Status: U Return-Path: Received: from web5203.mail.yahoo.com ([216.115.106.97]) by walker.mail.mindspring.net (Earthlink Mail Service) with SMTP id tlsbdh.53o2.37kbi73 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 22:23:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20010725022344.8623.qmail@web5203.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [152.163.197.72] by web5203.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 19:23:44 PDT Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 19:23:44 -0700 (PDT) From: MPCgram Subject: MPCGram 403 To: mpcgram@yahoo.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ============================================== MPC Gram ============================================== Covering the Entire World of Military Numismatics ----------------------------------------------- Series 002-Number 403 Tuesday July 24, 2001 MPC Collectors Take Top Spots! A new president and vice president, and four new and three incumbents have been elected to the American Numismatic Association (ANA) nine-member Board of Governors, with 8,220 ballots cast in the biennial election. ANA Vice President John Wilson of Ocala, Florida, was elected president, defeating Past Governor Will Rossman of Estes Park, Colorado. Wilson received 4,841 votes to Rossman's 3,225 in the first contested race for the ANA presidency since 1975. In the contested election for the vice presidency, Governor Gary E. Lewis of Cape Coral, Florida, defeated Governor Alan Herbert of Belle Fourche, South Dakota, by a vote of 4,343 to 3,582. New Board members are M. Remy Bourne, Arthur M. Fitts III, William H. Horton Jr. and Jerry Lebo. Incumbents re-elected are Patricia A. Finner, Kay Edgerton Lenker and Barry S. Stuppler. President H. Robert Campbell and Governor Thomas Hallenbeck, who both served two terms on the ANA Board, did not seek re-election. Past President Anthony Swiatek was prohibited from seeking another term, having served the 10-year limit of five terms. Wilson, a 23-year life member of the ANA, is a collector, exhibitor, exhibit judge, author, speaker and researcher. A member of the Board of Governors since 1995, he also has served as president of the Central States Numismatic Society and governor of the Society of Paper Money Collectors. He is a recipient of the Association's Medal of Merit, Glenn Smedley Memorial Award and Presidential Award. Lewis, a 41-year life member of the ANA, was first elected to the Board of Governors in 1995 and has served on the ANA's Audit, Finance, Exhibit, Resolutions, Mediation, Commemorative Quarter and Young Numismatists Committees. He also has served as a regional, district and club representative and is the 1979 recipient of the ANA Outstanding Adult Advisor Award. All members of the ANA Board of Governors elected this year will assume office during the Association's 110th Anniversary Convention in Atlanta, Georgia, August 8-12. Installation of officers will take place at the convention banquet on Saturday, August 11. Votes garnered by the winning candidates, as tabulated by the independent accounting firm of Grant Thornton (in descending order of votes received) are: Story from ANA news rlease. Exhibiting stories By Joe Boling Another 1976 story. That summer I was at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, taking the Army's thirteen-week ADP officer course. I decided to attend the ANA convention in New York, but I would not be able to get there until the weekend. Since exhibits had to be installed on Wednesday, I gave my exhibit to Elmer Smith (yes, THE Elmer Smith) to take over for me and install; I would be there to remove it Sunday. However, it was a long week at school; by Friday night I did not want to drive all night to New York, have one day at the show, and then drive all night Sunday getting back to Indy. I knew that I was as likely as not to go to sleep driving in one direction or the other. So I called NY and asked Elmer to bring the exhibit back to Indiana with him. I visited him later in the month and picked it up, along with the third place medal that it had won in the world paper money class--my first ANA exhibit award. The exhibit was titled "Foreign Trade Payment Certificates--Current Research" and consisted of the set of five certificates and booklet covers shown as SB 1001-1005 and 1007, along with about the same writeup that we printed in 1995 (almost no new documents have been uncovered about FTPCs since 1975). In 1977 I attended the Atlanta ANA, and exhibited again, with my large Japan exhibit titled "Building a National Currency--Japan 1867-1895" ( a later version o that exhibit is now on the ANA web site). At that convention I had occasion to talk to chief judge Robert Kriz, a retired Army colonel and lawyer. He had a conniption when he learned that I had exhibited at New York without attending the convention. He immediately initiated a change in the rules to prohibit such conduct; it took me about fifteen years to get that rule rescinded (you can now have an agent set up and remove your exhibit for you). Also at the Atlanta convention, Fred and I had our first encounter with aberrant judging results stemming from lack of a conference among the judges and lack of attention to ordinal rankings in the chief judge's room. Fred and I were in the same class (he was showing AMC). Two of the three floor judges ranked him ahead of me, but because the one judge who liked me was an especially high marker, I ended up with more points than Fred overall, and was awarded the first place medal. [You ready for this, Fred? My scores were 83-87-95.] The rules now require that if two judges award a place, and no conference resolves the discrepancy, the award goes to that exhibit, even if the total points go the other way. [Ordinal rankings are first-second-third, as distinguished from 