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a strong advocate of health inspection
in the public
schools which was introduced in his
administration.
In his twenty-seven years' service in
Columbus he
became widely acquainted and his memory
is cherished
for his kindly manner and brief but
helpful addresses
on his visits to the various school
rooms. Every pupil
in Columbus regarded Dr. Shawan as his
friend and
felt free to speak to him when meeting
him on the
street.
On retiring from the superintendency of
the Colum-
bus schools, Dr. Shawan and his wife
resided in De-
Graff, Ohio. Later they moved to his
farm, "The Mead-
ows," where he died. He is
survived by three sons:
Dr. H. K. Shawan, surgeon, of Detroit,
Michigan; R. F.
Shawan, of Columbus, Ohio, and J. A.
Shawan, Jr., of
DeGraff. Mrs. Shawan was Miss Jennie K.
Holmes,
prior to her marriage to Mr. Shawan, in
1881. She died
in 1925.
Dr. Shawan was a Methodist and a Mason.
He was
a member of state and national
educational associations
and a life-member of the Ohio State
Archaeological and
Historical Society.
SARCOPHAGUS OR MUMMY CASE
Professor G. Foucart, Director of the
French Insti-
tute of Archaeology, at Cairo, Egypt, was one of the
few
honored by being permitted to witness
the official open-
ing of the marble sarcophagus of King
Tut-Ankh-
Amen, near Luxor, Egypt, on February
12, 1924. He
made the translations of the
inscriptions on the coffin
enclosing the mummy presented by Dr.
Howell. Such
a coffin is usually called a mummy
case, but Professor
Foucart calls this one a
"sarcophagus," with the added
phrase, "properly so called."