Papers

Posted below are nearly 300 papers presented by the Fortnightly membership as of April 2017. More are available in the Smiley Library in Redlands California.

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Appleton, J.R.

• Affirmative Action: An Unsettling Issue
• Successful Leadership: An Elusive concept at Best
• The Saga of the Bell X-2
• Lessons From A University Student Affairs Administrator Drawn From the ’60’s and ’70’s

Applewhite, J.D.

• Silas Talbot’s West Indian Mission, 1796-98

Atchley, Tom

• Fishing in Mill Creek, Santa Ana and Bear Lake
• Redlands Tract Sale
• Redlands: A Communtity Response to World War II

Baker, O.A.

• Back to the Stone Age

Baldwin, R.C.

• The Power of Volunteers
• Mandatory Voluntarism?
• Charity Begins at Home Part IV

Baty, R.M.

• Where Heroes Trained
• What I have learned about St. Benedict from members of the Fortnightly Club

Bauer, Dale

• The Romance of Architecture
• I Built That Building in Redlands
• The Baure Daffodil Garden — Did it Just Happen?

Baylink, D.J.

• Impact of Genetic Engineering on Us
• Current and Future Management of Osteoporosis
• Miracles and Perils of the Genome Revolution
• Lifestyles and Genetics in Health and Disease
• The Vitamin D Story

Belote, J.H.

• Earl Warren and Me: A Brief History
• In Search of Myself: an Inquiry into Concepts of Self
• Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow : The Evolution and Cultural
  Significance of Hair
• Jefferson Davis, An American Hero

Britt, Rex L.

• Ride The Big Red Cars To Redlands
• Ice for Profit and Health

Bromberger, F.S.

• Primogeniture: The Genetic Journey From William the Conqueror to the Future William V
• Vikings !!!

Burgess, L.E.

• 100 Years of Music By The Redlands Bowl Performing Arts, And The Musical Town That Hosted It
• The Centennial of the A. K. Smiley Public Library Building: Where the Past Looks to the Future
• Helen Hunt Jackson’s Surprising Children’s Tales
• City’s Image Comes Hard
• Forty Years Toiling in the Historical Vineyard

Burgess, R.L.

• Our Failing Future- Are Things Really That Bad?
• Google: Fencing In the Wild West-
  Why new websites will never get top search listings
• Accessing Knowledge From Clay Tablets to Google
• Barren County Boys-The Orphans And Yanks In The Cross Hairs
• Redlands Powers the World – How the San Bernardino Valley Developed Modern Electric Power First
• The Influence of the Farrer Family on the Virginia Company and Self Governance
• Fantastic Plastic and Its Dark Side

Burton, L

• The Lucrative World of Trade Shows

Clark, A.

• A Review of a Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences

Cook, M.

• Car Wars: Then and Now

Corneille, R.

• What is the Circular Economy and can it Save the Planet?
• Climate Change is Real and Seriously Impacting our Earth – Can we Save the Planet?
• Climate Change and Redlands Water Supply
• Hydraulic Fracturing for Oil and Gas – Impacts on Water Supply

Covington, R.; 1999

• Tales of an Explorer & Guide: Jim Bridger’s Later Years
• How To Go Fishing Forever: Buy A Montana Resort

Cranmer, R.; 1994

• From Bush to Jet: Western Canadian Aviation
• Albert Barnes, the Irascible Art Collector
• A Bride and Two Brothers: Van Gogh’s Van Goghs

Crisp, George

• An Eastern View of the Nativity

Cunningham, William

• Ostrich in Crisis
• Whiskey’s for drinkin’, water’s for fightin’
• Are we there yet?
• Too Smart – One Antediluvian’s View of Smart Growth
• Whiskey’s for drinkin’, water’s for fightin’
• The Benefits (?) Of Growth
• Janus – the patron of beginings and endings
• Let’s split – the nucleus that is
• And He Is Us
• The Almost “Hole” Story

Dawes, Robert E.

• More Important than Currency or Gold: How the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Bolsters Confidence in the American Banking System
• The Berlin Wall – Long Gone?

