Notes and Queries
Recent appointments, retirements, and
awards within the professional
community of Ohio historians include: H.
Roger Grant of The University of
Akron has been appointed to the
editorial board of Railroad History; War-
ren F. Kuehl, who joined the history
department of The University of Akron
in 1964, has retired; Roberta S.
Alexander of the University of Dayton re-
ceived an NEH-Project '87 Grant to
attend a conference on the Constitution;
Erving Beauregard of the University of
Dayton received a U. D. Christian
Humanism Grant for research; Frank
Mathias of the University of Dayton re-
ceived both the 1985 Scholar of the Year
Alumni Award and the Kentucky
Historical Society's Richard Collins
Award; Edwin King was promoted to
full professor emeritus and retired from
the University of Dayton's history
department after thirty-three years on
the faculty; Donald A. Hutslar of the
Ohio Historical Society won the Ohioana
Book Award of 1986 in the category
of history for his book The
Architecture of Migration: Log Construction in the
Ohio Country, 1750-1850; Larry L. Nelson of the Ohio Historical Society was
awarded the Ohio Association of
Historical Societies and Museum's Out-
standing Achievement Award for his book Men
of Patriotism, Courage, and
Enterprise: Fort Meigs in the War of
1812.
Bluffton College will host the sixth
"Mennonite Experience in America"
conference on November 5-7, 1987. Papers
will focus on nineteenth century
Amish and Mennonite immigrants to the
U.S. and Canada, and the commu-
nities - especially those in Ohio -
which they settled. In cooperation with
the Allen County Historical Society,
Bluffton College will also co-sponsor a
project, modeled on extramural local
history classes in Britain, which will in-
troduce the methods of modern social
history through research on ethnic
and religious diversity in the
settlement of northwestern Ohio. For informa-
tion about these projects contact
Bluffton College, Department of History,
Bluffton, Ohio 45819.
The University of Kansas will host the
Eleventh Annual Symposium of the
Society for German-American Studies on
April 23-25, 1987. Professor Wolf-
gang Helbich, University of Bochum, West
Germany, who is known for his
work on emigrant correspondence and the
establishment of a collection of
nineteenth century emigrant letters,
will be the keynote speaker. For addi-
tional information, contact Helmut
Huelsbergen or William Keel at The Max
Kade German-American Document and
Research Center, 2080 Wescoe Hall,
The University of Kansas, Lawrence,
Kansas 66045.
Ohio University Libraries received a
National Endowment for the Human-
ities award to support a "Schools
and the Means of Education Shall Forever
Be Encouraged: An History of Education
in the Old Northwest, 1787-1880,"
exhibition, related symposia, catalog,
and guide. The project will be part of
the university's celebration of the
bicentennial of the Northwest Ordinance
of 1787. Additional support has been
provided by the Ohio Humanities
Council and Ohio University's 1804 Fund.
For details contact Carol J. Blum,
Archives and Special Collections, Vernon
R. Alden Library, Ohio Universi-
ty, Athens, Ohio 45701-2978.