The annual NSS membership list has just been distributed (about five
months late). There are interesting statistics about NSS membership on
pages 65-67, worth calling to your attention, because I suspect most
members never look at the miscellaneous stuff in the front of the
book. Among other things, 787xx (Austin) is in the top ten three-digit
ZIPs in NSS membership, with 92 NSS members. Top in the list is 300xx,
with 220. That would be Atlanta and vicinity. (300 seems to cover a
lot of suburbs of Atlanta, whereas all the 787 addresses are actually
Austin.) Eight-five NSS members have listed the UT Grotto as their
"primary affiliation.". This is for purposes of allocating votes in
the Congress of Grottos at NSS conventions, although so far as I know
the UTG has never participated in living memory. There are twelve NSS
groups with more NSS members than UTG (the Cave Diving Section has
1,022!), but many of them require NSS membership of their members. The
lowest NSS number of a Texas NSS member is 509. Texas is among the top
ten states, with 488 NSS members.
This year's membership list is sorted by states, which makes it
relatively easy for a group to see who in its area might need to be
contacted with information about the club. One thing I was struck by
when looking through Texas is the number of names with 787xx that I
don't recognize. Of course, that doesn't mean I wouldn't recognize the
faces; there is unfortunately little opportunity to learn peoples'
names at meetings of fifty or events of four hundred. I'm bad about
remembering names, too. Name tags seem Mickey Mouse, but....
--Mixon
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