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Green Bay Philatelic Society
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:
Clete Delvaux, President
Darryl Ruprecht, Vice-President
Ray Perry, Secretary
Kirk Becker, Treasurer
Ray Perry, Editor
Darryl Ruprecht, Publisher

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SEPTEMBER MEETING — SILENT AUCTION (no business meeting)

WHERE: BROWN COUNTY SENIOR CENTER

WHEN: September 16, 2010 (third Thursday of every month)

TIME: Open 7:00 pm, Program 7:30 pm

PROGRAM: Show and Tell, 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. September's volunteer is Lloyd Larscheid.

Summer Meetings

Well as summer winds down my break from newsletters is over and it is time to return to my editor’s desk. The summer get togethers (remember no business meetings during June, July, and August) were filled with silent auction lots, both club lots and lots from individual members. We also were happy to see our friends from the Appleton and Oshkosh area back for some great philatelic fellowship.

Stamp Camp

I know that winter seems a long time off, unfortunately it will be here before we know it and along with it will be another Stamp Camp. Given the success last year and the amount of preplanning that went into that event, I think we need to start planning for this year’s event. I believe that Kirk Becker is willing to chair the event again this year, but we need to confirm that at the September meeting and come up with some volunteers to help Kirk out. I’m hoping that Jay Van Zeeland is again willing to help out with the scouting contacts. He did a great job last year. This year we have a new Boy Scout stamp that given a little creativity we may be able to work into the Camp. Please give some thought to how you can help with this very worthwhile event.

Exhibits

Collin Daul noticed an interesting event to be held at Chicagopex this fall. Unfortunately it is too late for us to enter this year, but there have been some thoughts as to our club putting something like this together for Baypex ’11 and then keeping it for Chicagopex next year. So, what am I talking about? Stamp Clubs are invited to put together one frame containing up to 14 individual pages (one for each member willing to contribute up to 14). I think that it sounds like it would be a fun activity, one suggestion was to possibly use some of our “Way Out Topical” pages. Diversity rather than cohesiveness is desired. I remember something like this going around a few years ago and we chose not to participate, but we have had a membership change since then and I think it would be fun to get involved. In addition, as Collin has pointed out it would be great publicity for the club. I for one would be willing to contribute a page, how about others? Let’s talk it at our September meeting so if we decide to proceed we have plenty of time to get it organized for Baypex ’11 and then it will be done for Chicagopex in the fall of 2011. Shown below is a link to the Chicagopex 2010 website if anyone wants to dig deeper into this: http://www.chicagopex.com/id12.html

September Program

The September program will be “show and tell” night. Bring a recent acquisition, a favorite stamp, or anything that you think other club members might be interested in to the meeting. Have it mounted and identified so that it can be passed around for others to look at. This is a really fun program, it gives everyone a chance to show off their collecting interests and the rest of the club a chance to learn what and how others are collecting. Of course we will have a silent auction in addition to the Show and Tell.

Milcopex ‘10

Note that from September 24th to 26th is Milcopex ’10. I have personally enjoyed this show in the past, especially the exhibits. If you plan to attend note the location this year near the airport. Topical Times editor and Wisconsin resident, Wayne Youngblood will be presenting a 4 hour seminar over 2 days on the 4 basic forms of printing that have been used on U.S. stamps. Sounds very interesting and any of you that had the opportunity hear Wayne speak at our club meeting a couple of years ago know that he is a captivating speaker.

Stamp Shows

(See Across the Fence Post for more details)

Sept. 24-26, 2010: Milcopex '10
Wyndham Milwaukee Airoport & Convention Center
4747 S. Howell Ave., Milwaukee, WI
Oct. 9, 2010: Monroe Stamp & Post Card Show
Moose Lodge, 639 3rd Ave.
Monroe, WI
Oct. 11, 2010: WaUSApex '10
Wausau Labor Temple, Stewart and Third Avenues
Wausau, WI
Oct. 23, 2010: Sheboygan Stamp and Coin Show
Municipal Building, 375 Buffalo St.
Sheboygan Falls, WI
Oct. 23-24, 2010: Tosapex '10
Gonzaga Hall, 1435 S. 92nd St.
West Allis, WI

Program Schedule

Shown below is the tentative program schedule for the upcoming year. I emphasize tentative as we are always open to suggestions. Remember, this is your club, so if you have an idea for a program, bring it up at a meeting and we can discuss it and see how to best fit it into the program schedule. Dave Burrows, if you are willing to continue to organize the slide shows for the November and February meetings, you may want to bring some suggested shows to our September meeting.

Schedule of Events

Shown below is the program schedule for the current year. If you have other ideas, please share them with one of the club officers.