In the coming year, we will be highlighting noteworthy statistics and moments from each month in NEDRA’s history, in honor of NEDRA’s 25^th anniversary as an organization.

In this month in NEDRA’s history:

• February 1987: NEDRA’s Planning Committee began meeting.
• February 1994: An early roundtable was held at Harvard University, entitled “Cruising Down The Information Superhighway – A Map for Prospect Researchers” – what appears to have been the first NEDRA program on the new (and super exciting, at the time) topic of the Internet!
• February 1996: NEDRA hit 310 members (up from 210 members as of February 1994).
• February 1997: NEDRA hosted two roundtables – one on the “Basics of Public Company Research & Prospect Strategy” and another on “Researching Private Companies.”
• February 1999: 80 attendees participated in a roundtable at MIT on the continued hot topic of the Internet, entitled “Web Tools for Effective Prospect Research Strategy.”
• February 2000: David Lawson and David Eberly led a NEDRA workshop on “Reading Public Company Documents.”
• February 2003, 2005, 2006, and 2010: Research Directors Forums were held in Boston and Connecticut.

So, did any of you attend any of these events, or remember these moments? We encourage you to share your thoughts and comments here!