Friends of the Libraries Events

Friends Programs 1980 - Present

SPEAKERS:

• 1981 Arthur E. Humphrey Plans for Fairchild-Martindale Library
• 1982 Terry Belanger Why Libraries should have books - And why they shouldn’t
• 1982 John M. Friedman Five Centuries of Book Illustration in Europe and America
• 1982 Daniel Traister Report on Lehigh’s Rare Book Collections
• 1982 Sheila Humphrey New Controversies in Human Nutrition
• 1983 Katherine VanEerde For Books are not Absolutely Dead Things
• 1983 Richard Boss Paperless Society: Threat or Myth
• 1983 John Vickrey A Reading from Areopagitica
• 1983 Barbara Traister A Bibliographical DEscription of the copy of the first edition of Areopagitica
• 1983 Edward Gallagher Fanny and the Professors: Expert Testimony at the Trials of Fanny Hill
• 1983 David Cundall “Audubon as a Naturalist”
• 1984 Helen Papashvily Reading, Writing and Retailing
• 1984 Zi-Qiang Zhou Chinese TRaditional Water-Ink Rice-Paper
• 1984 Barbara Nyce, John Donne: Poems and Songs
• 1984 John Speller Darwin’s Origin of Species
• 1984 Michael T. Ghiselin Life on the Earth: The Darwinian Revolution
• 1984 Richard Kostelanetz Writing in a Technological Age
• 1985 Pentawynd (concert of Jewish composers)
• 1985 Edward Evenson Why Glaciers Are Important to Man
• 1986 Edna de Angeli, Roundtable discussion on Nicaragua and Cuba
• 1986 Galen Godbey A Tour of British Cathedrals
• 1986 Robert S. Taylor Value Added Processers in Information Systems
• 1986 Dennis Shaw ?IATUL (Co-sponsored by the Friends)
• 1986 Nancy Larrick Illiteracy Begins Too Soon
• 1986 Jack De Bellis, American Literary Parody
• 1986 Brian Henkelmann Francois Couperin le Grand: Les Folies Francaises
• 1986 John Vickrey Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock
• 1986 Robert, Gahler, Eskimo Art
• 1987 Kenneth Carpenter Change In Libraries: the Harvard Experience
• 1987 James Hobbs Homophones and Homographs
• 1987 John Vickrey Poetry reading
• 1987 Ellis Katz 200th Anniversary of the American Constitution
• 1987 Kenneth Mears The Crown Jewels, Tower of London
• 1987 W. Ross Yates Joseph Wharton: Quaker Industrial Pioneer
• 1987 Nina Taylor Polish Literature under Martial Law
• 1988 Les Whitten’50 Books and the Active Life
• 1988 Erik Ottervik The Folk Arts of Japan: Beauty and Utility
• 1988 Susan Cady, Slow Fires: Deterioration of Books
• 1988 Diana Hanaor In Celebration of Australia’s Bicentennial Year: Informal Look at Australian Literature, 1788-1988
• 1988 Roger Goodburn On the Edge of the Roman World
• 1989 Jere Knight The Dust of a Poet: e.e. Cummings
• 1989 Simon Pepper Books, Buildings, and Social Engineering
• 1989 Harry Rinker There’s More Than One Way to Make a Living with a Lehigh History Degree than Teaching
• 1989 Jack Vickrey Poetry reading: A Thousand Years of Poetry in English
• 1989 John McV Haight The Tides of War
• 1989 Joanne S. Mortimer The French Revolution: Boon or Curse?
• 1990 Joseph Lucia “Creeping Bent” - a literary magazine
• 1990 Zdenek Slouka Waterhole II: Czechoslovakia Since the Revolution
• 1990 Jack DeBellis Poetry reading: John Updike: Just Poetry
• 1990 John F. Vickrey Poetry reading: “Scenes from English Drama, 1575-1700
• 1990 Ruth & Dick Kent A Stroll Through an English Garden
• 1990 Bruce Kirkham Editing the Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe
• 1990 Rosanna Warren Selections from the Work of Rosanna Warren
• 1991 Dept of English Caution! Some People Consider These Books Dangerous (Read Banned Books (Friends with English Dept.)
