Historical News and Notices

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Historical News and NoticesSource: The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Feb., 1971), pp. 147-155Published by: Southern Historical AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2205961 .

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Historical News and Notices

THE ASSOCIATION

At the annual business meeting of the Association in Louisville, Kentucky, on November 12, 1970, John Hope Franklin of the Uni- versity of Chicago succeeded David Donald of Johns Hopkins Univer- sity as president; Mary Elizabeth Massey of Winthrop College was elected vice-president, and Bennett H. Wall of Tulane University secretary-treasurer. Aubrey C. Land of the University of Georgia and Merrill D. Peterson of the University of Virginia were elected members of the Executive Council to succeed Gilbert C. Fite of the Uni- versity of Oklahoma and Charles P. Roland of the University of Ken- tucky.

E. David Cronon of the University of Wisconsin and Holman Ham- ilton of the University of Kentucky were elected to the Journal's Board of Editors at the meeting of the Executive Council on Novem- ber 11, 1970. They succeed Frank Freidel of Harvard University and Robert W. Johannsen of the University of Illinois.

The Executive Council voted to hold the thirty-seventh annual meeting of the Association November 17-20, 1971, at Houston, Texas, with headquarters in the Rice Hotel. The meeting was moved from Mem- phis, Tennessee, because that city could not guarantee sufficient rooms in comfortable proximity to the headquarters hotel. The thirty-eighth through the forty-third annual meetings are presently scheduled as follows: Miami (1972), Atlanta (1973), Dallas (1974), Richmond or Washington (1975), New Orleans (1976), and Atlanta (1977).

President John Hope Franklin has announced fourteen additional members of the membership committee for 1971. They are James L. Anderson of the University of Georgia, J. Leonard Bates of the Uni- versity of Illinois, Walter L. Brown of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, William H. Harbaugh of the University of Virginia, Robert Haws of the University of Mississippi, Anne C. Loveland of Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, Robert M. Miller of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Thomas S. Morgan, Jr., of Winthrop College, John Muldowny of the University of Ten- nessee at Knoxville, James A. Rawley of the University of Nebraska, W. Stitt Robinson of the University of Kansas, Arvarh E. Strickland of the University of Missouri at Columbia, Charles G. Summersell of the University of Alabama, and John D. Wright of Transylvania Univer- sity.

ERRATA: Two mistakes in the names of committee chairmen were printed in the compilation of officers, committee chairmen, and other



148 THE JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN HISTORY

material relating to the Southern Historical Association in the August 1970 issue of the Journal. On page 393 the cochairman for local ar- rangements for 1959 was R. Bingham Duncan, not Duncan Bingham; and on page 394 the chairman of the membership committee for 1970 was Carlton L. Jackson, not W. Carlton Jackson.

SYDNOR AWARD

The Charles Sackett Sydnor Award for the most distinguished book in southern history for 1968 and 1969 was awarded to Sheldon Hack- ney of Princeton University for Populism to Progressivism in Alabama, published in 1969 by the Princeton University Press. The award is made in even-numbered years and carries a stipend of $500. The selection committee comprised Walter B. Posey, chairman, Allen J. Going, and Aubrey C. Land.

GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD

The Southern Historical Association in Atlanta in 1967 established the Graduate Student Award, a prize of $50, for the best article by a graduate student published in the Journal of Southern History over a two-year period. The first award, for an article published in 1968-1969, has been conferred upon Roger L. Rice of the University of Penn- sylvania Law School for his article "Residential Segregation by Law, 1910-1917," published in the May 1968 issue of the Journal (XXXIV, 179-99). The members of the selection committee were Herbert Weaver, chairman, Sanford W. Higginbotham, Barnes F. Lathrop, and James Z. Rabun.

PERSONALS

University of Alabama: John S. Pancake on leave for spring semester.

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville: Paige E. Mulhollan promoted to associate professor.

Auburn University: Oleh S. Pidhainy appointed associate professor and Donathon C. Olliff instructor.

Bluefield State College: Donald R. Baldwin named chairman of the Social Science Division.

Catholic University: Jon L. Wakelyn appointed associate professor and Guy F. Lytle instructor.

