Ohio History Journal

Historical News

 

 

 

THE OHIO-INDIANA AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION held its fall meet-

ing at Kent State University on November 7, 1959. Papers were read

at the morning session on "Clarence Darrow and the American Liter-

ary Tradition" (Abe C. Ravitz of the department of English, Hiram

College), "Communal Societies on the American Frontier," (Hallock C.

Raup of the department of geography, Kent State), and "Magazine Fic-

tion: Image or Mirage?" (William Coyle of the department of English,

Wittenberg University).

The luncheon meeting was addressed by Edwin H. Cady, professor

of English at Indiana University, on the subject, "American Studies

in the Doldrums: Whistling Up a Breeze."

 

William D. Overman, director of the Firestone Library and Archives,

has announced the appointment of William E. Bigglestone as archivist.

Mr. Bigglestone, who has an M.A. in history from Stanford University,

has been employed at the National Archives for the past two years.

 

A new million-dollar addition to the Western Reserve Historical

Society buildings was opened to the public on November 20, 1959.

The new addition joins the imposing old mansions of Leonard C.

Hanna and Mrs. John Hay at 10825-10915 East Boulevard, Cleve-

land, which have been the headquarters of the society since 1940. The

new structure harmonizes with the Florentine Renaissance style of the

original buildings. The expansion will provide space for the society's

growing collection of books, manuscripts, and museum objects.

The society has recently issued its Publication No. 115, a transla-

tion of Ernst von Schulenburg's Sandusky, Einst und Jetzt, first pub-

lished in 1889. The translation is by Norbert A. Lange and Marion

Cleaveland Lange.

Applications are now being accepted for the College of William and

Mary's Apprenticeship Program in Historical Administration. Spon-

sored by the history department of the college in cooperation with the

Institute of Early American History and Culture and Colonial Wil-

liamsburg, Inc., the fifteen-month program combines academic and

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apprenticeship training. It awards a master's degree and prepares

candidates for positions in historical agencies in the fields of editing,

library operations, and interpretation of historical sites.

Persons with a bachelor of arts degree and twenty hours of history

may apply for a $2,000 assistantship in any of the three fields. Next

year's program begins in June 1960, and applications will be received

until April 1. Application forms and further information may be obtained

from Lawrence W. Towner, Department of History, College of Wil-

liam and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.

The Winterthur Museum of Winterthur, Delaware, is again offering

five fellowships in the two-year course under the Winterthur Program

in Early American Culture, sponsored by the museum in cooperation

with the University of Delaware. The grants will pay $2,000 a year for

the two-year period. The program is designed to prepare outstanding

students (who are college seniors or college graduates) for careers in

administration, curatorship, research, writing, and librarianship with

museums, historical societies, and other historical agencies. Applica-

tions should be filed with the university by February 20, 1960.

The Ohioana Library is preparing for publication a comprehensive

listing of Ohio writers, living and dead, under the title, Ohio Authors

and Their Books. The work is being edited by William Coyle of

Wittenberg University, who hopes to have the manuscript ready for

the printer in the fall of 1960. Many of the writers are not well

known, and information about them is hard to find. The library there-

fore is requesting the cooperation of anyone who may have authentic,

little-known information on any Ohio author.

Howard Allen, who has his Ph.D. from the University of Washing-

ton at Seattle, has been employed as instructor in the department of

history at the University of Akron.

Edgar A. Toppin was a commentator at one of the main sessions

of the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Negro Life

and History at Tallahassee, Florida, October 15-18, 1959.

George W. Knepper, head of the department at Akron, reports that

the university library has recently acquired a fine edition of Banastre

Tarleton's A History of the Campaigns of 1780-1781 (London, 1787).

R. Stanley McCordock, chairman of the history department at

Bowling Green State University, died on Sunday, September 27. Dr.

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McCordock, whose Ph.D. was from Columbia University, came to

Bowling Green as an associate professor of history in 1947. He was

named professor in 1950 and had served as chairman of the department

for the past several years. Grover C. Platt, former chairman, is again

acting in that capacity.

William Rock contributed a chapter to the volume, Power, Public

Opinion, and Diplomacy, published recently in honor of Professor Mal-

colm Carroll of Duke University by the Duke University Press. Dr.

Rock's chapter is entitled "Grand Alliance or Daisy Chain: British

Opinion and Policy Toward Russia."

 

Stanton Ling Davis, associate professor of history at Case Insti-

tute of Technology, will again conduct a study tour of Europe, "Europe

in Historical Perspective," during July and August. This is the tenth

consecutive year that Dr. Davis has directed study tours in Europe.

The forty-two day tour, costing $1,685, leaves New York on July 4.

Persons interested in joining the tour may write Dr. Davis, Case Insti-

tute of Technology, Cleveland 6, Ohio.

