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Paul
Beaver hosts banquet for associates
and contributors to new Lincoln book
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[October 27, 2010]
Paul
Beaver treated his associate
authors, staff and their families
with dinner at the Lincoln College
faculty dining hall on Monday
evening. The highlight of the
evening was Beaver's
presentation of his latest book --
"Abraham Lincoln in Logan County,
Illinois 1834-1860" -- to each
member of his team and two special
guests. |
Left to
right: Ron Keller, Lincoln College
professor, curator of Lincoln
College Lincoln Heritage Museum and
associate author; Phil Bertoni,
retired secondary math and computer
teacher, adjunct Lincoln Land
Community College math instructor,
and associate author; Paul Beaver,
retired Lincoln College professor
and Lincoln College professor
emeritus of history |
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Chef Warren Wendlandt of
the college once again put on a delicious
meal, this time chicken cordon bleu with all
the trimmings.
Beaver's associate authors for the new
book were Ron Keller, Lincoln College
professor and curator of Lincoln Heritage
Museum at the college, and Phil Bertoni, a
retired secondary math and computer teacher
and adjunct math instructor at Lincoln Land
Community College. Editor-in-chief was Lynn
Spellman.
Along with the writing team, Betty Hickey
and Margaret Lanterman were honored guests
and also received a copy of Beaver 's
new treatise.
Mrs. Hickey 's
late husband, Jim, former curator of the
Lincoln Collection at the Illinois State
Historical Library in Springfield, had
inspired the author, as his Lincoln College
instructor many years ago, to enter the
field of history education. Beaver has done
just that -- teaching many years at Lincoln
College, once serving as the curator of the
Lincoln College Heritage Museum and writing
several books pertaining to Logan County. He
retired from teaching at the college in 2000
and was recently was named professor
emeritus of history.
Mrs. Lanterman had taught Bertoni, one of
the associate authors, as well as Sue
Beaver, the author 's
wife, in third grade at Mount Pulaski Grade
School. Remarkably, she also taught Jim
Hickey during her very first year of
teaching, at the Lakeside country school
east of Elkhart in 1935-1936. She had just
received her teaching credential from Normal
College in Bloomington in the spring of
1935.
The official book signing will be Friday
evening, 6:30-9:30, in the Johnston Center
for Performing Arts. A PowerPoint
presentation will run throughout the
evening, showing all the major pictures and
illustrations that were used in the book as
well as a few candid shots of the staff hard
at work.
A few additional pictures that are
historically noteworthy will also be shown.
These were not included in the book as they
were not directly tied to Abraham Lincoln's
work in Logan County, but nevertheless they
are connected with our 16th president.
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 The
book includes mention of a letter President
Lincoln received from Robert B. Latham in
regard to the new college being established
in the president's name in his namesake
town. Lincoln College was founded during
President Lincoln's second term of office.
In attendance at the banquet
were Les and Theresa Rickert and
granddaughter, Skip and Jackie Baker, Gene
and Wanda Rohlfs, Phil and Gini Bertoni, Ron
and Cindy Keller and two children, Richard
Sumrall, Patty Guzouskis, Margaret
Lanterman, Betty Hickey, and Paul and Sue
Beaver. Lynn Spellman was out of town with
her husband on a family outing.
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