Classical Studies Department
Recent Graduates
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Some of our 2007 graduates: From left: Chase Coleman, Will Joyner, Blake Smith, Kenny Bumbaco, Misha Bernstein, Rich Rome, and Emily Rossow.
Alumni Updates
Caroline Krivacka (nee Ferro, '90) writes: "I went to Law School at the University of Mississippi, received my JD in 1993, and married a fellow law student, Paul. For the last 13 years, I have lived in the Nashville area. I am an attorney with the IRS. After using my lexicon daily in college, I am completely comfortable with the tax code and transcript deciphering books. I have four sons, Paul (9), Xander (7), Peter (4) and David (10 months). Needless to say, things are a bit hectic around here. My spare time is spent taking boys to sports practices, primarily reading, occasionally writing, and lately, becoming extremely proficient in Webkinz computer games. I thought about Greek the other day because my little guy started pulling all the books off the shelves, starting with Menander's Dyskolos. Although I don't use my studies in any meaningful way, I can at least still translate the Benetton Odyssey t-shirt that I bought back in 1988 (which I still wear to the gym on occasion). I also still have the faux artifacts I bought on my trip to Greece in 1990 on my mantle and a Schliemann gold poster in my workout room. So, although classical studies are far in the past, they are not entirely forgotten. Every time I see a field of rubble, I am reminded of Professor Reilly's Greek Art and Archeology class. Most of my classes were taught by Prof. Ledbetter and Reilly. I'm looking forward to hearing about other alums. FYI...the only thing that results in a longer dead silence than "I am majoring in Ancient Greek" is the sentence "I am an attorney for the IRS."
Jennifer Schlegel ('90) earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology from UCLA and is working as an adjunct professor of Anthropology at a host of colleges in southeastern Pennsylvania. She scratched the classical archaeology itch in 1994 with a month-long stint at a Hellenistic cite in southern Italy and is now most comfortable in a classroom as a linguistic anthropologist. Jen and Drew Geary, her William and Mary sweetheart, have been married for fourteen years and are the parents of two fantastically wonderful girls.
Matthew Hartnett ('88) has written a book for students and teachers of Latin. “By Roman Hands: Inscriptions and Graffiti for Students of Latin” (Focus Publishing, forthcoming) is a collection of over 100 short inscriptions and graffiti, organized by grammatical construction, that illustrates various aspects of Roman history, life, and thought. Matt, who still chairs the Classics Department at St. Mark’s School in Southborough, MA, also reports that he was entertained grandly by John Oakley in Athens last March, when he stopped to visit him at the American School of Classical Studies.
Jason Swartwood (Classical Civilization minor, ’06): is in the PhD program in Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, studying the role of Socrates' daimonion in his philosophizing. He married Ruth Stenson in May of 2007. They both miss Williamsburg, and hope to visit again someday.
Pete Kain (’00) writes: “after graduating in 2000, I immersed myself into the financial services word. Between Citigroup (my first employer) and Regulus Group (my current employer), I've had the opportunity to work as far afield as India and Ireland and as close to home as Delaware. At the moment I'm living in the suburbs of Chicago as the site manager for our payment processing facility here. On a more important topic, I married Nora Kain (née Clancy) in summer 2001. We have a beautiful (I might be slightly biased, but it's still true) 18 month-old girl and another girl who is expected to arrive in January 2008.”
Lynnleigh Maloney (‘86): has been married to Michael Maloney for the past 19 years and they live in Richmond. He's a broker and team leader with Keller Williams and Lynnleigh is at Capital One. They have 3 children: Johanna (14), Helena (10), and John (2). They adopted John from Guatemala a year ago.
Mary Addamiano Redline (’77): this year she is working two part-time jobs, teaching three sections of Latin I for her local high school, using the Cambridge Latin Course. She also works as library/archives project manager for The Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia (LTSP). The highlight of the year was her appearance on the PBS show "The History Detectives" in July. She also was instrumental in putting together a $150,000 grant LTSP received for translating the Halle correspondence of the Rev. Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg, plus several smaller grants. She completed (along with another researcher) a book on the life of a colonial Lutheran pastor, the Rev. Johann Friedrich Ernst (1748-1805). She and her husband of 29 years, Rocky, have a son who is expected to graduate from PSU this month with a degree in mechanical engineering and a daughter who is a sophomore at Wheaton College (outside Chicago), where she is majoring in chemistry and French. Rocky still works for Lehigh County Parks and enjoys this time of year for hunting. And the other member of our family is our very spoiled beagle, Penny, who lives to chase bunnies and to eat.
John Henkel (Classical Civilization, ’02): got married to Frances Higgins on 9 Sept 2007. They are spending this year in Rome, where John is working in the library at the American Academy in Rome, supported by a Berthe Marti Affiliated fellowship from UNC/Bryn Mawr.
Jessica Raskin (’05): She lives in Los Angeles and pursuing a career as an actor and writer. She has had a lot of success so far having starred in 2 plays, 4 short films, and 3 feature films. One of the short films played at film festivals in California and Pennsylvania. Aside from the four short films, she was also cast in three feature films this year. She had a supporting role in Forgotten Pills, opposite Larry Bishop (son of Joey Bishop…one of the original Rat Pack) playing "Cynthia" a desperate burned-out bar waitress reminiscent of Janet Shaw's performance in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt. She also played "Sharon" in FatKid Films' Dark Reality 2 opposite Daniel Baldwin and in January she will be playing "Jessica Ratcliffe" in an indie film called Couples. She also did stand-in work as on Pushing Daisies, a film called Trucker, on Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader, on a TV shows South of Nowhere, Passions, and a film called Red. Jessica also wrote three short films: Acceptance, Pete & Donna, and Happy Accident and a feature titled Inept. Please check her websites: www.jessicaraskin.com, www.myspace.com/jessicaraskin, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0711240/
Julie (Pendleton) Moomaw (’68): is retiring at the end of this school year (May '08) after teaching Latin and German at Stillwater High School since 1974. After this, there will not be a Latin program at SHS. However, there is hope for the future since the University of Oklahoma is offering an MAT specifically for those who want to teach Latin.
