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History…………………………. 3

1960-61, Club Executives……… 6

1960-61, Program……………... 6

1960-61, Charter Members……. 7

Past Presidents………………... 8

Recognitions…………………... 9

Papers Published In Torch Magazine 10

Past Papers, 1960-…………….. 12-23

ST. CATHARINES TORCH CLUB

BRIEF HISTORY

As the St. Catharines Torch Club approaches it's 40th year, and the end of the century and millennium, it seems appropriate to record the history of the Club. The St. Catharines club is relatively young, having been founded 36 years after the establishment of the first Torch Club in Minneapolis in 1924. However, we have some distinctions worthy of note. We are the only surviving Canadian club, and have been recognized by Torch International as the outstanding club 3 times. We have had 19 papers published in the Torch magazine, one of which won the 1989 Paxton award and in 1996 another was runner up for the award. One member has served as president of the International Association

1967-68,and another as Director at Large.

In the early days, expansion of Torch clubs was achieved by means of a self-appointed professional organizer. In Canada, however, established clubs played important roles in creating new clubs. In 1961 there were only three Torch Clubs in Canada - in Hamilton, London, and Windsor. The Hamilton Club had been established in 1937 through the efforts of the Buffalo, N.Y. club. Windsor was an extension of the Detroit, Michigan, Club established in 1951. The Hamilton Club helped in establishing the London, Ontario, Club in 1954. The Hamilton Club had two International Torch presidents: F. R. Murgatroyd, Q.C. (1946-47) and Dr. C. H. Stearn (1953-54). A strong club, it had averaged about sixty members, including a vigorous group from McMaster University.

Although the Hamilton club has passed on, along with the clubs in Windsor, London, Toronto, and Grand Valley, it played a significant role in the establishment of our club. However, one man looms large in the history of St. Catharines Torch Club, and indeed, also that of the International Association of Torch Clubs (IATC). The young physician named Edgar Peer joined Torch club in Hamilton in 1950, although he had already moved to St. Catharines, hence he was really a commuting member.

Dr. Stearn, from time to time suggested that Dr. Peer should see what could be done about establishing a club in St. Catharines. As the quiet pressure and frequent suggestions continued, in the spring of 1960, Dr. Peer found himself in his living room with a dozen St. Catharines friends talking about Torch with Dr. Stearn. The group decided to attend the next meeting of the Hamilton Club to "smell it out"

They were very much impressed by the experience, and as a result the first meeting of the St. Catharines group was arranged for September 1960. The paper was given by one of the Hamilton

members - Mr. Fred Smith, a very capable Secretary of that club (1).

The St. Catharines Club charter was presented on November 23, 1960, by Dr. Crayton, long-time Secretary of International Association of Torch Clubs.

The Hamilton group not only provided the initial spark and inspiration, but very practical help as the group began their own -two more papers through the first critical year were given by Hamilton. All other papers were provided by the St. Catharines men, so that, from the beginning, membership in this club has been understood to include the responsibility for providing the majority of the papers.

Dr. Peer, by his own admission, was a bit reluctant at first, as he felt he was "no organizer" but, in the early years, he introduced many new members, bringing guests to most meetings, and made well thought-out contributions to the discussion at the end of the presentation of papers. He went on to the presidency of IATC in 1967-68 and was recognized at the international level with the Gold Award. At the February 1996 meeting, Edgar was presented with a plaque recognizing his contribution to the St. Catharines Torch Club.

Another gentleman to whom the St. Catharines Club owed its survival (during the neonatal period), and much of its subsequent growth and development, was, Mr. Craig Swayze, journalist and active supporter of rowing in St. Catharines. He was the first and long-time secretary of the club.

The club thrived through the 60s and 70s, growing from 27 charter members to a peak of 58 members in 1972 and 1974. The 80s were leaner years in membership, with a low of 23 in 1982-83. Fortunately, there has been a revival more recently, and the club seems to be at least maintaining strength. As the club grew strong, it was able to help establish clubs in Toronto and Grand Valley (Kitchner-Waterloo area), and St. Catharines members spoke occasionally at these clubs. In recent years, St. Catharines has established a good relationship with the Buffalo Torch Club, and the two clubs exchange speakers from time to time.

The question with which the IATC wrestled for many years was that of admitting women to membership. Motions introduced at the annual conventions to this end were usually defeated until 1973, when IATC voted to leave the decision of admitting women to the membership up to the individual clubs (2). St. Catharines did not embrace this idea immediately, but finally in 1982-83, Christina McNaughton made club history as the first female member. Since then, we have had 3 women serve as president, and in 1997-98 had 8 female members.

