Notes and Queries
Recent appointments and retirements
within the professional community of
Ohio historians include the following:
at the Ohio State University Alan D.
Beyerchen appointed to associate
professor, Robert J. Donia to assistant professor,
and Joseph H. Lynch has assumed new
duties as Director of the Center for
Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Andreas Dorpalen, who retired this year,
received the Distinguished Service Award
of the Ohio Academy of History in April.
At the University of Toledo, Stuart Knee
and Gerald Thompson have been
appointed assistant professors. Nelson
Lichtenstein has resigned as editor of Ohio
History. He will teach at Denison University during the Spring
semester.
Among the grants and leaves awarded:
Robert H. Bremner of Ohio State
University and Jacob G. Dorn of Wright
State University are on research leaves for
the year; Gad Soffer of the University
of Dayton and Sheldon B. Liss of the
University of Akron have half-year
sabbaticals; National Endowment for the
Humanities research grants have been
awarded to Charles De Benedetti of the
University of Toledo and to Gary Hess of
Bowling Green State University; Victor S.
Papacosma of Kent State University has a
Fullbright-Hays research grant and June
K. Burton of the University of Akron is
in the second year of a Rockefeller
Foundation grant.
A number of scholarly meetings of
interest to Ohio History readers will be held
this spring. Alonzo Hamby of Ohio
University is the featured speaker at the Ohio
Academy of History's annual meeting,
April 20-21, at the Fawcett Center for
Tomorrow on the Ohio State University
campus. The Ohio-Indiana American
Studies Association is holding its
annual spring conference April 5-7 at the New
Harmony Inn, New Harmony, Indiana.
Proposals for papers should be mailed to
Professor Roger Whitlow, Department of
English, Eastern Illinois University,
Charleston, Illinois 61920. The Eleventh
Annual Dakota History Conference is
scheduled April 6-7 on the campus of
Dakota State College in Madison, South
Dakota. Those interested in appearing on
the program should write H. W. Blakely,
History Department, Dakota State
College, 57042.
The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum
Commission is sponsoring its second
conference on "Blacks in
Pennsylvania History," April 5-6 at the Allegheny
Community College in Pittsburgh. The
Commission welcomes proposals for
papers, mailed to Black History
Conference, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum
Commission, Box 1026, Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania 17120. The Institute for Minori-
ty Studies, University of Wisconsin-La
Crosse, is holding the Seventh Annual
Conference on Ethnic and Minority
Studies May 2-5, on the Wisconsin-La Crosse
campus. Themes to be highlighted are
"Ethnicity and Religion" and "The Invisible
Ethnic: Those Who Refuse to
Participate." Those interested in serving as chairper-
sons, discussants, or presenting papers
should contact Dr. George E. Carter,
Director, Institute for Minority
Studies, 101 Main Hall, University of Wisconsin-
La Crosse, La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601.
The Ohio Historical Society has
published Tales of the Ohio Land, a book of