Historical News
THE ELEUTHERIAN MILLS-HAGLEY FOUNDATION,
in cooperation
with
the University of Delaware, is again
offering two fellowships in Ameri-
can history and museum training. The
fellowships carry an annual
stipend of $1,800, renewable for the
second year, and lead to a master's
degree.
The fourteenth annual spring exhibition
at the Historical and Philo-
sophical Society of Ohio, "The Turn
of the Century, Cincinnati from
1890 to 1910," will be held from
April 22 through June 26.
Leslie H. Fishel, Jr., was installed as
director of the State Historical
Society of Wisconsin on October 31,
1959. Dr. Fishel was formerly
a member of the staff at Oberlin
College.
Richard C. Knopf, staff historian of the
Anthony Wayne Parkway
Board, is the transcriber and editor of
a volume entitled Anthony
Wayne: A Name in Arms, a compilation of the correspondence between
General Wayne and the three secretaries
of war during the Indian wars
in the Old Northwest, 1792-96. The
566-page book, published by the
University of Pittsburgh Press, is fully
illustrated. Mr. Knopf is also
the author of a small volume for school
children entitled Indians in the
Ohio Country published recently by Modern Methods.
On January 18, 1960, J. Richard Lawwill,
director of the board, Ralph
W. Peters, chairman of the board, and
Mr. Knopf attended the confer-
ence on planning a sesquicentennial
commemoration of the War of 1812
in the Northwest. James M. Babcock,
chief of the Burton Historical
Collection, was chairman of the
conference, and Mr. Knopf served as
secretary.
Under the editorship of Daniel F. Prugh,
director of the society,
the Franklin County Historical Society
has brought out a new his-
torical quarterly entitled Landmarks.
The first issue, which appeared
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in February, has twenty-four pages, but
it is hoped in time to enlarge
the magazine substantially. The plan,
according to Robert W. Newlon,
president of the society, is to publish
longer authoritative articles on
people and events in Franklin County and
those of more general in-
terests as well. Authors of such
articles are encouraged to submit
them to the editor. Articles should be
limited to two thousand words
but may be accompanied by drawings and
photographs.
Louis Filler of the department of
history at Antioch College is on
leave for the second semester of the
current year to serve as visiting
professor of American civilization at
the State University of Iowa.
Dr. Filler also served as chairman of
the session on "Slavery and
Abolition" at the annual meeting of
the American Historical Associa-
tion in Chicago last December, and was
on the program of the annual
meeting of the Central Mississippi
Valley American Studies Associa-
tion at Iowa City on March 26.
Since the first of November last year,
Hilmar Grimm, chairman of
the history department at Capital
University, has been putting on a
weekly television show on American
history every Friday morning at
7:15-7:45, on Channel 10, WBNS-TV, as a
part of the week-day
program called "University
Hall."
Robert Seager of the Denison University
history staff received an
award for the best article published by
the Pacific Historical Review
during 1959.
Landon Warner, chairman of the history
department at Kenyon
College, will be on a sabbatical leave
the second semester of 1959-60.
In his absence Charles R. Ritcheson will
be acting head of the depart-
ment. Dr. Warner has been appointed a
trustee of the Martha Kinney
Cooper Ohioana Library Association to
fill the vacancy left by the
death of Robert S. Fletcher of Oberlin
College.
James Butler, who has just completed his
Ph.D. degree at Ohio State
University, has been appointed a
visiting instructor for the second
semester.
William F. Zornow of Kent State
University has a new book, America
at Mid-Century, published by Howard Allen, Inc.
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Harris G. Warren, chairman of the
history department at Miami
University, has just completed his stint
as a member of the Robertson
Memorial Award Committee of the
Conference for Latin American
History.
Sister Mary Patrice, S.N.D., chairman of
the history department at
Notre Dame College, recently spoke
before the Women's Discussion
Council on World Affairs on
"Brazil, Country Between Two Worlds."
She also has an article scheduled for
publication in a forthcoming issue
of the History Teachers' Quarterly of
the University of Notre Dame.
