Minutes of the meeting of
January 20, 2009
President
Shufrin opened the meeting at 8:02 with 18 in attendance.
The
Treasurer reported no change in balance and reminded members that dues are due.
Mike
Morris continues as a visitor.
The
Minutes of the meeting of January 6, 2009 were approved.
Old
Business
The bus to the Megashow is now scheduled
for April 18th, the date of the show having been changed.
The WALPEX date is now firm at October 24
and 25, 2009.
A discussion of equipment that the club
might purchase yielded the following: UV lamps, watermark detector, microscope,
electronic perforation gage, specialized catalogs. Mike Morris agreed to
explore suitable microscopes.
Museum news: bazaar is scheduled for February
28th.
New
Business
APS nominations are coming up.
Museum store has inauguration covers.
Peter Lenk has an internet site showing
“re-entries”
The
meeting closed at 8:48 and was followed by “show and tells”. A new format was
used. Each participant put his material on the table in front of himself and a
round robin let each person say a few words about his subject. After that
members visited the various exhibits and asked questions. The range of subjects
was remarkable as can be seen from this listing:
Norm
Shufrin: Mint US in Lindner album
Tom
McDonough: Socked-on-the -nose cancels from many towns in
Jack
Miller: British occupation stamps.
Jeff
Brigham: Europa common designs.
Bill
Maxwell: US used blocks of four and
Dana
Booth: Farley sheets and philatelic oddities
Peter
Lenk: A slip print.
Steve
Tauber: Cinderellas.
Dick
Spencer: Postage currency.
Joel
Goldberg: Huge Collection of
Tony
Davies:
Mark
Butterline:
George
Norton: Letters carried outside of the mail.
Minutes
submitted by Richard Spencer, Approved February 17,2009
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