Notes and Queries
The Oral History Association will hold
its 1992 Annual Meeting October
15-18, 1992, at the Stouffer Tower City
Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio. Proposals for
papers, panels, media presentations, or
entire sessions should be sent by
December 1, 1991, to Donna M. DeBlasio,
Program Chair, Youngstown
Historical Center of Industry and Labor,
P.O. Box 533, Youngstown, Ohio
44501.
The Black Film Center/Archive at Indiana
University-Bloomington is plan-
ning a conference entitled, "In
Touch With The Spirit: Black Religious and
Musical Expression in American
Cinema," for the summer of 1992. To be held
in Indianapolis, Indiana, the conference
will combine scholars and filmmakers
in a multi-disciplinary setting.
Filmmakers will screen and discuss their films
while scholars examine three major
genres-documentary, ethnographic, and
feature film-from various disciplinary perspectives:
film criticism and aes-
thetics, folklore, ethnomusicology,
political science, sociology, anthropology,
religious studies, and women's studies.
Outstanding papers presented during
the conference will be published as a
collection or monograph series by the
Black Film Center/Archive. Scholars
interested in participating should send
one- to two-page abstracts of papers by
January 15, 1992, to Dr. Phyllis
Klotman, Black Film Center/Archive
Conference '92, Department of Afro-
American Studies, Memorial Hall East,
Indiana University, Bloomington,
Indiana 47405.
The Kent State University Libraries
recently acquired the Tunder Collection
of Acme News Photos. The collection,
consisting of 475 photographs originally
transmitted by Acme News Pictures in
Cleveland, is available to researchers in
the department of Special Collections.
Steve Tunder worked for Acme from
1936 until 1945 training people to use
the Acme Telephone Trans-ceiver. The
collection, donated by Tunder's
grandson, deals largely with World War II and
contains scenes of the liberation of
Brussels, Germans surrendering in France,
and visits to the Allied troops by pilot
Charles Lindberg and others.
Several promotions within the Ohio
academic community include: Joanna
Meyerowitz and James Murray of the
University of Cincinnati to associate
professors with tenure; James Kurkones of
John Carroll University to associ-
ate professor with tenure; Eve Levin of
The Ohio State University to associate
professor; Diane F. Britton of the
University of Toledo to associate professor;
and Morris Schottenstein of Urbana
University to associate professor.
Recent retirements include: Saul Benison
of the University of Cincinnati;
Roland Layton of Hiram College; William
Zornow of Kent State University;
Gladys Haddad of Lake Erie College; Robert
Gelwick of Miami University;
Robert Kragalott of Ohio Wesleyan
University; and Lorin Lee Cary of the
University of Toledo.
Recent publications by Ohio historians
include: Summit's Glory: Sketches of
Buchtel College and the University of Akron, by George W. Knepper of the