———————————————————— January 2015 ——————–————————————— Monthly Newsletter ———————–———————————— Issue no. 567 —————–————–—————————— President - Dick Odum Vice President - Dan Hubbard Secretary - Bob Smith Treasurer - Stephen Schmidt The Club President’s Calendar Dispatch Guests and Visitors always Welcome! January 15th - 7 p.m. At the December club meeting Monthly Meeting we had a great turnout and I think everyone had a great time. It See President’s Dispatch for details started with a table of great munchies and drinks for everyone followed by a “white elephant” gifting game. This year more that half of the people brought gifts that pockets and cards for the club library books, a nice cart for were definitely of a quality that exceeded the definition of “white conveying books back and forth and a donation to the elephant”. Although no major arm wrestling sessions broke out there library of the Scott Worldwide Catalogue for year 2000, a were several jaw dropping snatches, however it all ended in good fun. six volume set. The club members unanimously accepted The members present then considered and approved a John's process for the library. This was followed by a great recommendation by the club treasurer, Steve, to pro-rate the club special auction which was a great way to close out 2014. dues by discounting the yearly amount by $1 per month for those It is that time for annual membership renewal. Annual joining during the year. This was followed by our VP, Dan, club membership cost is $20 if you have the monthly announcing he had arranged for the club to continue meeting at newsletter mailed to you (black and white paper copy) or Northeast State for 2015. John Tullock briefed the club on a process $15 if you have the newsletter e-mailed to you (no paper he had put together to improve the circulation rate on the brand new copy). For those who have not already renewed for 2015, club copy of the 2015 Scott Classic Catalogue as well as other club please fill out the attached membership renewal form and library items. John also acquired and donated to the club a supply of either bring it to the January meeting or mail it to the club secretary, Bob, with your dues. The form will help us update our membership information for contacting you and knowing what other philatelic organizations you may belong to. Unfortunately many of you forgot to fill out and turn in the two page survey form that was part of the December newsletter. This form helps us improve our meetings. The form is attached to this newsletter, so if you haven't done so already, please fill out the two page form and bring it to the January meeting or mail it to the club secretary. Bob's address is on the membership renewal form if you do not (President's Dispatch continued) plan to attend the January meeting. The results will be posted in a future newsletter. Monthly Treasury Our next club meeting will be at Northeast State Community College Student Services Building on January 15 (a Thursday) at 7 PM. 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Please fill out the special auction sheets for your items in (P. Kuhn and P. Bowman) advance and bring two copies to the meeting. Be sure to mark your lots Total Disbursements for Dec. $13.40 accordingly. The new Southeast Federation of Stamp Clubs website for Dec. Newsletter costs $13.4 our club is up and our recent newsletters are posted there. Check it out. Balance on hand Dec. 31, 2014 $1,449.03 See website address at the bottom of this page. I am looking forward to seeing you all at the upcoming January FYI: The December special auction contained 143 lots from 19 members and 97 of the lots sold for a total of meetings where we can start 2015 with a bang! See you there. DDDDiiiicccckkkk $398.00 . Once again there are a lot of things you may need to bring to the Stamp of the Month by your newsletter editor meeting on January 15, so, to help you remember here is a list. This month I'm featuring Scott Nos. 2006 thru 2009, YYYYoooouuuu mmmmaaaayyyy nnnneeeeeeeedddd ttttoooo bbbbrrrriiiinnnngggg ttttoooo tttthhhheeee MMMMeeeeeeeettttiiiinnnngggg which in 1982 were the USPS stamps that commemo- Membership Renewal Form and 2015 Dues rated the theme of The 1982 World's Fair held in Knox- Club Survey Form—both pages ville, “Energy Turns the World”. The sources of energy Special Auction Lot depicted in the four stamps were solar energy, synthetic Special Auction Sheets (two copies) fuels, breeder nuclear reactor and fossil fuels. Northeast State Parking Permit for 2015 Unless otherwise indicated by announcement in the newsletter, Holston Stamp Club conducts its regular meeting on the 3rd Thursday each month at 7 p.m. Hope to C. U. there Do you remember going to Knoxville and Club contacts... attending this fair? Pres. Regan opened President Dick Odum: (423) 282-3343 [email protected] V.P. Dan Hubbard: (423) 328-7033 [email protected] the fair on May 1 and it ran until Oct. 31. Secretary Bob Smith: (423) 817-1828 [email protected] You can see above that in 1982 the price Treasurer Stephen Schmidt: (423) 573-2947 [email protected] of a first class stamp was 20¢. Regular Newsletter Pat Koppel: [email protected] gasoline that year cost $1.30 per gallon. *OUR MEETING LOCATION* Student Services Building at Northeast State Community College Located near the Tri-Cities Airport *OUR INTERNET WEBSITE* www.sefsc.org/holston-stamp-club.html Page 2 CLASSIFIED SECTION Items Holston Stamp Club members are interested in selling. Charlie (Dr. Rocks) Bartlett, is having a STAMP EXTRA SUPER SALE. U. S. Stamps—Mint (mostly never hinged) U. S. Stamps—Used British Commonwealth (from A to Z) World Countries: 6 Albums (from A to Z) Mostly at 20% of Catalogue Value (some less) Plus extra 10% discount when purchase exceeds $50.00 Isn’t it easier to leisurely compare the empty spots in your album when you search my extras (so you don’t buy duplicates)? Bring your album(s) to my office, and I will bring my extra book(s) for you to search slowly. I have a full set of Scott’s 2012 catalogues to use. Call me for an appointment at (276) 628-4136 at my office, 432 East Main Street, Suite G, Abingdon, Virginia (or I may be able to meet you at another location). P.S. I can even loan you one or more of these extras books for a month if that will suit you better! I trust all HSC members to return books in a timely manner so others can use them. Items Holston Stamp Club members are interested in buying Dan Hubbard is always looking to purchase used stock books of all types. Contact me directly or bring them to the next meeting. Don Ashley (e-mail [email protected]) wants the following: Uncacheted FDCs: any quantity, preferred left side free of address. Address centered or to the right side and open flap highly desired. Please advise what you have available. Also interested in dual FDCs for joint issues with foreign countries. Ed Ferber is buying and selling government postal cards - US, Possessions, Canada, Caribbean is- lands, WW. Interested in mint and used, collections or individual cards, early or contemporary use. Greatest interest in illustrated advertisement and unusual usage (e.g.: rare foreign destination, auxiliary marking, special delivery). Please contact Ed at [email protected] or his 302-593- 4192 cell phone. Ed Ferber also desires collections or individual postal stationery items in mint, pre-printed or used condition that are unusual in some way. Seeking specialty items such as EFO, plate variety, poor inking, mis-cut, fold-over, illustrated advertisement, exposition, twice used, special delivery, post- age due, auxiliary marking (missent, damaged, train late and others). Also want contemporary cards properly used in rate period with solid postmarks. Bob Smith is looking for early USA stamps, mostly Scott No. 500 and earlier in both mint and used. 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