Historical News
Eventful Years and Experiences by Bertram W. Kom has recently been
published by the American Jewish
Archives, Cincinnati. These studies deal
with the life of the American Jew, and
include an essay on Isaac M. Wise
among others with Ohio connections.
Richard C. Knopf, historian of the
Anthony Wayne Parkway Board,
has had several articles published
recently. "Wayne's Western Campaign:
The Wayne-Knox Correspondence,"
appeared in the Pennsylvania Maga-
zine of History and Biography, Part I in July and Part II in August 1954.
"A Precise Journal of General
Wayne's Last Campaign" was published in
the Proceedings of the American
Antiquarian Society for October 1954,
and "Personal Notes on the 'Whiskey
Rebels,'" in the Bulletin of the
Historical and Philosophical Society
of Ohio for October 1954. Mr. Knopf
is executive secretary of the Ohio
Valley Historic Indian Conference and
served last year as editor of Ethnohistory,
the journal of the conference.
Joel Hayden, Jr., was appointed
assistant professor of history at Antioch
College at the beginning of the current
year.
Louis Filler was a special consultant to
the editors of the New Century
Cyclopedia of Names. He is also the author of several recent articles:
"Why Historians Neglect
Folklore," in the summer issue of Midwest
Folklore; "Political Literature: A Post Mortem," in the
summer issue of the
Southwest Review; and "Pilot Plants, Utopias, and Social
Reform," in the
April-June number of Community Service
News.
David Boynton Parke, who graduated in
history in 1952, has published
an article on "Unitarianism at
Antioch College, 1853-1953" in the Pro-
ceedings of the Unitarian Historical
Society for 1954.
A History of Marshall Field & Co.,
1852-1906, by Robert W. Twyman of
Bowling Green State University was
published in 1954 by the University
of Pennsylvania Press. Publication was
sponsored by the Beveridge
Memorial Fund of the American Historical
Association.
Carl Blegen of the University of
Cincinnati was one of several author-
ities participating in a symposium at a
joint meeting of the Archaeological
Institute of America and the American
Philological Association on De-
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cember 29. The discussion concerned the
deciphering of prehistoric Greek
writing of 1400 B.C. and the
impact of this achievement on present-day
knowledge of Homer and early Greece.
Watt P. Marchman, director of the Hayes
Memorial Library and Museum,
is news editor of Manuscripts, the
quarterly publication of the Manuscripts
Society.
Kenneth Davison, assistant professor of
history and political science at
Heidelberg College, attended the
Pennsylvania-Ohio Workshop of the
Citizenship Clearing House on
"Preparation of College Students for
Politics," held at Kenyon College,
August 29 - September 2, 1954.
Virginius C. Hall, director of the
Historical and Philosophical Society
of Ohio, edited "The Journal of
Isaac Hite, 1773," which was published
in the society's Bulletin for
October 1954.
Alfred A. Skerpan, professor of history
at Kent State University, is
spending the academic year 1954-55 in
Finland on a Fulbright fellowship.
The Story of Our Civilization by Philip Lee Ralph, chairman of the
department of history at Lake Erie
College, was published by E. P.
Dutton & Co. in August 1954.
Sister M. Teresa, O. S. F., of the
department of history at Mary Manse
College, has been granted a master's
degree by the University of Detroit.
A tenth printing (revised) of Reaction
and Revolution, 1814-32 by
Frederick B. Artz, chairman of the
department of history at Oberlin, was
issued last summer by Harper &
Brothers.
Erwin C. Zepp, director of the Ohio
Historical Society, represented the
society at the eighth annual meeting of
the National Trust for Historic
Preservation held in Chicago on October
29 and 30, 1954.
James H. Rodabaugh, head of the division
of history and science, ad-
dressed the annual meeting of the
Historical and Philosophical Society of
Ohio on December 6, on the topic,
"Mounds to Mansions: Architecture in
Ohio History." His talk was
illustrated by colored slides.
An organizational meeting of the Ohio-Indiana
American Studies Asso-
ciation, subsidized by Wittenberg
College, was held at Ohio Wesleyan
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University and the Rohrbough Cooperative
Service Recreation Center,
Delaware, Ohio, on Saturday, October 30,
in conjunction with the fall
meeting of the Ohio Folklore Society.
