Green Bay Philatelic Society
APS Chapter #1219
Brown County Senior Center, 300 So. Adams St., 3rd Thurs., open 7pm, business meeting 7:30, program 8pm.
Contact: 1002 Amberly Trail, Green Bay, WI 54311
Officers:
Ray Perry, President
Gordy Lindner, Vice-President
Mark Schroeder, Secretary
Ken Coakley, Treasurer
Clete Delvaux, Editor
Darryl Ruprecht, Publisher
WHERE: BROWN COUNTY SENIOR CENTER
WHEN: MAY 15, 2008 (every third Thursday)
TIME: Open 7 p.m., Business Meeting 7:30, Program 8 p.m.
REMINDER: We need volunteer members to pick up a key from the Senior Center by 4 p.m. the day of the meeting. May's volunteer is LLOYD LARSCHEID.
PROGRAM: SLIDE SHOW: THE DOCTORING OF POSTAGE STAMPS
Also ELECTION OF OFFICERS
Did you acquire a philatelic treasure at BAYPEX '08? Some little treasure you obtained during the winter? Well, bring it or them along to the APRIL meeting. Be prepared to describe your brag item(s) briefly (less than five minutes). Please have your prize mounted or otherwise protected so that it can be passed around safely. Shall we vote a prize for the best BRAG?
GBPS PROGRAMS
- JUNE 19 SILENT AUCTION (Members of the Outagamie, Oshkosh, and Northwoods Clubs are invited to join us for this program). Rumor is that the club has already obtained a mixture to be used in our upcoming auctions. Get to the June meeting early to look over the lots. All GBPS members and members of the above-mentioned clubs are welcome to enter and bid on lots.
- JULY 17 BUY, SELL AND TRADE plus AUCTIONS
- AUGUST 21 BUY, SELL AND TRADE plus AUCTIONS
- GBPS BANQUET Our annual banquet has been scheduled for Sunday, JUNE 22, at the Woods Supper Club. Mark your calendars and plan to come and get to know your fellow members and their spouses better. LLOYD LARSCHEID has volunteered to make the arrangements. The times will be 5 p.m. cocktails and socializing, 6 p.m. dinner. If you plan to attend, notify LLOYD at 713-4439.
STAMP SHOWS (See Across the Fence Post for more details)
- April 12 WISCOPEX 08 Fox Valley Lutheran High School, APPLETON
- April 20 DANEPEX 08 Crowne Plaza Hotel on E. Washington, MADISON
- May 10 SHEBOYGAN Stamp & Coin Show SHEBOYGAN FALLS
- June 21 NORTHWOODS (WIS) Stamp & Coin Show RHINELANDER
- June 28-9 TRIPEX STAMP FAIR Gonzaga Hall, WEST ALLIS
REPORT of the NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE
Chairperson Gordy Lindner presented the following slate of officers to take over the reins of the Green Bay Philatelic Society for the 2008-09 philatelic season:
- For President ..... Clete Delvaux
- For VP ..... Darryl Rupprecht
- For Secretary ..... Ray Perry
- For Treasurer ..... Ken Coakley
DID YOU KNOW...?
- that standard mail, formerly third-class mail and also referred to as advertising mail or junk mail, today makes up more than 50 percent of all U.S. mail.
- that USPS handles 213 billion pieces of mail each year, 46 percent of the world's mail volume.
- that there are 700, 000 postal employees.
- that 7 percent of the households in the U.S. collect stamps (Shoppers Voice survey).
ON EFOs In the May issue of Scott's Stamp Monthly, editor Donna Houseman takes her readers on a tour of the inner workings of a stamp printing operation, the Avery Dennison Security Printing Division in Clinton, S.C. After detailing the entire process, she says, "Every stamp is hand-inspected for errors after the die cutting process is complete." That was the gist of my question to Wayne Youngblood, who spoke to us at our March meeting on EFOs: How is it that even with hand inspecting for errors, enough EFOs get through the process to provide a fairly large stamp collecting specialty?