SPRING 2008
307 Marting Hall
Phone: 440-826-2076
Fax: 440-826-3264
HIS 461 HISTORIOGRAPHY
All DAY history majors must take HIS 461 (Historiography). We recommend the course be taken in your senior year after completing a minimum of 17 hours in History.
YOU MUST TAKE HIS 461 IN ORDER TO MEET YOUR HISTORY MAJOR REQUIREMENTS AND TO BE ELIGIBLE TO GRADUATE.
Historiography (HIS 461) will be offered only once in the 2008-2009 school year. This will be during the Fall Semester 2008. Therefore, those intending to student teach need to receive a student teaching assignment for the spring of 2009.
In Fall Semester of 2008, the class will be taught MWF 12:00-12:50 p.m.
IMPORTANT ASSESSMENT INFORMATION FOR ALL DAY HISTORY MAJORS
You should save an example of your best paper or essay exam each year and turn in a copy to Dr. Gesink for your assessment file. This material is not used to judge you; we use it to determine whether our classes teach our students to write better by the time they are seniors.
Please remember to turn in the paper or exam before the end of Spring Semester. We will make a copy and return the original to you if you wish.
HISTORY MAJOR REQUIREMENTS
Requirements for a History major are listed on the History Department website.
http://www-staged.bw.edu/coursecatalog/degreerequire/hist/
Students majoring in history may prepare to teach in the secondary schools. Details of courses necessary to become licensed may be obtained from the Department of History or the Division of Education.
PHI ALPHA THETA NEWS
On Saturday, April 5, four members of Phi Alpha Theta and Dr. Gesink attended the 2008 Phi Alpha Theta Ohio Regional Conference at Kent State University. Kirsten Paine presented a paper entitled “Devolution in Twentieth-Century Scotland: A Movement for Independence.” Dr. Gesink chaired a panel featuring Jeremy Feador and Michael Columbro on the Adams Street Cemetery. Jeremy presented “The Adams St. Cemetery Project and the Civil War: Digging up the Past without a Shovel” and Michael presented “Stoned to Death: A History of the Whitney Family and the Berea Quarries.” Jeremy won an award for his presentation. Holly Gaidelis also attended the conference.
An initiation ceremony took place on Sunday, April 6 for 14 new members of Phi Alpha Theta. Watch for their names and more information in the fall newsletter.
An application to join Phi Alpha Theta will be included with the Fall 2008 newsletter, and an induction will be held again in Spring 2009.
Requirements for induction are:
- 12 hours of history completed by the end of Fall 2008 (Transfer credits as well as 3 CLEP OR AP credits count if the AP test score is a 4 or 5.)
- 3.1 average in history
- 3.0 average in all non-history courses
- $55.00 induction fee, payable to “Baldwin-Wallace College.” It is due upon application. ($40.00 for the International headquarters, and $15.00 for the local chapter).
Dr. Steve Siry and Dr. Robert Montgomery are chapter advisors.
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM DATES FALL 2008
The Senior Comprehensive Exam, which is required of all day history majors, will be given twice during Fall Semester 2008. In August, when Dr. Montgomery returns from his sabbatical, the fall dates will be announced.
Study suggestions for the comprehensive exam will be included in the fall newsletter and can also be found on Blackboard. If you took HIS 102I World Civilizations II from Dr. Gesink, you may get copies of your old exams from her to help you prepare.
ADVISING SURVEYS
If you are advised by Dr. Barone, Dr. Evans, Dr. Gesink or Dr. Montgomery and haven’t already done so, please see Jean in the History Office and fill out an advising survey. It is also available on Blackboard.
FRESHMAN FORGIVENESS POLICY
A course that a student takes during the first 32 credit hours of his or her enrollment at Baldwin-Wallace College can be repeated. The grade obtained in the first attempt is removed from the calculation of the GPA and is designated with a symbol (*) signifying that the course was repeated and that the original grade is not included in the GPA calculation. The grade obtained on the second attempt is used to calculate the GPA, even if it is lower than the first attempt.
A course can only be repeated once under this policy. The credits of the repeated course count only once toward graduation requirements.
This policy does not apply to students transferring 32 or more credit hours; it applies, however, to students who are transferring fewer than 32 credit hours, as long as the course that is repeated was taken at Baldwin-Wallace College before the student earned 32 credits.
A course must be repeated at Baldwin-Wallace College the following semester, or the semester during which it is next offered, for the student to be able to benefit from this policy. Any course can be repeated under this policy, as long as the first attempt was taken at B-W within the first 32 credit hours of college work of the student.
Please see your advisor if you have questions.
FACULTY NEWS
Dr. Lou Barone will retire at the end of this semester after 42 years of service at Baldwin-Wallace College. He has enriched the lives of students with courses on American history including: Modern America, Recent America, the Vietnam War and the Civil War. Dr. Barone has been extensively involved in BW’s athletic program, having been assistant coach for the Women’s Softball team for seven years, and he served thirty-three years as Faculty Representative to the Ohio Athletic Conference.
For twenty-eight years, his voice echoed over Berea as the stadium announcer for the BW Football team. We wish him a happy retirement!
