As an SHA member who has attended 36 of the 39 annual meetings I would like 
to congratulate the organizers in California of the 39th SHA Annual Meeting 
on Historical and Underwater Archaeology in Sacramento. The meetings were 
fairly well attended (about 740 to 800) and the setting, both the 
Hyatt-Regency and its location right across from the Capitol Building and 
the beautiful park around the capitol, was a wonderful venue. The hotel did 
very well - no problems I could see - and the conference itself had a lot 
of very good papers and sessions. Almost all events were either in the 
hotel or in easy walking distance (e.g. good Mexican food at the Masonic 
Hall) which was very convenient for the aging SHA past presidents.

I took the tour to Alcatraz which was very well led and had good weather. I 
really appreciated that our California organizers got all those sea lions 
to come into Pier 39 just for us. There behavior reminded me of former SHA 
Board meetings. On Sunday I did my own Old Town walking tour [what is the 
ziggurat-like building on the other side of the river?] and had a panic 
when the alarm bell started ringing on the Tower Bridge as I was half-way 
across. It was only a test! Old Town looked much as it did in 1986 when SHA 
last met in Sacramento but the modern city has certainly evolved onto a 
different scale.

There were some minor problems with the PROGRAM. I had a co-presenter (I 
think it was A.L. Kroeber) I had never met and I was amused by one speaker, 
who gave a great paper by the way, who had George Bass as a co-presenter 
for a site in the middle of
central Texas - not a drop of water in sight. This was all caused by an 
insane computer.

The Book Room, Banquet-Awards Ceremony and the SHA Business Meeting were 
also well organized and enjoyable. Some of the posters in the 
Poster-Sessions were really impressive.

SHA 2006 was another big success for the society and its members. 
Congratulations to all the members of the 2006 Conference Committee.
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P.S. I will leave it up to Mary Beaudry to announce, as she did in 
Sacramento, who will be the J.C. Harrington Medalist in Williamsburg 
2007  and I will leave it up to Pat and his committee to announce where SHA 
will be meeting for the next three
(four?) years.

Robert L. Schuyler
University of Pennsylvania Museum
3260 South Street
Philadelphia, PA l9l04-6324

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