Ohio History Journal

Historical News

 

 

THE LOYOLA UNIVERSITY HISTORY DEPARTMENT has established an

annual national master's essay competition open in the academic year

1959-60. The first William P. Lyons Master's Essay Award will be

made for the best essay submitted by July 15, 1960, in manuscript form,

from those which have merited M.A. degrees from American univer-

sities during 1959-60. The award will recognize work that is exemplary

in style and method, based solidly on original sources, and interpreta-

tively significant in current scholarship. The winning essay will be

published with the cooperation of the Loyola University Press.

Requests for further details should be submitted to Professor Edward

T. Gargan, Department of History, Loyola University, 6525 Sheridan

Road, Chicago 26, Illinois.

The Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio announces the

appointment of Herbert F. Koch as its director, effective December 1,

1959. Mr. Koch, a member of the board of trustees of the society, is

well known for his radio and television broadcasts on historical sub-

jects, as well as for talks and lectures. He has recently retired as pro-

fessor at the University of Cincinnati in the college of business admin-

istration. Mr. Koch succeeds Richard G. Arms, who served as director

from November 1957 to July 1959.

The annual meeting of the society will be held on December 7, 1959.

The featured speaker will be Dwight P. Green of Winnetka, Illinois.

Meredith B. Colket, Jr., director of the Western Reserve Historical

Society, served as director of the ninth annual American Institute of

Genealogical Research, which was held from July 13 through July 31 at

the National Archives Building, Washington, D. C. The institute was

sponsored by the department of history of the American University with

the cooperation of the American Society of Genealogists, the Maryland

Hall of Records, and the National Archives and Records Service.

George W. Knepper, acting head of the history department at the

University of Akron, has been promoted to associate professor. Dr.

Knepper served as chairman of the university's Lincoln sesquicentennial

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committee and was responsible for various university programs recog-

nizing the event.

At Denison University, Francis Held has left the history staff. David

Crook and Edward Todd have been added as instructors.

Robert Seager, who is currently on leave of absence, is working on

the Gardiner manuscripts at Yale University in preparation for a book

on Julia Gardiner Tyler, second wife of the tenth president.

New members of the history and political science staff at John Carroll

University are William Ulrich, an instructor in history, and Father

Paul Woelfl, S.J., former director of the department of political science

at Loyola University (Chicago), who becomes professor of political

science.

A conference on "Major Problems in the Soviet Union" was held at

the university on July 9-11. Some ten sessions were devoted to exploring

Soviet problems by a panel composed of Robert Byrnes, chairman of the

department of history and director of Russian studies at Indiana Uni-

versity; Tibor Kerekes, professor of history and director of the Institute

of Ethnic Studies at Georgetown University; John Fizer, assistant pro-

fessor of Russian language and literature, Notre Dame University; Rev.

Francis Dvornik, professor of history at Harvard University and re-

search director at Dumbarton Oaks; Roman Smal-Stocki, professor of

history and director of the Slavic Institute, Marquette University;

Beltie Shah Gilani, visiting lecturer from India, John Carroll Univer-

sity; and Michael Pap, assistant professor of history at John Carroll.

Assistant Professor William Kerr of the department of history at

Kenyon College has accepted a position at Wesleyan University, Middle-

town, Connecticut. He will be replaced by Robert L. Baker, who

received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1955 and has been teaching for

the past four years at Brown University. A specialist in the Middle

Ages, Dr. Baker will hold the rank of associate professor.

The Dutton Everyman paperback edition of The Story of Our Civili-

zation by Philip Lee Ralph was published last April. Dr. Ralph is

chairman of social studies at Lake Erie College.

Robert Hilliard will assume the chairmanship of the department of

history and political science at Ohio Northern University at the begin-

ning of the academic year 1959-60.

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Wilfred E. Binkley's Man in the White House was listed by the New

York Times Book Review (June 14, 1959) as one of the one hundred

"best books of the year."

Sydney N. Fisher's The Middle East: A History was published re-

cently by Alfred A. Knopf. Dr. Fisher is professor of history at Ohio

State University.

John F. Cady, chairman of the history department at Ohio Univer-

sity, was named one of three on the university faculty for the newly

created "Distinguished Professorship" at the commencement on June 7,

1959. The honor carries with it a semester off duty with full pay plus

a substantial monetary grant for research. Dr. Cady also received a

Social Science Research Council award for work at the Library of Con-

gress during the summer on a history of Southeast Asia.

Carl Wittke has been appointed to the newly created Elbert J. Benton

Distinguished Professorship in History at Western Reserve University.

Miss Patricia Drury of the College of Wooster has accepted a position

in the history department of Tri-County Junior College at Bay City,

Michigan.

Robert W. Schneider (A.B., College of Wooster; M.A., Western

Reserve University; Ph.D., University of Minnesota) has accepted a

position as instructor at Wooster.

Clayton S. Ellsworth read a paper on Theodore Roosevelt's Country

Life Commission at a joint meeting of the Mississippi Valley Historical

Association and the Agricultural History Society held at Denver in

April.

Miss Aileen Dunham, head of the history department, will return

to her teaching duties this fall after spending a sabbatical leave in a trip

around the world.

Robert Walcott, Jr., while in England on leave this year, will continue

his study of the economic activities of the members of parliament in the

eighteenth century.

At Youngstown University, James Johnson (Ph.D., Syracuse Uni-

versity) and Guido A. Dobbert (M.A., University of Chicago) have

been appointed assistant professors of history. Associate Professor Vern

L. Bullough has joined the faculty of San Fernando Valley State

College.

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