Historical News
THE SIXTH ANNUAL SUMMER Institute on
Historical and Archival
Management will be offered by Radcliffe
College with the co-sponsor-
ship of the department of history of
Harvard University during the
six weeks, June 29 through August 7,
1959.
Lawrence W. Towner, editor of the William
and Mary Quarterly
and director of graduate studies at the
College of William and Mary,
will direct the course. The staff will
consist of eighteen or more experts
in the fields covered by the institute.
The class, which is limited to fifteen,
will be conducted as a seminar.
Two full-tuition scholarships ($200
each) are available. Inquiries
should be addressed to the Institute, 10
Garden Street, Cambridge 38,
Massachusetts.
One of the post-doctoral fellowships of
the Institute of Early Ameri-
can History and Culture will be
available beginning in the summer
of 1959. The appointment is for a
three-year term. A young scholar
whose dissertation has marked
potentialities for publication will have a
distinct advantage. The fellow will be
assigned six hours per year in
teaching at the College of William and
Mary with the rank of instructor
in history. The rest of his time may be
devoted to his own research
and writing.
The Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation,
in cooperation with the
University of Delaware, is again
offering two fellowships in American
history to candidates for the master's
degree. The program covers a
two-year period with an annual stipend
of $1,800. The fellows wil
take eight hours in museum techniques
and research in industrial histor)
at the Hagley Museum and twenty-seven
hours in the history o:
American life and thought and prepare a
thesis at the university
Further information may be secured from
the Dean, School of Graduat
Studies, University of Delaware, Newark,
Delaware.
The Historical and Philosophical Society
of Ohio acquired early las
year, through the Chester F. Kroger
memorial fund, three letters writter
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in 1783 revolving around the activities
of a Frenchman, Barthelemi
Tardiveau, who traveled extensively in
the Ohio Valley. The letters
report on the opportunities for
business and agricultural development
in the area. These letters, edited with
an introduction by Howard C.
Rice, Jr., were published for the first
time in the society's October 1958
Bulletin under the title, "News from the Ohio Valley as
Reported by
Barthelemi Tardiveau in 1783." The
article has been reprinted also.
At the annual meeting of the trustees
of the Rutherford B. Hayes
and Lucy Webb Hayes Foundation, William
M. Haynes of Fremont,
president of the Fremont Savings Bank,
was elected a trustee of the
foundation. Officers of the foundation
were reelected: Webb C. Hayes,
III, president; Lloyd T. Williams, vice
president; Watt P. Marchman,
secretary; and Arthur B. Hayes,
treasurer.
Henry S. Vyverberg of the history
department at the University of
Akron is the author of a 253-page book,
Historical Pessimism in the
French Enlightenment, published last September by the Harvard Uni-
versity Press.
Louis Filler of Antioch College's
history department addressed the
luncheon meeting of the Ohio-Indiana
Chapter of the American Studies
Association at Purdue University,
November 8, on "The Critic of
Business and the Organization
Man." He also delivered the convocation
address at Denison University, November
17, opening a three-day
institute on "Theodore Roosevelt
and the Era of the Progressives."
The new edition of A Documentary
History of American Industrial
Society, by John R. Commons and others, includes Dr. Filler's
intro-
duction to Volumes I and II of Ulrich
B. Phillips' Plantation and
Frontier.
Virginia B. Platt of the history
department at Bowling Green State
University read a paper entitled
"Gentlemen Merchant? An Inquiry
into the Social Position and the
Ethical Practice of the Colonial
Merchant" at the meeting of the
Ohio-Indiana Chapter of the American
Studies Association at Purdue University
on November 7.
Stanton Ling Davis, associate professor
of history at Case Institute
of Technology, will conduct a study
tour of Europe, "Europe in His-
torical Perspective," during July
and August. This will be the ninth
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consecutive year that Dr. Davis has
directed study tours in Europe.
The 38-day tour, costing $1,190, leaves
New York on July 4. Persons
interested in joining it may write Dr.
Davis, Case Institute of Tech-
nology, Cleveland 6, Ohio.
President Paul F. Sharp of Hiram College
contributed a chapter,
"From Poverty to Prosperity,"
to the volume The Heritage of the
Middle West, edited by John J. Murray of Coe College and published
by the University of Oklahoma Press last
year.
Robert H. Archer of Kent State
University is continuing graduate
study at Western Reserve University on a
Danforth Foundation grant.
The Marietta College Library has
recently acquired 569 letters of
William P. Cutler, an addition to the
Ephraim and William Parker
Cutler collection of more than two
thousand pieces. The library has
also received the gift of a microfilm
camera through the generosity of
Dr. Atherton Seidell of Washington, D.
C.
Willard Echard, doctoral candidate at
the University of Pennsylvania,
has been appointed instructor in history
at Miami University.
