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Club Year 2024-2025 Special Summary - Dave Young Literary Club Essays in the 21st Century - Dave Young 21st Century Essays - Dates, Authors, Titles and Topics Club Year 2023-2024 Slimy Swamps, Slithering Snakes, and Springing Spiders- Phillip M. Coons A Riddle of Character - Stephen E. Towne Nautical Angles - Stephen J. Jay Memories - James A. Glass An Alternative to Big - Randall Ayres A Click Makes an Icon - James W. Brown Up, Up and Away in my Beautiful Baloon - David E. Young To Walk Among the Angles - James E. Lingenfelter, Jr. Club Year 2022-2023 Lessons for Doctors - Richard. D. Feldman Conundrum - David A. Lips We Gotta Get Out of this Place - The Animals - Jack Wickes Making the Wisdom Figure - in Person, Print, and Posterity - Alan T. McKenzie One Health Pro Bono - Twice Blessed - Stephen J. Jay Coming Out of the Closet - J. Scott Keller One hundred billionths of a gram isn't much but... - Eugene M. Helveston When Kings Go Out to Battle - D. Paul Thomas From Bear to Bull - Fritz Gordner Platform Cards - Steven E. Towne The Mysterious Role of Code in the Formation of Pre-Pixels - James W. Brown Club Years 2021-2022 The Force Second Only to Gravity - Morton J. MarcusTruth and Consequences - David Lips China Hand - John F. SweeneyAn Outcast Among Radicals - William GrothAcculturating Susie - Stephen J. JayHippo...but not Potamus - J. Scott KellerBread and Water - Phillip M. CoonsThere's a Movement Afoot - J. David CookThe Horseshoe - John E. Cole, Jr.
Club Year 2020-2021A Golden Age - Richard D. FeldmanTriumph and Tragedy: Casinos, Circuses and Hotels - James P. FadelyAlbion - Stephen E. TowneA Smell So Sweet...to Die For! - Charles H. WilliamsAn Almost Unsung Hero - Joseph N. HingtgenThe Arc of a Covenant - Richard B. GundermanA Lasting Impression - J. Gerald JanzenChanging the Nature of Things - Stephen J. JayTwo Timer, or Once is Not Enough - David A. LipsAn Indiana Man for All Seasons - Stephen K. SmithWhat's Going on Out There? - Hugh MooreCounting Units - Thomas B. Beattie, SrDINOSAURS and B.-E. M's - J. Scott Keller
Club Year 2019-2020Firestorm - Phillip CoonsDiscovering the Nature of Things - Stephen J. JayIndiana's Edge on Mississippi? - Morton MarcusAll the Sallies of His Will - Jay HarveyTrust Is Job One - A. Gerald JanzenIn The Beginning Was The Word - James ThomGoing Bananas - Donald Curtis
Club Year 2018-2019He's Got the Whole World in His Hands - Morton MarcusFrom Goulies and Ghosties...Good Lord, Deliver Us! - Philip CoonsNautical Brothers - Stephen J. JayLies That Bind - John GuyGeneral Adventures - Stephen TowneLynn, Lynn, City of Sin - Richard TurnerLocation,Location, Location - David Cook
Club Year 2017-2018Labor, and Antebellum North Carolinians' Constructions - Antwaine Hunter It Would Make a Beautiful City - James GlassTwo Giants Among Indiana Educators - Kenneth McGinity"Romancing Plaque" - Stephen J. JayA Night To Remember - Philip Coons
Club Year 2016-2017A Hoosier Author... - Giles Hoyt A Word From the Unborn - James ThomIntimations of the Apocalypse - Richard GundermanDishonour to the Duck - Hunter Heath IIIAfter Hiking with Lili of the Valley - Kevin McGoffThe Sordid Event - Morton MarcusWhither Hoosier Health? - Stephen J. JayDerivatives - Eugene Lausch"Sock it to me..." - Philip CoonsIn The Beginning... - Carl HennAn Indianapolis Adventure - Donald Curtis
Club Year 2015-2016From New York to California by Way of Indiana - William BriscoeHim, Me and the MVFD - Randall AyersFor the Education of Pious Indigent Young Men - David VanderstelBalzac - Stephen E. TowneHow Cousin George Lost His Head, ... - James Lingenfelter, Jr.Cy's Thirty Three - William WoodLegacy of Hoosier Aviation and ... - Stephen J. JayMens Sana in Corpore Sano in Latere et Caemento - William SelmEnglish as a Second Language - Raymond GnatOption B - John Cole, Jr."Do Unto Others..." - Stanley Huseland An Unauthorized Junket to Dr. Will’s House - Philip Coons
