WISCOPEX '97

Wear your WFSC logo button, show it to the staff at the society table and receive a gift from the WFSC.

Bring your club publicity fliers (club meeting information, show fliers,' etc.). Place them on the society table for distributions to all show visitors.

Get your club's light switched on within the WFSC map to indicate your club is represented at the show.

While at the table, offer part of your time during the weekend to relieve the staff now and then or to help out in some other manner.

The banquet will be held Saturday evening, May 3, at Tanner Paul, 70th and Orchard, West Allis, WI. Social hour at 5:30 p.m., dinner at 6 p.m. Cost is $15 each for a buffet-style meal with entrees of chicken, ham, and carved beef. Salad and dessert included.

Make checks payable to Wauwatosa Philatelic Society. Send to: Wauwatosa Philatelic Society, P.O. Box 13102, Wauwatosa, WI 53213. Deadline for reservations is April 25. Pick up tickets at the WPS table at the show, which will include a map to direct you to Tanner Paul.

10:00 a.m.- Show opens

12:45 p.m.- Final check-in and seating for Annual Business Meeting

1:00 p.m. - Wisconsin Federation of Stamp Clubs Annual Business Meeting

3:00 p.m. - Judges' critique of exhibits

5:00 p.m. - Show closes

6:00 p.m. - Awards banquet

10:00 a.m. - Show opens

- Wisconsin Postal History Society meeting

5:00 p.m. - Show closes

The Wauwatosa Philatelic Society has reserved a block of rooms at: Days Inn West Allis, 1673 So. 108th St., West Allis, WI. The rate is $39.99 plus tax. For reservations by phone, call (414) 771-3399. Be sure to mention the Wauwatosa Philatelic Society to get the special show rate.

The WISCOPEX '97 commemorative cover features a multi-colored cachet franked with the 32c Helping Children Learn issue. Cancel shown above.

Gold - German Occupation of Czechoslovakia, by Robert Koschalk

•^.1997 Champion of Champions

Gold - The Involvement of KCS Industries in U.S. Booklet Stamps Production, by Brian J. Liedtke

Gold - RFD's of Sheboygan County, by Bob Keppert

Gold - The Trans-Mississippi Issue of 1898, by Robert Lieb

•~WISCOPEX Best of Show

• APS Research Medal

• .APS Medal of Excellence Pre-1900

Gold - Monaco, by Claude Giralte

Silver - The Eleventh Stamp of the Confederacy, by Gary Zink

Silver - Austrian Balloon Mail, by Daniel G. Hammel

• APS Medal of Excellence Post-1940

• ATA First Place (Gold)

Bronze - Ameripex Revisited, by Mary Ellen Daniel

• ATA Second Place (Silver)

Bronze - International Geophysical Research, By Robert Jobe

• ATA Third Place (Bronze)

Gold - See it by the Sea, by Justin Moore

• WISCOPEX Best Youth Exhibit

• Footloose Filatelists Youth Grand

• ATA Youth Award

Silver - Orchids, by Paul Braun

• Footloose Filatelists Youth Reserve Grand

Silver - Australia - the Land Down Under, by Ben Sander

• AAPE Silver Award of Honor

Silver - Cats, by Megan Grosz

• International Society of Worldwide Stamp Collectors Youth Merit Award

Silver - The First Fifty Years of Airplanes, by Julie Giss

• AAPE Silver Award of Honor

Silver - African Americans on U. S. Stamps, by Lindsay Williams

Silver - American Flag, by James Saleska

Silver - Cats, by Katie Kraase

Silver - Circus, by Michael Eilbes

Silver - Classic Cars, by Zak Girard

Silver - Dogs, by Tessa Yahr

Silver - Types of Birds, by Lisa Giss

Silver - Olympics, by David Kraase

Bronze - Horses are Great, by Recca Yahr

U. S. Cancellations for the Centennial Olympics, by Patricia Loehr

• Most Popular Display Class Exhibit

British Zululand, by Gary Zink

The Mulready of Great Britain, by Gary Zink

Two Cent Reds, by Emaline Henning

Latest update: June 14, 2005