Notes on past meetings from Renaissance News and Notes:


1984

President, Maryanne C. Horowitz
The RCSC meeting was held April 7 at Occidental College.

1983

President, Gilbert McEwen, Whittier College
The RCSC met April 30 at Whittier College. The following papers were delivered:
Jon C. Moynes (CSU Long Beach), Belarius, Disdain and the King of the Moors: Lord Mayor’s Show Giants in Cymbeline and The Faerie Queene
Roger Owens (Whittier College), Images of Sustenance in Herbert’s The Temple
Elizabeth Truax (Chapman College), Heroes and Fools: Portraits of Metamorphosis in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Edward Tayler (Columbia University), Donne’s Idea of the Woman (And Not as She Was)
Virginia Tufte (USC), For Solitude Sometimes is Best Society: Aloneness and Companionship in Milton’s Eden
Edward Gosselin (CSU Long Beach), Dr. Bruno’s Solar Medicine



1977

The RCSC held its annual meeting at the Huntington Library on April 23. The following papers were delivered:
William R. Ringler, Jr. (U of Chicago), What Happened to Medieval Romance?
Arthur King (Brigham Young U), Affectation in the Language of Renaissance Writers
Eleanor Searle (UCLA), Controlling the Ladies: the Medieval Background to an Offensive Renaissance Practice
Angus Fletcher (CUNY), Alchemy, Emptiness, and the Search for Repose: Some Thoughts on the English Renaissance
James Riddell (California State University, Dominguez Hills), The Earliest English Dictionaries

1975

President, James E. Phillips, UCLA
Vice-President, Katherine Carter, California State University, Los Angeles
Secretary-Treasurer, Gilbert D. McEwen, Whittier College


1974

President, John M. Steadman, Huntington Library
The RCSC held its annual meeting April 27 at the Huntington Library. The following papers were presented:
L.A. Beaurline (U of Virginia), Jonson’s Comic Wonder: Poetaster and Its Tradition
Arthur F. Kinney (U of Massachusetts), Rhetoric and Trust in Renaissance English Fiction
James O. Wood (California State University, San Jose), Some Indirect Light on Shakespeare’s Pericles
Robert R. Wark (Huntington Art Gallery), Renaissance Bronzes in the Huntington Collection
Stanley Fish (UC Berkeley), Milton’s Aesthetic of Testimony


1973

The RCSC held its annual meeting April 28 at the University of Southern California. The following papers were delivered:
Katherine Carter (California State University, Los Angeles), The Rhetoric of Praise: Blasons and Encomia of Men and Women in England’s Heroicall Epistles
Jackson Cope (University of Southern California), Marlowe’s Dido and the Titillating Children
Barbara MacEachern (University of Southern California), The Court as Emblem and Scene in Renaissance Drama”
Cecil Grayson (Oxford University), Some Reflections on Italian Humanism
Shirley Blum (UC, Riverside), Rogier van der Weyden’s Seven Sacraments Atlar Piece
In conjunction with the conference a program of Renaissance music was presented by the Pro Musica Singers, an exhibition of paintings, mainly from USC’s Armand Hammer Collections was arranged, and recent scholarly books by members of the Conference were on display.


1972

The RCSC held its annual meeting April 29 at Loyola University. The following papers were delivered:
Majie P. Sullivan (Loyola University), “Synchronistic Iconography of St. Thomas More after Holbein”
Richard C. Rierdan (Pepperdine College), “Italian Magicians and the English Poets”
Clarie Pfenniger (Loyola University), “La Grivoiserie de Le Printemps d’Yver: ou, ‘Cupid’s Cautels,” la vengeane patriotique de Jacques Yver”


1970

President, Robert S. Kinsman, UCLA
Vice-President, Frank Sullivan, Loyola University
Secretary, Alice Scoufos, California State College, Fullerton


1969

The RCSC held its annual meeting April 4th at the Claremont Colleges. The following papers were delivered:
John H. Geerken (Scripps College), Valla and Erasmus as Renaissance Philologists: Some Preliminary Findings
Lewis W. Spitz (Stanford University), Christian Humanism in the Reformation
James E. Phillips (UCLA), Erasmus, the Sidneys, and the Singing of Psalms
Ricardo J. Quinones (Claremont Men’s College), Graftings on Native Stock: Erasmus and the Elizabethan Investment in Progeny


1968

President, Thomas E. Wright, San Fernando Valley College
Vice-President, James Thorpe, Huntington Library
Secretary, Ricardo J. Quinones, Claremont Men’s College

1967

President, Charles Speroni, UCLA
Vice-President, Thomas Wright, San Fernando Valley College
Secretary-Treasurer, Ricardo Quinones, Claremont Men’s College
The RCSC held its spring meeting on April 15 at the Huntington Library, with a program designed to commemorate the tercentenary of Milton’s Paradise Lost.
The following papers were presented:
J. Max Patrick, “Milton as Secretary for Foreign Tongues: New Light on the State Papers”
Merritt Y. Hughes, “Merit in Paradise Lost”
John M. Steadman, “Milton’s Rhetoric and the Persona of Paradise Lost”
Christopher Grose, “Rhetoric and Visual Perception in Paradise Lost
A musical program consisting of harpsichord solos by Malcolm Hamilton and vocal solos by Donn Weiss was offered, and a special Milton Paradise Lost exhibition was also arranged.

1966

The RCSC held its annual meeting on April 30 at Whittier College. Speakers included: S.T. Bindoff (U of London) on “An Untoward Incident in a Tudor Parliament”; Martha Golden (UC Riverside) on “Judges and Justice in Richard II”; Ricardo Quinones (Claremont Men’s College) on “Monuments of Time: Poetry and Spenser’s Ideal of Civilization.”


1965

The RCSC met May 15 at the new campus of the University of California, San Diego. Conferees included Paul O. Kristeller speaking on “Pico della Mirandola and his Sources” and E.B. Partridge on “Jonson’s Comedy of Affliction”

1964

The RCSC held its annual meeting on May 2 at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. Morning addresses included Robert S. Kinsman, “Skelton and the Olde Sayde Sawe: A Pattern for Magnyfycence” and Americo Castro, “Living Spanish Humanism.”
Post-luncheon remarks by Lynn White described activities of the new Medieval-Renaissance Center at UCLA.


1963

President, John M. Steadman, Huntington Library
Vice President, Dante Della Terza, UCLA
Secretary-Treasurer, Ernst Ekman, UC Riverside


1962

The RCSC met April 28, 1962 at UCLA with Robert S. Kinsman, chairman. The following papers were read:
Phillip W. Damon (UC Santa Barbara), Dante’s Theological Allegory & Spenser’s “Darke Conceit”
Gerhart B. Ladner (Fordham University), Renaissance: A Metaphor of Birth of a Botanical Metaphor?
Walter F. Starkie (Gypsy Lore Society), Cervantes and the Gypsies
Joseph H. Silverman (UCLA), A Recent Lope de Vega Discovery in Madrid


1960

President, William Elton, UC Riverside
Vice-President, Walter M. Crittenden, UCLA
Vice-President, John H. Gleason, Pomona College
Secretary-Treasurer, Paul M. Laporte, Immaculate Heart College
Councillor, Robert S. Kinsman, UCLA


1958

The RCSC held its annual meeting at Claremont on April 19. The theme was “Freedom and Authority in the Renaissance.”
President, Ernest Strathmann
Vice-Presidents, Karl M. Birkmeyer and Hallett Smith
Secretary-Treasurer, Mark H. Curtis
Councillors, Edward S. Peck, Karl M. Birkmeyer, French Fogle