I was the VH of KoT. They're still around in the stats, and no, we've never met in-game.
Since I don't want to further derail the thread... My experience with the Buses is much different from yours. My alliance, one of the original founders of UTA (the weaker of the three founders, but the one who made the idea), was given a msg by SB saying something along the lines of, "You have 48 hours to disband and join WarBus. If you don't you'll be dec'd and 0'd." Most of the original UTA got this message. If that's not a JoD/JoAD, I don't know what is.