In a post to this BB on 2/10/01 Gene Trimble released the first 36 members (along with their chapter numbers). Here they are:

Gene Trimble R2192 poker@lvcm.com 1
Janice O'Neal junkman3@prodigy.net 2
Jerry O'Neal junkman3@prodigy.net 3
Chris Hendrix R-4315 chendrix@hsnp.com 4
Roy Baldwin R-4155 tlbowler@sprynet.com 5
Bob Hermans/Belgium R-4479 bs762345@skynet.be 6
Neal Silverman neal@chequers.com 7
Rich Hanover LM-4191-28 RFHanover@aol.com 8
Amy Andrae R3605 arandrae@dreamscape.com 9
Rick Andrea R3605A arandrae@dreamscape.com 10
Robert Pardue CH-003 pardue@home.com 11
Greg Susong LM-2120-31 greg@chipguide.com 12
Dale Horyna R-4704 dehoryna@softcom.net 13
T. W. Miller R4622 thoma628@cris.com 14
Bob Gabel GABELS@prodigy.net 15
Barry Hauptman R-4196 BFH120@aol.com 16
TOM LEGGIO TOMDICE@AOL.COM 17
Robert Touts R-4583 mustang333@worldnet.att.net 18
Marc Shapiro mshapiro@chequers.com 19
Jay Sands R-4390 jsands1@hotmail.com 20
Allan Myers CH--027 myersmyers@home.com 21
Neal Silverman neal@chequers.com 22
Peter Sanders R-4182 psand@casinochips.zzn.com 23
Bob Whiteman R2498 bobinva@home.com 24
Tricia Narhi Tricia0826@aol.com 25
Mark Erickson R - 4661 Mtanker@aol.com 26
Scott Brodsky R-424 scotski99@yahoo.com 27
Bob Stoops R3614 bstoops@anet-chi.com 28
Rich Hodges R-4210 rfhodges@earthlink.net 29
D.Todd Desnoyers R5037 dtdes@midsouth.rr.com 30
Andy Hughes AndyHughes@NevadaCasinoChips.com 31
Harold Sauer Vcardstud@aol.com 32
Skip Harouff GOLDPLATED@aol.com 33
Rich Figarotta R1593 RFigarotta@aol.com 34
Chuck Nelson cnelson@uti.com 35
Marty Kaplan marty@chequers.com 36

I hope there's no back room politics going on. I am CH 8 (or least should be).

Here is the thread that started it all:

http://www.thechipboard.com/cgi-bin/tcbarc04/tcbarc04.pl?read=117172

I already see that Roy should be ahead of Chris.