Sterling Dow, 1903-1995

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Sterling Dow, Professor of History and Archaeology at Harvard University, died on Jan. 9, 1995 at age 92. Dow was born in Portland, ME, and was a member of Harvard College's class of 1925. He received his doctorate degree from the University in 1936 and worked as Tutor and Instructor from 1936-1941 and as Assoc. Prof. from 1941-1946. He became the John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology in 1949 and held the position until his retirement in 1970. He is best remembered by his students for his uncanny ability to bring wit and humor to the study of archaeology and by his peers for his valuable contributions to archaeological research.

Dow, Sterling

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Edith Porada, 1912-1994

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Edith Porada was born in Vienna, Austria, on Aug. 22, 1912. She studied archaeology at the University of Vienna, earning her doctoral degree in 1935. Migrating to the US in 1938, Porada studied Assurnasirpal II's bas-reliefs at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. She taught at the City University of New York and Columbia University, where she retired as professor emerita in 1984. In 1977, Porada received the Gold Medal Award for her distinguished archaeological work from the Archaeological Institute of America. She died on Mar. 24, 1995 at the age of 81.

Biography, Porada, Edith

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Virginia Randolph Grace, 1901-1994

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Virginia Randolph Grace attended the Brearly School in New York City and graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1922. She also finished her graduate studies at Bryn Mawr. Her first practical experience in archaelogy was at the German excavations in Pergamon in 1931. Grace returned to Greece in 1949 for good to undertake numerous amphora studies. Her life's work was funded by Agora fellowships, a Fulbright award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and American Philosophical Society grants. She died in Athens, Greece, on May 22, 1994.

Grace, Virginia Randolph

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