Notes and Queries
A number of scholarly meetings of
interest to Ohio History readers
will be held in April. The Ohio Academy
of History holds its annual spring
meeting April 28-29 at the Fawcett
Center for Tomorrow on the Ohio State
University campus; Ashland College hosts
the regional-state meeting of the
history honorary society, Phi Alpha
Theta, on April 22; and a week later, on
April 29, the Ohio Academy of Medical
History holds its annual meeting at
the Howard Dittrick Museum of Historical
Medicine in Cleveland. The meet-
ing is held jointly with Cleveland's
Henderson Medical History Society.
The Early National Historical Society
holds an organizational meeting at
the New York convention of the
Organization of American Historians later
this month. The group welcomes
historians of any topical area whose inter-
ests lie in the general chronological
period 1789-1828. The new society ex-
pects to put out a newsletter that will
include book reviews, lists of new ar-
ticles and dissertations, and notes on
works in progress. Persons desiring
further information should contact James
H. Broussard, Room 413, 140
North Senate Ave., Indianapolis, Indiana
46204.
The editor of Essays in Public Works
History, a publication of the Public
Works Historical Society, is seeking
documented articles relating to the
broad field of public works
(transportation, water, power, waste collection
and disposal, public buildings, parks,
military installations, and the public
works-engineering profession).
Additional information may be obtained by
writing to Suellen M. Hoy, Public Works
Historical Society, 1313 East 60th
St., Chicago, Illinois 60637.
The Government of Ontario is offering a
cash award of $1,649 to the author
of a manuscript making the most
significant contribution to knowledge and
interpretation of seventeenth-century
Canadian developments. All submis-
sions are due December 31, 1978. More
information is available from Doug
Cole, Manager, Sainte-Marie among the
Hurons, P.O. Box 160, Midland,
Ontario L4R 4K8.
Recent promotions and appointments
within the professional community
of Ohio historians include the
following: Stuart R. Gover and Phillip Mc-
Guire as visiting assistant professors
and John V. Cimprich, Frederick Dahl-
strand, and Richard Ugland as lecturers
at The Ohio State University; Ivan
M. Tribe to assistant professor at Rio
Grande College; Mary Wagener to as-
sistant professor at Wilmington College;
Professor Henry R. Winkler, of the
University of Cincinnati's history
department, has been named President of
the University.
At the University of Dayton, Edwin King
has received a University research
grant for developing a new approach to
teaching state history, and Alice
Vines received funding for preparing
textual materials for teaching the his-
tory of British feminism. John L.
Gaddis, of Ohio University, has received a
Naval War College research fellowship
for summer 1978 and a National En-
dowment for the Humanities fellowship
for 1978-1979. The Department of
Health, Education and Welfare has
granted Paul Simon and Roger Fortin, of
Xavier University, funds to produce a
source book on "Cincinnati's Ethnic
Heritage: Cherish our Differences"
which should be published in August 1978.
Saul Friedman, of Youngstown State
University, was granted a University