2006 - 2005 ReadAlouds
June 15th, 2006
November 30, 2006
featured
Bill Tyler,Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, reading excerpts from “A Tale of Trouble from the Bar Roulette” by Tachibana Sotoo (1894-1959) which was written and published in 1936.
November 16, 2006
Christopher Andersen, Office of University Outreach and Engagement, read selections from
A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck
and
Joe Shaw, University Libraries, read “The No-Talent Kid” from Bagombo Snuff Box by Kurt Vonnegut
November 9th, 2006
Featured Ohioana readers celebrating the work of Ohio writers
including:
Janet Hickman: the author of seven novels for young people. For her book, Jericho, she received a 1995 Ohioana Book Award. Jericho was also a Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor Book. Janet recently retired from the Ohio State University were she was an Associate Professor in the College of Education.
Janet read from Columbus native Stephanie Tolan’s Newbery Awarding book, Surviving the Applewhites. Stephanie is also a playwright and she assisted with the adaptation of the book for a new play, which premiered on October 26, 2006 at the Columbus Children’s Theatre.
Jerry Roscoe: is a salesman and a poet. In 2002, the book, Two Midwest Voices received the Ohioana Book Award in the category of Poetry. One of the voices was Jerry Roscoe and he read from his half of the book which is titled Mirror Lake, as well as selected poems from his soon to be published work S-E-X.
Terri Paul read from Glass Hearts which received the 2000 Ohioana Book Award in fiction. Her book is based on the memories of Ms. Paul’s aunt Sarah and family members who lived in a small Hungarian village before World War I and then their eventual exodus to America to make their home in Ohio.
November 2, 2006
featured readers from Yoga On High including:
Marcia Miller reading a selection from Jaber Crow by Wendell Berry.
Martha Marcom reading After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows
Wise on the Spiritual Path by Jack Kornfield, from the chapter entitled, “This Very Body, the Buddha”.
Linda Oshins reading from Patrick Lane’s What the Stones Remember
and
October 26, 2006
featured Dona Straley, University Libraries Coordinator for Collections reading
Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery by Deborah and James Howe.
October 19, 2006
featured Scott Savage, Head of Reference and Library Instruction at OSU Mansfield Library, reading excerpts from Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
October 12, 2006 3-4pm
featured a reading at the Wexner Center Cafe of the essay “The Bean-Field” from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden
in celebration of the harvest from artist Michael Mercil’s
Beanfield installation along College Rd.
October 5, 2006
featured readers:
Dean Joan Herbers, College of Biological Sciences reading from Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace
and
Dean Richard Freeman, College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences reading from Richard Russo’s Straight Man.
September 28, 2006
featured readers
Nancy Courtney, University Libraries, reading from Daughters and Rebels by Jessica Mitford
and
Joe Shaw, University Libraries, reading “The Replacements” from the book To Own a Dragon by Donald Miller
September 21, 2006
featured:
Joanna Anderson and Andrea Cooper from the University Libraries
Development and Communications Offices reading selections from A House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros and selected poems of Charles Bukowski.
Special Summer ReadAlouds: Leer en Voz Alta
This Summer quarterReadAloud dedicated our programming to the Hispanic Community of Ohio with a series of 3 programs conducted entirely in Spanish. The reading series took place Thursdays in the Thompson Main Library Sills Hall from 3-4pm on 6/29, 7/6 and 7/13.
July 13, 2006
featured:
3-3:30 pm
Prof. Ulises Juan Zevallos-Aguilar
Poesia de/Poetry of Cesar Vallejo (Peru/France/Spain)
3:30-4 pm
Antonio Pedrós-Gascón, PhD Cand.
Tic-Tac por/by Suso de Toro (Spain/Galicia)
July 6, 2006
Leer en Voz Alta
featured:
Prof. Lúcia Costigan
Poesia Satírica/Satirical Poetry (Peru)
June 29, 2006
Leer en Voz Alta
29 de junio
featured:
3-3:30 pm
Prof. Ignacio Corona, leyendo/reading
Pedro Páramo por/by Juan Rulfo (Mexico)
3:30-4 pm
Dr. Hiram Irizarry-Osorio, leyendo/reading
País de Cuatro Pisos por José Luis Gonzales (Puerto Rico)
June 1, 2006
Readings from the current exhibit Upon the Shoulders of Giants: The History of Western Scientific Inquiry selected by Timothy Dickey, Ron Ravneberg and Bill Rich. Readings included selections from Galileo’s Dialogo to Bronowski’s Ascent of Man.
