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| August 6, 2013 |
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| Membership Info |
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| Your ASOR Membership Has Expired. |
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According to our records, your ASOR membership has expired. As you can see from this e-newsletter, ASOR is doing some great things. Yet, you are missed as a member, and we ask that you consider renewing. As this newsletter details, your membership helps us award scholarships, supports the new and improved BASOR (now in color and 25% longer), and contributes to an ever-improving and expanding annual meeting. Here are a few highlights of the things that ASOR is doing with the help of our members:
Please take some time to browse through this e-newsletter to see what we are doing and how you can partner with us in accomplishing our mission.
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| ASOR Awards 55 Excavation Grants and Scholarships |
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Despite the continuing tough economic climate, our numbers for summer field scholarships and excavation grants reached an all-time record this year with 55 awards for the summer of 2013. ASOR’s donors played a crucial role in making sure that these important scholarships could be given. The feedback that we received from students indicated that these funds made the difference in their participation. We were amazed at how many students told us they would not have been able to participate in a field season without this scholarship. Read more... |
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| Fiscal Year 2013 Development Update |
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We did it once again. This past fiscal year (ended June 30) ASOR surpassed our ambitious goal of 350 individual contributors. We also reached the 900,000 dollar level in our 1.3 million dollar Foundational Campaign with a year to go. Thanks to 352 separate donors (see the FY13 Honor Roll of Donors), ASOR had a banner year in which more than one in five ASOR members made a charitable contribution over and above the membership dues that already support our important work. We were also successful in terms of total dollars raised (350,000 in cash gifts in FY13 compared to 196,000 in FY12 and 160,000 in FY11). ASOR also received over 80,000 dollars in in-kind contributions and well over 100,000 dollars in legacy gifts during FY13. The success is even more dramatic when we compare ourselves to other learned societies. Read more... |
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| ASOR Honors P. E. MacAllister and Announces Establishment of MacAllister Endowment |
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On April 20, 2013, the ASOR family gathered in Indianapolis to honor one of its most loyal and generous members, P. E. MacAllister, with a gala dinner and with the announcement of an endowed scholarship fund bearing the MacAllister name. No one has equaled his support of ASOR in the last century, and his leadership as Board Chair has been unparalleled as well. Mr. MacAllister served as ASOR's Board Chairman for 19 years and has been on the ASOR Board for more than 37 years. He has steered ASOR through financially difficult times, and he transitions to Chairman Emeritus with ASOR in solid financial shape and carrying out our mission like never before. Read more... |
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| Albright Fellows’ Reports on the ASOR Blog |
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All twenty one reports from last year’s W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research Fellows are now hosted on the ASOR Blog. Fellows write about the research they undertook while resident at the Albright in Jerusalem during the 2011-2012 academic year. Their reports cover topics from the analysis of biblical literature, to writing up archaeological field work, to museum studies of artifacts. Their periods of interest range from the Neolithic through Islamic times and deal with everything from tools types to literature. Read more... |
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| B. W. Ruffner Begins Term as ASOR Board Chair |
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ASOR is pleased to announce that Dr. B. W. Ruffner began a three-year term as Chairman of the Board on July 1, 2013. The ASOR Board unanimously and enthusiastically elected Ruffner to the position at its November 2012 meeting in Chicago. Ruffner follows P. E. MacAllister who served as Board Chair for 19 years and became Chairman Emeritus on July 1. Dr. Ruffner has been a practicing physician since receiving his medical degree from The Duke University School of Medicine in 1964. From 1970–1976, he was Chief of the Division of Oncology, at The University of Virginia Medical School. Read more... |
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| Annual Meeting Program Chair(s): Call for Applications |
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The Chairs Nominations Committee of the American Schools of Oriental Research announces a general call for nominations and applications for individuals to serve as chair(s) of one of ASOR’s most important academic committees—The Annual Meeting Program Committee. The term of office is three years beginning January 1, 2014.
Please see the Guidelines for the Program Committee for a general description of the Program Committee and the responsibilities of the chair(s). Read more...
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