Kentucky Association of Teachers of History
Saturday, September 7, 2019 – 10:00-2:00 (EST)
Hardin County Public Library (100 Jim Owen Dr, Elizabethtown, KY 42701)
Meeting to discuss future of KATH – all interested in the teaching of history are welcome.
When: Saturday, September 7, 2019 (EST) 10:00 – 2:00
Where: Hardin County Public Library – 100 Jim Owen Dr, Elizabethtown, KY 42701
RSVP by Wednesday, September 4: Pattie Dillon – pdillon@spalding.edu
The following Nomination Slate for the 2017-18 KATH Executive Committee will be presented by Brent Taylor, KATH President, for review and approval during the business meeting portion of the KATH conference in Paducah on Saturday, November 28th.
President
Howard Muncy, Jackson County High School
President-Elect
Pattie Dillon, Spalding University
Past President
Brent Taylor, West Kentucky CTC
Community Colleges Representative
Robin West, Madisonville Community College
Private/Indep. Colleges & Univ. Representative
Jodie Mader, Thomas More College
Public Comprehensive Universities Representative
Bill Mulligan, Murray State University
Research Universities Representative
Ashley Sorrell, University of Kentucky
Public Historians Representative
Nominations accepted from the floor
Librarian/Archivist Representative
Heidi Taylor-Caudill, Catholic Diocese of Owensboro*
K-12 Representatives (two)
Jarrett Nantz, Paducah Tilghman High School
Crystal Culp, McCracken Co. Juvenile Detention*
At-Large Representative
James Caudill, St. Mary of the Woods School
*- will be fulfilling second year of term
Calling all History educators from the many places in our state where history is part of your programming! Teachers, professors, independent scholars, archivists, librarians, public historians, local history association and museum docents, genealogists, avid history buffs! The Kentucky Association of Teachers of History (KATH) is in need of board members for the 2017-18 year.
KATH offers a common forum and source of information for all teachers of history in the Commonwealth and provides an avenue for members to share news about research and publications, educational activities, or concerns and problems relating to Kentucky’s history community. KATH is a service organization for those concerned about improving the quality of history education in Kentucky and offers opportunities to network and to attend professional development events, such as our annual conference. In this way we hope to improve the scope and quality of history education throughout Kentucky.
Volunteering their time and connections with international, regional or local experts, the KATH board primarily meets to organize the annual meeting. (See the list of current board members here.) They distribute useful information for history educators (using for example, the H-Kentucky network), and organize task groups to recognize scholarly achievement through a history student writing award program: the Anita Sanford Tolson Award for high school students; the Thomas D. Clark Award for undergraduates in American history; the Ray Betts Award for undergraduates in non-U. S. history; and the George Herring Award for graduate level papers.
This is a terrific opportunity to demonstrate your leadership in advocacy for history, its role in our curriculum and relevance to today’s communities — and our future. The following board spots for 2017-18 are open:
Please indicate your interest by emailing KATH President, Brent Taylor at brente.taylor@kctcs.edu.
Thanks!
Brent E. Taylor
Assistant Professor of History
West Kentucky Community and Technical College
An Aspen Prize Top 10 Community College
4810 Alben Barkley Drive
Paducah, Kentucky 42001
P: (270) 534-3270
The 2016-17 Executive Board Nomination Slate has been compiled by Brent Taylor and approved by Megan Mummey, 2015-16 President of KATH.
Nominations for empty seats are still being considered. Please support KATH by joining the Board – the main task is to help organize the annual meeting. This only takes a an hour or so per month for telephone conference calls. We need you!
Note: Names marked with * are those Executive Committee Members continuing into their second (and/or last) year of service as per the KATH constitution.
On Saturday, July 23rd, the KATH Board met in Lexington to review the site for this fall’s Annual Meeting – the W.T.Young Library at the University of Kentucky. Register today online via the KATH website!
KATH President Megan Mummey reported that she had applied for a mini-grant ($1000) from the Kentucky Humanities Council at the end of June. She was notified on 7/29 that it was accepted in full. The money will go towards honoraria for the guest speakers at the annual meeting and for student awards to be presented on October 29th.
The group met first at Great Bagel – and all agreed it would be great to have them cater breakfast (coffee and bagels) for early arrivers at the Annual Meeting. Megan also reported on her conversations with Eric Brooks at Ashland, the Henry Clay Estate, regarding the customary Friday night reception on October 28th. Ashland is generously waiving their customary $300 fee for KATH to hold the reception there.
The Board is seeking nominations for President Elect, a Private/Independent Universities Representative, Research Universities Representative, Public Historian Representative, and Librarian/Archivist Representative. If interested, please contact Lorie Maltby (KATH Secretary, lorie.maltby@kctcs.edu) or Megan Mummey (KATH President, megan.mummey@uky.edu; 859-257-6942).
Watch for a newsletter to come out at the end of August – more information about the KATH Board and the upcoming Annual Meeting. Many thanks to Amanda Higgins, Kentucky Historical Society, for getting our old newsletter going again!
Members of the KATH Board met in February and March to get ready for this fall’s 41st Annual Meeting. KATH President Megan Mummy presided.
The Board continues to discuss the need for KATH to broaden its reach amongst Historians in Kentucky. The President used the H-Kentucky network to call for more Board members, and nearly all the positions on the Board that were not filled at the 2015 Annual Meeting have now been filled. The following committees have been formed
The KATH newsletter will be revived by Amanda – she and Megan will work on developing a new model for this important communication strategy for history educators in Kentucky. New promotional materials will be developed by Kate for regular dissemination by the Board. Brent will update the pre-conference flier once the theme, date and keynote are finalized.
For the KATH Annual Meeting in 2016, the Board has settled on using the University of Kentucky’s William T. Young Library. The library has an auditorium and small meeting rooms that are free for the President to reserve. We want to use a historic house for the Friday night reception. Megan will contact folks at Ashland to see if they will donate their space to KATH for that evening’s get-together. Randolph will ask to reserve the Gaines Center on UK’s campus, if needed. Megan will look into having some sort of exhibit hosted by UK Special Collections that addresses the theme.
The Board agreed that this year’s topic should focus on presidential elections. A keynote speaker could introduce the topic and make it useful for social studies teachers, postsecondary scholars, public historians, librarians and archivists alike. A group of secondary teachers could offer a roundtable on how they teach during an election year (a call needs to go out via Kentucky Teacher and H-Announce). Another speaker would focus in on Kentucky and presidential history. Lunch would include the regular KATH Business Meeting which includes nominating the new slate of Board members and celebrating the faculty sponsors while handing out the KATH student writing awards.
The date of the 2016 Annual Meeting is still being negotiated. KATH does not want to have its meeting coincide with the Ohio Valley, the Southern or the KY Council of the Social Studies conferences.
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