Notes and Queries
Dr. William T. Doherty, Jr., Professor
of History and University
Historian at West Virginia University,
has been named Editor of
West Virginia History. Dr. Doherty will immediately assume the
editorial duties of the quarterly
publication of the Department of
Culture and History. Doherty earned
undergraduate degrees from
Southeast Missouri State University, his
Master of Arts degree from
American University's School of Social
Sciences and Public Affairs,
and his Doctor of Philosophy in History
from the University of Mis-
souri. His varied background and
academic experiences include teaching
as Professor of History at the
universities of Mississippi, Missouri,
Arkansas, and Kansas prior to his appointment
at West Virginia Uni-
versity in 1963. At the University of
Mississippi, he served as Chairman
of the Department of History, a position
he also held at WVU from
1963 until Spring 1979. As University
Historian at WVU, Doherty de-
votes his research efforts toward a
projected two-volume history of
West Virginia University.
The Forest History Society announced
winners of its two annual
article award competitions on October
27, 1979. The Theodore C. Blegen
and Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser awards,
granted annually since 1972,
were designed to stimulate and reward
outstanding scholarly contribu-
tions to the field of forest and
conservation history. Thomas R. Dunlap,
an assistant professor of history at
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
State University, received the Blegen
Award for his article, "DDT on
Trial: The Wisconsin Hearing,
1968-1969," which appeared in the
Wisconsin Magazine of History (Autumn, 1979). The Weyerhaeuser
Award went to Frederick J. Yonce, a
specialist in the history of public
land policy in the Western History
Department of the Denver Public
Library, for his article in the Journal
of Forest History (January,
1978), "Lumbering and the Public
Timberlands in Washington: The
Era of Disposal." Both awards
carried cash prizes of $150.
Bennett H. Wall, while continuing to
serve as Secretary-Treasurer
of the Southern Historical Association,
has accepted a position as
Lecturer in American History at the
University of Georgia. Effective
July 1, 1980, the business and executive
offices of the Southern His-
torical Association will move from
Tulane University to the University
of Georgia. The editorial offices of the
Journal of Southern History will
remain at Rice University. After July 1,
1980, please direct all cor-
respondence concerning SHA business
affairs, subscriptions, etc., to
the following address: Dr. Bennett H.
Wall, Secretary-Treasurer,
Southern Historical Association, The
University of Georgia, Athens,
Georgia 30601.
The Eugene V. Debs Papers Project at
Indiana State University is
searching for material on Debs to be
included in the publication of his