WALTHAM STAMP CLUB

Minutes of the meeting of September 20, 2011

President Brouady opened the meeting at 7:47 with 22 in attendance.

The Treasurer reported a positive balance.

The minutes of the meeting of September 6, 2011 were approved.

WALPEX: The food issue has been resolved and there will be food.

Member Welfare: Zachary Roi has passed away.

A second reading was made for Yoesey Shapiro and he was voted into membership.

Bourse News: There will be APS circuit books at the November Saturday morning meeting.

The wireless router has been installed and can be used by members tonight. It is expected that it wlll be used at WALPEX for both attendees and vendors.

The next meeting will feature Jeff Shapiro on “win the war stamps”

The meeting closed at 8:15 and was followed by 12 “show and tells”

Chris Brouady: three volume album of Austrian Stamps

Peter Lenk: collection of stamps indicating payment for health care.

Steve Tauber: Stamps indicating payment of union dues.

Norm Shufrin: post cards that are conversation pieces.

Dave Libby: Collects “firsts” including first airmail cover.

James Hencke: Spanish locals.

Tom McDonagh: Hungarian cancels from more than half of the1600 towns.

Ken Lebow: rare cancels

Jean Lenk: religion on stamps.

Jeff Brigham: Private postal services

George Cooley: first day covers.

Peter Lenk: The 1847USA web site; he demonstrated the vast amount of material available at that site. He also demonstrated two other sites: askphil and reentries.

Minutes submitted by Richard Spencer