Flintknapping Event!

Join us for our last club meeting of the Spring Semester, April 30th at 2:30PM.  We will meet between the CBT and CLA buildings on the east side.

Student Celebration Day, Spring Semester 2012

Thank you to everyone who stopped by our table today for Student Celebration Day.  Special thanks to Joe, Connor, Kelly and Kyle for helping with the day.  

Meeting Minutes, Meeting 11 Spring Semester 2012

I first want to thank all the presenters and helpers for making our first annual Anthropology Symposium a success.  We had a great array of papers and presentations encompassing a range of anthropology topics.  Cheers to those who helped, presented and participated behind the scenes.  At our last meeting we did discuss how to make the symposium even better next year, which would include more advertising and exploring different avenues for communicating the event to students at NHCC.

NHCC Anthropology Symposium presenters.

Also thank you to everyone who helped with Stress Relief Day, our atlatl target board was a hit and we successfully distributed many of our first-ever anthropology club can coolies to students and faculty.  

Sparkling water staying cool in the coolie!

Atlatl target and some spears too, Stress Relief Day.

Students relieving stress on illustrated megafauna. 

Tomorrow is Student Celebration Day, the Anthropology Club will be posted at our table for as much of the day as we can cover to inform students of the club and hopefully wrangle some future club leaders for next semester as well as enlighten the unfamiliar to the discipline of anthropology.  Please join us there if you can.  I believe we will be in the CLA hallway, between the CLA and LRC.  

Our last club meeting of the semester will be April 30th when we will host our flintknapping demo. If you plan on participating please wear closed shoes and pants, flintknapping can be dirty and dusty so plan accordingly.  If you have your own leather gloves and eye protection please bring these also.

The Anthropology club's final off-campus activity will be to attend a lecture on underwater archaeology at the Science Museum on the evening of May 3rd.   

As the semester and year wind to a close I would like to thank everyone for a truly successful year, and the Anthropology Club's most vibrant year yet.  Thank you to everyone who has made this year possible.

Anthropology Club Meeting Minutes

4/23/12

Thanks to all presenters

Ways to improve symposium for next year

April 30^th is last meeting for Anthro. Club

Possible handing of torch to Kelly

Flintknapping on the 30^th, wear closed shoes, socks, and pants

Student Celebration Day, April 25th

May 3^rd, Pirates at the Science Museum

Entertainment

Meeting Minutes Meeting 10, Spring Semester 2012

Anthropolgy Club

Meeting Minutes 4/16/12

-Order of presenters was determined for the symposium

-I believe it goes

1.Jeff

2.Matt

3. Joe

4. Kyle

5. Connor

6. Dr. Mallery

7. Kat

8. Kelly

-Connor will do opening statements and introduction

-Kelly will conclude symposium after her Q and A

-Kyle and Jeff will assist people who need power points set up

-After you present you will introduce the person following you

Stress Relief Day News

8:00 AM meet in either parking lot or outside club office to begin assistance of set-up.

If you signed up to assist with our table then please stop by and help out throughout the day. 

Tear down is at 2:00 PM

-Still working on flint knapping kit for club meeting

-“It was a freaking noodle!!!”

Anthropology Symposium

Meeting 9, Spring Semester 2012

With so much work having been accomplished in our previous week's meeting I have very little to report from our current meeting.  What I can say is that we have a lot of events planned for the end of the semester and a lot of work still to be completed.  

In our meeting today we formalized what will be our atlatl target practice game for Stress Relief Day and got a peek at the actual target completed over the weekend by our pizza treasurer and secretary, Jeff.  The can coolies have officially been ordered with our logo for S.R.D and the symposium.  A flyer has been completed and is awaiting approval for the symposium as well.  We have decided also to cram one more event into the semester, a flintknapping demonstration, the date to be determined at the next meeting, but likely in the end of April, after the symposium.

Here is an overview of what is planned for the coming weeks:

Monday April 9 (2:30pm): Anthropology Club Meeting-finalize plans for the Symposium and Stress Relief Day, finish our entertainment.

Monday April 16 (2:30pm): Symposium "dress rehearsal." Tie up loose ends for S.R.D. and Symposium.  