Dibble, B.

• Irish Collegian and Refugee: Edmund Drinan Barry, D.D., 1777-1852

Dibble, E.F.

• The Energy Situation

Dittmar, H.G.

• Fault Lines

Duvall, Ronald I.

• The Maiden Deployment of the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76)
  

Eadie, D.G.

• The Ethiopian Orthodox Church

Edwards, F.

• Krakatau, 1883, What We Learned
• The Mickey Before the Mouse

Ely, N.

• Recollections of the Persian Gulf
• My Father’s Search for the Lost Dutchman Mine in Arizona
• Herbert Hoover: Some Personal Recollections
• Doctor Ray Lyman Wilbur
• A Toast to the Future of the Fortnightly Club
• The Hohokam of Central Arizona

Fagan, Gary

• Fraud, Fraud Schemes, and Identity Theft

Fallows, J.A.

• The Quest of Fortnightly Biographies
• Redlands at Fortnightly’s Beginnings: 1895
• The Pepper Paper
• Use A Computer
• House Calls
• Plymouth Village Insights

Fawcett, W.K.

• The Redlands Symphony Orchestra – a Cultural Jewel
• Seven Oaks Dam
• High Speed Trains of the World
• Gerry Bull & The Iraq Supergun
• The Hubble Space Telescope

Ghormley, K.O.

• The L.F.D.B.A. Celebrates Its Centennial: Anarchy at Home

Goler, Bernie R.

• Out of the Past | Download PowerPoint (1MB)

Grant, H.

• A Family Legend
• King Philip’s War

Griesemer, A.D.

• The Earth’s Version of the Old Bump & Grind: Plate Techtonics
• Humankind’s Discovery of the New World: The Calico Connection
• The Mystery of the Isle of the Iguanas: The Galapagos Islands
• The Ashfall Fossil Beds: A Twelve Million Year Old Catastrophe Frozen in Time
• ADOLPH and BENITO: Part One, 1919 – 1940

Halcott, G.G.

• The Galt Odyssey: A Story of the Development of Canada

Halsey, C.

• Another Patron Saint?
• Grace Mullen and the Prosellis
• Redlands Bowl and They Also Served

Helbron, R.

• Advancements in Surgery and the Development of Non-invasive Techniques
• The not so Sweet Side of Sugar
• 841 Days in Captivity: Dr. Steve Loper’s Experiences as a POW During World War II

Hendon, L.H.

• Habitat for Humanity: Solving the World’s Low Income Family Housing Needs 20,000 Houses at a Time
• Hurricanes Are Bad
• Conservation in the Decisive Decade: Saving Mother Earth One Piece at a Time
  

Hill, H.M

• A Biographical Sketch of S. Stillman Berry Ph.D.
• Gus Knight Jr., Entrepreneur of Bear Valley and Rogue Sportsman
• When Redlands Was A Hunter’s Town & Tales of Local Nimrods

Howell, C.D.

• One Man’s Error..
• The Mad Hatter and the Sacrificial Lamms
• An Unforgettable Scientist, the Life of Louis Agassiz
• Limits of Life
• The Origin of Life
• Tales Told Out of School: Stories About Scientists I Have Known

Jacobs, D.F.

• Gambling and the Money Myth
• A New Paradigm For Understanding & Treating Addictive Disorders
• Memories: True or False
• The Lottery as Pied Piper For Juvenil Gambling
• Youth Gambling in North America

Jensen, A.M.

• Rotary International’s Polio Plus: Working with The U.N. World Health Organization
• Rafting the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon

Jones, J.M.

• The Airship Hindenburg and the Seaship Castle Rock, Two Obituaries
• Reflections of a Mainiac
• My Doughface Cousin
• The Virtue of Courage
• Shakespeare, Who?

Jones, Richard A.

• The Big Lie: Propaganda and Fake News over the Decades
  

Jury, William

• The Sad Story of the Salton Sea
• The Unbelievably Weird World of Modern Physics

Keen,  L.T.

• World’s Oldest Profession ???

Knight, R.M.

