Ohio History Journal

Historical News

 

 

 

THE ELEUTHERIAN MILLS-HAGLEY FOUNDATION, in cooperation with

the University of Delaware, is again offering two fellowships in Ameri-

can history and museum training. The fellowships carry an annual

stipend of $1,800, renewable for the second year, and lead to a master's

degree.

 

The fourteenth annual spring exhibition at the Historical and Philo-

sophical Society of Ohio, "The Turn of the Century, Cincinnati from

1890 to 1910," will be held from April 22 through June 26.

 

Leslie H. Fishel, Jr., was installed as director of the State Historical

Society of Wisconsin on October 31, 1959. Dr. Fishel was formerly

a member of the staff at Oberlin College.

 

Richard C. Knopf, staff historian of the Anthony Wayne Parkway

Board, is the transcriber and editor of a volume entitled Anthony

Wayne: A Name in Arms, a compilation of the correspondence between

General Wayne and the three secretaries of war during the Indian wars

in the Old Northwest, 1792-96. The 566-page book, published by the

University of Pittsburgh Press, is fully illustrated. Mr. Knopf is also

the author of a small volume for school children entitled Indians in the

Ohio Country published recently by Modern Methods.

On January 18, 1960, J. Richard Lawwill, director of the board, Ralph

W. Peters, chairman of the board, and Mr. Knopf attended the confer-

ence on planning a sesquicentennial commemoration of the War of 1812

in the Northwest. James M. Babcock, chief of the Burton Historical

Collection, was chairman of the conference, and Mr. Knopf served as

secretary.

 

Under the editorship of Daniel F. Prugh, director of the society,

the Franklin County Historical Society has brought out a new his-

torical quarterly entitled Landmarks. The first issue, which appeared

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in February, has twenty-four pages, but it is hoped in time to enlarge

the magazine substantially. The plan, according to Robert W. Newlon,

president of the society, is to publish longer authoritative articles on

people and events in Franklin County and those of more general in-

terests as well. Authors of such articles are encouraged to submit

them to the editor. Articles should be limited to two thousand words

but may be accompanied by drawings and photographs.

 

Louis Filler of the department of history at Antioch College is on

leave for the second semester of the current year to serve as visiting

professor of American civilization at the State University of Iowa.

Dr. Filler also served as chairman of the session on "Slavery and

Abolition" at the annual meeting of the American Historical Associa-

tion in Chicago last December, and was on the program of the annual

meeting of the Central Mississippi Valley American Studies Associa-

tion at Iowa City on March 26.

 

Since the first of November last year, Hilmar Grimm, chairman of

the history department at Capital University, has been putting on a

weekly television show on American history every Friday morning at

7:15-7:45, on Channel 10, WBNS-TV, as a part of the week-day

program called "University Hall."

 

Robert Seager of the Denison University history staff received an

award for the best article published by the Pacific Historical Review

during 1959.

 

Landon Warner, chairman of the history department at Kenyon

College, will be on a sabbatical leave the second semester of 1959-60.

In his absence Charles R. Ritcheson will be acting head of the depart-

ment. Dr. Warner has been appointed a trustee of the Martha Kinney

Cooper Ohioana Library Association to fill the vacancy left by the

death of Robert S. Fletcher of Oberlin College.

James Butler, who has just completed his Ph.D. degree at Ohio State

University, has been appointed a visiting instructor for the second

semester.

 

William F. Zornow of Kent State University has a new book, America

at Mid-Century, published by Howard Allen, Inc.

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Harris G. Warren, chairman of the history department at Miami

University, has just completed his stint as a member of the Robertson

Memorial Award Committee of the Conference for Latin American

History.

 

Sister Mary Patrice, S.N.D., chairman of the history department at

Notre Dame College, recently spoke before the Women's Discussion

Council on World Affairs on "Brazil, Country Between Two Worlds."