• 1991 Rosanna Warren Poetry Reading: Selections from the Work of Rosanna Warren
• 1992 Celebrations: Proposed Unification of Europe, development of Australian Literature - Australia’s 200th anniversary - James Mack’s book
• on Matthew Flinders
• 1993 George R. Keiser Tribulation of Adam Scriveyn’s Children: or Medieval Scribes Confront John Lydgate
• 1993 Rosanna Warren Poetry
• 1994 David Greene Four talks on musical topics - luncheon lectures
• 1995 David Greene Seven talks on musical topics - ditto
• 1996 David Greene Four talks on musical topics - ditto
• 1997 Gordon Bearn War in the Age of Intelligent Machines by Manuel De Landa
• 1997 Philip Metzger Doing It Right: Preserving Papers, Books and Photographic Materials at Home
• 1997 James Largay, Red Victory: A History of the Russian Civil War by W.B. Lincoln
• 1998 Barbara Traister Discussion of Straight Man by Richard Russo
• 1998 Richard Russo Reads his work Straight Man, Twilight
• 1998 Ron Yoshida Rubber Bullets by Yaron Ezrahi
• 1998 Barbara Dimmick The Spirit of Place in Fiction
• 1998 Joseph Lucia Reasons for Love: A Harvest of Poetry
• 1998 Rick Weisman The Human Side of Engineering
• 1998 Geoff Gehman Eric Knight: A Life in Letters
• 1999 Geraldo VasconcellosThe World’s Game: A History of Soccer by Bill Murray
• 1999? Robert Thornton, Humor in the Workplace
• 2000 Terry Gross NPR commentator
• 2001 Sue Cady, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
• 2001 Kashi Johnson Talk Radio
• 2001 Connie Cook Waiting
• 2001 John Y. Cole “The Role of the Book in the Electronic Age”
• 2002 James Fallows Reflections & Refractions : the 21st Century
• 2002 Steve Krawiec Mapping the Genome
• 2002 Julia Blixrud Creating Change in Scientific Journals
• 2002 Barbara Traister A Lehigh Trustee’s Journal
• 2002 Sally Pont Fields of Honor
• 2002 Augustine Ripa Style, Not Sincerity
• 2002? Judith Adams-Volpe Torrents, Tunnels, Turbines, Technocrats
• 2002 Lauren Belfer City of Light2003 Frances Mayes A Evening with Author of Under the Tuscan Sun
• 2003 Lori Bolden, Nickel and Dimed at Lehigh
• 2003 John Pettegrew Freedom, Security and the USA Patriot Act: Do We Have to Choose
• 2003 Frank Pazzaglia, Slate, Sinkholes, and Cement: A Digital Field Trip in the David Anastasio Lehigh Valley
• 2003 Tarana Dance, one of Lehigh’s newest student clubs
• 2003 Michael Raposa Reviews “The Emperor of Ocean Park” by Stephen Carter
• 2004 Paul S. Larson The Bach Choir at Lehigh: Origins of a Unique Town/Gown Tradition
• 2004 Pam Pepper Night Sky
• 2004 Echo: A Warm Winter Concert by Lehigh’s new female a cappella group
• 2004 Matthew Pearl The Dante Club : a Review and Discussion
• 2004 Matthew Pearl Hell, History and Mystery: A New England Inferno
• 2004 Cindy Ratzlaff The South Beach Diet : Anatomy of a Best-seller
• 2004 Beall Fowler, Copenhagen
• 2004 Alex Levine, Team Teaching the Digital Copernicus
• 2004 Megan Norcia Victorian Women Map the Empire
• 2004 La Bomba! South Mountain Mariachi band
• 2004 Pam Pepper Desire Under the Elms
• 2005 Ilhan Citak Snow , review of Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk
• 2005 Gary DeLeo The Solar System and Planet Lehigh
• 2005 Bob Watts Past Providence Poetry
• 2005 Steven Sametz Celebrating Choral Music
• 2005 David Kent Publishing in a Digital World
• 2005 James Bohning The Lady behind the Lehigh Legacy Sophia Coxe
• 2005 James McBride The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to his White Mother
• 2005 Jean Johnson, Discussion about the Color of Water
• 2005 Erica Hoelscher, “For the apparel oft proclaims the man”
• 2005 Friends Linderman Launch: Intermezzo for an Intermezzo
• 2006 Gregory Skutches Paragraphs, Punctuation and Pedagogy
• 2006 LU Press [book launch] Chronicle of a Black Musician in 19th Century Philadelphia: Francis Johnson
• 2006 Steven F. Firtko, You Are Here: Scholarship & Geographical Information Systems
• 2006? Edward L. Ayers What Caused the Civil War: A Digital Triangulation
• 2006 Digital Library What’s New in Special Collections? “The Vault at Pfaff’s”
• 2006 Friends Welcome Lois Fischer Black
• 2006 Philip & Muriel Berman Papers
• 2006? Ian Duffy, Villainy Detected!
