FRANCIS A. LACKNER
1957 - Died 1998
CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA
see also listing in Cedar Rapids Literary Club
Deep Perils, April 6, 1959 (N)
Tourist? May 13, 1963 (N)
Julfa, April 3, 1967 (N)
Dear Sir, You Cur! May 5, 1969 (N)
Kabbarli, December 3, 1973 (N)
Who? Where? Why? December 3, 1979 (N)
Vice, April 5, 1982
Beyond the Black Stump, March 25, 1985 (N)
FRANCIS A. LACKNER, JR.
1984 -
The Knife of Time, January 6, 1986 (N)
Niner, January 8, 1990 (N)
A Tale of Two Latter Day Cities, February 15, 1993 (N)
Move Over, Gutenberg, March 13, 1995
The Legacy of Cacus and Caca (Presidential Address), October 2, 1995 (N)
Defining Moment: Challenges and
Transformation, January 21, 2002
Shakespeare’s Faeries, October 28, 2002 (N)
Out of the Chrysalis: The Birth of Millennium
Park, October 25, 2004(N)
Jake
‘The Barber’ and the Electronic Frontier, March 17, 2008 (N)
Haec Nomine,
November 1, 2010
Offices:
Corresponding Secretary,
1984-85, 1985-86
Recording Secretary, 1986-87,
1987-88, 1988-89, 1989-90, 1990-91, 1991-92, 1992-93, 1993-94, 1994-95
President, 1995-96
Chair, Officers and Members,
1996-97
Historian, 2000-01, 2001-02, 2002-03
Webmaster, 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09,
2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12
HERMAN H. LACKNER (Biography)
1955 - Died 1998
Procrustes Frustrated, March 31, 1958 (N)
Crocodile Tears, January 16, 1961, (N)
Sounding Brass or Tinkling Cymbal, March 23, 1964 (N)
Sack-cloth and Hashish (Presidential Address), October 14, 1968
Myths of Antiquity, November 8, 1971 (N)
Disparate Measures, November 17, 1975 (N)
I Came, I Saw, Who Conquered? November 7, 1977 (N)
Home of the Brave (Ladies' Night Address), May 21, 1979 (N)
Latin Farmers, April 7, 1986 (N)
"The Education of Norman Parker" by Norman S. Parker
.....(Selections from memoirs edited and read by Herman H. Lackner), October 26, 1987 (N)
*Day by de Senectute, March 26, 1990 (N)
Leader, Book Night, March 30, 1992
Pushy Women,
April 29, 1996 (N)
Offices:
Corresponding
Secretary, 1962-63, 1982-83,
1983-84
Recording
Secretary, 1963-64, 1966-67,
1967-68, 1969-70, 1970-71, 1971-72, 1972-73, 1973-74, 1974-75, 1975-76,
1976-77, 1977-78, 1978-79, 1979-80, 1980-81, 1981-82
Chair,
Arrangements and Exercises, 1966-67
President, 1968-69
THOMAS W. LACKNER
1985 -
CEDAR RAPIDS,
The Great Ferry, November 4, 1985 (N)
Pease Porridge Hot: In praise of good plain food,
May 9, 2005 (N)
ALEX LADENSON
1973 - Died 1987
American Librarianship -- Past and Present, February 17, 1975 (N)
Thomas Jefferson: Bibliophile, February 20, 1978 (N)
LOUIS ELLSWORTH LAFLIN
1975 - Died 1976
ALVIN WILFORD LAFORGE
1919 - Resigned 1926
ISIDORA K. LAGOS
2011
-
JOHN JOSEPH LALOR
1875 - Resigned 1882
Population, November 20, 1876
Bi-Metalism (Conversation), December 8, 1879
An Argument for Silver, March 15, 1880
RICHARD L. LANDAU
1974 - Resigned 1979
The Awful Food and Drug Administration, March 8, 1976
KENNETH W. LANGE
1963 - Died 1983
The Best Laid Plans, November 22, 1965 (N)
Excelsior, April 29, 1969 (N)
I Believe, November 20, 1972 (N)
They Have Killed My Baker, May 12, 1975 (N)
Brass, March 20, 1978 (N)
Mob? February 15, 1982
Offices:
Chair, Officers and Members, 1966-67
Treasurer, 1980-81, 1981-82,
1982-83
EDWIN CHANNING LARNED
1874 - Died 1884
The Influence of Modern Fiction (Conversation), March 11, 1876
Inaugural Address as President, October 3, 1881
The
Offices:
President, 1881-82
SHERWOOD
1904 - Resigned 1911
The Dilettante, November 6, 1905
WALTER
1875 - Died 1914
The Devil in Literature, March 4, 1875
