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The Peabody has gained positive collaborated with biology department momentum since 2002, and Cloyd has chair Jerry Hagler in an attempt to been involved in most of it. During the isolate DNA from dog bones from an most recent Academy campaign, he archaeological site in Maine. Perhaps and other vital supporters, including most exciting, she said, was the need Oscar Tang ’56 and Kuni and Michael to improvise techniques and equipSchmertzler ’70, significantly bolstered ment, unnecessary in Trudi’s later labs the museum’s endowment. Cloyd also at Smith and Oxford. Thanks to the financed interior restorations, includefforts of Cloyd and others, this type Trudi Cloyd ’03 paid a surprise tribute to her father. ing the addition of internal fire stairs. of collaborative student and faculty Pueblo—was excavated between 1915 At a recent event held in New York endeavor has become a hallmark of the and 1929 by Alfred Kidder under the City’s American Museum of Natural Peabody. Head of School John Palfrey, auspices of Phillips Academy and the History—“The Peabody Museum: in his comments at the New York event, Peabody. The reburial of 1,922 individWhere the Past and Present Meet”— described the Peabody as a “laborauals at Pecos National Historic Park in more than 300 alumni and parents tory,” one of the places on the campus 1999 is, to date, the largest such repatricelebrated the contributions of Cloyd that allows students to experiment and ation made under NAGPRA. The repaand archaeologists Thomas and the late innovate. triation involved both Harvard, which Linda S. Cordell. After the main preAll along, Cloyd’s support has spoken housed the remains, and the Peabody, sentation, Abigail Seldin ’05, a Rhodes to the Peabody’s potential to spark the repository for the funerary objects Scholar and 2012–2013 Luce Scholar, interest in scientific inquiry and give and other Pecos artifacts. The relationspoke about her interest in archaeology, students a chance to work with signifiship between Jemez and the Peabody which was ignited at the Peabody when cant collections. Clearly, things have was in its infancy then, but the govershe met then-director Blustain, as well changed since Cloyd’s first encounter nor recognized the value of the synergy as Thomas and Cordell. She recently with the Peabody in 1954, and Cloyd that came out of the repatriation. became a member of the Peabody says that his vision for the museum Advisory Committee. According to Cloyd, the governor has only expanded throughout the “made it lucid that the entire Native In addition to arranging a spectacuyears. “Given that the Peabody has American community realized and lar venue, dinner, and presentation, been involved in work all over the appreciated the quality of and respect event organizers planned a surprise. Americas and tells the story of the held for the Peabody.” His words Trudi Cloyd ’03 shared a tribute to her human race over the last several thouhelped sway the Board of Trustees. father, mostly focused on her Peabody sand years, the opportunities it offers The Peabody would continue, but experiences. While at Andover, Trudi are, in effect, infinite.” with a new direction and focus on the education of Andover students. This shift has meant that faculty from across “ The sensitivity the humanities and sciences now bring their classes to the Peabody for handsshown by the Peabody on workshops and projects, work duty students catalog the expansive colto the Native American lections, student researchers conduct community remains their own independent projects, and students travel to significant sites like a hallmark of the Pecos Pueblo, Machu Picchu, and Mas d’Azil Cave in France. institution.”
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