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Bill Fitzhugh was introduced to his lifelong love of archaeology and Arctic studies through his experience at Dartmouth studying and working with Professor Elmer Harp (now emeritus). Bill has been at the Smithsonian since 1970, after receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard and following a stint in the service. Bill's focus has especially been on the Labrador region. His duties have in part involved field work, for which he, often with his family, travels extensively in the summer to do excavations and archaeological studies. These have been wonderful educational experiences. He has been involved with excavations, for example, which have established that Arctic Indian civilizations 4,000 years ago had highly organized societies long before my pre-Biblical ancestors had started primitively traveling around the desert in the Mideast. Presently he is working on an important study of settlements of Mark Frobisher, the first sixteenth-century English explorer, off of the coast of Greenland.

When Bill is not doing field work, he is in charge of running major exhibitions. The most exciting of these was the development of a major international exhibition involving "Crossroads of Continents," which is an extensive study of cultural development in the Western Hemisphere through the emigration of peoples across the Bering Strait This has involved much travel to the Soviet Union and an enormous and important study with Soviet archaeologists. Itultimately culminated in a fabulously successful and important exhibition in Washington, now in Toronto, and soon to be in Moscow. Glasnost and the recent revolution have made Bills experiences even more exciting and timely.

When Bill is not doing the work he loves, he and his wife, Lynne, who have been married since our graduation, have raised two children: Benjamin, who will be graduating in archaeology from the University of Michigan graduate school (with emphasis on Alaskan studies), and Joshua, who is in Cairo studying Arabic language and culture.

Our hats go off to Bill for finding and staying with a satisfying, important, and successful career outside of the business world. Please write and let me know what the rest of you are doing.

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