John Styler of Prospect Heights, IL says:
Well Michael asked the questions I have been wondering about. I bit the bullet and made my reservations the first week we received the schedule, ‘an impetuous first time attendee’. I saw some pictures of some of the previous events and wondered if I had to bring a tux!
A. There haven’t been any tuxes worn the last several years.

David Donaldson of Orlando, Florida gives this response.

Hello Michael Krumme,

Negating the fact that I am speaking this year, my opinion for the most part is that, you will not find a nicer group of people than the Carder Glass Folks. When I was first truly introduced to Carder Glass on the third floor of Rockwell’s Dept. store in 1973, I gained life long friends in Bobby Rockwell, Tom Dimitroff, and Paul V. Gardner.

Carder Glass is a magnet for kindred spirits who collect it as well as respect it. Their enthusiasm is second to none, and I am sure that you would have a wonderful time at the symposium.

I am looking forward to seeing old friends as well as making new ones this Fall.

Then Marshall Ketchum of Genoa, New York, answers.
As one of the few, perhaps the only one, who has attended all of the Symposia since they began in 1991 I can add what I get out of it. First is the opportunity of meeting collectors and old friends. Second on my list is the auction on Saturday evening. There will normally be some interesting things there and I have bought a few pieces that I have never seen on the market anywhere else. Finally it is the opportunity to learn some more about glass. Just about the time we think that there is no further information about Carder’s glass to be had something new surfaces. At the moment the Club has undertaken a project with the Rakow Library to identify and scan about 550 photos of Carder glass. There are about 60 or 70 shapes of lamp shades among the photos in the 5400 series of numbers that are not in Gardner and have not been seen before by many who do not have access to these photos.