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Books Between Bites Program – Books Between Bites Program 1987-2017 United Methodist Church, Batavia: 1987 – 2002 Batavia Public Library (Batavia, IL): beginning Sept. 2002 Lee C. Moorehead, Founder Becky Hoag & Betty Moorehead, Co-Directors Books & Reviewers/Presenters by Year Yes- if video available in Batavia Public Library YEAR DATE Video REVIEWER BOOK/author 1st Season – 1987-88 1987 Sept. 17 Jeff Schielke The Other Side of the Street by Barb and Sid Landfield Mayor of Batavia Historic Guide to Chicago and Its Suburbs By Ira Bach 1987 Oct. 15 Roberta Campbell Empire By Gore Vidal Historian & Columnist for the Chronicle 1987 Nov. 19 Dr. Edward Cave Horace’s Compromise, The Dilemma of the American High School By Batavia School Superintendent Theodore R. Sizer 1988 Jan. 14 Dr. Stephanie Marshall The Closing of the American Mind By Allan Bloom Director, IL Math & Science Academy 1988 Feb. 18 Dr. Mark E. Neely, Jr. Mary Todd Lincoln, A Biography By Jean Baker Resident Lincoln Scholar & Director, Lincoln Library & Museum, Ft. Wayne, IN 1988 March William J. Wood The Van Nortwick Geneology Edited by William B. Van Nortwick 17 Batavian Historian and former principal of JB. Nelson School 1988 April 21 Dr. Lee C. Moorehead Harry Emerson Fosdick, a Biography By Robert Moats Miller Minister of Programs, United Methodist Church, Batavia 1988 May 19 Dr. Seymour Halford The Naked Public Square By Richard John Neuhaus Senior Minister, United Methodist Church, Batavia 2nd Season – 1988-89 1988 Sept. 15 Jeff Schielke The Cycles of American History By Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Mayor of Batavia 1988 Oct. 20 Dr. Leon M. Lederman A Brief History of Time By Stephen W. Hawking Director of Fermilab 1988 Nov. 17 Dr. Stephanie Pace Marshall An Agenda for the 21st Century By Rushworth M. Kidder Director, IL Math & Science Academy 1989 Jan. 12 Wally Preissing Getting Better – Inside Alcoholics Anonymous By Nan Robertson Director, Alcoholism/Drug Dependency Center, Mercy Center 1989 Feb. 16 Dr. Mark E. Neely, Jr. Freedom By William Safire Resident Lincoln Scholar & Director, Louis A. Warren Lincoln Library & Museum, Ft. Wayne, IN 1989 March Margaret Taylor The Story of The Living Bible 16 Translation by Kenneth and Margaret Taylor of Tyndale House 1989 April 20 Nancy Allen The Mythical Yoknapatawpha County of William Faulkner Batavian An exploration of his novels 1989 May 18 Mark Foster Washington Goes to War By David Brinkley Editor, Batavia Chronicle Books Between Bites, Batavia Archive of Programs Books & Presenters by Year Page 1 YEAR DATE Video REVIEWER BOOK/author 3rd Season 1989-1990 1989 Sept. 21 Yes Jeff Schielke A Review of Batavia’s Prominence in the National Media Mayor of Batavia 1989 Oct. 19 Theodore G. Schuster Mixed Blessings By William and Barbara Christopher Attorney & Batavia’s 1988 Citizen of the Year 1989 Nov.16 Mary Lou Kearns Its Always Something By Gilda Radner Kane County Coroner 1990 Jan. 18 David S. Joerg The Mind By Richard M. Restak 1989 graduate of IL Math & Science Academy, Presidential Scholar, member All-USA Academic Team 1990 Feb. 15 Dr. Mark E. Neely, Jr. The Battle Cry of Freedom, The Civil War Era By James M. McPherson Resident Lincoln Scholar & Director, Louis A. Warren Lincoln Library & Museum, Ft. Wayne, IN 1990 March P. Joseph Gillette The Good Times By Russell Baker 15 Editorial Page Editor, Beacon News 1990 April 19 Dr. Edward E. Cave Frames of Mind: the Theory of Multiple Intelligences By Howard Gardner Superintendent, Batavia Schools 1990 May 17 Arlene Nick All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten By Robert Fulghum Editor & Publisher, Windmill News 4th Season 1990-1991 1990 Sept. 20 Jeff Schielke Stage Coach Towns By Arch Merrill Mayor of Batavia 1990 Oct. 18 Phil Elfstrom Men at Work By George F. Will Member of Kane County Board 1990 Nov. 15 Paul Schwab, MD Finding Our Fathers By Samuel Osherson Clinical Associate Professor, Dept. Psychiatry, University of Chicago 1991 Jan. 10 Arlene Nick It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It & All I Really Need to Know I Learned Editor & Publisher, Windmill News in Kindergarten By Robert Fulghum 1991 Feb. 7 Dr. Mark E. Neely, Jr. The Memoirs of Gen. W.T. Sherman & Ulysses S. Grant Memoirs and Resident Lincoln Scholar & Director, Louis A. Warren Lincoln Selected Letters Published by the Library of America Library & Museum, Ft. Wayne, IN 1991 March Mark Foster On Bended Knee, The Press and the Reagan Presidency 21 Editor, Batavia Chronicle By Mark Hertsgaard 1991 April 18 Dr. Seymour Halford Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World Senior Pastor, United Methodist Church, Batavia By Mikhail Gorbachev 1991 May 16 Linda Klepacki Raising PG Kids in an X-Rated Society By Tipper Gore Adolescent Perinatal Educator Hinsdale Hospital 5th Season 1991-1992 1991 Sept. 19 Robert