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pared a display of historic medical and
surgical instruments, and
in the next room is an especially fine
exhibit of the evolution of
costumes. All of these are worthy of
your attention.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON: Is there any further business to be brought
before this meeting? If not, a motion
for adjournment is in order.
A motion for adjournment was offered by
Howard R.
Goodwin, seconded by Edward S. Thomas
and carried.
MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
BOARD OF
TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE
ARCHAEOLOGICAL
AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY, APRIL 7, 1939
The regular April meeting of the Board
of Trustees of the Ohio
State Archaeological and Historical
Society was held in the Ohio State
Museum, Friday afternoon, April 7, 1939,
at one o'clock. Trustees present
were Messrs. Johnson, Miller, Spetnagel,
Wolfe, Mrs. Anna Young of
Zanesville, making her first appearance
as a trustee, and Mr. George B.
Smith of Dayton, newly returned to
membership on the Board. Director
Shetrone, Secretary Lindley, and Miss
Hiestand were also present. In the
course of the afternoon a telephone
message was received from Mr. Flor-
ence authorizing those present to act
for him and to cast his ballot with
theirs in the election of staff members
and officers of the Board. By this
action Mr. Florence made it possible for
the Board to transact business as
a quorum. Mr. Johnson presided over the
meeting.
There being no objections to the minutes
of the previous meeting
which had been sent to members of the
Board through the mail, those
minutes were declared approved.
After a brief resume of the previous
history of the Society's interest
in the McFarland Estate at Oxford, Ohio,
the secretary reported that he
felt the time had come for the Society
to take immediate and definite
action, either alone or in cooperation
with the Ohio State University, to
secure the $1,000 coming to it from that
estate. The Board instructed the
secretary to take whatever action he deemed
necessary to obtain a settle-
ment of this estate, and suggested that
he cooperate with the Attorney-
General of Ohio in whatever legal action
might be required.
The Board expressed its approval of the
re-appropriation by the Ohio
legislature of the unexpended balance of
the money originally granted dur-
ing the past biennium for the
publication by the Society of a six-volume
History of Ohio, and asked that a
sentence expressing its approbation of
such re-appropriation be included in the
general statement of approval
which the secretary had been instructed
by the Society (in its morning
meeting of April 7, 1939) to draw up for
whatever use he might make
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of it in connection with securing the
re-appropriation of the unexpended
balance.
The secretary gave a brief review of
recent correspondence between
him and Curtis W. Garrison, director of
research at the Hayes Memorial,
Fremont, Ohio, regarding the possible
free distribution of the two-volume
Life of Hayes and the five-volume Diary and Letters of Hayes which
the
Society has on hand. The Society now possesses
1,150 sets of the former
work and 102 sets of the latter. Mr.
Garrison had suggested, and the
secretary concurred in his thought, that
it might be worth while to give
some of these sets to a selected list of
libraries and historical institutions
throughout the country. After general
discussion, Mr. Miller moved that
500 sets of the Life and 52 sets
of the Diary and Letters be retained by
the Society in its Museum at Columbus,
and the remainder of the two
works be sent to Fremont for
distribution by the Hayes Memorial Library,
it being understood that the Hayes
Memorial should pay the cost of trans-
portation of these books. This motion,
after being seconded by Mr. Spet-
nagel, was carried.
Mr. Wolfe moved that the present staff of
the Society be re-elected
for another year. The motion was
seconded by Mr. Miller and approved,
with appreciation voiced by Mr. Johnson
for the work of the staff during
the past year.
The director reviewed the Society's
financial situation, sketching the
budget requests of and grants to the
Society since the biennium of 1935-6.
A resume of the items in the Society's
present budget, now before the
legislature for action, was given. The
director emphasized the inadequacy
of the amount now designated for
"Personal Services." He spoke par-
ticularly of the loss to the Society
should it be necessary to discontinue
the work of the Lithic Laboratory for
the Eastern United States, housed
in the Ohio State Museum and at present
supported through the gen-
erosity of Mr. Johnson and Mr. Wolfe.
Mr. Smith expressed an interest
in this work and volunteered to assist
in the support of the Lithic Labora-
tory. The director also spoke his
appreciation, and that of the staff and
the Society, in the help given by the
Board in trying to obtain for the
Society an adequate appropriation.
The director spoke briefly of the active
part which the Society is
taking in planning and preparing for
Ohio's display at the World's Fair
at New York City this summer. He
expressed the hope that funds would
be available later to reimburse the
Society for the money which it has
expended in this connection.
The office of Second Vice-President
being vacant, Mr. Miller moved
that Mr. Wolfe be nominated for this
position. The motion was seconded
by Mr. Smith and unanimously approved by
the Board. Mr. Wolfe took
the chair during the election of the
other officers of the Society. Mr. Smith
presented a motion that the officers who
had served the Board of Trustees
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during the past year (Mr. Johnson,
President; Mr. Eagleson, First Vice-
President; Mr. Lindley, Secretary; and
Mr. Miller, Treasurer) be re-
elected for the coming year and that the
secretary be instructed to cast
the ballot for their re-election. This
motion, seconded by Mr. Spetnagel,
was unanimously approved. Mr. Johnson
asked that the secretary draft
letters to the two retiring members of the
Board of Trustees, Mr. Gold-
man and Mr. Goodman, thanking them for
their services in behalf of the
Society. This suggestion was approved.
The secretary spoke briefly of the
sessions of the Ohio History Con-
ference already held and of those yet to
come.
Mr. Smith kindly offered to present to
the Library of the Society
a special edition, autographed copy of
Charlotte Reeve Conover's Builders
in New Fields, which bears directly on the history of Dayton.
Apprecia-
tion of this generous gift was spoken by
the secretary.
On motion of Mr. Miller and second of
Mr. Wolfe, the meeting
was adjourned.
ARTHUR C. JOHNSON, SR., President.
HARLOW LINDLEY, Secretary.
Ohio Academy of History Sessions,
April 7, 12:30 P. M., Deshler-
Wallick Hotel; 2:30 P. M., Ohio State
Museum
Auditorium, A. Sellew Roberts,
Presiding
The Ohio Academy of History, one of the
sponsors of the
Ohio History Conference, met in two
sessions April 7th. The
noon luncheon meeting was held as usual
in connection with the
Ohio College Teachers' Association at
the Deshler-Wallick Hotel
in Columbus. Dr. Arthur C. Cole, Western
Reserve University,
read a paper on "Some Aspects of
the Early Attack upon Amer-
ican Puritanism."
The afternoon session, a joint meeting
with the Ohio State
Archaeological and Historical Society,
was held in the Auditorium
of the Ohio State Museum on the
university campus. The follow-
ing papers were read: Blake C. Cook,
"Judge John Tyler--
Pioneer Jurist"; Curtis W.
Garrison, "A President's Library";
and A. T. Volwiler, "Harrison,
Blaine, and American Foreign
Policy, 1889-1893."
Professor A. T. Volwiler, Ohio
University, Athens, was
elected president of the academy for the
coming year and Dr.