OFFICIAL P UBLICATION OF THE G REATER E UGENE S TAMP S OCIETY ECHOES N EW C LUB O FFICERS E LECTED ! JANUARY—FEBRUARY 2013 S PECIAL POINTS OF INTEREST President’s Message Book Review Club Calendars Monthly Quiz See page 3 for Dealer Info. I NSIDE THIS ISSUE: P RESIDENT ’ S MSG. 2 E DITOR’ S NOTES 2 OFFICER SWEAR IN 3 C HRISTMAS P ARTY PICS 4 C ALENDARS 5 B IRTH MONTHS NEEDED! B IRTHDAYS ! 6 QUIZ & A NSWERS 6 NOW IN OUR 64th YEAR AN APS AFFILIATED SOCIETY STANLEY GIBBONS CATALOGUES If you are going to collect GB stamps seriously, you will need to invest in Stanley Gibbons catalogues. Unless you are collecting modern GB (many collectors collect either by reign, or pre-decimal or post-decimal), your best bet is to find them used on eBay or Amazon. To collect from Victoria to QEII, Stanley Gibbons provides three SPECIALISED catalogues (Victoria, the Kings, and QEII Pre- decimal). They are much more de- tailed for GB collectors than the Scott US Specialized is for US collec- tors! As there were no votes submitted for other candidates, the slate of offi- cers was elected by acclamation at the November meeting! The officers for 2013-2015 are: President: Paul Renner. Secretary: Jim Palmer. Board Member: Mike Weyers. Paul has not run for office in our club before. Jim was club librarian. Mike Weyers, a board member whose term expired in 2012, agreed to run again and remain on the board. Congratulations to the new officers! Let’s all be sure to support them! ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡ P AY YOUR CLUB DUES NOW!! Dues for 2013 are due by January 31! If you have not already paid your dues, please get them in! The following members ARE PAID for 2013!!!! Alder, Clough, Fish, Forster, Hardy, Rimerman, Struble, Beckett, Beplat, Bronner, Eschli- man, James, Lewis R, Opincar, and Spuur. An ANONYMOUS donor has paid the 2013 dues for the Junior mem- bers. So Bogard, Bughman, Hayner, Kendall, Murray A, Murray B, and Snow are also already paid for 2013! ††††††††††††††††††††† C HRISTMAS P ARTY R OCKS !! Over 20 people attended the Christmas party! Tom Yurchak presented a great Nativity program, describing some differences in the Eastern Orthodox and Roman interpretations. See inside for photos of mem- bers enjoying the evening of goodies and our convoluted gift exchange!
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OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE
GREATER EUGENE STAMP SOCIETY
ECHOES
NEW CLUB OFFICERS ELECTED!
JANUARY—FEBRUARY 2013
SPECIAL POINTS OF INTEREST
President’s Message
Book Review
Club Calendars
Monthly Quiz
See page 3 for Dealer Info.
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
PRESIDENT ’S MSG . 2
EDITOR ’S NOTES 2
OFFICER SWEAR IN 3
CHRISTMAS PARTY PICS 4
CALENDARS 5
B IRTH MONTHS
NEEDED ! B IRTHDAYS !
6
QUIZ & ANSWERS 6
NOW IN OUR 64th YEAR
AN APS
AFFILIATED
SOCIETY
STANLEY GIBBONS CATALOGUES
If you are going to collect GB stamps seriously, you will need to invest in Stanley Gibbons catalogues. Unless
you are collecting modern GB (many collectors collect either by reign, or pre-decimal or post-decimal), your
best bet is to find them used on eBay or Amazon. To collect from Victoria
to QEII, Stanley Gibbons provides three SPECIALISED catalogues
(Victoria, the Kings, and QEII Pre-decimal). They are much more de-
tailed for GB collectors than the Scott US Specialized is for US collec-
tors!
As there were no votes submitted for other candidates, the slate of offi-cers was elected by acclamation at the November meeting! The officers for 2013-2015 are:
President: Paul Renner.
Secretary: Jim Palmer.
Board Member: Mike Weyers.
Paul has not run for office in our club before. Jim was club librarian. Mike Weyers, a board member whose term expired in 2012, agreed to run again and remain on the board.
Congratulations to the new officers! Let’s all be sure to support them!
‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡
PAY YOUR CLUB DUES NOW!!
Dues for 2013 are due by January 31! If you have not already paid your dues, please get them in!
The following members ARE PAID for 2013!!!! Alder, Clough, Fish, Forster, Hardy, Rimerman, Struble, Beckett, Beplat, Bronner, Eschli-man, James, Lewis R, Opincar, and Spuur.
An ANONYMOUS donor has paid the 2013 dues for the Junior mem-bers. So Bogard, Bughman, Hayner, Kendall, Murray A, Murray B, and Snow are also already paid for 2013!