Will O' The Wisps, November 4, 1878
No Art Without the Ideal: No Literature Without the Supernatural, January 30, 1882
An Impression of Jean Francois Millet, February 5, 1883
The Myth of Siegfried and Wagner's "Ring of The Nibelung," May 26, 1884
What Was the Matter with Hamlet? December 15, 1884
The Legend of the Morte d'Arthur and How Tennyson Has Used It, February 8, 1886
A Night in
Michael Angelo, April 15, 1889
Modern Landscape, February 24, 1890
The Spirit and Development of
Velazquez, November 28, 1892
Some Experiences in
The Functions of the Gentlemen of Leisure, May 25, 1896
Art and Scenery in
The Modern
With the Roman and the Goth from Southern France to
Offices:
Chair, Rooms and Finance, 1882-83, 1885-86
Chair, Arrangements and Exercises,
1884-85
ROBERT K. LARSON
1991 - Died 1995
*Painted Windows, December 7, 1992 (N)
Out of the Woods, December 13, 1993
Offices:
Chair, Arrangements and Exercises, 1994-95
ROGELIO A. LASSO
2006
-
BRYAN LATHROP
1876 - Died 1916
Edited and read an "Informal," May 19, 1879
Random Recollections of the
Offices:
Chair, Rooms and Finance, 1880-81, 1886-87, 1887-88
URBAN AUGUSTINE LAVERY
1919 - Resigned 1930
Revising a Constitution, May 2, 1921
Sergeant McGuffy's Breeches, January 11, 1926
A Forgotten Chapter in Government Debts, April 9, 1928
CHARLES BURRALL
1874 - Died 1883
Inaugural Address as President, June 21, 1875
Gouverneur Morris, December 13,
1880
Offices:
President, 1875-76
WILLIAM MANGAM
1885 - Resigned 1887
DONALD E. LAWSON
1968 - Resigned 1979
A Visit with Thomas Wolfe's Mother, January 10, 1972 (N)
ORANGE JUDD LAYLANDER
1928 - Died 1948
Two Short Stories, December 3, 1928
The Genesis of Pedagese, January 27, 1930
Methuselah and Others, January 18, 1932
Hair, February 5, 1934
A Boy Again, January 13, 1936 (N)
Random Shots (Presidential Address), October 11,
1937 (N)
Offices:
President, 1937-38
ALBERT LAZENBY
1900 - Resigned 1903
Memorial of the
Late Queen
George Meredith, Novelist and Sage, December 9, 1901
JOSEPH BLOOMFIELD LEAKE
1874 - Died 1913
Observations on the Common Law, March 18, 1876
Eastern Highways, June 18, 1877
The Indian Question (Conversation), February 20, 1882
Address on the Presentation to the
Club by
The Weakness of the Executive Department of the State, May 10, 1886
Recollections of a Southern Prison, February 21, 1887
The
Remarkable Professional Experiences, November 25, 1895
Inaugural Address as President, October 4, 1897
The Story of the Christian Indians, January 9, 1899
The
Eastern Highways, Ancient and Modern, February 27,
1911
Offices:
Chair, Officers and Members, 1892-93
President, 1897-98
BLEWETT LEE
1894 and 1915 - Died 1951
Confederate Lyrics, April 13, 1896
Women of the Confederacy, February 14, 1898
The Law of Aerial Navigation, November 8, 1915
EDWARD NOBLE LEE
1941 - Died 1986
EDWARD THOMAS LEE
1915 - Died 1943
Characters in the Political Life of
Are Lawyers Leaders or Followers in the Improvement of Society? February 23, 1920
Reminiscences of Fifty Years, January 16, 1933
A Chapter in
A Bit of History, April 13, 1942
JOHN CECIL LEE
1961 - Died 1979
Adventures in Idealism, March 18, 1963
Our Allies, February 9, 1970 (N)
Ooh-la-la, April 5, 1971
Offices:
Chair, Publications, 1970-71
JOHN RICHARDS LEE
2007
-
JOHN THOMAS LEE
1919 - Died 1953
Bibliomania and Kindred Afflictions, May 2, 1921
HENRY EDUARD LEGLER
1910 - Died 1917
The Genesis of Poe's "Raven," March 21, 1910
A Forgotten Poet of the Last Generation: James Gales Percival, February 13, 1911
Walt Whitman Yesterday and Today, March 13, 1911
