History of Education Society
Annual Meeting Program
Holiday Inn, Independence Mall
Philadelphia, PA
Program Committee
John L. Rury, DePaul University (Chair)
James Carl, John Carroll University
William Cutler III, Temple University
Katharine Kennedy, Agnes Scott College
Kathleen Murphey, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne
Jana Nidiffer, University of Michigan
SCHEDULE OF SESSIONS AND CONFERENCE EVENTS
Thursday, October 23, 1997
Temple University Department of History, host
Introduction, John L. Rury, DePaul University
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Friday, October 24, 1997
Chair/Commentary: Ron Cohen, Indiana University-Northwest
| "Betas and Spinsters were More Elite..That’s How it Was" David Martin, Indiana University |
| "Clean Living for the High School Boy: The Hi-y" David Setran, Indiana University |
"We Are the Trouble Makers: The High School Underground and Radical Student Culture in the 1960's and 1970's" Scott Walter, Indiana University
Chair/Comment: Philo Hutchinson, Georgia State University
"The College Boards and the Irony of Latin's Decline: Educational Reform in the Early Twentieth Century" Kevin Brooks Sheets, University of Virginia
"Reaction and Redmption: California Junior Colleges During the Early 1920's" Edward A. Gallagher, Oakland Community College
"Coeducation and the Crisis of Masculinity" Thomas C. M. Truesdell, Marian College; Rocco L. Capraro, Hobart and William Smith College
Chair/Comment: David Ripley, Northern Illinois University
"Elizabeth Allen and Marion Wright: Educators and Activists" Margaret Smith Crocco, Columbia University
"Education Against the Odds: The Legacy of Laurine C. Anderson and Edward L. Blackshear" Jared R. Stallones, University of Texas
"The American Presidency and Higher Education: Harry S. Truman and the Zook Commission" Gene Chintala, Bowling Green State University
Friday, October 24, 1997
Chair/Comment: Kathleen Murphey, Indiana U Purdue U Fort Wayne
"Resisters or Reformers?: Another Look at Teachers in the Progressive Era" JoAnn Wood, New York University
"The Feminization of Teaching in London, Canada, 1826-1867" Michael F. Murphey, University of Western Ontario
""Enemies of Teachers’ Unity": The New York Teachers’ Council, the Teachers’ Guild, and the Teachers’ Movement" Geoff Tegnell, Dedham, MA
Chair/Comment: Joseph Watras, University of Dayton
"Answering Religious Questions: Cathecisms in Early American Jewish Sunday Schools" Stephen Brumberg, Brooklyn College
"Education and Culture in Early Childhood: A Revolution in Jewish Schooling" Shoshana Sitton, Tel Aviv University
"Communicating Insularity: The Deseret Alphabet of Nineteenth
Century Mormon Education" Patricia A. Lynott, Elmhurst College
Chair/Comment: William Cutler III, Temple University
"Lay Up a Store of Knowledge: Women’s Education and the Creation of Elite Culture in Pre-Revolutionary Phildelphia" Sarah Fatherly, University of Wisconsin
"The Juvinile Magazine and Black Education in Phildelphia Before 1850" Micahel Guzenhauser, University of North Carolina
"The Struggle to Desgregate Girard College in Philadelphia" Anne E. Phillips, University of Pennsylvania
