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19-November-1997 
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    Historical Society Announces Publishing Award Winners 
 
    by Jerry L. Van Marter 
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky.--A history professor at Creighton University and a church 
in Highland Park, Ill., have won annual awards for historical publications 
from the Presbyterian Historical Society.  The awards were announced Oct. 
25 by the Committee for the Presbyterian Historical Society. 
 
    The Makemie Award, with its $500 prize for an outstanding published 
book-length contribution to American Presbyterian/Reformed history, was 
awarded to Bryan F. LeBeau, chair of the History Department at Creighton 
University.  LeBeau won for his book "Jonathan Dickinson and Formative 
Years of American Presbyterianism" (Lexington: University Press of 
Kentucky, 1997). 
 
    The Robert Lee Stowe Award, in the amount of $250, for the best 
published historical study of an American Presbyterian or Reformed 
congregation, was awarded to Highland Park (Ill.) Presbyterian Church for 
"The Highland Park Presbyterian Church: A History, 1871-1996" by Bruce L. 
Felknor (published by the church, 1996). 
 
    The society's Woodrow Wilson Award for the best published scholarly 
historical article pertaining to an American Presbyterian or Reformed topic 
and the Patricia Ann Burrus Spaulding Award for the best published 
scholarly historical article pertaining to an American Presbyterian or 
Reformed woman or women were not awarded for 1997. 
 
    The Makemie Award is named for the Rev. Francis Makemie, founder of 
organized American Presbyterianism; the Stowe Award, for an outstanding 
benefactor of the study of Presbyterian history at the congregational 
level; the Wilson Award, for the 28th president of the United States, a 
lifelong Presbyterian; and the Spaulding Award, for a longtime student and 
benefactor of Presbyterian history. 
 
    Information about the 1998 awards is obtainable from the Publications 
and Awards Subcommittee, Presbyterian Historical Society, P.O. Box 849, 
Montreat, NC 28757, or by telephoning (704) 669-7061. 
 
(Information for this story furnished by Bill Bynum) 

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