SAVE THE DATE
2026 NJCA Fall Meeting
Rowan University Saturday, November 14, 2026
Meeting Agenda and RSVP form coming soon.
Please bring Member Dues and Meeting Registration Payment to the meeting or mail them to Jennifer Jones, NJCA Treasurer
Fermented Beverages, and Health at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in
Philadelphia, where he is also an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology. Over the past two
decades, he has pioneered the interdisciplinary field of Biomolecular Archaeology. His
laboratory discovered the earliest chemically attested alcoholic beverage in the world (ca. 7000
B.C., from China), as well as the earliest grape wine, barley beer, mead, and fermented chocolate
beverages. He has published three books on ancient alcoholic beverages: Ancient Wine: The
Search for the Origins of Viniculture (Princeton University, 2003/2006; also translated into
French and Italian), Uncorking the Past: The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic
Beverages (Berkeley: University of California, 2009/2010), and Ancient Brews Rediscovered and
Re-Created (New York: WW Norton, 2017), together with numerous articles (see
https://www.biomolecular-archaeology.com/ )
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New Jersey Classical Association
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Edna White Rome Scholarship - Application Deadline - November 1 ***Please note the earlier deadline***
This scholarship provides the opportunity for a New Jersey Classics teacher to attend the six week Classical Summer School program at the American Academy in Rome.
Qualifications
Open to NJCA members who have been in good standing for at least two years prior to application. Applicants must be current teachers of Classics, Latin or Greek in New Jersey.
It is expected that the recipient will continue teaching in New Jersey for at least two years after the award and is willing and able to fulfill the duties associated with being awarded this scholarship.
Nota Bene: This scholarship is available for the summer of 2027.
Application is available on the Scholarships Page.
Maryann Steward Scholarship - Application Deadline - April 1
Awarded since 2009, the scholarship provides funds to a New Jersey Latin teacher to pursue a summer study program or some other form of professional development for study or travel within the US.
Amount of Award: $250
Scholarship grants are available to teachers for study programs in the US. Grants may be used for both online and in-person programs. Membership in NJCA for the current academic year is required.
Application is available on the Scholarships Page
Latin Certification Options at MSU
Montclair State University is happy to announce the launch of two new graduate programs for individuals interested in obtaining state certification (P-12) in Latin
1. MAT with certification in Latin (P-12)
We also have a Latin option in Montclair State's new Alternate Route Program.
Early College / Dual Enrollment Latin Options at MSU
The office of early college programs at Montclair State is expanding opportunities for rising juniors and seniors in NJ and beyond (https://www.montclair.edu/early-college-program/credit-bearing/). The deadline for applications is August 1.
We have a number of Latin options (at all levels beginning to advanced) so that your students can earn college credit online. (Students can also take other courses in mythology, Roman civilization, Greek Civilization, and archaeology.)
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Looking for a Latin teaching position? View open positions on our Job Placement page.
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A tribute to Dan Jackson by Dr. Judith Hallett
Mourning the loss of my dear, kind, funny, immensely gifted classicist colleague Danny Jackson, just shy of his 80th birthday
On September 21, 2026, Daniel Peter Jackson passed away following a brief illness. Born in New York City on November 5, 1946. Danny was the youngest of five children whose parents were from Newry, County Armagh, in Ireland. A lifelong educator, Danny taught at several high schools and colleges in New York and New Jersey and was a prolific writer during a 40-year career. He was also a beloved father, grandfather, husband, and friend.
Danny attended Iona College, where he was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper in 1968-69 and received a degree in Greek and Latin. He attended the City University of New York in Comparative Literature for graduate school, studying Greek at Columbia and Fordham, Latin at Columbia, medieval philosophy at the New School/Yeshiva and theater at Hunter. Danny learned translation at CUNY from Frederick Golden (Song of Roland), James Mantinband (Vergil and Lucretius) and Allen Mandlebaum (whose work on The Aeneid received a National Book Award in 1970). He published (Classical Folia “Socrates and Christianity” in 1979.
In 1991, he received a National Endowment in the Humanities in 1991 to study with John Maier, co-translator with John Gardner of The Epic of Gilgamesh. Bolchazy/Carducci published Jackson’s verse rendition of The Epic of Gilgamesh in 1991 and a second edition three years later. It was anthologized in its entirety by Prentice Hall and by Chicago’s Great Books Series.
Danny’s poetry appeared in Iona’s Cornelian, Voices International, the Christian Science Monitor, Mississippi Valley Review, Providence Review, Phantasm, Colorado Quarterly and the International Poetry Review. His essays were published\ in newspapers and national magazines throughout the 1980s. New Jersey’s Observer and the Ocean County Reporter printed his columns on schools regularly. His writing also appeared in America, Commonweal, Phi Delta Kappa, the National Catholic Reporter, and the Catholic Worker.
Danny authored reviews, features and an auto-biographic cover story for Media and Methods, which was once called “the most exciting magazine in education” by the New York Times. He wrote an obituary when the magazine folded in 1981, the first of many guest columns for the Times. His columns featured his best childhood friend, his job working a merry-go-round ride, a satiric spoof on high schools, an encomium to the Bronx, his struggles writing a novel, a tribute to his father and a defense of the teaching profession. Encouraged by his assignment editor, Rich Roberts, Jackson published news stories on colleges, the dropout rate, the annual teachers’ convention, teen alcohol abuse, the impact of a WWII war criminal’s trial, teen prostitution in Atlantic City, the loss of mollusks, Lyme’s disease, lifeguards and a two part expose on dishonesty in the testing industry.
During the 1990s Jackson continued to work on the completion of two novels-in-progress. These were not completed until 2019. One deals with the picaresque escapades of Irish friends at the 1968 St. Patrick’s Day parade. The other is a girl’s coming of age story set in Antioch and Africa during the first century after Christ. The narrator, named Laeotia, is the granddaughter of the Roman poet-philosopher Lucretius. After retiring from teaching and moving to the D.C. area, he often demonstrated for peace at the White House in D.C.
He is survived by his wife, Lorraine Healy Jackson; son Daniel Owen Jackson (Misa Nagatsu) and daughter Cara Jackson (Mark McArdle); grandchildren Finnian Jackson McArdle and Noelani Nagatsu Jackson; two sisters, Rosaleen Johnson (Bob) and Alice Englert; and numerous nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his parents, Owen and Alice Jackson, his sister Madeline, and his brother Raymond. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Catholic Worker or Catholic Charities in Baltimore.
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