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THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION

OF NEW ENGLAND

Ninety-Ninth Annual Bulletin

2004

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2004-2005 OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES

CANE Executive Committee

President: Jacqui Carlon, 5 Morning Glory Circle, Chelmsford, MA 01824; (978) 256-4737; jcarlon@att.net.

Immediate Past President: Alison Barker, 86 Brydon Way, Westbrook, ME 04092; (207) 797-8123

awbarker@maine.rr.com

President Elect: John McVey, 110A Milford Street, Medway, MA 02053; j.mcvey@rivers.org.

Executive Secretary: Rosemary A. Zurawel, 16 Northam Drive, Dover, NH 03820; (603) 749-9213;

rzurawel@rcn.com.

Treasurer: Ruth Breindel, 617 Hope Street, Providence, RI 02906; (401) 521-3204 (h), (401) 831-7350 (o);

rbreindel@yahoo.com.

Curator of the Funds: Donna Lyons, 11 Carver Circle, Simsbury, CT 06070; (860) 658-1676;

mdlyons@att.net.

Editor, New England Classical Journal: John M. Lawless, History Dept., Providence College, Providence, RI

02918-0001; (401) 865-2548; necj@earthlink.net.

Coordinator of Educational Programs: Rosemary A. Zurawel, 16 Northam Drive, Dover, NH 03820; (603)

749-9213; rzurawel@rcn.com.

Editor, CANE Instructional Materials: Gilbert Lawall, 71 Sand Hill Road, Amherst, MA 01002; (413) 549-

0390; glawall@classics.umass.edu.

Classics-in-Curricula Coordinator: Allen M. Ward, Department of History, Box U-103, University of

Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-2103; (860) 228-4681 (h); (860) 486-4266 (o); ward@uconnvm.uconn.edu.

At-Large Members:

Katy Ganino, 14 Perkins Square, Apt 14, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130, (617) 524-8614;;

kganino@mail.sl.regional.k-12.ma.us.

Shirley Lowe, 2 Laurie Lane, Natick, MA 01760; (508) 655-8701; sfglowe@rcn.com.

Mark R. Pearsall, Glastonbury High School, 330 Hubbard Street, Glastonbury, CT 06603; (860) 657-

1569;mpearsall@earthlink.net

State Representatives:

Connecticut: Nina Barclay, 3 Lathrop Lane, Norwich, CT, 06360; nfalatin@aol.com.

Maine: Beth Gwozdz, 1 Village Green Drive, #7; Saco, ME 04072; (207) 878-0821 (h); gwozdzbe@spsd.org.

Massachusetts: Emil Penarubia, Boston College High School, 150 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 01610;

(617) 776-1490; penarubia@bchigh.edu.

New Hampshire: Marion Lewis, PO Box 14 New Ipswich, NH 03071; (603) 878-2337.

Rhode Island: Joe Delaney, 44 Western Promenade, Cranston, RI 02905; jdelaney@jwu.edu.

Vermont: Leanne Goulette, Champlain Valley Union H.S., 369 CVU Road, Hinesburg, VT 05461; (802) 482-

8959; Leanne@cvuhs.org.

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Standing Committees

Committee on CANE Scholarships:

Ed DeHoratius, 7 Circular Avenue, Natick, MA 01760; (508) 654-3062; edehoratius@verizon.net.

Ellen Perry, College of the Holy Cross, PO Box 130A, Department of Classics, Worcester, MA 01610;

eperry@holycross.edu.

Chris Richards, Belmont Hill School, 350 Prospect Street, Belmont, MA 02178; (617) 924-7907;

RICHARDC@belmont-hill.org.

Committee on Classical Computing and Webmaster:

Raymond J. Starr, Department of Classical Studies, Wellesley College, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA

02481 (781) 235-1514, RSTARR@wellesley.edu

Finance Committee:

Donna Lyons (Chair), 11 Carver Circle, Simsbury, CT 06070; (860) 658-1676; mdlyons@att.net.

Ruth Breindel (ex officio), 617 Hope Street, Providence, RI 02906; (401) 521-3204 (h), (401) 831-7350 (o);

rbreindel@yahoo.com

Paul Properzio, 15 Ballardvale Road, Andover, MA , 01810, (508) 474-0195, PJPROPERTIUS@aol.com

Thomas A., Suits, 120 Hillyndale Rd, Storrs, CT , 06268, (860_ 429-1608, amtsuits@earthlink.net

Membership Committee:

Ruth Breindel (Chair), 617 Hope S6treet, Providence, RI 02906; (401) 521-3204 (h); (401) 831-7350 (o);

rbreindel@yahoo.com.

Kathleen L. Braden, 18 Fisk Road, Concord, NH, 03301, (603) 225-9104, kbraden@bownet.org

Katy Ganino, 63 Forest Hills St., Jamaica Plain, MA 02130; (617) 524-1766; kganino@mail.sl-regional.k-

12.ma.us.

Stephany Pascetta, 250 House Street, Glastonbury, CT 06033; (860) 657-0336; spascetta@msn.com.

Emil Penarubia, Boston College Parkway, 150 Morrissey Boulebard, Boston, MA 01610; (617) 776-1490;

penarubia@bchigh.edu

Vincent J. Rosivach, Classics Dept., Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT , 06824, (203) 336-1011,

ROSIVACH@mail.fairfield.edu

Raymond J. Starr, Department of Classical Studies Wellesley College, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA

02481 (781) 235-1514, rstarr@wellesley.edu

Other Committees as Established by the By-Laws

Nominating Committee:

Alison Barker (Chair), 86 Brydon Way, Westbrook, ME 04092; (207) 797-8123 awbarker@maine.rr.com

Allen M. Ward, Department of History Box U-2103, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269, (860) 429-

2503, ward@uconnvm.uconn.edu

Deborah Rae Davies, 123 Argilla Rd, Andover, MA, 01810, (978) 749-9446, ddavies@brooksschool.org

Barlow-Beach Distinguished Service Award:

Jacqui Carlon, 5 Morning Glory Circle, Chelmsford, MA 01824; (978) 256-4737; jcarlon@att.net.

Z. Philip Ambrose, Department of Classics, University of Vermont, 481 Main Street, Burlington, VT; (802)

862-6818; zambrose@zoo.uvm.edu

Dennis W. Herer, Tabor Academy, Marion, MA , 02738, (508) 291-2493, DHERER@taboracademy.org

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Committee on Discretionary Funds:

Raymond J. Starr, Department of Classical Studies Wellesley College, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA

02481 (781) 235-1514, RSTARR@wellesley.edu

Shirley G., Lowe, 2 Laurie Lane, Natick, MA , 01760, (508) 655-8701, sfglowe@rcn.com

Program Committee (2005 Annual Meeting):

Jacqui Carlon (Chair), 5 Morning Glory Circle, Chelmsford, MA 01824; (978) 256-4737; jcarlon@att.net

Alison Barker, 86 Brydon Way, Westbrook, ME 04092; (207) 797-8123; awbarker@maine.rr.com

John McVey, 110A Milford Street, Medway, MA 02053; j.mcvey@rivers.org

Local Arrangements Co-ordinator:

Reginald Hannaford, 214 Durham Road, Brunswick, ME 04011; (207) 729-9321; regandtink@clinic.net

Auditors:

Paul B. Langford, 59 Sheafe Street, Portsmouth, NH , 03801, (603) 431-3635, PLANGFORD@exeter.edu

Richard E. Clairmont, Murkland Hall, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH , 03824, (603) 886-1319,

RICHARDC@cisunix.unh.edu

Resolutions Committee:

Francis R. Bliss, Beata Arva, 375 Taylor Hill Rd., New Vineyard, ME , 04956, (207) 652-2232,

FRBLISS@tdstelme.net

Richard E. Clairmont, Murkland Hall, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH , 03824, (603) 886-1319,

RICHARDC@cisunix.unh.edu

Classics in Curricula:

Oversight: State Representatives (or the designees)

Working Group:

Allen M. Ward, Department of History Box U-2103, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT , 06269, (860) 429-

2503, WARD@uconnvm.uconn.edu

Margaret G. Cook, , 12 Lakeshore Dr., Winthrop, ME , 04364, (207) 377-2186, COOKDSMG@adelphia.net

New England Latin Placement Service:

Stephen A. Brunet, Classics Program Murkland Hall, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, 03824,

(603) -868-2007, SABRUNET@cisunix.unh.edu

Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr., 471 State Street, Belchertown, MA, 01007, (413) 325-5607,

KKITCHEL@classics.umass.edu

Director, CANE Summer Institute: Heidi Wilson, PO Box 8, Oxford, NH 03777; (603) 353-4236;

Apollonios@aol.com.

CANE Summer Institute Steering Committee:

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Alison Barker (Liaison to the Executive Board), 86 Brydon Way, Westbrook, ME 04092; (207) 797-8123

awbarker@maine.rr.com

Mary Ann, Chaffee, 7 Walnut Lane, Essex Junction, VT , 05452, (802) 878-4813, MCHAFFEE@ejhs.k12.vt.us

Alison Harvey, 15 Gilman Street, Waterville, ME, 04901, (207) 872-8276, AHARVEY@msad47.org

John M. , Higgins, The Gilbert School, Williams Avenue, Winsted, CT , 06098, (413) 528-6691,

HIGGINS@vgernet.net

Ellen E. Perry, College of the Holy Cross, PO Box 130A Dept of Classics, Worcester, MA, 01610, (508) 832-

4592, EPERRY@holycross.edu

Kenneth E. Wheeling, PO Box 38, North Ferrisburgh, VT, 05473, (802) 453-3759, WHEELING@together.net

Rosemary A. Zurawel, 16 Northam Drive, Dover, NH 03802; (603) 749-9213; rzurawel@rcn.com

On-Site liason: Edward M. Bradley, Department of Classics 6086 Reed Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

, 03755, (802) 295-9468, EDWARD.M.BRADLEY@dartmouth.edu

Other Officers and Services

Coordinator for CEUs: Donna Lyons, 11 Carver Circle, Simsbury, CT 06070; (860) 658-1676;

mdlyons@att.net.

Writing Contest :President-Elect (Chair, ex officio); Executive Committee State Representatives (ex officio)

Student Paper Award: President (Chair, ex officio)

Weincke Prize: At-Large Members of the Executive Committee (ex officio)

Phinney Scholarship:

Nina Barclay (Chair), 3 Lathrop Lane, Norwich, CT , 06360, (860) 889-9899, NFALATIN@yahoo.com

Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr., 471 State Street, Belchertown, MA, 01007, (413) 325-5607,

KKITCHEL@classics.umass.edu

Alison Harvey, 15 Gilman Street, Waterville, ME , 04901, (207) 872-8276, AHARVEY@msad47.org

Vincent J. Rosivach, Classics Dept., Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT , 06824, (203) 336-1011,

ROSIVACH@mail.fairfield.edu

CANE Certification Scholarship: Classics-In-Curricula working group (ex officio)

Emporium Romanum: Donna Lyons, 11 Carver Circle, Simsbury, CT 06070; (860) 658-1676;

mdlyons@att.net.

Newsletter: Emil Penarubia, Boston College High School, 150 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 01610; (617)

776-1490; penarubia@bchigh.edu

CANE Centennial Committee:

John Lawless (Chair), History Department/Libr. 112, Providence College, Providence, RI , 02918, (401) 467-

5442, JLAWLESS@providence.edu

Z. Philip Ambrose, Dept. of Classics UVM, 481 Main Street, Burlington, VT , 05405, (LIFE), (802) 862-6818,

ZAMBROSE@uvm.edu

Representative on the Council of the American Classical League:

Paul Properzio, , 15 Ballardvale Road, Andover, MA , 01810, (508) 474-0195, PJPROPERTIUS@aol.com

Alternate to the Council of the American Classical League:

Deborah Rae Davies, , 123 Argilla Rd, Andover, MA, 01810, (978) 749-9446, DDAVIES@brooksschool.org

Delegate to the National Committee for Latin and Greek:

Delegate to the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages:

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Madelyn Gonnerman, c/o Torchin, 10 Fox Lane, Newton Centre, MA, 02459, (617) 964-6141,

MADELYN_GONNERMAN@brookline.mec.edu

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Memorials 2003-2004

Memorial Notice for Winthrop Dahl (’84)

Winthrop Dahl and I arrived at Wesleyan in the same year, 1980. He was one of a group of students that made

a strong impression on me in my early years there. Socially awkward at times, he distinguished himself from

the first by his enthusiasm for classics and the pleasure he took in his studies. Winthrop took both Greek and

Latin at Wesleyan. I see from my grade-books for that period that I taught him Greek three successive

semesters. The classes were small and included a number of strong and eccentric characters: one was the son

of a U.S. senator, another the daughter of a counsel in the Watergate affair. Winthrop more than held his own;

he flourished in that environment. In his junior year, if I recall correctly, he studied at the Intercollegiate Center

for Classical Studies in Rome. His career at Wesleyan was capped off with a senior thesis translating

Chariton’s novel Chaereas and Callirhoe, under the direction of my then colleague David Konstan, now at

Brown. This was at a time when the study of the Greek novel had not yet become fashionable. I can still

remember the infectious enthusiasm with which Winthrop talked of his project, to which he devoted himself

heart and soul.

