Vol. 12, No. 2 Fall 1981

discuss the difficulties they experience Fall Meeting in utilizing architectural and engi- neering drawings.

Set For Akron The Quaker Square Hilton Inn provides a luxurious and beautiful setting for this year's meeting. This unique hotel, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is constructed in thirty-six giant silos that once housed tons of grain for the Quaker Oats Com- pany. The handsomely decorated circular rooms are available at a special rate for archivists, manuscript curators, librarians and others attending the meeting. The Quaker Square complex includes forty unusual shops, boutiques, restaurants and attractions. An en- closed swimming pool and recreation center are also located in the hotel.

All sessions for this program will be held at the Quaker Hilton. Registration will be on Friday morning. A luncheon will precede the two Friday afternoon sessions and the day's activities will

be ti capped ti by a mixer in the evening.

The opening session Friday afternoon will feature a general presentation of The Fall meeting of the Society of Ohio the historic preservation movement. Dr. Archivists is scheduled for October 2-3 Theodore A. Sande, Executive Director of at the Quaker Square Hilton Inn in the Western Reserve Historical Society, Akron, Ohio. The Conference will focus will discuss current trends in this on a recurring dilemma for the archivist field and examine the role of the ar- and manuscript curator: architectural chivist as seen by a preservationist. and engineering drawings. Attendees Similarly, H. Roger Grant, Professor of will have the opportunity to hear ar- History at the University of Akron, will c hivis ts discuss such problems as ap- investigate the role of the archivist as praisal, storage, cataloging and micro- seen from the viewpoint of an archi- filming while researchers and historic tectural researcher. He will also preservationists relate their needs and discuss the use of architectural draw- ings in research and comment on current 10, 1981, and mailed with the appro- trends in such use. priate fee to:

The second session on Friday, "The Linda Folc,; Archival Services; Bierce Archivists Dilemma: Evaluation of Library; University of Akron; Akron, OH Research Materials," will feature pre- 44325. sentations based on first-hand experi- ence in collecting and appraising engi- neering and architectural drawings. Participants for this session will be: Richard Wright, Di rec tor of the Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green CWRU: State University and Michael Lawrence, I Assistant Curator for Architectural Records at the Cuyahoga County Archives. An Archival Profile By Laura Gorretta The first Saturday morning session, Assistant University Archivist "Case Study: Care and Preservation of Architectural and Engineering drawings," The Case Western Reserve University will be devoted to the archival treat- Archives was established by the Board of ment of architectural research ma- Trustees of CWRU at the first Trustee terials. Two archivists, Les Stegh, of meeting following the federation of Deere and Company, Moline, Illinois, and Western Reserve University and Case Peter Daniloff of the Tower City Cor- Institute of Technology in July, 1967. poration, Cleveland, Ohio, will discuss The Archives antecedents date back to storage, preservation, preparation of 1959, when the case Institute of Tech- finding aids and microfilming at their nology Archives began to take shape respective institutions. The second under the direction of an English pro- session on Saturday morning will also fessor. In 1964, the secretary of have a "case study" format, wherein the neighboring Western Reserve University use of architectural records in actual appointed Ruth Helmuth Archivist of that restoration projects will be examined. institution. She continued as Archivist Ted Curtis, University architect at Kent of Case Western Reserve University. State University, will discuss his Under her direction, the Archives has experiences with the Quaker Square grown in scope, volume and services restoration project, while Robert C. offered. Gaede, president of his own archi tec- tural firm, will detail his work with Formerly housed in the basement of a the Roscoe Village and Ohio Courthouse campus cafeteria and in the University restorations. Circle Police Station, next to the suspect holding room, the Archives Following the closing luncheon on Sat- repository now occupies two floors of urday, meeting participants can join a the Quail Building, a former classroom formal tour of the Hower House, a Vic- building on the Case campus. Also torian mansion in the process of res- located in the Quail Building are the toration, or individually visit other offices of Security and Environmental nearby sites including the Football Hall Affairs and Plant Services whose proxi- of Fame in Canton and Stan Hywet Hall in mity does not, contrary to all logic, Akron. enhance their services to the Archives. The Archives also maintains additional We hope you will plan to attend what storage sites in four other campus promises to be an informative meeting in buildings including the Medical School a beautiful setting. Pre-registration and Allen Memorial Library. The Quail forms should be postmarked by September Building facilities are served by a 2 sturdy freight elevator and are properly Staffing levels have fluctuated over the protected by a security system tied in years. The first full-time assistant to the University Circle Police Station archivist was hired in 1972; prior to and by ionization heads and heat detec- that time, graduate student assistants tors in the roons and hallways. Air supervised by the University Archivist conditioning units cool the repository processed col lee tions and ran the re- during the heat of Cleveland summers and pository. A high level of three full- provide cold drafts during the winters. time and two part-time archivists (excluding the University Archivist) was 61 Since we are unable to revel in the reached in 1979. Today, two full-time amenities found in new repositories or and one part-time archivist supervise recently remodeled facilities, we make the operation of the repository, assist the best of what we have. The "main researchers, process collections too room" is the hub of the Archives' activ- difficult or sensitive to assign to ity, serving as both the processing room students and direct the practicum for and the reading room. It is also the graduate students in the Archives Edu- location of the typewriter, the tele- cation Program. (A detailed description phone and the microfilm reader and has of the education programs can be found been known to become boisterous on in the Spring, 1980, issue of the News- occasion. We do have a large number of letter.) -- windows in the Quail Building, which makes up for the absence of wall-to-wall The current holdings of the Archives carpeting and matching tables and consist of approximately 5,000 linear chairs. From these windows, we have feet of records pertaining to the Uni- seen Army helicopters landh1g on the versity. Case Western Reserve Uni- football field, the University football versity dates from 1826, when Western team working out under the August sun, Reserve College was established in rapid transit cars aflame on the adja- Hudson, Ohio. A Medical School was cent railroad tracks and the Interna- established in 1843 which, over the tional Association of Jugglers -- on years incorporated the medical depart- campus for a convention -- honing their ments of Wooster University, Ohio Wes- juggling skills while riding unicycles lyan University, Charity Hospital and around the parking lot. the Cleveland College of Physicians and

