The authors wish to thank the following for their generous advice and encouragement: the Center for Middletown Studies Advisory Committee, Muncie Newspapers Executive Editor, Bill Spurgeon, Ball State University Provost, Warren Vander Hill, and Middletown III directors Theodore Caplow, Howard Bahr and Bruce Chadwick. We also are most grateful to the BSU Honors College for awarding an Undergraduate Fellows grant, which funded the research assistance of Cathy Penas. In addition, we express our appreciation to Dean Michael Wood for providing time for library personnel to pursue this project.

Furthermore, we wish to acknowledge our gratitude to Ball State University interlibrary loan librarian Veva McCoskey and her staff for locating copies of numerous citations, and to reference librarian Neal Coil for providing bibliographic and editorial expertise. The reference staff of Muncie Public Library also aided us in identifying several particulary obscure sources. Several individuals in BSU Libraries Special Collections spent long hours searching and verifying citations for this bibliography. They include University Archivist Nancy Turner and research assistants Jayme Moore, Marjorie Akin, Deborah Eckstein, Mary Martin, Bruce Bohlander and Terri Robar. Center for Middletown Studies assistant Jody Judd also helped with wordprocessing. More than anyone else, however, Special Collections library technician Mary Lou Gentis deserves a special thank you for researching, editing, and preparing the many drafts of the manuscript.

David C. Tambo
Dwight W. Hoover
John D. Hewitt
October 1987