After he graduated Winthrop kept in touch and made frequent, unannounced visits to the department. I would

come across him chatting to the Administrative Assistant or he would wander into my office and we would pick

up conversation as though he had never left. He seemed confident and happy in his career as a Latin teacher. I

felt he had found his niche. It was a shock, then, to us all when we heard of his illness and subsequently of his

death. Those of the department who knew him as an undergraduate remember him with warmth and affection

as a gentle and somewhat unworldly soul, with a profound love of the classics. We will miss him.

BRUNSWICK, MAINE - Eleanor S. Means, 98, of Maine Street, died Wednesday, May 19, 2004, at her home.

She was born in Brunswick, Dec. 1, 1905, a daughter of Thomas B. and Katherine Stanwood Skolfield. She

graduated from Brunswick High School in 1924 and trained as a secretary and teacher at the Maine School of

Commerce in Auburn.

In 1928 she moved to Boston, to work as a private secretary for several years before becoming a fashion

writer and women's page editor for the Boston Transcript. In 1939 she married Professor Thomas Means and

returned to Brunswick, where her husband was a member of the Bowdoin College faculty.

She was a volunteer in many charitable organizations and served as a Gray Lady at Togus Veteran's Hospital

for the Red Cross. For eight years she was president of the Brunswick (now Coastal) Humane Society, after it

was organized in 1950 by Professor Stanley Chase. She enjoyed music, opera, gardening and European history.

She was a member of the First Parish Church of Brunswick and the Harpswell Garden Club.

She was predeceased by her husband, who died in 1961. Survivors include a step granddaughter, Catherine

Stewart Castle and a step great-granddaughter, Jessica Castle, both of Santa Rosa, Calif.; a nephew, William S.

Skolfield II of North Yarmouth, and many grand and great-grand nieces and nephews.

At her request, there will be no services. Interment will be in Pine Grove Cemetery, Brunswick.

Memorial donations may be made to the First Parish Church, 9 Cleveland St., Brunswick, ME 04011.

Arrangements are by Stetson's Funeral Home, 12 Federal St., Brunswick.

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In Memoriam: Erica Schmitt

Erica Schmitt, Latin teacher in Enfield, Connecticut, passed away on November 1, 2003. Erica was

just beginning her second year teaching in Enfield after having taught at Shrewsbury Middle School in

Massachusetts for one year. Erica taught all levels of Latin at both Enfield High School and at Enrico Fermi

High School in Enfield. She was also involved with the Sister School Partnership, a state grant program, which

enabled Latin students from suburban and urban schools to come together on a common curricular ground to

share in the study of Latin.

Erica completed her undergraduate work at Smith College with majors in Classics and Psychology and

with an elementary teaching credential and her Master of Arts in Teaching Latin and Classical Humanities at

the University of Massachusetts Amherst, completing the latter in May, 2001. She was an eager presenter at

professional meetings and made presentations at CANE in 2000, The ACL Institute and the Classical

Association of the Empire State in 2001, and CANE again in 2003. She was already working on a proposal for

a workshop at this year’s CANE Annual Meeting at the time of her untimely death.

Erica will be remembered for her liveliness, her spunk, and her passion for teaching Latin to all

students. In a memorial tribute to her in Enfield last December, her students spoke of her relentless efforts to

include all students with all levels of ability in the study of Latin. Her students talked of her selfless drive to

help and support them whenever needed. Erica’s goal was to bring Latin to “the kids in Enfield,” as she

referred fondly to her students, and to give them a sense of pride in their studies. Thomas Duffy, Principal of

Enfield High School, spoke movingly of Enfield’s gratitude to Erica, and I quote: “To lose Erica is an immense

tragedy. But, to have had her with us at all, even for so short a time, is our blessing.” We can all echo those

words.

Requiëscat in pace.

From Pro Bono, Volume 14, Fall 2003, Virginia Barrett, Editor

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2004 Barlow- Beach Citation

March 12, 2004

It is now my very pleasant duty to present the highest award given by CANE, the Barlow-Beach distinguished

Service award. Named for two distinguished classicists and supporters of CANE, Claude Barlow and Goodwin

Beach, the award itself is a silver bowl engraved with a Latin quotation, most appropriate to the recipient, as

will soon become apparent.

Our most deserving recipient is a long time member of CANE, whose service includes the presidency in 1980-

81, book review editorship of the New England Classical Journal 1989-95, finance committee member and

innumerable papers presented at annual meetings.

He was born in Milwaukee, and graduated from Yale, summa cum laude, in 1955. His MA and PhD. are also

from Yale. In 1966 he joined the faculty at UConn, where he taught for over 30 years. The list of his

publications is indeed a long and impressive one, including journal articles, book reviews, poetry, and

encyclopedia entries. One name, Propertius, does seem to stand out.

I am told by those who know him well that this year’s Barlow-Beach award is a man whose gentle passion for

precision and dry wit, made him a superb teacher.

An avid bird-watcher, a lover of classical and church music, and a meticulous keeper of his home and grounds,

our recipient is also an avid fan of UConn basketball, so much so that his usually reserved manner may

occasionally compromised by his loyalty.

For the bowl, a quotation from Propertius. For the first word, we have chosen the reading favored by G.P.

Goold, as our recipient would have wished:

Ut caput in magnis ubi non est tangere signis

Ponitur haec imos ante corona pedes

Sic nos nunc inopes laudis conscendere carmen

Pauperibus sacris vilia tura damus

With deepest gratitude and highest regard, I present this year’s Barlow-Beach award to Thomas A Suits.

Alison W. Barker

President of CANE, 2003-04

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2004 CANE Writing Contest

Leto and the Frogs

by Rachel Taylor

Once, long ago on a foggy day

A pretty wolf walked a bit astray

And by a pool found some herdsmen bent

And this is how the story went.

Wolf:

Please, good sirs, may I have a drink

From this pool in which your feet do sink?

I promise you I won’t be long

And before you know it, I’ll be gone.

Herdsmen:

Great Zeus! A talking wolf out free?

My mind must be deceiving me!

Get away from our pool and go to hell

And leave our sheep alone as well!

Wolf:

Oh, don’t be alarmed! Only a worthless curd

Would drink your water and attack your herd!

I’ll take a sip and never return again.

Besides, I’m vegetarian.

Herdsmen:

Stop telling us lies, you wicked she-dog!

Get out of our sight and get lost in the fog!

Wolves with speech are a witch’s curse.

Leave before we make things worse!

Wolf:

No, lords, I’m just a lonely wolf bitch

No demon or product of a witch.

I’m tired and just need a little water

Before I return to my son and my daughter.

Herdsmen:

We’re done arguing with you, worthless limb!

Scat and run on back home to your kin!

Whatever you are, we don’t want to know.

All we want now is for you to go.

Wolf:

Very well, if you wish to choose this fate

Your ruin will be the cause of your hate.

But I will stay so you can behold

To whom these awful things you’ve told.

Herdsmen:

Now listen here … wait, what did she say?

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And why is she beginning to change her shape?

She suddenly grows so very tall

And looks more like a woman than a wolf at all!

Wolf:

Now, see whom you’ve so rudely spoke to

I am the immortal Goddess Leto!

It is I you should worship and I you should serve.

So I’ll give you the punishment that you deserve.

Herdsmen:

Oh please, my Lady, it was only a joke!

We were going to let you have a … CROAK!

We were even going to feed you a tidbit,

And give you a place to stay for the … RIBBIT!

Leto:

With the same respect you should treat all

But now you shall always leap, hop, and crawl!

For frogs you’ll always be, you fools,

And forever guard your precious pool.

So now away the Goddess goes

Leaving the frogs to count their woes.

And in that watery hideaway

Is where those fools remain today.

So children, if there’s a lesson to be learned,

Don’t let Great Nature be overturned.

If you are worthy of human birth

Be kind to the creatures of the earth.

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Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of New England

2004

Abstracts

Reginald Hannaford, Assistant Professor of Classics, St. Joseph’s College, Standish, ME

“I come not to bring peace but a terrorist weapon”: A reading of St. Matthew 10:34.

Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of New England

Anthony Payne, Loughborough Grammar School, Loughborough, England and

Visiting Fulbright Instructor in Classical Languages and World Studies,

Westbrook (ME) High School

Following a reading of Matthew 10:34 with a Greek New Testament text, Tony began thinking that “sword”

was not the best translation for “machaira”, whose classical meanings range from tool to concealed weapon

(perhaps assassin’s). He mentioned this to Reg, thinking that “machaira” suited 1st-century-AD Roman

Palestine admirably.

Reg then used this verse for a critical-reading class at St.Joseph’s. From this have arisen 4

teaching/learning strategies for this question:-

(1)Immediate context. Here (10:21 sqq.) it is war possibly arising within the family (where it is least

wanted) individual relationships are specifically targeted, and it echoes Micah 7:5-7 (Handout ##1-2,

Add.Notes#1); the context suggests turning society upside down.

(2)Comparative analysis. Reg found 27 examples of “machaira” in the NT, none of “xiphos”, but only

here (Matt.10.34-36) is it contrasted with “eirene”(peace); it looks close to Luke 12:51-53(who contrasts

“eirene”with “diamerismos”[division] in the context of Christ’s Passion).

The Gospels are intended to preach about Jesus’ life and death its importance is different for

Christians(new relationship with God) and Jews(Jesus was one of many Jews crucified [Josephus] and this was

part of different Jewish responses to Roman and later rule [cf.today’s Rabbinic synagogue-based

Judaism])(Handout ##3,4).

(3)Word Study of the Septuagint and New Testament. Reg found that the Septuagint uses “machaira”

to translate the Hebrew Bible “cherev” in 196 out of 410 times and it is always used to mean a short, easilyconcealed

weapon (e.g. Ehud in Judges 3:15-26 Handout #5) other words have specific uses (e.g. “rhomphaia”

is a large sword, as Goliath’s [1 Samuel 17:45-51]).

We also found Albright & Mann’s version of 10:34-36 very interesting they

think that the Greek “alla” is a faithful translation of an Aramaic confusion(lo/a…we-lo/a for lo/a…’ella). If

they are right, it implies a translation like “I came not to IMPOSE peace NOR YET a weapon”(Add.Notes #3).

(4)Theological Views. Handout #6 (the Passover meal guide Hagaddah)gives two different views

about whether Jews should use force or rely on God’s strength. Matthew 10:34 in context may now have

become Jesus’ endorsement of that ongoing debate for Jews ; for Christians, whichever explanation of the verse

is preferred, it turns

thinking upside down in interpreting the NT commands to love God and neighbor as oneself.

Anne Mahoney, Tufts University

A Dramatic Backbone for Greek 1

In this paper, I describe the results of an on-going experiment in my first-year (college) Greek class. At the

beginning of the year, each member of the class chose a Greek play to serve as a "backbone" for the year's

work. They have read their plays in English and are now working towards being able to read them in Greek.

Reading this play serves as a concrete goal for the year's work, and -- I hope --will encourage them to keep up

their Greek during the summer between first and second year. With each new morphological class they learn,

the students look up and learn words of this type in their plays. By the end of the first semester they will have

some familiarity with the most frequent words in the play, adding up to about 50% of the running words, and by

the end of the entire year they will be up to 70%. While 70% of the vocabulary is not enough to read a text

comfortably, it is enough to make the text seem familiar as they start reading. I have also asked each student to

select and memorize a passage from the play, in Greek, and I gave the class a handout showing everyone's

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passage in both Greek and English. These passages are occasionally useful as examples; I might point out a

third-person imperative in one student's passage, a nice use of particles in another. We have also used these as

the basis for a first look at Greek meter. Even if they do not continue the study of Greek, these students will

have read one play in English, worked on it in Greek, and memorized a few lines of poetry -- not a bad outcome

for a first-year student. I will report on the progress the students are making with their plays and with Greek in

general. I will consider how having a play of one's own affects vocabulary learning, reading development, and

attitude toward the language.

Anthony Tuck, Tufts University

Etruscan Vanth:

The figure of the Vanth, a winged female demon, appears in Etruscan funerary iconography by the beginning to

middle of the 4th century BCE. This figure is frequently added to Etruscan scenes borrowed from Greek myth

and appears to serve as an iconographic indicator of the impending death of one or more of the figures

represented in the scene. This iconographic function of the Vanth is similar to death harbinger figures in Celtic

myth and folklore. The emergence of the Vanth in the 4th century, a time of significantly increased contact

between the Celtic and Etruscan worlds, suggests that Vanth iconography represents an Etruscan adoption of a

Celtic war goddess, known in later Celtic folklore as Badb.

Jacques Bailly, University of Vermont

Socrates' Divine Sign and Reason

The reason Plato's Socrates gives for not doing politics is that his divine sign opposed it (Apology 31c7 and d5)

and rightly so (31d6), for if he had long ago tried to do politics, he would have died long ago and not benefited

Athens or himself (31d6-8). The description of the sign at 31d3-4 says "whenever [the sign] occurs, it always

forbids me the thing which I am about to do." So in some sense, Socrates must have been "about to do" politics

when the sign opposed it.

Brickhouse and Smith [1989], 179, propose that the sign opposed politics on several occasions, which led him

to conclude that he should not do politics at all. But Socrates says that he never tried to do politics (that is the

implication of the counterfactual at 31d7), and he says that the sign is the cause. At issue is what information

the sign conveys. I claim that the sign not only tells Socrates "No," but also indicates what he is not to do, and

the thing it opposes can be a mere intention to perform a whole class of actions, e.g. "politics." I further claim

that the reasons which Socrates gives for the sign's opposition cannot be the reasons why he obeyed it, and that

they should not be compelling reasons to Socrates, given what he says in other passages (death is not a factor in

moral questions).