In the meantime, for many years, Ladies night, usually in February, was the only time that the spouses and significant others saw what it was that drew their men folk away from home once a month. Ladies Night was once a more of gala occasion, with optional formal wear, toasts to the ladies, and wine laid on by the club. Once the women were admitted as members, the annual event became "Spouses' Night", in recognition that, in some household, the wife was the Torch member (we also have had several husband and wife memberships). More recently, the St. Catharines club followed the practice of the Buffalo club in welcoming wives and companions of members at all meetings. Most of the members today would probably agree that these developments, once so unthinkable have been positive improvements, keeping in step with the contemporary time.

It is not surprising that in 39 years of history, the club has had a variety of meeting places. In the first year, the club met at the Queensway Hotel, and then in the Leonard Hotel, back in the days when downtown hotels had a significant status in the city. We have soared to the heights of the 13th floor of Brock University Tower (the site of the Brock University Faculty Club at that time), and the short-lived Top of the Flame on the 11th floor of the gas building. By contrast, we met for several years in the basement of Logan's Restaurant at the Grantham Plaza. We had to negotiate passage through the bar-rooms of Eddy's Place and Alexander's Restaurant at the Fairview Mall although those Greek smorgasbords at the latter were very enjoyable, the proximity of the kitchen in both locations created a noise problem. We were at the historic Yorkshire House, The Club Heidelberg and had two spells at the Holiday Inn. Once again, we expect to be on the move in the 1998-99 season.

REFERENCES

1. Peer, Edgar T. (1966), "Odyssey", Torch, 39(1):1, 39(2):1-2.

2. Carrol, Thomas L. (1991), "The story of Torch: The first fifty

years of the International Association of Torch Clubs."

FIRST (1960-61) ST. CATHARINES TORCH CLUB EXECUTIVES

President: E. T. Peer

Vice President: J. Roderick Barr

Secretary: Craig Swayze

Treasurer: J. Leo Poirier

Program: Wilf Pollock

Rev. William Skelly

Hugh Langley

Membership: Rev. E.B.G. Heaven

Evan Macdonald

Don Gillen

Social: Craig Swayze

George Hannahson

George MacSween

1960-61 Program

Sept. 14: Smith, Frank R. - A second Look at Teaching

(Hamilton Club)

Oct. 12: Peer, Edgar T. - On Knowing and Communicating

Nov. 23: Skelly, William - The Anatomy of Humour

(Charter Night)

Jan. 11: Zimmerman, Adam - Cruising down the Trent

(Hamilton Club)

Feb. 8: Stearn, C. H. - Cambridge Revisited

(Hamilton Club, Ladies Night)

March 8: Macdonald, Evan - This Hamlet Age

•April 19: Barr J. Roderick - Let's Abolish Juries(Oct.1961)

May 10: Bradbury, John F.- Canada and Great Briton.

•Paper published in Torch Magazine.

1960-61 CHARTER MEMBERS (27)

