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SOA State History Day Winners 2000



The Society of Ohio Archivists (SOA) presented cash awards to two winners at State History Day on Saturday, May 6, 2000.

The Senior Division award went to Elyse Meena for her Individual Performance project, "The Fix that Turned Baseball," on the 1919 Black Sox World Series scandal. Meena attends Hathaway Brown School in Shaker Heights,Ohio. She used the archives at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY, the baseball collection at the Cleveland Public Library, and the photographic resources at the Western Reserve Historical Society to examine and cite books, news articles and letters from the early 20th century for information essential to her performance.

The Junior Division award was given to Lucille Frey for her Individual Exhibit on "Sputnik: A Turning Point in History." Sputnik, the first man-made satellite to orbit the earth, was launched in October, 1959.Frey attends St. Peter School in Huron, Ohio. She incorporated information from local and national newspapers, news magazines and scientific magazine sources from the 1950s along with United States and (translated) Russian government memoranda and documents from the same period, and conducted an interview with a person who worked with Wehner Von Braun in her exhibit

Each student was presented with a $50 check. This year was the second year for the SOA award.


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George W. Bain, Head of Archives & Special Collections
Ohio University Libraries, Athens, OH 45701-2978
Tel. 740.593.2710                               Fax 740.593.0138
Email <gbain1@ohiou.edu>