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It subsequently developed that he was too busy to take on the burdens of the chairmanship of the conference but suggested McDavid, whom I knew, as I had engaged him in the early 1960s as a consultant to the Random House Dictionary . McDavid agreed to become involved, came to New York, and brought Audrey Duckert (of Amherst, Massachusetts) into the picture as his associate.
McDavid's further description of the origins of the New York Academy of Sciences [NYAS] conference are a curate's egg of fact: the facts remain as recorded (I trust) in the files of the NYAS, to wit: In the mid 1960s, as a member of the NYAS (and, as far as I know, the only person associated with the conference who was a member before, during, and after it), I approached the Executive Director of the NYAS, Eunice Thomas Miner, suggesting a conference on lexicography in English.
In the Opening Remarks referred to, Raven McDavid did not actually give Sledd credit for suggesting the subject conference but the idea, of another one.
Major contributors include: Jackson Kelly; the Segal Law Firm; Bowles, Rice, McDavid, Graff & Love; Spilman, Thomas & Battle; Bordas & Bordas; DiTrapano, Barrett & DiPiero; the West Virginia State Bar; and Hill, Peterson, Carper, Bee & Deitzler.
Ltd.), McDavid's casual reference to the Academy's organizational and other help, while not atypical, is a bit of a low blow.
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