Notes and Queries
The Missouri Valley History Conference
will be held in Omaha, Nebraska,
March 14-16, 1991. For information
concerning the meeting, contact: William
C. Pratt, Program Coordinator, MVHC,
University of Nebraska at Omaha,
Omaha, Nebraska 68182.
The Oral History Association will hold
its 1991 Annual Meeting on October
10-13, 1991, at Snowbird, near Salt Lake
City, Utah. Proposals for papers,
panels, and speakers, particularly on
such themes as women, ethnic topics, and
the region of the American West, should
be sent by December 1, 1990, to either
of the Program Co-Chairs: Jay M.
Haymond, Utah State Historical Society,
300 Rio Grande, Salt Lake City, UT
84101; or, Rebecca Sharpless, Institute for
Oral History, Baylor University, B.U.
Box 7271, Waco, TX 76798-7271.
The Ohio Military Reserve, an arm of the
Adjutant General's Department of
the State of Ohio, has created a
Historical Detachment. This detachment,
among other things, provides historical
support to the Ohio Military Reserve,
the Ohio Army National Guard, and the
Ohio Air National Guard. It develops
and publishes Ohio National Guard and
Ohio Militia history. It formulates
plans for the development of Ohio
Militia and National Guard museums. It is
interested in the heraldry and lineage
of Ohio Army and Air National Guard
units as well as Ohio militia units. For
further information, contact Robert D.
Walker, 315 Hancock Street, Findlay,
Ohio 45840.
Recent promotions, appointments,
retirements, leaves, grants, and awards
within the academic community of Ohio
include: Robert H. Jones and David C.
Riede recently retired from the
University of Akron; Walter L. Hixson, of the
University of Akron, has received a
Fulbright Lecture Award; William
Shorrock, of Cleveland State University,
received the 1989 French Colonial
Historical Society Annual Book Prize;
Julius Amin, of the University of
Dayton, received a research fellowship
from the University of Dayton Re-
search Institute; Erving Beauregard, of
the University of Dayton, has received
the Robert E. Kennedy Award for
Outstanding Contributions to Academic
Freedom from the AAUP Ohio Conference
and a research fellowship from the
University of Dayton Research Institute;
Leroy Eid, of the University of
Dayton, received a research fellowship
from the University of Dayton Re-
search Institute; the University of
Dayton's Bruce Hitchner has been promoted
to Associate Professor and recently
received a research fellowship from the
University of Dayton Research Institute
and a National Geographic Society
Research Grant; John Heitmann, of the
University of Dayton, was elected
secretary of the History of Chemistry
Division of the American Chemical
Society; Susan Lynn, of the University
of Dayton, received a grant from the
Fund for Educational Development to
create a new course on "Women's Lives
in Three Non-Western Cultures" and
a research fellowship from the Univer-
sity of Dayton Research Institute; Tom
Sanders, of the University of Dayton,
received a research grant from the
University of Dayton's Center for Interna-
tional Studies; Alice Vines, of the University of
Dayton, received a research