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Photos in LETTERATI

The 36 photos are all in the recently published book titled LETTERATI. The author is Paul McCarthy of Colorado. The books is published by ECW Press of Toronto and is in brick and mortar stores as well as on line from Amazon, B & N and possibly others. All photos were taken by me except for the one of me with Adam Logan at the 1996 Nationals - which was taken by Larry Sherman. These are all under my copyright and "right-click" protected - so if you tried to print them you would only get the captions. Should anyone want a print or prints for any reason, email me annsan.nyc.rr.com. NOTE: the order of the photos here has nothing to do with their order in the book. Paul ordered photos from me of specific people and the "scenes" from the old days and I dug up what I could from my stock of over 30 years. Yes, you have seen some of them before - a number have been in other publications and some were in the film WORD WARS Techie note for photographers: Most photos were taken with Tri-X film, though a few were scanned from color prints or slides. only the photos at the 2007 BAT and the 2005 Nationals were shot with a Canon digital camera. The only editing done in photoshop was simple conversion to digital black and whites, "spotting" and some cropping. In otherwords, these are un-manipulated images.
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Day 1 of the 1978 North American Invitiational in New York.  From fron to back on the left side of the table are Roz Grossman, Ed Hepner, Mike Senkiewitz. John Ozag is shaking hands with Roz, behind him is Tim Maneth about to play Hepner.  Then Frank Kuehnrich is waiting for his opponent, and Dan Pratt is playing Senkiewitiz
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Day 1 of the 1978 North American Invitiational in New York. From fron to back on the left side of the table are Roz Grossman, Ed Hepner, Mike Senkiewitz. John Ozag is shaking hands with Roz, behind him is Tim Maneth about to play Hepner. Then Frank Kuehnrich is waiting for his opponent, and Dan Pratt is playing Senkiewitiz

Roz GrossmanEd HepnerMike SenkiewitzJohn OzagTim Maneth.Frank Kuenrich

  • Alfred Butts, Scrabble inventor , made an appearance at a tournament at Arby's in New York City in 1981.  Dave Schulman<br />
passed away in 2004 at the age of 91.  He was in the first North American Open and many New York Tourneys.  He worked on a number of dictionaries and often appeared chatting about word origins and English usage on Leonard Lopate's show on WNYC (NPR) .
  • Mike Senkiewicz in the New York City Finals in 1978 -<br />
2 months before the first North American Invitational.
  • At the Awards Ceremony - The first North American Invitational in May, 1978.  Jim Houle (l.) reaches out a hand to congratulate winner David Prinze (r.)  Joel Skolnick, tourney director, looks on.
  • Stu Goldman at the NYC semi-finals at the Brooklyn War Memorial in the late 1970's (white border added to prevent lab from trimming photo when printing )<br />
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