Repository is on 2nd and 3rd floor of the Quail Building

3 Surgeons. The School of Nursing began of files usually follows a visit by an as the Lakeside Hospital School of archivist to a given office. The Ar- Nursing in 1898. The Case School of chives' carefully cultivated reputation Applied Science was founded in 1880. At for efficient service has enabled us to various times, CWRU has had a School of establish relations with departments Education, a School of Pharmacy and a that have heretofore preferred to be School of Architecture, as well as a responsible for their noncurrent re- preparatory school, Western Reserve cords. Not infrequently, cartons of Academy. The records of these entities records have appeared on our doorstep include the requisite minutes of govern- without notice and without indication of I ing boards and faculty bodies, official origin, these having been sent by secre- f publications of the University (dis- taries who were referred to us by satis- sertations, theses, catalogues, year- fied customers. books, newspapers, and products of the University Press), blueprints and speci- Accessions procedures are simple. They fications of land and buildings owned by often involve preliminary weeding and the University, student records, alumni repacking in order to save space in the records and office files from the prin- accessions room. Approximately 7 5% of cipal and not so principal administra- all material that comes into the Ar- tive officers. chives is thrown out of the Archives.

Processing includes appraisal on an individual document basis, the removal of staples and paper clips (the paper clips are recirculated to campus of- fices) and basic conservation measures if needed. Acid free folders are used to house all documents. The primary finding aids are boxlists and series descriptions which are listed by record group on visible file cards.

At this point in the history of the Archives, we find ourselves reprocessing many collections that were originally processed in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In order to improve the physical arrangement of documents or to further weed collections, our appraisal criteria have changed over the years, as have our preferred arrangement schemes. Demands on our space and a need for efficiency A view of the main room. in retrieving information often require the total rearrangement of some series. Whereas the principal administrative offices are well represented in the An average of 1200 requests are received Archives, many departments are not. ·The yearly from administrative, faculty most extensive departmental files in our members, and outside researchers. The holdings are those of the astronomy, majority of the requests are answ~red by physics and sociology departments and referring to subject files on buildings the Engineering Design Center. The and grounds, biographical information on professional schools are also well faculty and administrators, trustee represented. As CWRU does not have a minutes, or by returntng alumni files records management program, the transfer and student records to the offices of

