Newsletter, Number 47 (December, 1962)

: The Twelfth Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt was one of unusual importance, and it was particularly gratifying to find that many members showed their continuing interest in the work of our organization by attending in person. Among those who came from a long distance were Professors Aziz Atiya of the University of Utah, Klaus Baer of the University of California, Oleg Grabar of the University of Michigan, Nicholas Heer of Stanford, and Mr. and Mrs. Husselman of Ann Arbor. Others came from the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, and Boston and vicinity.

Newsletter, Number 48 (April, 1963)

Newsletter, Number 48 (April, 1963)

: The fîxecutive Committee has recently voted that as of January 1, 1963, only those members of the Center who pay dues of ten dollars or more will receive the Journal gratis. The change will go into effect with the renewal of individual memberships. This action is due to the very high cost of publication. Members or non-members may procure copies of Volume I of the Journal at $5.00 each so long as the edition lasts. This price, however, has little relation to fiscal realities. Volume H, which will appear toward the end of the year, will be sold to the general public at $8.00 and its distribution to members must be limited as stated above. All members will continue to receive the Newsletters.

Newsletter, Number 49 (August, 1963)

: At the Annual Meeting of the Center in November 1962, the President-elect, Dr. William Stevenson Staith, announced to the membership a proposed expansion of the Center’s research activities in Egypt, to be undertaken with the cooperation of several American universities and with the assistance of funds provided by the Government of the United States, acting through the Department of State. After several months of negotiation, it is a pleasure to announce that an agreement has now been reached and that the proposed expansion is about to become a reality.

Newsletter, Number 51 (March, 1964)

: The attention of members should be drawn to the new address of the Center given above. Need of increased space, due to the expanded activities and increased personnel of the Center, has necessitated the removal of headquarters from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which has so long and so generously provided space for our organization

Newsletter, Number 52 (July, 1964)

: The Treasurer of the Center has just received from Miss Ellen M. Cushman a gift of five hundred dollars, in memory of Louise Kossuth Green, "who loved Egypt and enriched the lives of many people by her successful teaching of ancient history in the Junior High School of Montclair, New Jersey. She visited Egypt in 1909, and her memories of her trip became living pictures to her pupils." It is pleasant to think that some of the Fellows appointed by the Center to work in Egypt may be able to carry on the torch lighted by a gifted teacher half a century ago.

Newsletter, Number 53 (DECEMBER ,1964)

: In accordance with the By-laws of the American Research Center in Egypt, the Annual Meeting was convened on Tuesday, November 17, at 2:30 p.m., at the office of the Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with the President, William Stevenson Smith, in the chair and 151 members present in person or by proxy. This meeting was preceded by a Special Meeting held in New York City at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, which most generously offered hospitality to members and their guests. The latter meeting, attended by more than 150 persons, about one-third of whom were members, was marked by a program of papers and a brief business meeting at which the members present voted on the propositions later ratified at the Cambridge meeting of November 17.

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Newsletter, Number 54 (JUNE, 1965)

: During three months spent in Egypt early this year, I had an opportunity to visit the sites at which the Center is sponsoring excavations: Fustat, Gebel Adda, and Mendes. It is hard unless one has seen them, to imagine three localities so widely different in character. Fustat is and has been for centuries, a vast city dump, a desert wasteland bordered by the slums of Old Cairo and haunted by scavengers, humans, and canines. It is a windy, dusty, and malodorous site, cold and sometimes wet in winter, hot and fly-ridden in spring, never a very pleasant place in which to dig. It was, however, the place in which the first Arab conquerors of Egypt established their capital, and the excavators feel rewarded for discomfort by the discoveries they are makîng concernîng the old city and the way of life followed by the people who lived in it. They are working against time, for Fustat is being engulfed by modern Cairo. The area is being reclaimed to provide housing for some of the millions who live in the modem capital of Egypt. One is always aware, at Fustat, of those crowding millions, avid of present needs, knowing and caring little, if anything, of the past.

Newsletter, Number 55 (SEPTEMBER, 1965)

: It is the sad duty of the American Research Center to record the loss by death of one of its Founders. In June 1965, Mrs. Joseph Lindon Smith, '’Aunt Corinna” to a host of her younger friends, died in her 90th year at her home in Dublin, New Hampshire. She had, together with her late husband, spent much time in Egypt ever since the early years of this century, had been a keen observer, on the spot, of many of the exciting finds of the period by archaeologists, and had developed a deep interest in ancient and present-day Egypt. The writer first knew her during the Smith's frequent sojourns at the camps of the Harvard-Boston Expedition, where they were the guests of its Director, George Reisner, while "Uncle Joe” was engaged in his outstanding work as a painter of archaeological subjects. Corinna Smith, being endowed with a brilliant and wide-ranging mind, boundless energy, and great enthusiasm, took a deep interest in the archaeological work in which her husband was so intimately involved. Her interest, however, was all-inclusive; she studied Arabic, the Koran, and the Mohamedan religion, and occupied herself with contemporary Egypt and its many problems. It is fair to say that during these years in Egypt there were few figures of importance, especially in the archaeological world, whom she did not know, whether they were Egyptian, European or American.

Newsletter, Number 50 (December, 1963)

: The Annual Meeting of Members of the American Research Center in Egypt, Inc., was called to order in the Trustees1 Room of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on November 16, 1963, at 3:10 P.M., with Dr. William Stevenson Snith, President, in the chair and lf>h members present in person or by proxy. It was particularly gratifying to the President and the members participating in the meeting to have the Honorary President, Mr. Edward W. Forbes, in active attendance.

