Left to right: Marlene De La Cruz-Guzman, director of Ohio University’s Office for Multicultural Student Access and Retention; Katherine Jellison, chair of Ohio University’s History Department; and Eryn Kane, PhD candidate in History at Ohio University.
Forty-five participants attended First Ladies Symposium, the second installment of the Ohio University History Department’s “History on the Move” series.
Held on April 1 at the the Ross County Historical Society, in the hometown of First Lady Lucy Webb Hayes: Chillicothe, Ohio. The First Ladies Symposium featured three presentations:
- Katherine Jellison, Professor and Ohio University History Department Chair, on “Lemonade Lucy, Her Predecessors, and Her Successors.”
- Eryn Kane, PhD candidate in History at Ohio University, on “Who Elected Her?”
- Karen Dunak, of Muskingum University, on “’A Person in Her Own Right [and] a Charming Woman’: Image Making in Jacqueline Kennedy’s White House.”
Following the formal presentations, participants shared a lively hour of lunchtime discussion with Jellison, Dunak, and Kane.
The purpose of the “History on the Move” series is to take the study of history beyond the walls of the classroom to the locations where that history took place. It is open to Ohio University alumni and anyone interested in history. Plans are currently underway for the third installment of the series.
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