WALTHAM STAMP CLUB

Minutes of the meeting of October 2, 2007

President Shufrin opened the meeting at 8:08 with 20 in attendance.

The treasurer reported a positive balance.

The minutes of the meeting of September 18, 2007 were approved with two minor changes.

Old Business

WALPEX- volunteers are sought for the show- sign up sheets are available. Show covers are done. Exhibit space is almost sold out. The show theme is the 100^th anniversary of the Hershey Kiss and a big bowl of kisses will welcome visitors to the show.

Museum News

A fund raiser dinner was held last week with 46 attendees.

New Business

James Henke, bourse manager, has blank pages for preparation of bourse book pages and encouraged members to use them for their duplicates.

The meeting closed at 8:26 and was preceded by a vigorous session of applying stamps to 2000 WALPEX cards. It was followed by a talk by former Waltham Stamp Club President Jeff Shapiro. Jeff’s talk was on aerophilately and concentrated on the period of 1933-1941, the period of the flying clipper ships. The clipper ships were the result of the efforts of Juan Trippe, an aviation visionary, who thought that luxurious accommodations and exotic destinations would attract a rich clientelel. His expectations were not met and he turned to air mail as a use for his clippers and he was successful. The air mail stamps, C20, C21, and C22, were one result of his efforts. Jeff showed a number of covers of this period with some quite unusual markings including ones where the longest path was used to get to a destination because of war in Europe. The service ended after December 7, 1941 and by a year later all five clippers had been destroyed.

Minutes submitted by Richard Spencer