03 Feb Pat Garrow Receives Carol V. Ruppe Distinguished Service Award

Pat Garrow, Director of Operations for the Knoxville, Tennessee office, recently attended the annual Society for Historical Archaeology meeting in Seattle, Washington, where he was awarded the Carol V. Ruppé Distinguished Service Award. The award was publicly announced in 1990 and “named in honor of Carol V. Ruppé in recognition of her long service to the society in creating and running The Soceity for Historical Archaeology Book Room at the annual conference,” according to the SHA website. Pat Garrow is the sixth recipient of this award.

“I was honored and pleased to receive the Carol V. Ruppe Distinguished Service Award at the Society for Historical Archaeology meeting in Seattle. My first SHA meeting was Charleston, SC, in 1975, and I have attended most of the meetings since that time. The SHA is very special to me, and the Ruppe Award means a great deal to me.”

Congratulations Pat Garrow on your prestigious award!