News of Members:

Honoring Eric Newman

You have received a "Save the Date" invitation for an evening honoring Eric P. Newman. We do hope that you will consider coming to a special evening being planned for Friday, October 25, 1996. This is the evening that we will honor Eric Newman for his distinguished service to the American Numismatic Society and his extraordinary contributions to the study of American Numismatics.

The party will take place at the Explorer's Club on East 71st Street in New York City. It will be an evening dedicated to Eric, to those who know and respect him, to people who appreciate the world of numismatics, and to people who appreciate the great contributions Eric has made to numismatic education. The evening will be fun, interesting, and will be a tribute to Eric. And the evening will be elegant with superb food and drink. Mark the date!

Corresponding Members Elected

The Society's Council elected three new Corresponding Members at its April 13 meeting, honoring foreign scholars in this special class of ANS membership.

Francois de Callatay received his Ph.D. from the Universite Catholique de Louvain and is now Curator at the Bibliotheque Royale Albert 1er, Brussels. An expert in the coinage of the Hellenistic period and author of over 100 articles, notes, and reviews, he is a leading figure among the younger generation of European numismatists. During the summer of 1995, de Callatay served as the Visiting Scholar for the Society's Graduate Seminar in Numismatics.

Christian E. Dekesel of Ghent, Belgium, has emerged as the leading scholar reporting on early printed works on numismatics. With doctorates in Educational Sciences and Clinical Psychology from the University of Ghent, he serves as director and supervisor for several Belgian and European educational projects and endeavors. In addition, he is Honorary Managing Director of the Bibliotheca Numismatica Siliciana, a specialized research center for pre-1800 numismatic publications and in 1992 published Bibliothecae Universitatis Gandavensis Numismatica Selecta 1515-1599, a detailed study of numismatic books published before 1600 in the Central Library of the University of Ghent and is now producing the multi-volume Corpus Librorum Nummorum, a census of sixteenth century numismatic books. In 1993, he lectured at the ANS on "Goltzius, Patin, and Vaillant: 200 Years of Numismatic Splendor, " and in 1991, was a speaker at the Brussels INC.

Theodore V. Buttrey, Jr., the 1996 recipient of the Society's Huntington Award Medal for distinguished numismatic scholarship and a resident of Cambridge, England, was also elected as a Corresponding Member, as provided by the Society's By-Laws, Article 1.4.