Cumberland College: Chester Raymond Young named chairman and promoted to professor.

University of Delaware: J. Joseph Huthmacher named Richards Professor; George Basalla and James C. Curtis appointed associate professors and John A. Bernstein, Lawrence G. Duggan, and Carol



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Hoffecker assistant professors; Stephen Lukashevich and Stephen M. Salsbury promoted to professor and William E. Pulliam and Raymond R. Wolters to associate professor.

Delta State College: Frank Allen Dennis promoted to assistant professor.

Duke University: Ronald G. Witt appointed associate professor and Martin A. Miller assistant professor.

East Carolina University: Anthony J. Papalas and Keith E. Wagner appointed assistant professors.

East Texas State University: J. David Lund appointed instructor. Florida Southern College: Emory S. Akerman named chairman and

appointed professor; J. Larry Durrence and John Santosuosso appointed assistant professors.

University of Florida: Ancil N. Payne promoted to professor and Richard T. Chang to associate professor; 0. Kimball Armayor on leave.

Francis Marion College: J. R. Lischka named chairman and appointed associate professor; G. Wayne King appointed assistant professor and Ogal Preston Crews, Jr., and Michael L. McQueen instructors.

Frostburg State College: John W. Davis named chairman and promoted to professor; Harry I. Stegmaier, Jr., and Robert L. Terry appointed assistant professors.

Georgetown University: David M. Goldfrank and Lee S. Houchins appointed assistant professors and John Emerson and Betty L. Plum- mer instructors; Richard R. Duncan promoted to associate professor; Hisham Sharabi on leave 1970-71; Cyril Toumanoff has retired.

Georgia State University: Joseph 0. Baylen named Regents' Pro- fessor of History; Gary M. Fink appointed assistant professor.

Goucher College: Jean H. Baker appointed instructor. Grambling College: Shirley Ayatey, Mildred Gallot, and Anne Hay-

ward appointed instructors. Houston Baptist College: John B. Gibbs appointed assistant pro-

fessor; Marilyn M. Sibley on leave 1969-70. Howard University: Harold Lewis named director of graduate pro-

gram of History Department. Jacksonville University: John E. Moore on leave; Alberta Jackson

will retire in summer of 1971. Johns Hopkins University: A. J. R. Russell-Wood and Michael

Zuckerman appointed visiting associate professors and Edward Car- ter and Robert K. Webb visiting fellows.

University of Kentucky: Georgia R. Beale appointed visiting associate professor; George C. Herring, Jr., Donald G. Nugent, and John S. Scarborough promoted to associate professor; Steven A. Channing on leave.

LeTourneau College: Nita Somerville appointed instructor; Ken- neth Durham on leave.




Livingstone College: Betty J. Verbal named chairman; William H. Clontz appointed instructor.

University of Louisville: Martin E. Mantell appointed assistant professor and William E. Gleason and Kerry E. Spiers instructors.

Lynchburg College: Robert L. Frey and Clifton Potter promoted to associate professor.

University of Miami: John P. Harrison named director of the In- stitute of Inter-American Studies and appointed professor; Alexander V. Riasanovsky appointed visiting associate professor; Christos C. Patsavos promoted to professor.

University of Mississippi: Martha M. Bigelow appointed visiting professor.

University of Missouri, Columbia: Claudia Kren and John C. Rain- bolt promoted to associate professor.

University of Missouri, Rolla: Jack B. Ridley, Gerald F. Roberts, and Lance Williams promoted to assistant professor.

Morehead State University: Wilhelm Exelbirt will retire in June 1971.

Morehouse College: Sister Mary Gabriel Hubert appointed professor and Anderson Williams instructor.

Morris Brown College: Janice Clark Fotion appointed associate professor.

Morris Harvey College: Robert Simmons appointed instructor. North Carolina State University: Edith D. Sylla appointed assistant

professor. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: James L. Godfrey named

chairman; W. James McCoy appointed lecturer. North Carolina Wesleyan College: Lewis F. Snow appointed as-

sistant professor. Northeast Louisiana University: Horace Perry Jones and Thomas

Edgar Stricklin promoted to associate professor. Northern Arizona University: Harvey Becher, David H. Kitterman,

Margaret Morley, and David Strate appointed assistant professors; Richard 0. Davies and Lee M. Nash promoted to professor, Monte M. Poen to associate professor, and Delno West to assistant professor.