• 2007 John McPhee An Uncommon Author: Readings from Pulitzer Prize Winner
• 2007 Mellismatics in Concert - a cappella singers
• 2007 Jack Lule Going Global: What’s It All About?
• 2007 Ken Woodcock Historic House Museum Development: Contagious Nature of Historic Preservation
• 2007 Scott Gordon Lehigh University Press: A Vision for the Future
• 2007 Lois Fischer Black Home to Roost: Ornithological Collections at Lehigh
• 2007 John Kenley Smith Introducing the Beyond Steel Digital Archive
• 2007 Joshua W.C. Cutler Stages of the Path to Enlightenment : An Overview of the Great Treatise
• 2008 Christine Guenther The Global Economy of the Digital Brown and White
• 2008 Anne Kelly Knowles GIS: An Innovative Tool for Historical Research
• 2008 Elizabeth D. Samet Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature through Peace and War
• 2008 Bruce Sinclair, Educating America’s Engineers: Historical Perspectives
• 2008 Daniel Lopresti Making Every E-Vote Count: Electronic Voting Cultivating Trust
• 2008 Gregory Reihman Lehigh Life on Second Life: What’s It All About?
• 2008 Lance Kasparian William McPherson and the Linderman Skylight
• 2009 Ilhan Citak Extra! Extra! The Brown and White Digital Archive
• 2009 Gregory Skutches Lehigh’s TRAC Writing Fellows: A Faculty/Student Partnership
• 2009 Lance Kasparian Stained Glass Windows at Lehigh University
• 2009 Charles Agvent The Limited Editions Club: A “Pairing of Art and Literature”
• 2010 Jean Johnson, E-Books: Are We There Yet?
• 2010 Jeremy Littau Twitter: The Wisdom of the Crowds, and the Power of Conversation
• 2010 Kathleen Olson The Google Settlement: Implications for Libraries, Authors & The Public
• 2010 Don Hillman Party On! Celebrating Service & Research at Mart, Fairchild
• 2010 Paul Rosier Pennsylvania Environment History: From Earth Day 1970 to Global Warming
• 2010 Howard Ernst The Political Deadzone: Environmental Degradation2010 Nikolai P. Nikolov Is Architecture Sustainable? Contemporary Issues & The Built Environment
• 2010 Mark Lause American Bohemianism
• 2011 Katherine Faull The Susquehanna’s Treasured Landscapes
• 2011 Brian Storm Emmy Award-Winning Digital Storyteller
• 2011 David Szewczyk Travel: Travails, Treasures, and Tokens
• 2012 Jenna Lay Nuns and the Literature of Religious Controversy in Reformation England
• 2012 Marshall Breeding, “Library Technology”
• 2013 Nick Wilding How to Spot a Fake Galileo
• 2014 Annie Johnson Profiting from Learning: Selling Reference Books in Nineteenth-Century America
• 2014 Andrew Stauffer Digitization and the Nineteenth-Century Book: Traces in the Stacks
• 2014 Lara Langer Cohen The Depths of Astonishment: Nineteenth-Century Underground Literature
• 2015 Justin Jaworski, “Understanding the Silent Flight of Owls”
• 2015 Michael F. Suarez, “What the Digital Delivers -- and Why the Book Still Matters”
• 2015 William J. Bulman, “Digitizing Democracy”
• 2016 Sonnet Slam! 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s death
• 2016 Heather Joseph, “Open Access Bit By Bit”
• 2016 Alfred Barcan, “A Collector’s Passion and Scholar’s Delight: An Overview of the Deborah and Alfred Judson Barcan Collection of Illustrated Books”
• 2016 Nikki Giovanni, Poetry
• 2016 Annabella Pitkin, “Grief, Love, and Memory in Modern Tibetan Buddhism”
• 2017 Stephen Buonopane, “Nineteenth Century Suspension Bridges of John A. Roebling”
