For Dan Van Doren (A81), the scholarship he created in his father’s name—the John Van Doren Scholarship—is a way to both help Johnnies and keep his father in the conversation.
Nearly a decade after graduating from St. John’s Santa Fe in 2012, Aparna Ravilochan (SF12) has returned to the St. John’s seminar table, this time as a tutor in Santa Fe.
Alex Ingham (SFGI13) says he spent the eight-plus years since he graduated from the St. John’s Graduate Institute “primarily in the classroom, in one way or another.” Now, in a twist of fate that defied all expectations, he works in the St. John’s Office of Personal and Professional Development.
In early in 2021, Lily Kowalczyk (A18) returned to St. John’s—after studying at Syracuse University and working at Johns Hopkins—to work as a circulation assistant in the Greenfield Library.
As leader of the college Syriac study group, Johnnie senior Joseph Richard (A22) believes the culture of extracurricular study at St. John’s represents “the desire to dig deeper into the possibilities of human thought.”