Oklahoma Baptist University: -Gerry C. Gunnin appointed assistant professor.

Oklahoma State University: Sidney D. Brown on leave for spring semester.

University of Oklahoma: Vernon J. Puryear appointed visiting professor; S. Louise Welsh promoted to assistant professor; Percy W. Buchanan will retire after spring semester.

Pan American College: Felix D. Almaraz, Jr., Gilbert Cruz, and Milo Edward Kearney, Jr., appointed to the staff.

Rice University: Gale Stokes promoted to assistant professor; Allen J. Matusow on leave 1970-71.




Rollins College: Barry Levis promoted to assistant professor. St. Bernard College: Aloysius F. Plaisance named chairman. University of St. Thomas: R. J. Schiefen named chairman and pro-

moted to associate professor. Samford University: Hugh C. Bailey named dean of the Howard

College of Arts and Sciences; David M. Vess named head of the History Department and chairman of the Division of Social Sciences.

Shepherd College: Walter K. Hanak appointed assistant professor. University of South Carolina: William Seale appointed visiting as-

sistant professor; Kenrick A. Clements promoted to assistant professor.

University of South Florida: Simon Fraser appointed assistant professor.

Southeast Missouri State College: Sylvia Russell appointed assistant professor.

Southern Methodist University: Everett L. DeGolyer, Jr., appointed adjunct professor; H. Russell Williams on leave.

Southwest Texas State University: J. Ralph Randolph appointed associate professor; Emmie Craddock and Cecil 0. Hahn on leave.

Southwestern at Memphis: Douglas W. Hatfield named chairman and promoted to associate professor; Franklin M. Wright promoted to professor.

Spring Hill College: Leo Nicoll appointed assistant professor; John M. Welch promoted to assistant professor.

Sul Ross State University: Harry Krenek on leave. Sweet Briar College: Michael D. Richards named chairman. Talladega College: C. R. Stockton named chairman and appointed

professor; Margaret Thompkins appointed instructor; Willis Jackson on leave.

University of Tennessee, Chattanooga: David Carrithers, Kathryn J. Lee, Russell Linnemann, and James M. Russell appointed assistant professors.

Tennessee Technological University: Richard H. Fraser named dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Paul Stephenson acting chairman of the department; Marshall Bertram promoted to associate professor.

Texas A&M University: Douglas McMillan and David E. Schob appointed assistant professors.

University of Texas, Austin: Standish Meacham named chairman; Sinappah Arasaratnam and Friedrich Katz appointed visiting professors; William H. Goetzmann and Thomas McCann on leave.

Troy State University: Duane C. Tway named chairman and appointed professor; Norma T. Mitchell appointed associate professor; Milton M. McPherson promoted to associate professor.

Tulane University: Raymond A. Esthus named chairman of the department for Newcomb College.




Union College: Lester G. Lindley appointed associate professor. Virginia Military Institute: Austin N. Drumm named chairman

and promoted to professor; Frederick F. Travis appointed assistant professor; Edwin L. Dooley promoted to assistant professor.

Virginia Polytechnic Institute: Wayne E. Boese appointed instructor.

Western Maryland College: Cornelius P. Darcy named chairman.

DEATHS

Robert Selph Henry, born in 1889 and president of the Southern Historical Association in 1957, died at Alexandria, Virginia, on August 19, 1970, after a long illness. His publications included The Story of the Confederacy (1931); The Story of Reconstruction (1938); This Fascinating Railroad Business (1942); "First with the Most" Forrest (1944); editor, As They Saw Forrest: Some Recollections and Com- ments of Contemporaries (1956); The Story of the Mexican War (1961); The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology: Its First Century, 1862-1962 (1964); and several books of juvenile literature.

