Many individuals have passed through St. John’s College Annapolis, but several are said to have never left. These are their bone-chilling tales.
"Really, there’s no education in skimming at St. John’s. There’s 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’s 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’s 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.
