S. A. Yoder Memorial Lecture "A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread--and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness-- Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!" -- Edward Fitzgerald, "The Rubaiyyat"   An endowment in honor of S. A. Yoder, Professor of English at Goshen College from 1940-70, makes possible a yearly visit to campus by a distinguished speaker in an English-related field. During the fall of 1998, Goshen College will welcome Donald Hall, poet, as the 1998-9 S. A. Yoder Memorial Lecturer. The Yoder lecturer for 200-2001 was Nick C. Lindsay, faculty member since 1969 and Goshen College poet-in-residence until 2000. Nick has studied at the University of South Carolina, Columbia University, Fordham University, the University of West Virginia and Indiana University. In addition to earning his living by building boats, Nick lectures, gives poetry readings, and contributes to programs on his poet-father, Vachel Lindsay. Nick's October 2000 visit included a convocation presentation on "Bringing in the Miss Maxine" and an alumni weekend reading from his book The Magnificent Storm (Pinchpenny, 2000) 2000 -- Nick Lindsay, poet, Edisto Island, South Carolina 1999 -- David Dabydeen, novelist & poet, England & Guyana 1998 -- Donald Hall, poet, New Hampshire 1997 - Denise Levertove, poet, Seattle, Washington 1997 -- Jane Tompkins, critic, Duke University 1996 -- Scott Russell Sanders, essayist, Bloomington, Ind. 1994 -- Rudy Wiebe, novelist, Edmondton 1993 -- Yevgeny Yevtushenko, poet, Moscow 1993 -- Gwendolyn Brooks, poet, Chicago 1992 -- Seamus Heaney, poet, Dublin 1990 -- Joyce Campion, actress, Toronto 1989 -- William Stafford, poet, Oregon 1988 -- Niyi Osundare, poet, Nigeria 1987 -- Robert Detweiler, scholar, Emory University 1986 -- Colleen J. McElroy, poet, University of Washington 1985 -- Garrison Keillor, humorist, Minnesota 1984 -- Madeleine L'Engle, fiction, Connecticut 1983 -- Peter Fallon, poet, County Meath, Ireland 1982 -- Jan Harold Brunvand, folklorist, University of Utah 1981 -- Quince Duncan, novelist, Costa Rica 1980 -- Eliot Wigginton, Foxfire project, Appalachia 1979 -- Nuruddin Farah, novelist, Somalia 1978 -- Charles Forker, Shakespeare scholar, Indiana University 1977 -- Lucille Beachy, Associate Editor of Newsweek, New Jersey 1976 -- Yorifumi Yaguchi, poet, Japan 1975 -- Rudy Wiebe, novelist, Edmondton 1974 -- Tom Driver, critic, Union Theological Seminary 1973 -- Eugene Nida, linguist, American Bible Society 1972 -- Chad Walsh, poet, Beloit College To be put on the mailing list that announces the event each year, contact: ervinb@goshen.edu copyright 2000.english dept site. maintained by Linda Kimpel