Notes and Queries
The Spring Meeting of the Ohio Academy
of History will be held April 21-22,
1995, at Otterbein College in
Westerville, Ohio. For further information, contact
Donna L. Van Raaphorst, History
Department, Cuyahoga Community College,
Western Campus, Cleveland, Ohio
44130-5199.
The Gorsebrook Research Institute for
Atlantic Canada Studies, of Saint Mary's
University, will be holding its 7th
North American Fur Trade Conference in
Halifax, Nova Scotia, on May 24-28,
1995. The conference encourages the intro-
duction of new methodologies and
approaches in understanding the evolving rela-
tionships between human societies and
fur-bearing populations and will feature
papers in Native Studies, Women's
Studies, Ecology and the Sciences,
Comparative Studies, History,
Anthropology, and Literature, with special ses-
sions related to the Atlantic region of
Canada. For further information about the
conference, contact: Barry Moody and
Bill Wicken, Gorsebrook Research
Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies,
Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova
Scotia, Canada B3H 3C3.
The University of Kentucky recently
announced the Martin Luther King, Jr.
Prize for Research in African-American
History, in the amount of $500, to be
awarded biennially to an article
published in the preceding two years. Scholarly
articles in the field of
African-American History published within two calendar
years prior to the date of the award
will be considered. For further information
about this award, contact the Department
of History, University of Kentucky,
Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0027.
The Forest History Society recently
announced several awards: David P.
Massell, of Duke University, won the
1994 F. K. Weyerhaeuser Forest History
Fellowship for his graduate study
focused on the development of hydro power and
related resources in Quebec Province;
James Long, an investigative reporter for
the Portland Oregonian, won the
1994 John M. Collier Award for Forest History
Journalism with his May 23, 1993,
"Of Grants and Greed."
William Leach, an independent scholar
from Carmel, New York, has won the
second annual Herbert Hoover Book Award
for his recent work, The Land of Desire:
Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a
New American Culture. Sponsored by the
Herbert Hoover Library Association, the
Hoover Book Award is given annually to
an outstanding scholarly book on any
aspect of American history during President
Hoover's long momentous public life from
1914 to 1964. The Association's
scholarship committee, composed of
historians from Iowa colleges and universi-
ties, serve as judges for the Award. For
more information about Leach's book or
the Herbert Hoover Book Award
contact: Hoover Presidential Library
Association, Box 696, West Branch, Iowa
52358.
The Kentucky Historical Society has
presented its annual Richard H. Collins
Award to Marion B. Lucas, professor of
history at Western Kentucky University.
The award, designed to recognize
outstanding research and writing, was given for
Lucas's article entitled "Kentucky
Blacks: The Transition from Slavery to
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Freedom," which appeared in the
Autumn 1993 issue of The Register of the
Kentucky Historical Society. For further information contact Dr. Thomas H.
Appleton, Jr., Kentucky Historical
Society, Box H, Frankfort, Kentucky 40602-
2108.
The North American Society for Sport
History will hold its 23rd annual confer-
ence in Long Beach, California, May
26-29, 1995. All participants must register
for the conference and be members of
NASSH. For more information contact
Nancy L. Struna, Department of
Kinesiology, University of Maryland, College
Park, Maryland 20742-2611.
Martin Bruegel, a post-doctoral fellow
at INRA, Laboratoire Consommation in
Paris, France, has received the 1994 New
York State Historical Association
Manuscript Award for his monograph,
"The Rise of a Market Society in the Rural
Hudson Valley, 1780-1860." The
award, a $1,500 prize and assistance in publica-
tion, is presented each year by the New
York State Historical Association to the
best unpublished study of some aspect of
the history of New York State. The 1994
Kerr History Prize, awarded each year to
the two best articles in the Association's
quarterly journal, New York History, was
awarded to John H. Hewitt for his article,
"Mr. Downing and his Oyster House:
The Life and Good Works of an African-
American Entrepreneur," and to
Edward N. Costikyan for his article, "Politics in
New York City: A Memoir of the Post-War
Years." For information about either
the Manuscript Award or the Kerr History
Prize, contact: New York State Historical
Association, Lake Road, P.O. Box 800,
Cooperstown, New York 13326.
