_____________________ 2024 ______________________
2024 December – Roger Gamache – On the Relevance of US Political Parties
2024 November – Dirk Bloemendaal – The Clearing of Michigan’s Forests
2024 October – Dan George – What do Orthodontists Really Do?
2024 April – Julian Sluyters – My Journey with Genetic Genealogy
2024 March – Joe Vander Meer – Music and the Brain
2024 January – Mark Tingey – Can You Trust Your Brain?
_____________________ 2023 ______________________
2023 December – Mike Hill – AI-Artificial Intelligence, Past, Present and Future Images
2023 November – Patrick Irish – Hawaii Before Statehood
2023 October – Andy Mulder – Holland’s Downtown Revival
2023 September – Jay True – Plastics & Recycling Images
2023 May – Art Buys – How Neuroscience Discoveries May Benefit PreK-12 Education
2023 March – John Arendshorst – Bombs Away – What The Hell
_____________________ 2022 ______________________
2022 November – Don Luidens – On Looking Back – An Aging Activist Reflects on His Wake
2022 October – David Van Wylen – Implications of the Fire:Wire Relationship in the Brain
2022 September – John Arendshorst – Pretensions of American Democracy
2022 May – Jim Piers – Impact of Religion on Politics
2022 March 31 – Bob Sterken – U.S. Immigration
2022 February – Bruce Bassett – The Road to the Moon Images
2022 January – William VanderVliet – BLACK DEATH
_____________________ 2021 ______________________
2021 December – Brian Cote – The Shared Journey of Parkinson’s Disease
2021 November – Rob Sligh – Furniture Reflections Images
2021 October – Michael Norris – Brazil – Country of the Future
2021 September – Tom Slanec, – ART IN MOTION
2021 April – John Donnelly – Going to Extremes (Socialism & Facism)
_____________________ 2020 ______________________
2020 February – Hanns Mulder – Will the Real China Stand Up
2020 January – David Trudell – Effects of Global Warming Images
_____________________ 2019 ______________________
2019 December – Charlie Vander Broek – The Smallest Terrorist – The Mosquito
2019 October – Joe Graczyk – Why Do Offensive Lineman False Start? Images
2019 September – Jeff Padnos – The Election of 1864
2019 May – Patrick Irish – China’s Belt and Road Initiative Images
2019 April – Bob Frey – Dementia and Alzheimer’s … What should we Remember?
2019 March – Daniel Fisher – Stealing the Night II
2019 February – Andy Mulder – “What has he been smoking?!” Holland’s Snowmelt System – The Back Story Images
2019 January – Paul Heusinkveld – Looking into the Oceans
_____________________ 2018 ______________________
2018 December – Jay True – Holland’s Wicked Problem
2018 November – John Donnelly – The Fuel for Trumpism
2018 October – Larry Briggance – A Good Death
2018 September – Art Buys – Public Education Funding – Taxes, Lotteries & Mandates – Oh My!
2018 May – John Arendshorst – Vehicle of the Future – Electric
2018 April – Dave Armstrong – Wheat
2018 January – Eric Snyder – Technology and Our Minds in 2018 Images
_____________________ 2017 ______________________
2017 December – Rey Rivera – Everything you wanted to know about whiskey but were afraid to ask
2017 November – Don Luidens – The Other Impeachment and Me
2017 October – Clay Stauffer – “Riding a Rocket- The Rise of Rock ‘n Roll”
2017 September – Tom Arendshorst – Diamond Wisdom Images
2017 April – Jim Piers – High Cost of Higher Education
2017 March – Rob Sligh – The Rise and Fall of Holland Furnace Company Images
2017 January – Dave Trudell – Travels in Nature
_____________________ 2016 ______________________
2016 December – Greg Smith – Do Books Have a Future?
2016 November – Colin Mulder – What is Cross Fit? Is it made for everyone? Images
2016 October – Daniel Fisher – Stealing the Night
2016 September – Don Luidens – Shifting Middle East Alliances
2016 May – Roger Gamache – A Way of Life
2016 – April – Charlie Vander Broek – Collaborative Consumption …and the New Sharing economy Images