• How to Demagnetize a Submarine
• Conquest of the Land
• The Highland Clearances
• Kiwi II

Korfmacher, S.D.

• The Lure and Lore of Jade
• The Lure and Lore of Gemstones
• L. C. T.: Icon and Iconoclast
• It’s A Dog’s Life

Little, Paul J.

• Freedom & Authority In the Theatre of the Absurd
• A One-eyed Prophet’s View of the Post X-Generation
• It’s A Dog’s Life
• The Players Have Arrived — Bring the Tomatoes

Losee , Edgar F.

• Apiarian, Pertainng to Bees or the Keeping & Care of Bees
• Elias J. Baldwin “By gad I’m not licked yet”
• Summary – Ancient Southwest Cultures – Anasazi, Hohokam, Mogollon
• Twenty Years at Kimberly Crest: A Labor of Love for a Historic Home

Malesky, Edwin MD

• The Dirty 30’s: Causes of the Dust Bowl

Marshburn, A. Lawrence

• Dedicated To –

McDonald, Bill

• Greatest Literary Hoax Ever?
• The Parthenon, Part I: From its Multiple Beginnings to 432 BCE
• The Parthenon, Part II, 432 BCE – 2017 CE: An Icon and a Ruin
• On Memory
• The Literary Disclaimer: Law, Fiction, and the Real
• On Reading
• Homer and Sappho: The Invention of Love and Subjectivity
• ’Sometimes, a Cigar is just a Cigar’:  How Freud Slipped into the English Department.”
• THE MINOANS AND THE PALACE AT KNOSSOS: Myth, Archeology, and the Invention of a World

Moersch, Richard

• John Franklin and the Opening of the North

Moersch, Richard

• Mungo Park & the Opening of the Niger: the Race to Timbuktu & the Role of the Saturday Night Club

Moersch, Richard

• Spices of Life, Death and History

Moersch, Richard

• Alfred Russel Wallace

Momyer, George R.

• Indian Tribes of Southern California

Momyer, George R.

• Uncle Sam and Tripoli

Moore, R.B.

• Surely The Lord Is In This Place; And I Knew It Not
• Searching For Our “Ancients”: Journeys of the Spirit

Morse, R.E.

• Samuel F.B. Morse, Artist-Inventor

Morse, R.E.

• An American Aristocracy: The Livingstons

Munz, M.H.

• What is Correct English

Musmann, K.

• The Last Printed Book

Nelson, L.E

• Some Zip-zone Serendipities
• New Year’s Numblings and Thumblings
• Some Unrecognized Shrines in Redlands
• Streets in Redlands
• Fortnightly in Redlands

Nies, Boyd

• The Other Yosemite
• German POWs in WWII
• Lewis and Clark as Physicians
• Vaccines and the Antivaccinationists
• Why We Are The Way We Are 
• The Great Influenza Epidemic of 1918-9 And the Virus that Caused It
• Americans of Germans From Russia Ancestry

Nordgren, Tyler, PH.D.

• Follow the Water: The Grand Canyon and Mars

Ouellette, Eugene G.

• JDB
• Johnston College: A Rebirth

Parsons Jr., T.W.

• Early Redanders: Part One – The Lederer Family
• Early Redanders: Part Two

Patton, William, MD

• Self-Experimentation by Physicians
• Abortion, A New Look at an Old Practice
• The Biological Basis of Gender

Peele, F.D.

• A Rolling Repast
• Making Memories With Megapixels
• Power to Go!

Rabinowitz, Fredric

• From Ancient Greens to Tiger Woods: The Evolution of the Game of Golf
• The Nature of Male Depression
• Men’s Health: A Psychological Perspective

Reid, Albert R.

• Friends: Developing and Maintaining Social Contacts 2012
• Medicine, Technology, and Diabetes from a Consumer’s Point of View
• Internet Search Engines: Help or Overload?
• Eighteen Weeks From Oleander to Ceanothus

Riday, G. E.

• The Anatomy of Humor
• Morris S. Dees: With Liberty and Justice For All
• The World’s Most Amazing Sound System
• Our Mystifying Memory System

Running, Ron

• Clare Henry Day: Citizen, Architect, and Urban Planner

Schaffroth, A.

