MONROE — The Green County Genealogical Society (GCGS) will host “The 1972 Supreme Court Decision in Wisconsin versus Yoder” — presented by Mark Louden.

The presentation is Sept. 13 at 10 a.m. in the Monroe Public Library community room on the second floor. Note the meeting will be the second Saturday of September.

Louden will speak about the 1972 Supreme Court decision in Wisconsin v. Yoder, which upheld Amish parents’ right to determine their children’s education on religious grounds. It is considered a landmark in American constitutional history. In this presentation he will discuss the background to the case, which began in New Glarus, and its implications today, more than 50 years after the decision was handed down.

Louden is a linguist who received his training in Germanic linguistics at Cornell University. A fluent speaker of Pennsylvania Dutch, he has published extensively on this language and other German-American varieties, as well as Yiddish. In addition to his position as the Alfred L. Shoemaker, J. William Frey, and Don Yoder Professor of Germanic Linguistics in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+, he directs the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies and is affiliated with the Religious Studies and Language Sciences programs and the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies. He serves as an interpreter and cultural mediator for Plain people (Amish and traditional Mennonites) in multiple settings, especially health care.

Those with questions about the meeting or presentation, call Donna at 608-921-1537. The GCGS Research Center (located in the lower level of the Monroe Public Library is open to the public for research 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesdays. Other times available by appointment. For more information, call 608-328-7436 or go to www.greencogenealogywi.org.