• 2017 Rebecca Traister, “Big Girls Don’t Cry and All the Single Ladies”
• 2017 Haiyan Jia Getting, “Your News from Facebook, Twitter or a Robot”
• 2018 William Noel, “Special Collections as Data: Historic Materials and Their Digital Dissemination”
• 2018 Patrick Connolly, “The Crisis of Newtonianism: Philosophy, Religion, and Science in Early Modern Britain”
• 2019 Eric P. S. Baumer, “Diaries as Data - How a Computer Scientist Taught an English Professor How to Read the Most Valuable Documents of Walt Whitman's Bohemian Period”
• 2019 UMOJA House Family Gallery Exhibit
• 2019 Marshall Breeding, “Library Technology”
• 2019 Mark Connar, “Preservation of the Friedensville Mine Site President Pump Jerry Lennon Engine House”
• 2019 Michele Kimpton, “Preserving the Scholarly Record”
• 2020 Sirry Alang, "Anti-Racism as Action"
• 2020 Kathy Peiss, “Information Hunters, When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe”
• 2020 Nicholas Herman, “Making the Renaissance Manuscript: Discoveries from Philadelphia Libraries
• 2020 Pete Souza talk and exhibit, “Obama, an Intimate Portrait”
• 2020 Kathy Peiss, “Information Hunters, When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe”
• 2020 Nicholas Herman, “Making the Renaissance Manuscript: Discoveries from Philadelphia Libraries”
• 2020 Sirry Alang, "Anti-Racism as Action"

David Greene Musical Lectures for Friends of the Libraries (1982-1994)

• In Celebration of Richard Wagner 1813-1883
• In Celebration of William Shakespeare
• In Celebration of Johannes Brahms 1833-1897
• A Memorial to Cathy Berberian
• Great American Baritone (Part I)
• American Pop
• Great American Baritone (Part II) Lawrence Tibbett
• Featured Composers and Authors: Brahms, Grieg, Debussy, Barber, Tolstoy, O.Henry
• Great American Baritone (Part III)
• John McCormack
• Richard Tauber
• Verdi’s “La forza del destino”
• Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
• Some Centenaries (1885-1895), (1887-1987), (1989), (1992), (1993), (1994)
• Avast, Me Hearties! A Consideration of Non-terroristic Piracy in Our Time
• Peter Warlock
• Low Sounds from the Evil Empire
• George Frideric Handel
• Caruso Admirers, Imitators, Successors
• Some Bulgarians
• Great Singers Sing Bach
• Songs for the Season
• Jussi Bjoerling
• “In Memoriam” Sir Peter Neville Pears
• “Some Black Singers”
• The Geriatric Crowd
• Songs My Father Taught Me
• Great Italian Tenors
• The Singer as Athlete
• Some Forgotten Italian Tenors
• Gerhard Huesch
• The Songs of A. E. Housman
• Opera in English
• The Golden Age
• Transcriptions
• The French Tenor: An Endangered Species
• The Great Gate at Kiev
• Elisabeth Schumann, 1888-1952
• Coloratura
• Emilio de Gogorza, 1874-1949
• The Lieder, Ballads, and Legends of Kari Loewe
• A Chorus of Detectives (novels with Metropolitan Opera as a setting)
• Jan De Gaetani, 1933-1989
• The Willard Scott Testimonial Centenary Tally
• Singers I Have Known (Sort of)
• They Never Sang with the Met
• Ezio Pinza
• Ernestine Schumann-Heink
• Alexander Kipnis
• Cole Porter
• John Charles Thomas
• Pagliacci
• Joan Morris and William Bolcom
• America’s Sweethearts
• Rossini before Marilyn (Horne)
• Brief Lives
• Tower of Babel
• The Lyric Tenor
• Season’s Greetings
• Canaries
• Collecting
• Sic transit gloria
• Marian Anderson
• Two Great Bassos: R.I.P.
