It was the dream of George H. Miller, a newspaper man and genealogy columnist for The Madison (Indiana) Courier, to form an organization that would meet at least once a year to share the agony and ecstasy of problems peculiar to genealogy writers.
The Council of Genealogy Columnists (CGC) was officially organized 13 May 1987 in Raleigh, North Carolina, at a meeting held in conjunction with National Genealogical Society's annual Conference in the States. At the first business meeting an executive council of CGC — the ECGC — was formed and officers were elected to serve for one year. They were: Myra Vanderpool Gormley, of Los Angeles Times Syndicate, president; and Aulena Scearce Gibson, of Lawton (Oklahoma) Morning Press, secretary. In addition to the president and secretary, the following composed the first ECGC: Regina Hines, of Ocean Springs, Mississippi; Carol Collins, of South Bend, Indiana; Nick Vine Hall, of Sydney, Australia; and Lesta Westmore, of Omaha, Nebraska.
The First Executive Council of CGC [ECGC] |
(1987 NGS at Raleigh, North Carolina.) Left to right: Regina Hines, Aulena Gibson, Carol Collins, Nick Vine Hall, Lesta Westmore and Myra Vanderpool Gormley.
