The cover of Volume V, No.2, pays homage to intrepid world traveler and
geographer Mildred Berman, from whose sojourns to the Mediterranean came
this issue's portfolio section. Berman, who arrived at the college as a
freshman over a half-century ago, recently retired after a long career on
the faculty of the Geography Department to take up a new calling in unhurried
travel journalism and photography. We last saw her retrieving the passport
and camera we borrowed for our own photo shoot so that she could head off
for North Africa.
But adjacent to Berman's beloved Mediterranean, outside Sarajevo, warring
factions are going at it even as I write. This morning's news includes reports
of a commando-style raid by Bosnian Moslems against a hospital in a supposed
demilitarized zone, the more-than-twenty Bosnian Serb casualties including
four female nurses. That nurses have long served--and sometimes died--heroically
in combat is no surprise to author Linda Morrison, whose essay "A Different
War" (p.11) presents the hidden history of American combat nurses during
World War II.
Military service even in times of peace presents its challenges--or so argues
Philip Huckins, selections of whose Air Force memoir begin our issue.
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In addition to articles by Berman, Morrison, and Huckins, this issue of
SEXTANT, record-breaking in length, includes work by faculty and administrators,
active and retired, from such departments and areas of the college as Art,
Education, English, Management, and Student Life. We continue in our mission
to showcase the talent and achievements of the faculty and administrative
staff of Salem State College.
We had help on this issue from many hands, especially from Leon Jackson
of the Instructional Media Center. Ron Dirito of the Art Department graciously
answered our call to provide illustrations for the two poems. For assistance
with other illustrations we thank the Shoemaker School in Lynn, the Albright-Knox
Art Gallery of Buffalo, the Jimmy Carter Library in Atlanta, James Schwartz
of the US Department of State in Washington, and Scott Adams, the Dilbert
cartoonist, of (SCOTTADAMS@AOL.COM., who was prompt in responding to our
e-mail query.
We are also grateful to Nelson Agis, George Cercone, Howard Coffin, Rosalie
Delorey, Mark Emmett, Stefanos Kabouris, Lucille McCarter, Dayle Persons,
Mary Alice Price, Francis Quimby, Lesia Todd , Laurie Twomey, David Wheeler,
Evelyn Wilson, and Tom Keeley & David Gift of Jostins.
-RK
Editor: Rod Kessler, English
Editorial Board:
Sue Case, Biology
Ellen Golub, English
John Mack, Management
Eileen Margerum, English
Michael Prochilo, English
Vera Sheppard, Theatre & Speech
Alan Young, Biology
John Volpacchio, Art
Design, Layout and Typography:
Joyce Rossi-Demas, Graphic Services
Susan Lombard, Graphic Services
Photography: Leon Jackson, Instructional Media Center
Interns: Wendy Mahoney and Elizabeth Lydon
Sextant is published semiannually by the faculty of Salem State College. Opinions expressed by writers are their own and do not necessarily reflect college policy. Copyright (C) 1994, Salem State College.
Volume V, Number 2, 1994
ESSAYS:
Selections from an Air Force Memoir/Philip Huckins
A Different War: American Combat Nurses in World War II/Linda M. Morrison.
Language, Education, and the Survival of the Khmer/Ellen Rintell
POETRY:
Susan
a portrait
Of yesterday/John Tamilio III
PORTFOLIO:
The Infinite Variety of the Mediterranean/Mildred
Berman
RESEARCH NOTE:
How Followers Make the Leader/Theodore L. Hansen
ART REVIEW:
"Jess: A Grand Collage"--Visions and Reflections/Edna
Garte
BOOK SHELF:
Toward the Good with Nikos Kazantzakis: Review
of KAZANTZAKIS: POLITICS OF THE SPIRIT by Peter Bien/Michael Antonakes
*A Non-Stop Medical Drama: Review of NATURAL CAUSES by Michael Palmer/Stanley P. Cahill
The Pine Tree State's Modern Robin Hood: Review of MERRY MEN by Carolyn Chute/Regina Robbins-Flynn
* Articles that are currently missing on-line