Accountant: Wilf W. Pollock

Biochemist: John Tremaine

Botanist: John Bradbury

Chemist: Donald W. Stothers

Clergies: G.B.G. Heaven

William Skelly

Dentists: Albert Taliano

Murray Wertman

Educators: A.E. Gillies

Evan Macdonald

E. I. McCully

Engineer: R. S. Willmot

Journalist: Craig Swayze

Lawyers: J. Rod Barr

A. J. Chapman

J. Trever Morgan

H. R. Young

Musician: George E. Hannahson

Nematologist: John Townsend

Pharmacist: Donald E. Keenan

Physicians: Don Gillen

H. Langley

Geo. MacSween

Edgar Peer

J. Leo Poirier

Surgeons: W. Orr

J. Zeldim

PAST PRESIDENTS

Edgar T. Peer, M.D. 1960-61

Past President, International, 1967-68

J. Roderick Barr, Q.C. 1961-62

* W. Wilfred Pollock 1962-63

* C. Evan MacDonald 1963-64

R. Craig Swayze 1964-65

* Murray Wertman, D.D.S. 1965-66

Murray C. Burt 1966-67

John L. Townsend, M.Sc. 1967-68

* Charles B. Bukowski, B.Sc. 1968-69

* A. R.(Pete) Petrie, M.A. 1969-70

Allison B. Stevenson, Ph.D. 1970-71

* John L. Field, M.A. 1971-72

Bernard Meredith, M.R.A.I.C. 1972-73

* Leonard T. C. Harbour, L.T.C. 1973-74

Eknath V. Marathé, M.Sc., Ed.D 1974-75

* William Alton, B.Sc. 1975-76

* John P. Stirling, B.A.Sc. 1976-77

James W. Hogan, B.A. 1977-78

Wesley B. Turner, Ph.D. 1978-79

Robert R. Taylor, Ph.D. 1979-80

* Peter A. Peach, Ph.D. 1980-81

Donald H. C. Herne, Ph.D. 1981-82

Arnold N. Horwitz, M.D. 1982-83

Arnold J. Verster, M.D. 1983-84

Mikio Chiba, D.Sc. 1984-85

Andres A. Reyes, Ph.D. 1985-86

W. Gordon Rivers, B.A. 1986-87

H. Irene Kadonaga, M.Ed. 1987-88

Ivan Hrabowsky, D.D.S. 1988-89

Peter M. Grant, M.D. 1989-90

Luzviminda G. Reyes, B.Sc. 1990-91

Richard J. Werner, B.A. 1991-92

David Craig, B.A.Sc. 1992-93

Miroslawa K. Ananicz, M.Sc. 1993-94

Robert D. Dony, Ph.D. 1994-95

S. Harley Smith, B.A.Sc. 1995-96

Louis E. Dagenais, M.A.Sc. 1996-97

David V. Roland, B.A.Sc. 1997-98

Witold Bula, Ph.D. 1998-99

* Deceased

RECOGNITIONS

International Level

1967-68 International President, Edgar T. Peer, M.D.

1988 Gold Award Edgar T. Peer, M.D.

1989 Paxton Award Warner Montgomery, Ph.D.

1989 Outstanding Club St. Catharines Torch Club

1991 Annual Convention Co-host, Buffalo, N.Y., U.S.A.

1992 Silver Award Andres A, Reyes, Ph.D.

1993 Outstanding Club St. Catharines Torch Club

1993 Silver Award Ivan Hrabowsky, D.D.S.

1994 Silver Award David Craig, B.A.Sc.

1995 Outstanding Club St. Catharines Torch Club

1996 Paxton Award

Runner up Eknath V. Marathé, M.Sc., Ed.D.

Club Level (Outstanding Member)

1989 Allison B. Stevenson, Ph.D.

Luzviminda G. Reyes, B.Sc.

1991 John A.T. Willis, C.A.

1992 Ivan Hrabowsky, D.D.S.

1993 David Craig, B.A.Sc.

1995 Andres A. Reyes, Ph.D.

1996 S. Harley Smith, B.A.Sc.

1997 Louis E. Dagenais, B.A.Sc.

Mollinda Alexson, B.S.N.

1998 Ivan Hrabowsky, D.D.S.

David V. Roland, B.A.Sc.

Club Level (Award of Distinction)

1998 Eknath V. Marathé, M.Sc., Ed.D.

PAPERS PUBLISHED

TORCH MAGAZINE

(1) "Let's Abolish Juries" J. Roderick Barr, Q.C.

October 1961.

(2) "The Changing Role of

Secondary Manufacturing

in Canada"

January 1963. R. Stewart Willmot, B.A.Sc.

(3) "Why Expand" Edgar T. Peer. M.D.

A talk given at

the Knoxville Convention

July 1964.

(4) "Odyssey" Edgar T. Peer, M.D.

A series of short articles

in the following issues:

January 1966, April 1966,

July 1966, October 1966.

(5) "On Science and Scientists" Charles A. Sankey, Ph.D.

April 1967.

(6) "Let Them Eat Cake" William Henry Nelles Hull, Ph.D.

January 1968.

(7) "Euthanasia" Arnold J. Verster, M.D.

#2, 1968.

(8) "The Need For

Scientific Literacy" Eknath V. Marathé,

M.Sc.,Ed.D.

October 1973.

(9) "Confident Women,

Anxious Men" Eugene A. Cherniak, Ph.D.

July 1974.

(10)"Medicine:

Magic And Scientific" Arnold J. Verster, M.D.

January 1975.

(11)"Fighting Drought with Dusty

Rivers: How to Improve

The Weather" William Gordon Rivers, B.A.

Winter 1981.

(12)"The Crisis in Medicine" Arnold J. Verster, M.D.

Winter 1981.

(13)"Why Torch?" Len T.C. Harbour, L.T.C.

Summer 1985.

(14)"Tomorrow Was Two Late" Gail M. Hilyer, B.A.,M.Ed.

Fall 84/Winter 1985.

(15)"The Ukrainian Famines of

1933" Ivan Hrabowsky, D.D.S.

Spring/Summer 1987.

(16)"Paradigms of Change" Warner M. Montgomery, Ph.D.

Fall 1989.

1989 Paxton Award

(17)"Human Skills Versus

Expert System" Jerzy A. Barchanski, Ph.D.

Spring/Summer 1990.

(18)"Compassion and Justice:

Some Basic Considerations

for Survival" William Gordon Rivers, B.A.

Fall 1994.

