Scheme of Exercises

Season 2007-2008

Date

By

Title

Oct 1

Stephen P. Thomas

Henry In Love: A Thoreau Tableau Vivant
Reunion Meeting

Oct 8

Barry Kritzberg

B-Who?

Oct 15

Paul T. Ruxin

An Hospitable and Well-Covered Table…

Oct 22

Donald E. Chatham

The Littles

Oct 29

Edward A. Quattrocchi

Making a Small Fortune in the Commodity Market

Nov 5

Gerald I. Bauman

A Day With Richard

Nov 12

John F. Wasick

Samuel Insull and the Creation of the Modern Age

Nov 19

Thomas E. Swanstrom

Remember the Maine…Boundary

Nov 26

Philip R. Liebson

Transformations

Dec 3

V. Amod Saxena

Smile for Me!

Dec 10

Daniel L. Blumen

William G. Jones

Suzanne L. Wagner

Short Paper Night:      Surviving American Medicine
                                    The Houses in Between
                                    A Matter of Taste

Dec 17

Wendy Cowles Husser

So Many Men; So Little Time

Jan 7

John K. Notz, Jr.

William Le Baron Jenney – A Man for All Seasons

Jan 14

Douglas L. Wilson

Lincoln’s War Powers and the Power of Words

The Arthur Baer Fellowship Address

MidWinter Meeting

Jan 21

Charles Ebeling

Samuel Johnson and His ‘Clubbable’ Friends

Jan 28

Francesco Levant

The Poetry Center of Chicago

Poetry Night: Poetry That Matters
Gilbert Klapper: Three Poems

Feb 4

Charles E. Shepherd

Along the Way – A Little Bit of This, A Little Bit of  That

Feb 11

Kathleen K. Ruhl

Peggy Sullivan

Book Night: Novels of India: Then and Now

Feb 18

Warren C. Haskin

These Boys’ Lives

Feb 25

Peter V. Conroy, Jr.

The French Students May Riot

Mar 3

Harry L. Stern

Nur Senf

Nomination of Officers

Mar 7

Donald H. J. Hermann

G. Gregory Taubeneck

Joint Meeting with The Fortnightly: “I’m Back”

Mar 17

Francis A. Lackner, Jr.

Jake ‘The Barber’ and the Electronic Frontier
Election of Officers

Mar 24

C. Steven Tomashefsky

Easter Egg Chickens

Mar 31

Yolanda Torrisi Adler

Accidental Pioneers

Apr 7

James Louis Franklin

The Sound of One Hand Clapping: Meditations on Sinistrality

Apr 14

Frederick D. Malkinson

A French-American Tale

Apr 21

Robert K. Strong Jr. and the Pacifica Quartet

A Life in Music

Apr 28

Glen H. Phillips

Triptych

May 5

Seymour S. Raven

Classics Night: “Crescendos and Dim Innuendos”

May 12

Todd S. Parkhurst

Justice and Mercy

May 19

Michael Thompson

The Grave

Closing Meeting