Jeff Garrett will be sworn in as the next president of the American Numismatic Association Aug. 14 at a banquet to be held during the World’s Fair of Money in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, Ill.Jeff Garrett will be sworn is as the president of the American Numismatic Association on Aug. 14.He was elected without opposition. Results were released by the ANA July 6.Gary Adkins will take office as vice president. He, too, had no electoral opposition.Lack of opposition is not unusual in ANA elections when there is no crisis to galvanize candidates. However, there were 12 candidates to fill seven board seats.Of the dozen who ran, Col. Steve Ellsworth topped the field with 3,705 votes. He is a newcomer.Ellsworth was followed by Dr. Donald H. Kagin with a tally of 3,451. Kagin had two terms of previous board service in 2003-2007.Outgoing President Walter Ostromecki Jr. stays on the board as a governor with a total of 3,319.Dr. Ralph Ross of Sugar Land, Texas, won re-election with 2,982 as did Greg Lyon of St. Louis, Mo. with 2,746 votes.Thomas A. Mulvaney of Lexington, Ky., returns to the board. He had taken a seat upon the resignation of Mike Ellis early this year.Paul Montgomery joins the board for the first time with 2,407 votes.Though he failed to win a seat, Brian Hendelson of Bridgewater, N.J., with his 2,221 votes earn him what is often called the bridesmaid position. If any of the seven top winners cannot finish their term, he will be the one tapped to do so. This was the stepping stone to the board taken by Mulvaney.Christopher Marchase of Colorado Springs, Colo., received 2,006 votes, Oded Paz of Arco, Idaho got 1,950, Richard Jozefiak of Madison, Ala., had 1,872 and Steve D’Ippolito of Peyton, Colo., got 1,844 votes. Donald Scarinci’s Coin of the Year honors 30 years of the prestigious awards and features full images of all the winners.There were 20,343 ANA members eligible to vote, but only 5,424 exercised that right.This figure is down from 5,542 who voted in 2013 and extends a declining trend line.A small number of ANA members voted electronically. The tally of these was 473 of the 5,424 votes cast. This number was also less than the 2013 total of 505.To vote, individuals had to be at least 13 years of age and completed one year of membership by March 31, 2015.Swearing in of the new board members for their two-year terms will also occur Aug. 14. - See more at: http://www.numismaticnews.net/artic...mid=767013&rid=238149094#sthash.owpE6ucH.dpuf
Good write up Frank . I wish Mike Ellis stayed on as he was good for the hobby , though I'm sure the newer ones will be too .
The only reason why I keep my membership current is because of the magazine.........I'm beginning to question my association.
I thought they've got their house in a little better order , but I know what you mean Ken . If it wasn't for the mag I might quit , though I think it would be worth it if I took advantage of some of their courses . Just wish they'd move them to different venues around the country . Colorado is just too far when you add in the housing for a 2 -3 week set of courses .
it's out of reach for most financially. If it were closer I would for sure take advantage of the courses.
Taking courses on the road is something the ANA is working to do. We have three courses coming up at the World's Fair of Money. Earlier this year, we offered pre-convention seminars at the National Money Show in Portland, at the January FUN Show in Orlando and at the Michigan States Numismatic Society show back in April (that one actually got cancelled because of low enrollment, but we're hoping to try another one there in the spring). These courses generally work best when paired with a show or convention. Are there any shows in your area that we should take a look at?
Oh, almost forgot about one other option for you -- the ANA Diploma Program includes six different numismatic correspondence courses. Learn more at: https://www.money.org/diploma-program Long-range plans are to eventually offer these as online courses.
That will be nice, it should lower the cost to offer the courses and let folks who can't leave home for an extended period of time take advantage. Would love to keep informed on this. When you say long range, how long of a range we talkin' ?
We're talking years still, unfortunately. The education department is currently in the middle of a curriculum review for each of the six correspondence courses. The plan is to review two courses each year over a three-year period. Once those are done, then they start developing the courses for the web. When I say "in the middle," I mean literally -- three are done, three still to go. So another 18 months on that. After that, I'm not sure how long it will take to develop for the web. It's gotta be something more than just slapping a PDF of a book on the web, you know? But is it with a live instructor? Is it a hybrid of online readings and video tutorials? Is it all of the above? Those are the big questions that have to be answered, and to my knowledge they haven't been asked quite yet.
