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Show SUSC professor honored for work University of Wisconsin. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, he is curator of the SUSC Museum. area, the Western Grand Canyon, and now near the Utah-Arizona border. The SUSC faculty member is vice president for research design of the Utah Professional Ar-cheological Ar-cheological Council. He was elected to the position in July at a conference held at ' the Little Creek site. Thompson received a B.A. at San Jose State College and M.S. and Ph.D. from the who have and are making sizeable contributions to our knowledge of Utah pre-history." In addition to the anthropology an-thropology and archeology ar-cheology classes Thompson teachers at SUSC, he is director of the annual SUSC Field School in Southwestern Archeology which is conducted for a two-month two-month period each summer, most recently on Anasazi sites on Little Creek Mountain, Washington County. Thompson has directed archeological excavations ex-cavations in Utah and Arizona for the past 22 years, primarily in the Summit, Iron County, carried the torch of research on the Kayenta-Virgin Kayenta-Virgin Branch Anasazi what he calls the Western Anasazi. Were it not for his interest and dedication, we would know much less of these prehistoric ag riculturists." "A numBer of his students," Dr. Dorman read, "have extended their studies and taken advance degrees from the University of Utah and Brigham Young University, as well as elsewhere, and have enjoyed successful careers. Dr. Thompson is credited with having provided excellent training to these students Richard A. Thompson CEDAR CITY -Richard A. Thompson, professor of anthropology at Southern Utah State College, has been honored by the Division of State History (Utah State Historical Society) for outstanding contribution con-tribution to archeological research and knowledge of Utah prehistory. Dr. Thompson, a faculty member at SUSC since 1960, received the Society's Antiquities Award at the annual meeting of the Division of State History conducted recently in the Rio Grande Depot, Salt Lake City. Eldon Dorman, member of the Board of State History, made the presentation to the SUSC faculty member for his "long, varied and lasting service to Utah archeology." ar-cheology." According to the citation, Thompson "has, J over the years, singularly |