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Long Time, No Update!

admin — Mon, 17 May 2010 21:03:58 GMT

I apologize for not updating the bulletin board sooner. In the future there will be much more information here but we are still feeling our way through the new website startup and we have been extraordinarily busy this spring.

We are nearly in our new offices in San Marcos. The building was remodeled and the floors have been sealed – they’re still working on the fire alarm system but we have begun to move our boxes in. By this time next month I hope to be fairly settled in. It has been very difficult to keep everything going this spring while working out of boxes! Our offices are very nice. There are three private offices and a very large lab space. We are located in a building (Pecos) on the north side of the Texas State University Campus and across a narrow alley from the Center for Archaeological Studies run by our old friend and colleague, Dr. Jon Lohse.

As I mentioned we have had a lot going on this spring. April and October are our busiest months as far as our programs with the public. More than 300 people toured the site including one elementary school with 100 and even the Florence Chamber of Commerce! Our friends from New Hampshire SCRAP (http://www.nh.gov/nhdhr/SCRAP.htm) came at the end of February and into March. They had some beautiful warm days but also worked in a snowstorm that brought us 4 ½”! Dr. Bruce Bradley once again brought a number of students from the University of Exeter for the month of April which turned out to be a wonderful month weather-wise. Both groups helped us take our current deep excavation down in the Paleoindian strata.

The end of April brought us to the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting in St. Louis where the GSAR and alums were well represented among papers and posters. The highlight was the release of our new book, Clovis Technology, Drs. Collins, Bradley and Lohse with additional material by Dr. C. Andrew Hemmings and Marilyn Shoberg. The publisher, Prehistry press managed to sell all the books they’d brought by the afternoon of the first day!!

We are still busy in May but not insanely so we are taking time to catch up with everything and hopefully get situated in our new home in San Marcos. If you are interested in any aspect of Gault please feel free to email me at Cwernecke@gaultschool.org.

D. Clark Wernecke

Executive Director

New Offices, New Web Site

admin — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 07:10:00 GMT

Welcome to the new and improved Gault website! This day has been a long time in coming and we here at the GSAR would like to especially thank Mr. David Ebaugh at Digitaris Technologies for all the help and support he has provided to make this site a reality.

Our website will be going through ongoing changes and the new framework will make it possible for us to upload and share information more frequently. Yes, that means you’ll have to check back every so often to see what has changed but I think you’ll find it worth it. We will post regular news updates, new photos and upcoming events for you to check out.

Our big news right now is our ongoing move of offices and labs to Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. It is a little further to drive (the opposite direction from the site) but it is well worth it. We will have access to students and resources that were unavailable to us in the past which will make it easier to pursue our missions of archaeological research and education. Our lab is scheduled to move in mid-January of 2010.

I would love to hear your comments or questions about Gault and the new website. If you have an idea, question or comment please feel free to email me at cwernecke@gaultschool.org

D. Clark Wernecke
Executive Director

Support Challenges

admin — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:00:00 GMT

While Americans are considered to be among the most generous people globally, the economic turmoil has put even more pressure on donors and on nonprofit leaders. At the same time, millions of Americans say they want to make a difference and expect to work on causes bigger than themselves.

The Gault School, like many other non-profits, has certainly been impacted by the economic downturn, yet our biggest loss of support has been due to the shift in academic focus at the University of Texas.

The old saying “may you live in interesting times” comes to mind when I think over the last several months. The project’s fiscal crisis has continued to create doubts and problems and we continually come up with ways to overcome them. I would reiterate that the GSAR is doing quite well – in fact better than projected – but not well enough to pick up employee salaries.