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Past Faculty Lecturers

1959

John E. Saffell -- “An Historian Looks at His World”

1960

William Glenn Clark -- “A Layman’s Guide to Modern Science”

1961

Jerry Lee Blount -- “A Biologist’s View of the Future”

1962

Paul H. Chapman -- “Don’t Forget to Speak Scornfully of the Victorian Age”

1963

R. H. Sales -- “The Second Century Church: On Doubt, Conflict, and Endurance”

1965

James P. Rodman -- “Observational Tests of Applied Cosmologies”

1967

George L. Montagno -- “Untouchability in Contemporary India”

1969

William Porter, Jr. -- “Window on a Little Known World”

1971

George H. Thomas -- “Berkeley’s Astonishing Doctrine”

1972

Earl Russell -- “Literature and Music”

1973

Truman D. Turnquist -- “Heavy Metals: Friend or Foe?”

1974

James E. Vincent -- “On Actors and Audiences”

1975

Wesley J. Vesey -- “Religious Elements in the Testimonies of the Nuremberg Trial Defendants”

1976

Richard L. Doyle -- “In Pursuit of a Promise: The Economic Mobility of the Dutch Immigrants of Pella, Iowa, 1847-1880”

1977

William Glenn Clark -- “Euclid is Not Alone”

1978

Robert G. Wiese -- “Continents, Ocean Basins, and Mountains”

1979

Mary Ellen Nurmi -- “Asymmetrically Speaking: The Language of Dominance and Deference”

1980

Paul Shaker -- “The College and Consciousness”

1981

Shea Zellweger -- “The World Itself is Just Another World”

1982

Frederick Oppermann -- “The Teaching Machine: Part I”

1983

Charles H. Brueske -- “After the Seventh Day”

1984

George Tune -- “The Death of a Dream?”

1985

Helen Saffell -- “The State of Our Language”

1986

Lewis A. Phelps -- “Symbolism in the Music of J. S. Bach”

1987

Faye Hollaway -- “The Polymer Age”

1988

Leonard G. Epp -- “Unweaving a Rainbow”

1989

Gloria Malone -- “Expanding the Canon -- With a Bang or a Whimper?”

1990

James Hopper -- “The Objective Image: An Artist’s Research”

1991

Richard Dutson -- “A Bonfire of the Vanities”

1992

Donald Buckey -- “The Real of Self-Realization”

1993

John Bienz -- “Metaphor Wars”

1994

William Coleman -- “Dreaming America: The Rhetoric of Martin Luther King, Jr.”

1995

Michael Zwilling -- “What About Scarecrow’s Brain?”

1996

Victoria Harris -- “Piano & Organ Music of Franz Liszt”

1997

Kathleen Piker-King -- “The Undergraduate Experience”

1998

Charles McClaugherty --“Beauty and the Beast - Fairy Tales About Nature”

1999

Donald Hobson – “The Search for the Historical Jesus and Future Christian Belief”

2000

Douglas Hendel – “Every Inch a King: Playing Shakespeare’s King Lear”

2001

Angela Zumbar – “Prayers for the Queen of Swords”

2002

Stephen Kramer – “Getting a Life – Pursuing Happiness and Optimal Development"

2003

Dr. Martin Horning – “The Butterfly, the Wheel, and the Buddha: Confessions of a Macro Economist”

2004

James Thoma – "International Sport Diffusion: The New Reality?"

2005

James Perone – “When Protest Became Pop: T he Strange Case of ‘Eve of Destruction’”

2006

Lee Gray – “The Natural History of Mars”