Preston B. Albright, recently promoted
to the rank of assistant
professor, has been elected to the
executive committee of the Ohio-
Indiana Chapter of the American Studies
Association.
Harris G. Warren, chairman of the
department of history at Miami,
had an article, "Vignettes of
Culture in Old Claiborne," published in the
Journal of Mississippi History for July 1958.
"Nine Letters of Nathaniel Dike on
the Western Country, 1816-1818,"
edited by Dwight L. Smith, appeared in
the July 1958 issue of the
Ohio Historical Quarterly.
Frank W. Ikle presided over a session of
the Mid-West Conference
on Asian Affairs at Columbia, Missouri,
on October 17-18, 1958
Professor Ikle also delivered a lecture
on June 20 at a meeting of th
Swiss-American Society for Cultural
Relations in Zurich.
David R. Sturtevant, assistant professor
of history at Muskingur
College, has received his Ph.D. from
Stanford University. His disserta
tion was a study of the history of
agrarian unrest in the Philippine
from 1898 to the present.
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Sister Mary Borgias, head of the
department of history at Notre
Dame College, Cleveland, died last
October. She has been succeeded
by Sister Mary Patrice, S.N.D.
Joseph E. Kall, who has his master's
degree from Ohio University,
has been added to the staff of the
department.
At Oberlin College, George Kren, who was
appointed instructor in
history for the second semester last
year, has been retained for the aca-
demic year 1958-1959.
Barry McGill is on leave for the current
year doing research in
England. He is being aided by a grant
from the Lilly Foundation.
The library has recently acquired a
manuscript diary of Lyman
Bronson Hall, who was a professor of
history at Oberlin. The diary
covers the period 1886 to 1918.
The Middle West is the title of a brochure on historical studies of
that region written by Harry R. Stevens
of the history department at
Ohio University and published by the
American Historical Association
as a part of the program of the Service
Center for Teachers of History.
Professor Paul Kendall,
historian-biographer in the English depart-
ment, received the 1958 Ohioana
biography award for his Warwick
the Kingmaker.
Ohio University again sponsored, in
cooperation with the state
department of education, the annual
state-wide Ohio history and
government citizenship awards contest.
The first prize was won by
David Eugene Yockey of Sardinia High
School; the second place award
went to Jeffrey Alan Manley of
Portsmouth High School; and the
third place award to Barbara Cade of
Mariemont High School. Seven
others won awards: Virginia Gray, St.
Mary of the Springs, Columbus;
Jean Burg, Painesville Riverside;
William Case, Granville High School;
Jacquelin Dunn, Sidney High School;
Linda Kautz, Sandusky High
School; Frank Schwarb, Jr., Eaton High
School; and Barbara Ripp,
Jackson Local High School, Stark County.
Jack P. Greene of Michigan State
University has accepted an assistant
professorship in the history department
at Western Reserve University.
Dr. Greene, who succeeds Jacob C. Meyer,
who is retiring, will teach
courses in colonial history.
Willis H. Hall, chairman of the
department of history at Wilmington
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College, received an honorary degree,
doctor of laws, at the June 1958
commencement at Wilmington College.
Warren Griffiths, professor of history
and government at Wilming-
ton, served last summer as conductor of
the Wilmington European Tour.
The tour group numbered seventeen
persons, was abroad fifty-one days,
and visited seven countries.
At Wittenberg College, James Wolfenden
has resigned, and Robert G.
Hartje has been named chairman of the
department to succeed Dr.
Wolfenden.
Instructor Arend D. Lubbers has resigned
to become vice president
of Central College (Iowa).
Two members have been added to the
staff. Calvin C. Berlin, who
taught previously at Charlotte College
(Virginia), has been named
assistant professor. Charlotte Fiechter
has been employed as an
instructor in European history. Miss
Fiechter recently spent a year in
Germany as a Fulbright scholar.
Dr. Hartje has an article, "A
Confederate Dilemma Across the
Mississippi," in the summer issue
of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly.
Helmut Haeussler's article, "A
Lutheran Interpretation of Church
and State," appeared in Cresset for
March 1958. Dr. Haeussler read a
paper at a session of the American
Historical Association in Washing-
ton, D. C., on December 28. His subject
was "The German Drive on
Paris in 1914."
B. H. Pershing is the author of several
articles for the Lutheran
Encyclopedia on the history of Lutheranism in the various states.
Kenneth Dodd has been appointed an
assistant professor of history
at Youngstown University, effective
February 1, 1959.
Vern Bullough's article on
"Medieval Bologna and the Development
of Medical Education" appeared in
the Bulletin of the History of
Medicine for May-June 1958. He had another article, "The
Negre
Comes to Grace Street," in the Humanist,
No. 4, 1958, and published
a pamphlet under the title Challenge in
June. Dr. Bullough has beer
elected to membership in the American
Association for the History
of Medicine.