270-265-263, which is the way the points look when totaled. For those who are interested, I have a handout for apprentice judges showing six different ways that ignoring ordinals can get you into trouble.] So, I advanced to the best of show round, because I had received the first place medal in the class. This was the first of several years that I was told afterward by members of he BoS team that I had placed second or third in BoS judging. But, back then there was no recognition of any place below first--the Howland Wood medal. It was not until about 1990 that we got the ANA to start announcing the first and second runners-up (and later also giving them certificates) and not until 1999 that we actually got medals for them (the Howland Wood medal now comes in three grades: gold plated silver, silver and bronze). This is entirely appropriate, because there are over twenty exhibits competing for BoS now (effective in 2002 there will be 25 competitive classes--the new one will be Asian numismatics, parallel to the Latin American, Canadian, and Israeli classes that already exist). I would wish that I were able to exhibit again, because that Asian class would be just up my alley, but my prime material is all going to auction, and I am now chief judge, so cannot compete (and even if I am not reappointed, I will continue to serve as assistant chief judge, still not be able to compete). Watch 60 Minutes on Wednesday! By Steve Feller Sixty Minutes Two is going to broadcast a story on Operation Bernhard and the finding of more of the notes recently! 8PM Eastern, 7 Central, Wednesday. There should be lots of interesting material in this program. I will provide a review for Friday and will tape the program for Fred to watch later! =============================================== Editorial ----------------------------------------------- Wow, what a great news day. John Wilson and Gary Lewis are old time MPC collectors even if they are not currently real active. It is sure great to see family members elected to the top positions of the American Numismatic Association. Of course, guys, the work is not over, it has just started! We expect a lot out of you and I think that you can look to your ol’ MPC friends for plenty of help! ============================================== Mail Call ----------------------------------------------- Dear Gram, As Gene Collister, A 40/8 member, member wrote the 40/8 Box Cars were designed to hold 40 men or 8 horses. I still enjoy the memory of reading about a US soldier who said that their officers didn't understand the Box Car's capacity and put 40 men AND 8 horses in each car. John Watta ================================================ Departments --------------------------------------------------- Calendar of events for Gramsters maintained by Howard Daniel, John Wilson and Gram staff ---------------------------------------------------- June 28-July 1, 2001, Mid America Coin Expo, Sponsored by Numismatic News, Rosemont Convention Center, Rosemont, IL Auction by B & M - No paper money. About 125 tables July 5-8, 2001, Clearwater Coin Show, Clearwater, FL Over 100 tables July 13-15, 2001, Eastern States Numismatic Expo, Brandywine Terrace, Claymont / Wilmington, DE Probably over 100 tables August 2-5, 2001, 42nd Blue Ridge Numismatic Association, Dalton, GA (about one hour drive from the ANA Atlanta convention the following week) Over 150 Dealers Auction by Lucien Birkler, Washington, D.C. from M & M August 4-5, 2001 Meridian Area Coin Club Coin & Currency Show, Howard Johnson Inn, Meridian, MS August 7-12, 2001, ANA Convention at the Cobb Galleria Center, Atlanta, GA The Fourth Annual Paper Money & Historical Artifacts Show. Sheraton Grand hotel at Dallas/ Ft. Worth Airport. 4440 W. John Carpenter Freeway, Irving Texas 75063. August 16-19 2001. More than 75 dealers. Lyn Knight's 40th Anniversary sale August 18, 2001. AUGUST 16-19. 2001, 41st Missouri Numismatic Society Coin Festival, Hilton St. Louis Airport St. Louis, MO August 17-19, 2001, Ohio Coin Expo, Cleveland, OH, 125 tables, August 23-26, 2001, CSNS Fall Convention hosted by the MSNS in Dearborn, MI Auction by NTL/Scotsman Coins, Hyatt Regency Dearborn August 23-25, 2001, New England Coin Expo, Holiday Inn, Mansfield, MA, 130 tables August 25-26, 2001, Golden State Coin Show, CSNS 109th Convention & NASC Masonic Temple Arcadia, CA August 31-Sept. 1-2, 2001, Ohio State Coin Show, Columbus Ohio Host CNS/COINS, Marriott North World Paper Money Fair, run by London Chapter of IBNS October 6/7, 2001 Spink Auction October 5, 2001 Phillips Auction October 4, 2001 My London Paper Money Fairs are: July 15/September 2/November 18, 2001 Important 2002 events Lyn Knight auction of Leo May collection, Chicago, Feb 2002 ANA spring show, Jacksonville FL, 7-9 March 2002. EXHIBIT APPLICATION DEADLINE 11 FEB 2002. [Joe Boling, John and Nancy Wilson confirmed in attendance] MPCFest III, Port Clinton, Ohio March 2002 WWII numismatics seminar at ANA Summer Seminar, July 2002 ANA summer show, New York City, 30 July-4 August 2002. EXHIBIT APPLICATION DEAD LINE 3 JUN 2002. --------------------------------------------------- Donations are now being accepted for scholarships to the 2002 "Military Money" course at the 2002 ANA Summer Seminar. Inquiries and donations should be sent to: Military Numismatists c/o Marcus Turner 8103 East US Highway 36 Suite 163 Avon, IN 46123 Dondors to 2002 Scholarship Fund Steve Feller Harold Kroll R. A. Medina ==================================================== Post/Base Exchange (PX/BX/NEX) Dump your dupes! Your classified advertisement for items for sale will be run here for free. Send your ads to the gram. This service is for everyone, most humble dealer or most advanced collector. The point is to make the gram more interesting. 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