***Program Note: A walking tour of themes in Philadelphia's educational history will follow this session.
Friday, October 24, 1997
Chair: Roger Geiger, Pennsylvania State University
Participants:
Jana Nidiffer, University of Michigan
Philo Hutchinson, Georgia State University
Linda Eisenmann, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Chair/Commentator: Linda Perkins, Hunter College
"Legislating Racial Tolerance: The Fisk University Race Relations Institute, 1944-1969" Katrina M. Sanders, University of Illinois
"George Peabody College for Teachers, Race Relations and Education, 1930-1965" Sherman Dorn, University of South Florida
""The Hardest Year of My Life": African American Female Public School Teachers and School Desgregation in Nashville, Tennessee, 1953-1983" Sonya Ramsey, University of North Carolina
Chair/Commentator: Roberta Wollons, Indiana University-Northwest
"Americans and Their Impact on Korean Education" Edward R. Beauchamp, University of Hawaii
"Women’s Work for Women: American Women Missionaries and the Development of Women’s Education in Late Nineteenth Century Japan" Elizabeth K. Eder, University of Maryland
"Travelling Women, Travelling Theory: Shaping the Purposes of Girls’ Education at the Shanghai McTyeire School" Heidi Ross, Colgate University
Friday, October 24, 1997
Chair/Comment: Joseph Newman, University of Alabama-Mobile
""The Best and Most Useful Institutions in the State": Educational Development in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, 1845-1885" Bruce W. Eelman, University of Maryland
"The Ethic of Care in Dayton Public Welfare Policy, 1967-1994" Joseph Watras, University of Dayton
"And Then There Was One: Clay County Schools, 1936-1996" Penelope Smith, Western Carolina University
Chair/Comment: Barbara Finkelstein, University of Maryland
"Uneasy Applications: The Uses of Psychology in Education and Childrearing" Barbara Beatty, Wellsley College
"Of Large Promise for Both Education and Science" Christine Woyshner, Harvard University
"Science, Practice and Welfare: Competing Priorities in Child Psychology" Emily Cahan, Wheelock College
"Constructing Normalcy in American Nursery Schools and Day Nurseries, 1820-1940" Julia Grant, Michigan State University
Chair/Comment: Katherine Kennedy, Agnes Scott College
"The Mothers of the Race: The Elite Schools for German Girls under the Nazi Dictatorship" Gregory Wegner, University of Wisconsin-Lacrosse
"Education Among the Ruins: Proposals for Institutions of Higher Learning in American Occupied Germany, 1945-1949" Michael Hayse, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
"Teacher Education as Social Mobility: Success and Pathology in the Case of Nazi Germany" Terry Osborne, University of Connecticut
Friday, October 24, 1997
Participants:
Richard Altenbaugh, Slippery Rock University (Editor, HEQ)
Robert Levin, Youngstown State University (Associate Editor, HEQ)
Bruce Nelson, Slippery Rock University (Managing Editor, HEQ)
Chair/Comment: Richard Yanikoski, St. Xavier University
"The Concept of Trusteeship: What Does the Biographical Lens Offer?" Andrea Walton, Indiana University
"Trustee Demography and Shifts in Institutional Identity at Wesleyan University, 1831-1993" David B. Potts, University of Puget Sound
""A Body Politic and Corporate": The Trustees of the University of North Carolina, 1789-1816" Darryl L. Peterkin, Xavier University of Louisiana
Chair: Sylvia McGrath, Stephen F. Austin State University
"Gender, Education and the Body: Educating Scientific Homemakers at Cornell University" Maggie Lowe, SUNY Potsdam
"Guinea Pigs: The Experimental Science Curriculum for Women at Purdue, 1939-1947" Sarah Barnes, Southern Methodist University
"Gender, Space and Science in the Twentieth Century Academic Medical Center" Charlotte Borst, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Comment: Amy McCandless, College of Charleston
Saturday, October 25, 1997
Saturday, October 25, 1997
Chair and Comment: James L. Leloudis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Openings to Equality: The South and the U.S. National Student Association in the Sixties" J. Angus Johnston, City University of New York
"Fighting for Themselves: White Southern Students and University Reform in the 1960's" Gregg L. Michel, University of Virginia
"Student Power, Black Power, and Class Power: Black and White Student Activists on Two New Orleans Campuses, 1960-1972" Jeffrey A. Turner, Tulane University
Chair/Comment: Jonathan Zimmerman, New York University
"The Struggle Against Obsolescent Traditions: Parent Education as a Solution to the Problem of Cultural Lag, 1930-1950" Theresa Richardson, University of South Florida
