Ohio History Journal

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Notes and Queries

Notes and Queries

 

 

The Missouri Valley History Conference will be held in Omaha, Nebraska,

March 14-16, 1991. For information concerning the meeting, contact: William

C. Pratt, Program Coordinator, MVHC, University of Nebraska at Omaha,

Omaha, Nebraska 68182.

 

The Oral History Association will hold its 1991 Annual Meeting on October

10-13, 1991, at Snowbird, near Salt Lake City, Utah. Proposals for papers,

panels, and speakers, particularly on such themes as women, ethnic topics, and

the region of the American West, should be sent by December 1, 1990, to either

of the Program Co-Chairs: Jay M. Haymond, Utah State Historical Society,

300 Rio Grande, Salt Lake City, UT 84101; or, Rebecca Sharpless, Institute for

Oral History, Baylor University, B.U. Box 7271, Waco, TX 76798-7271.

 

The Ohio Military Reserve, an arm of the Adjutant General's Department of

the State of Ohio, has created a Historical Detachment. This detachment,

among other things, provides historical support to the Ohio Military Reserve,

the Ohio Army National Guard, and the Ohio Air National Guard. It develops

and publishes Ohio National Guard and Ohio Militia history. It formulates

plans for the development of Ohio Militia and National Guard museums. It is

interested in the heraldry and lineage of Ohio Army and Air National Guard

units as well as Ohio militia units. For further information, contact Robert D.

Walker, 315 Hancock Street, Findlay, Ohio 45840.

 

Recent promotions, appointments, retirements, leaves, grants, and awards

within the academic community of Ohio include: Robert H. Jones and David C.

Riede recently retired from the University of Akron; Walter L. Hixson, of the

University of Akron, has received a Fulbright Lecture Award; William

Shorrock, of Cleveland State University, received the 1989 French Colonial

Historical Society Annual Book Prize; Julius Amin, of the University of

Dayton, received a research fellowship from the University of Dayton Re-

search Institute; Erving Beauregard, of the University of Dayton, has received

the Robert E. Kennedy Award for Outstanding Contributions to Academic

Freedom from the AAUP Ohio Conference and a research fellowship from the

University of Dayton Research Institute; Leroy Eid, of the University of

Dayton, received a research fellowship from the University of Dayton Re-

search Institute; the University of Dayton's Bruce Hitchner has been promoted

to Associate Professor and recently received a research fellowship from the

University of Dayton Research Institute and a National Geographic Society

Research Grant; John Heitmann, of the University of Dayton, was elected

secretary of the History of Chemistry Division of the American Chemical

Society; Susan Lynn, of the University of Dayton, received a grant from the

Fund for Educational Development to create a new course on "Women's Lives

in Three Non-Western Cultures" and a research fellowship from the Univer-

sity of Dayton Research Institute; Tom Sanders, of the University of Dayton,

received a research grant from the University of Dayton's Center for Interna-

tional Studies; Alice Vines, of the University of Dayton, received a research