79TH ANNUAL MEETINGSTUDENT PAPER AWARDHONORABLE MENTIONAMY FOXARCHAEOLOGY MONTH POSTER AWARDFIRST PRIZE: WYOMINGSECOND PRIZE: MICHIGANTHIRD PRIZE: OHIOCEREMONIAL RESOLUTIONSThe Resolutions Committee offers the following resolutions:Be it resolved that appreciation and congratulations on a jobwell done be tendered to theRetiring OFFICERTreasurerAlex BarkerAnd the retiring BOARD MEMBERSKelly Hays-Gilpin and Eduardo NevesTo the Staff, and especially to Tobi A. Brimsek, Executive Director,who planned the meeting, and to all the volunteers whoworked at Registration and other tasks;To the Program Committee, chaired byChristopher B. Rodning,And assisted byShaza Wester DavisAnd to the Committee Members of the Program CommitteeElizabeth ArkushSarah B. BarberGeorge J. Bey, IIIMichele R. BuzonMarcello A. CanutoChristina A. ConleeSharon DeWitteScott M. FitzpatrickLynn H. GamblePatrick H. GarrowJanine L. GascoJeffrey A. HomburgAndrea A. HunterDana LepofskyMary Ann LevinePatrick C. LivingoodMatt LiebmannTo the Annual Meeting Local Advisory Committee, chaired byPatricia Mercado-AllingerAnd to other committee chairs and members completing theirservice and to the many members who have served the Societyon its committees and in other ways;And sincere wishes that those members of the Society who arenow serving in the armed forces return safely.Will the membership please signal approval of these motions bya general round of applause?And be it further resolved that thanks again be given to thosewho inform us of the deaths of colleagues, and finally,A resolution of sympathy to the families and friends ofLinda CordellChristy G. TurnerClaudine PayneCarol AmbrusterFred CoyPeter HarrisonWarren d’AzevedoFrederick BovéRichard DaughertyGrant S. McCallJason NesbittAnna Marie PrentissJulien Riel-SalvatoreCharles R. RiggsKathryn E. SampeckRebecca H. SchwendlerChen ShenMonica L. SmithJason UrFred Valdez, Jr.Carla R. Van WestNicole M. WaguespackHenry D. WallaceCameron B. WessonJeremy J. WilsonBeth WaltonErnest “Skip” LohseRobert HallClaudine PayneLeslie WildesenMolly ThompsonPriscilla RenoufCharles Benz56 The SAA Archaeological Record • May 2014
IN MEMORIAMLESLIE ELIZABETH WILDESEN1944–2014Leslie Elizabeth Wildesen, Ph.D. passed away peacefullyat her home on January 24, 2014. She was 69. Leslie wasborn on December 5, 1944, in Phoenix. At 17, she wona scholarship to Stanford, graduating in 1966 with a degree inEnglish with a creative writing emphasis. She went on to geta Master’s in anthropology from San Francisco State Collegeand a Ph.D. in archaeology from WashingtonState University (1973).Following a brief stint heading a researchinstitute at the University of California,Riverside, Leslie moved to Portland, Oregon,in 1974, and became the first regionalarchaeologist for the U.S. Forest Service inthe Pacific Northwest. Her Guidebook of Proceduresand Techniques for Managing Historicaland Archaeological Resources (1977) wasthe first heritage resource guidance manualfor federal agencies. She also served asadjunct faculty in Portland State University’spublic history program, as secretary for theSociety for American Archaeology, and as amember of the State Historic Review Board.Leslie left the U.S. Forest Service in 1980 and became a consultanton archaeological resources, primarily in Idaho’s Riverof No Return Wilderness and in Alaska. In the early 1980s,she became a Congressional Fellow for the Society for AmericanArchaeology. There, she served on the staff of CongressmanJohn Seiberling, working on the House Subcommitteeon Public Lands and National Parks.In 1984, she became the Colorado State Archaeologist andDeputy State Historic Preservation Officer. In the same period,she served three consecutive terms as a presidentialappointee on the Cultural Property Advisory Committee, overseeingU.S. involvement in the UNESCO Convention onInternational Trafficking in Cultural Property.Next, Leslie spent a year in Pittsburgh withthe Office of Surface Mining negotiatingenvironmental agreements between federaland state entities, and then in 1990 returnedto Colorado and became Regional Archaeologistfor the USDA Forest Service in theRocky Mountain Region.In 1993, Leslie and her life partner, JeanneCrouch, founded Environmental Training &Consulting International, Inc. (ETCI), acompany specializing in custom environmentalplanning training within the U.S.For the next 20 years, Leslie designed anddelivered over 400 courses to clientsthroughout the U.S. and in Zimbabwe,Indonesia, Malaysia, and Sri Lanka. She andJeanne also worked with the Smithsonian Institution for 10years to design and deliver the Smithsonian EnvironmentalLeadership Course.You may honor Leslie by making a contribution in her nameto an organization she supported and admired, The NatureConservancy.May 2014 • The SAA Archaeological Record57