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Green Bay Philatelic Society
Green Bay Philatelic Society

APS Chapter #1219

Brown County Aging Resources Center, 300 So. Adams St., 3rd Thursday of each month, open 7pm, business meeting 7:30, program 8pm.
Contact: 1002 Amberly Trail, Green Bay, WI 54311

Officers:
Clete Delvaux, President
Darryl Ruprecht, Vice-President
Ray Perry, Secretary
Kirk Becker, Treasurer
Ray Perry, Editor
Darryl Ruprecht, Publisher

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FEBRUARY MEETING — Happy Valentine's Day

WHERE: BROWN COUNTY SENIOR CENTER

WHEN: February 16, 2012 (third Thursday of every month)

TIME: Open 7:00 pm, Business Meeting 7:30pm, Program to Follow

PROGRAM: Slide Show: "History of the Railway Mail Service" and Silent Auction

Reminder: We need volunteer members to pick up a key from the Senior Center by 4:00 pm the day of the meeting. February's volunteer is Bob Lambert.

January Meeting

Visitors: : Maurice Wozniak and his wife, Susan, attended. Maurice is the past president of the WFSC and is our new Regional VP. Welcome Maurice, feel free to come back as often as you can.

Old Business

Einstein Project: The expo took place on Sat., January 14. We had a great number of volunteers show up to help staff the booth — a big thanks to all those that helped out and especially to Dave Burrows for leading the effort. It was reported that about 2,000 kids attended the expo with about 300 of those visiting our booth. Dave Burrows reports that about 100 kids put their names in for the prize drawing. Dave has the names and addresses of these kids and recommends that we find some way to follow up with them. Some suggestions that Dave had were: stamp pals, pen pals, or a Saturday Kids Stamp Club meeting maybe 4 times per year. Dave also recommended that we continue our involvement with this program next year. Seems like a good thing to do.

Chicagopex '11 One Page Exhibits: We had some discussion around what it would take to develop greater interest in club participation. Tom Johnston noted that we are not limited to one page per person. Interested participants may submit more than one page each on differing topics. Anyone that wants to try their hand at a one page exhibit, feel free to do one for Baypex '12.

Baypex '12: Clete Delvaux has secured advertising in the philatelic media (APS Journal, ATA Journal, and Linn's). Yours truly will set up the local advertising through the Green Bay Press Gazette and the local TV stations. Jim Stearns has agreed to chair the U.P. publicity effort and about 40 to 45 show posters were delivered to the Northwoods Philatelic Society for distribution in the U.P. and northern Wisconsin. Dealer invites went out in January.

Club Historian: Pat Hull volunteered to take on the responsibilities of the Club Historian in place of Gladys "Toots" Joslin. President, Clete Delvaux, made it official by appointing him to the position.

Life Members: The club decided to let the Executive Committee make recommendations.

New Business

Dues: Dues are now past due. Please fill out the Membership Form enclosed in the December newsletter and return it to me along with your $10.00 dues at the meeting or mail it to me at the address at the top of this page. If you have misplaced your Membership Form, just give me a call and I'll get another one to you. Remember we need every one of you to keep our club healthy and viable. So far we have 21 members that have paid their 2012 dues — thanks to all of you.

January Program

Bill Robinson did a program on Cover and Postal History collecting. A couple of key points are that each cover tells a story of how a piece of mail gets from Point A to Point B. A second key point is that collecting covers or postal history is similar to collecting stamps in that the individual is free to collect what interests him or her. All members present had an opportunity to exam several foreign covers, pick out one or two that interested them and then give a brief explanation to the rest of the club on why they chose that particular cover. Thanks to Bill Robinson for a great program.

February Program

The program for February will be a slide show titled "History of the Railway Postal Service" arranged by Dave Burrows. We will also have the usual Silent Auction.

Ray's Ramblings

Bradenton Florida Cover

As some of you know, I have recently developed an interest in covers. I especially like advertising covers. Shown at right is one that I think we can all relate to living up here in the north country. It advertises Bradenton, Florida "Land of Sunshine and Flowers". Wouldn't we all like to trade our long northern winters for a few months in Florida? I think it is interesting that it is franked with the 3 cent Boulder Dam stamp (Scott #774). Did you know that this dam has had a couple of different names. It started out as Boulder Dam when it was going to be originally located in the Boulder Canyon. It kept that name when the location was changed to the Black Canyon. The name was changed to the Hoover Dam in 1930 when the dam was opened to recognize then President Hoover who championed the project that did so much for the southwest and to bolster the President's sagging image. Shortly after President F. Roosevelt was elected it was changed back to Boulder Dam. Then in 1947 it was again renamed Hoover Dam which is the name it still holds today.

Tom Johnston, Darryl Ruprecht, and I made the trip north to the Northwoods Philatelic Society's Jan. meeting. We enjoyed their live auction and some of us came away with new additions to our collections. Always a fun trip.

We're Number 1: Did anyone else see "The Editor's Column" by Michael Baadke on pg. 4 of the 1/30/12 issue of Linn's stating that, based on a survey done by Wikicollecting.org, Stamp Collecting ranks number 1 worldwide in collecting interest followed by antiques, autographs, memorabilia, and coins to finish out the top 5. The list ranked 75 categories. To see the list go to http://en.wikicollecting.org/world-s-most-popular-collecting-hobbies-2011.

Stamp Shows

(See Across the Fence Post for more details)

Mar. 3-4, 2012: Stampfest '12
St. Aloysius Gonzaga Hall
1435 S. 92nd St.
West Allis, WI
Mar. 24, 2012: Baypex '12
St. Matthew Catholic Church Multi-Purpose Room
2575 S. Webster Ave.
Green Bay, WI

Schedule of Events

Shown below is the Program Schedule for the remainder of the year. We always welcome input from club members, remember this is your club, so chime in.

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