Professor Schul and Social Studies Methods Students Present

Dr. James Schul of the Center for Teacher Education, along with students from his Social Studies Methods class, and aided by Dr. Crawford of HPJ and Mr. Tim Montgomery of Allen East High School, hosted the first of three sessions to help teachers from Allen East make use of images from the library of Congress website. Schul applied for and received a grant from the Library to fund the program, and the first day was an introduction to the sessions and participants worked to learn to navigate the website, then worked on using photographic images to teach history. Students helped Schul run the session and worked with the teachers from Allen East to create lesson plans that can be deployed immediately in the classroom. Future sessions will include using political cartoons and sound recordings to teach history.

Hill Second Floor Gets Makeover

Students taking HIST 2301 Introduction to Museums and Archives, directed by Professor Schuck, recently created and posted information about the department's programs on the walls of second floor in Hill Memorial Building. The material that now graces the walls will be updated as the year goes along.

Well done Museum and Archive students!

Economic Development Talk Hosted by Professor Jimmy Wilson

Paul Craun of the Hardin County Business and Chamber Alliance was the featured guest presenter in Dr. Wilson's Geography Methods and Materials class.

Mr. Craun discussed the growing importance of Northwest Ohio to national and global shipping, recent attention given to North Baltimore (just north of Findlay) by railroads, and the resulting explosion of new development of retail distribution centers in our area.

Dr. Wilson stated that "This is an important issue to us all that many of us believe will open the doors to new opportunities for our university and community."

Mr. Craun gave this presentation to the Ada Community Improvement Corporation and graciously agreed to this encore performance. During the talk he discussed the new rail facility in North Baltimore and the importance of building distribution networks that will help move the incredible amount of material that passes from coast to coast each day. Several national companies, including Meiers, Home Depot, and Lowes have constructed facilities in the are in recent years due to Ohio's central location within close proximity to the majority of the American population.

Professor Waters Presents in Belgium

Dr. Robert Waters organized a panel on Latin America and the Caribbean, and presented a paper at the AFL-CIO and the International Cold War: Problems, Paradigms, and Pragmatic Responses sponsored by the Congress Center Het Pand at the University of Ghent on October 7 and 8.

According to the Conference website: The international workshop The AFL-CIO and the International Cold War: Problems, Paradigms, and Pragmatic Responses at Congress Center Het Pand in Ghent (7-8 October 2011), will explore the Cold War international history of U.S. labor’s relations with worldwide organized labor. Scholarly papers based on a rising tide of scholarship in the field of international labor history will show how labor history can break the boundaries of national borders to be truly international in focus.

To draw attention to this reinvigorated field of study, the organizers have brought together scholars whose work spans five continents to offer a global approach to the phenomenon of an 'activist' American trade union movement. The participants have used recently opened labor archives that have been generally overlooked by Cold War scholars. The presentations will demonstrate how the AFL-CIO played a significant and usually overlooked role in Cold War international political history.

Topics covered include the relationship between the AFL-CIO and the CIA

Solidarity
the Algerian Revolution
the Brazilian Coup of 1964
the Chilean Coup of 1973
'Slave Labor' in the Soviet Union
Modernization
South Vietnam
women workers
post-war Italy
post-war France
Latin American labor
neutralism in sub-Saharan Africa

Scientific Committee:

Prof. dr. Geert Van Goethem (Amsab-ISH/ Ghent University)
Prof. dr. Robert Waters (Ohio Nothern University),
Dr. Magaly Rodriguez Garcia (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Waters' paper, titled More Subtle than We Knew: The AFL in the British Carribean explored the role of the American Federation of Labor in opposing the Cheddi Jagan regime in British Guyana. The Conference website can be found here.

HPJ Host Model UN Simulation for Are High Schools

More than one hundred high school students representing ten area high schools gathered on the ONU campus to take part in a Model United Nations simulation on October 8. During the day, team members debated issues such as proliferation, women's rights, and others, attempting to craft resolutions to be adopted by the body as a whole.

Competitors were judged on criteria that included how active and effective their team members were, and how well they remained in character (for instance, Israel and Iran working together would be contraindicated by reality).

France, represented by William Henry Harrison High School earned the award for Outstanding Performance. Earning awards for Superior Performance were Bowling Green High School (Australia), Tippecanoe High School (Saudi Arabia), Clay High School (UK), and Maumee High School (Iraq).

Also taking part in the simulation were Antwerp HS, East Dayton HS, St. Charles HS, Metro HS, and Keystone HS.

Well done to all competitors, judges, and especially to the students who ran the individual sessions and to Tristan Kilgallon, who organized the day.