I further claim that Socrates' sign is not irrational in the senses that anger or astrology are. It is extra-rational.

Socrates does not, however, need to interpret it: it must tell him what it means.

Most of these claims are somewhat controversial, but spelling out the scholars who disagree (including Vlastos,

Brickhouse and Smith, and McPherran) is precluded by space limitations. Further details are available on

request.

Tom Burgess, Brooks School

The Portland Vase and Catullus 64 A Reexamination of the "Visual Tropes"

In Arion, III, vol. 2, no. 1, Boston, 1992 , previewed in The New York Times, Randall Skalsky proposed

that the architectural elements portrayed on the Portland Vase suggested clues to the decipherment of the figures

of that famous frieze. These clues, he maintained, were "visual tropes". Skalsky's method and his (and others')

analogies between the aesthetics of the Portland Vase frieze and the structural organization of Catullus 64 are

provocative, but previous identification of the figures and their symbolism are incorrect. By a close reading of

the text of Catullus 64 and by interpreting the visual clues on the vase in that context alone, the frieze may be

interpreted as following quite closely both the structure and narrative of Catullus' poem with important stylistic

differences conforming to Augustan taste and to the function of the vase as a prestigious show piece.

David Wilkins, Department of the History of Art and Architecture,

University of Pittsburgh

A New Athens on the Merrimack: The Impact of Classical Architecture on New

Hampshire’s Public Library Buildings

Between 1860 and 1910, more than fifty new public library buildings were constructed in towns and villages

in the state of New Hampshire. While these structures varied in size and architectural style, more than twenty

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featured pedimented porticoes based on ancient Greek and Roman prototypes. While the classical style was

popular at this time in American architectural circles, other revival styles, including Romanesque, Gothic,

Renaissance, and Colonial, were also common. The predominance of the Classical style in this context

suggests an impetus beyond the purely stylistic. This illustrated talk will survey New Hampshire library

buildings and suggest one possible answer to the question "Why Classicial?"

Peter Amram

Thetes as Heroes

The Athenian Trireme Becomes the Spear of the City In the lliad, kleos., or glory , is gained from aristeia,

which is prowess in monomachia, a duel between two aristocratic spearmen conducted in full view of the

opposing armies and other observers, including gods. A prime example is the contest between the heroes Paris

and Menelaus in Book 3, which is watched by Priam and others from the ramparts of Troyin the scene known as

the teichoskopia. The traditional way of showing one's worth in Athenian society wasservice as an armored

infantryman, a hoplite. Because each militiaman furnished his own arms, only the wealthier class could perform

significant military duties. The introduction of the trireme, an agile rowed warship, enabled the large lowest

class of freemen, the thetes, to participate as crewmen in the defense of the City and the expansion of her

empire. The prestige of the thetes increased with Athenian dependence on her navy . Trireme warfare consisted

of one-on-one contests of maneuver-and-ram between opposing ships. In this naval monomachia, trireme crews

needed to be disciplined and opportunistic, the latter quality being exactly what Athenians admired most in

themselves. Because naval battles normally took place in waters near land, spectators on the shore could watch.

Indeed, Xerxes set up a throne to create his own teichoskopia at Salamis. By the fifth century, aristeia had put to

sea. The enthusiasm of the thetes for naval adventure became more pronounced as Athens became a 'city of

ships' during and after the Persian wars. No expedition, however risky and ill-advised, lacked support from the

new wielders of the 'spears of the City .' The thetes had supplanted hoplites in prestige and could hope even to

attain kleos approaching that of Iliadic heroes. It was perhaps with such exalted aspiration that in 415 the

Athenianfleet set off for Syracuse.

Stephen R. Wilk

Medusa’s Children – Proposed Paper for Spring 2004 CANE Meeting

I proposed in past work that the gorgon faces placed on antefixes (terra cotta roofing tiles) were meant

to function as “scarecrows” that lessened the chances of damage to tile roofs by dissuading birds from nesting

there. This presentation is to showcase new evidence that gorgoneia and similar devices were used as kinetic

bid deterrence devices in peristyles and orchards, much like their modern counterparts.

Vincent Rosivach, Fairfield University

Agrigento, Museo Archeologico Regionale 2688: Reading a Vase in Context

We tend to look at Greek vases as museum pieces, objects of beauty to gaze at and “appreciate,” or we use them

as evidence or illustrations – of myths, of painters’ styles, of daily life in classical Athens. Both these ways of

looking at vases are valuable, but they have the unfortunate effect of removing the vases we are looking at from

the original contexts in which they were intended to be used and understood. This paper is an effort, exempli

gratia, to place one vase back into its original context.

The paper begins with a photograph taken from John Boardman’s standard introduction to Greek Art

(appropriately called Greek Art). The photograph, used as an example of the the Niobid painter’s work, shows

a Greek hoplite warrior fighting an Amazon dressed as a Persian beneath one of the handles on vase number

2688 in the Regional Archaeological Museum in Agrigento (Sicily). The vase in question is a mid-fifth century

red-figure krat_r of Attic manufacture, with an Amazonomachy on its belly and a Centauromachy on its neck.

The paper looks at the krat_r original use as a vessel for mixing water and wine for a symposium. This leads to

a discussion of the symposium as a social institution, with its particular atmosphere of upper-class

sophistication and clubbiness and competition, and to the reasons for mixing water and wine and the potential

for hubris in drinking. The paper shows the relation between the Centauromachy on the krat_r’s neck, the

Amazonomachy on its belly (representing the Amazon invasion of Attica, and the battle of Marathon evoked by

the Amazons’ dress and the krat_r’s myth. The place of woman in the symposium is also considered, as is the

way their presence at the symposim might influence perceptions of the Amazons on the krat_r. After a brief

discussion of ideological images that are intended to produce affective responses the paper concludes by

reflecting on the values of violence and Greek male domination implied and affirmed by the images on the

krat_r.

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Ann Thomas Wilkins, Duquesne University

Appropriating Augustus: The Many Appearances of the Emperor’s Image in the Name of Fascism

Augustus made a major impact upon Western culture. After his defeat of Marc Antony at the Battle of

Actium in 31 BCE (when he was known as Octavian) and his subsequent assumption of the title "Augustus," he

consolidated power and established the Roman Empire.

Augustus's visual and literary propaganda included extensive building projects. While the Forum of

Augustus and his Mausoleum honored family and heritage, for instance, the Ara Pacis celebrated peace and the

Horologium his victory at Actium. Portraiture of Augustus and his family members was common; perhaps the

best known is the “Augustus of Prima Porta,” which portrays the ageless emperor in allegorical military garb

and oratorical stance. Literature — first and foremost the Aeneid — was commissioned to glorify the empire

and Julian heritage.

Generations later another individual made a major impact upon Western culture. Benito Mussolini,

leader of the Fascist party, foresaw the foundation of a new Italian empire. Initially he held Julius Caesar as his

model, comparing his own 1922 March on Rome with that of his ancient predecessor. With the defeat of

Ethiopia and achievement of empire, however, Mussolini turned to Augustus.

Mussolini paralleled his own position to that of Augustus in various ways. He designed urban renewal

programs, for instance, that honored the first emperor’s projects by restoring them or imitating them in concept.

The Augustan Ara Pacis, excavated with great effort, was re-erected near its original location, while the newly

constructed Foro Mussolini appropriated the Augustan concept of a grand imperial public space marked with a

prominent obelisk (this modern one, however, was inscribed “Mussolini Dux” in contrast to the Egyptian

hieroglyphs of the Horologium obelisk).

Images of Augustus appeared in many venues; a copy of the “Prima Porta,” for example, stood by the

Via dell’Impero, as is depicted in a 1933 -1934 Fascist daily calendar. Postage stamp designs incorporated the

honorific statue; one example features disembodied hands raised in Fascist salute toward the representation of

Augustus. The “Prima Porta” served mercantile purposes as well: a 1937 advertisement in the National

Geographic enticing the reader to the glories of vacationing in Italy features the sculpture as its predominant

image, with Augustus raising his arm over Mt. Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples.

An extensive exhibition, the Mostra Augustea della Romanità, focused on the Emperor Augustus in

name and emphasis. He was the pivotal figure in this exhibition that encompassed the entire scope of ancient

Roman history. While some rooms of the exhibit covered broad areas (such as “The Expansion of the Roman

State during the Civil Wars” and “The Empire from Tiberius to the Antonines”), the Augustan age was

represented in rooms such as “Poets and Writers of the Augustan Age,” “Augustan Monuments in Italy,” and

“The Augustan House,” as well as in several devoted to him and his family. The exhibit consisted of more than

two thousand casts, an enormous model of Imperial Rome, photographs, maps, and a modern copy of

Augustus's Res Gestae. Rather than being an aesthetic display of original works, the didactic and

propagandistic Mostra was intended to demonstrate the continuity between the Imperial Rome of Augustus and

that of Mussolini. The exhibit opened on September 23, 1937, the bimillenium of the first emperor’s birth.

Planned and executed — with Mussolini's approval — by Giulio Quirino Giglioli, it was viewed by many,

including Hitler.

This paper will consider Mussolini's appropriation of Augustan imperial imagery, with particular focus on the

Fascist incorporation of the “Augustus of Prima Porta” and on the Mostra Augustea della Romanità and how

they were used to establish parallels between Augustus and Mussolini and between their respective empires.

For us in the twenty-first century, Fascist appropriation of Augustan imagery has both negative and

positive connotations. Clearly, Fascism and Mussolini manipulated history and controlled scholarship and

archaeology. The goal of extensive scholarly study was clearly to honor the Fascist regime by highlighting

Italy's historic and artistic past. Yet without Fascism’s impetus, the relief sculptures of the Ara Pacis might still

be partially buried and partially scattered in various museums, while the Mausoleum of Augustus might

continue to serve — most inappropriately — as a concert hall.

While Mussolini both appropriated and misappropriated Augustus, we cannot deny that certain aspects of

the Fascist revival of Rome under its first emperor continues to have an impact on our perception of Italy's

classical past

Darcie Hutchison,Boston University

Horace’s Interest in the Seasons: Beyond the Carpe Diem Motif

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Though scholars have paid much attention to Horace's metaphorical use of the seasons, they have focused less

thought on his descriptions of the seasons themselves. In this paper I intend to conduct a careful reading of Odes

1.4,1.9 and 4.7 that will show that, regardless of his metaphorical and symbolic uses of the seasons, Horace's

descriptions show a keen interest in the seasons as natural phenomena, an interest revealed in his masterful and

concise descriptions of winter in these three poems. In his poetry, the seasons are not merely tools to illuminate

other issues; Horace also displays a great understanding of their manifestations and reveals a deep poetic

interest in them for their own sake. These three major odes, with their focus on winter, are a good starting point

for analysis and provide excellent examples of Horace's interest not just in using the seasons, but in the seasons

themselves. Although, as previous scholars have emphasized, Horace may often focus on the changing of the

seasons, I contend that this technique, rather than minimizing the role of each distinct season, provides vivid

contrasts to bring out their special characteristics. Horace deals with the seasons not just as sophisticated

symbolism, but also as natural phenomena of beauty and majesty , a perfect subject for the pen of a poet.

Nell Wright

Hearing the Dance of Death in Horace's Odes I.4

Critics often comment on how the image of spring in Horace 1.4 gives way to a darker image of death at line

13. I show how Horace's combination of iambic and dactylic meters emphasizes this change of mood. I also

review the evidence from Ars poetica which shows that Horace considered his meters carefully for their effect.

He always used meter appropriate to genre (A.P. 73ff e.g. lyric for Odes,hexameter for the didactic Satires and

Epistles). In 1.4 he used finer distinctions within the sounds of the meters to create the idea of two different

dances, the dance of the Graces and the dance of Death.

Scholars call the meter of 1.4 " Archilochean". It is a lyric meter, made of a dactylic

section and two iambic sections. The poet is allowed to exchange spondees (two longs) for the dactyl or iamb

(A.P.. 255 -258), which makes them the same meter temporarily.

Next, I discuss the repetition of pede (lines 7 and 13). Pes (especially with Horace's

choice of two modifiers, aequus and alternus) can refer to a dance step. In line 7, for the Graces dance, pede

comes in a dactylic phrase. In the second instance, Death's dance in line 13, pede falls in the iambic part of the

line. In this meter you can hear Death's steady knocking at every door. The heavy spondees joining the dactylic

section to the iambic signal the change of mood.

I conclude by reading Horace Odes 1.4 in Latin. I hope the audience will listen for how

the meter supports the meaning. A handout will show the poem in Latin, the poem scanned, my translation of

the poem and notes on the meters.

Elise M. Ramsey, Tufts University

Plinv, Trajan, and the Christians Revisited

At the beginning of the 2nd Century A. D., Pliny the Younger, governor in the Roman province of Bithynia

Pontus, wrote a letter to the Emperor Trajan (Epistle X.96), in which he seeks advice regarding a local Christian

group. This epistle constitutes the earliest known reference to the Christian movement by a Roman writer.

Trajan's reply to Pliny (Epistle X.97) provides further information on the early Christians. These two letters

have been studied and examined over the years by scholars with respect to the early forms of Christian worship,

Roman policies towards Christians, Roman legal practices, early Christian persecutions, and the relationships

between contemporary Christians, Jews, and Pagans.