• What are you looking at? : Gazing at the non-Western Other

Schuiling, T.

• Transcending Silos: A Perspective on Regional Issues
• Helicopters in the Wilderness: Minerals Exploration Experiences and Reflections
  
• What’s With Oil? (powerpoint)

Schuiling, W.C.

• Mississippi Summer — 1963

Shell, E.E.

• B. O.
• Train Tracks to Heaven: Railway Metaphors in Religious Teaching

Singer, D.L.

• Clash of Cultures in the Year 1096: The First Crusade & the Jews
• Going Negative: The Smear Campaign Against Upton Sinclair
• Soapy Smith: Uncrowned King of Skagway

Slater V, John F.

• The Herreshoff Family sail into America’s Cup History

Smart, G.W.

• The Making of a Lapidary
• 1000 Miles For A Book: Relentless Determination by the Nez Perce

Smith, G.A.

• How did San Bernardino County Museum Acquire Satellites?
• Saint or Sinner?

Sommer, Jim

• What’s Out There – A Quick Tour of The Universe

Spiller, Steve

• Fort Ticonderoga – The Key to the Continent
• A Battle Recalled – Memories of Black Sand, Sulfur, and a Hidden Foe
• Redlands Citizens Finding Shelter in the Atomic Age
• An Island Worth Defending: The Midway Atoll
• A Passion for Collecting
• Journey of Uncertainty – Elbert Walker Shirk & the Belgian Expeditionary Force
• Mary Shirk: the Reality of Her Vision
• The Air Minded Mission Inn
• Chained to the Bulldozer – Perspectives on Historic Preservation

Strong, Richard W.

• Sin, Sex, Scandal in Government: A Historical Perspective
• War and the Jews

Stuck, Monte

• The Vietnam Conflict – A Personal Account
• Cycle, Cycle, Recycle
• Redlands Architect: Leon Hines Armantrout

Talbert, M.J.

• Global warming ? ?
• Come Hell and High Water
• Mysteries & Phantoms of the Brain
• Magnificent Humbig: P.T. Barnum
• Complementary & Alternative Medicine

Taylor, R.W.

• The Flying Clippers: Their Glory, Romance, Tragedy and Mysery

Taylor, W.L.

• America’s First Mathematician, Astronomer and Philosopher: Nathaniel Bowditch
• Humans, Time and Menology
• The Great California Flood of 1862
• The Flying Clippers: Their Glory, Romance, Tragedy and Mysery
• An Encrusted Mystery: The Saga of the Antikythera Mechanism

Templeton, John

• Hoover Dam
• Bridges
• The Johnstown Flood
• Gardiner Basin

Thomas, Dana

• Everett_Ruess
• Glen Canyon Dam and the 1983 Flood

Tillitt, H.E.

• IF 111 + 110 = 1101 DO 7 + 6 = 15?
• 405 Thursday Coffees in Redlands
• First to Denmark
• Flashback

Tincher, John M.

• San Miguel de Allende: our almost forgotten Sister City
• Charles Lindbergh’s Final Flight

Toothaker, Frank

• The Cultural Lag
• From Hardscrabble to Euclid
• Moral Implications of Atomic Warfare
• The Miao-tze
• Halley’s Comet: Amazing Prisoner of the Sun

Vroman, W.N.

• Torn From The War Post
• To Replicate
• What’s Ahead
• Individualists

U of R Student Essay Contest

• Stephanie Shen – Honors Thesis

Waldron, J.

• Mr. Deere’s Self-Scouring Wonder

Waner, N.

• Paul and Lloyd Waner: Big Poison and Little Poison
• Foundations and Endowments: A National and Local Perspective
• How Technology Has Changed the Capital Markets, and a bit about Bitcoin
  
• How Technology Has Changed the Capital Markets, and a bit about Bitcoin – Images

Wilkerson, R.L.

• First Ladies of the White House & the Presidents They Served
• First Ladies & the Presidents They Served, Part 2
• “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” — Maya Angelou
• Women of the Arts