Notes and Queries
Recent promotions, appointments, awards,
and retirements within the
professional community of Ohio
historians include: John N. Sobczak has replaced
Von Hardesty as chairperson at Bluffton
College for the 1978-79 academic year and
Delbert Gratz is on sabbatical in
Switzerland during 1979; at Antioch College,
Hanna Goldberg has been appointed
Interim Executive Dean at the Yellow Springs
campus and Irwin Abrams has been elected
to the council of the Conference on
Peace Research in History, 1978-79;
Marcia L. Colish has replaced Robert E. Neil
as chairperson at Oberlin and Robert J.
Soucy has been promoted to professor,
Robert Di Conzo and Clayton Koppers to
assistant professor, Steven Mintz as
instructor, and Thomas LeDuc has
retired; at the College of Wooster, new
appointments are Erika Wood as
chairperson and Kate Norberg as professor; Carl
M. Becker is now director of Wright
State University's archives and preservation
program and Kenneth I. Dailey will
retire at the end of the academic year; Ann
Tevinam of the University of Cincinnati
has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship
to do research in Colombia; Ohio
University's Susan E. Ramirez-Horton has been
awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to do
research in Peru and has been replaced by
Patricia Seed from the University of
Wisconsin.
Recent scholarly contributions by Ohio
historians include: The Princes of India
in the Twilight of Empire by Barbara N. Ramusack, and Fascism: An Introductory
Perspective by Otis Mitchell of the University of Cincinnati; Venezuela,
the United
States, and the Americas: Foreign
Policy, Diplomacy, and Dependency by
Sheldon
B. Liss; The Country Railroad Station
in America by H. Roger Grant (with Charles
W. Bohi), and Bolshevik Feminist: The
Life of Aleksandra Kollontai by Barbara E.
Clements, of the University of Akron;
James H. O'Donnell III of Marietta College
is the author of a forthcoming
bibliography, Southern Frontiers, 1540-1840; and
David Eller of Bluffton College is
serving on the editorial board of the forthcoming
The Brethren Encyclopedia.
Several scholarly meetings of interest
to Ohio History will be held in the near
future. The Ohio Academy of Medical
History will hold its annual meeting on May
15 during the meeting of the Ohio State
Medical Association in Columbus; those
interested in presenting papers should
notify the Ohio Academy of Medical
History, 11000 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland
44106, by January 15. The Historical
Society of Western Pennslyvania and the
Pennsylvania State University, New
Kensington Campus,will hold a one-day
workshop on historic preservation at the
Society in Pittsburgh on April 28; for
details, contact William F. Trimble, Editor,
Historical Society of Western
Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213. The
National Archives nineteenth annual
conference, May 17-18, will feature "Soldiers
and Civilians: The U.S. Army and the
American People," with papers and panel
discussions on the impact of the Army on
American society; registration for the
conference is $25, for information call
(202)-523-3298. The National Archives also
will offer its course, "Going to
the Source: An Introduction to Archival Research,"
May 29-June 1; the cost of the course is
$160, for information contact Dr. J. Samuel
Walker by calling (202)-523-3298.
The Ohio Historical Society has
published Tales of the Ohio Land, a book of
short stories by Jack Matthews of Ohio
University. This illustrated, 186-page,
hardcover book is available from the
Sales Department, Ohio Historical Society, I-
71 and 17th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43211
at a list price of $11.95.