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NEWS NOTES The first winner of the annual Marston LaFrance Memorial Award for the best essay by a graduate student published in CREVAS is J. R. (Tim) Struthers, whose essay on Eudora Welty and Alice Munro appeared in the Fall 1975 issue. Tim, who has published other articles on Canadian literature and who is completing his doctorate in English at the University of Western Ontario, wishes to acknowledge a particular debt to two of his former teachers: Carl Klinck and Virgina Rock. ConferenceNotes: The theme of the Twelfth Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for American Studies, to be held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, October 20-23, will be: THE NATIVE PEOPLES OF NORTH AMERICA. The programme chairman is John Teunissen, of the Department of English, University of Manitoba .... Several members of CAAS contributed significantly to the NEW WORLD CONFERENCE held last November in San Antonio. Delivering papers and providing commentary at the conference, which brought together scholars from up and down the western hemisphere, as well as from across the seas, were: David Bell, Peter Buitenhuis, Ann Cowan, Brian Dippie, Jack Granatstein, Evelyn Hinz, and Allan Smith .... Two other important conferences are shaping up for the fall of 1976.At Durham, North Carolina, October 14-16, the Duke University Canadian Studies Center and the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States will co-sponsor a bi-centennial conference on "Revolution and Evolution." In September, in Washington, the Smithsonian Institution, the American Studies Association, and the American Council of Learned Societies will jointly sponsor a bi-centennial conference on "The United States in the World." JournalNotes: The August 1976 issue of American Quarterly (the annual bibliographic issue) will carry as complete a listing as possible of all book-length American Studies research in progress, including dissertations. Forms for submission to the listing may be obtained from: J. R. Cashill, Department of English, University of Missouri, Kansas City 64110.... A bibliographical tool perhaps overlooked by some Review readers is the recently expanded Bulletin of Bibliography andMagazineNotes, edited by Eleanor Jones for the F. W.Faxon Company, 15 Southwest Park, Westwood, Massachusetts 02090. The January 1976 issue contains, among others, bibliographies on American literary periodicals, T. S. Eliot as dramatist, American satire, and Charles W. Chesnutt .... Two recently established newsletters are The William Carlos Williams Newsletter, edited by Theodora Graham at the Capitol Campus,·Pennsylvania State University, Middletown 17507; and the T. S. Eliot Newsletter, edited by T. N. Banergee at the Department of English, York University, Downsview, Ontario M3J 1P3. Both editors welcome subscriptions and contributions .... Finally we wish to point with pride to two new Canadian journals established under the editorship of two long-standing members of the Canadian Association for American Studies. Gilbert Ostrander is co-editor of Historical Refiections!RefiectionsHistoriques, a bi-annual published by the History Department, University of Waterloo, Waterloo , Ontario. Lauriat Lane, Jr., is editor of EnglishStudies in Canada,the official journal of the Association of Canadian University Teachers of English; editorial offices are at the Department of English, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton E3B5A3. 4 ...

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