Notes and Queries
The Ohio State University recently
announced: A research grant by the
American Council of Learned Societies
has been awarded to Professor Chang
Hao; National Endowment for the
Humanities fellowships have been indi-
vidually awarded to Professors James M.
Kittelson and John C. Burnham; A
Fulbright-Hays Lecturer for 1980,
Professor Mansel G. Blackford will spend
the period of March-December in Japan;
Professor Leila J. Rupp has won a
research fellowship from the Radcliffe
Research Scholars Program; and a
six-month grant from the Joint Committee
on the Near and Middle East of
the American Council of Learned Societies and Social
Science Research Council
has been awarded to Professor Carter V.
Findley.
Richard L. McCormick, Assistant
Professor of History at Rutgers College
of Rutgers University, became the first
individual to receive both the Kerr
History Prize and the Manuscript Award
given annually by the New York
State Historical Association. His
article, "Prelude to Progressivism: The
Transformation of New York State
Politics, 1890-1910," received the 1979
Kerr History Prize, while Professor
McCormick won the Manuscript Award
for his unpublished monograph,
"Shaping Republican Strategy: Political
Change in New York State,
1893-1910."
The Forest History Society has received
financial support from the Laird,
Norton Foundation and the U.S. Forest
Service for a project focusing on the
development and implementation of recent federal
forestry legislation. Repre-
senting the first step in the Society's
research on sustained-yield forestry within
the United States, the "Remaking of
Forest Service Statutory Authority in the
Seventies" project will be lead by
principal investigator Dennis C. LeMaster.
A scholarly meeting of interest to
readers of Ohio History will be hosted by
The Institute for Minority Studies,
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse in co-
operation with the North Carolina
Central University, North Carolina A&T
State University, Grambling State
University, West Central Wisconsin Con-
sortium (UW-La Crosse, UW-River Falls,
UW-Eau Claire, UW-Stout), and the
National Association of
Interdisciplinary Ethnic Studies. The 8th Annual
Conference on Ethnic and Minority
Studies will highlight the themes "Ethnicity
and Politics" and "The
Invisible Ethnic and Mental Health," and is scheduled
for April 23-26, 1980. Conference
planners are seeking papers that focus on the
themes announced above, and welcome
audiovisual presentations as well.
Papers should be limited to fifteen
typed, double-spaced pages, and presenters
should submit four copies for review to
the Program Director by January 15,
1980. Students are encouraged to submit
papers for consideration. Persons
interested in participating should
contact Dr. George E. Carter, Conference
Program Director, 101 Main Hall,
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La
Crosse, WI 54601, Telephone: (608)
785-8225.
The Western Reserve Historical Society recently
completed the processing