Talk about members;Information please!;Burns receives educator award;Schneider receives doctorates;Stabler recognized

              TALK ABOUT MEMBERS
BURNS RECEIVES
EDUCATOR AWARD
Dr. Tom Burns received the Out­standing
Accounting Educator Award at
the American Accounting Association's
1992 Annual Meeting in Washington,
D.C. Grant Thornton hosted a reception
and roast in Tom's honor on August 9,
1992 at the Sheraton Washington Hotel.
All who know Tom, recognize that he has
devoted his life to teaching and the
accounting profession, and this award is
only a token of the debt owed for his many
years of contribution. Tom is currently
serving as the 1992 president of the
Academy.
SCHNEIDER RECEIVES
DOCTORATES
Dr. Dieter Schneider was honored dur­ing
1992 with the conference of three hon­orary
doctorate degrees. The University of
Duisburg granted Dieter an honorary
degree in the field of taxation. The
University of Bayreuth awarded a degree
for business economics, and the University
of Wuerzburg recognized his work in the
theoretical foundations of business econom­ics.
Dr. Schneider is a professor at Ruhr-
University Bochum in Germany. He is a
long-time member of the Academy and is
widely known in the United States for his
lectures and publications. Dieter recently
presented papers at the Academy confer­ences
at the University of North Texas and
the University of Mississippi.
STABLER RECOGNIZED
Dr. Frank Stabler was named the
Georgia Accounting Educator of the Year
by the Georgia Society of CPAs Edu­cational
Foundation. Frank is a long-time
member of the Academy and a professor at
Georgia State University. He has served as
the faculty advisor of the Beta Mu Chapter
of Beta Alpha Psi for many years, and his
leadership has resulted in the chapter's suc­cess
at the highest level. Frank has con­tributed
greatly to the profession through
his work in the Georgia Society of CPAs
and the Institute of Internal Auditors.
Gary Previts forwarded a request from
Nancy M. Rohr concerning information to
aid in a historical project. Ms. Rohr is cur­rently
transcribing documents for the
Huntsville Public Library (Alabama) which
involve the account books and expense
journals of Dr. Thomas Fearn and his busi­ness
associates dating from the 1820's.
These records relate to the building of the
Huntsville Canal and the Huntsville Water
Works, which were the first West of the
Appalachian Mountains.
Ms. Rohr desires to include an interpre­tation
of the accounts such that informa­tion
is presented beyond the figures. She is
seeking some guidelines to accomplish this
goal in terms of historical archaeology or
social history. How can the data be con­verted
to information about the community
and early life in the area?
A search of accounting history publica­tions
has not been profitable in regard to
guidelines or suggestions of how to per­form
a social and economic interpretation
of accounting records in a historical con­text.
If anyone has some recommendations
of published source materials which can be
of help in conducting this type of historical
project, you might send a note to Nancy
M. Rohr, 10012 Louis Dr., Huntsville, AL
35803. In addition, the editor of The
Notebook would be interested in including
such information in a future issue.
10 The Accounting Historians Notebook, Fall, 1992