Previously, no scholar has considered the importance of Bithynia Pontus ' prior turbulent political history in

setting a context for understanding and interpreting these .letters. A thorough examination of this history shows

that there were precedents that would justify Roman officials fearing and distrusting any organized group in

Bithynia Pontus at this time. Pliny and Trajan's correspondence and subsequent actions make perfect sense

when one considers these facts. This Christian group was seen as a potential threat because of their group status,

rather than for their religious proclivities.

John Lawless, Providence College

Lions, Herakles, and the Murder of Innocents

Animal imagery is a conventional part of Greek tragedy. In this paper I argue that Euripides' Herakles

consciously uses imagery of lions (and other beasts) to suggest identification with the wild creatures. I propose

a tentative sociobiological explanation (cf. W. Burkert's Creation of the Sacred) for certain elements of the plot.

Although much rationalized, Lykos' threat to kill the family of Herakles parallels the behavior of wild animals.

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While Euripides was not a student of zoology, these disturbing associations may provide a new perspective on

the play and on the nature of Herakles' madness.

Obvious connections between Herakles and lions are his killing of the Nemean Lion and wearing of its skin. In

the play repeated allusions to these details connect Herakles and his family with these beasts. Lion imagery in

other Euripidean plays, as well as in Aeschylus and Homer, suggests that these associations are not gratuitous.

For example, Herakles' stalking and killing of Lykos suggests a famous Homeric simile of a vengeful lion (Il.

18.318-22). His assimilation to a wild beast becomes explicit when, in his madness, he roars like a beast. He is

later said to have "the raging spirit of a wild lion" (1210-1212).

Even more interesting are the implications for the plan to kill Herakles' children, which Lykos defends (165-69)

as a prudent policy to eliminate future avengers. Many modern commentators accept such rationalizing

explanations at face value. However, similar arguments, which appear in other plays and even as a rhetorical

trope (Ar. Rhet. 1395a16), actually emphasize the bestial act. In the wild, lions and other creatures eliminate the

offspring of competitors as soon as they establish themselves. Thus, this plot element also may be associated

with animal behavior. Herakles' madness may be interpreted anew as a reversion to the brutal nature of the

animal with which he is so famously associated.

Edmund DeHoratius, Wayland High School

We Want You: A Proposed Model for Recruiting New Latin Teachers

At a pre-conference workshop on National Latin Teacher Recruitment Week (NLTRW) at ACL 2003, it was

suggested that pre-collegiate teachers be enlisted to actively recruit new teachers from the ranks of college

undergraduate and graduate programs. These teachers, it was proposed, would visit college classics departments

to encourage both undergraduate and graduate students to consider pre-collegiate teaching as a viable option, to

provide practical information that will facilitate the procurement of a pre-collegiate teaching position, and to

field questions that prospective teachers or classics students might have about the profession. The present paper,

then, preferably in an hour-long concurrent session (if possible), will introduce this initiative (as yet unnamed)

with the following goals: soliciting teacher input about what information is most helpful for prospective

teachers; what mode of presentation might be most effective; how the logistics of sending teachers to college

campuses might best be addressed; and any other issues that the NLTRW pre-conference workshop might have

missed.

This initiative is an important step toward broadening the focus of NLTRW. Its introduction at a regional

meeting, known for solid attendance and a diversity of attendees, will stimulate discussion and development of

the idea so that it can be presented in a more complete form to the national classics community at the 2004 ACL

Institute. It is essential to the success of this program that as many classicists as possible have a hand in its

development; it is an initiative that advocates close cooperation between pre-collegiate and college level

teachers and I aims at a greater understanding of the different issues faced by classicists at all levels. It is hoped

that CANE 2004 will be the kick-off to that process.

Elizabeth M. Greene,Tufts University - MA, Classics

MA candidate, Classical Archaeology

When Augustus came to sole power in Rome after his victory at Actium in 31 B.C.E. he declared that all the

problems of the late republic stemmed from a turning away from the gods and vowed to return Roman society

to a pious and morally upstanding state. Augustus attempted to fulfill his goals of moral renewal with new laws

and a program of artistic and literary propaganda. Although Augustus had many followers, it is clear that his

intentions were ignored, even mocked, by some of his subjects. In his writings, primarily in his love poems,

Amores and Ars Amatoria, Ovid ridicules and disregards Augustus’ program for moral renewal. Ovid

advertises his dislike of the current political situation with careful word choice and sarcastic references to the

Augustan regime. Through an examination of Ovid’s works and Augustus’ program of moral renewal, I will

argue that Ovid denies the agenda of the princeps and mocks his attempt to rejuvenate the state.

Nina C. Coppolino, Providence, RI

The Death of Lausus: Lucretian Intertext as Propaganda Foil in Aeneid 10.802-32

Studies on the Aeneid have recognized Vergil’s inversion or subversion of Lucretian imagery, themes, and

natural philosophy in order to present paradoxically a divinely ordered world, expressed in the ultimate

founding and destiny of Rome (Hardie 1986, Catto 1989, Farrington 1963, Knight 1944, Heinze 1903). It has

also been suggested that Vergil was of a Lucretian mind yet divided on the vindication of the meaning of

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history (Johnson 1976), and most recently that he consciously spoke poetic fictions calculated to protect human

life and the hero Aeneas himself from the truth of the godless and unordered Lucretian world (Adler 2003).

In his famous description of the death of Lausus, Vergil retains not only Lucretian language (Merrill 1918) and

broad poetic and philosophic content, but he also deliberately plays on and affirms ideas of specific passages.

An agitated Aeneas is engulfed in a storm of weapons from the allies of Mezentius, and the headlong tempest is

compared to a natural storm; the onslaught is described in terms of Lucretian atomic materialism. At his death

by Aeneas, the relevance of the loyalty of Lausus to Mezentius is probed in Lucretian language and contexts of

contemporary decline and religion. Throughout the passage, Vergil echoes the atomic cycle of growth and

decay (DRN 2.1164-1174), Lucretian rebukes for false piety (5.1194-1203) and for the fear of death (3.931,

1045-1081), and wrongs committed in the name of religion (1.84-101). In prelude and epilogue, Mezentius’s

responsibility is explored through Lucretian parallels about pleasure and the prolongation of life (3.1076-81),

and natural parental bonds to offspring (2.349-66). Aeneas handles the body of Lausus for burial (and later

implicitly the body of Mezentius), in a habit of duty seen in the final struggle to bury the Athenians dead of the

plague (DRN 6.1247-48, 1280-86). Vergil does not aim to subvert the random precariousness of philosophic

materialism for the implied foundation of Roman future; instead he uses Lucretian allusions in a most Lucretian

way: to question the stability of achievement and the effectiveness of devotion.

Dan Blanchard

The Fate of the XIV Gemina Legion: a Look at the Notitia Dignitatum, Vegetius and Marcellinus

By the reign of Honorius (393 A.D.) the XIV Gemina Martia Victrix had held the critical upper Danubian post

at Carnuntum (Deutsh-Altenburg, Austria) for three hundred years. Their determined defense of Carnuntum, the

capital and heart of Pannonia Superior, was challenged by bloody and violent forays from the Marcomanni and

Goths. However, with the sack of Rome in 410, the Danubian limes collapsed, and Pannonia could no longer be

held. Carnuntum was abandoned. The fate of the XIV Gemina is impossible to reconstruct solely from the

ambiguous archaeological evidence. Nonetheless, some information about the ultimate fate of the legion can be

gleaned from the Notitia Dignitatum and the late Roman historians, Ammianus Marcellinus and Vegetius.

The Gemina was listed in the Notitia Dignitatum as Praefectus Legionis Quartaedecimae Geminae Militum

Liburnariorum Cohorti…..Partis Superioris Carnunto. The register does not actually record what happened to

the legion after the sack of Rome and the collapse of the northern frontiers. Information from the literary

sources is, however, ominous. Ammianus Marcellinus describes Carnuntum in ruins, while Vegetius (writing

shortly after Ammianus) generally laments the deterioration of the legions and lists the reasons for the decay.

Analysis of these sources suggests that the XIV Gemina did not meet a disastrous, heroic end, while fighting

against the Marcommani, Visigoths, or Huns. More likely, this famous legion, which had been a witness to so

much of Rome's history, slowly but surely disintegrated as the later Roman emperors found it cheaper to use

seasonal federated armies composed of Germanic levies and augmented by cavalry units than to maintain a

large standing army. As a result of this shift in defense strategy, the XIV Gemina, along with the other legions

of the comitatenses and limitanei, was permitted to fade into oblivion.

Mark Farmer, Valparaiso University

Aeneas and Dido in Vergil's Aeneid Book IV: Epicurean Justice and a Legal Look at Love

The scholarly trend has been to interpret Vergil's Aeneid book IV and the relationship between Aeneas and Dido

therein in terms of tragedy. In this paper I propose a different reading, one based on the legal consequences of

crime (facta improborum) as explained in the concept of Epicurean justice in Cicero's de Finibus, 1.50-51.

Cicero’s Epicurean mouthpiece says that the usual legal consequences of crime are suspicio, sermo atque fama,

an accusator, and finally a iudex; also, by their own testimony, those accused often implicate themselves. But if

they escape the detection of their fellow men, they still fear the gods, and think that their deep feelings of

anxiety are sent by the immortals as punishment. These very consequences, I argue, are present in book IV.

First, the Epicurean context fits well in book IV, since scholars often characterize Dido and her court as

Epicurean. Second, concerning legal jurisdiction away from Rome, the one in charge of a province was the

fount of all procedural law; as judge, he could determine the issue, hear the evidence, pronounce judgment, and

see to its execution.

Book IV begins with Dido nearly succumbing to her love for Aeneas (9-23), which she calls a culpa (19). But

she prays that if she does, may Jupiter drive (adigat, 25) her to the Underworld (the verb adigo in legal context

means to bring before a judge). Vergil himself calls Dido’s actions with Aeneas in the cave a culpa (172).

Dido's earlier prayer now activates divine retribution, and the consequences of this culpa quickly follow:

Personified Fama (173-74) with sermo (189) reach King Iarbas (197), the accusator who pleads his case in the

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form of a prayer before Jupiter, the iudex (198-219). Iarbas, whose speech fulfills the three aims of forensic

oratory (conciliare, docere, movere), reproaches and accuses Jupiter himself, Dido, then Aeneas. Jupiter as

judge hears the case, summons Mercury, then executes his decision. The divine will is declared to Dido

through her ill-omened libations of darkened water and bloody wine (454-55), which in turn produce in her

guilty-conscience dreams and deep anxiety (465 ff.).

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CANE Executive Board Minutes,

2003-2004

Classical Association of New England

Executive Committee

Minutes of the Meeting of September 20, 2003

Held at Wellesley College

Attending:

Nina Barclay, Alison Barker, Ruth Breindel, Jacqui Carlon, Leanne Goulet, Gilbert Lawall, Arthur Leavitt,

Marion Lewis, Shirley Lowe, Donna Lyons, Jeremiah Mead, Mark Pearsall, Emil Penarubia, Vincent Rosivach,

Ray Starr, Allen Ward, Heidi Wilson, Rosemary Zurawel

President's Announcements:

Alison Barker thanked Ray Starr, the Immediate Past President, for the excellent job he had done as

President. She also congratulated John Lawless on the new format for NECJ. Alison reported that last May she

had visited Brooks School, site of the 2004, and was pleased with th_ arrangements; she continues in contact

with Sally Morris, the local coordinator. She also announced the New Hampshire Classics day for teachers

would be on the last Friday in September.

Executive Secretary's Announcements:

Vince Rosivach reminded the Executive Committee that materials for meetings were sent out to be read

ahead of time not only to save time at the meeting, but more importantly to give members time to familiarize

themselves with the agenda items before discussion; this was why reports submitted too late to be mailed were

not distributed at the meeting itself, except in extraordinary circumstances, but were held over for the next

meeting. He also announced that the next meeting of the Executive Committee would be on February 21, 2004,

when the principal item of the agenda would be the 2004-5 budget [Ray Starr subsequently informed the

Secretary that the Wellesley College Club would be available for the meeting on that date.]

Approval of Previous Minutes:

The minutes of the meeting of March 20, 2003 were approved without object as circulated.

Committee Reports:

:

(Note: all committee reports were circulated to the Executive Committee in advance of the meeting. They and

all other materials circulated to the Committee will be published as Appendix A to the minutes of this meeting

on the CANE website.)

ACTFL Delegate: Approved as submitted. Shirley Lowe noted that from ACTFL's point of view delegates

served three-year terms; although CANE elected its delegate annually it should choose someone who would be

willing to be twice-reelected, to serve a three-year term.

Educational Materials 2002-3 Financial Report: Gil Lawall pointed out a problem in formatting that could be

misleading. The problem will be corrected in the version of the report published on the CANE website. Alison

Barker observed that Educational Materials looked financially quite healthy. The report was approved as

submitted.

Educational Programs: Report approved as submitted.

Outreach Survey: In response to a question Rosemary Zurawel said that questions 2-4 of the survey had been

opened-ended questions. Approved as submitted. [Outreach remains on the "items pending."]

CANE Summer Institute 2003 Preliminary Report: Allen Ward said that the figures at the end of the report were

tentative: Ruth Breindel (Treasurer) had gotten a list of charges from Dartmouth earlier than normal this year,

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and at the moment he was disputing some of those charges. Ruth said that no payment would be made until the

charges were settled. Allen expected that the Institute will have made a profit of plusor-minus $1,000 depending

on how the charges were settled. The report was approved as submitted.

