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 50th 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 (10th)
1987---Wash., D.C. (15th)
2014—Wash., D.C. (42nd) –Hirschhorn
2014—Wash., D.C. (42nd)—Smithsonian
2014—Wash., D.C. (42nd)—National Gallery of Art
2017—New Orleans (45th)
2018—New York City (46th)
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 5th) 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
