NEW JOHNNY BULLETIN BOARD ON YAHOO/EGROUPS

To: All Johnnies

Fr: Hallie Leighton, Santa Fe '92

You are invited to join the johnnyXpress egroup, the new unofficial bulletin board/email list for the St. John's College community that has now replaced this board. The messages on this board will remain, but to post new messages to the St. John's College community, you need to join johnnyXpress (it's free).

The purpose of johnnyXpress is to enable members of the St. John's College community to get and/or share information with other johnnies as quickly as possible. Johnnies are able to read announcements to the johnnyXpress board as soon as they are sent. Some (who elect to do so) even receive posted announcements via email, an optional feature.

JohnnyXpress is for announcements and brief queries. There are currently 200 subscribers.

FOR MORE INFO

Matt Buttrill: (5/1/00)

Hi, Sallie and I are planning on spending a semester abroad this fall in Hong Kong. just wondering whether any one out there has any suggestions on getting a job there, or anything else we MUST DO in HK. thanks, Matt

John H Rees MD A '74/76: {4/30/01)

New baby (#4) - William Jackson Rees 1/20/01. Goes by Jackson....

Recently finished Mark Fabi's SciFi / Techno thriller WYRM.
Two Words - Loved It !!!!

Ongoing Small group Seminar (Year 6) with David and Erica Glass, Sam Goldberg, Paul Heylman, Eric and Karen Rosenblatt, Jim Levan, and Mark Aickelin. Recently reread the Federalist selections. Great Stuff, almost makes me like the electoral college.

David Longjohn Stanton: (4/30/01)

Amy dumped me. Then I graduated from Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley. Spent my last year at Harvard Law. Now practicing litigation in sunny Southern California. Loving it.

Shannon Wiltsey Stirman (SF '97): (4/30/01)

Kelly and I are living in Philadelphia, where I'm in my second year of a PhD program in psychology at Penn. Kelly's working for a software company that's based in San Francisco, so he's travelling a lot. We're expecting our first child in August.

Mathieu de Schutter - Santa Fe '94: (2/17/01)

Mathieu de Schutter (Santa Fe '94) and Sara Roahen (Santa Fe '94) were married in Jackson Hole, WY on October 14th, 2000. They now live in New Orleans, LA, where Mathieu is a Med Sudent at Tulane University and Sara writes for a local newspaper.

NEW YORK CHAPTER READING GROUP: (2/17/01)

NY ALUMS (and anyone visiting the NY area):
You are invited to attend
The NY Reading Group: Wednesday, March 7, 2001; 7:30-9:30 p.m.
@ Cotton Inc., 488 Madison Ave, 20th Floor.
THE HANDMAIDEN'S TALE by MARGARET ATWOOD
RSVP:Jed Stampleman at 212-413-8360 or jstampleman@cottoninc.com.
I MUST HAVE YOUR NAMES TO GIVE TO SECURITY FOR YOU TO ENTER THE BUILDING. CAN ONLY ACCOMODATE 20 PEOPLE.

Amanda (Fuller) Richards SF 91: (2/17/01)

Hi all,

The reunion for the class of 1991 is coming up fast--July 6-8 in Santa Fe. Nate Downey, John Carle, Tracy (Reppert) Kerievsky, and myself (Amanda Fuller Richards) are pitching in to help plan this shindig. We're currently looking for "lost classmates"--if you are lost and would like not to be, email Nate Downey ("Dataman") at: nate@sfpermaculture.com with the subject line "10th reunion" or "Hegel Rocks." That will get you on the list to receive the "reunion letter." If you prefer to remain lost, we'll respect your wishes. Come one, come all!

Blythe Boyer, Santa Fe '00: (2/3/01)

I have been working at QVC, land of utter, shameless Capitalism, for 8 months and I've got one left. In March I am fleeing the country for the sunnier climes of Italy (don't tell Sallie Mae, please.) Anyone in the Tuscany area drop me an email, please. From there I don't know what will happen - but hopefully it will be a whole lot of globe trotting. The past eight months since graduation have been blandly interesting in a lame, intellectually stagnating kind of way. Though this is calming after the brain-crunching overdrive of St. John's, I am ready to start learning again, now. Though leaving Joan Rivers, Richard Simmons, and Susan Lucci behind will be difficult. Oh yeah, if you're looking for an "in" to broadcasting (lame TV), let me know.
Cheers, Blythe

Chris Newman, Annapolis '91: (12/10/00)

Paola, Lucas and I have just moved to Santa Monica. Would love to hear from any friends from St. John's.

Arand D. Pierce, Santa Fe '98: (12/10/00)

attending columbia university's post-bacc pre-med program. engaged to a naughty nurse known as "emily harmon." have a beautiful 4 year-old girl, sadie. hoping to return to NM for med school.