(19)"Engineering and Medicine:

Oil and Water" Robert D. Dony, M.A.Sc.

Winter 1994.

(20)"Sustainable Development:

A New Paradigm" Eknath V. Marathé,

Fall 1996. M.Sc., Ed.D.

1996 Paxton Award,

Runner up paper

PAST PAPERS

THE FIRST MEETING OF THE CLUB WAS HELD ON SEPTEMBER 14, 1960.

THE CLUB WAS CHARTERED ON NOVEMBER 23, 1960

1960-61

Smith, Frank R. - A second Look at Teaching (Hamilton Club)

Peer, Edgar T. - On Knowing and Communicating

Skelly, William - The Anatomy of Humour

Keenan, Donald E. - The Cost of Drugs

Zimmerman, Adam C. - Cruising down the Trent (Hamilton Club)

Stearn, C. H. - Cambridge Revisited (Hamilton Club)

Macdonald, Evan - This Hamlet Age

•Barr, J. Roderick - Let's Abolish Juries (October 1961)

Bradbury, John F. - Canada and Great Britain

1961-62

MacGibbon, Geoffrey - Editong the Day's News (Hamilton Club)

Wertman, Murray - Photo assay:Right in Our Own Backyard

•Wilmot, R. Stuart - The Changing Role of Secondary

Manufacturing (January 1963)

Tremaine, John - Fundamental and Applied Research

Chapman, Alfred - Divorce

Swayze, Craig - Fitness for What?

Poirier, J. Leo - Ethics

Langley, Hugh - Japan, The Modern Enigma

1962-63

Moodie, Alastair - Bloody murder

Redden, Robert - Economic Geography (at Buffalo Club)

Taliano, Albert - Fluoridation: An Aspect of Preventive

Medicine

Waterman, Gerald - Business Management

Young, Harold - What's Wrong with Censorship

Hadaway, Dennis - Home, Sweet Home

Morgan, Trevor - Freedom vs. Beurocracy

Cronyn, Terence - Inside the Seaway

1963-64

Ransom, Ross - Apartheid Western Style

Black, Dales - The General Practitioner

Bukowski, Charles - Architecture - A Mirror of Life

Allen, Wayne - Old Hudson Bay Fur Trail

Guest, John - As the Twig Is Bent

Nesbitt, Robert - The Dilemma of Youth

Pollock, Wilfred - Our Income Tax Laws

Townshend, John - Not So Merry England

Swanburg, Rae - Investment Counselling

•Peer, Edgar T. - Why Expand (July 1964 - A talk given at the

Knoxville Convention)

1964-65

MaCausland, Bruce - Sacred Cows in School

Daniel, Harry - One Man or Seven?

Burt, Murray - Censorship We Live With

Boa, Gil - Olympic Time in Tokyo

Meredith, Bernard - Plans for Expo '67

McNairn, Robert - Personal Approach to History

Goodwin, Lloyd - Capital Punishment

Howard, Bert - Religion and Life

Saville, Bill - Canada: After Eight Months

•Peer, Edgar T. - Odyssey (A series of short articles in the

following issues: January 1966, April 1966,

July 1966, October 1966)

1965-66

Blair, Edward - My Aching Back

Silverstein, Jack - Judaism, Zionism and State of Israel

Petrie, A. R. - Niagara Errant

Stott, John - Research in Industry

Pilgrim, E. V. - King of Hobbies, Hobby of Kings

Forgie, Donald - Exploring Other Worlds

Orser, Earl - Partisan Politics and the Professional Man

Jarvis, Albert - Let's Level with Our Teenagers

1966-67

Harvie, Fred W. - Trends in Education

•Sankey, Charles A. - Science and Scientists (April 1967)

Hrabowsky, Ivan - Denticare - This is going to hurt

Coulter, H. M. - Suitably Seasonal

Irvine Allan A. - Industrial Practices

Cherniak, E. A. - New Chemistry

Kanovsky, Sam - The Blessing of the Blade

Willis, John - The Sound Around Us

•Hull, William

Henry Nelles - "Let Them Eat Cake" (January 1968)

1967-68

Allison, Stuart - Where Do We Go From Here?

Macdonald, Evan - For the Sake of Argument

Barr, J. Roderick - Is Today's Administration of The Law Fair

to Society?

Stevenson, Allison - Will There Be A Silent Spring?

Rice, A. D. - People

Griffin, Whitmore - Orff Music For Children

Peer, Edgar - Problems in Education

Chapman, A. J. - Alcohol

1968-69

Daniels, Harry - Rights of the Individual

Hamilton, Fred - Is Humanity Really Dead?

