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MORE ON NBS FOUNDING MEMBERSLast week Pete Smith asked about the founding members of our organization. Alan Luedeking compiled a list from early issues of our print journal, The Asylum. -Editor Perusing The Asylum, Vol. 1 No. 1 (Summer 1980) and subsequent issues, along with Joel Orosz's article "The Numismatic Bibliomania Society, 1980-1997 - A History of Seventeen Years in Fifteen Volumes" published in 1998 (I think), I conclude the following members were among the "dozen or so" founders (but none except the first two are an absolute certainty):
Pete's primary question was about a dinner held during the 1979 ANA convention in St. Louis: "It was reported that about a dozen people attended. I have not found a published list of their names." George Kolbe and John W. Adams are still with us. Collins, Zander and Picker are gone, but I don't know about the others. If you're among that group or know someone who is, please pass along any recollections of the dinner. Thanks. -Editor To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see: Wayne Homren, Editor The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org. To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@gmail.com To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum All Rights Reserved. NBS Home Page Contact the NBS webmaster 
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