She also has an article scheduled for publication in a forthcoming issue

of the History Teachers' Quarterly of the University of Notre Dame.

 

Robert S. Fletcher, chairman of the department of history at Oberlin

College, died on December 14, 1959, after nearly thirty-three years

on the Oberlin faculty. Dr. Fletcher, who held his M.A. and Ph.D.

degrees from Harvard, was the author of a two-volume history of Oberlin

College. His most recent book, Eureka: From Cleveland by Ship to

California, was published only last year.

Thomas LeDuc has been named chairman of the department in Dr.

Fletcher's stead.

James C. Davis, instructor in history, was awarded the 1959 prize of

the Society for Italian Historical Studies for the best unpublished study

on the history of modern Italy. The two-hundred-dollar prize was in

recognition of Dr. Davis' manuscript, "The Venetian Ruling Class in

the Last Centuries of the Republic: Problems of a Closed Caste."

 

Summer plans for several history professors at Ohio Northern Uni-

versity have been announced. Anthony L. Milnar will travel in Europe

visiting England, Germany, Poland, and Russia; Edgar Gray will be

a member of the summer session faculty at Wilmington College; and

Wilfred E. Binkley will be visiting professor at Bowling Green State

University.

 

Harold J. Grimm, chairman of the history department at Ohio State

University, delivered three in a series of nine lectures on Martin Luther

at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, November 8-11, 1959.

Foster Rhea Dulles lectured and directed a seminar on American

foreign policy at Salzburg, Austria, during January. He also delivered

several lectures at the University of Belgrade in Yugoslavia.

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Sydney N. Fisher, recently returned from a year in Turkey, spoke

to a convention of high school teachers at the University of Kansas

in Lawrence in September. He also addressed a convocation at Western

College for Women in December. His topic on both occasions was

"The Development of Democracy in Turkey."

Charles Morley is on research leave during the winter quarter to work

on a source book in Russian history.

Lowell Ragatz returned to Ohio State in March to resume his teach-

ing duties after a tour of teaching and lecturing in Japan.

Andreas Dorpalen read a paper on "Man and His Destiny: The

Darwin-Marx-Wagner Debate, 1859-1959" at the Darwin-Marx-Wag-

ner Conference held at Ohio State University in late October 1959. Dr.

Dorpalen also read a paper at the American Historical Association

convention in Chicago in December on "New Views on the German

Empire, 1871-1918."

Francis P. Weisenburger was among a group of American scholars

invited to attend a program on January 29 and 30 which honored Theo-

dore Blegen, retiring dean of the graduate school at the University

of Minnesota.

Clayton Roberts is spending the year in England doing research in

London on Stuart history.

 

Carl Gustavson will spend the second semester and the summer of

1960 in central and eastern Europe, on leave from Ohio University.

Most of his time will be spent in Germany, with side trips to other

countries.

The library at Ohio University has acquired the complete microcard

file of the New York Times from Volume I, Number 1.

 

At Ohio Wesleyan University, C. E. Van Sickle, professor and

chairman of the history department, has been named professor emeritus.

David Jennings has been promoted from associate professor to professor

and designated chairman of the history department for a two-year term.

Richard W. Smith was elevated from assistant professor to associate

professor.

 

David K. McCarrell and Anne McCarrell have been employed to

teach in the history department at Rio Grande College.

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Sister Mary Jude, assistant professor of history at the College of

Saint Mary of the Springs, was awarded the first prize by Time mag-

azine for an article "How I Use Time in My Teaching," in the college

division of a contest recently conducted by Time.

 

At Wittenberg University, H. H. Haeussler has been promoted to

associate professor and David B. Chan to assistant professor.

Robert G. Hartje, chairman of the department, had an article "Earl

Van Dorn in Tennessee," appearing in the Tennessee Historical Quar-

terly for Summer 1959, and Dr. Haeussler had one entitled "Introduc-

tion to Gerhard Ritter," in a recent issue of Midwestern Review.

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