Thanks to the efforts of the USMS History & Archives Committee, and the Records & Tabulation Committee, the USMS Top Ten listings now go back to 1971. John Bauman of Wisconsin and Barbara Dunbar of San Diego led the effort to collect and organize the old Top Ten listings. :cheerleader:
The Top Ten searchable database can be found here: http://www.usms.org/comp/tt/
Some of our active Forumites can be found in these listings. For example, search on Allen Stark's name and you'll see that he first made the USMS Top Ten as a 25-year-old in 1974. Rich Abrahams first appears in 1975, as a 30-year-old.
In terms of sheer numbers, it's hard to imagine anyone with more Top Ten swims than June Krauser. Since 1972 June has amassed a total of 1,372 individual Top Ten swims!
So the question I ask is this just the Top Ten list without the ERRATA corrections that were published during the year?
Here is Barbara's (somewhat edited) response to your question:
We agreed several years ago to post the top tens as they were initially published and to insert the errata after they were up with one or two exceptions where there were obvious "cut and paste" errors or the titles to a few age group TT listings were transposed. We wanted an original (as published) top ten to be created first and permanently archived/saved on the USMS site at a safe storage site before any errata were added so that there would be a "before errata" document archived as well as the viewable pre 1993 top tens containing the errata/corrections.
I have been locating the errata since we started this project as has John. We will be assembling them, as lists to start with, so that the changes can be made online to the newly posted pre 1993 TTs. I need to know whether it is possible for versions to be saved/archived so that we can track any changes if necessary.
Skip is correct that there are definitely errata that need to be added to the original list. Addition of the errata is phase two of this project. In the beginning, many were in the Swim-Master as a line of two or three stuck between articles or results. Some were in the published TT booklets, while others were on sheets of paper tucked into the published TT booklets. It will help to have others looking for the errata in case we missed any. H&A and R&T should probably be asking for help with locating errata since having more eyes looking for them will help.
I will assemble the list of the ones that I have as well as those for which more legible copies are needed.
Barbara obviously thinks like an historian. Which is fortunate since both Barbara and John are on History & Archives (Barbara is also on Records & Tabulation).
Speaking of which, if you ever want to know about the membership of various commitees (or who your zone representative is, that sort of thing), you can find the list at
www.usms.org/.../appe.pdf
So the question I ask is this just the Top Ten list without the ERRATA corrections that were published during the year?
Here is Barbara's (somewhat edited) response to your question:
We agreed several years ago to post the top tens as they were initially published and to insert the errata after they were up with one or two exceptions where there were obvious "cut and paste" errors or the titles to a few age group TT listings were transposed. We wanted an original (as published) top ten to be created first and permanently archived/saved on the USMS site at a safe storage site before any errata were added so that there would be a "before errata" document archived as well as the viewable pre 1993 top tens containing the errata/corrections.
I have been locating the errata since we started this project as has John. We will be assembling them, as lists to start with, so that the changes can be made online to the newly posted pre 1993 TTs. I need to know whether it is possible for versions to be saved/archived so that we can track any changes if necessary.
Skip is correct that there are definitely errata that need to be added to the original list. Addition of the errata is phase two of this project. In the beginning, many were in the Swim-Master as a line of two or three stuck between articles or results. Some were in the published TT booklets, while others were on sheets of paper tucked into the published TT booklets. It will help to have others looking for the errata in case we missed any. H&A and R&T should probably be asking for help with locating errata since having more eyes looking for them will help.
I will assemble the list of the ones that I have as well as those for which more legible copies are needed.
Barbara obviously thinks like an historian. Which is fortunate since both Barbara and John are on History & Archives (Barbara is also on Records & Tabulation).
Speaking of which, if you ever want to know about the membership of various commitees (or who your zone representative is, that sort of thing), you can find the list at
www.usms.org/.../appe.pdf