"Civic Education and Consumerism in 1950's Indianapolis" Alexander Urbiel, Ramapo College of New Jersey
"From School Critic to Home School Advocate: The Radical Journey of John Holt, 1964-1985" Casey Patrick Cochran, Emory University
Chair/Comment: Barry Franklin, University of Michigan-Flint
"Pedogogically Unworkable? Professional Botany and High School Science in the Midwest, 1880-1917" Ronald G. Amodeo, University of Minnesota
"Educating Women for Science: Scientific Mentoring in Frieda Cobb Blanchard’s Early Career" Sylvia W. McGrath, Stephen F. Austin University
"Conservation Education in Ohio, 1936-1970: State Initiatives" Kim Sebaly, Kent State University
Saturday, October 25, 1997
Chair/Comment: Kim Tolley, College of Notre Dame
"Master Teachers: The First Early Childhood Teacher Educators" Blythe Hinitz, The College of New Jersey
"Dedicated Teachers: Albany Normal School Graduates, Classes of 1845-1849" Mary Alpern, Jamaica Plain, MA
"The Founding of the Washington College of Law: The First Law School Established by Women for Women" Mary L. Clark, Georgetown University
Chair/Comment: Robert Levin, Yougstown State University
"From Mutual Aid to Social Science: The Women’s Educational and Industrial Union of Boston, 1877-1912" Charlotte L. Briggs, University of Michigan
"Mary Richmond, Public Welfare and Progressive Era Baltimore" Sarah Henry Lederman, Columbia University
"’Latter Day Knights:’ YMCA Students and Social Reform in the Progressive Era" Emily Mieras, College of William and Mary
"Horace Kallen’s Workers’ Education for Industrial Democracy" Shawn K. Taylor, North Brunswick, NJ
Chair: Nancy Beadie, University of Washington
Presenters:
Ronald E. Butchart, University of Washington, Tacoma
Frederick Erickson, University of Pennsylvania
Barbara Finkelstein, University of Maryland
Comments: The Audience
Saturday, October 25, 1997
Chair: Hugh Hawkins, Amherst College
"Liberal Protestant Universities, Catholic Colleges, and the Issue of Religious Toleration" Kathleen Mahoney, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis
"Thoughts on the College in the Age of the University" Roger Geiger, Pennsylvania State University
"The College and the Middle Class" W. Bruce Leslie, SUNY College at Brockport
Chair/Comment: Sterling Fishman, University of Wisconsin
"Seville's Orphanages as Educational Institutions in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries" Valentina Tikoff, Indiana University
"Educating for Progress and Educating for Economic Growth: Liberal and Neoliberal School Reform in El Salvador" Hector Lindo-Fuentes, Fordham University
"A Comparative Understanding of the American Educational Missions to Korea and Japan after World War II" Gilsang Lee, The Academy of Korean Studies
Chair/Comment: Robert Hampel, University of Delaware
"From Student Markets to Credential Markets: The Rise of the High School in New York State, 1850-1880" Nancy Beadie, University of Washington
"Standardizing the Calendar: Why Nineteenth Century Educators Removed Summer Education from the School Year" Kenneth Gold, University of Michigan
"Robert Owen and Education at New Harmony" Keith L. Miller, Philadelphia, PA
Saturday, October 25, 1997
Chair/Comment: Mary Ann Dzuback, Washington University
"Women Able to Stand on Both Feet and Look the World in the Face: The Public Sphere of State Normal Schools" Christine A. Ogren, University of South Florida
"Gender and Public University Leadership in the Twentieth Century"
Kimberly Marinucci, SUNY Stony Brook
"Before the Deanship was Divided: Barnard College, 1889-1910" Andrea Walton, Indiana University
Chair/Comment: Dorothy Shipps, University of Chicago
William Morgan Beckner: The Horace Mann of Kentucky" James Carothers Carper, University of South Carolina
"Prescribing Progress: The Impact of City School Surveys on Local Progressive School Reform" David Gamson, Stanford University
"Fort Wayne, Indiana: Progressing Toward Progressive Schools, 1875-1900" Kathleen A. Murphey, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
Chair/Comment: Jennings Wagoner, University of Virginia
"Student Life in the Nineteenth Century: A Comparison of Three African American Institutions of Higher Learning, 1830-1865" Wanda M. Davis, SUNY College at Buffalo
"Collegiate Living, Students and Cambridge Justice: Regulating the Colonial Harvard Student Community" John D. Burton, DePaul University
"Jefferson, The University of Virginia and Science Education, 1825-1887" John Paul Ashenfelter, University of Virginia
Saturday, October 25, 1997
Chair: Ann Boylan, University of Delaware
"Is there a Post Modern History of Childhood?" William J. Reese, University of Wisconsin
