Toni:

You are correct on that. We actually paid his membership for him so 
he would be a formal member when he was elected President.

The Deetz' Harrington Medal Ceremony in Texas (Corpus Christi) was 
one of the best ones and he did sing his "I'm a little tea pot" song.
The Conference Committee had secretly brought as many of his children 
and grand children to the meeting as possible and hid them in the 
hotel. Even we members of  the SHA Award Committee where totally 
surprised when they appeared at the banquet and ceremony. Very nice touch.

Too bad Deetz is no loner with us but he did leave a large tribe of 
his former students and his intellectual impact on Historical 
Archaeology is still very visible.

Bob Schuyler

At 02:58 PM 12/4/2008, you wrote:
>While we are all reminiscing, I have seen my dad Jim do a lot of 
>very silly things, as have many of you, I say that yes the banjo 
>music happened (and thank you all who have regarded it as really good ;-)
>
>he may have sung "Im a little teapot and done his dance that went 
>with it, I know he threw homemade paper water balloons at Mary 
>Beaudry at an SHA, but I cant say I believe he would mash food in 
>his hair (not a jim thing to do).
>
>And as for the presidential thing, family rumor has it he was very 
>seldom an actual paying member, and was not the year he was prez.
>
>
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>That was Alfred Kroeber. He attended with Franz Boas.?
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>At 08:28 AM 12/4/2008, you wrote:?
> >The Nashville Annual Meeting was my first ... Very few memories of?
> >it, other than the Banquet. If I remember correctly, Deetz gave a?
> >banjo performance as part of the evenings entertainment, Stanley read?
> >poetry, and I had a guy (I have no idea who it was) at my table who?
> >had registered as Alfred Kroeber and had the name tag to prove it.?
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