The Ohio Association of Historical
Societies and Museums (OAHSM) recently
awarded its 1994 Outstanding Individual
Achievement Awards to: Margaret Parker
for service to the Meigs County Museum
and Historical Society; to Edward A.
Rieman for service to the Putnam County
Historical Society; to Darlene Weaver
for dedication to the Pickaway County
Historical Society and the Genealogical
Library; and to Virginia B. Wojno for
service to Progress Through Preservation in
Akron, Ohio.
Recent appointments, awards, grants, and
retirements within the community of
Ohio historians include: Kay Slocum will
be on sabbatical leave from Capital
University during the 1994-95 year; Carl
W. Ubbelohde retired from Case Western
Reserve University in December 1993;
Alan Rocke, Case Western Reserve
University, was promoted to professor;
Roger B. Mann of Cleveland State
University is currently on leave of
absence to complete research for a new publica-
tion; Deborah L. Pearl received a summer
research grant from the Hoover Institute;
Donna Van Raaphorst, Cuyahoga Community
College, was promoted to full pro-
fessor; Yeh-Chien Wang and Louis Patras
retired from Kent State University in
July 1994; Jerome Freidman and Robert
Swierenga will be on partial research
leave from Kent State University during
the 1994-95 year; William H. Kenney,
Kent State University, has been promoted
to full professor; Miami University's
Andrew R. L. Cayton and Elliott Gorn
have been promoted to professor; Mary
Kupiec Cayton of Miami University
received the College of Arts and Sciences
Distinguished Education Award for
1994-95; Jeffrey Kimball of Miami University
received a grant for a senior Nobel
seminar at Oslo during the spring of 1995;
David Sturtevant of Muskingum College
won the Ohio Academy of History
Outstanding Teaching Award; John C.
Burnham of The Ohio State University won
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the Ohio Academy of History's 1994
Outstanding Publication Award for his book,
Bad Habits: Drinking, Smoking, Taking
Drugs, Sexual Misbehavior and Swearing
in America; John L. Gaddis of Ohio University won the 1994
Sheardson
Fellowship, Council on Foreign
Relations; Jane Kate Leonard will be on leave
from the University of Akron during
1994-95; Geoffrey Plan has joined the
history department of the University of
Cincinnati; David L. Sterling retired from
the University of Cincinnati; Roger
Daniels, University of Cincinnati, was
recently named the Charles Phelps Taft
Professor of History; June K. Burton, Don
R. Gerlach, Sheldon B. Liss, and Robert
L. Zangrando have retired from the
University of Akron; Herbert F. Curry
retired after 35 years at the University of
Cincinnati; Charles N. Glaab will be on
sabbatical leave during Spring 1995
quarter from the University of Toledo;
Diane Britton, University of Toledo, has
been elected to the Board of Directors
of the National Council on Public History;
the University of Toledo's William D.
Hoover and Gerald Thompson will be on
sabbatical leave during the 1994-95
academic year; John Grabowski of the
Western Reserve Historical Society has
been promoted to Director of Research for
the entire WRHS; James Huffman,
Wittenberg University, received a Japan
Foundation grant to spend the 1994-95
academic year in Japan; Albert Hayden of
Wittenberg University won the Ohio
Academy of History's 1994 Distinguished
Service Award and has recently retired;
Youngstown State University's Fred Blue
recently received a Distinguished
Professorship for Research while Leslie
Domonkos received the Distinguished
Professorship for Teaching; Hugh Earnhart
and Saul Friedman, Youngstown State
University, were both nominated for
regional PBS emmies for work on
documentaries.
Several deaths which have saddened the
historical community include: Harry
Lupold, Lakeland Community College;
David C. Roller, Bowling Green State
University; and, Harry L. Coles of The
Ohio State University.
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