David Harman, Santa Fe '94: (10/7/00)

I am very happy to announce the engagement between myself and Liz Follmer (A95). Actually, we've been engaged since the end of December, but we finally have a date (April 14, 2001) to be consumated in Seattle, WA. So I would like to invite the Johnnies we spent time with to please contact us. The more Johnnies to celebrate, the merrier. We can be reached at our web site http://www.lizanddavid.org/ for upcoming wedding info and email addresses.

Sara Larson Stuart, 1990A: (9/16/00)

I am looking forward to seeing other '90-ers at Homecoming. Come one, come all!

Karla Manzur, A '95: (9/16/00)

Howdy all--

Looks like we (my husband Thomas and I) will be performing at this year's homecoming in Annapolis-- Saturday, Sept 22nd at 1 pm in the vicinity of the luncheons outside. For those of you who don't know, I have been in Austin, TX for the last three years living the rock star life. Our music is pretty hard to describe, but can be found somewhere in the realm of folk/pop. Thomas will be accompanying me on electric violin...if you are intereseted, you can link to some sound files through www.karlamanzur.com...I will also be featured in this week's (9/6)edition of "Women of MP3.com"-- the URL is www.mp3.com/womenofmp3. Hope to see you in a few weeks!-- Karla Manzur

Kevin Depew, Annapolis '90: (9/2/00)

Dear St. John's Alumni-

Recently, and quite by accident, I happened upon this bulletin board site and discovered that someone had posted a rather lengthy missive, using my name, and intimating that I had recently been released from prison. It goes without saying that I found this posting, which was purportedly from me, both offensive and hurtful, a most distasteful practical joke.

For the record, let me state that I have most assuredly NOT been released from prison recently. In fact, after last week's parole board hearing it looks as if I may remain here in prison for several more years, if not indefinitely. Call me thick headed, but I simply refuse to apologize AND serve time in the slammer. Isn't being in prison apology enough? Remorse? Yeah, I'm remorseful. I'm remorseful that ATM's have hidden cameras. Sorry? I'm sorry alright. I'm sorry that I videotaped that liquor store job I did in Beltsville so I could critique my performance later. (There are many different ways to emphasize a simple phrase like give me the money. For example, some people say "GIVE me the money." Or, "Give ME the money." A friend of mine said he had success with a lot of exaggerated gun waving and a melodic intonation of "Money, Money, Money! Money!" sort of like that OJays song "For the Love of Money." That seemed a bit dramatic to me, but at the time I didn't see any reason to get into an argument about it. I mean, we were in freaking prison! How successful could it have been, really? Successful in that it scared the hell out of the people he was robbing? Maybe. Call me crazy, but I've long believed true criminal success could only be measured by the ones you "got away with.")

Sure, I could have gone the ass-kisser route with the parole board, cry a bit, make up some mean story about my parents that cynically elicits enough sympathy from the weak links on the parole board to tip the balance my way, but then I'd be just like those crappy screenwriters who rely on the explicit manipulation of guttural, raw emotion to churn out one histrionic film after another. ie. "Not Without My Daughter," "A Perfect Storm" and any Ashley Judd movie after her breakout performance in "Heat." (I'm just joking about "Heat," by the way. I mean, could Pacino and De Niro together looked any older or more decrepit? That was a bad, bad movie. Judd's character was particularly cardboard-like. It occurs to me now that "Heat" was very much a postmodern "Going In Style," which starred George Burns and other assorted geezers, only without even the obligatory "One Big Laugh," which in the case of GIS was completely unrelated to the film experience and, for me, happened to be the movie poster I'll never forget with George Burns and the assorted geezers holding guns and wearing those "Groucho" glasses that seem to fade in and out of popularity (why?) every 10 years or so.

No, I have my principles. Plus, I couldn't truthfully say I'd never commit another crime. It would be nice not to have to, but I lost alot of money in the market back in April. (Good behavior = Library Time = Internet access = E*Trade, just in case you were wondering.) When I do get out there are bills that have to be paid, new clothes that must be purchased, and I really want one of those new cars from Chrysler, GM maybe, that look like miniature versions of the ZZ Top signature ride from several of their early-to-mid 1980's videos (i.e. "Sharp Dressed Man" and "Legs").

Anyway, the prior message that was supposedly from "me" was not very funny. It would be funny if I *were* getting out, because it's just like something I would write. The voice was very good. Meanwhile, now I keep getting these party invitations in the mail because people think I'm out, and while Teluride sounds "Just great!" and I'm sure Newport is "rocking" it doesn't look like old Kev's gonna make it this year.

Geoff Marslett, Santa Fe '96: (8/1/00)

Anyone interested in Monkeys hitting Robots with sticks, and all that that implies, come out and see my animated film "Monkey vs. Robot."

It opened up as part of Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation in Southern California this last weekend, and should come to most major cities throughout the course of this year.

