Dear Friends,

Some scattered thoughts for this month.

Please join us on Tuesday, October 24, at 5:00 p.m. Central Time for the launch of this year’s complimentary webinar series. For well over a decade, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers has been pleased to provide this easy way to pursue professional development. Based on input from teachers this past year, we have reduced the webinar session from a full hour to forty-five minutes. Next Tuesday, we are honored to bring you Fairfield University’s Daniel Libatique, whose webinar, “Feminist and Queer Perceptions of Homer’s Iliad,” expands our understanding of the epic masterpiece. Learn more and register today!

 

For the 2023–2024 issues of eLitterae, the Teaching Tip feature will include various tips as you saw in the August and September issues from Lynne West as well as five new Latin stories from the talented Emma Vanderpool. These stories are designed to accompany the review units of Latin for the New Millennium, Level 2 and draw their inspiration from the cultural, vocabulary, and grammar of that text. However, teachers using texts other than LNM have welcomed the opportunity to use these Latin stories in their classes. This month’s story presents the Trojan Brutus and his arrival on the island that becomes Britain.

 

For those of you like me still a bit thunderstruck by the passing of our dear colleague, editor Laurie Haight Keenan, you may enjoy the following. Laurie and I used to carpool to the Bolchazy-Carducci office. On our return trip, we regularly did some grocery shopping at two favorites, Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods. I was always amazed at the care with which Laurie picked up various ingredients like burdock root that she used in preparing meals for her beloved Scotties. I sometimes thought the dogs were fed better than she and her beloved husband Jim Keenan! So, it came as no surprise that one of the two notes she left for Jim was a very detailed set of instructions for feeding their Scottie rescue, Nessa. She also left behind the poem Epitaph that I share below. For insights into Laurie Keenan, the consummate Scottie lover, may I suggest this bio from the Door County Scottie Rally or this zoom on helping your Scottie on a bad hair day!

 

Such a special person! Such a dear friend of 40+ years! Such a helpful and affirming editor mentor!

Wishing you a lovely fall from the beautiful Berkshires.

 

All best,
 

Don

 

When I die
Give what’s left of me away
To children
And old men that wait to die.
And if you need to cry,
Cry for your brother
Walking the street beside you.
And when you need me,
Put your arms
Around anyone
And give them
What you need to give to me.
I want to leave you something,
Something better
Than words
Or sounds.
Look for me
In the people I’ve known
Or loved,
And if you cannot give me away,
At least let me live on in your eyes
And not your mind.
You can love me most
By letting
Hands touch hands,
By letting bodies touch bodies,
And by letting go
Of children
That need to be free.
Love doesn’t die,
People do.
So, when all that’s left of me
Is love,
Give me away.
I'll see you at home
in the earth.

This is the first in a series of five stories to accompany the five review units of Latin for the New Millennium, Level 2. While complementary to LNM, the stories can serve all second-year Latin students.

 

 

 

Vocabula Nova
casus, casūs, m. – chance; casū – by chance
exsilium, exsiliī, n. – exile
fīlia, fīliae, f. – daughter
fīlius, -ī, m. – son
gigās, gigantis, m. – giant
indūcō, indūcere, indūxī, inductus – to introduce
iter, itineris, n. – journey; iter facere – to make a journey
morior, morī, mortuus sum – to die
nōmen, nōminis, n. – name; nōmine – by the name of
socius, -ī, m. – ally, comrade

 

Editor’s Note: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers is pleased to provide this Latin story for Latin teacher subscribers to use with their own classes only. The PDF version includes a full-color illustration and caption.

About the Author
Emma Vanderpool has taught Latin at the university, middle school, and high school levels—currently at Goffstown High School in New Hampshire. Vanderpool earned her Bachelor of Arts in Latin, Classics, and History from Monmouth College in Illinois and her Master of Arts in Teaching Classical Humanities from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. She serves as a state rep for CANE, as an executive board member of Ascanius, and as an organizer for Our Voices and Lupercal. Vanderpool is the recipient of a Distinguished Teaching Award from UMASS Amherst and was honored as the Lincoln Laureate for Monmouth College. She has self-published ten novellae. Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers is pleased to have had Vanderpool launch our novella series with Explore Latin: Aves and the first three titles for the Encounter Latin series—Augury is for the Birds: Marcus de Avibus Discit, Under His Father's Wing: Marcus de Auguribus Discit, and Princess, Priestess, Mother, Wolf: Fabula de Romulo et Remo (forthcoming).

