P3D Demographics

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In a message dated 09/10/98 21:29:34 GMT, Bill C Walton wrote:

<< Now I know why my 90 year old golfing buddy calls everyone under 70
 "Sonny".  I don't believe I am the oldest member of P3D, but maybe some
 of the other Senior Experienced Stereographers (SES) don't want to admit
 their age/whatever.  
 
 I will be 68 in February, which of course does not come close to the
 "Godfather of Stereo" Paul Wing.  At 85 I think he is one of the oldest
 active SESs.  I know that Dr Markley, in the SSA Alfa Transparency folio,
 is older than Paul, but I don't think his stereo activities can compare
 to Paul's.>>

Well, I can think of at least one SES: John Singleton of the Stereoscopic
Society. He's over 90, now and insists on coming to the committee meetings,
despite a stroke that left him with limited use of one arm. At our last
meeting he brought up the extended period of membership of the society by Paul
Wing whose membership number of 385 shows him to be of very long standing in
the society. John's number is 302, and HE joined in 1934...

For the record, we made an Honorary Award to both Paul and another SES - Jean
Soulas of the French SCF - at the Atlanta ISU convention.

Incidentally, there are 5 members of the Stereoscopic Society who joined
before 1960. I joined in 1978, and for the record, will be 50 in December.

I started taking stereo in 1973 on a trip to Arizona, Lake Powell and the
Grand Canyon, having seen a Wray Stereo Graphic camera and viewer set in a
camera shop in South London for £25 ($70 at the time). I can't remember how,
but I knew what the camera was for - I just didn't know they existed until I
saw it!

Bob Aldridge


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