• Noel? Oh Well
• Italian Baritones I & II

Brown Bag (Lunch) Book Reviews (1987-1993)

• Reviewer: Prof. Raymond Bell “Blessings in Disguise” by Alec Guiness Rev. Hugh Flesher “Roger’s Version” by John Updike
• Prof. Roger Simon “Crisis in Bethlehem: Big Steel’s Struggle to Survive” By John Stroehmeyer
• Prof. Barry Bean “Literate Sperm Cells - Their View of the World”
• Prof. Benjamin Litt “Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes” by William Bridges
• Prof. Charles Sclar “The Thirteenth Tribe: The Khazar Empire and its Heritage” By Arthur Koestler
• Prof. Joseph Dowling “Look Homeward: a Life of Thomas Wolfe” by David H. Donald
• Prof. Albert Wilansky “A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes” By Stephen W. Hawking
• Prof. Yong W. Kim “Chaos: Making a New Science” by James Gleick
• Prof. John E. Hare “After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory” by Alasdair MacIntyre
• Prof. R. Allen Moran “Arctic Grail: The Quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole 1818-1909” by Pierre Berton
• Ms. June West “Writing to Learn: How to Write -- and Think -- Clearly About Any Subject at All” by William K. Zinsser
• Prof. James A. Largay “Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier” by Robert M. Utley
• Prof. James A. Largay “Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn” by Evan S. Connell
• Prof. David C. Amidon “An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood” by Neal Gabler
• Prof. David J. Leahigh “Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the 60’s” by Peter Collier and David Horowitz
• Prof. Jerry P. King “Poodle Springs” by Raymond Chandler and Robert B. Parker
• Prof. Raymond L. Horton “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History” by Stephen Jay Gould
• Prof. Frank R. Gunter “The Greek Generals Talk: Memoirs of the Trojan War” by Phillip Parotti
• Prof. Eli Schwartz “Memoirs: Fifty Years of Political Reflections” by Raymond Aron
• Prof. Erwin J. Kugelman “Who Wrote the Bible?” by Richard E. Friedman
• Prof. Leonard A. Wenzel “Love in the Time of Cholera” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Mrs. Anne Thomas “Almost a Revolution” by Shen Tong and Marianne Yen
• Ms. Jean M. Johnson “Italian Days” by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
• Prof. Steven Krawiec “The Politics of Rich and Poor: The American Electorate In the Reagan Aftermath’ by Kevin P. Phillips
• Prof. Robert C. Williamson “Bernard Shaw: The Pursuit of Power 1898-1918”
• Prof. Donald M. Smyth “Saint Joan of Arc” by Vita Sackville-West and “Joan of Arc: the Legend and the Reality” by Frances Gies
• Dr. Philip A. Metzger “Memoirs of Hector Berlioz” by David Cairns
• Prof. Edna S. DeAngeli “Prayer of Owen Meany” by John Irving
• Prof. W. Beall Fowler “What Do You Care What Other People Think?” by Richard P. Feynman
• Prof. Carol Sloan Swindle “Brief Lives” by Anita Brookner
• Prof. Gilbert Stengle “Make Room for Lucia” by E. F. Benson
• Mr. Addison C. Bross “Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education” by Gerald Graff
• Mr. Michael R. Kuchka “Harlot’s Ghost” by Norman Mailer