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50-Year Honorees

On Saturday, July 20, we will be honoring four persons who have been members since 1946—Mendel Lazear Peterson, Sr., Leon Lacroix, Mark Salton, and Randolph Zander. The program, beginning at 3:00 P.M., will feature ANS Life Fellow James C. Risk. Commander Risk, honored as a 50-year member in 1992, will discuss "Of Senior Numismatists and Ancient Knighthoods," a colorful look at British Royal Family orders.

This is the fourth consecutive year that the ANS has honored its 50-year members. It is a great distinction to have members who have been loyal for this long. We hope that you will be with us on July 20 to acknowledge their loyalty, to hear fellow member James Risk speak, and to join us for a reception.

Lazear Peterson, Sr., a collector of Byzantine, Greek, and Medieval coins, is also interested in the Carson City Mint and in ship wrecks. His publications in the Numismatist include "Proof Dollars of the Carson City Mint, 1891" (1954, p. 717) and "An Early Seventeenth Century Wreck" (1961, pp. 761-73).

Leon Lacroix is Professor Emeritus of Numismatics and Archaeology at the University of Liege, Belgium. Among his numerous works on Greek coinage are Les Reproductions des statues sur les mommies grecques (1949), Monnaies et colonization dans l'Occident grec (1965), and Etudes d'archeologie numismatique (1979).

Mark Salton was elected a Fellow in 1979 and is Chairman of the Huntington Medal Award Committee. He is a Fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society, London, a member of the Swiss Numismatic Society, and a member of the New York Numismatic Club. His collection includes ancient and European coins and Renaissance medals.

Randolph Zander has been the editor of the Journal of the Russian Numismatic Society since 1982. He has been a strong supporter of the ANS Library over the years and is a member of its Standing Committee.

Loans Approved

The ANS is a major lender of numismatic objects to museums, libraries, and historic houses, thus enhancing the exhibition experience for visitors to a wide range of cultural institutions. At its April 13, 1996, meeting the Society's Council approved three new loans and confirmed an extended schedule for an existing loan.

The "Newseum" of Arlington, VA, is a new museum devoted to the history of news and journalism. It will feature a denarius of Julius Caesar from the ANS in an inaugural exhibition on the history of early communication, "The Ancient News Gallery, " for the period April 1997 (coincident with the opening of the museum) through April 1998.

The Jewish Museum, New York, has borrowed five German coins, a die, and a medal for the exhibition "Patronage and Power: From Court Jews to the Rothschilds, 1500-1800," for the period August 15, 1996-November 15, 1997.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, will include 12 Archaic Greek coins from the ANS collection in the first phase of the newly designed permanent Greek Galleries, featuring the art of the Greeks through the Bronze Age. The galleries will reopen later this year.

Also at its April meeting, the Council confirmed arrangements for 11 ANS Greek coins in the exhibition "Pergamon: The Telephos Frieze from the Great Altar" which originated at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to travel to the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco where this exhibition will be on display through August 31, 1996. The opening of the exhibit coincided with a conference on "Western Asia Minor in Graeco-Roman Times," cosponsored by the ANS and the San Francisco Ancient Numismatic Society at the University of California, Berkeley, on May 4. Curators Carmen Arnold-Biucchi and William E. Metcalf gave papers at the conference.

New Development Officer

There was a new development in the Development Office as of May 1, 1996. Arlene Jacobs has left the position to do independent work. She will, however, continue a few ANS projects including working hard to make the Eric Newman gala affair a special event. She hopes to see members at the New York International Convention in June. Arlene has enjoyed her experiences with ANS members and hopes to keep up with many of the friends she has made.

Stephanie Cohen, our new Development Officer, has worked in a variety of institutions including the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers and the Organization of American States, the American Institute of Architects, and the DAR Museum all based in Washington, DC. She interned at the Baltimore Museum of Art in Maryland and brings with her a background in museum education, teaching, public relations, and development. She attended George Washington University, where she received a B.A. in Secondary Education Art and an M.A.T. in Museum Education. Stephanie is a exhibited photographer and also enjoys illustration. Stephanie said, "With my background in art, I think of coins and medallions as miniature works of art." She looks forward to meeting ANS members and friends.

ANS Circle Members

It is a pleasure to record the names of ANS members who join or renew their memberships as Circle Members, thereby taking advantage of the tiered dues structure to increase benefits and discounts while providing additional, much needed support for our organization. In particular, we are obliged to those who are renewing in higher categories for 1996, including advancement to the Electrum Circle, introduced last year at the request of several generous members.

