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Item Newsletter,5 march 1954(American Research Center in Egypt, 1195-03-05)FROM THE DIRECTOR’S REPORT FOR DECEMBER "It scarcely seems possible that one half of our period in Cairo has gone by and that ere long we shall have to -be pay-ing visits to the shipping companies to enquire about sailings for home. That is a reminder that tomorrow we had better begin our rounds of leaving cards at Embassies and Institutions for the New Year. To you at home it seems a silly custom, but out here there Is still much of the □European tradition, and It makes for good relations if we observe such customs. December, like November, has been a month of phenomenal weather. Never do we remember a December of so many dull days or so many days of rain, not heavy rain but Just miserable drizzle, quite unlike Egypt we knew of old. January has begun better. It is cold but bright and cheerful and invigorating.Item Newsletter,15 may 1951(American Research Center in Egypt, 1951-05-15)Since you received my last letter, the American Research Center has become an actuality in Cairo. And you will be pleased to have news of certain important developments on this side. At the Annual Meeting held on November 21, ل0ك9ا at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, seventy-seven members were present or represented by proxy. Certain amendments to the By-laws in accord with the sense of proposals submitted to you in the notice of the meeting were voted by repealing the old By-laws and inserting in place of them a Code embodying these changes. If you wish, a copy of the amended By-laws will be sent you.Item Newsletter, 27 June 1951(American Research Center in Egypt, 1951-06-27)Item Newsletter,1 Novamber 1951(American Research Center in Egypt, 1951-11-01)The Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt, Inc،, Trill be held in the Trustees Room at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, November 20, at u p. Ml Sherry will be served after the meeting.Item Newsletter,20 nobamber 1951(American Research Center in Egypt, 1951-11-20)The Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt, Inc., was held this day at four o’clock p٠m. in the Trustees Room of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mr. Forbes, President, ئ the chair and present also twenty-one members. Total membership being -60و there being present 22 members and represented by proxy 70 members, a majority was present and represented at the meeting. It was VOTED to dispense with the reading of the Minutes of the last Annual Meeting.Item Newsletter,13 march 1952(American Research Center in Egypt, 1952-03-13)Since our last letter was sent to you, the Directorship of the Center has shifted from w. s. Smith to Arthur E. R. Boak, of the University of Michigan. Dr. Smith left Egypt in January, met Professor Boak In Rome, and acquainted him with the operations of the Center so that upon his arrival in Cairo, on February loth, he was well-prepared to carry on. A final report of the Centerا s activities under the aegis of Dr. Smith must wait upon his return to good health, as unfortunately soon after his arrival in the States he was hospitalized. As of this writing. Dr. Smith is making good progress toward recovery and I am sure that all members will join with me in wishing him a speedy return to good health. A report from Director Boak will form part of our next newsletter.Item Newsletter,25 july 1952(American Research Center in Egypt, 1952-07-25)You will be glad to hear that our first Director ئ Egypt, Dr, William Stevenson Smith, is better after the illness which led to his hospitalization on return. He sends US the following retrospect upon his work. six weeks in the hospital and a long period of recuperation from an operation have prevented me from reporting until now on the period between my last letter on October 12th, 1951 and my departure from Egypt on January 2nd, 1952. On November 12th I delivered a lecture on ’The Giza Site: Its Historical and Archaeological Significance’ for the School of Oriental Studies at the American University at Cairo• This was well attended by students and friends of the University who showed a lively interest in the subject•Item Newsletter,14 january 1953(American Research Center in Egypt, 1953-01-14)The Annual Meeting of the Center was duly held on November 18و 19,2, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, One hundred and six members were present or represented by proxy and Mr. Forbes presided.Item Newsletter Number Six January 14, 1953(the American Research Center in Egypt, 1953-01-14)Item Newsletter, 30 April 1953(American Research Center in Egypt, 1953-04-30)Item Newsletter,4 Septemper 1953(American Research Center in Egypt, 1953-09-04)The following is quoted from Professor Jeffery’s letter of June 23rd to Edward w٠ Forbes, announcing his arrival in Cairo: «It was a most uneventful journey across, with not a single day that had more than a ripple on the water، The boat was comfortably full, but not crowded• Seme twenty-five passengers were taking the cruise,—that Is, returning to New York on the same ship• The majority of passengers, however, seemed to be disembarking at Beirut• For same of them Beirut was only a landing point from which they would continue their journey، Several were going on from there to Baghdad, and we had one Afghan physician, who had been for a course inItem Newsletter,9 Novamber 1953(American Research Center in Egypt, 1953-11-09)The following is quoted from Professor Jeffery!s letter of August 1st to the President؟ ”Perhaps this letter had better begin by assuring you that we are weathering safely this terrific heat wave of which your papers have been telling you٠ As a matter of fact It has not been so bad here in Cairo ٥ Although it has not been under 95٥ since we arrived it has not been over 1٠5٥ so far, though It has been 114 in Aswan, and 124 in Bagdad Transjordan reports that it Is the worst summer on recordItem Newsletter,11 december 1953(American Research Center in Egypt, 1953-12-11)The meeting was called to order at 2:35 P٠M٠ by the President, Mr. Edward w. Forbes. One hundred and thirty-four members were represented at the meeting by proxy or in person. It was VOTED to dispense with the reading of the Minutes of the last Annual Meeting and to accept them as printed. At the invitation of the President, the Treasurer, Mr. Keller, read his Report which was accepted by VOTE. It was placed on file* here follows a summary of the Boston account (the report on the Cairo account having been delayed in the mail)Item Newsletter,26 may 1954(American Research Center in Egypt, 1954-05-26)’’The 1953-54 season has been the best tourist season in Luxor since the ar, but strangely enough, we have seen fewer Egyptologists than usual. No excavation, went on since the French Institute is still unable to resume, and the Department of Antiquities did no excavating as such. M. Chewierاs work at Karnak was concentrated on removing the mass of fallen blocks up against the west face of the left (north)tower of the Second Pylon. These loose blocks have been entirely removed now and work can begin toward consolidating the tower. In this mass of blocks M. Chevrier found, for example, blocks with the cartouches of Horemheb which had been recut by Seti و Ramses تد and IV. Also beneath the pile, there was the broken but very nice, nearly life-size, red granite statue presumably of Queen Henuttawy. It had stood literally on the insteps of the colossal standing statue of the High Priest Pinodjem son of Plankh, the parts of which were found last season.Item Newsletter,3 Septemper 1954(American Research Center in Egypt, 1954-09-03)"May Is the month of garden parties and receptions, the last fling, as it were, of the social world, before folk begins to move out of town for the summer months. There has been a lifting of some currency restrictions for local sub-Jects wanting to go abroad for the summer. For the last few years, the amount of money they were allowed to take out of the country was so limited that It restricted the number who went abroad, but indications are that this summer there will be a considerable exodus. Syria and Lebanon complained bitterly last summer at the very limited number of visitors they had at their summer resorts. The summer exodus from Egypt has always been predominantly to the north, but we have heard quite a number of folk speaking of flying south to Uganda, Rhodesia, Tanganyika or Eritrea, for their summer vacation. It seems that there are now places there with quite good accommodation for visitors which are making a bid for the summer vacation trade.Item Newsletter,10 Novamber 1954(American Research Center in Egypt, 1954-11-10)Mr. William K. Simpson (Research Associate), Mr. Bernard V. Bothmer (Director), and Mrs. Bothmer (Administrative Officer) arrived in Alexandria on September 16 on board the Gumhuryat Misr, one of the new boats of the Khedivial Mail Line. En route to Egypt they were able to visit the Egyptian collections in the Museo Nazionale in Naples and in the Mus،e National Libanais in Beirut and to make an excursion to the Nahr el Kelb, north of Beirut, where since the times of Ramesses II conquerors and victors had left their inscriptions on the rocks overlooking one of the finest bays of the Mediterranean.Item Newsletter, 13 Desember 1954(American Research Center in Egypt, 1954-12-13)Item newsletter number fifteen 13 December 1954(the American Research Center in Egypt, 1954-12-13)Item Newsletter Number SIXTEEN 28 January 1955(the American Research Center in Egypt, 1955-01-28)Item Newsletter, 28 January 1955(American Research Center in Egypt, 1955-01-28)