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William and Mary Volume I, Number 27 News March 27, 1973 Kingsmill Plantation is Site of Study Keys Awarded area from their findings. Pro¬ The objective of the work of Industry and education go hand jectile points and stone tools the Commission is to salvage and Two Students in hand near here to provide a have already been found and the record significant archaeological classroom for a study of pre¬ tedious work of sorting, washing information and artifacts from historic man in Virginia. by American Bar Assn. and labelling is already underway the historic sites in areas ear¬ Through the cooperation of back at an Anthropology Depart¬ marked for construction and to Busch Properties, Inc., the ment laboratory. advise and cooperate with Busch Anthropology Department is con¬ Properties, Inc., j.n integrating Dave Driscoll, third year law ducting field studies in an area student at Marshall-Wythe, was Mr. Reinhart meets weekly with the tract's archaeological which was once the site of Kings- awarded the gold key for out¬ his students for a lecture ses¬ resources with development plans, mill Plantation and may have been standing performance as 4th sion and makes the trip to Kings- and to provide a comprehensive, the home of settlers long before Circuit Governor of the Law mill each Saturday. He acquired scholarly archaeological report English pioneers reached the New Student Division of the American a school bus driver's license on their findings, World. Bar Association. Randolph Eley, recently to be able to transport The purpose of the present second year law student, was his class on a College bus. The study is to locate areas of awarded a silver key for out¬ group meets at the College post significant archaeological value ■ standing performance as Marshall- before a large scale building Wythe's Law Student Division program is undertaken by Busch office around 9 a.m. and takes representative and for his work Properties, Inc. lunch to be eaten "on the job." on the Virginia Student Practice Theodore R. Reinhart, who is "It is just about seven miles Act Committee of the four heading the current study, is from the city and it is a beauti¬ Virginia law schools. delighted with the opportunity of ful, peaceful area," said studying a relatively untouched Reinhart. "It's an opportunity Notification was made by a area. A farm until recently, the for us to see what is there and recent 4th Circuit Annual Con¬ land has only been disturbed near to get students out into the ference held in Williamsburg. the surface and thus still field to participate in ongoing The 4th Circuit consists of ten retains valuable clues to earlier research. We are concerned with law schools in Virginia, West man. who lived in the area during the Virginia, North and South past 10,000 years, prior to con¬ Carolina. Out of 13 possibil¬ Private lands, explained Mr. tact with the English settlers. ities, only one other gold key Reinhart, are not subject to any There's a long history of Theodore Reinhart was awarded to a governor. Virginia before that time." pre-building restrictions with Students working with Mr. Driscoll is a native of regard to archaeological remains While the College group is Reinhart include Deborah Gail Wobum, Mass., and a graduate of and so salvage archaeology such concerned with pre-historic Gammill, McLean; Cynthia Darlene St. Anselm's College in as that being undertaken by the sites, the Virginia Historic Hall, Virginia Beach; David Manchester, N.H. Eley is a field class is not always pos¬ Landmarks Commission has teams William Hess, Springfield; Laura native of Colonial Heights, and sible unless land owners are working under their archae¬ Leaner Hillock, Montelabano, a graduate of Virginia Common¬ willing to allow surveys before ological historian, William M. Mexico; William Thomas Langhorne, wealth University. construction begins. Kelso, uncovering the foundations Jr., Norfolk; Jennie Dale Plott, Mr. Reinhart and the students of what they believe is the 18th Petersburg; Douglas Walker Driscoll was also selected as will be. working at the Kingsmill century Bray family plantation Sanford, Alexandria; Robin the Jefferson Inn of Phi Delta site along the James River until known as Utopia. The work of the Shakshober, Yorktown; Lynda Phi international legal frater¬ May when they plan to assess the Commission is expected to take Carole Williams, Richmond; nity's 1973 graduate of the year. archaeological potential of the five years. James Stafford Herstein, Norfolk; and Mary Carolyn Beaudry, a He will now compete for PDP's student from Newport News, who national 1973 graduate of the has done previous archaeological year. Faculty Wives' Morning Coffee work in the Southwest and in Tidewater Virginia. Institute Book Nominated for National Award Sugar and Slaves, a book pub¬ third book published