Publication Date

April 1, 1985

Perspectives Section

News

Alex Berman, distinguished historian of pharmacy, has been elected Honorary Presi­dent of the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy for 1985-87. . . . Joan Challinor, American University, was named a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. . . . Mark Curtis, President of the Asso­ciation of American Colleges has announced his retirement effective June 30, 1985. . . . Mary Maples Dunn has been appointed President of Smith College. . . . Lee W. Formwalt, Albany State College, received on NEH fellowship to research the socioeconomic history of nine­teenth-century Dougherty County. . . . Thomas A. Horrocks has been appointed Curator of Historical Collections in the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. . . . Law­rence J. McCrank,  Auburn University; was appointed Dean and Librarian IV of the AUM Library and Resource Center. . . . Gary L. McDowell has been appointed by the NEH to the directorship of the Office of the Bicen­tennial of the Constitution. . . . Margaret W, Rossiter won the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Award for Women Scien­tists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940. . . . Nicholas Wahl, New York University, was named Petrie Professor of European Studies. . . . AHA members who won Wilson Center Fel­lowships are: Louis Galambos, Johns Hopkins University, for Governing America: The Crisis of the Postwar Era;  Paul Kleppner, Northern Illinois University, for Parties and Voters in the Western States, 1880-1984; J. Morgan Kousser, California Institute of Technology, for a social history of school racial discrimination law in the nineteenth century; Alan B. Spitzer, University of Iowa, for politics and society in the Restoration Era.