4 origin. We also handle more involved requests such as tracking down an af- filiation agreement of an unknown date between the University and University Hospitals, or responding to a subpoena for the student records of Rupert Hughes, uncle of billionaire Howard Hughes. An informal survey indicates the most frequent user of the Archives' collection to be the Archives itself, which uses photographs for the exhibits .r, we prepare for the campus. The Office of University Communications is the second mos~ frequent user, and is fol- lowed by the various alum~i offices. Like all archives, we do our share of exhibit work, maintaining two exhibit cases in administration buildings. In addition, we provide special exhibits for alumni events and University cele- Charles Sherrill sorts negatives over brations such as inaugurations and a light table made from a desk drawer. anniversaries. altogether. The Western Reserve College Several ancillary tasks have recently records contain material concerning the been assigned to the Archives. The most College which include~ 19th Century time consuming of these is an art inven- deeds and land transfers in Summit and tory undertaken at the request of the Portage Counties, material concerning Office of Administrative Services. the abolition movement in the Western Photographs of all art objects, paint- Reserve, and records of the American ings, sculpture, silver and antiques Education Society. Case School of have been taken and the location and Applied Science was founded by a Cleve- provenance of each work must be doc- land philanthropist and real estate umented in order to assure the Uni- investor, Leonard Case, Jr. The Ar- versity of adequate insurance coverage. chives maintains his papers and those of The Administrative Services Office has, his father and brother, who was mayor of in return for our labors, given us funds Cleveland from 1850 to 1852. These to rephotograph valuable nitrate nega- collections are voluminous and informa- tives; all in the name of Insurance! tive and include the records of the The Archives is now also responsible for ti Ark, ti the forerunner of The Cleveland conducting an inventory of all plaques Museum of Natural History. In addition, on the campus and for maintaining an up- we have records of the Union Salt Com- to-date list of emeritus professors and pany, The William Bingham Company and their addresses. the Dow Chemical Company. The Western Reserve University sociology department It is unfortunate, albeit understand- files include several detailed studies able, that CWRU is often overlooked by produced in the 1960s and 1970s of the researchers seeking information about Hough and Ludlow neighborhoods of Cleve- Cleveland and the Wes tern Reserve; due land. President T. Keith Glennan, of no doubt to the proximity of the Western Case, and President John S. Millis, of Reserve Historical Society and a general Western Reserve, whose papers are in the failure to recognize the role the Uni- collections, were two of the original versity has played in the development of incorporators of University Circle, the area. A recent guide to sources of Inc. , and the Cleveland Commission on Cleveland history neglected the Archives Higher Education. 5 A typical processor's table.

Trustees of the University who have been educational work has assisted us in influential in the area and who are acquiring much of the equipment we have represented in various collections today, most notably our conservation include members of the Mather family, facilities and microfilm camera and Ralph M. Besse, Andrew Squire, Francis reader. We are now fortunate to have a P. Bolton and Harold T. Clark. Henry M. modest endowment which allows us to take Busch, Professor of Sociology, was care of incidental expenses when they involved in political and social welfare arise. causes in Cleveland; Albert W. Smith, Professor of Chemistry, was testing Lake The Archives has no truly exciting plans Erie and Cuyahoga River water in 1887; for the future. We will be moving some Francis H. Herrick, Professor of Biol- of our holdings to another building in ogy, studied wild birds and the eagles what will probably be a futile at tempt of Vermilion, Ohio; Frederick Robbins, to alleviate our space crunch. The next Dean of the School of Medicine, won a step will be to wheedle some shelving Nobel Prize in 1954 for his research of from the University. We will continue polio; and Frederick Reines began his our reprocessing program and have cer- neutrino research at the Univesrity. tain departments targeted for an ar- chives blitz. In addition, a tie into In addition to serving the University, the University's computer system is the Archives has provided training for being considered. As far as our physi- hundreds of practicing and would-be cal plant is concerned, we have gone as archivists through the graduate edu- far as we can and will have to arrange cation programs and through the College our priorities to fit our building. and University Archives workshops we conducted for eleven years. Archivists The Case Western Reserve University from the United States, Canada and the Archives repository is located off Far East have taken the CWRU classifi- Adelbert Road, next to the railroad cation scheme and processing and proce- tracks, in University Circle. We are dures manuals to their institutions and open Monday through Friday, 8:30 to adapted them to particular situations. 4: 30. Researchers are advised to call We have done our part for the cause of (216) 368-3320 before dropping in. standardizing archival practices! This

