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Meeting Reminder…. Wednesday, April 9, 2008 6:30 PM at the Kent Recreation Center.

May 30, 31 & June 1 are the dates of PIPEX to be held at the Seattle Center. Attached to the newsletter is the show schedule, a pre-registration form and a publicity sheet for the event. Last year PIPEX was not held because of the APS show in Portland. Club members are needed to make this event a success. Details will be provided at the meeting.

 
March Program. Program for April 9, 2008
Something Different---A Club Show and Tell

It’s time for something different for a club meeting program. We want everyone attending to bring something special, i.e. Bill Dorgeloh is going to share his Japanese occupation of the Philippine Islands collection. Your newsletter editor will bring his U.S. Airmail Collection….How about you? What will you bring to share with the other members?
 

Membership

If you haven’t renewed your membership Please be sure to sign & date your application. Return the application with the $20.00 dues amount to the Secretary: Bill Messecar, P O Box 7750, Kent, WA 98042. Make your check payable to BESC.


Housekeeping

All users of the Kent Recreation Center, especially those using open rooms like BESC does, are coming under increasing fire from Boeing Recreation with regard to housekeeping. This especially concerns tables and chairs. It is important for us to leave the rooms A and B in the same shape as we find them. If you move tables and chairs into the room from either room C or Room D, then they must be returned at the end of the meeting. Thank you for cooperating.

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.

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.