and foster in students an interest in continued Latin study.The nomination packet must include a resume prepared by the candidate, information about the nominee�s school and Latin program, a letter of recommendation from nominator, and supporting documentation from colleagues,

 

students and administration.Materials should be sent to Eric Dugdale, Gustavus Adolphus College 800 West College Avenue, St. Peter, MN 56082-1498.Deadline for nominations is May 1, 2004

 

Latin added to Waldorf school curriculum:

Waldorf school is looking for a Latin teacher for about 4 hrs a week at a salary of $22 an hour to teach Grades 6-8 Latin. Contact:Dan Odegard, Administrator, 651-487 6700, ext 206. "The position would be available immediately, and credentials are not required.This position would be appropriate for either a graduate student or an undergraduate with strong Latin skills and an interest in teaching."

 

Downloadable posters (free!)

Through the website of CAMWS and CPL, Ginny Lindzey and Michelle Vitt have been collaborating on a series of downloadable posters for Latin classrooms.The website is: http://www.promotelatin.org/camwscpleducators.htm

 

Latin Exam and Awards

The National Latin Exam sponsored by the American Classical League and Junior Classical League was taken by over 126,000 students this year.Several hundred Minnesota students were among those taking the exam.Minnesota Latin teachers should notify CAM vice-president Stephen Smith. if they have students who receive high scores on this exam.CAM acknowledges these students� accomplishments with a congratulatory letter and a gift certificate.Deadline for exam application is January 10, 2004.www.nle.aclclassics.org.

 

Congratulations to the Minnesota National Latin Exam Winners � 2003!

Mitch Taraschi compiled and reported the following NLE results:

 

Saint Thomas Academy (Mitch Taraschi)

45 STA students took the NLE

Latin I: 15 took exam, 1 gold, 4 silver, 3 magna, 4 cum laude

Latin II: 13 took exam, 2 gold, 2 silver, 2 magna, 1 cum laude

(John Boyle = 39, Michael Fahey = 39)

Latin III Prose: 10 took exam, 1 gold, 1 silver, 3 magna, 1 cum laude

Latin IV Prose: 6 took exam, 3 gold

Latin V: 1 took exam, 1 silver

 

Benilde-St. Margaret's High School (Rob Epler)

48 BSM students took the NLE

Latin I:3 took exam

Latin II:20 took exam, 2 silver, 1 magna, 4 cum laude

Latin III Prose:6 took exam, 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 magna

Latin IV Poetry:13 took exam, 2 silver, 4 magna

Latin V:6 took exam, 2 gold, 1 silver

 

John Marshall High School (Krista Osmundson)

75 JM students took the NLE

Latin I: 16 took exam, 1 silver, 4 cum laude

Latin II: 46 took exam, 1 gold, 1 silver, 8 magna, 4 cum laude

Latin III Prose: 13 took exam, 1 magna, 1 cum laude

 

Minnehaha Academy Middle School (Michelle Breuer Vitt)

67 MA (MS) students took the NLE

Latin intro: 32 took exam, 11 outstanding, 13 certificates of achievement

(Jessie Wright = 40, Jessica Simmons = 39, Thomas VerHage = 39)

Latin I: 35 took exam, 3 gold, 4 silver, 7 magna, 4 cum laude�� (Benjamin Binder = 39)

Cretin Derham Hall (Sister Judith Kavanaugh)

25 CDH students took the NLE

Latin I: 7 took exam, 1 gold, 4 silver, 1 cum laude(John Buckeye = 39)���

Latin II: 8 took exam, 3 silver, 2 magna, 2 cum laude

Latin III Prose: 7 took exam, 1 silver, 2 magna

Latin IV Prose: 3 took exam, 1 silver, 2 magna

Edina High School (Emese Pilgram)

11 EHS students took the NLE

Latin II: 10 took exam, 1 silver, 2 magna, 1 cum laude

Latin IV Prose: 1 took exam, 1 gold

 

Schaeffer Academy (James D Kluth)

30 SA students took the NLE

Latin I: 23 took exam, 2 gold, 5 silver, 6 magna, 2 cum laude

Latin II: 7 took exam, 4 gold, 1 silver, 1 cum laude

(Stephen W. Rose = 40, Christopher N. Steer = 40)

 

Spring Grove (Mary Deters)

27 SG students took the NLE

Latin I: 15 students took exam, 1 magna, 1 cum laude

Latin II: 9 students took exam, 1 gold, 1 magna, 1 cum laude

Latin III: 3 students took exam, 1 magna

 

 

 

 
NewSCL chapters in Minnesota

 

A Macalester chapter of the Senior Classical League has been formed. Contact Anna Everett: everett@macalester.edu.A chapter at St. Olaf is in the works. Contact Lisa Gulya: gulya@stolaf.edu.

