In 1936, Tavistock attended a faculty and administration cocktail party around the semester break. While talking with Jones and Marcus Brody about his proposals for the museum, an uninvited guest, named Alec Sutherland arrived to give Jones the expedition journal of the late Arthur Hecht. As Jones read the notes aloud, Tavistock mocked Hecht's work and claimed to have had thrown Hecht out of the museum fifteen years earlier. Sutherland angrily grabbed the trustee for ruining Hecht's career. Jones pulled Sutherland off Tavistock, but sided with Sutherland on the need to follow up with Hecht's research. Tavistock reminded Jones of his responsibilities to his students, but Jones countered that it was now break, and his vacation to Iran to follow up on Hecht's leads was personal time. After st