Wednesday April 18 (8am-?): Stress Relief Day 

Friday April 20 (noon): Anthropology Symposium (6:30pm): Anthropology Club dinner at Kramarczuck's

***(sometime after this have flintknapping event)***

Monday April 23 (2:30pm): Anthropology Club Meeting

Monday April 30 (2:30pm): Anthropology Club Meeting

Thursday May 3 (6:30pm): The Archaeology of Pirates lecture at the Science Museum

Also, I have sent out an email JUST to presenters at the symposium requesting final titles so the program can get complied.  

I will extend the deadline until this friday as I stated, but in the interest of formalizing a timeline, program and agenda, I do really have to close the door after this week.

Please email or contact a club member if you would like to volunteer for either the symposium or S.R.D..  It looks like we need help most for clean-up after S.R.D..  Meeting minutes will follow.  Hope to see you at the next meeting!

Anthropology Meeting Minutes

4/2/12

CLA 125

2:30- 3:30

Introductions

Need to get quote and sizes for T-shirts

Flint Knapping demo will be an upcoming event, we need to order more still

Work on poster for Symposium

Interesting 70’s entertainment

Put dowels and wings on noodles for game on Stress Relief Day

Get your name and project title to Kat so a pamphlet can be printed out for the symposium

Attendance- Dr. Mallery, 12 students

Meeting 8, Spring 2012

     I would like to start by saying that the club has had a very successful week and accomplished a lot.  I am really looking forward to the coming events for the club as we near the end of the semester.  So many club members have been going "above and beyond" to use the cliche, and I couldn't be happier as club president to have been working with such dedicated students.  A "thank you" is owed to so many of you as well as our continuously supportive advisor, Dr. Mallery, for his tireless encouragement and dedication of time to the club.

     That said, I have lots of good news to report on this week.  The viewing of the Pirates exhibit at the Science Museum of Minnesota was rescheduled at the last minute and apologies are in order for anyone who received the message while they were in transit.  The good news is that we will be planning a new trip where the club will also attend a lecture by archaeologist Russell Skowronek a Marine Archeologist, Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Texas - Pan American, he is also an author.  The lecture will be a club relevant topic of "Pirates in the Archaeological Record."  Please join us for the lecture Thursday, May 3, 2012, 7-8:30 p.m.  The SMM is open until 9:30pm so that will allow us an hour to view the Pirates exhibit after the lecture.  Plan on meeting at 6:30pm at the map on the floor in the main lobby, we will proceed to the lecture area after that.  Students will be responsible for getting their own tickets, it is advised that you do this early.

     The symposium is well under way and I am proud to report that we have at least seven presenters as of right now.  Coffee service has been ordered for the day of and arrangements are in the work for promotional materials to advertise the event.  The deadline to submit a title or subject of presentation is this Friday, March 30th.  I haven't heard from any additional presenters, but I would like to propose we have all of the students involved sorted out by this friday as well.  A "dress rehearsal" of the symposium will be held in CLA125, (our normal club meeting room), at 2:30pm on Monday April 16th.  Anyone participating or presenting at the symposium is required to attend this, or be in contact with a club officer so that we can be assured of your attendance for the actual symposium.  Volunteers are still needed for set-up and tear-down, please let a club member know if you are interested in volunteering. 

     We additionally still need volunteers for Stress Relief Day on Wednesday, April 18th.  At our next club meeting we will be resuming entertainment from the last meeting, beginning new entertainment and the construction of some atlatls and our target for our S.R.D. game.  We have additionally ordered promotional goodies which we will be handing out for prizes at this event.  

     A special "thank you" goes out to Stephanie for finally digitizing our club logo!  We are so grateful to have her graphic design skills put to use on something we have needed so badly for so long!  Thanks Stephanie for your hard work on this.  The logo looks great, you can check it out for yourself on our promotional materials at S.R.D. and the Symposium.  We hope to use the logo on some t-shirst very soon as well, so stay tuned..    

Enjoy the meeting minutes from the March 26th meeting below, courtesy our secretary and pizza treasurer, Jeff.

Anthropology Club

3/26/12

CLA 125

Ordered coffee, soda, water, muffins

Jeff will bring in board for Stress Relief Day game

Still need to order Coozis and t-shirts

Pirates at Science Museum –May 3^rd 7:00

7 Symposium Presenters-Need more!!!!

Entertainment

Attendance- 11 students, Dr. Mallery

Need for pizza