6 consideration in the House in mid-Sep- tember. Appropriation bills for NHPRC Archives Jeopardized have passed in both the House and the Senate. The House bill provides for an By Spending Cuts appropriation of one million dollars in grant funds -- a reduction of 75% -- and the Sentate bill authorizes three mil- lion dollars in grant funds. A final bill is expected to emerge from confer- ence committee in mid-September. The progress of these bills is evidence that The recent reductions proposed for the archivists can have an impact in Wash- federal budget pose a threat to archival ington and if they pass, NHPRC will have programs throughout the nation. The been saved by its nationwide constitu- major programs, the National Archives ency. and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) were While we can surely take pride in such established during the Great Depression an outcome, archivists should be aware .and have operated with minimal funding that this success may very well come at since that time. In recent years, infla- the expense of the National Archives. tion and underfunding have combined to In recent years, Congress has repeatedly create acute problems for these agen- responded to our requests for · NHPRC cies. Continued reductions in their funding by authorizing these funds from staffing are imminent and more than one the NARS budget without increasing the hundred positions may be lost. Archival total budget of the National Archives. programs will also be affected by the Of the current NHPRC appropriation reduced level of funding at the National bills, only that of the Senate provides Endowment for the Humanities, which for an increase in the NARS budget, but supports many archival projects. limits this increase to one million dollars. The most severe threat is faced by NHPRC. -- No grant funds have been This should not prevent us from support- budgeted for the agency, which is also ing these bills; at this point, we need struggling to secure reauthorization desperately to secure the reauthori- this year. Archivists, genealogists, zation and continued funding of NHPRC. historians, librarians and other friends The program has benefited archivists are working through the Coalition to from coast to coast and we cannot afford Save our Documentary Heritage to secure to lose it, for archives are tradition- reauthorization of NHPRC and refunding ally and preeminently a concern of the of its grant program at 7 5% of last government and the public sector of the year's four-million-dollar level. The economy. We should realize that success SOA joined the Coalition in March and in this endeavor will not increase the our Legislative Committee has worked amount of money budgeted for archives. with other professional associations in With inflation and the reduction in Ohio to contact senators and represen- grant money which we anticipate for tatives on this issue. As a result of NHPRC, we are clearly falling behind. these and similar efforts in other Surely our next step must be to impress states, 134 printed pages of constituent upon our representatives the need to correspondence in support of NHPRC have provide the basic level of funding which been exhibited at congressional hearings is necessary to preserve our nation's as testimony on behalf of NHPRC. As a documentary heritage. To date, we have result of these efforts, reauthorization not adequately made our case and the of NHPRC has been approved by the Senate records placed in our charge are suf- and is expected to receive favorable fering accordingly.

7 The recent dues increase from $5 to President's Column $7.50, which the membership approved last April, will provide much needed revenue. Over 150 dues notices were mailed in early July. The SOA could realize some $1,100 if all 150 in- dividual and institutional members promptly pay their annual dues. Al- though the $1,100 figure sounds like a substantial sum of money, it is barely enough to pay for the publication and mailing of two issues of the News- letter. Like most of us, the SOA has been caught in the inflation squeeze.

Council has steadfastly resisted the obvious, compromising the quality of the Newsletter, which is the Society's biggest single expense. Instead, other cost saving measures have been imple- mented over the recent years. For several meetings, including the forth- coming meeting in Akron, we have not been able to provide any monetary compen- sation to program participants. The Society has been extremely fortunate to have been able to enlist the support of qualified speakers, and we are grateful to those individuals, members and non- members alike, who have given freely of their time and expertise. · A new com- As your new president, this is my first prehensive membership list, the current opportunity to report to the membership system for an annual mailing of dues about the state of the Society. When I notices, and a revamped records keeping assumed office last April, the SOA was process will help reduce our postage trying to recover from a financial loss costs by eliminating unnecessary mail- shared with the Society of Indiana ings. Archivists at the 1980 Fall meeting in Cincinnati. The past several months In the past, Council has tried to set have been extremely difficult for the the registration fee for ·the Spring and organization's treasury. What little Fall meeting well within the reach of cushion was left in the checking account most of the membership. La·st year, had to be allocated to the payment of Council adopted a special reduced rate outstanding bills, such as printing and for students to encourage their parti- mailing charges for the Salt Fork meet- cipation in meetings and a $10 addi- ing brochure and the publication of the tional fee for non-members. In most Spring SOA Newsletter. Even the small cases, the meetings have not been profit reserve savings account was not enough making ventures for the Society. Al- to offset the organization's indebt- t hough the organization was not estab- edness. To make ends meet, bills were lished to make money, a certain amount intentionally delayed until the latter of financial capital must be generated part of July, when revenues from the in order to undertake new projects and annual dues notices began to be re- maintain expected services. Because of ceived. this, the registration fee for the