M. Warner The Burden of Proof By Scott Turow Chief of Police, Batavia 1991 Oct. 17 Lee C. Moorehead Six Wars At A Time – the Life and Times of Gutzon Borglum, Sculptor of Mount Rushmore By Howard and Audrey Karl Shaff Books Between Bites, Batavia Archive of Programs Books & Presenters by Year Page 2 YEAR DATE Video REVIEWER BOOK/author 1991 Nov. 21 Dr. Kenneth V. Mull Blessed Are the Peacemakers – A Palestinian Christian in The Occupied Chairman, Dept. Religion, Aurora University West Bank By Audeh Rantisi 1991 Dec. 12 Jeff Schielke Christmas in America By David Cohen Mayor of Batavia 1992 Jan 16 Dr. Harold R. Wilde The Broken Cord By Michael Dorris President, North Central College 1992 Feb. 20 Dr. Mark E. Neely, Jr. A review of recent Lincoln and Civil War Books Resident Lincoln Scholar & Director, Louis A. Warren Lincoln Library & Museum, Ft. Wayne, IN 1992 March Dr. Lyle E. Schaller Religious Change in America and The Catholic Myth 19 Prominent church consultant and author both by Andrew M. Greeley 1992 April 16 Robert French Riley Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig Commerce President, Gary-Wheaton Bank, By Captain James Riley, published in 1817 Great-great-great grandson of Captain Riley 1992 May 21 Jackie Gillenwater Love, Medicine and Miracles By Bernie S. Siegel, M.D. Batavian 6th Season 1992-1993 1992 Sept. 17 Dr. Harold R. Wilde The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours President, North Central College By Marian Wright Edelman 1992 Oct. 15 Dr. Eugene H. Winkler Who Will Tell the People – the Betrayal of American Democracy Senior Minister, Chicago Temple By William Greider (First United Methodist Church) 1992 Nov. 19 Yes Dr. Lee C. Moorehead Lincoln at Gettysburg – the Words that Remade America By Garry Wills Minister Emeritus, United Methodist Church, Batavia 1992 Dec. 17 Helen Thelin Eleanor of Aquitaine and The Four Kings By Amy Kelly Of Batavia, President of Education for Excellence, past chair of ACCESS 1993 Jan 21 Craig A. Livermore, President & CEO Out of the Crisis By W. Edward Deming Delnor-Community Health System 1993 Feb. 18 Jeff Schielke The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt By Edmund Morris Mayor of Batavia 1993 March Dr. Leon Lederman The God Particle By Leon Lederman 18 Former Director of Fermilab, 1988 Nobel Prize Winner Physics 1993 April 15 Dr. Seymour Halford The Mysterious History of Columbus, An Exploration of the Man, the Myth Senior Minister, United Methodist Church, Batavia and the Legacy By John Noble Wilford 1993 May 20 Nancy B. Allen Joseph in Egypt By Thomas Mann Batavian 7th Season 1993-1994 1993 Sept. 16 Dr. Arlo L. Schilling Will Rogers and His Times, 1879-1935 By Richard M. Ketchum President Emeritus, North Central College 1993 Oct. 21 Fred Norris God, Country and Notre Dame By Theodore Hesburgh Mayor of St. Charles Books Between Bites, Batavia Archive of Programs Books & Presenters by Year Page 3 YEAR DATE Video REVIEWER BOOK/author 1993 Nov. 18 Linda A. Schielke First Ladies – The Saga of the Presidents’ Wives and Their Power, 1789- Curriculum Director, Benjamin School Dist., West Chicago 1961 By Carl S. Anthony 1993 Dec. 16 Bishop R. Sheldon Duecker Son of Laughter By Frederick Buechner Episcopal Leader of the Northern IL Conference of the United Methodist Church 1994 Jan. 20 Jeff Schielke Theodore Roosevelt and the Art of Controversy By Willard B. Gatewood, Jr. Mayor of Batavia 1994 Feb. 17 Dr. Lee C. Moorehead American Gothic, The Story of America’s Legendary Theatrical Family – Minister Emeritus, United Methodist Church, Batavia Junius, Edwin and John Wilkes Booth By Gene Smith 1994 March Robert G. Goldsborough Old Detectives Never Die By Robert G. Goldsborough 17 Author 1994 April 21 Dr. Seymour Halford, Truman By David McCullough Senior Pastor, United Methodist Church, Batavia 1994 May 19 Susan Horwitz Schanlaber You Just Don’t Understand By Deborah Tanner Chairman of the Board and President, Aurora National Bank 1994 TBA Dr. Mark E. Neely, Jr. The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America Resident Lincoln Scholar & Director, Louis A. Warren Lincoln B Dr. Mark E. Neely, Jr. Library & Museum, Ft. Wayne, IN 8th Season 1994-1995 1994 Sept. 15 Susan Pellowe A Wesley Family Book of Days Compiled & edited by Susan Pellowe Actress, director, writer 1994 Sept. 24 John D. Callaway The Thing of It Is By John D. Callaway Host of Channel 11’s Chicago Tonight 1994 Oct. 20 Yes Rick Kogan Chicago, City on the Make By Nelson Algren Editor, “Tempo” section, Chicago Tribune 1994 Nov. 17 Alan McCloud Straight A’s Never Mad Anybody Rich – Lessons in Personal Achievement Principal, McWayne School, Batavia By Wess Roberts 1994 Dec. 15 Dr. Seymour Halford, Senior Pastor, The Culture of Disbelief – How American Law and Politics Trivialize United Methodist Church, Batavia Religious Devotion By Stephen C.
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