John Ball of Miami University, the
regional chairman, presided at the
business session. Speakers of the after-
noon were George Simpson of Oberlin
College, who spoke on "Field Work
in Jamaica," and Lynn Rohrbough,
whose topic was "Ancient Folk Recrea-
tion and Modern Groups."
Bradley Barger resigned from the
department of history at Ohio State
University this fall to accept an
appointment as assistant professor of
history at the University of South
Carolina.
Foster Rhea Dulles, chairman of the
department of history, has a chapter,
"The Return to Isolation," in The
World of History published by the New
American Library in conjunction with the
Society of American Historians.
Several members of the department had
articles published in periodicals:
Harvey Goldberg, "The Myth of the
French Peasant," in the American
Journal of Economics and Sociology for July 1954; Eugene H. Roseboom,
"Ohio in 1953: Principal
Events," in American Annual, 1954; Paul
Bamford, "French Shipping in
Northern European Trade, 1660-1789," in
the Journal of Modern History for
September 1954; and Alan Rees, grad-
uate assistant, "Pitt and the
Achievement of Abolition," in the Journal of
Negro History for July 1954.
August C. Mahr, professor of German at
Ohio State University, gave
an address at the Ohio Valley Historic
Indian Conference on November 19
at Indiana University. His topic was
"Semantic Analysis of 18th-Century
Delaware Indian Names for Medical
Plants."
John F. Cady, chairman of the department
of history at Ohio University,
has contributed a chapter on "South
and Southeast Asia" to Charles P.
Schleicher's volume, Introduction to
International Affairs.
Frederick D. Kershner received the
Edwards Memorial Award for the
best article in the field of
agricultural history for the year 1953 for his
essay, "George Chaffey and the
Irrigation Frontier," in Agricultural History
for October 1953.
A. T. Volwiler is serving as consulting
editor for American history for
Collier's new national encyclopedia.
Stanley R. Stembridge has joined the
staff of the history department at
Ohio Wesleyan University.
David Jennings is the co-author of Values
and Policy in American Society
published in May 1954.
C. E. Van Sickle is the author of
"The Salarium of Claudius Gothicus
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(Claudius XIV, 2-14) Viewed as a Historical Document," in L'Antiquite
Classique, XXIII (1954).
Ravin I. McDavid, Jr., of Western
Reserve University is engaged in
three projects in the field of American
English which have special interest
for Ohio historians. They are a study of
American dialects (with Alva L.
Davis of American University),
completion of field work in Ohio and
Kentucky for the Linguistic Atlas of
the North Central States, and a sup-
plementary collection of data on the
speech of Ohio, gathered by means
of a vocabulary check list.
Robert Walcott returned last fall to his
teaching duties in the depart-
ment of history at Wooster College after
a year's leave of absence on a
Fulbright scholarship in England. In
July, Prof. Walcott read a paper at
the Anglo-American Historical Convention
in London on "The Influence
of Merchants of the East India Company
on Parliamentary Elections of
1700." Aileen Dunham, chairman of
the department, was in England
during the summer, and attended the
convention.
W. Eugene Shiels, S.J., chairman of the
department of history and
political science at Xavier University,
served as chairman of the Work
Group in Inter-American Cooperation for
the twenty-seventh annual con-
ference of the Catholic Association for
International Peace, at Washington,
D.C., November 12-14, 1954. Father
Shiels has an article, "History in the
University: Its Teacher," in the Jesuit
Educational Quarterly for October
1954.
George W. Eddy, instructor in history
and economics at Youngstown
College, died on July 23, 1954. Dr. Eddy
was a member of the faculty of
South High School of Youngstown from
1915 to 1946. After his retire-
ment he devoted all his time to business
research until joining the faculty
of Youngstown College a few years ago.
Dr. Eddy held degrees from
Brown, Harvard, and Ohio State
universities.
E. B. Smith, associate professor of
history at Youngstown College, is on
leave of absence for the year 1954-55.
He is teaching at Ochanomizu
Women's University and at the University
of Tokyo on a Fulbright
scholarship. Vern Bullough has been
appointed for the year to substitute
for Dr. Smith.
David M. Behen was appointed to the
department in September 1954.
"A Class History Paper" by
Morris Slavin appeared in Social Education
for May 1954.