 

 

 

 

 

K-12 Latin Licensure update

From CAM president Anne Groton......

"In recent years Minnesota Latin teachers in pursuit of a teaching license have found themselves trapped in a catch-22 situation:on the one hand, as full-time Latin teachers, they were not free to take day-time education courses at institutions with Latin licensure programs; on the other hand, they were not allowed to enroll in evening or weekend education courses because all of those are offered at institutions *without* Latin licensure programs.During the past year many people have worked hard to devise collaborative, alternative routes to Latin licensure in Minnesota, and now, at last, solutions appear to be close at hand.A discussion of this issue will close the CAM meeting on November 1."

 

"On a related note, Concordia College and the University of North Dakota have agreed to combine forces so that UND students earning a B.S. or B.A. in Latin/Classical Studies can enroll simultaneously in the UND and Concordia teacher education programs and earn a Minnesota K-12 Latin teaching license by the time they graduate from UND."

 

Res Gestae

 

Schaeffer Academy of Rochester

 

James Kluth writes....

(Schaeffer Academy) was proud to report two perfect papers on level 2 of the 2003 National Latin Exam.The papers belonged to sophomore Latin students Stephen W. Rose and C. Nicholas Steer.The two perfect papers came from a class of seven students.Six of the seven were honored in some way on the exam.......... My second son, Aidan Michael Kluth, was born September 18, 2003 at 12:30 p.m.His older brother, Evan, almost three,can chant four tenses of verb endings in the indicative mood and is working on pluperfect endings at this time.

Gustavus Adolphus

 

Will Freiert writes�.

After a quarter-century of inspiring students to be Philhellenes and challenging his colleagues to be equally inspiring, Stewart Flory followed Pat Freiert's example and took advantage of Gustavus' early retirement policy this year, moving his office to Folke Bernadotte Library.�� Joining the Classics Department this year, in the position held by Stewart, is Bronwen Wickkiser.Bronwen grew up in Baltimore and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with High Honors from Oberlin. She also studied at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome and at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.After working as a legislative editor in Madison, Wisconsin, Bronwen attended graduate school at the University of Texas, where she held numerous fellowships, taught a wide range of courses, and won an important teaching award.Her dissertation was on The Appeal of Asklepios and the Politics of Healing in the Greco-Roman World.Bronwen is a practicing archaeologist who has participated in excavations in Sardinia, in the Ukraine, at Corinth, and at Metaponto and Ostia in Italy.She is a wonderful addition to the Department and we are delighted to welcome her to Gustavus.

��������������� In other news,last year was incredibly busy.In October, Mike Adkins, '02, who teaches at Trinity School, visited Matt Panciera's Latin and Roman History classes to talk about the excitement he finds in numismatics. Susan Schumacher, '02, is very excited that she has joined Mike at Trinity teaching Ancient History, Art History, a seminar on ancient authors, and Greek. Ashwini Keswani, '85, was on campus to talk to Pat Freiert's First Term Seminar on bicultural experience.

��������������� The fall lecturers last year were Jim May and David Jordan.In March, Rachel Blunk, '04, organized a public reading of Aristophanes Lysistrata, to coincide with the world-wide anti-war demonstration on March 3.�� Among those joining Rachel in the cast were Matt Panciera and Eric Dugdale.The year's major lecturer was Miranda Marvin.Her lecture, "Exploding the Copy Myth: Rethinking Roman Sculpture," was dedicated to the memory of Marleen Flory and coincided with the alumni reunion to honor Stewart upon his retirement.

The Gustavus Classics Department will undergo tenth-year review during the coming spring semester.Leslie Day and David Porter will conduct the review.Advice from CAM members is welcome.

University of Minnesota

 

From Doug Olson......

My news is that I'm on leave this year with grants from the NEH and the Loeb Classical Library Foundation and am working on completing an edition of Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae for OUP with Colin Austin.

