Historical News
THE
FIRST ANNUAL American history award of the
Mississippi Valley
Historical Association went to Donald F.
Warner, professor of history
at Wisconsin State College. The
presentation of the one thousand
dollar prize was made on April 23 at the
annual meeting of the
association in Denver, Colorado. Dr.
Warner's winning entry, entitled
"The Idea of Continental Union:
Agitation for Annexation of Canada
to the United States, 1849-1893,"
will be published in early 1960 by the
University of Kentucky Press.
The Ohio Folklore Society held its
annual spring meeting on April
11 at the Ohio State Museum. Speakers at
the afternoon session were
D. K. Wilgus, Western Kentucky State
College, George List, Indiana
University, and John Ball, Miami
University. An informal jamboree
was held in the evening with outstanding
Ohio folklorists participating.
Members of the group were after-session
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
T. Sayers at their Upper Arlington home.
At the business session the following
officers were elected for two-year
terms: president, George Kummer, Western
Reserve University; vice
president, Claude M. Simpson, Jr., Ohio
State University; secretary-
treasurer, Lorraine B. Furbish, Lakewood
Public Library; member-
ship chairman, Merrill Gilfillan,
Columbus; newsletter chairman, Anne
Grimes, Columbus. Dr. Ball was named
regional editor of Mid-West
Folklore.
The fall meeting of the society will be
held at Marietta College on
October 17.
At the University of Akron, Clara G.
Roe, professor of history and
chairman of the department of history,
will retire at the conclusion of
the summer session, and George W.
Knepper will become department
head in September 1959.
Two new men will be added to the
department in September. Edgar A.
Toppin, formerly of the State Teachers
College, Fayetteville, North