..."I would like to sit with other strikers and if we can get a list together maybe the CCGTCC folks will let SS collectors sit together.
Please send me your name if you want to sit with me and other Silver Strikers. When I get a list of ten together I will send it in and see if we can all be placed at the same table. Don't send me any money. Pay the CCGTCC Club directly." ... Don Nesbitt, Jr.

Banquet table seating has nothing to do with "the CC & GTCC folks letting (or not letting) SS collectors sit together". Any group can arrange for reserving a table of 10 at the Annual banquet. I may be wrong, but to reserve a table in the past it was my understanding that the money for all ten seats for the entire table has to be submitted up front, in advance, by the person who is requesting the table... not by individuals paying the club directly. If members send in payment individually, they are permitted to take any available seat that is not reserved and in all probability will wind up sitting with collectors who have different interests.