14th Annual
Western Reserve Studies Symposium
THE PROMISE OF THE LAND
Squire Valleevue Farm
Sheep Barn
Hunting Valley, Ohio
October 1-2, 1999
Friday, October 1
Sheep Barn
1:00 Registration
1:30 Welcome: Gladys Haddad,
Symposium Director, Case Western Reserve University
1:45 Greetings: Carl Ubbelohde, Case Western Reserve University
18th Century
A GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVE
GEORGE WASHINGTON (1732-1799)
2:00 Chair: George Knepper University of Akron
"George Washington and the West"
2:30 Clevelands First Infrastructure: The Ohio Erie Canal from George Washington to Alfred Kelley
A Multimedia Presentation
Moderator: William C. Barrow
Jeanne Figueira Grossetti, Jonathan Hodges, Sherry Maruna,
Cleveland State University
3:30 George Washingtons Mount Vernon: Constructing Independence in Revolutionary America
Robert F. Dalzell, Jr. and Lee Baldwin Dalzell, Williams College
Manor House
5:00 Reception
6:00 Dinner
7:30 Program
Westward Ho!
My Take on the Western Reserve
George Washington
portrayed by
William Sommerfield
American Historical Theatre
Saturday, October 2
Sheep Barn
9:00 Registration and Hospitality
19th Century
A POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE
JAMES A. GARFIELD (1831-1881)
9:30 Chair: David Anderson Hiram College
A Promising Boy Intimations of Greatness in James A. Garfield
10:00 Lawnfield: a new sweet tie between us all
John Shaw, Hiram College
10:45 Lawnfield: Cottage to Mansion
Dean Zimmerman, Lawnfield
11:30 Hiram in The Civil War
A Dramatic Presentation
Joanne Sawyer, Brandon Clay, David Anderson, Dennis Taylor, Robert Sawyer,
Hiram College
12:30 Lunch
20th Century
A THERAPEUTIC PERSPECTIVE
1:30 The Created Landscape Beth Johnson, Case Western Reserve University
SANCTUARIES FOR HEALING
2:00 Chair Sr. Mary Denis Maher
Hopewell Inn
A Community Farm
Mental Illness
Gary Long, Hopewell Inn
Catherine M. Clopton, Hopewell Inn, Horticultural Therapist
Warrens Garden
Kethley House at Benjamin Rose Place
Dementia
Alice Kethley, Benjamin Rose Institute
Mary Jane Lovering, Vertechs Design Inc.Landscape Architects
Charlotte Lees, Artist
Sensory Garden
Lake Hospital System, Mentor Medical Campus
Ambulatory patients
Cynthia Moore-Hardy, Lake Hospital System
James F. Pelowski, Lebanese American University,
David Weir, Mentor Surgery Center
3:30 Close
For more information call Professor Gladys Haddad, Symposium Director, at
Case Western Reserve University (216) 368-4117,
or email Professor Haddad
