Ron Butchart, a professor in social foundations of education, recently delivered the presidential address at the History of Education Society's annual meeting, held this year at Yale University.

Butchart's address, "Mission Matters: Mount Holyoke, Oberlin and the Schooling of Southern Blacks, 1861-1917," will be published in the winter issue of the society's journal, The History of Education Quarterly.

The presentation, based on his on-going research into the thousands of teachers who taught among the freed slaves during and after the American Civil War, explored the reasons for the disproportionate number of those teachers who had attended the forerunners of today's Oberlin College and Mount Holyoke College, and implications of those reasons for the sorts of schooling those teachers provided for former slaves.

In October, Butchart completed his term as president of the international organization of scholars devoted to promoting the field of the history of education.

Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2001
Writer: Michael Childs, 706/542-5889, mchilds@coe.uga.edu mchilds@coe.uga.edumchilds@coe.uga.edu
Contact: Ron Butchart, 706/542-6490, butchart@coe.uga.edu