Historical News
The Sarah Mellon Scaife Foundation of
Pittsburgh has made a grant of
fifteen thousand dollars to the Harmonie
Associates, Inc., for their use in
a program of aid to the Pennsylvania
Historical and Museum Commission in
the restoration of Old Economy at
Ambridge, Pennsylvania, a commission
property. The money will be used to
refurbish the document room and four
administrative research rooms and to
install proper microfilm equipment,
files, and stacks. Provisions in the grant-in-aid
will make possible a qualified
indexer and research archivist to
service the voluminous records of the
Harmony Society. The materials have a
direct bearing on the cultural, social,
and business history of the Ohio Valley
and the Mississippi region from
1805 to 1905.
The Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati
will observe its centennial,
February 27 through March 5. A health
museum and exposition, consisting
of 175 health and scientific exhibits,
will be installed at the Cincinnati Music
Hall. The Honorable C. William O'Neil,
governor of the state of Ohio,
will cut the ribbon at 9:00 A.M. on
February 27. On the program are
several distinguished speakers,
including Dr. Paul D. White, Dr. Walter
Alvarez, and Sir Edward Appleton, Nobel
Laureate, of Edinburgh, Scotland,
who will address the centennial
convocation on the evening of March 5.
Chatham College, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, is one of ten schools in
the country which have received grants
from the Ford Foundation for
Educational Television. The grant
carries the sum of $37,500 on a match-
ing basis to "help educational
television stations secure the participation of
distinguished college and university
teachers in meeting common educational
objectives." Chatham College thus
extends its campus into three states,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia,
with seven half-hour evening tele-
vision programs each week over station
WQED.
Other institutions receiving the Ford
Foundation Grant for Educational
Television to date are Harvard
University, University of Chicago, University
of Illinois, Wayne University,
University of Nebraska, North Carolina State
College, Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
University of Detroit, and Wash-
ington University in St. Louis.
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As one phase of the program at Chatham,
Dr. J. Cutler Andrews, noted
author and professor of history,
presented "The American Story," on Wednes-
day evenings from September 19 through
November 28.
The Idaho Historical Society is
beginning early in 1957 the publication
of a quarterly journal devoted to the
history of Idaho and the Pacific North-
west. The plan is for a scholarly and
dignified publication which will appeal
to all students of the history of the
region. Contributions from northwestern
scholars are invited.
"Teaching and Learning of Social
Welfare History in Social Work
Education" is the subject of a
workshop sponsored by the newly organized
committee on the history of social
welfare of the Council on Social Work
Education at its annual program meeting
in Los Angeles, January 24 and 25.
The professional historian's
contribution to the teaching of welfare history
and the presentation of historical
material in "non-historical" courses are
two topics to be considered. Dr. Karl de
Schweinitz of the University of
California, Los Angeles, was chairman of
the organizing committee which
met in July 1956, and Norris E. Class of
the University of Southern Cali-
fornia is temporary chairman. Ohio
members of the organization include
Robert H. Bremner, Ohio State
University, Grace H. Coyle, Western Re-
serve University, Campbell G. Murphy,
Dayton, and Anna Belle Tracy,
Cleveland.
The Historical and Philosophical Society
of Ohio has recently acquired
the original manuscript diary of Captain
Isaac Anderson (1755-1839),
written in 1781-82 during his service
with Archibald Loughery and his
subsequent capture by Indians. The
manuscript has been printed three times,
1869-1905, with variations from the
original. The manuscript diary and
other family papers have been donated to
the society library by a descendant,
Miss Agnes Anderson.
The Rutherford B. Hayes Library has
acquired from the old Rutherford
Hayes, Sr., home in Brattleboro,
Vermont, a splendid collection of manu-
scripts, papers, diaries, photographs,
and memorabilia pertaining to the
Hayes family. More than a dozen letters
of President Hayes were in the
collection; a diary of his grandmother,
Chloe Smith Hayes; legal papers of
Rutherford Hayes, Sr.; and early
correspondence. The old Hayes home was
originally a tavern, built and operated
by Rutherford Hayes, Sr., grand-
father of the president. The old tavern
sign was among the memorabilia
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acquired by the library. Some of the
items from the old home were featured
in a special exhibit during
September-November 1956.