8 upcoming Quaker Square meeting on Oc- the records keeping process and provide tober 2-3 has been set at $35. The fee, a current listing of Newsletter sub- which includes two meals, is still well scribers. below that charged by other professional organizations hosting comparable meet- Finally, I would like to invite everyone ings and seminars. It is hoped that any to attend this year's Fall meeting at profit realized from the Fall meeting the Quaker Square Hilton in Akron on will be used to finance the publication October 2-3. The setting and the pro- of the master accessions list, which gram promise to be well worth the trip. will be made available to the membership For many of us who will not have the at no cost. opportunity to attend the SAA meeting in California, this will be a chance to All is not grim and gray in Ohio. A renew old acquaintances and engage in search is underway to find a permanent professional patter. During my years of home for the SOA Newsletter. A one-year involvement in SOA, one of the central agreement has been reached with The features of the organization is the Western· Reserve Historical Society for opportunity to gather in the Spring and the production of the Newsletter, begin- Fall of each year to meet with other ning with the Fall issue. I am hopeful professional colleagues from around the this new arrangement will help to alle- state. I hope to see everyone there! I viate some of the problems involving the am confident that the worst is behind us Newsletter which have plagued Council and that the Society of Ohio Archivists and the membership of the SOA for many has a bright future ahead. years. The Managing Editor, John Grabow- ski, is responsible for soliciting and Thomas A. Smith editing material to be included in the President publication. WRHS will produce for the Society a camera-ready copy which can be presented to the printers. The His- torical Society also will assist in the mailing of the Newsletter, but will not The SOA Newsletter is a semi- be responsible for any of the mailing annual publication of the Society costs. With all Newsletter activity of Ohio Archivists. The editors centered in Cleveland, the publication welcome articles relating to ar- can be prepared more efficiently and chival activities within Ohio and distributed to the membership on time. to professional matters in general. Institutional affiliation with WRHS will Publication deadlines are February also provide the Society with the oppor- 28 for the Spring issue and July 31 tunity to make improvements in the for the Fall issue. All materials content of the Newsletter. should be directed to the Managing Editor: John J. Grabowski Steps also have been taken to insure Western Reserve Historical that all members receive their copy of Society the Newsletter on a regular basis. A 10825 East Boulevard comprehensive and up-to-date mailing list now exists thanks to the work of Cleveland, Ohio 44106 Rai Goerler as Membership Chairman. Editors: Cathy Koral This master mailing/ membership list Bonnie Gordon will undergo revision with the addition Department of Developme~t of new members and when previous members and Communication fail to pay their membership or insti- Western Reserve Historical tutional fees. Putting all members and Society institutions on the same annual billing cycle of July 1 to June 30 will simplify

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L The Howard Dittrick Museum of Historical Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, has received NEWS NOTES two matching grants from the Ohio Mu- seums Association to process images for its Picture Collection of Medical His- Ms. Anna Selfridge has assumed the tory. James Edmonson, Associate Curator position of Assistant Curator of Ar- of the Dittrick Museum, has received the chives and Manuscripts at the Allen Wilbur Owen Sypherd Prize from the County Historical Society in Lima, Ohio. University of Delaware for his doctoral dissertation, "From Mecanicien to In- The American Jewish Archives, Cincin- genieur: Technical Education and the nati, Ohio, in conjunction with Bell & Machine Building Industry in Nineteenth Howell's Microphoto Division, ha& just Century France." issued a fifteen microfilm reel edition of the Writings of Isaac Mayer Wise. The microfilm is accompanied by an extensive guide which includes a number of essays and a biographical sketch on The Aurora Historical Society's genea- Isaac Mayer Wise. logical holdings have grown to represent several thousand names and families. The Society has just concluded a listing of all Aurora area residents listed in the 1880 and 1900 Federal census. The Licking County Historical Society, Newark, Ohio, has opened their new house museum, "The Robbins Hunter Museum, Avery-Downer House, Granville, Ohio."

