Council Elects New Fellows

At its meeting on April 18, the Council of the ANS elected nine new Fellows bringing the number of voting members of the Society to 195.
Curtis Clay of Oak Park, IL, has been an Associate since 1963. A student of the late C. H. V. Sutherland, Clay was formerly research assistant to A. Alföldi. He is considered a leading authority on Roman imperial coinage, particularly of the Severan period and has written the standard articles on the date and purpose of medallic issues, the coinage of Macrinus, and contorniates. Long a resident in Vienna, he is now in Chicago where he is employed at Harlan J. Berk, Ltd.
Jane DeRose Evans, Associate Professor of Art History at Temple University, Philadelphia, has been a member of the ANS since 1983. Prof. Evans is the author of The Art of Persuasion: Political Propaganda from Aeneas to Brutus (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992) and numerous articles in ANSMN, Quaderni Ticinesi, and elsewhere. She also serves as excavation numismatist for Caesara Maritima (Israel). She is an alumna of the 1983 ANS Graduate Seminar and currently is President pro-tem of the Seminar alumni association.
Richard Giedroyc, an Associate since 1978, lives in Sidney, OH, where he is employed as International Editor of Coin World, the coin hobby weekly newspaper. In this capacity, he has "covered" the ANS for many years and has proven himself a knowledgeable and accurate reporter. A collector in his own right, Giedroyc is a frequent and thoughtful contributor to the ANS Library and to the Medals cabinet.
Ruth Mazzo Karras, a resident of Philadelphia, PA, has been an Associate of the ANS since 1983. Prof. Karras received her Ph.D. from Yale University and is an alumna of the 1983 ANS Graduate Seminar. Currently Associate Professor of History at Temple University, she has published in the Society's journal and participated in the Metallurgy in Numismatics Conference at the British Museum. She is an active member of the Medieval Committee at the ANS.
Jonathan K. Kern, an Associate Member since 1975, lives in Lexington, KY. A well-known coin dealer who frequents all the big shows, Jonathan Kern is a long-standing supporter of the ANS. A consistent member of the Society's Gold Circle as well as a loyal and generous contributor to the Annual Giving appeal, he sets the example for support of the ANS by American dealers. He was named a Sponsor of the Society in 1990.
Frank L. Kovacs III of San Mateo, CA, joined the ANS in 1970 as an Associate. A dealer in ancient coins, Kovacs has been generous to the Society as a donor to the Greek and Roman Departments, by encouraging collectors to become more familiar with the ANS and its goals, and by being a valuable contact with our West Coast members based on his numerous trips to NYC. He is co-author with ANS Curator Michael Bates of an article in the Numismatic Chronicle 1996. Kovacs is also considered an authority on authenticity and methods of conservation.
Catherine C. Lorber, an Associate of the ANS since 1994, resides in Woodland Hills, CA. Ms. Lorber worked for many years as a professional numismatist, principally with NFA in California and is now active mainly as a consultant and an independent researcher. Her publication credits include, in addition to numerous auction catalogues, Amphipolis: The Civic Coinage in Silver and Gold (Los Angeles: NFA, 1990) and Treasures of Ancient Coinage from the Private Collections of ANS Members (1996). With Arthur A. Houghton, she is completing a comprehensive catalogue of Seleucid coin varieties intended to stand as the principal reference on the subject for scholars and collectors. She is also working on an English language, updated edition of J. Svoronos, The Coins of the Ptolemies, a book long out of print and difficult for collectors to use in its Greek language edition. She has also published on Macedonian weight standards and on the coinage of Larissa in Thessaly.
Joseph Veach Noble, a resident of Maplewood, NJ, has been an Associate of the ANS since 1987 and became a Life Member in 1995. Mr. Noble was Assistant Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art before becoming Director of the Museum of the City of New York. He is President Emeritus of Brookgreen Gardens, established by Archer P. Huntington, and has for some years been the Director of the Society of Medalists. In this capacity, he presented a history of that organization and its medallic issues at the 1987 COAC. He is a frequent participant and speaker at FIDEM Congresses and serves on the Society's Saltus Medal Committee.
Harriet Schwartz-Crew of Acton, MA, has been an Associate Member of the Society since 1981. Ms. Schwartz-Crew attended the 1981 ANS Graduate Seminar and was the recipient of the Society's Dissertation Fellowship in 1982/3 working on "The Coinage of the Last Dynasty of Mauretania." She has done excavation work on University of Michigan projects in Carthage and Tel Anafa (Israel) and was a supervisor at the University of Colorado/University of Georgia site in Carthage. For the last 15 years she has worked on software development projects at every level from user documentation to product design, first for Pegasystems Inc. and currently for Atex Media Solutions. Since 1994 she has been the International Editor for Numismatic Literature and has overseen the editing and production of volumes 132 to date.
The ANS welcomes these nine dedicated members as Fellows of the Society, a class of membership limited in number to 200.


