appleIn a little over a two weeks Apple will have its 40th anniversary, and we asked each group who responded for the name of the member who had the longest continual membership in their club. The amazing thing is that many of the names offered were founding members who still retained membership, and many are well known in our community. These people are some of the folk at the heart of why we meet. Of course, there are many more who are not listed here.

Some groups started as computer groups, others formed when the first Apple started our story. Still others formed because of a perfect joining of technologies, such as creative pros at the Adobe Technology Exchange of Southern California who found that Adobe’s graphics products and Apple’s hardware and interface opened a new possibilities. Of course, new products brought new clubs, from Warren’s AppleWorks User Group, once over 15,000 members strong, to those Powerbooks, iMacs, iOS and everything in between.

Thank you to each of the people below for helping our community create something truly special.

Chris Greaves ★ 40 years
Dana Schwartz ★ more than 38 years
Harris Silverston ★ more than 38 years
Pete Saybolt ★ more than 38 years
Arno Drucker ★ more than 38 years
Jackie Calamos ★ more than 37 years
Luiz Pellanda ★ more than 37 years
John Anderson ★ more than 37 years
Gary Johnston ★ more than 37 years
David Turk ★ more than 36 years
Geoff Halprin ★ more than 35 years
Greg Ward ★ more than 35 years
Phil de Buhr ★ more than 34 years
Terry Crooker ★ more than 34 years
Steve Neilsen ★ more than 34 years
Dennis Thieme ★ more than 34 years
Jimmy Monsoor ★ more than 34 years
Merle Zmak ★ more than 34 years
Tom Kuklinski ★ more than 34 years
Mark Matson ★ more than 34 years
Louis Cioccio ★ more than 33 years
Barry Austern ★ more than 32 years
Donald Hennessey ★ more than 32 years
Tom Piper ★ more than 32 years
Bruce Thompson ★ more than 32 years
Tom Ostertag ★ more than 32 years
Dave Lundin ★ more than 31 years
Jim Rietz ★ more than 31 years
Pam Doughty ★ more than 31 years
Barbara Dauria ★ more than 31 years
Gail McGovern ★ more than 31 years
Sandy Foderick ★ more than 31 years
Elsa Travisano ★ more than 30 years
Thomas Travisano ★ more than 30 years
Gerald Brasseur ★ more than 30 years
Robert Schust ★ more than 30 years
Jacques Gagne ★ more than 29 years
Graeme Moffatt ★ more than 29 years

Rick Hyman ★ more than 29 years
Brad Tombaugh ★ more than 29 years
Doug Smith ★ more than 29 years
Lynn Poos ★ more than 29 years
Nicholas Pyers ★ more than 38 years

Bo Keith ★ more than 28 years
June Swift ★ more than 28 years
Andy Suhaka ★ more than 28 years
Wayne Till ★ more than 27 years
Chick Burda ★ more than 27 years
Dean Nichols ★ more than 27 years
Bob Durling ★ more than 26 years
Mike Lang ★ more than 26 years
Matt Flamm ★ more than 25 years
Dennis Keppen ★ more than 25 years
Amann Norbert ★ more than 25 years
Eichmüller Georg ★ more than 25 years
Erdmann Reinhold ★ more than 25 years
Hilber Martin ★ more than 25 years
Alan Gold ★ more than 25 years
Ray Pietro ★ more than 25 years
Rick Redfern ★ more than 25 years
Rick Valasek ★ more than 24 years
Pat Cates ★ more than 24 years
Lynette Kent ★ more than 24 years
Ira Goldstein ★ more than 24 years
Rex Covington ★ more than 20 years
Debra Alpert ★ more than 20 years
Rick Ortiz ★ more than 19 years
Jose Betancur  ★  more than 19 years
mimi van der voort ★ more than 18 years
shirley allan ★ more than 18 years
Graham Chan ★ more than 15 years
Yvonne Fried ★ more than 15 years
Dave Kelly ★ more than 15 years
Otto Nikolaus ★ more than 14 years
Kevin Warrene ★ more than 14 years
Marilyn Roder ★ more than 14 years
Mark Judy ★ more than 14 years
Dick Breneman ★ more than 14 years
Peter Tucker ★ more than 14 years
Ross Kuehne ★ more than 14 years
Christian Szurco ★ more than 14 years
Jeremy Smith ★ more than 14 years
Kim Gammelgaard ★ more than 14 years
Marco Andrei Kichalowsky ★ more than 12 years
Rodti MacLeary ★ more than 9 years