Treasurer's Report: Ruth Breindel said that the second page of the circulated report had been included by

computer error and should be disregarded [it will not be included in the version published on the CANE

website]. The first page of the report was approved as submitted.

Maine State Representative: Approved as submitted.

Massachusetts State Representative: Approved as submitted.

Membership Committee: Approved as submitted.

CANE Summer Institute:

Because of the complexity of the issues involved Vince Rosivach moved, as the Committee agreed, to

reorder the agenda to take up the CANE Summer Institute (CSI) while everyone was still fresh.

CSI 2003

Vince Rosivach asked if there were reasons beyond those identified in Allen Ward's report for the failure do

draw enough people for the full CSI program. Jacqui Carlon said that the ACL meeting in Buffalo this year may

have draw off some people. She also said that CSI had to recognize that its current market is not what it used to

be, that a great number of the faithful attendees have now retired or will soon retire from teaching. The pool of

secondary-school teachers from which CSI would like to draw is now substantially younger, and therefore faced

with problems like childcare and the cost of the Institute. She suggested considering moving CSI to some place

that would be more accessible to commuters, and shaping it to meet the needs of the young people now coming

into the profession.

Allen said that the Steering Committee had thought of this last point. The proposed format will allow room

for courses for academic credit, and the Steering Committee is starting to work on this; he mentioned a onecredit

course in Herodotos that looked fairly certain, and added that the Institute would e contacting other

schools in New England exploring the idea of a three-credit course that would combine the Institute with

follow-up work. He added that the Steering Committee had thought the hybrid format for the 2003 Institute

would attract more people, but this was clearly not the case.

Ray Starr noted that there was a potential market among non-Classics teachers. Allen said the program was

designed to appeal to teachers in social studies, English, etc. In earlier years the Institute had involved more

different kinds of people, and the Institute was trying to move back to there. In earlier years there used to be

direct mailing to teachers of English, art, etc., but it was felt that the large size of the mailing didn't justify the

expense; perhaps more selective mailings to these constituencies should be resumed without feeling that

everyone has to be blanketed.

Appointment of a New Director

On the recommendation of the CSI Steering Committee Alison Harvey nominated Heidi Wilson for a

two-year term as CSI Director. She was elected unanimously.

Plans for the Summer 2004 Institute

The CSI Steering Committee had met the previous Saturday and made revisions to the original draft

proposal submitted by Allen Ward. The revised report was distributed at this point, and it will appear in the

appendix to these minutes on the CANE website. Responding to a question from Vince, Allen said that the

Steering Committee meeting the previous Saturday had been attended by all of its members except Edward

Bradley, plus Phyllis Katz (to plan for publicity), Heidi (director in waiting), and Alison Barker (CANE

President).

Rosemary Zurawel said that at the meeting the Steering Committee had spent time discussing the impact of

the No Child Left Behind Act on secondary-school teachers and that all had agreed on the need for credit

courses from accredited schools (CEUs will not count); in order to attract teachers CSI must work on offering

courses for credit. Jacqui added that many schools would not fund faculty continuing education unless it is for

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graduate credit, and she called attention to the federal definition of "highly qualified teacher." Gil Lawall noted

that three credits would require a pretty substantial project, which would require a greater commitment of time

on the part of faculty members. Allen envisaged a "side arrangement" between individuals and a faculty

member's home institution, for which CANE would not be responsible. Alison wondered if people could attend

the Institute over three years to get three credits form Institute work alone. Allen thought this was possible.

Mark Pearsall noted that teachers' salaries were often tied to credits earned.

Returning to the revised report, Alison asked about the status of potential faculty not marked with an

asterisk in the report. Allen said that several of these had already agreed to participate.

On the proposed budget, Ruth Breindel noted the multiple possible fee schedules in the report, and asked

when a final decision would be made. Shirley Lowe asked when CSI expected to hear about the grant that

figured in their calculations; Allen said that there had been initial conversations, but could not go further until

the Executive Committee had agreed to the Steering Committee's proposal for the 2004 Institute. There was

some discussion of the total number of participants to plan for: Allen said that in the past CSI has tried to have

at least 70 people, and that 75-80 is not unrealistic; budgeting for 65 would be conservative, adding that if the

Institute can not attract at least 65 people it should be out of business. AlIen said that the Steering Committee

would decide on figures by the end of October.

The proposed date and topic of the 2004 Institute were approved without objection.

The Longer-Range Future of CSI

Vince Rosivach said that it should be clear to all that if the 2004 CSI flopped this would be the end of CSI in

its present form, that there would be no Institute for 2005 and that the Executive Committee will start again

from scratch, as if CSI had never existed, to decide how best to meet the needs of outreach and professional

development. Alison Barker noted that preliminary planning on the 2005 Institute should still begin before the

2004 Institute is held. Under the circumstances it was agreed to move this discussion to the Items Pending list.

Shortcomings in the Present Governance Arrangements for CSI

The Steering Committee's report recommended that the Director be appointed no later than the March

Executive Meeting of the preceding year.

Heidi Wilson pointed out a conflict between article VII of the By-Laws and section XX, no. 1 of the Manual

and urged that the broader language of the By-Laws be used in both. Vince Rosivach said that the reference to

an eight-day program in the By-Laws should be dropped since CSI had not run for eight days recently and is

unlikely to in the foreseeable future. He also suggested dropping the reference to Dartmouth in section XX, no.

1 to allow greater flexibility in the future.

In the Manual Allen Ward suggested it be specified that the Director of a particular Institute would be

responsible for wrapping up that Institute's business, even if his term were to overlap with that of the Director of

the next Institute.

Allen also recommended assigning duties a) and b) of the On-Site Coordinator to the Host Institution

Liaison Officer, and duties a) and b) of the Host Institution Liaison Officer to the On-Site Coordinator. He also

recommended that the language in no. 6 be changed so that faculty and officers be paid by (rather than on)

August 1, that the Director's stipend be "up to" $2,500, and that the second stipend be given to the On-Site

Coordinator, assuming that the duties were changed as earlier suggested.

It was agreed that in no. 8 of the Manual the word "agreement" should be used in place of "hiring."

Ruth Breindel said that she had to have the faculty letters in time for her IRS report.

Vince Rosivach said that experience had shown that it was unrealistic to expect a final financial report

by the September Executive Committee, and suggested that this be changed to the February meeting.

It was agreed that in no. 11 the size of the initial application deposit should not be specified. Rosemary

Zurawel suggested that requiring an initial deposit, with 50% due by a certain date and the balance on

registration might be a better way of gauging the health of the Institute; this was further elaborated that

participants would be asked on May 1 for a 50% deposit by June 1.

John McVey suggested adding the Treasurer to the Steering Committee since she had the final say on CSI's

financial arrangements.

Alison suggested spelling out a minimum schedule for Steering Committee meetings (sometime in the

spring, to decide on a topic; at the conclusion of the Institute, to draft preliminary plans for the following year's

Institute for submission to the Executive Committee in September; and after the September Executive

Committee meeting, to adjust plans in light of the Executive Committee decisions). Ruth Breindel objected that

the Executive Committee would not see the topic until September, which would be too late for a change. Vince

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pointed out that if the new members of the Steering Committee were only elected at the March Executive

Committee meeting, September would be the first scheduled opportunity for the Executive Committee to

consider the topic. Jere Mead suggested that the Executive Committee could get a report at its end-of-meeting

wrap-up session, but it was pointed out that this would not allow the Steering Committee much time to

deliberate. Alison added that if the topic was really bad the Executive Committee could cancel the Institute for

that year. Shirley Lowe said it would be nice if the topic could be announced at the annual meeting; Allen said

that as soon as a topic was decided upon participants could be e-mailed.

Ray Starr thought it was important to specify that the Steering Committee must meet face-to-face, and

that e-mail consultation was inadequate.

Heidi Wilson suggested that a focus group should be part of the regular CSI schedule, to elicit reaction

to planning already in progress.

Vince Rosivach agreed to write these various suggestions up for a formal vote at the February Execu

tive Committee meeting.

Finnegan-Plante Grants

Several changes were recommended to the draft submitted by the Membership Committee. The re

vised text incorporating those changes was unanimously approved and is printed below.

The Finnegan-Plante Grants honor the memory of Ms. Mary Finnegan and Sr. Jeannette Plante, longtime

members of CANE and faithful attendees at the Association's Annual Meetings, who passed away in 2002.

The Finnegan-Plante Grants provide funds to CANE members attending their first Annual Meeting, to help

defray the costs of attending. There are three Grants of $150 each per year.

Only CANE members who are currently teaching Latin at the pre-collegiate level and who are without

other sources of funding are eligible for these Grants.

A brief description of these grants will be included in the announcement of the Annual Meeting. Application

for Grants will be made directly to the Executive Secretary. Applicants must plan on attending the full twoday

meeting.

Recipients will be chosen at random from all applications submitted by February 1.

Recipients will be informed before the Annual Meeting. The Grants themselves will be awarded and the

recipients will be publicly recognized at an appropriate time during the Annual Meeting.

The first Finnegan-Plante Grants will be awarded for the 2004 Annual Meeting. Funds from the Grants will

come from the CANE Endowment.

The Executive Secretary will be responsible for the administration of the Finnegan-Plante Grant program.

The Executive Committee will review the funding levels and usefulness of the Finnegan-Plante Grants at its

fall 2004 meeting.

Note: This text, as amended, will be included in the CANE Manual.

Newsletter Editor in By-Laws

The previously circulated draft amendment to section VI of the By-Laws was unanimously approved,

and will be brought to the general membership at its March 2005 meeting.

Amendment Concerning emeritus Status

The Executive Committee had discussed this issue at its last two meetings (see those minutes for arguments

pro and con). After brief discussion the Executive Committee voted 19-1 to reverse its previous

recommendation and to leave the Constitution, Article III, Section 4 unchanged.

Professional Development

At last February's meeting the Executive Committee discussed the question of Professional Development

and created an ad hoc committee, which it never fully staffed. The Executive Committee now voted

unanimously to direct the President to appoint additional members to this ad hoc committee so that it can begin

its work. Ruth Breindel urged that in the case of this and other committees special effort be made to open up

membership to new people who are not members of the Executive Committee.

Classical Computing

Ray Starr explained that this committee had been created in the early days of computing and had provided a

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real service at this time, but that it was no longer needed. The Executive Committee voted unanimously to

recommend to the general membership amending Article VIII, Sections 3 and 11 of the By-Laws and section G

of the Manual to removed references to the Committee on Classical Computing. The amendment to the By-

Laws will be brought to the 2005 Annual Meeting.

Nina Barclay suggested that the CANE web site be included under Publications in the By-Laws. Vince

Rosivach asked whether it was the sentiment of the Executive Committee to have the webmaster/mistress sit on

the Executive Committee. Donna Lyons thought that there might be some statutory limit on the size of the

Executive Committee, and further discussion was put off until February while Vince checked this out.

Increase in Membership Fees

Ruth Breindel explained that with NECJ's new format we are barely breaking even on non-New England

members, and that even with an increase CANE would still be a bargain compared to other organizations.

Alison Barker asked if we need the money. Ruth said that membership numbers were down, and that this was

something that we needed to watch since our current membership was aging. Vince Rosivach urged that the

decision be postponed until the February budget: between now and then the chair of the Finance Committee will

ask the officers and committee chairs for their funding requests for the coming year; the Finance Committee

will then review these requests and draft a budget, which the Executive Committee will vote on in February.

Vince suggested that it made more sense to consider the dues increase when we have the draft budget in hand,

and can see whether or not current revenues are sufficient. It was generally agreed to postpone discussion of the

increase to February.

Involving College Faculty with Local Latin Teachers

Referring to his memo to the Executive Committee, Gil Lawall said there were a lot of things he believed

college/university teachers could do to support local Latin teachers, and perhaps some already do do. He added

that some of what he was suggesting might be "pie in the sky" but he wanted to put the ideas out there and see

what others thought.

Allen Ward thought that this was something that the APA should be doing, since it was the organization

most college teachers thought of as their professional association. He also saw merit in a letter to college

departments suggesting they should be involved with local Latin teacher. Donna Lyons suggested a workshop

or panel at the annual meeting that could explore the possibilities.

Jacqui Carlon suggested that there should be a point person at each university to link up with local Latin

teachers, something that some departments did but others did not. She also suggested that the state

representatives might ask their members to get back to their former professors to initiate contacts in that

direction as well. Nina Barclay pointed out, however, that many teachers were trained outside of New England.

Ruth Breindel pointed out that more than half the college/university teachers on Gil Lawall's list were not even

members of CANE. Ray Starr said that realistically efforts should be directed towards tenured rather than nontenured

college faculty.

Mark Pearsall related how he had taken his AP students to UConn to see how Classics were taught on the

college level, and then had university people come to his high school to see how things were done there. He said

what was needed was some way to break through the attitude of graduate students that looks down on high

school teaching. Allen Ward there certainly was a need to prepare more graduate students for high school

teaching. Mark said it was also a matter of bridging the gulf between high schools and colleges.

Alison Barker thought that the annual meeting provided a good opportunity for college and high school

teachers to meet. Though it would take some time, she suggested getting more college teachers to become

members of CANE, then getting them to come to annual meetings, then getting them further involved.

Jere Mead suggested that state organizations could identify point persons on the high school level who could

work on organizational issues. Emil Penarubia asked what was the purpose behind Gil's proposal. Ruth Breindel

cited as an example an issue that had come up recently, high school teachers' access to college libraries. Shirley

added that it would be nice to have something in place for teachers who move from other states.

