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It’s always a good time when we get together and make fun of old Hercules movies. In the remaining weeks of the semester we are planning a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, an induction ceremony, an "Ask the Gods" review session for the Myth class, and some staged readings for the Myth class. Overall it has been a fun and successful year for the University of New Hampshire. Zeta Beta (Temple University): The members of Eta Sigma Phi have been quite busy this past year with activities surrounding the Classics. Since the last conference, we have had several guest speakers. Dr. Edward Sacks, in treating his favorite author, Ovid, gave a talk about cyclical time in Ovid’s Metamorphoses at the end of the spring semester. In the fall semester Kimberly Brown, an alumna of Temple currently working on her doctorate in Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania, came to talk about her experience with Classics and Archaeology. She is a specialist in magnetometry. And recently this semester, Professor Harriet Flower from Franklin and Marshall spoke to us about the damnatio memoriae of Domitian. We have not only done fundraising through holiday bake sales and raffles, but we also participated in many parts of the Temple community. Recent alumna and ESP member Jenn Baxter has been accepted to law school with a fellowship. And a soon-to-be alumnus Jeff Petsis has been accepted to Rutgers graduate school for Classics. Jeff Buzby, our co-prytanis, is the ombudsperson to the Classics and Intellectual Heritage Departments. He is also graduating this year and intending to pursue teaching certification for Classics. Mike McLaine, preparing for graduate school in archaeology, is now taking courses in Greece and Germany, and for the past three summers has done fieldwork in Northern Africa, France, and Spain. Wade Albert, a former prytanis of ESP, is pursuing an internship with the Pennsylvania State Legislature through his second major, Political Science. Because of the combined enthusiasm, the |
Zeta Eta officers are (from left) Grammateus Sarah Buser, Hyparchos Sarah Hafner, Prytanis Jean-Marie Venturini, and Chrysophylax Tim Murphy. |
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Classics department at Temple has grown tremendously with new people taking Latin and Greek each semester. Last spring ESP students assisted with registration at the CAAS conference. They also visited St. Augustine Preparatory School in New Jersey to encourage students there to continue Classics. Dr. Davis, ESP sponsor, is giving a series of continuing education workshops for elementary and secondary school teachers for which ESP members have not only provided organizational assistance, but have made presentations. And when the chair of our department, Dr. Robin Mitchell-Boyask, gave a talk at the University of Pennsylvania, ESP made one of its many field trips to area universities for lectures. On the social side, we have had our annual celebrations of Rome’s Birthday
and Saturnalia (Winter Solstice), complete with certamina,
initiations, food, drink, and song. Zeta Gamma (San Diego State University): Because of sabbaticals and unexpected professorial issues, our chapter has had |
an extremely quiet year. We initiated five new members in February, after which we fondly discussed the trip to the Los Angeles Getty Center and other highly edifying outings that we will be delaying until next year. Zeta Eta (Loyola Marymount University): Zeta Eta has recently initiated eighteen new members and elected officers. Currently we are working on our annual even, Dionysus Festival, to be held on March 29. This event gathers Classics majors and professors in our university. We dress in costume and perform skits based on our Classical courses. Followed by Greek food and dancing and games! Zeta Iota (University
of Georgia): The Zeta Iota Chapter was extremely busy for the
2002-2003 school year. Members participated in: • A welcome back dinner for Eta Sigma Phi members who went abroad during the previous year. • A trip to the Carlos Museum at Emory |
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