Summer:  Rotary Dial.  Because of The Eleventh HOPE coming up in July, we felt a nod to Spinal Tap was in order, so we came up with a rotary phone dial which went to eleven.  (A large version of this cover was also displayed prominently at the conference.)

Instead of a letter designation, the eleventh position on the dial had the schematic symbol for a resistor.  This was our call to resist what we saw coming in the political world.

The "H" (from the "4" position) and the "OPE" (from the "OPERATOR" position) were shaded in order to spell out "HOPE."

The number card in the center of the dial was PEnnsylvania 6-5000, still the current phone number for our conference venue: the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City, immortalized in the famous Glenn Miller song of the same name.  Even the card itself was an ancient version of what would be found on such a telephone.

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