Perhaps someone on the IBLCE board is also on LACTNET. In the event no one in that category is, here is what I understand about what you Teresa asked about "honorary IBCLC." 1) To my knowledge, there is no such thing. 2) Some people who participated in writing the first exam (creating it!) (I was one) were grandmothered in. I had to take the exam in 1991 in order to be recertified. That is, those originally grandparented because we were not ALLOWED to take it HAD to recertify by exam if we chose to retain the credential. 3) Some people in the above grandmothered category did not recertify. I suspect that those people are the ones who are referring to thesmelves as having "honorary IBCLC." 4) the first exam DID occur in 1985 so that date is right. 5) It is my understanding that the ILCA rep did raise the issue of persons on the IBCLE Board who have not recertified. I do not know if this has been rectified. Perhaps someone else knows. I hope the above clarified things. Def. of LC service: "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." Kathleen G. Auerbach,PhD, IBCLC - [log in to unmask]