May 25, 2006
Theatre Research Institute presented a special program from The Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute featuring a 1949 episode from the radio series “Young Love” read by Beth Kattelman, Orville Martin, Brittany Nau, Doreen Salkiewicz, Joey Thomas, Barbara Yost.
May 18, 2006
Edward A. Riedinger, University Libraries, read a selection of poems by Constantinos Cavafy.
Gregor Hens, Germanic Languages, read selections from Thomas Mann’s early novella “Little Herr Friedemann” (1896).
May 11, 2006
Ohio House of Representative member Joyce Beatty State Senators Ray Miller and Steve Stivers, read from the work of Ohio writers on behalf of the Ohioana Library.
Representative Beatty read some excerpts from Paul Lawrence Dunbar from of her personal collection of poety, as well as some selections of her own poetry.
Senator Stivers read from A fragile capital : identity and the early years of Columbus by Charles Chester Cole.
Senator Miller read a selection from King of the cats : the life and times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. written by his friend Wil Haygood.
May 4, 2006
Catherine Shaw, University Libraries , read Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
Nancy Courtney, University Libraries, read a selection from Helene Hanff’s book Underfoot in Show Business.
April 27, 2006
Rebecca Haidt, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, read poetry by Federico Garcia Lorca in Spanish with accompanying translation.
Mike Valinis, University Libraries, read from some favorite American poets including William Stafford, Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, Conrad Aiken, Robinson Jeffers and others.
April 20, 2006
Tom Minnick, Office of Minority Affairs, read a selection of poems about Spring, some even focused on April, by a wide variety of poets—Chaucer, Hopkins, cummings, Stevens, and others.
Richard Green, Department of English, read from the works of William McGonagall. It has been said of McGonagall, that he was “so giftedly bad he backed unwittingly into genius.”
April 13, 2006
Pat Peterson, University Libraries, read selections from Marge Piercy and other poets in honor of national Poetry month.
Dona Straley, University Libraries, read a short story by Connie Willis, “Even the Queen“.
April 6, 2006
Susan Metros, CIO Administration, read from her father
William Yenofsky’s published and unpublished World War II recollections. http://history.osu.edu/projects/wwii
March 30, 2006
Joe Shaw University Libraries, read Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown.
Patrick Visel,University Libraries, read from ‘The Midnight Court’ by Brian Merryman..
March 9, 2006
Joanna Anderson - University Libraries, read from: The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Keun “An Illuminating look at the much-mythologized social and sexual mores of Weimar Germany.”– Publishers Weekly
Andrea Cooper - University Libraries read from Flaming Iguanas: an illustrated all-girl road novel by Erika Lopez.
March 2, 2006
Ted Riedinger -University Libraries, read “Once Upon a Time in Ipanema”- from Travelers’ Tales Brazil, true stories of life on the road.
Linda Schoen, Arts & Sciences Administration, read from Sue Monk Kidd’s “When the Heart Waits“.
February 23, 2006
Georgina Dodge, Office of Academic Affairs, read”My Man Bovanne,” by Toni Cade Bambara, a short story from her collection Gorilla, My Love (1972).
Debora Knowles, Office of Development, read selections from Langston Hughes, Michael Wynn, Maya Angelo and Robera Fosten.
Leta Hendricks, University Libraries, readBlues Lyrics by Bessie Smith and Robert Johnson
Cynthia Tyson, College of Education, read from Christopher Paul Curtis’ The Watsons Go to Birmingham. (1963).
2/16/2006
OSU Libraries hosted a special program in the Thompson Main Library Sills Lounge on February 16th from 3-4pm.
The Department of English Medieval Reading Group did a reading performance of Chaucer’s “Parliament of Fowls”
the first Valentine’s Day poem in English.