Corresponding Members Elected

The Society's Council elected three new Corresponding Members at its April 18 meeting, bringing to 68 the number of foreign scholars associated with the Society through this honorary class of membership.
Michael Alram, Curator in the Münz-kabinett, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, is a specialist in Sasanian coins who has also published a monograph on the coinage of Maximinus in the Moneta Imperii Romani series and is a leading authority on ancient Persian coinage. His major work to date is Iranisches Namenbuch, published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, to which he was elected to represent the Viennese Institut für Numismatic in succession to the late Robert Göbl. Michael Alram was the Visiting Scholar for the 1997 ANS Graduate Seminar.
Rika Gyselen, a research scholar at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, has been well known in the field of Sasanian coinage for many years. She made an extended visit to the ANS in the 1980s. Dr. Gyselen has worked closely with Raoul Curiel, Ludvig Kalus, and Phillipe Gignoux, three leading French experts in early medieval Iranian studies, publishing numerous joint articles with them. One of the finest contemporary scholars in the field of Sasanian numismatics, sigillography, and geography, Dr. Gyselen not only produces a stream of books and articles, she is a great leader of scholarly activity, as head of a CNRS equipe, as organizer of conferences, as journal editor, and as compiler and editor of festschrifts. Among her significant works are Catalogue des sceaux, camées et bulles sassanides de la Bibliothèque Nationaleet du Musée du Louvre, I: Collection générale. (Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1993); Une collection de monnaies de cuivre arabo-sasanides, Studia Iranica 2 [with Raoul Curiel] (Paris, 1984); and her principal study on La géographie administrative de l'empire sassanide: Les témoignages sigillographiques. Res Orientales I (Paris, 1989).
Giovanni Gorini, Professor at University of Padua, is a member of the International Numismatic Commission. He has written extensively in virtually all areas of ancient and medieval coinage. Currently he is coordinating editor of Ritrovamenti monetali di Età Romana nel Veneto, a series of publications of coin finds in the Veneto comparable to FMRD. Prof. Gorini was the Visiting Scholar for the 1994 ANS Graduate Seminar.
The ANS is proud to recognize these three outstanding scholars who have contributed significantly to the discipline.


New Members Welcomed

At its meeting on April 18, 1998, the Society's Council elected 33 new Associate Members of the ANS and reinstated four Associates. The newly elected members are:
T. Steven Barlow, Birmingham, AL
Amin Bassrei, Salvador BA, Brazil
James A. Biancarosa, Lindenhurst, NY
Keith Candiotti, Miami Beach, FL
Douglas M. Carlson, Naples, FL
Richard A. Christie, Penticton, Canada
Adam Connell, Lakehurst, NJ
Dick Eidswick, Ann Arbor, MI
Steven Ellsworth, Clifton, VA
Jose M. Fonseca, New York, NY
Joe Gianninoto, Mountain View, CA
Peter Grieve, Logan, UT
Thomas J. Hildebrandt, Shaker Heights, OH
Edward C. D. Hopkins, Fairborn, OH
Eric Karell, Downers Grove, IL
Nechemia Katzman, Kew Gardens, NY
Andrew Kaye, Flushing, NY
Robert Koch, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Simcha L. Kuritzky, Silver Spring, MD
Susan Y. H. Lau, New York, NY
Robert J. Merchant Jr., Cocoa, FL
Yianni Nikolis, New York, NY
Richard Pieper, New York, NY
Paolo Pitotto, Torino, Italy
George J. Polizio, Astoria, NY
Chris Rose, Cedar Grove, NJ
John H. Rosengren, Ridgewood, NJ
Arturo Russo, Zurich, Switzerland
Linda N. Schapiro, New York, NY
James A. Schnur, Phoenix, AZ
Leland W. Schubert, Far Hills, NJ
Helena Sullivan, New York, NY
Fred Truex, North Hills, CA

Reinstated Members

    Michael M. Bird, Riverside, CA
    Christopher T. Connell, Lakehurst, NJ
    Paul F. L. DeGroot, Calgary, Canada
    Michael Ierardi, Hamilton, Canada


Associate membership in the ANS is open to all with an interest in numismatics. Members receive a range of benefits including the Society's annual journal, the American Journal of Numismatics, and are informed about forthcoming events and opportunities through receipt of the quarterly ANSNewsletter and special mailings. An added benefit instituted in 1997 and continued this year provides members the opportunity to receive a free subscription to the Colonial Newsletter, a journal devoted to the numismatic history of the United States in the pre-Federal period, which was donated to the ANS by the CNL Foundation as of last year. Three issues of CNL appear each year.

