Notes and Queries
The Fall Meeting of the Ohio Academy of
History will be October 13-14,
1989, at Ohio University.
The Missouri Valley History Conference,
sponsored by the University of
Nebraska at Omaha's History Department
will be held March 8-10, 1990.
Those interested in further information
concerning the conference should
contact Jerold Simmons, Program
Coordinator, MVHC, Department of His-
tory, University of Nebraska at Omaha,
Omaha, Nebraska 68182.
The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum
Commission's Thirteenth Annual
Conference on Black History in
Pennsylvania will be held May 4 and 5, 1990,
in Allentown, Pennsylvania. For more
information contact: Black History
Conference Coordinator, Division of
History, Pennsylvania Historical and
Museum Commission, Box 1026, Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania 17108-1026.
Recent activities, awards, appointments,
promotions, resignations, and
retirements, within the academic
community of historians include: Keith L.
Bryant has been named professor and
department head at the University of
Akron; Larry Simon joins the University
of Akron as an assistant professor;
Bluffton College's James H. Satterwhite
has received an IREX research grant
and a Fulbright Faculty Research Abroad
Program grant and will be on leave
from December 1988 to November 1989;
Bowling Green State University's
William R. Rock retired in June 1989
after thirty-one years in the department;
Fujiya Kawashima of Bowling Green State
University recently did some
research in Korea with the aid of an
International Society of Korea and
Academy of Studies grant; Ronald Pollitt
of the University of Cincinnati won
the Ohio Academy of History's 1988
Teaching Award; John Heitmann of the
University of Dayton received the 1988
L. Kemper Williams Prize in Louisiana
History; Larry Schweikart of the
University of Dayton has been promoted to
associate professor; James H. Krukones
and Roger W. Purdy have been named
assistant professors at John Carroll
University; Henry Leonard of Kent State
University received the 1988 College of
Arts and Sciences Distinguished
Teaching Award; Kent State University's
Felix Ekechi and William Howland
Kenney, III, have received NEH grants;
Gerald Newman of Kent State
University has been promoted to
professor; Louis Patras, Kent State
University-Stark Campus, has been
promoted to professor; Stanley Garfinkel,
Kent State University-Geauga Campus, has
been promoted to associate
professor; Constance Bouchard of Kenyon
College recently received a grant
from the American Philosophical Society;
Elliott J. Gorn of Miami University
has been granted tenure and promoted to
associate professor; Jack Temple
Kirby succeeds Ronald E. Shaw as Miami
University's W. E. Smith Professor
of American Economic Life and will be on
leave during the 1989-90 second
semester; David M. Fahey and Allan M.
Winkler of Miami University will be
on leave during the 1989-90 second
semester; Mary Brennan, Tatyana
Nestorova-Matejic, and Thomas Pegram
received temporary appointments as
instructors at The Ohio State
University; Robert Baum of The Ohio State