George Sheets has been appointed an Associate Member of the Univ. of Minnesota Law School Faculty, and will be giving a talk at a colloquium there in October.The subject of the talk will be "Making Sense of Death in the Law," which considers a number of problems in defining and adjudicating legal interests that arise in connection with deceased persons and their remains, including examples from various legal systems--contemporary and (ancient) Roman.

The U of M Classics department is pleased to welcome Michael de Brauw as Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics this year.�� He received his PhD this past summer from the University of Texas, on the "Rhetoric of Litigiousness and Legal Expertise in Cicero and the Attic Orators."

Oliver Nicholson writes...

I have been demob-happy after completing five years running Mediaeval Studies and the College gave me a single course teaching relief for a term in the spring in order to make headway with the three sets of Mediaeval Center conference proceedings (on Lactantius, Conversion and Pilgrimage) which are inching their way into print.The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity continues to proceed though at the speed of the slowest contributor.��� I

was the runner-up in the Single Semester Leave Sweepstakes for this autumn, but my horse squeaked past the post at the last minute, so until January I am in England breathing life into the embers of my persecution book, which

has been on ice (to vary the metaphor) since I started running the Mediaeval Center !��� College in the Schools is going well (so far as I can tell from this distance) ....Keep warm - I shall be back in January.

Concordia

Barbara McCauley writes...

Enrollments in beginning Latin continue to hold steady. We had 6 sections this fall for a total of 162 students. We did have to switch to the North American version of the Oxford Latin Course when the British version became too expensive to justify. Our beginning Greek class broke all records with 34 students enrolled. There are several changes in the department that should be mentioned. Stan Iverson has stepped down as chair and has stepped up to the position of Division Head in our new college division structure. His teaching load has dropped to half time and he sorely misses the classroom contact with students, while not exactly being thrilled about the increased administrative workload. I am now chair of the department, but since I am on sabbatical for 2003-2004, Ed Schmoll is currently serving as interim chair. While on sabbatical I will continue my research on Greek hero cult and its political ramifications, particularly the concept of moving a hero's bones. On a visiting one year appointment with us is Richard Stanley, a newly minted Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Richard's dissertation was entitled "Literary Constructions of Youth in the Early Empire:The Case of Nero," and he plans to expand his research to include Caligula and Domitian. Richard is serving as a full-time replacement for Stan and teaching Mythology to 45 very appreciative students. Filling in for me is Rebecca Brown, a Concordia graduate with a Master's degree from the University of Iowa. We are currently in the process of developing a search for a replacement for Stan, who will be retiring in the Spring of 2005.

 

From Olin Storvick....I want to tell you that at the fall faculty dinner on August 21, 2003, it was announced that Stanly A. Iverson had been elected by the faculty senate to the Wije Professorship.This election is held every two or three years and is the most prestigious award for faculty here at Concordia.(for more information contact Olin Storvick storvick@gloria.cord.edu)

 

Macalester

 

Joseph L. Rife directed the second season of the Kenchreai Cemetery Project this past June-July.This interdisciplinary archaeological study, which involves a team of international scholars and student volunteers mostly from Macalester, aims to document and study the remains of a major burial ground of Roman date near the ancient habor of Kenchreai, eastern port of Corinth, Greece.Currently Joe is working on short studies on the social and cultural context of Imperial Greek literature, particularly the novels and Philostratus.His monograph on the Roman and Byzantine graves and humans remains from the Isthmian Sanctuary (Greece) is under review for publication by the American School of Classical Studies.

Mireille Lee writes....

I'm teaching Classics part-time at Macalester and Art History full-time at the University of St. Thomas.My article "The Peplos and the 'Dorian Question'" just appeared in A.A. Donohue and M. Fullerton, eds., Art and its Historiography.I have two other articles forthcoming: "Evil Wealth of Raiment: Deadly Peploi in Greek Tragedy" will appear in early 2004 in The Classical Journal; and �Constru(ct)ing Gender in the Feminine Greek Peplos� is forthcoming in M. Harlow and L. Lewellyn-Jones, eds., The Dressed Body (Oxbow, 2004).My review of S. Lewis, The Athenian Woman: An Iconographic Handbook (London and New York, 2002) is BMCR, and a review of L. Llewellyn-Jones, Aphrodite�s Tortoise: The veiled women of Ancient Greece is forthcoming in the AJA. I will be speaking this December to the AIA Society of Western Michigan - the title of my talk is: �Clothing Makes the (Wo)man: Dress and Gender in the Ancient Mediterranean.�Finally, I will give a paper entitled �A River-god in Drag?Interpreting a male peplophoros� at the AIA/APA Meetings in January as part of a panel on "Cross-Dressing in Antiquity."

