October is Stamp Collecting Month in the United States and in several other countries around the world. We’re sure many APS Chapters are planning special events to celebrate, and we want to know about them! Send details about your event and/or pictures, and you may read about them in the next CAC Newsletter or right here in the AP!

Happy Anniversary!
Several Chapters are celebrating noteworthy anniversaries in 2008 with the APS:

10 Years

• Outer Banks Stamp Club; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
• North Kingstown Senior Stamp Club; Narragansett, Rhode Island
• Philatelic Club of Will County; Joliet, Illinois
• Pioneer Valley Stamp Club; Springfield, Massachusetts
• Boca Raton Stamp & Coin Club; Boca Raton, Florida
• Kentucky Stamp Club; Frankfort, Kentucky
• Paris Stamp Club; Paris, Texas
• British Virgin Islands Philatelic Society; St. Thomas, Virgin Islands
  

25 Years

• Kalamazoo Stamp Club; Kalamazoo, Michigan
• Southwestern Michigan Stamp Club; St. Joseph, Michigan
• German Philatelic Society, Carolinas Chapter 37; Alamance, North Caronlina
• Germany Philatelic Society, Chap. 18; Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin
• Northwoods Stamp & Coin Club; Rhinelander, Wisconsin
• Tidewater International Topics Society; Portsmouth, Virginia
• MIPS/ATA; Saint Paul, Minnesota
• Whidbey Island Stamp Club; Oak Harbor, Washington
• Glacier Stamp Club; Kalispell, Montana
• Norman Stamp Club, Norman, Oklahoma

50 Years

• Lake County Philatelic Society; Grayslake, Illinois
• Finger Lakes Stamp Club; Clyde, New York
• Nashville Philatelic Society; Nashville, Tennessee
• Greater Eugene Stamp Society; Eugene, Oregon

100 Years

• Detroit Philatelic Society; Detroit, Michigan

Chapter Newsletter Awards
Congratulations to all clubs that submitted your newsletters to our 2007 competition. It’s not as much a competition as a critique: a panel of judges reviews each entry in one of several different categories on its own merits and awards gold, vermeil, silver, silver-bronze, and bronze certificates. For a complete list of entrants and their awards, please see the CAC website.

Thanks to Jane King Fohn for continuing to organize this yearly service for more than a decade!

Interested in entering your club’s newsletter? Details about the 2008 competition are now on the CAC website, or contact Jane directly at janekfohn@sbcglobal.net.

‘Big Apple’ Hosts Next U.S. ‘Big’ International
Every ten years this country hosts a giant international stamp exhibition, a tradition now nearly 100 years old since the first one was held in 1913. World Stamp Show NY 2016 opens its doors to stamp enthusiasts from around the world May 22–29, 2016, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City.

Like Washington 2006 and prior U.S. international stamp shows, hundreds of volunteers will spend thousands of hours to make this extravaganza possible. NY 2016 organizers already have been working for three years planning the initial stages of the exhibition.

The show’s first public event was just held during StampShow in August. More informational forums will take place around the country at major stamp shows as the years progress. Check out the the World Stamp Show NY 2016 website at www.ny2016.org to learn details of this show that is not to be missed!

Societies, dealers, and individual collectors with webpages are welcome to display a NY 2016 logo and link on their home page. Print publications also may use the logo to help promote the show. As the classic Frank Sinatra song, “New York, New York,” goes: “Start spreading the news!”

In the Latest CAC Newsletter…
The Fall CAC Newsletter is a theme issue focusing on stamp federations and the role these vital groups play in organized philately. Many thanks to the federation presidents and officers who contributed articles explaining what they do and how they serve their fellow clubs.