Notes and Queries
"Workers, Politics, and the
State" will be the theme of the Third Annual
North American Labor History Conference,
to be held at Wayne State Uni-
versity, October 8-10, 1981. It is being
sponsored by the Department of
History and the Walter P. Reuther
Library of Labor and Urban Affairs. The
Conference Committee plans a program
featuring a wide variety of papers
reflecting research on both sides of the
Atlantic. Special sessions will fea-
ture comparative papers and a discussion
of non-Western aspects of the
main theme. The Conference Committee
interprets the subject, "Workers,
Politics, and the State," in the
broadest possible manner. Papers reflecting
themes in workers' political behavior
(both electoral and informal), political
ideologies and their relationship to
workers' politics, efforts of powerholders
to contain, control, or pacify dissident
forces, relationships between social
history and working-class political
theory, institutional labor politics, and
related themes are being considered. The
richness and variety of recent
research in labor history, social
history, and political ideologies form the
basis for a promising conference. Those
interested should contact Chris-
topher H. Johnson, Department of
History, Wayne State University, De-
troit, Michigan 48202.
The fifteenth annual Duquesne Univerity
History Forum will be held on
October 12, 13, and 14, 1981, at the
William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. The Forum is the largest
and most comprehensive annual
history conference sponsored by a single
institution of higher learning in
the United States. The 1980 Forum
consisted of forty-nine sessions with 250
participants from 32 states, Canada,
Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary,
Italy and Pakistan. For further
information please write to: Prof. Steven
Bela Vardy, Director, History Forum,
Department of History, Duquesne
University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
15219.
The President and Board of Trustees of
the Western Reserve Historical
Society recently announced the
appointment of Theodore A. Sande to be
Executive Director of the Society,
succeeding Meredith B. Colket, Jr., who
retired in March 1980, and who now
serves as Director Emeritus. Mr. Sande
will be the sixth Executive Director of
the Society.
Dr. Martin F. Luebke of Fort Wayne,
Indiana, became the fourth Curator
of the Saxon Lutheran Memorial of
Frohna, Missouri. The Memorial is a
pioneer farm site owned and operated by
Concordia Historical Institute of
St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Luebke is the
fourth resident Curator of the Memo-
rial since its official dedication in
1964, and succeeds Pastor Theodore C.
Predoehl, who retired earlier this fall
after eleven years of service.