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.
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The Society for German-American Studies
will hold its Tenth Annual
Meeting and Symposium at the University
of Cincinnati on April 24-26, 1986.
The meeting will be sponsored by the
University Libraries, the German De-
partment, and the Goethe House New York
at the University. Inquiries
should be addressed to either Jerry
Glenn (c/o German Department) or Don
Heinrich Tolzman (c/o Reference Department)
at the University of Cincinnati,
Cincinnati, Ohio 45221.
The Durham-based Forest History Society,
an affiliate of Duke University,
is coordinating a team of researchers in
a comprehensive historical study of
the southern forest. The U.S. Forest
Service is contracting the study with
matching funds provided by the R. A.
Long Foundation of Kansas City and
the Mitchell Foundation at Mobile,
Alabama. The investigation will result in
a six-part report on the development of
the South's woodlands from the be-
ginning of European settlement to the
present. Participants include Robert S.
Maxwell, H. R. Josephson, Ed Kerr,
Robert Nonnemacher, Walter Myers,
and John Gray. Dennis Roth, chief
historian for the Forest Service, is pro-
viding agency oversight. The National
Forest Products Association and the
Association of Southern State Foresters
are cooperating with this important
effort.
The Department of History of Ohio
Wesleyan University recently an-
nounced the establishment of a new
annual lecture series in local history.
The Joseph and Edith Vogel Lecture was
made possible by a generous gift
from Professor Ezra F. Vogel, a
distinguished alumnus of Ohio Wesleyan
University and a native of Delaware,
Ohio, who is currently Professor of East
Asian Studies at Harvard University.
Professor Vogel hopes that the series
would "promote among Ohio Wesleyan
faculty, staff, and students, a better
understanding of Delaware and the
surrounding area." For further informa-
tion concerning this new lecture series,
please contact the Vogel Lecture
Committee, Ohio Wesleyan University,
Delaware, Ohio 43015.
Connecticut State Librarian Clarence R.
Walters recently announced that
bar examination applications which
originated 50 years ago or more are now
available for public examination in the
Archives, History and Genealogy
Unit. Prior to this, Library staff could
make records available only to attor-
neys wanting to examine their own
applications or to persons cleared by the
State Bar Examining Committee. An
agreement signed on November 21, 1984,
by the State Archivist and the
Committee's Administrative Director opens
files originating in 1934 or earlier.
Access to files created within the last 50
years will continue to be governed by
the Committee's restrictions but will
gradually open on an annual basis. The bar examination
applications should
be useful to legal historians, scholars,
and attorneys. For further information,
researchers should contact the Archives,
History and Genealogy Unit at
(203) 566-3692.
The Center for Archival Collections at
Bowling Green State University con-
tinues its Church Records Microfilming
project in cooperation with the Gene-
alogical Society of Utah, with over 75
collections microfilmed by early 1985.
The bulk of these collections include vital statistics
for the period between
1830 and 1918 but some contain records
to the present. The Center also re-
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cently acquired the George and Myrtle
Phillips Collection (Paulding and
Cincinnati, Ohio) 1900-1976 and the
records of the Tiffin Glass Company. For
further information about these and
other holdings, contact the Center for
Archival Collections, 5th Floor, Jerome
Library, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403.
The Western Reserve Historical Society
adopted new public hours for the
History Museum and the Crawford Auto-Aviation
Museum April 1, 1985, due
to a need to reduce operating costs. The
History Museum and the Crawford
Auto-Aviation Museum are open to the
general public from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00
p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and 12:00
noon to 5:00 p.m. Saturday and
Sunday. The hours of the History Library
(9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Tuesday
through Saturday) remain unchanged.
The Ohio Preservation Alliance has been
created to further the cause of
historic preservation in Ohio. Under the
motto "Serving Our Built Environ-
ment," the OPA seeks to unite and
augment existing efforts to make preserva-
tion a part of more Ohioans lives. If
interested in further details, contact
OPA, 22 North Front Street, Columbus,
Ohio 43215.
Indiana University Press recently
announced a new publication series, Mid-
western History and Culture, under the editorship of Thomas J. Schlereth
and James H. Madison. The series aims to
publish important new scholar-
ship in the fields of history, American
studies, folklore, geography, architec-
ture, and literary studies. Monographs
and reprints are to be considered for
the series, as well as interpretive and
synthetic works. While the series focus-
es primarily on the Old Northwest, it
also seeks works which help to define
the region's geographical boundaries in
new and unique ways. The Press and
the series editors welcome for
consideration book-length manuscripts and
detailed book proposals. Inquiries
should be addressed to: Joan Catapano
at Indiana University Press; James H.
Madison at Indiana University; or
Thomas J. Schlereth at the University of
Notre Dame.
The staff of Ohio History wishes
to apologize for several errors which ap-
peared in the Winter-Spring 1985 issue
of the journal. The illustration caption
on page 38 is incorrect - the Hocking
Valley Railroad did not run "from Co-
lumbus to Toledo" as a careful
reading of the article will confirm - and the
heading for the section beginning on
page 75 should read "In Memoriam."
We regret that errors sometimes occur
and thank our readers for bringing
these to our attention.