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Meeting Schedules and Events
Social Activities |
2008 Schedule |
2009 Schedule
The Club, through our Program Chairmen, is constantly
recruiting speakers with specialties of interest to our membership.
Speakers may be members or non-members and come to the Club from all
over the world to share their knowledge with us. Throughout the hobby,
it is considered as honor to be asked to speak at the Club, so the
caliber of the programs is unusually high.
Each speaker is asked to bring and display his or her
key pieces in the new exhibit frames of our recently renovated meeting
Room. As much of the displayed material is typically part of
award-winning exhibits, our members can not only see some of philately’s
most prized items “up close and personal,” but also get some insightful,
expert tips on exhibiting or arranging their own collections.
The public is invited free of charge to The Collectors Club’s series of semi-monthly meetings devoted to lectures and exhibits on philatelic subjects. The lectures are given by experts in the field and
are attended by approximately 60 people. These experts come at their own expense, without remuneration, from numerous foreign countries and from across the continental United States and
Hawaii.
Social Activities
An important feature of the Club is the chance to get
together with fellow members in a relaxed and informal setting to share
collecting “war stories” and just catch up.
Prior to every meeting, there is a social hour at the
Clubhouse where members can mingle, share refreshments and meet guests
and new members. After the program presentation, all interested members
gather for dinner at a nearby restaurant.
The Club also features two very popular events—the
festive Holiday Party, held at the Club every December, and the Annual
Awards Dinner, which is held in May at an offsite location to showcase
the Club’s coveted Lichtenstein Award presentation.
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2008 Schedule
In 2008, the Club will be closed on the following dates:
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January 1 and 21
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February 18
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March 21
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May 26
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July 4
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September 1
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October 13
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November 27 and 28
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December 25 and 26
Visitors, please call the office before coming.
A complete list of programs for 2008 is shown below.
The 2008 Schedule is also available in a brochure from the Club secretary.
| Jan. 9 |
Annual Meeting—Elections
Topic: Bring and be prepared to discuss material that is not your
"normal" collecting area |
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| Jan. 16 |
Two Hundred Years of Montserrat Postal History
Montserrat, one of the Leeward Islands in the British West Indies, has
an interesting postal history that belies the size and population of the
island. This presentation covers the development of the mail system,
starting as early as 1769, and includes the first recorded use in 1804 of
the very rare first datestamp, the Montserrat Horseshoe. It continues
with highlights of the various stamp issuing eras up to the middle of the
twentieth century. |
Peter McCann Sarasota, FL |
| Feb. 6 |
2,000 Miles in 24 Hours—The First Airmail Route
The 1918 decision by the Post Office to establish a regular scheduled
air mail service was met with many problems. The long term goal of the Post
Office was to establish a dependable transcontinental air ail route. Items
are shown from every flight in the experiment that resulted in establishment
of the private contract airmail contracts (CAMs) in 1926-27. |
Patrick A. Walters Denville, NJ |
| Feb. 20 |
Tasmania
This presentation is mainly on the first issues of Tasmania known as
"Courier" stamps, subsequent to the author's article in the August-September
2006 issue for the Courier 4 pence. This will refer to the paper
variety known on 1 penny stamps in comparison with the paper used for 4
pence stamps. Also some examples of "Courier" stamps on cover will be shown
to highlight the typical usage of postage rates and routes. |
Koichi Sato Kawasaki, Japan |
| Mar. 7 |
Youth and the Future of Philately
or: "How Can Philately Compete with the Fascination of Computers?"
In an age of computer whiz-bangs and shortened attention spans, does
philately have a chance of attracting new adherents? Nancy Clark
answers an emphatic "Yes!" She has coordinated and supported education
with stamps for more than 30 years. |
Nancy B.Z. Clark Marstons Mills, MA |
| Mar. 19 |
Northwest Postal History
Featured material will include fur-trade mail by canoe brigade,
establishment of the first post offices west of the Rocky Mountains at
Astoria and Oregon City in 1847, private competition to the government mail
by early express companies in the 1850s, gold-rushes to Idaho and Eastern
Oregon in the early 1860s, steamboat markings on the Columbia River and
Transcontinental railroad influences from 1869. |
Dale E. Forster Portland, OR |
| Apr. 2 |
Grandma's House (1870–1950)
This display division exhibit includes a wide variety of philatelic
material, interspersed with Cinderellas, ephemera, advertising covers and
cards, and an array of unusual collateral material, many pieces of which
actually belong to ancestors of the exhibitor. It "visits" each of the
rooms and areas of a house, showing various features of each location. |
Barbara Harrison Ringoes, NJ |
| Apr. 16 |
Schism in the Kingdom of the Netherlands: The
Belgian Revolt 1830–1839
Following the Napoleonic era, the great European powers wanted to create
a barrier to the north of France to prevent future expansionist designs.
During the Vienna Congress in 1814 and 1815 , the areas to the north were
combined to form the new Kingdom of the Netherlands, but the artificial
union was doomed to fail. By 1830, Belgium declared its independence.
This presentation explores the postal consequences of those events.. |
Kees Adema Fairfield CT |
| May 7 |
Annual Awards Dinner—Honoring Lichtenstein Awardee
Charles J. Peterson |
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| May 21 |
Precanceled Rarities |
Arnold Selengut Temple Terrace, FL |
| Jun. 4 |
A Lifetime Treasure Hunt |
Kenneth J. Kutz Darien, CT |
| Jun. 18 |
Saudi Arabia |
Tarik Alireza Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |
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Summer Recess |
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| Sep. 3 |
South Africa: De La Rue and the Early
Twentieth Century Stamps |
Brian Trotter London, UK |
| Sep. 17 |
Victorian Natal |
Keith Klugman, M.D. Atlanta, GA |
| Oct. 1 |
U.S. Mails Carried by Water: Seventeenth
Century to GPU |
Hugh Feldman London, UK |
| Oct. 15 |
The Official Postal Cards of Spain (1873–1938) |
Arturo Martin de Nicolas Austin, TX |
| Nov. 5 |
The Club Monte Carlo Visits the Collectors Club |
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| Nov. 19 |
The Postal Stationery of Chile |
Ross A Towle San
Francisco, CA |
| Dec. 3 |
The Postal Stationery of Cyprus |
Alex Ioannides |
| Dec. 17 |
Board of Governors’ Open House |
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2009 Schedule
In 2009, the Club will be closed on the following dates:
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January 1 and 19
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February 16
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April 10
Visitors, please call the office before coming.
As the programs for 2009 are defined, the schedule will
be posted below.
| Jan. 14 |
Annual Meeting—Elections
Topic: Probing Philatelic Possibilities |
Steven J. Rod South Orange, NJ |
| Jan. 21 |
The Imperforate One Cent Blues of 1851–57 |
Lawrence J. Hunt Pluckemin, NJ |
| Feb. 4 |
All Roads Lead to San Francisco: The Private
Companies that Carried the Mail in the Early West |
Larry Lyons Westport, CT |
| Feb. 18 |
The French Connection to the Lufthansa South
Atlantic Airmail Service |
Dieter Leder Meersburg, Germany |
| Mar. 4 |
Philatelic Maps |
Diane DeBlois and Robert Dalton Harris
West Sand Lake, NY |
| Mar. 18 |
The Civil War in New Mexico and Arizona
Territories, 1861–1865 |
John Birkinbine II Tucson, AZ |
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