Talk:Casting Society of America

Early years
I've removed the following unsourced info because the Casting Society website states that the organization was founded in 1982: "In its early years in the 1910s and 1920s, the organization's titular acronym was reversed to ASC (American Society of Casting). The purpose of this reversal was to avoid confusion with the acronym CSA,  which at that time was popularly associated with the recently defeated Confederate States of America,  as many veterans of both sides of that war were still living up until the 1930s." It's also a bit dubious/misleading because as we know, the Confederate States collapsed in 1865, so there could not have been that many veterans (they would've been in their 80s), and I would hardly call something that happened 65+ years before "recent." Of course, if someone can find a source that clears this all up, by all means reintroduce it. TAnthony 15:35, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

There were veterans' reunions from the Civil war up through the 30s, and the final soldiers on either side died around 1955 or so. It's certainly a plausible story, as the correlation between the two acronyms was why I became curious as to what it meant in the first place. 71.198.127.97 06:39, 6 July 2007 (UTC)