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At the 2014 annual meeting, American Folklore Society President michael Ann Williams announced a new prize, the Judith mcculloh Award for lifetime Service to the Field. Former AFS President (1987) mcculloh died July 13, 2014, in urbana, illinois, where she'd lived for many years. The prize appropriately reflects a unique career, built upon work as a publisher of scholarly research in folklore and music.
i met Judy in the late spring of 1961, outside the house she shared with ellen Stekert on South rogers Street in bloomington, indiana. Just accepted into the mA program at the indiana university (iu) Folklore institute, i was 22. She, 26, was already a graduate student there. her influence on me and on other students in our cohort was profound-especially among those of us who loved and valued American vernacular music.
Judy married mathematician leon mcculloh in 1961. he was teaching at the university of illinois at urbana-champaign. in may 1962, Judy visited him there for a weekend and saw Flatt & Scruggs give a concert for Archie Green's campus Folksong club (she was a founding member). She came back with tapes of the show and asked me to come into the Archives of Folk and Primitive music (AFPm) to help her draft a table of contents for the recording, which she was depositing in the Archives. it may have been the first time...