I can't vouch for everything in the program--it is called Sick and Twisted after all--but Monkey vs Robot is good clean fun. And if you did like it, tell the Spike and Mike's folks you did (if they are at that screening). And if you hate it, well keep that to yourself.

Dean McCollaum, Santa Fe '79: (8/12/00)

We now have three kids. Orson, 10 years old, Eugene, 8 year old adoptee from Russia with us for close to 3 years now, and Rose, who has been with us one year, after a rather thrilling and eventful pregnancy. One of these days, I may have a full-time job as a rural mail carrier with the Post Office. Or maybe not.

Chris Mark A'81: (7/15/00)

I have it on good authority that we will shortly have an opening at my company for a web developer. We are a smallish (about 150 employees) female/minority owned gov't contractor in the Washington, D.C. area. We develop and maintain the website for a federal agency in downtown DC. The work is mostly high volume, information intensive with a fast turn-around, but graphics skills would be a plus. So would Cold Fusion, JavaScript, Perl, REXX, and the usual litany of web skills. A science background would be helpful too. For more info on the company, visit http://www.ctsmd.com. To get an idea of the kind of work we do, visit http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov or http://www.foodsafety.gov.

Jenn Coonce, A 97: (7/15/00)

Hey folks. I am now working at Agency.com, an interactive agency, as an information architect. If you have any questions about interactive agencies, web site building, or information architecture, please feel free to contact me, Jenn Coonce, at jenn@whatsgoingon.com.

Christopher Reichert, A86: (7/15/00)

Looking forward to the Olympics. The choir I sing in is performing Mahler 8 for the Olympic Arts Festival, and we are in the Opening Ceremony performing in two segments, so keep an eye out.

Anyone coming down under drop me a line!

Brian Lynch A'76: (5/29/00)

As stated in a letter to the editor in The Reporter last year I have been involved in work with the Silvan S. Tomkins Institute, located in Philly(I am in Chicago), applying the thought of Tomkins to Family Medicine and to any other endeavor I find myself involved in. Some of those are working on a 'violence in medicine' committee, co-director of a drug detox unit and being appointed to a committee addressing drug abuse for the Chicago Housing Authority. An alumni seminar here on Tomkins' work seems to have gone well. Other than that life is fairly quite except for trying to survive corporate medicine. Welcome contact live or otherwise. Welcome especially anyone that would like to explore the work of Tomkins or simply be introduced to it.

David Lee Larom, Santa Fe '84: (5/29/00)

Anybody out there? Would love to talk to Jim Hanna, Steve Whalen, Joel Glanzberg, and about a zillion other people.

Curran G. Engel SF'86: (5/20/00)

Hello All:)

If you are not currently looking for a job, then tell your friends:

My wife works for a large publishing company, CMP Media, owned by United News, UK. They have large offices in New York, San Francisco, and San Mateo, and smaller offices throughout the country. (Telecommuting is a possibility in many cases, too.) They are currently hiring, looking for talented people in all kinds of fields (Editorial, Sales, Marketing, Trade shows, Online multimedia, Accounting, Information technology, Administrative, and more). They have excellent benefits, a flexible environment, and lots of great people working there already.

If you are interested, look up the jobs on their web site, http://www.cmp.com/jobs/joblists.htm. If you want to apply or have any questions about the company, contact my wife, Annalisa Chamberlain, at achamberlain@cmp.com, or call her at 800.765.8054 ext. 4291. Her direct line is 650.655.4291 if the 800 number doesn't work in your area.

Later;)

Curran G. Engel SF '86

Aaron Mason, Santa Fe '95: (4/9/00)

Hello to Johnnies in and around the NYC/tri-state area. I'm acting in an original play called "The Advent of Darknesss" at HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue (just below Spring Street) in Manhattan. We open Friday April 14th at 10:30 pm and run every Friday night through May 19th, 2000. Admission is $12. For tickets call HERE's box office at (212) 647-0202 or go to www.here.org and click on Performance for online reservations.

The play is a two-episode action adventure story, sort of a cross between The Matrix and Scooby Doo! The comic book/spy novel style is probably not your typical downtown theatrical fare. I'm playing Dr. Mapother, a research chemist whose testing on human subjects turns ugly in a fiendish plot to take over the world! Each 70-minute episode promises to be fun and entertaining.

I would also love to hear from any of my old Johnnie friends from the time of President Bush (either term), the Great Catsby, or the first classes to live in the new apartments (formerly known as the Stables). So drop me a line. I'm especially interested in hearing from Johnnies who had the good fortune of being invited to parties at the Lambda Lounge! As my 2 year old niece tells me: "Keep your groove on!" {I'm already turning her onto Plato!}

Leslie Kay SF '83: (3/4/00)

I am currently a postdoc at Caltech in Neuroscience. I've been here since 1995, after I received my PhD from Berkeley (Biophysics). I write to report my worst and then best year ever. In April 1999, my spouse, Maryellen Begley, was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. We are happy to report that she is well now and looks forward to a long and healthy life. Anyone who is interested in what we learned concerning various treatments is welcome to contact me. I have accepted a job at the University of Chicago as an Assistant Prof. in Psychology. We will move in early summer. On December 28, 1999, our adopted daughter, Kyle Begley Kay, was born. And, after a long time trying, I became pregnant at the same time. We are expecting our second daughter on Labor Day, appropriately enough. I welcome friends to contact me via email: lkay@cns.caltech.edu (the address should be good for a long time).

