Vol. V · No. 2 · May 1999

Nick Eddy (BA 1995) and his wife Wendy welcomed new baby Grace Clare Eddy in early April. Nick is finishing his second year of law school at Harvard and will spend the summer clerking in Washington DC for the law firm of Dow, Lohnes, and Albertson, a communications firm representing newspapers, cable providers and internet companies.

Erik Fisher (MA 1995) serves as the Humanities Advisor for the College of Engineering at UCB as well as an instructor of several different university courses. This summer Erik will teach Greek Mythology for the Department of Classics, an advanced composition course based on the works of Sophocles for the University Writing Program, a communications course for the Engineering Management Program and two other Communications Workshops for the College of Engineering. In the fall Erik will teach Humanities 1010 for the Farrand Hall Academic Program.

David Harris (BA 1994, MA 1996) has completed his term of service with the U S Army. While in the Army David served as a specialist in Arabic language.

Martha Jones (MA 1985) teaches Classics classes at three different colleges in Virginia. This spring Martha taught Roman Art and Archaeology at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland and Beginning Latin at Old Dominion University in Norfolk. This summer she will teach Greek History at The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg where she resides. Marthaís husband, William Hutton, also a Classicist, teaches at William and Mary.

Sherwin Little (MA 1991) was honored as a 1999 CAMWS Good Teacher when the association met in Cleveland this April. Sherwin teaches a full slate of Latin classes, including two Latin Advanced Placement courses, at Indian Hill High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. In addition he serves as the coordinator for his schoolís foreign language department and is currently working on developing curricula for both elementary Latin and Latin for students with learning difficulties. Sherwin sponsors a large, active Junior Classical League chapter at Indian Hill and has traveled with groups of his students to an impressive 25 straight summer National Junior Classical League Conventions. For ten years he served on the National Committee for JCL and, in his role as Convention Advisor, planned seven NJCL Conventions. This summer Sherwin will be a featured presenter at both the American Classical League meeting and the Illinois Classical Caucus-National Louis University Latin Pedagogy Workshop in Evanston, IL. At the CAMWS meeting he served on a panel examining ěLatin for Diverse Student Populations.î

Pam Young (BA 1977, MA 1989) serves as a substitute teacher in the Denver area, working primarily in Douglas County.

The Department is saddened to report the death of Laura Winkel (MA 1995) on December 3, 1998 from cancer. After Laura received her MA in Classics, she accepted the opportunity to serve as a short-term missionary with the Methodist Church. Her first assignment was with an adult day care in Alabama, the Life Enrichment Center where she cooked meals for the group, drove the van to pick up and deliver patients, conducted the day-to-day programs and did whatever else was needed. From there she moved to Kansas City, Missouri to work at Newhouse, a shelter for battered women. After serving as a caseworker there, she moved into the development office and was establishing a new thrust for the program by contacting local churches and speaking to congregations about domestic violence when she fell ill in fall 1997. Laura continued to work in Kansas City until August 1998 when she made the decision to return to her familyís home in Cornwall, NY. Upon her death one of the nurses who had cared for Laura paid her tribute by writing, ěLaura was a living lesson of what life is. She was warm, kind and had the utmost respect for her fellow man. How someone so young could have achieved such a wealth of understanding never ceased to amaze me.î