by the lished by the Institute of Early Institute to receive a nomina¬ American History and Culture, has tion for that award. been nominated for the National Book Award. The Creation of the American Republio, 1776-1787, by Gordon S. Wood, also a former Fellow of the Sugar and Slaves, written by Institute and assistant professor Richard S. Dunn, professor of of history at the College, was history at the University of among the final nominees for the Pennsylvania and a member of the National Book Award in 1970. Institute Council, was published for the Institute by the Univer¬ The Institute, located in sity of North Carolina Press in Swem Library, is jointly spon¬ 1972. sored by the College and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. The book, winner of the $1,000 Jamestown Foundation award for In 1969 White Over Black, by historic research in May, 1972, Winthrop D. Jordan, former Fellow is an account of the rise of the of the- Institute and assistant planter class in the English West professor of history at WfjM, won Indies between 1624 and 1713. the National Book Award in the A scene at the recent coffee for faculty wives hosted by Mrs. One of ten nominees for the categories of history and Graves in the President's House. The hostess was presented a National Book Award, it is the biography. corsage by the group. •LJ^SCZC^Z^Z^ <2/liC&M?£/ CAMPUS PROHLEfiz*^ <&&„ Economics Education Carl Moody, assistant profes¬ Miss Janice Harris will pre¬ sor, presented his paper sent and defend her dissertation, "Productivity Growth in the "Counselor Reputation and United States" in the Visiting Previous Performance as an Speakers' Program of the Depart¬ Influence upon Counselee Inter¬ ment of Economics, University of action and Attitude in a Group Connecticut, on March 16. That Experience," on April 20 at paper resulted from work done by 2 p.m. in Room C of the Campus Mr. Moody under a faculty summer Center. She is a candidate for grant in 1972. the Ed.D. in Counseling. Interested members of the Mr. Moody and Craig Humphrey, faculty are invited to attend. formerly of this College and now at Penn State, have been invited Mathematics to present their paper on "Air On March 2, David Stanford, Quality, Environment and Metro¬ associate professor, attended the politan Community Structure" at Third Annual Virginia Computer the meetings of the Northeastern Users Conference in Roanoke. Regional Science Association, Mr. Stanford April 27-28, in Syracuse, N.Y. Jim Chalkley (left) and Fred Wallace participated in The paper has also been accepted a panel disucs- Originating from a single A 1951 graduate of Matthew for publication in the Review of sion on Compu¬ multilith machine operation in Whaley High School, Mr. Chalkley Regional Studies, Fall 1974. ters in Instruc¬ the mailroom of James Blair Hall, is married to the former Nancy tion. His topic the W§M Printing Office today E. Mitchell of Portsmouth, an Leonard Schifrin, chairman, was entitled produces between 2,500-3,000 jobs employee of Nick's Seafood and Samuel Baker, assistant pro¬ "The Computer in annually and has a staff of four Pavilion in Yorktown. The Chalkleys have three daughters: fessor, appeared before the Sub¬ Undergraduate full-time employees. Barbara Faye, a sophomore music committee on Monopoly (Nelson Instruction at Committee), Select Committee on William and Productions range from one- concentrator at WQM who is an accomplished pianist; Anne, 9; Small Business, U.S. Senate on Mary." Stanford page multilith letters to multi¬ March 14. They presented papers color brochures and small and Susan, 1. Assistant supervisor Freddie on cost-benefit studies relating booklets. Physics L. Wallace, a 1955 graduate of to the regulation of new pre¬ Neil Heiman, research assoc¬ Bruton Heights High School, came scription drugs by the Food and The Office was set up in iate, presented a colloquium at to the College sixteen years ago Drug Administration. August, 1970, to handle small Johns Hopkins University, on printing requests of members of and has been a member of the March 15, entitled "Recent Devel¬ the College community, with James printing staff for the past four A review of Melton Alonza opments in the Use of Muons for years. He and his wife, Rosa, an McLaurin's N. Chalkley, a printer with 21 Paternalism and Solid State Physics." He also years of experience, as attendant at Eastern State Protest: Southern Cotton Mill presented a colloquium at the supervisor. Hospital, are the parents of Workers and Organized Labor, University of Maryland, on three children: Aaron, 10; 1875-1905, by Clyde Haulman, March 16, entitled "Mbssbauer Zelda, 8; and Lisa, 7. associate professor, will appear Effect Studies in Presence of The facility is equipped with in the next volume of the Florida rf fields." two off-set multilith presses, an Newcomers to the printing Historical Quarterly.