Rachel Russo ('98): was married in May to Stephen Spence from Raleigh
NC. They were brought together by a mutual interest in the classics -
their first discussion was a debate over the nature of tyrants in
Imperial Rome. They are currently living in Williamsburg and
planning a trip to Italy, Greece, and Turkey this spring.
Kelly Brown Dunne (Classical Civilization, ’91): is living in Arlington, VA with her husband Sebastian Dunne (‘91) and their son Emmett Brady, who is 5 and just began kindergarten. She teaches interdisciplinary courses at George Mason University, where she is the Director of Academic Affairs for New Century College. She also has the pleasure of taking students on study abroad trips to Ireland each year to study its history and culture.
Laura Landon (Classical Civilization, '02): is currently in her first year of doctoral studies at the University of London, Institute of Education and completed an MEd in Multilingual Education at GMU (2007) and an MSc Social Anthropology at the
London School of Economics (2003). Prior to this she taught Latin, History, Spanish and ESOL in DC and Northern Virginia, and received a Fulbright Scholarship for research on multilingual education in Japan. She is currently
living in London and was recently engaged to Dionisios Favatas (“Yes, he's
Greek... can't get away from the Classics! We have a home in Greece as
well, alum are always welcome to visit!”). They are planning to get married
next spring in the UK.
Ariel Baska (Classical Civilization, ’05): is now in her third year of teaching with Fairfax County Public Schools, where she currently teaches Latin and Introduction to Foreign Languages. She has just returned from a whirlwind trip to Egypt with the People to People Ambassadors Program's Egypt-US Education forum. The trip allowed her the opportunity to network with educational professionals in Egypt and see the incredible monuments of Cairo, Memphis and Saqqara. In her spare time, she still enjoys directing. She recently directed one of several short political plays for Extreme Exchange at Washington D.C.'s Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. At the moment, she is working on a community theatre production of The Velveteen Rabbit. She will be presenting a session on the Global Importance of Latin at NECTFL in March, and anticipates the publication in April of the book Affective Development, to which she contributed a chapter.
Stephen Santelli (Classical Civilization, '02): graduated in 2006 from George Mason with an MA in History (concentration: American History). He is now an adjunct faculty at Marymount University. He has taught survey courses in European history and is currently teaching European History. He writes that Professor Donahue's history and Professor Hutton's literature classes have helped him prepare for this course.
William Naphy (Latin, '82): was promoted in July to a full professorship in History in the University of Aberdeen (Scotland) where he has been a lecturer and then a senior lecturer since 1996.
Deborah Kory-Fabule ('01): is currently pursuing a Masters in Ancient Studies (Classical Studies) at the University of Stellenbosch in Cape Town, South Africa and continues to work in community development in the African townships.
Julie Mills (Latin, '05): entered the Westminster Theological Seminary in the Fall of 2006 and is pursuing a Master of Divinity degree.
Matt Cairo (Classical Civilization, '02): is currently pursuing a Master of Architecture degree at the University of Miami School of Architecture. His major project for this degree is a design proposal for a new building to house a School of Classical Studies at the College of William and Mary, most likely on the site currently occupied by venerable Morton Hall. Matt describes his project as "wholly speculative." He is also a part time faculty member at the University of Miami, teaching mechanical and freehand drawing to undergraduate architecture students.
Phil Walsh (Greek, '99): is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University. His areas of interest include Greek drama and the classical tradition in English poetry, and his dissertation focuses on the literary and cultural reception of Aristophanes in nineteenth-century Britain. In the summer of 2006, Phil participated in the summer program sponsored by the American School for Classical Studies at Athens. His session was led by Bill Hutton (and wife Martha Jones), and he enjoyed catching up with John Oakley and Linda Reilly and meeting Barbette Spaeth and Vassiliki Panoussi.
Rebecca Westgate (Classical Civilization, '04): is currently teaching Latin and Mythology at her alma mater, St. Vincent's Academy, in Savannah, GA. St. Vincent's is an all-girls Catholic high school, and she teaches four levels of Latin, including AP Vergil. Rebecca also started work in Summer 2006 on a Masters in Latin at the University of Georgia and will be returning there this summer to continue her studies.
In Memoriam
We are deeply saddened at the news of the death of Ross Scaife ('82) at age 47 after a brief battle with cancer. Our hearts go out to his wife, Cathy (nee Edwards, '82), and their three boys. After graduating from William & Mary, Ross went on to earn a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin (1990) and taught until his death at the University of Kentucky. He was a pioneer in encouraging Classicists to consider electronic venues for publication and in advocating the use of information technology for collaborative research and teaching. He was the founding editor of the Stoa Consortium for Electronic Publication in the Humanities. Read more...
Valerie Lambert, an alumna of the Class of 2000, died in a tragic accident
in Williamsburg on December 8, 2006. Valerie was a Classical Civilization
major and an officer of the Classics Club during her 4 years at the
College, and she also worked as the student assistant in our department.
After graduation she pursued graduate work at Florida International
University in Miami, and earned her Master's in Comparative Sociology. She
was particularly interested in the culture of Haiti. Valerie was a sweet and
caring young woman, and all of us in the Department of Classical Studies are
deeply saddened by her loss.
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