Maria Kwong SF74: (3/4/00)

There is a rumour that Steve Goldman SF73 has been nominated to replace the current president of the Santa Fe Campus (whose name escapes me). Does anyone know if there is any truth to this? And do we get to vote?

Curran G. Engel, SF '86: (2/13/00)

Hello All:)

Those of you in the Los Ageles/Santa Monica area. This Space Between Us will be showing on February 27, 2000, at 6:00pm. The venue is Track 16 Gallery, 2525 Michigan Ave., Building C1, Santa Monica, CA 90404. The phone number to the gallery is 310.264.4678.

Contact the gallery or the Santa Monica Film Festival for ticket information.

I hope you can make it to the show.

Later:)
Curran G. Engel SF '86

Kevin "kevin" Depew, Annapolis '90: (2/12/00)

Comments: Dear Friends:

I would like to say "Thank You" to the numerous people who sent me cards and letters during my incarceration. Also cigarettes. A special shout goes out to Munir for the subscription to Juggs. And don't think I have forgotten about the half-gram of hash. I spent 10 days in the "hole" for that one. Ha ha.

Can you believe it's been 10 years? The first four were easy. The last six were brutal. In the mid 90s a new breed of inmate took over the joint. I'm sorry, "Joint" is slang for "The Big House."

It may take me some time to lose the pokey jargon. (Pokey is slang for slow.)

Anyway, you can rest assured that I am completely rehabilitated. I have learned from my mistakes and will never rob again, much. Ha ha.

But on a serious note, there are a few scores that remain unsettled.

You know who you are. It would be inappropriate to air dirty laundry here. I won't talk about people like Paul who doublecrossed me. Not here.

I won't mention how Pete left me twisting in the wind like a cheap kite.

I also won't mention people like Jay and Tristan who still owe me money that will be collected very soon. Very, very soon. One way or another. It doesn't matter to me. We can do it easy, or we can be hard about it. Make no mistake, motherfucker, Kevin is getting paid.

But this isn't the place for langauge like that.

Soon I will be traveling and would like to hear from people who can let me shack up for a few days until all of this business is straightened out.

Maybe we can have a few beers, talk about old times and shoot things.

I also like poker.

I will need a change of clothes, any size, and a toothbrush. I prefer Oral-B soft as my teeth are sensitive.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Good luck.

Fred Cox, Annapolis '79: (1/16/99)

Great to see all at the 20th year reunion this fall. Bill Fant has copies of all of the photo's I took at the reunion and they should be posted on our class's reunion web site shortly. Enjoy! best wishes -Fred Cox

Curran G. Engel SF '86: (12/24/99)

If you are planning to be in San Francisco on Ja. 6th Go See--

This Space Between Us (http://www.slingingstar.com) which has been choosen as the opening night film for the San Francisco Indie Film Festival. The screening is on the 6th of January 8:30pm at the Victoria Theater (2961 16th street at mission). See my May/June post for more information about the film.

Many of the cast members will be at the screening and Jeremy Sisto (Lead in the film) will be on KFOG at 8 am in the morning, promoting the film......while Erik Palladino (another cast member)is on ALICE doing the same thing. Following the screening is a party at Foreign Cinema [2534 mission street at 21st]. The 10 dollar movie ticket will get you in to the party. There will be a spinner there and at break time Kate Donnellon from the film, will be singing a few songs (possibly some that are in the film).

You can pick up flyers about the festival at Tower Records and Landmark Theaters. I hope you can come out and enjoy the film.

Eli Castro, Santa Fe '94: (12/22/99)

Tracy Locke (SF '95) and I were married May this year and are happily residing in our new home just southwest of Austin with our lab Chloe.

Charles Reuben, SF '79: (12/5/99)

I was distressed to see the following excerpt in the Annapolis paper, regarding The Liberty Tree.

"A local landscaper claims he recovered much of the wood
thrown away when the Liberty Tree at St. John's College
was taken down last month and is looking for ideas 
from the public on what to do with the salvaged pieces...."

I'm sure St. John's managed to save some of the Liberty Tree and I have a suggestion regarding its use.

I think St. John's should hire a blacksmith to make a circular die with a picture of the Liberty Tree on it, and maybe a mention of St. John's.

We should then commission the blacksmith to brand a bunch of the Liberty Tree scraps. The scraps then can be varnished and sold to Alumni, or given as gifts for donations.

