http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Register"The Social Register, is released annually as a single national directory, published in winter and summer editions from New York by Forbes magazine. Those aspiring to be listed must be sponsored by at least five individuals currently appearing in its pages. Those sponsored are reviewed by an Advisory Committee that has the final decision; about five percent of suggested names are added each year. The Committee also arrives at additions on its own and sends the potential listees "blanks"—forms to fill in information. The President and Vice President of the United States (and thus, by extension, their spouses) are always included.
In addition to winter and summer addresses, the Social Register lists the educational backgrounds, maiden names, and club affiliations of listed persons. Juniors can be listed with their parents beginning at birth (a recent change from the age of 13). It is sometimes called, humorously, a "stud book."
Despite the yearly updates, The Social Register continues to name its sections in the same fashion as its former editions. The arcane title "Dilatory Domiciles" actually refers to house listings in the summer register that came too late for the main (winter) edition. The section called "Married Maidens" refers to a cross-listing of married and maiden names. The quixotic typography, that was almost a trademark of the Social Register, has given way to a more mundane typesetting standard. <5>
Members of the so-called café society were not necessarily listed in the early Social Register. This has since changed. Bobby Short, the "king" of café society, was listed for many years until his death.
A few independent social registers continue publication, notably the Southwest Blue Book (subtitled The Original Society Directory of Southern California), which Lenora King Berry founded in 1903 and which she and her descendants have published annually ever since. <6> Established in 1917, the Los Angeles Blue Book (subtitled The Society Register of Southern California) also continues as an annual publication. It included a substantial number of Roman Catholics from onset, in part because Spanish land-grant families first created the city's elite society. While it has ultimately met the international quality of the city's present, it continues to generally avoid listing persons in the entertainment field. The Denver Social Register and Record was first published in 1908 as Who's Who in Denver Society from materials that had been collected since 1904 by Mrs. Crawford Hill. It was distinguished from the unmodified listings of "Social Register cities" by its inclusion of chapters on subjects such as "Worth Over a Million," "Pioneers in the Social Field," "Types of Denver Beauty" and "Eligible Men"<7> The Washington D.C. society register is known as the District of Columbia Green Book and is also published annually.
In March 2006, the Social Register Web site was launched. It is intended for the use of listed persons only."
Read the rest of the page and the pertinent links if you have the time. It is indeed worthwhile.
Fuck the ruling class, and everything they stand for.
These people are the enemy. And this is one of their great concerns.
Take from that what you will.
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