REGIONAL PHI ALPHA THETA CONFERENCE
ADA, OKLAHOMA
March 3-4, 2006

A rather jubilant but tired UCO contingent returned home Saturday afternoon, March 4, from the Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference in Ada. Almost all the history dept. faculty attended the conference, judging, chairing, or presenting papers. Moreover, twelve students attended, presenting a total of 15 papers (listed below photos). No other university in the state came close to matching UCO's level of faculty or student participation. Nor did any other university in the state win as many paper prizes as UCO! Eight! Bravo, Rho Lambda! Bravo!

I. Student Papers (15) at PAT 2006 Conference (Mar 3-4) 

Julie Bennett-Jones, “Where Air Meets Rail and Prairie: How the Transcontinental Air Transport Company Enriched Waynoka, Oklahoma, 1929-30.” 

Melissa Brodt, “Leading the Way: June Benson, the First Female Mayor in Oklahoma, 1957-1960.” 

Shbrone Brookings, “In the Face of Oppression: Privilege and Resistance by Prisoner Medical Practitioners at Auschwitz.” 

Jennifer Corley, “’An Amusing Insult to Princeton’: The Fabrication of the Glassboro Summit, June 1967.” 

Daniel Dumbleton, “Antietam: The Battle that Restored the Union.” 

Jason Harris, “From Theory to Conceptualization: The Development and Deployment at the 11^th Air Assault Division.” 

Jason Harris, “Tragedy on Schnee Eitel: The End of the 422^nd and 423^rd.” 

Gerald Kelly, “A 1958 Spaceshot in the Arm of U.S. Education.” 

Molly McLeod Mirll, “Cradle to Grave: The Evolution of the T-4 Terror.” 

Molly McLeod Mirll, “Godfrey’s Crusade for Change: The Controversial But Successful Expansion Efforts at Oklahoma’s Central State College, 1960-67.” 

Kim Penrod, “Preserving a Culture with Dance.” 

Kim Penrod, “Vietnam and The Vista: Another View.” 

Megan Stephens, “There Once was a King: Views on Mordecai Chaim Rumkowski from the Lodz Ghetto, 1939-1944.” 

Megan Waller, “The World Goes South: International Claims to Antarctica.” 

Rebecca M. H. Windle, “The Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants and the Rescue of Jewish Children In France, 1941-1944.” 

II. Faculty Papers (2) at PAT 2006 Conference 

Thomas L. Franzmann, “’Aiming at the Same Thing But Different Ways of Getting At It’?: The Colored Convention Movement in Antebellum Ohio.” 

Xiao-bing Li, “Chinese Immigrants in Oklahoma, 1890-1910.” 

III. Student Prizes at 2006 PAT Conference
 

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT PRIZES 

Megan Waller, 1^st Place, Non-U.S. “The World Goes South: International Claims to Antarctica.” 

Jason Harris, 2^nd Place, U.S. “Tragedy on Schnee Eitel: The End of the 422^nd and 423^rd.” 

Melissa Brodt, 3^rd Place, Oklahoma.  “Leading the Way: June Benson, the First Female Mayor in Oklahoma, 1957-1960.” 

GRADUATE STUDENT PRIZES 

Shbrone Brookings, 1st Place, Non-U.S. “In the Face of Oppression: Privilege and Resistance by Prisoner Medical Practitioners at Auschwitz.” 

Molly McLeod Mirll, 1^st Place, Oklahoma. “Godfrey’s Crusade for Change: The Controversial But Successful Expansion Efforts at Oklahoma’s Central State College, 1960-67.” 

Becky M. H. Windle, 2^nd Place, Non-U.S. “The Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants and the Rescue of Jewish Children In France, 1941-1944.” 

Megan Stephens, 3^rd Place, Non-U.S. “There Once was a King: Views on Mordecai Chaim Rumkowski from the Lodz Ghetto, 1939-1944.” 

Kim Penrod, 3^rd Place, Oklahoma. “Vietnam and The Vista: Another View.”