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Finding Aid 38
Union College Archives

UC 20.5 Faculty Lecture Series

Record Group : 20 Faculty
Collection : 5
Location : Archive Box

Processing Information : Finding Aid created by Bruce Miracle on June 9, 2009.

Note : “The Union College Faculty Lectures, instituted in 1959-1960 at the suggestion and with the support of President Mahlon Miller, were designed to present the scholarly background, interests and activity of the professors at a small liberal arts college.” (from The Scholarly Community ; Frank E. Merchant & W. Gordon Marigold)

Contents Note : Lectures are arranged by academic year (when known) and then alphabetically;dates next to author names are based on those listed on the paper itself. The first three folders contain bound collections of early faculty lectures.

Contents :
Folder 1:

• Five identical paperbound copies entitled: The Scholarly Community: five faculty lectures UNION COLLEGE-Barbourville, Kentucky ; dated 1968.
  
  Page Heading : “THE SCHOLARLY COMMUNITY : a selection of five Union College Faculty Lectures, 1959-1966".
   
• Included are the following 5 lectures: 

1. W. Gordon Marigold (German) – The German Martyr Play of the 17th Century : a Late Flowering of Religious Drama 
2. Robert R. Riesz (Physics) – The Physics of Speech 
3. Frank E. Merchant (English) – The American Frontier Novel and the Turner Theory 
4. Dieter Galler (French) – The Psychological Foundations of Sartre’s Dramatic Characters 
5. Robert D. Matthews (Religion) – Moon Cult and the Origin of the Sabbath

Folder 2:

• Three identical spiral bound copies entitled: The Scholarly Community, Volume II : A Selection of seven Faculty Lectures, 1968-1975 , (1975).
  Included are the following 7 lectures:

1. Lester G. Lindley – Private Gain and Public Need: The Political Impact of TelegraphTechnology in the Gilded Age
2. Kevin G. McCullen – Foreign Policy and Presidential Politics: The Theodore Roosevelt Administration and Intervention in the Dominican Republic 
3. W. Gordon Marigold – The “Royal Psalms” of Johann Philipp von Schonborn 
4. Robert D. Matthews – The Prophetic Protest against the Sacrificial Cult 
5. Frank E. Merchant – Sinclair Lewis’s Portraits of Integrity: German Professors in Arrowsmith and Elmer Gantry
6. Chilukuri Santaram – Laser Produced Breakdown in Mercury Vapor
7. Lester G. Woody – Historical Perspectives: The Phrasal Verb in English

Folder 3:

• Five identical paperbound copies entitled : The Scholarly Community : Volume III, A Selection of Five Faculty Lectures (1979) ; Prefacer by President Mahlon A. Miller. 
  
  NOTE: No dates on individual lectures.
   
• Included are the following 5 lectures:

1. Mohamed A. Dabbagh – The Restrictive Trade Policy of the United States and the Price of Oil
2. Judith Jennings – Mid-Eighteenth Century British Quakerism and the Response to the Problem of Slavery
3. W. Gordon Marigold – Politics and Literature: Some Aspects of the Works of Barthold Feind
4. Robert D. Matthews – Logos-Jesus-Spirit
5. Frank E. Merchant – The American Novel’s Analysis of Methodism

Folder 4:

1960-1961

• Frank A. Gilbert (1960-1961) – Our Food in the Future
• Robert D. Matthews (May 15, 1961) – A Psychoanalytic Reinterpretation of the Jewish Passover
• Frank E. Merchant (Spring 1961) – Myths and the Writer
• Warren E. Steinkraus (Mar 20, 1961) –Berkeley’s Alciphron and some Contemporary Problems
   

1961-1962

• Allan E. Green (Apr 30, 1962) – CONTEMPORARY COMPOSITION : Three Examples with Analysis

1962-1963

• Warren E. Steinkraus (Nov 25, 1963) – THE SUPERIORITY OF CHRISTIANITY : An Essay on Comparative Religion

Folder 5:

1965-1966

• J. H. Boyd (Apr 18, 1966)– How Union College Interprets its Liberal Arts Function (2 copies)
• Donald Freeman (Feb1, 1966)– The Self-Image of Western Man in Historical Perspective
• S.E. Gerard Priestley (Feb 1966)– The Curriculum of Union College