 

Classicists from New York and down the Eastern Seaboard to Washington, D.C., assembled in Philadelphia’s University Center for the CAAS annual meeting. Executive Director Mary Brown has established a cycle that brings the meeting to the same hotels where CAAS has established an ongoing relationship. So, from October 5 to 7, the Inn at Penn, a Hilton property, welcomed the group for an engaging program that included a range of topics including “Classics and Race,” “Pedagogy and Outreach: Classroom Praxis and Social Sensitivity,” and “The Future of CAAS.” Presenters included not only secondary school teachers and college and university instructors but also graduate, undergraduate, and some impressive high school students.

 

The Bolchazy-Carducci exhibit filled four tables with a range of
books from the beloved BC Latin Readers to the B-C novellas.

 

Staffing the Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers booth precluded my attendance at sessions. However, it is always a highlight of the CAAS meeting to attend the annual Jerry Clack Memorial Lecture. Brown University’s Yannis Hamilakis delivered a very enlightening address—"A Monument of Modernity: Purification, Coloniality, and the (Re)Making of the Athenian Acropolis.” While I knew the Parthenon had served as a Christian church and as a mosque, I did not know that the Acropolis had also served as a Muslim burial site. Hamilakis’s lecture left attendees with much to ponder.

 

 

Yannis Hamilakis, Brown University, delivers the Jerry Clack
Memorial Lecture—"A Monument of Modernity: Purification,
Coloniality, and the (Re)Making of the Athenian Acropolis.”
Photos by Karin Suzadail.

 

As is its custom, CAAS recognized outstanding members with ovationes delivered at lunch. Friday honored W. Gerald Heverly of New York University’s Bobst Library and Saturday celebrated Karin Laubach Suzadail of Owen J. Roberts High School. Friday’s banquet included presenting the CAAS Barbara F. McManus Leadership Award to Shelley P. Haley, Professor Emerita, Hamilton College. It was my good fortune to have known the remarkable Barbara McManus, whom I first met on a Vergilian Society study tour of Campania in 1979.

 

Karin Laubach Suzadail holding the
ovatio composed by Gareth Williams
and Faye Bakovsky. To her right is
Mary Brown, CAAS Executive Director,
who delivered the ovatio.

 

For those classicists who reside or work in the CAAS region, I highly recommend that you join or renew your membership. Annual dues have been just $35 for fifteen years or more and include a subscription to the quarterly journal Classical World. Next year’s fall meeting will take place at The Heldrich in New Brunswick, NJ. Conference registration remains a bargain at just $35 and includes breakfast and break treats. See you next fall, October 17–19, 2024 in New Jersey!

 

A smiling Dorothy Maxwell, who
commutes each day from New Jersey
to Connecticut’s Ridgefield High
School where she teaches Latin, won
the B-C book drawing—New
Testament Greek: A Reading Course
and the three Reading the Gospel titles:
St. Mark, St. Matthew, and the newly
revised St. John.

 

 

Arriving at Amtrak’s William Gray 30th Street Station en route to
the CAAS meeting, a classicist is awestruck by the station’s
neoclassical beauty—from its coffered ceilings to its columns. I
have long noted that the train station was the cathedral of the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As part of “Art at
Amtrak,” Philadelphia artist Adam Crawford created
“Euphonic and Chromatic Drift” that has transformed
the terminal’s windows into stained glass.

 

 

From the inscription for the sculptural relief: This panel, the
conception and work of Karl Bitter, sculptor, was executed in
1895 and placed in the waiting room of Broad Street Station
Philadelphia from which place it was removed to this site in
January, 1933. The spirit of transportation is represented in
triumphant procession of progress led by a little child
carrying a model of an airship, a prophetic vision of a
mode of transportation to come.

 

Donald Sprague

—2023— 

 

 

 

 

 

Bolchazy-Carducci Representatives: Bridget Dean, PhD, Donald Sprague, and Amelia Wallace 

 

 

 

  

 

By author: Jeremiah Reedy