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND ACTIVITIES

The National Historical Publications Commission at its September 18, 1970, meeting recommended grants to continue support for five documentary editing projects: the Henry Clay papers at the Univer- sity of Kentucky, the Documentary History of the First Federal Con- gress at George Washington University, the John Marshall papers at the College of William and Mary and the Institute of Early American History and Culture, the Booker T. Washington papers at the Uni- versity of Maryland, and the Benjamin Franklin papers at Yale Uni- versity. The Commission also recommended a grant to the Hawaiian Historical Society for editing the journals of David C. Gregg for 1853- 58, while he was U. S. commissioner to the Hawaiian Kingdom. Grants were recommended for microfilm publication of the Washington Glad- den papers at the Ohio Historical Society, the Henry L. Stimson papers at Yale University, the Henry A. Wallace papers at the Univer- sity of Iowa, and the Robert M. La Follette papers at the State His- torical Society of Wisconsin, all conditional upon receipt of the usual amount for grant purposes in the 1971 appropriation.

The microfilm edition of the Papers of Albert Gallatin, sponsored by New York University and the National Historical Publications Commission, contains forty-six rolls, including an index, which re- produce Gallatin's papers, correspondence, and printed pamphlets from 1761 to 1880. The cost of the set, which includes a printed guide by Carl E. Prince and a paperback reprint of Albert Gallatin: Jef- fersonian Financier and Diplomat by Raymond Walters, Jr., is $750.




It may be obtained from Rhistoric Publishers, 302 North 13th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107.

The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in cooperation with the Newark College of Rutgers University will pub- lish annually a list of members and their addresses and topically and geographically arranged lists of their current research projects. The first issue was scheduled for publication in November 1970 and was designed to fill partially the gap left when the State Department stopped publishing the External Research Lists. Members who have not received forms can request them from Warren F. Kimball, Editor, SHAFR Roster & Research List, Department of History, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey 07102. Copies of the list can also be obtained by nonmembers.

LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES

New acquisitions of the Manuscript Division of the Library of Con- gress include several additions to the Gouverneur Morris Papers, the most substantial being his "waste book," showing daily expenses from January 1, 1791 to June 22, 1808; the papers of Francis Elias Spinner (1802-90), sheriff, congressman, and treasurer of the United States, including letters from political figures, a letter book kept by Spinner, and several scrapbooks; an important addition of approximately 350 items to the papers of William Jennings Bryan, consisting chiefly of correspondence of Bryan with President Wilson, 1913-15, the most significant letters concerning the British blockade and the rights of neutrals; and papers, 1905-67, of Lloyd Viel Berkner (1906-67), au- thor of Science and Foreign Relations (1950) and "father" of the first International Geophysical Year, containing 21,000 items, including correspondence, speeches, lectures, subject files, and photographs and printed material relating to the Byrd Antarctic Expedition. The Robert M. La Follette Family Papers, dating from the 1850s to 1967 and consisting of more than 1,400 containers, are now available for use. The collection contains the papers of Robert M. La Follette, Sr. (1855-1925), Robert M. La Follette, Jr. (1895-1953), and other family members and the records, 1911-12, of the National Progressive Re- publican League.

The National Archives has accessioned the office file, 1939-45, of Harley A. Notter, adviser to the assistant secretary of state for United Nations affairs, containing 104 cubic feet of working papers, minutes, and reports of various committees for postwar planning; 23 cubic feet of records, including memorandums, 1918-47, of the Office of American Republic Affairs; and 2 cubic feet of records, 1957-59 and 1963, of the Office of Protocol. Most of the records of these three of- fices fall within the "restricted period" of State Department rec-