Hell, I'd buy one.

Simon Bone, Santa Fe '92: (11/2/99)

Interesting, but I didn't post that message from "Simon Bone" earlier. I guess someone liked reading all that old SJC stuff, but I don't blow my own horn like that. (Having said that, if you really want to see what I've been up to lately, go to http://www.ourfounder.com/bone [note better URL] where my travelogues to North Korea, Belarus, Bosnia etc. are posted.)

WILLIAM A B MALLOY, SF '77: (10/24/99)

I have a lot of feelings...and thoughts...running together just now...because I first saw the Liberty Tree in October, 1971, with my aunt, Sally. I last saw her, and the Liberty Tree, in March of 1996. On October 16, 1999, as I was packing to go home from a hospital in Houston, Aunt Sally [Sarah] died in a hospital in Baltimore....I will have more to say about this, another time.

Bill/Benedict

Dan Dabney, Santa Fe '75: (10/22/99)

My darling daughter Cindy has entered the college as a freshman this year. I'm apparently dealing with my lonleiness at our separation by renewing my interest in the college--exploring this web site, writing checks to the college, even rereading great books.

Since leaving St. John's, I've acquired three graduate degrees, most recently a Ph.D. in information studies from U.C. Berkeley. I've worked as a teacher, a lawyer, a stay-at-home daddy, a librarian, and a college professor. Right now I'm "in industry", doing R&D for a law publisher.

(Some of the lawyers in the crowd may have heard of my handiwork--I was the principal designer of "KeyCite". For this triumph, I was promoted to the rank of TOIJCC (Titan Of Industry, Junior Chipmunk Club).)

Charles Reuben, SF '80: (10/22/99)

First off, USA Today reports in its Oct. 19 issue, that The Liberty Tree in Annapolis will be coming down. Anybody who has visited SJC in Annapolis will be sad to see it go. At the risk of sounding somewhat macabre, I think they should cut up the pieces, varnish them and sell them as momentos to the Alumni, like the college did with the old gym floor.

As regards myself, one of these days I have just got to write a book on "downward mobility." It would probably read very much like Marcus Aurelius. These days I run the copy center at the School of Engineer at UNM. I run into Stephanie Forrest often, who has become quite a big name in the computer virus arena. UNM is a wonderful place to work and they treat me very well. I have become very active with the theatre department at UNM over the years and am hoping to produce a play which was inspired by Dick McCord, former publisher of The Santa Fe Reporter and author of "The Chain Gang." Any aspiring or established directors are encouraged to contact me. I'll make you rich.

Would love to hear from anybody whose path I may have crossed in Annapolis or Santa Fe. In conclusion, I would like to say that it doesn't matter how much you get paid, so long as you can pay your bills and you love your work. All my love, Chuck.

Simon Bone, Santa Fe '92: (10/3/99)

Greetings to alumnae everywhere. For your enjoyment, I have posted my former column, the NOVVS ORDO SECLORVM to my website at http://bone.8m.com/nos.html

NOVVS ORDO SECLORVM NOS was a more-or-less weekly column that appeared in Instance in Stance, a broadsheet pasted up in lavatory stalls at St John's College. Anything appearing in such a publication has to be tongue-in-cheek, but some St John's students were so earnestly irony-impaired as to air publicly their grievances about whether Instance and NOS were "proper forums for public debate." Its later appearance in The Gadfly, the official Annapolis-campus paper, didn't help matters much, where it attracted the ire of the college president. NOS was a mix of the mean (poking fun at religionists and Objectivists alike) and the serious (unearthing blatant misuse of Gulf War petitions). If you think it's pretentious rubbish, the author agrees with you. But at times it seemed to achieve its real goal, of getting students to think just a little bit for themselves.

I have also posted the St. John's Polity Council Minutes 1991-1992 at http://bone.8m.com/polmin.html

As the official record of the St John's College student government, my Polity Minutes were merely supposed to list the various items on the agenda. But that never told the real story. Like real governments, the St John's Polity Council was pompous, largely ineffectual, and fundamentally corrupt. With no one taking much interest in the ship-in-a-bottle of state, my Minutes served as an exegesis of how venal, incompetent organizations really got their hands on the cash. Like Plato's Republic, there's a political lesson to be learned from the Minutes long after they've lost their relevance...
Simon G Bone

Moira Russell, Santa Fe '92, SFGI 96: (10/3/99)

My husband, Tim Chase (whom I thought would be a good Johnny when I met him, a philosophy major endlessly stuck on Kant, Hegel, Descartes, Hume, Wittgenstein....so I took him back to school and we went through the GI Program together. So I married a Johnny after all -- a thought which terrified me in freshman year) and I are now living in Seattle, settling down, enjoying the city, and would love to get in touch with other Johnnies here or the Johnnie alumni chapter, which we can't find anywhere. I recognize some of the names here, but mainly from email, and am sad at having lost touch with my class. On the other hand, I did just get to name-drop about Mr. Engel's friend with a co-worker whose last job involved organizing the Seattle International Film Festival. Ah, the Net!

