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History Day 2012 Speakers 

WILLIAM A. BAKER is the Office Manager for Raymond S. Bogucki, P.S.C., a law firm in Maysville, Kentucky.  His research is concentrated on the early history of Bracken County and especially Augusta, Kentucky.  His particular interest is in educational institutions and early circuit court records. 

BARBARA BROWN is a member and past president of the Grant County Historical Society.  She lived in Covington for over 40 and moved to Grant County in 1994.  She has served as the editor of Grant County Historical Society Newsletter for eleven years, and she is currently vice president of the “Friends of Sherman Tavern.”

LANA KAY BRUEGGEN is a sales representative for Creative Storm Advertising Agency. She is producer and host of a public access talk show through Insight Communication.  She is a member of Florence Woman’s Club,  Professional Woman’s Network,  and the Boone County Historical Society.

DENISE DALLMER is an Associate Professor in the College of Education and Human Services at Northern Kentucky University. She is the recipient of an International Leaders in Education Program grant, a program of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State.  She also has received the Award for Sustained Excellence in Scholarly and Creative Activity (NKU).

JONATHAN HAGEE has been involved in frontier KY reenactments for 17 years. His interest in the frontier grew as his multiple frontier Kentucky ancestry was uncovered.  This include a link to Simon Kenton and another family member who served under Daniel Boone at the Siege of Boonesborough, various family members (Conway) who were frontier scouts, scalped and captured by Shawnee, etc. He is a frequent volunteer at Fort Harrod, Boonesborough, Blue Licks, the Fair at New Boston, Ohio, and Martin’s Station, Virginia.

ELAINE M. KUHN is the Kentucky History Services Coordinator for the Kenton County Public Library.

BURKE MILLER is an Associate Professor of History at Northern Kentucky University.  He is the Content Coordinator for the Secondary Social Studies Program.

JAMES A. RAMAGE is Regents Professor of History at Northern Kentucky University and the author of Rebel Raider: The Life of General John Hunt Morgan, winner of the Douglas Southall Freeman Award and the Kentucky Governor’s Award.  His book, Gray Ghost: The Life of Col. John Singleton Mosby, was a History Book Club selection.  He and his daughter, Dr. Andrea S. Watkins, are co-authors of the new book Kentucky Rising:  Democracy, Slavery, and Culture from the Early Republic to the Civil War co-published by the Kentucky Historical Society and the University Press of Kentucky.  In recognition of his work in preserving Civil War Battery Hooper, in 2005, the mayor and city council of the City of Fort Wright named the museum on the site the James A. Ramage Civil War Museum. 

JIM REIS is a retired reporter from the Kentucky Post.  He is Vice President of the Campbell County Historical Society.  Jim is the author of several books on Northern Kentucky History including the most recent book, Pieces of the Past 4, which is in print and being sold at the current time.

DON RIGHTMYER is editor of Kentucky Ancestors at the Kentucky Historical Society, and frequently presents talks at both state and national conferences.

DIANE SCHNEIDER is a great-niece of the author, Robert F. Schulkers, and Director of Special Projects for the modern-day Seckatary Hawkins Club.  Diane was an attorney for people with disabilities in Kentucky, but later became a professor of theology, and a specialist in vibration medicine therapy with harp at Mayo Clinic for 9 years.  Diane and the Seck Hawkins Club are spear-heading neighborhood restoration efforts around the Schulkers Homestead area of East Helentown in Covington.  Contact her at 513-223-7344 or healingharpist@hotmail.com

PAUL A. TENKOTTE is Chair of History & Geography at NKU. He has published many books and articles, including The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky (2009), co-edited with Dr. James C. Claypool. His latest book, A Home of Our Own: The Suburb of Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, 1910-2010, has just been released (2012).

ROBERT WEBSTER is the vice-president of the Kenton County Historical Society and has written numerous articles on local history.  He has authored three books, two of which have won awards from the Kentucky Historical Society.  He has just completed his concise history of the Beverly Hills Supper Club.

MICHAEL L. WILLIAMS has been an attorney since 1974.  His experience includes being a former prosecutor, public defender in death penalty cases, and many years in the private practice of law.  Now “semi-retired,” Williams recently acquired an undergraduate degree in History from NKU (2005) and a Masters of Arts (History) from University of Louisville (2008).  As a former Assistant County Attorney, he served under former Campbell County Attorney Paul Twehues during the anti-vice campaigns of latter 1970s and 1980s.  Prosecutorial duties also included Juvenile Court and child abuse cases.  He is currently in private practice.