USPCS Announces Annual Meeting At Garfield-Perry March Party

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

USPCS Announces Annual Meeting At Garfield-Perry March Party

January 25, 2009…The U.S. Philatelic Classics Society (USPCS) announces that it will hold its 2009 annual meeting in conjunction with 119th annual Garfield-Perry stamp exhibition and bourse from March 27th to 29th. The show will be held at the Masonic Auditorium in Cleveland, Ohio. Complete details about the show, hotels, travel arrangements, and hours can be found at the Garfield-Perry website at http://www.garfieldperry.org.

“Our membership is looking forward to holding our annual meeting at the March Party. Members from across the United States are already making plans to come and share their common love for U.S. classic stamps and postal history” said Wade Saadi, President of the Society.

In addition to the conducting of Society business, the annual meeting features philatelic exhibits of interest to students of the classic period of United States postage stamps.

USPCS-Related Events and Programs

Friday, March 27

• 1:00 – 2:00 PM Talk by Roger Rhoades: “Plastics and Stamps, the Good and the Bad”
• 3:00 – 4:00 PM Talk by Jim Cates: “Chattanooga Straight-line 1863- 1864 – Union Field Cancellation”
• 4:00 – 5:00 PM Talk by James Milgram on his new book “Federal Civil War Postal History”
• 6:30 – 8:00 PM USPCS Dinner at Wyndham HotelSaturday, March 28
• 8:00 – 10:30 AM Board of Directors Meeting
• 12:00 – 1:00 PM Annual Membership Meeting
• 1:00 – 2:00 PM Talk by Hugh Feldman: “Sail to Steam on the Atlantic”
• 2:00 – 3:00 PM Talk by Cliff Alexander: “Carrier Service and Markings in Washington, D.C. 1800-1899”
• 7:00 PM Awards Banquet – Café Sausalito in Galleria 

  Also Announcing the USPCS Annual Dinner At Garfield Perry

  The USPCS Annual Dinner at the Garfield Perry Stamp Show shall be held on Friday at 6:30pm March 27th. It will be held at the Wyndham Hotel at Playhouse Square (Garfield-Perry Show Hotel), Cleveland, Ohio. The price is $45.00 ($47.00 if you choose to pay with PayPal online) per person with entrée choice of either Walleye (Fish) of Prime Rib.Payment Method:

  Check made out to: “Michael J. Morrissey, USPCS Regional V.P.”

  Mail To: Michael J. Morrissey, P.O. Box 2884, Westerville, OH 43086. (614) 882-0357 (E) or (614) 443-0352 (D)

  Make reservations no later than March 22, 2009 (Later reservations will be handled on an availability basis.)

   

  About the U.S. Philatelic Classics Society

  The U.S. Philatelic Classics Society is the only organization that studies in depth the stamps and postal history of the United States from the Colonial era to 1900. Our members include both collectors and students. Many have written articles that have been published in our award winning quarterly magazine, The Chronicle of the U.S. Classic Postal Issues, and in other publications. Information about the USPCS, membership, its publications, and articles of interest to collectors and students of the classic period of U.S. philately, can found at the society’s website at www.uspcs.org. Copies of back issues of the Chronicle and previously published books are also available from the society’s bookstore, accessible from the society’s website, or directly at http://www.uspcs.org/store.html.

  For media inquiries, please contact:

  Wade E. Saadi
  President, USPCS
  wade@pencom.com

  or

  Alexander Haimann
  Publicist, USPCS
  alex@mysticrarestamps.com