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"The W.A. McNeill House at 1282 C Ave. East in Oskaloosa, Iowa was built in 1909. It was a work of architects Hallett & Rawson and of William Zitteral. It has also been known as the Abbott House. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. It is operated as a bed & breakfast known as the McNeill Stone Mansion.History References External links *History Bed & Breakfast Category:National Register of Historic Places in Mahaska County, Iowa Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa Category:Colonial Revival architecture in Iowa Category:Mission Revival architecture in Iowa Category:Houses completed in 1909 Category:Houses in Mahaska County, Iowa Category:1909 establishments in Iowa "
"Susan E. Henking is an American teacher and scholar in religious studies. She was the 14th and final president of Shimer College in Chicago, appointed in July 2012 and finishing g in 2017. She has since served in interim roles at Salem Academy and College, including Interim President. Henking was the first female president of Shimer - a small Great Books college - since its 19th- century founder, Frances Shimer, ceded control to the University of Chicago in 1896. Henking is one of the small number of openly lesbian college presidents. During her years at Shimer, Henking blogged on higher education and other topics on the Huffington Post and also ChicagoNow. She was also a contributor to Religion Dispatches, an online magazine of religion, politics and culture. Education Henking received her BA from Duke University in 1977 and her MA from the University of Chicago Divinity School in 1979. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Divinity School in 1988, and began teaching at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in 1988. Her doctoral dissertation was titled “Protestant Religious Experience and the Rise of American Sociology: A Contextual Study of Varieties of Secularization”. Career Henking taught at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, principally in the field of religious studies. She also taught in Women's Studies. In 1992 she received the Faculty Distinguished Teaching Award. During her time at the Colleges, Henking served on the Board of the American Academy of Religion and as founding editor of the Oxford University Press series Teaching Religious Studies also of the American Academy of Religion. Henking was the interim Dean of Faculty from 1998 to 2001. She headed the Department of Religious Studies from 2002 to 2005 and 2008 to 2009. In addition, before her departure in the summer of 2012, she served as adviser to the Board of Trustees. Henking has written and taught in the field of LGBT studies. Often her work has been at the junction of LGBT studies and religious studies, as in Religion the volume she co-edited in 1997 with Gary David Comstock. She co-chaired the program in LGBT studies at Hobart and William Smith, which was the first such program in the nation to offer a major. =Shimer College presidency= In early 2012, Henking was chosen to become the 14th president of Shimer College. She was the first regular president of Shimer College after the acrimonious departure of Thomas Lindsay in 2010. Shortly after assuming the presidency, Henking wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times: "Although liberal arts colleges serve smaller populations than do larger public institutions, we can be a valuable resource for our communities. We have the flexibility as institutions to develop and implement new ways of improving access and fixing costs. And we have the responsibility. I call on other liberal arts colleges in the Chicago area and across the country to join Shimer College in this effort." Selected works *1992: "Protestant Religious Experience and the Rise of American Sociology," Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 28(4): 325-339. *1993: "Rejected, Reclaimed, Renamed: Mary Daly on Psychology and Religion," Journal of Psychology and Theology 21(3): 199-207. *1996: "The Open Secret: Dilemmas of Advocacy in the (Religious Studies) Classroom." pp. 245–259 in Advocacy in the Classroom: Propaganda versus Engagement, Patricia Meyers Spacks ed. (New York: St. Martin's Press). *1996: "Proselytizing and Pedagogy", Religious Studies News 11, p. 8\. *1997: Susan Henking and Gary David Comstock, eds. Que(e)rying Religion: A Critical Anthology (New York: Continuum) *2000: "Does (the History of ) Religion and Psychological Studies Have a Subject?" in Mapping Religion and Psychological Studies, Diane Jonte-Pace and William Parsons eds. (New York: Routledge). *2000: "Who is the Public Intellectual? Identity, Marginality, and the Religious Studies Scholar." ARC: Journal of the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University 28 (2000): 159-171. *2004: "Religion, Religious Studies and Higher Education: Into the 21st Century," Religious Studies Review 30(2,3): 129-136. *2006: "Difficult Knowledges: Gender, Sexuality, Religion," Spotlight on Teaching, October 2006. *2008: Susan Henking, Diane Jonte Pace, William Parsons, eds. Mourning Religion (University of Virginia Press). *2008:“More than a Quarter Century: HIV/AIDS and Religion,” Religious Studies Review 34(3) pp. 129ff. *2014. “Reflections from Prestigious Leaders LGBTQ in Higher Education,” Journal of Psychological Issues in Organizational Culture 5(1): pp. 60ff. References External links *Official Shimer College profile *Presidential blog *Hobart and William Smith Colleges faculty profile *2012 interview on Out of Bounds Radio Category:Presidents of Shimer College Category:Hobart and William Smith Colleges faculty Category:University of Chicago Divinity School alumni Category:Lesbians Category:LGBT studies academics Category:Living people Category:American women bloggers Category:American bloggers Category:1955 births Category:Women heads of universities and colleges Category:Lesbian academics "
"The Marsh–Place Building at 627 Sycamore St. in Waterloo, Iowa is a six-story building built in 1910. According to its nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, it is notable as "a distinctive, virtually unaltered example of the Commercial Style". And it is an "excellent" example of "the three-part base-shaft-capital approach (similar to a classical column) to tall building design." with It is a work of architects Hallett & Rawson. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. In 2011 it was included as a contributing property in the Waterloo East Commercial Historic District. References Category:National Register of Historic Places in Black Hawk County, Iowa Category:Buildings designated early commercial in the National Register of Historic Places Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1910 Category:Buildings and structures in Waterloo, Iowa Category:Office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa Category:Chicago school architecture in Iowa Category:Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Iowa Category:Historic district contributing properties in Iowa "