Cynthia Glines, SFGI 91: (9/26/99)

I'm doing a one-year psychology internship at NE Florida State Hospital.

James Hyder, Annapolis '84: (9/24/99)

After leaving the National Air and Space Museum in late 1996 (I was laid off in a federally mandated reorganization) I founded "MaxImage!" a business newsletter for the large-format (e.g. IMAX) film industry. I have been publishing since October 1997 and am pleased to say that the newsletter is a success. (Check out my Web site to get an idea.) It's great to be self-employed: no boss, no commute, no jacket and tie, and for the first time in 25 years, an office with a window!

Mary Braden Thorp, Annapolis '90: (9/24/99)

As of 9/7/99, I am living in Wisconsin where my husband Michael is the Director of Admission at Lawrence University. We are unschooling our two children and looking forward to the amenities of a good-sized college town after 6 years in the limbo of E. Central Indiana. Classmates and friends, please get in touch!

Jim Sorrentino (A80): (9/15/99)

My wife Elise Stigliano and I are pictured in the Sunday, September 12 edition of the New York Times, on page 5 of the Week in Review as part of a portrait of American gunowners. You may also see us on the Times website at:

http://nytimes.com/library/review/091299gun-owners-review.html

Jeff McElroy (SF79): (9/12/99)

Jeff McElroy and his partner Enrique Noguera are pleased to announce the adoption of their son, Raul Antonio Noguera McElroy in February. Jeff works part-time for an LA environmental non-profit, TreePeople, and is finishing his MBA in non-profit management this spring.

Susan Bencomo, Santa Fe '98: (9/2/99)

Looking for philosophy in all the wrong places! Currently attending Boston College. Transfered from the Straussian Political Science department to Philosophy department and have thus liberated myself from the clutches of the evil, cult-like Straussians. Only time will tell if St. John's (both campuses) can do the same for itself and spare itself from a faculty that de-liberalizes the program.

Simon Bone, Santa Fe '92: (9/2/99)

Greetings to alumnae everywhere. For your enjoyment, I have posted my former column, the NOVVS ORDO SECLORVM to my website at http://bone.8m.com/nos.html

NOVVS ORDO SECLORVM NOS was a more-or-less weekly column that appeared in Instance in Stance, a broadsheet pasted up in lavatory stalls at St Johnıs College. Anything appearing in such a publication has to be tongue-in-cheek, but some St Johnıs students were so earnestly irony-impaired as to air publicly their grievances about whether Instance and NOS were ³proper forums for public debate.² Its later appearance in The Gadfly, the official Annapolis-campus paper, didnıt help matters much, where it attracted the ire of the college president. NOS was a mix of the mean (poking fun at religionists and Objectivists alike) and the serious (unearthing blatant misuse of Gulf War petitions). If you think itıs pretentious rubbish, the author agrees with you. But at times it seemed to achieve its real goal, of getting students to think just a little bit for themselves.

I have also posted the St. John's Polity Council Minutes 1991-1992 at http://bone.8m.com/polmin.html

As the official record of the St. Johnıs College student government, my Polity Minutes were merely supposed to list the various items on the agenda. But that never told the real story. Like real governments, the St. Johnıs Polity Council was pompous, largely ineffectual, and fundamentally corrupt. With no one taking much interest in the ship-in-a-bottle of state, my Minutes served as an exegesis of how venal, incompetent organizations really got their hands on the cash. Like Platoıs Republic, thereıs a political lesson to be learned from the Minutes long after theyıve lost their relevance...

Simon G Bone

Jason Raymond, Santa Fe GI '99: (8/20/99)

I am moving to Atlanta after Labor Day and will be looking for work there in business related fields. Are there any Johnnies in Atlanta that would be willing to help me in my job search?

Also, I was wondering if anyone knows about any established Johnny reading groups in Atlanta.

Thanks a bunch.

Aaron Rosenbaum Annapolis '89: (8/16/99)

Back in California again. My wife is finishing her Ph.D. out here so I got a job for a big consulting firm building really big web sites. Drop me a line if you are looking for work (we're always looking - 4500 people and growing) or to catch up.

Gretchen Berg, Annapolis, 1975-6: (8/9/99)

Gretchen Savage (nee Berg) is in Philadelphia, and would like to know when and where the Alumni Association holds seminars in this area. Please post answers to this board, as she is in transit and has no current permanent address or email account. Thanks.

Clare Lorraine - Annapolis, Class of 1974 : (8/7/99)

I am interested in hearing from Alumni (both grad and non-grad) from all classes regarding their thoughts on their educational experience at St. John's. Was it an asset in gaining employment? A positive emotional experience? What were the most positive and negative aspects? I am particularly interested in hearing from those who left and did not finish the program, and from females of all classes, but also from all who are willing to share their thoughts.