Alton, Bill - The R.C.C.S. in the Development of Canada

Roper, John - Art, Education and Life

Swayze, R. Craig - XIX Olympics - Mexico City

Mann, Raymond - Intelligence

Hadaway, Dennis - Bricks and Mortar

Gillen, Donald - Heart Transplant and its Associated Problems

Guiltinan, Keith - Estate Planning

•Verster, Arnold J. - Euthanasia (#2,1968 p.21)

1969-70

Goodwin, Lloyd - Electronic Surveillance - Bane or Boon?

Jackson, J. - Qualities of Better City

MacLeod, George - Canadian Role in World Peacekeeping

Harbour, Len - Moon, Mars and Church

Collier, Alan - (Toronto Club)

Delia, Ron - The Machine Must Sing

Moase, Reg - Teacher Education - Inside Looking Out

Hawkins, Roy - To Jail or not to Jail (Hamilton Club)

Paxton, Norris W. - Editor - The Torch

1970-71

Rothman, John - Learning Disabilities - Fad or Fact?

Peer, Edger - The Professional Man in our Society

Chiba, Mikio - Geisha Girls and Saki

Field, John - The Charm of an Old House

Herne, Don - Can we live without Pesticides?

Symington, Stan - Generations come and Generations go

Craig, David - People yes; Pollution no?

Hagley, Elmer - The West Indies; Past, Present, and Future

Turner, Wesley - Student Unrest: The Challenge to

Universities

1971-72

Neff, Art - A Jug of Wine (Plus tour to Bright's

Winery)

Petrie, A.R. - My Heterodoxical Religious Viewpoints

Grant, Peter - The Psychiatrist's Office

Pollock, Wilf - Some Thoughts on Changes in Taxation

Peer, Edgar - A Secular Pilgrimage

Hansen, Ali - The Bulls and the Bears

Meredith, Bernard - So What's New with the Architects?

Jarvis, Bert - Some Aspects of Cultural Developments in

a community

Cronyn, Terence - Wandering Around in a Freighter

1972-73

Hogan, James - Hong Kong

•Marathé, Eknath V. - The Need For Scientific Literacy

(October 1973)

Hartman, Fred - The big jump (across the Atlantic)

Hrabowsky, Ivan - Teeth don't die: people kill them

Jeffrey, Ray - On the failure of Canadian imagination

Hull, Bill - How to do your own thing on the taxpayers'

money

Willis, John - "A true and correct view", Accounting

Rice, Alan - The art collector's art

Barr, Roderick - Aerobatics

1973-74

Horowitz, Aaron - Rhodesia

Silverstein, Jack - Music

Phatak, Prabhakar - Thinking patterns in East and West

•Verster, Arnold J. - Medicine: Magic And Scientific (January 1975)

•Cherniak, Eugene A. - Confident women, anxious men (July 1974)

Debenham, Guy - In praise of print - confessions of a

typophile

Stirling, John - Construction

Harbour, Len - The Middle East

1974-75

Taylor, Robert - Ironic Berlin

Griffin, Whitmore - Mental Health Problems of the Gifted

Fortescue, John - A remarkable Man

Macdonald, Evan - The Quality of Life

Poulakakis, George - Unfortunate Strangers

Browne, Millard - An American Looks at Canada (Buffalo Club)

Stevenson, Allison - The Bugs around Us

Bastien, William - Corrections in Corrections

McGinnis, A. J. - Agriculture and Research in Canada

1975-76

Harvey, Ian - The Canadian Indian - One Man's View

Turner, Wesley - George Washington's Expense Account

Macleod, George - Canada's Blue Beret

Ciccarelli, Frank - Your Community College - Past, Present, and Future

Henderson, Howard - Education - Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Field, John - A Foreign Land

Hadaway, Dennis - Cities?

Herne, Donald - Food for Thought

Craig, David - Trees to Chemicals

1976-77

Mayer, John - The Price of Incoherence

Silverstein, Jack - People and the Perilous Pills

Chiba, Mikio - Delicacies with Mysterious Poisons

Verster, Arnold - Sicily

Meredith, Bernard - Underground: A New Dimension

Peer, Edger - That's Style

Glass, Stuart - A Look into the Future

Peach, Peter - The Evolution of a Naturalist

Bastien, William - Bang, Bang, You're Dead

1977-78

Grant, Peter - Abortions in Canada

Taylor, Robert - Postal Propaganda

•Rivers, Gordon - Fighting Drought with Dusty Rivers:

How to Improve The Weather (Spring 1979)

Dias, Humberto - Plant Viruses: What they are and the

Diseases they cause

Veale, Alan - City Planning: Some Myths and some Problems

Harbour, Leonard - The Care of the Earth

Marathé, Eknath - A Curious Blend

Hull, William - Should We Sell the C.B.C.?

