Notes and Queries
Recent retirements within the
professional community include: Ruth Hel-
muth, Case Western Reserve University
Archivist; William D. Aeschbacher,
teacher and administrator at the
University of Cincinnati; and Lenore R.
O'Boyle and Leon C. Soule of Cleveland
State University.
The 1986 Northern Great Plains History
Conference will be held Septem-
ber 25-27. For details contact Jack M. Lauber,
University of Wisconsin-Eau
Claire, Department of History, Eau
Claire, Wisconsin 54701.
The Kentucky Historical Society
presented its annual Richard H. Collins
Award to Professor Frank F. Mathias of
the University of Dayton and to
William J. Marshall, Assistant Director
for Libraries and Special Collections
at the University of Kentucky. The
award, designed to recognize outstanding
research and writing, was given for
Mathias's article "Kentucky's Struggle
for Common Schools, 1820-1850" and
for Marshall's "A.B. Chandler as
Baseball Commissioner, 1945-51."
Both articles appeared during 1984 in The
Register of the Kentucky Historical
Society.
The New York State Historical
Association awarded the 1985 Kerr History
Prize to David M. Ellis for his article
"Whitestown: From Yankee Outpost to
Cradle of Reform" which appeared in
the January 1984 issue of New York
History. Ellis, P.V. Rogers Professor of History Emeritus at
Hamilton College
in Clinton, New York, is the author of
several books on New York state histo-
ry, including the standard college text
on the subject, and has contributed
numerous articles to journals and
reference works.
The Forest History Society, a non-profit
education institution founded in
1946 to advance historical understanding
of mankind's interaction with the
forest environment through programs in
research, publication, service, li-
brary, and archival collecting, awarded
three prizes at its November annual
meeting in Austin, Texas: the $500
Forest History Society Biennial Book
Award to Susan R. Schrepfer of Rutgers
University for her book The Fight to
Save the Redwoods: A History of
Environmental Reform, 1917-1978; the
$150
Weyerhaeuser Award for the best article
in the Journal of Forest History
during 1984 to William G. Robbins of
Oregon State University; and to Thom-
as R. Dunlap of Virginia Polytechnic
Institute, the $150 Blegen Award for the
best article in the field of forest
history and conservation published in a jour-
nal other than Forest History.
The Westerville (Ohio) Public Library
has placed on deposit a Carleton E.
Watkins photographic album with the Ohio
Historical Society. Yo-Semite
Valley: Photographic Views of the
Falls and Valleys Yo-Semite in Mariposa
County, California (San Francisco, 1863) contains sixty-two mammoth images
in addition to the photographically
copied title page and map. For more in-
formation please contact the
Photographic Collection, Archives-Library Di-
vision, Ohio Historical Society, 1985
Velma Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43211.
Gary B. Kent (1 Oxford Street, Mount
Waverly, Victoria, Australia 3149) is
50 OHIO HISTORY
seeking information concerning Ann
Vines. Married to a Dr. Isaac Blowers
Ward, she emigrated to Zanesville, Ohio,
early last century and is the sub-
ject of an Ohio book published in 1900 by Harry Parker
Ward. Anyone with
information concerning Ann Vines or the
extensive collection of Vines family
memorabilia referred to by the Ward book
please write to Gary B. Kent at
the address above.
The Minnesota Historical Society
recently reissued the German
geographer-author Johann Georg Kohl's
1859 book, Kitchi-Gami. An impor-
tant early record of traditional Indian
Culture, Kohl's book describing his
1855 travels and life among the Ojibway
Indians of the south shore of Lake
Superior is the third in the Borealis
Books Series of reprinted accounts of
Ojibway life and, in addition to the
complete translation of the original Ger-
man text and a new introduction by
ethnologist Robert E. Bieder, it includes
five Ojibway legends which have not
previously appeared in English. For
details about this and the other books
in the Borealis reprint series, contact
the Minnesota Historical Society, 1500
Mississippi Street, St. Paul, Minnesota
55101.
Michigan State University recently
announced plans to publish a
semiannual newsletter devoted to the
history of marketing and marketing
thought. An outgrowth of two successful
workshops on historical marketing
held at MSU in 1983 and 1985, Retrospectives
in Marketing is scheduled to
begin production in fall 1985 and will
be co-edited by Stanley C. Hollander
of Michigan State University and Terence
Nevett of Central Michigan Univer-
sity. For further details contact
Stanley C. Hollander, Department of Market-
ing and Transportation, 321 Eppley
Center, Michigan State University, East
Lansing, Michigan 48824-1121.
The Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers
Association (GLLKA)-a nonprofit
organization founded in 1983 and
dedicated to the preservation of the histo-
ry of Great Lakes Lighthouses and the
people who kept them-is currently
working on the project, "Living at
a Lighthouse: Oral Histories from the
Great Lakes." Funded in part by a
$1,000 mini-grant from the Michigan
Council for Humanities, a donation from the Detroit Area Yachtswomen, and
GLLKA fundraisers, the project involves
tape-recording interviews with
lighthouse keeper descendants. To
suggest people for participation in the oral
history project or for more information,
contact LuAnne Gaykowski Kozma,
GLLKA, P.O. Box 2907, Southfield,
Michigan 48037.