ords, and application for access must be made to the department. Other accessioned materials include records, 1933-56, of the Office of the Secretary of the Treasury, including those of the undersecretary, assistant secretaries, the Offlce of Administrative Services, and the chief clerk, containing information on the employment of Negroes by the department; 286 cubic feet of records, 1947-69, of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and of the Housing and Home Finance Agency; 53 cubic feet of records, 1948-53, of the National Security Resources Board; 248 cubic feet of the records, 1951-55, of the Defense Production Administration; 20 cubic feet of records, 1940-64, of the Board of Inspection and Survey, consisting of reports of inspection of naval vessels and of dock trials and inspections; and 47 cubic feet of papers, 1944-70, of John M. Blair, economist for the Antitrust and Monopoly Legislation Subcommittee of the Senate ju- diciary Committee, the Smaller War Plants Corporation, and the Federal Trade Commission. The Center for Polar Archives has received the third installment of the private papers of Paul A. Siple, including correspondence, expedition notes, journals, sketches, photographs, maps, manuscripts, and philatelic materials; and the private papers of J. S. Warmbath, who accompanied Robert Stein of the U. S. Geological Survey to the Arctic, 1898-1902, including hand- colored lantern slides of landscapes and Eskimos.

Records microfilmed by the National Archives include Records of the 27th Division of the American Expeditionary Forces, 1917-19 (60 rolls) and Interior Department Appointment Papers: Wisconsin, 1849-1907 (9 rolls).

Among recent publications of the National Archives are Guide to the Ford Film Collection in the National Archives, which describes the 1,500,000 feet of film in the Ford Historical Film Collection cov- ering the years from 1914 to the early 1940s and costs $5.00, National Audiovisual Center (General Information Leaflet No. 15), and Rec- ords of the United States Marine Corps: National Archives Inventory, Record Group No. 127. Military Operations of the Civil War: A Guide-Index to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-1865, Volume II: Main Eastern Theatre of Operations, 3rd Fascicle, Containing Section M; "Comprehensive Index of Rec- ognized Military Operations," 2d part, costs $1.00 and may be ordered from the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. 20402.

Among the acquisitions of Federal Records Centers are: (Suitland, Md.) 17 cubic feet of records of the Office of Lend-Lease Admin- istration and successor agencies, papers of the National Conference on Citizenship, 1946-70, "Policy Series" of the assistant deputy ad- ministrator for programming of the Economic Cooperation Adminis- tration, 1949-51; and 16 cubic feet of records of the Federal Coal




Mine Safety Board of Review; (Atlanta) 5,000 feet of U. S. district court records dating from 1819 for the southern district of Mississippi, from 1828 for the southern district of Florida, from 1871 for the western district of North Carolina, and from 1880 for the middle district of Georgia; (Kansas City) 12,000 cubic feet of U. S. district court records for Nebraska, 1855-1955, Minnesota, 1859-1945, northern district of Iowa, 1863-1945, southern district of Iowa, 1842-1945, and eastern district of Missouri, 1824-1945; and (Fort Worth) 4,500 cubic feet of records for the U. S. district courts for the eastern district of Louisiana and the western and northern districts of Oklahoma.

The Dwight D. Eisenhower Library has received 17,000 pages of papers, 1956-61, of Phillip E. Areeda, assistant special counsel to President Eisenhower, containing drafts of studies on economic and legal matters; personal papers, 1917-70, of Earl D. Eisenhower, brother of President Eisenhower, containing family correspondence, mem- orabilia, and photographs; and a scrapbook collected by Anne Wil- liams Wheaton from 1957 to 1961 as associate press secretary at the White House.

The John F. Kennedy Library has accessioned 3 linear feet of con- gressional files, 1950-52, of Abraham Ribicoff; 1 linear foot of papers, 1956-62, of Orville Freeman, consisting of notebooks, speech drafts, clippings, photographs, and tapes; 1 linear foot of transcripts of in- terviews conducted by the Bureau of Applied Social Research at Columbia University with news broadcasters regarding the coverage of President Kennedy's assassination. Also accessioned were copies of the Peace Corps files of William Josephson and copies of selected papers of Admiral John Harlee.

The Harry S. Truman Library has recently received the papers of Philleo Nash, who served in the Office of War Information, as administrative assistant to President Truman, and as commissioner of In- dian affairs under President Kennedy, including correspondence, memoranda, reports, press releases, speech files, newspapers, public opinion polls, legislative files, pamphlets, and other publications. Also accessioned were letters written from Kentucky, 1848-57, by members of the Truman and Holmes families to members of the same families living in Missouri and letters, 1882-91, from Mary Martha Truman, aunt of President Truman, to Nan Bentley.



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