Social Register
Listing in the "Social Register" has typically been through birth: Children born to a person listed in the "Social Register" are, in turn, added. Persons have also been permitted to apply for inclusion in the Social Register. Such applications require letters of sponsorship from five persons already listed, followed by vetting from the advisory committee. In 1997, a spokesman for the "Social Register"s then 25-member advisory committee described the criteria by which a person might be added to the directory. The committee, he said, asked themselves "would one want to have dinner with this person on a regular basis"?