Alton, William - Mathematics in School

1978-79

Booth, John - Some Perspectives in Astronomy

Chiba, Mikio & - A visit to the Vineland Research Station

Herne, Donald

Buchner, Eldon - The Real Origin of the Ten Commandments

(Hamilton Club)

Robbins, William - Changing Concepts in the Law

Bastien, William - An Art Lesson for the Torch Club

Petrie, Roy - Pseudo-Sciences

Peach, Peter - Experimentation in Practical bio-chemistry

Henderson, Howard - Ontario's Declining Population

Peer, Edger - The Alien autocrat

1979-80

Stirling, John - Tour of Ontario Paper Plant, Thorold

Griffin, Whit - Educating the gifted children

Horwitz, Aaron - Human spare parts

Phatak, Prabhakar - The music of India

Hogan, James - Free libraries in a paying society

Rivers, Gordon - Some special spice

•Verster, Arnold J. - The crisis in medicine (Winter 1981)

Gladieux, Rolland - Indian rights, the conscience of a nation

Turner, Wesley - Canadian ingenuity

1980-81

Rivers, Gordon - Tour of Atlas Steels, Welland

Booth, John - Brains

Chiba, Mikio - East and West

Peach, Peter - Volcanoes

Schweitzer, Wilfred - Refugees

Mayer, John - India - What the East should not learn from

the West

Willis, John - Regress or Progress, your choice

Latham, Harold - How coroners save lives

Vraets, Frank - Tour of John Deer Plant, Welland

1981-82

Stirling, John - Tour of Ontario Paper Plant, Thorold

Meredith, Bernard - Low energy lifestyles

Braithwaite, David - Robots in Industry

Spence, Ralph - Flags: heritage and meaning

Reyes, Andres - The role of plant pathology in crop

production

Robarts, Jacqueline - The role of the Niagara College of Applied

Arts & Technology for training students for

industry

Grant, Peter - Should the church ordain homosexuals?

Stevenson, Allison - Will the bugs win?

Rohr, Alice - Dreams - revealing night life (Guest speaker)

1982-83

Friedmann, Arthur - Tour of Canada Hair Cloth Co., St.Catharines

Phatak, Prabhakar - The Vanishing Canadian Dollar

Alton, William - Canadian Defense

Peer, Edger & - Surrogate Mothers

MacNaughton, H. Christina

MacNaughton, H. Christina - Lawyers have no business in the courtrooms of the nation

Field, John - The historian as detective

Taylor, Robert - Renovate your ruin to prevent revolution

Herne, Donald - World government

Marathé, Eknath V. - Education in the nineteen-eighties

1983-84

Rivers, Gordon - Where is the battle? - My experience with

Windmills

Kadonaga, Ken - Is anti-dumping a form of protectionism?

The arguments for and against.

Braithwaite, Dave - Visit to the metal casting plant of General

Motors of Canada - High technology area of GM

Horwitz, Aaron - A search for roots - Spanish odyssey

•Hilyer, Gail M. - "Tomorrow Was Too Late (Fall 84/Winter 85)

Richardson, Mary - Symmetry in nature, art, and science

Booth, John - Darwin is not dead - A brief discussion of

main principle of Evolutionary Theory

Hrabowsky, Ivan - Filler Up - Modern dentistry

Sterling, John - Century of Hydro in Ontario

1984-85

Verster, Arnold - Medicine and Greek Drama

Kadonaga, Irene - The Canadian Japanese Redress Issue

Leask, Ray - Paper making at Ontario Paper Company

(Thorold)

Kinoshita, Fred - Dentistry in Japan

Meredith, Bernard - Can Venice be saved?

Zabek, Joe - The Charter of Rights

Willis, John - All in a Day's Work

Stevenson, Allison - Serving the State

Reyes, Andy - Can Canada Have Year-Round Supply of Fruits

and Vegetables?

•Harbour, Len T.C. - Why Torch? (Summer 1985)

1985-86

Peer, Edgar & - How It All Began

Lynch R. - Torch International: Past, Present,

& Future (Regional Director)

Chiba, Mikio - Waste Treatment. Not In My Backyard Please!

Alton, Bill - Signalling. Smoke to Satellite

Sheehan, Joe - The Automobile - The First 100 years

Grant Peter - Was Malthus Wrong?

Phatak, Prabhakar - Good bye, Gutenberg

Mansfield, Peter - Surviving the Gardener

•Hrabowsky, Ivan - THe Ukrainian Famine of 1933

(Spring/Summer 1987)

Rivers, Gordon - Where are you? Search and rescue

1986-87

Taylor, Robert - What's so Grand about Grand Opera?

