Rick Plaut (A77) and Carol Plaut (A79) met as St. John’s undergrads and remain dedicated alumni. Their longstanding involvement with the college is multifaceted, with the Annapolis intramural program remaining especially dear to their hearts. Their daughter, Emma (A07), is also a Johnnie.
For the past six years, Lisa Rosenblum (A80) has been the executive director of the King County Library System in Washington state. With a budget of $140 million and 50 branches funded by its own taxing district, she runs one of the biggest systems in the nation.
The bell of St. John’s College’s McDowell Hall will ring overnight Saturday into Sunday, February 5, between midnight and 1:30 a.m., as more than 100 students at the third oldest college in the country continue an annual tradition that marks a senior rite of passage.
Anne McClard is an anthropologist who spent her career in the technology industry, a cofounder of a nonprofit publishing house, a feminist, an amateur songwriter, a musician, and of course, a Johnnie.
St. John’s College, the third-oldest college in the U.S. and considered the most contrarian college for its distinct and steadfast approach to the liberal arts—reading and discussing 3,000 years of Great Books over the course of four years—is launching a 20-episode podcast and web series examining the mysteries of who we are as humans and why we see each other and the world as we do.