New Life Members

At its April meeting, the Council recorded the following conversions to Life Membership in the ANS:

Steven Ellsworth, Clifton, VA (Assoc. 1998); Gregory Gajda, Mt. Prospect, IL (Assoc. 1998); I. Edward Price, Livingston, NJ (Assoc. 1988, Fellow, 1994); Martin A. Rizack, Teaneck, NJ (Assoc. 1977); and Edward J. Waddell, Gaithersburg, MD (Assoc. 1971).


All ANS members have the option to convert to Life Membership by the one-time payment of $1,000. Life Associates and Life Fellows are excused from the payment of annual dues and thus are spared any increase in dues.


Patron, Sponsors Recorded

At its April meeting, the Council took pleasure in recording Mr. Herman Miller of New York City as a Patron of the Society in honor of his gifts to the collections aggregating over $50,000. Mr. Miller, a member of the ANS since 1971, was elected a Fellow in 1993.
Named as Sponsors of the Society in recognition of giving at the $10,000 level were The Arete Foundation of Philadelphia, PA, and John-Platt Enterprises, Inc., New York, NY. The Society is grateful to these generous supporters of its mission.


ANS Circle Memberships
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 enjoy increased benefits and discounts while providing additional, much needed support for our organization.
The very fine ANS "Signature" Tote Bag, which proved so popular when issued in limited quantities in 1994, is now available as our gift to all ANS members joining an ANS Circle in 1998. Members signing up as a Gold, Electrum, Silver, or Bronze Circle Member for 1998 will receive this attractive and sturdy bag in addition to the other benefits enjoyed by Circle Members. This bag, which features the distinctive ANS logo, identifies one as a contributing member of this world-renowned organization.
The Society expresses appreciation to the following members who have joined the Gold, Electrum, Silver, and Bronze Circles for 1998 through April 18:

Circle ($1,000)
 Lawrence A. Adams, Studio City, CA
Glen W. Bowersock, Princeton, NJ
Kenneth L. Edlow, New York, NY
Sidney W. Harl, Glen Cove, NY
Arthur A. Houghton III, Washington, DC
Jonathan K. Kern, Lexington, KY
Thomas R. Martin, Worcester, MA
Clifford L. Mishler, Iola, WI
Eric P. Newman, St. Louis, MO
Donald G. Partrick, Islandia, NY
Stephen K. Scher, Clifton, NJ

Electrum Circle ($500)
 Dorothy Budd Bartle, Caldwell, NJ
Gerald F. Borrmann, Lafayette, CA
Lawrence E. Cutler, New York, NY
David Menchell, Fresh Meadows, NY
J. Roy Pennell Jr., Anderson, SC
Hans R. Voegtli, Dornach,Switzerland
Thomas C. Wilfred, Gap, PA
Frederic G. Withington, New York, NY

Silver Circle ($250)
 Arthur I. Appleton, Wilmette, IL
Jere Bacharach, Seattle, WA
William A. Burd, Chicago, IL
Tony Carlotto, Sheffield, MA
Martha Carter, Madison, WI
Joseph C. Foster, Midlothian, VA
Jay M. Galst, New York, NY
Robert M. Harlick, San Francisco, CA
Reed Hawn, Austin, TX
Frank L. Kovacs III, San Mateo, CA
Joseph R. Lasser, Scarsdale, NY
William J. Leitold, New York, NY
Robert D. Leonard Jr., Winnetka, IL
Mehdi Malek, London, Great Britain
Andrew E. Michyeta III, Riverside, IL
Herman Miller, New York, NY
Robert W. Newman, Springdale, CT
Jesse Patrick, Santa Rosa, CA
John C. Pottage, Chicago, IL
James F. Rogers, Newtown, CT
Robert Ronus, Los Angeles, CA
Jonathan P. Rosen, New York, NY
Homer A. Thompson, Heightstown, NJ
Cornelius C. Vermeule III, Cambridge, MA
Kerry K. Wetterstrom, Lancaster, PA
G. Michael Woloch, Outremont, Canada
Albert J. Zaloom, Norwood, NJ

