Historical News
The Sarah Mellon Scaife Foundation of
Pittsburgh has made a grant of
fifteen thousand dollars to the Harmonie
Associates, Inc., for their use in
a program of aid to the Pennsylvania
Historical and Museum Commission in
the restoration of Old Economy at
Ambridge, Pennsylvania, a commission
property. The money will be used to
refurbish the document room and four
administrative research rooms and to
install proper microfilm equipment,
files, and stacks. Provisions in the grant-in-aid
will make possible a qualified
indexer and research archivist to
service the voluminous records of the
Harmony Society. The materials have a
direct bearing on the cultural, social,
and business history of the Ohio Valley
and the Mississippi region from
1805 to 1905.
The Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati
will observe its centennial,
February 27 through March 5. A health
museum and exposition, consisting
of 175 health and scientific exhibits,
will be installed at the Cincinnati Music
Hall. The Honorable C. William O'Neil,
governor of the state of Ohio,
will cut the ribbon at 9:00 A.M. on
February 27. On the program are
several distinguished speakers,
including Dr. Paul D. White, Dr. Walter
Alvarez, and Sir Edward Appleton, Nobel
Laureate, of Edinburgh, Scotland,
who will address the centennial
convocation on the evening of March 5.
Chatham College, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, is one of ten schools in
the country which have received grants
from the Ford Foundation for
Educational Television. The grant
carries the sum of $37,500 on a match-
ing basis to "help educational
television stations secure the participation of
distinguished college and university
teachers in meeting common educational
objectives." Chatham College thus
extends its campus into three states,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia,
with seven half-hour evening tele-
vision programs each week over station
WQED.
Other institutions receiving the Ford
Foundation Grant for Educational
Television to date are Harvard
University, University of Chicago, University
of Illinois, Wayne University,
University of Nebraska, North Carolina State
College, Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
University of Detroit, and Wash-
ington University in St. Louis.