In late 2021, St. John鈥檚 and the USNA Business Services Division decided to renew their 2019 agreement to allow Johnnies to fill open positions at the Naval Academy.
For Dan Van Doren (A81), the scholarship he created in his father鈥檚 name鈥攖he John Van Doren Scholarship鈥攊s a way to both help Johnnies and keep his father in the conversation.
In early in 2021, Lily Kowalczyk (A18) returned to St. John鈥檚鈥攁fter studying at Syracuse University and working at Johns Hopkins鈥攖o 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鈥檚 represents 鈥渢he desire to dig deeper into the possibilities of human thought.鈥�
The Socratic Society, created by St. John鈥檚 tutor Jason Tipton and Naval Academy Instructor John Childress, brings students from both institutions together over the course of the semester to discuss various texts.