2016 March – Mike Hill – Understanding the Big Bang Theory
2016 January – Fred Johnson – Symbol or Scandal; The Confederate Flag (Part 1) (Part 2)
_____________________ 2015 ______________________
2015 December – Robert Sterken – America; Land of the Free, Home of the Violent
2015 October – Patrick Irish – Virtual Reality
2015 September – Bob Frey – The General Motors Recall
2015 May – Jonathan Padnos – Missing In Action; The story of Private First Class Stuart B. Padnos Images
2015 April – Robert Visscher – The Tea Story
2015 March – Andy Mulder – The City of Detroit Bankruptcy
______________________ 2014 ______________________
2014 December – Art Buys – Search and Rescue in the Wild
2014 November – Larry Briggance – The Neglected “ISM”
2014 October – Dave Armstrong – Poverty, Minimum Wage and Technology
2014 September – Don Luidens – Operation Overlord and Me Images
2014 February – John Arendshorst – Unmaned Aircraft Systems (UAS)
2014 January – Clay Stauffer – Honey Bees, Colony Collapse Disorder Images
______________________ 2013 ______________________
2013 December – Rob Sligh – Carousel Mountain Images
2013 November – Dan Fisher – Ancient Maps & Celestial Navigation Images
2013 October – Vern Boersma – Pulling Back from the Party Life
2013 September – Tom Arendshorst – American Individualism; Balance of Justice
2013 May – David Trudell – Beer Images
2013 April – Bruce Masselink – Where are all the Women?
2013 March – John Fulenwider -The Business of Solar and Wind Energy
2013 February – Jim Piers – One Day at a Time; Does AA work and if so, how?
2013 January – Charlie VanderBroek – The Social Economy in America
______________________ 2012 ______________________
2012 December – Roger Gamache – A Consideration of the State of Our Republic
2012 November – Joes Tanis – Why I love Young Adult Fiction
2012 October – Harry Visscher -The History of the Relationship Between Science and Theism
2012 September – Bob Visscher – Meaning of Persons
2012 January – Larry Briggance – Invisible Wounds of War, Visible Pain and Suffering
______________________ 2011 ______________________
2011 December – Bob Frey – Generational Differences
2011 February – Clay Stauffer – Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission
______________________ 2010 ______________________
2010 November – Tom Arendshorst – A More Secure World, Through Peacebuilding Images
2010 September – Dan Fisher – The Yangtze River and the Three Gorges Dam Images
2010 April – David Trudell – Climate Change Conundrum
2010 March – Jim Piers – Still Working After All These Years: Senior Workers and Elderpreneurs
2010 February – Matt Floding – Turning Points – An Inquiry into the History of Islam
2010 January – David Klooster – You Say You Want a Revolution
______________________ 2009 ______________________
2009 December – Bruce Masselink – Wide, Wide World
2009 November – Roger Gamache – The Problem of Expert Agency
2009 September – Charlie Vander Broek – Tongue Tied- Language Policy and Monolingualism in America Images
2009 March – PJ Thompson – Understanding our world at the 21st century mid-point
2009 February – John Fulenwider – Excerpts fro “Egypt Unchanged”
2009 January – Rob Sligh – American Immigration
______________________ 2008 ______________________
2008 December – Harry Visscher – Creationism, Intelligent Design, & Evolution
2008 November – Bob Sterken – US Prison System
2008 March – Andy Mulder – Public Education – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
2008 January – Larry Briggance – Humor, Not Just a Laughing Matter
______________________ 2007 ______________________
2007 December – Don Luidens – Meeting _GARBO_
2007 November – John Donnelly – Supreme Players on the Supreme Court
2007 October – Clay Stauffer – Wanted; A New American Agriculture
2007 April – Tom Arendshorst – New Wars – Old Thinking
2007 March – John Arendshorst – Energy Crisis – A Need for Alternative Response
2007 January – David Trudell – The Shades of Green Buildings
______________________ 2006 ______________________
2006 November – Roger Gamache – Business Ethics – Oxymoron or Null Set?
2006 April – Charlie Vander Broek – Social Capital: More than “Cool Cities”
2006 February – Patrick J Thompson – China and the United States – Comparing our Histories and Current Mindset Images
______________________ 2005 ______________________
2005 December – John Fulenwider – Unclear Nuclear Waste Options
2005 November – Rob Sligh – Globalization
2005 October – Robert Visscher – Science, Medicine & Ethics of IVF & Related Technologies Images
2005 March – Bob Sterken – Extraordinary Rendition
______________________ 2004 ______________________
2004 March – Larry Briggance – Are We in Love or Just Crazy?
2004 January – David Trudell – What is the Holland Professional Club?
______________________ 2002 ______________________
2002 December – John Fulenwider – Renewable Energy, Hydrogen, and Fuel-Cell Powered Cars
2002 November – Rea Thatcher – The Confusing English
2002 January – Robert Bates – Medicare
______________________ 2001 ______________________
2001 November – Jeffery Padnos – Justice as Fairness
2001 March – Tom Arendshorst – Anwars’s Oil, or The Slippery North Slope
______________________ 2000 ______________________
2000 December – Larry Briggance – 900 Days, 900 Nights
______________________ 1999 ______________________
1999 October – John Fulenwider – William Edwards Deming, T.Q.M.’s Prophet
1999 March – Bob Sterken – Morality
