Ovationes

Mary Brown

Vergilius noster memorat bellatricem Camillam, agmen agentem equitum et florentis aere catervas, proelia duram pati cursuque pedum praevertere ventos. ¹ Hodie celebramus feminam pacis amantem, sed officiis innumerabilibus fungentem cum tanta duritia patientiaque, tanta celeritate efficacitateque, tanta benignitate et humanitate ut ipsa colatur et diligatur ab multis et gratis collegis intra et ultra has civitates medioatlanticas. Filia universitatis foventis veritatem unitatem caritatem,² illustrem propter feros feles et corbes, multos annos linguam Latinam discipulos et discipulas docuit apud diversas academias hic, ubi amor fraternus manet.³ Praestantissima praeses societatis classicae in hac urbe aquilarum volantium, columen omnium studiorum classicorum in hac regione, est cor et anima sodalitatis nostrae. Plaudamus igitur Mary Brown.

Vergil recalls the female warrior Camilla, leading a line of horsemen and throngs blooming with bronze, as a girl steeled to endure battles and outrace the winds with the rush of her feet. Today we celebrate a woman who loves peace, but performs her duties as executive director for CAAS with such steeliness and endurance, such speed and efficiency, and such kindness and humanity that she is valued and cherished by many and thankful colleagues within and beyond these middle Atlantic states. Recipient of BA and MA degrees from Villanova University, for many years she has taught Latin at the secondary level at a wide variety of public and private institutions in the Philadelphia area. An outstanding president of the Philadelphia Classical Society, a pillar of classical learning in this region, she is the heart and soul of our organization. Let us thus applaud Mary Brown.

MARIA MARSILIO
Saint Joseph's University

JUDITH P. HALLETT
University of Maryland, College Park

Deborah B. Carter

Imitantes versus antiquissimos et immortales Livii Andronici, invocamus Musam Italicam his verbis: "feminam nobis, Camena, insece versutam."⁴ Hoc modo laudemus aptissime magistram multiplicem, laborantem in civitate scuto bonae divinae voluntatis coronata,⁵ in hac civitate honoratam dignitate approbationis ab collegis doctissimis linguae Anglicae linguarumque orbis terrarum. Triginta annos docuit non solum linguam Latinam et litteras Graecas Romanasque, sed etiam linguam Germanicorum, litteras Britannicorum incolarumque Novi Mundi orbisque terrarum, et artem exprimendarum sententiarum Anglice, et luculentissime et in oratione soluta. Alumna Universitatis progredientis prorsus de industria,⁶ studiosissima potionis vim vigoremque conferentis, munivit et societatem nostram et societatem quae vestram causam esse totam nostram proponit.⁷ Praeterea locuplevit studia classica Anglicaque, et praeclare profuit civibus sui municipii. Plaudamus igitur Deborah B. Carter.

Adapting the most ancient and long-abiding verses of Livius Andronicus' Odyssey in Latin, we invoke the Italian goddess of poetry with these words: "Muse, on our behalf follow a complicated woman on her journey." In this way let us praise most fittingly a teacher of many talents, who, while toiling at Linganore High School in Frederick, Maryland, was the state's first National Board Certified Teacher in English/ Language Arts and Frederick County's first National Board Certified Teacher in World Languages. For thirty years she taught not only Latin language and Greco-Roman literature; but also German, English, American and world literatures; and English prose composition. An alumna of Kent State University in Ohio, and a serious coffee devotee, she has strengthened both CAAS—as Maryland Regional Director and Chair of its Committee on Grants for High School Students—and the Maryland and National Junior Classical Leagues. What is more, she has enriched the study of classics and English; and enlightened the citizens of her county as a newspaper columnist, community college educator and political leader. Let us thus applaud Deborah B. Carter.

KRYSTAL KUBICHEK
Clearview Regional High School

JUDITH P. HALLETT
University of Maryland, College Park

Jane Dunlap

Hodie honoramus praestantissimam filiam huius splendidae civitatis quae sententiam virtutis libertatisque suique iuris reveretur:⁸ natam in propinquitate pollentis urbis chalybis, educatam apud universitatem illustrem arte scientiaque religioneque.⁹ Huic civitati quoque servivit plus octo lustris apud academiam cuius nomen recordatur labores agricolarum, gubernatam praecepto lucis animadvertendae.¹⁰ Saepe peregrinata cum discipulis suis ad Italiam et urbem aeternam, in memoriam redigit morem praeclari maioris, Divi Augusti. Hic, princeps populi Romani, rivos aquarum refecit, et Aquam Marciam duplicavit fonte novo in rivum...