Notes and Queries
The Society of American Archivists (SAA)
will hold its 1994 annual meet-
ing at the Westin Hotel in Indianapolis,
Indiana, September 6 through
September 11. The general theme will be
"The Archival Core: Defining the
Profession in the Information Age."
For more information about the meeting
contact either Bruce L. Johnson,
Director of the Library at the Indiana
Historical Society, at (317) 232-1879,
or Eric Pumroy, Head of Special
Collections and Archives at Indiana University-Purdue
University at
Indianapolis, at (317) 274-0462. Johnson
and Pumroy are serving as co-
chairs of the local Host Committee for
the meeting.
The historian of the Hillsboro First
United Methodist Church is seeking to
improve that church's collection of
historical information on Hillsboro
Methodism. This includes information
about: Ambrose Chapel United
Brethren Church, the Old Constitution
United Brethren Ambrose Class and
Hillsboro Mission, United Brethren
Hillsboro District Leaders, the Hillsboro
District of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, Hillsboro M.E. Station, Hillsboro
M.E. Circuit,Hillsboro African Methodist
Episcopal Church (Black Rock and
Wayman Chapels), Leesburg A.M.E.
Society, Hillsboro Wesleyan Church,
and Hillsboro Female College. Any
evidence of a Women's Christian
Association before the 1873 Crusade is
also welcome. Contact: Church
Historian, First United Methodist
Church, 133 E. Walnut St., Hillsboro, Ohio
45133-1499.
The Western Reserve Historical Society
has received the papers of Julian I.
Krawcheck, retired commentary columnist
and reporter for the Cleveland
Press. The collection consists of material from his early
career as a reporter
in Charlotte, North Carolina; scrapbooks
of Krawcheck's Cleveland Press
newstories and series from the years
1949-1977; and the complete collection
of the union newspaper, the Cleveland
Record, printed during the newspaper
strike of 1963. Of greatest
significance are Krawcheck's unpublished articles
and interviews and the research notes,
memos, and drafts used for his
columns and series. For further
information about this collection, contact the
Library Director, Western Reserve
Historical Society, 10825 East Blvd.,
Cleveland, Ohio 44106.
The Kentucky Historical Society has
presented its 1993 Richard H. Collins
Award to A. Gwynn Henderson, staff
archaeologist at the Program for
Cultural Resource Assessment, University
of Kentucky. The award, designed
to recognize outstanding research and
writing, was given for Henderson's ar-
ticle entitled "Dispelling the
Myth: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century