The Society expresses appreciation to the following members who have thus far joined the Gold, Electrum, Silver, and Bronze Circles for 1996:

Gold Circle ($1,000)
Mr. Sidney W. Harl, Glen Cove, NY
Mr. Jonathan H. Kagan, New York, NY
Mr. Jonathan K. Kern, Lexington, KY
Prof. Thomas R. Martin, Worcester, MA
Mr. Eric P. Newman, St. Louis, MO
Mr. Robert Schonwalter, Elizabeth, NJ

Electrum Circle ($500)
Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, Studio City, CA
Mr. David M. Sundman, Littleton, NH
Mr. Thomas C. Wilfred, Gap, PA

Silver Circle ($250)
Mr. William S. Andreas, Marlboro, MA
Prof. Jere Bacharach, Seattle, WA
Mr. William A. Burd, Oaklawn, IL
Mr. Henry C. Chitwood, Old Greenwich, CT
Dr. Lawrence E. Cutler, New York, NY
Mr. Joseph C Foster, Midlothian, VA
Dr. Jay M. Galst, New York, NY
SFC Joel B. Handshu, Charleston, SC
Hon. James A. Hayes, Falls Church, VA
Mr. Joseph R. Lasser, Scarsdale, NY
Mr. John J. Lyons, New York, NY
Mr. Greg I. Milberg, Tucson, AZ
Mr. Herman Miller, New York, NY
Mr. George C. Perkins, New Bedford, MA
Prof. Colin E. Pitchfork, Earlwood, Australia
Mr. Robert A. Robinson, New Canaan, CT
Prof. James H. Schwartz, New York, NY
Mr. Richard B. Witschonke, Palo Alto, CA

Bronze Circle ($100)
Mr. Allan Baldauf, Avon, OH
Ms. Barbara A. Baxter, Baltimore, MD
Dr. Leslie Beer-Tobey, Marblehead, MA
Mr. Allen Berk, New York, NY
Col. Joseph E. Boling RET, Federal Way, WA
Mr. Gerald F. Borrmann, Lafayette, CA
Prof. Richard Brilliant, Scarsdale, NY
Dr. Charles S. Campbell, Salem, OR
Prof. Steven Cerutti, Greenville, NC
Prof. Alan B. Coleman, Sea Ranch, CA
Mr. Arthur Roy Doumaux Jr., Charleston, WV
Mr. Mike Dunigan, Fort Worth, TX
Dr. Jane DeRose Evans, Philadelphia, PA
Mr. John Farquharson, Cheadle Hulme, England
Mr. T. R. Fehrenbach, San Antonio, TX
Mr. David L. Ganz, New York, NY
Dr. Peter P. Gaspar, St. Louis, MO
Mr. John G. Hardgrave, Clovis, CA
Mr. Robert M. Harlick, San Francisco, CA
Mr. John P. Huffman, Silver Spring, MD
Mr. Carl Incorvaia, Croton on Hudson, NY
Prof. C. P. Jones, Cambridge, MA
Mr. Mark Jones, Edinburgh, Scotland
Mr. Joseph F. Keane, Hyde Park, MA
Mr. Ross Larson, St. Louis, MO
Mr. James LaSarre, Greenwood, IN
Dr. Henry Clay Lindgren, San Francisco, CA
Mr. Mehdi Malek, London, Great Britain
Mr. Richard Margolis, Teaneck, NJ
Mr. Stephen D. Marr, Tucson, AZ
Prof. Harold B. Mattingly, Cambridge, England
Mr. William H. McDonald, Willowdale, Canada
Mr. Clifford L. Mishler, Iola, WI
Mr. Richard L. Mole, Carriere, MS
Ms. Mashiko Nakashima, New York, NY
Mr. Frank J. Novak, Atherton, CA
Prof. Gunter Ollenburg, Berlin, Germany
Dr. Franco Panvini-Rosati, Rome, Italy
Mr. John Perdios, Athens, Greece
Mr. Henry Pollak II, New York, NY
Ms. Anne S. Robertson, Glasgow, Scotland
Mr. Robert M. Row, Jasper, TX
Mrs. Margo Russell, Sidney, OH
Dr. Arnold R. Saslow, South Orange, NJ
Mr. C. Barry Schaefer, Greenwich, CT
Mr. Stanley DeForest Scott, New York, NY
Mr. T. V. Shockley III, Dallas, TX
Mr. Roger Siboni, San Francisco, CA
Hon. Abraham D. Sofaer, Palo Alto, CA
Mr. William F. Spengler, Colorado Springs, CO
Ms. Elise Travers, W. Seneca, NY
Mr. Holland W. Wallace III, Weslaco, TX
Mr. Robert A. Weimer, Kansas City, MO
Mr. Kerry K. Wetterstrom, Lancaster, PA
Mr. G. Windfelder, Mainz, Germany
Mr. Douglas A. Winter, Dallas, TX
Mr. Glenn W. Woods, Mesquite, TX