perhaps know, is almost endless. Let me call your attention to just a
few of them. A block up the street, to the northwest, you will see the
delicate little cupola of McDowell Hall, the main building on the cam-
pus of St. John's College. When I see it, I am reminded of our national
anthem, for Francis Scott Key, who composed the "Star-Spangled
Banner, " attended classes in McDowell Hall. He was a graduate of St.
John's. Just across the street is to be seen the gray-green dome of the
Chapel of the United States Naval Academy. Lying buried in the crypt
of that chapel is John Paul Jones, who founded the American Navy
and who was one of the greatest sea-fighters of all of history.

Dominating the Annapolis skyline is the dome of the State House,
now the seat of government of the State and once the capitol of the
United States. There George Washington resigned his commission as
Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Armies. There the treaty with
Great Britain granting the independence of the American colonies was
signed. A few hundred feet to the west of the State House is seen the
graceful spire of St. Anne's Church, founded in the seventeenth century
by William III. Lying buried in the churchyard are the remains of Sir
Robert Eden, Maryland's last British Governor, who went back to Eng-
land during the Revolutionary War, but came back and resumed his
residence in Annapolis after the American victory.

It is a privilege and an honor to extend to you an official welcome to
"The Ancient City, " and to offer you my personal best wishes for both
enjoyment and profit in your meeting here.

ADDRESS, ST. MARY'S SEMINARY JUNIOR COLLEGE

ST. MARY'S
November 3, 1961

I am happy to be here today as your guest at this first Governor's Day
at St. Mary's Seminary Junior College, and I assure you that I am deeply
moved by being the first Governor of Maryland so honored.

Of all the institutions of learning in our State, I know of none more
fortunate in location than St. Mary's. Here in this venerable village is
one of the most beautiful settings in all of our beautiful State. It was
described by Father White, the Jesuit who landed here with the first
settlers more than three hundred years ago, as "a spot so charming in its
situation that Europe can scarcely show one to surpass it. " We would

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