TOPEKA — The 139th annual meeting of the Kansas Historical Foundation included presentation of awards and election of officers Nov. 7 at the Kansas Historical Society in Topeka.
The following officers were elected at the meeting: Deborah Barker, Ottawa, president; Paul Stuewe, Lawrence, president elect; Donita Barone, Frontenac, vice president; Mary Turkington, Topeka, secretary; Jack Alexander, Topeka, past president; and James Maag, Topeka, treasurer. Carol Bales, Logan; William Kassebaum, Burdick; and F. Dave Seaton, Winfield; were elected to serve on the executive committee.
The following people were elected to the board class of 2017: Jack Alexander, Topeka; Edward Beasley Jr., Kansas City; George Breidenthal Jr., Kansas City; Paul Buchanan, Wichita; Steve Cadue, Lawrence; Shelley Hickman Clark, Lawrence; Rhandalee Hinman, Wichita; Quentin Hope, Denver; Lidia Hook Gray, Liberal; Rey Kitchkumme, Mayetta; James Maag, Topeka; John Mallon, Emporia; Barbara Morris, Hugoton; James Reynolds, South Pasadena, Calif.; F. Dave Seaton, Winfield; John Stauffer, Topeka; Herschel Stroud, Topeka; Michael Stubbs, Eskridge; Loren Taylor, Kansas City; and June Windscheffel, Topeka.
The Alfred M. Landon Historical Research Award was presented to two researchers: Amy Bergseth, Norman, Okla., for a mid-19th-century community study of the Kansas Territory tribes who eventually relocated to Ottawa County, Okla.; and Jaclyn J. S. Miller, Lawrence, for her dissertation research “Financing the Frontier: Bankers and the Development of the High Plains, 1870-1941.” The Landon research awards, named for the 26th governor of Kansas, are annual grants given to graduate students pursuing the study of subjects related to the heritage of Kansas and conducting research at the Historical Society. The grant is funded with earnings from an endowed fund in Governor Landon’s name.
The Edgar Langsdorf Award of Excellence went to Dr. Tai S. Edwards, Overland Park, for her article “Disruption and Disease: The Osage Struggle to Survive in the Nineteenth-Century Trans-Missouri West,” published in the Winter 2013-2014 issue of Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains. The Langsdorf award honors excellence in writing on an annual basis to authors of articles in the Historical Society’s quarterly publication and is named for the historian who was a longtime employee of the Historical Society.
The Edward N. Tihen Historical Research Award was awarded to five researchers: Taylor C. Bye, Cummington, Massachusetts, for research on abolitionist and publisher Daniel Read Anthony, brother of suffragist Susan B. Anthony; Dr. Antonio Delgado, Wichita, for research on early Mexican settlements in Kansas and the communities’ association with the railroads; Lori Ann Dell’aira, Las Vegas, for the study of fraud in the offices of Coffey County; Michael Hopps, Chandlerville, Ill., for research into Confederate Major General Sterling Price’s 1864 raid of Missouri; and Jonathan Weber, Frisco, Texas, for a study of transnational corpse transportation between the United States and Mexico in the late 19th century. The Tihen award, named for the avid researcher and amateur historian, is given annually to non-academic researchers for research in the collections of the Historical Society. The grant is funded with earnings from an endowed fund in Dr. Tihen’s name