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Pandora's box opening here......beware....
Pin/badge collectors are extremely interested in this and would love to see a new edition of Baird's. One collector is currently selling a cd-rom on ebay of the first five editions of Baird's. He manually scanned five books and is selling it for pennies. Take a look. (I have no affiliation with this person)
Pin collectors use the books to look up chapters and figure out where badges came from and what year. Many of them are very knowledgeable about lots of groups (some are experts on extinct groups, others in Yale Societies etc). Some of these people even collect (gasp) rituals. Nothing new there - been done before by the guy who wrote a thesis on it. They are read for historical interest.
I personally know a half a dozen people who would volunteer to work on this project. All of whom are regional or national volunteers and officers of their fraternity. Of course the next Baird's would have to be done on cd-rom. The amount of paper needed would be cost prohibitive.
ebayfan
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