Allen Ward observed that the CANE Summer Institute does a lot to build relationships between secondary

and college faculty.

Gil thought that it would be useful to write to college faculty who are currently CANE members urging

them to do whatever they can to create relationships with secondary school teachers. Ray Starr and AlIen Ward

suggested sending each the names of high school teachers in his/her area. Ruth Breindel volunteered the

Membership Committee to follow up on the ideas raised in the discussion, and asked for further ideas bye-mail

and via the CANE listserv.

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Discontinuing printed Bulletin for Executive Committee

See the background materials. The Executive Committee unanimously agreed to the proposal.

Later Fall Meeting

Vince Rosivach asked if meeting in October rather than September would make more sense, to allow

committees to meet in September, since it seems close to impossible for them to meet over the summer. Allen

Ward pointed out that many state organizations have their meetings in October, and suggested that the fall

meeting be scheduled no later than the last weekend in September.

Other Announcements and Business

Allen Ward inquired about the status of the annual grant for CSI seed money. Vince Rosivach explained

that an advance (not a grant) had been made to CSI several years ago for expenses, notably publicity, that come

up before tuition payments start come in; he said that it had been a one-time advance, with the assumption that,

rather than being paid back, it would be used as the advance for the next year, and similarly into the future.

Allen added that CSI was on line for repayment of the CANE loan made to cover the losses of CSI 2001.

Ruth Breindel requested that she be sent copies of the mailings lists used by different groups (state

organizations, CSI, etc.) so she could develop a single unified list.

John McVey said that he would like to communicate with the state representatives concerning CANE

scholarships, and requested that they send him their current e-mail addresses.

Donna Lyons announced a new Emporium Romanum project to create posters using photos made by

CANE members, and asked that those interested in participating send her photos.

Jere Mead asked about including an announcement of the Weincke Prize in the letters NELPS sent to school

superintendents. Vince Rosivach said that he had already spoken with Ken Kitchell about this; Ken did not

thing it was a good idea, and added that the announcement of the Prize would better be sent to school principals

rather than superintendents.

Jere Mead asked if we could get the CANE Annual Meeting listed in CO; Jacqui Carlon said she would take

care of it. Mark Pearsall volunteered to do the same for ACTFL.

Mark Pearsall mentioned that there was a problem with national board certification in Latin in that not

enough teachers had applied to form a valid pool to determine what are appropriate standards, and said that they

were now thinking of dropping the Latin-exam. He added that there were scholarships available, and urged

people to get the word out. Shirley Lowe said that once the first exam was given future exams would be given

on a rotating basis with other less commonly taught languages. Alison Barker asked Mark to get information for

the Newsletter (Ruth Breindel) and the CANE website (Ray Starr).

Respectfully submitted,

Vincent J. Rosivach Executive Secretary

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Classical Association of New England

Executive Committee

Minutes of the Meeting of February 21, 2004

held at Wellesley College

Attending: Nina Barclay, Alison Barker, Ruth Breindel, Jacqui Carlon, Leanne Goulette, Gilbert Lawall, John

Lawless, Marion Lewis, Shirley Lowe, Donna Lyons, Jeremiah Mead, Emil Penarubia, Vincent

Rosivach, Ray Starr, Allen Ward, Heidi Wilson

1. President’s Announcements:

Alison Barker reported that arrangements were moving ahead for the Annual Meeting in March. There had

been a snafu with the bulk mailing of the flyer announcing the meeting, but this had been covered nicely

announcements in Canens and NECJ (though again there had been problems with the bulk mailing of Canens).

As of today there were 110 registrations, and registrations were still coming in. Jacqui Carlon reported on the

terrific arrangements that had been made for publishers’ exhibits; she noted that we had lost a few publishers

because of conflicts with other events, and suggested that in the future we let the larger publishing houses know

as soon as we have a meeting place lined up.

2. Secretary’s Announcements

Vince Rosivach asked anyone who was aware of members who had died recently to inform either him or

Alison, for memorials at the Annual Meeting. He mentioned that the deadline for agenda items for the March

Executive Committee meeting was today. He also mentioned that there had been some uncertainly about the

terms of office for the Editor of the Newsletter and the Chair of the Membership Committee, and then after

consultation with Ruth Breindel they had agreed that the term of the Newsletter Editor will end in 2005 and that

of the Chair of the Membership Committee will be for four or five years, to be determined, ending in either

2005 or 2006. He also apologized that through an oversight he had not included the sections dealing with the

Editor of the Newsletter in the proposed amendments he had published in NECJ; these amendments will have to

be taken up at the 2005 business meeting instead. Vince also called the members’ attention to the large number

of items pending, most awaiting committee action, and suggested that the annual meeting would be an

opportune time for committees to meet; he noted that the agenda for the March business meeting appeared to be

quite light, and that members would likely have the opportunity to meet with their committees on Thursday

evening as well. Finally he reported that there had been only one applicant this year for the Finnigan-Plante

grant.

3. Minutes

The minutes of the meeting of September 20, 2003 were approved as previously circulated.

4. Reports (note: all reports are printed in the attached supplementary materials)

a. CEUs (held over from September) unanimously accepted.

b. Curator of the Funds (held over from September) unanimously accepted.

c. Emporium Romanum (held over from September) unanimously accepted.

d. New England Latin Placement Service. Gil Lawall noted that both job openings and now candidates’

summary résumés are available on line. Ruth Breindel passed around an article dealing with the difficulty of

finding Latin teachers; there was general agreement that these should be the concern of Classics-in-Curricula.

The report was unanimously accepted.

e. Emporium Romanum (February Report) unanimously accepted.

f. Membership Committee. Allen Ward wondered why there were so few responses. Shirley Lowe suggested

that it may be a matter of fiscal cycles, that the letter went out too late for schools to pay for this year’s

membership. Vince Rosivach pointed out that letters will be sent out every year, reminding people of the value

of membership. Jacqui Carlon said that both letters were wonderful. The report was unanimously accepted.

g. Curator of the Funds (February report). Donna noted that her term ends in 2005, and a new Curator will be

needed at that time.

h. Phinney Scholarship. Nina Barclay reported that more recently Carl Lenhart had been informed that his

Latin program will be funded. The question was raised whether a Phinney grant could be reclaimed if a school

district reneged on its problem to support Greek after the completion of the grant, and it was generally agreed

that there was nothing CANE could do in those circumstances. The report was unanimously accepted.

i. Connecticut State Representative unanimously accepted.

j. CANE Summer Institute unanimously accepted.

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5a. CANE Budget for 2004-5 (attached)

Commenting on the previously circulated draft budget Donna Lyons said that the Barlow Fund was in the form

of a certificate of deposit and a small checking accounting, the latter used for purchasing bowls and engraving,

Since the amount was quite sufficient for the award’s needs she encouraged people to donate to the endowment

fund instead. She explained that the budget’s figure of $19 for memberships (instead of $25) was used to take

into account student memberships, second year free for new members and other reductions from full

membership. Emporium money will now be treated as income (helping to generate additional revenue to meet

IRS concerns (on which see below under Dues Increase); CSI income is also treated as revenue for this purpose.

Donna explained that “reimbursements” paid for delegates to attend meetings and also for Executive Committee

members to attend their meetings.

Answering a question from Vince Rosivach Donna explained that the budget was balanced in terms of revenues

and expenses; the surplus which it showed was essentially the funds carried over from the previous year’s fiscal

year. Surpluses in the endowments are put back into endowments, but a surplus in the operating budget is

carried over into the following year. The budget was unanimously adopted as submitted.

5b. CSI budget

Heidi Wilson informed the Executive Committee that as of two weeks earlier there were twenty people

registered for the 2004 CSI (she had just returned from a trip and could not give more recent figures). The

budget was accepted as submitted.

6a. Dues Increase

Ruth Breindel argued in favor of an increase on three grounds: the journal was more expensive to produce in its

new format; our sister organizations had recently increased their dues; and that we had to generate additional

non-endowment revenues to avoid problems with the IRS, whose requirements allow a maximum of 1/3 of

income to come from endowment. Alison Barker said that if we were to raise dues we would need projects to

spend the money on: how compelling is it, she asked, to raise dues if you don’t have the need to spend it?

Vince Rosivach thought that if the various committees all made recommendations for additional activities there

would be need of these funds since there is nothing to spare in the operational budget.

John Lawless asked why not $28 instead of $30. Ruth said it was easier to go with a round number. Vince

Rosivach pointed out that the same thing was done when the present amount was set, with the anticipation that

there would be a running surplus for several years that would then be available to fund a running deficit for a

few more years before another increase was needed. In response to a question Vince said that any dues increase

has to be improved by the membership; since it was too late to announce this before this March’s meeting it

would have to wait until the 2005 meeting, and would take effect with the start of the next fiscal year that

summer.

Jacqui Carlon wondered if $4000 would be adequate, or should we be looking for other sources of income as

well. Donna pointed out that there would also be money from the Emporium, which will be treated as revenue.

Ruth Breindel said that the IRS looked at a three-year running average, so we would have a warning if we had

to make more radical changes.

Ruth also pointed out that only regular membership fee was being changed. The $15 fee for students would

remain the same, as would the policy of giving new members their second year’s membership for free. The

Executive Committee voted unanimously to recommend the dues increase to the members at the 2005 Business

Meeting.

6b. Manual Revisions Concerning CSI (see supplementary materials)

Vince Rosivach explained that at its previous meeting the Executive Committee had reviewed the sections of

the Constitution, By-Laws and Manual referring to CSI and recommended numerous changes. He had agreed to

write up these changes, and the business at hand was to see how accurately what he had written conformed to

the Executive Committee’s wishes. The Executive Committee agreed that he had done so except:

in the Manual, section 3 (Duties of the Director), in paragraph d) replace “hires” with “appoints”; in

section 6 (Compensation of CSI Officers and Faculty), third paragraph, replace “on September 1” with “after

September 1.” There was also some confusion with the distribution of duties in sections 4 (Duties of the On-

Site Coordinator) and 5 (Duties of the Host Institution Liaison officer); Allen Ward and Heidi Wilson agreed to

supply improved language after the lunch break. Vince Rosivach pointed out that the final paragraph of section

13 would have to be changed to “all except the Director” to conform to the By-Laws. At this point the

Executive Committee voted to approve all of the changes in the draft provided by Vince, plus the changes to

sections 3 and 6 herein noted. All changes in the Manual became immediately operative; the change to the By-

Laws, Article IV (Terms of Office and Procedures of Section), Section 2, will be recommended to the

membership at the May 2005 meeting.

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7a. Budget Preparation Process

Vince Rosivach explained that there were two different processes outlined in the Manual, and that the Executive

Committee should choose one or the other, or a combination of both. He noted that the budget process was in

essence a planning process for what CANE will do in the coming year. Donna said that at present we generally

follow the procedure described under the duties of the Curator of Funds, and warned about making the process

overly formal less it discourage people from participating in CANE. Vince spoke of the need for a broad

involvement of the committees in the budget process, reviewing what they are doing and developing additional

projects; simply giving committees the same amount they had been given the previous year does not encourage

new initiatives; money unspent by one committee should be reallocated to another if it will spend it well. It was

agreed that the Finance Committee would be asked to formulate a single budget preparation process to present

to the Executive Committee at its September meeting.

7b. Renting the CANE Mailing List

Ruth Breindel explained that we do this now, but that there are no guidelines in place. Alison said that

personally she was not thrilled with receiving unsolicited mailings, but John Lawless said that there were others

who found them useful. Ruth and John agreed to serve as a subcommittee to formulate a policy on this to be

included in the Manual. Ray Starr asked if the CANE List-Serv could be included.

7c. CEUs

Donna Lyons reviewed the materials that had been included with the agenda. She noted that providing

Connecticut CEUs was a service CANE provided for its members. At the moment we can offer CEUs for

hourly activities where there is a control of attendance (workshops vel sim.). She stressed the need to include

the CT CEU logo on all materials (programs, flyers, etc.) for activities for which CEUs will be available; that

participants must complete an evaluation form related to each activity (this is how we know they attended); and

that coordinator must receive and keep on file the résumés of all presenters.

At then end of the lunch break Vince Rosivach resigned as Executive Secretary.

Respectfully submitted,

Vince Rosivach

Post Lunch Notes

1. There was a brief discussion about accepting Vince Rosivach’s resignation as Secretary. It was accepted and

we continued the meeting.

2. Emporium Romanum –

Donna reported that the Emporium usually at least breaks even and often makes money.

She has revamped the website with more up-to-date information re styles of shirts, postage, etc.

After some discussion about how a separate address/page would mesh with the CANE page, it was

agreed that Ray and Donna would address the issue of “linking” the Emporium to the site.

Donna will write about the duties of the Emporium manager to be included in the Manual.

Any other ideas for items (Allen suggested a watch) would be greatly appreciated and should be sent to

Donna.

There are now posters we will sell, also.

3. Wiencke Award: Jere Mead reported

There are concerns about the number of nominations, since there are very few! He discussed the type

of publicity and where it appears (this year he wrote to the heads of state organizations to solicit

nominations).

o piggyback on NELPS mailing

o tell dept chairmen about it as a form of publicity for foreign languages

o Gil suggested adding to state mailings

o John suggested using blank space in NECJ, with picture of Matt Wiencke

o Shirley suggested state language assoc newsletters

This is for the “under the radar” teacher who is wonderful but doesn’t get recognition.