______________________ 1998 ______________________
1998 October – Bob Bates – Try to Remember
1998 January – David Armstrong – The Ecology of the Middle Class
______________________ 1997 ______________________
1997 November – Tom Arendshorst – Arctic River Diary
1997 March – John Arendshorst – Immigration Revisited
1997 February – Roger Gamache – Charter Schools – A Consumer’s Eye View
______________________ 1996 ______________________
1996 February – John Fulenwider – The Invention of the Transistor – an Example of Team Research
______________________ 1995 ______________________
1995 November – Rea Thatcher – When the Whale Swallows Jonnah
______________________ 1994 ______________________
1994 April – Tom Arendshorst – Term Limits – Reforming our Government
1994 March – David Armstrong – Using the Patterns We Create
______________________ 1993 ______________________
1993 November – John Arendshorst – Healthcare Reform
1993 October – Michael Cole – The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and Human Rights
1993 February? – Clay Stauffer – Baseball, Democracy & Capitalism
______________________ 1992 ______________________
1992 October – John Fulenwider – Forging a Handgun Control Policy
1992 April – William Arendshorst – Environment-Fate of Earth
1992 March – Bob Sterken – Kennedy Conspiracy Theory
1992 January – John Donnelly – Reversing Educational Decline – The Case for Educational Choice
______________________ 1991 ______________________
1991 November – Unknown – Critical Choices (Reflections on the Cost of Medical Care)
1991 April – Bob Bates – A Discussion of War
1991 February – Tom Arendshorst – Our Nations’s Drug Crisis and the Prospect of Drug Legalization
______________________ 1990 ______________________
1990 December – Michael Cole – China – Since the Founding of the People’s Republic in 1949
1990 January – John Arendshorst – Gun Control
______________________ 1989 ______________________
1989 November – Titus Van Haitsma – History of the Holland Professional Club
______________________ 1988 ______________________
1988 December – John Hollenbach – Some Reflections on the American Dream
1988 November – William Arendhorst – Nuclear Energy
1988 October – Bob Bates – The Limerick
______________________ 1987 ______________________
1987 April – John Donnelly – Darwin and the Evolution of the Evolutionary Thought
______________________ 1985 ______________________
1985 December – Dick Martin – Fly Paper * Flyfishing
______________________ 1984 ______________________
1984 October – John Hollenbach – The CIA and the Problems of Secrecy in an Open Society
1984 February – Tom Arendshorst – The Allocation of Health Care Resouces in the United States
______________________ 1983 ______________________
1983 November – John Arendshorst – The Diversion of Great Lakes Water
1983 April – Bernard Arendshorst – Endangered Species – Preservation, or Extinction
1983 February – William Arendshorst – Genetic Engineering – The Splice of Life
______________________ 1982 ______________________
1982 April – Harold Thornhill – The Rise of the DuPonts in America
1982 February – Dick Marin – X-Rays * How Much Is Too Much
______________________ 1981 ______________________
1981 May – Robert Coughenour – In Search of a City
______________________ 1980 ______________________
1980 October – John F Donnelly – The Role of the Chief Executive in Improving Productivity
1980 May – William Arendshorst – Cerebral Changes with Time
______________________ 1979 ______________________
1979 April – Bernard Arendshorst – Moon Power
______________________ 1978 ______________________
1978 November – Dick Martin – Flouridation
______________________ 1976 ______________________
1976 March – William Arendshorst – Intra-Ocular Lens
______________________ 1975 ______________________
1975 October – Bernard Arendshorst – The Crazy River
______________________ 1972 ______________________
1972 October – Bernard Arendshorst – What Time Is It?
1972 March – William Arendshorst – Adaptation of Living Organisms to their Envrionment
______________________ 1969 ______________________
1969 October – Bernard Arendshorst – Eurodollars
______________________ 1968 ______________________
1968 April – William Arendshorst – The Retarded Reader
______________________ 1966 ______________________
1966 October – Robert Cavanaugh – Michigan’s Rare Songbird
1966 March – Bernard Arendshorst – Conservation Ethics
______________________ 1965 ______________________
1965 October – Marvin Lindeman – What’s Happening to Holland
______________________ 1964 ______________________
______________________ 1962 ______________________
1962 October – William Arendshorst – Discount Houses – Fact or Exaggeration
______________________ 1960 ______________________
1960 May – Larry Lamb – Sructural Engineering
______________________ 1958 ______________________
1958 October – Bernard Arendshorst – Trading Stamps; Who’s the Winner
______________________ 1956 ______________________
1956 April – Larry Lamb – Condition and Future needs of Ottawa Coutny Roads
______________________ 1954 ______________________
1954 December – Bernard Arendshorst – A Study of the Guaranteed Annual Wage
______________________ 1951 ______________________
1951 September – Bernard Arendshorst -The Development of an Influential Instutition
______________________ 1947 ______________________
1947 April – Bernard Arendshorst – An Introduction to Cotton Textiles