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Ryan, ASSociate Stri ke Pay Dirt During Summer A chaeological Expedition n Egypt
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1 959 Eugene ( "Map") Hapala of Vancou ver, Wash., retired i n June after 30 years as a teacher, coach and district athletic d i rector in the Evergreen School District. Wife Marlene (Eichmeier '59) finished another year as a teacher and parent program coordinator at the Washington State School for the Deaf in Vancouver. Dwayne peterson of Eau Clai re, Wisc., I S completing h is 1 5th year as a teach e r/trai ner in special education at the U n iversity of Wisconsin, Eau Claire; his 1 1 th year on the Eau Claire County Human Services Board; and his eighth year on the Eau Claire County Board of supervisors for which he was recently elected as finance and budget chairper son. Dwayne will oversee an annual bud get of $42,000,000. Kermit "Tim" Sveen of W a l n u t Creek, Calif., w a s promoted t o fiscal ser vices manager for the state Compensa tion I n s u rance Fund in San Francisco. Tim's most recent position was internal audit m a nager. He and wife Hanna have th ree sons, Ch ristopher (24), Erik (22), and Marc (1 8). Tim is a member of Good Shepherd Lutheran C h u rch in Concord and serves on the church council.
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Capt. Len Kirkeby of La Canada, calif, reported for duty with Command er, Fleet Activities, C h i n h a e, Korea. Len
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john Simonson works for the Bank of Tacom a , Was h . , as vice-president of commercial loans. Ardis Troedson of Napa, Calif, has been executive director of CO P E (Child and Parent E mergency) for ten years. COPE serves the Napa Valley by educat ing the com m u n ity on child abuse and runs a 24 hour emergency crisis hotline. Denny Troedson '60 teaches ele mentary education i n the Napa Valley School District.
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PLU's Don Ryan a nd h is associ ate, Mark Papworth of The Ever green State Col lege in Olympia, were not seeking or expecti ng g l o ry w h e n t h ey set out for Egypt's Val ley of the Ki ngs last J u ne. They i ntended to cond uct an unglamorous investigation of six "modest, uni nscri bed" tombs that other a rchaeologists have appa rently considered boring i n a region noted for t h e t o m b of King Tuta n k ha m u n a n d other royal crypts. What they fou nd, on their fi rst d ay , was exci t i n g e n o u g h to keep them b u sy for m ost of thei r six-week stay. In 1 903, a rchaeologist Howa rd Carter, the d iscoverer of K i n g T u t ' s to m b , had d i scove red "Tomb 60," but apparently had been u n i m p ressed by its s m a l l s i ze a n d l ack of h i erog l y p h ic i n scri ptions. Its l ocation h a d si nce been lost. Having stu d i ed a l l n otes con cern i n g t h i s X V I l i t h Dyn asty tomb, Ryan , a PLU alu mnus (' 7 9), resea rch associate and resident sc h o l a r, l ocated the tom b 's entrance with a b room and a trowel. "Several days were req u i red to remove the fi l l from the steep stairs lead i ng down to the door of the tomb," Ryan said. I n si d e , t h e a rc h a e o l o g i st s fOll nd m u m my wrappings, shat tered coffin bits and other b u ri al objects They also fou nd mum m ified beef a n d a face m ask from a coffi n . "The sta r o f t h e show, howev er, was a wel l-preserved female mu m my that we found near the entrance to the bu rial cham ber," said Ryan. "She is strik i ng a
Robert Olsen of Parkland I S the L u th e ra n chaplain at R a i n i e r School. a state residential school for the develop mentally disabled in Buckley, Wash., and is also host pastor for the h istoric E l be Lutheran Ch urch on the Mount Rainier Highway. Wife Kay (Whisler '641 is the store activities representative for a McDonald's restau rant in Tacoma.
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DennIs Hardtke of Seattle, Wash , earned the title "Senior Territory Ma nag er" with Syntex Pharmaceutical Labora tories, Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif Dennis has wo rked for Syntex for 1 5 years serving the physicians of South King Cou nty
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Female mummy found in tomb 60.
"Tomb 60" stairway is outside entrance to a larger tomb.
d isti nctly royal pose, a n d it is plau sible that this is the l o n g lost body of Queen H atshepsut, whose ravaged t o m b l ies c l ose above." Iden tity of the 3,500-yea r-o ld mummy w i l l re m a i n a mystery at l east u n t i l n ext s u m m e r, when the team p l a ns to use X-ray eq u i pment to helo deter m i n e the wo m a n ' s a g e a n d ca use o f death, a n d possib ly to detect the presence of i nScri bed scarabs or ot h er jewel ry occa sion a l l y b u ri ed i ns i d e the body cavities of a ncient roya l ty . Eighteen Egyptian helpers aid ed in clea n i n g out the tom b, record i ng its finds and building a new coffi n to p reserve the m u m my before a l l the artifacts were locked behind an i ron gate to p revent fu rther plu nder.
The wooden face from a coffin lid has been scraped for gold leaf and eyes h a ve been removed for pre cious metals or stones.
The tea m also began expl oring a seco nd tomb discovered i n 1 81 7 . This summer's exped ition was fi n a n ced by p r ivate d o n o rs. Based on what the tea m uncov ered this year, Ryan expects to doub le the size of next yea r's budget and increase the n u mber of staff person nel , he sai d . He h a s been Invited t o give a l ec u re a b out the work n e x J u n e at H i g hcle re Cast l e i n England . The smal l i nterna ional sym pos i u m w i l l mark the 75th a n n i ve rs a ry of V a l ley of the Ki ngs excavations b y the then Earl of Carnarvon , f i n a ncier of the Ki n g Tut d i scovery exped i tion and g ra ndfather of the Cas tle's present owner