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EES Development Director financial times. She is aiming to diversify our income and is currently working with trusts, individuals and corporates, and she needs the combined knowledge of all of our members and supporters to help to secure a more buoyant future for the EES. Please contact her should you have a good fundraising idea by e-mail: victoria.perry@ ees.ac.uk, by phone: 07583 113756 or by writing to her at Doughty Mews. Finally, Vicky would like to say thank you to everyone who has already supported our Amelia Edwards Projects for 2010 - at Tell Basta and Tell Mutubis. We need to raise more than ever before and every donation can really make a difference to our teams in the field. For the first time, thanks to an initiative by Vicky, we have been chosen to receive match funding from an organisation called the Big Give as part of their 2010 Christmas Challenge. This means that your donation to the Amelia Projects this year will potentially be worth double! Please get involved today by donating and spreading the word throughout December at: www.thebiggive.org.uk. Thank you.
Victoria Perry (née Anstey) joined us in May this year following five years with the British Red Cross, firstly as a fundraiser and latterly as an Operations Director. She is passionate about Egypt, having previously gained an MA in Arabic from Edinburgh University, and (in a twist of fate) having lived on the same street as our EES office in Cairo! Though a regular face at Doughty Mews, she lives in Worcestershire with her husband and small dog, where she is always happy to be contacted by anyone with an interest in supporting the EES. When asked about the task ahead Vicky is open about the challenges that we face as an organisation, particularly in such difficult Victoria and her husband James Perry at their wedding in a bedouin tent on 29 August 2010. Photograph: Sara Beaumont
Recent events at Doughty Mews 12 August 2010. Bill Adams (here with his son Ernest) gave a talk to members describing his life and career. For a review of Bill’s autobiography, The Road from Frijoles Canyon, see p.37 17 July 2010. Peter Parsons answering questions after his Seminar, with Dorothy Thompson, on ‘A Tale of Two Cities’. The Saturday Seminars have continued to be popular with members and are almost always ‘sold out’
28 April 2010. On Vicky’s third day at work we had a visit from Kent Weeks (left), here outside the Office with Vicky, Chris, Steve and Roo April/May 2010. Tom Duffell, a student from Exeter University, worked as a volunteer in the Lucy Gura Archive putting glass negatives into new archivally-sound envelopes and relabelling them
August 2010. Chris uploaded to our YouTube page (www.youtube. a preliminary edit of some of the film footage shot by Hilary Waddington during the EES excavations at Amarna in the 1930s. An article by Chris about the making of the film was published in KMT 21 Fall 2010
30 September 2010. Thomas Booker rearranging shelves and books in the Library to create muchneeded space for new acquisitions
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