Newsletter, Number 31 (September, 1958)

: Dr. John Alden Williams, who has been awarded the Center's Islamic fellowship for study in Egypt during the coming season, has not been forgetful of the Center during the summer, which he has spent in visiting Islamic monuments in Spain and North Africa. The present Newsletter consists of extracts from his letters. While it contains nothing directly concerned with Egypt, it should prove of value to members of the Center who are interested in the art and culture of Islam.

Newsletter, Number 56 (December, 1965)

: Through the courtesy of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, an Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt was held this year in Chicago on November 13th. The meeting was well attended by members and their guests. Among the latter was Mr. Renzo Pagin of the Department of State of the United States of America, Miss Bea Davidson of the Smithsonian Institution, Professor Jaroslav Cerny, distinguished Professor of Egyptology Emeritus of Oxford University, Dr. Labib Habachi, a well-known scholar from Egypt, and Mrs. Habachi, who has for several years been associated with the office of the Center in Cairo. Others present included the following:

Newsletter, Number 57 (MARCH, 1966)

: Though this is the flrst notice to readers of the Newsletter, actually since May 1964 the Center has had a share in a project of first importance in the study of Ptolemaic Egypt and its trade relations with contemporary Mediterranean states. This project is the classification, and installation in the museum of Alexandria, of the most notable of all collections of stamped handles. Such handles are fragments of stamped commercial containers made of earthenware, and the stamps on the handles are control stamps, impressed before firing, current chiefly in the great period of the ancient port city of Alexandria, from the latter 4th to the last century B.C., and, within that period, sometimes very closely datable. The containers were largely made for the transport of wine, but certainly re-used in ancient Egypt for every sort of fluid or semi-fluid commodity, as we know from may mention in papyri.

Newsletter, Number 59 (SEPTEMBER ,1966)

: Members of the Center have long since received the announcement of the Annual Meeting to be held in Baltimore on Saturday, November 19, 1966. It is hoped that as many as possible will arrange to be present. The Walters Art Gallery at Center and Clark Streets, which has generously offered to act as host to the Members of the Center, will open its doors at nine in the morning to give visitors a chance to see the Egyptian and Islamic collections before the sessions of papers open at ten o’clock. The morning will be devoted to the reading of papers in various fields of Egyptian studies. In the afternoon there will be a general session, which will include illustrated reports by Professor Kurt Weitzmann and Professor George Forsyth of the Sinai expedition, by Professor Donald Hanson, Field Director in Charge of the Mendes excavation, by Mr. Nicholas Millet, who has directed the dig at Gebel Adda, and by Dr. James Harris, who has worked on the skeletal material from that site in connection with a study of Nubian craniofacial variation covering the period from 200 A.D. to the present. Between the two sessions, the Walters Gallery has kindly invited members to a buffet luncheon in the Museum.

Newsletter, Number 60 (DECEMBER, 1966)

: The American Research Center in Egypt, Incorporated, held its annual meeting on November 19, 1966, at the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland. Through the efforts of Mr. Richard Randell, Director of the Walters Art Gallery, Miss Dorothy Hill, and Mrs. Canby, the meeting was made a most pleasurable experience, and the members had an opportunity to view the splendid collection at the Walters Gallery, opened especially for their benefit. The meeting was well-attended by members of the Center, and again this year we were fortunate in having a number of honored guests. Among these was Mr. Kennedy^ B. Schmertz of the Smithsonian Institution, Professor Jaroslav Cerny and Mrs. Cerny, Mr. David O'Connor of the University of Pennsylvania, Miss Bertha Davison, Miss Constance Rogers, Professor Serge Sauneron, Professor Jurgen von Bekerath, and Mrs. Bekerath, Dr. Rudolph Berliner, Miss Margaret Wilber, and Mr. Ray Slater.

Newsletter, Number 61 (MARCH 1967)

: From February 11th to 15th, 1967, the Group of Archaeologists and Landscaping Architects held its sixth session by visiting Abu Simbel. The Nubian campaign has been an elaborate network of committees, sub-committees, task forces, and delegations. For seven years I have been involved in one or another of these international groups. The consultative committee, which had general recommending responsibility for every phase of the Nubian campaign, held meetings in a Cairo hotel. It is much pleasanter to join the land-scaping group, which travels on a slow boat to the site of Abu Simbel, to advise on the "historical value and beauty" of the reconstructed temples.

Newsletter, Number 62 (JUNE 1967)

: The first season of fieldwork undertaken at Nekhen (Hierakonpolis) under the auspices of the ARCE was largely concentrated on the so-called townsite, Kom el-Ahmar. Quibell, the first excavator there in the season of 1895-96, had worked chiefly on the southwest corner of the site, where a temple complex was revealed. This complex appears to cover a time range from the Archaic Period to a late phase of the Old Kingdom. The chronological spread was confirmed by token exploration of other places on the mound, which also revealed that the larger part of the mound was enclosed by a mudbrick wall.

Newsletter, Number 63 (OCTOBER 1967)

: The American Research Center in Egypt, Inc. will hold its Annual Meeting on Saturday, November 4, 1967, in New York City. The Middle East Institute, Columbia University has graciously offered to act as host to the members of the Center for this meeting. The Director of the Middle East Institute, Professor John S. Badeau, will serve as Chairman of the Committee for the selection of papers to be read at the meeting.

Newsletter, Number 64 (DECEMBER 1967)

: The Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt was held on November 4, 1967, in New York, where members and their guests were offered the hospitality of the Middle East Institute of Columbia University, which is now under the direction of Dr. John Badeau, former United States Ambassador to Egypt, and long a friend and member of the Center.