Of Much Love and Some Knowledge of Books, April 1, 1912
Parodies, May 27, 1912
A Bundle of Old Chap-Books (Illustrated by lantern slides), November 2, 1914
Richard Hovey, Poet, February 14, 1916
Offices:
Corresponding Secretary,
1915-16
DAVID O. LEHMAN
1985 -
Words and Music, April 14, 1986
Confessions of a Class, January 18, 1999 (N)
Offices:
Corresponding
Secretary, 1987-88
Chair,
Publications, 1988-89
1922 - Died 1965
New Vistas of Atomic Structure, November 27, 1922
Stars and Atoms (Illustrated), December 19, 1927
Albert Abraham Michelson, the Man and the Man of Science (Ladies' Night Address), November 30, 1931
Cosmic Rays (Presidential Address), October 3, 1932 (N)
The Mystery of Light, March 9, 1936 (N)
Epsilon Aurigae, Colossus Among Stars, April 4, 1938 (N)
Atoms, Old and New, April 28, 1947 (N)
The Far Fore-reaching Shadows of Coming Events, May 9, 1955 (N)
The Enigma of Gravitation, February 22, 1960
(N)
Offices:
President, 1932-33
JOHN VALCOULON LeMOYNE
1874 - Resigned 1877
G. RUSSELL LEONARD
1937 - Died 1950
CHARLES STANLEY LESTER
1879 - Died 1912
The Exposition of 1889, May 12, 1890
Letter, May 29, 1905 (N)
ROBIN LESTER
1991 - Resigned 1992
SAMUEL LEVIN
1948 - Died 1971
Uncle Joe, February 22, 1954 (N)
Mishmash, March 5, 1962
EDWARD G. LEVINSON
1973 - Died 1996
Chapters I, II and III of Untitled Novel, May 1, 1978 (N)
The Shores of the Pond, March 24, 1980 (N)
The Same Old Story Somewhat Embellished (Ladies' Night
Address), May 19, 1986 (N)
Offices:
Recording
Secretary, 1984-85, 1985-86
Chair, Officers
and Members, 1989-90, 95-96
Corresponding
Secretary, 1994-95
CHARLES LEVITON
1939 - Died 1960
Overtones, March 3, 1941
A Long Road, April 1, 1946
EDWIN HERBERT LEWIS
1911 - Died 1938
*William Vaughan Moody, November 4, 1912 (C) (N) (W)
*The Work of Tagore, January 15, 1917 (C) (N)
The Work of Henry Adams, April 28, 1919
The Arts Here Represented (Presidential Address), October 6, 1919
Modern Tendencies in Religion, January 26, 1920
Books of the Year (Symposium), December 5, 1921
On a Few Very Common Words, February 15, 1932
Offices:
President, 1919-20
JONATHAN D. LEWIS
2004
-
The Madness of Lear and
Edgar, April 16, 2007
Unicorns
May Be Betrayed with Trees: The Psychology of
Persuasion in Shakespeare’s Julius
Caesar, April 26, 2009
LESLIE LEWIS
1883 - Died 1922
The Trail to the Great Northwest, January 28, 1901
How Far Should Education by the State Be Free? February 22, 1904
Memories of
Boyhood in Early
The Sudden Awakening of the Northwest, April 24, 1911
The Influence of
Reminiscences of Early Members of the Club, May 26, 1919
MELVIN B. LEWIS
1988 - Resigned 1991
Communists in Contempt: The Courts as Cold Warriors, December 11, 1989 (N)
JOSEPH LIBERMAN
1876 - Resigned 1878
WALTER LICHTENSTEIN
1916 and 1928 - Resigned 1931
A Book-Buyer in
The Present Banking Situation, December 13, 1920
Original Symposium, January 17, 1921
PHILIP ROBERT LIEBSON
1992 -
*Cityscapes, March 6, 1995 (N)
Near Beer, May 5, 1997 (N)
Of Time and the Lake, April 6, 1998 (C) (N)
*How Sweet It Is...., February 28, 2000
A Pleasure Dome Decreed, April 2, 2001
Hypotheses, March 18,
2002
Excellence in the Mundane (Joint Meeting with The
Fortnightly of Chicago), March 7, 2003
It Was Al All the Time, April 5, 2004 (N)
It’s About Time (Presidential Address), October 4, 2004 (N)
Poetry Night, Participant, February 6, 2006
Location,
Location, Location: A Study in Triple Rhythm (Joint Meeting with The
Fortnightly of Chicago), March 2,
2007
Transformations,
November 26, 2007
The
Two Bodies, May 4, 2009
Mum’s the
Word, April 5, 2010