4. Discussion of publicity in general grew out of the above discussion

Jacqui suggested buying slides or funding for faculty members

Alison suggested discussing the scholarship committees in March

Ruth suggested adding members to the CANE-L; what would be the ramifications of doing this

(privacy, etc)? Put a check-off box on the renewal form?

Nina said perhaps the time of year (near Xmas) is difficult – could we change deadlines?

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Alison suggested an ad hoc committee in Sept could draft something

5. Gil Lawall reported a Net Gain of 3.5 new Latin teachers, and replacement of 26, with 89 new teachers

hired.

He sends a form letter to schools where Latin is in danger – perhaps this is a CIC issue; he plugs Latin

to the principals

He also sends a form letter, 2 sided, listing CANE and state orgs with names, addresses and emails

o Ruth suggested making part of the membership comm work

o perhaps add a small present (guilt…)

o this should go out at the beginning of the year

6. Putting the president-elect in the by-laws will be on the agenda for 2005 meeting (by-laws article III, section

I new paragraph (c)

There was discussion about who does what job

John said the president-elect doesn’t run the student paper – he does the writing contest; the

student paper is the immediate past-president

Allen said add “and other executive duties from time to time”

7. New Business

a. Ray Starr suggested a resolution of thanks to Vince Rosivach for his many services to CANE. It

passed unanimously.

b. Ruth brought up the problem of being incorporated in VT. Phil Ambrose no longer wants his

address used (he’s away for a good part of the year). After much discussion, Ruth agreed to handle this.

c. John asked people to keep an eye out for good papers at the Annual Meeting so he can ask for them

for NECJ.

d. Ruth suggested the same for the CSI papers.

e. Donna had the template for the writing contests and prizes.

f. Gil showed us Jere Meads new book on the Fables of Phaedrus and the new reading for the Catullus

AP syllabus, as published by the CANE instructional materials.

Classical Assocation of New England

Executive Committee Meeting

March 11, 2004

Brooks School, N. Andover, MA

Keating Room in the Wilder Dining Hall

Attending: Nina Barclay, Alison Barker, Ruth Breindel, Jacqui Carlon, Leanne Goulette, Beth Gwozdz, Gilbert

Lawall, John Lawless, Marion Lewis, Shirley Lowe, Donna Lyons, Jeremiah Mead, John McVey, Sally Morris,

Mark Pearsall, Emil Penarubia, Ray Starr, Allen Ward, Heidi Wilson, Allan Wooley, & Rosemary Zurawel

The President, Alison Barker, called the meeting to order at 4:05 P.M.

The President called upon Sally Morris, the Local Coordinator, for her report. Sally reported that all was

ready; the registration desk was all set up with all the folders ready for the attendees. There were 209 registered

as of noon (by Saturday there were 210 registered). She mentioned that the computers in the Faculty Room

were available to get on line, and that the Art Gallery would be open on Friday at 5 PM for those who were

staying on campus before the banquet. On Allen Ward's motion the Committee voted Sally their thanks.

The President called upon the Executive Secretary to discuss the matter of Life Memberships left over

from a previous meeting, at which the desire had been expressed to do away with its complicated formula. He

reported that the Life Membership was stipulated in the Constitution and By Laws to be a graduated fee

determined by the number years of membership, and that the Manual provided that the Secretary report on it

every Annual Meeting. He recommended that it be kept at the current cost of $500 minus $1.00 for every year

of membership, and since the Manual is totally under the control of the Executive Committee, that there be no

report at this meeting, with the understanding that the Committee would decide in the next year whether to

change the Constitution on this point.

After the minutes for the meeting of February 21, 2004 were circulated, it was suggested that the minutes

be provisionally approved at this meeting, since the minutes came in two sections by two hands, and the author

of the second half had not had a chance to revise his submission because of computer failure. Thereupon the

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President asked for the provisional approval of the minutes of the meeting of February 21, 2004. The motion

was made, seconded, and passed unanimously.

The President now asked for the approval of the reports of the State Representatives. The report from

Connecticut had already been approved at the February meeting; the reports of Massachusetts and Vermont had

been emailed to the committee members before the meeting, and the reports of Maine and New Hampshire were

circulated at the meeting. Since there is no representative for Rhode Island, there was no report; John Lawless

offered to try to find a representative. The reports of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont

were all accepted after separate motions for each.

The President now called on Jacqui Carlon for her report from the Caucus of Regional Associations at the

annual meeting of the American Philological Association (included below). There were two matters that Jacqui

wished to bring to the Committee's attention: 1) insurance and 2) the travelling display. Regarding the

insurance she reported that some other associations carry event insurance (liability and/or cancellation), and that

the APA also carries liability insurance for its officers [Adam Blistein from the APA argues that this last is the

most important- ed.]. The President instructed Jacqui and Heidi Wilson to investigate providers and costs for

CANE. Regarding the display she reported that the Ken Kitchell is in charge of the APA plans to fund a

travelling dispay to tour New England as well as the rest of the country. CANE would have no financial

obligation. In the discussion the salient point was the need to have a malleable presentation that would fit

various venues and audiences. The President appointed Allen Ward, Gil Lawall, and the State Representatives

to coordinate CANE's input. The motion to accept the report was seconded and passed.

The President next asked Allen Ward to present his report (included below) on the final financial

accounting for the CANE Summer Institute for 2002-3. The motion to accept it was seconded and carried

unanimously.

The next item on the agenda of old business was a continuation of a topic from the February 21 meeting,

the oversight and interaction of CSI and CANE. A motion was made by John Lawless that we proceed to

discuss this topic as a committee of the whole without minutes. This was seconded and passed unanimously.

After a lengthy, open, and productive discussion a motion to stand and report was made, seconded and passed.

At this point it was 6:00 PM and the Committee paused for dinner;

The President reconvened the Committee at 6:36 PM.

The President called upon Mark Pearsall for his report on National Board Certification. The applications

of those Latin teachers who had submitted their materials will be scored, provided they all stay in the pool and

complete the process, but no more submissions will be accepted this coming year and maybe never, unless the

Board can be convinced that there are enough to make it feasible. Mark stressed that it is important to have

more applicants, because unless Latin is part of the Certification languages, it will drop in status and this will

lessen its administrative support locally and nationally, and will affect Latin teachers' perquisites and salary.

He pointed out that candidates were needed but that the application process was onerous, including 400 hours

to develop a portfolio.

Under new business the President listed her appointments as follows:

CSI Steering Committee:

1 year- Mary Ann Chaffee, Rosemary Zurawel

2 years- Ellen Perry, John Higgins

3 years- Ken Wheeling, Alison Harvey

On-site liaison- Edward Bradley

Rep. to Executive Committee- Alison Barker

Scholarship Committee Chair- Ed DeHoratius

Nominations Committee- Allen Ward, Deb Davies

Barlow-Beach Committee- Dennis Herer

Membership Committee 3 years- Kat Braden

Allen Ward noted that several of these had been scholarship winners and that it was good to have them on

board.

The President called upon Ray Starr, the Chair of the Nominating Committee to present his list of

nominees. He reported the following slate:

President-Elect: John McVey

Executive Secretary: Rosemary Zurawel

Member At Large: Katy Ganino

ACL delegate: Paul Properzio

ACL alternate: Deborah Rae Davies

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ACTFL delegate: Mark Pearsall

Auditors: Richard Clairmont and Paul Langford

NCLG delegate: pending

NECTFL delegate: pending

The President called upon the Executive Secretary to discuss the next item which concerned the

dimensions of the job of the Secretary and the possibility of a stipend. This subject was discussed briefly and it

was noted that in the days of the combined Secretary-Treasurer there was a stipend of $500 which in some other

organizations has now grown to $2500. At one time Life Membership was awarded to the Secretary-Treasurer-

Curator at the end of his/her term. It was agreed that the subject was too large to be considered at this meeting

and that it should be considered by an ad hoc committee in the future.

The President called on Ruth Breindel to discuss the requirements for the job of editor of the newsletter.

She listed three:

a) proficiency with desktop publishing

b) access to a non-profit mailing permit and a bulk mailing site

c) the ability to work quickly: turn-around time is about 5

days for an issue and there are three a year.

The President called upon Ray Starr for the report of the Discretionary Committee (included below). Ray

added that the committee believed that they wanted to be inclusive and so set an open standard of educationally

valuable projects. He was submitting his report also as a change for the Manual. He pointed out that they

hoped the change would encourage more applications; there had only been two this year. A motion to accept

the report was seconded and then there was a lengthy discussion: Jacqui Carlon suggested that it could be used

for summer programs to cover tuition. Ruth Breindel argued that such grants should be done under the aegis of

the Scholarship Committee as in-US scholarships. Shirley Lowe pointed out that the Discretionary Fund was

designated for materials to be used in the classroom. Rosemary Zurawel seconded that as materials for the

benefit of students. Alison suggested that this needed to be publicized and then the recipients needed to write

up reports for the Auxilia section of NECJ. Mark Pearsall said that from his experience as the chair of the

Endowment Committee for ClassConn it was useful to send out an application form with bullets of the things

that can be done; this increased their applications substantially. He offered to send this form to Alison who will

be the new chair of the Committee of Discretionary Grants. Jacqui Carlon asked how we could advertize the

availability of CANE monies for all these things. Nina Barclay suggested using pictures of winners doing

things in class. Allen Ward suggested that we should make a separate mailing for scholarships. John Lawless

pointed out that an insert in NECJ was free, and the orange ones used last year were quite effective. Alison

indicated that Ed DeHoratius as the new chair of the Scholarship Committee needed to be notified of this

discussion. At the end of the discussion the motion carried and the President appointed Allen Ward to put

together a mailing brochure for the September meeting. Gil Lawall and the State Reps were added to the

working group.

The President asked Jacqui Carlon to report on the Writing Contest. She told the Committee that Rachel

Taylor of Milton High School in Massachusetts was the winner. There had not been many applications and she

pointed out that the State Reps need to publicize it more. She indicated that the theme for next year was

"Warriors and Peacemakers in the Ancient World."

The President called upon John McVey for the report of the Scholarship Committee (included below)

which he gave and then recommended that the State Reps should keep talking up the scholarships. He added

that the CANE website had been very helpful in advertising the scholarships and putting out the necessary

information. The winners for this year were:

the Coulter Scholarship: Katherine Ganino

the Endowment Scholarship: Marilee E. Osier

the Poggioli Award: Amy S. White

The President called upon the Senior Representative At Large for the report on the winner of the Wiencke

award. Jere Mead indicated that the winner this year was Sally Murphy of the Winsor High School. He

commented that he was going to write up the duties of the Senior Representative with all the procedures and

timetables for his successor. It was suggested that he had this write-up also to the Secretary to include in the

Manual.

The President called upon the Editor of CANE Instructional Materials for his report (included below).

Jacqui Carlon and others commended the quality of offerings, and the Editor of NECJ offered to publish a few

pages of a new offering as a promotion.

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Under Non-Agenda Items Allen Ward asked to be recognized to report on this year's winner of the

Certification Scholarship who is Matthew Bennett from Woodstock.

The question came up about the discussion of new dues in the February meeting. The Secretary

commented that there was a requirement in the Constitution or By Laws that a change in the amount of the dues

be voted by the membership at the Annual Meeting, but none requiring prior written notification, but that it

would not be prudent to raise the dues without some prior warning, especially since there seemed to be no

urgent need.

The President reminded the Committee of the need to bring the seventeen published recommendations for

amending the Constitution and By Laws to the membership for a vote at the Business Meeting.

The President recognised Jacqui Carlon, the President Elect, who advised the Committee that she was

going to make it a very high priority to completely revise the Manual; She asked all officers to write up new

entries for the manual and have them ready for the September meeting.

At 7:40 PM the President accepted a motion to adjourn, which was

seconded and carried unanimously.

Resp. subm.,

Allan Wooley, Acting Exec. Sec.

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Report of the MASSACHUSETTS STATE REPRESENTATIVE

CAM 2003 Fall Meeting:

The Fall Meeting of the Classical Association of Massachusetts took place in conjunction with the

Massachusetts Foreign Language Association annual meeting at Sturbridge, MA on October 31 and November

1, 2003.

Friday's sessions included:

A New Catullus Reader (Kenneth Kitchell)

Women in the Latin Curriculum (Ruth Breindel)

Cultural Units for Middle School Students (Nancy Shane)

Saturday's workshops included:

Roman Games and Gladiatorial Games (Jacqui Carlon)

Cambridge Latin Course (Norah Jones, Fiona Kelly, John Perry)

Latin Across the Curriculum (Douglas Ryan).

Classics in the News:

The Boston Globe ran an article entitled "A Classic Comeback" on January 24, 2004, about the

shortage of Latin teachers across Massachusetts. The article highlighted the hiring of new teacher Liza Ann

Riolo at Arlington HS. Professor Kenneth Kitchell of UMass Amherst was also interviewed.

Certamen and JCL:

A Catapult Contest on November 8, was held at Belchertown HS in conjunction with the PVCA's

(Pioneer Valley Classical Assoc.) annual Classics Day. There were 3 categories of catapult:

* Ballistae (shooting 1-pound arrows);

* Catapulta (shooting 8-pound spheres);

* Marshmallow (shooting marshmallows).

MassJCL's Classics Day, on Dec. 1, was held at Boston University. The theme was "In the World of Ovid," and

each participant attended 2 workshops. There were 21 workshops in all, most of which had professors as

presenters.