1966-67

• W. Gordon Marigold (1966-1967) – Bert Brecht and the Art of Adaptation
• Frank Merchant (1966-1967) – Colorado: Hamlin Garland’s High Point of Surrender (Note: appears to be a draft with handwritten corrections)

Folder 6:

1967-1968

• Uwe Frost (1967-1968) – A Study of Henry de Motherlant’s Play LA REINE MORTE
• Allan E. Green (Apr 24, 1968) – Serialism: Pre-Compositional Order in Music
• Ki Song Oh (Mar 28, 1968) – Land Reform in Communist China and Postwar Japan

1971-1972

• Lester G. Lindley (May 17, 1972) – The Telegram, the Ox-Cart and Monopoly: Common Law Confronts New Technology

1973-1974

• W. Gordon Marigold (Mar 1974) – A Persistent Theme. The Story of Herod and Mariamne in European Drama

1978-1979

• Wayne Saunders (1978-1979) – The Religion of Philosophy

Folder 7:

1979-1980

• Larry Klein (Mar 24, 1980)– Henry Clay and the Concept of Public Duty
• Andelys Wood (Apr 21, 1980)– Aurora Leigh : Victorian Experiment

1980-1981

• W. Gordon Marigold (Sep 15, 1980) – Gadflies and Social Conscience The Development of Documentary Theatre
• Robert D. Matthews (Oct 27, 1980) – Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Fire? Apocalyptic Paradox [A discourse on hell and resurrection]
• William Lloyd Turner (Feb 24, 1981) – Kentucky V. Rudasill: Another Blow to State Regulation of Nonpublic Schools

1981-1982

• Jan Finkel (1981) – Their Native Land: A Tentative Definition of and a Rationale for Appalachian Literature
• Richard Jones (Mar 4, 1982) – Staging the Unstageable: A Director’s Perspective of Camus’ Le Malentendu
• W. Gordon Marigold (Jan 21, 1982) – The Vitality of Music in West Germany Today
• Frank Merchant (Feb. 18, 1982) - Existential Grammar

Folder 8:

1982-1983

• Wayne A. Evans (Feb 9, 1983) – Feeding Behavior and Feeding Ecology of the Sessile Rotifer Cupelopagis Vorax 

1983-1984

• Roy Silver (Apr 1984) – The Pedagogic Tradition of the Appalachian Semester (2 copies)

1984-1985

• Cornwell, Martha L. (Apr 22, 1985) – Organizational Response to an Environmental Problem: A Case Study of the Love Canal Chemical Emergency in Niagara Falls, New York (2 copies)
• Ella Hensley (Feb 18, 1985) – Factors Affecting the Participation of Women in Agricultural Cooperatives in Kentucky (2 copies)
• W. Gordon Marigold (Nov 26, 1984) – Politics, Religion, and Opera: Problems of the Hamburg Opera 1678-1720 (2 copies)
• Andelys Wood (Mar 4, 1985) – The Theme of Measuring and the Teaching of Yeats (2 copies)

Folder 9:

1985-1986

• Santaram Chilukiri (Apr 14, 1986) – Superfluorescence and Stimulated Raman Scattering of Indium (2 copies)
• Dianne Ferris (Nov 18, 1985) – Reading Kipling (2 copies)
• William Myers (Dec 2, 1985) – Using College Computing Centers as Testing Centers for Outside Firms
• Andelys Wood (Dec 3, 1986) – Ruskin and Museums (2 copies)

Folder 10:

1986-1987

• Allen D. Engle (Spring 1987) – Compensation Theory in 1987 : A Multistage Analysis of Compensation and Equity (2 copies)
• W. Gordon Marigold (Apr 8, 1987) – The Bible in Rhyme (2 copies)
• H. Van Tuyll (Jan 28 1987) – The Impact of Soviet Economic Stagnation (2 copies)

Folder 11:

1987-1988

• Connie Danner (Apr 18, 1988) – LAZARUS: The Weight of Sin (2 copies)

1988-1989

• Michael R. McCoy (Feb 27, 1989) – Jonathan Edwards and Gender Discrimination (2 copies)
• Rebecca Pettys (Oct 14 1988) – Marriage and Martyrdom in the TA’ZIYAH of Qasem (2 copies)
• James C. Raymondo (Mar 20, 1989) – First Birth Interval Length and Subsequent Economic Success: Examination from the Life Course Perspective (2 copies)

Folder 12:

