The WEPS Newsletter For March & April 2005
March 14:
We will have the slide program that was supposed to be shown on Feb. 28. Title is Basics of Stamp Exhibiting.
March 28:
This evening we will hav a Memebers Show & Tell.
April 11: Will be a regular Club Auction
April 25:
This evening there will be a Members Bourse. And, we will have our Annual Meeting & Elections of Officers.
The following proposed slate of Officers the upcoming year is as follows:
President: Ron Gollhardt
Vice-President: Jim Smillie
Treasurer: Lou Caprario
Trustee: Robert Reed
Trustee: Phil Clarke
Nominations are certainly accepted from the floor the night of the Annual Meeting. Also, the night of the Annual
Meeting our treasurer will give his financial report.
It is again with great pleasure that we announce the re-joining of an old member - Daniel Herzog, who is a Postcard
Dealer for over 23 years. Not only has Dan rejoined - bu, I joined his Garden State Postcard club - which is really a
great club - anyone interest in particulars - see your editor or Dan.
On April 2-3 the Clifton Stamp, Cover and Post Card show will be held at the Community Rec. Center, 1232 Main Ave at
Washington Ave., Clifton.
NOJEX which will be held May 28-30 in Secaucus - get more details at Club meeting - NOJEX organizers are looking for people
to help at the NOJEX show. They will pay $10.00 per hour. See Robert Rose for more details.
If you missed it - which you shouldn't - there is a copy of the plans for the 75th Anniversary Celebration which is
folded up inside your Newsletter.
Remember - Knowledge - in the last Newsletter, was mentioned the Antler Grounds Golf Course - well
it has been unearthed - it is located just outside Amsterdam, New York. Postcards - won't he (me)
ever stop talking about them. Just one more point of interest - and then you won't hear about them
for at least a few Newsletters.
Around the turn of the century, post cards - just like stamps - were exchanged and traded. People
collected them. However, with my limited knowledge, it would seem that it would have been with people
of means. Five cents plus postage was a lot of money at that time. Anyway, regarding the collecting
of them - there are numerous references made in the messages on the cards thanking the other for the
"postal" that they sent. People corresponded and exchanged post cards in the same manner as pen
pals who collected stamps by taking them off the letters written to each other. I had a Great Uncle
who collected stamps and never spent a cent on stamps - as from a dealer. He wrote letters to
different people throughout the world.
Your Editor: Ray Laplace
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