There have been several Certamen scrimmages, including those at Boston Latin

Academy and Boston Latin School. A new Scrimmage, hosted by the Harvard

Classical Club, was inaugurated this year. It is not technically a MassJCL

event but the invitees were those schools who have been MassJCL schools over

the past few years.

On March 13 the annual Certamen Preliminary Contest will be held at Quabbin

Reg. HS to determine the teams eligible to compete in the Final Certamen Contest held at the State Convention.

On April 30 - May 1 the MA JCL State Convention will be held at UMass Amherst. This will be the third year

for the two-day format. The convention will include written academic tests, state certamen finals, oral academic

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finals, olympika, spirit games, performing arts and creative contests, arts and handicrafts contests, athletic

events (track/field and swimming), graphic arts competition, a chariot race, a new variety show for

entertainment, a dance, elections of new state officers and a Toga Pledge Parade.

Delegates will be able to win ribbons for individual events and trophies for overall categories. The Janet

Rajotte Trophy will be awarded to the chapter with the highest participation points. State chairs are Tamara

Bauer (Pierce Middle School in Milton), Janet Fillion (Boston Latin Academy), and Marjorie Keeley (Mt.

Greylock Regional Schools in Williamstown).

On July 25-31 a delegation of approximately 50 people will attend the National JCL annual convention in

Richmond VA.

Respectfully submitted,

C. Emil Penarubia

THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW ENGLAND

MASSACHUSETTS STATE REPRESENTATIVE: C. EMIL PENARUBIA

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REPORT OF THE MAINE STATE REPRESENTATIVE

I. Spring Meeting- Sat. May 3 -- " Docendo Discimus: Expanding Our Strategies" at Freeport High School,

Freeport, ME. Speakers were Tom Hayward, Bates College: -- "How Do They Get It? Reading Latin versus

Decoding"

Jill Crooker, New York State Educ. Dept. and Kate Rabiteau, Educational testing Service: "Using Authentic

Literature in the Classroom: A hands-pon experience writing multiple-choice questions for a passage of

authentic Latin literature (adapted)

Business meeting and elections: Marilee Osier, Pres., Robin Colby, V-P, all others re-elected for another

term

Introduction of ew classics colloquia website developed un-officially by Bill Glennon

Maine Junior Classical League teachers were invited to join a revision session for certamen questions for

spring convention

2. August 2003 Executive Meeting :final plans laid for fall meeting at Bates College

3. Fall Meeting: Oct. 4, 2003 at bates College. Keynote speaker was Kenneth kitchell, ACL President: " A

Hundred and One Uses for a Dead Hedgehog...Stalking Wild Antiquity". Second speaker was Margaret Imber,

Bates College: Blood on the Sand" -- gladiators and hunters. Panel discussion focused on "Who is Going to

Take My Place? -- The Future of Latin teaching" -- panel included Ken Kitchell, Peter Aicher USM Michelle

Tucci, Portland HS, and Seth Knowles, first-year teacher at Bonney Eagle HS, Standish, ME

Business meeting followed.: CANE essay, new CANE Rep= Beth Gwozdz :), National Teacher recruitment

Week and Teacher Exchange month (March). Meg Cook reported on HOUSSE (new state recertification

policies based on No Child Left behind Act. Aeneid books selling well -- only 33 remaining ( thanks to

advertisement in Canens newsletter and to Jill Crokker's sales at New York assemblages)

4 Veterans Day, Nov. 11, 2003 -- MCA Teacher Workshop on Maine Learning Results and Comprehensive

Assessment System.-- discussion and exchange of materials and report forms. 6 teachers in attendance.

materials were also sent to other teachers upon request. ( Requests have been made for another such session in

the next year.)

5. Jan. 26, 2004 -- Executive Meeting at Tom's house, Lewiston. Finalized spring meeting -- May 1, 2004 at

Winthrop HS -- Presenters will be Lois Hinckley " Teaching Myth" and Tony Payne, Fulbright teacher from

England currently at westbrook HS, Westbrook, ME. Another session of Maine JCL Certamen question writing

to follow business meeting.

MAINE JCL EVENTS:

Fall convention at Hampden Academy with the largest attendance ever - close to 500 students from 12 schools.

Amelia Potvin, a Hampden Acad. senior and National JCL secretary for 2003-04 was also attending.

NATIONAL JUNIOR CLASSICAL LEAGUE CONVENTION 2003

41 total Maine student delegates, 5 teachers and 7 chaperones braved the extreme heat and humidity in order to

attend the 50th annual National Junior Classical League Convention, held July 29-August 3 at Trinity

University, San Antonio, Texas. The Maine students represented Sacopee Valley HS, Hampden Academy,

John Bapst Memorial HS, and Winthrop HS. Maine received the following state awards: 1st - soccer , 1st -

Boys relay, 2nd state publications (Dan LoPotro, editor), 2nd - Girls relay, 2 nd - coed relay. The state

delegation was also delighted to have one of their delegates, Miss Amelia Potvin of Hampden Academy, elected

to the office of 2003-04 National JCL secretary

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March Certamen Tournament - March 26 at Portland HS

Spring State Convention - May 17-18 at Camp Mechuwana in Winthrop, ME. An assemblage of 300+

delegates is expected for a day 1/2 of academics, Olympika, graphics arts, costume contest, sight Latin reading

contest, certamen, assemblies, elections, etc.

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REPORT OF THE NEW HAMPSHIRE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION

The New Hampshire Classical Association held its Classics Day for

Teachers and annual meeting at Southern New Hampshire University on

September 26, 2003. The program theme was "Ancient Archeological

Crossroads" with presntations by Dr. David George of Saint Anselm College

and Rabun Taylor, Assistant Professor of the History of Art and Archaeology at Harvard University.

At the annual business meeting elections for the Executive Board were as follows:

Selma Naccach-Hoff, President;

Flora Sapsin, President-Elect,

Dr. Richard Desrosiers, secretary;

Carol O'Leary, Treasurer;

Marion Lewis, Rpresentative to C.A.N.E..

At the October 25, 2003, meeting of the Executive Board plans were made for the student NHCA exams,

Classics Day for Students and for the March 20, 2004, Executive Board meeting for organizing mailings for

Classics Day and the exams.

Classics Day for Students will be held on May 14, 2004, at Saint Anslem College. "A Funny Thing

Happened on the Way to the Forum" will be performed and followed by a certamen of six pre-registered teams

from participating N.H. high schools.

The CANE Writing Contest this year had only three participating high schools. The first place paper was

submitted by Sarah Smallwood, a pupil of Cheryl Grimes at Dover High School. The second place entry was

by Jennifer Couture of Dover High School and the third place was by Andrew McKernan, a pupil of Kathleen

Braden at Bow High School.

The date for Classics Day for Teachers is set for September 24, 2004,

at Southern New Hampshire University with a theme on Olympics in Greek Art.

submitted by Marion Lewis

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Vermont Classical Language Association Report

February, 2004

* The VCLA Annual Meeting Held on October 24, 2003 at Burlington High School in Burlington, VT.

President Cliff Timpson (Bellows Free Academy - St. Albans, VT) and Vice-President Noralee Cartier

(Burlington High School) organized the program of Roman Food for Thought.

Cliff Timpson and Robert Rodgers (UVM) were the main presenters followed by an exchange of thoughts,

ideas and materials by various teachers and professors. The group worked on creating Standards-based units

and worked on incorporating the five goals of the Standards for Classical Learning into our everyday

curriculum planning.

o The CANE Report and Treasurer's Report were presented during the business meeting.

Donna Merriam (Lamoille Valley U.H.S.) stepped down as Treasurer after many dedicated years of service.

Annual dues for the VCLA were raised from $5.00 to $10.00.

* The new officers for VCLA are:

President and Co-Program Chair: Noralee Cartier (nuala@hotmail.com.)

Vice-President and Co-Program Chair: Karen Budde (latin@sover.net.)

Treasurer: Barbara Saylor-Rodgers (Barbara.Rodgers@uvm.edu)

CANE Representative: Leanne Goulette (leanne@cvuhs.org.)

* The 28th Annual Latin Day Materials have been sent out to VT High Schools for this year's celebration.

Latin Day will be held at UVM on April 2, 2004.

The theme this year is Greek Tragedy in the Roman Perspective.

The students of participating schools will choose to work with authors such as Sophocles and Euripides for their

skits as well as extend the theme for their projects.

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Professor Philip Ambrose will be presiding.

Other News:

VCLA in connection with UVM is moving online. This year mailings have been continued, but for the faster

and more up-to-speed means of getting the information out to the state's schools, UVM is putting all VCLA

related materials on the web. This has provided teachers with a timely manner of staying connected. Much

thanks to the folks at UVM.

Respectfully Submitted,

Leanne Goulette

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Caucus of North American Classics Associations

January 4, 2004

Report to the Executive Committee of CANE

Present were representatives from: APA, ACL, Classical Association of Canada, CANE, CAAS, CAMWS,

CAPN, California Classical Associations (North and South)

Topics Discussed

Interaction of the APA with other associations

National Latin Teacher Recruitment Week

Insurance Coverage

As the meeting commenced, Adam Blistein highlighted the ongoing interest of the APA in maintaining and

strengthening its relationship with other regional and national Classics organizations. In regard to the APA's

commitment to outreach, he mentioned the APA speaker's bureau, which can be accessed through the APA

website (apaclassics.org) and the APA's new publication Amphora, which is aimed at a broader audience than

its purely scholarly publications. The discussion then moved quickly to the nationwide issue of Latin teacher

recruitment.

After a brief discussion of National Latin Teacher Recruitment Week - set aside again in March this year for

classicists across the country to address this pressing need (March 1-5, 2004 - see website:

http://www.promotelatin.org/nltrw.htm), Ken Kitchell proposed that the APA set up and fund a display that

details the existence and activities of regional and national classics organizations. Such a display would travel

to non-Classics venues like meetings of school administrators, thus creating a heightened awareness that there

are avenues through which the issues of initiating, staffing and maintaining Latin (and Greek) programs may be

addressed. Much discussion ensued, and most of the representatives present were strongly in favor of pursuing

this idea. Regional organizations would need to determine what information they wished to be included

regarding their structure, resources, activities, etc.

As the meeting drew to a close the question of what kinds of insurance coverage the associations present

generally carry was addressed. Most only carry event insurance for their large meetings. In addition CAAS

carries liability insurance for the editorial staff of CW. In addition, the APA itself carries liability insurance that

bonds its officers and provides coverage for adjudication by its Professional Matters and Ethics Committee.

Specialty brokers used by our fellow organizations for these types of insurance include Seabury & Smith and

AON.

Respectfully submitted,

Jacqueline M. Carlon

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FINAL FINANCIAL SUMMARY CSI 2003

Income: Expenses: Surplus:

$1,055.66 $14,659.00 Fees 500.00 Subventions from Dartmouth $1,288.48 Publicity

15,159.00 Total 29.86 Misc. Postage

2,777.61 Dinners and Receptions

3,500.00 Honoraria Paid

1,171.54 Lunches (Dartmouth)

3,432.00 Room Fees

408.00 Parking

1,000.00 Director and On-Site Coordinator

$14,103.34 Total

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Report on National Certification by Mark Pearsall

I will report, at Alison's request, on the current state of affairs of the National Board Certification. I have

written up any thing formal yet but the crux of it is that they have frozen the certificate at this time. No further

applications will be expected and they have not yet decided whether thay can score the ones they have because

there are less than the 50 minimum which they wanted. A committee was scheduled to meet to discuss this but

I don't yet know the outcome. The bigger question for us is whether or not they will ever offer the certificate in

Latin again. That is the question they will need to face after the scoring question. The person with whom I

spoke indicated that they could be swayed by requests from interested candidates who called or emailed them

and encouraged them to re-offer it. So it is up to classical organizations to make their voices heard.

A Brief Report from the Executive Committee and Annual Meeting

March 13, 2004

Brooks School

At the meeting of the Executive Committee on Thursday Jacqui Carlon

reported two items from the Caucus of the American Philological

Association for the the Committee's consideration. First, some other classical

associations carry event insurance (liability and cancellation), and

the APA also carries liability insurance for its officers. The

President instructed Jacqui and Heidi Wilson to investigate providers and

costs for CANE. Secondly, the APA plans to fund a travelling display to tour

New England as well as the rest of the country. The President appointed

Allen Ward, Gil Lawall, and the State Representatives to coordinate

CANE's input.

The Committee had a lengthy, open, and productive discussion

about the CANE Summer Institute, its relation to CANE, and its

management.

Ray Starr reported for his committee on the new procedures and

dates for applying for discretionary grant. The purpose of the changes

is to increase and streamline applications. A lengthy discussion

followed this report; it focused on the need to publicize all the

various monetary awards that CANE gives. Several approaches emerged: to

continue to advertise through the state reps, in our publications, and on

the website, but also to mail out a brochure in November, perhaps with a

picture or two that show the use of grants.

After Gil Lawall's report on new Instructional Materials several

members commended the quality of offerings, and the Editor of NECJ

offered to publish a few pages of a new offering as a promotion.

Finally Jacqui Carlon as President Elect announced that she

wanted the Committee to undertake a thorough revision of the Manual to

provide more specific information for new officers.

At the Annual Business meeting the attending members of the Association

elected among other officers John McVey as the new President Elect and

Rosemary Zurawel as the new Executive Secretary. They also voted to make

17 amendments to the Constitution and ByLaws that were generally

editorial in nature. The Association received an invitation to meet next

year at Saint Joseph's College in Standish, Maine