Notes and Queries
Recent promotions, appointments, and
awards within the professional
community of Ohio historians include:
Arnold Snyder, Ph.D. candidate at
McMaster University, has joined Bluffton
College as an assistant professor
of history and philosophy; Gary A. Hunt,
formerly of Boston University,
replaced Richard W. Ryan as Department
Head of the Ohio University
Library's Archives and Special
Collections Department as of July 1, 1979;
David E. Kyvig, Associate Professor at
the University of Akron, has re-
ceived an American Council of Learned
Societies fellowship for the 1980-81
academic year; Guy S. Alitto, Assistant
Professor at the University of
Akron, has been awarded the highly
coveted John K. Fairbank Prize in
East Asian History by the American Historical Association for his recently
published book, The Last Confucian:
Lian Shu-ming and the Chinese Dilem-
ma of Modernity; a National Endowment for the Humanities Research
Fellowship has been awarded to Edmund J.
Danzinger and Don Karl
Rowney of Bowling Green State University
for the 1980-81 year; Yeh-chien
Wang of Kent State University has
received an American Council of
Learned Societies and Social Science
Research Council grant to pursue
work on the economic history of China at
Taipeh, Taiwan, January-August
1980; Robert H. Bremner, Professor
Emeritus, was awarded the Joseph
Sullivant Medal, given once every five
years by the Ohio State University
in recognition of "notable
achievement" in the recipient's field; Lorin Lee
Cary of the University of Toledo
received a Fulbright to the University of
New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, for
June-December 1980.
Recent projects at Ohio universities
include: a plan to publish a Guide to
the holdings of the American History
Research Center at the Kent State
University Library; Harry F. Lupold,
Professor of History at Lakeland
Community College, has been editing a
series of articles on the history of
the Western Reserve for The Western
Reserve Magazine, with the object to
make historical scholarship and
methodology understandable to the
layman; Professor Lupold invites
manuscripts on any aspect of Western
Reserve history for possible publication
in the magazine; the Department of
History and Political Science at Ohio
Northern University has just received
a grant for an Oral-Visual History
Project involving students in the preser-
vation of the University's heritage.
The 1980 Western Reserve Award, given
annually by the Western
Reserve Architectual Historians in
recognition of the outstanding contribu-
tion toward promoting scholarly research
in the architectual history of the
State of Ohio and the Western Reserve,
was awarded to Eric Johannesen
for Cleveland Architecture, 1876-1976.
Recent scholarly contributions by Ohio
historians include: Land, Air and
Water: Transportation and Ohio, by H. Roger Grant of the University of
Akron; Centennial History of Christ Lutheran Church,
by Hilmar Grimm
for the Bexley Historical Society; several papers,
"Franklin College: The