News roundup: week ending April 23, 2010

• Statue finalists inspire learning
• Ohio statue campaign offers lesson plans to get out the vote
• Republican Civil-Rights Champion’s Untold Story
• Flag shop owner touts Wright brothers statue at Statuary Hall
• Capitol Statue Project for Piqua’s William M. McCulloch
• Brown County Chamber of Commerce to present Horizon Award to Purdy
• Which Ohioan should get new statue at U.S. Capitol?
• Still time to vote for the next member of Statuary Hall…
• Help Wright brothers get off the ground
• From the Johnston Farm & Indian Agency: Vote for Ohio’s Representative in Statuary Hall of the United States Capitol

Flag shop owner touts Wright brothers’ statue at Statuary Hall

Published on April 18, 2010, in the Dayton Daily News:

COLUMBUS — If you stop by Creative Banners, Flags & Poles just south of downtown Dayton these days, owner Jon Kurtz will do more than try to sell you a flag.

Kurtz also will try to sell you on making the Wright brothers — Wilbur and Orville — Ohio’s new representative in Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C. The aviation pioneers are an easy sell, Kurtz said.

“They don’t give it a second thought — ‘Give me the ballot and let me?sign.’ ” Kurtz said of his customers.

Kurtz is gathering the ballots and sending them to the Ohio Historical Society in Columbus.

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A major push also has come from the group Equal Visibility Everywhere (EVE) on behalf of the three women finalists — abolitionist and author Harriet Beecher Stowe, women’s suffrage activist Harriet Taylor Upton, and Judith Resnik, the astronaut from Akron who died on the Challenger.

Read the full article in the Dayton Daily News.

Republican Civil-Rights Champion’s Untold Story

Published on April 13, 2010 in Diversity Inc.:

Rep. William M. McCulloch, “more than anyone, was responsible for the civil-rights legislation of the 1960s, and particularly for the Civil Rights Act of 1964,” writes Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis on June 1971 in a letter to the Ohio legislator. “You were a conservative Midwestern Republican from a farm district, who by seniority found yourself in a position where the civil-rights problem was thrust upon you. Your integrity under such pressures is what makes our political system worth fighting and dying for.”

Read the full article at Diversity Inc.

News roundup: week ending April 9, 2010

(This is in addition to articles we posted individually during the week.)

• Columbus Dispatch: “Harris picks Civil War leader to represent Ohio”
• Dayton Daily News: “Senate President Harris backs Grant for Ohio statue”
• Uweekly: “Real Buckeyes Vote Owens”
• Toledo Examiner: “Vote today to ensure Ohio’s first female representative in the National Statuary Hall Collection”

News roundup: week ending April 2, 2010

• Newbury Port News: “Ohio congressman stood tall in fight for Civil Rights Act”
• Toledo Blade: “McCulloch challenged party, risked career”
• Falls News Press: “Polls open to pick subject of state’s statue in U.S. Capitol”
• News Democrat: “U.S. Grant needs your vote”
• Columbus Dispatch: “Wagoner hopes others will join him in statue vote”
• USA Today: “Why so few statues honoring women?”
• News Democrat: “Grant vs. Reagan – Bill proposed to replace Grant on $50″

News roundup: week ending March 26, 2010

• Ohio State Buckeyes: “Gee Casts Vote for Jesse Owens”
• Dayton Daily News: “Local effort promotes Wright brothers for statue”
• The News-Messenger: “Vote for who should stand for Ohio at the Hayes Presidential Center”
• Vindy.com: “Voting begins for famous Ohioan to represent state in U.S. Capitol”
• Vindy.com: “Who will embody Ohio in Capitol?”
• WHIO News Talk Radio: “Voting for new Ohio statue begins Saturday”
• WVIZ NewsDepth: “Ohio Will Replace Statue in U.S. Capitol Statuary Hall”
• Hudson Hub Times: “Around Ohio – March 24″
• NBC 4 Today: Sunday, March 20, 2010
• Cleveland Jewish News: “Two Jews nominated for Ohio statue honor”
• Ms. Magazine: “How About Sojourner Truth on the $5 Bill?”
• Chillicothe Gazette: “Ohioans get to vote on statue for U.S. Capitol”
• WOSU Radio: “Ohioans Begin Balloting For U.S Capitol Statue”

Ohioans being considered for place in US Capitol

Published on March 18, 2010 on CNBC (AP article):

Ohioans are being asked to vote on who they believe should represent the state in the U.S. Capitol’s statuary hall. The statue will join one of President James A. Garfield, an Ohio native, already in the hall. The finalists chosen by a committee of legislators and others:

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— Judith A. Resnik: born on April 5, 1949, in Akron, Ohio; American astronaut who died on Orbiter Challenger when it exploded shortly after launch on Jan. 28, 1986; helped develop software for NASA’s space shuttle program; was a mission specialist on the Orbiter Discovery’s maiden flight in 1984.

