Volume 5 - Number 3

The department of Classics is pleased to welcome twelve new students into its Master's Degree program. Two students enter the program with full fellowship support for their first year of graduate study. Rachel Hanna, a graduate of Baylor University, has been awarded an Arts and Sciences Fellowship from the Center for Humanities and the Arts. She is our second recipient of this competitive fellowship, which was established last year. Rebekah (Bekki) Richards, a graduate of Brigham Young University, is the department's first ever Norlin Scholar, and so also is relieved of teaching duties. Bekki holds an MA in Instructional Technology from the Utah State University and looks forward to applying her knowledge to the teaching of Greek.

Our staff of graduate teachers this fall includes new students from near and far. CU's own Amanda Coles, a fall 1999 graduate, is hard at work in the first-semester Latin classroom. From San Francisco State University comes Jude Morris, a Hellenist who is assisting in Professor Eckart Schütrumpf's course on Classical Antiquity in Music. From Dayton, Florida, and previously from the University of Toronto and Florida State University comes Scott Speidel, who is assisting in the large Greek Mythology course. He is joined there by Mary France and Kerry McCutcheon, new students in the MA program but familiar faces in Boulder: Mary received her BA in Classics and English in fall 1999, and enters the graduate program with the Lamott Scholarship, for a graduate student entering from our own undergraduate program; Kerry received an MA from CU's Philosophy Department last spring and hopes to pursue a PhD in ancient philosophy. Jaime Griffiths, a graduate of Wheaton College who has studied most recently at the University of Texas, Austin, enters the program as an assistant in Professor Brad Churchill's Ancient Comedy course. Ines Häelbig, another Boulder local, who has previously studied in the Department of Comparative Literature and hopes to pursue a PhD in that field, enters as an assistant in Professor Ariana Traill's course on Women in Ancient Rome.

Also beginning the MA this fall are Naropa University instructor Alan Hartway, who teaches religion and philosophy alongside advising and counseling duties, and Heidi Herrington, a spring 2000 alumna of our own undergraduate program. Brad Miller, a Latin instructor at Choate-Rosemary Hall in Connecticut and a graduate of Harvard University, began his studies for the Master's Degree in the Teaching of Latin last summer and will resume in summer 2001, when he is free from his responsibilities at Choate.

In spring 2001 we expect to welcome Jeffrey Kasnick, a graduate of Florida State University who has most recently lived in Seattle, and Marion Brew, yet another of our undergraduates who has been enlightened enough to stay with us a bit longer.

Among our continuing students, PhD student Paul Ojennus has been the fortunate recipient of not one, but two competitive university fellowships for full support of his dissertation on Apollonius of Rhodes: the Mary and Emerson Lowe Fellowship supports him for the fall term, and the Devaney Fellowship from the Center for Humanities and Arts supports him for the academic year 2000-01. PhD student Aaron Johnson is teaching Latin at CU as well as ancient history at Colorado Christian University in Denver as he completes his comprehensive exams and chisels out a dissertation topic in the field of late antiquity. Toby Terrell, who wrote his dissertation on Tacitus, will receive his PhD at the December graduation ceremony.

Continuing MA students Rebecca Jessup, Jason Miller and Scott Farrington are pillars of the Lower Division Latin Program. Chad Hutchens assists for Professor Peter Hunt's course on Alexander the Great. Renee Afimiwala-Rodgers continues her studies of Greek, Latin and art history, and David Warburton has taken a leave of absence for 2000-01.