Historical News
A GENERAL REORGANIZATION of the
headquarters staff of the National
Trust for Historic Preservation has been
announced by Robert Garvey,
Jr., executive director. William J.
Murtagh, formerly assistant to
the director, now heads a newly created
department of education, and
Mrs. Helen Duprey Bullock, formerly
historian and editor, directs the
department of information, which issues Preservation
News, a new
monthly publication. Newly appointed to
the staff is Robert G. Stewart,
former planning consultant of the St.
Louis Historic Building Commis-
sion, who was named director of the
department of properties.
The post office department has announced
plans for the first com-
memorative stamps of the new administration.
Five stamps will be
issued, one each year, during the
observance of the Civil War centennial
as the department's contribution to the
centennial. The five stamps with
dates of issue are as follows: Fort
Sumter, April 12, 1961; Shiloh,
April 6, 1962; Gettysburg, July 1, 1963;
the Wilderness, May 5, 1964;
and Appomattox, April 9, 1965.
The Ohio Civil War Centennial Commission
began publication in
January of a mimeographed bulletin of
information on the activities of
the commission and of news items on
local events in connection with
the observance of the centennial in the
state.
J. Richard Lawwill, director of the
Anthony Wayne Parkway Board,
is editor of the 1812 Newsletter, published
by the Governor's Committee
for Commemorating the Sesquicentennial
of the War of 1812. Three
numbers of the mimeographed bulletin
have been issued since May 1960.
The biennial report of H. T. Swinney,
director of the Idaho State
Historical Society, indicates a
remarkable accomplishment for a very
small full-time staff. Some of the
progress made was credited to a group
of part-time volunteer workers from the
Junior League of Boise, who