Ohio History Journal

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Notes and Queries

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