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CHRISTMAS PARTY ROCKS ! ! Over 20 people attended the Christmas party! Tom Yurchak presented a great Nativity program, describing some differences in the Eastern Orthodox and Roman interpretations. See inside for photos of mem-bers enjoying the evening of goodies and our convoluted gift exchange!
sions are based on the discre-tion of the editor. All material must arrive typewritten please(!) to the editor either at a scheduled meeting, by mail, or email. Timeliness of submis-sions and space will determine when they will appear in the Newsletter. Cutoff dates for all submissions will be the 15th of the month prior to the 1st day of the month the issue is to come out. Don’t bold, italicize or underline. Do not use cen-
All submissions of articles, illustrations, letters, etc., by members of the Greater Eugene Stamp Society will be considered. We reserve the right to edit for length and content. Also, any material might be denied publication based on its inflammatory nature, bias, its poor quality, readability, obviously inap-propriate subject matter, or the lack of space in the cur-rent publication. These deci-
tering. Use a plain background and standard typefaces.
Many thanks for all who send material! We really appreciate it!
Electronic submissions via email preferred!
THE PRESIDENT ’S COLUMN :
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DEADLINE AND SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Welcome!
I hope everybody had a wonderful holiday season, and I look for-ward to serving you as President of the club for the next two years. I want to thank all of you for your friendship and support, and will strive to continue the programs and activities that have made this club as enjoyable and informative as it has been for many years. I do have a few new ideas that we may incorporate later, into the meetings.
Since I am a relatively new member, some of you may not know me. I am a 40+ year stamp collector and currently have a small business dealing in collectibles. I have worked in Coin and Stamp shops for almost 20 years and have been a member of nu-merous organizations; a past president of the Phoenix Coin Club and several Lions International clubs. In stamps, my main collecting interest is Mozambique Company, which issued stamps through the early 1940's. I hope to have a presentation ready later this year.
Are there things you'd like to see at the meetings or events we should consider? Please let me know either at the meetings or you can e-mail me at [email protected]. Just a little note: sometimes I am a little slow on e-mail responses, but will reply as soon as possible. Also, please mention that this is for GESS, as I do not have some names memorized yet. Happy New Year and let's have a great 2013!
Happy New Year to all! In lieu of an article, we have photos of the Christmas Party at our December meeting. Articles are still needed for the Echoes….feel free to submit them to me! Sugges-tions and comments are also welcomed.
The ECHOES is published six times a year in January, March, May, July, September, and November. If you do NOT get your ECHOES the first week of the issue month, let me know! I will get another mailed out to you! Remember, email de-livery = COLOR!!
Club member Carol Furness has Carol Furness Postcards in her home in Drain. Please call her for an appointment. She is also a regular at Piccadilly. Drop in!
Mike Hardy sells on eBay as “Mkhard69”. (He also sells from his home! Call him!)
Paul Renner sells as “PNC” on eBay and has been known to sell at Piccadilly. He is now a full-time dealer!
Clarin Lewis has a booth in The Mercantile Vintage Mall at 145 Pioneer Parkway East, Springfield. Drop in! Call 541-726-1818 for hours.
Mike Luttio is a full time dealer who sells at our shows and at buy, sell, trade nights. Call and leave a message if you’d like to deal with him outside of “hours.”
Space is available at no charge for club members who wish to let others know they are available to sell philatelic items!
This was originally published in 1988 as Volume 2 in the La Posta Monograph series. Prexie Postal His-tory was the first book devoted entirely to the subject of the 1938 Presidential Series. Five authors (Terence Hines, Walt Cole, Robert Dalton Harris, Richard W. Helbock, and Stephen L. Suffet) discuss their own personal approaches to collecting and ex-hibiting postal history associated with this popular set of stamps.
After an Introduction (Helbock), chapters include Low Value Usages (Hines), Collecting the 3-cent Jefferson (Cole), Domestic First Class Frankings (Harris), Overseas Air Mail Usages (Helbock), and Collecting and Exhibiting Strategies (Suffet). Two appendices: A Tabulation of Postage and Fees Char-gable on First Class Domestic Letter Main During the Tenure of the Presidential Definitives (Harris), and International Air Mail Rates, 1938 to 1946 (Helbock and Henry Beecher.)
This volume is available from the APS, or may be found on Amazon.com.. Shop around, although at $25.00 it’s well worth the price for anyone wanting to take a serious look at the “Prexies.”...
Officer Swear In Pics (photos by Larry Spuur)
New officers sworn in, from left to right: President Paul Renner, Board member Mike Wyers, Secretary Jim Parker, by Past President Gary Schwieger.
