New Associate Editor for The Colonial Newsletter (CNL)

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Louis (Lou) Jordan has accepted an offer to serve as an Associate Editor for The Colonial Newsletter, effective immediately. Lou's acceptance brings to four the active editorial staff of CNL. He will serve along with Mike Hodder & Gary Trudgen under the general direction of Editor-in-Chief Phil Mossman.

Lou is a medievalist by training and his specialty is in medieval Latin manuscripts. He is currently Director of Special Collections at the Hesburgh Library of the University of Notre Dame.

Along with the manuscripts and early printed books, he directs the numismatic website for the University which specializes in Colonial and Early American coinages. It is one of the largest numismatic websites currently on the Web. The University of Notre Dame has extensive numismatic holdings, and Lou has always had an interest in numismatics and has been working with coins for many years. Although he finds them all fascinating, as a native New Englander (from the North Shore of Boston) he guesses that he will always prefer the "colonial" American period.

Dr. Jordan can be contacted by email at: louis.e.jordan.1@nd.edu

The Colonial and Early American section of the website can be reached by clicking on: http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColCoinContents/Introduction.html

In order to accommodate the current restructuring underway at the American Numismatic Society (ANS), the "experimental period" of three years described in the Memorandum of Agreement between CNLF and ANS has been extended, pending final approval of the ANS Council, to 15 April 2002, an additional two years. Publication and distribution of CNL by the ANS will continue without interruption as during the past three years.