Santa Fe freshman Amina Federspiel-Otelea (SF25) recently returned from the 2021 World Affairs Councils of America (WACA) national conference, held November 16–19 in Washington, DC.
In late 2021, St. John’s and the USNA Business Services Division decided to renew their 2019 agreement to allow Johnnies to fill open positions at the Naval Academy.
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.”
The Socratic Society, created by St. John’s 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.
Over the summer, an internship with the city of Annapolis helped senior Jessie Tagliani (A22) pursue an interest in urban planning—a field that she says “in some ways … perfectly corresponds to the interdisciplinary mentality that we have at St. John’s.”