1989-1990

• Tracy A. Campbell (Fall 1989) – When Farmers Went on Strike: The Agrarian Revolt in Central Kentucky, 1906-1908 (2 copies)
• Daniel Covington (Mar 26, 1990) – Mangroves as Models for Ancient Coal Swamps, or What Happens After Death? (2 copies)
• Betty Stroud (Apr 23, 1990) – French Melodies of the Late Nineteenth Century and the Early Twentieth Century (2 copies)

Folder 13:

1990-1991

• Robert Chandler (Jan 28, 1991) – Where are the Sodium Pumps in Muscle Cells? (2 copies)
• Dianne Ferris (Oct 29, 1990) – Puritan Bashing Redux (2 copies)
• Randall C. Sheets (Mar 25, 1991) – Relationships Between Words and Music in the Motets and Concertos of Melchior Franck’s DULCES MUNDANI EXILIO DELICIAE(1631) (2 copies)
  NOTE: Lecture includes a cassette audiotape 

1991-1992

• Van Michael Leslie (Oct 28, 1991) – Churchill, the British Cabinet and the Possibility of Surrender in May 1940
• Vernon Miles (Nov 18, 1991) – The Politics of Passing: Identity and Community in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition and James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man
• Robert S. Pfeiffer (Jan 27, 1992) – Mean-field Theory of Elastic Dipoles on a Facecentered Cubic Lattice
  NOTE: Paper also lists a co-author: Gerald D. Mahan of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Tennessee

Folder 14:

1992-1993

• L. Edward Phillips (Apr 5, 1993) – The Historical Jesus: Current Trends in Research
• James C. Raymondo (Nov 30, 1992) – A Logistic Curve Population Projection Model of the United States Population: 1990 to 2080
• Clyde E. Willis (Mar 22, 1993) – The Paradox of Liberal Democracy

1993-1994

• Glenn R. Boyet (Nov 1, 1993) – Persuasion for the Masses: Television Advertising and the 1964 Presidential Campaign
• Robert Chandler (Jan 24, 1994) – The Role of Neural Cell Adhesion Molecules in the Development of the Nervous System of Drosophila
• Dianne Ferris (Feb 21, 1994) – Memory Loss in Paradise 
• Frank Miceli (Oct 18, 1993) - Strategic Nuclear Weapons: A Force for a Post-Cold War World

Folder 15:

1994-1995

• David Felty (Spring 1995) – Religion, Morality, and Developmental Psychology (2 copies)
• Christine Marley (Spring 1995) – 50 Years of Herblock: Auteur Theory and the Editorial Cartoonist
• Vernon G. Miles (Oct 17, 1994) – Self-Subverting Texts: The Colonization Debate in the Antislavery Novel
• Roberta K. Reith (Fall 1994) – Female Role Models in Contemporary Adolescent Mystery Fiction

Folder 16:

1995-1996

• Margaret D. Combs (Nov 20, 1995) – The Flat-Tax: Exposing the Myth
• Stephen D. Mooney (Fall 1995) – An Introduction to Central Appalachian Coal Mining Novels and to Their Historical Context, 1895-1995
• Andelys Wood (Feb 5, 1996) – King Arthur: The Last Roman Briton?

1996-1997

• Robert B. Beasley – Internet Connectivity in the Classroom: Developing Global Collaborative Projects That Work
• Frank Miceli – The End of the American Century
• James C. Raymondo (Dec 23, 1996) – The Effect of an Abbreviated Freshman Year Seminar Program on Student Retention and Student Academic Performance

Folder 17:

1997-1999

• David Felty - Agony Without Ecstasy: on Struggling to Disagreement with MacIntyre (2 copies)
• Van Michael Leslie – British Perceptions of Adolf Hitler
• James Robert Garrett (Mar. 2, 1998) – Fact, Fiction, and Truth: Gettysburg, The Killer Angels, and why isn’t General James Longstreet a Hero Anyway?
• Russell B. Sisson – Christ and Culture in the Sports Arena: the Interplay of Culture and Theology in Contemporary Attitudes Toward Sports
• (NOTE: “Presented to the ‘Religion in the U.S.’ Section of the American Academy of Religion, Southeastern Region Knoxville, TN March 21, 1998)
• Andelys Wood (Feb. 22, 1999) – Shakespeare’s Globe, Groundlings, and The Merchant
• William Henshaw and Randall Sheets (Apr. 13, 1999) – The Marriage of Science and Singing: The Application of Computer Technology to Vocal Pedagogy
  (NOTE: slide printout included)