Sean Stickle, Annapolis '95: (7/12/99)

I am now working in Washington DC, as a systems integration consultant at KPMG (basically just a fancy name for a software engineer and systems programmer).

Mark Langley, Santa Fe '81: (7/5/99)

I've spent the better parts of the 80's and 90's as a computer scientist, developing, designing, and testing software. After St. John's I got an MS in computer science at the University of Arizona.

I spent the 90's at Microsoft, in a variety of different roles. I completed an MBA in '96, and left MS for a start-up. That start up got bought by a competitor, and I returned to MS to help ship Internet Explorer 5.0.

I particularly enjoy the innovative and creative aspects of this work, and particularly enjoy working with people in addition to the stock-in-trade of clear thinking required in programming.

Would love to hear from others in the area, in the field, or just to chat.

Curran G. Engel SF '86: (7/1/99)

Hello everyone. My film This Space Between Us will Be Playing at the 13th Annual WineCountry Film Festival:

Saturday Night at 9:00 on the 31st of July
Where: Sequoia Grove Winery
8338 St. Helena Highway
Rutherford Napa
(Directions:Take the St. Helena Highway (Route #29) North from Vallejo or Napa, Past Yountville, between Rutherford and Oakville.)

* This Screening will be outdoors and seats 300 people.
* The gates open at 6:30 pm.
* Food, Beverages and theatre concessions are available for purcahse.
* Low lawn chairs are welcome, but chairs are provided.
* Bring a blanket or jacket, the evenings get chilly.

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Harvest End
707-963-9463

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Tickets for individual screenings and events may be purchased at the box office at each venue 15 minutes before show time or call 707-546-BASS for advance sales.
Weekend Pass - $100. Good for all films, seminars and special events for one weekend.
Silver Pass - $200. Good for all films, special events, and seminars during the duration of the festival.
Reserved seating. Does not include tributes, food, wine or beverages.
Gold pass - $375. Good for all films, tributes, seminars, and special events during the duration of the festival. Reserved seating. Does not include food, wine or beverages.

If you wish to purchase a Weekend Pass(s) please be sure to indicate which long weekend you want. All passes are non-transferable. No refunds. Program is subject to change.

Excitement surrounding the 13th edition is mounting. In this highly competitive arena, the titles of the films, invited filmmakers and celebrity guests remain one of the wine country's best kept secrets.

Don't let the scope of the film festival intimidate you. Decide when you can attend and then check the program for films & events that appeal to you when you arrive.

Our festival Film Guide is widely distributed shortly after July 4th weekend to tasting rooms, wine shops, lodging facilities, and bookstores in Sonoma and Napa Valleys. But if you don't find one, call us and we'll be sure to get you one.

Film Festival Hotline 707 - 935 - 3456

If you live in the bay area I hope you can attend.
Curran G. Engel SF '86

Joel Block, SF83: (7/1/99)

You're right, I never graduated. Went to Annapolis for my Junior year, and disappeared. But, I'm always looking for an excuse to return to Santa Fe. Would welcome any news, e-mail, or visits related to St. John's!! Married with two girls, about old enough to start homeschooling.

Alex Lomvardias, Annapolis '95: (6/16/99)

SOS SOS SOS. Is there anybody out there? I have been lost for the past five years training for and furthering a sea going career. I graduated from the Maine Maritime Academy in 1997 with a B.S. (you know what it really means) and a Third Officers License in the U.S. Merchant Marine. I have been traversing the globe on large commercial ships carrying oil and food aid cargos in the U.S., Africa, Pakistan, and Asia. I recently passed my Second Officers examination, and look forward to another voyage. Along the way I have lost touch with many good friends. My work takes me away from most human contact for 6-8 months out of the year. I would love to talk with lost shipmates. Amy Thuston and I are still slugging it out (she claims she is winning) and can be found in Fairfax, Virginia.

Stacie Slotnick, A94: (6/15/99)

Hi there!

I have a friend relocating to Annapolis to work at the Key School (!)-- I'm hoping I can aid him in finding an apartment. Anyone who's in the Annapolis area who has any leads, I'd be most appreciative if you'd drop me an email.

Thanks very much!
Stacie Slotnick, A94

Cheryl Brostrom (formerly Porter), Santa Fe '75 (didn't graduate): (6/11/99)

Looking for a job -- have been a legal secretary/assistant for many years. Thanks. . .

Alec Berlin (SF'92): (6/7/99)

Hello. All - I am trying to eke out a life for myself as a musician here in NYC. Please drop me a line to say hello and catch up. Include your mailing address if you would like to be notified of upcoming performances and recordings.