It’s
Déjà Vu All Over Again, April
25, 2011
Offices:
Chair, Publications, 2000-01
President, 2004-05
Chair, Officers and Members,
2005-06
1962 - Resigned 1978
Reminiscences of the
My Husband Gave at the Office, November 8, 1965 (N)
De Medico e de Louco, Todo Mundo Tem um Pouco, March 30, 1970 (N)
CHARLES RANLET
1966 - Resigned 1971
A Hare-Brained Scheme, October 23, 1967 (N)
ROBERT TODD LINCOLN
1876 - Died 1926
RONALD G. LINDENBERG
2005
-
JOHN LINGNER (biography)
1992 - Died 2002
Breeze, December 5, 1994
Club, March 2, 1998 (N)
CHARLES AUGUSTUS LIPPINCOTT
1898 - Died 1929
ARTHUR LITTLE
1878 - Died 1915
The Supernatural in Art, June 7, 1880
Divorce (Conversation), April 9, 1883
The Secular Value of Christian Missions, March 28,
1887
Offices:
Corresponding Secretary,
1880-81, 1888-89
CHARLES JOSEPH LITTLE
1891 - Died 1911
Abraham a
Karl Marx and His Theories, February 11, 1894
Ibsen's Women, March 30, 1896
Ibsen Compared with Sophocles and Shakespeare, December 14, 1903
The Women of Dante's Commedia, May 13, 1907
*John Milton, December 7, 1908 (Re-read before the Club by Stanley Pargellis, December 8, 1958) (N) (W)
CHARLES J. LITTLE
1965 - Resigned 1968
PAUL HUGO LITTLE
1968 - Resigned 1970
1946 - Resigned 1954
BENJAMIN S. LLAMZON
1983 - Resigned 1996
Two American Ideas Men from
Philosophy in the University: Athena or Socrates? February 18, 1985 (N)
Ambivalence: Undercurrents in Philippine-American Friendship, October 20, 1986 (N)
Medjugorje, April 18, 1988 (N)
Then and Zen, April 17, 1989 (N)
Violence: Let Me Count the Ways, April 23, 1990 (N)
An Open Letter to Shobun Tomita, M.D., October 28, 1991 (N)
Beyond Courage, April 26, 1993
Do-Be-Do-Be-Do in Dewey, May 2, 1994
Off Shore in
Offices:
Chair, Rooms
and Finance, 1992-93
Chair,
Publications, 1993-94
HENRY DEMAREST LLOYD
1874 - Died 1903
The Cure of Vanderbiltism, January 12, 1880
The Political Economy of Fifteen Millions, April 10, 1882
Too Much of Everything, April 14, 1884
A Conservative View of the Labor Movement, November 3, 1890
The Need of the Hour, April 18, 1892
The Wit and Humor of Emerson, May 27, 1895
A Day with William Morris, December 7, 1896
The Scholar in Politics, January 17, 1898
Newest
WILLIAM BROSS LLOYD, JR.
1974 - Died 1995
Behind the Cuckoo Clock, January 19, 1976 (N)
Albert Gallatin:
A Maverick Year, December 9, 1985 (N)
Offices:
Chair,
Publications, 1977-78
EDWIN LYMAN LOBDELL
1912 - Died 1936
The Business Depression and Some of Its Causes, March 22, 1915
Impressions of
Siberia and
Recollections of Fifty-five Years
in
Some Personal Reminiscences of Well-known Chicagoans of the
Last Century, November 19, 1934
Offices:
Chair, Rooms and Finance, 1922-23, 1923-24
Corresponding Secretary, 1924-25
1884 - Died 1904
As Others See Us, November 16, 1885
The Cardinal Statesman, January 18, 1886
Leaving the
The Making, Giving, and Receiving of Taffy (Presidential Address), October 12, 1891
The Need of the Hour, April 18, 1892
The Modern Liar, January 16, 1893
Don John, January 22, 1894
Apocrypha, Newly Discovered, January 24, 1898
An Acrostic on His Own Name, April 1, 1901
How a Christian Can Be an Evolutionist, December 23,
1901
Offices:
Corresponding Secretary,
1886-87
President, 1891-92
JOSEPH EZEKIEL LOCKWOOD
1874 - Died 1878
MAX LOEB
1924 - Resigned 1928
Keeping Abreast, February 1, 1926
THEODORE LOEPPERT
1993 - Resigned 1997
Leadville, 1978, February 28, 1994
Camelot: The Fact Behind the Fiction, December 4, 1995 (N)
FRANK JOSEPH LOESCH (photograph)
1909 - Died 1944
A Study in Human Nature, March 28, 1910
