Notes and Queries
The Archives-Library Division of The
Ohio Historical Society is pleased to
announce the opening of the Michael
DiSalle Papers to the public. DiSalle
was governor of Ohio from 1959 to 1963.
The collection contains 391 boxes of
material covering, in part, DiSalle's
years as governor; the national elections
of 1960, 1964, and 1968; the Ohio
gubernatorial elections of 1956, 1958, and
1962; as well as material dealing with
DiSalle's early career as a member of
the Ohio House of Representatives, and
Director of Price Stabilization from
1950 to 1952. A more complete inventory
is available in the Society's library.
The Society of American Archivists has
begun a comprehensive archival
security program. Major facets of the
project will be supported by a $99,690
grant from the National Endowment for
the Humanities. Ann Morgan
Campbell, Executive Director of the SAA,
will direct the project and Timothy
G. Walch has joined the Society's
Chicago staff as associate director of the
program. He will assume primary
responsibility for implementation of various
phases of the work plan. Kathryn M.
Nelson will be program assistant for the
project.
The staff is now involved in a
large-scale investigation of the nature and
extent of the archival security problem
and of possible solutions. Legal and
technical experts, manuscript dealers,
as well as archivists and manuscript
curators, will be consulted.
The agenda for the program is as
follows. A registry of missing manuscripts
will be established by spring 1976. A
format will be devised within the next
few months and solicitation of listings
will begin by the end of this year. A
special section of the SAA Newsletter
will be devoted to security develop-
ments. Eventually, distribution of
security news will be broadened to include
non-member, interested parties. By fall
1976, a consultant service will make
competent experts available to archival
institutions to advise them in the
areas of security systems, internal
archival procedures, legal problems, and
other aspects of archival security. The
project will culminate in 1977 with the
publication of an archival security
manual.
For further information please write to
the Associate Director, SAA Archival
Security Program, Society of American
Archivists, Box 8198, University of
Illinois, Chicago Circle, Chicago,
Illinois 60680.
The Berkshire Conference of Women
Historians is pleased to announce the
award of its annual prizes for the best
article and book published by a wo-
man. The prize for the best article was
awarded to Mary Martin McLaughlin
for her "Survivers and Surregates:
Children and Parents from the Ninth to
the Thirteenth Centuries," in the History
of Childhood, edited by Lloyd de
Mause. This year two book awards were
given, one to Kathryn Kish Skier for
her Catherine Beecher: A Study in
American Domesticity (Yale University
Press), the other to Lois Green
Schwoerer for No Standing Armies! (Johns
Hopkins Press).
The next prize will be awarded in June,
1976, for a book and article pub-
lished in 1975 by a woman historian.
Submit two copies of all entries to Gab.
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rielle M. Spiegel, Department of
History, University of Maryland, College
Park, Maryland, 20742 by February 15,
1976.
Charles Dollar will be the keynote
speaker at the annual Great Lakes Re-
gional History Conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan,
April 22-24, 1976. The
title of Dr. Dollar's presentation will
be "Quantitative-Qualitative: Can the
new History be all things to all
Historians." This conference is intended to
provide a history forum for the North
Central states and the program commit-
tee welcomes participants from all
institutions, universities, colleges, junior
colleges and high schools. Sessions or
papers dealing with any aspect of his-
tory will be considered. Those
interested in presenting a paper or session should
send a precis to Professor Anthony R.
Travis, Department of History, Grand
Valley State Colleges, Allendale,
Michigan 49401.
The Third Annual California State
History Forum will meet on April 17,
1976. Proposals for papers or sessions,
particularly relative to western
Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, and northern
West Virginia should be directed to
J. Kent Folmar, Department of History,
California State College, California,
Pennsylvania 15419.
In the "Aeolus" Episode of
James Joyce's novel Ulysses, Dublin news-
paper editor Myles Crawford makes an
allusion to a North Cork Militia under
Spanish officers winning a battle in
Ohio. Joyce scholars have been unable to
find any meaning in the passage, except
as a possible indication of Crawford's
drunken state. Can any historian suggest
an explanation, whether involving a
military unit named "The North Cork
Militia" or one composed chiefly from
Irishmen who had served in that unit? It
might have been a nickname for an
Ohio unit in the Civil War. Anyone
having information is asked to contact
Ms. Ruth Bauerle, Department of English,
Ohio Wesleyan University, Dela-
ware, Ohio 43015.
Patrick Miller of The Ohio Historical
Society is researching Oscar Wilde's
1882 speaking tour in America and Ohio.
Anyone who has publicity items for
the tour, or letters to or from Wilde
during his stay in the United States, is asked
to contact Mr. Miller at the Society in
care of Ohio History.
The Department of History at Kent State
University announced the promo-
tions of John Morris to Associate
Professor at the Trumbull Regional Campus
and Sherman B. Barnes to Professor
Emeritus. Professor Barnes has sub-
sequently entered into retirement.