Abstract

My association with ANS began with my membership in 1952 and that has been the major part of my professional experience outside of the classroom. Kelsie Harder and his wife Louise accompanied me through a major portion of my early career and even enlivened what otherwise was a very pleasant experience. I was assistant editor of Names for two years (1960-61) and editor for four years (1962-65). Back in 1960 Demetrius Georgacas edited the journal, but decided to live in Greece the following year and he depended on me entirely to publish the four 1961 issues. As an old lexicographer myself I understood his inhuman commitment to the Greek Dictionary (which he did eventually publish). I grinned and bore it because, after all, the printer in Heidelberg had been doing such beautiful work, I thought, that we should be able to manage. My three subsequent years as editor appeared to be ok, but in 1963, with an ACLS grant and still another from my own institution, Fairleigh Dickinson University, I journeyed to the Amsterdam meeting of the International Congress of Onomastic Sciences and on the way stopped by to say hello to our printer who was accustomed to instant printing; that is, without ever sending me copy to proof. For a while that seemed to work since I had the impression that somebody at the printer's was fluent in English (probably the boss) and responsible for reliable printing of whatever copy I shipped over. Imagine my surprise that by then (1963) there had been a change, a very important change. In Heidelberg I was introduced to the person then assigned to the final printing of Names and I discovered that he knew absolutely no English. I prayed for divine help and with profound doubts found my way back to New Jersey. The upshot was that the president of Fairleigh

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