Dr. James W. Geary, formerly Director, American History Research Center and University Archivist at Kent State Deborah Biggs has resigned as Local University, has assumed the position of Government Records Archivist at the Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs at Center for Archival Collections at the East Liverpool Campus of KSU. Bowling Green State University to attend graduate school at the University of Michigan. Jill Gates Smith, formerly with the Washington Women's Heritage Project, has joined the Center's staff as Field Specialist for the Women's Mt. St. Mary's Seminary and Archives is Studies Archives Project. This project moving from Norwood to Cincinnati, Ohio. is funded by an NEH grant. The Center Effective September 1, the Seminary's has also received a grant through the new addresss will be: 6616 Beechmont Maritime Preservations Grants Program of Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45230. the National Trust for Historic Preser- vation to support the micro£ ilming and indexing of 17,000 - 20,000 archi tec- tural and engineering drawings of Great Lakes ships. Among the major collec- tions recently accessioned by the center Among the materials recently accessioned is the Henry Barkhausen collection of by the Oberlin College Archives is a photographs, publications and documents series of twenty-nine letters and draw- relating to Great Lakes shipping, which ings by architect Frank Lloyd Wright for is valued at $30,000. a home in Oberlin, Ohio.

10 Robert Bober, formerly of the Florida Ann Patterson has resigned her position State Archives, has joined the staff of as Local Government Records Specialist the Ohio State University Archives as at the Western Reserve Historical So- Assistant Archivist. ciety to take a position with the law firm of Squire Sanders and Dempsey. Michael Clegg, former Assistant Refer- ence Librarian at the Society, has taken a position at the Fort Wayne Public The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library. New staff members at WRHS Center has begun publication of a news- include Eileen Philips, Library Assis- letter, The Statesman. The Center has tant; Thomas Pappas, Micro£ ilm Camera also received a grant through the Ohio Operator; and Wesley Wilson, Photo- Museums Association for the development graphic Archivist. The Society also· of its downstairs level museum exhibi- announces completion of the Consumers tion area. League of Ohio Microfilming Project funded by the NHPRC and the Elizabeth S. Magee Fund of Case Western Reserve University.

The Local History Department of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library has recently received the records of the Murphy Mortuary, Toledo, Ohio. The A grant from the George M. and Pamela s. records will provide important ethnic, Humphrey Fund will allow the Society to particularly Irish, genealogical inf or- prepare a microfilm edition of the mation. George M. Humphrey Papers. Mr. Humphrey was Secretary of the U.S. Treasury from 1953-1957. His papers are part of the Society's manuscript collection. Using proceeds from the estate of the late Dr. Charles Isetts, Director of the John Hyde Gehrung, which was bequeathed in total to the genealogical library of University of Cincinnati History of WRHS, the Society has purchased 10,000 Health Sciences Library and Museum, has resigned his position and will be moving rolls of United States Census Schedules and Soundex Indexes. This purchase will to England in July, 1981. The interim provide the Society with a complete director will be Mrs. Billie Broaddus, Director of the Health Sciences Library collection of Federal census micro- film up to and including 1900, as well as at the University of Cincinnati. most of the Soundex Indexes. The ma- terial should be ready for researchers by late 1981.

Joel F. Wurl is assuming the position of archivist at the Ward M. Canaday Center at the William S. Carlson Library of the University of Toledo. Mr. Wurl has Miss Ina Kelley has been named the new previously worked with the manuscript Curator of the Quaker Collection at collections at Auraria University, the Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio. Federal Records Center in Denver, and at She was formerly with the Bentley His- the University Archives and Area Re- torical Library at the University of search Center at the University of Michigan. Former curator, Lynn A. Wisconsin at Eau Claire. Grove, is moving to New York.

11 About the SOA OFFICERS AND COUNCIL Thomas A. Smith ••••••••••••••• President The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential The Society of Ohio Archivists was Center founded in 1968 to promote on a state- wide basis the exchange of information, Robert H. Smith •••••••••• Vice President improvement of professional competence Wright State University and coordination of activities of ar- chives and manuscript repositories. Frank R. Levstik •••• Secretary-Treasurer Membership is open to all interested The Ohio Historical Society persons, particularly archivists, manu- script curators, librarians, records Linda Folck ••••••••••••••••••••• Council managers and historians. Individual and The Ohio Historical Society institutional memberships are $7.50 per year. Persons interested in joining the Rai Goerler ••••••••••••••••••••• Council SOA should mail a check or money order The Ohio State University made payable to The Society of Ohio Archivists to Rai Goerler, Membership Linda Hinrichs •••••••••••••••••• Council Chairman, The Ohio State University, University of Dayton University Archives, 169 Converse Hall, 2121 Tuttle Park Place, Columbus, Ohio Laura Goretta ••••••••••••••••••• Council 43210. Case Western Reserve University

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