Applicants often include an addendum to give context for other application materials, like a poor transcript or a complicated answer to a background question. In the mid '50s I was Albert Spaulding's RA in the North American range (after a year as Kamer Aga Oglu's RA in the Division of the Orient). Faculty were rarely, if ever, present, and so we students felt less constrained in our behavior and conversation than during the daytime hours–like the night Chuck Cleland used an atlatl to propel a wooden spear with surprising speed and force down the full length of the main hallway, knocking a big chip of concrete out of the wall above the drinking fountain. Approachable after class to provide more clarity. Some just guzzled it down seemingly unaware of the change, others who were a bit more discerning mused about why the coffee was so good that day. Example of a school excuse. The crew included graduate students Martha Rolingson, Richard and Karen Ford, Henry Wright, John Speth and Fred Fisher; with undergraduates Dianne Foster, Thom Apler, Jerry Vanni, Liz Sterr, and Sydney Harrison; with Dick Morland and Jasmina Stefanovic from Canada and Yugoslavia, respectively. I look forward to taking him for BLAW308. Griffin chatted about the site with them — he always responded to their curiosity and treated them as potential adults (as I understood was his approach to many graduate students). When the security guard asked to see everyone's invitations, Jimmie just said, "these are my people " and in we walked!
The website on the back of the book provides power slides in which he follows 100%. I don't drink coffee any more and, at 91, seem to be slowly deteriorating but still enjoy limited travel and photography. I say take his class I honestly put little effort into the class and ended up with a c+.
One Midterm essay (40% of grade) and a Final essay (60% of grade). 2 exams 1 paper do the case briefs you get points if you share your answer in class. California State University - Northridge. Excuse letter for student. One day following a very elegant lunch celebrating the opening of the Ancient Art of the American Woodland Indians exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, he led his cadre (plus our teenage tag-along who joined us after lunch) down the Mall to the 75th anniversary party at the National Museum of Natural History.
The next summer, Griffin covered my travel expenses to present my mollusk paper at the Midwest Archaeological meetings, commissioning me to deliver a car-full of early Mississippian ceramics to the St. Louis Academy. He gives points for adding on in discussion but this points aren't much. Poor excuse for a student clue crossword. Poor nutrition is a synonym. Best BLaw prof at CSUN for sure. In those pre-computer, pre-internet days, you needed to access actual books and journals in order to get at information, and you needed access to a typewriter to prepare your own course papers, articles and reports, etc. Got a B+ on first midterm, A+ on the paper, and i am assuming an A on final as i got an A in the class. That summer of 1964 he sent me to the Schultz site in Saginaw to take photographs and learn to dig under Jim Fitting's direction.
Look for better teachers imo. I even corrected some young upstarts about the dating of the Quina Mousterian at La Quina in JHE recently, so I guess some of the neurons are still firing. You can't change your past, but you can use a carefully crafted addendum to show that you took hold of the situation, sought help and learned to manage it – showing your maturity and resilience. GRADED BY FEW THINGS. Copyright Compliance Policy. Eventually my secret came out, and I'll never forget the time when one famed curator said, after one sip, "I see Anderson brought in the good stuff today! " I remember casually looking through the card catalog-type drawers in the coffee room while eating lunch alone in there one day, and being surprised to easily come across personal correspondence between James Griffin and Eli Lilly…. I wish I took his other class. We had a midterm, a paper, and lastly a final. He never gave out handouts or anything. Get recommendation letters from people who can speak to your intellectual abilities.
Albert related that all the boys in the ROTC had to wear black armbands when Coolidge died and Gary Vescelius, a fellow grad student, quietly snorted and snickered. Excellent Prof. Knows a lot about the subject (since he is a lawyer) and encourages lots of questions. Why is a U of M English major in this scrap book? Then I went back to Kentucky and worked on my dissertation while teaching and running the UK museum. He didn't seem to care much about the class just doing this as an extra source of income. Mary and Jimmy (finally! ) Great teacher- loves class involvement, crystal clear with lectures, great use of personal experiences to illustrate textbook examples. Graded by few things. That experience served me very well, as I had the opportunity to see and even find quite a few more sherds like them across the region down through the years, and the summer of 1985 helped set up the ceramic type collection for South Carolina, using Dr. Griffin's approach that it was always a good idea to have several (or more) sherds for each classic type, to encompass at least some of the variability found in the pottery. Grades VERY easy, with a monster curve. CA Do Not Sell My Personal Information. Then I had to figure out a way through the UM bureaucracy very quickly, because I had exactly 2 years to get everything done for a PhD (except the dissertation). Crosswords Clues Starting With.
If you are still an undergraduate, take summer classes or increase your course load to balance out earlier underperformance and to show a strong trend of improvement. Must do the reading and briefs! If you have a concrete reason for underperformance, like an illness or personal challenge or change in majors, describe it succinctly and explain how the situation resolved or why it will no longer affect your academic performance. Gary, somewhat embarrassed, said that Coolidge seemed like ancient history (he was younger than I was by a few years). I was assigned a tiny space in the back of the range my first year, as all incoming archaeology grad students were at the time.
Anger problems too - he got so upset in our 2nd class session he left the class for an hour. My time in the North American/ceramic repository/coffee range (Fall 1983-Fall 1985). Go to class and take good notes, study them and you'll be fine with the midterm and the final. We bought a suburban house so I could qualify for in-state tuition and enrolled the boys in a nearby elementary school.
The summer of 1964 I was hired as assistant to the field director for the Schultz site excavation and spent my summer in Saginaw. Submit a Correction. Have volunteers read each type of clue, and study the examples. Great guy TAKE HIM!!!!!!!