Oct 24, 2025, 11:45鈥疉M
Novelist Salvatore Scibona (SF97) Weighs in on Reading Woolf, Writing Fiction, and the Authority of Imagination
"Really, there鈥檚 no education in skimming at St. John鈥檚. There鈥檚 something like the opposite of that."
"Really, there鈥檚 no education in skimming at St. John鈥檚. There鈥檚 something like the opposite of that."
Bob Tzudiker, Matthew DeBacker, and Jim Jarvis all live in different states, but they remain committed to bad jokes, good friendships, and their St. John's cohort, which celebrated its 50th anniversary at Fall Homecoming.
St. John鈥檚 Annapolis was Long's first stop in a peripatetic path from Maryland to the Middle East and beyond. But the Program served him not as a stepping-stone so much as a cornerstone.
Aviral Chawla (SF22), who is a PhD student in complexity science at the University of Vermont鈥檚 Complex Systems Institute, credits his undergraduate education for not only preparing him for rigorous graduate work but for helping him thrive in an interdisciplinary field.
鈥淓uclid's Proposition 47: Comparing Editions of the Elements,鈥 on display in the Greenfield Library through January 2026, is co-curated by Johnnie intern Whitney Bixby (A25).