MORE ON ANA LIBRARIAN NANCY GREEN

I was saddened to learn of the recent death of Nancy Green. We first met when the ANA convention was in Denver in 1996. She attended the NBS meeting and we talked a few times later in the convention.

We both had our roots in Minnesota. She attended the University of Minnesota and later worked in the university library. I did not know her then.

I served as president of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society during 2001 to 2007. That nearly coincided with Nancy's second period as ANA Librarian from 2001 to 2008. Thus we had an institutional connection that developed into a strong friendship.

For a few years Nancy and I tried to schedule a lunch or dinner during the ANA conventions. When the convention was in Manhattan in 2002, we had lunch at a nearby cafeteria that sold food by weight.

If you stand on the corner long enough in Times Square, eventually everyone in the world will pass by. As Nancy and I were crossing Broadway back to the convention, we met Wayne Homren coming in the other direction.

In 2003, the convention was in Baltimore. Nancy and I caught a quick supper in the food court of a nearby shopping complex. We hurried back to the convention to watch an auction where the Adams-Carter 1804 dollar was sold.

When the ANA Convention returned to Denver in 2006, Nancy placed an exhibit, "Libraries and Numismatics, Or How One Collector Found a Niche." This earned a second place in the "General or Specialized" Class. More important, she won the award that year as "Best First Time Exhibitor."

I recall that one of her responsibilities at the ANA was to compile the annual index for The Numismatist. So, what do two records management geeks talk about. In some cases they talk about indexing periodicals. That is now a feature I miss in the publication.

After she retired from the ANA the second time, she continued to attend conventions for a few years working as a volunteer at the message center. She moved with her husband to Pagosa Springs, Colorado, and was a volunteer there at the Chimney Rock Archaeological Area for more than twenty years.

She was Nancy Ann West, born in Blackduck, Minnesota, a town of about 750 population, on June 14, 1947. Her father was a staff forester with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and her mother was a nurse. She graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1969 with a major in Sociology.

Shortly after graduation, on June 8, 1969, she married John Edward Stith. He had graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in Physics. As a 1 st lieutenant, he served in the United States Air Force from 1969 to 1973. His first assignment took the couple to Alaska for a year. Nancy worked there at an early warning radar site.

John Stith was reassigned to Colorado Springs in 1970 to work in the NORAD Cheyenne Mountain Complex. Nancy went on to receive a master's degree in Library Science from the University of Denver in 1975. She began to work at the ANA in 1976 as their cataloguing librarian. She replaced Geneva Karlson as ANA Librarian in 1979 and remained until 1990.

Nancy and John Stith were divorced in 1979. In 1981 she married Ron Green. They had a son, Andrew Wesley Green, who graduated from the California Institute of Technology in 2006 with a degree in astrophysics and worked at the Australian Astronomical Observatory. Nancy died at Saint Mary's hospital in Grand Junction, Colorado, on March 3, 2020.

Howard A. Daniel III writes:

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
NANCY GREEN (1947-2020) (https://www.coinbooks.org/v23/esylum_v23n10a12.html)

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