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The CAV News
Winter 2008
CALENDAR for 2008
This is a list of activities of
interest to all classicists in Virginia.
Please send items for the calendar to the editor of this website.
Sun., Oct. 19, 2008 - Sun.
Mar. 22, 2009
Exhibit: Pompeii and the
Roman Villa: Art and Culture Around the Bay of Naples, National Gallery
of Art, Washington, DC
Saturday, December 13
Competition: 4th Annual
Riverbend Certamen, Riverbend HS, Fredericksburg
POSTPONED TO JANUARY 31
Meeting: American Philological Association, Philadelphia, PA
Competition: Flint Hill Certamen, Flint Hill School, Oakton
Competition: Riverbend Certamen, Spotsylvania Middle School, Spotsylvania
Deadline: CAV Classical Essay Contest Submissions Due
Competition: Thomas Jefferson Certamen, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria
Examination: CAV Latin Tournament Administered
Deadline: CAV Latin Essay Contest Submissions Due
Meeting: Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Minneapolis Marriott City Center Hotel, Minneapolis, MN
Performance: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland
Meeting: Classical Association of Virginia, Hampden-Sydney College, Farmville
Meeting: American Classical League, Loyola Marymount University and Getty Villa, Los Angeles, CA
Workshop: Rusticatio Virginiana 2009, Claymont Mansion, Charles Town, WV
IN MEMORIAM: JAMES N. SETTLE
James N. Settle, 79, of Alberta, died Friday, Nov. 14, 2008 in Greenville, S.C. He is survived by his wife of 51 years, Evelyn S. Settle, son Kemp N. Settle and wife Kaye of Pickens, S.C., granddaughter Jessica Ford and husband Dan of Stafford, brother Dr. W. K. Settle and wife Bobbie of Sanford, N.C., several nieces and nephews, and grand-dog Norwood. At the time of his retirement, he was Dean of Humanities and The Arts at Hunter College of The University of New York. During his career Dr. Settle had worked for a number of years for the American Council of Learned Societies, a non-profit educational endowment society based in New York City. Dr. Settle attended Wake Forest College, then in Wake Forest, N.C. and UNC at Chapel Hill, where he received his Ph.D. The family will receive friends from 12 noon to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 13 at Williams Funeral Home, Lawrenceville. A Memorial Service will then be held at 1 p.m. at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the First Christian Church, 704 Edwards Road, Greenville, S.C. 29615, Greenville Humane Society, 328 Furnam Hall Road, Greenville, S.C. 29601 or a charity of your choice.
INFORMATION NOW AVAILABLE:
CAV Latin Tournament, Classical Essay, & Latin Essay
Lurlene Todd Teacher of the Year
Angela Lloyd Book Award
Wayne Wray Student Scholarship
Rusticatio Virginiana 2009
America’s first
total-immersion event
exclusively for beginners.....
in the art of Latin conversation!
at the Claymont
Mansion
Claymont Society for Continuous Education
Charles Town, West Virginia (greater Washington, D.C.)
July
20-26, 2009
SALVI (Septentrionale Americanum Latinitatis Vivae Institutum, or North American Institute for Living Latin Studies, Inc.), proudly presents its third annual Rusticatio Virginiana – a beginners-only week of total immersion in Latin with high-energy conversation exercises and readings from Latin literature.
Program Dates: July 20 – 26, 2009. Arrival: 3 – 6 P.M., Monday, July 20; Departure: 12 P.M., Sunday, July 26.
Complete Information and
Application
LATINSUMMER COMING TO WILLIAMSBURG
CALLING HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE LATIN STUDENTS:
Spread your enthusiam for the ancient world to a new generation!
Ascanius: The Youth Classics Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the classical world in the elementary and middle school, is accepting applications for faculty positions at LatinSummer 2009 from now through January 26, 2009. Any high school or college Latin student is welcome to apply. LatinSummer is a two-week long program for students on the elementary and middle school levels. LatinSummer 2009 will run in Williamsburg, Virginia, from July 24 - August 7, 2009. Faculty members earn a small honorarium. All room and board costs, and all or part of travel costs, are paid for by the Institute. For more information or for an application, please visit Ascanius on the web at www.ascaniusyci.org.
MAY 2009 CAV MEETING
AT HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE
Hampden-Sydney College will host the spring meeting of the Classical Association of Virginia on Saturday, May 2nd. The program will include three speakers, the announcement of the 2009 CAV Tournament/Essay winners, and the presentation of the annual Lloyd, Todd and Wray Awards. Information and applications about each of the CAV contests and awards are provided in this newsletter, as well as on the association’s website. Please follow criteria and deadlines as noted in submitting these applications.
Speakers for the spring meeting will include a guest speaker from out-of-state, Dr. Jon Solomon, and two Virginia speakers. Dr. Daniella Widdows, Assistant Professor of Classics at Hampden-Sydney, will present on the process of creating animal skins in Greece and how that process was viewed. A second Virginia speaker will be announced via the registration form in March. To conclude the day’s events, H-S College President and Mrs. Bortz have invited all participants to a reception at their home on campus, Middlecourt, following the program.
As an inducement to make your travel to the Farmville area a bit easier, you may want to travel down early and stay over Friday night, May 1st. Information about possible hotels and bed & breakfast accommodations will be posted on our website. Start planning today to attend the CAV in May!
SOLOMON TO VISIT AS GUEST SPEAKER
The 2009 spring meeting of the Classical Association of Virginia will feature as visiting speaker Dr. Jon Solomon of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is Professor of Classics and Film Studies and holds the Robert D. Novak Chair in Western Civilization and Culture. Dr. Solomon is a distinguished expert in several classical subfields, including Greek music, ancient cookery, and the classical tradition in its various manifestations. Years ago he led the way in studies of the Classics and film with his book The Ancient World and the Cinema, recently revised and updated. He is an award-winning teacher and a dynamic lecturer. Don’t miss his visit. A few years ago Dr. Solomon traveled to Virginia to speak at our fall meeting, which Hurricane Ike forced us to cancel at the last minutes. This May at Hampden-Sydney should prove less challenging weather-wise. Do come, hear, and meet this terrific speaker!
ROMAN ART EXHIBIT HOSTED BY THE NGA
Pompeii and the Roman Villa:
Art and Culture Around the Bay of Naples
Premieres at National Gallery of Art,
Washington
October 19, 2008–March 22, 2009
Washington, DC—Luxurious works of art excavated from the opulent houses of the urban elite in Pompeii and from nearby imperial villas along the shoreline of the Bay of Naples illustrate the region’s importance as an artistic center in the first exhibition devoted to ancient Roman art at the National Gallery of Art. The exhibition will premiere in the nation’s capital, October 19, 2008, through March 22, 2009, and travel to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 3 through October 4, 2009. [TELL ME MORE ABOUT THIS ONE!]
THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
from Laurie Covington
Salvete omnes
,I hope this letter finds you well and that the new academic year is going smoothly for you. Much has been happening in Virginia classics in the last couple of months. I hope you have had an opportunity to participate in some of it. First, let me say that we enjoyed a wonderful Fall meeting at UVA in September, and I would like to thank John Miller and Jon Mikalson for all of their help in making the day such a success. If you were unable to attend, you missed three terrific presentations by Eric Casey (Sweet Briar College), Kevin Perry (Governor’s Latin Academy), and Jane Crawford (UVA); all three speakers entertained and enlightened us quite well.
[READ THE ENTIRE MESSAGE]Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit ~ Vergil's Aeneid, I.203
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