Bronze Circle ($100)
 David Thomason Alexander, Mahopac, NY
R. G. Arrowsmith, Old Lyme, CT
Ernst Badian, Cambridge, MA
Cecilia Bakula PhD, Lima, Peru
Allan Baldauf, Avon, OH
T. Steven Barlow, Birmingham, AL
John M. Barnes, Sherman Oaks, CA
Bruce D. Bartelt, Thiensville, WI
Barbara A. Baxter, Baltimore, MD
Allen Berk, New York, NY
John T. Bolger, Waukesha, WI
Joseph E. Boling RET, Federal Way, WA
Mark R. Borckardt, Wolfeboro, NH
Charles E. Brandt, Austin, TX
Richard Brilliant, Scarsdale, NY
Patrick Magnus Bruun, Helsinki, Finland
Timothy Buchanan, Harrisburg, PA
Alfred Buonaguro, Brandywine, MD
John P. Burnham, Old Saybrooke, CT
Michael F. Capen, Blacksburg, VA
Philip J. Carrigan, Round Lake, IL
Manuel Casanueva, Santiago, Chile
Gary M. Davidson, Johnstown, PA
Adnan Djaroueh, Aleppo, Syria
Douglas Domingo-Foraste, Irvine, CA
Arthur Roy Doumaux Jr., Charleston, WV
Sheridan Downey III, Oakland, CA
Mike Dunigan, Fort Worth, TX
Ellis Edlow, Pompano Beach, FL
Brian Lewis Edlow, New York, NY
Donald W. Edlow, Owings Mills, MD
Leonard J. Elmer, New York, NY
William L. Esposito, Bayshore, NY
Jane DeRose Evans, Philadelphia, PA
John Farquharson, Cheadle Hulme, Great Britain
T. R. Fehrenbach, San Antonio, TX
James A. Ferrendelli, Houston, TX
William R. Fielder, Atherton, CA
Gregory Gajda, Mt. Prospect, IL
David L. Ganz, New York, NY
Mike Gasvoda, Crown Point, IN
Marny A. Gilluly, Washington, DC
Cynthia M. Harrison, Bryn Mawr, PA
David Hendin, Nyack, NY
Ira Hirschhorn, New York, NY
Roger A. Hornsby, Greenville, NC
Raymond Huckles, Williamsville, NY
John P. Huffman, Silver Spring, MD
Mico Kaufman, North Tewksbury, MA
Omar S. Khudari, Cambridge, MA
Daniel L. Koppersmith, Houston, TX
John H. Kroll, Austin, TX
Hans A. Land, Washington, DC
Julian M. Leidman, Silver Spring, MD
Henry Clay Lindgren, San Francisco, CA
Richard Margolis, Teaneck, NJ
Richard Gordon McAlee, Crofton, MD
Emmett McDonald, Islip, NY
William H. McDonald, Willowdale, Canada
Ino Michaelidou-Nicolaou, Nicosia, Cyprus
Greg I. Milberg, Tucson, AZ
Leo Mildenberg, Zurich, Switzerland
Richard P. Miller, Troy, MI
Robert G. Mueller, New York, NY
Barbara C. Murphy, Kirkwood, MO
Mashiko Nakashima, New York, NY
Arlette Negre, Paris, France
Franklin L. Noel, Minneapolis, MN
David W. Norini, Minneapolis, MN
David L. Palmer, Deer Park, NY
Henry Pollak II, New York, NY
Elwood Rafn, St. Paul, MN
Ellen D. Reeder, Baltimore, MD
Dennis L. Ridings, White Post, VA
Robert A. Robinson, New Canaan, CT
Agustin A. Rodriguez-Gonzalez, San Juan, PR
Robert M. Row, Jasper, TX
Isaac Rudman, Miami, FL
Margo Russell, Sidney, OH
Arturo Russo, Zurich, Switzerland
Faith Ford Sandstrom, Coconut Grove, Miami, FL
Arnold R. Saslow, South Orange, NJ
Linda N. Schapiro, New York, NY
Louis Clifford Schroeder, Richmond, VA
Leland W. Schubert, Far Hills, NJ
Stephanie A. Schultz, Lodi, WI
Stanley DeForest Scott, New York, NY
Stuart D. Sears, New York, NY
T. V. Shockley III, Dallas, TX
Roger Siboni, Summit, NJ
Mr. Warren B. Snow, Merrimack, NH
Ralph R. Sonnenschein, Malibu, CA
William F. Spengler, Colorado Springs, CO
Philip Sperber, New Rochelle, NY
Barry W. Stallard, Livermore, CA
Richard C. Striley, Buena Park, CA
William H. Sudbrink, Rutherford, NJ
Tuukka Talvio, Helsinki, Finland
Anthony J. Taraszka, Portage, MI
David E. Tripp, Stuyvesant, NY
Paul Peter Urone, Citrus Heights, CA
Joao Felippe Vianna, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Alan S. Walker, Zurich, Switzerland
William B. Warden Jr., New Hope, PA
John A. Weibel, Staten Island, NY
Robert A. Weimer, Towson, MD
Beth G. Weingast, New Rochelle, NY
Walter Weise, Muhlheim/Main, Germany
H. D. Wesely II, Angels Camp, CA
Richard A. Whittington, Miami, FL
G. Windfelder, Gelsenkirchen-Buer, Germany
Glenn W. Woods, Dallas, TX
David G. L. Worland, Bayview, Australia
Carlos B. Zapata, Lima, Peru