The career, past, present and future, of Jeremiah Reedy was celebrated last April in a weekend of study and feasting.On the occasion of Jerry's retirement, on honorary lecture was given by Thomas Robinson, University of Toronto, on the narrative design in Platonic dialogues.Jerry was toasted and roasted in subsequent dinners by friends, family, colleagues and students. In an early semester departmental gathering Classics faculty and students honored newly published (and newly married) Beth Severy-Hoven.Her book Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire is out this fall both in the UK and the US. Beth is serving as department chair this year during the sabbatical of Andy Overman.She will also lead a three-week Macalester course in Rome in January 2004, assisted by departmental colleagues Overman and Nanette Scott Goldman.�� Students will survey and tour the major spaces, surviving monuments and artifacts of the city of Rome from the earliest occupation of the Palatine hill around 1000 BCE to the construction of the first major Christian buildings by the emperor Constantine in the 4th century CE.�� Thanks also to Beth for taking over the duties of managing the CAM website.

Andy Overman is on sabbatical this year preparing site reports and other publications on Macalester's excavations of 1st century Herodian temple to Augustus in Northern Israel.A full season of excavations in the summer of 2004 is being planned. Any and all aspiring archaeologists are welcome, no experience necessary. For more information on the excavations and how to participate, visit http://www.macalester.edu/~classics/omrit.html ��

Last spring we hosted the St. Olaf troupe's delightfully irreverent performance of Plautus' Rudens. This year we look forward to guest speakers Andrew Riggsby, speaking on Roman conceptions of time and Marilyn Skinner, speaking on ancient sexuality. Professors Skinner and Riggsby will also be speaking at the University of Minnesota. Skinner will also speak in Northfield for Carleton and St. Olaf. Our majors have reached record numbers this year, ca. 32 at last count and still climbing.��

Minnehaha Academy

 

Michelle Vitt organized the Ludi Romani at Minnehaha Academy in December of 2003.Plans for Ludi this coming year have not been finalized.�����

 

St. Thomas Academy

 

from Mitch Taraschi...

We are in our 2nd year of CIS (College in the Schools) Latin here at STA and all is going well.����

 

Minneapolis South

 

Teresa Roguski reports about the summer exploratory Latin class for middle school students....

About a dozen middle school students read stories from Ed and Mary Catherine Phinney's Salvete!, made bullas and paper mosaics, and ate globi (Roman donut holes), to name a few of the highlights.If the WMEP summer program is funded for next summer, I'll be teaching the class again.(I'm already gearing up for another season of promoting my Latin program at South and I'll also be advertising the summer class.)

 

St. Olaf

Anne Groton writes�

We are delighted to have Jon Bruss and Christopher Brunelle back with us for another year. Jon is replacing Jim May, now in his second year as Provost & Dean of the College (but still kindly teaching a Latin course for us in his spare time). Chris is filling in partly for Steve Reece, whose courses are divided this year between Classics and the Great Conversation humanities program, partly for Anne Groton, who will be on sabbatical in Semester II. By next spring the new CAMWS office at St. Olaf should be fully operational, but you don't have to wait until then to send your dues to Anne, the hapless Secretary-Treasurer Elect.

After a successful production of Plautus'Rudenslast March, our students are taking a year off to recover. St. Olaf's Class of '03 included 3 Classics majors, 2 Latin majors, 2 Ancient Studies majors, and 1 Medieval Studies major. One of the Classics majors will be going to graduate school at the University of Texas-Austin after spending this year at the University of Basel.

In 2002-03 we enjoyed talks by Chris Faraone (U. of Chicago) and Dan Hooley (U. of Missouri-Columbia). Now we are looking forward to a guest lecture by Jack Peradotto (SUNY-Buffalo). We are also engaged in a departmental self-study, ably overseen by Jon, which will include a campus visit by two outside evaluators. Meanwhile Chris has livened up the place with a weekly conversational Latin breakfast and an adorable baby, Julian Arthur, born on July 8 to Chris and his wife Serena Zabin.

