Congratulations to our very own Tom Morton!

Dr. Thomas Morton, our society president, and associate professor in ASU's School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, was voted the newest Vice President for Societies for the national office of the AIA! We are very proud of Tom's accomplishments here in Tempe and know he will carry over his enthusiasm and success to the national level. He will still be on campus and our society president, but please be sure to congratulate him on his election when you see him at upcoming events!

Dr. Leonard Lesko spoke to the society about the Rocks and Minerals of Ancient Egypt on Wednesday, February 23, followed by a panel discussion of the recent events in Egypt. It was a huge success, with about 120 in attendance. We love when the Leskos attend our meetings, much less speak at them! The crowd was fortunate to hear informed updates from both Barbara and Leonard Lesko on the situation regarding antiquities in Egypt as Mubarek was driven from office this month. We also heard more on the subject from our resident ASU Egyptologists, Drs. Brenda Baker (Anthropology), Nancy Serwint and Adele Lewis (both Art History). Our society vice-president Mira Poudrier (Classics) also spoke about the organized efforts of groups like CHAMP and SAFE regarding the protection of antiquities and ancient sites in times such as these.

PARKING FOR OUR SOCIETY LECTURES
This link will take you to the Tempe campus parking map:
http://www.asu.edu/parking/pdf/map_tempe.pdf
 

The AIA can use your frequent flier miles!

The AIA has now formalized frequent flier partnerships with several major airlines.Your registration in these programs can help both yourself and the AIA! It's a great way to donate to the AIA without actually having to pay anything extra. You continue to earn your frequent flier miles as usual, but the airlines match your miles and donate them to the AIA to help finance the traveling expenses for our lecturers - what a fantastic deal! The participating airlines include American, Continental, Delta, and United. Click on this link to see the details of how you can help! FrequentFlier.docx

Apples + Archaeology!
We are excited to tell you all about our award-winning outreach program,  Apples + Archaeology! We have an additional "group" for the program on the website which you can see in the upper left menu (and please join/"add group" if you are interested!). Additionally we have posted some photographs of the program in action as well as its beautiful logo and t-shirt in the standard photos area. If you would like to make a donation to help fund our exciting Apples + Archaeology program, please leave a note for our treasurer, Kathleen Lamp, here on the site.

Donations to the local chapter
At the lectures we have a small silver box for monetary donations to the society. We do not require entrance or membership fees for any of our talks, but we greatly welcome any help you can give us to aid in procuring the high quality speakers we bring to you, or to assist in our outreach programs. Any amount is helpful! If you are unable to make it to lectures but would still like to support our society with a donation, please drop a note to our treasurer, Kathleen Lamp, here on the site.

New features on the website include an area to post related events. Local societies such as ARCE and the Humanist Society, as well as ASU events on the departmental or student level, can be posted here if they are relevant to the ancient world and/or archaeology and anthropology. If you have something you would like us to post, please send the information to one of our site administrators, Jayne Reinhard or Almira Poudrier.

Also, there are several *new fora for open discussion* between members, including a new "book club" of sorts. Please explore the site and its options at your leisure!

Also, we have a few remaining society t-shirts on sale for $10 ($5 with a valid ASU student ID). You can pick one up at the next lecture, but if you simply can't wait, drop Almira Poudrier or Thomas Morton a line on the site here and we can work something out about shipping one (or more!) to you. Currently in the batch of photos posted on the site, the design for the shirt is number 44/87. It comes in cobalt blue, forest green, or burgundy.

If you have events that you would like us to post here, please send the details to either of the site's administrators, Jayne Reinhard or Almira Poudrier.

ARCE, the American Research Center in Egypt, has a chapter in nearby Tucson. They frequently have lectures on topics related to Egyptian history and archaeology and love to have our Valley folk come down to attend. Talks are held in the U of AZ bookstore.

The first event for the new season will be a lecture by Dr Mary Ownby, an ARCE AZ Chapter member.  The info is below:

When:  Thursday, 29 Sept 2011, 5:30 PM.  Free and open to the public.

Subject:  "The Importance of Imports: Revelations on Ancient Egyptian trade with the Levant through ceramic analysis"

Location:  University of Arizona Book Store in the Student Union Memorial Center, 1209 E University Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85721. Directions : Speedway  Blvd to Mountain Ave, south on Mtn and straight ahead to the Student Union, parking lot on the L).  Call 520-621-2814 for book store info.

Click on this link for more information on the September lecture: ARCE%20Events%20Fall%202011.docx

The second lecture scheduled will be at the same location on Saturday, Nov. 12th at 3:00 p.m. with the Curator of the Dept. of Egyptian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y., Catharine Roehrig, Ph. D.  Her lecture is titled "Recent Work at the Palace City of Amenhotep III at Malqata". Watch for more information.

Please put these lectures on your calender and we hope that you all will attend.  More info will be sent as we get closer.

Aside from ARCE lectures, there is a summer lecture series on Egypt in Tucson's Rialto Art & Antiques. It began on May 22 with a lecture on the discovery and excavation of KV-63 (the newest tomb discovery) and will continue every other Sunday through August 14.  All lectures are included with general admission to “Tutankhamun: Wonderful Things from the Pharaoh’s Tomb.”  Visit www.raadtucson.com for restaurant discounts and lecture info.  The link below is the press release for the lecture series. Costs are $18.00 for adults, $ 10.00 for a child thru 13 and $ 14.00 for students and seniors)

RAA%20Summer%20Lecture%20Series.pdf

Thanks to Steve Miller, as always, for the info.