Several early Fremont photographs, group
pictures of the first organized
bands, dozens of old glass negatives,
and an early box type camera were in-
cluded in a gift of local history
materials made to the Hayes Library by
Josephine Held Tischler of Fremont.
At the annual meeting of the Rutherford
B. Hayes and Lucy Webb Hayes
Foundation at Spiegel Grove, Fremont,
Ohio, on October 4, the following
officers were re-elected: Admiral Webb
C. Hayes, president; Lloyd T.
Williams, vice president; Watt P.
Marchman, secretary; and Webb C. Hayes,
III, treasurer; and Howard Aumend,
treasurer of the Hayes Historical Society.
Louis Filler of the history department
at Antioch College is the author of
several recent articles: "Themes in
American History," in The Journal of
General Education; "Liberals, 'The People's Choice' and the Shadow of
History," in The Ethical Outlook
for September and October 1956; and
"Election Problems Include Law,
Opinion," which appeared as one of a
series on "You and Your World"
in the Dayton Daily News for October 15.
Marvin Becker of the history department
at Baldwin-Wallace College is
on leave of absence. Dr. Becker received
a Guggenheim grant to do research
in Florence, Italy. He is replaced by E.
K. Brown from Boston University.
David Lindsey has resigned to accept a
position in the Los Angeles State
College of Applied Arts and Sciences. He
is replaced by Robert Cruden,
who comes from Western Reserve
University.
The Baldwin-Wallace history department
sponsored a conference of history
majors from Hiram, Mount Union, John
Carroll, and Baldwin-Wallace. A
paper was read by a selected student
from each school. After dinner, Carl
Wittke, dean of the graduate school at
Western Reserve University, delighted
the conference with reminiscences on his
research.
Stuart Givens of Bowling Green State
University received the Ph.D.
degree at the June commencement at
Stanford University. He has been
promoted to assistant professor and is
now a full-time member of the
history staff.
Mrs. Wilhelmina S. Robinson, after
completing residence and course
work toward the Ph.D. degree in history,
has returned to Central State
College and is serving in the history
department as associate professor.
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Vernell Oliver, an associate professor
in the department, resigned and
returned with her husband to New York
where both expect to work toward
the doctorate.
The departments of history, political
science, and geography at Central
State College have recently been merged
into one department. Paul
McStallworth was promoted to the
chairmanship of the department.
The library at Central State has
acquired the library of the late Keith
Churchman, the promising and well-liked
assistant professor, who died of
leukemia on July 20, 1956.
Douglas McNaughton, who received his
Ph.D. from the University of
Chicago in 1955, has been appointed to
the staff of the history department
at Defiance College on a part-time
basis. He also teaches in the department
of religion.
A reprint of an article by Erwin J.
Urch, chairman of the department,
will appear in the volume, Lawyers'
Treasure, a collection of legal history
treatises to be published by
Bobbs-Merrill.
The history department at Heidelberg
College was host to the Ohio
Academy of History at its fall meeting,
October 12 and 13, and also to the
Ohio-Indiana Chapter of the American
Studies Association on November 10,
1956.
Landon Warner, chairman of the
department of history at Kenyon College,
has been promoted to the rank of full
professor.
Ellsworth Carlson of the Oberlin College
history department is teaching
this year on a Fulbright Fellowship at
the University of the Philippines in
Manila. His place at Oberlin is being
taken by Bernard Silberman, who has
his Ph.D. from the University of
Michigan (1956).
Carl Gustavson of the history department
at Ohio University has been
promoted to a full professorship.
Chairman John F. Cady's The Roots of
French Imperialism in Eastern
Asia (Cornell University Press, 1954) received the Ohioana
Library award
of 1956 for the best book by an Ohio
author in the non-fiction category.
Robert H. Bremner of the history
department at Ohio State University
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is the author of an article "The
Children with the Organ Man," which ap-
peared in the American Quarterly for
Fall 1956.
Brother George Ruppel, S.M., has been
appointed instructor in history
at the University of Dayton. His
appointment was effective September 1,
1956.
John Hall Stewart, Henry Eldridge Bourne
professor of history at Western
Reserve University, was in Washington,
Wednesday, November 14, to
participate on the committee on political
history for the awarding of
Fulbright scholarships. This is the
third consecutive year that Dr. Stewart
has been a member of this committee.