[Erik P Conard]

If you will send me your snail-mail address, I will copy the NIC's
history as given in my Baird's 18th edition, 1968.
It is about seven pages and there additional histories of NPC, and other associations, 45 pages in all. If you wish those, too,
please advise.
I became chummy with the late John Robson, Sig Ep, who edited
the last editions of Baird's, and was collaborating with him to do
a new one about 1977 or so...We had a huge number of new data plus many corrections. Greeks were going ape--extension
wise--and chapter losses were becoming epidemic. The new undertaking would have been tremendous.
Upon Robson's unwelcome demise, the project languished a few
years then the NIC made a half-hearted attempt at a new one.
It not only was expensive, out of reach for many retireds, and of
undergrads, and hardly on the preferred list for many universtity
libraries. And, it was a REAL disappointment. I would doubt that
there will ever be another for several reasons, as the greeks have grown apart themselves in mission and identity and the
undertaking would be a nigh-impossibility...and certainly not
something the imploding NIC would want to tackle, either.
The 18th and previous editions are good references, though.
Please advise. Interfraternally, EPC