Booth, John - How to Make a Diagnosis

Kadonaga, Ken - Can History be Reversed?

Keenan, Donald - The Stars Belong to Everyone

Michalski, Andrew - Skiing - An Inner Edge - Why do we do it?

Horwitz, Aaron - The Girl's Best Friend

Silver, Ed - The Personal Computer

Herne, Don - What, Then, Shall we Do?

Field, John - Janet Carnochan: An Early Lady Achiever

1987-88

Kadonaga, Irene - What Happened to La Différence?

Szaflarski, Stan - Heritage of Polish Architecture

Silver, Lynn - Eden and Galapagos

Braithwaite, David - The Duchess of Edinburgh, Bless Her

Ananicz, Mira - Wine - What it is and How it is made

Stirling, John - From Newton to Einstein and Beyond

Reyes, Minda - The Silent Partner

Michalska, Irena - Sleep

Bukowski, Charles - Reflections of Progress of Life

on Architecture

1988-89

Onyschuk, Donald - One thousand years of Christianity in the

Ukraine

Marathé, Eknath V. - My visit to People's Republic of China

•Barchanski,Jerzy A. - Human Skills Vrsus Expert Systems

(Spring/Summer 1990)

•Montgomery,Warner M. - Paradigms of Change (Fall 1989).

1989 Paxton Award Paper.

Damato, Charles - What's all this about Handwriting Analysis?

Bradley, Jim (MPP) - Invited Guest Speaker

Stramm, Otto - AIDS

Tytaneck, Theo - In search of reality

Kisluk, Sandra - Return to Glory

1989-90

Werner, Richard - Perception, Power, and Reality

Colgan, Myles - The Art of Storytelling

Brown, Glenn - On Making a Hero of Scrooge

Tytaneck, William - Drug Abuse in Our Society

Taylor, Robert - History of the Welland Canal

Verster, Arnold - The making of a slide show

Sheehan, Joe - The next industrial revolution

Marathé, Eknath V. - Environmental issues

1990-91

Tutecky, John - Trends, megatrends, and global forces

Booth, John - On growing old

Alexson, Molly - Nursing history

Rivers, Gordon - Improving policing in Canada

Braithwaite, David - Environmental concerns

Brown, Glenn - Premarital counselling

Hrabowski, Ivan - A rose, as a rose, is a four-letter word

Kadonaga, Ken - Japan

Stramm, Otto - Ethology

1991-92

Peer, Edgar - Homo sum

Hoekstra, Arthur - Sulfur - friend or foe

(Guest speaker)

Chiba, Mikio - Scientific research and technology

Craig, David - The ubiquitous lignin

Ananicz, Mira - The Canadian wine industry

Zabek, Joe - The navigation of the charter

•Dony, Robert D. - Engineering in medicine; oil and water?

(Winter 1994)

Laudon, John - Throwing some light on a dark subject

(Guest speaker)

Stevenson, Allison - Hey, waiter, there's a bug in my salad!

1992-93

Harper, Roger - My salad days

Reed Taylor, A. - Dimensions of revenge: Hawthorne's Scarlet

(Guest speaker) letter and Melville's Moby Dick

Hrabowsky, Ivan - Ukraine: A treacherous passage to

sovereignty and independence

Verster, Arnold - Euthanasia in Netherlands

Grant, Peter - Multiples

Kaumeyer, Linda - Health care for the elderly in the U.S. -

(Guest speaker) problems and solutions

Boyd, Robert - To burn or not to burn

Dagenais, Louis - Prisoner's dilemma

Macleod, Donald - The wheeler-dealers

1993-94

Naftulin, Larry - American Amnesia

Casaubon, Donald A. - The Age Wave

Harley Smith S. - Canada's Shipping Industry

- Can It Survive?

Hoover, Robert J. - Conservation Easements and

Their Use In Preservation of

Niagara Food Land

Harper, Roger J. - Maintaining Records For The

Architectural Portion Of

A Construction Contract

Young, Norman R.H. - Potpourri Of Law

•Rivers, William Gordon - Compassion And Justice: Some Basic

Considerations for Survival (Fall 1994)

Czurles, Stanley A. - Early Childhood Art Development

Thorburn, Leslie A. - Examination Of Questioned Documents

1994-95

Shedd, Donald P. - Advances in the Care of the

Larynx Cancer Patient

Barchanski, Jerzy A. - Chaos

Colgan Fr. Myles J. - The Power of Affirmation

Roland, David - Power Shift

Shaw, Alan C. - Paradigms

Roederer Charlotte D. - Breaking the Glass Ceiling (for Women)

Legin, Barbara - Iran: An Overview

Michalski, Andrew - Health Care in Ontario

Reyes, Andres A. - The Philippines After Pinatubo

1995-96

Hoekstra, I. Arthur - Stone-Age Tool, Past and Present

•Marathé, Eknath V. - Sustaunable Developmet: A New Paradigm

Runner Up Paper For Paxton Award (1996)

Smith, Harley - Quality in the Decade of Change

Glass, Stuart - Can you see what I am saying?

