Hostick scholarships announced

The King V. Hostick Awards Committee met in June and awarded six scholarships to graduate students engaged in Illinois history research.

This year's Hostick Scholarship winners and their proposals are:

Rene Luis Alvarez, Philadelphia, PA: "Minority Education in the Urban Midwest: Mexican Immigrants and Mexican Americans in Chicago, 1920-1990."
John A. Ayabe, Edwardsville: "Evangelicals and the Anti-mission Crisis: A Study of Religious Identity in Central Mississippi Valley, 1820- 1840."
Denise R. Johnson, Springfield: "Warrior Women: An Oral History On Central Illinois Women who Served in World War II."
Stacy Pratt McDermott, Springfield: "A Legal Conduit of Community Power: Grand and Petit Jury Service in the Antebellum Midwest."
Sarah Rose, Chicago: "No Right to be Idle: Work, Citizenship, and the Invention of Disability, 1880-1930."
Anne Stephenson, Chicago: "Rebuilding Bungalows: Home Improvement and the Historic Chicago Bungalow Initiative."
The Hostick Awards are presented annually to graduate students in history and library science conducting research about and in Illinois. The Awards are sponsored by The Illinois State Historical Society and the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, with stipends of up to $3,000 per applicant.

Applications for the 2006 King V. Hostick Awards are now being accepted. For more information write Thomas F. Schwartz, Illinois State Historian, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, 112 N. 6th Street, Springfield, Illinois 62701, or call 217-782-2118. Visit The Illinois State Historical Society's website at www.historyillinois.org.

Rates to rise

It had to happen. Membership rates for The Illinois State Historical Society are going up beginning January 1, 2006. The Membership Committee cites increased printing and production costs, as well as the impending postal rate increase for the rate hike. The exact increase will be announced after the October meeting of the Board of Directors in Chicago, and published in the November/December issue of Illinois Heritage. Current members will receive notification of the increase with renewal notices this fall.

Gary T. Johnson named 8th president of the Chicago Historical Society

On July 25, 2005, Gary T. Johnson was named as the next president of the Chicago Historical Society. CHS welcomes the prominent Chicago attorney, civic leader and history enthusiast, who is the 8th president of CHS. "This appointment is a dream for me, because history has always been my first love," Johnson said. "History has driven my work in law and civil rights, and I feel that the Chicago Historical Society is a natural extension of my personal passion as well as my leadership and management expertise." With the naming of the new CHS president also comes the announcement that Russell L. Lewis, Secretary of The Illinois State Historical Society, has been named to the new position of executive vice president and chief historian. In that position, Lewis will be responsible for the day-to-day implementation of the museum's mission to creatively explore and showcase Chicago's history and culture.

Sins of omission

Former ISHS President John Trutter of Chicago wrote to thank us for the article on the "Potawatomie Trail of Death" (see "Remembering the long march," July/August 2005 Illinois Heritage) and to compliment us on the magazine's graphics. He reminded us that Robert Thorn's handsome painting on the cover, "Jolliet and Marquette, August 1673," was one of twelve paintings commissioned by Illinois Bell for the state sesquicentennial (1968), and one of three works the company donated to The Illinois State Historical Society in 1970.

Without a compass

An astute reader put us back on course by noting that the Potawatomi Indians did not travel "east" through Illinois and "southeast" through Missouri to get to Kansas, as reported in the July/August Illinois Heritage. For those retracing the "Potawatomi Trail of Death," we apologize for leading anyone astray.

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The 2005 Centennial Awards Banquet will be held on Friday, September 30, in the Empire Room of the Palmer House Hilton hotel in Chicago. The banquet begins at 7 p.m., with a reception at 5:30. Invitations are now in the mail to Illinois State Historical Society members, past Award recipients, and the Illinois General Assembly. Please R.S.V.P. by September 21. Centennial Award recipients receive one complimentary dinner, a commemorative plaque inscribed by Governor Rod Blagojevich and Society President Marvin W. Ehlers, and a one-year membership in the Society. Individual tickets are $150 each. For more information about the banquet, or to purchase a table, call 217-525-2781.

In addition to this year's Centennial Awards winners, the Society will present the following special awards:
Lifetime Achievement: Dr. Margaret Burroughs, Founder of the DuSable Museum of African-American History, Chicago	Jack Brickhouse Award for Excellence in Broadcast Media: Johnny "Red" Kerr, the "Voice of the Chicago Bulls"
Artistic Achievement:The Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago; David Roche, Executive Director

This year's Centennial inductees are:

Arch Bishop Quigley Preparatory School, Chicago
Ball Horticultural Company, West Chicago
Brethren Home of Girard, Girard
Brintlinger and Earl Funeral Homes, Decatur
Chicago Defender Publishing Company, Chicago
Dominy Memorial Library, Fairbury
Dr. John Warner Hospital, Clinton
Faber Floral Company, Kankakee (125 years)
Farmer's Elevator Company of Lowder, Waverly
First National Bank of Sullivan
Gietl Brothers, Inc., Springfield
Grayslake Times, Grayslake
Greenville Public Library, Greenville
Illinois College, Jacksonville (175 years)
Illinois Veterans Home Library, Quincy
Jacksonville Journal Courier, Jacksonville (175 years)
Naper Central Food Inc., Naperville
Produce Reporter Company, Carol Stream
Ridgemoor Country Club, Chicago
Rock Island Arsenal Museum, Rock Island
The Rotary Club of Chicago
Rotary International, Evanston
St. Francis Hospital and Health Center, Blue Island
St. Mary's School, Pontiac
St. Rita School, Chicago
Semler Industries, Inc., Franklin Park
Shields Memorial Home, Greenfield

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