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Awards/Scholarships
Click on the links for detailed information of each
Award or Scholarship.
Awards:
Since 1984 more than 1,100 Illinois
corporations have become Centennial honorees, ranging from
the Chicago White Sox and the AMEREN-Corporation to the
Auburn Citizen newspaper and Yorkville National Bank.
Centennial Award recipients receive a complimentary dinner
at the historic Palmer House, a one-year free membership
in the Society, and take home a handsome Centennial Award
plaque inscribed by the Governor and Society President.
use of the Centennial Awards logo is available to all
Centennial Award recipients who keep their membership
active.
Application
deadline: July 26, 2008 (click on link
to access online nomination form)
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Annual
Awards Program
Through
its annual awards program, the Illinois State Historical
Society recognizes and encourages the efforts of
individuals, groups, and organizations that collect,
preserve, and disseminate state, local, regional, ethnic,
or specialized history. Awards may be given in any or all
of the eight categories in a given year and, at the
discretion of the Awards Committee, more than one award
may be given per category. Likewise, if no qualified
project has been nominated, the Committee may decide not
to give an award. The Award Committee reserves the right
to move a nomination into another category if the
supporting materials so warrant. All decisions of the
Committee are final.
Nomination deadline: December 15, 2008.
(click on link to access online nomination form)
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The Olive Foster
Outstanding Teacher Award was established in 1988 in honor
of Olive Foster, former Illinois State Historian, Director
of the School Services Program, and originator of the
Illinois History Program for students. The award is
designed to recognize and reward full-time teachers for
outstanding contributions to the study and teaching of
state and local history. Recipients of these awards
actively promote Illinois history in schools as well as in
their local communities, using the resources of one or
more local historical societies, museums, Illinois State
Historical Society, and other Illinois historical groups.
Documentation of the teacher’s work will be required.
Three $500 scholarships
are awarded annually—one each to teachers at the
elementary, middle/junior high, and high-school levels.
The awards will be presented and winners given their
checks at the Society’s Annual Meeting, held every spring.
Essay entry deadline: March
31, 2008 (click on link to access online
nomination form)
Scholarships:
The Verna Ross
Orndorff Scholarship ($1000) was established
in 1989 in honor of River Forest resident Verna Ross
Orndorff, a lifelong student of Illinois, to encourage
interest in Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War in
Illinois high schools. The Illinois high school student
whose research paper is selected will receive a $1,000
scholarship and a certificate of achievement and will be
honored at the Illinois History Symposium Banquet in
March 2008. The paper will be published in a forthcoming
issue of Illinois Heritage magazine, the popular
history magazine of the Illinois State Historical
Society.
Essay entry
deadline: December 31, 2008 (click on
link to access online nomination form)
The King V. Hostick
Scholarship was established by the late manuscript
dealer, King V. Hostick, to provide financial assistance
to graduate students of history and library science who
are writing dissertations dealing with Illinois.
Preference may be given to research conducted at the
Illinois State Historical Library. Stipends are
individually determined up to $3,000. All
applications must be received by
February 6, 2009. For
further information contact Thomas F. Schwartz, Illinois
State Historian, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency,
#1 Old State Capitol Plaza, Springfield, Illinois,
62701-1507, (217) 782-2118, Fax (217) 785-7937. E-mail,
tom_schwartz@ihpa.state.il.us.
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The King V Hostick Award was established by the
late manuscript dealer, King V. Hostick, to provide
financial assistance to graduate students of history and
library science who are writing dissertations dealing with
Illinois.
Application deadline:
February 6, 2007 (click on link to access online
nomination form)
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