![]() ![]() ![]() The new PFJH Advisory Council administrative echelon announced at the convention is: Chairman, Don Crownover, Lancaster County Historical Society Vice Chairman, William Gilbert, North Clarion High School Treasurer, Shirley Bischoff, Ephrata Cloister Associates and Secretary, Ms. Lisa Yungel, Bloodroot Chapter member from Dover High School, placed second in the competition with her paper, “Our Town, Dover.” Shari Hall, a junior at North Clarion High School, Leeper, wrote “Our Town, Fryburg: Its People, Their History, and Their Church” to receive Honorable Mention. Shaub, Class of 1979 at Ephrata High School, will be attending East Stroudsburg State College upon graduation. Linda Shaub of the Ephrata Cloister Associates’ chapter received the Kent Award for her original research paper dealing with the town history of Ephrata. He had acted as a consultant for federation business until he retired in 1975. His advice and assistance has been termed “invaluable” in the republication of a “Junior Historian” newspaper and in assisting in the reorganization of the federation and establishing its policies. Kent was given in appreciative acknowledgment of his past service as liaison between the federation and the PHMC when the student movement was a part of the Commission’s programs. Donald Kent Historical Research-Publication Award and dedicated its initial Junior Historian magazine volume entitled “Our Town” to him. ![]() Kent by naming this year’s innovative program as the Dr. Kent, retired Director of the Bureau of Archives and History of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, was recently honored at the 37th annual Pennsylvania Federation of Junior Historians Convention at the Historic Strasburg Motor Inn. ![]()
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