The reading cast featured Richard Firth Green, Lisa Kiser, Ethan Knapp, Karen Winstead, Christopher Jones, Mike Van Dussen, Ryan Judkins, Kerilyn Harkaway, Henry Griffy, Elizabeth Zimmerman, Dawn Simmons Walts, Sarah Newhouse, and Jennifer Gianfalla.
2/9/2006
Bill Tyler, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
read the short story “Shoes Fit For a Poet” by Osaki Midori.
Naomi Fukumori, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
read selections from: “The Pillow Book” of Sei Shônagon.
2/2/2006
Deb Ballam
Director of the Women’s Place and Associate Provost
read selections from “Crones Don’t Whine: Concentrated Wisdom for Juicy Women” by Jean Shinoda Bolen.
and
Marty Jamison
Head, Science and Engineering Library
read “Total Eclipse” by Annie Dillard.
1/26/2006
Laura Herbert, University Libraries read “Pink and Say” by Patricia Polacco.
Catherine Shaw, University Libraries read The Amazing Bone” by William Steig.
Alexandra Schulltz, Stony Brook College read from “Anne of Green Gables”.
1/19/2006
Mark Boarman, University Libraries read from an essay by Robert D. Kaplan, “Was Democracy Just a Moment?”
Michael Grimes, University Libraries read a short story by Vladimir Nabokov, “Signs and Symbols”.
01/12/2006
A Tribute to David Citino
Morris Beja, Kathy Fagan, Steven Fink and Stuart Lishan
Department of English
read various selections of David Citino’s writings, and selections from David’s favorite poets.
01/05/2006
Linda Mizejewski, Department of Women’s Studies: “Women and Cars: A Love Story”, a selection of poems and prose.
Mark Rankin, Department of English: a read Hugh Latimer’s “Sermon on the Ploughers,” a popular and memorable oration from the most important preacher of the English Reformation.
12/01/2005
Steve Acker, School of Communication, read selections from Robert Grudin, Jeremy Rifkin, and Daniel Pink.
John Bennett, University Libraries read selections from his own writings.
11/17/05
Bill Rich, Department of Mechanical Engineering read selections of poetry including Keats, Yeats, Tennyson and others.
Rebecca Haidt, Department of Spanish & Portuguese read favorite stories about animals from Aesop’s fables and Arnold Lobel’s “Mouse Tales” and “The Frog and Toad Collection.”
11/10/05
Gerry Greenberg, University Libraries read selections from Woody Allen’s writings.
R. Brian Stone, Dept. of Design read from “Graphic Design Sources” by Ken Hiebert and “Inside/outside” by Malcolm Grear.
11/03/05
Joan Herbers, Biological Sciences, read a selection from ‘The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs” by Alexander McCall Smith.
E. J Berman , Biological Sciences, read from “Introductory Lecture” by A. E. Housman.
10/27/05
Bill Tyler, Associate Professor, Japanese Language & Literature, Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures read a short story which he translated from Japanese called “The Lemon” by Kajii. Motojiro.
Fred Roecker, University Libraries, read selections of poetry: ‘To Satch’ by Samuel Allen, ‘The Lesson of the Moth’ (archy and Mehitabel) by Don Marquis and ‘Ulysses’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
10/20/05
Dona Straley, University Libraries, read “Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery” by Deborah and James Howe.
10/13/05
The Medieval Reading Group featured Lisa Kiser and Leslie Lockett, Department of English reading from Old and Middle English including
“Sir Orfeo” and selections from “Beowulf“.
10/6/05
Selections from First Year Experience Buckeye Book Community books “Fast Food Nation“, “Cheating Culture” and “Rocket Boys” were read by Jaime Foster and Kathryn Jakes, College of Human Ecology and Jim Bracken, University Libraries.
9/29/05
Tina Butler, Ohioana Board President read from Michael Dirda’s “An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland“. Also from Ohioana Bob Webner read
from Diane Gilliam Fisher’s “Kettle Bottom” and exerpts from Ian Frazier’s “Lamentation of the Father”.
Ohioana trustee Jane C. Campbell read from the first book in the Nancy Drew series “Secret of the Old Clock” by Mildred Wirt Benson.
9/22/05
Featured readers Christopher Purdy of WOSU and Joe Branin, Dean of Libraries.
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