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I should be particularly interested in continuing my own<br />

.work with her on Colophon, but this 1 mention as one item<br />

only. <strong>The</strong> important thing, zs I see it, is Zo get her<br />

where she can carry on her whale progrern most successfully. 31<br />

Dr. GoTd~n had been exc.zv2ting at Tarsus in Anztolia <strong>for</strong> sev-<br />

eral years under the auspices of the Fogg Museum, the ArchzeoLogical<br />

<strong>Institute</strong> of herica, and Bryn Mawr. kt the tine of her appointment she<br />

hzd resigned as Director of the explorztions, and preswbly would devote<br />

herself entirely to preparing hex work <strong>for</strong> publication. Shortly after<br />

her appointfi.ent, however, she resumed her direction of the exgloration<br />

at Tersus, vbich took her abroad during each spring semester until 1940<br />

when the wax rzde further field work impossible, <strong>The</strong> cost of her expedi-<br />

tion b d been met in the pzst, and continued to be supported largely by<br />

E private donor, who wzs greztly interested in Miss Goldmnb aahieve-<br />

32<br />

ment and wished to remain anonymous. <strong>The</strong> <strong>Institute</strong> received a smll<br />

canation from this source, which went taraxd paying <strong>for</strong> the InstTtute's<br />

expenses <strong>for</strong> secrktari~l essistance, members end research assistants<br />

whm she brought to Princeton to work on her studies. During the war<br />

the eschaeologist spent all her tire at the <strong>Institute</strong>. Rer retiremint<br />

in 1947 meant little in the way of decreased work, except that she did<br />

no further exploration. She has continued to work in her study at Fuld<br />

Hall, the only woman ever to be on the hstitute's faculty,<br />

In 1936 Dr. Edward Capps retired at seventy f rum the University,<br />

but continued <strong>for</strong> a tire as Chairman of the Managing Cornnittee of the<br />

American School of Classical Studies. His work was to be largely in<br />

Princeton, wkere he had no office and no means of getting one. His wife<br />

was ill. Lt appeared that he would not be able to af<strong>for</strong>d high-coat

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