Thorburn, Leslie A. - A bit of Geography

Bigler, Vernon - America's Other Language

Davis, Charles F. - Value of Fiction

Hagley, Elmer - Grenada. Revolution and Rescue

Dagenais, Louis E. - Computer Science Software Engineering and

Black Magic

1996-97

Hoover, Robert C. - Economic Loose Strife & The Biloxi Sybdrome

Glassford, Jim & Kelly, Wally

(Guest Speakers) - Education - Today and Tomorrow

Reyes, Luzviminda G. - Hepatitis: A, B, C

Herne, Donald H.C. - Wildlife Management and the Animal Rights

Movement

Bula, Witold D. - The Story of Prelude D Flat Major 'The

Raindrops' by Frederyk Chopin

Sabo, Donald, Jr.

(Buffalo Club) - The Struggle for Gender Equity in Athletics

Craig, David - A Layman's Geology of the Niagara Region

Ananicz, Miroslava K. - Art and science of Winemaking

Stevenson, Allison B. - The Phylloxera Story

1997-98

Alexson, Mollinda - Humour and Health

David C. Dean

(Buffalo Club) - Cholesterol

Marathé, Eknath V. - Science and Religion

Michalska, Irena - Polish Nobel Prize Winners of the 20th Century

McLong, Terence - A Fabric Structure is not an Oxymoron

Hodgeman, Christopher

(Rochester Club) - What's New and Valid in the Treatment of

Clinical Depression

Bula, Jola - The Music of our Lives

Chiba, Mikio - Federal Research is Fun and Profitable

Grant, Peter M. - To Madness Near Allied

1998-99

Barchanski, Jerzy A. - Application of Robots

Glass, J. Stuart - Ned B. Winn's Paper on How English Became the World International Language

Hrabowsky, Ivan - More Than Four Letter Words

Legin, Barbara - Iran Part II. The Revolution, Personal Experience

Peer, Edgar T. - The Enemy - My Necessary Friend

Roland, David V. - Anorexia Nervosa and the Grandfather

Sewell, James P. - That Special Insight: Windows to Politics Opened by Students

Taylor, A. Reed - High Flying Fares: The Dilemma of Deregulation

1999-2000

Baumler, Robert A.

(Buffalo Club) - Natural Medicines

Boyd, Robert W. - Brickbats, Bullets and Ballistics

Butler-Gosen, Barbara

(Guest Speaker) - Growing Up in Old St. Catharines

Grant, Peter M. - God and the Market

Hagley, Maureen - Community Nursing - A Chevy or a Cadillac

Michalski, Andrew - Polish Immigration to Canada

Rivers, W. Gordon - Prevention Plus Preservations Equals Salvation

Shapiro-Herzog, Paula - Assessment

Yekta, Ahmad - A Non-Random Walk Down Bay Street

2000-2001

Burton, Charles - Canada and China

(Guest speaker – Brock University)

Fink, Abel K. - What Students Tell Us About the Nature of Learning

(Guest Speaker – Buffalo Torch Club)

Kovacevich, Milica - Energizing the Third Sector: Effectively Managing a Non-Profit Organization

Nolan, John P. - Modern Medicine: Success or Failure

Rghei, Nezar A. - Genetically Modified Organisms: Scientific and Social Implications

Rybiak, Joseph J. - Ryszard Kapuscinski, Journalist, Witness to a World of Chaos

Slade, Debbie - Now Playing!

(Guest Speaker – Brock University)

Veale, Alan C. - They Are Us

Yan, Cecilia W.C. - The Creative Imagination: 20^th Century Scientific Breakthroughs and Artistic Innovations

2001-2002

Coggins, Gordon H. - Till Debt Do Us Part

Hoover, Robert C. - Canadian Humor in a Time of World Crisis

Ludzik, Mary J. - Alzheimer’s Disease

(Guest Speaker)

Mayer, John R.A. - A 150 Years of Canadian Philately

Philbrick, Michael L. - Investments

Sabo, Donald F. Jr. - Prison Mentality – The Politics of Punishment

(Guest Speaker – Buffalo Torch Club)

Skelton, C. Peter - Air Quality vs Automobiles

Thorburn, Leslie A. - Why Travel?

Wheeler, Alan C. - O Canada Where Art Thou? – Canada’s Global Presence

Revised 2002.09.16 LED/AAR