Robert S. Fletcher, chairman of the
department of history at Oberlin
College, died on December 14, 1959,
after nearly thirty-three years
on the Oberlin faculty. Dr. Fletcher,
who held his M.A. and Ph.D.
degrees from Harvard, was the author of
a two-volume history of Oberlin
College. His most recent book, Eureka:
From Cleveland by Ship to
California, was published only last year.
Thomas LeDuc has been named chairman of
the department in Dr.
Fletcher's stead.
James C. Davis, instructor in history,
was awarded the 1959 prize of
the Society for Italian Historical
Studies for the best unpublished study
on the history of modern Italy. The
two-hundred-dollar prize was in
recognition of Dr. Davis' manuscript,
"The Venetian Ruling Class in
the Last Centuries of the Republic:
Problems of a Closed Caste."
Summer plans for several history
professors at Ohio Northern Uni-
versity have been announced. Anthony L.
Milnar will travel in Europe
visiting England, Germany, Poland, and
Russia; Edgar Gray will be
a member of the summer session faculty
at Wilmington College; and
Wilfred E. Binkley will be visiting
professor at Bowling Green State
University.
Harold J. Grimm, chairman of the history
department at Ohio State
University, delivered three in a series
of nine lectures on Martin Luther
at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa,
November 8-11, 1959.
Foster Rhea Dulles lectured and directed
a seminar on American
foreign policy at Salzburg, Austria,
during January. He also delivered
several lectures at the University of
Belgrade in Yugoslavia.
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Sydney N. Fisher, recently returned from
a year in Turkey, spoke
to a convention of high school teachers
at the University of Kansas
in Lawrence in September. He also
addressed a convocation at Western
College for Women in December. His topic
on both occasions was
"The Development of Democracy in
Turkey."
Charles Morley is on research leave
during the winter quarter to work
on a source book in Russian history.
Lowell Ragatz returned to Ohio State in
March to resume his teach-
ing duties after a tour of teaching and
lecturing in Japan.
Andreas Dorpalen read a paper on
"Man and His Destiny: The
Darwin-Marx-Wagner Debate,
1859-1959" at the Darwin-Marx-Wag-
ner Conference held at Ohio State
University in late October 1959. Dr.
Dorpalen also read a paper at the
American Historical Association
convention in Chicago in December on
"New Views on the German
Empire, 1871-1918."
Francis P. Weisenburger was among a
group of American scholars
invited to attend a program on January
29 and 30 which honored Theo-
dore Blegen, retiring dean of the
graduate school at the University
of Minnesota.
Clayton Roberts is spending the year in
England doing research in
London on Stuart history.
Carl Gustavson will spend the second
semester and the summer of
1960 in central and eastern Europe, on
leave from Ohio University.
Most of his time will be spent in
Germany, with side trips to other
countries.
The library at Ohio University has
acquired the complete microcard
file of the New York Times from
Volume I, Number 1.
At Ohio Wesleyan University, C. E. Van
Sickle, professor and
chairman of the history department, has
been named professor emeritus.
David Jennings has been promoted from
associate professor to professor
and designated chairman of the history
department for a two-year term.
Richard W. Smith was elevated from
assistant professor to associate
professor.
David K. McCarrell and Anne McCarrell
have been employed to
teach in the history department at Rio
Grande College.
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Sister Mary Jude, assistant professor of
history at the College of
Saint Mary of the Springs, was awarded
the first prize by Time mag-
azine for an article "How I Use Time
in My Teaching," in the college
division of a contest recently conducted
by Time.
At Wittenberg University, H. H.
Haeussler has been promoted to
associate professor and David B. Chan to
assistant professor.
Robert G. Hartje, chairman of the
department, had an article "Earl
Van Dorn in Tennessee," appearing
in the Tennessee Historical Quar-
terly for Summer 1959, and Dr. Haeussler had one entitled
"Introduc-
tion to Gerhard Ritter," in a
recent issue of Midwestern Review.