Club Year 2014-2015From Thebes to Indianapolis - Stephen J. JayGlobalization - Dave Kriplen"Uncle Archie Fires Off His Gun... - James Lingenfelter, Jr.The Guys Behind Me... - Alan McKenzieStop Me If You've Heard This - Eugene HelvestonFiat Lux - Stephen Towne Mass Transit Murders - Morton MarcusOn the Banks of the Wabash... - Henry Ryder and William Wood
Club Year 2013-2014George F. Edinharter-Magnificent Failure or Ultimate Success - Alan SchmetzerDark Horse - Thomas HendricksonYou're Too Ancient Joe. You Are 27 years Old - Henry WincklerNoah, Where Are You When We Need You - Richard CurtisWhat is the Difference - Frederick Farrell"I Can't Sell Nails"... - James GlassA Fever When Walter Came to Indianapolis - Stephen J. JayCatastrophic Success - William DohertyI Used to Love Musicals... - Bernard WürgerWho Am I? - Carl Henn, Jr.On The Road Again, and Again ... - J. David CookOdd Couple - John Cole
Year 2012-2013The Sins of the Father - Donald CurtisWhat Might Have Been - Richard FeldmanOh Words, What Fun ... - Edgar TowneNever Again? Dachau,... - Richard CurtisSerendipity in Crawfordsville - Robert BonnerAlice's Wonderland of Research into Dangerous Trades - Stephen J. JayWho Will Hire Ed - Richard WieheLadies Night - Kenneth TurchiGlobal Warming - Dave KriplenBack to the Future - Eugene Helveston Club Year 2011-2012Dick and Ben's Last Chance - Henry Ryder and William WoodThe Great Tease - Lawrence ConnorThe Flaneur off Meridian... - Alan McKenzieHoosier 14 - Morton MarcusEnhancing Male Performance - Richard GundermanMicrobes, Medicine and Metaphors - Stephen J. JayLong Handled Stirrer - Hal SchimmelpfennigTo Defend the United States - James GlassBegging the Question - Richard WieheInvaluable Friends - David Best"Listen to me Laertes" - David YoungWords at War - Duncan Schiedt
Club Year 2010-2011Emptying the Venetian Vase - Richard RosengartenInsurance Reform-Yes; Health Care Reform-??? - George RawlsMiracles - Richard GundermanSpeech-Window to the Mind - Richard CurtisA New State Flag - George Geib"Red or Blue" - Robert Bonner"First Things" - James W. TorkeBrothers in Law - Daniel FitzGibbon"Berne Baby Berne" - Marvin MillerA Tale Of Two Cities - Richard WieheBootlegging, Asphalt, and Pugilism - Doug LippertCacogenic Indianapolis - David Young"O" - Fredrick Farrell Club Year 2009-2010The Irony of American History Revisited - William Riggs In the Beginning - Stanley Huseland Why Has History Forgotten Me - William WoodKokomo Kleptomaniac - Duncan SchiedtRavenscrag Revisited - Stephen J. JayA Letter From Alice Marble - David BestOdyssey of Freedom - Richard Gunderman.Cold Feet Before Sunrise - Douglas LippertLinkage Analysis of the Piscator Gene - Robert Strawbridge"What's Next?" - Eugene HalvestonShoulder to Shoulder - David KriplenThe Top Ten Reasons... - Ralph Gray
Club Year 2008-2009The Unkempt Time of Light - Barry E. Childs-HeltonThe Saga of the Blue Goose - George H. MaleyTwinkies - David Smith"Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms" (Sherlock Holmes) - Stephen J. JayGeorge, Earl and Whatzizname - Duncan SchiedtBand of Brothers - Carl HennInsurance Is Wholly Unnecessary - James GlassFood, Feed and Foreign Policy - Ralph BaumheckelThe Second of the Twentieth Century - Berj AntreasianDisappearing Indiana - Morton Marcus
Club Year 2007-2008Holy Marathon - Philip YoungInconvenient Truth - Stephen J. JayFrom A to Z - David BestFamily Matters - Peter JonesAn American in Paris - Bo Connor