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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, May 12, 1965
CYR Elections Set; More Candidates In
The KU Collegiate Young Republican Club will hold election of officers at their meeting tonight at 7:30 in the Kansas Union. Two more candidates have announced their intentions to seek office.
Bill Porter, Topeka sophomore, is running for club chairman and Gary (Gipp) Dupree, Oklahoma City freshman, is seeking the first vice chairmanship. Their slate has no particular name, Porter said.
"This past year has been one of the most active and successful in KU Young Republican history," he said. "The past records show this easily."
Porter's qualifications include present chairman of the KU chapter of CYR. He has also served as vice chairman. He is presently first vice chairman of the state CYR and former administrative assistant to the state chairman of Kansas CYR. For the last three years he has been employed by the Kansas Republican State Committee.
"OUR PLANS for next year include a larger and more active membership and a continuation of the program of top speakers presenting the Republican point of view," Porter continued.
OTHERS RUNNING on the Porter coalition are Steven Friesen, Russell sophomore, second vice chairman; Brian Biles, Hutchinson junior; third vice chairman; Elizabeth Schmidt, Wilmette, Ill., freshman; secretary; and Robert Sears, Kansas City sophomore, treasurer.
On the "Action Slate" which opposes these candidates are John Sharp, Macon, Ga., junior, running for chairman, and Lester Kahler, Hollyrood, Kan., junior, vice chairman.
Others running on this slate are John McGee, Independence, Kan, sophomore, second vice-chairman; Marian Bills, Clifton junior, secretary; and Jerry Bean, Abilene freshman, treasurer.
Students Honored
Two students were presented the Outstanding Student Award last night at the monthly meeting of the Kansas Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
They were John R. Worlund, Orange, Calif., junior at KU and Frank Shorney, senior from Kansas State University.
The awards are sponsored by the society and the winners are selected on the basis of academic excellence and activities.
Philip D. Gibbs, Kansas City senior and president of the KU chapter made the presentations with the help of Stan Knowles, representative of the K-State chapter.
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Prof. Seaver Terms Excavation Israel's Archeological Milestone
By Bob Curtright
The excavation of Massada, an ancient Israeli city, is perhaps the most important undertaking for the new country since Israel became a state, James E. Seaver, professor of history, said last night in an illustrated lecture.
Seaver was a Fulbright lecturer in Israel last year and volunteered to help excavate Massada, Beth Sham, an important outpost for ancient Egypt, and Caesarea, an ancient Roman city.
and a Roman road. "This came later in its development." he said.
Massada is situated in a desert area south of the Dead Sea and consists of a rock mesa projecting several hundred feet up out of the desert. Because of the height, Seaver said, the archaeological work was extremely dangerous.
"MASSADA IS ON a mountain about 1600 feet high on the east and 600 feet on the west. The summit is level and is about 600 meters by 200 meters." Seaver said.
he said that the site, as it is found now, is surrounded by eight Roman camps connected by a Roman wall
"Heen took his family to Massada about 40 B.C. to escape Antigonus and other enemies." Seaver explained. "He left his family there and went to get help from Rome.
"Herod studied the advantages of having a city fortress on top of the huge rock and built the city between 37-31 B.C."
"After Herod's death, his son Archelous ruled from about 6 to 66 A.D." Seaver said. "Probably in this era Josephus came.
"Early in 66 B.C. a band of Jewish Zealots took Massada," he said. He explained that they inhabited Massada until the Romans besieged the city in the year 72 A.D.
THE ROMANS abandoned Massada about 135 A.D., but the city was once again inhabited in the Byzantine era. Seaver said that after the Arab invasion of 630, the city was abandoned again, never to be inhabited again.
climber than an archaeologist, so the finds were not extraordinary.
"Modern explorers began about 1848 with an Englishman named Walcott." Seaver said. He said that Walcott was more of a mountain
A man named Robinson was the first to correctly identify the city as the Massada of Josephus, Seaver said. That was in 1850.
"Tristrom confirmed the naming in 1864." Seaver said.
THE NEXT MAJOR expedition was not until 1932. The organizers were Schulten and Lammerer. Seaver said that their main interest was Roman camps, and that they only spent two days on the top of the mountain.
"The expedition of 1963-64 was the biggest archaeological trek to Massaada," Seaver said.
SEAVER DISPLAYED some of the artifacts that he found. There was a good sampling of metal articles and coins with some excellent examples of ancient glass. One object of particular interest was a delicate perfume bottle of yellow glass.
Other articles included stone fragments, inscriptions, gemstones and jewelry, and various pieces of pottery. The pottery ranged from the very crude to the very ornate.