Dr. Indira Gesink's students working on the Adams Street Cemetery project are nearing completion of the online database of biographical material on those interred. Jeremy Feador, who has been working on the project for two years, will open an exhibit on the cemetery at the Mahler Museum (118 E. Bridge St., Berea) on Sunday, April 20. The opening reception is from 2-4 PM, and the exhibit will remain open until December. The public is welcome to attend.
Dr. Steve Siry has written a book review of Francis Cogliano’s Thomas Jefferson: Reputation and Legacy (University of Virginia Press, 2006). The review was published in the March 2008 issue of Presidential Studies Quarterly.
RETIREMENT RECEPTION
A campus-wide reception will be held for Dr. Barone on Tuesday, April 22 from 3:00-4:30 p.m. in the Marting-Treuhaft Lounge. Please drop in and join the celebration!
ALUMNI NEWS
Please stay in touch with us after graduation and let us know what you are doing: teaching, grad school, marriage, children, etc. We hope to hear from you!
1991
Denise Mundorff Wilson, West Lothian, United Kingdom, is a student liaison officer for the Institute of System Level Integration.
1992
Donna Brinker Potter, Pickerington, is an Administrative Assistant III – Project Manager for the Ohio Department of Agriculture.
1999
Tim Obergefell, Sandusky, married Allison Cassidy on June 9, 2007. Tim is a social studies teacher at Sandusky Perkins High School.
Susan Ahten Richardson and her husband Ameer, Avon Lake, welcomed their second child, Aaron Joseph, on April 24, 2007.
2002
Laura Boures received her Masters from John Carroll in May 2007. Her degree is in Early American History and her Masters Essay was on Native American Diplomacy in Early North America.
Jennifer Goellnitz graduated from the Marshall School of Law at Cleveland State University in 2005.
Jacqueline Luzar is engaged and plans to be married in the fall. She will begin a new job with Williams Creek in Indianapolis.
2003
Michael Luzniak earned his Masters of Art in Education Administration from Baldwin-Wallace in May, 2007. He is an officer with the Parma Hts. Police Department.
2004
Ned Lauver is teaching Social Studies at Wooster High School.
Katherine Stamm, Toledo, married Micah Vogt on November 3, 2007. She is a social studies teacher for Springfield Local Schools.
2005
Nick Hanna, Lakewood, is a law student at Cleveland State University.
Bill Wurl, who is in the graduate program at Kent State University, presented a paper at the Ohio Regional Conference at Kent State for Phi Alpha Theta. He will discuss the evolution of thought that led to Alfred Thayer Mahan’s original conception of sea power and how it was developed by Admiral William Shepherd Benson.
2007
Arthur Kinney is in his first semester at Cleveland State University and is pursuing a masters degree in history. Arthur is a graduate assistant and is doing research on the history of University Circle.
2008
Jeremy Feador presented a paper at the NCUR (National Council of Undergraduate Research). The meeting took place April 10-12 at Salisbury University in Salisbury, Maryland.
Anne Godec has been accepted to Kent State University and will start classes in May for a masters degree in library science.
Kirsten Paine has been accepted to the University of Virginia and will start classes in the fall for a Ph. D.
We enjoy hearing from our alums…please drop us a line if you see this newsletter online and let us know how and what you are doing. We’ll be more than happy to put you on our newsletter mailing list if you’d like to receive a copy in the U.S. mail or by email.
SUMMER JOBS AND INTERNSHIPS
Please take a look at the Blackboard Majors/Minors site if you are interested in history-related summer jobs or internships.
GRADUATING SENIORS
Congratulations on completing your degree at BW! We give you our very best wishes.
GRADUATE SCHOOL
Take a look at the bulletin board in classroom 103 for graduate school application information and brochures. We will post brochures as they become available. Many include postcards that you can send to the college for information.
FORWARD YOUR BW E-MAIL
It is always important that all students check their BW email accounts regularly for important information from various places. However, another option is to have your BW mail forwarded to another account that you more frequently use, such as one with Yahoo or AOL. Please refer to the Information Technology website for instructions.
EMAIL - GRADUATING SENIORS
Your BW email account will remain active for one full semester (about six months) after graduation; you will also have access to Blackboard during that time. You will receive an email warning about two weeks before your account is to be deleted. If you would like an extension because you need a professional email address for job applications, or for other academic reasons, reply to the email with a request and rationale for keeping the account open.
A NOTE FROM JEAN
I will be working Tuesdays and Thursdays during June and July if you need to contact me for anything. Have a wonderful and relaxing summer!
LET US KNOW IF WE CAN HELP YOU
Mrs. Jean Haag, Office Manager: Marting 307, 826-2076, jhaag@bw.edu
Or contact any member of the History Department:
| Dr. Louis Barone 826-2142 lbarone@bw.edu |
Dr. Edgar Moore 826-2076 |
| Dr. Connie Evans 826-2282 csevans@bw.edu |
Dr. Robert Montgomery 826-2299 rmontgom@bw.edu |
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Prof. Jennifer Janson |
Dr. Steven Siry 826-2141 ssiry@bw.edu |
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Dr. Indira Gesink, Chair |
Prof. Mark Cole |
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Dr. J. P. Patton |
826-2284 |
275 Eastland Rd.