Thanks for trying to change the Lesko lecture. But I would rather be in Egypt than hear someone talk about it at one of our lectures. Three of us are going from January 13 to January 31st. It will be a private tour and I am planning it. We will have five days on the dahabeyah sailing from Esna to Aswan and stopping at temples along the way. We are traveling using airline miles so had to take whatever came up around that time. See you at the first lecture. I was at "our restaurant" a few weeks ago and the owner asked where the archaeology group was. There were just two of us who had spent the night at Painted Rock then went on to Phoenix for some shopping.
Thanks for all your hard work in setting up the upcoming season. It looks great. But please, please don't schedule the Lesko talk for January as I will be in Egypt from Jan 13 to 30.
I will be able to attend all the other lectures inshallah.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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I will be able to attend all the other lectures inshallah.
I will sent this message to several others in case you don't check your mail on Wed.
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
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.
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