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I have spent the day wandering around southern CA off I 8 looking at various things in bloom. Coming home my car began acting strangely when I drove off the freeway into Yuma. So if I don't show up at dinner I have not been abducted only that I co...

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Thank you for the quick reply. I thought that ASU West was a part of the ASU campus, and it would be nice to generate some interest for the west valley.

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Topic: The Pantheon in Rome at ASU Tempe Campus, Life Sciences A Room 191

April 15, 2009 all day

Reassessing the Pantheon in Rome Speaker: Rabun Taylor The Pantheon in Rome has a far more interesting and complex building and design history than we give it credit for. Admired as a creation of almost mystical perfection, it is in reality full ...

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Dear Kathryn, Good afternoon. We will use some money from the College of Liberal Arts and sciences to cover the cost of a March mailing. This mini newsletter will announce the March and April lectures and the elections. People will be able to ema...

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At 6:32pm on April 14, 2009, Kathryn Michel said…: I have spent the day wandering around southern CA off I 8 looking at various things in bloom. Coming home my car began acting strangely when I drove off the freeway into Yuma. So if I don't show up at dinner I have not been abducted only that I couldn't solve the problem tomorrow morning and decided it wouldn't be wise to come
I will sent this message to several others in case you don't check your mail on Wed.

At 7:36pm on March 6, 2009, Bernice Jurin said…: Thank you for the quick reply. I thought that ASU West was a part of the ASU campus, and it would be nice to generate some interest for the west valley.

At 4:40pm on February 23, 2009, Kathryn Michel said…: Strange that you would think it inapropriate to ignore the mandate to have elections every year when that mandate has been ignored for the last ten years and AIA wasn't in the least concerned. Your team has done far more than doing an "adequate" job. It has been a spectacular job. So at this point would it be appropriate to contact all members who are on the website and offer the same slate of officers for another year? Then you could be re-elected by acclaim. I don't think that Adele has had any other nominations and it seems that no one has offered themselves. If this is ok then I will see how a message can be sent to all.Jayni, Mira, and Adele all said that they would be willing to continue serving another year. So what is the next move? Do it online or a nomination from the floor at the next meeting in March?

At 3:11pm on February 18, 2009, Kathryn Michel said…: You asked that any nominations for officers be sent to the secretary. We are having a most spectacular year. And all this is due to our current officers. Though I don't expect the current team to stay in office as long as Liz did, it does seem that you are just getting started. I would like to nominate the four current officers for another year if they are willing. I will contact all to see if this is agreeable to them. If it is, then there should be some way where we can reach all members signed up on this website and you can be elected by approval that way. Or if you want, I could write to each one asking that they send in a nomination for the current slate of officers. But this seems like a lot of unnecessary work for Adele who would receive all those e-mails.

I was not aware that we needed to have nominations and officers served on a yearly basis. True, Liz let it go way too long and last year was the first time we had nominations since the group was established. Many organizations who do not meet during the summer ( though I realize that the bulk of your work in planning this year was during the summer) have officers elected every two years rather than every year.

It seems a pity that all the learning experience that the four of you have had during the months from June 2008 until now would be lost and someone else would have to take over. So I urge you to consider taking at least another year as president.

Kathryn

At 12:43pm on February 14, 2009, Kathryn Michel said…: At the last lecture you introduced me to Leonard Lesko a retired Egyptologist who will be entertaining our speaker next week. He will most likely be at the lecture and probably dinner also. I knew the name was familiar and when I got home googled him to see why. He is an authority on, among other things, wine and beer from pharaonic times and has a lovely book out, The Wine Cellar of the Pharaohs which I have in my library. I never remember names of minor Egyptologists.

As long as he is a resident of the Phoenix area he might be willing to give a lecture next season on the wine-beer subject or on something else if he has one on other areas. Wine-beer would be great. And he would be cheap as he is already here and would only probably require a stipend or may even donate his time. Who knows? He would not need a hotel or transportation as he lives here.

At 8:59pm on December 2, 2008, Jayni Reinhard said…: Hi there - I think that's the best it can get. I can send you the jpeg and you can fiddle with it if you'd like, but I already tried things like the "sharpen" function, etc.

At 3:17pm on November 14, 2008, Jayni Reinhard said…: Ok so dinner...Tricks after the talk, say around 7:30 or 7:45? Maybe even as late as 8 depending on Q&A? I've been telling people that they may join us but that everyone is responsible for their own meals and that it's pricey so most will be dissuaded, at least in the student range. I do know that Kathryn will join us, and perhaps Beth Barry as well. Do you make the reservations, or does Mira? I'm so bad at remembering these things...forgive me. I will have the society debit card to pay for Diane's dinner, since that honorarium for you is still in there which we're using for dinner.

At 3:41pm on October 31, 2008, Jayni Reinhard said…: You da best ;)

At 2:35pm on October 31, 2008, Jayni Reinhard said…: Hey, can you look in the magic big black AIA notebook and tell me when the Brian Rose and James Wiseman lectures were here? I posted the pictures of them (the rest of the old pictures were not in the least bit interesting) up here but they lack info like title and date. I guessed 1998 for Rose since he was on the lecture circuit that year, but I have no idea if that's right. No hurry, just to get clarification up there. Thanks!
J

At 8:08am on October 21, 2008, Kathryn Michel said…: True, since I have been coming to the lectures I have heard her speak twice.But I have also heard others speak twice. And to those of us who are interested, progres reports on a site are important. However it seems that her work in Sudan where recording was done on sites that will be or are covered by water when the dam is built is significant. At least when this was done in Egypt great effort was made to move some of the larger temples to higher ground. To my knowledge nothing like this is being done or was done in the Sudan to preserve Nubian sites.