Folder 18:

1999- 2002

• Dennis R. Rader (Oct. 1999) – Hogs on Ice: Thoughts About Student Motivation
• Margaret D. Combs (Mar. 7, 2000) – The Effect of Culture on Accounting Standards: A Comparative Analysis of Financial Reporting Practices in the United States and the United Kingdom
• Ella Hensley (Fall 2000) (Handouts) – Scarcity
• Jeffrey R. Darrow (Apr. 23, 2001) – The Electoral College: An Allocation Exercise
• Rebecca Pettys (Apr. 22, 2002) – Passion of Hussain

Folder 19:

2002- 2005

• John A. Gould (Nov. 25, 2002) – Organizational Trust and Leadership
• James R. Garrett (Feb 24, 2003) – “All of My Stories are True and Some of Them Really Happened”: Fact, Fiction, and Truth in Jim Garrett’s Autobiography of a Nut
• Lou Ann Hopper (Mar. 2004) – The Contemporary Manager: Exploring Female and Male Leadership Styles
• Christine A. Marley-Frederick (2004) – Doonesbury, April 2004: A Serious Look at Comedy, Tragedy, and War (includes CD with powerpoint)
• Hugo A. Freund (Jan.26,2005) – Ballads, Sisters and Curses: The Use of Traditional Appalachian Culture in the Novels of Silas House. [“Includes a close examination of the novel A Parchment of Leaves”]

Folder 20:

2005 – 2008

• Russell B. Sisson (Nov. 2, 2005) – Running Against the Walls of the Cage: Setting Limits to Moral and Breaking Them in Roman Stoicism
• John Gould and Ella Hensley – Assessing Attitudes of Economic Educators on Teaching Entrepreneurship (2 copies)
• [NOTE: “Paper presented at 2006 NCEE Annual Meeting]
• Stacey Elsasser (Apr. 12, 2006) – “My Body Wants to go Wild Sometimes”: Embodied Control and the Elementary School Child
• Russell b. Sisson (Oct. 2006) – Visualization and Tacit Forms of Knowledge in the Interpretation of Metaphors
• Virginia Gay Gandy (Mar. 19, 2007) – Editing Sixteenth-Century Motets: Creating Scholarly Performing Editions (1 Handout, 1 DVD, and 1 announcement)
• Lu Kang (Oct. 29, 2007) – Halocarbons Tied to the Stratospheric Ozone Depletion & the Global Warming
• Andelys Wood (Dec. 3, 2007) – Unwanted Laughter? Titus Andronicus at Shakespeare’s Globe 2006
• Jimmy Smith (Feb. 22, 2008) – Mega Cat !: Harriette Simpson Arnow and the Drowned Landscape of the Upper Cumberland
• Audrey A. Hrinda (Spring 2008) - Emotional Intelligence of Transformational Leaders in the United States Coast Guard
• Susan L.F. Isaacs (Nov. 5, 2008) – The Ephemera of Jewish Rites of Passage

Folder 21:

2009 – 2012

• David Miller (Feb. 23, 2009) – The Two Natures of Christ as Given and Shown: A Christology Based on Jean-Luc Marion’s Phenomenology of Revelation
• Russell B. Sisson (Oct. 13, 2009) – Consciousness of Authority and Authority of Conscience: Anne Hutchison and Liminal Culture in the Puritan Commonwealth of New England
• Jim Rubin (April 13, 2010) – Active Reading: Adaptations of Reading Processes to Improve Comprehension (Lecture & Powerpoint Slides)
• Andelys Wood (Oct. 25, 2010) – The Stones of London: Public Art in Charlie Fletcher’s Stoneheart Trilogy, copied  from The Literary London Journal, Volume 9, Number 2 (September 2011) online
• Jimmy Dean Smith (Nov. 8, 2010) – How You’ve Been Raised: Cultural Identity in the Genteel Novels of Tony Earley
• Fidelis Achenjang (Mar. 28, 2011) – Making Sense of the Chemistry of Alkaline Antioxidant Water
• V. Gay Gandy (April 25, 2011) – Choral Settings of the Ordinary of the Mass: A Historical Perspective (3 copies)
• Smith, Jimmy Dean (November 26, 2012) – Ordained to Settle the Wilderness: Protestant Home Missionaries Write an Exploitable Appalachia