Date Speaker Topic
Sept 13 Steve Turns The Classical Guitar - History & Construction
Oct 11 Dean Snow The U.S. and the World Heritage Sites Program
Nov 8 Roger Geiger American Higher Education Since 1980
Dec 13 Bill Arden The Star We Live With - Studying the Sun
Jan 10 Ron Smith The NCAA, Football Concussions and a Multimillion
Dollar Lawsuit
Feb 14 Steve Smith Traditional Farming in Latin America
Mar 13 Gordon DeJong Is Demography Destiny? Ten Master Trends
Apr 10 Heather Shoenberger Artificial intelligence in the Public Space
May 8 Jean Lee The Washingtons and the Many Worlds of Mount Vernon
June 12 Ming Tien Wolf vs Dog - Genetics and Biochemistry
Date Speaker Topic
Sept. 14 Art Goldschmidt Afghanistan: History and Mystery
Oct. 12 Peter Jurs The American Fur Trade of the Far West
Nov. 9 Graham Spanier In the Lions' Den: The Penn State Scandal & a Rush to
Judgment
Dec. 14 John Dillon What to Know About Your Right to Know
Jan. 11 Wayne Osgood Delinquency, Daily Life, and the New Adolescence: The Rise
and Fall of Teen Culture
Feb. 8 Terry Engender Fracking: Jargon for Breaking Rocks with a Wedge
Mar. 8 Gary Miller E-learning and the Future of Higher Education
Apr. 12 James Serene Progress in Orthopedic Surgery and Medicine
May 10 Kim Steiner The Penn State Arboretum
June 14 Lee Stout Archives and the Centre County History Encyclopedia
Date Speaker Topic
Sept. 8 Ron Smith The Myth of Amateur College Sports
Oct. 13 Louise Goldschmidt Is that Thing Really a Mosque?
Nov. 10 Bill Arden Celestial Navigation— Shackleton’s Way Home
Dec. 8 Larry Ragan Of Faith and Noel: St. Rita’s Professional
Development Academy
Jan. 12 Carolyn Wilhelm Art Inspired by Homer's Iliad
Feb. 9 Dick Jones & An Interactive Demonstration of the MIT-Sloan
Sylvia Neely ENROADS Climate Simulator
Mar. 9 Abbreviated meeting; Terminated due to Zoom problems
Apr. 13 Joe Humphreys Reflections of My Life on the Stream
May 11 Bob Sills Outward Bound
June 8 Cancelled due to Covid-19
Date Speaker Topic
Sept. 9 Art Goldschmidt UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Oct. 14 Gordon DeJong Refugees and Asyleess in the Trump Era
Nov. 11 John Dillon Ripe for Disruption-the Rapid Decline of Local News
Dec. 9 Dave Mudgett Steel Guitar - from Hawaii to Nashville to the World
Jan. 13 Bob Carline Creating Wood Sculptures
Feb. 10 Rob Hendrickson The Conflict Between Political Correctness, First Amendment Speech and Academic Freedom
Mar. 10 Charles Maxin Cholesterol, Hyperlipidemia and Treatments: Physician's View
Apr. 14 Jim Ultman Pandemics Past and Present-What We Have Learned
May 12 Scott Flipse Indoor Air Quality
June 9 Roger Williams Frederick Watts and the Founding of Penn State
Date Speaker Topic
Sept. 11 Frank Deutsch How to Survive Prostate Cancer
Oct. 9 Harry West The Ups and Downs of Suspension Bridges and the Highs and Lows of their Builders
Nov. 13 Gary Peterson Soils: Why Are They Important to You, Your Community & the World?
Dec. 11 John Golbeck Renewable Energy in Germany
Jan. 8 Lee Stout Monumental Messes: Commentary on our Past
Feb. 12 Robert Igo Planning in the Centre Region
Mar. 11 Mike Bezilla Railroad History of Scotia
Apr. 8 Cancelled due to Covid-19
May 13 Phil Park Teleconference on Centre Region Government
June 10 Louise Goldschmidt Is That Thing Really a Mosque?
Archival records of Central Pennsylvania Torch Club from 1947 to 2006 are maintained in the Penn State libraries: https://libraries.psu.edu/findingaids/291.htm
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