Highlights of Classics Department
	Latin and Greek offerings range from Elementary Latin (at Regular and Honors levels) and Greek through Advanced Placement Vergil, an Advanced Latin Seminar, and Honors Greek 2 and 3 In the academic years 2009-2010 and 2010-2011, Latin 1 enrolled more students in the first year than any other foreign language in the School This year (2010-11) 81 Hill students (out of 503) are taking Latin The Greek program has grown well over the last eight years due in particular to the unique combining of Latin and Greek instruction in the same class (Honors Latin 2/Greek 1). This year 29 Hill students are taking Greek.

	Recent professional activities and service of Hill's classics teachers
	Henry Bender, Ph.D., Elizabeth B. Blossom Chair of Humanities and Chair of Classical Languages: Presenter at the American Philological Association National convention (2010) Speaker at Philadelphia Classical Society (2008) Program Director for the Classical Association of the Atlantic States (CAAS) Teacher in the Classical Association of New England’s Summer Classical School at Dartmouth University (2008-2009) Lecturer for the National Endowment for the Humanities in Italy Director of the St. Joseph’s University Summer in Rome Program (2010) Adjunct professor of Classics at St. Joseph’s University Member of the International Tour Managers Society; director of over 100 overseas programs to Italy and Greece First to pod cast lectures in AP Vergil (over 40,000 downloads since its inception in 2007) Author of various articles, book reviews, and books on Catullus, Horace, Vergil, and Roman and Greek archaeology Patrick Lake, Ph.D., Instructor of Classics  Defended dissertation in April 2011 “Plato’s Homeric Dialogue: (Mis)quotation, Paraphrase, and Allusion to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey in the Republic.” Invited lecture: “Plato’s Misquotations of Homer in the Republic: Text and Context.” Fr. Cotter Memorial Lecture, Seton Hall University (2010) Conference paper: “A New Fragment of Sophocles’ Krisis in Plato’s Republic” at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States (2010) Won the Presidential Award for Outstanding Graduate Student paper at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 2010 [“Plato’s Quarrel with Homer’s ‘Divine Bard’: Implied Censorship in Republic 389d2-3 & 390a10-b2”] Published article “Plato’s Allegory of the Cave,” in Milestone Documents in World History (Schlager 2009) Eric Cox, Ph.D., Instructor of Classics Completed a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2011) Presented paper on Herodotus at the meeting of CAMWS in Grand Rapids, MI (2011) Published dictionary entry on caves in antiquity in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome (2009) Virginia Grace Fellow and Regular Member of the American School of Classical Studies for the 2008-09 academic school year Presented paper on Vergil’s Aeneid at the meeting of CAMWS in Tucson, AZ (2007)

	Recent Hill classics and humanities alumni
	John Oberbeck ’10 - Brown University Dinora Smith ’10 - St. Andrew’s University (Scotland) Brianna McGuire ’10 - Wheaton College Erin Forester ’09 - St Joseph’s University (Presidential Scholar) Evyn Cosgrove ’09 - Vanderbilt University Richard Lafferty ’09 - Georgetown University Ryan Lundquist ’08 - Georgetown University Skeet Singleton ’08 - University of Chicago Allison Holcomb ’08 - New York University Peter Ouwerkerk ’08 - University of Chicago Ashley Bradley ’07 - University of Pennsylvania Virginia Buckles ’07 - Brown University Kyle Ralston ’07 – Harvard (currently pursuing an M.A. in Classics at Oxford) Jessica Nord ’07 - Henry Bean Scholar, College of the Holy Cross Tara Eckenrode ’06 - St. Andrew’s University (Scotland) Ryan Gofus ’06 - Georgetown University Henry Spelman ’06 - University of North Carolina (Moorhead Scholar); Rhodes Scholar, Oxford (Classics) Andrew Goetz ’05 - Princeton University