Historical News
A GENERAL REORGANIZATION of the
headquarters staff of the National
Trust for Historic Preservation has been
announced by Robert Garvey,
Jr., executive director. William J.
Murtagh, formerly assistant to
the director, now heads a newly created
department of education, and
Mrs. Helen Duprey Bullock, formerly
historian and editor, directs the
department of information, which issues Preservation
News, a new
monthly publication. Newly appointed to
the staff is Robert G. Stewart,
former planning consultant of the St.
Louis Historic Building Commis-
sion, who was named director of the
department of properties.
The post office department has announced
plans for the first com-
memorative stamps of the new administration.
Five stamps will be
issued, one each year, during the
observance of the Civil War centennial
as the department's contribution to the
centennial. The five stamps with
dates of issue are as follows: Fort
Sumter, April 12, 1961; Shiloh,
April 6, 1962; Gettysburg, July 1, 1963;
the Wilderness, May 5, 1964;
and Appomattox, April 9, 1965.
The Ohio Civil War Centennial Commission
began publication in
January of a mimeographed bulletin of
information on the activities of
the commission and of news items on
local events in connection with
the observance of the centennial in the
state.
J. Richard Lawwill, director of the
Anthony Wayne Parkway Board,
is editor of the 1812 Newsletter, published
by the Governor's Committee
for Commemorating the Sesquicentennial
of the War of 1812. Three
numbers of the mimeographed bulletin
have been issued since May 1960.
The biennial report of H. T. Swinney,
director of the Idaho State
Historical Society, indicates a
remarkable accomplishment for a very
small full-time staff. Some of the
progress made was credited to a group
of part-time volunteer workers from the
Junior League of Boise, who
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assisted in organizing and indexing the
extensive photograph collections
and in cataloging the historical
collections. An unusual feature of the
society's program is a marionette
theater, which is used to present the
story of the discovery of gold in Idaho
for fourth grade classes. This
project is carried on also with the
cooperation of the Junior League.
The society received an American
Association for State and Local
History award of merit in 1959 for its
general program.
Another publication of interest is the
annual report of Louis C. Jones,
director of the New York State
Historical Association. The adult
program of the association is
highlighted by the annual Seminars on
American Culture, attended by over 350
persons in the summer of 1960,
and the annual local history workshops.
The association's junior pro-
gram is outstanding for its 232 "Yorker"
chapters with 8,324 members
and for its annual junior livestock show
at the Farmers' Museum at
Cooperstown.
The Minnesota Historical Society has
begun publication of a four-
page illustrated bimonthly newsletter, Minnesota
History News. It is
edited by the assistant director, Robert
C. Wheeler, who was formerly
newspaper librarian and field
representative for the Ohio Historical
Society.
The Winterthur Museum of Winterthur,
Delaware, and the University
of Delaware are offering for the ninth
year the Winterthur Program
in Early American Culture. Five grants
of two thousand dollars a year
for a two-year period are awarded to
outstanding college seniors or
graduates preparing for careers in
museums, historical societies, and
other historical agencies. The two-year
program of studies at the
university and museum leads to a master
of arts degree. There have
been thirty-four Winterthur graduates
since the beginning of the
program.
Walter M. Whitehill of the Boston
Athenaeum gave the address at
the annual meeting of the Historical and
Philosophical Society of Ohio
on December 5. On that date the
associate director, Louis A. Tucker,
became director of the society,
replacing Herbert F. Koch, who resigned.
On December 21 the society sponsored an
open lecture on "Glass-
making in the Midwest." The speaker
was Edward Noyes of Wisconsin
State College.
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Louis Filler of the history department
of Antioch College addressed
the Michigan American Studies
Association, meeting in Marshall on
November 5, on "Liberalism in
America."
Kenneth E. Davison of the Heidelberg
College history staff has
been granted a sabbatical leave for the
fall semester to pursue research
on the American presidency.
James McKelvey has a leave of absence
for the spring semester for
study in England.
Robert H. Jones of Kent State
University's history department has
been awarded a research grant by the
university for the summer of 1961.
Lawrence S. Kaplan is the recipient of a
grant from the University
of Michigan for research at the Michigan
library this summer.
William F. Zornow has been on leave
during the winter to continue
research at the Truman Library,
Independence, Missouri, for his
biography of Harry S. Truman.
Phillip R. Shriver's history of Kent
State University, The Years of
Youth, has had a second printing.
Next year the course in Ohio history at
Kent State will be composed
of six sections. Attendance in certain
sections has run as high as 152
students.
Sister Mary Sean, S.N.D., has been added
to the history staff at
Notre Dame College. Sister Mary Sean,
who holds an M.A. degree
from the University of Notre Dame, is
teaching contemporary American
history this semester.
The Notre Dame history department
sponsored a workshop at the
Western Reserve Historical Society
Museum and Library on February
22 for high school seniors interested in
history.
During the last few months Eugene H.
Roseboom, Francis P. Weisen-
burger, Henry H. Simms, and William P.
Vaughn of Ohio State Uni-
versity have given talks and conducted
discussions before the Columbus
Civil War Round Table, of which Dr.
Simms was president during its
initial year.
Everett Walters is the chairman, Dr.
Simms a member, and Kenneth
W. Wheeler a consultant of the advisory
committee of the Ohio Civil
War Centennial Commission, which, in
collaboration with the Ohio
State University Press and the Ohio
Historical Society, is planning to
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publish a series of monographs on Ohio's
part in the Civil War. Harry
L. Coles and Dr. Simms have already been
commissioned to write
monographs in the series.
Robert L. Gilmore, from the University
of California, Berkeley, has
been appointed an associate professor at
Ohio University to teach Latin
American history, and Thomas McCormick,
from the University of
Wisconsin, has been named an instructor
in American diplomatic and
late nineteenth-century history. Dr.
Gilmore will spend the summer of
1961 in Seville, working in the archives
on the colonial period of Latin
American history.
John F. Cady will spend the second
semester and the summer of 1961
at the University of London as part of a
distinguished professor award
granted by Ohio University. He will also
enjoy a Guggenheim Founda-
tion award during this time. He expects
to complete his history of
Southeast Asia.
Andrew J. Townsend, professor of history
and dean of the college
of arts and sciences at the University
of Toledo, has been awarded a
Fulbright grant for lecturing in
American history at Allahabad Uni-
versity, Allahabad, India, for the year
1961-62.
At Xavier University, the Rev. Frank D.
Johnson, S.J., has been
added to the staff as instructor in
political science and history. effective
February 1, 1961.
Alfred D. Low has been promoted to the
rank of professor of history
at Youngstown University.