The Literary or Educational Value of Supreme Court Decisions, October 10, 1910
A Search for a Husband and a Dower: Another Study in Human Nature, April 8, 1912
Suggestions for Securing Additional City Breathing Spaces, November 17, 1913
The European War, October 19, 1914
Lyman Trumbull, April 5, 1915
World Politics, February 11, 1918
Personal Recollections of the Republican Convention of 1880, October 20, 1924
Personal Experiences During the Chicago Fire, October 12, 1925 (Re-read before the Club by Edward M. Paluga, May 10, 1976)
Four Pedagogues and a Boy (Presidential Address), October 10, 1927
A Domestic Tragedy, April 27, 1936
Gleams from the Glimmerglass (Ladies' Night Address), November 29, 1937
Memories of the Chicago Bar in the Seventies and Eighties, April 22, 1940
Some Leading
Offices:
President, 1927-28
DAVID S. LOGAN
1963 - Resigned 1981
JOHN AVERY LOMAX
1918 - Died 1948
JOHN HENRY LONG
1894 - Resigned 1903
The Labor Question, November 2, 1903
JOHN H. LONG
1977 - Resigned 1981
The Good Old Days: The Honey War, April 21, 1980 (N)
JOHN P. LONG
1959 - Resigned 1975
Matthew Arnold Visits
Victor Sorge, Master Spy of World War II, November 20, 1961 (N)
Operation
Counterfeit Traitor: A Story of Espionage, November 6, 1967 (N)
JOHN H. LORANT
1988 - Resigned 1990
DANIEL MINER LORD
1901 - Resigned 1908
Some Fallacies Relating to the White Squadron, January 12, 1903
HERBERT IVORY LORD
1905 - Died 1933
The Literature of Commerce, November 6, 1905
JAMES H. LORIE
1961 - Resigned 1971
Anyone Can Rat Once, February 10, 1964 (N)
ANN MARIE LOUSIN
2011
-
FREDERICK HOMAN LOVERIDGE
1907 - Resigned 1908
FRANK ORREN LOWDEN
1893 - Died 1943
Modern Realism and Ancient Epicureanism, January 6, 1896
Paper, January 10, 1898
ALEXANDER I. LOWINGER
1954 - Resigned 1999
South Pacific, December 16, 1957 (N)
F.P.D., February 25, 1963 (N)
MICHELLE LOWRANCE
2011
-
CHARLES DOAK LOWRY
1904 - Died 1953
The House Boat
People of the
The Cruise of the Double Ell (Illustrated), November 12, 1906
A Wagon Trip Among
the
The Biography of a Village, April 28, 1913
The Life Is More Than Meat (Story), November 27, 1916
World Politics, February 11, 1918
The Romance of Commonplace Things, December 9, 1918
Tests of Musical Talent, November 24, 1919
John Sevier,
The Working Theory of a Layman (Presidential Address), October 5, 1925
John Rankin, Black Abolitionist, May 13, 1929
Waves, January 13, 1936
The
Genesis of a School System, February 28, 1944
Offices:
President, 1925-26
SIDNEY L. LUCE
1964 - Resigned 1971
ARNO BENEDICT LUCKHARDT
1928 - Died 1957
Historical Highlights and Shadows in the Discovery of General Anesthesia (Illustrated), February 17, 1930
An Adventure in Research, May 15, 1933 (N)
Dr. William Beaumont and the
Medical Epic of the
..... ( Re-read before the Club by Robert W. Carton December 6, 1999) (N)
A Neglected Chapter in the History of Anatomic Illustration and Instruction (Presidential Address), October 5, 1942 (N)
Book Review, "Doctors" by Jeaffreson,
December 11, 1950 (N)
Offices:
Corresponding
Secretary, 1933-34
Chair,
Publications, 1936-37
President, 1942-43
REUBEN LUDLAM
1874 - Resigned 1882
DAVID BRAINERD LYMAN
1883 - Died 1914
The Taxation of Church Property, January 18, 1904
FRANCIS OGDEN LYMAN
1876 - Resigned 1883
Hawaiian Volcanoes, April 3, 1882
HENRY MUNSON LYMAN
1884 - Resigned 1888
A Vacation for the Brain, June 7, 1886
FRANK
1915 - Died 1945
SAMUEL ADAMS LYNDE
1886 - Resigned 1908
The Manorial Estates in
PHYLLIS ILONA
1998 -
Earthquakes, January 7,
2002
Food Porn, or A Memoir of My Life with Cookbooks, January 24, 2005 (N)