Curran G. Engel, Santa Fe, '86: (5/28/99)

Last summer I produced a film called This Space Between Us. The film is premiering in Seattle at the 25th International Seattle Film Festival this June 4 at 7:15pm, and again Sunday June 6th at 12:30pm. If you find yourself in the neighborhood go see the film. If you have friends up there tell them to go to the film and take some friends along.

The film is a "Dramatic Romantic-Comedy" about a filmmaker Alex Harty (Jeremy Sisto). Alex, 28, has always considered himself a "tortured artist." It's not until his wife Maggie (Vanessa Marcil) dies in a tragic car accident that he learns the true meaning of the cliche. We meet Alex two years after the accident and he is still saddled with grief, his once promising career has faltered. The last straw comes as Alex assaults a belligerent studio executive Steve Mayland (Gary Marshall) during a pitch meeting. After assaulting Mr. Mayland with a Mont-Blanc pen Alex realizes that his career is over. He packs some belongings into a duffle bag, retrieves the answering machine tape with Maggie's last phone message on it, loads the dodge dart and drives home to San Francisco CA.

Once in the Bay Area, Alex reacquaints himself with many of his old friends and acquaintances, including a photographer Arden Ansfield (Poppy Montgomery) who is stalking her ex-boyfriend, a flashy city supervisor Sterling Montross (Vincent Ventresca). Several misadventures, including a comical car accident, a series of failed pranks and a minor earthquake, culminate in Alex reaching a clearer understanding of his grief, one that allows him to break through his "torture" and return to his art.

That said, I enjoyed making this film. It marks my first main title credit, as Line Producer. I think that many will enjoy this film for what it is, a fun entertaining amusement. Good for a couple of laughs, and worth the price of admission. The film is showing at The Harvard Exit Theater, 807 East Roy Street, on Capitol Hill.

Go see the film if you have a chance, or tell your friends in Seattle =;-) Later, Curran

Dorik Mechau, Annapolis '56: (5/4/99)

Greetings from Sitka and an invitation to Johnnies to come up to join us for a wonderful week at the Sitka Symposium, June 17-23. Our theme this year is "A Culture to Sustain Us: Creating a Center that Holds." Though we don't have any tutors among the guest faculty, we do have five quite remarkable people, including Rina Swentzell from Sante Fe.

Take a look at our web site and see if you can't work in a vacation trip up to this magnificent place.
Cheers, Dorik Mechau

Jim Sorrentino, A80: (4/29/99)

I will be in Budapest from Friday, May 21, to Monday, May 31, to teach Aikido, a Japanese martial art. This is my third trip to Hungary, where I have relatives on my mother's side of the family. I would welcome contact from alumni or students who have an interest in martial arts, or who will be in Hungary during my visit.

Ben Monaghan, Annapolis '86/'90: (4/23/99)

Greetings... I thought I would drop a line and see if I get a bite. I heard Greg Burby died and I am looking for information. I am currently living in Maine and am headed back to school -- only this time I will learn a vocation. How different the world is from SJC! Best to all. Would love to hear from anyone. Ben

Jennifer Coonce, Annapolis '97: (4/21/99)

Does anyone have Spartan Madball photos or great stories? I need them for an article I'm writing for the Internet magazine I work for, at whatsgoingon.com. My deadline is the end of this week (April 23). Please e-mail me at jenn@whatsgoingon.com.

Wallace Witkowski, Santa Fe '94: (4/6/99)

After 4 years of writing for broke suburban DC weeklies and for the more liquid Dark Side of the Force (i.e. conservative thinktanks), as well as waiting many a table, mixing many a drink and logging many a temp hour, I find myself settling into my 401(k) as a medical device reporter in Chevy Chase, MD having survived the year-long learning curve at "The Gray Sheet" (www.fdcreports.com).

So far it is the closest thing to a legitimate living I've made in the past 5 years.

Simply put, I have lost touch with practically everyone and do not feel overjoyed by this. Perhaps it was because I never gave out addresses or telephone numbers which have changed several times over the past 4 years.

Anywho, I'm settled. Like Homer (Simpson, or the other kind), I've found my groove and am actually beginning to realize that my father's wisdom of "life begins at 30" was not entirely bullshit. Drop me a line all who are interested. --WMW

Susan Ferwerda Peterson, Annapolis '72: (4/5/99)

If anyone from my class doesn't know these things by now, I am a registered nurse, but currently working as a disability analyst for New York State ( a far easier job than being a nurse.)

I have nine children ages from 25 down to 9 and four grandchildren ages 7, 5,3 and an infant. Two of my children, Emily 20, and Lars, 18, my fourth and fifth children, are at St. John's right now. This gives me immense gratification.

I am still married to Chris Peterson, who works for the post office and pursues his interest in jazz and old 78 records. Sells on the internet on EBay and makes a bit of money at it.

This file was last updated on 4/9/00 -- #99 [or thereabouts].

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