Alfred J. Bakewicz, a member of the history staff at the University

of Dayton since September 1958, died in Milwaukee on July 16, 1959.

Raymond J. Maras and James M. Haas were added to the history

staff in September 1959. Dr. Maras holds the rank of assistant profes-

sor and Mr. Haas that of instructor.

At Findlay College, Aletha M. Herwig, chairman of the department

of history from 1943 to 1959, recently retired. Robert Kragalott, as-

sociate professor of history, has been promoted to the chairmanship,

succeeding Dr. Herwig. Dr. Kragalott received a B.S. in history from

Findlay College, an M.A. in modern European history from American

University, and a Ph.D. in Balkan and eastern European history

from Belgrade University.

Thomas L. Moir resigned from the staff at Heidelberg College dur-

ing the past summer to accept a position in the history department at

Mankato State Teachers College, Mankato, Minnesota.

James L. McKelvey has joined the Heidelberg staff as an instructor

in history. He is completing work for his doctorate at Northwestern

University.

Kimon Giocarinis of Hiram College will be on leave the second

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semester of this year and will be teaching at the University of Wiscon-

sin. Next year he will be on sabbatical leave from Hiram, when he

expects to do research on medieval history in Europe.

Wilson J. Hoffman, who is doing his graduate work at Western Re-

serve University, will be on the staff at Hiram the second semester. His

major interest is in English history.

Stuart Stiffler, who has a B.A. in history from Hiram and an M.A.

in history and a degree in library science from Western Reserve Uni-

versity, has been appointed assistant librarian at Hiram.

Donald P. Gavin, director of the department of history and political

science at John Carroll University, has been promoted to the rank of

professor.

At Lake Erie College a new instructor in history is Neil Wil-

liams, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan.

 

William E. Smith, formerly dean of the graduate school at Miami

University, has been made research professor in history and director

of the McGuffey Museum.

Dwight L. Smith read a paper at the fifty-second annual meeting of

the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association at

Salt Lake City on September 11, 1959. The paper, entitled "The

Engineer and the Canyon," was on the work of Robert Brewster

Stanton. Dr. Smith will publish a book on Stanton in the near future.

James Davis has been appointed an instructor in history at Oberlin

College during the absence of Dr. Ewart Lewis in England. Dr. Davis

has his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University.

 

Seven new instructors have been appointed in the history department

at Ohio State University: Robert F. Berkhofer, Milton F. Farber, Jr.,

Richard L. Heath, Barrie Morrison, Donald M. Roper, David L. Ster-

ling, John L. TePaske, and William L. Young.

Two members of the department have had books published in recent

months: Francis P. Weisenburger, Ordeal of Faith: The Crisis of

Church-Going America (Philosophical Library) ; and Harvey Goldberg,

editor, French Colonialism: Progress or Poverty? (Rinehart and

Company).

Harold J. Grimm attended a meeting of the Foundation for Reforma-

tion Research, of which he is vice president, at St. Louis, on October 24

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Richard W. Smith, assistant professor of history at Ohio Wesleyan

University, was granted a Ph.D in history at Ohio State University in

June 1959.

 

Isabel R. Abbott has been appointed dean of Western College and

professor of history. Dr. Abbott was formerly head of the history de-

partment at Rockford College.

Wyn Rees is now an associate professor of history at Western, and

Sohrab Dustdar of Persia is visiting Middle East Area lecturer and

visiting lecturer in history.

 

At Wittenberg University, Calvin B. Berlin has resigned to take a

position in the department of state.

Albert Hayden (Ph.D., Wisconsin) joined the history staff in Sep-

tember as an instructor in English history, and W. David Zimmerman

(Ph.D., Cornell) joined the staff on August 1 as an instructor in history

and assistant to the dean.

David B. Chan has published two articles recently: "The Problem of

the Princes as Faced by the Ming Emperor Hui, 1399-1402," in Oriens

for November 1958, and "The Role of the Monk Tao-yen in the Usur-

pation of the Prince of Yen, 1398-1402," in Sinologica for Fall 1959.

Dr. Chan is also a member of the Ming Biographical Dictionary Project

and a collaborator with James B. Parsons of Stanford University on

A History of the Far East.

 

Ernest Osgood, professor emeritus from the University of Minnesota,

is teaching part time in the history department at the College of

Wooster.

 

The history department at Xavier University lost Frank A. Peters

by death on September 1. Dr. Peters' special forte was political history.

Father W. Eugene Shiels has completed a year's leave of absence

spent in writing a book, Rise and Fall of the Patronato Real. The book

is now in press.

Edward J. Goodman's article on the origins of nationalism in the

Cortes of 1812 appeared in the July number of the Review of Politics.

Dr. Goodman also planned the second annual Inter-American Institute

held at Xavier in the first week of December 1959.

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