[Stargate] Stargate's official date

[Hillary Greenslade]

> Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 01:59:24 -0500
> From: Charlene Charette <clclists1 at earthlink.net>
> Subject: [Stargate] Stargate's official date
> To: Barony of Stargate <stargate at lists.ansteorra.org>
>
> For the benefit of those who are curious...
> 
> Tonight at populace we discussed when is Stargate's 35th anniversary -- 
> 2007 or 2008?  Out of curiosity, I went through the old BOD records. 
> The old records on groups are spotty, at best; procedures were a lot 
> less structured and several times the BoD attempted to compile a list of 
> all official groups in the Known World (a process that usually took 3-6 
> months).
> 
> A list was compiled in 1976.  At that time Stargate was listed as 
> "existing prior to 1972".  The next major list compilation occurred in 
> 1990.  On that list, Stargate's "made official" date was listed as 8/72 
> with the source being "Kingdom files".  I have yet to obtain copies of 
> the BOD mins prior to 1973, so I can't try to verify it that way.
> 
> --Perronnelle
> 
You may want to see if Deitrich has any records from the Heralds files. 
Hillary