Yeah. Well, I had an experience with him in anthropology which was, in
some ways, even more interesting. See, Odum had two Ph.D.'s, one in
sociology and one in psychology. Sociology was the second one. He got
that at Columbia under Giddings and had one or two courses under Boaz,
the great anthropologist. He liked anthropology and always said it was a
natural ally with sociology, and we ought to put in some anthropology
work. Well, three years after I got my Ph.D., I put in a course in
social anthropology. Odum had talked to Graham and they agreed. "Yes, go
ahead. Build up anthropology courses within sociology, and then someday
it might get to be big enough that we can separate them. But you go
ahead." Then a few years later I put in a second course. So we had that
beginning under the department of sociology. Well, came the Depression
and the WPA projects, and a young archaeologist in the state—who had
just come here as an undergraduate student mind you—he had managed to
get acquainted with practically every archaeologist in the country. Had
a voluminous correspondence with them and had done a lot of field work
and was really probably as good an
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a lot of those professors were. Well, he got the papers together for a
big WPA project to do an Indian mound down in Union County, called Town
Creek Mound. The government approved it with one proviso. Said, "you
don't have a qualified archaeologist there on the staff at UNC. So
before we can actually put this thing into effect, you're going to have
to lay hands on somebody who can qualify and supervise this project." So
there they were stymied. Again, Graham was at Union Station
[Laughter] in Washington, trying to get home, and he got into conversation
with a young man who was just finishing his degree in archaeology at
Harvard. And found out he was the son of a man that Graham had known. He
was a South Carolina man who Graham had known for quite a while. Well,
the same story again. Graham told him about this crisis with the
project. Said, "Maybe you're the man we need. Would you be interested?"
He said, yes, he would. So they worked out some details, and Graham,
without remembering that we already had some anthropology and that we
were committed to building it up in sociology and then separating it, he
told this young man, [Robert] Wauchope, "Yes, you come on. You supervise
this dig, and you can have a free hand. You build up a whole department
of anthropology if you wish."