A very nice article appeared in The New York Times, Weekend Section, concerning small museums in New York City. The write up about the Society brought new faces to the Museum. We have repeatedly appeared in Museums, a New York City publication, and have had notices in the Celator and in SAN. We have also had free pages in the catalogues of Spink America, Christie's, The Coin Collector, and Rare Coin Review. Stacks continues to promote the ANS and we have received 15 new members as a result of their efforts.
The Etruscan Foundation held its annual meeting at the ANS for the second time in February 1995. As was the case a year ago, the day was very successful and it will be repeated in February 1996. The American Research Center in Egypt is planning to hold its annual meeting here in May 1996. We had an Arab-Byzantine Forum which was jointly sponsored by the ANS and the Oriental Numismatic Society. This was a first for this forum and it will be repeated in 1996. We continued to sponsor other educational activities away from New York, holding an educational afternoon at the ANA Convention in Anaheim and having a second educational two-day program in Boston. We will be having an educational day in Chicago on March 27,1996, in conjunction with the Chicago Coin Club. Along with these new programs we continue with our public programs: the David M. Bullowa Memorial Conference featuring alumni of the Graduate Seminar, the Saltus Award Public Meeting the Huntington Award Public Meeting, the Stack Memorial Public Meeting and the Coinage of the Americas Conference.
The ANA Convention in Anaheim in August was very successful. There were 21 volunteers who worked at the ANS booth and the ANS is indebted to them. The activity and reunions that took place at the booth made for a very special four-day reunion on the West Coast. We had a reenactment of the 1994 COAC as our educational afternoon and it was well received with an attendance of 50.
The Society's social calendar was equally impressive. On October 21, 1994, we celebrated the tenure of our President R. Henry Norweb, Jr., with a grand dinner at the Burden Manson on East 91st Street. Sixty people shared the evening with the Norwebs including the Treasurer of the United States, a fellow buckeye, the Honorable Mary Ellen Withrow. The majesty of the setting the beautiful food, and the heart-warming toasts to Henry made the evening a stellar event. The Society raised $10,000 as a result of this evening. We all mourn the recent loss of our past president, R. Henry Norweb, Jr. He shall remain in our hearts forever.
A President's Reception was held on December 9 at the Sheraton Hotel in conjunction with the New York International Convention. This reception to honor our Fellows and Circle Members was very well attended and our honored members had the opportunity to meet our new President, Arthur A. Houghton III.
In April of 1995 we had a theater benefit with dinner at Sardi's and a great performance of Sunset Boulevard with Glenn Close. Donald Partrick was the chairman of this event and there were 50 guests. This evening raised $5,000 for the Society.
At our July meeting we honored two 50-year members - Anne S. Robertson, of Glasgow, Scotland, and Theodore Sundheimer of White Plains, NY. Neither of these honorees was able to be present for the occasion and their certificates were conferred by mail.
On September 27, 15 people departed for a classical tour of Mantua, Venice, and then a seven day cruise of the Greek islands. The trip began with the viewing of the coins of the Gonzaga rulers from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries at the Palazzo Te in Mantua. We then met Geovanni Gorini at the Palace in Mantua. This was a once-in-a-life-time experience. The coins and related paintings were brought together from all parts of the world, including 50 objects from the ANS. Professor Theodore Buttrey gave daily lectures on board ship. Anastasios P. Tzamalis joined the cruise in Bari and gave a lecture on Frankish Greece.
Annual Giving continues to be a very important Development activity. Annual Giving is the backbone of our fund-raising. We reached $69,505 as of September 30. Coupled with that we received $23,275 from our Circle Members making a total of $92,780. We are short for the year and hope that 1996 will make up for the shortfall. We depend on our members to reach our targeted goal of $125,000. Circle memberships have done very well and we look forward to more Circle members in 1996. Our membership has been on the upswing and we are constantly working to have members sign up for Life Membership.
We have added another member to the Millennium Club, Dr. Ralph R. Sonnenschein. There are now 12 members with the generous foresight to include the Society in their deferred giving plans.
The Development Office stands ready to assist anyone interested in Planned Giving.
