of Engineers and Federal Government to delay the inundation of the site and preserve the area for future generations. The Marmes site had been listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of The Palouse Archaeological District and was designated a National Historic Landmark by 1967. The two professors gave talks, presentations and sent pleas for help through hundreds of institutions. They caught the attention of President Lyndon B. Johnson, who issued an Executive Order to protect the site. This order allotted 1.5 million dollars toward building a coffer dam around the site to hold back the water. However, disaster struck when the barrier failed, and water seeped through the earth-fill wall. Excavation of the site had little more than started when the barrier failed. An army of volunteers and archaeologists were present at the site as it became inundated by the reservoir waters. They attempted to protect the site with tarps and tons of sand and gravel in hopes of preserving it for future studies. Death and legacy Fryxell died in 1974 in a car accident at only 40 years of age while driving across Washington State. He is remembered a teacher, leader, and pioneer of interdisciplinary education. “It is Fryxell's teaching, and his passionate caring about the research process, his students, and science itself, that live after him.” His family chose to honor his memory by endowing the Fryxell Award for Interdisciplinary Research, given annually by the Society for American Archaeology in recognition of interdisciplinary excellence by a scientist. The Society for American Archaeology also holds a Fryxell Symposium during their meetings. An overlook shelter at the Palouse Falls is also named after him, as is the Roald H. Fryxell Memorial Scholarship at Augustana College. At Washington State University, colleagues established the Roald Fryxell Publication Fund for the Department of Anthropology. Bibliography Fryxell, Roald, The Contribution of Inter Disciplinary Research to Geologic Investigation of Prehistory, Eastern Washington (Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Geology, University of Idaho, Moscow. 1970) Fryxell, Roald and Daugherty, R.D., Interim Report: Archaeological Salvage in the Lower Monumental Reservoir, Washington (1962, Washington State University, Pullman) Fryxell, Roald, Mazama and Glacier Peak Volcanic Ash Layers: Relative Ages (Science, 147, 1965) Fryxell, Roald, and Bennie C. Keel, Emergency Salvage Excavations for the Recovery of Early Human Remains and Related Scientific Materials from the Marmes Rockshelter Archaeological Site, Southeastern Washington, May 3—December 15, 1968 (Report to