THE ROTUNDA IX)NGWOOD COLLEGE, FARMVILLE, VIRGINIA,
VOL. LV;
TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1981
NO. 22
CHI Commends Outstanding Individuals CHI Burning, April 16,1981 We, the members of CHI, come together to recognize those of our college community who have exhibited outstanding dedication and spirit. CHI is not the eleven individual members standing before you, but an ideal spirit that can not be found in any one person. These flames are combined to form one fire that will burn eternallv in the minds of those who strive for the spirit CHI represents. It is through you as individuals working together that these ideals will be realized. We, the members of CHI 1981, challenge you, our friends, to erase from your memorv the personification of the ideal. Instead look to your own souls — you are the flame, you are the spirit, you are the CHI to whom we burn. CHI Commendations The Faculty and Staff include Nanzig. Hoke Currie, Mrs. Betty Bryant, Organizations include GymDarrell Harbaum, Richard nastics Team, Placement Office, Gamble, Mrs. Sue Clark, Mrs. Circle K and Theuraputic Evelyn Coleman, Don Turbin, the Recreation Organization. busdriver, and Mrs. Barbara Seniors include Bonnie Con-
ners, Val Campbell, Pam Wagner, Kerry McCarthy, Lynn Campbell, Sally Ix)we, Michelle Smith, Valerie Narayo, Kelly Sanderson, Cheryl Atkins and Sherrie Gallop. Juniors include Patti Bowman, Betsy Delong, Grace Ann Rodgers, Mary Slade, Vicki Matthewson, Debra Spencer, Dallas Bradbury, I^arry Smith, Betty Lou Smith, Cindy Christensen, Ann Normand and Jane Froemel. Sophomores include Stephanie Ibanez, Suzanne Frailie, Winonna Bayne, Lisa Photo by Larry Smith Swackhammer, Cherie Stevens, Sr. members of CHI — Anna Staley, Donna Hughes, Melody and Pete Tideman. Crawley, Tom Sullivan, Barb Greer, Robyn Black, Linda Paschall, Freshmen include Georgia Staley, Bob Jensen, Trisha Boyle Tammy Bird, Cindy Dropeski, Brenda Fettrow and Elaine McDonald. and Anette Noce. Torchbearers include Tracey Hormuth and Val Campbell. Sophomore Helpers include Lisa Swackhammer, Ross Conner and Suzanne Frailie.
Archeological Dig Proposes Questions By JODI KERSEY A small piece of glass is accidentally broken and Bob Flippen, the glass expert, quickly studies the pieces to make sure it was not an extremely important artifact. Dr. Jordan checks on the verdict and assures the guilty foot that it won't have to be sacrificed! Every object scraped out of the ground may be a major discovery for Dr. James Jordan and the students of Archeology accompanying him on a dig at Hampden-Sydney. The site of interest is the small building located at the back of the President's home at Middlecourt. Mrs. Josiah Bunting, wife of Hampden-Sydney's President, contacted Dr. Jordan at Longwood when she discovered there might be historical artifacts of value located in a small cabin which is considered to be a slave cabin built around 1829. The suspicion was aroused, when workmen who had been hired to renovate the cabin for a guest house found piles of old bottles located under two floors of
This pipe was found last Friday during excavation. wood. The second layer of wood had begun to decay and cave-in. Mrs. Bunting and Dr. Jordan established a conditional use permit for the area and the dig began. portunity for Hampden-Sydney and Longwood to cooperate on a worthwhile project", said Dr. Jordan. He added that the dig was only possible through the
View of the brick feature by Saturday evening.
cooperation of Hampden-Sydney and the body of people that were experienced in Archeology. Many of the students participating are those who assisted Dr. Jordan last summer at Anna's Ridge in Cumberland County. During the preliminary digging, objects that were found were such things as chicken and frog bones which relate to African customs. Shells, buttons, various pieces of glass, pipes and many other objects were excavated. The dig is especially interesting because of the idiosyncrasy that has arisen in the original room of the cabin. All concern has now been placed on this room instead of all three rooms of the building. This puzzle is not in conflicting dates of artifacts, but the unusualness of the brick feature in the floor. The students have dug the floor deep enough to clearly distinguish three separate brick pits with a walkway in between. This walkway extends to the window which used to be a door. Dr. Jordan is very eager to continue the dig to try to establish a legitimate reason why this room would have the brick pits. A possible hypothesis suggested by t)r. Jordan is that this particular room was used for heating water for a wash room or a butcher's house. About two hundred pieces of quartz were also excavated which suggests that these were heated and then thrown into the water to make it boil. Another possible hypothesis is that these three brick features are actually three separate rooms or compartments for sleeping with the walkway leading to the former door. Another ticky feature that complicates the research is that arrowheads and small scrapers which would have been used for hides were excavated two and a half feet below the original clay floor. The cabin could be located
Dr. Jordan and the students have centered their attention on the original room of the cabin. on a pre-historic Indian site. The time limit has been extended to include one more day of excavation in the original room of the slave cabin. The many questions concerning the cabin will be further considered as Dr. Jordan and his crew return this Thursday to continue their dig. List of Participants Dr. James William Jordan, Director, Longwood Archeology 1* ieid School. Erich Krause, Chief Field Assistant. Excavators Kevin Ryman, Mary Ellen Munoz, Cindy Whiteside, Ruth Ann Trumbo, Laura Munoz, (student at St. Catherine's School, Richmond) Valerie Perini, Johnny Aranza, Mary Jane Sexton, Gerry Lyell, Rebecca Miller, Tobin Demsko, Tim Shepley, Janet Hodges, Betty Selph, Tina Elinsky. Experts in Glass and Bottle Analysis David Weaver, Bob Flippen (student in American Studies Program at George Washington
University, Washington, D.C.) All above are Longwood students except Munoz and Flippen.
All the Archeology pictures were taken by staff photographer Alan Nuss.