I don’t think I’m dreaming, but I can’t locate an announcement that was posted on ARLIS-L recently concerning photos of commemorative pins that ARLIS has produced over the years.  I have a few of the pins, though not, I think, all.  Who is the person who is coordinating the 50^th anniversary celebration, which will be in Chicago?

I’m attaching a photo I took of all that I have.  (I also took photos of the individual pins.)  Starting with the blue “ARLIS+” at the top, going clockwise, I have identified them as:

1982—Boston (10^th)

1987---Wash., D.C. (15th)

2014—Wash., D.C. (42^nd) –Hirschhorn

2014—Wash., D.C. (42^nd)—Smithsonian

2014—Wash., D.C. (42^nd)—National Gallery of Art

2017—New Orleans (45^th)

2018—New York City (46^th)

Unidentified small bronze-colored pin—was this one produced in connection with a conference or simply as a membership pin?  Anybody know the date?

The gold-colored pin In the middle is for Society Circle members; I think Gregg Most had something to do with it?  In the middle of the pin is the date the Society was established (2003), but I think the pin was produced several years later than that—anyone have this information?  Seems to me there must have been other pins produced?

My first ARLIS/NA conference was 1977 (the 5^th) in Los Angeles.  I guess Janis Ekdahl went to the first conference at Columbia in NYC—though she looks younger than all of us!  Anyone else still around that attended the first?

Sentimentally,

Joan