Vol 86, No. 2 Fall 2012 - Monmouth College

Alpha Theta’s newly
elected officers
were nonetheless able to promote Classical
Studies in several regional high schools,
organize bi-weekly Latin tutoring sessions,
and hold numerous Latin pronunciation
workshops intended to evolve into
a broader Living Latin initiative. We
have also launched a website and laid the
groundwork for an undergraduate journal
to be launched in the Fall semester.
Promotion of college-level Classics
began when several members of Alpha Iota
attended the spring meeting of the South
Carolina Junior Classics League. Here they
spoke to high school students, networked
with teachers and collected email addresses
to organize speaking appointments with
classes. Afterwards, we visited two high
schools and were warmly received. Several
of these students were considering Classics
for college and were further encouraged by
our presentation.
In addition to this outreach, Alpha Iota
also worked with students within U.S.C.
Because, in part, of the encouragement of
members of Alpha Iota, two new Classics
majors were declared during the Spring
semester. Perhaps our most directly helpful
project consisted of bi-weekly Latin tutoring
sessions for which our faculty advisor
generously donated her office. Members
made themselves available for several
hours on Tuesday and Thursday evenings
and their availability was made known to
every teacher of lower level Latin at U.S.C.
We also held several Latin pronunciation
workshops. In addition to covering a
slight gap in the typical Latin curriculum
which tends to step over early work with
pronunciation, we hope this workshop will
blossom into a larger student-led project
to reinvigorate Latin at our university by
treating it more like a modern, spoken
language. This said, our efforts have not
been all talk. Alpha Iota also launched a
website, created nearly a dozen brochures
flyers, and paradigm sheets, and started a
bi-monthly newsletter. We also published
the trial edition of an undergraduate Classical
Studies journal we intend to officially
begin in the Fall semester.
We hope to maintain this momentum
next year and continue to help the Classics
Department at U.S.C. grow and develop.
Beta Gamma at the University
of Richmond
This spring, the Beta Gamma chapter
was proud to induct seven new members.
Throughout the spring, new and old
members alike attended the exhibition, Ti-
Ameny-Net: An Ancient Mummy, An Egyptian
Woman, and Modern Science, curated
by none other than our own chapter president,
Caroline Cobert. In the fall, members
celebrated National Archaeology Day
with a family-friendly open house event:
an informal report given on student and
faculty fieldwork at Hacımusalar Höyük
in Turkey, followed by a fun excavation
of layer cakes, in which “finds” had been
planted. We also continue our traditional
weekly Classical Teas, where students and
faculty enjoy tea, snacks, and when the
weather is nice, a fun game of hurling!
Beta Iota at Wake Forest University
The 2011–2012 academic year was very
successful for the Beta Iota chapter. During
the fall semester, we hosted multiple events
including our annual Troy Night, which
involves the viewing (and possible ridiculing)
of the motion picture Troy. Also,
several members attended a rendition of
Plautus’ Menaechmi put on by Wake Forest’s
theater department. During the spring
semester, members of the Beta Iota chapter
enjoyed campus events such as the ΗΣΦ
Trivia night. The Department of Classical
Languages hosted a symposium in April,
which consisted of three notable speakers,
where discussions include shipwrecks
in the Mediterranean and Cicero’s villa.
The highlight of the day was our initiation
banquet. We welcomed over twenty new
members to the chapter and also inducted
two honorary members: Dr. Andrew
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