"Iconology and the History of Education" Sterling Fishman, University of Wisconsin
"Teaching About Children in Early America" N. Ray Hiner, University of Kansas
"Discussing Children in Uncle Sam’s Offices: PL 104-193 in Historical Perspective" Barbara Finkelstein, University of Maryland
Comment: The Audience
Chair/Comment: Lester Goodchild, University of Denver
"Why Study Religion? American Higher Education and the Problem of Religious Studies" D.G. Hart, Westminster Theological Seminary
"The Birth of a Canon: The Influence of Allen O. Hansen and Frederick Rudolph" Siobhan Moroney, Lake Forest College
"Scholarship Programs and Black Educational Leadership: From the Buttrick Model" to Meritocracy" Jayne R. Beilke, Ball State University
"The Role of the American Citizen Soldier Ideal in Shaping the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862" Lee S. Duemer, Averett College
Chair/Comment: James Carl: John Carroll University
"A Case History of School Desegregation: Suburban Style" James Green, College of Mount St. Joseph
"Walking By Faith: Multiculturalism, Desegregation, and Identity in Black Washington, DC, 1930-1940" Donald E. Collins, Carnegie Mellon University
Saturday, October 25, 1997
""Atlanta" Burning: Jimmy Carter and School Desegregation" Lawrence McAndrews, St. Norbert College
Introduction: Mary Ann Dzuback, Washington University
Presidential Address: After the Fall: Continuity and Change in
Urban Education Jeffrey E. Mirel, Northern
Illinois University
Main Banquet Hall, Holiday Inn Independence Mall
Speaker: Allen F. Davis, Temple University
Sunday, October 26, 1997
Barry Franklin, University of Michigan-Flint
Richard Altengaugh, Slippery Rock University
David Angus, University of Michigan
Roberta Wollons, Indiana University-Northwest
Chair/Commentator: TBA
"Storm Over the Schoolhouse: Popular Curriculum Wars in America, 1890-1954" Jonathan Zimmerman, New York University
"Sentimental Campus: Popular Emotion and the Histories of American Colleges and Universities" Brian W. Casey, Harvard University
Sunday, October 26, 1997
"Challenging Faculty Control: Struggles to Define New Interdisciplinary Studies Programs, 1965-1980" Julie A. Reuben, Harvard University
Chair/Comment: James Albisetti, University of Kentucky
"The Link Between Theory and Practice: Transporting the Herbarian Teacher Education Seminar to the U.S." Kathleen Cruikshank, Indiana University
"The Scientific Spirit and French Lycee Studies in the 1880's" Nancy Coleman Wolsk, Transylvania University
"The German Progressive Education Movement in the United States: Contemporary Comparative Experiments of Fritz C. Neumann in Europe and the United States" Karl H. Fuessl, Humboldt University at Berlin
Chair/Comment: Eileen Tamura, University of Hawaii
"I Owe My People a Responsibility: The Education of Susan LaFlesche Picotte" Lauri Johnson, University of Washington
"Americanization and Ethnic Identity in the Writings of Japanese American Students" Yoon Pak, University of Washington
"The Anatomy of an Organization: Sigma Epsilon and the Professionalization of Female Medical Students at the University of Washington, 1919-1930" Jennifer Preisman, University of Washington
"Youth Organizations: A Historical Perspective" Stephen Woolworth, University of Washington
Chair/Comment: Ronald Butchart, University of Washington-Tacoma
"Orality and Literacy in Native American Mission Education" Amy Schutt, Colgate University
Sunday, October 26, 1997
"Forgive Us Our Transgressions: An Investigation of School Violence in Nineteenth Century Southern Frontier Schools" Jan Price Greenough, University of California, Berkeley
"The One Room School: Implications for Contemporary Educational Reform" Todd Alan Rickel and Nancy A. Ayres, Kent State University
"Multi Sensory Appproaches to Learning and School Reform, 1945-1976: Reflections on the Work of Henry W. Ray" Cindy L. Kovalik, Kent State University
Chair/Comment: Barbara Beatty, Wellesley College
"Margaret Fuller and the Tradition of Self Study Among American Women" Patricia Woods Prewitt, Baylor University
"Learning by Example: What the Life of a "Common" Woman Can Teach Us about Education in the Progressive Era" Debra L. Clark, Nancy A. Ayres, Kent State University
"Bibliotherapy and Multicultural Education" Marilyn Nelson, University of Vermont
"'What Every Young Woman Ought to Know': Self Help Literature and Learned Behavior for Young Women in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century America" Martha Pallante, Youngstown State University
Created by Todd P. Karman for the History of Education Quarterly on August 19th 1997