��������������� We continue to have a �problem� with too many students in our Latin courses. With 60-70 students enrolled in Beginning Latin and more than 50 in Intermediate Latin, we lack the space (not to mention the FTE) to accommodate them all. The numbers in our Greek and Classics courses are excellent, too, so we have nothing to complain about. Because of all the museum renovation going on in preparation for the Summer '04 Olympics in Athens, we decided to take a one-year break from offering our established (this would have been the 30th year) January-term course in Greece.

��������������� Our department's major scholarly achievement of 2002-03 was the publication by Brill of Jim's Companion to Cicero: Oratory and Rhetoric. We celebrated by having the entire Classics faculty, along with family members, lead St. Olaf's Homecoming parade, riding in the Mays' antique fire truck! The tradition continues this fall.

 

College ofSt. Benedict and St. John�s University

 

Scott Richardson writes......

Emily Holt, classics major of the class of 2002, has begun a PhD. program in classical archaeology at the University of Michigan.Lynn Cornell, classics major of the class of 2003, has begun an MA program in comparative literature at Purdue.Scott Richardson has agreed to show up at the APA in San Francisco to read a paper in the Homer session called "Indirection in the Odyssey," which he hopes to be the beginning of a long-term study of that epic in terms of indirect communication, coded messages, and espionage.

 

A personal note from Joyce Penniston..........

........I've retired from teaching at Crossroads College (formerly Minnesota Bible College) in Rochester and am now living in Cambridge, Mass.I'll be back in Rochester each month since I'm still doing administrative work for the college and have my 97 year old mother to visit.My husband John is also semi-retired.He'll continue his research at Mayo part time.

.......My Cambridge address is 19 Sacramento Place, Cambridge, MA 02138.I'd love visitors from my many friends in CAM.My email address continues as joyce.penniston@prodigy.net

�������I wish I could make the fall CAM meeting, but it isn't at a time when I'll be in Rochester.Please keep me on the mailing list!

-Joyce Penniston.

 

Items of interest from the regional classics organization - CAMWS ��

on the website at http://www.camws.org

Calls for Papers

Summer Programs

AP Catullus in Rome and Verona Date: June 28-July 9, 2004

Web Addresses for Local and National Classics organizations:

 

Classical Association of Minnesota: www.macalester.edu/~cam

 

Minnesota AIA:www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5579/mnaia.html

 

MCTLC:Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Languages and Cultures: http://www.mctlc.org/

 

CAMWS (Classical Association of Middle West and South):http://www.camws.org

 

APA (American Philological Association): www.apaclassics.org

 

ACL (American Classical League):www.aclclassics.org

 

NCLG (National Committee for Latin and Greek):www.promotelatin.org

 

AIA (Archaeological Institute of America):http://www.archaeological.org/

 

Directions to CAM meeting

 

The meeting is being held in the Campus Club, on the 4th floor of Coffman Memorial Union (on the East Bank of the U of M campus).

 

The best place to park is in the East River Road Garage, located just off East River Parkway, which has a flat rate of $5 all day Saturday.The garage is directly south of Coffman, and there should be plenty of signs to direct people.Do NOT use the "contract parking" entrance!

 

(There is some metered parking, but not much, scattered around the East Bank near Coffman.Non-metered street parking seems to be non-existent.)

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GETTING TO EAST RIVER PARKWAY

 

From the West Bank, via Washington Avenue:Immediately after you cross the Washington Avenue Bridge heading east, take the exit on the right.At the foot of the exit make a left onto E. River Pkwy.The garage will be on the left, about 1/3 mile down the road.(NOTE:This exit curves around the garage for the Weisman Museum.There may be parking available there, but there seems to be no direct access to Coffman.)

 

From the West Bank, via Franklin Avenue:Immediately after you cross the Franklin Avenue Bridge heading east, make a left at the light onto E. River Pkwy.The garage will be on the right, about 3/4 mile down the road.

 

From St. Paul, via University Avenue:Make a left onto Washington Ave.; take Washington to Oak St. and make a left.Take Oak St. to E. River Pkwy. and make a right.Garage 4/10 mile ahead on the right.

 

From Minneapolis, via University Avenue:Make a right onto Oak St. (next to McNamara Alumni Center).Take Oak St. to E. River Pkwy. and make a right.Garage 4/10 mile ahead on the right.

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A general parking map can be found at <http://www1.umn.edu/pts/maps/ebcolr.htm>.

 

If anyone needs more specific directions, they can contact Stephen Smith at <smith504@umn.edu> BEFORE OCTOBER 30.�� University of Minnesota 305 Folwell Hall Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612) 625-0751