CONTRIBUTORS' BIOGRAPHIES

Shirley J. Burton was, like Adelaide Johnson, born in Plymouth, Illinois. She now lives in Chicago, where Ida Craddock was tried for mail obscenity. Burton earned a master's degree at Western Illinois University in Macomb and the Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the assistant director of the Chicago Federal Records Center.

Craig L. Pfannkuche has taught for thirty-one years, twenty-six of them in the Crystal Lake, Illinois, high schools. He obtained bachelor's and master's degrees in history from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. His teaching is based on his belief that student interest can be stimulated and sustained by studying local history and personalities.

JoAnn Rayfield, professor of history at Illinois State University, Normal, teaches Illinois history and instructional technology for historians. She is also the university archivist.

Leonard Schiup is reference librarian/history bibliographer in the Language, Literature and History Division of the Akron-Summit County Public Library in Ohio. He earned the Ph.D. in history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of numerous articles in professional journals.

Peggy Scott is social sciences chairperson at University High School at Illinois State University in Normal. She received bachelor's and master's degrees in history from Illinois State University. Because University High School is a laboratory school for the university, she works with pre-student teachers in her U.S. and advanced placement U.S. history classes.

Beth Stroble is associate dean for programs at the School of Education at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. She holds the Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from the University of Virginia and has taught high school in Vandalia, Illinois.

Paul E. Stroble is the author of a history of Illinois' second capital, High on the Okaw's Western Bank: Vandalia, Illinois, 1819-1839. He is a United Methodist minister with a Ph.D. in religious studies from the University of Virginia and is an adjunct professor at the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky

Bill Ulmer has taught social studies for twenty-six years. The last seventeen of these have been at Chapman Junior High School in Farmington, Illinois. He earned a bachelor's degree in history and a master's degree in economics from Western Illinois University at Macomb.