News about students majoring in Anthropology and Sociology at Williams.

While vacationing in August, 1999, Prof. Michael Brown came across this photograph of Liz Hoover '01, a double major in Anthropology and Psychology, in the Waterville, Maine, newspaper.

This year's winners of senior prizes were announced at the annual ANSO spring picnic. The Robert Friedrichs prize in Sociology was awarded to Meg E. Davis, whose senior thesis, Innocent creatures and autonomous beings: The dichotomous images of American children, earned her departmental honors. The James Orton Prize in Anthropology was awarded to R. Chris Foxwell. Both will receive checks for $100 thanks to an endowment established by anonymous donors.

Meg was the subject of an article in the Commencement/Reunions issue of On Campus, a Williams College publication.

As many alumni will know, Robert Friedrichs, now Professor Emeritus of Sociology, was the founding member of the Williams sociology program. He continues to live in Williamstown and to summer on Martha's Vineyard.

James Orton, Class of 1855, was a minister and renowned explorer of western South America. His travels resulted in a best-seller, The Andes and the Amazon, or Across the Continent of South America (1870). Orton traveled to South America again in 1877, where he died while crossing Lake Titicaca on route to the city of Puno. We do not encourage our students to follow his example with regard to aquatic travel.

The endowment for both of these awards came from the parents of a Williams graduate who greatly appreciated the teaching of Bob Friedrichs.