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Notes From The Editor
 

Meeting Reminder….Wednesday, December 10, 2008 6:30 PM at the Kent Recreation Center. This is our Annual Christmas Party.

 

President's Message

 

Be sure to come to the Christmas Party.  There will be lots of good food and lots of door prizes.  We will have a program on Youth Stamp Activities by Carol Edholm.  Carol is a member of our club but rarely is able to come as our club meets on the same night as the Sno-King Stamp Club.  A very short business meeting will be held after the presentation.  Bill Messecar will be handing out 2009 Membership forms.  2009 dues are the same as 2008 - $20.  Bob Stubbs will announce the results of the election.  I will be handing out the list of 2009 officers and committee chairmen.

 

Did you know that there are six open stamp clubs in the Puget Sound area?  They are:  Boeing Employees Stamp Club; Collectors Club of Seattle; Greater Eastside Stamp Club; Puget Sound Chapter of the USCS; Sno-King Stamp Club and Washington State Philatelic Society.  There is one closed club - Puget Sound Collectors Club.  The Puget Sound Chapter of the USCS is for collectors of naval covers, the rest are general purpose.  All belong to the Northwest Federation of Stamp Clubs..

 
December Program ..... by Carol Edholm

 

Young Stamp Collectors has been around for 16 years, and yet most supporters, stamp collectors and volunteers really have no idea what our work entails or how far-reaching our programs are.  Come to this month's meeting to find out where all those stamps, catalogs and stamp albums go; what happens to money donated to the programs; and what our latest achievements are.  We hope you will find the presentation a little bit entertaining; it will definitely be an eye-opener!

 

 

A Note From the Secretary
 

Boeing has asked all the recreation clubs to begin collecting BEMSID for all club members—both active and retired employees. If you are not an active or retired employee you will need to use the BEMSID of another member as a sponsor—and that could be one of the club officers or a fellow BESC member. Please email or mail you ID to Bill Messecar, BESC Secretary in the next month so we can complete this task. My mailing address is P O Box 7750 Kent, WA 98042 or email me at Santafe-mail@comcast.net.

 

Potpourri
The club has purchased a 2008 Scott catalog for the library…See Bob Stubbs. The Club is in need of a Program Chairman, please contact Bill Geijsbeek.

 

Traditional Christmas Program & Potluck

 

The Boeing Employees Stamp Club will have our December Holiday Program on our regular club meeting night, December 10th.  There will be a short program presentation by Carol Edholm.  The program will begin at 6:30pm with the awards/raffle presentation following dinner.  The club will provide the meat & cheese trays, breads, condiments, salad mix & dressings, coffee, tea, cider, & soft drinks.  If you have brought a main dish or dessert in the past and would like to bring the same dish again, please do so.  Otherwise, if your last name begins with the letter A through M, please bring a dessert; if your last name begins with the letter N through Z, please bring a main dish, this can be either a hot or cold dish.

 

Please bring your spouse, other family members and guests to enjoy the program and camaraderie.

 

It’s Your Stamp Club
Let us know if there is something you would like to see covered in the newsletter. Your editor is new at this and is actively seeking new ideas. You can email me at williamc.parker@comcast.net


Stamp Supplies
Your newsletter editor (Bill Parker) aka BESC Vice-President is the person that also handles ordering philatelic supplies (albums, supplement pages, ect.) for club members. Just ask for an order form. All special orders must be pre-paid.

EXPONET - a Virtual Philatelic Exhibition

This is a very interesting website. It presents images of a number of philatelic exhibits in their entirety. Your topic may not be represented, but even if there is not be anything that interests you, it is worth seeing. Hopefully this idea will spread and even more exhibits covering more topics will be forthcoming.

 

EXPONET currently shows 154 different exhibits from exhibitors in 25 different countries. You can access it at: http://www.japhila.cz/hof/index.htmThe main (home) page depicts 25 different national flags. By selecting one of the flags you will get a listing of on-line exhibits available from collectors living in that country. Unfortunately, that means that you will have to know your national flags (lucky for me I did recognize the flags from the US and from Canada).


But this also means that you do not know where to look to find your area of interest. For example, if you want to see the exhibit on "Argentina's Post - Classic Issues - 1867-1890", you do not select the Argentina flag. You select the Swiss flag because that is where the owner of this Argentina exhibit lives. Thus you really need to scan the entire content of all 25 countries in order to find what's there. But is a manageable, if not well thought out approach.


On the plus side, there is no airfare traveling to the exhibit, no travel time, no rental car, no exhibition entry fee, and no gas expense. All from the comfort of your den on a cold, gray winter evening.

Pacific NW Shows

See an extensive list of Philatelic Expositions of interest to the Pacific Northwest Stamp Collector. The list includes shuch details, as the show type and location.