Notes and Queries
Recent promotions, appointments, and
retirements within the academic
community of Ohio historians include:
Lester Lee appointed as an Assistant
Professor at Antioch College; Gary R.
Hess will succeed Edmund J. Danzing-
er as Department Chair at Bowling Green State
University; William R. Rock
has been named as a Graduate Advisor and
Michael Moore as an Under-
graduate Advisor at Bowling Green State
University; Virginia B. Platt, Profes-
sor Emeritus, was recently appointed to
a full term on the Bowling Green
State University Board of Trustees;
Thomas Knox, Ronald Seavoy, and Da-
vid Weinberg have been granted leaves of
absence for all or part of the
1985-86 academic year by Bowling Green
State University; Robert W. Twy-
man of Bowling Green State University
has taken early retirement after thirty-
six-and-one-half years of service; James
H. Satterwhite has been appointed
to teach European History at Bluffton
College; Kenneth Davison of Heidel-
berg College has been reappointed to the
Seneca County Museum Board;
Kent State University granted sabbatical
leaves to Robert P. Swierenga and
Yeh-Chien Wang; John Snyder of Kent
State University retired in June but
will continue to teach on a part-time
basis; Joan Cadden will be on leave from
Kenyon College during 1985-86 in order
to work on a book; Miami University
recently promoted Michael J. Hogan and
Maynard William Swanson to Pro-
fessor; Kenneth J. Andrien, James R.
Bartholomew, Alan D. Beyerchen,
Mansel Blackford, John C. Burnham, and
Hao Chang will be on leave during
part or all of the 1985-86 year from The
Ohio State University; Williamson
Murray and Carole R. Rogel have been
granted leaves of absence from The
Ohio State University; Michael W. Curran
of The Ohio State University has
been appointed Dean of the University
College; The Ohio State University's
K. Austin Kerr and Joseph H. Lynch have
been promoted to the rank of Pro-
fessor and Kenneth M. Hamilton to the
rank of Assistant Professor with ten-
ure; Eve Levin, Randolph A. Roth, and
David E. Dauer, joined the faculty
of The Ohio State University; Rio Grande
College promoted both Marcella
B. Barton and Ivan M. Tribe to Associate
Professor; Bogdan C. Novak and
Larry D. Wilcox of the University of
Toledo will be on leave during the
1985-86 academic year; and Lloyd Lapp
and Ivan Scott of the University of
Toledo have retired.
The Sixth Annual Symposium on Illinois
History will be held November
29-30, 1985, in Springfield, Illinois.
Papers and sessions will consider aspects
of the history, literature, art and
culture, politics, geography, archaeology,
anthropology, and related fields of
Illinois and/or the Ohio and Mississippi
Valleys. For details contact the
Illinois State Historical Library, Old State
Capitol, Springfield, Illinois 62706.
The Ohio Academy of History will hold
its annual meeting on April 19,
1986, at Capital University in Columbus,
Ohio. If you wish to submit a paper
topic, submit a title and 100-word
abstract to Erving E. Beauregard, Depart-
ment of History, University of Dayton,
Dayton, Ohio 45469, prior to January
3, 1986.