Re: AIS Seal - Reprise

[John I Jones <jijones@usjoneses.com>]

BTW just FYI, my copy of TWOI (third printing of the 1978 version)  
has the (incorrectly dated) seal on the preface page.

John


On Nov 3, 2010, at 7:44 AM, Harold Stahly wrote:

> John;
>
> I have been looking for dated materials using the AIS logo as it  
> now appears.  The earliest use that I have found is in the Judges  
> Handbook dated 1960.  The front cover shows the stylized iris that  
> is incorporated in the logo.  Inside on page 1 (page number not  
> printed) the complete logo appears prominently.  The founding date  
> is printed as 1920. A "Handbook for Regional Vice  
> Presidents" (dated 1962) also has the stylized iris on the cover  
> and the full logo on the first page, also with the date 1920. AIS  
> letterheads from the 1970s all show the logo with the correct  
> date.  When I chaired the 1976 AIS convention we had some small  
> paperweights made showing the logo dated 1920.  All of these seem  
> to be identical to the logo in current use.  The only incorrectly  
> dated logos I have seen in print are on the dust jackets of the  
> first edition of TWOI (1978) and the second printing (1986).  
> Neither of these volumes appears to have the logo printed within  
> the book itself.
>
> I now am suspecting that the logo has not been revised since its  
> origin in the 1950s, and that the aberrant use of "1921" is an  
> error that somehow escaped detection.
>
> Hal
>
> On Nov 1, 2010, at 3:56 PM, John I Jones wrote:
>
> > The current seal (or logo) was designed in the mid fifties and  
> > first published in Garden Irises in 1959. However that particular  
> > version had 1921 as the date instead of 1920 the correct founding  
> > date for the society.
> >
> > Some time afterwards the seal was re-rendered to incorporate the  
> > correct date. The 1921 dated version was used as recently as 1978  
> > in the reprint of TWOI.  We have copies of the correct one, but I  
> > would like to find when it was first published.
>
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