ASYLUM EDITOR DAVID YOON MOVES ON

With mixed feelings, I have to announce that this is the last issue of The Asylum for which I will serve as managing editor. When I began in 2007, I was working mostly as an editor, and the other work that I had left me enough free time to fit in The Asylum four times a year without much difficulty. However, I have since accumulated other roles and other work projects, both numismatic and archaeological, and it is increasingly difficult for me to spare the time to work on The Asylum. With partial responsibility for three excavation reports plus two or three other major projects in the queue, something had to go. As a result, I decided a few months ago to submit my resignation as managing editor to the NBS Board.

However, despite the practical necessity for this change, I will miss working with the many talented and helpful members of the NBS who have made my editorial work so interesting, educational, and enjoyable. I am very grateful to all who have submitted articles during the past several years, who uncomplainingly accepted my editorial interventions and almost always answered queries and checked proofs more promptly than I had any right to expect.

In addition to all the writers, I have to thank the people who have made my task of finding articles and turning them into a finished product so much easier. Producing a publication like The Asylum is very much a team effort; my thanks go to all those who have helped behind the scenes in many ways, including the late Rick Witschonke as well as John Adams, Joel Orosz, David Sundman, George Kolbe, Bob Leonard, Liz Benge, Lisa McCullough, Terry White, and especially Wendy Joseffy.

Fortunately, the NBS has found a very skilled replacement for me: Maria Fanning, whose excellent work on Kolbe & Fanning catalogues will be familiar to many of you. I have updated the contact information at the back of this issue to reflect the new editorship. Maria will take over the e-mail address that I set up for use as editor of The Asylum: nbsasylum@gmail.com. For traditional postal mail, Maria can be reached at Kolbe & Fanning:

Maria Fanning, Editor, The Asylum
141 W. Johnstown Rd
Gahanna, OH 43230
(614) 414-0855

I am not leaving the world of numismatics, and I expect I will continue to work with many of you in connection with other numismatic projects. For the future, I can be reached at my American Numismatic Society e-mail: dyoon@numismatics.org.

Elizabeth Hahn Benge will be continuing in her role as Editor-in-Chief during this transition. I hope you will support Liz and Maria with an abundance of new articles to keep The Asylum full of exciting, entertaining, and important new research, commentary, and ponderings on numismatic literature and the history of numismatics during the years to come.

David Yoon

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