Notes and Queries
The Society for German-American Studies
will hold its 18th Annual Symposium
Thursday through Sunday, April 14-17,
1994, at The Pennsylvania State University.
The main topics will include
"Gateway to the New World: German Migration to and
from Pennsylvania from 1683-1993,"
"The Pennsylvania Germans: History and
Culture," and,
"German-American Studies: New Projects, New Insights." For further
information about the symposium, contact
Eric Loop, The Pennsylvania State
University, 410 Keller Conference
Center, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802-1304.
The thirty-seventh annual Missouri
Valley History Conference will be held in
Omaha, Nebraska, March 10-12, 1994. For
information concerning the conference,
contact: Dale Gaeddert, Chair MVHC,
University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha,
Nebraska 68182.
Cathy Ames, currently the Historian for
the Ohio High School Volleyball Coaches
Association, is seeking information on
Girls' High School Volleyball in Ohio from the
years 1895 through 1972. The information
will be used in connection with her job
and to further work she began as a
graduate student at Ohio University. Helpful
information would include names of
individuals that either played or coached in Ohio
high schools (especially prior to 1950),
action shots or team photographs, past
rulebooks, and any other items of
related interest. If you can be of any help, please
contact Cathy Ames at River View High
School, 26496 SR 60 N, Warsaw, Ohio
43844.
The Western Reserve Historical Society
opened its newly-built Reinberger Gallery
in May 1993. The new structure unifies
the Society's Museum and Library entrances
and will serve as the visitor
orientation and program area, will house the Museum
Shop, and will have available rental
space for special events. An important feature of
the new building is the Ferro mural, a
72-by-28 foot mural once known as the world's
largest porcelain enamel mural which was
created for the 1939 World's Fair in New
York City by the Ferro Enamel
Corporation and Cleveland artist Daniel Boza.
The first annual Herbert Hoover Book
Award, presented by the Hoover Presidential
Library Association, was given to Melvyn
P. Leffler for his book, A Preponderance of
Power: National Security, the Truman
Administration and the Cold War. Leffler
is a
professor and chairman of the department
of history at the University of Virginia and
has authored more than two dozen books
and articles on twentieth century American
history. The prize, earmarked for the
best scholarly book on any aspect of American
history during Mr. Hoover's half century
of public service, consists of a bronze
medallion struck by the United States
Mint and an honorarium of $2,500. For further
information about the Herbert Hoover
Book Award contact the Hoover Presidential
Library Association, Box 696, West
Branch, Iowa 52358.
The Forest History Society recently
announced several prize winners. Colin A. M.
Duncan, a professor in the History
Department at Queen's University (Kingston,
Ontario), won the Theodore C. Blegen
Award for his article, "On Identifying a Sound
Environmental Ethic in History,"
which appeared in Environmental History Review.
The Ralph W. Hidy Award went to David
Backes, an assistant professor of mass