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— Harriet Beecher Stowe: born June 14, 1811, in Litchfield, Conn., family moved to Cincinnati in 1832; author and abolitionist; wrote the novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” — based on former slaves and Underground Railroad participants — which demonized slavery and increased anti-slavery sentiment in the North before the Civil War.

— Harriet Taylor Upton: born on December 17, 1853, in Ravenna, Ohio; author, suffragist and first woman to serve as vice-chair of the Republican National Committee; first woman elected to the Warren (Ohio) Board of Education; instrumental in the passage of the first child labor law, wrote several children books and histories.

Read the full article on CNBC.

Ohioans nearing tough, monumental vote

Published on March 19, 2010 in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette:

TOLEDO – The people of Ohio will get a chance to tell their lawmakers whose graven image should represent their state in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall.

After years of talking about which notable Ohioan’s statue should replace the one of William Allen – a 19th-century congressman and governor who supported Southern slave owners and portrayed blacks as savages – officials are putting the question to an informal plebiscite. The voting begins Saturday.

With the help of some advisers, a bipartisan legislative committee has sorted through about 90 possibilities and settled on 10 finalists: inventor Thomas Edison, athlete Jesse Owens and writer Harriet Beecher Stowe. Others are James Ashley, Ulysses S. Grant, William McCulloch, Judith Resnik, Albert Sabin, Harriet Taylor Upton and Wilbur and Orville Wright.

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Among those who helped the committee identify the finalists were Washington Court House High School history teacher Paul LaRue and his students. They have been pulling for Ashley, an abolitionist who lived in Portsmouth and was the first U.S. representative to call for a constitutional amendment to outlaw slavery.

LaRue said the students are also researching the other candidates.

“To be honest, we kind of feel grateful to have gotten where we are,” LaRue said. “But Jesse Owens also has such a rich story. So does Harriet Beecher Stowe. Judy Resnik, we never thought about that. What a great story. All 10 have just fabulous stories.”

Read the full article in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette.

Ohioans get to vote on new statue for U.S. Capitol

Published on March 19, 2010 in the Coshocton Tribune:

TOLEDO — The people of Ohio will get a chance to tell their lawmakers whose graven image should represent their state in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall.

After years of talking about which notable Ohioan’s statue should replace the one of William Allen — a 19th century congressman and governor who supported Southern slave owners and portrayed blacks as savages — officials are putting the question to an informal plebiscite. The voting begins Saturday.

With the help of some advisers, a bipartisan legislative committee has sorted through about 90 possibilities and settled on a few finalists.

Among them: inventor Thomas Edison, athlete Jesse Owens and writer Harriet Beecher Stowe. Others are James Ashley, Ulysses S. Grant, William McCulloch, Judith Resnik, Albert Sabin, Harriet Taylor Upton and Wilbur and Orville Wright.

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Ohio Historical Society spokesman Kim Schuette said the vote is a way to gauge attitudes, not an “official process.”

“We want to engage people of all ages,” she said.

Read the full article in the Coshocton Tribune.

Ohioans can vote on new statue for Capitol

Published on March 19, 2010 in the Columbus Dispatch:

Ohioans can begin voting Saturday on who they want to represent them in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall.

Residents can cast votes at 36 historic sites and museums through June 12.

The National Statuary Collection Study Committee, the Ohio Historical Society, the Cincinnati Museum Center and the Western Reserve Historical Society have set up ballot boxes at all sites.

Because only one vote is allowed per person, ballots must be signed and include the voter’s address.

Online ballots may be returned through the mail or via e-mail to the Ohio Historical Society.

Voters must be an Ohio resident. They can vote for only one of the 10 final nominees.

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The candidates are: abolitionist and former U.S. Rep. James Ashley; inventor Thomas Alva Edison; President and Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant; former U.S. Rep. and civil-rights activist William McCulloch; Olympic and Ohio State University athlete Jesse Owens; astronaut Judith Resnik; Dr. Albert Sabin, developer of oral polio vaccine; author Harriet Beecher Stowe; suffragist Harriet Taylor Upton; and inventors Wilbur and Orville Wright.

Read the full article in the Columbus Dispatch.

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