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[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]P.E. MacAllister served as ASOR Board Chair for 19 years and has been on the ASOR Board for more than 37 years. Almost 100 friends and family gathered at the Skyline Club in Indianapolis on April 20, 2013 to thank him for his leadership to ASOR as he transitions to Chairman Emeritus of the ASOR Board. The event also marked the public announcement of the establishment of the P.E. MacAllister Endowed Scholarship Fund for Archaeological Volunteers. The following is a photo gallery of images from the evening (all images are courtesy of Dimensions Photography who volunteered their services for the gala event.)
P. E. MacAllister addresses those assembled at the gala event:
Governor Pence addresses the P. E., the MacAllister Family, and the rest of the audience:
The MacAllister Family:
ASOR Trustees Jim Strange and Stevan Dana visit during the reception:
ASOR Vice President Sharon Herbert, ASOR President Elect Susan Ackerman, and Archives Committee Co-Chair Rachel Hallote (From left to right) enjoy conversation during the meal:
Chris MacAllister and a colleague visit during the reception:
P.E. MacAllister with Debbie and Sheldon Fox:
CAARI President Ray Ewing (left) visits with Meredith Dornemann (center) and Past ASOR Executive Director Rudy Dornemann (right):
The Skyline Club provides an elegant venue with an amazing view:
Everything is ready for the guests:
Past ASOR President Eric Meyers toasts P. E. and summarizes his history with ASOR:
Past ASOR President Joe Seger reads a poem honoring P.E.:
P. E. MacAllister with Board Chair Elect B. W. Ruffner:
ASOR President Tim Harrison addresses the audience:
P. E. MacAllister with ASOR Executive Director Andy Vaughn:
The panoramic view from the Skyline Club:
Tabula Honorarium of Donors to the MacAllister Endowment
News Summary of the MacAllister Gala Event
Remarks by Eric M. Meyers made at the MacAllister Gala Event
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years or so when P.E. was either on the Board of ASOR or chairman of it, we marvel at the fact that both P.E. and ASOR have survived the cataclysmic events that have rocked that region time and time again and affected ASOR and its overseas institutes, the Albright in Jerusalem, ACOR in Amman, Jordan, and CAARI in Nicosia, Cyprus: The Yom Kippur War in 1973, The Turkish invasion of Cyprus in July of 1974, two Iraq wars in 1991 and 2003, two intifadas and continuing unrest in the Palestinian Authority and Israel, the Gaza War, the current chaos in Syria that has spilled over to neighboring regions, and the aftermath of the so-called Arab Spring. And this is by no means an exhaustive list of what has happened during these years. All of this has been happening while ASOR continued to flourish and put before the public and the scholarly world of Near Eastern Studies and archaeology amazing discoveries from each of the countries where ASOR has worked including Iraq, Tunisia, Syria, and Turkey where we do not have local research institutes. Some of us even were fortunate enough to talk about those discoveries on P.E.’s local TV show, right from the heartland here in Indianapolis.
we are talking about when it comes to matters of history or ASOR. A number of years ago, just as the ASOR Archive Project was getting launched with a major grant from the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH), I received a call from a gentleman in a retirement home in Florida claiming to have a large cache of old photographs of the Holy Land that were left to him years ago by a distant relative and that he would like to sell. I asked him to describe over the phone what kind of pictures they were and in what sort of condition they were and he began by saying some were from Jerusalem and other places like Nazareth, and that they dated to the 19th century. His distant relative had somehow been associated with a project to photograph the Holy Land and the negatives were generally well preserved and were stored in a brass shell casing and were rolled inside it. I began to get excited and asked him to send a few digital images to me to be sure I knew what they were and if they were valuable and I asked him to promise not to sell them to anyone till ASOR had chance to evaluate them and bid for them.
matters. Our teacher whom we honor today is our beloved mentor, P.E. MacAllister. If I were to sum up what he has meant to ASOR and to all of us who have spent time with him these past years, I would quote Cicero who wrote:
On April 20, 2013, the ASOR family gathered in Indianapolis to honor one of its most loyal and generous members, P. E. MacAllister, with a gala dinner and with the announcement of an endowed scholarship fund bearing the MacAllister name (see below for a 
It was with a sincere feeling of gratitude that the boards of ASOR, AIAR, and CAARI met in Indianapolis over April 19-21, 2013 so that all of our organizations could be on hand for this festive event. On Saturday evening (April 20), almost 100 friends and family (including Indiana Gov. Mike Pence) gathered at the Skyline Club for a gala dinner where we thanked Mr. MacAllister for his service and leadership to ASOR. The event began with a welcome reception where ASOR friends, the MacAllister family, and friends from Indianapolis were able to share stories and get to know each other. The remarks and toasts (and roasts) by past ASOR Presidents Eric Meyers and Joe Seger gave Indianapolis friends a sense of how much P.E. has meant to ASOR. Current ASOR President Tim Harrison, President Elect Susan Ackerman, and Board Chair Elect B. W. Ruffner shared how P.E.’s leadership has been unparalled in ASOR and how much we have appreciated him. There were also special comments from Bob Massie (a close friend of P.E.’s from Indianapolis who is also an ASOR Trustee). While he was unable to attend in person, a statement was read from former ASOR Trustee Edward F. Campbell—the person who invited P.E. to join the ASOR community in 1968 and the ASOR Board in 1976. The night would not have been complete without a stirring address filled with historical references from the honoree himself, Mr. P.E. MacAllister. Last, but certainly not least, Gov. Mike Pence surprised P.E. and the rest of the audience by arriving just in time to make the concluding comments and a toast. Gov. Pence identified Mr. MacAllister as the person who had been most influencial in his political career, and said that he would not have become governor without him! It was truly an elegant and special evening, and Gov. Pence’s address was the perfect summation and ending.
of the P.E. MacAllister Endowed Scholarship Fund for Archaeological Volunteers (see below for a 
Benefactor ($20,000 or more)
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ASOR is pleased to announce that Dr. B. W. Ruffner began a three-year term as Chairman of the Board on July 1, 2013. The ASOR Board unanimously and enthusiastically elected Ruffner to the position at its November 2012 meeting in Chicago. Ruffner follows P. E. MacAllister who served as Board Chair for 19 years and became Chairman Emeritus on July 1.