65 Notes/PPC Journal

[Jake Schwartz]

(11-25-2014 02:17 PM)klacombe Wrote:  I have a question about the missing PPC Members Handbook #1. It is listed as being included with Issue 4 of Volume 4 but only the first 2 pages and the last 3 pages of the handbook are there. Are the missing ~40 pages available somewhere else? Thanks in advance for any help with this -Kevin

Hi,

As you can see from the included index on page 2, the missing sections of that first member handbook were the PPC membership list in member-number order, zip code order and alphabetical name order. The omission of the pages was at the request of Richard Nelson, who thought that by 1998 (when the pages were being scanned), a large percentage of the addresses would be obsolete and therefore practically useless. I think that he also might have been worried about spreading the info around without getting the permission of the individuals. At the top of page 2, Richard writes: "This information, especially the membership list, should be held in confidence." Now that it is practically four decades later, it probably has more historical significance. I should consider dragging the printed book off my shelf and scanning the remaining pages.

It is off topic, but I should also mention that the 300+ pages of material from the HHC2014 conference have now been added to the archive disk, along with a corresponding update to the included 5-way conference index.

Jake