Above: The newly elected officers: from left to right: Paul Renner, Mike Weyers and Jim Parker.
Left: Outgoing President Phil Bronner gets ready to pass the gavel to Paul Renner.
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CHRISTMAS PARTY P ICS (PHOTOS BY LARRY SPUUR)
A collage of the 2012 Christmas Party...put yourself on this page in 2013!!
Repetitive Events:
Rose City Stamp Fair, 2nd Saturday of the month, OSS Clubhouse, Portland.
Collectors Corner, 4th Saturday of the month, OSS Clubhouse, Portland.
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CALENDAR
S IGN-UP SHEETS WILL BE AVAILABLE
AT THE MEETINGS!
JANUARY
1: New Year’s Day
5: Cottage Grove Library, 1-3pm, VanderPlaat
9: Club meeting, 7-9pm, SMOM: Bronner, CM: TBA
12: Springfield Library, 1-3pm, TBA
21: Martin Luther King Day
23: Club Meeting, 7-9pm, Buy, Sell, Trade night. CM: TBA
DECEMBER
2: Groundhog Day
2: Cottage Grove Library, 1-3pm, VanderPlaat
9: Springfield Library, TBA
12: Lincoln’s Birthday
13: Club Meeting, 7-9pm, Pro-gram: TBA, CM: TBA
14: Valentine’s Day
18: President’s Day
22: Washington’s Birthday
27: Club Meeting, 7-9pm, Pro-gram TBA, CM: TBA
NOTE: Northwest Philatelic Library is open on Saturdays, 10 am-2 pm, dur-ing the Stamp Fair and Collector’s Cor-ner.
JANUARY 2013
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31
FEBRUARY 2013
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28
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BIRTH MONTHS NEEDED!
PO Box 40068 Eugene, Oregon 97404
The Greater Eugene Stamp Society (G.E.S.S.) meets the second and fourth Wednesday at Saint Jude’s Catholic Church, 43rd Avenue and Willamette Street. Visitors
are always welcome! Doors open at 7:00 p.m. for trading, bid board, and socializing. The regular meeting
starts at 7:30 p.m. Applications are available at the meetings, at the GESS
sponsored local Stamp Show held in March and September each year, or by contacting the club at the
above address. Dues are $15 a year for adults, $5 a year for Juveniles under 18 years of age. Visit us on the web
at: www.greatereugenestampclub.org
GREATER EUGENE STAMP
SOCIETY
U.S. Stamp Quiz No. 20
(from 100 Trivia Quizzes for Stamp Collectors by Bill Olcheski copyright 1982, APS)
1. William Penn was honored on a 1932 stamp. Of what religious group was he a member?
2. Who is on the one and one-half cent 1938 definitive?
3. What first lady appears on a four-cent stamp in the 1923 regular issue?
4. What Polish hero appears on a five-cent stamp issued in 1933?
5. What was the denomination of the petroleum industry issue of 1959?
6. What jazz musician is honored on a 1969 stamp?
7. What disease does a 1965 five-cent stamp crusade against?
8. What color is the 1940 stamp honoring Ethelbert Nevin?
9. What four freedoms are covered in the 1943 issue?
10. Montgomery Blair appears on a 1963 airmail issue. Under what President was he Postmaster General?
Give yourself five points for each correct answer for numbers 1-4.
Give yourself ten points for each correct answer for numbers 5-7.
Give yourself twenty-five points for each correct answer for numbers 8-9.
Give yourself fifty points for a correct answer to number 10.
1. Quakers
2. Martha Washington
3. Martha Washington
4. Tadeusz Kosciuszko
5. Four Cents
6. W.C. Handy
7. Cancer
8. Dark Brown
9. Freedom of Speech and Religion, from War and from Fear.
10. Abraham Lincoln
Remember to:
Check the Sign up
sheets for Spring-
field Library Satur-
days; Cookie Mon-
ster (CM); Presen-
tations; Show
setup, teardown
and cleanup;
Show Exhibit,
Ride Share, and
New Member
Guide!
Also, let’s each try
to get one new
member to join
our Club in
2013 !!!
Answers to the quiz below:
Don’t Peek!!!! Cover this box with a piece of
paper!
In order to include everyone in the “Birthday Wishes” section in the Echoes, I STILL need birth months for the following:
Adler, Chaffins, Coulombe, Forster, Hulse, Shepherd, and Wood.
I don’t need the day or year…..just the month!! (That shouldn’t embar-rass anyone !) Thanks, Ed.
GREATER EUGENE STAMP SOCIETY
BIRTHDAY WISHES TO:
JAN: Bronner P, Dundee L, Phelps R, Renner P
FEB: Beckett W, Holland G, Jeppesen A, Kendall A, Kendall M, Leahy J, Lewis C.
