Notes and Queries
Recent promotions, appointments, and
awards within the professional
community of Ohio historians include:
Dr. Allan Peskin of Cleveland State
University has been promoted to
Professor; Peter Rutkoff of Kenyon College
has received an N.E.H. Fellowship;
Department Chairman for more than 30
years, Dr. Robert E. Bader of Mount
Union College has retired at the end of
the 1980-81 academic year; Professor
Richard Doyle of Mount Union Col-
lege spent Spring 1981 on sabbatical to
continue his research on the socio-
economic mobility of Dutch immigration
to Iowa after 1847; Dr. John E.
Saffell of Mount Union College spent
November-December 1980 at Baika
College, Osaka, Japan, exploring the
possibilities of a sister college re-
lationship; Samuel C. Chu of The Ohio
State University received a research
fellowship from the Committee on
Scholarly Communication with the Peo-
ple's Republic of China and a fellowship
from the American Council of
Learned Societies; Carter V. Findley of
The Ohio State University received
membership at the Institute for Advanced
Study (School of Historical Stud-
ies) at Princeton, 1981-82; John W.
Hevener of The Ohio State University
received an Appalachian Studies
Fellowship from Appalachian Center,
Berea College; Allan R. Millett of The
Ohio State University has been
awarded the 1981 Ohioana Book Award for
his recently published book,
Semper Fidelis: The History of the
United States Marine Corps; John C.
Rule of The Ohio State University has
received a fellowship from the Amer-
ican Council of Learned Societies for
1981-82; Leila Rupp and Verta Taylor
(Sociology) of The Ohio State University
have been awarded a $50,000
grant from the National Endowment for
the Humanities in support of a
project entitled, "The American
Women's Movement in the Post Second
World War Period"; Allan K. Wildman
of The Ohio State University re-
ceived the 1981 Ohio Academy of History
Book Award for his book, The End
of the Russian Imperial Army: The Old
Army and Soldiers' Revolt (March-
April 1917); Sheppard Black has replaced Kerry E. Wichert as an
Archival
Assistant in the Department of Archives
and Special Collections, Ohio Uni-
versity Library; two grants, a $5,000
N.E.H. Youth Project Grant for the
"Hocking Valley Heritage
Project," and a $150,000 three-year N.E.H. Chal-
lenge Grant for cataloging special
collections and materials, have been
awarded to the Department of Archives
and Special Collections, Ohio Uni-
versity Library; Harriette Flory,
Associate Professor at Raymond Walters
College, has been awarded a grant by the
Cincinnati English-Speaking
Union to assist with the expenses of
spending the summer in London, Cam-
bridge and Birmingham, England; Mary
Wagener of Wilmington College
has received a N.E.H. Summer Research
Grant for research in Austria on
Women in fin-de-Siecle in Vienna.
The 1981 Western Reserve Award, given
annually by the Western Re-
serve Architectural Historians in
recognition of the outstanding contribu-
tion toward promoting scholarly research
in the architectural history of the
State of Ohio and the Western Reserve,
was awarded to a recent publication