Book Notes: Authors Named To Posts

May 13, 1990|Compiled by WILL MOLINEUX

AUTHORS have been appointed to prestigious posts at two Virginia institutions of higher education. John T. Casteen III, a former Virginia secretary of education who has been named president of the University of Virginia, is co-author of "The Jefferson Papers of the University of Virginia" and "John B. Minor's Civil War Diary." Casteen will leave the University of Connecticut to return July 1 to Charlottesville where he studied, taught English and served as dean of admissions. Wallace Terry of Alexandria has been appointed to William and Mary's Board of Visitors. Terry, a former reporter for The Washington Post and Time magazine, is best known as the author of "Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans," published in 1984 and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

SWEM LIBRARY at William and Mary has acquired the library of Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-81), chancellor of the college from 1871 until his death. Grigsby was the leading Virginia historian of his day.

HAROLD R. MOROZ, a political scientist who has announced his intention to run for Congress from Maine, has been conducting research at military installations in Tidewater for a book on American foreign policy in the Pacific. Moroz, who has taught at universities in Texas and Massachusetts, is author of "United States Foreign Policy in the 1990s," recently published by Carlton Press (112 pages. $12.95).

PARKE ROUSE, whose columns of local history appear in the Daily Press, will autograph copies of his latest book, "Remembering Williamsburg: A Sentimental Journey Through Three Centuries," from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Daily Press Customer Service Center in Patrick Henry Mall.

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