Ohioana Library: Highlights From the Fall 1959 Issue of Ohioana Quarterly

Artwork by Stevan Dohanos from the cover of the Fall 1959 issue. Called the “American Realist,” Lorain native Stevan Dohanos was known best for his Saturday Evening Post covers and he was the 1952 recipient of the Ohioana Career Medal. Along with the artwork he contributed, he also authored the essay “An Ohio Boy With Unblurred Eyes” included below.

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Highlights From Fall 1959 Ohioana: of Ohio and Ohioans
Until 1966, the Quarterly was called Ohioana: of Ohio and Ohioans

Table of Contents: Fall 1959

The Importance of Putting Deeds Into Words
By Calvin Kytle, Columbus business executive

Newspapers and Science
By David Dietz, First Science Editor in the U.S.

How It All Began: The Founding of the Martha Kinney Cooper Ohioana Library
By Martha Kinney Cooper, Ohio First Lady 1929-1931

I Love Ohio
By Joe E. Brown, Comedian

An Incident in Andalusia
By Lowell Thomas, Author and broadcaster

Let's Write Our Local History Now
By W.M. Kiplinger, Journalist

My First Encounter With the World's Rough Side
By Burton Stevenson, Novelist, librarian and anthologist

A Tribute to Judge Florence Allen, Noted Ohioan, Foremost Woman Jurist
By Alma Bevis, former President of Ohioana

The Day I Almost Didn't Go to Columbus
By Russel Crouse, U.S. playwright and librettist

An Ohio Boy With Unblurred Eyes
By Stevan Dohanos, Artist and illustrator

My Greatest Experience
By Florence Ellingwood Allen, Senior Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for 6th Circuit

Tribute to Billy Ireland . . . Who is Looking Over My Shoulder
By Milton Caniff, Cartoonist

A Biographer's Comment
By Jeanette Eaton, Writer and biographer

The Wright Brothers in the Hall of Fame
By Rev. Ralph Sockman, clergyman

More Lambs From Ohio: Biographical Sketches of Ohioans Who Are Members of the Lambs, America's Oldest Theatrical Club
By Russ Johns, radio program director